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Adam Bowen
Jan 6, 2003

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Lurdiak posted:

According to the retro column in the last Nintendo Power I bothered to read, the game tie-in for the movie Willow is actually really good.


Willow was pretty good and ahead of its time. It was pretty hard though and required a shitload of grinding at some points.

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precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

Lurdiak posted:

According to the retro column in the last Nintendo Power I bothered to read, the game tie-in for the movie Willow is actually really good.

It actually does kind of own


Rexicon1 posted:

Legacy of the Wizard owns and no one remembers it.

http://youtu.be/Jz5LgYUxJic

I remember it because I was totally lost and couldn't figure out poo poo about how to do poo poo. See also: Deadly Towers. gently caress both those games

what about The Magic of Sheherezade? I think I remember it being a weird Zelda/Crystalis kind of thing with a unique setting

also Karnov was okay

and the real hidden gem is SQOON. goddamn i loved that weird rear end game.

Baku
Aug 20, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
I missed this in NES game chat but Dragon Quest 1 is pretty hard to play now and Dragon Quest 2 is a shitshow in terms of balance and design, the series really hit its stride in 3 and 4 which are the best RPGs on the NES

DQ2 also kinda suffered here because it took so long to localize that Final Fantasy beat it to market in NA, and all the ways that DQ2 evolved the JRPG from DQ (vehicles, multiple party members with unique stats) were also done better in Final Fantasy

Adam Bowen
Jan 6, 2003

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I've played DQ2 again recently but there's nothing in the world that could get me to replay the first Final Fantasy.

grieving for Gandalf
Apr 22, 2008

I feel like something fun could be done with dungeon crawling and choosing your party members from unique classes oh wait that's Etrian Odyssey isn't it

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


The first final fantasy is pretty short and easy for a JRPG, I didn't mind it back in the day. I've never had any particular compulsion to replay it, but it's fine.

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica
Running With Scissors has a Tumblr, further highlighting the absurdity of Goons' continued war against one of the biggest and most varied sites in existence.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




setafd posted:

I feel like something fun could be done with dungeon crawling and choosing your party members from unique classes oh wait that's Etrian Odyssey isn't it

etrian odyssey would be better with actual character animations, real time movement, more convenient town warping, and no random battles

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


Sleeveless posted:

Running With Scissors has a Tumblr, further highlighting the absurdity of Goons' continued war against one of the biggest and most varied sites in existence.

Who what?

The Taint Reaper
Sep 4, 2012

by Shine

Lurdiak posted:

Who what?

reddit

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


We're at war? And something to do with postal?

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!

Lurdiak posted:

We're at war? And something to do with postal?

I think goons are going postal against Tumblr or something like that, dunno what it has to do with videogames

tap my mountain
Jan 1, 2009

I'm the quick and the deadly
You guys remember when Ytmnd was at war with ebaumsworld because they stole that gif of the girl with only one expression? That was pretty epic iirc

ChickenMedium
Sep 2, 2001
Forum Veteran And Professor Emeritus of Condiment Studies

Lurdiak posted:

We're at war? And something to do with postal?

It's less a war and more a concerted effort to depose the Postmaster General.

tap my mountain
Jan 1, 2009

I'm the quick and the deadly
Internet feuds just aren't as gangster as they used to be

Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.
Where can I find out about this new SA feud? The front page?

Adam Bowen
Jan 6, 2003

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The Forum Wars were a bleak time and we must never allow such horrors to be repeated, but tumblr represents an existential threat that hates everything we stand for and they can not be ignored. Besides, the campaign will last only weeks and we'll be hailed as heroes by all of the cishet white males yearning to be free from the suffocating yokes of web-based radfem

NutritiousSnack
Jul 12, 2011
Reddit, 4chan, SA? How many mean Photoshops will be made mocking them.

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon
I will continue to only pay attention to things I like (video games) and issues that matter (there should be more video games)

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon
Though it was fun to troll reddit when the collective consensus there was that child porn and unsolicited panty shots were important to free speech and they were a bunch of children/manchildren who thought free speech meant you could say anything anywhere without consequence

edit: oh wait the last bit is still true

bloodychill fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Apr 12, 2015

Adam Bowen
Jan 6, 2003

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"It's not technically child porn, it's just pictures of pre-pubescent girls in swimsuits that pedophiles trade to jack off to" - the actual position of the people who run reddit before mainstream outrage got too loud to ignore

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
the admins are reddit are literal broke/sadbrains

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
its also hilarious because you can look at the reddit profiles of people who cry free speech constantly, and many of them try to get r/shitredditsays closed down because its 'toxic'

lol

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

Adam Bowen posted:

"It's not technically child porn, it's just pictures of pre-pubescent girls in swimsuits that pedophiles trade to jack off to" - the actual position of the people who run reddit before mainstream outrage got too loud to ignore

as a father the part that disturbed me the most was that there were instructions for how to hack into teenage girls' facebooks to mine for images

yeah, gently caress those guys

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
its good to know that permabanned poster bobfrommarketing has found kindred spririts

he actually posts there im not even making that up

THE PENETRATOR
Jul 27, 2014

by Lowtax
hey fagtards... who is gucking playing warcraft? christ

THE AWESOME GHOST
Oct 21, 2005

Adam Bowen posted:

"It's not technically child porn, it's just pictures of pre-pubescent girls in swimsuits that pedophiles trade to jack off to" - the actual position of the people who run reddit before mainstream outrage got too loud to ignore

Lol I remember this

Prop Wash
Jun 12, 2010



Colonization was a pretty good '90's game, the message especially regarding eradication of native americans was a little dodgy but the mechanics were good enough. It was very nineties in that you could be doing great all game and then run into a brick wall at the end if you were unable to defeat the king and his billionty men. Plus I guess some guys made a new free version, so you can play your 1994 game in glorious Windows 2000 graphics http://www.freecol.org/screenshots.html

Anyway that's my review, hope you're all enjoying pillars of eternity, I sure am!

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Prop Wash posted:


Anyway that's my review, hope you're all enjoying pillars of eternity, I sure am!

I bought and never played divinity which looks way more interesting so i didn't buy pillars

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

I tried the FF phone game but it just talked at me forever, and now I just want to play FF5 or something instead.

Baku
Aug 20, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

precision posted:

as a father the part that disturbed me the most was that there were instructions for how to hack into teenage girls' facebooks to mine for images

yeah, gently caress those guys

look, other peoples' information wants to be free

bloodychill
May 8, 2004

And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life
Exciting Lemon

Bicyclops posted:

I tried the FF phone game but it just talked at me forever, and now I just want to play FF5 or something instead.

I tried it. It was OK. It does make me want to just play an actual FF instead of the phone game so maybe it's kinda sorta working?

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

bloodychill posted:

I tried it. It was OK. It does make me want to just play an actual FF instead of the phone game so maybe it's kinda sorta working?

it immediately made me look through the real Final Fantasy games and Dragon Quest games that were available on the phone and decide that I'm saving my video game budget for DK64

Adam Bowen
Jan 6, 2003

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Real hurthling! posted:

I bought and never played divinity which looks way more interesting so i didn't buy pillars


Divinity had a cool combat system but after playing 6 hours and spending almost all of that time doing poorly defined fedex quests all over town with only one or two battles I quit playing.

THE PENETRATOR
Jul 27, 2014

by Lowtax

Adam Bowen posted:

Divinity had a cool combat system but after playing 6 hours and spending almost all of that time doing poorly defined fedex quests all over town with only one or two battles I quit playing.

youre missing out... sure the whole first town and murder mystery is like, 1/3 of the game, but what you should have done was gone outside the northwest gate when you hit level 5 and fought a bunch of skeletons and poo poo

THE PENETRATOR
Jul 27, 2014

by Lowtax
anyway i'm going to spoil it for everyone because i think it's really loving hilarious nobody on the suspect list murdered him because they were all working WITH him, and he got killed by the only good character in the game, accidentally

Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



College Slice
Is H1Z1 still a hacker-infested wasteland? The reviews are pretty much all talking about it and the rating is 'mixed' with that seeming to be the biggest problem. I'm tempted because it's fairly cheap and it's a genre I've always really wanted to get into.

Stux
Nov 17, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 23 hours!
my ps4 arrived but blood borne and the order were sent as a separate package and are delayed. i opened the ps4 and there was a huge blood borne insert inside and now I'm dead

Prop Wash
Jun 12, 2010



Pierson posted:

Is H1Z1 still a hacker-infested wasteland? The reviews are pretty much all talking about it and the rating is 'mixed' with that seeming to be the biggest problem. I'm tempted because it's fairly cheap and it's a genre I've always really wanted to get into.

You seem to already know the answer to your question, maybe make good decisions with your money instead.

While we're asking rhetorical questions is ff record keeper really just some puzzle and dragons style timesink?

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Nasgate
Jun 7, 2011
Been playing Dragon Age: origins.

I feel like it and pillars have the same problem. That's a problem endemic to lots of games apparently.

The intro quest is the most well put together, and allows more player freedom than the rest of the game.

Luckily dragon age had enough staff to actually put almost as much love in the rest of the game, so I'll play a lil while longer.

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