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Hogama posted:Not bad at all, but I had a few of them so if anybody wants to grab them without the bundle, feel free. Yoink. Thanks for saving me a few bucks.
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zedprime posted:12 year old me: what excuse can I use to get out of cutting the grass this week? The Simpsons was really ahead of its time: 
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Cardiovorax posted:It's definitely the best bundle I've seen on Fanatical in quite a while. All-around recommended and great value for the money. Fanatical is great, there are occasional gems but it's just a great source of berserk eurojank for almost nothing
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I need to see Dooskfella do a flip before I can call this good
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Cool product. https://twitter.com/NVIDIAGeForce/status/1229450438992285696
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sebmojo posted:Fanatical is great, there are occasional gems but it's just a great source of berserk eurojank for almost nothing
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Hwurmp posted:I need to see Dooskfella do a flip before I can call this good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dNgInsfLsU Older version of the mod but there ya go at 0:35. Dooskfella can in fact tumble through the air.
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The new Magical Diary game (from the creator of Long Live the Queen and Black Closet) is out now!! as a kickstarter backer I played through the early content and it's real good
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OutOfPrint posted:Fanatical's bundle blast event is now live, with new bundles coming out fast. The latest as of this post has The Surge 1 as part of the $3.99 for the price of the bundle: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/killer-bundle-12 The bundle is nuts. Didn't think I'd see KoFXIV in a bundle any time soon.
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The Wonder Boy remake is really cool and well-done on the technical side but the gameplay is not good at all. It plays exactly like the 30-year old game it is. worth taking a look at just to see what a good job lizardcube did.
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Speaking of good 30 year-old games, the SNK collection is worth picking up on the cheap just for Crystalis. It was one of the best games on the NES, and it's competitive with a lot of modern indie games. Anything else there that you like is a bonus.
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ultrafilter posted:Speaking of good 30 year-old games, the SNK collection is worth picking up on the cheap just for Crystalis. It was one of the best games on the NES, and it's competitive with a lot of modern indie games. Anything else there that you like is a bonus. Frank Cifaldi was involved with it. Mega Man: Legacy Collection, Disney Afternoon Collection, Street Fighter: 30th Anniversary Collection. If he did something for a collection it’s more than just roms running on an emulator.
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Samuringa posted:It is a very good 30-year-old game. I like Wonder Boy/Monster World games but this is not one I'd recommend to most people.
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Not sure if I mentioned this in the previous thread but "Heaven's Vault" is an extremely cool video game, I have like 50 hours in it and loved every second.
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ultrafilter posted:Speaking of good 30 year-old games, the SNK collection is worth picking up on the cheap just for Crystalis. It was one of the best games on the NES, and it's competitive with a lot of modern indie games. Anything else there that you like is a bonus. I loved the GBC version, how does it compare to the NES one? I understand there were some pretty big differences.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I loved the GBC version, how does it compare to the NES one? I understand there were some pretty big differences. The GBC version is terrible. Smaller screen real estate and it fucks with balance by doing something with the elemental swords that I don't recall the specifics of but it makes certain areas a real pain in the rear end.
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Hey, are we talking about weird old Japanese games? 'Cause I've got something for that! Platformebruary 2020: Ultimate Collector's Edition 1. Blasphemous 2. Duck Souls 3. Dune Sea 4. A Robot Named Fight 5. Sonic Mania 6. Izeriya 7. MagiCat 8. Runner3 9. Harold 10. Spirits Abyss 11. A Short Hike 12. Super Time Force Ultra 13. Touhou Luna Nights 14. Spark the Electric Jester 2 15. Serious Scramblers 16. PONCHO 17. Umihara Kawase    It’s hard to review games you suck at. For starters, you have to be honest about why you suck at it, whether it be flaws in the game or flaws in yourself. Here I can tell you it’s a little bit of the former and a lot of the latter, because Umihara Kawase is a game that is not shy about its challenge. From the moment you first cast your line and try to swing from or scale an obstacle, you’ll be wrangling tricky physics and perilous drops every step of the way. Even the most basic crossings will make you sweat, and once you see how many levels and paths through them there are, you’ll be wondering what kind of superhuman could even hope to ascend them. Umihara Kawase is a young girl and sushi chef, out on a momentous journey to… collect fish to cook, maybe? Her trip takes her to some rather odd collections of floating platforms and doors, populated by giant fish and crustaceans she can stuff into her backpack. She’s wisely brought along a fishing rod for this expedition, which allows her to catch things to stuff into her backpack and also grapple along the many platforms in her way. Depending on how handy she is with her rod, she’ll find many paths through this fever-dream land and face larger and larger sea life that stands in her way. Only by mastering the use of her fishing rod will she have any hope of making it through to the end. It’s important to note that Umihara Kawase was originally a Super Nintendo game, because it’s going to feel like one of those free Japanese games you downloaded from some untranslated site in the 00’s because your friend heard from a friend on the internet it was good. Everything about this feels impossibly niche, from the tiny resolution to the lack of options to the inscrutable mechanics. There’s a lot that’s never explained here, like why you can reel enemies in and stuff them in your backpack (I will never get over this), or why enemies spawn constantly out of nowhere, or why you have such a tight time limit to get where you’re going. This also isn’t a linear game, with multiple exits out of most levels and virtually no logic to the numbering of levels at all. Some folks will no doubt be captivated by all this weirdness, but for everyone else, the gameplay provides the real appeal here. Your little chef can run and jump but her real method of conveyance is her fishing rod, which can be cast in all eight directions and hooks onto any surface or enemy. Once attached it acts like an elastic grapple, swinging and bouncing Umihara hither and thither. Swinging across gaps is the obvious utility here but the springiness of the line can launch her onto all sorts of platforms. You can hook onto conveyors to get carried around, latch onto the undersides of platforms to swing around, and dodge enemies by hooking the floor and leaping away. And of course, you can do away with foes by reeling them in to be consigned to the abyss of your backpack. Hooking a platform and swinging to safety is a real thrill, and chaining swings together to traverse large portions of the level or skip areas entirely is immensely gratifying. The challenge is gaining a command of your rod that actually allows for that. In my brief time with the game I managed a handful of breathtaking acts, and spent all the other time eating poo poo. Levels are not designed to be clear or forgiving (and neither are the aggressive enemy spawns) so you have to be ready to experiment and confident in your skills. I am clearly not, since I couldn’t even get past the first boss which had perfectly clear mechanics I couldn’t execute. If you want to enjoy Umihara Kawase, you have to be ready to get good at it. This isn’t a game you pick up for a few minutes at a time and play, this is a game where you practice routes and maneuvers until you can execute them on command. The speedrunner crowd can surely have a field day with this, while the rest of us mortals have to consider how much effort getting through these 50 or so levels is. For my part I love the mechanics and the satisfaction of nailing swings, but I’d rather not contend with the eternally-respawning fish and nonsensical level progression. This is a clever, gratifying game that not many people will be able to hang with, and I’d like to imagine I’ll be one of those people someday.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I loved the GBC version, how does it compare to the NES one? I understand there were some pretty big differences. As far as I can tell this version is more or less identical to the NES version.
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Watch Dogs 2...not bad, not bad. Entertaining writing, great voice acting, coherent (if sometimes a bit juvenile) theme and atmosphere. Using the various tools at your disposal to finish a specific mission was fun. I especially liked playing around with the RC and the Quadcopter. The least inspired part was probably the combat, which was occasionally unavoidable, already a strange design choice when your game is ostensibly about a group of stealthy hackers. Also, nearly all of the vehicles handled like poo poo (I imagine that's the case even with a controller) and the mandatory chase sequences were just awful. All in all, good game, too bad it apparently didn't sell that well.
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Umihara Kawase is one of those games you have to be satisfied with not beating. There's so much weird gameplay depth but it's hard as hell and you have to be okay with replaying levels a ton. The second game is easier but not quite as good. The first of the modern releases didn't do much for me though it's stage based so you don't have to beat it in one fell swoop. Original game had the best ~feel~ when it came to grappling speed/momentum. also need to add I love that the ui in the first game is splashed right in the middle of the screen like it was made by someone that had no idea what they were doing.
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Phlegmish posted:All in all, good game, too bad it apparently didn't sell that well.
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Too Shy Guy posted:Hey, are we talking about weird old Japanese games? 'Cause I've got something for that! After reading this I'm hoping you pay Getting Over It. I didn't find it already reviewed on your site
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Hackan Slash posted:After reading this I'm hoping you pay Getting Over It. I didn't find it already reviewed on your site I got my first computer mouse in over a decade and I think this will be my first game with it.
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Rolo posted:I got my first computer mouse in over a decade and I think this will be my first game with it. Better get a second one just in case, then, because this game is hard for a reason.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I loved the GBC version, how does it compare to the NES one? I understand there were some pretty big differences. I found the GBC version to be unplayable back in the day. I think actual content-wise they were pretty similar (if not identical) but I never got far. The tiny view area alone was a nightmare even without the timing issues and other weird idiosyncrasies of the port. If you could stomach it on the GBC, you will probably love the original. It is easily one of the best games on the NES.
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Cardiovorax posted:It's not really the fault of Watchdogs 2 being a bad game so much as it being a game that really does nothing particularly interesting of its own. It's an alright and even a really good game... if you've not played the standard Ubisoft Open World Game enough to be heartily sick of it. If you have, then it's the lack of unique ideas (and particularly the lack of new unique ideas over Watchdogs 1) that makes it feel like less than it really is. That probably has a lot to do with it. The hacking scenes where you're flying around solving a room sized puzzle are great.
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Watch Dogs 2 is good but they should have leaned into the wacky teen vibe harder and had the courage to get rid of guns completely.
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Hackan Slash posted:After reading this I'm hoping you pay Getting Over It. I didn't find it already reviewed on your site I let people request games for me to stream and I've been mentally preparing myself for the day someone finally sticks me with it. Anyway, I went through the Weeklong Deals again and there's a whole mess of stuff to recommend. The Far Cry series is on sale, Banished is on sale, indie gems like Refunct and Dark Scavenger are on sale, and so on. I made a big list to peruse right here.
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Underwhelmed posted:I found the GBC version to be unplayable back in the day. I think actual content-wise they were pretty similar (if not identical) but I never got far. The tiny view area alone was a nightmare even without the timing issues and other weird idiosyncrasies of the port. If you could stomach it on the GBC, you will probably love the original. It is easily one of the best games on the NES. Good to know! I definitely had some problems with the GBC one but I was 10 and it was exactly my poo poo on some weird level. I’ll totally get that pack then.
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my brother was just expounding to me today about the pack where crystalis was a multi-hour super epic game we sunk afternoons into as 5-6 year olds but when he picked it up in the collection earlier this year he made it to picking up the water sword within 40 minutes, so
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Ghostlight posted:Watch Dogs 3 is going to be entirely knives.
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Pwnstar posted:Watch Dogs 2 is good but they should have leaned into the wacky teen vibe harder and had the courage to get rid of guns completely. I couldn't agree more, as long as you mean player guns. Sitting in a parked car across the street and getting rid of every guard in a compound by using the drone to start gang1 vs gang2 vs SWAT threeway fights somehow never got old  Phlegmish posted:Also, nearly all of the vehicles handled like poo poo (I imagine that's the case even with a controller). I'd say driving is...just about adequate with a controller. I'd never go as far as 'good', game falls a long way short of GTA in that respect.
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Bought Bundlestars' Cryptic Bundle 9 because I love me some hidden object jank, had half of it already so have some - possibly UK only - keys: Chronicles of Magic: Divided *ingdoms *JFW3-E66FJ-NRBPA JJ0JR-6*5V3-P2XY6 KRL4E-BKHY4-3Z3J* My *rother Ra**it JH204-5*MNI-EDTW9 KF6B5-TNCVB-5*FH3 kiffkin fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Feb 18, 2020 |
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Yeah here, have some of mine as well : The Surge: *RK0I-QWPAD-BTEBG Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter A6234-L83XX-*0G3E * = Four
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Adhibhautika posted:Yeah here, have some of mine as well : Both of these have been taken :/
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Pwnstar posted:Watch Dogs 2 is good but they should have leaned into the wacky teen vibe harder and had the courage to get rid of guns completely. I don't want to use the 'ludonarrative dissonance' cliché too much, but the game definitely has some tonally weird parts in context. Especially near the end with the over-the-top action sequence where Wrench is just blowing up poo poo and killing massive numbers of guards, all while making quips and listening to Anti-Flag. It's the kind of game I might have made at age 16, but I don't necessarily mean that in a bad way
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