I’d take one if you’ve got one lying around! PM me! Going to bed rn though goodnight!
Sometimes I forget how many nights in high school were whittled away on Die Hard Arcade. Such good times. I always loved screwing up the QTEs.
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Even when I know what action is required ahead of time there’s like a 50% chance my brain will just short circuit and fuck up and the penalty is an entire little brawl encounter you could otherwise skip, the game knows how to consistently apply the pressure!
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I finally played Blue Fire! A game in which you do precision platforming in gray drab areas and must break every pot you see to collect orbs so that you can either completely waste them on emotes* or hope you have enough to pay to unlock save points.
There’s also estus flasks, because Dark Souls.
I got stuck immediately because there were two levers hidden because I did not naturally look really far up. There was binoculars I could look through in the room, but it just showed me the room, the lever just to the left and right of the noc’s view.
I eventually worked my way to Ico as my friends screamed at me.
failing to get on a ladder (in the first level (a sewer level) because IT DIDN’T CONNECT TO THE GROUND and then falling to my death forcing me to go back to the save point at the beginning of the game and work my way back was extremely funny and also made me vow to as soon as I quit playing this game with my friends I would uninstall it forever.
*- the emotes are for finding a white circle with that emote on them and using the emote. Puzzles. emotes! for a single player game. Guess it’s cute?
Adult Nintendo Fan Game Designer and 1990s PC Game colliding at high speed.
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Also you lose your currency when you die because Dark Souls. But need the currency to unlock save points. Also the game is 90% platforming? So…Dark Souls?
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i finished kingdom hearts!
for some reason my brain got all caught up on having to do the secret ending, which added hours on to my playthrough. ended up being a pretty fun game to play through. it was something like my 6th attempt to play this game, going back to original release, and the first time i made it past the second world. the game picks up so much around the middle and gets a decent rhythm going (outside of a few awful bosses).
i guess i’m now locked in to play this entire franchise…
while my partner was staying here we also played a lot of it takes two (and then upon checking a guide found out we were only ~half way through, so we’ll come back to it later). the writing is so profoundly bad. the gameplay is really good. i know both of these things were talked about when the game came out, but it was either from people who dropped it after the first level or people who finished the game and then never mentioned the writing. i think i was expecting the writing to maybe improve a bit, but god it’s so fucking bad.
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Die Hard Trilogy is three surprisingly competent throwaway games on one disc! The second? game on the disc is the first light gun shooter I ever played that was just super bloody and realistic to me at the time.
In fact, the gore in those three games is very over the top if memory serves correctly. I guess it never got popular enough to cause an uproar.
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I wound up refunding Dorfromantik. After about 40 minutes I knew I wasn’t going to mess with it much anymore.
it only gets worse imo and they even really coward out with one bit near the end
Decades later Apocalypse is still the best 3d run and gun IMO.
That game has some good Contra energy.
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apocalypse is one of my favorite robotron likes. whenever I play it I! FEEL! GOOD!
its just so damn videogame. bruce willis really latched on to some gamey ass games like he played them and had some kinda taste
I don’t get poes thing though she made a song for house of leaves or something too right? what happened to poe
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i just can’t tell if people who liked the game were genuinely ok with the storytelling or downplayed it/avoided talking about it in order to not put others off playing through. it’s really really bad.
ah, I didn’t consider that those were light gun segments! Yeah the smudged expressions on victims’ faces, not as vague and smeary as like MGS, they’re able to convey a kind of horror, I think they’re somewhat animated? and something’s going on with how they’re un/lit a bit brighter so that they draw attention to themselves…and the tight squib-like wounds you paint them with (compared to like Goldeneye’s wider more blurry stains) + the splashes of blood they can leave on the environment…add those killer music tracks to the mix and it’s some very effective murder simulation (and the UI again, it’s like a chorus of visual noise gleefully bearing witness to the violence, the weapon icons are these big ugly sprites that spin for some reason and your health is measured as these big shiny fuck you cop badges, sicko game!)
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i remember mostly playing the die hard 1 game. it had lots of weird cheats you could enter on the pause menu. make the enemies bend over backwards and shoot from between their legs, increase or decrease everyone’s weight multiple times, make corpses float offscreen, and so on.
there were some crazy cheats for the other two, too, but since i didn’t play them as much, i don’t remember them. some kind of mode to edit the paths through stages in die hard 2? making every crash result in sxplosions in with a vengeance?
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Since the Wii U shop is closing in a year or so, I decided to grab something I’d had my eye on: the GBA version of Super Mario Bros. 3.
Now, normally I wouldn’t go near something like this because I don’t care at all for the “upgraded” graphics that they’ve added to any of the NES titles on any platform. I know they were attempting to make the old games look like Super Mario World, but they failed. And even if they had managed to match the quality of Super Mario World’s graphics, I think the original NES sprites look better than Super Mario World in the first place.
The reason I wanted to try the Wii U port of the GBA version is that it includes a bunch of extra levels that I guess you needed an e-Reader to play originally. I never had a GBA, let alone an e-Reader.
One thing I’ve learned from this experience is why Nintendo has a reputation for poorly-emulated ports. The music barely works. I’ll bet it’s flawless in a normal emulator.
But the bad emulation is not the unforgivable part. It’s adding voice samples to Super Mario Bros. 3. I didn’t see that coming.
All that said, it’s still fun to see some new Mario levels.
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Today, I streamed Elder Scrolls Online, goofed off in Skyrim a little bit, and streamed Daggerfall. Then, just now, I discovered that Morrowind turns 20 today. I did not play Morrowind.
If YOU end up wanting to play Morrowind, know that OpenMW is a thing.
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I started playing SMB3 not but 3 days ago in a NES emulator. Online it seemed like the recommendation was to go for the 3DS virtual console port but I assumed that was just because it was the easiest legal port to acquire? I’m just going to assume going for the original version in an emulator is the way to go for all of the Mario games.
I’ve been doing a bit on a handheld whenever there’s a 15 minute lull and then at night I play for a little while on a big screen with a ps4 controller before going to sleep. Having a hard time clearing a level all day and then absolutely destroying it with a proper controller feels real good, and is probably the way I’m gonna go with all pre 2001 games in the near future.
Anyway, feeling vindicated by this post, thanks for the dopamine.
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spent some time this weekend having fun getting reacquainted with magic in mtg arena on iOS. matches go fast enough that they make a nice 10-15 min brain break here and there and the 5 decks they start you out with are more fun to play than i expected. the tutorial actually taught me a couple mechanics they added since the last time i played!
anyway here’s me beating up some poor sap with an army of 1 mana life-leeching fluffy persian cats. the cats have a mechanic where each summon of another cat permanently buffs all allied cats by 1. this was extremely helpful after my opponent burned their initial “kill target” spells on slightly stronger creatures and had nothing to deal with my plan B that was definitely a strategic masterstroke and not me saying “well i guess i can keep throwing these cats out” and hoping for the best. i wound up with like 50 life by the end of this lol
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nice. have you put in all the free pack codes? they’re a pain to redeem on mobile
lol I’ve realised I haven’t logged into MTGA for a month
In addition to the combat arena minigame, flying combat, and 3d platforming there is a whole racing minigame contained within Solatorobo. It kind of sucks because you have to use the Dpad to steer, which makes fine adjustments impossible. You can air drift your plane though, which is really cool.
I may have to play this on real hardware instead of emulated because a lot of the graphics are very grainy when upscaled, and I assume the 3D cutscenes all look better because it does 3D on both screens to draw as big a picture as possible
This game is 2 charming lmao. I love it
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