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| Blossom Tales 2: The Minotaur Prince [PC, Switch] – August 16 |
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12 | 21.82% |
| Rollerdrome [PC, PS5, PS4] – August 16 |
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31 | 56.36% |
| Tribes of Midgard [XSX, XBO, Switch] – August 16 |
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5 | 9.09% |
| Way of the Hunter [PC, PS5, XSX] – August 16 |
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7 | 12.73% |
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FirstAidKite posted:I'm watching megaman battle network speedruns It’s a speed run so you probably didn’t see it, but that’s nowhere near the craziest part, where said man also tells you to suck on your mother’s milk.
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Aug 1, 2022 08:35
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cheetah7071 posted:we should test his limits, for science. Just give him a series of worse and worse games until we finally find one he doesn't like I think that’ll kill him, because he won’t ever be able to dislike a game but then after playing Dumpster Fire Simulator V and then replaying another From game the whiplash’ll be too much for any man to handle.
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Aug 1, 2022 10:07
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I wonder if anyone ever made a Dark Souls mod that replaced the normal boss fight music with the composer’s usual bangers like this one…
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Aug 1, 2022 11:02
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:...wait, Sakuraba did the Dark Souls OST!? If you listen to the Ornstien and Smough track you can totally tell it’s him, but otherwise it’s a pretty big surprise.
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Aug 1, 2022 11:18
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VideoGames posted:I am certainly willing to give it a try. I would think it should be games that actually try though - not just weird shovelware asset flip stuff Takeshi’s Challenge? It was made to be deliberately unfun and obtuse because Beat Takeshi thought video games were dumb, and it’s infamous as one of the worst games of all time.
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Aug 1, 2022 13:30
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Question: what was gaming’s first space game with survival horror elements? Because this Live A Live game has them as one of its campaigns and it’s a remake of an SNES game. Idk if there were even survival horror games period back then…
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Aug 3, 2022 15:16
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Waffleman_ posted:They only kept Pikachu's name because that motherfucker is out all the time in the anime saying its own name and why bother hiring an entire other voice actor for every language to just say one word a bunch when we can just reuse the Japanese voice. This makes sense, until you find out they have the Pikachu lady do multiple takes for each language version which is basically just hiring someone to say “pika pi” anyway.
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Aug 3, 2022 16:15
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Monkey Fracas posted:I don't really like playing Pokemon anymore but I do love looking at the new 'mon designs every time Same, the one-two punch of “we made the exp share mandatory because gently caress you” and “no GTS at launch” turned me off Sword/Shield and I guess every Pokémon game now, but I still love looking at new friends like Muddy Wooper and Failinks.
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Aug 4, 2022 02:06
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Jay Rust posted:It is indeed plotless, in fact it’s flavourless linear etrian odyssey but easier, i.e. a good podcast game. But please include this sort of caveat next time, I bought it sight unseen and now I have no choice but to petition the mods to threadban you Do you like SRPGs? Disgaea’s one that plays more like a JRPG with grids a lot of the time and has a lot of numbers, there’s a lot of cutscenes but you can skip them all and 5 has a demo on the Switch.
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Aug 6, 2022 07:10
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Rinkles posted:How does Fusion rank among the Metroid games? I suck at it but I'm also just not having that much fun. The core action isn't holding my interest. I might just not be in the mood, and again I'm pretty crap at it. Iirc consensus is that it’s not great at being a Metroidvania (exploring and poo poo) but pretty good at being a run and gun shooter/platformer. I feel like it attracted a lot of ire because of the dearth of 2D Metroids pre-3DS tbh, it’s pretty fun to me!
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Aug 6, 2022 13:48
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Rinkles posted:Imo, Super Metroid was much more atmospheric. I’m gonna be honest, I am a huge gamer fuckup who’s never played Super more than a few hours (or really as much Metroid as I should have) despite liking Metroidvanias a whole lot, so I can’t speak on its atmosphere, but Fusion has Nightmare, which is still one of the cooler Nintendo bosses imho.
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Aug 6, 2022 14:02
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Imo the pro soda substitution fix is a drink of half fruit juice and half seltzer water. I don’t miss soda or undiluted juice besides grapefruit flavor pop but a bottle of lemonade with fizzy water hits the spot.
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Aug 7, 2022 07:19
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PunkBoy posted:I'm liking NEO: The World Ends With You a lot so far. Up to Day 5 and it feels like things have started really opening up now. It took me a bit to get used to controlling 4 characters but now I've been figuring out good synergies and improving my battle grades. The level and difficulty sliders in TWEWY are brilliant, and I would love for more games to do something similar. There’s like literally one other non-TWEWY game that took the idea of “gimp your HP and play on a higher difficulty for better drops/drop rates” that I’ve played, Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded. It’s a DS game of a phone game that somehow has the best game feel of the franchise besides KH2/3. Glad you’re enjoying NEO, the combat dynamic makes experimenting really fun since you can set up those beat combos among other things.
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Aug 8, 2022 17:43
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:I got jumped by 5 hands from behind in a manor in Elden Ring and I think I have a new phobia now. Giant Hand spiders are a new top tier “gently caress that’s creepy” From enemy right behind “screaming old man”, “giant hand face baby” and Winter Lanterns
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Aug 10, 2022 03:55
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Imho it’s very good so far, one of the better action RPGs I’ve ever played and the protagonist is so overwhelmingly angry most of his fatalities are just comically brutal/cathartic.
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Aug 11, 2022 13:07
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That game looks real cute and actually pretty fun for what it is, if the online multiplayer’s not complete trash and it’s not too expensive I might pick it up
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Aug 11, 2022 14:51
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PunkBoy posted:I took a break during last season but it sounds like I should get back into it. T-Rexes are a huge difficulty spike but if you know they’re coming they’re not terrible, try elemental pins since they’re vulnerable to ailments.
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Aug 11, 2022 17:15
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Oxxidation posted:berseria's ending was outstanding, what the hell Yeah the ending was great, what the heck?
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Aug 12, 2022 01:49
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Boba Pearl posted:Tales of Berseria Ending Spoiler Velvet should have gotten a happy ending in the real world, not a never ending dream of some fantasy. It's not even her, it's just some reincarnation with none of the memories or trials or tribulations. It's a happy ending from some random person that never existed. Velvet deserves a happy ending goddamnit. imho the point of the ending being written the way it was was that Velvet doesn’t deserve a happy ending in the traditional sense because she’s not a good person. I think she’s a great character, and the hand she was dealt was loving poo poo, and I like her, don’t get me wrong, but she’s willing to do bad things pretty much just for revenge while being aware that it’s basically incidental that Artorius was trying to do the JRPG villain thing of making everyone mindless drones to eliminate conflict. Tbh if the game just ended with Velvet becoming humanized and waking off in the sunset with Phi it would have dragged the game down slightly even if part of me wanted that anyway.
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Aug 12, 2022 03:31
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Boba Pearl posted:This is all I had to go on when I bought the game: I mean, people say it’s like Berserk, and it kinda is, but that description of “a kind young woman who was changed forever by a traumatic experience” is basically just a huge chunk of Berserk since the story is about an emotionally damaged man finding a place to belong before his Artorius takes it all away from him, and then learning how to bond with people again, in more or less literally the same way the prologue of Berseria goes down.
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Aug 12, 2022 07:01
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:True, even the Count of Monte Cristo, the revenge story by excellence, ends with the Count going "welp, I got my revenge, time to run to China with my girlfriend ex-slave who is younger than me but it's okay I freed her". I just pretend the Zestria anime I’ve never watched is canon wrt to that spoiler, wherein iirc they partially fix Eizen so he’s himself again but still a dragon.
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Aug 12, 2022 08:49
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:I don't really remember, but I thought Eizen was ignored instead of killed in the anime? i never watched it but it was one of the things I heard that stood out, but since that was years ago I could definitely be wrong
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Aug 12, 2022 09:02
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I just finished Live A Live. The gamer feel when you put away a good, short game…such bitterness. I’d forgotten what it’s like after Elden Ring.
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Aug 13, 2022 17:21
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Rinkles posted:regional variants of old pokemon was such a great idea They’re so cool, I don’t think there’s been a single miss besides Hawaiian Persian which iirc is one of those Pokémon that looks dumb because the irl thing it’s based on was also goofy.
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Aug 14, 2022 02:34
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Jay Rust posted:You kiddin? This guy's way better than normie Persian Tbh I mostly don’t like him because he’s just a normal Persian model with a Garfield head, the contrast looks goofy. Gaius Marius posted:Even Mr.Mime I forgot about Galarian Mr Mime, he’s Okay. Mr. Rime is horrifying though.
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Aug 14, 2022 03:20
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Starting on the left branch of AI: Somnium 1 after finishing Live A Live and man is Mizuki a miserable little poo poo. I think I dig her though.
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Aug 15, 2022 09:48
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Jay Rust posted:The characters look like they're from the somnium files games, i.e. stupid hosed up, the Somnium characters dress better than that
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Aug 18, 2022 16:54
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PunkBoy posted:On Day 6 of Week 2 in NEO: The World Ends With You, and there was a big reveal that the online influencer is actually not a good person! The boss fight is kinda annoying but also a boss giving himself buffs by literally just posting on Kickstarter for money rules so I can’t exactly hate it.
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Aug 21, 2022 01:30
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PunkBoy posted:Yes, I loved that! I'm a bit sad that the "spam the chat so everything is covered up" attack wasn't used more to give the fight some more variety, but I could see how that could have gotten very annoying. its easier than you’d think to keep track, also I can’t wait till you get the combo meter thing to 300% for the first time
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Aug 21, 2022 01:56
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Rinkles posted:woah, your boss can only be a dude in the original saints row 1 It’s pretty funny finding that out and realizing that you can be a different gender entirely in 2 and people from 1 are just “hey did you change your hair or something?” when they see the Boss.
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Aug 21, 2022 12:52
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Rinkles posted:also keith david right from the start That’s Julius Little, Keith David isn’t in the series till Saint’s Row 4.
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Aug 21, 2022 13:15
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Shindragon posted:Also to add to wafflespoint. People going oh new saints row is woke and im like did you forget 3 and 4 with the romance options. I think 3 russian female boss had a thing for Pierce. Yeah, Russian Boss is basically thirsty on main for Pierce. It’s a really cool Saint’s Row feature in general that choosing a voice is basically choosing an entirely different protagonist for your campaign, because all the the “proper” cutscene dialogue is the same no matter what but most of the in-mission stuff (like 20% of 2’s dialogue, 80% of 3/4 iirc) changes based on the voice. Also, was a weird choice for them to have “Nolan North” as a voice option in Saints Row 4, the game that had Troy Baker as White Guy Voice 1. Idk if they saw the irony.
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Aug 21, 2022 15:39
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Baller Time posted:Apparently new Saints Row has no cockney voice? Very troubling I can’t help but be underwhelmed since they didn’t get The Nanny guy back after 2, Cockney Travis Touchdown was okay but still.
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Aug 21, 2022 16:18
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TheWorldsaStage posted:Mr. Sheffield hasn't done a voice since 2 I kinda get the impression 3/4 were on a tight budget since a chunk of the boss voices were people who were best known for doing anime/anime games compared to the celebrity pulls they had in 2 in general.
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Aug 21, 2022 16:20
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Feels Villeneuve posted:SR2 is the only one i really liked. i guess messing around in SR4 was kind of fun but SR2 actually could get at least semi-serious at some points and had really good cutscenes while by the time it hit SR4 it was wacky fun times all the way Yeah, I liked loving around with superpowers in 4 a lot, but I still would really, really like a remaster of 2 that has the controls from 3/4 but the same gameplay otherwise.
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Aug 21, 2022 17:26
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Waltzing Along posted:I suspect other people have had this experience: I scarcely ever buy physical copies (basically it’s just been Sekiro used for the last few years because I didn’t wanna give Activision money) but there are a lot of instances where I peruse my digital collection and go “huh, when the gently caress did I pick that up?” I’m definitely gonna end up buying a Switch game I already picked up the Amazon code for eventually though.
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Aug 22, 2022 01:19
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Jerusalem posted:Rename Games AND Traditional Games both "Super Nintendo Chalmers’ Forum"
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Aug 22, 2022 07:55
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I can’t believe I beat AI: The Somnium Files! I got the perfect timeline ending and became a carnival worker with my new big titty receptionist girlfriend! There are a lot of loose ends left to untangle so I’m very glad I picked up the sequel when it was on sale!
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Aug 22, 2022 14:26
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Thompsons posted:I feel like Gat in SR3 was supposed to tie into the larger (initial) narrative idea of the Saints becoming too commercialized. In SR2 he gets stabbed and laid out for several missions, in the trailer for 3 he happily takes a bullet for the Boss and gets back up, and in that first mission on the plane he also gets shivved in the abdomen and powers through it. You get the feeling there was going to be some reveal that he'd been majorly toughening up and conditioning himself since he still feels guilty for getting Aisha killed, maybe that's what causes him to really get sick of where their whole outfit's going, or he keeps doing riskier and more boneheaded things since he's obsessed with getting tougher, but then he just dies in the that early mission since the actor had scheduling conflicts and the game already was suffering from production issues. SR3 kinda dropped the ball on a lot of stuff, like how Shaundi does a 180 between 2 and 3 even outside of the Gat baggage that everyone barely alludes to until 4. Or the entire ending sequence of 3 is presented as an actual choice between saving Shaundi or killing one guy that you lack anywhere near enough animosity for to make it a real choice.
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Aug 23, 2022 09:00
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(AI Somnium) I got to the point in the story where I got to the Mizuki’s mom flashback and holy wow I feel bad about all the mean stuff I said about Mizuki in this thread earlier.  very proud of Date for the immediate reaction of “What the gently caress, you don’t loving hit kids, lady” though, he has moved up slightly from “loser” to “kind of a loser”
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Aug 23, 2022 15:44
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