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symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

SMW has double the bits. thusly,

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Wormskull
Aug 23, 2009

symbolic posted:

SMW has double the bits. thusly,

Octuple the chances to make trash, which they did. SMW Cucks shove yoshi's tongue in their genitals and asses in the neopets RP forums.

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

Wormskull posted:

Octuple the chances to make trash, which they did. SMW Cucks shove yoshi's tongue in their genitals and asses in the neopets RP forums.

and you're fuckin jealous. keep bootlicking Kuribo's Shoe and pretend it makes you right. i'm outta here

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Roth posted:

I do think the levels towards the end with the like Bowser tanks are badass in 3, but the Special world is cool, and I like the Ghost Houses. I like World's Bowser fight more than 3's too.

Also:

1-20: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=4050853&perpage=40&pagenumber=17#post537514857

21. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
22. Sonic the Hedgehog
23. Sonic CD


I was going to do Sunshine next since that was the next Mario game I haven't beaten yet, but seemed like a bad idea with Persona 3 Reload launching tonight. So I turned on the Genesis Sonic. Sonic 1 is very rough and has some very annoying stages. Labyrinth Zone just plains sucks, and a lot of the level design seems to have not been made to take Sonic's speed into consideration. Sonic CD is way better. It's got the cool opening movie, levels are more designed to take advantage of Sonic's speed, and the music is so good.

Now for Persona 3 Reload to take like four months.

this mfer has beaten 23 games this year and it's February 1sf.

welcome
Jun 28, 2002

rail slut
(holds calculator upside down) That's 57 games per day!

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

In Training posted:

this mfer has beaten 23 games this year and it's February 1sf.

I'm jealous frankly

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

Good soup! posted:

5. Deja Vu (NES), 2/1




A short trip down memory lane. Only put in about 90 minutes or so but I only remember watching my brother play it when I was very young, so I got mugged and killed a few times lol

Had to use a guide for the end and felt like a dumbass because I forgot to toss the evidence in the sewer. Goofy rear end game, but I don't miss these old adventure game interfaces though

deja vu is awesome. there are so many ways to lose and not realize you hosed up right until the end of the game, lol.

P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

3) Final Fantasy Legend

Played the WSC version, which has nice art upgrades but leaves the jank completely intact.

This game is really impressive as being the first mobile RPG, and it does a lot of fun SaGa things with the item system and powerful instant death moves. It also has a SaGa leveling system that's a complete mess and a plot that's basically the barest rudimentary skeleton.

It's hard not to compare it to the incomparably better FF Legend II but it's still good both in its own right, and as a necessary evolutionary step.

Good soup!
Nov 2, 2010

mycophobia posted:

you ever play uninvited. thats a cool game. legit creepy

No, but I should! It's one of those ones I suddenly remember and then forget about for a year or so before it pops up in my brain again. I remember renting it and being freaked out by the car catching on fire right at the start and my dad was like "yeah, we're gonna hold off on playing this for a bit" lol

Bicyclops posted:

deja vu is awesome. there are so many ways to lose and not realize you hosed up right until the end of the game, lol.

I was genuinely waiting for the cab driver to blow my brains out for not having 75 cents at one point and was a bit relieved when he let me get back to the casino to win more money

welcome
Jun 28, 2002

rail slut
I think Uninvited was the one where if you pick up a certain item you wind up dying a couple of hundred turns later and the game doesn't bother telling you why. NES + 80s adventure design ftw.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

5. Yakuza 6. Did all the substories except the hostess ones. Excellent yakuza game, the combat was a little simple compared to recent entries but I think this was the first one on their new engine so I can forgive them. Had basically my favorite story since 2, loved the new-look kamurocho & sleepy seatown vibes of onomichi. amazing substories too, both the regular walking around hijinks and the longer form story based ones like baseball and the bar bros. drat the netchat was hilarious as well, the soap opera main story was tight, loved the new knuckleheads in the onomichi family (reminded me of the guys from 3 in okinawa) plus beat takeshi was great. cool ending too - would have been fully sick as just a regular finale when this game came out, but also knowing now that they've kept making yak games, i cant wait to see the twists and turns from here in 7/gaiden/IW.

yakuza ftw.

welcome
Jun 28, 2002

rail slut
Makai Toushi SaGa.

American McGay
Feb 28, 2010

by sebmojo

symbolic posted:

SMW has double the bits. thusly,

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This thread brought to you by a tremendous dickhead!

tmfc
Sep 28, 2006


?

they're clearly having a ton of fun.

Arch Nemesis
Mar 27, 2007

5) Medium-Naut (S Rank)

short metroidvania from the creator of la-mulana. you're a spirit medium with a gun investigating a haunted crashed ship. it's got pretty environments/art and decent music, and a really cool concept where, when you find certain crew/passengers, they'll offer you an upgrade in exchange for a portion of your maximum hp. deciding what's worth trading for is an interesting challenge. exploration is partly puzzle-based, putting clues together from text on the ship, but not nearly as involved as la-mulana. there are multiple paths through the game depending on which upgrades you take when

but, it's tough to tell which upgrades are actually good, and weapon upgrades overwrite each other but you don't get your hp back. the combat is a slog, with only a few enemy types that often feel like bullet sponges. it's pretty easy to get locked out of 100% on your first play just cause you guessed wrong somewhere, and it took me 2 runs to get a perfect rank.

overall it's a neat curiosity but hard to recommend unless you really love la-mulana and want to see something else the creator made

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
eiyuden chronicles rising

cute little sidescroller rpg, longer than i expected a dem0 for another game to me. also didn’t expect it to be an action rpg since the main game is supposed to me a suikoden.

Callings
Mar 15, 2023
1. Balan Wonderworld

mycophobia
May 7, 2008

Callings posted:

1. Balan Wonderworld

starting the year off strong i see

Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

Spider-Man 2

That was really good, easily my favorite of the Insomniac games so far.

Aston
Nov 19, 2007

Okay
Okay
Okay
Okay
Okay

6. Thomas Was Alone

A puzzle-platformer, I guess, with a Stanley Parable-style voiceover narrator and a story about AIs gaining awareness. I wasn't really a fan, the gameplay wasn't great, none of the puzzles were that hard and the platforming didn't feel very tight. It was also quite tedious, there's more than a few times where you have to do the same section of level multiple times to clear it. The voiceover was more irritating than funny (which is what I think it was going for) and the story did nothing for me. Maybe I just didn't get it because it was reviewed well and nominated for a couple of awards, but overall I found it disappointing.

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

Aston posted:

6. Thomas Was Alone

A puzzle-platformer, I guess, with a Stanley Parable-style voiceover narrator and a story about AIs gaining awareness. I wasn't really a fan, the gameplay wasn't great, none of the puzzles were that hard and the platforming didn't feel very tight. It was also quite tedious, there's more than a few times where you have to do the same section of level multiple times to clear it. The voiceover was more irritating than funny (which is what I think it was going for) and the story did nothing for me. Maybe I just didn't get it because it was reviewed well and nominated for a couple of awards, but overall I found it disappointing.

no you're right it's pure indie wank

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008

The REAL Goobusters posted:

1. super mario rpg switch
2. ys 1 chronicles
3. ys 2 chronicles
4. Ys Origin - Yunica Route
5. Dragon Quest XI: echoes of an elusive age

Just beat dq11. God tier game. Everything about this was incredible. Act 3 really started to get challenging and the trials and final boss were so much fun to do. This game loving rules

Aston
Nov 19, 2007

Okay
Okay
Okay
Okay
Okay

7. Celeste 64 (100%)

The Celeste devs made a 3d version of Celeste in a week to celebrate the game's 6th anniversary. It's pretty cool, and it's free!

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

*. Unlimited SaGa. Judy Playthrough. not really a game beaten per se, i completed the story of Judy but then i guess every character squares off against some moon dwelling ultra demon. I was fighting it for like 35 minutes and it died. then started a phase 2. so i checked and theres 4 phases total and i died very quickly. classic bullshit. I watched judy's ending cutscene on youtube. Not counting this as a game beat, but I wanted to log it somehow.

Glad to have checked out a full character playthrough of this game. its kind of bad, I think. its got a wild verve, making everything so goddamn random. you roll dice to open chests. you roll dice to level up. you roll dice to attack! but underneath all of this its kind of shockingly simple. every single random encounter in the game ends in like 1 - 2 actions, except bsoses are 15 - 20 minute slogs. theres no real status effects, or elemental countering, or healing etc. Every single fight, from the first one to the ultra final boss phase 4, is just you hitting attack adn trying to spin good reels. dumb as gently caress, for a game with so many options on its surface. its ugly as sin outside of battle. the voice acting is bad, the story i kind of enjoyed. at least judy's, just a simple adventure getting your family back together to save grandpa. wonderful music, and a good crafting system. its also crazy short, it took me about 6 - 8 hours to reach the final boss (but i think part of the reason I struggled so hard on Chaos is that I guess once you unlock the final dungeon you're supposed to go around and do hours and hours and hours of side quests to roll for better stats and new sparks. Really fun.)

I think you could make something really special out of the building blocks of this - I'm curious about the remaster, if it ever comes out. If they just port this thing with sped up battles and uprez'd menu text it would be a drat shame.

elf help book
Aug 5, 2004

Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up
I think if they ported it with zero changes it would sell 12 copies

Fungah!
Apr 30, 2011

elf help book posted:

I think if they ported it with zero changes it would sell 12 copies

and 9 of them post here

Martman
Nov 20, 2006

elf help book posted:

I think if they ported it with zero changes it would sell 12 copies
sounds like an easy 600 bucks


In Training
Jun 28, 2008

i just found out that my characters regen HP every turn. and presumably enemies do too. cool.

tmfc
Sep 28, 2006

Aston posted:

7. Celeste 64 (100%)

The Celeste devs made a 3d version of Celeste in a week to celebrate the game's 6th anniversary. It's pretty cool, and it's free!

yeh i saw that and tried it, fun little novelty but the celeste mechanics don't translate to 3d very well

tmfc
Sep 28, 2006

Fungah! posted:

and 9 of them post here

lol

Major Isoor
Mar 23, 2011

elf help book posted:

I think if they ported it with zero changes it would sell 12 copies

Fungah! posted:

and 9 of them post here

Martman posted:

sounds like an easy 600 bucks

Evil Eagle
Nov 5, 2009

4) Final Fantasy Legend 1

Leadthumb
Mar 24, 2006

5. The Final Fantasy Legend




PS this post is impervious to Flames because of the flame proofer. :)

hamsauce666
Apr 11, 2018

Been forgetting to post here when I finish stuff. Quick catch-up post:

2. Cave Story+
3. The Final Fantasy Legend

Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

Final fantasy legend

Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

Also Cave Story (normal) and Ore no Ryouri (easy)

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

After beating the latest Balatro demo (good poo poo, the new boss blinds are tough) I was in the mood for more card games so I went back and played through Inscryption again. Final act was even more of a slog than usual because my deck just wouldn't come together right. I should just get the DLC next time I play

Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

Turnip Boy Robs a Bank

trying to jack off
Dec 31, 2007

Regy Rusty posted:

Turnip Boy Robs a Bank

is it good? everything i see about it is always just talking about how the game is either cringe or hilarious

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symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

Regy Rusty posted:

Turnip Boy Robs a Bank

Turnip Boy Holds Up Spork

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