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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Meanwhile, on the exact opposite end of the spectrum from GB's endless stream of garbage is Tim Roger's incredible review of 1994 loving jesus 1994 was insane. just breaking my concept of time. then agian im not even sure i had a snes back then, just a nes... i think i got a snes at the end of 1994 because i remember the store dude telling my dad at the time "no one wants nintendos now, they are out of date. playstation is new hotness" and my dad asked me if that was true (i was 11) and i said "no bitch, nintendoeswhatplaystatdont! i want my mario all stars and dkc." (this didnt happen, i just said no)
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:I'm not sure it matters even if these things you believe are true, because due to the world literally being on fire atm the themes of FF7's story are about 2,300% more relevant than they were 23 years ago. KEEP POLITICS OUT OF MY GAMING JEEZ
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First year of Playstation was pretty loving rough, but it's hard to argue with how amazing that console was by the time WipEout XL, Destruction Derby 2, Twisted Metal 2, and Resident Evil came out. By January of 98 when FFVII had been out in the west for a season and RE2 was just releasing the PSX was on the verge of legendary, and only a few months away from MGS and world domination status.
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Tei posted:I have spot the dude of uncharted in this trailer The facial expressions in this are firmly in the absolute nadie of the uncanny valley.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:First year of Playstation was pretty loving rough, but it's hard to argue with how amazing that console was by the time WipEout XL, Destruction Derby 2, Twisted Metal 2, and Resident Evil came out. Man what a time to be alive. Random memory: I played a game called Broken Helix or something? It was a "4-d" game where events occurred in real time and eventually, each "floor" would become uninhabitable and all the antagonist were also doing poo poo in real time. I might be making this up but I'll google it soon. e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPLyoIFRDjY&t=64s oh my god I think it had bruce campbell voicing the main character Professor of Cats fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Jan 3, 2020 |
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Neo Rasa posted:So I do think the difficulty is overrated and the enemies aren't quite as spongy as typically described, but for how the average person would try to play it for when it came out? I can understand both of those complaints just fine. A couple years ago I played through Uncharted 1->4.5 over about 2 months on the new adventurer (easier than easy) mode and played so fast and loose each game became a parkour simulator. I played as if stopping meant Nathan died in seconds. Collectively it was a top 5 all time video game experience
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:The PS3 versions of UC2 and 3 have multiplayer/co-op. If you're only in for the single player then stick with the PS4. Naughty Dog shut down all PS3 multiplayer a few months back for all their games, so it's single player only regardless of where you get it.
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Professor of Cats posted:Man what a time to be alive. ...and Jet Moto Intelligent Qube Soul Edge SOTN Gran Turismo Parappa Soul Reaver Oddworld Suikoden Tomb Raider Silent Hill Tony Hawk Einhander Puzzle Fighter Bushido Blade Tenchu Vigilante 8 Devil Dice Tekken 2 and one million quality Squaresoft RPGs
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univbee posted:Naughty Dog shut down all PS3 multiplayer a few months back for all their games, so it's single player only regardless of where you get it. That sucks. UC2 story co-op was rad.
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Crazy to think that console gaming went from Donkey Kong Country to Mario 64 in 2 years. That really was a wild time. It feels especially weird and compressed to me because my family was late to the PSX but we got Sega Channel, so I spent 1995 pining for 3D games and imagining how they played from screenshots in EGM while I gorged on all the hits from the Genesis catalogue.
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acksplode posted:so I spent 1995 pining for 3D games and imagining how they played from screenshots in EGM while I gorged on all the hits from the Genesis catalogue. extremely same. EGM was god.
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Professor of Cats posted:Man what a time to be alive. that is 100% bruce campbell, time to find myself a copy.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:That sucks. UC2 story co-op was rad. maybe there’s a way to do it on LAN? I’m not sure.
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Well, I finished Spidreman. Or at least the main plot before the DLC. I guess it was competent enough, and it was fun, but I still feel like it was a little lacking. Half of the advantage of making something using a preestablished IP is that you can artificially add depth with references, but it was really shallow on all of that. There were no real deep pulls, and a lack of interesting details. Weirdly they reworked Doc Ock into basically having Vulture's entire origin story. Also weird to rework Mary Jane into a reporter, although I guess it does give her some depth. The depowered stealth sections were mostly not good, even if they did add some pacing. Peter Parker himself didn't really seem to have much depth. It's not like everything needs to follow the comics or one of the movies or a cartoon, but if you're not gonna add much yourself, you kinda need to. It was fun catching pigeons for some guy, but the story he feeds you is just...bland. It was a weird move killing aunt May at the end. I don't think they really earned that point of drama, and it feels very depressing and disempowering right at the end when there's nothing left to bring you back up, and it limits Pete's supporting cast even further. Also very disappointing that the evil billionaire politician (another weird redesign the game makes) from whom about 75% of the problems in the city spawned gets no real comeuppance or even real acknowledgement of fault from anyone other than a villain. I know it's accurate to the real world for billionaires to never see any real consequences or judgement, but I don't really want that kind of hopelessness in my fiction. I don't care that Harry's his motivation for what he does like he's Mr. Freeze or some poo poo, Harry's kind of a hapless fop anyways, not even going by the comics, but going by his depiction in-game. Also weird that they set up the game with Kingpin as being somehow the inciting incident for everything, but he never actually matters, and in fact the villains that pop up aren't even doing the kind of mob crimes that Kingpin would have anything to do with. It was just a coincidence that Martin Yi made his move to start going after Osbourne right after Kingpin went down. Kingpin's just another plot hook that doesn't really go anywhere. Maybe a callback to Shocker would make sense in the mission where the Raft has a jailbreak, we never learn who he was supposedly working for either. It feels like separate people came up with all the plot beats and smushed them together without real concern for making it all work together. Vikar Jerome posted:that is 100% bruce campbell, time to find myself a copy. Dangit, that's another thing missing! I know he was only in the other games/movies because he was Sam Raimi's friend, but any excuse to have some Bruce Campbell is valid. morallyobjected posted:you should be able to delete the card on your PS4, if nothing else. I just use PayPal (like a lot of people, I think) Thanks, deleting the card worked.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:extremely same. EGM was god. In Australia we had Hyper and PCPowerPlay magazines and they were both incredible. PCPP writer James Cottee did a four page special investigation of crates and it was one of the funniest things I've ever read.
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Professor of Cats posted:e: I dunno why but I cracked up when the player character jumped and did a flip and landed on top of a dead enemy and they exploded.
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Funnily enough 1994 was easily the year I played the least games. I'd moved to Orlando for college in 93 and still had a SNES but I had my own modem for the first time and Orlando at the time had a very cool scene of people who used the local BBS to organize trips to Dennys or the beach. Basically all the stoners, hackers and acid heads in town, hundreds of us. It was wild
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At the time my only frame of reference for technical progress were demo kiosks. So to me the mid 90s gaming landscape was essentially DKC, Blood, and bargain bin Price Club simulator bundles.
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pastis posted:I’ve been hit with radial nerve palsy and wrist drop, which effectively makes my left hand useless. I cannot move my thumb enough to use the left thumb stick on a DS4. Fortunately I can mostly use the shoulder buttons with some straining. Are there any commercially available disabled-friendly controllers for use on PS4? I’m not seeing much in Google but maybe I’m just not looking I. The right places. Look into a XIM apex and you can use pretty much any device you want to play. Wirelessly too. Don't quote me on this but I think you could use a gaming mouse with your right hand and a trackball mouse in your left and use your palm for movement maybe?
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The thing that loving kills me about the PSX generation is that despite being a Playstation fanboy I missed out on every Fromsoft game except Armored Core. It's so weird to me, because I payed pretty close attention to game releases. I feel like I would have been all over Shadow Tower, King's Field and Echo Night etc. but they all just completely slipped under my radar, and honestly the first time I heard of any of them was after Demon's Souls. Now I want to go back and try them but they just seem too old, and it would be too much effort to play them. It's a drat shame.BeanpolePeckerwood posted:extremely same. EGM was god. Gamepro was for fun, EGM was for when I wanted to get serious about gamin. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Jan 3, 2020 |
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veni veni veni posted:The thing that loving kills me about the PSX generation is that despite being a Playstation fanboy I missed out on every Fromsoft game except Armored Core. It's so weird to me, because I payed pretty close attention to game releases. I feel like I would have been all over Shadow Tower, King's Field and Echo Night etc. but they all just completely slipped under my radar, and honestly the first time I heard of any of them was after Demon's Souls. Now I want to go back and try them but they just seem too old, and it would be too much effort to play them. It's a drat shame. Yeah, same. I was all over Armored Core but missed the rest. Also, Gamepro forums were the very first forums I ever used, before I even joined SA 
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Rinkles posted:At the time my only frame of reference for technical progress were demo kiosks. So to me the mid 90s gaming landscape was essentially DKC, Blood, and bargain bin Price Club simulator bundles. I once talked my mom into dropping 8-year-old me off at a Sears (or maybe it was Service Merchandise) all day long, by myself so I could play Street Fighter 2 on the SNES kiosk
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My games from that Gamestop deal last week got delivered; Death Stranding, Outer Worlds, Control, RE2make. RE2 I rented and beat a quick Leon A/Claire B run but enjoyed it enough I wanted to check out the bonus content, so that'll be something I just pop into as I feel like it. Spent the last few days working on RDR2 -- had it for months but never got too attached -- knowing I'd want to take it out of the drive when these arrived; just finished Chapter 3 and I'm still not feeling it that much. Don't hate playing it but it's reaffirmed that Rockstar and I just aren't on the same page, basically the same way I felt about GTA5. I'll come back but I'm in no rush. Pretty sure Death Stranding is more than I want to take on with RDR2 and also DQXI (love it, stopped at the start of the third act, just taking it in pieces to make it last) sitting around unfinished, not to mention a dozen smaller things/Switch games so next: Outer Worlds or Control? Outer Worlds is definitely much more what I'm into on paper, I grabbed Control on the word of this thread (which usually steers me very right).
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enojy posted:I once talked my mom into dropping 8-year-old me off at a Sears (or maybe it was Service Merchandise) all day long, by myself so I could play Street Fighter 2 on the SNES kiosk i can't remember ever seeing anything besides mario or donkey kong at a snes kiosk, but that might be a question of not knwoing what i was looking at. pretty sure i wasn't even aware of jrpgs as a concept, did those get demos?
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univbee posted:Naughty Dog shut down all PS3 multiplayer a few months back for all their games, so it's single player only regardless of where you get it. What the gently caress that's half the reason I wanted to replay
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SlothfulCobra posted:Well, I finished Spidreman. Or at least the main plot before the DLC. I guess it was competent enough, and it was fun, but I still feel like it was a little lacking. Half of the advantage of making something using a preestablished IP is that you can artificially add depth with references, but it was really shallow on all of that. There were no real deep pulls, and a lack of interesting details. Weirdly they reworked Doc Ock into basically having Vulture's entire origin story. Also weird to rework Mary Jane into a reporter, although I guess it does give her some depth. The depowered stealth sections were mostly not good, even if they did add some pacing. Peter Parker himself didn't really seem to have much depth. It's not like everything needs to follow the comics or one of the movies or a cartoon, but if you're not gonna add much yourself, you kinda need to. It was fun catching pigeons for some guy, but the story he feeds you is just...bland.
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The only 1994 games I have enduring warmth for are Donkey Kong Country and Beneath a Steel Sky.
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posting on the internet about how Ludwig is yanking my freaking balls. it worked I killed him MechaSeinfeld fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Jan 3, 2020 |
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MechaSeinfeld posted:posting on the internet about how Ludwig is yanking my freaking balls. You probably already did the thing, but if you chat with um, him after the fight in your Choir garb you get special dialogue. If you get stuck on any of the other bosses I'd be up to help out, I've been wanting to play some The Old Hunters. The non-optional bosses I recommend trying to do by yourself until you feel like it's not worth it anymore of course, but there's an optional one who's kind of bullshit, but now that I've beaten it several times he doesn't really give me any trouble.
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So I got GTAV on a sale, as I had it on the 360 but fancied playing again with the upgraded graphics. I really want to like the online more - there is so much potential for fun. I joined a random game and it was a bunch of supercars and trucks speeding down a huge, skyscraper-sized ramp towards the opposing team who were decked out with rpgs. That poo poo is fun. There seems to be a lot of good stuff out there to try, but...those loading times, my god. Also, not a normal goddamn game browser, but a menu with dozens of game modes that you don't know are populated unless you select one and load yourself in. Load into the game....then load into the online...search for a match...sit there in the lobby for 5 minutes while everyone joins...then loading the actual match...playing a round...loading next round...quitting back to gta online...loading. I want to play more of it, but all the slow loading and interfacing. What a shame. henpod fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Jan 3, 2020 |
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Nier Automata progress report: Got to meet Pascal and Sartre, game seemed to be making fun of them even though I’m told the game embraces their philosophy by the end. I have been staring at a lot of anime girl butt.
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All.my favourite philosophers and anime girl butts come in for a HUGE party
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:WHY is this an mmo recurrent micro-transactions. I can already see the quest "collect 10 tails from robot rats". still, if they make a PS4 version I would play it.
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fridge corn posted:All.my favourite philosophers and anime girl butts come in for a HUGE party Jung MC
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exquisite tea posted:Jean-Paul Blartre Mall Cop 
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Rinkles posted:i can't remember ever seeing anything besides mario or donkey kong at a snes kiosk, but that might be a question of not knwoing what i was looking at. pretty sure i wasn't even aware of jrpgs as a concept, did those get demos? Oh probably not. This wasn't anything official iirc, just a setup they put together in/near the electronics department to get kids excited about buying video games in the presence of their shopping parents.
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Vikar Jerome posted:that is 100% bruce campbell, time to find myself a copy. 1000% the best computer game with Bruce Campbell in it is Tachyon: The Fringe. One of the best space simulators out there anyway and Bruce just makes it better.
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