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Neddy Seagoon posted:The fact that Star Ocean 5: Integrity and Faithlessness is an utter trainwreck is incidental. I thought being an utter trainwreck was the whole point of the Star Ocean games.
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# ? May 25, 2019 18:23 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 07:51 |
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Mega64 posted:I thought being an utter trainwreck was the whole point of the Star Ocean games. Woah, hey now, you see... Hmm...
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# ? May 25, 2019 18:30 |
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How else would you make the Tales games look good
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# ? May 25, 2019 18:33 |
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Policenaut posted:It's an HD remaster of the PSP version from '07. Is the first two (possibly 3) still the only ones worth playing?
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# ? May 25, 2019 18:46 |
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Mega64 posted:Same price as Steamworld Quest, huh... both
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# ? May 25, 2019 18:57 |
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Steamworld Quest is available right now and there's a nonzero chance that Spire gets delayed again cause lol. You know what to do.
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# ? May 25, 2019 19:01 |
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American McGay posted:Steamworld Quest is available right now and there's a nonzero chance that Spire gets delayed again cause lol. You know what to do. Nah it comes out June 6th Edit: That's June 6th, 2019
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# ? May 25, 2019 19:02 |
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Ineffiable posted:Is the first two (possibly 3) still the only ones worth playing? It's very much a series of diminishing returns. I like 3 even if it has the infamous plot twist near the end, and imo 4's gameplay is very fun although you have to suffer some godawful characters to play it. I've never played 5 but all I ever hear of it is that it's like 20 hours long and half of it is backtracking.
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# ? May 25, 2019 19:31 |
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Policenaut posted:It's very much a series of diminishing returns. I like 3 even if it has the infamous plot twist near the end, and imo 4's gameplay is very fun although you have to suffer some godawful characters to play it. I've never played 5 but all I ever hear of it is that it's like 20 hours long and half of it is backtracking. Yeah, pretty much. I actually liked what I played of it and thought having all 9 party members out at once was fun a in clusterfuck kinda way but it's suuuuuuper obvious they had negative amounts of budget because they constantly shuffle you back and forth between like, three places.
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# ? May 25, 2019 19:33 |
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cosmin posted:I missed the last 2 thousand pages or so, do we have a Steamworld Quest thread or effort post? I don't think there is such a thing, unfortunately. It's a great game, Image and Form do great work.
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# ? May 25, 2019 19:43 |
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Libluini posted:If you take Rena's path in SO2, not even that. Eventually the planet gets blown up under your feet and you travel via teleport to the second one. You'll see a space ship in some cut scenes, though: It gets blown up without the party ever setting foot on it. (Except for Claude, but since one man alone isn't a party, he doesn't count.) The SO3 plot twist is good, because it shits on the whole series. It's missing the Danganropa V3 middle finger to the fanbase, though. SO4 is the story of Edge Maverick, a dumb-as-a-rock teenager who hands over the power core of his (for stupid reasons) spaceship to an clearly evil BDSM-science lady, who proceeds to destroy the Earth. Luckily is a parallel-universe Earth, so no one gives a gently caress after a few hours of moping, and this whole thing is only a minor arc for introducing a cat-girl into the party.
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# ? May 25, 2019 19:44 |
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SO3's video game plot twist blew me away when I was a teen- it was my first entry into the series and I thought it was cool. Later I found out that it was apparently a slap to every fan and the worst thing ever so lol whatever.
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# ? May 25, 2019 19:56 |
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I just got off a 12 hour flight where I must have played 6 hours of diablo 3 Even plugged into power the battery eventually dies (usb plug on planes doesn’t draw much) but it’s a great feeling to play 6 hours straight of diablo 3 and not be like ah poo poo I wasted my day because what else am I gonna do If you start a seasonal game you can exit and renter seasonal games without a connection. Got my full barbarian set
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# ? May 25, 2019 19:58 |
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:I just got off a 12 hour flight where I must have played 6 hours of diablo 3 What up fellow 12 hour plane buddy! I’m doing the same thing tomorrow (Amman to JFK) and I plan on a marathon Dragons Dogma session.
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# ? May 25, 2019 20:19 |
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On the subject of power banks, any recommendations for a good travel bank? I'm looking at a six hour flight in about a month on Southwest Airlines and in their emails too me they keep reiterating there are no power plugs for use on the plane.
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# ? May 25, 2019 21:03 |
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There's a 100Wh limit for bringing battery packs on planes, so just make sure you don't go over that. RAVPower and Anker both have good USB-C PD 99Wh packs that can run a Switch
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# ? May 25, 2019 21:07 |
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Just finished Steamworld Quest - what a nice little game. So much room to expand on top of that framework.
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# ? May 25, 2019 23:35 |
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bushisms.txt posted:There's something special about smb2 that this screen just fills me with joy. Only Mario game I've ever loved. I wholeheartedly agree. Those hills with multiple doors, and the almost-open nature of every stage just pulls me in, every time. I will make the poo poo out of some SMB2 levels if that game style shows up in SMM2.
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# ? May 25, 2019 23:41 |
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Picross S3 done.
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# ? May 26, 2019 00:13 |
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I wholeheartedly agree. Those hills with multiple doors, and the almost-open nature of every stage just pulls me in, every time. It's doorways and turnips all the way down and I'm entirely there for it. The physics of jumping on projectiles has to be why they haven't put it in yet. I need it.
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# ? May 26, 2019 00:47 |
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Mega64 posted:Wouldn't he be Mouser's father or whatever since Yoshi's Island takes place 20-30 years before SMB2? I guess it depends on the average lifespan of a Mouser (can't be that long if they're vulnerable to their own stockpiles of bombs).
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# ? May 26, 2019 00:48 |
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Baby Mario and Baby Luigi exist independently of Mario and Luigi.
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# ? May 26, 2019 00:51 |
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The Mario timeline is just "the games where mario is a baby" -> every other mario game
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# ? May 26, 2019 00:52 |
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American McGay posted:Baby Mario and Baby Luigi exist independently of Mario and Luigi. Baby Mario and Baby Luigi travel through time a lot and I think forget to go back or whatever, so they're still around to play sports and drive karts. It's best not to think too hard about the Mario Multiverse.
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# ? May 26, 2019 00:54 |
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Mega64 posted:Baby Mario and Baby Luigi travel through time a lot and I think forget to go back or whatever, so they're still around to play sports and drive karts. The Mario characters are a theater troupe.
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# ? May 26, 2019 00:57 |
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bushisms.txt posted:There's something special about smb2 that this screen just fills me with joy. Only Mario game I've ever loved. hell, same
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# ? May 26, 2019 00:58 |
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Smart to do a first playthrough of Steamworld Dig 2 without direction markers?
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# ? May 26, 2019 01:00 |
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Deified Data posted:Smart to do a first playthrough of Steamworld Dig 2 without direction markers?
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# ? May 26, 2019 01:01 |
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King of Solomon posted:The Mario characters are a theater troupe. that's just SMB3
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# ? May 26, 2019 01:21 |
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Oh poo poo my Hollow Knight Collectors Edition shipped.
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# ? May 26, 2019 01:23 |
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Wrex Ruckus posted:that's just SMB3 That's when it's first fully realized but https://www.polygon.com/gaming/2012/9/25/3407672/miyamoto-the-mario-cast-is-a-troupe-of-actors-and-bowsers-kids-are posted:"If you're familiar with things like Popeye and some of the old comic characters, you would oftentimes see this cast of characters that takes on different roles depending on the comic or cartoon," Miyamoto said. They're an acting troupe.
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# ? May 26, 2019 01:52 |
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I love the idea that “Dr. Mario” is some kind of shady mob doctor writing dubious prescriptions.
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# ? May 26, 2019 01:59 |
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Weedle posted:I love the idea that “Dr. Mario” is some kind of shady mob doctor writing dubious prescriptions. He’s the one they call Dr. Mario He’s the one that makes you feel all right He’s the one they call Dr. Mario He’s gonna eat that mushroom now
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# ? May 26, 2019 02:01 |
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Unlicensed Dr. Mario
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# ? May 26, 2019 02:17 |
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You’d think more ppl would tease out the connections between Popeye & Mario considering how big of an influence on the series it’s been. Like, even beyond Donkey Kong being a Popeye game originally, you’ve got Pac-Man being a big influence on Miyamoto and that design also being explicitly influenced by Popeye & so on. Along the same lines kinda surprising to me that Cuphead was a semi-outlier in terms of recent games directly drawing from those old Fleischer cartoons,’z
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# ? May 26, 2019 02:20 |
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# ? May 26, 2019 02:22 |
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doctor mario is the third mario brother, estranged from his working class family after he got his doctorate and started acting like he was better than them
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# ? May 26, 2019 02:24 |
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https://twitter.com/d11suke/status/1131327068124397568
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# ? May 26, 2019 02:28 |
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For more evidence theyre theater performers in the classic Commedia Dell'Arte characters the stock doctor character was a cuckold.
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# ? May 26, 2019 02:30 |
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I'll have to admit, even I was taken aback by the recent marketing push for Fire Emblem.
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