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oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

is sniper wario the one with the x-ray shots

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Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

no, that's Infinite Waaahfare

MysticalMachineGun
Apr 5, 2005

I've grown sick of trying to slog through Baldur's Gate 1 and Fallout 1 to get to the superior sequels so gently caress it FO2 time

LawfulWaffle
Mar 11, 2014

Well, that aligns with the vibes I was getting. Which was, like, "normal" kinda vibes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s7Pc1LwYgw

Jarvisi
Apr 17, 2001

Green is still best.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

I've grown sick of trying to slog through Baldur's Gate 1 and Fallout 1 to get to the superior sequels so gently caress it FO2 time

Can't you literally just run to the endgame in fallout 1 immediately?

MysticalMachineGun
Apr 5, 2005

Jarvisi posted:

Can't you literally just run to the endgame in fallout 1 immediately?

If you know what you're doing


I never know what I'm doing

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003

One of my favourite pieces of music in a video game :D

dioxazine
Oct 14, 2004

Good day.

Never forget Olive Village.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrv7tOgJ8F4

Convex
Aug 19, 2010

VideoGames posted:

I want my tombstone to read "Take me back to Silent Hill" and have a small motion sensor speaker that starts broadcasting static whenever anyone gets closer to my grave.

"There was a hole here. It's gone now"

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!
this is sgw3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f240jIl5QtM

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I also tried playing the Thief reboot. It’s no Dishonored let me tell you.

Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

😎🐗🚬

I like Hollow Knight but that "find your ghost again after you die, but if you die before doing that you lose all your money" mechanic can get absolutely hosed.

Respawning at a bench five miles away from where you died is punishment enough.

Skypie
Sep 28, 2008

Convex posted:

"There was a hole here. It's gone now"

When I worked construction, I would find random spots in buildings and write this on the brick or concrete or whatever before the drywall went over it or whatever.

In an old hotel being remodeled into a culinary school, the masons found a "secret" room. It was just this void that had been blocked around and they found it while busting out an old wall. I went in early one morning and etched that phrase into the old block with a rock.

So there's probably like 15 buildings around the city with it written somewhere behind the wall or under the floor

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Mak0rz posted:

I like Hollow Knight but that "find your ghost again after you die, but if you die before doing that you lose all your money" mechanic can get absolutely hosed.

Respawning at a bench five miles away from where you died is punishment enough.

Yeah but have you ever heard of Dark Souls?

Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

😎🐗🚬

In Training posted:

Yeah but have you ever heard of Dark Souls?

Yes but I'm not playing Dark Souls. I'm playing Hollow Knight, where the souls are in fact light.

Samuringa
Mar 27, 2017

Best advice I was ever given?

"Ticker, you'll be a lot happier once you stop caring about the opinions of a culture that is beneath you."

I learned my worth, learned the places and people that matter.

Opened my eyes.

Accordion Man posted:

The only other one with just a female black protag I can think of is rear end Creed Liberation with Aveline.

They're not AAA console sellers but from recent memory, there's The Walking Dead S2 and forward, Dandara, Uncharted: Lost Legacy - two poc women of two different ethnicities, Black Closet, Broken Age, Abyss Odyssey

of course, a lot of these are very vague so it just ends up being



But I hope it counts.

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!
rest in peace resident sheva

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



Mak0rz posted:

I like Hollow Knight but that "find your ghost again after you die, but if you die before doing that you lose all your money" mechanic can get absolutely hosed.

Respawning at a bench five miles away from where you died is punishment enough.

if you use a key on the door to the right of town you can wake up a guy that'll pull your ghost to that spot from wherever you left it for a payment of one (1) rancid egg meaning you more or less always have a safe way of recovering your ghost

Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

😎🐗🚬

Cowcaster posted:

if you use a key on the door to the right of town you can wake up a guy that'll pull your ghost to that spot from wherever you left it for a payment of one (1) rancid egg meaning you more or less always have a safe way of recovering your ghost

I literally unlocked that door like five minutes after losing a thousand Geo, not even realizing what was in there. Oh well.

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord

Cowcaster posted:

if you use a key on the door to the right of town you can wake up a guy that'll pull your ghost to that spot from wherever you left it for a payment of one (1) rancid egg meaning you more or less always have a safe way of recovering your ghost

Plus the cost of having to live with yourself knowing you're a coward.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Plus however long it takes to get back to whatever you were attempting when you died.

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



Plus that's one less stinky rancid egg you're carrying around

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

It was worse in Shovel Knight because if you fell into a bottomless pit your gold sacks would float above it and nine times out of ten at least one bag would not be recoverable

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

Jay Rust posted:

It was worse in Shovel Knight because if you fell into a bottomless pit your gold sacks would float above it and nine times out of ten at least one bag would not be recoverable

I think some of the items can be used to grab lost gold.

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

Yeah I think you’re right. It’s just such an annoying mechanic that adds gently caress all, imo

Assepoester
Jul 18, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
Melman v2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp3St3sOaVk

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!

Jay Rust posted:

Yeah I think you’re right. It’s just such an annoying mechanic that adds gently caress all, imo

it adds the ability to put "inspired by dark souls" into your ad copy

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!
i never have to deal with my ghost in hollow knight, because i never die (except fighting dream world superbosses)

i did come close to dying once when one of those big shelled guys who swing at you wildly and give you like two seconds to hit them before they knock off a ton of your health pushed me into a corner and i kept slipping back down to the left whenever i tried to dash over them but. i survived

An Actual Princess
Dec 23, 2006

is there a best version of ff6 to play or should i just emulate the original

Phantasium
Dec 27, 2012

That or patch the GBA version to not look and sound like poo poo.

Help Im Alive
Nov 8, 2009

You wanna download a romhack where Kefka says gently caress a lot

Viewtiful Jew
Apr 21, 2007
Mench'n-a-go-go-baby!
"Did he call Ridley the N-word?"

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

i didn’t play the final fantasys until recently and i can’t believe they got away with releasing 3 again as 6

doingitwrong
Jul 27, 2013
The key to mental peace with the Dark Souls/Hollow Knight death mechanics is to understand that the Geo/Souls you are carrying are not yours. You're just borrowing them for awhile.

Mak0rz posted:

I literally unlocked that door like five minutes after losing a thousand Geo, not even realizing what was in there. Oh well.

Soon 1,000 Geo will mean nothing to you.

Ometeotl
Feb 13, 2012



It's MISSEL! Or SISSLE!
I confused myself...



Mak0rz posted:

I like Hollow Knight but that "find your ghost again after you die, but if you die before doing that you lose all your money" mechanic can get absolutely hosed.

Respawning at a bench five miles away from where you died is punishment enough.

Yeah it sucks, and it actively punishes you for exploring.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001





Thanks for the post mortem.

Who bought volitions corpse recently? Was it thq through a deep silver buyout? I cant remember

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Overwatch Porn posted:

is there a best version of ff6 to play or should i just emulate the original

Play it on ps1 so you get lots of snack breaks while the battle screen loads

doingitwrong
Jul 27, 2013

Ometeotl posted:

Yeah it sucks, and it actively punishes you for exploring.

Where do you think you got that Geo in the first place?

Everything about Hollow Knight rewards you for exploring and the mild "you have to retrieve your Geo" if you die penalty adds tension and fear to exploring because loss hurts out of proportion with how big the loss actually is. But you picked up all that Geo while you were exploring. The net effect if you die a lot in an area is that—so long as you are careful enough to get your ghost before you die again—you get more and more Geo as you retread the same paths and kill the same creatures on the way.

Losing Geo and having to persist without a map in new zones are the two ways that the game keeps things stressful and keeps the feeling of the unknown, which in turn offers the payoff of relief when you make it to Cornifer or back to Dirtmouth.

An Actual Princess
Dec 23, 2006

you also break your soul thing which imo is much more of an incentive to get your corpse back than geo

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Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



if you weren't such a naughty baby daddy wouldn't have to punish you

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