Ask us about Yakuza games and our evolving opinions.
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did you know that tailsā stages are piss easy to reinforce his character arc stepping out sonicās shadow. a lateral move. his own fox.
in adventure 2 we see tails go beyond going fast; instead, [inaudible due to lock-on beep]
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Plus you basically cheat because you can fly. Seeing the same level with totally different eyes.
Bigās levels suck because Big sucks
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ask me about The Witch and the 66 Mushrooms and how itās spiritually, like, the first-cousin twice-removed to Lyle in Cube Sector
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Ask me about nothing in particular because Iām a gentleman scientist style game liker without any specializations. That sucks but itās who I am
Girlfriend and I tried out Until Dawn and I am surprised that I donāt really like it after an hour. The animations are so, so rough! Coming from Detroit: Become Human this real people game is a total step down. Or several. I donāt know yet what she thinks about it because it was late and she fell asleep when I took over the controller. But hey, itās got Rami Malek, which is pretty cool. Will investigate further
Oh and the new/old Virtua Fighter is my life now
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Turning it over, yeah, this is a rare place outside of games media where people are primarily excited to read othersā writing about games they havenāt played. Itās much more interesting than reading a dedicated discord server, subreddit, etc. about the minutiae of the game youāre already playing
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This week, Iāve been dethroning people again in Audiosurf for songs that I like.
Sometimes the top scores are so high that I have no chance, so I only go for the less popular ones. I like it when there is just one other score when I arrive.
I assume that others find it as amusing as I do to get one of those dethroning e-mail notifications a decade or more after getting a score.
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Iām tanking now and I got 3 dungeon runs in me until Iām totally burned out
it is worth noting that in '80-'81 the atari microcomputer offerings were the most expensive with the exception of the apple ii which always sold for ungodly sums until later in the 80s. you could get a vic-20 for 299 USD versus more like 500-550 (or more) for the atari 400ā¦
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i think the apple ii was like, $1300 minimum with the shitty RAM configuration, over 2000 smackers with all the fixings
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Some things never change
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i feel like iāve had to face that so much of my life has been inextricably tied to videogames, and yet iām never been interested in playing most games, and pretty much have always been alienated by the culture around them. part of me has just always wanted them to exist in a space that doesnāt really exist. current gen games are dumb and samey and overstimulating, retro gamers are reactionary and like in a state of arrested development, indie games get dominated by prestige middlebrow or twee stuff that tends to be kinda one-dimensional and is propped up by the whims of random tech companies.
i dunno. if i hadnāt done festival judging where iāve seen random samplings of things that actually interest me i probably would be a lot more disengaged from all of it. or if i actively played more things instead of just sitting on the 3 or 4 things that really interest me. i guess iām just glad i never tried to throw my whole identity into games.
anyway i donāt know if thereās an easy answer to any of that. maybe itās worth just taking a break from thinking about or playing games for awhile.
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more commodoreposting
https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue11/12_1_THE_COMMODORE_VIC-20_A_FIRST_LOOK.php
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āalphamosaicā is a wonderful word to describe a textmode display
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i will say, in light of the āmaybe I donāt like videogames anymoreā discussion, iāve been looking for something that replicates the flow of an ssx3 full mountain run but with music i enjoy and no one seems to have even gotten close and it turns out the thing is just roller skating in circles while listening to music? ok
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Echoing the sentiment that this thread in specific (and forum in general) is a better place to talk about, ponder, and evangelize games than literally anywhere else on the internet. I love reading what all of you have to say about what youāre playing, no matter the genre.
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iāve played and watched enough nocturne to know the meta and how to make the game relatively breezy (besides getting memed by mot or confused immediately after the cursed corridor and dropping most of the money) but i was legit on the edge of my seat during the metatron fight at the end of a four hour binge last night, so good
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I too have not had much click with me lately but Iāve been biking around lots and engaging in plenty of other projects and minmaxing my peripherals for when I do actually want to play a game so thatās all gravy
feel like thereās been a pretty consistent settling of expectations for new releases in the past couple years especially ā theyāve managed to revive a lot of old franchises well beyond expectations since 2014, and even my beloved midbuget indies are starting to repeat themselves ā and between that and all the free stuff being doled out, I feel less inclined to commit to anything new once I see the general shape of what itās doing than ever. I canāt say Iām terribly distressed about all that though! 2014-2019 was easily my favourite run in the mediumās history and if itās time to become a little harder to impress again, thatās hardly inconvenient.
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Iāve also been in kind of a ennui fueled fugue state when it comes to vidcons lately myself. The last game I felt legit excitement for was DMC5 as a recent release. Monster Hunter Rise looks great but I just feel like iāve done that dance a few dozen times now and just donāt feel like going through it again. The only thing that gets my brain grinding the good chemicals these days is quick play on Smash Ultimate yet it feels like an exercise in self harm when you deal with its netcode and a frame work that can give the exact opposite of what you want. The only thing I feel like I want to play is God Hand. Whenever I think of playing it my brain goes āI legit want to play itā but I want something new and I donāt think Iāll ever see that high again until an indie finds away to capture the magic of that. Now Iām branching out to more real hobbies like camping, hiking, photography etc. so I feel like the video game space just isnāt giving me what I need anymore.
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The context you gave has me thinking about the incredibly low-tech, low-budget ZX81 (Ā£49.95 kit, Ā£69.95 assembled).
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