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im pooping! posted:i ruled at turtles in time but i dont think i ever managed to smash even one foot soldier into the boss, my friend always did it and he was truly great at it There was a timing trick to it. If I remember right, you hit the foot soldier soldier once, then step in closer and hit again, that throws them.
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I miss real secrets in games, although they have had a comeback with the Shadow Warrior and Doom remakes. I was replaying Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and unlocked the remade level of the original game. I totally forgot that was a thing.
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Nov 22, 2019 20:43
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Now, I plug in my phone and it's charged. Kids these days don't know the struggle. Back in the days before fancy Lithium-ion-hybrid batteries and USB chargers, there was the original Game Boy and the Quest for AAs. With us kids at home one boring summer with 1 Game Boy, things were already tense without battery issues. Whether it was "borrowing" batteries from our little sister's toys, raiding the flashlight drawer, or walking 2+ miles to the dollar store that had cheapass offbrand 4-pack batteries (that died in a few hours, but who cares). And the diplomatic negotiations over who "owned" which save slot...when you have 4 kids and a game with 3 save slots. And learning conflict de-escalation via my parents' policy of "if I have to break up ONE more fight over that Nintendo, then it's going away for a WEEK." My mother still regards all "Nintendo" games as wasting time and promoting violence. Not because of pixelated blood, but because from her perspective all we did was play video games, hover over each other, and then argue/fight over sharing (or lack thereof). Being the family game champion cause I went to bed later than my brothers, letting me stay up and grind through Final Fantasy Legend III or practice my Super Mario Land levels... Looking at the one copy of the Ultimate Game Hint Guide in the mall bookstore, hand-copying out how to find secrets in Legend of Zelda.
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Jun 7, 2020 17:52
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Cobalt-60 posted:Now, I plug in my phone and it's charged. Kids these days don't know the struggle. Back in the days before fancy Lithium-ion-hybrid batteries and USB chargers, there was the original Game Boy and the Quest for AAs. With us kids at home one boring summer with 1 Game Boy, things were already tense without battery issues. Whether it was "borrowing" batteries from our little sister's toys, raiding the flashlight drawer, or walking 2+ miles to the dollar store that had cheapass offbrand 4-pack batteries (that died in a few hours, but who cares).l I had a game gear. The battery situation for that was a nightmare. I had an AC adapter but even those would burn out within months.
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Jun 7, 2020 18:33
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I was trying to remember the last time I played a game with a mechanic like “spam spacebar really fast to lift the beam off your leg” or “spin your analog sticks really fast to inflate the balloon”. Do any recent games still have stuff like that? I think the latest DBZ games might still have that when two kamehamehas meet. I absolutely hated it.
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Jun 16, 2020 01:05
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I'm fine with beam struggles but what I really hated was that Dragon Rush bullshit from Budokai 3. Yes, let's have an RNG mechanic in a fighting game. Genius. Brilliant.
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Jun 16, 2020 18:13
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Cobalt-60 posted:Now, I plug in my phone and it's charged. Kids these days don't know the struggle. Back in the days before fancy Lithium-ion-hybrid batteries and USB chargers, there was the original Game Boy and the Quest for AAs. With us kids at home one boring summer with 1 Game Boy, things were already tense without battery issues. Whether it was "borrowing" batteries from our little sister's toys, raiding the flashlight drawer, or walking 2+ miles to the dollar store that had cheapass offbrand 4-pack batteries (that died in a few hours, but who cares). I have to be honest with you, I have enough problems with the Playstations USB chargers loving up that I really miss beimg able to just change the batteries out and you're done.
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Jun 16, 2020 18:21
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I have to be honest with you, I have enough problems with the Playstations USB chargers loving up that I really miss beimg able to just change the batteries out and you're done. Oh my god yeah, I replace controllers on a nearly yearly basis because they stop charging. Sometimes I’m lucky enough to find some weird arbitrary charger they’ll work with for a while but it’s a major problem. Just let me have wired controllers again dammit.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Oh my god yeah, I replace controllers on a nearly yearly basis because they stop charging. Sometimes I’m lucky enough to find some weird arbitrary charger they’ll work with for a while but it’s a major problem. Just let me have wired controllers again dammit. The batteries aren't super difficult to replace. I think my new one came in at just under $30. Six screws and one fiddly little connector, IIRC.
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Jun 16, 2020 19:42
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madeintaipei posted:The batteries aren't super difficult to replace. I think my new one came in at just under $30. Six screws and one fiddly little connector, IIRC. I think it’s the actual USB connector coming loose, the battery capacity is a bit low but that’s typically not the issue.
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Jun 16, 2020 20:02
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madeintaipei posted:The batteries aren't super difficult to replace. I think my new one came in at just under $30. Six screws and one fiddly little connector, IIRC. Ehhhhh, I have done this once on my PS4 controller. One has messed up analog sticks, the other a messed up battery, so you do the math. It's not the screws and fiddly connector...it's those loving triggers and the little springs. I spent a LONG time having to search for one on my floor because it went flying off when I pulled apart the controller. And then getting them back in the right spot, and angling the controller halves together to get it to piece together but not have those loving springs fall out.
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Jun 16, 2020 21:25
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my life improved drastically when I bought a big see-through plastic tub from walmart, bored holes in the side with a soldering iron for my arms and just flip it upside down and use that as a containment cube any time I have to take apart something with springs if it's a little hard to see through you can also carve a window in the side and fit glass from a dollarama picture frame into said hole
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Jun 16, 2020 23:19
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I was trying to remember the last time I played a game with a mechanic like “spam spacebar really fast to lift the beam off your leg” or “spin your analog sticks really fast to inflate the balloon”. Do any recent games still have stuff like that? I think the latest DBZ games might still have that when two kamehamehas meet. I absolutely hated it. Red Dead Redemption 2 has a few instances if that iirc
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System Metternich posted:Red Dead Redemption 2 has a few instances if that iirc It also has “mash button to sprint”, which is another control practice that died alone a long long time ago.
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