RetroPie is basically a Raspberry Pi 3. It can run everything up to PS1, and I've put some more stuff on it, like DS/PSP/3DO, and Streets of Rage Remake. I even got the SNES Classic dump of Star Fox 2 on it, which I beat last night.

It's definitely not like other RPGs I've played. Granted, my experience with WRPGs is extremely limited, but this doesn't even have any kind of magic system. Anachronox is a cyberpunk RPG that has a magic system in the form of these weird... alien... artifacts? Hell, even Underrail (a game that I do not recommend), which was HEAVILY inspired by Fallout has a magic system in the various psychic abilities you can learn. Fallout eschews the usual fighter/thief/mage classes for cowboy/thief/...diplomat, I guess? But even the basic stats don't stack up like they usually do. Strength doesn't really determine damage, agility is the most important damn thing ever, and charisma is actually useful, because you can actually play a total pacifist run, if you so desire.

I didn't either, but I don't really know who Ron Perlman is. I mean, I know the name, and have this vague notion that he's Hellboy, but he's not as recognizable to me as, say, Samuel L. Jackson. He'd be a great narrator.

Hello! Doing alright. Excited to almost be done with my old DS games.

I actually haven't played Persona 2 in over a year. I just keep it on my Now Playing to shame myself for never making time for it.

I assume you heard about the Wolf Among Us Season 2 that was coincidentally announced a while after I posted that last thing?

Well, what I did was tagged Small Guns, Lock Picking, and Speech from the very beginning,
focused on those, and just built up whatever else I needed little by little. If I had it to do over again,
I probably would've tagged Energy Weapons instead of Lock Picking. Make sure your strength and perception are at least decent, and ramp your agility up to max, because more actions per turn means more corpses in your wake. With that setup, you can bullshit your way through a lot of quests, and when you can't, you have a fuckheap of firepower, along with the ability to actually use it.

Yeah, he's Killian Darkwater; he even kinda looks like him. I recognized him almost instantly, because he's in 8 seasons of Stargate, and he's the hottest guy on the show. Tony Schalub (I think that's how you spell it) and Ron Perlman both have voice credits, as well. I think one of the guys that did basically every '80s and '90s cartoon villain that wasn't voiced by Tim Curry did some of the voices, too, but I don't know his name. They got some pretty decent star power for a game in 1997.

Things are getting better; work sucks less, though I'm having difficulty dragging my ass to bed before 3am lately, so that's made things interesting. Still haven't showered or done the dishes yet tonight and it's already 2am. And yours won't be the last message I answer tonight. [Link] No, I don't drink caffeine; that's just the best crazy face I could find. How about you?

Fallout begins hard, and hit rates are fucking abysmal, and then, a miraculous thing happens: you discover that guns are a thing. I currently have a pistol - a fucking PISTOL - that sounds like a goddamn cannon when I fire it. I feel the subwoofer's pounding in my chest when the thing goes off; it's fucking glorious. Once I discovered that melee weapons are hot, salty garbage, I started enjoying the game a lot more. Until Richard Dean Anderson capped me in the face for no reason. Okay, even then.

I've got little to say, just wanted to pop in to wish you all the best!

I'm all right, how are you?

I play pictlogica on my Japanese 3DS and I'm liking it aside from the long wait timers between areas.

Yeah, FFXII: The Zodiac Age is much better than the original. It also looks great in HD, despite its age. I highly recommend it.

I haven't been all that well, but at least I managed to trade some games for Yakuza 0, The Last Guardian and FFXII: TZA. I hate parting with my games, but in this case I had no choice if I wanted to play those PS4 titles. I'm not so hot on The Last Guardian so far, though. I hope it gets better later on because so far it's not as good as ICO, not to mention SotC.

Great. I've just been playing Zodiac Age ever since it came out. How about you?

Thanks! It's one of many non-SMT illustrations Kazuma Kaneko did. Here's a collection of similar works: [Link]

Noticed you started up Witcher 2 recently. So did I, after -ing the first one, but dropped it after realizing I was already pretty burnt out.