Beat Baroque for the Saturn which was a big letdown, hate it when games make you play through the entire thing as the tutorial for the Real Experience but even then this game is way too easy to justify FOUR runs through enemies that looked better in Soul Hackers the year before.
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Bought a Switch and played Mario Kart Deluxe 8 as if 200cc was a revelation like it was back in 2017 (which it is)
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How did it take Nintendo eight games to make braking a feature.
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Urban Legend made up on the spot:
Shigeru Miyamoto likes to drive so slowly, he never had to brake properly before. When being forced to do so for the first time in 2015, it dawned upon him and he invented a new gameplay mechanic.
Rabid fanbase hails Miyamoto for inventing braking, rest is history
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I think Iâve only ever used braking on Bowserâs Castle 3 (SNES) if Iâm not fast enough to clear the first two ramps by just hopping or on Super Circuit to mitigate a banana peel
Which is why Outrun 2 was made for me
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if they would just put out Outrun 2 on the switch and have it run at 60 FPS
i mean
like, thereâs Outrun 2 PSP but it dips down to 30 FPS sometimes even if you have max overclock and caching on. i just want a nice native handheld port that runs at locked 60! IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK (editor note: definitely too much to ask, what the fuck is wrong with you)
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Speaking of, I Played Ridge Racer Turbo Mode and R4 today which are cool but I missed Outrun 2âs drifting. Also I played the XBLA port of O2 a lot and really miss the saturated bloom every time I try playing the other ports with more content to the point Iâm tempted to play through all the extra tracks with a giant flashlight pointed at the TV to make up for it.
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outrun 2 is flawless
fuckin beautiful game
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categorically wrong
Outrun 2 canât be perfect because Outrun 2 SP was made and fixed the flaw of ânot enough Outrun 2â
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So technically, the only thing preventing Outrun 2 to ever be re-released is the Ferrari License, right?
⊠not that i have too much of an idea of how complicated it is to replace the car models*, though it should not be in the relm of impossibilé missionë to do so, for a company with the Budget of SEGA.
*: iâve used a tool written by some hero for Papyrusâ racing games of yore (Indycar, Indycar 2, NASCAR, NASCAR2 and iirc, NASCAR 3) for unpacking car data to race craftsman trucks around indycar tracks, Indycars around Nascar tracks, and iâve dabbled around 3D modeling with a windows 3.11 machine, so thereâs a few simple concepts i have, though i wouldnât even begin to have an idea of how complex modern racing games/simsâ car data structure would be.
In the mean time gonna play Hot Shot racing and cry manly tears to this evergreen
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They would have to completely replace the console versionâs collectables too, because itâs a museum collection of all the overpriced items you can buy from the official Ferrari brand store.
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in CAPSLOCK and six foot letters, whyyyyyyyy
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I donât see the big deal
everyone had a chance to buy C2C on Steam for years
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Prepping the xbox for tonights lan thing and I tried playing Raiden on the xboxâs arcade emulator. I suck at Raiden. I really like the sprite works and the details that go into the gameâs backgrounds and boss designs, but god, itâs so hard.
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did you know some folks have packaged dlc for xbox games that you can download and patch on a modded console?
incredible
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FYI this was the Figaros theme from Final Fantasy 6 (00:42 on) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oWPY85ENo6M
Iâm getting real La Mulana vibes from the game now as I explore further while making 0 real progress and getting overwhelmed by the number of mysterious places I need to further check out later
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ive been playing darkness over daggerford which is a 2006 throwback to baldurâs gate in the neverwinter nights engine. even then it relied heavily on nostalgia 4 baldurs gate, so the effect is even more pronounced in The Future. the world map is literally the world map from baldurâs gate, the scale and tone of the adventure is similar, and you even go to a, uh, sort of famous walled city!!
im kanna lannemain a FIGHTING ROGUE who shoots you in the face with a longbow or killls you with a short sword and shield because shes kind of a thug. i chose to focus on lockpicking and trap disarming because NWN is lousy with locked shit but if it was a Real d&d character i suppose you could adapt her to being a really dangerous traps expert instead since youd have other ways to open locks the game doesnt give you. anyway the portraits in this game are ugly with few exceptions so i picked this one. also you start at level 8 as you can see so you could import a 1-7 adventurer character into this rly easily and have it fit the backstory
so in the context of the story, this kanna is just some caravan guard. im choosing to believe she does this so she can rob rich suckers in the cities they go to. im basically just playing her as still being in the caravan guard mindset of well im not gonna do anything too shady but im poor as fuck and need money. so at the start your boss comes in and wakes you up to tell you theres a tree blocking the road. this is the start of the troublesâŠ
you have a friend who in typical rpg fashion is poorly introduced because you speak maybe three sentences to her before she gets kidnapped in a bg1 gorion vs sarevok style ambush where shes immediately teleported to a BINDING PRISON and you have to murk all these bandits who you can ominously spot in the bushes during the cutscene before they attack. all of them carry alchemists fire but dont use them at all which i was confused at until i tried throwing it myself and it did jack fucking shit against human targets, answering my own question
immediately after the fight you meet two very important characters:
raegen brunegar rocks because shes one of the most simple companions you could ask for in an RPG. shes insanely jacked, wears plate mail, and kills shit good with a sword. she doesnât care for talking and hates nobles of all kinds. i have had a lot of fun so far ending up way over my head with her and having both of us be near death at the end of an encounter surrounded by dozens of bandit bodies because no matter how bad it gets raegens response is always hell yeah that was a GOOD SCRAP. in the course of a few days i feel like my character has more of a bond with raegen than my kidnapped friend Iâve apparently known for years
(the tone of much of this game is most evident in this referential exchange about bg1)
and astriel shalyn, whose a spy for the lords of waterdeep or some shit because the duke of daggerford got assassinated probably by this dong zhuo type guy named MATAGAR BUGO who has won the adoration of the public by distributing pamphlets that say âthe outlook is goldenâ on them. snooping around for astriel very quickly gets you brought to his castle for a WARNING
he straight up threatened to drown my ass in the river so i told him hes a self important prick and he had his mercs throw me out of the castle lol. i look forward to stealing all his shit, and then probably killing him in the future. hes on kannas shit list now
right after you arrive it becomes clear the city is sealed and no one can leave, and none of the asshole mercs give you any helpful info, so despite this being a bg1 throwback game it actually starts off more like bg2. which is great because amn is one of the most fun rpg cities to explore, and tells you everything you need to know about the next few hours, so i proceeded to rob everyone in town
like in bg2 random houses are packed with bizarrely difficult combat encounters. theres this red wizard of thay and his JERK familiar, 6 dwarves who attack you for existing, and thieves named after bonnie and clyde but once you kill them you can sleep in those buildings for free and i became pretty decently equipped
after that its time to investigate why the cities closed, and its because everyone tells you that theres an escaped psychotic murderer running around whose killed like 30 people, and strangely enough i had a hard time trusting this info coming from this guy who had just spent 5 minutes berating me for being smelly and a foreigner
SMELLS LIKE A COVERUP TO ME. So naturally after you figure out theres some weird zhentarim shit going on the city (the bartenders will actually tell you that people have spotted harpers sniffing around if you buy drinks which is your first hint) the âpsychotic murdererâ is executed by the police in the street so they can steal a book off his mangled corpse. the whole time youve been exploring the city youve been picking up side quests for the future, like the local farmers are represented by this guy who is trying really hard to sound smart
because since the duke died nobody will deal with the bandits fucking everyone to death, which is a common complaint you hear from multiple people, they need to rely on wandering mercenaries to try and give a shit about their plight. theres also a guy who tries to pick pocket you to pay off his degenerate gambler fathers loans, and that leads you into doing shady work robbing the literal junk store in gillians hill settlement for a guy who might be a vampire. the people in the temples also ask you to look into a variety of bad shit happening outside town like more rumors of vampires that end up being way more complicated than that and also the town miller has gone insane covering himself in shit and rambling incoherently about how ITS IN THE FLOUR MAN THEY PUT SOMETHING IN IT TO MAKE YOU FORGET he has a grey slaad in his basement thats poisoning his water so it can take over the mill and turn everyone insane with tainted flour??? theres also an exceedingly shady guy who tells you to meet him outside of town so he can more or less push you down a well where you have to kill a fuckin dragon and steal its horde and if you retrieve the treasure he wanted you can hear someone in the town tavern drunkenly telling a story about how they had to swim for hours and kill hundreds of lizardmen to escape the same trap. even the simple âmissing chestâ quest is hilarious because the guy who actually owns the chest puts a demilich inside it to own the thieves and you can totally miss this if you take his advice and donât go along to see the trap sprung
THEY CANT KEEP US LOCKED IN THE CITY ANYMORE so were free to explore the wilderness now, which is actually pretty fun. i feel like the infinity engine wilderness maps felt âbiggerâ but nwns certainly dont lack detail even though you can tell its a pretty compact map, but all the quests are just as memorable as stumbling upon durlagâs tower or whatever. theres the mysterious farmers birthday party with some interesting outcomes that I had to look up its actually a killing game run by werewolves, you drink the cider and it knocks you out and you have to run the maze or something. i didnt do this because i robbed them to begin with, found the knockout juice recipe and refused to drink. aftewards you can help the person theyâre forcing to make knockout juice find other good aligned werewolves with your lore skill because she wants you to kill the guys for being evil anyway, a graveyard quest where you have to recover a body for an undertaker thats kind of funny, and a whole melodrama about cheese wheels
where the remnants of the main villainâs gang from baldurâs gate 1 try to execute an entire halfling family for their cheese recipes in a bizarrely low stakes trade war
the writing isnât Great but it hits the perfect tone for a sorta low stakes deal where youre literally just some nobody caught up in some other ladyâs mistaken identity story, and the combat encounters have all been decently engaging. also it looks and sounds great for an nwn module. i love the song at the rogueâs tavern that starts like the pink room from fire walk with me!!! and unlike a lot of NWN modules i dont feel like im not getting good gear for rogues or wizards, the shopkeeps have a good selection and ive found a lot of thieves tools and stuff. itâs amazing how much daggerford embodies the feeling of being in the city of baldurs gate. A whole location built off the aesthetic impulses of this screen
i spoilered a lot of the sidequests because i think this game is legitimately really entertaining so far, and its part of nwn enhanced edition already, sooo you should play it! and if you dont want to you might as well read those spoilers!
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Played through to the first big boss in Deathâs Door (which I beat) and⊠deep breath I know this game is critically acclaimed and it is well crafted and I liked Titan Souls (just found out this was by that gameâs devs a week before it was announced for PS+) and a sort of top down except isometric Zelda with Souls combat and levels that fold in upon themselves is a mix that seems like it should be right down my alleyâŠ
âŠbut my experience so far has basically been just kinda there, neither all that positive or negative?
I donât know if Iâm missing something or it picks up later but I kinda feel like just putting it down, the only thing that really sticks out are the boss fights and they arenât even as good as the ones in their last game. I wonder how much this comes down to the aesthetic, which has some fine points in cutscenes but in action comes off so very blah to me.
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My son is playing Half-Life 2 and walking facefirst into every trap and every puzzle is a revelation. Itâs beautiful ;_;
Re: Water Hazard: âI donât care if this part kills me over and over because then I just get to keep playing and this is amazing.â
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