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style / art gimmick combo you want to see next This poll is closed.
Commodore 64 hi fi 16 colors Drawing goons drooling over anime (or muscle men)	35	20.71%
Everything in MSPaint Black and White and Undertale Characters	22	13.02%
CGA in CYMK tones and rising stars of gaming like Hololens and Star Citizen	36	21.30%
Only Purple and Waluigi and Kirby ship fiction	76	44.97%
Total:	169 votes

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The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Ravane posted:

Kids today are hosed up. What went on on SA when those two kids stabbed a third kid because of slenderman?

Some local Fox News affiliate tried to arrange one of those live interview things with Lowtax, but got distracted by something far bigger. I don't remember the details, sorry.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 05:52

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 11:08

FirstAidKite: Nov 8, 2009

Some concept art for the original prime 2

I liked the idea of seeing retro's take on Shodan

Macaluso posted:

Sorry friends, they're too busy making me another DKCR game

Ah, the spooky donkey kong country returns horror game, featuring the ghosts of the bees you genocided in dkc1 and 2 and the ghost of wrinkly kong or whatever her name was

# ? Mar 17, 2016 05:54

Macaluso: Sep 23, 2005; I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!

FirstAidKite posted:

Ah, the spooky donkey kong country returns horror game, featuring the ghosts of the bees you genocided in dkc1 and 2 and the ghost of wrinkly kong or whatever her name was

DKCR rocket barrel level where you're being chased by the angry ghost of Wrinkly Kong

# ? Mar 17, 2016 05:56

FirstAidKite: Nov 8, 2009

Macaluso posted:

DKCR rocket barrel level where you're being chased by the angry ghost of Wrinkly Kong

VEEENGEEAAAAAAAAANNNNNNCCCCEEE

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:01

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

FirstAidKite posted:

There were parts of metroid prime series that were oppressive and/or scary. It's too bad the original concept for metroid prime 2 didn't go anywhere, it sounded like it was going to be more like a survival horror-esque game (not necessarily survival horror since you'd be playing as samus, but definitely more emphasis on atmosphere and tension)

Original Metroid Prime 2 was essentially Samus finding herself in System Shock complete with crazy AIs trying to kill her on a derelict spaceship while they plan to become gods, it sounded rad as gently caress and even though I enjoyed what we got, I wish that whole concept would see the light of day again.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:03

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Are there any good articles or interviews about the original MP2? I hadn't heard of the changes until this discussion.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:04

corn in the bible: Jun 5, 2004; Oh no oh god it's all true!

8-Bit Scholar posted:

Will ever an Eternal Darkness HD come out? For I have never played the game...

considering silicon knights exploded it is doubtful

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:06

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Are there any good articles or interviews about the original MP2? I hadn't heard of the changes until this discussion.

Here you go.

Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Mar 17, 2016

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:07

8-Bit Scholar: Jan 23, 2016; by FactsAreUseless

I have the Trilogy but still haven't even touched MP3 for some reason. Saw some of Slowbeef's LP of it, one thing I liked was that it sort of suggested that all major tech in the Metroid universe is bio-tech in some manner. Actual organic brains power star ships and whatnot. You see the Federation using that sort of technology too; it briefly suggested a rather unique take on a sci-fi setting, and if Retro or anyone ever returns to Metroid or wants to expand the universe, I'd really like to see something more along the lines of that. Maybe a game that takes place in a contemporary city whose biologically-powered utilities have run amock, leaving Samus to clean up the mess. Log entries could be from the people who lived in wherever it was before the game began.

Nintendo call me

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:10

FirstAidKite: Nov 8, 2009

The only thing I don't like about the metroid prime games I've played is the end or near-end scavenger hunt. sure if you know about it before hand you can knock a lot of the scavenger hunt in metroid prime 1 out of the way as you go along, but prime 2's scavenger hunt just felt like tedious padding and I feel like it could have been integrated better. I never played prime 3 so I don't know if it had a key hunt or not, but from what I've heard, it did have something like the key hunts.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:14

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

FirstAidKite posted:

The only thing I don't like about the metroid prime games I've played is the end or near-end scavenger hunt. sure if you know about it before hand you can knock a lot of the scavenger hunt in metroid prime 1 out of the way as you go along, but prime 2's scavenger hunt just felt like tedious padding and I feel like it could have been integrated better. I never played prime 3 so I don't know if it had a key hunt or not, but from what I've heard, it did have something like the key hunts.

You had to search for energy cells, but it was probably the most innocuous of the trilogy. 2 is the only one that really suffered from that padding.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:15

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

The Kins posted:

Silicon Knights loving cratered with its following two projects (Too Human and X-Men Destiny), lost a lawsuit against Epic for ripping off their engine, failed twice to fund Kickstarters for a spiritual successor, and had one of their creative leads get arrested on child porn charges before finally rolling over and declaring bankruptcy. The odds of anything Eternal Darkness related ever happening again are frankly non-existent.

Again, Nintendo owns Eternal Darkness, which is why those kickstarters were for spiritual sequels. The people that worked on Eternal Darkness were long long gone by the time the company fireballed. And according a lot of information at the time, the fact that Nintendo basically took over management of the development is why ED came out good. Silicon Knights once had talented people working for them but horrible people in charge of that talent.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:18

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Accordion Man posted:

You had to search for energy cells, but it was probably the most innocuous of the trilogy. 2 is the only one that really suffered from that padding.

From memory it's obvious earlier that you need the cells, compared to the scavenger hunt in 2.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:20

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

Metroid Prime is an extremely good game, the sequels are significant steps down but still good.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:21

Ravane: Oct 23, 2010; by LadyAmbien

FirstAidKite posted:

The only thing I don't like about the metroid prime games I've played is the end or near-end scavenger hunt. sure if you know about it before hand you can knock a lot of the scavenger hunt in metroid prime 1 out of the way as you go along, but prime 2's scavenger hunt just felt like tedious padding and I feel like it could have been integrated better. I never played prime 3 so I don't know if it had a key hunt or not, but from what I've heard, it did have something like the key hunts.

Exactly, gently caress 2's Scavenger Hunt. It's on Jet Force Gemini's level of annoying.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:22

8-Bit Scholar: Jan 23, 2016; by FactsAreUseless

Ravane posted:

Exactly, gently caress 2's Scavenger Hunt. It's on Jet Force Gemini's level of annoying.

Oh, a bit of an exaggeration. If you weren't planning to wander around the whole game world once or twice to get all the power ups now that you're at maximum upgrades, then you're not even playing Metroid right.

That said, it is a lot of extra busy work and where discovering a Chozo key before you're told about them in Prime was a great moment of wonder and excitement, the absence of that in Prime 2 felt like a missed opportunity.

I feel the designers had a falling out with their fanbase; Retro's reaction to people using graphical glitches and speedrunning tricks to sequence break Prime 1 was to try and PREVENT players from doing that in Prime 2. They wanted a more controlled experience, and the results were largely positive, particularly in regards to boss battles, but the endgame is the ugly side to that.

Personally, I also think Torvus Bog is...a noble attempt, but a real slog, through a bog, full of Bloggs. I do think, though, that having extended underwater sequences to lead up to the Gravity Suit upgrade is a good feature in Metroid games. I like it when the game confronts you with the extreme nature of the environments you are in. Going under the lava in Super Metroid was good like that as well.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:36

StashAugustine: Mar 24, 2013; Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

started playing EYE

it, uh, sure is a game

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:41

Ravane: Oct 23, 2010; by LadyAmbien

8-Bit Scholar posted:

Oh, a bit of an exaggeration. If you weren't planning to wander around the whole game world once or twice to get all the power ups now that you're at maximum upgrades, then you're not even playing Metroid right.

That said, it is a lot of extra busy work and where discovering a Chozo key before you're told about them in Prime was a great moment of wonder and excitement, the absence of that in Prime 2 felt like a missed opportunity.

I feel the designers had a falling out with their fanbase; Retro's reaction to people using graphical glitches and speedrunning tricks to sequence break Prime 1 was to try and PREVENT players from doing that in Prime 2. They wanted a more controlled experience, and the results were largely positive, particularly in regards to boss battles, but the endgame is the ugly side to that.

Personally, I also think Torvus Bog is...a noble attempt, but a real slog, through a bog, full of Bloggs. I do think, though, that having extended underwater sequences to lead up to the Gravity Suit upgrade is a good feature in Metroid games. I like it when the game confronts you with the extreme nature of the environments you are in. Going under the lava in Super Metroid was good like that as well.

This is if you're a consistent gamer. When I got my gamecube in 2008 (my dad was poor), I had just entered highschool and I'd only have an hour or two of gaming every day, which I spent on SSBM. So MP2 took the backburner. One day I was trying to get the Light suit and then I left for a month, I forgot what I was trying to accomplish, and subsequently had no interest in ever completing the game again. I read it the ending on wikipedia. And that's how I finish most games now, is that I watch them or read about them. So thanks MP2, you made me more efficient.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:49

8-Bit Scholar: Jan 23, 2016; by FactsAreUseless

Ravane posted:

This is if you're a consistent gamer. When I got my gamecube in 2008 (my dad was poor), I had just entered highschool and I'd only have an hour or two of gaming every day, which I spent on SSBM. So MP2 took the backburner. One day I was trying to get the Light suit and then I left for a month, I forgot what I was trying to accomplish, and subsequently had no interest in ever completing the game again. I read it the ending on wikipedia. And that's how I finish most games now, is that I watch them or read about them. So thanks MP2, you made me more efficient.

This really sounds like a personal problem. Samus doesn't have time for those, she's too busy getting all the energy tanks.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:51

Ravane: Oct 23, 2010; by LadyAmbien

8-Bit Scholar posted:

This really sounds like a personal problem. Samus doesn't have time for those, she's too busy getting all the energy tanks.

Yeah, but doing 100% collections and item finding should be optional, not mandatory. Making it mandatory is bullshit. I should be able to fight all the bosses with just my regular beam cannon even if it does nearly no damage.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:53

bloodychill: May 8, 2004; And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life; Exciting Lemon

StashAugustine posted:

started playing EYE

it, uh, sure is a game

I like the 40k aesthetic but I haven't heard much positive about that game.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:53

8-Bit Scholar: Jan 23, 2016; by FactsAreUseless

Ravane posted:

Yeah, but doing 100% collections and item finding should be optional, not mandatory. Making it mandatory is bullshit. I should be able to fight all the bosses with just my regular beam cannon even if it does nearly no damage.

It's not mandatory.

Merely expected.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 06:56

Ravane: Oct 23, 2010; by LadyAmbien

8-Bit Scholar posted:

It's not mandatory.

Merely expected.

Okay friend.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 07:01

Ravane: Oct 23, 2010; by LadyAmbien

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHJwmghkG6A

This game is amazing.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 07:07

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

Macaluso posted:

DKCR rocket barrel level where you're being chased by the angry ghost of Wrinkly Kong

post made me think of Diddy Kong Racing

what an rear end in a top hat of a hard game

# ? Mar 17, 2016 07:07

8-Bit Scholar: Jan 23, 2016; by FactsAreUseless

Ciaphas posted:

post made me think of Diddy Kong Racing

what an rear end in a top hat of a hard game

aw i liked diddy kong racing.

I think there's some legs to the idea of a kind of exploration/racing sim.

EDIT: NOT BANJO NUTS AND BOLTS

# ? Mar 17, 2016 07:10

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

Oh don't get me wrong I loved that game as a kid, loved it to goddamn bits

It was just an absurdly difficult rear end in a top hat to 100%, gently caress off wizpig you goddamned cheater argh

# ? Mar 17, 2016 07:11

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

I can't believe racing games made today still use rubber band AI.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 07:14

8-Bit Scholar: Jan 23, 2016; by FactsAreUseless

Lurdiak posted:

I can't believe racing games made today still use rubber band AI.

Sonic Racing Transformed didn't seem to have it too bad, but that's 'cause that game has some of the most murderously hard courses in racing. Especially that Burning Rangers stage, loving jaysis.

# ? Mar 17, 2016 07:16