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The headline might as well be AOL buys Circuit City brand name.

3 hours ago, Gloves said:

Honestly I don't. There's just so much more out there with such a massive amount of variance by comparison, these early shooters are really boring to me.

You kids with your hitboxes, loot boxes, and Xboxes just don't appreciate good old fashioned fun.

I certainly can't in good conscious give it above an average 5/10. I'd pick the vast majority of shooters over plain old Space Invaders. I don't even know how many shooters I'd consider worse. D-Force??

The only thing interesting about Space Invaders probably isn't even an intentional design choice, but when you miss a shot you really feel how bad you screwed up while you wait for it to traverse the entire screen. It's the shooter equivalent of making sure you commit to good jumps in Castlevania.

I played the 2600 version as a kid when I was bored out of my absolute mind from my limited Genesis library because Youtube didn't exist and AOL cost money per minute.

3/10

This is a cool ass video on a super specific thing I'm interested in.

Idk, 7/10. Hard to rate without historical importance in mind. To this day when I’m dawdling and building structures rather than “playing the game” in any genre, in my mind I’m “playing Sim City.” It’s like Legos building up towns then destroying them with disasters. The SNES port is also super good in a genre that consoles otherwise just give up on.

26 minutes ago, Sumez said:

I was thinking about this game just today. Or rather, this whole school of games, and about what it is that really strikes me about them that makes me distance myself from them. Even a game like TLOU that I don't strictly mind. The story is ok, and the gameplay is alright. And both are improved in the sequel.

I thought about one thing that really defines TLOU as well as many other AAA games, and other less-than-AAA ones still targeting a similar audience - the gameplay, even when it's done well, is second fiddle.

It's not just that the game is more focused on the story and presentation, but the fact that when someone got the idea for this game, it's clearly not the game they had an idea for. They had an idea for the framework to hang it on. The setting, characters, and various story beats. What the actual game would play like is very clearly something that was thought up afterwards, based on what would fit the best into the setting.

TLOU gets away with this better than a lot of other much more generic feeling games, but I think the fact that it wasn't conceived as a video game is just something that will always feel a bit off-putting to me, a person who's really into video games.

Am I completely off about this?

How can the gameplay be second fiddle when the story is that a man single handedly kills hundreds of people and finds 20 little reasons he needs to head to the prominently viewable thing on the horizon? Surely that story is so dumb people only like it for the gameplay.

It’s a store. They sell things. What kind of Jim Crow rules do you want to only sell merchandise to the right kind of customer?

On 2/15/2024 at 6:13 AM, Chris_J said:

Just curious if you’re still planning on dumping the game?

It's on my todo list, I am just slow. Soon-ish. The last time I said I was going to dump something cool it also took me a year to get around to it and we're coming up on that!

52 minutes ago, RegularGuyGamer said:

Japanese version has famicom joycons???

Wouldn't you rather have an empty NES cartridge shell though??

3 hours ago, a3quit4s said:

Pre-ordered! And thanks for the link I have a feeling this will become reseller fodder 

If Mario 3D All-Stars can make it, any Nintendo game can.

8 minutes ago, Link said:

idgi

 

Current Price

407,000 yen  (US$2,763.53)

It looks like fake bids were cancelled. It was some astronomical number.

1 hour ago, Brickman said:

I'd be surprised if all those bids are real now. The Nintendo Playstation went for $300k and this is already at $456k? It will be interesting to watch and see the final price and if it actually sells for that. 

The people have spoken. Pure Nintendo is better than Nintendo tainted with something else.

44 minutes ago, G-type said:

I've also heard Friday the 13th is fun if you play it in a very specific, non-intuitive way. I'll leave all these sorts of games for someone else.

Is the specific, non-intuitive way to ignore the haters??

Kind of done with Balatro. Definitely a fun game, but runs end up being a little too samey to spend the time unlocking everything. Start with some chips/mult, then transition to mult/X-mult hopefully with some of the most powerful jokers. At higher stakes, you can't use any of the utility/"fun" jokers because scoring consistency is all that matters. The two extreme hands (high card and flush five) also make virtually every other hand obsolete other than randomly playing them to get through early rounds.

V Rising 1.0 is coming out next week. I have around 350 hours co-op into that with my wife and they're making us start fresh saves for the full release, so lots more killing dudes and clicking rocks to do

1 hour ago, Hammerfestus said:

None of the other games are as good as the PSX MGS.

you cannot top this video game

2 hours ago, RH said:

I'm not sure which one to pick, but I think another option is an early, Pay-to-Win gacha style game.  Are these things terrible?  Yes, but whomever invented/perfected the model changed the gaming industry, though for bad.

It is easy to forget more people play mobile slot machine apps than Nintendo Switch. Something like Candy Crush is probably the real answer. Casual/mobile gaming and microtransactions that make billions are probably more influential to the whole industry than big 3D worlds that are fun to play in.

1 hour ago, Tyree_Cooper said:

The game is fine-tuned and well balanced like nothing else in gaming history.

Best skill in the game: Teleport
Classes that can learn Teleport: 1
Items that give you Teleport: 1
Number of Kurast Runs required to farm 1 Ber rune to make Enigma so I can just play the game: 754,305

Perfectly balanced

Graded shoes are also on Ebay I didn't even know about this.

15 minutes ago, final fight cd said:

Surprised it took this long. When is vinyl, shoes, and luxury items gonna be graded??!?

I don't mean to alarm you but the graded vinyl Superman III soundtrack is already on Ebay

GTA3 is my dog. I couldn't even believe that game was possible coming off of Driver and GT2 on PS. You might as well have beamed me directly into Ready Player One's VR world.

Oblivion is a big runner up for me. It's a big 3D sandbox RPG landmark. It was a big shift in game design from last gen. You never need to think in Oblivion. You load up on quests, follow the quest markers, and zone out for 300 hours of a guided dopamine tour. And Horse Armor was a landmark DLC, the snowball that began rolling down the mountain in the avalanche of garbage video games are today. You can broadly divide games into Before Oblivion ("The Good Games") and After Oblivion ("The Bad Games").

It’s just facts

1 hour ago, Reed Rothchild said:

Maybe 3 Zelda games is overkill.

I dunno, hot take? TLOZ is more 'must play' than OOT, BOTW, or ALTTP. Everyone is going to have their favorite childhood 3D Zelda going forward (TOTK for kids growing up right now) and TLOZ provides the most interesting historical context to both action/adventure games and the Zelda series. SMB isn't on the list because it has the best level design of any SMB.

The main reason to play OOT is to see the Best Game of All Time and be in awe at all the design problems it has that something like Dark Souls fixed, but those millennials still hold onto it as the best game ever. ALTTP is practically interchangeable with ALBW or LA as a brilliant 2D Zelda game, not that it's at all bad, I just think people overrate how much it stands out from other similarly great Zelda games. Both OOT and LTTP are in my top 10, lol.

16 hours ago, xelement5x said:

Just had to loop back here as a Nall (from Lunar) plush and poster came up for sale recently and it ended at a whopping $1425.  Craziest price I have seen on it so far (the poster is also in big demand too), but it has also been awhile since one was listed.  If you guys do an updated collectibles episode you've got a new thing to talk about besides the Elephant card. 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/135026805803

19 minutes ago, Tulpa said:

 

It is bananas that people don't like collecting Atari games.

You either die a flipper or live long enough to become the unaware grandpa.