Author: Thomas Ortsik

Founder and Kinda-Editor-In-Chief at Twinstiq.
Also known as Dr. Strangethumb

I’m running out of WRUP

Season of games continues, so let’s not keep you guys from sharing. Ok ok, fine… I just want to get back to playing more Golf Story.

 

So, what is everyone playing over the weekend?

 

Thomas: Since I won’t be home, more Switch. Golf Story, Stardew, Mario & Rabbids…

Scroo: Still working on Divinity OS2. Still playing Vermintide and am excited for the sequel after seeing footage for that. And I did finally pick up the Ashes of Malmouth expac for Grim Dawn so I hope to check that out some.

Cody: Same for me. Rocksmiths, Dotas, Paragons, Fornites, DiceMaters. All good shit

Grey: my headset broke.  but i finished off stories, properly and am working my way through dream daddy.  also, what was that last week about space quest five and kyrandia 2?  I CAN'T HEAR THOSE GAMES.  they must be screaming in space, because you know what they say about that... :P

AJ: Metroid: Samus Returns. I absolutely love the old 2D Metroid games so I'm curious to see how I feel about this one.

This WRUP again

And so it began, the season of despair. The season of broken piggy banks and neglected relationships. The season of AAA video game releases. Destiny 2 came, stayed and comes again in 2 weeks when the PC version releases and I finally get my hands on it. The EA Sports shit is out, Xbox finally had 2 releases with Forza 7 and Cuphead. Fine, Cuphead isn’t exactly AAA – fine, it isn’t at all, but hey, at least an Xbox exclusive that isn’t a racing game, and speaking of indies: this week has seen the gates of indie-halla open on the Switch with Golf Story and Ports of Oxenfree, Stardew Valley, Volgarr, Axiom Verge and more. Sounds great so far, but brace yourselves, because it only just begun. Read more

WRUP is this all good for?

Took them long enough, but WB Games is finally in damage control mode. At the same time a shitstorm is hitting Austrian politics, because our social democratic party hired a PR guy who then created false-flag racist and anti-semitic FB pages. How the fuck are we still a thing? How did the human species survive all this time? Maybe Kim and Trump should hurry up some more and end our reign over this planet, because the level of incompetence we show each and every day is just too much for me.

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WRUP with no name

Gaming wise, this has been a really good week again, like so many this year. XCOM 2 got a great add-on, the new Rock of Ages is really fun, we got a new Yakuza, Absolver seems to be fun if you can get into it and there is so much more. But life is not just gaming and while 2017 is a great year for the thing we like to talk about here, it certainly isn’t for much else.

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The M.P.C.P.M.O.A.T.H.I.K.M.A.I.A.W.T.D.F.A. Wrup

It's all in this super cryptic title....

Anyway, what is everyone playing over the weekend?

Thomas: Got myself a copy of Final Fantasy 12 HD so I might give that a go. Or some Splatoon 2, because the Switch is a less effective heat dispenser compared to my PC or PS4 Pro. That said, the Switch Tablet does get extremely hot while playing Splatoon 2 docked, more so than during Zelda or any other Title I've played on it so far.

Wolfe: final fantasy v:  four job fiesta continues.  mainly, i'm just doing grinding.  it turns out that the first part of the game is the only part where you can get elemental staves.  after that, they're gone forever and so far, my party has no real way of inflicting electricity/electrical damage.  so...i guess i have to get a ton of those.  i'm getting back into quest for glory 3.  this week has been stat bumping week with a little bit of story glued to the tail end, but the story IS moving again.  as for child of light, it sort of looks like it's winding down.  i've already had one "near-ending" where the game looked like it was over, so i feel like we're close.

AJ: Reacquainting myself with GOG. I see they've gotten some interesting new stuff in the past 2 or 3 months.

Scroo: I think just the usual for me. I haven't had a lot of time in The Surge this week sadly, so I'm hoping to remedy that and get a video or two up on the LP channel. Of course more Vermintide and maybe a few more rounds of Rocket League as well -- which still has an egregious problem with leavers that still goes 100% unpunished. That's why I stopped playing to begin with so far back now, but as long as I have friends that want to party up on matches I'll be down. You know, there's even a microtransaction system now with crates that drop during online wins. They can contain everything from special wheels and cars to rocket trails and skins and in lots of ways that's cool because there's all this new stuff but the other side of coin is that they can only be 'opened' by buying a key. I feel like I should write about this actually instead of putting it all here...

Cody: Gonna see how much Rocksmith my arm can take in between DMC and Rocketleague and Watching the Dota 2 International