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Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
I can't wait for Zelda U, coming Christmas 2015.

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Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Harrow posted:

Wait, what the gently caress, Mario Maker is coming out for 3DS? I totally missed that. Is it going to be stripped-down or what?

Only so far as to remove the ability to share levels. That is, the entire point of the game.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
Bloodborne would be perfect if blood vial farming wasn't a thing.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Sakurazuka posted:

Spend any spare echoes you have on blood vials towards the start of the game and you never have to farm.

Yeah, that wasn't true at all for me, certainly not by the time I was fighting Ludwig or the Orphan. Of course by then there's some places to farm souls and buy vials in bulk, but it still sucks to do when you have to stop making attempts against a boss to do it.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Zaphod42 posted:

And the enemies are balanced for your new stats, that's why its NG+. Its still every bit as hard, if not harder.

I haven't tried NG+ in Bloodborne, but in the Dark Souls series this isn't true. Having high stats and fully upgraded weapons absolutely destroys bosses in the first ~2/3 of the game, regardless of the slight extra health and damage it gives them.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
"Changing up the formula" got us things like Metroid Prime and Paper Mario. Change is good sometimes.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
tane

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

StrixNebulosa posted:

That would actually be kind of cool - the only pitchfork weapon I know of in games is in the Dark Souls 1 DLC.

Look at this bozo, never played Blood :mmmhmm:

(Also the four-pronged plow showed up again in DS3 [inexplicably, with 5 prongs])

Olive! fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Dec 2, 2016

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Regy Rusty posted:

Yeah, I unfortunately hate it which is too bad because I love Shovel Knight. The weird bomb based gameplay just wasn't fun for me.

Still extremely excited for Specter Knight!

:yeah::agreed::same:

I only tried playing the Plague Knight DLC recently, I posted about in the PYF and I was treated like I was insane. It's just bafflingly uncontrollable to me.



I'm glad someone knew

Olive! fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Dec 2, 2016

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

FirstAidKite posted:

IMO the first level is one of the hardest as plague knight since it is before you get any of your major bomb and movement abilities. The game really opens up with more abilities later and you can, iirc, get an explosion that lets you control yourself better in the air. It has a learning curve to it, but plague knight is definitely very controllable once you can get the hang of him or at least unlock the hover explosion thing

I may try to get back into it but I also seem to have some kind of mental block when it comes to characters with projectiles. I have the same problem with characters like Snake or Diddy Kong in Smash Bros.

e: Not on the control ability particularly, more trying to manage where my character is plus where my projectiles are/are heading towards.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
I don't think anyone in the world hits the F or V keys with their thumb.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Stux posted:

very important when the prompt for f + v appears to keep your thumb one button away on the space bar and instead rotate your hand around awkwardly to hit them

Stux posted:

you think you have to rotate your whole wrist to hit f and v

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
I choose to believe the recent Dadgame trend started with Nier Gestalt

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Bad Seafood posted:

I tried one of the Megaman X games and couldn't get into it.

That's my Megaman story, thank you.

That's fine.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Zaphod42 posted:

Plus wtf is a "Heatnix" ?

It should be Blaze Phoenix or Heat Phoenix. :v:

Wtf is a Kuwanger

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

CJacobs posted:

:eng101:

edit: Also, stag beetles rule because they fight each other for female stag beetles' affection by suplexing each other

I read Jojo, I know a lot about stag beetles fighting each other :anime:

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Harrow posted:

It's the only Mega Man game I can think of where there really is a "do this stage first, no, seriously" stage. Unfortunately that also tends to mean you're probably going to do the stages in the same order every time unless you intentionally don't go to the boss who's very obviously weak to Chill Penguin's weapon.

A couple pages back because I was catching up with this thread, but I don't think it's all that obvious from the boss select screen which one is weak to Shotgun Ice. It's not the one I would have immediately expected.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Sakurazuka posted:

Don't engage with Stux

e: whoops, hit the emptyquote button, no that was totally an accident, really

Anyway, without Megaman 7 we would never have had this:



Which I think is a pretty good strike against Megaman 7.

Olive! fucked around with this message at 09:10 on Dec 6, 2016

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
I was interested in it like 8 years ago.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
So who's going to be buying Nintendo's next Amiibo, 'Mostly Featureless White Cube'

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
Totally unrelated to the current discussion, I just learned about Bonesaw being banned from running at AGDQ/SGDQ next year and man, that kind of sucks. He was super entertaining. He probably shouldn't have encouraged the viewers to spam Air Canada on Twitter, though.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Quest For Glory II posted:

That guy will probably eventually be allowed to come back just to attend but probably not to run. I doubt he would want to anyway, after the fallout

That's what I said. He was banned from running for the next year, not attending.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Quest For Glory II posted:

Now is that GDQ saying that, or is that Bonesaw seeing that his run did not get in and making a bad assumption

Bonesaw's run was funny last year but I don't think they can either top it or repeat it. the novelty of that disasterpiece would quickly turn on its heel. maybe in a year he can bring his A game and still be funny

Bonesaw577 posted:

Some people have been hitting up my DMs asking me what I'm submitting for AGDQ. Though I don't mind the occasional mail concerning what my speedrun plans are for future GDQ events, I feel you all have a right to know that due to some of the things that happened/were said/done at SGDQ 2016, I have been barred from submitting games to both AGDQ and SGDQ 2017 (submissions on my part will be allowed again in 2018).
Though this was a decision made by GDQ staff, I don't blame anybody at GDQ for my performance or for the decision at hand and neither should anyone else (anyone looking to brandish their pitchforks and torches should not do so). I'm not going to comment further on the subject. I fully respect the decision. Though I cannot submit games to the events, I can still attend the event/do commentary/and all that jazz. Though I cannot play, I haven't written off attending future GDQ events, so maybe I'll go to another in the future. Just felt like those who were concerned have a right to know. Sorry about the unfortunate situation. Thanks for understanding! ^^

This is what he said about it. Make what you will of it. Maybe your assumption is right, but I have no reason to believe he's lying.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
That's fair. People on the internet like to stir up all kinds of bullshit when things don't go their way.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Lizard Wizard posted:

What'd bonesaw do???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RylQGkoZpSE

I guess the run got too rowdy. I think it was at like 2 AM. He and the couch kept making jokes about actors after being told not to, a couple times during the run he muttered swears. It was a fun run, and the audience messing with him by clapping was great. The stuff I quoted above was a pastebin he linked on his Twitter (because it was too long). Oh, he also told people to tweet at Air Canada, probably without realizing just how many people watching were stupid enough to spam them.

e: Actually it was at 11PM.

Olive! fucked around with this message at 10:50 on Dec 7, 2016

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
Last I heard Uyama hasn't even been heard from in 2 years.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Captain Invictus posted:

On the other hand, team poor life choices are infinitely more entertaining than you will ever be.

PJ and Mecha's run of Battleblock Theater in 2015 is still the funniest + my favorite run ever from GDQ.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
I just caught my first shiny Pokemon ever. :) How are you guys doing?

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

raditts posted:

This month, I am resuming my quest to finally finish Earthbound, a quest that began back when the game was relatively new but I've never completed since I inevitably put the game down at some point and don't get back to it for a few years. I'm determined to finish it this time, but I always find myself getting sleepy after playing it for an hour or two. It's bizarre and doesn't happen to me for any other game.

Good luck! It's a very charming game. :)

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Bicyclops posted:

Metroid and Castlevania don't even seem that similar to me.

The Castlevania part of the term Metroidvania originates with Symphony of the Night. The earlier games really have no similarity to Metroid.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

In Training posted:

SOTN and Super Metroid are at like polar opposites of 2D exploratory game design though

Can you elaborate?

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
More games should be linear.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
I'm still disappointed with Twilight Princess giving us the Spinner, a tool that by all means should have been cool and fun, and then relegating it entirely to specific wall tracks and keyhole mechanisms. If you try to ride the Spinner anywhere else, you're not getting far.

Also the new Pokemon solved the lovely HM problem by removing HMs entirely.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Palpek posted:

I had a good pizza for lunch on friday. It's called a meter of pizza and you get a 1m long pizza divided into 4 flavors. There were 6 of us and we ate it together, it was pretty nice.

What kind of pizza is measured in length rather than diameter?

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
Thanks to the Anti Food Porn thread's "No Pizza Rules", everyone has technically eaten pizza

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
Dark Souls 2 does the difficulty scaling thing, in the form of 'if you kill an enemy enough times, it stops respawning'. (Unless you join the covenant that specifically makes the game harder)

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Jyrraeth posted:

Are there any good bartend-y games? My bro gifted me VA-11 Hall-A and its so far fun but the writing is... uhhhh

not my cup of tea

joke answer: dwarf fortress

Cook Serve Delicious might be the closest you can get.

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Ciaphas posted:

I know it's really the Vaporware Scam Of The Century but, deep down inside, I want Star Citizen to come out and be good and also to have VR support

I need more space escapism :(

I definitely read this as 'Vaporwave Scam Of The Century"

Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...
Stardew Valley is extremely good. But please, for the sake of anyone playing, install a mod to show where people are on the map.

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Olive!
Mar 16, 2015

It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

In Training posted:

My bar to clear I "better than Mega Man 7" which, if the X games get worse than that, wow

:unsmigghh:

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