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Which Nintendo character would you like to see in the next Soul Calibur game? This poll is closed.
Bowsette	99	8.48%
Other	53	4.54%
jenna got milked	1015	86.98%
Total:	1167 votes

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Gripweed: Nov 8, 2018

This movie is gonna own so much

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1233395726882750465?s=20

# ? Feb 28, 2020 20:56

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# ? May 28, 2024 12:10

Weedle: May 31, 2006

f#a# posted:

Wait, why is everyone pulling out of GDC? Coronavirus preparedness?

trump issued an executive order banning video games. this forum will be closed at midnight

# ? Feb 28, 2020 20:57

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Hah, as if anyone posting here actually plays video games.

# ? Feb 28, 2020 20:57

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK: Sep 11, 2001

FirstAidKite posted:

What kind of genre would you consider Legend of Legacy and Alliance Alive to be? Like, I've only ever played a couple SaGa games and 1 SaGa-inspired game but they were the very first 2 SaGa titles and the fangame was based around those early gameboy titles too so I'm not really sure what to expect compared to later entries where I hear they vary from being a weird board game to having invisible timer elements based around how many battles you get into and requiring a guide to work through it. I'm not sure what to expect.

You do stuff in combat and gain stats and learn skills.

Also Alliance Alive is terribly balanced in that the normal encounters are complete pushovers but some of the bosses can be quite difficult.

# ? Feb 28, 2020 21:00

The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

FirstAidKite posted:

What kind of genre would you consider Legend of Legacy and Alliance Alive to be? Like, I've only ever played a couple SaGa games and 1 SaGa-inspired game but they were the very first 2 SaGa titles and the fangame was based around those early gameboy titles too so I'm not really sure what to expect compared to later entries where I hear they vary from being a weird board game to having invisible timer elements based around how many battles you get into and requiring a guide to work through it. I'm not sure what to expect.

I'm unsure about 7th Dragon because describing it as a story-based Etrian Odyssey but with less depth and strategy sounds fine to me but from what I looked up, it is also the 3rd game in a series and I haven't played any of the others and don't know if this one is a followup plotwise or if it is more akin to stuff like mainline Final Fantasy titles where each story is its own thing that doesn't rely on the previous games in the series for plot and setting and characters and stuff.

For Yokai Watch, what about the Blasters game? It looks more like an action game and the stuff I read said it is more like a brawler.

there's a demo of 7th dragon and i think legend of legacy on the eshop. 7th dragon is standalone and it just references older games

legacy/alliance are jrpgs, unlimited saga was the only board game one

you have to get used to the fact that you're not going to have a clear direction when you play a saga game though, because they were the 'see that mountain, you can go there' of the SNES era. also that your characters gain stat points after battle rather than experience points

# ? Feb 28, 2020 21:00

Looper: Mar 1, 2012

dragon quest 7 is worth playing if you like dq because it's a whole lot of dq. i disagree with the assertion that nothing happens, it's more that 7 is almost nothing but the little one town vignettes that are the highlight of other dq games. the macro plot is there but it's very much not the focus of the game

# ? Feb 28, 2020 21:18

ErrEff: Feb 13, 2012

Blizzard is now also out of GDC (I don't know if they were set to have a big presence there anyway, but still). This thing is crumbling pretty fast.

https://twitter.com/Blizzard_Ent/status/1233485343858581506

# ? Feb 28, 2020 21:27

Cowcaster: Aug 7, 2002

isn't pax east the other e3 this weekend, are they seeing a lot of pullouts too?

# ? Feb 28, 2020 21:29

FanaticalMilk: Mar 11, 2011

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

Ive never used more than one save file unless I knew for a fact I was gonna abuse a save slot for achievement hunting. Like...what's the fear? You're gonna miss some sidequest that would have been worth replaying more than five hours worth of game to fix?

After having saves corrupt and losing hundreds of hours of progress. Also, not really a problem anymore, but back in the day there were just so many games where you could gently caress up and find yourself in an unwinnable situation. Being able to go back a couple saves to keep yourself from having to completely start over is definitely a nice feature.

Cowcaster posted:

isn't pax east the other e3 this weekend, are they seeing a lot of pullouts too?

I know Giant Bomb isn't going but I can't tell if that's because of coronavirus or just because they were already going to skip this year.

# ? Feb 28, 2020 21:40

Kerrzhe: Nov 5, 2008

Songbearer posted:

Make my cat love me as much as I love it

My hand is a webwork of scratches now because God knows when I'm going to hit the gently caress You timer when I'm petting her in the one of two Sanctioned Petting Zones in the four second timeframe she gives me

try varying your petting techniques

scritches, strokes, deep tissue massage, etc.

here is a tried and true method that i have used to great success:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX5T4EXzDoc

# ? Feb 28, 2020 21:44

ErrEff: Feb 13, 2012

Cowcaster posted:

isn't pax east the other e3 this weekend, are they seeing a lot of pullouts too?

Bluepoint, Square-Enix, Sony, CD Projekt are the ones I know of. It hasn't had as many high-profile cancellations.

# ? Feb 28, 2020 21:45

The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

https://twitter.com/Trackmania/status/1233475306167640065

# ? Feb 28, 2020 21:46

Disco Anne: Apr 1, 2010; Assume you're going to survive.

I use save slot 1. Then get distracted, come back to the game months later forgetting how to play and what I was doing, and start a new game in save slot 2 and get farther this time. Sometimes there's then a save slot 3.

# ? Feb 28, 2020 21:49

Amp: Sep 10, 2010

Trackmania is only good when it's blasting dubstep metallica covers and I can only see the middle of my screen because of all the weird server add-on stuff all over my screen and that's all I want from Trackmania.

# ? Feb 28, 2020 21:49

Disco Anne: Apr 1, 2010; Assume you're going to survive.

Songbearer posted:

Make my cat love me as much as I love it

My hand is a webwork of scratches now because God knows when I'm going to hit the gently caress You timer when I'm petting her in the one of two Sanctioned Petting Zones in the four second timeframe she gives me

You may need practice.

# ? Feb 28, 2020 21:53

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Songbearer posted:

Make my cat love me as much as I love it

My hand is a webwork of scratches now because God knows when I'm going to hit the gently caress You timer when I'm petting her in the one of two Sanctioned Petting Zones in the four second timeframe she gives me

Cats are easily overstimulated and it gets painful, like imagine being tickled for too long.

Best thing is to hold your hand out and let your cat rub up against you. Stroke with the fur, avoid the belly and base of the tail, go for the chin, cheeks, and behind the ears. If the tail starts swishing back and forth it's time to gtfo!

# ? Feb 28, 2020 21:54

oddium: Feb 21, 2006; end of the 4.5 tatami age

my cat loves belly rubs

# ? Feb 28, 2020 22:01

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

f#a# posted:

Wait, why is everyone pulling out of GDC? Coronavirus preparedness?

Yep. Right now international travel and especially gathering a large number of international travelers in one place is a really bad idea.

# ? Feb 28, 2020 22:01

al-azad: May 28, 2009

oddium posted:

my cat loves belly rubs

I get 4-10 seconds of belly rubs and it feels like one of those push your luck games where I'm trying to maximize time but not trigger the clawing fail state.

# ? Feb 28, 2020 22:05

univbee: Jun 3, 2004

haveblue posted:

Yep. Right now international travel and especially gathering a large number of international travelers in one place is a really bad idea.

Even without the international travel we�re at a point now where you kind of want to avoid these sorts of mass gatherings if you can help it, especially since US preparedness is so poor an outbreak is effectively guaranteed.

# ? Feb 28, 2020 22:16

FirstAidKite: Nov 8, 2009

The 7th Guest posted:

https://twitter.com/Trackmania/status/1233475306167640065

Cool

Trackmania is neat. Too bad their original maniaplanet or whatever thing kinda flopped, would've been neat to see what questmania turned out as and would've been cool to see what else they could have done with shootmania.

I've heard they made some of the recent trackmania games worse looking through patches though, dunno why. Have any of the recent trackmania games been good? I know I've seen them mentioned at game conferences but I don't really see much of them outside of those.

# ? Feb 28, 2020 22:18

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

Oh hey, they finally added a zoomed out/full screen option for Pixeljunk Monsters 2

Now I can actually play the game I bought like 3 years ago

# ? Feb 28, 2020 22:30

Songbearer: Jul 12, 2007; Fuck you say?

I started playing Trackmania with Trackmania Sunrise so Nations has always kind of rubbed me the wrong way with how grippy the cars feel

Like they should be doing 2000ft powerslides, not this F1 silliness

Fortunately Trackmania 2 went the muscle car route and you can lose your grip whenever you like it's great

# ? Feb 28, 2020 22:43

FanaticalMilk: Mar 11, 2011

precision posted:

Oh hey, they finally added a zoomed out/full screen option for Pixeljunk Monsters 2

Now I can actually play the game I bought like 3 years ago

As much as it sucks to have games release without features you think are a no-brainer the fact that we live in an age where largely single player games get small little tweaks and updates years after the fact is pretty cool.

Two of the old Ys games just got English and Japanese voices added, respectively. 10 years ago the thought of touching up or adding QOL improvements to a years old game would've been a pipe dream outside of the biggest franchises like Half Life, The Sims, etc.

# ? Feb 28, 2020 22:43

Phantasium: Dec 27, 2012

the DS version of FFIII that's on steam and mobile got an update yesterday

unfortunately it didn't turn it into a not poo poo version of the game

also give me the drat bookmark site for mario maker 2 already nintendo, god drat, should've been day 1.

# ? Feb 28, 2020 22:46

redreader: Nov 2, 2009; I am the coolest person ever with my pirate chalice. Seriously.; Dinosaur Gum

- I played chrono trigger in about 1999 and used save states only. I then used up all of my save states on an unwinnable early lavos battle (I had no idea!) and that was the end of that run.
- I then played it on my ds in about 2010 and got about as far and then someone stole my DS.
- I then started it again in 2017 and got pretty far (maybe 2/3rds of the way through?) and just tried to find my saves and they were gone, retroarch wasn't there any more. After a lot of googling I figured out where they were, and loaded them, and thank god! Maybe I can finally finish it!

Also I'm being a nerd and listing to video game music and am listening to some Nier: Automata now. I remember being loving BLOWN AWAY when I first went into the hacking minigame and the music track seamlessly turned into an 8-bit track. The song I'm listening to right now does that too. That game was so loving good.

# ? Feb 28, 2020 22:52

Ms. Unsmiley: Feb 13, 2012

my cat also loves belly rubs

# ? Feb 28, 2020 23:14

CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

https://twitter.com/oleivarrudi/status/1233512974997954560

# ? Feb 28, 2020 23:14

Ms. Unsmiley: Feb 13, 2012

# ? Feb 28, 2020 23:15

RazzleDazzleHour: Mar 31, 2016

FirstAidKite posted:

What kind of genre would you consider Legend of Legacy and Alliance Alive to be?

7th Dragon

AA/LoL are pretty standard turn-based JRPGs but learning skills is random and based on usage. They're much more structured than the SaGa games which were like quasi-open-world though. 7th Dragon games are very loosely related to each other. The first 3DS game is like, medieval and then the newer ones take place in similar futuristic timelines, where Miku is a party member in one of them. It's like, the same evil dragon-flowers invading different realities each time, so you won't miss out on anything.

Also Japan has literally closed down all schools for a month so yeah no surprise a ton of companies are dropping out of GDC and PAX

# ? Feb 28, 2020 23:20

CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

Like at some point does GDC just call off the whole thing

https://twitter.com/GearboxOfficial/status/1233512639814393856

# ? Feb 28, 2020 23:51

SeXReX: Jan 9, 2009; I drink, mostly.
And get mad at people on the internet

People have been asking the group that runs it.

Here's the big kick in the pants, anyone traveling international is probably well past when they can get a refund on that flight and if the event isn't cancelled that's also 2 Grand(more?) per badge down the drain.

# ? Feb 29, 2020 00:16

stev: Jan 22, 2013; Please be excited.

SeXReX posted:

People have been asking the group that runs it.

Here's the big kick in the pants, anyone traveling international is probably well past when they can get a refund on that flight and if the event isn't cancelled that's also 2 Grand(more?) per badge down the drain.

Surely if nearly every advertised exhibitor pulls out there's some entitlement to a refund?

Even if they refuse and insist on holding the event in a giant empty room I could see it resulting in legal action.

# ? Feb 29, 2020 00:18

Songbearer: Jul 12, 2007; Fuck you say?

GDC2020: Fyre Festival For Nerds

# ? Feb 29, 2020 00:22

CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

If management doesn't show up, time for the workers to assemble and do a Tennis Court Oath

That would probably get UBM to shut things down quickly

# ? Feb 29, 2020 00:25

bushisms.txt: May 26, 2004; Scroll, then. There are other posts than these.

stev posted:

Surely if nearly every advertised exhibitor pulls out there's some entitlement to a refund?

Even if they refuse and insist on holding the event in a giant empty room I could see it resulting in legal action.

Airline tickets are also gonna be a problem

# ? Feb 29, 2020 00:26