I’ve been playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
The JPN Mariokart on a Superfamicom is a real treat.
What’s the difference between the JPN and International versions? I thought it was just some of the cut scenes after winning.
If using the right tv then the black borders are removed and the game runs faster.
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I am just going to leave this here.
You could also be a completist and get this.
OMG!!! Please don’t be crap, please don’t be crap, please don’t be crap…
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Currently playing a bit of No Man’s Sky
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I’ve pre-ordered the most expensive version of Borderlands 4 that it’s possible to buy 
Released on the 12th.
Not possible.
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Borderlands 4 release tomorrow lads 
All downloaded.
Apparently they are doing a takeover of Waterloo station and there will be free schwag. I’m enough of a sad fanboi that I’m planning on toddling along.
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When less people can get there…
fewer 
Indeed. It’s on Friday and Saturday but I’m sure that there are a few marketing types chewing their fists right now.
Not in thumbnail: with major shareholders being Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner (effectively). Time for some e-sportwashing.
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They also appear to be loading it up with $20b in debt, the servicing of which will cost more per year than their net income last year…
I find that I have neither the speed nor the coordination required to defeat the final boss in Borderlands 4 so that’s it for the story mission and probably the genre. I’ll probably pick up on the DLCs casually when they come out given that I’ve paid for them in advance.
So, I’m deliberately slowing up the pace and going for more storytelling based games.
Currently playing
which I bought a while back and did my usual of getting frustrated and ragequitting after an hour, but (as usual) on a second run through it’s much better. Set in a hauntological 1960s where something has gone Very Badly Wrong at Windscale. Slow-paced with some puzzle solving and story telling, you don’t need to be very coordinated.
After a few hours it became clear that just as with many games there is a central hub, you go out into surrounding maps, collect an energy crystal 
or similar from a set-piece area, to get the thing in the middle going. There is trading, crafting and dungeons off the side of the maps containing goodies.
Not bad.
In a similar vein a while back I played
set in the 70s where something has gone Very Badly Wrong on a rig off the Scottish coast. Very linear, 90% storytelling, exploration and puzzle solving but enjoyable all the same. An all Scots voice cast and IIRC there is a setting for how thick you want the patter 
Having bought the DLC I’ll be revisiting this later.
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I read an article about Clair Obscure Expedition 31 (or whatever). One of the voice actors was not a gamer, and said that it would be really great to have an almost challenge-free story mode - so they did one. It’s my favourite difficulty to play on.
I think that every game should have (1) a difficulty grading that includes a trivially easy setting, and/or (2) a “skip this shit” button that allows you to bypass content that you can’t do.
Fortunately I have a teenager that I can hand the controller over to for the difficult bits!
I ragequit that too 
I’ll have to go back and try the story mode instead.
Thank you.