Latest Gaming Purchase

[Kyng]

RimWorld

I have played this game before: over 10 years ago, a friend got several download codes for it. But today, I bought the game properly in the Steam Summer Sale: it was only 20% off, but I decided it was still worth it.

I haven't started a game yet, but I probably will soon!

[Maniakkid25]

Splatoon Raiders

Oh, and a Nintendo Switch 2. Yeah, I got FOMO'd into buying one. It was bad of me, but the price increase threat spooked me. So, in honor of buying it, I pre-ordered a copy of Splatoon Raiders in order to actually have something to play on it lol.

Oh, I also bought a modular memory card for the PSX/PS2. Yeah, its a memory card that has a micro SD card that can make virtual memory cards for both the PSX (128 KiB ) and the PS2 (8 MB ). It comes with an 8 GIG SD card, so you can imagine I can fit quite a few memory cards in it! It's cool!

[Moonface]

Got a big one here:

Nintendo Switch 2

My mother wanted to do something for me to repay me for everything over the last two years, and she knew how excited I was about the upcoming OoT Remake, so she gave me a chunk of money from her disability backpay as a thank you so that I could go out and buy a Switch 2 before the price increase in September and be ready for the remake when it releases.

I did not opt for any of the game bundles. I just got the Switch 2 itself. I'm not interested in any of the games that are bundled with the system, and even though you get the game at a slight "discount" if you buy a bundle, I just really don't like being stuck with a game that I will never have any interest in touching.

Ooh, I haven't been in this thread to have seen this yet, that's neat! And very sweet of your mother to repay you for something that I'm sure both her and you knew wasn't something you did with any expectation of getting something back for it.
And yeah, I don't know what other bundles there are besides the MKW one but I would tell anyone to pick MK8D over it if they didn't own either game.

Splatoon Raiders

Oh, and a Nintendo Switch 2. Yeah, I got FOMO'd into buying one. It was bad of me, but the price increase threat spooked me. So, in honor of buying it, I pre-ordered a copy of Splatoon Raiders in order to actually have something to play on it lol.

Oh, I also bought a modular memory card for the PSX/PS2. Yeah, its a memory card that has a micro SD card that can make virtual memory cards for both the PSX (128 KiB ) and the PS2 (8 MB ). It comes with an 8 GIG SD card, so you can imagine I can fit quite a few memory cards in it! It's cool!

Eh, if you were planning to get one eventually definitely better to do it now while the price is potentially going to be the lowest it'll ever be if AI doesn't stop sucking up all the hardware parts.
I'm a little curious about Splatoon Raiders myself since I did really enjoy Splatoon 3 when I played it, but the online stuff burnt me out really quickly on it and I never managed to get back into it even though it has a single player campaign. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on it once you've played through enough of it to start forming an opinion on it.
Ooh, I didn't know those were a thing. Can you transfer saves into it from actual memory cards? Depending on how much one is I'd maybe consider it as a way of backing up my memory cards just in case any of them stop working from age.

[Maniakkid25]

Ooh, I didn't know those were a thing. Can you transfer saves into it from actual memory cards? Depending on how much one is I'd maybe consider it as a way of backing up my memory cards just in case any of them stop working from age.

Yeah, I didn't know they existed either until I was randomly browsing on Amazon and found them. They're only about 40 bucks, 8 Gig SD card included, and it appears to work just fine as a normal memory card; I could set it so that the PS2 recognized it as a PSX or PS2 memory card, and save files transferred with no problem. It even came with a program to hack the PS2 to doing other stuff (it apparently has a SNES emulator built into it? I didn't mess with it) It took a little bit to figure out how to navigate the menus on the actual device, though; the booklet didn't explain how that worked. On the one I bought (Kaico SD2psx), you have to hold the second button to confirm, and the first button to go back; pressing the buttons only flips through the options, and pressing both keys accesses the back end to actually mess with the settings.

...Wait a minute... *googles intensely for a few minutes while messing with settings* Nope, still doesn't work.

I have a PAL version of a game (because the game is only available in PAL and NTSC-J), and I was thinking "maybe this can finally run it?" Nope, still need to hard mod the PS2 to do it. Damn.

[Dragon Lord]

@Moonface Yeah, it was really sweet of her. Now I'm all set-up for the OoT Remake when it launches which has me very excited.

Recent gaming purchases for me have been:

DragonSword: Awakening (PC)
Palworld (PC)
Cuisineer (PC)
Elden Ring: Nightreign (PS4/PS5)

DragonSword: Awakening is an interesting game. It was intended to be an open-world gacha game, but after the developer got betrayed by their publisher and all of their funding taken, they changed course and made it a pay-to-own RPG instead. It feels very much like a gacha game, but there's no micro-transactions (just a bit of cosmetic DLC), every character is obtained through game progression, all of their upgrades and everything else the same. Everything else about it still very much feels like a gacha game though. You farm for character upgrade materials/exp materials/etc. like you would in a gacha game, you just don't have stamina limits restricting how much you can do it and you don't have to worry about rushing the game's content to get currency for limited banners and such like that. You can just take as much time as you want and still get everything in the game. No time restrictions, no FOMO -- it's pretty much paradise for anyone who enjoys the game play/game progression of games like Genshin Impact and Wuthering Waves, but with none of the negatives. You just get to enjoy the good aspects of those games and none of the negatives. I haven't gotten too far into the game, but so far for just $30 the game has been a very worthwhile purchase.

Palworld is Palworld. Cuisineer was just $10 so I decided to pick it up on Steam (I've played it on PS5 and it's super fun).

You might see Nightreign there and go, "But wait, don't you already have Nightreign on PS5 and have the platinum for it?" Yes, yes I do. However, what I don't have, and what I needed to buy the digital version of the game for, is the PS4 platinum for the game (yes, the game is on PS4 too, as surprising at that is). So of course me being me, I can't let that version of the game escape me and not get the platinum for it, so I finally decided to dip on it for the third time just so I can get that PS4 platinum trophy (and having the digital version on PS5 will be nice since I do like to randomly play the game at times and now I won't have to swap discs to play it when I just get the urge randomly -- one of the few times I like having the digital version of a game).