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Metroid's dead, y'all. So's Megaman and Earthbound. So're all the other games we loved as kids. Time for us to move on.
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2house2fly posted:I had two problems with EDF 2025 on the PS3. One of them was the frame rate. I've now got EDF 4.1 on PS4 and the frame rate is much smoother. But they didn't fix my other problem with the game, which was that when a building collapses there isn't enough smoke! They couldn't have much smoke on PS3 because the frame rate was bad enough as it was but the PS4 has frames to spare, so dial up the smoke! As it is I can see the bits of building falling into the floor and it doesn't look good. The effect was done better in the old PS2 version which used- can you guess?- lots and lots of smoke. You want the framerate to suck on EDF, it adds to the magic.
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Feb 11, 2016 15:11
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Screaming Idiot posted:Metroid's dead, y'all. So's Megaman and Earthbound. So're all the other games we loved as kids. Time for us to move on. 30 year old gamer clutching his Samus, Megaman, and Ness Amiibos: NO! I'll never let go! Never!
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Feb 11, 2016 15:30
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Screaming Idiot posted:Metroid's dead, y'all. So's Megaman and Earthbound. So're all the other games we loved as kids. Time for us to move on. At least Earthbound ended on a high note.
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Feb 11, 2016 15:34
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Inco posted:At least Earthbound ended on a high note. Metroid did, too Because Other M doesn't actually exist
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Feb 11, 2016 16:19
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I mean there's Shovel Knight and Undertale (or LISA if you like LISA, I don't). I don't have my finger on the pulse of not-Metroid as much but there's Axiom Verge and Ghost Song the shameless Super Metroid clone is coming out this year-ish and looks like it has a decent shot at being good. Indies have taken over a lot of dead franchises, in spirit if not in IP.
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Feb 11, 2016 16:32
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I bought Devil May Cry 4 for the PC after buying and beating 3, and I literally cannot play it. For some reason when I try to run forward with Nero, he only walks. He can run in any direction but forward. I tried recalibrating my controller, but no dice. Apparently this has been a known issue since the game came out, so I either have to buy a new controller that doesn't have that weird dead zone or I have to use the keyboard controls. Also the keyboard controls are a travesty, with your basic attacks bound to weird buttons like I or K. I could try to deal with only walking, but several people on the Steam support page mentioned a frog boss that is nigh impossible if you cannot run forward.
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Feb 11, 2016 16:38
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Death waves in Cities: Skylines. Sometimes it's like my whole city has a skull and bones over each building. And why the hell do cemeteries only have 12 hearses whose programming is so lovely that no dead ever get collected? I've tried many mods but none fix it.
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Feb 11, 2016 16:38
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X-com 2 wonderful game that I would probably really enjoy if it actually loving started on my system because it seems to be really poorly constructed.
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Feb 11, 2016 17:16
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Josef bugman posted:X-com 2 wonderful game that I would probably really enjoy if it actually loving started on my system because it seems to be really poorly constructed. Weird, because it runs better than it should on my crappy desktop that doesn't even have a proper graphics card yet. I gave it a shot expecting it to either not run at all or have a horrible frame rate, but surprisingly enough it's good enough to be both playable and enjoyable.
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Feb 11, 2016 17:34
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Calaveron posted:Metroid did, too Prime 3 was very weak compared to 1 and 2 too
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Feb 11, 2016 17:48
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Thin Privilege posted:Death waves in Cities: Skylines. Sometimes it's like my whole city has a skull and bones over each building. And why the hell do cemeteries only have 12 hearses whose programming is so lovely that no dead ever get collected? I've tried many mods but none fix it. You have been selected as High Gravelord of the Necropolis. This is a tremendous honor.
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Feb 11, 2016 20:47
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Screaming Idiot posted:Metroid's dead, y'all. So's Megaman and Earthbound. So're all the other games we loved as kids. Time for us to move on. Never! Just wait until my metroidvania earthbound inspired jrpg with noir elements made in rpgmaker2015 comes out on kickstarter, then you'll all see that games aren't dead! -90% of indiegame devs.
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Feb 11, 2016 21:11
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:Never! Just wait until my metroidvania earthbound inspired jrpg with noir elements made in rpgmaker2015 comes out on kickstarter, then you'll all see that games aren't dead! -90% of indiegame devs. And yet the indies are utterly eclipsing the lovely Kickstarted has-beens like Mighty Number 9.
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Feb 11, 2016 21:20
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I'm grateful to Mighty Number 9 for showing people exactly what happens when you kickstart a game based on nothing but spite and nostalgia -- a mediocre mess that will quickly be forgotten save for its value as a punchline. Thanks, Inafune, for showing us that Megaman is finally dead.
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Feb 11, 2016 21:23
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Sleeveless posted:And yet the indies are utterly eclipsing the lovely Kickstarted has-beens like Mighty Number 9. Isn't that almost every big kickstarter game so far? Even Schafer suffered from it on Broken Age.
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Feb 11, 2016 21:26
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I never heard mighty number 9 came out.
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Feb 11, 2016 21:26
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Holy crap you're not kidding. I honestly wrote it off during the ks due to the lack of any inspiration in the art (beyond "NUH UH, it's totes not copyright infringement") and the fact that there was no talk at all about why it'd be a good game beyond "remember megaman????" Check out this video, skip to about 4 mins in. The art direction is trash, the movement is somehow both slow and jerky, the levels and weapons don't look fun at all, the person playing the game is horrible at it, and the discussion about what makes the game good seems like he doesn't get the community at all ("well, we put in hyper mode where everything is instakill so the hardcore gamers will love that") https://youtu.be/1L236S9dqSY
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Feb 11, 2016 21:36
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:Isn't that almost every big kickstarter game so far? Even Schafer suffered from it on Broken Age. Pillars of Eternity, Divinity: Original Sin, Shadowrun. Though D:OS was only partly Kickstarter-funded.
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Feb 11, 2016 21:42
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:Isn't that almost every big kickstarter game so far? Even Schafer suffered from it on Broken Age. Eh, KS has a reputation for that but there have actually only been a couple big time letdowns or failures, whilst mostly it seems to have a pretty standard mix across the quality and backer enjoyment range. But hey speaking of which, I enjoyed Dead State well enough but god drat does it have a long and dragging middle game. Early game is great, you're getting your bearings, struggling for decent gear, wondering where to get your next meal, etc.. Late game is good because it gives you a solid objective to work towards. Middle game is pretty much directionless, and worse, lasts for loving ever. Game really needed modability to get more content in there or something.
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Feb 11, 2016 22:11
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Sentient Data posted:Holy crap you're not kidding. I honestly wrote it off during the ks due to the lack of any inspiration in the art (beyond "NUH UH, it's totes not copyright infringement") and the fact that there was no talk at all about why it'd be a good game beyond "remember megaman????" They also removed the various transformations because they ran out of money. Probably the one thing I was looking forward to. At least that Bloodstained game looks cool, and I find it hilarious that the main character's most prominent feature is a rose on her right tit.
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Feb 11, 2016 22:32
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Sentient Data posted:Holy crap you're not kidding. I honestly wrote it off during the ks due to the lack of any inspiration in the art (beyond "NUH UH, it's totes not copyright infringement") and the fact that there was no talk at all about why it'd be a good game beyond "remember megaman????" I'll be honest, I dropped my interest in the game like a hot coal the second I saw the first previews where they didn't use a 2D style like the concept mockups and instead used that god awful 3D visuals that somehow managed to look worse than any of the 3D megaman games. Then they made the pre-order bonus a "retro" costume straight out of minecraft. Hearing the rest of this is just absolutely hilarious.
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Feb 11, 2016 23:27
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Digirat posted:I never heard mighty number 9 came out. It didn't, its delayed again.
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Feb 12, 2016 00:18
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Alteisen posted:At least that Bloodstained game looks cool, and I find it hilarious that the main character's most prominent feature is a rose on her right tit. It's a worthy follow-up to the main character whose most prominent feature was her extremely backless outfit.
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Feb 12, 2016 05:58
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Sentient Data posted:Holy crap you're not kidding. I honestly wrote it off during the ks due to the lack of any inspiration in the art (beyond "NUH UH, it's totes not copyright infringement") and the fact that there was no talk at all about why it'd be a good game beyond "remember megaman????" Lol. I'm Doctor White.
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Feb 12, 2016 06:08
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I think in a vacuum MN9 looks fine but jesus everything about Inafune has done around it seems awful. I don't care about your dumb anime that you want to launch man, focus on your dumb game.
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Feb 12, 2016 06:25
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I'm playing Nom Nom Galaxy off of PS+. It's similar to Terraria from general gameplay; you build soup factories, harvest ingredients and defend your factory, and a big part of it is automating the processes. For the tutorial it throws you in a fully built factory, which is overwhelming at first, but you quickly learn what all the automation elements do, how to interact with them, and generally how things are supposed to flow. And then once you've got your head around it, you enter the game proper where you start with nothing and have to unlock elements and features one by one, and everything suddenly seems like pointless busywork.
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Feb 12, 2016 10:09
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My Lovely Horse posted:And then once you've got your head around it, you enter the game proper where you start with nothing and have to unlock elements and features one by one, and everything suddenly seems like pointless busywork. That's part of why I wasn't a big fan of Metroid Prime for a similar reason. You get to go around blowing poo poo up being badass for five minutes, then some arbitrary plot event happens that makes you lose all your poo poo and now all you can do is walk around, shoot your basic weapon with no charge feature, and jump 2 feet. Cool, thanks game! I love doing several hours of scavenger hunts before I get to have fun again.
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Feb 12, 2016 20:13
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Horrible Smutbeast posted:Never! Just wait until my metroidvania earthbound inspired jrpg with noir elements made in rpgmaker2015 comes out on kickstarter, then you'll all see that games aren't dead! -90% of indiegame devs. You mean "The Underside"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS8utQ5x0oM
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Feb 12, 2016 21:02
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JaggerMcDagger posted:You mean "The Underside"? quote:the game's graphics and engine are (believe it or not) completely original. It's not even any of those things, it's Cave Story. It's just Cave Story. Dude's site even compares the game's gameplay to Cave Story like no one will realize the aesthetic, platforming and combat mechanics are identical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr0CCkH49g0
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Feb 12, 2016 21:13
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Personally I'm 100% A-OK and on board with him ripping off as much of Cave Story as he wants as long as the game actually comes out, but it's been over 10 years and it's not going to.
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Feb 12, 2016 21:35
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JaggerMcDagger posted:
Well that happened fast.
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Feb 12, 2016 21:45
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Caphi posted:It's not even any of those things, it's Cave Story. It's just Cave Story. Dude's site even compares the game's gameplay to Cave Story like no one will realize the aesthetic, platforming and combat mechanics are identical. This is so nostalgic. I miss the old indie games scene.
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Feb 12, 2016 22:07
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I like everything about Cave Story but I've never finished it. I continuously lose interest in every attempt and I've never made it further than the jetpack thing. Metroidvania games are my jam and I love the graphics and music of Cave Story but I just cannot finish the fuckin' thing.
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Feb 13, 2016 00:00
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RyokoTK posted:I like everything about Cave Story but I've never finished it. I continuously lose interest in every attempt and I've never made it further than the jetpack thing. Metroidvania games are my jam and I love the graphics and music of Cave Story but I just cannot finish the fuckin' thing. Booster 0.8 or 2.0?
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Feb 13, 2016 00:32
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I don't know? I know they're different but whichever one I got, I just lost steam right afterward.
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Feb 13, 2016 00:33
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RyokoTK posted:I like everything about Cave Story but I've never finished it. I continuously lose interest in every attempt and I've never made it further than the jetpack thing. Metroidvania games are my jam and I love the graphics and music of Cave Story but I just cannot finish the fuckin' thing. Cave Story's not really a Metroidvania. It's more of a Mega Man game where you can move in directions other than right.
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Feb 13, 2016 00:57
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Underside still isn't out yet!?
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Feb 13, 2016 01:01
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RyokoTK posted:I don't know? I know they're different but whichever one I got, I just lost steam right afterward. I was wondering if you were on path to the bonus dungeon or not. When Booster falls down you have to jump over the gap and proceed onward without the Booster 0.8. He'll show up later with the 2.0, which allows finer flight control.
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I've beaten Cave Story but not legit, I always grab the Booster 2.0 because it's a much cooler jetpack but then I have to go through the practice-for-Hell version of the final dungeon and I am just not good enough at video games. It's entirely my own fault but hey.
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