got star wars battlefront 2 because it was $6. it is not good at all! like, sometimes there’s fun to be had, but most of the time you end up getting one-shot halfway across the map by shit you couldn’t see, you get teamed up with people whose idea of “defend the point” is “actively run away from the point,” and obi-wan immediately shows up and insta-kills you with no effort. probably doesn’t help that the guns have no accuracy at all (seriously, of all the things to adapt from star wars, that’s what you went with?).
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I have put a couple hours into this rebalance/feature-add hack of SD3. I am liking it. It has selectable difficulty, and seems to be aimed primarily at increasing the difficulty and giving you more options to deal with it, etc.; but I’ve been playing on “Easy”.
I moved my eMac into the living room and have been playing it in there, along with the Allstars version of SMB2USA both in the PowerPC port of Retroarch, which I hadn’t realized is actively maintained with all the runahead and crt switchres stuff in tow, though even the boss hog 1.42ghz g4 cannot manage a single frame of runahead in even the snes9x2005 core, and the crt stuff doesn’t seem to work as intended so gotta handle that manually.
SMB2USA has better sprites than 3 in both NES & SNES variants.
I also had assumed that there was a ppc port of that Weather Channel emulator but there isn’t. But also I had assumed that Current Condition didn’t work any more but it do.
But also also, this guy just straight up made an html5 version of ws4000 that just works. Real cool.
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Finished AM2R last night, roared with that expansion on the Metroid Queen. Not very difficult with all the energy/missiles you can recover but proper frantic and intense, to turn a series of screens into a long battled corridor. Rad. Aside from Super’s cinematic final showdown and some of Echoes, easily one of my favorite bosses.
The majorly revamped, additional areas cleared out a lot of SR-388’s narrow pathways and can no longer be as disorienting, much like anything done after the first two games. Whatever’s lost there I don’t mind a whole lot as they’re well constructed and work into the original scope of M2 and the Chozo’s presence. Kinda bonus zone (federation ship) Hoth was cool if not a little excessive as a tie-in.
Wasn’t planning to try Samus Returns but now I just really want to contrast w/the “legit” remake.
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El Shaddai is still great! It is big and weird and ambitious. It is a pile of shaders in a disorienting sensory overload.
Only now after playing through it twice and then doing a little collectable clean up did I maybe go “oh” to the battle system. It is still one of those mismatched between verb set and enemy. I think the verb set is near perfect everything is always in reach and you never have to move your fingers.
If they have built purifying into your combo set it would have worked better, as is you still have a good chance coming out of a cutscene and getting hit.
And they got Jason Isaacs (Hello to Jason Isaacs) to voice Lucifel. Who does a great job and the Japanese dub is well real iconic and also great.
I like that it is fragmented. How much of that is them running out of money (the uhh visual design goes away at a certain point) and how much of that was intentional is unknown. That’s okay! I think it ties in with this being based off an apocryphal story that we probably have three incomplete versions of.
It’s one of my favorite games of the last generation and Glad it got made. Shame the followup? Looks unappetizing.
The platinum is called Lord of the Metatron. That seems like…a misuse of the word Metatron I think?
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Samus Returns is a game where the hot new mechanic feels cool the first dozen times or so, before you realize that combat is almost entirely reliant on it and bogs the whole thing down.
On top of that, some of the boss battles are just awful. Still haven’t beat the final boss.
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i loved El Shaddai’s visuals and aesthetics. it’s the only game i can think of that looks like seashells glimmering in the sunlight. i wish they would port it to PC or something. i have it on ps3, but barely played it because it came out at a bad time, but i was hyped for it.
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having a nice chat with my sibling
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I’m glad I bought this game two days ago before it was responsible for a fainting and an international incident
hour one of axiom verge: wow, this really feels and sounds better than any other metrovania I can think of from the past several years!
hour two of axiom verge: wow, I have no idea where I’m going and none of the progress I’m making is at all rewarding!
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Yeah I actually played Axiom Verge for the first time like a year before release at an indie expo, and hogged the booth for 30 minutes getting through the early game. It was the best game there and I was extremely froth for it to finally come out
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And thus I stopped about 70 minutes in and never returned.
Stick with it, hand smacking is one of its most faithful aspects as a True understanding of the genre primordial.
Like, it’s definitely worth it, but the fact that whether it’s worth it or not has to be brought up at all just kinda underlines the points I made in that other thread
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It’s in my top 5 of the ones that actually represent what made those games important other than giving you a connects the dots sense of progression
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I love El Shaddai for its mad broken ambition and occasional glimpses of beauty. It’s the ultimate artist-driven game; nonsensical but spilling over with visual ideas and mood moments.
The tower of babel before the end of the world in the ancient African style, the fireworks and celebratory chanting at the apocalypse is one of the most impactful game compositions I’ve ever scene. Those fifteen minutes are so important to me:
And the chapter that is literally the FFVII remake everyone wants:
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After years of trying, I am finally enjoying dark souls. Every once in a while I get the urge to try again, well this time things have been going really well so far, and today I rang a bell. It was borderline emotional to finally ding the bell after hearing so much about it.
Honestly all that made this attempt so successful was: a teeny bit of grinding, finding a halberd, and using the kick more often. Anyway yeah I’m having a great time.
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H A L B E R D
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honestly, since this was announced i think about buying an xbox one x and a 4k tv about once a week
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As someone that just played through the ps3 version wow that definitely looks better.