What games are you playing?

Despite my last post on RPGs... I'm still trying to enjoy them like I used to!

Playing Arcanum at the moment.
 
I am trying to learn how to play games on a console Xbox Series X with its controller, after doing all of my computer game playing with a keyboard (starting on the PDP10 at university in 1968 with adventure [later marketed as ZORK] and adding a mouse in February of 1982.) so 40 years with the K&M combo

Any tips on learning how to gain skills with a Microsoft controller? My first game on the Xbox is
Elden Ring and struggling with the controller.

I understand that a keyboard and mouse can be used with the Xbox, but before I toss in. the towel, any tips will be gladly received.
The XBOX stuff I am finding online expects the user to be an expert with the controller from birth.
 
Like a keyboard I guess you just get used to them with practice, Windy. But if it helps, try configuring the buttons to fit how they make most sense to you.
 
I'm a PC / keyboard gamer.

Dabbled with an XBox 20 yrs or so ago. But the MMO / multi-player interface is still superior to the Xbox, Playstation, Dreamcast experiences.
 
Speaking of gaming, I've again returned to (Elder Scrolls 2) Daggerfall, in its Unity reincarnation, with lots of graphic improvement mods but next-to-no gameplay altering mods. I did not start afresh, but picked up where I left off with what is easily my favorite custom-created DF character, the Nord seen in this video (recorded the last time I played DFU).
 
Raf said:
I'm a PC / keyboard gamer.

Dabbled with an XBox 20 yrs or so ago. But the MMO / multi-player interface is still superior to the Xbox, Playstation, Dreamcast experiences.
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Well I guess a simple arcade game will train my fingers
The big problem, I have giant hands, I could palm a basketball at about the age of 12 I have bulked up the controller with the otterbox and by using double side foam buttons I can use both of the grip shells provided with it
 
I'm just into the driving games - Gran Turismo, WRC etc and Rocksmith to improve my guitar and bass playing (still fairly dodgy tho).
 
Been playing Forza Horizon 5 (still, though it really needs it's second dlc now), and re-playing Borderlands 3. I have a number of games I want to please, but there is so little time to get to them...
 
I wonder if we have any (current and former) other tabletop gamers here. I have not played D&D table top games since I finished Graduate school in 1975 and rule set one was all there was perhaps with modifications by the GM.
I just never was in a place where I could find others to play with.

if we can put together a group to play them “here” I would expect that the powers that be here would provide at a minimum a post/thread in this section for organizing such an endeavor.

I backed a cool Kickstarter at the €39.00 level and look forward to the closed beta during the first quarter of next year.
www.kickstarter.com

Menyr

Play your RPG online, procedurally generate entire regions, dungeons and villages in a single click. The next-generation VTT is here.
www.kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com
And it is more than fully funded at over €596,000 of a roughly €45,000 goal
Take a look at some of the YouTube videos they have posted and hopefully discuss the project in a thread of its own.

 
I played D&D, AD&D, and a couple of other games, but stopped when the rules became too powerful. I preferred more lethal systems and low level play. I died in character creation multiple times in Traveller. This sounds like a good project.
 
Does that make you a “maby perhaps” for this? The folks I know here are the from the last 7 years ar the ones I would hope to play with and this outfit let’s you use what rule set you like or even make up your own set and the automation of the mechanics should alleviate the way things would grind to a halt while the GM did his calculations.
 
I never played table top D&D. Read about it back in the day, but no one I knew was ever into it. My wife played it quite a bit when she was in high school.

I could be a maybe. I don't know a thing about it except that we had a DnD D20 die rolling around the Guildhall in Everquest 2 ;)
 
Ejvery one starts at that point my experience is but a dim memory of that far off world of 1975 if we are lucky we can inveigle one of the authors her to be a GM if not we will have to bash it out on own together. It might be more fun that way.;):D
 
Captures of a Train Simulator Classic steam loco I return to time and time again, the Caledonian Railway 439-class 0-4-4T, seen in photographic gray livery, from the third-party TSC loco creator Caledonia Works:
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It is seen during a recent stopping passenger service on a branch of Edinburgh to Glasgow route.
 
Windshadow said:
Love those engines with big drivers. My major affection gos to the big Sterling Singles that took it as far as it could go.

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Caledonia Works makes a replica of the Sterling Single for TSC. I own a few "single wheelers", but not the Sterling. Not yet at any rate. Here's two of mine, both one-offs (only one made):

Caledonian Railway 123. While no longer operational, it has been preserved:
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This one has the extra-large driving wheels you enjoy: the LNWR "Cornwall":
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I do love this era of steam engine design; Thanks for showing those singles that you can run on your simulator.

The singles and also the X 4 X that you showed in your other posts. Really everything about them from the specticl plate to the splasher guards, the way the smoke box fairing flairs into the cylinder fairing. The men that designed them were true artists.
 
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