Oh shit, yeah; I know Droopy Dog! Don't know how I missed that one.

Exactly, and that's fine; so many games get shit because they don't reinvent the genre. If the genre is good, why do we need to reinvent it with every single game? Some games are just really good examples of what we've built so far; is that not good enough anymore? Mega Man 9 was extremely regressive; y'all like that so much! That's not even getting into how everyone makes such a big deal about whether a game is indie or not; some people seek them out exclusively, while some people say, "I'm just not an indie guy," and I don't get why that even matters. If a game is good, it's good, right?

Civvie's great; he goes through old Shooters, like Doom, Duke Nukem, Blood, etc., but he goes through them in great detail. He pokes fun at a lot of YouTube stuff, too, like pleasing the algorithm; you might be into it. The truth is that I'm just generally not good at Shooters, so those ancient ones like Faceball 2000 Doom, and the absolute GLUT of modern imitators, like Nightmare Reaper - they call them Boomer Shooters, which is fucking stupid, because it has absolutely nothing to do with that generation - aren't something I can handle. Even reboots, like the newer Doom and Wolfenstein games are too much; I tried one of the newer Wolfenstein games (freebie from Epic) on the mode that has a picture of him wearing a baby bonnet, and even then, I couldn't get more than a few minutes in. A few minutes of actual gameplay, that is; gotta have those 3-hour cutscenes to establish the story. Single-player Borderlands or something like Outer Worlds on Normal Mode are about all I can handle.

Twisted Metal is pretty similar for me; I'm not good at Racers, so to take those mechanics I'm bad at, throw me in an arena with them, and have me ACTUALLY HIT A MOVING TARGET!? File that one with the Department of Ain't Gonna Happen. Even when I used to be okay at Racers, I was bad at things like Twisted Metal or even Mario Kart's battle mode, and I've gone from beating F-Zero X on most of the difficulty levels with most of the characters to "Can kinda steer most of the time," so there's about zero hope for me now.

As you all know, I've been pwaying lotsa Nightmare Reaper lately. It's everything you could want in a single player FPS. Lotsa carnage, great mechanics, rockin' soundtrack? You be the judge [Link] Anyway, I'll give it a raging hard recommendation to any body looking for a new(ish) indie game to play. It's not yet another platventure, that's for true. Okay, it's roguelite, but it still works. Anyway, anybody passing by reading this, play it if you can.

I don't get that reference... I was referencing Timekillers, which could qualify as a hidden dirt clod (no gems here), but I could see getting it mixed up with Timesplitters. Rarity's definitely on to something, because I'm pretty sure I've seen people try to put that label on Foregone, and it is absolutely not that; you have a few upgrades to movement that will allow you to reach new areas in earlier stages, but you'll only find an item or two in them; it's no more a "Metroidvania" than a Mega Man X game. Oh, I've played Roguelites in that style; they SUCK. Eldritch is the one that sticks out to me the most, and the idea that I'm going to die a lot, and every time I do, THE ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD REWRITES ITSELF, so I none of my exploration was worth a damn up to that point isn't exactly conducive to what the genre does best. So yeah, I'll do you one better: a Metroidvania Roguelite that I wish I never played... so you don't have to.

Did you make it to the sewer area yet? The one where it says, "Sorry, Civvie" on the wall? I saw it months, maybe years ago in his video. It looks really cool, and something I'd love thematically, but I can't play twitchy shooters, like Doom (original or reboot) and its ilk, so I'd never make it past the first few stages.

Well, that's one step closer, but we still need Cocaine Bear vs. Meth Gator. I'd probably settle for Sharknado vs. Polar Vortex, though.

Twitter isn’t bad at all for me anymore now that I’m private and have an extension to kill all the algorithm garbage and all the stupid shit they’ve done. I’d still rather be there than Reddit, Tumblr, Mastodon, or Facebook. When I made another Facebook account a few years ago, they banned me over their bullshit ‘real name’ policy, which makes me never want to go back there. Not to mention if I had a VR and got my account banned, I’d lose all my games, which is just idiotic. Tumblr is full of weird preteens/teenagers and has all sorts of embarrassing stories, and Mastodon is completely unusable because it’s “decentralized” I do hope that an alternative for Twitter gets a foothold (and one for Youtube too, its support is really bad), but I don’t see that happening any time soon.

I’m not so sure. I read up on it, and it’s not the best for motion sickness, and a lot of stuff like Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, and Wolfenstein make me sick because of their bad field of view and stupid headbobs.

I never thought I’d be using my Saturn a ton more than my Dreamcast. I guess technically the DC does have like half the amount of games. I’d get an ODE for my Dreamcast, but I’d either have to buy from Terraonion, or DC Digital. Terraonion, I bought a Saturn ODE from them, but when I couldn’t get it to work, I emailed them, and it took them a full week or two for them to NOT reply. Also, their stupid DRM to lock firmware updates behind the license number? The whole page went down and never came back up a few days after I got it. Not to mention the people are complete assholes, they harassed the everdrive guy (basically politicized him fleeing Ukraine and trying to compare it to throwing money at the problem and whining about some tax loophole or something)

I was looking at Chaos World after reading this, and it does have a translation…but it’s one of the ones Aeon Genesis said he’d finish and never fucking did. Idiot, this is what happens when you take on a million projects at the same time. That guy brought all his misery upon himself. He seems like one of those hackers with an impossibly huge ego .Other than that? I don’t know, RPGs, beat em ups, platformers are usually what I go for on most systems. I’ll read up on the others tomorrow or so, it’s 4am.

Other people have negative right to tell people how to play or how to think about games they’ve bought with their money and have put time into. Are you an asshole? Because that’s an asshole thing to do.

It's pretty useful to have all the fast travel spots with the towers/shrines. I've been trying to avoid using that when I can so I can see more along the way.

I think my favorite line/meme was "I LOST THE GAME!"

At least the bonus stuff they added after finishing the game is pretty cool. 3 voice-less cutscenes and some unused areas you can walk around and fight some unused enemies.

Contra III is tough, dude. I can sorta beat the game on Normal using the 30 lives code, but I want to take it a step further and at least do the same on Hard. I can finish the first Contra without the lives code no problem, but this game seems a lot more difficult. I'd say it's even harder than Super C.

M.C. Kids is such a weird game, and not really in a good way. I want to like it, but I just don't get half the shit that's going on in it. At least the music is kinda decent.

'Manda da 'Venturer is way less annoying than Baldi, I'll give it that. Seriously, I can't stand those horror games where you're running from a persuer while gathering items. I think Slender Man was what started that whole thing. Baldi made me want to pull my hair out of frustration.

MyHouse.WAD is like another one of those ARG games on the surface, but there's so much else to like about it. It does so many crazy things with the engine that people originally never thought possible, such as rooms overlapping each other. I don't claim to know much about Doom, myself, as I'm just a casual player of the games, and even I was thrown for a loop multiple times while playing it. I'd suggest checking out Power Pak's video on it, but it's also nearly 2 hours long. EDIT: This one's cool, too. [Link]

I saw you mention my name in your status over Nightmare Reaper! I meant to respond to that a while ago. That game has been on my wishlist for a long time, but I just haven't gotten around to owning it yet. Looks awesome. I'm glad you seem to be enjoying it.

Indeed it can! I knew it'd be smart to wait for it to be on sale for almost free from the get-go, just from the marketing and reception: WE'RE GETTING ANOTHER SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT, YOU GUYS! All the while, I could only think, "Yeah, this is the 8th one. Go play the others; they were great!" And another Symphony of the Night is almost exactly what we got with Bloodstained; it was made as though no other Platventures were released since Symphony of the Night, so it was a lot of that, warts and all. I've got plenty of gripes with it, both major and minor, but overall, it just doesn't respect your time. Enemies can have as many as FIVE different items that they drop, so get ready to farm them ad nauseam. Then, there's the basic level design... you'll get a movement upgrade, and then spend the next hour or so scouring the castle to figure out where to use it. Think double-jump is going to be obvious? Well, prepare for repeated disappointment, because most previously inaccessible areas are going to be too high for your double-jump to reach. I got to about 40% map coverage after about 15 hours, didn't quite know where to go yet again, and while I could've looked it up, I just sat back for a minute and realized that it wasn't worth the few seconds it would've taken, because I was just so bored with the whole thing. If people like it, then great; I'm glad that they enjoyed it, but like Dr. Who, I'm just not getting enough out of it to justify that kind of time commitment. I've played plenty of better games in the genre - TIMESPINNERS! EN-GAYGE! - and I'm sure I'll continue to do so in the future.

Besides, when the fuck have I ever cared about popular opinion; this extra green lit-up Christmas tree of a Zelda game that just came out is something I still don't care that much about; this one or Breath of the Wild before it. I'll get there when I get there.

[Link] Oh, freaks yeah. Now where's the remasters of the Strong Bad adventure james?

I’m not sure about that. LRG buys up the rights to physical releases of games, so it’s either digital or suck it up and import, hope you know Japanese. LRG is also no stranger to being in bed with scalpers, most stuff on there has no buy limit. Why the fuck would you do that if that’s not your goal? Also when I mentioned on Twitter that I got my Astro City Mini with two controllers for cheaper than LRG, they randomly showed up in my mentions super mad and trying to argue how that wasn’t possible. If it wasn’t, how was it possible I did? Also, namesearching stuff and replying to a random nobody’s tweets is fucking creepy and gross. Chances are if it’s an unfavorable opinion, they will get their friends to dogpile you (especially if you don’t have the following to counter it with your own friends), like what happened with Tom and Hardcoregaming101. It’s reasons like that I think being public on Twitter is a liability, not to mention transphobes getting super mad and mass reporting to lock my account, nevermind that they get away with the stuff that gets me locked every fuckin day. Pathetic.

I tried some new randomizers, Mario Land 2, Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, none of which I think I will finish. Mario 64 and BK because of the final boss (the final boss arena in BK is horrible and phase 2 can easily knock you into a pit, making you redo the entire fight, and nevermind if you fuck up at any point of the fight. Rotating the control stick for Bowser sucks, and having to do it three times makes it unbearable. Horrible gimmick, was decent back then, but did not age well at all), and Mario Land 2 because of Wario’s Castle. The final boss is easy enough, but that goddamn level is a HUGE difficulty spike, and it SUCKS. It’s not fun, which sucks, because the rest of the game is fun. I’ve done a few Aria of Sorrow randomizers too, but I may ditch those, there’s no spoiler logs, and no way of finding the souls you need if you miss them. Also, certain souls are required. Like, Undine locks off half the map, AND you need it to even get through Chaos Realm.

A few weeks ago, I got a Saturn ODE, so I never have to worry about the laser again. When the Genesis Mini 2 gets hacked, that’ll take care of the Sega CD’s laser (though I have an X’Eye) So I guess if I ever want to replay AO, I won’t have to worry about any of those potential issues, even if that sounded more like a dirty disc. I also put some more stuff like Street Racer and Gale Racer on.

I need to try out that randomizer of Paper Mario, but it’s one of those games that I’m not super familiar with. I suppose it should be doable enough as a randomizer. Starfox 64 as well. I started a Symphony of the Night randomizer on my PS1 Classic, first thing I found was Soul of Bat, so I sequence broke the castle. The items for certain points in the game, like the rings and Holy Glasses, are randomized too. I have the item needed for the Inverted Castle, but am missing one ring for the bottom of the clock room, which is probably in the Inverted Castle, as I’ve explored the Normal Castle from top to bottom, I’m fairly sure.

I discovered that I had converted my Wild Arms save from RetroPie to PS1 Classic format, so I guess I’ll do that again soon. I never really liked many games on PS2, actually, in comparison to how many there are. I hate Kingdom Hearts, FFX, and Shadow of the Colossus. GTA I never cared for, racial slurs and incredibly crude thirst traps that are obviously for dudes by dudes, and mistreatment of women for like five hours isn’t my idea of fun. Shadow Hearts I remember liking, I need to get back to it. Still have the save, despite my modchip breaking (I got a softmod, everything that used to work does again), and should try the PS2 Goemon as well. Rogue Galaxy was fine, but it seemed to fall into that “early bad 3d gives me motion sickness if I play it for too long” that someone skipped the Dreamcast.

In the LttP randomizers I'm playing now, you need 40 out of 50 Triforce Pieces to beat the game. I have all 50, all items, and all 20 hearts. Imagine I probably hit most of the chests. By far the most thorogh I've been in these...though in LADX, I managed 236/241. LADX has also been 0 deaths for the past like...dozen? seeds or so.

I never thought the camera panning in 7 looked good, even back then. It’s just more pointless waiting before the fight begins. There’s no way that it was an aesthetic choice, it was 100% to attempt to mask loading times like Silent Hill’s fog, only it was fine there (and I don’t like Silent Hill either), it’s intrusive in FF7. Same thing in Legend of Dragoon, I think. If it is a choice, then it’s a shitty one, it’s a waste of time and serves no purpose, just let us begin the fucking battle.

I think the only NES games I really like are Mario 3, and…that’s about it. Maybe Zelda 1, maybe Startropics (even if I’m not as confident as Zelda 1 without rewinds). Mario 3 Mix was good, from what I remember. Metroid is…fine? I just can’t play it when Zero Mission exists, especially with the lack of a map. Sweet Home was fine from what I remember. I suppose I should try Mother 1 again some time.

On the playlist in the near future are Breath of Fire 1 and 2, Lufia 1 (I beat 2, but may replay it), Chrono Trigger +, and some Japanese games I put on there, like Alchahest and Gunman’s Proof. As for the Sega CD, I have burned copies of the Unworked patches of Lunar 1, 2, and Vay (with quarter encounter rate).

I paid 150 for it, and that was with everything. If I were to look and it was 1000 when I didn’t have it, I would not buy it, I would emulate it in some fashion. As for RPGs on the Saturn, I liked Albert Odyssey (though I have no idea how I got past the loading times you had on your JP copy. Maybe I didn’t care much because it didn’t do some pointless camera pan five times like FF7 does), and I suppose it’s about time to give Legend of Oasis another try (I tried it long ago when I had my first modded Saturn with the bad power supply, imaging playing that, PD Saga, and AO in hopes you’d find a save point before it crashes)

Hey, thanks a lot for the list! It warms the heart to see that the NES homebrew scene is still going strong, AND that you can buy all these so easily. That Yeah Yeah Beebis II is a game that actually exists feels like such a miracle. The internet can be a beautiful thing sometimes. I really gotta play that and Doodle World sometime! Heck, I wanna play 'em all really...that new Garbage Pail Kids aftermarket NES game came out recently, too! Haven't played it yet, but it looks like a very high quality title once you get past how grody GPK is.

No, this is the first I'm hearing of Murtop. It looks... OK? I can't imagine playing it for very long.

Oh yeah! They're a lot of fun to go through, even with credit feeding.

Hwut the HEYL, B.O.B.B.Y.! I was gonna make a version of B.O.B. with Bobby Hill's head on it, but I suck at art and couldn't find anything to splice together, so that didn't happen.

Well, the game does take place across 2 different eras, and the maps are similar but different, as are the enemies; maybe when I get to the other one, I'll find break-dancing apes in lab coats.

I'm picturing a mashup of The Shivah and Kero Blaster right now. But no chance; I don't have the game. Next is going to be Minoria, which is supposed to be the spiritual successor to the Momodora series... which tells me almost nothing about it, since all 4 of them are vastly different games.

It seems that it was the BBC (British Broadcasting Channel), and not the government, that banned the use of the word "ninja" (and a few other things) in children's cartoons. However, when I try to look it up, I find a sea of conflicting information. Some say it WAS the government. One article cites the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification), and not the BBC, as the culprit, and another says that the word was banned in ALL media, not just the stuff that was aimed at children. It seems that nobody has any solid proof as to who enforced any of this at the time.

Anyway, TMNT video games and other merchandise had "Ninja" changed to "Hero" in the UK because they were based on the cartoon, which had already been renamed. Ninja Gaiden, on the other hand, wasn't based on a cartoon. It's unclear if the ban had been lifted by 1992 (which is when the SMS version was released), or if Tecmo could have legally used that name all along but chose to err on the side of caution.

"Is B.O.B. the burried treasure that's just waitin' to be dug up?"

Well gee, let me think. *Checks his Genesis collection* Nope, not here. You know what that means. I played the ROM a long time ago and thought it sucked. *Looks up some gameplay footage* I guess it is sort of like Turrican... A really crappy version of Turrican... with awful music and a character that takes up way too much screen space.

Yep, looks like B.O.B. is on EA Replay for the PSP. It sold so well that EA Replay 2 was cancelled.

On the other hand, the PCE version of Gradius makes the NES version seem like something that should have been free with a Happy Meal.

Yo, thanks a lot! Here's to four more years!

I got maybe a bit after Disc 1 before I got bored of the game, absolutely did not see why everyone loves it. The constant camera panning around the entire battlefield on every encounter was terrible, and if it was supposed to be masking loading times, it sucked, because there ALREADY ARE loading times before it.

I hate Dark Souls and all Souls-like games with a fiery passion. The unnecessarily cheap difficulty, the complete lack of respect for players that don’t intend to bash their heads against a wall for hours on end to ‘get good’, the fanbase who are equally hateful and disrespectful towards people who aren’t them. NES games were cheap hard too, and make no mistake, I hate most of those too, it’s why I never owned an NES despite owning like everything else under the sun, but NES games had a reason for their difficulty, bullshit rental contracts or whatever. A game from Generation 7 has no excuse to be so cheaply difficult and spit in the face of everyone else who dares suggest that it maybe should have an easy mode. The horror! News flash, you shouldn’t give a fuck how people treat objects that they buy with their money. Games are just for fun, not everyone has to like super hard challenges. Stop fucking shoving your mindset on others and gatekeeping.

Earthbound is fun, but I don’t think it deserves the massive cult following that it has. I mean, it’s a great game, yes, but it’s far from perfect. Kind of similar to how people think Panzer Dragoon Saga is the definitive best game on the Saturn, when it’s really not that special outside of the battle system, and there are certainly better games on the system. Hell, I think Grandia is one of the best games on it, and I hear it’s better than the PS1 version even. I’ve only beaten Chrono Trigger once, on DS, but I put CT+ on my SNES Classic.

I started Yoshi’s Island, which I never really liked playing because of Baby Mario. I got a hack that takes out his crying, though, because I do NOT want to hear children crying. It seems fine so far, maybe a bit simple, but I’m only on world 1.

All the other FF games I’ve tried, like IX, X, and XIII, I dropped because I didn’t really like and never went back to. X is another one of those games that people love and I hate. Fuck that blitzball bullshit.