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Another forgotten N64 game that should totally be on the mini is Operation Winback. It might be the very first cover shooter? It definitely fits in the category of janky but kind of cool. Also your guy was a member of a team called S.C.A.T.
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The first Fairly Odd Parents game (Breakin' Da Rules) was pretty bland, but Shadow Showdown is proving to be much more interesting, with more focus on exploring the levels, returning to former parts of a level with a wish got towards the end. I always like that sort of thing. Also the main problem isn't due to Timmy being a twat like they normally are so Timmy and Jorgen are much more likable than they normally are.
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Apr 22, 2018 11:11
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Leavemywife posted:What's a good PS4 Yakuza game to start with? I've not played any of them. I'd recommend Zero. Its a prequel, so chronologically its first, and while going Zero -> Kiwami means a step down in features as you go on, it seriously elevates the story of Kiwami if you have the background from Zero I think. There are a couple of places in Zero where someone turns up as an obvious cameo because they'll be important in a later game, but its never obnoxious and I never felt like I was missing anything (if I was curious I googled the character, went "okay, so they'll be the villain in yakuza 3 or whatever. Moving on".) And its not like Kiwami is unplayable after Zero or anything, theres is just slightly less to do in Kiwami. Get Zero first. If you dont like Zero, then the series is flat out not for you.
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Late on the train, but play them in chronological order. Yakuza 0 first. That's the entry that gets you sucked in. Then Yakuza Kiwami. I have the japanese version of Yakuza 2 for PS3, but I had no idea what I was doing. Yakuza 3 has full film clips of what happened though. so basically 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, dead souls
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In Dragon Ball FighterZ, Freiza can telekinetically pelt his enemy with rocks pulled from the ground. And for once in a game with a power like that, the rocks are actually colored to match the ground he pulled it from, no matter what stage you do that in! I'm also kind of in love with Freiza's fighting style in general. Most likely because his moves are all directly inspired by and pulling from a single extended fight, his moveset feels really cohesive and intuitive while standing pretty far apart from everyone else. Maybe it's just because I remember Freiza's fight more than anything else in the show (and remember more than I thought), though.
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Apr 22, 2018 14:12
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Olaf The Stout posted:This reminds me that on the Gamcube disk with the 4 zeldas that was released as a preorder bonus with Windwaker. It had Majora's Mask and the main town music was hosed up and glitchy, with a really loud buzzing. Not much else was wrong, but the spot where the majority of the cool events that happen in the game was made super-annoying lol. I never got the music glitch, but that copy of MM was known to have freezing issues (it did happen to me a couple of times). It's especially irritating in a game that discourages you from saving often.
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Jehde posted:It critically wouldn't have the game most people people would expect for an N64 nostalgia trip: GoldenEye. Licensing hells mean an N64 mini would cater heavily to Nintendo first-party stuff, which there is still is a lot of, but it does mean some things would be noticeably lacking. How does Star Wars licensing work these days? People were excited for the NES and SNES Mini not because they could play whatever 20 odd games that came in them but because they had onboard storage and were cracked in like, an evening 
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Jehde posted:It critically wouldn't have the game most people people would expect for an N64 nostalgia trip: GoldenEye. Licensing hells mean an N64 mini would cater heavily to Nintendo first-party stuff, which there is still is a lot of, but it does mean some things would be noticeably lacking. How does Star Wars licensing work these days? Honestly the fact that the N64 has 4 controller support built in is going to make it harder to shrink down to Classic format, both in terms of the logistical issue of putting all those ports on the device and the cost of having to have twice as many proprietary controllers as the NES/SNES Classics. I could see them only including 2 to keep the install cost lower and letting people buy additional controllers if they needed .
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Guy Mann posted:Honestly the fact that the N64 has 4 controller support built in is going to make it harder to shrink down to Classic format, both in terms of the logistical issue of putting all those ports on the device and the cost of having to have twice as many proprietary controllers as the NES/SNES Classics. I could see them only including 2 to keep the install cost lower and letting people buy additional controllers if they needed . The only reason the NES Mini controllers were hosed for stock was because Nintendo didn't actually think people would swarm over the drat things like a locust horde. Selling stand-alone controllers for an N64 Mini is entirely doable, and if we're very lucky they'll roll out some or all of the colour variants it had. The real interesting question is going to be the Accessory Paks. I could see an argument for the Controller Pak existing, just as a "take your saves to your friend's N64 Mini" deal, and the Rumble Pak just needs a redesign to not run on AAA batteries.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The only reason the NES Mini controllers were hosed for stock was because Nintendo didn't actually think people would swarm over the drat things like a locust horde. Selling stand-alone controllers for an N64 Mini is entirely doable, and if we're very lucky they'll roll out some or all of the colour variants it had. Just give it the capability to take a USB stick or gently caress, let you share save files online.
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Apr 22, 2018 15:41
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This holiday season, the long expected Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo 64, featuring Donkey Kong 64 and Perfect Dark! Nintendo Classic Mini: Expansion Pak sold separately
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Blind Sally posted:jeeez reading this post is activating all sorts of memories for me. i remember reading the Nintenfo Powet issue of Hybrid Heaven years ago and getting super stoked on it. never played it of course. i did pick up a copy of it in the last year when i saw it at a garage sale... haven't played it uet though. almost forgot i had it. man. i gotta get around to playing that. N64 game prices meant that I got hyped as gently caress for a bunch of games I would never play, since they’d often be like 70-80 bucks in 1998 money. That’s like 110+ today.
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Apr 22, 2018 17:46
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I remember hybrid heaven being weird as hell but I liked it
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If you've never heard of Zeus: Master of Olympus, I strongly recommend giving it a try. It's the best rated of all the City Building series by Impressions Games. It's also the only city building game I've found interesting for more than an hour. One of the reasons I find it so much more engaging than most city builders is the way it avoids piling on layers of abstraction to its resource management; nearly every aspect of your industry, trade, distribution and consumption are visually represented. You can see every one of your sheep in their pastures. You can see when each one is ready to be sheered. You can watch the individual shepherds collect wool from the sheep and then watch them refine it in the carding shed. You can see the refined wool stored in the carding shed. You can see delivery men transporting each individual load of wool to the store houses. You see the wool and how much space it's taking up in the storehouse. You can see the wool merchant pick up wool from the storehouse. You can watch the cart driver distribute the wool to each house. You can see that a particular estate has wool, or doesn't. Because of this, if something breaks down in the vast wool distribution system you immediately know where the problem is and you never once have to open a spreadsheet or click on a bunch of buildings to troubleshoot it. I find Sim City positively obtuse by comparison. It also doesn't demand a ton of micromanagement or optimization from the user except at the highest difficulties while still rewarding you for doing a good job of management. It's not always an easy game, and it will happily collapse half of your city because you put a road block in the wrong place, but failure states are rare, time limits are all but non-existent, and recovering from disaster is totally doable thanks in part to the aforementioned transparency of mechanics. Just a chill game in general. It's also a silly game. The gods are petty and send monsters after you or come knock over a bunch of your buildings and zap pedestrians. The citizens make dorky references to greek mythology. The voice acting is at a community theatre melodrama level of hammy. You can tell the studio had a ton of fun making this game in general. The only weak point is the utter dogshit combat mechanic, which is dated and clunky even by 2000 standards. Thankfully, you only control troops directly during defense, and you can pay off invaders without too much trouble.
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Cleretic posted:I can't see an N64 Mini straying from the games that people have nailed emulation-wise anyway. N64 emulation in general can still be pretty rough in places, but the Virtual Console has shown that they've gotten their own titles and most of the big third-party ones down pat. And that's what they need for something like that: they don't need a perfect emulator, they just need to be able to emulate the games they've picked. And why would Diddy's racing be off the table?
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MrJacobs posted:And why would Diddy's racing be off the table? Didn't Diddy Kong's Racing have characters owned by Rare in it? I could see that being a potential issue.
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Banjo, Conker and some other characters in DKR are owned by Rare/Microsoft, and when DKR was re-released on the DS years ago they had to replace them. From what I understand, MS is a lot more chill these days when it comes to licensing so they could probably figure out some sort of agreement.
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Rare has an iron grip on Tip Tup. I'm loving Yakuza 0, and one of the most impressive things to me is the way it unveils itself to you over time. You can do a lot of the stuff right off the bat, but it keeps revealing new things. I was about 80 hours in when I discovered a pretty big new mini game. It feels weird to say, but the last time I had that feeling was with Stardew Valley. They both do such a good job of pacing content. Maybe it sucks on a 2nd playthrough? I don't know yet.
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Randalor posted:Didn't Diddy Kong's Racing have characters owned by Rare in it? I could see that being a potential issue. It's Diddy's Kong Racing.
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A N64 mini would be a waste without Blast Corps. Jet Force Gemini I could do without, but Blast Corps was the first game after Mario 64 that made me glad I got the 64.
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ScentOfAnOtaku posted:A N64 mini would be a waste without Blast Corps. Jet Force Gemini I could do without, but Blast Corps was the first game after Mario 64 that made me glad I got the 64. Blast Corps was great. It's a strangely fascinating and unique concept that they really mess with in the later levels and what starts as simply "escort truck, smash buildings" eventually leads to you playing pacman and pool.
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ScentOfAnOtaku posted:A N64 mini would be a waste without Blast Corps. Jet Force Gemini I could do without, but Blast Corps was the first game after Mario 64 that made me glad I got the 64. Strongly agree. Jet Force Gemini is great and all, but I don't experience any deep longing pangs of nostalgia like with Blast Corps.
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Nuebot posted:Blast Corps was great. It's a strangely fascinating and unique concept that they really mess with in the later levels and what starts as simply "escort truck, smash buildings" eventually leads to you playing pacman and pool. And it was made by Rare!
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The N64 mini is just going to be a discounted xbone and a copy of Rare Replay
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My bout of unnecessary appreciation for an N64 game was BattleTanx: Global Assault. Shame we never got a sequel, though. Probably already said this but one of the little-ish things I liked was the special versions of the weapons you could pick up. Got enough guided missile ammo? Splurge on it to make a big ol' missile that fires lasers! Before it explodes. Got enough mines? Lay down a minefield instantly! Got enough lasers? Shoot a big laser that reflects a butt-ton of times!
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Nuebot posted:Blast Corps was great. It's a strangely fascinating and unique concept that they really mess with in the later levels and what starts as simply "escort truck, smash buildings" eventually leads to you playing pacman and pool. I'm kind of surprised it hasn't been re-made. You could probably make a great looking top-down game with amazing destruction with today's technology.
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it's called Red Faction: Guerrilla
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Nebrilos posted:It's Diddy's Kong Racing. I appreciate this post.
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Mischief makers better be on that goddamn console
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Nuebot posted:Blast Corps was great. It's a strangely fascinating and unique concept that they really mess with in the later levels and what starts as simply "escort truck, smash buildings" eventually leads to you playing pacman and pool. You even leave the planet! BC is amazing. There are weirdly few games that are just about blowing the hell out of buildings in new and unique ways. Red Faction Guerilla's pretty much about it. quote:My bout of unnecessary appreciation for an N64 game was BattleTanx: Global Assault. Shame we never got a sequel, though. Global Assault WAS a sequel! There was a PS2 game sort of like it too.
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I like how in Yakuza every single problem is solved by punching up to and including talking a man down from suicide by punching the sad out of him.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I like how in Yakuza every single problem is solved by punching up to and including talking a man down from suicide by punching the sad out of him. Fistplomacy
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I like how in Yakuza every single problem is solved by punching up to and including talking a man down from suicide by punching the sad out of him. He can't jump if you throw him off first!
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TontoCorazon posted:Mischief makers better be on that goddamn console Seconded. Mischief Makers was quirky, cute, fun, and one of Treasure's best games.
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RBA Starblade posted:Global Assault WAS a sequel! There was a PS2 game sort of like it too. Yep - I meant a sequel to Global Assault, though, what with the plot hook at the end of the campaign.
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Re: the evil choices in games: I've never enjoyed an evil path as much as the one in anime SRPG Soul Nomad and the World Eaters. The conceit of the game is that you're a Normal Person From A Small Town™, and for reasons that eventually make sense the leader, when it came time to take up you official post as a guard, gave you a sword with a superpowered evil demon inside it. Said demon can give you immense power, but at the cost of him taking over your body. I've played games with one or two terrible choices, and I've played games with more gut-punchy, emotionally affecting choices, but the evil route of Soul Nomad, only unlocked after after a full playthrough of the normal story, is unmatched in the sheer volume of evil. Eventually, not only do all your allies betray you and the world forms a coalition to stop you, but the demon becomes more and more incredulous at your refusal to draw the line, well, anywhere, and joins the effort to stop what you're doing with his superpowers, because come on, that's just not right.
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When you sell your soul so hard the devil tries to back out of the deal...
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John Lee posted:Re: the evil choices in games: I've never enjoyed an evil path as much as the one in anime SRPG Soul Nomad and the World Eaters. The demon path is a plotline where the good ending is the one where you lose, and it's still a bleak as gently caress ending.
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The food you can get in FFXV looks so dang delicious. 
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Similarly, the bad ending in Pandora's Tower if Elena goes full monster is a full ending, not just a text splash or a game over screen.
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