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Zurtilik
Oct 23, 2015

The Biggest Brain in Guardia
How did those Monster Rancher ports turn out? I think about buying them on occasion.

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Snake Maze
Jul 13, 2016

3.85 Billion years ago
  • Having seen the explosion on the moon, the Devil comes to Venus
They're good. The one catch is that they're based on the Japanese version instead of the NA one, so it's missing some of the changes that were made for the NA release back on playstation. The only ones you'll really notice playing casually is that the NA version added 100 weeks to every monster's lifespan and let you skip training animations - neither of those are present in the remake.

The remake has some other bugfixes and QoL changes so it's still the better version overall.

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:

I kept waiting for sugar plum fairies to start, and it never did! :argh:

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


16-bit Butt-Head posted:

zelda 2 is good haters are just bad at video games

I'm bad at videogames but also Zelda 2 is a good time

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches




I played through the LA remake and I liked it, but I really missed the camera guy

Like, the whole gimmick of the remake is that everything looks like tilt-shift photography, they should have taken some actual polaroid photos of real miniatures and scattered them across the map

lunar detritus
May 6, 2009


Barreft posted:

LBT is absolutely S tier

It's in second place for me, after BotW. Then LttP, Awakening and that's it. No 3d zeldas (besides BotW) for me thank you very much.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

lunar detritus posted:

It's in second place for me, after BotW. Then LttP, Awakening and that's it. No 3d zeldas (besides BotW) for me thank you very much.

Oops, just noticed my typo. LBW!

Rocket Pan
Nov 3, 2011

Anything can be sent, as long as it's less than 1200 bytes
https://twitter.com/Rocket_Pan_/status/1488682358857367553

Augus
Mar 9, 2015



this looks sick as hell

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY
Feb 3, 2006


Cool.

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story
I finally beat Zelda II for the first time, after all these years. I don't think I could have done it if it wasn't for rewind/save states, the Great Palace is brutal and I died to Thunderbird probably twenty times. I also did actually try to fight Dark Link legit, but after ten deaths and only being able to damage him like three times in all my attempts, I eventually just resorted to the corner crouch cheese.

Zelda II is good, but it is also way harder than it needed to be, so I guess I understand why people don't like it. Just a combination of "it's too hard" and "it's not like the first game."

100YrsofAttitude
Apr 29, 2013





That looks incredibly quality. I'm sure it'll be a delight.

Vintersorg posted:

I just wanna play NEStris solo with those graphics - can I do that?

I don't think so, but the multiplayer loads real fast, and the opponent is a doesn't actually stack garbage on you. You may be able to set a Local Option to play against a non-opponent and take off any sort of timed ending. I'll try that later if I remember. Essentially let the other player die while you keep going until you die.

Jezza of OZPOS posted:

Links Awakening is so good and probably about on par with BOTW and WW for me but I'm looking forward to giving Majoras Mask another crack and not getting stressed out that the moon is slowly inching closer and closer to me, looking like it is screaming as it promises certain doom for hyrule

MM takes place in Termina. The best of all worlds. Man, I spent that game dying in so many places. It's amazing the detail they put in for that final day. I hung out with Romani, I took over the Beach House and waited it out. I'd spend it with Monkeys or Gorons. Just anywhere really before whisking myself away to the beginning. I need to hack my 3DS and restore the OG version. There's a lot I like about the 3DS version, the swimming is not even a problem to be honest, but the boss fights were changed for the worse.

Mister Facetious posted:

I kept waiting for sugar plum fairies to start, and it never did! :argh:

It's awful but the tease is so drat good too. I always think, "maybe if I crack X amount of points". Every time.

100YrsofAttitude
Apr 29, 2013




100YrsofAttitude posted:

I don't think so, but the multiplayer loads real fast, and the opponent is a doesn't actually stack garbage on you. You may be able to set a Local Option to play against a non-opponent and take off any sort of timed ending. I'll try that later if I remember. Essentially let the other player die while you keep going until you die.

I checked, I couldn't wait. God this game is so good.

Yeah you can 100% play solo. Kind of. You set up a local multiplayer game. You can even play against an AI, no need for another human. You can choose your mode, from marathon to others. Choose a Line Limit or Not, and best take off the Hurry up option so you can play tetris all you want.

It's slightly inelegant as there will be another screen but frankly, doesn't matter.

Libluini
May 18, 2012

I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...
Grimey Drawer
This. Tiermaker thing is neat.

Here's my own personal Zelda-rankings:

big deal
Sep 10, 2017

Libluini posted:

This. Tiermaker thing is neat.

Here's my own personal Zelda-rankings:



hm. ah. yes.

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon
you should play more zeldas

big deal
Sep 10, 2017

my tier list:

Metis of the Chat Thread
Aug 1, 2014


now this is tier list posting

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010


Can’t wait!

Google Butt
Oct 4, 2005

Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

Vintersorg posted:

I just wanna play NEStris solo with those graphics - can I do that?

Turns out you can play local vs ai which is basically solo

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story

b_d posted:

my tier list:


No one can argue with this.

Flint_Paper
Jun 7, 2004

This isn't cool at all Looshkin! These are dark forces you're titting about with!

I spent a lot of yesterday's Yacht Club thing constantly thinking "Oh god please don't be NFTs".

Shovel Knight - and its DLC - was absolutely wonderful, so I am 100% in with Cute Brave Mouse's Gothic Adventure.

In other news:

Can anyone who has upgraded from a standard Switch to an OLED help me make a bad decision?

I bought a launch Switch 5ish years ago and I love it. Generally play it handheld. I've finally paid off my student loan, and I'm in the "I've been a good boy and I deserve a little treat" stage of living through a global pandemic.

Is the difference between base and OLED really that good? Is this an insane and wasteful thing to do?

Apologies if this somehow re-ignites endless arguments - I was 400 pages behind and don't have the brains to catch up.

Finally, Planescape Torment and Icewind Dale ate £9 on the e-shop for the next day or two, which feels way more palatable than the £32 they were asking for.

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon

b_d posted:

my tier list:


You really should give the other 3D Zeldas a fair shake.

Also having Link Between Worlds second-to-last is a fuckin travesty.

Fly Ricky
May 7, 2009

The Wine Taster
Can’t you sell a launch Switch for basically the price of an OLED because of the hack? Or is that over?

Flint_Paper
Jun 7, 2004

This isn't cool at all Looshkin! These are dark forces you're titting about with!

Fly Ricky posted:

Can’t you sell a launch Switch for basically the price of an OLED because of the hack? Or is that over?

This is the first I've heard of it, so considering how out of the loop I am it probably is all over.

jackhunter64
Aug 28, 2008

Keep it up son, take a look at what you could have won


It is fully worth it if you still play a lot of handheld mode and won't bankrupt yourself, the screen will make you say 'loving hell' out loud when you see it next to the old one and the kickstand is a lot better this time. There are still launch Switches for £150+ on ebay, search for 'HAC-001' to check them out.

Flint_Paper
Jun 7, 2004

This isn't cool at all Looshkin! These are dark forces you're titting about with!

Oh neat! Mine looks to be within the range that's desirable for that kind of fuckery (XAJ4000 etc), so maybe this isn't a terrible plan!

ONE YEAR LATER
Apr 13, 2004

Fry old buddy, it's me, Bender!
Oven Wrangler

b_d posted:

my tier list:


What is this? A tier list for ants?

Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

ONE YEAR LATER posted:

What is this? A tier list for ants?

Ah fine work, reference secured.

Thunder Bear
Jul 27, 2009

fig. 0143
You have a vision.

Admittedly I often forget that Link Between Worlds exists, but just a passing mention makes me remember it fondly; I even finished it twice. Probably a top five Zelda all things considered.

Flint_Paper
Jun 7, 2004

This isn't cool at all Looshkin! These are dark forces you're titting about with!

Well it transpires Tesco are selling OLED Switches for £269 if you have a clubcard, and my old switch is a moddable one, so that's happening. Thanks folks!

Huxley
Oct 10, 2012



Grimey Drawer

Libluini posted:

This. Tiermaker thing is neat.

Here's my own personal Zelda-rankings:



https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/956592832340549632

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Sitting patiently for the image to load fully

Libluini
May 18, 2012

I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...
Grimey Drawer
Yeah, yeah I get it, I hosed up the thing. I'll try again when I'm home and not on my phone

An Actual Princess
Dec 23, 2006

i have a launch day switch but i've been too scared to hack it. what if it gets banned. :ohdear:

American McGay
Feb 28, 2010

by sebmojo
That's why you don't go online if you hack it. It's now a single player piracy and emulation machine.

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

FFXIV Porn posted:

i have a launch day switch but i've been too scared to hack it. what if it gets banned. :ohdear:

you can basically dual boot a switch, with one firmware running off the internal memory and a second firmware running off the sd card

that way you can keep the internal firmware unhacked for online use and use the secondary firmware for hacking and never let it go online, so nintendo is none the wiser

Bleck
Jan 7, 2014

No matter how one loves, there are always different aims. Love can take a great many forms, whatever the era.


I'll be playing Minish Cap for real and for true soon - I've started it twice and kind of lost interest both times very early on, but now I'm in a better headspace, I think.

The Postman
May 12, 2007

I just played Minish Cap for the first time recently and loved it. Finally beat both Oracles games too and they were solid. I think I only partly completed Ages as a kid.

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Feels Villeneuve
Oct 7, 2007

Setter is Better.
man for all the good games it had the first party Nintendo DS games were kind of a mixed bag

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