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Sakurazuka posted:Crash Bandicoot is a lot of people's favourite platformer they played as a child because neither Sega or especially Nintendo's consoles were popular here unless you were a huge nerd. I thought Sega was huge in the EU, just not in that gen because the Saturn bombed everywhere but Japan. It also didn't help that Sega had no good platformers that gen. Also the original Crash Trilogy is dope anyways.
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Sakurazuka posted:Nintendo treated the whole of Europe like a lovely afterthought for many years so I can't blame anyone for that. Based on the list of released games and some dicking around I did digging around for French versions of games, it seems they refused to release any text-heavy game unless it got translated into FIGS. This made their RPG options really thin on the ground, although what actually got a release was in fact multilingual (e.g. Actraiser, Secret of Mana, Mystic Quest Legends, Terranigma). Also wasn't the N64 the first console that did proper NTSC-to-PAL conversions, so you didn't get weird speed or a warped screen with black bars?
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Jul 30, 2018 16:03
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:How did Crash do in Australia It looks like it had several weeks as number 1 until a rugby video game bumped it once, and then went back to number 1.
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Jul 30, 2018 16:09
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i watched some rugby games while i was in france and also it's on at the bar i go to every once in a while here, and i'm curious: the NFL has this whole big thing going on where even with huge amounts of padding and state of the art helmets guys who play it for more than a few years are coming out with brains the consistency of rice pudding. how the hell do rugby players, with no gear literally at all, not end up with their brains leaking out their ears? or is that exactly what happens?
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Jul 30, 2018 16:12
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBLvGzbzvSM
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I think rugby players also suffer from TBI symptoms, just not at the rate of American Football players. The padding and helmets actually are part of the problem, since with that the tackles can be harder and more spearlike without causing immediate injury. The brain problem isn't caused by acute trauma though, but by chronic repetitive hits. I remember that some NFL teams were hiring rugby consultants to teach "safer tackling" or some poo poo like that when the concussion outcry was at its strongest
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Jul 30, 2018 16:17
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all i know about rugby is when they play it on giant bomb and they spend 10 minutes trying to figure out what the “score a try” button is trying to convey
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Jul 30, 2018 16:20
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Saint Freak posted:It looks like it had several weeks as number 1 until a rugby video game bumped it once, and then went back to number 1. Aussies into Rugby, you say? Cowcaster posted:i watched some rugby games while i was in france and also it's on at the bar i go to every once in a while here, and i'm curious: the NFL has this whole big thing going on where even with huge amounts of padding and state of the art helmets guys who play it for more than a few years are coming out with brains the consistency of rice pudding. how the hell do rugby players, with no gear literally at all, not end up with their brains leaking out their ears? It definitely still happens, albeit probably to a reduced extent. I think part of it is that the padding lets people hit harder for longer, and also more inclined to do head smashes. Without the padding you don't actually want to smash anything into anyone's head because it will hurt like hell. They had the same problem with boxing, bare-knuckle boxing was all about body blows and the like, punching the head and face is generally unwise, especially if you're fighting regularly. Boxers having brain mush I don't think was really a thing until gloved boxing became the norm and people went through entire careers with gloves. Of course, that being said, Rugby players are notoriously tough as nails. Look into legendary New Zealand All Blacks player Buck Shelford, who was in the bottom of a ruck (a body pileup where everyone is digging their cleats into whoever is underfoot) where he lost four teeth and  had his nutsack torn open by someone's cleats such that a testicle was actually dangling free, then nonchalantly had it crudely put back together (unsure if it was actually stitched or even just crudely taped) by the field doctor, and kept playing. He was later concussed in that same game.
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Jul 30, 2018 16:21
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Remember when Lisa Simpson had the mumps and spent all of her days home sick playing Crash Bandicoot Except Not instead of catching up on school work
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Mak0rz posted:Remember when Lisa Simpson had the mumps and spent all of her days home sick playing Crash Bandicoot Except Not instead of catching up on school work Yes i remember dash dingo
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Jul 30, 2018 17:42
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My favorite thing about that Lego toys to life game was that if you had Sonic and Bart, Sonic made a direct reference to what I think is his one bootleg Simpsons appearance
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Mak0rz posted:Remember when Lisa Simpson had the mumps and spent all of her days home sick playing Crash Bandicoot Except Not instead of catching up on school work 
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Jul 30, 2018 17:46
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whenever people on the internet say "not another metroidvania" I get mad because for the longest time there were almost no metroidvanias and also a lot of games that get called metroidvanias are not actually metroidvanias
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Jul 30, 2018 18:14
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oCqd5yNPcYQQuest For Glory II posted:whenever people on the internet say "not another metroidvania" I get mad because for the longest time there were almost no metroidvanias How did you feel about Guacamelee?
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Jul 30, 2018 18:15
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doingitwrong posted:What is going on in England? Everyone OK over there? I think we're doing all right 
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Jul 30, 2018 18:16
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I just want a game where samus fights dracula
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Help Im Alive posted:I just want a game where samus fights dracula Surprised theres no castlevania chars in smash
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Quest For Glory II posted:whenever people on the internet say "not another metroidvania" I get mad because for the longest time there were almost no metroidvanias I'd play a new metroidvania every month for the rest of my life if I could
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Jul 30, 2018 18:18
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Sega had 70% market share in Europe in 1992, they were kinda huge but hosed up big time thanks to the Mega-CD/32X (add-ons lol) and the whole 32X/Saturn (Sega of America went for another add-on, Japan had another console, infighting ensues) debacle. Also the first documented case of new competition with - compared to Sega - limitless budget. Edit: Sega almost keeled over in 2001 if it wasn't for inheriting a vast sum of money from their old boss. Healbot fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Jul 30, 2018 |
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Jul 30, 2018 18:19
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Crash 2>Crash 3> Crash 1 Crash Team Racing is a different genre entirely but I still cradle it lovingly. Crash Bash probably gave me hypertension as a child because christ that was not a good game. I don't think Naughty Dog had anything to do with that either. Then there was Crash for PS2 which started with Wrath of Cortex and was my last Crash game. I remember it being pretty good, but oh my jesus the load times on PS2 were absolutely horrendous. That pretty much killed the game for me. e: Oh I forgot Twinsanity existed but I remember playing a demo of that and feeling all  afterward. Dunno what happened to that.
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Jul 30, 2018 18:20
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She’s exactly right
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Sometimes I imagine a counterfactual alternate history where Europe's video game market remains contested territory between Commodore, Amstrad, and Sinclair well into the late 1990s and 2000s
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Jul 30, 2018 18:24
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Crash games were the precursor to Flappybird imo.
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Jul 30, 2018 18:27
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Isn't that caption lifted word-for-word from Uncharted 4? I thought that was the joke.CharlieFoxtrot posted:Sometimes I imagine a counterfactual alternate history where Europe's video game market remains contested territory between Commodore, Amstrad, and Sinclair well into the late 1990s and 2000s A world where Acorn took over the computer world and there's a Bolo esports league  Uh! They got me! haveblue fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Jul 30, 2018 |
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Jul 30, 2018 18:28
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I just want Captain N to be in Smash I don't know what kind of rights hell he's stuck in at the moment though
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Jul 30, 2018 18:29
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Andrast posted:I'd play a new metroidvania every month for the rest of my life if I could
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Jul 30, 2018 18:32
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That's me in every single Uncharted action sequence
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El Gallinero Gros posted:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oCqd5yNPcYQ
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Real hurthling! posted:Surprised theres no castlevania chars in smash Simon Belmont is rumored but will probably never actually happen.
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Jul 30, 2018 18:45
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All this Crash talk had me thinking that I almost bought the Jak & Daxter remaster but decided not to. What a weird shift those games had from happy animal mascot platformer to .. guns?
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Jul 30, 2018 18:52
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I guess Jak 2 is kind of a predecessor to Shadow the Hedgehog, looking back.
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Quest For Glory II posted:whenever people on the internet say "not another metroidvania" I get mad because for the longest time there were almost no metroidvanias  Quest For Glory II posted:and also a lot of games that get called metroidvanias are not actually metroidvanias like cave story for example
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none of the jak games are consistent with each other lol jak 1 is a lighthearted kids game, jak 2 is a grimdark action platformer and jak 3 is really serious and gloomy until the end where it suddenly gets really goofy again five minutes after jak watched his father literally get crushed to death
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Quest For Glory II posted:whenever people on the internet say "not another metroidvania" I get mad because for the longest time there were almost no metroidvanias most of them are bad, i'd rather have an occasional good one than another indie procgen roguelike soulslike metroidvania The Colonel posted:none of the jak games are consistent with each other lol it's easy, jak 1 is insanely good, and the rest is garbage
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i feel like I'm going to buy the vita Jak 1 at some point just to have 3 platinums for it
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Phantasium posted:it's easy, jak 1 is insanely good, and the rest is garbage jak 2 and 3 aren't as good as ratchet & clank or sly but they're decent games imo
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Jul 30, 2018 19:12
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glam rock hamhock posted:Simon Belmont is rumored but will probably never actually happen. i thought the whole thing about this smash bros is they said they were announcing everyone from the get go and wouldn't be revealing more before launch so no gokus or travis touchdowns
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The Colonel posted:jak 2 and 3 aren't as good as ratchet & clank or sly but they're decent games imo hmm, nah 2 is one of the most unpleasant games i've had the misfortune of playing the levels are the most soulless and dull areas i've seen in a game, and the open world adds nothing but pointless travel time between levels. at least the 3 zoomer travel levels in 1 had fun poo poo to do
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Phantasium posted:most of them are bad, i'd rather have an occasional good one than another indie procgen roguelike soulslike metroidvania We get plenty of good ones these days though
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They're probably gonna announce somebody more bc it can't just be two new characters, that's barely anything
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