a huge one
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what is this type of gameplay called
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Programming?
first person shooting
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I donât have a name for it (dungeon shooters?), but those Japanese shooters from the PSXâs early days are distinctly different from Western ones; they seem barely influenced by Doom or even Wolfenstein level design concepts, favoring Wizardry-style hallways and node rooms, which unfortunately makes the shooting pretty limited. Usually the player has full control over the room door so combat is popping aggression in a room and backing into the hallway.
I think the best ones are the second wave; Crime Crackers 2 and Epidemic/Kileak 2.
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has anyone ever sold an account for a game before?
A guy I went to high school with sold ever quest characters on eBay does that count
game type: battlezoner
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yeah. i wanna sell my genshin account
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Epidemic is good, notably because it has a more wolf3d style level design (and certain control improvements). Much more tabletop dungeon layouts rather than the âearly videogame dungeonâ layouts of Kileak 1. I enjoyed uncovering the relatively convoluted secrets in the first few stages
Always found Kileak unplayable because of the death timer, which I guess is a holdover from old dungeon crawlers with Food timers or whatever. Itâs stressful enough in a tile/turn-based game, but at least you can stop and think. Canât handle it in a purely realtime game
anyone played that atelier ryza? i been enjoyin tf out of xenoblade chronicles x atm because of its supreme hangout quality and kinda delightfully stupid combat (not to mention that jump!) and iâm on the lookout for similar stuff. ryza is 45% off for the next week and iâve had my eye on it for a while. that and tales of vesperia, which is 75% off (20 bucks!). i suspect the actual answer is that there is nothing else like xcx and i should just wait until the xenoblade remake is on sale (or play the 3ds copy that i already own!!!) but iâm still curious.
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Maybe Ys VIII or IX?
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i also own ys 8 lol. itâs p good, but i bounced off it after about 5 or 6 hours fsr, and i really donât know why! maybe itâs because itâs more anime than xcx, or because its world is a little more rigid and generic, or because the combat just feels a bit insufficient for the enemies you face, idk. nostrum looks chill as, with all the climbing and the gothic aesthetic, and itâs on my wishlist, but i kinda feel like i should put a few more hours into 8 before i commit to 9.
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Zach play ys 8 you bitch. Itâs better than xenoblade chronicles non-x edition and whatever atelier ryza is (will not be googling). Find me at the kitchen table if u wanna fight about it
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cant speak for ryza but vesperia is not good, strongly anti-recommend. the other xenoblades are also hangouty but have much worse jumps (and fall damage :X ). i like 2 more than 1 bc it has tighter combat richer towns and louder secret locations but it also has significantly more anime tax so⌠idk. but if you can countenance playing an atelier game i reckon you could handle it. the standalone expansion is also (mostly) good and notable for being a complete xenoblade experience in a third of the playtime!!!
ig if the rubric here is ârobust environment design and popping candy combatâ dragons dogma is the first thing that comes to mind for me. i think i valued the last remnant in some of the ways i valued x personally similar - they both have pretty robust webs of sidequests that open up the games in surprising ways & they both get a lot out of a few town environments. and ys 8!!! âgames like and as good as xenoblade xâ is such a hard but important question to answerâŚ
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Ryza is fine enough, though I wouldnât say itâs anything at all like Xenoblade Chronicles. Itâs got some chill hangout vibes, but itâs mostly pretty linear as I recall, at least until later when the world opens up a bit. The combat feels kinda chaotic (itâs sort of ATB style) and the alchemy is a bit basic in the early stages, but they both sort of come together better in the end. The plot is pretty bland and mundane, and youâll spend a good chunk of the game just going to and from event markers and watching cutscenes.
What is the nicest gameboy clone I can buy, presuming that I can throw the whole romset on there and leave in my nightstand?
probably the analogue pocket but learning how well it handles roms from the SD card and all that has been delayed
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