nothing crazy just got into my old Webkinz account.
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So Assassins Creed Black Flag Resynced, best way to put this one is it’s an Anvil Engine Remake of the 2013 game, but is canonically still a sequel of sorts in the expansive franchise.
What does this mean? Well simply put it the 2013 game happened, you being an abstergo employee experiencing Edward’s memories with modern day segments happening between all that.
Resynced you’re an adopter of some type of animus tech but uh oh presumably the assassins hack into your system and you gotta Re-Synch Edward Kenways memories.
The game is fundamentally the same just modernize updating combat and gameplay. Games still easy and perfect deflects simply earn you the same instant takedown that can be chained depending on the weapon.
Visually it looks great, but the biggest downside to the game is quite literally the new content. It’s hit or miss without spoiling anything but modern day Ubisoft reflects on a 2013 games foundation. Simply put it the new content isn’t fully mocapped like the original outside of endgame cutscenes with the new Black Beard content so any narrative addition is jarring cause it just characters with crossed arms giving exposition and in some instances smiles that borderline into uncanny valley territory.
don’t get me wrong the game is good, it’s still black flag.. but like a lot of Ubisoft games. Wait for the inevitable sale and let them patch and improve on the game through updates.
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The Saboteur - what an overlooked banger! This game’s all the coolest shit put together: GTA-like set in WW2 Paris under nazi occupation, with Assassin’s Creed-like parkour (maybe a bit less smooth) and Hitman-like disguise-oriented stealth.
Played this game as a kid until my GPU died, but didn’t remember it being this cool. Apparently I didn’t dig noir as much back then.
Monochrome filter represents oppressed areas of the city. As you inspire people by doing major hits on nazis throughout the story - they turn colorful.
There’s also plenty of optional shit to blow up in freeplay - tanks, cannons, lookout towers, propaganda speakers etc.
Devil May Cry - via PS2 emulator on my phone. Pretty good, kinda like Resident Evil on steroids. Normally I don’t play much slashers, so having a hard time with some of these bosses. Mentally preparing myself for trying out souls-likes, which I never found stylistically appealing.
That said, kinda sucks that there are no checkpoints before boss battles - need to either have yellow orbs or start the entire level over. What’s worse - you can’t die and load from a save without using a yellow orb if you have one, gotta restart the entire game. And the most infuriating - each difficulty being unlocked after beating the previous one, it drives me crazy when games do that! I don’t want to replay the same thing 3 times in a row!
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According to Steam, I opened my account a year ago, July 14th 2025.
So I took the time to decorate my profile and whatnot.
I only started playing on it last December.
Since then my library is of 11 games, 5 of them I played.
All 5 are to Perfect. (all achievements).
Immediately I replayed the entire Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy.
It had been a while. Feels like home.
Also, oh God, some of the soundtrack is just linked to some university classes, since I listened to it while studying certain ones back then (appropriately enough the law classes)
I like how exhausting it can be.
Most case / episodes are 3-4 hours long, easily divided in parts.
When I finished one I was good for the play session.
All in a good way.
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And only because a simple playthrough unlocks everything.
Where exactly did you find this information?
Would be curious to see when I did register my account
If you go to your Badges page, you can see the Years of Service badge which ticks up by one each year on your account anniversary
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Thank you.
Apparently it’s been my 10th anniversary in March this year
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Me and @TheChicken finished Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, as part of our playthrough of the series. I enjoyed it. TPS is in a bit of a weird place nowadays, it is basically just BL2.5, and if you buy it, you’ll probably buy it as part of the bundle with BL2. Of the mainline Borderlands games, it is perhaps the one most likely to sort of be forgotten among the bunch.
Which is a bit of a shame. TPS takes a lot of what BL2 great and adds upon it. Elpis is a fun new location, laser weapons are a nice edition, and the ice element would ofcourse become a series mainstay. Some of my favourite classes are in this game, with Athena, Nisha, and Claptrap all being incredibly fun to use with very inventive skill trees.
The plot is a bit all over the place. I remember at the time, I think people were starting to get a bit tired of the type of humour Borderlands had, and how it seemed to just be slowly escalating. Some good ideas and some great side quests. But like BL2 and BL3, lots of retcons, some of which make certain characters look a lot worse in BL2 in theory. I wonder if the game was rushed out, because the game’s final act, the story just sort of falls apart, it feels very unfinished.
But overall, great time, TPS is a fun time. Sad the game didn’t receive that much support, especially compared to BL2. TPS has very little endgame stuff, and not much reason to play it more than once. I know it wouldn’t happen due to how much work it would require, but I really do wish they found a way to combine BL2 and TPS into one mega game, let me use TPS characters in BL2 and vice versa.
I am actually looking forward to returning to BL3 in the future. I’ve only beaten it once, and did struggle with elements of it. I never really grasped how BL3’s Siren class worked, which is a bit jarring when I loved the Sirens of BL1, BL2, and BL4. I’ve never done the DLCs, which I hear are meant to be a bit better written than the main story, which, well, is going to be an experience to relive. But that is a way off.
Me and Chicken also just beat Space Marine 2, just doing the main campaign and trying a couple of the PvE operations. It’s a fun time, the story is a fun 8 hour romp as you fight with through the Warhammer universe. Arguably, the real meat of this game is the PvE and PvP, which has a class sytem, XP, skills, lots of customisation etc. I haven’t really touched that stuff, but it does look like a pretty deep system if you want to invest yourself into that.
Space Marine 3 has been confirmed, and I’m looking forward to that. SM2 sold very well, and so I have high hopes SM3 can push things further. Lots of interesting baddies from the Warhammer universe they can pull out to fight. Necrons? Dark Eldar? World Eaters?
I also have to apologise to Chicken for giving him a very long, surface deep, lecture, on the trying to explain the basics of the 40K universe.
Also recently beat Donkey Kong Bananza. Excellent game, must own title for the Switch 2, no real notes. I did do 100%, which sadly is a bit of a grind in the endgame, but obviously, that’s not mandatory. Amazing the Switch 2 can run this, it’s wonderful when a company like Nintendo can really show off what their console is capable of.
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Theres a new Chaosgate coming out, i love that series. All @TheChicken needs to know is that the emperor is false - let the galaxy burn 
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Great, now everyone will think I’m a blonde bimbo birdbrain! (They’re not entirely wrong!) 
Tbh your explanation of 40K lore was good, even if it took like 30-45 mins in our planned “gaming” session. Really helped me identify a bit more the terms and situations behind what certain things are in the game world. 
I thought the campaign of Space Marine 2 was quite fun and there’s a lot of fun to be had in mowing down enemies with big melee swords or hammers. Plus some of the voice acting was quite good for some characters, like that tech-priest who also sounded like a digital crow, or Acheran, the wonderful bearded scottish man. 
TBH the campaign had me interested in checking out Gears of War someday. Because I know that game is also heavy in silly “macho” energy and the Space Marines had some uniqueness in being heavily-armoured stomping-clomping walking suits of armour. (Gears is known for its very stompy, heavy-feeling main character IIRC…)
I also enjoyed our time in Borderlands TPS.
Personally for me I love a good story and characters in games, so it was a treat to finally see your Borderlands protagonist actually able to speak and have some agency in the plot instead of being mute mannequins who other people order around.
I played Athena and Silver played Claptrap. Oh boy, claptrap’s special ability can really screw the whole party up (in a fun way!)
The Claptrap Story DLC I quite enjoyed, as it had a lot of silly meta, surreal comedy and locations, taking place in Claptrap’s “brain” as a simulation.
What is probably one of my favourite sidequests in the series so far, is the one with the EarWorm, a boss you have to defeat because it spreads a catchy pop song that no one can get out of their head.
So you fight it, and yeah the song was pretty catchy. But it’s not really stuck in my head.
But oops! You actually have to fight it AGAIN.
That was still fun though. Cool. Yeah.
OH SORRY, just fight it ONE MORE TIME, actually!
OK! Fine! Oh, Shit, wait!
GOT A GOOD-LOOKIN MAINFRAME 
SOMETHING SOMETHING MAINFRAME
AAA GET OUT OF MY HEAD
Good job Gearbox and Justin Mullins for composing this incredibly repetitive and catchy pop song that still lingers in my head like 2 weeks after we finished this. 
Well played.
Soon I will get Silvereyes into playing Returnal, which I gifted to him after finding a copy for quite cheap on my Japan trip! Yay!
It’s got our lovely Jane Perry in the starring role, you know! 
Bafta-Winning Jane Perry!
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Twink and a bimbo at the same time 
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Yeah but it also has a gun that shouts “Rack off you dag” when you dome an enemy and that makes me and my culture feel seen.
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Ok, so update in Tomodachi. It’s a mutual crush but neither of them want to confess. I’m so bored out of my mind waiting for them to just start dating already. Oh, and my brother added his high school math teacher and she’s in love with Thomas Bangalter. You know. The daft punk guy.
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He did like some of the Thousand Sons stuff, so yeah, might be able to get him onto the side of Chaos…
I’m looking forward to it, should be a fun time.
I think Elpis being Space Australia really helped give the game more of an identity, and some really great side quests. Battleborn would come out a year later, with still a lot of the Borderlands type humour, and I think by then it started to wear thin.
Funny you should say that, when in 40K there is The Leagues of Votann, who are literally space dwarves.
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I’ve been playing the Starfox remake, and really enjoying it. Starfox is a series I’ve wanted to get into, and have always felt it was a bit of a shame how Nintendo has treated the franchise. Rebooting Starfox was probably the right move for the franchise, but that reboot being another remake of Starfox 64 is more questionable. Partly because didn’t we already try this with Starfox Zero for the Wii U? Funny in a way to drum up nostalgia for 64, but also hope everyone has forgotten Zero? I mean, it was for the Wii U, a console that sold very badly, and it does feel like that era of Nintendo has faded in between the success of the Wii and the Switch, so for most, it probably has. The other thing is, 64 is a great game no doubt, but is it still relevant enough to relaunch the franchise?
Yeah, it seems like it does. Reviews are mostly positive, and it seems to be selling well, despite the fact it is quite an old fashioned, very arcade-like game. But it is still very fun, trying to get better at levels, finding all the little secrets and optimal routes. The dog fight levels are my favourite, especially when you face off against Starwolf. I really struggled at first, but slowly over time getting better at evading, and keeping on their tails. It’s a fun time, and I really do enjoy trying to improve at it.
Yeah, if you already own a version of 64, this perhaps isn’t essential. It is perhaps a bit safe for a remake, level and game design seems mostly taken from 64. Including that one level in the submarine, which is slow, dark, and just rather dull, I think the worst level easily in the game. But as someone who didn’t play 64? I love this, wonderful title.
And hopefully that it does seem to be doing well, Nintendo will actually let the devs of this make a sequel. Which would be pretty interesting, considering half the Starfox games are basically iterations of the original SNES title. Certainly some elements or characters they could bring back, like Krystal, but also a lot of free reign to do your own thing. I’m hopeful Starfox has a proper future now.
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I loved the ¿bulldog? In star fox 64. He isn’t part of the Fox’s team but like he has his own squad and you team up with him on the level that’s clearly a ripoff of Independence Day (or vice versa depending on which came first).
Is he on the new game?
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Yes 
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Bill and Kat are great guest characters, I hope they show up more in a sequel too.
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