I can't believe today was a good play (Games you played today)

King of Posters
#3643

I’m not very impressed by Trials of Mana, it’s a hundred times more shallow and slower than Ys 8, most areas feel unnatural and empty, the voiced cutscenes are a nightmare. In general it’s too faithful to the original, the switch from 2d to 3d should have brought more changes. The dancing shopkeepers just look lonely and sad now

On the positive side, the remixed OST rules, there are some very good Dragon quest 11 towns and the jump action is surprisingly not hindered by invisible walls everywhere

Edit: just compare the two

#3644

This looks like it would have made a really solid Dreamcast/PS2 game.

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#3645

My sleeping meds ran out and I’m having trouble getting proper sleep again, but Sword of Vermilion before bedtime seems to help a little bit

#3646

sword of vermilion has such a sick soundtrack

#3647

It does indeed

And everyone’s face is covered in lime green pixels for some reason

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#3648

Sword of Vermilion and Sorcerer’s Kingdom are both kick-ass, musically. In the first case, it’s because, you know, Kawaguchi. OutRun, Space Harrier, etc. In the latter… well, I dunno. But, lo!




Sounds like a shooter soundtrack, in an RPG. Which makes some sense, as this thing is by NCS/Masaya. (So… I guess it’s kind of maybe similar to the Kawaguchi effect?)

#3649

Stilt Fella is my GOTY 2020 so far. I’m about halfway through and jesus christ

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#3650

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very glad my VCR-sized designated Bluray player gets to play a game again

also I think my brain is melting

#3651

working from home for the forseeable future, so starting final fantasy 8

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#3652

Think it might be too soon for me to Yakuza again after beating Yakuza 3. I keep trying to play 4 when I’m sleepy and feel like I’m missing a lot of the dialogue in the cutscenes, too (Akiyama is much more, uh, verbose, than Kiryu).

I guess I can put it off and mess with Doom Eternal on Friday.

Almost hopped into Modern Warfare’s Battle Royale mode but chickened out and just did some plain ol’ domination instead. Still, uh, pretty fun! Even if I’m terrible at it.

#3653

Is Puyo2 on snes significantly easier than the mega drive version? I suck at Puyo but managed to just beat the story mode with almost no trouble, while on the MD I got completely stuck at the witch. The AI just seemed to pile up the puyos and I’d win just trying to survive

#3654

i was just thinking about doing that, and basically for the same reason!!

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#3655

Yo! I started FFVII under similar circumstances!

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#3656

I have also been working from home, and I happen to have been listening to the FF8 soundtrack a lot over the past few days. I think Balamb Garden is my current favorite song from it.

I haven’t been playing any video games, though, other than Dreams for a few minutes each night. Last night, I decided to take a look at some of those Wario games that are always “trending.” I’ve always ignored them in the past. They generally fall into two categories:

  • A cut scene that lasts less than a minute in which Wario dies.
  • A game using a standard template in which an oddly-shaped Wario fights an impossible boss.

And I guess I have to admit that some of them are amusing.

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#3657

I love FFVIII. It’s my favorite of the PS1 games.

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#3658

any excuse to plug a friend’s music:

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#3659

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give me the 24hz extra I paid for Square, you cheap fuckers

I dig that instead of doing the normal “hey orchestrate the entire soundtrack” they went “hey let’s get some dudes to make a cool remix album and shove those songs in the game”. some tracks get full suite arrangements, others are like the arranger took the original samples or melody wholesale and messed with the instrumentation a bit. it’s nice enough to the point where it makes having the (nice) option for having the original OST kind of redundant (which probably speaks to the sound producer thinking that the original OST was good enough to begin with so don’t muck with it too much)

BUT ALSO what the hell is wrong with the graphics in this game. it’s not even the visual design, which is strong, but just the allotment of resources; characters look nice but environments are kinda flat and low-poly, the textures are mixed between a nice painterly look and holy shit materials and there’s constant clipping and everyone’s hair is like a bone and never moves

it’s still probably the best Square remake coming out in April

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#3660

Disaster Report 4 demo is up on PSN. going in.

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#3661

back on that hyrule warriors bullshit

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#3662

wow even unfinished they completely knocked it out of the park with deedlit in wonder labyrinth