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(B)
Steam
Trials of Mana (2020)
Death Hand/Rune Seer/Necromancer; postgame. Dryad is soooo cute! If I had any artistic talent, I'd draw her and Undine doing each other's hair.

Updated about 3 hours ago

★★★★★
(B)
PC
Ys: Memories of Celceta
Can't 100% this without playing New Game +, but fuck it; this was fun.

Updated about 9 months ago

☆★★★★ I remember almost nothing about Mask of the Sun, even after playing through this, but I don't think I'll have that problem here; this is an excellent remake. This plays a lot like Ys 7 and 8, thankfully with the skills more like in 8. The challenge is even and balanced, the combat is fast and fluid, and the dungeons are well-built and clever. Pretty much everything else is as you'd expect from those 2 titles and the series in general.
(B)
PC
Timespinner
Gonna go after New Game + for that last ending. Wouldn't care, but this is a lot of fun, so it's an excuse to replay it.

Updated about 10 months ago

☆★★★★ This Platventure plays a lot like Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, with 2 orbs that act as weapons or spells. There's a decent amount of customization, and the basic mechanics are absolutely solid. It is on the easy side, but that doesn't bother me. The visuals are lovely, and the soundtrack is great, too. Even the story is surprisingly deep, tackling several topics and doing a good job handling each of them.
(B)
PC
Gris
Guess I'll go back for the rest of those hidden collectibles at some point.

Updated about 12 months ago

☆★★★★ This Adventure-Platformer has you making your way through an absolutely gorgeous landscape with an artstyle that reminds me of the '60s and '70s. Along the way, you'll experience some light puzzles, along with some hidden collectibles, most of which require stronger puzzle-solving skills. You'll get some new abilities along the way, and some of them are implemented in creative ways. Its only real flaw is that the story is conveyed pretty poorly.
(B)
PC
Red Faction: Armageddon
On to New Game+, because those assholes tempted me with new weapons.

Updated about 2 years ago

☆★★★★ What a fucking ride! This is back to being a linear Shooter, still third-person, and while it's just a big, dumb Action game, the weapons are incredible. You can still destroy structures, and damn is it fun with some of the things you can throw at them! There's a perk system, where you can buy upgrades, too. Even the vehicle sections are fun! This build is really damn unstable, but I was willing to put up with its shit for what it offers.
(B)
PC
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Time for some Premium Adventure.

Updated about 2 years ago

☆★★★★ This installment is a JRPG, rather than a Brawler, and yet, it's still very much a Yakuza game. The combat is like Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, and some kind of reverse Earthbound thrown into a blender. The systems in place are interesting, and in addition to the usual melodrama, there are a TON of references to other RPGs. Like, the main character is a fan of Dragon Quest and name-drops it constantly. Another great entry in the series!
(B)
PC
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
That was SUCH BULLSHIT! AAAAAAAAAAA! Premium Adventure is next.

Updated about 2 years ago

☆☆★★★ The final chapter in Kiryu's story, and while it was still good, it was my least favorite. This runs on a new engine (Kiwami 2 also used it), and I had a hell of a time getting used to it, especially with a few weird platforming sections. I did like the experience system, but it was a bit unbalanced. Still lots of good stuff and great writing, but I never really got super comfortable with it. And maybe that was the point.
(B)
PC
Yakuza 5
Time for Premium Adventure!

Updated about 3 years ago

★★★★★ An absolutely excellent entry in the series; easily among my favorites in a series I already love. You have multiple playable characters again, but now, each one has their own city, and they are all GORGEOUS; I spent hours wandering around just enjoying the pretty scenery. Everyone has side stories, and even though they're mostly minigames, I liked those, too. Topped with one of the best Yakuza soundtracks and all the over-the-top melodrama you know and love, this one is not to be missed!
(B)
PC
Yakuza 4
Premium Adventure is next

Updated about 3 years ago

☆★★★★ This installment has 4 different protagonists, and it's impressive how all of their stories and different combat styles fit together so well. You're back in Kamurocho again, but now, you can run along the rooftops or explore the world that lives beneath the city. Each character also has different masters with different training regiments to learn brand new skills, along with the return of the revelations. Great entry in an outstanding series.
(B)
PC
Yakuza 3
Time to start Premium Adventure

Updated about 3 years ago

☆★★★★ This one gets off to kind of a rough start, but once your skills develop a bit, it's the same old Yakuza. There's a new setting, and it is absolutely GORGEOUS. I enjoyed the relationships I formed throughout my adventure, and liked everyone I met. The heat actions are great, too; probably the most over-the-top in the series yet! In the end, I did have a great time with this one.
(B)
PC
Ys Origin
Beaten as the 2 main characters.

Updated about 4 years ago

☆★★★★ So, this is an Action-Adventure in the same vein as Ys 6 and Ys 3: Oath in Felghana, and it uses the engine well; if you liked running around and hitting things in those, you'll like it here, too. There are multiple playable characters for a variety of playstyles. Music's mostly good, and the boss fights are intense and engaging; very fun to fight most of them. What makes it drag a bit is that there is SO MUCH TALKING. The characters all suck, so you just don't care about all the talking.
(B)
PC
Yakuza Kiwami 2
Going back to sweep up at some point.

Updated about 5 years ago

★★★★★ What a fucking ride! If you know Yakuza, you know what to expect, and this is another excellent entry in the series. It's different from Zero and Kiwami in a lot of ways, and it was hard for me to get into at first, but once I did, it quickly became one of my favorites. Great new characters, a new experience system unlike anything I've ever seen before, and a story that hit me almost as hard as Zero's, especially in Majima's ending.
(B)
PC
Yakuza Kiwami
Main game beaten. Damn, that was a finale, too! Lots of twists! Wish I'd learned more fucking Dragon moves!

Updated about 5 years ago

(B)
PC
Yakuza 0
Starting Premium Adventure at some point. DAMN, what a fucking finale! ...still no lead ingots, though...

Updated about 5 years ago

★★★★★ Simple words cannot describe the wonder of this game. At its core, it's a 3D Brawler, but it also has a very reasonably-sized open world to explore with tons to do. Beyond all that, it knows when and where to shift tone, and the story is unbelievably well-written; it's not all that deep, and yet, I was completely riveted, and that just doesn't happen. I'd highly recommend this to almost anyone who enjoys video games.

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about 24 hours ago

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Legendary Weapon: 5 or fewer unfinished games
Consider Yourself a Hero: Majority of games are beaten
Using tiers to "rate" the games I played is something I only came to consider lately, and I have to say, while I see the beauty of it, there is a tiny little scientist in my telling me to reconsider. In the end, Tiers are also just like numbers, just different. And they do not even make sense. Some people online do Tier lists from D to AAA and then realize, they need another level because AAA is not "good enough" to list the real masterpieces and add the letter S to it. Which is way below in the alphabet. Yeah, I know, it is supposed to stand for Super or Superb or something like that, but it is as arbitrary as saying I rate this game from 1-10 and then I give it an 11 or something. Keep your tiers reasonable.

And please do not take this the wrong way, you can do a Tier list from D to A and add S, R and X at the end, I couldn't care less, it's just that the little scientist in me says: Well, S is a 10, A is a 9, B is an 8, C is a 7, D is a 6, E is a 5, F is everything from 4 to 1. And, except for Big Rigs, what game was ever deserving of a 1? I think the lowest rated game I ever played is "TellTales' Texas Hold'Em" and that is just a terrible excuse for a Poker game in videogame form, if you are lonely and need someone to play random poker with....

Anyway, I don't mind the Tier systems, they feel just as arbitrary as numbers to me, and at this point, I stick to numbers. They feel... oddly, but satisfyingly, quantifiable.

Also, all and any rating systems, as we said before, I and definitely agree, "decay" after a while. I gave Donkey Kong Country a 9.5/10, and I still feel emotionally very connected to that game. I also gave Super Mario Galaxy a 9.5/10. Obviously, I know, Super Mario Galaxy is the superior game, technically speaking. So is DKC's 9.5 worth less than Super Mario Galaxy's? Obviously, emotionally, no. But technically? Maybe. But for its time? Probably not.

I guess we can agree, it can be quite difficult to judge certain games...

Oh, you touch a nice point. Maybe my preferences have changed a bit as well. I also used to be a lot more into racing games once, now I mostly go for Action/Adventures, Platformers, Strategy Games, Simulators and starting to get more into RPGs (with one of many letters in front of the -R).

I saw the Witcher TV shows, they were good, even funny, I'd say. Better than the game I am playing for sure. But, yes, Geralt is a male sex fantasy protagonist, edge-lord and... hmmm... just "hmmm"...
about 2 days ago (edited)

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Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
On Fire: 3 beat or complete in a row
Addendum:

But the very best thing of all, there's a counter on this ball this repro cart is Fram, just like a real GBA cart. If you weren't aware, because I certainly wasn't until recently, most GBA carts are F ram which makes them better at holding game data compared to S ram (I think), or perhaps the traditional usage of batteries. Some GBA carts, like PokΓ©mon Ruby or Final Fantasy V Advance, still use batteries for other things, like real time clocks or quick saving, but for the most part can still play the game (but it can still get corrupted so it's not immune, I once bought a Tactics Ogre GBA cart that wouldn't save.) So, this repro cart is more or less professionally made.

By all means, I'm not insinuating thatcha can't learn about games from YouTubers or Twitch streamers. After all, games like Heavy Barrel can still fly even under my radar, and I happened to see it passing by on the thumbnail of some guy's Top 10 of delicious NES games that are still affordable (to be fair, the name and military theme kinda makes it sound like nothing special, but the Commando or Ikari Warriors esque gameplay looked decent.) But it's like I was telling Malons over a week back in how the only way some people will notice a game is if some person with sharp editing skills or a wall full of video games and memorabilia calls them forgotten, underrated hidden gem Metroidvania boomer shooter roguelite Soulslike YOU'VE never played that are still fun in (insert year)! But if it was fifteen years ago, you try telling someone that The Lone Ranger on NES is a good game, then they'll more than likely just dismissively wave their arm at you. At least, that's my take on it. People are gonna have different beliefs and think differently, and that's alright.
about 2 days ago

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Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
On Fire: 3 beat or complete in a row
It sure is! Rather, it's the same as the Genesis Mini release well all the problems were fixed. The bitch thing is that it was $150 because it was a collector's edition... that's why I went ahead and dumped whatever I didn't care for to make the price go down, ended up getting it for around $30. Like Lionel Hutz being paid $8 for his thirty two hours of babysitting, I was glad to get it.

You can just tell I'm not a collector. I don't believe games are worth holding on to if you truly don't care about them (unless they're worth a bit, that's why I still have Pocky & Rocky.) After all, Vectorman 1 and 2 certainly have more going for them than Toki: Going Ape Spit and Sunset Riders MD.

This double pack of EarthBound games is incredible and quickly becoming my preferred way to play em. I would have gotten it and loved it if it had actually been released in the States during that time period, and you'd think with Smash Bros., they would have done it. I hate that you have to run with R in the first one, I don't know what they're thinking with that, but other than that it's fantabulous on GBA. Same with Mother 2. This hack clearly just chose to straight up do the American EarthBound release as close as possible (things like the Red Cross signs are still present.) Again, no different than if I'd chosen to get EarthBound on New 3DS, but damned if the game didn't look great on the SP's screen (super glad to have one again, by the way.)

Oh for sure, loud, rabid fans are gonna do what they do best and you can't escape it. You can try and hope people who obsess over Chrono Trigger and EarthBound can at least broaden their horizons, but like I was informed and totally believe, people don't seem too interested in certain games unless they come from their favorite YouTuber or Twitch streamer. This kind of mentality to have is dangerous, but I totally believe it.

I'd say it has intensified, but like everything else, it's probably more a matter of people being able to be more loud about it. You know, if you brush aside the grand culture shift in the last fifteen to twenty years, it's really not all that different than the days of teen girls squeeing about Kingdom Hearts, Inuyasha, GIR from Invader Zim, and everything else that was hip with anime fans of the time. As for McDonald's, their breakfast is still classic, but everything else is meh, especially with fast food inflation making them seem not worth it to most people anymore (unless their options are limited.)
about 5 days ago

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Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
On Fire: 3 beat or complete in a row
Happy that I own Wily Wars now (officially, not a repro). These games, they look amazing on a CRT. Mega Man 9 also looked incredible on a CRT.

While we had the conversation of Mother 3 being overrated last year (Hi NaturalChemist), I'll state that while the game itself is good, it's kinda that one game that people are just wired to love by default, and Nintendo not localizing it, kinda ironically just adds fuel to that fire of insanity.

Getting Mother 1+2 was a very good idea on my end. By playing this port, it helps give me a fresh perspective of the two games. [recycling from Rarity's page] Make no mistake, I hate the series' massive popularity, the way people covet it as "underrated" or [in posh voice ala Bugs Bunny as a king] "the ultimate cult classic", the way people act like no other 16-bit RPG exists other than Chrono Trigger, how makers of indie RPGs just love to base their games on it because... obviously, how whenever there's about to be a Direct or it's E3 time, prediction videos will have something EarthBound related on it (Arlo specifically does this all the time), how disingenuous retroooo collectors love showing off their EarthBound carts and boxes in the thumbnails of their videos every chance they get (I'm lead to believe those people know nothing about the actual game outside of the fact that the game(s) are highly priced) more than life itself. But, you omit all that or brush it aside, they're good games, maybe even great. Are they necessary nowadays since you can just play em on Switch? Perhaps not, but like I said before, just go into Mother 1+2 like it's 2003, when Super Smash Bros Melee was one of the most beloved games of that time period. Also, the 25th Anniversary Faithful will be a pretty good hack. It looks pretty dee-lux.

"Literally my childhood bro. Huh huh huh." Speaks for itself.

Hmm. Actually, given how companies are now hell bent on 2000s nostalgia, maybe using anime to promote their products, they must know what they're doing. Of course, the popularity of anime in those days seemed a lot more tame compared to now (that's saying a lot), with Attack on Titan, Joey Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, One Punch Man, Demon Slayer, my 23 year old cousin loves that stuff. He's definitely the target demographic for WcDonalds. Come to think of it... wasn't it the Trump era when they brought back Szchuan sauce because of Rick & Morty? Yeah, I guess they did always try to appeal to 20 somethings.
about 6 days ago

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Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
On Fire: 3 beat or complete in a row
The boss fight was very awesome. Know what too, considering how much a real MMV GB goes for, getting a repro of it definitely wasn't a waste of time.

A YouTube comment summed it up as "Basically if Treasure made a Mega Man game." I'm on the edge of my seat wondering how Minus Infinity will be! This ROM hacker took Rock Man IV, which uses the mapper mmc3, and gutted it and turned it into a game that now uses mmc5, which is apparently hefty, hefty, hefty! So massive in fact that it has to be in an FC cart just to make things easier for whoever was making the repro. The board itself is yooge. It's the same with Just Breed, which also has to be in a Famicom cart. Boy, it's a good thing there are no good looking current games on platforms I own right (except maybe Unicorn Overlord.) These are more up my Hogan's alley!

Is that right? That sucks. Thankfully, this seems like it has both games fully translated (thus far.) Whoever made the cart your sister got must've used an incomplete patch.

It's hard to tell in the age of weaponized nostalgia. I hope for everybody's sake that the show lives up to the hype and doesn't just exist to capitalize on Gen X's blind nostalgia. This is Disney we're talking about, for better or worse.

Ah ha, ha, ha, "Double Cheeseburger? I'd hit it." Those were so hilariously bad. Anyway, I was more talking about the idear of getting an anime studio (assuming) to produce McDonald's commercials. There's a girl that looks like she's going Super Saiyin and everything. All for McDonald's food. It's so bizarre. To be fair, I did say probably. Could they have done something like that in 2005? I'm betting no, but it could also be the idea that it's easier to get into contact with anime studios now. I mean, there was the Death Note Simpsons thing from a couple years back.
about 7 days ago

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Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
On Fire: 3 beat or complete in a row
Mother World DX, did you see that I was playing Mega Man V World DX? That was pretty great. And come to think of it, when looking at it I saw your review! You were great.

Excited to play Rockman 4 Minus Infinity, just as soon as I get my FC adapter back (it's getting filed because some FC carts were too narrow to fit like Space Invaders and Wagyan Land 2. Who knew?) Just Breed also looks frantastic and also can't wait, and also Kid Niki 3 (easier to say than the actual title.) Got some pretty kick ass stuff indeed, like an English Mother 1+2. It'll probably end up being my preferred way to play those two games.

Speaking of making new episodes from a show from the '90s... X-Men '97. I wonder how that will turn out? Also it's TV-14 for some reason. I guess they're gonna curse up a storm and have innuendo? Why couldn't they just stick to making it Y7? Seems like an odd choice. It's like TV ratings don't matter anymore.
about 1 week ago (edited)

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Backlog Beaten: June 3, 2021
Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
On Fire: 3 beat or complete in a row
Confused: Playing 10+ games at once
That does raise a question, it says PC, but what version of the game did you play? Some say that the GOG version is better for modern hardware and software, while the Steam version is better for older ones, but if you played just a regular PC version that isn't tied to either software, then I am not wise to what specifically was the issue for you, I played New Vegas on Steam, EPIC, and Ps3, Ps3 was easily the best port, ironically.

All right, I am 14 and a half hours into the game and it is very good, but, firstly, as a port, it is perfect! My God, I expected it to have any problem, but there is none. It is very refreshing to have a so-called "enhanced edition" actually be enhanced, it is awesome! The visuals are stunning, the art style is fun and sticks out in a very fun and not distracting way, music is also a blast. The game is also optimized very well, I have the graphics set to very high with full screen and I have constant 60fps without any stuttering + no visual glitches, very nice stuff! The story and the character of the game itself are very in line with what you described before, the story itself, of the vault and everything, is mostly in the background and only surfaces here and there when you fight a boss or do some important quest, but most of the gameplay is very repetitive, but highly addicting gameplay. While it is repetitive, I think what saves it is how satisfying the combat is, especially with the resurrection with a single kill mechanic, I don't think I've ever seen a mechanic like that before, very good stuff! I am having a lot of fun, but a part of me does feel like a little more story would have been welcomed, maybe I just need to get used to it more, we shall see!
about 2 weeks ago

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Right Hand of Bak'laag: 1000+ unfinished games
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
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Quest is really weird. I'm playing through 64 now, played it a decent bit as a kid but never beat it. I've always had a soft spot for it, as well as it's meme status now. GBC was a really weird experience. I might like it more? It's easier to break in the player's favor at least, and it's weird that it adds so much more lore to the game. Do you know anything about it's development? I've tried looking into it and other than seeing it got outsourced to another dev I'm not really sure why they made it two years later.

I can't really say Quest, 64 or GBC, is good in a traditional sense. But I enjoy them both for what they are, and do admire their stranger aspects (item stores, management, SaGa-esque levelling, emphasis on an unique magic system, kind of free healing if you level water a bit). And with 64 there's an unfair tug of nostalgia, not going to lie.

I saw you tried Sable but dropped it? Didn't enjoy it? That game was extremely odd. I loved the vibe and aesthetic, but the gameplay was SO boring. And there was only a few moments where I felt like I accomplished anything, but loved just moving around in that weirdly beautiful world so much despite not really enjoying the game's loop.

Glad to see you played and enjoyed WaveTale! I got to play it when it first released because I happened to get a Stadia trial, and it was one of the only two exclusive games I felt were really worth playing. I'm happy it got a wider release and is being played by more people.

Sorry for spamming your wall a week late!
about 2 weeks ago

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Right Hand of Bak'laag: 1000+ unfinished games
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
Cont'd

It's been a while since I played BL3, obsessed over it at launch. So I don't particularly remember all the details, but I think I remember the first DLC being okay, second being better, and then it kinda tumbled slowly downhill from there. I didn't like the Tiny Tina nor the Flustercluck DLCs as much as others because, this is probably nitpicky but it bothers me enough to affect my engagement, it's a fiction inside of a fiction. I just, don't care. Especially when Gearbox has repeatedly "developed" characters only to toss it aside when they need a character for some stupid joke in another side quest. I didn't feel like I really got anything out of slightly understanding Krieg's madness better. And Tiny Tina roleplaying is a fun enough concept that's just stretched too thin for me. (GUESS HOW I FELT ABOUT THE FULL TINY TINA GAME I BOUGHT AND PLAYED THROUGH SOLO ANYWAY AHHH--)

It'd be interesting to figure out how I feel about all the DLC, I mostly replayed the main games because I played 2 and 3 at launch, so I only ran through the DLCs when they were released and didn't really replay them much. I remember mostly liking 2's? Though I thought I loved 1's DLC (sans Moxxie's trash DLC of course) but when I replayed it a few years ago with a friend I found it really dragged even if I liked it conceptually. The driving in Knoxx is just. Man! Why! Why did you do it like this!

BL3 is the same way for me, a lot of it I like conceptually, but I have a lot of problems with how they decided to implement a lot of their ideas. And the humor is mostly terrible besides the player character quips, those and enemy remarks I found quite fun usually.

My favorite Borderlands hack is that in a lot of circumstances rather than running back it's MUCH faster to just quit out of the game and rehost it to spawn back at the base camp. My friends and I always joke about our quitting-strat to speed run turning in quests. What a silly franchise.
about 2 weeks ago

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Right Hand of Bak'laag: 1000+ unfinished games
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
I'm really glad you enjoyed Borderlands 3! I'm extremely torn on it, as I am the whole series. I really love them and want to love the world and I honestly think that's the reason I have so many problems with the game cause I care too much. The twin's dad's turd farmer nonsense being emblematic of the biggest issues in the game's writing.

I LOVED BL1. I never got to play too much multiplayer growing up beyond just occasional two player coach co-op. Only a few rare instances of full 4-player games. I wasn't into PC games or shooters at the time I was only vaguely aware of what a LAN party was, but when Borderlands released me and three friends lugged our TVs and 360's to one house and we played the whole thing through in a weekend. I think that cursed me to adoring the franchise no matter what direction it went. The promise of the bleak world of Pandora mixed with it's usually dark existential and sometimes crude humor and really fun gameplay and character building. Then when BL2 built on what it did, though amping up the crude stupid humor, still mostly focusing on the grandiose world building. Borderlands and Dark Souls, when I was willing to buy "Ultimate Editions" with the dumb statues and what not, were the only two series I bought them for. I love Borderlands.

I hate the story and writing of BL3. They're all just SNL level parodies of characters and tropes, and make such strange decisions and focus on random characters. Don't get me wrong, in game character dialogue can still occasionally delight, and I like some of the quests and some plot ideas are fine at least conceptually if not in execution. And exploring the galaxy instead of just Pandora was implemented well enough to almost feel like it was more than just a different style hub world design. And the gameplay, better than ever, absolutely.

I just could not jive with most of the plot and it really brought it down for me. Me. The guy who played through the game four times and all of the DLCs at least once each as each different character despite this. The same guy who claims the new Zelda's are atrocious but basically 100%ed them with almost 100 hours each anyway.

I just care too much I think. It leads me to really see the flaws and want them to be fixed when the solutions are SO OBVIOUS... Once you've obsessed over them for this long.

tl;dr BL3 is great to play, I don't like the twins, I love random enemy dialogue, Zane and Mozz are very fun, Amara and FLAK are really great designs and fun.
about 2 weeks ago (edited)

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Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
On Fire: 3 beat or complete in a row
The instant I searched Wavetale on Google, I saw "A HIDDEN GEM ON SWITCH!" [Link] Truly, these people are clowns. If it isn't Mario, it's a underated hiden jim!!!1!1!1 With that out of the way, if it meets your approval, I'll take note.

I've been led to get a reproduction of this hack of Mega Man 4 called Rockman 4 Minus Infinity. It's supposed to be the rootinest, tootinest NES MegaMan hack yet. I ain't seeing it in your profile though? Did it not meet your approval? Say it isn't so, MotherKojiro. Also, it looks as if you didn't like CrossCode? But why?

Didn't Road Redemption get middling reviews though? I might be confusing it with another game.

You think the people who did the Secret of Evermore commercial took inspiration from Tin Tin? They both have footage of a boy and his dawg getting washed away.

The Critic certainly is terrific. A continuation would be nice, but revivals, revamps, reboots, and resparkings are a dime and dozen nowadays and frankly the Dragon spirit would be lost. How many reboots nowadays do you think people actually care about? We've had Frasier 2023, we've had That '90s Show, like... I dunno, I can't imagine they're too popular.

Dumb and Dumber is one of Hanna-Barbera's more peculiar '90s cartoons, for sure. You notice how all of Jim Carrey's mid-90s movies got turned into cartoons? Then CABLE GUUUY! came out and that broke the trend.

I love the Robotech theme, it kinda makes me wanna watch the show now. With music like that, it has to be exciting.

Oh, but they did. DiC (pretty sure it was DiC) was no stranger to making (or putting) covers of songs in their shows. Captain N had one that was Monster Mash but it was "DO THE FREAK!" instead. I can only imagine some guy's girlfriend annoying him with it.
about 3 weeks ago

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Backlog Beaten: June 3, 2021
Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
On Fire: 3 beat or complete in a row
Confused: Playing 10+ games at once
Yeah, a very sad reality, everyone, and their mother always jokes about NewVegas being the buggiest game of all time, but I personally always had more problems with Fallout 3, that game is the buggiest game I have ever played in my life, from crashes every hour to whole buildings being invisible and losing their models. it is insane. I see, well mine is probably mine and my sister's fault, we would play with thick blankets and would almost suffocate each other, my sister didn't develop anything, but I am pretty sure that that lack of movement, air, and light really got to me, unfortunately.

Yooooo, maybe? That makes sense, I always just assumed that it was since the color green is the opposite, but that is a very lame explanation, I chose THIS as THE explanation. Hey, no problem, always happy to share that weird trivia knowledge!

DO I HAVE A NEWS FOR YOU! Just bought the first game, Steam gave me both the original GOTY and Enhanced edition, and now that is nice, I gotta say, I really appreciate it when the developer/publisher gives you multiple versions of the same game, just in case one performs better/worse. Thank you for all the knowledge, now that my exams are over, I am getting into it as soon as possible!
about 3 weeks ago

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Minion of Bak'laag: 100+ unfinished games
It's a step in the right direction with 2D Mario, IMO. It still feels a little too safe? Maybe I'm just too stuck into he 90's lol.
about 3 weeks ago

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Minion of Bak'laag: 100+ unfinished games
Super Mario Bros. Wonder is certainly a great game but I still catch a wiff of that NSMB stench from the Wii/DS Gen. Like it's not hard but some of the normal courses still feel like they're on auto pilot to me. I hardly used the Bubble Flower or Drillshroom.
about 3 weeks ago

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Right Hand of Bak'laag: 1000+ unfinished games
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
Hope you're enjoying Leo Edition.

I like the way you seem to be doing it, changing the color scheme periodically. Whether it's based on your current mood or not, it's cool that you also apply that to your avatar.

That's fair enough, I think. A lot of fighters these days are so technical that I feel like that's part of the barrier of entry for me, as well. Going back to something like the original Street Fighter II would probably help me quite a bit. I'm already quite familiar with Street Fighter III, though.

I'll have to keep the Darkstalkers games on my mind, then, for when I'm looking to get more into fighters. I want to at some point, for sure. It's something I'm always thinking about, but can never fully dedicate myself to it. Tekken is like my go-to series, most of the time, and I haven't even played all of those past the first Tag Tournament. Most recently, I had fun playing Dragon Ball Fighterz, and put a good 8 hours or so into it. After beating the story mode, I went online, got completely decimated, and figured I about had my fill lol.

Compared to you, I had to pay out of the ass for Skies of Arcadia Legends, but not as much as it goes for these days, I guess. I still prefer the Dreamcast version, because it has better quality music. Higher encounter rates, though, but that doesn't bother me much.

It's cool; the term can mean something else entirely, depending on the person. I just go with my own definition. I don't know if I'll ever fucking get to Ozma, at this point, but who knows. I can definitely still handle Dragon Warrior, no problem. I was thinking about revisiting them, too. It's been especially long since I've played 3 and 4. Now that I have a hacked 3DS, I might just play the DS remakes finally, though. I always wanted to give them more of a fair shot, and hey, Dragon Quest IV actually allows you to play the game! No more AI-controlled party members. Heh, I'm just messing around. The AI thing doesn't kill Warrior IV for me, but I still wish the game had the option, regardless. It's generally why I prefer Dragon Warrior III on the NES, even though IV's scenario design is amazing. Love the individual chapters for each character.
about 3 weeks ago

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Right Hand of Bak'laag: 1000+ unfinished games
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
I don't think I've personally heard someone pronounce it like that, unless it was some YouTuber. It wouldn't surprise me. I'm almost scared to play X-2, because I know that game is also going to have its own share of bullshit. No way in hell am I treating NPC dialogue like a goddamn collect-a-thon for the true ending. Pretty sure if you miss a single line of dialogue, you're screwed out of 100%.

You know something funny about VII Rebirth? They're bringing all of the minigames back, of course. (with one or two exceptions) I think I read something about new games added on top of that, as well, but I'm not sure yet. Pretty sure the roller coaster one is in.

Oh, yeah... You can imagine how it must've been, getting into JRPGs during that generation, of all times. I was 13 or 14, and wanted to play games like Final Fantasy, but I was in a small town with little to no chance of finding PS1 games anywhere outside of the internet. Luckily, it didn't take long for me to find emulators and PS1 Classics on the PSN store. FF7 wasn't available digitally yet, though, and prices for that were just insane at the time. I think I already told you about that Greatest Hits copy, though; I can't remember. Anyway, Chrono Trigger was like the holy grail to me for the longest time, coming out of that, so I still feel a lot of that sentimentality towards it to this day. I played it so religiously back then that I can't even count all the playthroughs I've done, and that's not even counting new game plus.

I'd be too damn scared of them accidentally selecting my save or something. Guess it would help if you put your save on one of the lower slots or something. Oh yeah, Turrican games are hard as hell. Luckily, I think those new Switch ports allow for rewind, so that's a godsend. That track you linked is brilliant, haha.

I wonder if they tell you that in the manual somewhere for the difficulty stuff. I got the manual for Valkyrie Profile, but haven't read it in a few years. I guess it'd be fitting if they didn't tell you shit, with how cryptic that game is.
about 3 weeks ago

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Right Hand of Bak'laag: 1000+ unfinished games
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
I got a few PS1 controllers that are like that. Some of them are third-party controllers where the d-pad is almost like a disc. For some reason, I used to like using those. Shit, I think even some offline games don't let you play them while offline, these days. It's bogus. Did I finish the game during that run? I don't think so, actually. I know for a fact I finished Super Metroid on the Wii VC, and later replayed it on emulator and SNES after that. That controller was shit, but I still liked it a lot because the whole thing lit up lol. Maybe I'll dig it out, sometime. Load up ZSNES and play Super Metroid with it. It's in my closet somewhere.

I can't remember what $20 game we were talking about, but I had to re-buy DMC HD Collection on PS4 because the Steam version of DMC2 was being stupid with my controller. For some reason, diagonals made Dante walk instead of run, and I was fed up with messing around in the configuration for so long. Street Fighter 6 is actually way more appealing to me than SF4, because it seems to have more of a single-player focus to it. I like what I've seen of being able to walk around and fight random NPCs and stuff. Almost looks like Yakuza turned into a traditional fighter, but I don't know too much outside of a first impression looking at gameplay videos.

Fair enough. I'm not crazy about Pac-Man, either, and never was, but I'd probably give Championship Edition a shot. I remember playing the demo on PS3 back in the day.

I do wish Capcom would revisit more of their IPs, Dino Crisis being one of them. Breath of Fire might also be interesting for a comeback... Unless they do something like Dragon Quarter, but I highly doubt they'd do something like that again.

As soon as I heard about Ubisoft calling Skull and Bones the first "AAAA" game, this is what I thought of. [Link]
about 3 weeks ago

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Legendary Weapon: 5 or fewer unfinished games
Consider Yourself a Hero: Majority of games are beaten
Hey there!

I see you are done with Borderlands, what did you think of it? I have not played any of those games, so please be spoiler free in your opinion, but I would still like to hear it.

Wait, wait, you had a tree fall on you? O_o
How did that happen? How did you survive? What kind of tree are we talking about?

I'll check on the Paper Mario thing again as well, when I will replay them.

Might the word you are looking for be "Longevity"? I thought about using that word, since it is a pretty common word in Italian (which is where I lived when I first "designed" my grading system) but ultimately decided against it because it feel so... scientific. And precise. And my grading system, while precise enough for my tastes, is certainly flawed after "grading" hundreds of games. I am sure a 7/10 for one game is not the same as a 7/10 with another game, even if they should be. Personal perception, moment of life, and so many other things can influence this kind of "numerical approach" and make it not "precise" any more. So I tried to go for something that was un-precise from the get go... Which sounds weird when talking about numbers, but... it makes sense in my head.

No, Sea of Thieves has very little to do with Platforming, I would say, and a lot to do with sailing on the open seas. It is made by Rare and is an always online multiplayer game (you can also play solo, but it's like... playing Zelda - Four Swords Adventures solo. Or Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. Or Zelda - TriForce Heroes. You can do it. It is way less fun than with friends). It looks gorgeous by the way. I just wish more people I know in my time zone would play it.

Oh, no, maybe I didn't bring across the context of Scott's discussion properly: he was talking about game cases and how similar or differently from each other they can look like. It's an actually pretty interesting (and funny) video about how often game manufacturers change the look of the game's casing or cartridges, and how bad that looks for a collector.
If you are interested: [Link] (I hope this is the correct one, I watched a ton lately)

I have to try revoicing Geralt in my head with Jon St. John's voice, that could be either incredibly hilarious or just super wrong, depending on the situation. But surely worth a try. It could... make my day!
about 4 weeks ago (edited)

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Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
On Fire: 3 beat or complete in a row
Forgiveness please for the late reply.

Appreciation goes towards your recommendations. Can't say I'm crazy about SaGa Frontier or I would've already played it back then, I thought about Tomba but... maybe not. Jumping Flash, enjoy em but already have em. Uh, not fond of fighting games, I hear Goemon PSX games were just okay. You know what though? You did make me recall Mega Man Raid Shadow Legends and Mega Man Legends 2, so kudos. Even back in the day before collecting was cool, those were already kinda sought after and pricy, so it's cool I'll be able to play those and Tron Bonne. Capcom in the PlayStation days, nothing wrong with that at all.

What do you think about Electronic Arts Strike games, Mother? Those were pretty rad. Ain't nothing like flying around in a helicopter blowing stuff up. It's a shame EA is the way it is now because we could certainly use a new Strike or Road Rash game.

By the way, Fustercluck would be a good name for a place that specializes in spicy chicken.

Not a lot going on, but I do got some songs. Definitely running dry, but I can still go.

[Link] Adventures of Tintin
[Link] Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
[Link] Conan the Adventurer
[Link] Critic, The (slightly edited to combine both seasons, but close enough)
[Link] Dumb and Dumber
[Link] Monster Rancher
[Link] Robotech
[Link] Swamp Thing
about 4 weeks ago

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Right Hand of Bak'laag: 1000+ unfinished games
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
Invincible: 10+ beat or complete in a row
Confused: Playing 10+ games at once
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