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Black Lodge Palpek posted:On a perfect forum people would just argue about things instead of focusing on who's actually right and using opinions as some sort of psychological leverage designed to make themselves feel better. This isn't like exclusive to videogame forums, this is just how people are, so I guess it's more "in a perfect world". There's a reason there's all sorts of organizations and elaborate rules for treating debate like a competitive sport. Black Lodge Palpek posted:Talk about video games, video games are cool. yeah!
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I finished my first Civ6 victory and now I'm playing World of Final Fantasy on PS4. It's really cute and the turn-based combat is fun but the first two hours dump a lot of exposition on the player. It kind of reminds me of the Bravely games that way.
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As I fired up Stardew Valley today I lingered my cursor over another game near it on my list - GALAK-Z. But every time I think "yeah I'll boot it up for a spin, play it some more" I think of how the story mode is permanently unfinished and it ends on a cliffhanger and an endless mode and it'll never, ever be resolved so I shouldn't get invested in it.  Fortunately Stardew Valley is finished, and I'm having a ball with it as I near the end of year one. I got the bus fixed, so I finally finished my aquarium bundles!
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bloodychill posted:I finished my first Civ6 victory and now I'm playing World of Final Fantasy on PS4.
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Oct 25, 2016 09:53
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In Training posted:I dislike almost everything about gaming on a PC but it's all worth it for EUIV and 2012-ish CK2. Hey, I know this is from like ten pages ago, but I was gone all weekend and am catching up. I was wondering, can I ask, what it is about gaming on a PC that bothers you? My girlfriend is primarily a console gamer because the mouse and keyboard combination never felt right to her, she never cared for first-person shooters or real-time strategies, and there were Playstation exclusives that piqued her interest more than anything else. These make sense to me, I guess.
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Oct 25, 2016 13:32
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I am liking Gears of War 4 so far but I would much rather go back to Gears of War 3, I just don't want to play it BC on Xbox One. I really wish that game got a remaster for PC.
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Oct 25, 2016 13:39
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credburn posted:Hey, I know this is from like ten pages ago, but I was gone all weekend and am catching up. I was wondering, can I ask, what it is about gaming on a PC that bothers you? My girlfriend is primarily a console gamer because the mouse and keyboard combination never felt right to her, she never cared for first-person shooters or real-time strategies, and there were Playstation exclusives that piqued her interest more than anything else. These make sense to me, I guess. No problem. I was being mildly facetious but really it's just a matter of ease of use + liking a lot of the console exclusives. Every time I get a new game on PC there's that song and dance of twiddling with settings, getting my controller working, sometimes having to map inputs again etc. On PS4/WiiU you put the disc in or download the game and press Go. That's like 95% of it, also, I just grew up with console games so I just am used to them more. Graphical fidelity also doesn't matter to me when deciding where to play a game, unless it's actually negatively affecting how a game plays on the console version, which doesn't really happen too often. Hopefully that gives a little better insight!
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Oct 25, 2016 13:49
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The first games I played were on Atari 400 at my friend's house and we would have to stay still while the cassette tape with the game was being read because the smallest movement could disturb the process and we would have to start from scratch. Then it was all PC gaming until I got a PS2.
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Oct 25, 2016 13:57
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I started on consoles. The Atari 2600
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Oct 25, 2016 13:59
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Games on tape is still a messed up magical sounding thing to me.
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Oct 25, 2016 14:01
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Multi-loaders (games where each level had to be loaded separately after you beat the previous one) were the locked 30fps games of their day.
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Oct 25, 2016 14:05
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TF2 HAT MINING RIG posted:The Metroid Prime series got less good with each sequel but the Donkey Kong Country Returns sequel is an improvement so maybe Retro should make another Donkey Kong instead of a Prime... Metroid can go to hell, Donkey Kong Country Returns sequels forever. Give me an entire game of rocket barrel levels
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Oct 25, 2016 14:12
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In Training posted:Games on tape is still a messed up magical sounding thing to me.
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Oct 25, 2016 14:15
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After Tropical Freeze I think I am done with Retro's take on Donkey Kong.
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Oct 25, 2016 14:18
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vice city would play the nice gta3 jingle when you loaded it from tape
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Oct 25, 2016 14:18
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Tropical Freeze is one of the best platformers I've ever played
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Oct 25, 2016 14:20
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Nate RFB posted:After Tropical Freeze I think I am done with Retro's take on Donkey Kong. Tropical Freeze was amazing I'll fight you to death
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Oct 25, 2016 14:19
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I think earlier DKC games were much better balanced, well specifically DKC2 I suppose, and overall Tropical Freeze just felt like another Returns but without bringing anything additional to the table besides I guess looking prettier. It didn't feel like Retro evolved from their first foray into the franchise and I'm not sure I'd have confidence they'd be able to do better a third time. And more than anything else I just don't think I have the mental endurance for a platformer that hard anymore, there were several times (2-K, 5-K and the water world especially) where I cam incredibly close to just dropping the game entirely and selling it.
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Oct 25, 2016 14:25
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In Training posted:Games on tape is still a messed up magical sounding thing to me. The noise they made is not magical
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Oct 25, 2016 14:33
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Anyone who had a dial-up modem has also heard the screech
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Oct 25, 2016 14:34
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Played Quake 2 on Heat.net on AOL dial up all day.
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Oct 25, 2016 14:36
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Nate RFB posted:I think earlier DKC games were much better balanced, well specifically DKC2 I suppose, and overall Tropical Freeze just felt like another Returns but without bringing anything additional to the table besides I guess looking prettier. It didn't feel like Retro evolved from their first foray into the franchise and I'm not sure I'd have confidence they'd be able to do better a third time. I felt like TF was way easier than the first one. The stage where you ride a rocket barrel through the rat cheese caves and the one where you ride one through the fruit processing plant had my jaw on the floor. I was blown away by how creative those stages were considering literally all you do is move up and down.
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Oct 25, 2016 14:41
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Macaluso posted:Metroid can go to hell !!!! Nate RFB posted:After Tropical Freeze I think I am done with Retro's take on Donkey Kong. !!! Did you.. did you at least think Bopoplis was coooollll.... *faints into keyboard*
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Oct 25, 2016 14:44
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I'm only half joking whenever I say that, I want everyone who likes Metroid to get a new Metroid especially after that Federation Force nonsense. However I personally do not like the Metroid games and love DKCR + TF and would much rather have more of that instead.
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Oct 25, 2016 14:47
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tropical freeze has got some super creative set pieces and it rules for speedrunning
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I enjoyed tropical freeze well enough but I'd much rather retro do something totally new altogether
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Oct 25, 2016 14:47
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The most magical thing about games on tape was that since all the data was just audio, some early nerd shows would have a segment where the presenter would go "okay get your tape decks ready because we're about to broadcast ghastly screeching noises that you can run on your C64"
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oddium posted:tropical freeze has got some super creative set pieces and it rules for speedrunning For real, watch this whole thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O0TMFbI8cc I like this one more than the race from this year but both are still good
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Oct 25, 2016 14:49
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Macaluso posted:I felt like TF was way easier than the first one. I think if you provided a DK barrel after every checkpoint and made it so that items used prior to entering levels were always active even after dying like Squawks it would've gone a long way at mitigating my issues with the difficulty. Also get rid an oxygen meter while underwater, those are always terrible. Monkey Fracas posted:!!!!
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Oct 25, 2016 14:55
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Oct 25, 2016 15:04
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That doesn't even make sense. That makes it sound like there would be things to do in an election besides vote on one day. Elections would be way more fun if road-tripping around the country to do repetitive mini-games impacted the outcome.
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Oct 25, 2016 15:07
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I like this one https://twitter.com/aurahack/status/786349717538140161
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In Training posted:No problem. I was being mildly facetious but really it's just a matter of ease of use + liking a lot of the console exclusives. Every time I get a new game on PC there's that song and dance of twiddling with settings, getting my controller working, sometimes having to map inputs again etc. On PS4/WiiU you put the disc in or download the game and press Go. That's like 95% of it, also, I just grew up with console games so I just am used to them more. Graphical fidelity also doesn't matter to me when deciding where to play a game, unless it's actually negatively affecting how a game plays on the console version, which doesn't really happen too often. Hopefully that gives a little better insight! What in the gently caress games are you playing? None of that is ever necessary unless you're playing some tiny unpublished indie game.
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Oct 25, 2016 15:18
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the real thing you should be incensed about is using a controller for non-flight sim games like, bro
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Oct 25, 2016 15:19
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"thou hast forsaken thy wasd" - computer grand master / self proclaimed monk
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Oct 25, 2016 15:19
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Yeah, the only games you should be using a controller for are flight sims, fighting games, platformers, driving games, beatemups, shmups, and legally emulated console games.
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Oct 25, 2016 15:21
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i think you should play games however makes you comfortable imo
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Oct 25, 2016 15:23
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boy are my arms tired posted:i think you should play games however makes you comfortable imo yeah but then how will nerds feel superior about something where's the fun in that old bean
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Oct 25, 2016 15:26
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w-a-s-d more like w-B-A-D !! as long as there's a good alternative controller scheme
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Yo controllers and mouse and keyboard aren't weird. Tell me the weirdo setups you've used to play a game. Playing a platformer with your feet, Soul Calibur with a fishing controller, etc.
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