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Gripweed: Nov 8, 2018; ASK ME ABOUT MY
UNITED STATES MARINES
FUNKO POPS COLLECTION

mkvltra posted:

I feel like the translator / localization team had Blade Runner fresh in their minds the week that they worked those lines.

What is your avatar from / who is that character? I tried reverse image searching but to no avail. The combination of that character, art style, and your username tickles me in a weird and cool way

I have no idea, a mod gave it to me.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 15:09

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# ? Apr 29, 2024 11:35

mkvltra: Nov 1, 2020

wuggles posted:

Also both Wattam and Gato Roboto are GOTY list contenders, those games fuckin ruled

I played both of these in 2020 and they are quality games! I discovered legal cannabis and Wattam in the same week. That was a great week

# ? Apr 1, 2021 15:10

Saint Freak: Apr 16, 2007; Regretting is an insult to oneself; Buglord

# ? Apr 1, 2021 15:11

Lavatein: May 5, 2009

I played through Heavy Rain.

Even as someone who enjoyed Indigo Prophecy, I'm not sure how anybody ever defended this. Didn't it even win a bunch of GOTYs?

# ? Apr 1, 2021 15:14

wuggles: Jul 12, 2017

what's up Nintendo 64 kids

Star Fox 64 is better than any PlayStation game change my mind

I played that fuckin game over and over again as a kid. It's like 30 minutes long (this is the ideal length of a video game I've decided), but it's infinitely replayable even without the lovely multiplayer mode I would plug in four controllers to play by myself.

Are you a dumb baby? Well you can let Slippy get captured, and then fight Star Wolf in Boise, Idaho, where they say "Daddy screamed REAL good before he died" which is a weird thing to say in a children's game about talking space animals. Then you can fight a robot and roll credits, you dumb baby.

Are you a real gamer? Then you can save Falco in the first level and go to the water level. The water level is really hard, but if you beat it a pink cat will flirt with you on the dumpster planet. You might learn something about yourself here.

Caiman here! No problems. Because it's time for the best song in the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dIETrKo0Ao

before you go fight a beat-up looking Star Wolf and a big brain.

Nintendo please just put Star Fox 64 on the Switch. I don't have a 3DS and it's not as comfortable as my Lite anyway. I will pay you...30 of Joe Biden's dollars for a blurry 480i port of Star Fox 64 on the Switch. Please Nintendo. Plea

# ? Apr 1, 2021 15:18

Red Alert 2 Yuris Revenge: May 8, 2006; "My brain is amazing! It's full of wrinkles, and... Uh... Wait... What am I trying to say?"

psx has the benefit that at least some of the games hold up, only one n64 game does

# ? Apr 1, 2021 15:36

Amp: Sep 10, 2010

Relax Or DIE posted:

psx has the benefit that at least some of the games hold up, only one n64 game does

doom 64

# ? Apr 1, 2021 15:40

Waffleman_: Jan 20, 2011; I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

https://twitter.com/YoungHorses/status/1377625732021637124?s=20

Talkin' 'bout Snacks

# ? Apr 1, 2021 15:41

Gripweed: Nov 8, 2018; ASK ME ABOUT MY
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FUNKO POPS COLLECTION

When the mini PS1 came out with 20 games everybody agreed that all 20 were absolute bangers but there was a lot of talk about all the great PS1 games that didn't make the cut.

If they did a mini N64 with 20 games I don't think anybody would be talking about the great N64 games that didn't make the cut. I don't think they could even come up with an assortment of 20 N64 games that would be widely regarded as all bangers.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 15:41

Pollyanna: Mar 5, 2005; Milk's on them.

I just loaded a save in Somnium Files.

:thunk:

hmmmmm

# ? Apr 1, 2021 15:42

Help Im Alive: Nov 8, 2009

fridge corn posted:

Was that a justified double post?

I never really understood why on old forums people would get legit mad about double posts and resurrecting old threads

# ? Apr 1, 2021 15:43

Waffleman_: Jan 20, 2011; I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

Gripweed posted:

When the mini PS1 came out with 20 games everybody agreed that all 20 were absolute bangers

This is absolutely not a thing that happened, the weirdness of the library was a big criticism.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 15:43

xedo: Nov 7, 2011

Waffleman_ posted:

This is absolutely not a thing that happened, the weirdness of the library was a big criticism.

Yeah that thing was regularly discounted down to like $20 until the stock ran out, there was no demand for it because of the poor library.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 15:57

Looper: Mar 1, 2012

PlayStation 1:
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 8
Final Fantasy Tactics
Mega Man X4
Mega Man X5
Mega Man Legends (also on N64)
Mega Man Legends 2
The Misadventures of Tron Bonne
Echo Night
Spyro the Dragon
Ape Escape
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Moon
Persona 2

*sighs unsheathingly*

N64:
Mischief Makers
Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber
Harvest Moon 64
Super Mario 64
Star Fox 64
Bomberman 64
Bomberman Hero
Bomberman 64: The Second Attack
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Star Wars Episode 1: Battle for Naboo
Snowboard Kids
Snowboard Kids 2
Mario Kart 64
Diddy Kong Racing
Space Station Silicon Valley
Wonder Project J2
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
Goemon's Great Adventure
Mario Party 2
Mario Party 3
Super Smash Bros.
Banjo-Kazooie
Blast Corps
Perfect Dark
Jet Force Gemini
Chameleon Twist
Body Harvest
Custom Robo
F Zero X
Gauntlet Legends
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
Pokemon Stadium
Pokemon Stadium 2
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Mario Golf
Mario Tennis
Paper Mario
Pokemon Puzzle League
Pilotwings 64
Pokemon Snap
Sin and Punishment
Rocket: Robot on Wheels

# ? Apr 1, 2021 15:58

Bad Video Games: Sep 17, 2017

We need a PS2 mini. I will pre-order one. I don't even care what games are included.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 15:59

Simsmagic: Aug 3, 2011; im beautiful

star fox 64 is a perfect video game

# ? Apr 1, 2021 16:00

Looper: Mar 1, 2012

now that the vita is dead, we can finally get a vita mini, this time with a memory card included! and hopefully some consolation psp games

# ? Apr 1, 2021 16:01

wuggles: Jul 12, 2017

Simsmagic posted:

star fox 64 is a perfect video game

# ? Apr 1, 2021 16:08

Radioactive Toy: Sep 14, 2005; Nothing has ever happened here, nothing.

https://youtu.be/9uKIeamPi2Y

# ? Apr 1, 2021 16:10

CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

"The Great Leon"

Edit: "they're not taking me seriously"

# ? Apr 1, 2021 16:13

Bad Video Games: Sep 17, 2017

Looper posted:

now that the vita is dead, we can finally get a vita mini, this time with a memory card included! and hopefully some consolation psp games

I can't wait for the Vita! I'm going to download so many games I'm not going to play!

# ? Apr 1, 2021 16:13

wuggles: Jul 12, 2017

Walla posted:

I can't wait for the Vita! I'm going to download so many games I'm not going to play!

I never had a vita but I always wanted one and I wish I'd gotten one and it's too late now (at least unless I want to mod it). For like years I've always been thinking "what if I got a vita"

Like especially for Persona 3 and 4 but also for all the PS1 games I could have gotten.

Oh well.

for legal purposes this counts as eulogizing the Vita

# ? Apr 1, 2021 16:18

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

fridge corn posted:

Was that a justified double post?

All double posts are justified :hai:

# ? Apr 1, 2021 16:30

Bad Video Games: Sep 17, 2017

wuggles posted:

I never had a vita but I always wanted one and I wish I'd gotten one and it's too late now (at least unless I want to mod it). For like years I've always been thinking "what if I got a vita"

Like especially for Persona 3 and 4 but also for all the PS1 games I could have gotten.

Oh well.

for legal purposes this counts as eulogizing the Vita

I actually prefer getting systems after they're "dead". They're cheaper, safer to mod and the games are cheap or free.

That makes me wonder, can't the Vita stream PS3/4 games?

# ? Apr 1, 2021 16:35

Khanstant: Apr 5, 2007

^^^^^^^same applies to people :moonrio:

Help Im Alive posted:

I never really understood why on old forums people would get legit mad about double posts and resurrecting old threads

i don't know but it feels really good to double post, it's like you're being bad boy but its technically not really against the rules. Reading years-old threads is amusing, but because of the timeline capsule thing, but also sometimes you spot those hand-wringing about trivial posting things that end up only being a problem because people derail to fight about it.

hahaha good post
vvvvvvvvvvvvvv

# ? Apr 1, 2021 16:42

Regy Rusty: Apr 26, 2010

Waffleman_ posted:

https://twitter.com/YoungHorses/status/1377625732021637124?s=20

Talkin' 'bout Snacks

I like this April Fools joke

# ? Apr 1, 2021 16:45

SeXReX: Jan 9, 2009; I drink, mostly.
And get mad at people on the internet

The ps1 averaged something like 2.5 game releases per day over it's lifespan, the definition of "if you throw enough poo poo at the wall, something is bound to stick"

# ? Apr 1, 2021 16:46

Arzaac: Jan 2, 2020

So looking at my bingo card, I'm probably not going to end up filling in every square. At the very least though, I feel like making a tier list, so here's a tier list of every playable character from Yakuza 7.

Ichiban - One of the best characters in the game, and that's a good thing given that you can't ever take him out of your party. Ichiban's strength lies entirely in his unique class Hero: it's the class of a classic Dragon Quest hero, coming in with good physicals, buffs, and healing. He gets some strong blunt damage AoEs, an AoE full heal, an AoE attack buff, and a buff that will save him from a fatal blow. Ichiban can do it all, and he's good at everything he does, which earns him a spot at the top. Really the only problem is the relatively weak attacks from hero, but that's not a problem at all; due to how the skill system works, Ichiban can grab strong attacks from every element except for gun.
Nanba - Nanba's up here for a very similar reason to Ichiban, and that's because he can do it all. He's the male mage of the game, and mages do have a bit of a weakness in that all the generic mage classes tend to suck. Nanba, however, can lean on his unique class Homeless Guy pretty heavily. It comes equipped with powerful single target and AoE magic, in both blunt and fire varieties. On top of that, it's got probably the best debuff in the game: an AoE attack and defense down. In addition to all the great Homeless Guy stuff, Nanba's got access to his excellent character skills. They're all single target heals, but that's something that's not easily obtainable unless you're in a healing class, so it's nice that Nanba literally always has access to them. His healing falls off a little bit in the late game, but that literally only matters if you're trying for the final bonus dungeon. Overall Nanba is a great magic attacker with some versatility; you can't ask him to deal blade or gun damage, but with cross class skills he can hit pretty hard with blunt, fire, ice, and lightning.
Joon-gi Han - You may have noticed I keep bringing up how many elements a character can hit. This is a very important part of Yakuza 7's combat, and your best attack at any one moment is usually your enemy's weakness, or a really, really strong neutral attack. Joon-gi Han's up here because he doesn't quite have the versatility of Ichiban and Nanba, but he sure does have the elemental coverage. Joon-gi is the only character who can naturally hit every single element; all the other men don't have access to gun, and the ladies can't get any lightning. Joon-gi, on the other hand, joins your party with access to blunt, blade, gun, and lightning, and it's not too difficult to give him a fire and ice move on top of that. And the best part is, all these moves are character skills or cross-class skills, meaning he doesn't have to stay in his default job and can take them anywhere! Granted, hitman is still an amazing job and it's what I kept him in, but you can move him to any job really and he keeps what makes him great. On top of all this, he's also got easy access to poison on a character skill. Poison, as a status effect, can hit basically any enemy in the game and never goes away. It's in your best interest to poison basically every job. And maybe the best part about Joon-gi? He's fast as hell. And yes, this is a game where going fast means you straight up get more turns than anyone else. At max level, in hitman, Joon-gi essentially gets double the amount of turns of anybody else in the game. He's frankly, amazing.
Eri - I'm sad to say nobody else quite hits the highs of the top 3, but Eri is definitely putting in a good faith effort. She's not quite as fast as Joon-gi, but she's easily your fastest party member when you first pick her up. This also combos extremely well with her default job Clerk, because it gets a ranged AoE with a huge range very early on. Eri effectively becomes your "End Encounter" button for a long time; she acts first and immediately kills every enemy with a ridiculous AoE. Despite this, I feel like Clerk isn't her best job so much as dealer. Dealer comes equipped with a variety of casino and games themed moves, but the best is Darts Airstrike. It's a gun attack that fires off 3 darts to hit random enemies. As an AoE it's not so great, but it deals phenomenal single target damage because one enemy will be getting hit with all 3 darts. With this, she'll be your strongest character for a while. So why do I have her down here in 4th, you might ask? Well frankly, that's kind of all she gets. In my opinion the ladies get the short end of the stick on cross-class skills, and plenty of them just aren't nearly as good as what the men get. In lieu of an amazing AoE lightning attack for the guys, the women have an okay single target gun attack. And their cross-class ice spell just seems to be straight up weaker than the one the men get. The end result is that Eri's kind of a one-trick pony. She's fast yes, and deals amazing damage with darts, but if you want her to hit anything but gun damage or do any variety of healing, you're out of luck. Though I will say, having at least one of the girls is useful because they get an excellent AoE status cleanse from the Matriarch class, and it's absolutely saved my bacon more than once.
Saeko - So I mentioned before that generic mage classes suck. This is a huge problem for Saeko, the female mage of the group. Her stats are geared for magic, but her default class for some baffling reason is almost exclusively slashing and blunt damage. It comes with a single fire spell, that isn't even cross-class. So, alright, you switch to Hostess, her only other option for mage class. This also isn't great. It comes with a line of single target ice spells, which is useful, and it's final spell is fire damage. It's alright, but it really doesn't come close to matching Nanba's Homeless Guy. Plus, as a result of male vs female cross class, the only spells she's going to get access to are Fire or Ice: if you want her to be using any other element, it'll be physical. She would just be a pretty disappointing character, but she's got exactly one saving grace and that's the Idol class. Saeko's got good healing, and the Idol is all about healing your friends. It comes with a couple of single target/AoE heals, one of which is an AoE full heal, a resurrection spell that full heals, and an AoE defense down that can charm. All in all it's a pretty good class, but the biggest problem is that you don't really need it for 95% of the game. Most of the time, the healing you get off of Ichiban and Nanba is more than enough and you'd rather have another damage dealer. That being said, having an Idol is drat near essential for the final bonus dungeon, so if you're planning on doing that it's not a bad idea to grind Saeko up in Idol. Otherwise though, I'm fine leaving her on the bench.
Zhao - Zhao's not really a bad character. His default class Gangster has some pretty decent blunt and slashing attacks that can inflict status effects, as do his character skills. But that's kind of the problem really, it's all fine. None of his stuff does particularly a lot of damage, and it's in two of the most common damage types. Pretty much everyone above him has something remarkable that only they can do, even if Saeko's just barely squeezing by on Idol. Zhao is really just another damage dealer, and we've got more than enough of those.
Adachi - Adachi is also fine. He feels a bit more like a failed character than Zhao because his main gimmick...really doesn't work. Adachi is supposed to be the tank of the party, and to that end he's got taunting skills in his default job Detective. This is pretty great and I'd probably jump him up the rankings if not for the fact that taunt sucks. It doesn't have a reliable hit rate on enemies, and hitting a taunted enemy has a chance to knock him out of it. Outside of the taunting, he really doesn't have anything going for him in detective, so he's better off moving to one of the generics. His character skills, at the very least, are pretty decent. They're all AoE blunt moves, which can be pretty handy. I really just wouldn't put him in the party over like...anyone else.

The one thing I'd like to stress though, is that really this is a game where anybody's usable. Even Zhao and Adachi get access to some really good skills through cross-classing, so you can just throw them in a decent generic class like Enforcer and they'll tear poo poo up all the same. The top tier characters just really have that extra leg up on the competition, I feel.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 16:47

Harrow: Jun 30, 2012

I had a weird experience where Zhao was doing better damage than Joon-gi Han in the endgame in their default jobs, even with equivalently-upgraded weapons. Zhao was just clearing battles like crazy with the ladder spin Essence move and doing just as much single-target damage to bosses as Joon-gi. Almost felt like I was doing something wrong.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 16:54

Simone Magus: Sep 30, 2020; by VideoGames

The thing I really hate about April fool's is that everyone knows and agrees that April fool jokes are lame and stupid, but at the same time every website or whatever is like "ok ok ok but OUR April fool joke is GOOD" and it's like no... it's not

# ? Apr 1, 2021 16:59

Simone Magus: Sep 30, 2020; by VideoGames

Ohhhh thanks for the gang tag, VG!!!

# ? Apr 1, 2021 16:59

Shinjobi: Jul 10, 2008; Gravy Boat 2k

Waffleman_ posted:

https://twitter.com/YoungHorses/status/1377625732021637124?s=20

Talkin' 'bout Snacks

This is good

# ? Apr 1, 2021 17:00

Shinjobi: Jul 10, 2008; Gravy Boat 2k

Simone Magus posted:

The thing I really hate about April fool's is that everyone knows and agrees that April fool jokes are lame and stupid, but at the same time every website or whatever is like "ok ok ok but OUR April fool joke is GOOD" and it's like no... it's not

Talkin bout Snacks is good

# ? Apr 1, 2021 17:00

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Waffleman_ posted:

https://twitter.com/YoungHorses/status/1377625732021637124?s=20

Talkin' 'bout Snacks

Still a banger tbqh

# ? Apr 1, 2021 17:00

VideoGames: Aug 18, 2003

Simone Magus posted:

Ohhhh thanks for the gang tag, VG!!!

Any time

# ? Apr 1, 2021 17:04

CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

Shinjobi posted:

Talkin bout Snacks is good

I will be visiting Snaktooth Island soon, depending on how long it takes me to journey through "Enoch"

# ? Apr 1, 2021 17:06

Simone Magus: Sep 30, 2020; by VideoGames

Shinjobi posted:

Talkin bout Snacks is good

Lol yeah I guess I do in fact "gotta hand it to" that one

Also I should finish Bugsnax

# ? Apr 1, 2021 17:08

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

You should definitely finish Bugsnax because the ending is, uh, a swerve

# ? Apr 1, 2021 17:15

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Bugsnax is my favourite game of the last 6 months hands down.

# ? Apr 1, 2021 17:18

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# ? Apr 29, 2024 11:35

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

Everyone's talking about it...

# ? Apr 1, 2021 17:23

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