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gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


I just throw all my DS games into a box made for trading cards and they just kinda sit in their loose and bounce around but it's worked for me for years

Don't buy bullshit games you never intend on playing just because they're cheap, and if you're that much of a variety gamer then just get a flashcart instead

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gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


virtualboyCOLOR posted:

The only good game coming out in March is Mario Party 10. Everything else is a stream of garbage or bejeweled clones.

Don't sign your posts!! 🍑💨💩

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Excels posted:

The question is, are we in the Silver Age of gaming, or more like... the Bronze era? Cuz gaming culture was a lot more interesting like 20 years ago, these days it kinda sucks and most people now think gamers are insane terrorists, thanks Dick Wolf.

Gaming culture 20 years ago is fun to read about today but practically nonexistent 20 years ago, since the internet wasn't so ubiquitous and the entirety of the culture was a few magazines and what your friends wanted to talk about (like mortal kombat nude codes). Like today you can read about old marketing and arcade tournaments and poo poo but IRL all that was very few and far between and even gaming apparel was mail order only, and at that you'd have the choice of like two shirts out of NP's catalog. Unlike how today you can just buy a Mario shirt and hat at Walmart.

So we are definitely in a golden age

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


I guess TR couldn't do it

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


the best harvest moon game was 64 because it's glitchy as gently caress

in most harvest moon games you could go and make women fall in love with you by obsessively bringing them a crop you grow every day (and if you don't the women will get married to some other jerkoff who you can bring weeds to in order to discourage), but in 64 you could seduce karen in like a day by just showing your dog to her over and over and over until she fell in love with you. and whammo bammo she was ready to give up everything and marry you day one because you showed her your dog like a thousand times.

i wanna see someone speedrun HM64 :spergin:

gay skull fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Mar 3, 2015

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


"Hi I'm the Taint Reaper and I can't possibly communicate like a human being and live in my own world where if the subject matter isn't me me me then I just ignore everyone and keep posting whatever comes to mind"

gay skull fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Mar 10, 2015

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Bicyclops posted:

Some of the math errors in original FF6 were fun though, you could get 99 illuminas using the invisibility/sketch bug.

also Blind didn't work so everyone could wear cool shades, guilt free. like you thought "oh no my attack accuracy will be reduced!" but nope, it's just cool shades. thanks octopus monsters in the waterfall for the free shades

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


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gay skull fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Mar 10, 2015

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


virtualboyCOLOR posted:

Chrono Trigger and Mario RPG are the only JRPGs that are good and could be recommended.

The only good final fantasies are 3(6) and 9. The rest are garbage.

All other JRPGs may be fun to play if you're cool with JRPGs otherwise they're garbage

9 is good but slow as poo poo to the point where it's really bad unless you're dying of cancer and are on a morphine drip so you're high the entire time and don't mind the horrible pacing of the entire game

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


you faggots are old and playing old games for geriatrics

final fantasy IX come on grow the gently caress up we all know you guys loved that poo poo as kids but you're old and prob past college now and there are way better games, get the sticks out of your asses and play something new

gay skull fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Mar 10, 2015

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


FactsAreUseless posted:

That's a good keikaku.

*keikaku means plan


oooOOOOOOooooh look at the big tough guy trying to make fun of the weeaboos with the old meme! hahahahahahaha tell me more about "keikaku" meaning plan like it's the year 2010 again

gay skull fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Mar 10, 2015

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Excels posted:

maybe you're slow. mentally

slow pacing is not a bad thing, because every second of that game is perfect

There's slow pacing and then there's waiting like 20 seconds for every single battle to start and conclude with long animations for every tiny little thing in battle and it makes the game a chore to play, it really needs a remastering where the battles pick up the pace a little bit. I mean the game is good and all but God drat dude, pacing wise, FF9 makes Breaking Bad look like an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Adam Bowen posted:

FF9 is actually in a very tight competition for worst Final Fantasy game along with 8 and 13.

Disagree, but 8 and 13 really are abysmal

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


The Taint Reaper posted:

I'm plowing through my NES library, I've beaten around 5 games today. There's a ton of bullshit awful games that I seem to have gotten.

However they require next to no time investment, I beat that terrible NES peter pan game in like a halfhour.

God damnit Taint Reaper we're talking about Final Fantasy right now!!! GOD!!!!

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Bicyclops posted:

were any of the mana games any good after secret of mana? that's one of my favorite snes games but i think it's only because of the 2P functionality

Secret of Mana is one of the best games ever made, and then Seiken Densetsu 3 and Legend of Mana have a few obnoxious fans out there that scream their names from the rooftops so I guess they're good for some people? I didn't like them though

Literally nobody in the world, ever, likes a single Mana game besides those though. Even the super big numbered release, Dawn of Mana/Seiken Densetsu 4 on PS2, was junk. Remember how in like 2004 realistic physics engines started being a thing and every game started licensing Havok and had to shoehorn in a weight puzzle or something to show it off? Dawn of Mana was S-E's "WE JUST DISCOVERED HAVOK WOWZERS" game, only a few years too late. It was bad and nobody likes it.

And then there was a shovelware roguelike and a shovelware RTS and they're all bad bad bad and nobody likes Mana games from beyond the 90's. Kind of like everything else Square-Enix does.

gay skull fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Mar 4, 2015

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


FactsAreUseless posted:

PS1 version with the translation patch that applies the PSP translation

Or the PSP version with the patch that fixes the slowdown that was added because Square-Enix sucks.

What's wrong with the PSP version other than that?

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Maxis must have had a warchest bigger than the Catholic Church's for them to survive seven years after Spore

Also lmao at the guy who owns the rights to trollface, I guess copyright trolling with memes now is a thing that happens

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


The Taint Reaper posted:

How did KOTOR not sink EA?

KOTOR wasn't an MMO, Taintypants.

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Excels posted:

reminder that shigesato itoi said that porky will still be alive after the heat death of the universe

he got the worst fate of all

How did he get that capsule anyway?

Or was that the same thing as he had at the end of Earthbound that I guess he bought with all his Monotoli money?

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Are any of you at PAX East and if so how is it

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Nasgate posted:

:agreed:

Borderlands and diablo-likes would be actually enjoyable if the legendary, cool looking weapons and armor with useful or neat effects were every drop. Instead of having to manage your inventory of a million useless pointy sticks.

Yup.

As much as I love Borderlands and have played it, I've never EVER found a pearlescent weapon. What the hell :mad:

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Real hurthling! posted:

codename steam has like minute + long enemy turns that can't be sped up

Thank you for saving me the time and effort it takes to download and try the demo, now I've got enough free time to lift weights and bodybuild for the summer.

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Beast Pussy posted:

This is a big part of why I'm playing less games these days. Abysmal drop rates, long grinds, and the like. Who has the time to be treated like this in their leisure time? I just want a video game that is cool with me only playing it sometimes, and I still get to have fun with it.

There are like a billion good games these days, you don't have to play anything grindey if you don't want to. Just play something you can pick up for 10 minutes at a time and get a solid good time from, like Saints Row or Super Mario 3D Land. Or like any pinball game ever

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Hey if you're reading this, I hope you're enjoying scrubbing through my post history, and yes I truly am the funniest poster in Games. Enjoy my posts and remember, stay away from anime!

gay skull fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Mar 25, 2015

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Zombies' Downfall posted:

Now I think Harvest Moon is the Seinfeld of games, technically you're supposed to be industriously farming but iirc there's nothing at least in the SNES game that keeps you from being a slovenly idiot who doesn't grow a thing and just goes into town and hangs out at the cafe

Get all the women up to a yellow heart and then dump them for the tiniest reasons

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Just found a copy of Borderlands 1 GOTY for five bucks, now I have a huge Borderlands poster to hang in my room, hell yeah

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


precision posted:

by your "room" I assume you mean "dorm room", right?

No, it's an abandoned porta-potty under a bridge in Albuquerque.

I live in a house, weirdo. What's it matter to you where I live?

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Bicyclops posted:

I do not judge anyone for their poster choices, but as an adult I find that the only things I really have room for on my wall anymore are photographs of friends and family, keepsakes from travel or important life events, and the like.

The Year of Luigi is of course an important life event, though.

I hate having pictures of real people up on my walls. I feel like they're constantly judging me, staring at me and reminding me how my life didn't turn out the right way even though I thought I did everything right and having a decent job and education was all I needed. Video game posters and stuff don't judge me and remind me about how much fun they are, so that's why I brought along my game posters and other decorative crap along with me when I grew up.

And I don't really have any keepsakes aside from travel photos, which are all digital. Souvenirs that aren't video game related don't mesh with my collection, and therefore I'd rather just take a photo and keep it digital than have it take up space in my home.

precision posted:

In my head, the only people who would hang up posters of Borderlands would do so in a dorm room. It's like the Boondock Saints of video games.

The Boondocks Saints is a sci-fi movie with a bunch of fantasy guns, redneck humor and a story about bounty hunters searching for a legendary macguffin?

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


I had one of those one year and it was handy because they had a number that was hard to memorize.

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


precision posted:

my girlfriend hung a madoka magica wall scroll over our bed

i'm sure at least one of you thinks i'm kidding but i assure you i am not

You could have just tried Viagra instead

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


The best part about Final Fantasy arguments is that people who say anything from the 13 series is good always has to list reasons why, before anyone asks

Meanwhile with 6 and 9 you can just say they're good and drop the mic

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


If you put the best Final Fantasy numbers together you get 6 and 9, which form the official funny number "69". 13 is a very unfunny number so there's no wonder it's bad.

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Also I couldn't think of any Irish games, or anything really very "green" to play for St Patrick's Day. I guess I coulda played the Flogging Molly songs in Guitar Hero but gently caress it I burnt out on that game years ago

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


What did Ness say after he listened to Joe Rogan too many times and went to that volcano and did his crazy DMT trip?

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Shenmue would have been a much worse game if Ryu were a mute

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


elf help book posted:

ff13-2 is really cool.

it's funny how a few pages back i mentioned how people who say the 13 series is good always have to give reasons and now you guys are trying to say they're good without reasons and it's like, lmao, i called you guys out on it hardcore

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


FactsAreUseless posted:

Yes, everyone values what you have to say.

drat straight

elf help book posted:

i fuckin love writing long posts i write them all the drat time but i gotta hold back cuz known insane retard gay skull owned me

I rule

precision posted:

by the power of gay skull! smooble'd again

gently caress yeah

Gay Skull in the hizzouse

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


The Taint Reaper posted:

Won't really make much of a difference to me though I already play Wii-U games with a Dualshock 4.

Wait, what?

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Adam Bowen posted:

It's bad because it gives you positive encouragement to keep posting no matter how bad your posts are, you need an avatar that detects whether your post is good or bad and gives a thumbs up or down based on that. You could also just make it a thumbs down.

Your avatar gives you the impression that everything you post is so good that Peach is going to go down on you for your posts

gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


The Taint Reaper posted:

You can get numerous assorted controllers working on the Wii-U because of how the hacks work. There's really no need to spend the cash on the CCPro. However there still is no way to boot the system without the tablet.

Is it some Bluetooth magic or did you take apart a PS4 controller and solder it up to a Wii Remote or something?

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gay skull
Oct 24, 2004


Isn't the whole reason MGS is wacky because Kojima originally wanted Zone of the Enders to be his legacy, so the development of the MGS series is a real life version of The Producers?

Or was that bullshit cause I heard that like 10 years ago

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