BN2 is mostly self-contained because it’s only tied into the plot of the first game retroactively in 3, it has a better thought out card system than 1, and also has an extremely broken card combo if you just want to ignore 80% of encounters starting after the 2nd boss, it also has the japanese 7th grader take a plane to america filled with the kind of american characters you’d expect in an anime.
3 Likes
ah. i’m sure their depictions of brown people will be sensitive and subtle.
3 Likes
I played through the first and most of the second. I really dig its unique deck-strategy action battles. Most of all, I like its plain and perfect world that is constantly threatened by violent hacking attacks. It’s just really funny to me to see these people who are completely unprepared for the dangers lurking in their ovens, cars, and airplanes.
3 Likes
what’s the origin of “leveling up” in videogames…
5 Likes
is it not just imported from Dave Arneson’s leveling systems grafted onto Chainmail, later used in Dungeons & Dragons?
tabletop mechanics which majorly influenced early computer role-playing games
edit: reference to Chainmail and the term “grafted onto” might be inappropriate here. i am seeking a copy of Robert Kuntz’ book “Dave Arneson’s True Genius” that should be elucidating. can’t find it online but apparently a digital copy is only 10 bucks so maybe i’ll pick it up
10 Likes
I always find it funny how as a result of early arcade-game culture and tabletop gaming culture happening to independently adopt the word “level”, to this day the word carries two completely unrelated meanings in videogames.
Like we could’ve picked any other word but we ended up semantically overloading “level”, just for kicks. And it’s not even particularly confusing in context, most of the time.
9 Likes
In D&D your Level supposedly matches the Level of the dungeon you should be exploring. So technically it’s more like video game levels than it seems.
12 Likes
When I tell someone to get on my level I do infact mean the level of the dungeon I currently occupy
12 Likes
The replies to this post seem to be getting at the same question with sources (but seems like basically what meauxdal said)
4 Likes
is draughts/checkers the oldest game with levelling up?
4 Likes
No, apparently the earliest documented one is Shatranj (6th century CE)
6 Likes
Wait no D&D Level is less like videogame Level and more like Handicap. So it’s exactly like Dark Souls. Please continue.
1 Like
Can anyone recommend a charger for 3DS XL? I’ve lost mine and I see one on Amazon that is presumably from Nintendo themselves but they’re charging $50+ for it. There are a lot of cheaper 3rd party options available but I don’t know if there is a particular brand that everyone knows is safe to use.
1 Like
I used to use one of the third-party cables plugging into a USB-A port on the other end. That’s convenient, and USB-A is too low-voltage to fry your 3DS even in the very unlikely event there’s a defect.
4 Likes
dear SB, can anyone tell me how to make a script that deletes all files in a given windows folder that do not match a specified extension? I’m converting entire bin/cue rom sets to chd for eventual use on a mister and the ‘conversion’ process is not actually converting, it’s keeping the original bin/cue files. there are a great deal of them. i don’t wanna ask AI because I am ideologically pure and you can’t make me
1 Like
how many distinct extensions are you dealing with here? because it might be
rm *.bin
rm *.cue
except however you delete things in windows. i have never used powershell but i believe it was del in dos
2 Likes
When I did this, I just sorted by file type and deleted everything but my chds, but I am also too dumb to write myself a script that will be 30 seconds faster than doing everything myself
6 Likes
I got one of these (2 actually, for $5) and it seems to work just fine. The connection wasn’t as snug as I was expecting but probably not any worse than the original.
Then just now I was digging through a drawer looking for my Dragon Quest V cart and found the old charger lol. DQ V may have gotten lent out to someone at some point so that is probably really lost by now.
1 Like
Is anyone playing Absolum?
Does anyone here have opinions on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series of games? I’m partway through the book so was kind of interested in trying one of these out even though I don’t typically play these kind of grand strategy games.
I was eyeing the ones I can see on current consoles, which are 8 Remake, 13 and 14. Seems 14 is focused more on battles and the other two are more diplomacy-based or RPG-ish, which might be more my style?
I was leaning towards 8 Remake because it’s turn based and on Switch (thus, portable), but seems 13 is the only one with mandarin option for voices which kind of feels like a big deal as far as immersion goes. Also 13 is 70% off right now and the others are 40%.
Anyone have any nitty gritty details that might make it an easier decision?
2 Likes