@“safety_lite”#p147046 We‘ve got a thread full of MM2 stages! I’ve even got a few myself in there. If you‘ve got any they’d be great to see, too.
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Oh perfect! Thank you!
@“KingTubb”#p146996 >!i made it to the catacombs and was immediately hooting and hollering, being chased by unkillable flying godfather-style horse heads to punish me for my hubris.!< i loved every second of it lmao
I am 40 hours into Final Fantasy XVI and man oh man have the only memorable parts of my past few days been playing Final Fantasy XVI! I like it and I recommend it. I'm curious about that DLC and even curiouser about >!that playthrough completion reward Final Fantasy Mode!<.
I'd like to talk about it at greater length! Maybe I'll post something in the final fantasy thread after I finish it. There's a lot, I feel, that could be discussed especially re: the game's allusions to Evangelion and other North American crossover anime as the logical progression of those Woolsey references in the original few games' English translations.
One of my resolutions this year is to stop saving nice things for later, and, by extension, to stop wasting time on what I don’t enjoy. Acting on it for the first time by dropping Super Mario 3D World after two-and-a-half worlds lol. That is some real Fisher-Price videogaming. Makes me feel like the Grinch
I was feeling a bunch of game burnout this past December, which was an especially atrocious month for me even viewed through the lens of already mostly lousy post-2020 months. But my partner encouraged me to try and find a game that would be relaxing for me, and so I picked up Atelier Sophie 2, and I've put like 60 hours into it over the last several weeks.
I've enjoyed Atelier games in the past, since the newer ones especially have a really mild feel to them, but I inevitably run into issues with pacing, or the battle systems, or overcomplexity of the alchemy systems, but this one seems to be just about perfect for me. If I had to complain about one thing, I guess it would be that it's of course ridiculously fanservicey, but not even close to as bad as the Ryza games are. It's fun. It's extremely low stakes. It's something that lets me be engaged but also lets me turn my brain off for a few hours. It dribbles out progression at a very steady but perfect pace. And I know I'm enjoying it because the hours put into it feel almost effortless. It's a great game that probably wouldn't be for everyone, but I'm continuing to enjoy it.
@“cass”#p147067 Nice! were you >!able to kill the horsehead? You need an enchanted weapon, luckily I found a sword hilt that could be upgraded into a killer flame sword.!<
@“Karasu”#p147164 That‘s awesome dude. I also felt burnt out towards the new year, then just a day before NYE got really into something too.
I’ve always been curious about the Atelier series, you‘re the first one I’ve noticed on this forum who has mentioned playing it! I feel like I would enjoy the Gameboy Color version a fair bit, knowing it's very different from modern games. The recent Atelier Marie remake is also very interesting!…
@KingTubb woah I may have to try out Lunacid.
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@“SlumWolf”#p146997 I’m playing through FF7 for the first time (on my series x plugged into a crt, lol).
what method are you using to do that? not gonna gatekeep your methodology don't worry, just curious.
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@“SlumWolf”#p146997 my loss I guess, but I know for a fact that I would not be able to finish it without the cheese
agreed, and this is reasonable especially with the self awareness. It's your first time and you wouldn't play it otherwise? that's what the speed hacks are exactly for! though I must reiterate that FFVII has some of the coolest combat in the entire series once you get your hands dirty. by the postgame you are using materia to program artificial intelligence for your team to auto battle infinite turns in between turns.
@"Funbil"#p146999 Ok you already were but now you're definitely my top pick for kikikaikai coco opop!
@"tokucowboy"#p147031 I don't smoke weed anymore but when I did do that and try to play games, I'd always default to like *Animal Crossing* after trying and failing at everything else. but I can *totally feel* this combination just based on your description, and that's awesome. I feel I would get frustrated by sonic advance 2 in the same way I do while sober, which is easily zoning out while grinding rails for 2 minutes then being really pissed when I run out of lives slamming against the same obstacle over and over hahahhahaha. at the very least you're motivating me to give it another shot since I did play it recently.
@"safety_lite"#p147046 both these games I pick up and play casually but haven't gotten hardcore into them. I think I still need to find a controller I like for it... between NSO famicom and sfc controllers, you'd think one would be perfect.
@"Bbtone"#p147121 hell yeah lol, lets get yesofied
@“treefroggy”#p147185 Yea, I tend to prefer these best in short sessions — I thought I was halfway decent at mario, but @RubySunrise's level “Down the Drain” showed me otherwise… O_O
I will complete it... Someday.
I use that NSO Super Famicom controller as well and I like it, but maybe the crosspad is just a little too stiff...? My hands start to get sore after awhile.
i played and beat Buckshot Roulette in less than 20 min, very nice.
still on the spelunky grind on the steam deck
i finished sonic the hedgehog 1 for the first time yesterday on my 3ds, weird and kind of bad game
but also good, definitely makes me wanna check out the other sonic games on genesis
i started halo 2 on the 1st, need to get back to that
i played a little bit of doom 1 today, need to go through those episodes so i can learn up on first person shooters
@“safety_lite”#p147189 if I‘m remembering the right level, Down the Drain is really, tedious and pretty unfun. A lot of my levels have that issue. I tend to play Mario Maker for harder stuff, but I’m not great at making it. It's too easy to fall into making things hard-tedious instead of hard-fun.
I started playing your Super World the other day, and it's been a delight! I'll share my full thoughts once I beat it in the SMM thread :)
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@“treefroggy”#p147185 the Atelier series, you’re the first one I’ve noticed on this forum who has mentioned playing it!
I’m not sure why that is, because it’s got a huge diversity of rpg systems, especially the alchemy mechanics, which is something I think of as being popular around these parts!
But it’s also a series that goes way back, which makes it even more surprising that nobody talks about it!
@“Karasu”#p147164 I've always wanted to check one of those out. Sounds like a chill time.
@“treefroggy”#p147185 weeellllll, turns out your instincts might be right – that classic Sonic friction shows up right after Zone 4 (where I was at when I posted all stoked on it). It introduces some amount of head-scratching level navigation BS right after that, and then there‘s a boss rush that I reckon would’ve have been maddening if I wasn‘t flooring that rewind button. But, dang, I enjoyed those first four zones a whole lot (it’s been interesting to form my opinion on these Sonic games and then see what the Sonic community has to say afterward; people hit those post-Zone 4 walls, but lots of folks also feel that Advance 2 is a game of “hold down right to go fast and win” game before that. I kinda want to hold down right and go fast as a casual goodtimes Sonic player, so there's that)
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@“tokucowboy”#p147232 if I wasn’t flooring that rewind button.
I think sonic advance 2 is one of the rare games that I personally may find it quite acceptable to use a rewind key with.... since it's so braindead already.
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@“tokucowboy”#p147232 but I kinda want to hold down right and go fast as a casual goodtimes Sonic player, so there’s that)
haven't played much of it (though I blast the OST a ton), but *advance 2* seems like foreshadowing for what would be done much better in Sonic Rush a few years later on DS. You may enjoy it. too bad it doesn't have any of the other refinements of the Sonic Advance series, or a chao garden, hehe.
I haven‘t played MML2 in two days! I will return but frankly the two other towns I’ve been to have paled in comparison to Yosyonke, I should go back and visit Yosy since I‘ve beaten a couple areas since then, and if this is anything like MML1, I’m sure the town will have changed more than a little!
@Karasu @RubySunrise Well the marie and earliest games are mostly in Japanese, like the GBC one I mentioned interest in. And like you said, there's a lot of fanservice in the newer ones. While I'm not a prude, that sort of stuff makes me feel weird, because I've never really played games like that. I'm no prude, and I think Ryza especially has appealing character design, but unlike with movies or anime, having that part of my brain triggered during a game just makes me wanna stop playing the game and watch said anime or movies. With Atelier and modern weeb/gacha games, it feels like it's hittin me over the head 100% more than, say, tifa lockheart did in FFVII.
Which thread was it where someone linked this Parasite Eve Video? I spent all my free time today watching it. It's really good.
Oh yeah so I beat Days Gone earlier this year. There was a wedding scene where the bride was like “so you promise to ride me as much as you ride your bike?”. That's cool. Blasting zombies is fun.
I kicked off the new year by starting and completing Chibi Robo: Park Patrol on the DS. I never played the GameCube game but I think Chibi Robo is a cool character. He cares about the environment and he is trying to fix a run down park which I like.
Anyway it's short enough and sweet. Kind of wish there was a skip cutscenes function just so can get right into watering those flowers. I can see why games like Pikmin have "figured" those elements out and are rather successful. It's also a very DS game because you have to bend your fingers like spiderman to do some traversal and use some items. It has that addictive "just one more turn" element to it which is why I beat it in a few days.
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Anyway I'm taking a brief break from my PS5. I'm toying with the idea of playing Legend of Dragoon on a PS1 and CRT. I've got a bit of decision paralysis because I own the PS5 updated version as well.
@“MovingCastles”#p147265 I‘d vote for legend of dragoon on your crt. That’s a game that you don't want any chance of input lag. Not that I know if the PS5 version would have input lag, but ya know.