been watching melody play gravity rush remastered/gravity rush 2. wow, these games are incredible. the characters, the music, the boldness of it, just fab. kat is one of my favorite protags of any game! she’s adorable and hilarious
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I love how everything in Gravity Rush is being praised except for the gameplay
it’s fine Kat, I still love you
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I think the powers and the music in Gravity Rush are excellent. Although the storytelling just randomly goes in a direction every hour or so (feels like an errant TTRPG story where shit just happens and never gets mentioned again) I can kinda respect its boldness. That said, I really hated how unfocused Gravity Rush 2 got, there are some real nadirs in the MSQ and some drudgery where repeated successful divekicks are required (but rarely accommodated by the system).
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I loved the observation & exploration treasure hunt online gameplay of Gravity Rush 2 a whole lot, it highlighted the best and otherwise underused part of the game (its environments)
It’s all gone now and GR2’s just a shell of its former self IMO
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as someone dumb enough to platinum all 3 games (can you still even platinum GR2 after the online stuff got taken down? who knows), I am incapable of being objective
however if I find the people responsible for the favela/shanty town in 2, I will hurt them
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Castlevania The Adventure (1989, Game Boy) (or is it The Castlevania Adventure? M2’s Anniversary collection (how i’m playing currently) calls it the former) - what a hateful, fantastic, evil, perfect, sadistic masterpiece of shit
no other game is both kusoge and a zenith in the way this game is. i can’t explain it. i want to set up a gimmick tv at the next sbcon and just put up single screens of this game and challenge people to simply get through the screen without taking damage. i just tried it with a certain screen in stage 2 and it took me over 30 tries to get through damageless, lmao.
this game is cruel in a way that keeps me coming back, somehow
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i love the idea of like, wario-ware style challenges for single games like this. like a catalog of save states of just like, the best/worst parts of a game, or the most emblematic. this is such a good idea
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I’d probably buy more remasters etc if they had a built in function to just skip straight to my favorite parts of the game
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what i always liked about games like Doom or Quake is everyone knows the cheats to easily skip levels, and you can easily jump around and revisit whatever outside of the context of the whole game if you feel like it. which i think benefits a game like Doom 2, which is more spotty and (imo) works less well as a full experience. that’s part of what makes it easier to talk about individual sections of the game as well.
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All remastered old rpgs should let you chapter select, filling in the levels/skills/inventory with a random selection, extrapolating from your current situation, or giving you a (vague or specific) choice. Not only is this easy, it’s canon if you were ever a cartridge renter.
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what about an alternative that uploads all saves to a big server somewhere, and upon installation, the game downloads a bunch of saves at random to simulate the preowned experience?
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damn, not a place I generally expect to get handed project ideas….
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It really is fucked how we don’t have many resources for saved games online. Is there anything aside from gamefaqs? I’m still so grateful that @meauxdal has a Shadow Tower save we could use for the kusoge tournament; I could not find any place online that had one that would have suited our uses
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yeah it sucks! it’s really easy to take saves off of any ps thing with memory card especially on emu so you think there would be more of them! ps4 i get because you have to use save wizard (which is like 40 dollars or some bull shit) to resign the saves to whatever profile you wanna use them on, but its so weird how easier stuff doesnt exist. PC game saves stopped being shared as much the second they started tying shit to like steam profiles and games for windows live too… (yet another reason why pirated games rock lol, you can share saves no problem!)
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Yes, this is absolutely it
I talked about this idea to Apol over AIM now… 15 years ago? I pictured something with a pretty malleable party composition, something that marries 1) my experience renting SNES games from First Run Video in Havelock, NC where someone, “Ryu, Level 99” who I now realize must have been an owner or staff member with a game shark had an endgame state in dozens of niche RPGs and my saves were frequently overwritten with 2) my rented copy of SaGa Frontier at a different store entirely that had a scratch that forced a freeze at the white screen at the end of each character’s first chapter, preventing any real progression. I kept renting it though
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There would have to be some way to populate saves (like maybe till x amount are created) and it would be cool to replay the game days later and maybe not have all random saves compared to a somewhat-changed save pool but ideally “new game” is not an available option to the player at most points of the game. It could just be “Load Game” unless the game was beaten maybe, clearing a slot? Or you talk to some erase totem on a secret island? Or the game is just kind and hands you an empty slot? Someone do it please I’m extremely retired
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Zophars or one of the other ancient emu sites used to keep a huge sram/state collection
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vague recollection of ppl on one of this web page’s incarnations using savestates from different games in other games to create interesting glitches many of which were perhaps culled from some place on the web
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Game Center CX for the DS started as a version of this idea (since the TV show it’s based on often features the host struggling through the most difficult sections of 8-bit games).
But it had to make off-brand clones of each game for IP reasons and was smothered by tedious “challenges” so I stopped playing it after an hour. Might be interesting to see another take on the concept
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i think the fake famicom games were the most interesting thing about the game center cx game. having to unlock them with the challenges sucked though.
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i loved game center cx but i’m a notorious tedium enjoyer
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