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Help Im Alive posted:A mystery box where you get a random selection of old nes/snes/sega cartridges might be cool There was one service that did that, everyone's favorite tat-reviewer Ashens opened one quite some time ago. Unfortunately they cost too much to produce be workable at consumer prices. Speaking of, I am annoyed that his channel has now become basically "open blind boxes that suck" and "eat real old food and die and/or be surprised it's not bad" because I liked his videos a lot back in the earlier days of Youtube.
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Help Im Alive posted:A mystery box where you get a random selection of old nes/snes/sega cartridges might be cool This month's box theme: ALIEN INVASION! *contains Atari 2600 E.T. and NES Bart vs. the Space Mutants*
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Apr 8, 2017 20:19
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Lurdiak posted:Did you finish it yet. Yes, actually the first 90% of the game was well worth $10, the ending was worth negative $5.
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Apr 8, 2017 20:22
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Help Im Alive posted:A mystery box where you get a random selection of old nes/snes/sega cartridges might be cool Oh cool sports games again
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Apr 8, 2017 20:23
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precision posted:Yes, actually the first 90% of the game was well worth $10, the ending was worth negative $5. That is the exact opposite of every other review I've seen.
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Apr 8, 2017 20:24
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I withdraw my idea I'm sorry everyone
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Apr 8, 2017 20:24
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LEGO blind boxes would own bones and I'm sorry they don't exist
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Apr 8, 2017 20:26
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Video Games Monthly is the one: But they do say this: quote:Can I select my gaming system? So can I sign up for SNES and say "I already have every shovelware piece of crap"? e: That wouldn't work anyway, the lowest tier is $30 for three games per month, and very few SNES carts are worth more than $5 or $10, so you're better off just buying off eBay like a normal person precision fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Apr 8, 2017 |
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Apr 8, 2017 20:28
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precision posted:I paid $10 for Inside and feel like I overpaid by 100% It's cool until it turns to poo poo in the last ten minutes
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Apr 8, 2017 20:28
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So maybe this was because I was kinda drunk last night, but is it just me or did the new Tomb Raider just sort of... end? Like, bad guy dead, thing broken, good guy dead, here's your credits? It was pretty great up to that point but it's weird that they barely even tried to tie it all together.
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Apr 8, 2017 20:30
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This seems pretty cool until you realize he paid $50 for these:
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Apr 8, 2017 20:33
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I will admit that I was tempted to order Bitsbox for my kids since they're interested in learning programming and that 3D remake of Zelda 1 they put up online before Nintendo smacked it down was a hell of an advertisement. Not tempting enough to spend $20 a month on though.Dr Cheeto posted:LEGO blind boxes would own bones and I'm sorry they don't exist As if Lego hadn't gotten in on that racket years ago, they sell blind bags containing a random minifigure from a set group at pretty much any store that sells lego stuff. They're like $5 a pop though. That's probably the best you could hope for from them. raditts fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Apr 8, 2017 |
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Apr 8, 2017 20:33
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precision posted:This seems pretty cool until you realize he paid $50 for these: I thought Eye of the Beholder was super rare but I might be thinking of SNES Dungeon Master instead.
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Apr 8, 2017 20:55
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Decades of prohibition over; it's legal to play pinball in a Montreal bar again Thanks to this guy's lobbying efforts 
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Apr 8, 2017 21:12
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Help Im Alive posted:A mystery box where you get a random selection of old nes/snes/sega cartridges might be cool This month's theme: Madden Next month's theme: Hockey tap my mountain posted:Oh cool sports games again gently caress beaten. Dr Cheeto posted:LEGO blind boxes would own bones and I'm sorry they don't exist Now THIS should be a thing. You could even have two versions; one with and one without the instructions  Sakurazuka posted:I thought Eye of the Beholder was super rare but I might be thinking of SNES Dungeon Master instead. Nah Eye is a $5 game, carts are everywhere. I do think there was some D&D game that was rare though... can't remember. Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Apr 8, 2017 |
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Apr 8, 2017 21:35
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If you want a lego blind box, just go to a Goodwill or w/e and see if they have bags of legos. One of my friends growing up had like an FAO Schwarz amount of legos and they all came places like Goodwill and were cheap as hell and we'd sit around building things for hours. Loot boxes aimed at non-geeks are indeed a thing. One that I went in on that I kinda liked was graze which sends you a mystery box of healthy snacks once a month but the problem is I'd eat all of it in 2-3 days and be like "well ok, who is this aimed at, people who eat one snack once a week?" My wife did a nursing lootbox thing and the first month was really neat and full of a dozen really cute or useful things for a new nurse but like most other loot box things, the next two months were extremely low-effort and she unsubscribed. bloodychill fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Apr 8, 2017 |
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Apr 8, 2017 21:54
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Yeah the various "healthy weird snack box" ones always sound great until I realize that my wife and I would indeed go through them in a week or less, it seems more practical to just go to artisinalsnacks.org (or whatever) and buy a bunch in bulk.
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Apr 8, 2017 21:57
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I think the appeal of loot boxes like the snack and cosmetics ones isn't that you're getting an excellent deal, but that the randomized nature means you get to sample products it might not even occur to you to try, which you can then buy more of if you really like them Not positive bc I've never subscribed to one, but that makes sense to me and seems to align with what friends have said
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Apr 8, 2017 22:09
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But yeah they make them for everyone and every type of product now, the closest I've ever come to investing in one is getting some Modcloth "stylish surprises" where you just pick a category like shoes, tops, or whatever for $10-20 and your size and they send you something of that type from their overstocks, sale stuff, etc It's hit and miss but you can get deals on the order of 75-90% off and as with the snack box theory I posit above, part of the fun is scoring a new dress or w/e for $15 that you would never have picked out for its msrp of $75-150 but that encourages you to experiment with style or try a new look on the cheap
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Apr 8, 2017 22:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLPXFXev4LU
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Apr 8, 2017 22:45
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Apr 8, 2017 22:58
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That was extremely graphic. Better flag that video.
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Apr 8, 2017 23:12
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo4LOs8cQsk
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Apr 8, 2017 23:29
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there are many things about this that are sad, but the saddest thing is that it has less than 3k views
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Apr 8, 2017 23:32
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The only people I know who get anything close to loot boxes are some friends who get deliveries of different vegetables each week. It's like a cooking challenge, having to find ways to use all kinds of new veggies. I don't think they post videos of themselves unboxing the vegetables but then again I've never asked.
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Apr 8, 2017 23:45
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My ex-housemate used to do dumb generic nerd loot boxes and filled our house with (even more) crap. I still get them now he's moved aout because apparently he cancelled them but they still keep sending them here??? I just let them pile up in a corner until I've moaned at him enough that he comes and picks them up. I used to do one for Japanese sweets which was pretty fun and I only very occasionally found something inedible. Stopped once the novelty wore off though.
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Apr 8, 2017 23:51
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Loot boxes are really simple to understand imo. They're designed to make you feel like a kid, which is why more logical minded people see them for the racket that they kinda are. If you want to buy yourself a treat, you spend your money on what you want. But if you want this vague feeling of excitement and happiness once a month, you spent 20 bucks or whatever on dumb clutter you don't need or things you would have bought individually for cheaper anyways. It's dumb but very effective at tugging at strings, which is why everyone and their mother makes and sells their own take on it. You can target literally any demographic and probably do well. Also anyone remember scholastic selling basically loot crates themed in poo poo like star wars, fantasy, sports, etc? Same concept, and that was two decades ago. You'd get the first one for like 6 bucks or so and get subbed unless ur mom cancelled in time, otherwise it would go up to like 20 bucks per box. KingSlime fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Apr 9, 2017 |
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Apr 9, 2017 00:11
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Okay the cheapo Wonderboy game was v. cute. Also buggy as hell in some spots but cute.
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Apr 9, 2017 00:37
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Pretty much the only "loot crate" poo poo I've ever seen that's been worth it is brewery monthly stuff.
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Apr 9, 2017 01:23
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Loot crate chat: Humble monthly works incredibly for me as a way to buy a normally expensive game for 12$, plus a bunch of cool free stuff tacked on. I have a tight gaming budget so I'm very careful about pausing/canceling on month where it's got stuff I don't want! But my dear friend, bless her: she recently upgraded from being a broke post-college student to having a steady income, so she subscribed to Humble for Stardew Valley and forgot about canceling it (because she can DO that and not worry about her finances! I'm jealous!) so she's got a bunch of weirdo games in her account now. At this point she's just keeping it because it's a fun, silly expense - and sometimes she even plays them. Helps that I can be all "hey hey. [x] is REALLY GOOD and up your alley, check it out!", too! 
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StrixNebulosa posted:Loot crate chat: Humble monthly works incredibly for me as a way to buy a normally expensive game for 12$, plus a bunch of cool free stuff tacked on. I have a tight gaming budget so I'm very careful about pausing/canceling on month where it's got stuff I don't want! Yeah I keep up the Humble Monthly because I have the money to do so, and because my gaming budget at this point has basically become - humble monthly + whatever interesting humble bundles catch my eye, plus maybe 50-60$ during the two steam sales. Time is the problem these days, not money.
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Klaus Kinski posted:Pretty much the only "loot crate" poo poo I've ever seen that's been worth it is brewery monthly stuff. I saw a scotch one that looked pretty good. For the variety and the little ones of stupid expensive whiskeys it seemed worth it as a one month purchase even though it was like 120 for the lowest tier. Reasonable? No. Worth it? Yes. Re:lego When i was a kid subscribed to lego magazine i subscribed to something called creators club or whatever. Every month was a new smallish set with one pre made direction but you could submit different ways to assemble the pieces online for points that you could redeem for more pieces in a weird software lego thing so you could design more stuff and then order a custom set for about the same price as a regular set to make it irl. It was janky early 00s software and altogether kind of weird but kickin rad as a child. Also iirc you could get like a bunch of free legos if they used your designs in an official lego set.
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Apr 9, 2017 02:39
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I finished the first dungeon in Persona 5 today. It's nice to be able to understand the storyline now since I couldn't in the Japanese version. This game is really good and some of its themes hit close to home.
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Apr 9, 2017 02:40
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I'm relatively certain there is, in fact, a retro blind subscription box thing where it includes a video game as well. It looked like a neat bundle. I like watching Ashens open them because he's not afraid to be like "wow this bundle is poo poo hahaha wow" Here is a vid of him with one of those retro bundle things tho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSeqt_n1hRk
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Apr 9, 2017 02:50
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I said come in! posted:I finished the first dungeon in Persona 5 today. It's nice to be able to understand the storyline now since I couldn't in the Japanese version. This game is really good and some of its themes hit close to home. I don't understand why you'd even try to play the game without the story and dialogue, you're quite the mystery to me
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Apr 9, 2017 02:51
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Jay Rust posted:I don't understand why you'd even try to play the game without the story and dialogue, you're quite the mystery to me "I really love Persona, this is totally a good idea to buy the Japanese version the day it came out, what could possibly go wrong? I'll totally finish the Japanese version even I am that dedicated!" :///
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Apr 9, 2017 03:17
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUWQFnC2zqU
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Apr 9, 2017 03:43
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I looked up some of the quest lines in Skyrim online, and holy poo poo this is a bullshit game. In order to finish the Theif guild quest line you have to do like twenty randomized stealing missions before you get the actual story progressing missions. This is loving busywork. Why does a game have busywork?
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Apr 9, 2017 03:45
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Seems like a way to miss out on all the things you'd come for in a Persona game. But I admire your gamer dedication. Unless I'm mistaken and the Japanese version has English subtitles.
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Guy Goodbody posted:I looked up some of the quest lines in Skyrim online, and holy poo poo this is a bullshit game. In order to finish the Theif guild quest line you have to do like twenty randomized stealing missions before you get the actual story progressing missions. This is loving busywork. Why does a game have busywork? let me tell you about mmorpgs...and jrpgs, and wrpgs, and any game with a crafting system, and
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