Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
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Been playing MGSV Phantom Pain.
Got gifted xbox360. Modded it and been playing games from that era that I've skipped. AC1 was great, AC2 is okay. Tried MGSV and was like "Wow! AI in this game is incredible!". But FPS was abysmal so I got Steam key and now playing on Bazzite. Game is great! Definitely recommend.
I have my 360 still in my closet. Was modding it very difficult? Hypothetically, where would one go for resources on doing this?
It depends on Xbox model and your skills in soldering.
Mine was Corona (2010) and it was quite easy. The most difficult part was to solder to a tiny pad that is covered with green varnish. It is easy to break and it is bit difficult to solder to.
The best part today is that you won't need any mod chips. Only wires is enough for most of the console versions.
But even more so, you don't need to even solder if you want to soft mod it (non permanent solution). Just plug usb in and wait a little and it's done. Unplug usb and it boots to stock.
Are you planning on giving Ninja Gaiden 2 a spin? You have a chance to experience the original Chapter 10 staircase fight, where there are so many enemies on screen at once the game slows down to full-on bullet time time dilation because there is too much game for the hardware to handle.
I am seeding a popular xbox360 rom archive, and Ninja Gaiden 2 already has been downloaded, unpacked, and transferred to xbox. I have heard it is a great game. I will pick it up later on after I finish a few games higher on the list.
That's awesome, do you know if it has the DLCs included? Survival (part of the Mission Mode DLC) is my favourite part of the game for quick access mindless action.
In general NG2 is an incredibly unique game. To this day there is nothing quite like it, you will either love it or hate it - and probably both in equal measures. It was unfortunately rushed out and released in an unfinished and unbalanced state due to some internal issues at Team Ninja, and you see this particularly in the later levels and the higher difficulties. But when it hits and it's delivering fights against groups of humanoid enemies it really delivers a feeling of "what if cocaine was playable?" that no other game matches.
Will be interested to hear your thoughts, and let me know if you want any tips. It doesn't really play like any other action games.