That's encouraging to hear as I've been looking at it for some time. Are you playing it on PC?

Yeah, I nabbed it on sale at GOG a while back.

Been watching videos on Elden Ring and it looks interesting.

The problem I have with it is that it is from the makers of the Darksouls and Bloodborne games, and therefore difficult for the sake of being difficult. That’s just not appealing to me, and everything I’ve read about the game says it’s just like one of the other games from this company, just set in an open world. Also, and this is just me being bitter, George R.R. Martin was involved in Elden Ring’s writing. He’s on my [censored]-list because he’s doing stuff like this instead of finishing the A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels, which I was fairly invested in. I don’t want to support anything he does until he finishes that damn series. Grumble grumble.

I tried playing Bloodborne and Dark Souls Remastered but couldn't get into it. Closest thing I've been is Fallen Order which I need to get back into, that was a beautiful SW game.

I agree with Khajiit that difficult for the sake of being difficult is not my kind of game. And indeed I didn't get very far with Dark Souls - that was too difficult for me. But I did like the idea of exploring a dungeon world and finding scraps of information here and there so that you have to piece the story together yourself rather than be led through a Main Quest and Side Quests and hand held on every step. From what I read about the new game, it is supposed to be less difficult and more about piecing together the story, so at least I am willing to try it.

Playing some Aliens Fireteam Elite on PC.

Have now cleared four outer rim sectors in Rebellion and zero resistance thus far. The search for Mon Mothma, Luke Skywalker and the rebel base continues.


Oh, and I added 48 fighters to Coruscant today, giving a total of 300 TIE Fighters and an additional 48 TIE Defenders within the fleet that resides there.

Caledonia Works recently ran one of their rare 30%-off sales. They being my overall favorite Train Simulator third-party steam loco creator, I couldn't resist. Here are some captures of items I acquired:

(image) A Southern Railway L1 in Southern Malachite pulling a rake of Pullman coaches, seen on Portsmouth Line Direct

The SRL1 is proving quite a challenge. It features a "steam reverser", which Caledonia Works has configured to function somewhat differently from the reversers I'm used to. Took me some time to figure out how to get the bloody thing to work. I'm nowhere close to getting it to work properly with any consistency. The hard-to-see railway car immediately behind the tender is an SR luggage van, picked up during a separate CW rolling-stock sale.

(image) LB&SCR D1, in Southern Malachite, stopped at Corfe Castle station on the Purbeck Line, a dawn capture (image)

In contrast to the SRL1, the LB&SCR D1 is a super easy drive.

(image) An LNER J27 on Stainmore, Shap and Eden Valley third-party route (image)

Oops, the above was purchased during CW's previous loco sale. Oh well, it's a nice shot.

I apparently haven't yet captured an image of my third and finale recent CW-sale purchase, the LSWR 700-class steam loco. A surprising omission.

My Rebellion game is coming along nicely. I upped Coruscant's defense with an additional 50 squadrons of TIE Fighters, my Main Fleet is now finally complete having 15 Super Star Destroyers AND I just caught Luke Skywalker!


Only five or six sectors left in the outer rim now.

I'm currently playing Black Mirror, the point'n`click game from 2003. I'm glad that I decided to give it a try, because a lot of comments on the GOG are negative but I find the game very good with minor flaws. The game is not for impatient ones, I guess that's what turns a lot of gamers away, because there's a lot of talking and slow walking.

Also, except one really difficult puzzle I haven't needed to consult the help of an online walkthrough, though I'd say that compared to other point'n'click games that I've played (and I've played lots of them), the puzzles are on above-average difficulty.

There are three sequels, so it looks like I'll be staying in castle Black Mirror for a while.

Well, that's a wrap then. Today I found and destroyed the rebel HQ and together with the other victory conditions, that was the end of this playthrough. Quite anitclimactic I must say


I never got that BIG space battle. None of my planets were ever pestered by a large rebel fleet, or any rebel fleet for that matter. None of my sector fleets ever saw battle at all and my 15 Super Star Destroyers were a waste to build. I didn't even had to perform an endless amount of sabotage missions in the beginning as is otherwise standard procedure.


Oh, well. The fun was in building ships and create nice fleets, I guess

This is the way .

Captures from the "Down Stopper" standard scenario provided with (Golden Age Development's) West of England Mainline route. The three-carriage train is pulled by a (Caledonia Works) LSWR T9, seen in BR Lined Black livery. I installed the route earlier today. This was my maiden voyage on it. As can be seen, it's scenically impressive. The scenario is enjoyable, with ample running time (a little over an hour) and some hair-raising station-stops on down-slopes (assuming you want to maintain a decent speed):

(image) At the first station-stop, awaiting an incoming train before continuing on. This would prove to be the only 'timetabled' leg of the journey (image)

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Been back to SimCity 3000 again and my SimVille. I'm currently expanding with both residential and business areas and replacing old water pumps, electrical facilities and garbage burners. I have 370.000 residents and for the first time I actually exceeded 1 million Simoleans in my treasury! I never thought I'd be able to do that!


Edit: Really nice pictures, Decrepit. And very Oblivion-esque. I almost expect to see a deer or an ogre standing somewhere, looking at the train

Hello, Morroblivion!!

It took a day or two to get it downloaded and installed, but it all worked out in the end.

Welcome to Morro-Seyda Neen. I prefer Morroblivion to Morrowind, mainly for the improved walking animations, and the Oblivion style alchemy (especially the Oblivion style picking ingredients).

I haven't played much of TES3 Morrowind, so don't remember those aspects. But I prefer Morroblivion already because it is fully voiced! Yes, it's mostly computer generated voicing, but it's good enough and so much better than no voicing at all. I also prefer Oblivion style dialogue handling to the wall of text you used to get in TES3. That's what ultimately put me off.

Oh boy, I hated the dialogue text in Morrowind. I stopped thinking of NPCs as people. Instead they were stationary library stations. Each one had a hundred topics I could care less about, and 99 of them were exactly the same as every other NPC in the game. I very quickly stopped talking to people.

Quite. I have so far found that there's quite some variation in Morroblivion, they actually tell you different things under Rumours or Little Advice, which is nice. I've had several versions of tax collector rumours already! But someone was sleeping in my bed at Eight Plates! I had to wake him up! And then I fell off the bed with See You Sleep DLL, will have to look into patching it for Morroblivion beds.

My most recent post-worthy Train Simulator captures. I'm gonna try something different and link them via an Official Train Simulator Forums post, which 'should' show the images without extra Imgur baggage:

Link to Image Post

(link to image post) More Train Simulator Shenanigans (link to image post)

(link to image post) Yet more of my railway adventures (link to image post)

Playing some RB6 Siege.

Now I'm playing Elden Ring and it's a beautiful game and it's mean.

Oh, man. This sure takes me back to my Xbox-at-friend's-house time. I notice a couple of upgrades here; the character has Batman's grappling hook and not only that; he has legs!


And I do remember that nifty little spycam on wheels

I'm still messing around in Train Simulator. Mostly testing some freeware loco downloads on various route Quick-Drives. Here's a video of one such test.

(video) Train Simulator ep18, Epping-Ongar Heritage Railway - Manning Wardle class-K 0-6-0T loco (video)

I've found only two text errors so far in the published 30min video, not bad for me. One, sadly, is fairly cringeworthy. (Rest assured I'll spot more text errors as I rewatch the episode.)

Man this game's REALLY TOUGH! Going to need me some cheese after this .

Thanks, Reaper! Nice to see some Elden Ring in game footage by a real player.

Thanks . I wish I could record the REAL battles, the ones that make me hot and pisses me off yet somehow, I end up beating them but the Series S only records a few minuets when it's in 4K mode. Also I'm not very happy that I fought a giant spiritual moose in an underground ruins and a Bloodhound Knight only to be told in a wiki page they're OPTIONAL BOSSES meaning you DON'T HAVE TO FIGHT THEM T_T!!!
The Ancestor Spirit wasn't to bad once you learn how to evade its moves but that Bloodhound Knight was an As[censored]!

(images) Screen captures from a recently completed Train Simulator scenario. (images)

That Train Simulator sure has some beautiful graphics!

While I was having major angst over whether I could recover my ESO account or not (Spoiler: ZOS was able to take care of the problem), I went looking at other highly-rated MMORPGs.

FF XIV and Guild Wars 2 both got high marks and have a "free to play" version, so I installed both.

Right off the top- neither one is CLOSE to ESO in terms of graphics or complexity. That doesn't have to be a deal-breaker, but the difference is HUGE. Second- I had not realized how accustomed I have come to the fully-voiced nature of ESO. (Yes, the shipping guy at the Glenumbra docks is annoying after the hundredth time he comments on how heavy your crafting writ fulfillment looks, but still....). Not having to click through a wall of text every time you take on a quest...

All that said, I DO like the humor and variety in FF XIV, and will definitely dabble into the crafting soon.

Guild Wars is... darker... but also feels deeper than FF XIV.

And, because of more basic graphics, neither game seems to suffer from lag. (FF XIV tends to require a couple of attempts to get past the "queuing" due to server load message, but only a couple.) Also, a nice feature of Guild Wars 2 is a notification that "This instance of the world has few players. Would you like to transfer to one that is more populated?" I can see that being a benefit to those who focus on the multi-player aspect.

Overall at approximately 10-15 levels in on each, they are worth checking out, especially if graphics and voice-acting are not at or near the top of your gaming needs. If those are important, both feel pretty out-of-date. Note that all of the above is based on the "free" versions, so do not include the most recent DLC.

It certainly can. However, the TS game-engine is quite old and limited. To look its best, it needs help. Happily, like the Elder Scrolls series, third-party fixes are available. (Unhappily, they aren't freeware.) I run one mod that replaces shaders and implements otherwise unavailable graphics tweaks. It's something akin to a TS ENB. I also recently added AP Sky & Weather Enhancement Pack. I've mixed feeling about that one, but when at its best it provides stunning results.

I didn't think I'd make it past this Dragon! Damn battle took me hours, days, weeks and massive planning and almost got put off from playing anymore of Elden Ring. This is the last Dragon Battle as I don't think I need anything from them anymore .

Just played game number 24442 of Windows Chess lvl 3. Not an even number but it's a number palindrome and I like that

I'm playing TMNT Shredder's Revenge on PC. It's a fun game!!!

(images) Screen captures from a recent Train Simulator scenario. (images)

I’ve been playing the crap out of the Perfect Dark remaster that the released on Xbox Live Arcade back in 2010. It’s also got me wanting to play Goldeneye and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect again. Timesplitters: FP is doable as I have actually tried playing it the other day. It looks dreadful on modern TVs though, it being a PS2 game, so I need to get a CRT tv out of storage.

Duke Nukem 3D!

Game ADD acting up. Brought home Oblivion and Fallout3 for the Xbox 360 from Khajiit’s town house (mom’s residence). Going to get Mrs. Khajiit to play those games for the first time this weekend. Should be a hoot!

(image link) Captures from a recently driven Train Simulator freight run with shunting (image link)

Those are really pretty D!


Khajiit and Mrs. Khajiit are currently playing Fallout3: Game of the Year Edition on XBox360. She’s doing a medical/science character and I’m doing a talky/shooty character.

Ahh. Nice to see the good ole 360 getting some attention, as well as Fallout 3. And a spouse collab to boot!

Weelllll, we ran into a problem. The 360 decided to red ring again.
So, until I get a replacement console, no Fallout3 or Perfect Dark remaster.

I've not poisoned the air with reference to my ongoing gaming activity, such as it is, in some time. Here's a link to a series of captures documenting a recent Train Simulator driving session.

Been busy playing Elden Ring and it's a great game and I even manage to get to the end game part of it ! Only downer is the last few bosses are REALLY, REALLY tough.

Decrepit, nice shots!

Reaper, glad to see you're still enjoying Elden Ring, despite its difficulty.

Honestly Elden Ring isn't that bad in the difficulty department. With the right build and planning the early bosses are chump change. The difficulty starts spiking once you complete Lyndell the Royal Capital. The hardest bosses left are:
Maleina.
Malekith.
Godfry The First Elden Lord.
Radagon/Marika.
Finally, Elden Beast.

I have now started another playthrough of Star Wars: Rebellion. As always I play as Empire and I'm again focusing on three sectors; abandoning the others for the time being. I did that way back in an attempt to up the difficulty, but I don't think it did much. But it's nice to scale it down a bit so I'm sticking with it.

I'm well underway building shipyards, construction yards and of course TIE Fighters whilst having Vader and Palpsie doing some recruiting and other character conducting diplomacy. I'm also doing what I can to sabotage rebel installations in order to hault their progress.