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This thread got me to try the first chapter of Higurashi When They Cry and er, what the gently caress is this game? 
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I need to try out Roottrees and Elsinore. Probably Slay the Princess too (though I might just wait for that expanded release people mentioned. And then there's Infinite Wealth and FF7R2 and Granblue Relink and gah
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Speaking of upcoming games, I don't think I've seen Unicorn Overlord mentioned here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bmh1B-sglo Day one for me. Rarity posted:This thread got me to try the first chapter of Higurashi When They Cry and er, what the gently caress is this game? If it's anything like the anime you've not seen anything yet. It's been like 15 years and I still have an irrational fear of my fingernails getting torn off.
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Jan 5, 2024 16:46
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Picked up Hi-fi Rush during steam sale based on the thread and having a blast! I imagine I will also pick up Lies of P and Alan Wake II when they are more heavily discounted. Love thread, thanks again VG and Rarity for all your efforts.
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Jan 5, 2024 16:47
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JonathonSpectre posted:Well, Slay the Princess was loving amazing. Do NOT read this spoiler unless you've beat it, because you don't want to know! Trust me!
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VideoGames posted:Loving all these extra posts 
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There's no reason for this silly debate when Froggy's Battle is clearly the sleeper hit of 2024.
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Escobarbarian posted:I bought (played on game pass) Pentiment based on last year’s thread and completed it in enough time for it to make my top 5 that year!! Such a brilliant game, god drat. Me too it was some good recommending people did last year
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Bugblatter posted:The 2023 release is divisive. Some love it, some hate it. It has a lot of rough edges both technically and design wise, but it does a few things extremely well. I personally wouldn’t go so far as to call it good, but I thought the strengths made it worth trying. I’d be very selective about who I recommended it to though. Oh, I didn't realize that was the same team -- The Surge was alright, although I felt it overstayed its welcome, and Surge 2 was loads of fun and I actually played a ways into NG+, which I usually don't do. BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Makes me want to go out and but a working N64 right now. I love that game so much. You can play it on PC now! At 60fps and with proper mouselook and everything, not super janky "we convinced this emulator to translate mouse inputs into stick inputs in a way that mostly works" mouselook. Also, wow, I am out of practice. Datadyne Central - Escape is kicking my rear end on Perfect Agent even with mouselook, mostly because Dr. Carroll really wants to snuggle the attack helicopter.
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Captain Invictus posted:I was! gently caress that guy! he tried to break the fundamental rules of the universe! gently caress'im!!!!! He is voiced by Jonathan Sims who voiced the protagonist of the Magnus Archives who is the biggest fuckup to ever exist so I may have been biased in that direction.
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Jan 5, 2024 19:08
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Jusant is on sale on PSN and I bought it because of this thread. Just have to finish Blasphemous 2 first (gently caress Eviterno btw)
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haveblue posted:Jusant is on sale on PSN and I bought it because of this thread. Just have to finish Blasphemous 2 first (gently caress Eviterno btw) Jusant is lovely. I want that game to be twice as long.
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ToxicFrog posted:Oh, I didn't realize that was the same team -- The Surge was alright, although I felt it overstayed its welcome, and Surge 2 was loads of fun and I actually played a ways into NG+, which I usually don't do. It's easier for me to go to one of the many used shops around here and buy an N64 than it is to get anything running on PC. The last game I played on PC was Disco, vanilla. PC just ain't my wheelhouse.
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The Xbox version is probably still fine? If you can tolerate controller aiming, anyway, but I think most of us just relied on auto-aim in the N64 days anyway
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Grabbed Ghostrunner 2 and it owns. Even more annoyngly hard than the first one though lol. Also gonna pick up Talos 2 and Ziggurat 2 in the sale which should give me enough game to play until Dragon's Dogma 2, as well as covering everything I wanted to play, but didn't have time for in 2023, except finishing Cocoon, which is already on gamepass. Surprised at just how much the knocked off GR2 and Talos 2 in the sale with how new they are.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:It's easier for me to go to one of the many used shops around here and buy an N64 than it is to get anything running on PC. The last game I played on PC was Disco, vanilla. PC just ain't my wheelhouse. Fair enough! I'm a PC girl first and foremost, so that's pretty much always going to be my preference; I tend to buy consoles rarely (and second-hand) and retire them as soon as emulation is advanced enough to play all the games I care about. For the N64 and Perfect Dark in particular, I'm extra excited about this because: - I never liked the N64's mutant three-handed controller or how it worked with PD (not that that stopped me from 100%ing the game in high school) - N64 emulation in general, and PD emulation specifically, is perplexingly difficult even today So this is a chance for me to revisit my favourite N64 game without making either of those above compromises.
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I can't speak to specific games having issues, but N64 emulation is pretty simple with modern emulators--it's just that the top google results are often ancient emulators, not modern ones. I recommend Bizhawk; it's a multi-system emulator that handles anything N64/PS1 or older with no fuss and with a much much better UI than retroarch
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ToxicFrog posted:- I never liked the N64's mutant three-handed controller or how it worked with PD (not that that stopped me from 100%ing the game in high school) lol if you didn't use 2 controllers
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The N64 controller is one of my favorite pieces of tech because it mystifies me so deeply. How did anyone design this? Had the designer ever seen a human hand before? How did enough people think it was a good idea that it entered production? I love it.
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Well, if you’re operating under the belief that players will either use a d-pad or an analog stick, never both, it makes perfect sense!
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Fave FE: Engage battle tracks 4. Engage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5YUuHFTXmc&t=7806s 3. Tear Streaked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5YUuHFTXmc&t=6411s 2. Keeper of History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5YUuHFTXmc&t=2933s 1. Last Engage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5YUuHFTXmc&t=7956s
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the N64 controller was my first ever controller so it's totally fine and normal
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Kerrzhe posted:the N64 controller was my first ever controller so it's totally fine and normal What's it like having three hands?
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i only have two hands. it's normal to hold the n64 controller you just put your hand on the joystick part the part on the left with the d-pad is never used
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outing yourself as someone who didn't play mischief makers
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The 64 controller really does suck regardless of how many hands you have though.
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veni veni veni posted:The 64 controller really does suck regardless of how many hands you have though. 
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For my special list I present Top 10 Things VideoGames Said While Streaming In 2023. We only started compiling a spreadsheet of his quotes towards the end of the year, but even in that short space of time there were some real classics: 10. “You can’t be on the phone if you’re dead.” 09. “Wait, are the Yiga Clan friends with Ganon?” 08. “Am I stuck? No, I just couldn’t move.” 07. “It’s not the journey, but, uh, the, um, off-ramp.” 06. “I like the word ‘question mark’. Actually it’s two words. I like the two words ‘question marks’.” 05. “I hit him with lightning, and then I do attacks on him, and then he discharges all over me.” 04. “22 is more than 20, isn’t it? Let me think. 20…..plus 1, plus 2, is 22.” 03. “I don’t wanna be gimp bones!” 02. “Y’s not a vowel! A, O, U, I…….and something.” 01. “You can’t hurt hot with hot. Spikes no to plasma.” Thank you to veeg for running the thread solo this year and also for his streams being a consistent highlight of my week for over three years now. Also hey why not check out the veeg stream highlight videos I made here and here!
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I hope that "Tolkein was 300 years ago" charts high in 2024
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Veeg is a national treasure
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fridge corn posted:Veeg is a national treasure Which nation though, as yet undetermined
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Escobarbarian posted:For my special list I present Top 10 Things VideoGames Said While Streaming In 2023. We only started compiling a spreadsheet of his quotes towards the end of the year, but even in that short space of time there were some real classics: These highlight videos are wonderful.
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I had forgotten about the epic battle of VG vs. Pipe in MGS2
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Regy Rusty posted:Which nation though, as yet undetermined All of them
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Escobarbarian posted:For my special list I present Top 10 Things VideoGames Said While Streaming In 2023. We only started compiling a spreadsheet of his quotes towards the end of the year, but even in that short space of time there were some real classics: quoted for posterity
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haveblue posted:Jusant is on sale on PSN and I bought it because of this thread. Just have to finish Blasphemous 2 first (gently caress Eviterno btw) I thought that guy was the biggest pile of bullshit. After getting murdered a half dozen times I looked up some strats ranging from cheesy to reasonably fair and felt like a complete buffoon after winning with what should have been extremely obvious. Just use the dual swords and dash attack through him constantly. He has no answer for this. It's almost 100% safe. You can also usually get a few back attacks in with ease. I never even found the thing to unlock the 3rd tier of upgrades for that weapon and still bodied him my first try just doing this after I read a post from some steam forum guy saying just get good.
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That’s what I did too. Apparently you can also equip fervor regain and use the down attack of the mace, which lets you regain fervor fast enough to support near-constant uptime of the spell that stops time and just beat him to death while he literally can’t do anything
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haveblue posted:That’s what I did too. Apparently you can also equip fervor regain and use the down attack of the mace, which lets you regain fervor fast enough to support near-constant uptime of the spell that stops time and just beat him to death while he literally can’t do anything I tried that out and either my build for it was dumb or they nerfed it because I couldn't get enough fervor together to chain the timestop.
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people should at least play the Vividlope demo so they can see why i enjoy it so much (or question my taste) actually a fair number of games in my top 50 have demos on Steam: Final Profit (#49), Zortch (#48), Skator Gator 3d (#42), Lunark (#40), ProtoCorgi (#27), Paquerette Down the Bunburrows (#23), Slayers X (#19), HROT (#11), Misericorde (#6), Chants of Sennaar (#4), Octopath Traveler 2 (#3), and Vividlope (#2).
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Paid 10 bucks to get Pentiment in the Steam sale after finally caving to the endless praise here and in other threads. Alright, alright, you lot... if it's a tenner, fine, let's see eh? Have just completed Act 1. It's not even the end of the first week of January and I will be very surprised if this doesn't end up being my Game of the Year 2024. Anyway, gotta go, gotta play some more Pentiment this weekend.
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