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I think Evergrace + AC2 on the first year PS2 was my introduction to FromSoft, so I confess I've got no experience with Shadow Tower to compare.
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shadow tower is like if evergrace was in a tower and way more dickish but also had a central hub area where you could just leap past entire levels for some reason. you still have to do the levels because you can't beat the last boss without that but there is nothing stopping you from just jumping down and temporarily putting them off
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Yeah no that sounds right. On all counts. Maybe I'll mess with that sometime. The last time I tried PS2 emulation was close to a decade ago and I just remember that throwing Evergrace at it caused extreme vertigo in me due to how the skyboxes were hosed up at the time.
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The Colonel posted:shadow tower is like if evergrace was in a tower and way more dickish but also had a central hub area where you could just leap past entire levels for some reason. you still have to do the levels because you can't beat the last boss without that but there is nothing stopping you from just jumping down and temporarily putting them off you can even permanently miss an area, that part in the earth cavern with the guy under the boulder is on a timer, failing to feed a sword to the wall face in time locks you out of there forever. On Evergrace, it's an extremely unique game, Shalami has a much shorter play though than Darius's, which makes the equipment situation harder. Once you've beaten the game with both characters and start NG+, the Palmira Bees (little round things that come out of various objects when struck) drop the shadow guideposts much more frequently, at the cost of dropping the stat ups far less, I don't know if you are going to 100% it (which is a major pain BTW), but you unlock character bios for finishing the bestiary and a synopsis for getting all the items. BrokenLink fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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i do not think i will be doing evergrace new game + this year no lol
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Evergrace is one of those games I played when it first released and am super glad I did, but the thought of ever playing it again sends shivers down my spine.
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Namnesor posted:Evergrace is one of those games I played when it first released and am super glad I did, but the thought of ever playing it again sends shivers down my spine. I had more time as a kid and just sat down and got everything, still tickles me that the ultimate prize is having the story explained to you.
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https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/39039/MONSTER_HUNTER_20TH_ANNIVERSARY_COMPLETE_PACK/ steams has a big sale bundle on the two most recent monster hunter games + their expacs (plus the pokemon-esque spinoff) if you want an excuse to get into the series
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Is there “Last time on FF7R…” sequence at the start of rebirth
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GateOfD posted:Is there “Last time on FF7R…” sequence at the start of rebirth It's an option on the start menu which is neat
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Endorph posted:https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/39039/MONSTER_HUNTER_20TH_ANNIVERSARY_COMPLETE_PACK/ steams has a big sale bundle on the two most recent monster hunter games + their expacs (plus the pokemon-esque spinoff) if you want an excuse to get into the series This would be really tempting if I didn't have a backlog the size of this thread and Fate/Samurai Remnant wasn't eating away my free hours.
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:This would be really tempting if I didn't have a backlog the size of this thread and Fate/Samurai Remnant wasn't eating away my free hours. I've got Fate/Samurai Remnant but still haven't played it. Will this reminder be enough to actually play it? God only knows.
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Lord, help me that I don't lose Unicorn Overlord to my backlog 
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Good games get finished, bad games get tossed off the volcano until they come back with a sequel
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New dungeon crawler RPG of sorts apparently coming soon'ish in Q2: Dawn of the Ashen Queen https://store.steampowered.com/app/2809820/Dawn_of_the_Ashen_Queen/ quote:"Dawn of the Ashen Queen" is a classic grid-based, first-person dungeon crawler reminiscent of 90s RPG games. Set out with your party to reveal the legacy of a millennia-old curse in a narrative-rich experience. Explore the colorful world of Eshavon, unearth its many secrets and fight dangerous foes sent out to stop you on your mission.
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Levantine posted:The game really revels in excess and silly little bits like that and I love it. I hope that the sequel is a Portrait of Ruin tag-team style thing too. Hero/Baker-Hero who is arguably way more terrifying than the Hero. Astlibra (and DLC) was, cognitively, one of the most difficult to parse experiences I have ever had in my entire loving life. Everything about these games screams trash tier shovelware. They look like poo poo. They are literally made of Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy level assets and royalty free stock sounds/music. They start off so loving slow and take days to explain the generic jrpg anime harem plotline ... and then they just go extremely loving hard and are really fun for 99% of their entire runtime? What the gently caress. Loved both of them. Go play them. 10/10 games more deserving of a remake than FF7
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Neat, it looks a lot like Legend of Grimrock, which I also loved. I've looked for more games similar to them, and this is the closest I've seen.
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Sally Sprodgkin posted:Astlibra (and DLC) was, cognitively, one of the most difficult to parse experiences I have ever had in my entire loving life. Everything about these games screams trash tier shovelware. They look like poo poo. They are literally made of Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy level assets and royalty free stock sounds/music. They start off so loving slow and take days to explain the generic jrpg anime harem plotline ... and then they just go extremely loving hard and are really fun for 99% of their entire runtime? I mean honestly the answer is that none of those things are necessarily bad. (Well, maybe the pacing) A game doesn't need to have a giant budget or a ton of unique assets to be fun if it is well executed.
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The Colonel posted:royalty free audio is hardly a mark of a lack of quality
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I dont think a Frogwares game has ever even reached a single A lol
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ImpAtom posted:I mean honestly the answer is that none of those things are necessarily bad. (Well, maybe the pacing) A game doesn't need to have a giant budget or a ton of unique assets to be fun if it is well executed. Yeah for sure. I guess a better way to put it might be that just shares a similar look/feel with games that do happen to be bad flash games for the most part (Newgrounds-core, I guess you could call it?), so it triggers this reaction in my brain telling me it should be bad while actually being good. This can lead to micro strokes.
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With flash dying, we're gonna see a wave of nostalgia for Newgrounds-core games, as well as the affiliates like Armor Games-core and Kongregate-core
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That's already happening. I can think of multiple engine-port compilations of that 2000s era Flash title on sale on Steam already. Sonny got ported back in 2017.
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newgrounds basically just became an indie publisher and i'm pretty sure they did stuff to make sure a lot of games on the site keep running
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*crying* this game didnt cost 300 billion dollars to make and it has Anime in it, why did i like it
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great thing about the steam version of astlibra gaiden is keizo more than doubled the length of the old freeware version which meant he got to shove in a bunch more hot royalty free jams
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i miss the newgrounds era of internet animation i barely played the games there tbh. though i did experience some FF7 fancartoons on there in the 2000s that had fake scripted "battles" where you chose multiple choice from a menu
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I finished Persona 3 Reload and thought it was very good, have some more thoughts in the persona thread but P3 is definitely solidified as the best modern persona for me. Think I might play a Tales game or something next since I haven’t played any of the ones before Berseria in a really long time.
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The 7th Guest posted:i miss the newgrounds era of internet animation final fantasy is an rpg
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Meowywitch posted:final fantasy is an rpg I thought I'd purged that particular earworm years ago, thanks for summoning it back.
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lets hang out posted:great thing about the steam version of astlibra gaiden is keizo more than doubled the length of the old freeware version which meant he got to shove in a bunch more hot royalty free jams And man did he pick some good ones. This one is my personal favorite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhn-AlKixLY
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fatsleepycat posted:I thought I'd purged that particular earworm years ago, thanks for summoning it back. what you got to play idiot its called mario twins. they look the same. whaow
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Junpei posted:With flash dying, we're gonna see a wave of nostalgia for Newgrounds-core games, as well as the affiliates like Armor Games-core and Kongregate-core It's time for this thread to become exclusively about Epic Battle Fantasy
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Honest Thief posted:gd the retroarch UI is so crap
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Honest Thief posted:gd the retroarch UI is so crap
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Honest Thief posted:gd the retroarch UI is so crap the most hosed up thing is that on the rg353m i have the text is either wayy too small or wayyy too big on RA menus
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