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Looper posted:golden sun....64! The folks who develop these incredible fan projects remind me of the guy who helped develop the polio vaccine and refused to patent it. Sharing your expertise, passion, and time, for the betterment of all humankind. Pure goodness
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At this point it's only a matter of time until we see a reconstruction of Earthbound 64 They call it 64 because that's how many seconds it'll take for the cease & desist to be sent
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Relax Or DIE posted:i've been slowly plugging through fatal frame, might do the sequels also. hellnight, the excavation of hob's barrow, darkwood, shadow tower abyss(only sorta counts), rule of rose, siren(maybe 2?,) and haunting ground are on the list too if i get the motivation. Take my advice, if you play Siren use a guide, it's a frustrating and impenetrable game that's made slightly less so if you at least know what you're supposed to be doing. 2 at least is fine without though.
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Oct 13, 2022 07:37
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I should play medievil in honor of spooky
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FirstAidKite posted:At this point it's only a matter of time until we see a reconstruction of Earthbound 64 I always love when projects like these get announced publicly with a trailer, and then Nintendo shuts them down within a day Like guys... complete that poo poo IN SECRET, THEN drop the trailer + release link so Nintendo doesn't shut your poo poo down. C&D's dont work once it's out.
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Oct 13, 2022 07:41
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I am playing Inscryption right now, then will be going into Symphony of the Night, so they are both sort of spooky. Dracula is spooky.
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Oct 13, 2022 07:44
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SOTN is a pretty dang good october game. And also the best game ever made.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:SOTN is a pretty dang good october game. I am looking forward to it! I recently played through bloodstained twice in a row and have heard SotN is the precursor to all this. I also played Metroid dread and had a fantastic time. Plus 2D platforming! It is the PS4 version, though, because that is what I have installed on the PS5 and my PS3 dualshock left joystick fell out so I probably cannot use that.
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UNDECEMBER preliminary report: seems fine tbh. there are a bunch of free to play monetization things going on (two battle passes? i think?) but that all seems like poo poo i can completely ignore. there's enough log in bonuses to get you through the early levels (including a week of free pet auto loot--though regular looting is easy, you just walk over stuff) and the gameplay is still fun. the steam reviews are Mostly Negative because apparently people don't expect free to play games to have lots of microtransaction stuff. i looked through the options on the store and it's just... lost ark. again. without the inexplicable amount of hype that game got (and was just as if not even more predatory with RMT). you can buy costumes, you can buy starter kits that come with some upgrade materials, you can get various amounts of currency + other stuff in bundles. it's all the same poo poo, there's nothing new or unexpected here at all. i certainly don't see the kind of whacko poo poo diablo immortal tried to sell people. as far as the gameplay, i've only gotten through 2/3 of the 2nd act but i'm shooting fireballs that also chain lightning bolts on hit, and i've unlocked two new ranged minions that i can summon. i'm having a grand time. my conclusion is: i will probably play through the main campaign and be done with it. if the leveling starts getting gatekept by RNG bullshit or anything like that i'll just quit. it's free. 
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cheetah7071 posted:inscryption is pretty cool 2/3rds of Inscryption is pretty cool imho
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Sakurazuka posted:Take my advice, if you play Siren use a guide, it's a frustrating and impenetrable game that's made slightly less so if you at least know what you're supposed to be doing. yeah, I had figured this was a good idea - I owned siren when it was current and did not make a lot of progress despite finding it fascinating
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cheetah7071 posted:inscryption is pretty cool yup
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I think slowbeef worked on a Siren-like called Atama which is out today maybe I'll check it out
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VideoGames posted:I am looking forward to it! I recently played through bloodstained twice in a row and have heard SotN is the precursor to all this. I also played Metroid dread and had a fantastic time. Plus 2D platforming! PS4 version is packaged with Rondo of Blood which is also a super good game so you lucked out.
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Whizzing Wizard posted:This thread has an Atelier defender, it needs a Star Ocean defender. It's not going to be me, but somebody needs to step up! I've been playing the rerelease of the psp port of the first game and I've been enjoying in as much as it's a very 90s jrpg and that's an aesthetic I have a great capacity to appreciate. I would like to play the second one too if they ever decide to rerelease it. The rest of the series looks meh. The new one looks meh
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Last Celebration posted:PS4 version is packaged with Rondo of Blood which is also a super good game so you lucked out. Amazingly I played my first metroid this year, with Dread and this will be my first castlevania all the way (I did try it out briefly at the end of 2021 when I had finished all my games). However, I have played a number of other castlevanias, like Blasphemous, Bloodstained, Hollow Knight, Shantae to name a few  I love 2D platformers, just love them to bits. My favourite kind of game above all, despite my favourite games of all time not being them.
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The only major downside of the rerelease is that I think they used the dull PSP retranslation and not the iconic orginal.
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Nevermind!
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Whizzing Wizard posted:The only major downside of the rerelease is that I think they used the dull PSP retranslation and not the iconic orginal. The new translation, dull voice acting, and just about all the sound effects sounding like dinky mobile versions of the original. The psx had an amazing sound chip. Otherwise, the game is evergreen.
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VideoGames posted:Amazingly I played my first metroid this year, with Dread Hope yall get around to Super Metroid, Zero Mission, and Fusion at some point as well. They are all extremely good. I would love for Samus Returns to get ported to the Switch as some point as well, seems like a bit of a no brainer after Dreads success.
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Stux posted:summer is the best. shorts on. light tees. sun. ohhhhhh this is from last thread but  , its so easy to get dressed in the summer...!!
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Oct 13, 2022 10:41
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Fortunately the PSP version of SotN lets you change the voices to Japanese so you can hear Norio Wakamoto rolling his R's to insane levels as Dracula.
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I put tons of hours into Star Ocean 2 but never beat it. It does a lot of really cool things that I think people would still think are interesting. There are two selectable player characters at the beginning, with one being a space boi while the other is a magical girl. The general story stays the same but there are times you get to see things from one perspective or the other, such as an early mission where the girl is kidnapped. I think Tales of Xillia does this too, as a point of reference. Each main character gets access to a unique party member, and there are 12 playable characters in all. You can only get 8 characters in your party in a playthrough, and some require a decent amount of side questing to unlock. A relic of its age, where optional RPG party members were more common, but a good replay hook of you were going through it twice anyway. Like 80 endings based on your party composition and how the characters feel about each other. You can initiate Private Actions at any town that break the party up and allow for side stories and secrets, and they raise or lower hidden meters dictating affection. A pretty interesting set of Personal Skills, which are things like Cooking or Blacksmithing or combat skills that you can increase with points earned during a level up. They provide a number of extra features, and let you do stuff like pickpocket really good items early on and craft them into powerful items. Combat is as engaging as you want. You can run around as a fighter and battles feel very actions, or you can spank Air Slash to kill things without moving, or you can cast a spell that freezes the action while an animation plays out. I thought the fighter characters were fun and skills “evolve” the more you use them, which is my love language. I honestly don’t remember much about the story, but I know that it did some bold things for the time. I kind of want to play it again now, just to see how it holds up against my nostalgia. I think it starts slow, with only two characters and limited skills, but if you stick with it past the second or third town you’ll get a better picture of it.
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The 80 endings thing is a misnomer, it's one ending with some slight variations depending on who you have in your party and what their affection levels are. The PS1 equivalent of the Chrono Trigger box saying it has 60 hours of gameplay (if you NG+ 10 times to see all the endings).
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Sakurazuka posted:The 80 endings thing is a misnomer, it's one ending with some slight variations depending on who you have in your party and what their affection levels are. Depending on load times it takes upwards of 100 hours.
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Whizzing Wizard posted:The only major downside of the rerelease is that I think they used the dull PSP retranslation and not the iconic orginal. I’m gonna be honest, this might be a blistering hot gamer take but imho the original Dracula speech is mediocre compared to the PSP version. Edit: also Veeg, I mentioned before that Rondo of Blood is packaged with most ports of SOTN but not that SOTN is the sequel, so you might wanna play RoB first if you don’t have a strong preference. Last Celebration fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Oct 13, 2022 |
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I really loved chrono trigger so I endured it but yeah, those psx load times were quite bad
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DS version of Chrono Trigger is best version of Chrono Trigger
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Last Celebration posted:I’m gonna be honest, this might be a blistering hot gamer take but imho the original Dracula speech is mediocre compared to the PSP version. Let me be honest for a second, your post is factually wrong and deserves scorn.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:DS version of Chrono Trigger is best version of Chrono Trigger This is true.... but for how long..????
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Great new av Veeg
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Having a SOTN with properly translated dialogue is good in my opinion and the original is still iconic and easily accessible so it's the best of both worlds
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One thing is for sure though, the new Alucard sucks compared to the old one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV0edD_Gsw8 bone emulator fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Oct 13, 2022 |
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Oct 13, 2022 14:20
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Dracula's super sassy and sarcastic in the original it's great
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Last time i played sotn, the second half was weirdly a bit of a drag, like the levels didn't feel designed right, e.g. having to slowly transform into the bat for a sec because your double jump couldn't quite make it up high enough
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Most 2D Castlevanias released post SOTN are better than it imo, only Curse of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance aren’t superior
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