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That Little Demon: Dec 2, 2020

and selling this spot to a lurker for cash

# ? Jan 1, 2025 14:22

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# ? Dec 5, 2025 00:17

tmfc: Sep 28, 2006

honestly top spot on page 2 is really solid for a lurker, you don't even need to make a bookmark, so easy to remember. easily worth $500

# ? Jan 1, 2025 14:57

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

RESERVED!!!

1. King's Quest III: To Heir is Human - 1/1
2. Etrian Odyssey HD - 1/2
3. King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella - 1/5
4. King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder - 1/12
5. King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow - 1/21
6. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate - 2/9
7. King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride - 2/10
8. Quake II: Call of the Machine - 2/23
9. Quake II 64 - 2/24
10. Golden Sun: The Lost Age - 3/14
11. Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate (Bow only, village cleared) - 3/28
12. Cities: Skylines (Megalopolis Achieved) - 4/20
13. Duke Nukem 3D (Come Get Some, Continuous Play) - 5/20
14. Etrian Odyssey II HD - 6/7
15. Duke Nukem 3D Extra Episodes

The Birth - 6/11
Plug 'n' Pray - 6/13
Duke Caribbean: Life's a Beach - 6/28
Duke It Out in D.C. - 6/29
Duke: Nuclear Winter - 7/2

16. DOOM (Ironman, HMP) - 6/24
17. Donkey Kong '94 - 7/4
18. Donkey Kong Land - 7/15
19. Amid Evil - 7/24
20. Donkey Kong Land 2 - 7/25
21. Boltgun - 7/26
22. WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$ - 8/4
23. Blood (Lightly Broiled) - 9/13
23a. Blood: Cryptic Passage - 9/20
23b. Blood: Plasma Pak - 9/21
24. Dread Templar - 9/27
25. Severed Steel - 9/29
26. Paper Mario - 9/30
26a. Paper Mario 100% - 11/10
27. Resident Evil 4 Remake: Separate Ways - 10/5
28. Amid Evil: The Black Labyrinth - 10/11
29. RE4R - Hardcore Pistol+Knife only - 10/13
30. Project Warlock - 10/20
31. Resident Evil 5, Co-Op - 11/3
31a. RE5: Lost in Nightmares - 11/4
31b. RE5: Desperate Escape - 11/8
32. Stardew Valley (1.6 True Perfection) - 11/13
33. Turok: Dinosaur Hunter - 11/17
34. Calcium Contract - 11/23
35. Gato Roboto (100%) - 11/28

In Training fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Nov 28, 2025

# ? Jan 1, 2025 15:44

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

What the gently caress. Page 2??? This is a horrible omen

# ? Jan 1, 2025 15:45

STONE COLD 64: Oct 20, 2006

Spec holding post

# ? Jan 1, 2025 16:20

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

symbolic posted:

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Greetings

# ? Jan 1, 2025 17:58

mycophobia: May 7, 2008

ahh i missed page one. gently caress!!

# ? Jan 1, 2025 22:42

Evil Eagle: Nov 5, 2009

mycophobia posted:

ahh i missed page one. gently caress!!

Simply rent out a spot from one of our kind multi reservation imps

# ? Jan 1, 2025 22:49

Major Isoor: Mar 23, 2011

Evil Eagle posted:

Simply rent out a spot from one of our kind multi reservation imps

I hear TTJO is running a decent timeshare deal for people, with his two spare reserves

# ? Jan 2, 2025 00:07

absolutely anything: Dec 28, 2006

01) christmas NiGHTS into dreams... (saturn, all presents unlocked)

christmas nights is really pigeonholing itself with that name because it actually recognizes a bunch of holidays. for instance i can't get the last retroachievement til april fool's day. a game for all seasons

# ? Jan 2, 2025 01:33

hamsauce666: Apr 11, 2018

1. Silent Hill (Normal, Good+ ending)

This game loving owned. Feeling a little silly that I didn't get around to finishing it a couple days ago, but it was absolutely worth buttoning up after the fact. The sound design and art direction are S-tier. It feels like they really pushed the PS1 to the limit on this one and captured the psychological horror movie style and vibes almost perfectly. From a raw gameplay perspective, I hate the camera in this game, but it's drat near PERFECT as a way to sell the horror. The puzzles seem to come out of nowhere, but are extremely intuitive and pretty cool. The controls are janky and combat is occasionally frustrating, but the game's not very difficult and it absolutely showers you in healing items and ammo (on normal, anyway). Really cool game and I'm very happy I took the time to finish it.

# ? Jan 2, 2025 05:08

ArfJason: Sep 5, 2011

Hell yeah. silent hill 1 kicks an insnae amount of rear end

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# ? Jan 2, 2025 05:10

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

1. King's Quest III: To Heir is Human. 205 out of 210 points.

more frustrating than 1 or 2, but also more ambitious and it was fun cooking up spells in the basement when everything works right. its dumb how many puzzles are solved by just recycling a screen and waiting for the right RNG event to happen, theres puzzles I solved but thought what I was doing was wrong. But then when I looked up a walkthrough I was on the right track and just had to like wait 6 minutes or keep trying it over and over again until i found the right dried acorn. fun time though. on to 4.

# ? Jan 2, 2025 05:36

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

ArfJason posted:

Hell yeah. silent hill 1 kicks an insnae amount of rear end

Yup. Untouchable vibes.

# ? Jan 2, 2025 05:39

HKR: Jan 13, 2006

1. Within a Deep Forest
2. Trax
3. Planescape Torment
4. Final Fantasy Adventure
5. Pokemon Red
6. Sakura Wars
7. Tower of Druaga

HKR fucked around with this message at 05:56 on May 14, 2025

# ? Jan 2, 2025 06:37

Aston: Nov 19, 2007; Okay
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1: Within a Deep Forest
2. Strangeland
3. Kitsune Tails
4. Trax
5. Environmental Station Alpha
6. Type Help
7. Superliminal Vagrant Twin
8. Tacoma
9. Lylat Wars (All Medals)
10. Elden Ring + SotE (all Remembrance bosses)
11. Tales of Kenzara: Zau
12. The Alters
13. Donkey Kong Country
14. Donkey Kong Country Returns
15. Donkey Kong Country 2
16. Donkey Kong Country 3
17. Sheepo
18. Parallel Experiment
19. Planet of Lana
20. Hollow Knight
21. Silksong
22. Mind Diver
23. Split Fiction
24. Ball X Pit
25. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
26. Isles of Sea and Sky
27. Crypt Custodian
28. Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane

Aston fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Dec 3, 2025

# ? Jan 2, 2025 09:57

MeatwadIsGod: Sep 30, 2004

hamsauce666 posted:

1. Silent Hill (Normal, Good+ ending)

This game loving owned. Feeling a little silly that I didn't get around to finishing it a couple days ago, but it was absolutely worth buttoning up after the fact. The sound design and art direction are S-tier. It feels like they really pushed the PS1 to the limit on this one and captured the psychological horror movie style and vibes almost perfectly. From a raw gameplay perspective, I hate the camera in this game, but it's drat near PERFECT as a way to sell the horror. The puzzles seem to come out of nowhere, but are extremely intuitive and pretty cool. The controls are janky and combat is occasionally frustrating, but the game's not very difficult and it absolutely showers you in healing items and ammo (on normal, anyway). Really cool game and I'm very happy I took the time to finish it.

Keiichiro Toyama ftw, try Forbidden Siren when you get a chance.

# ? Jan 2, 2025 13:46

bees x1000: Jun 11, 2020

1. Mega Man X4

Many people have this as their favorite but best I can do is fourth place. X4 ain't a SNES game so it doesn't look or feel or sound right.

# ? Jan 2, 2025 17:03

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

2. Etrian Odyssey HD. Expert difficulty. I rolled with

Survivalist / Protector / Dark Hunter
Alchemist / Medic

for the entire game. I have started multiple EO games and EO-spinoffs like PQ1&2, but never before ever actually beaten one. But today was the day, and I'm totally hooked. I loved the music, the floor themes, the way each stratum has its own little personality, the fun reveal at the end of the story, the grueling bosses that eventually become totally owned after a couple of levels and some tactical adjustments, the size of the dungeon etc. So happy to finally see one of these through. My team was drat unstoppable by the end and I wound up beating the final boss on my first try (everyone around level 62/63, not sure if that's overleved - I made sure to do all quests I could throughout the game so I felt pretty OP through the back half)

I was holding back resources since I was whupping his rear end so clean I figured there was goign to be a 2nd phase lol. Get owned!! I got lucky as hell and was able to land 3 bindings plus a boosted DH move where you do like 2000 damage on triple bound targets. sick as hell.

torn between doing what appears to be some post game content, theres a handful of new quests available, and rolling right into 2. I think I will keep playing 1 a bit and see if there are hosed up superbosses to find.

# ? Jan 2, 2025 20:33

Arrhythmia: Jul 22, 2011

3. a) Castlevania (2nd loop)

Honestly not as good. The changes are slight, enemies in the first stages do max damage, there's more bats, medusa heads constantly in the 2nd block, and now fishmen can just spawn under you. But, hell, there was a retroachievement for it.

# ? Jan 2, 2025 20:49

Arch Nemesis: Mar 27, 2007

1) Dave the Diver. very cute, impeccable visual and sound design, great core gameplay and sense of humor. makes the continuous upgrade and research loop very entertaining with the cut scenes, looked forward to it every loop.

my one complaint is that at the end of the game each dive took the better part of an hour just from trying to keep upgrading my most profitable/tasty dishes, plus the huge amount of side content you feel like you have to keep up with between the farm, fish farm, seaweed farm, seahorse races, GYAO!, staff hiring and upgrades, filling out MarinCa... the mental overhead became more than I wanted and started feeling like a chore. obviously a huge labor of love though, really fun.

# ? Jan 2, 2025 20:53

Evil Eagle: Nov 5, 2009

Arrhythmia posted:

3. a) Castlevania (2nd loop)

Honestly not as good. The changes are slight, enemies in the first stages do max damage, there's more bats, medusa heads constantly in the 2nd block, and now fishmen can just spawn under you. But, hell, there was a retroachievement for it.

No changes at all in 5 or 6 either. The Medusa heads and bats on nearly every screen in 1 through 4 did have an impact though, especially in that one spike crusher room. Fun to experience once.

# ? Jan 2, 2025 21:39

Roth: Jul 9, 2016

1. Sonic Adventure 2

Had the most infuriating thing happen at the last boss where Shadow ran out of rings after the final hit and it counted it as a death and had me restart.

# ? Jan 2, 2025 21:40

Arrhythmia: Jul 22, 2011

Evil Eagle posted:

No changes at all in 5 or 6 either. The Medusa heads and bats on nearly every screen in 1 through 4 did have an impact though, especially in that one spike crusher room. Fun to experience once.

That room taught me that if, during the death animation, you fall into a 1-up, then you totally count as having picked it up and don't game over.

# ? Jan 2, 2025 21:55

American McGay: Feb 28, 2010

Roth posted:

1. Sonic Adventure 2

Had the most infuriating thing happen at the last boss where Shadow ran out of rings after the final hit and it counted it as a death and had me restart.

Owned

# ? Jan 2, 2025 22:17

Fungah!: Apr 30, 2011

metaphor re:fantazio. sick game, it feels like a ps2 jrpg in a good way. it's not 10/10 goty but it's solid as hell and def worth a look. super gorgeous game too

# ? Jan 3, 2025 00:34

absolutely anything: Dec 28, 2006

In Training posted:

2. Etrian Odyssey HD. Expert difficulty. I rolled with

Survivalist / Protector / Dark Hunter
Alchemist / Medic

for the entire game. I have started multiple EO games and EO-spinoffs like PQ1&2, but never before ever actually beaten one. But today was the day, and I'm totally hooked. I loved the music, the floor themes, the way each stratum has its own little personality, the fun reveal at the end of the story, the grueling bosses that eventually become totally owned after a couple of levels and some tactical adjustments, the size of the dungeon etc. So happy to finally see one of these through. My team was drat unstoppable by the end and I wound up beating the final boss on my first try (everyone around level 62/63, not sure if that's overleved - I made sure to do all quests I could throughout the game so I felt pretty OP through the back half)

I was holding back resources since I was whupping his rear end so clean I figured there was goign to be a 2nd phase lol. Get owned!! I got lucky as hell and was able to land 3 bindings plus a boosted DH move where you do like 2000 damage on triple bound targets. sick as hell.

torn between doing what appears to be some post game content, theres a handful of new quests available, and rolling right into 2. I think I will keep playing 1 a bit and see if there are hosed up superbosses to find.

good work. eo ftw. also every eo has a postgame so enjoy

# ? Jan 3, 2025 00:49

Fungah!: Apr 30, 2011

thinkin about it th thing i like most about metaphor is that its a freakin new thing with creativity behind it. if this did come out in the ps2 golden age itd be on everyones retrospective hey remember this game? its pretty sweet. lists with nocturne and like shadow heart or whatever but thats because clever creative big budget rpgs were comin out multiple times a year. its rare now we get as many as we did this year and double rare when ones not a sequel. we need to put a spending cap on AAA video games

# ? Jan 3, 2025 01:50

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

absolutely anything posted:

good work. eo ftw. also every eo has a postgame so enjoy

Sick. I might do some respeccing then to see what that's like, poison and some healing spells are def no longer worth it this late in the game, I could make some god tier dudes with some fiddling.

# ? Jan 3, 2025 01:58

Arch Nemesis: Mar 27, 2007

2) Within a Deep Forest

cool.

# ? Jan 3, 2025 05:22

insane anime: Aug 5, 2018

1.soggy cookie (us version)
2. soggy biscuit import

( . Y . )

THANK YOU MOODY rear end CHOBES FOR THE 2025 SIGNATURE. LETS GET THIS PAPER :homebrew:

# ? Jan 3, 2025 06:42

Arch Nemesis: Mar 27, 2007

insane anime posted:

1.soggy cookie (us version)
2. soggy biscuit import

impressive. but obviously not as hard the second time.

# ? Jan 3, 2025 08:22

Evil Eagle: Nov 5, 2009

1) #modarchive story
2) Within a Deep Forest
3) Super Metroid (2:07, 100%)
3.1) Super Metroid (1:17, 51% - 3 Energy Tanks/0 Reserve Tanks)

2 Super Metroid runs for the retroachievements mastery.

# ? Jan 3, 2025 12:17

bees x1000: Jun 11, 2020

2. Mega Man X5 (Improvement Project Addendum hack)

This game could've been really cool if it didn't suck so much. The Mega Man X formula was in danger of growing stale so Capcom took it to strange new places. They reached into their bag of bells and whistles and pulled out a stack of whoopee cushions and a clown wig.

# ? Jan 3, 2025 15:04