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4 minutes ago, Sumez said:

Tunic is exactly the same as whatever Fez is.

Is the developer an absolute dingus then?

1 hour ago, Gloves said:

They really need to move on from it honestly, it's been over a decade.

Are you trying to kill the game industry by stopping remakes of beloved 10 year old games?

The PC version is $15 more expensive and only includes a Steam code, lol. Just don’t release a PC version if you don’t want to guys. 

I found something really rare that I don't think anyone cares about, but I don't know where else to post it except SegaAge 2 the Sega CD thread. A JVC service manual for Electronic Book Decoder, which has to be one of the rarest piece of console software ever because this is the only thing my saved search ever hit. It came from a stereo dealer who had a bunch of old JVC manuals.

Quick album of the contents: https://imgur.com/a/qK6LxXb

4 hours ago, CT said:

Tunic - it's on my list but I thought it was more of an action-adventure game

Is Tunic not an action adventure game? The only reason I haven't played it is because I've played literally every Zelda game so I kind of don't need more.

1 hour ago, wongojack said:

Tell me this (in spoiler tags if you have to).  Is there a required vs not required set of puzzles in the game?  Is there some sort of "main track" and a way to discern when you are on it?

There are 11 main areas and you need to complete at least 7 of them to get to the credits. A big laser appears when you beat each area. There's no linear path through the game. You sometimes have to bop back and forth between areas because you'll eventually hit puzzle concepts that you'll only understand from the other areas.

7 minutes ago, Sumez said:

You really should play KQ4 tho!

You always keep me on my toes

16 minutes ago, Sumez said:

Untitled Goose Game (bought this for my gf when she was having her "geese are fun" phase, but we never tried it )

This game is the perfect co-op girlfriend game. I mean Starcraft II might be the best RTS ever, but I'm still urging you to try this instead since it's the best stealth goose puzzle game ever.

Some from various "top" lists:

Hades
Disco Elysium
Red Dead Redemption 1/2
Fortnite, Apex Legends, Overwatch, any modern multiplayer FPS
Dishonored 1/2
Bloodbourne
Alien: Isolation
DOTA 2
League of Legends (I barely have a concept of what a MOBA even is. It seems like a combo of RTS and ARPG PVP)
Far Cry 3
Borderlands 2
Xenoblade Chronicles
God of War 2-5
Bayonetta
Persona 4-5
The Witcher 3
Return of the Obra Dinn
Half Life Alyx

I've played almost all of the cliche 80s and 90s stuff until you get into the advanced nerd lists that start throwing in A Mind Forever Voyaging and King's Quest IV to keep you on your toes.

I'm interested in a few: Hades, Disco Elysium, and Obra Dinn. But man, I have played a lot of action games, a lot of FPS games, a lot of RPGs. It's hard to imagine every single good action game a "must play!". These top games ever lists are always overinfested with action and FPS games. The IGN top list has 15 FPS and 0 2D shooters. OK.

14 hours ago, mbd39 said:

modern computer RPGs such as Neverwinter Nights

I love this website

44 minutes ago, OptOut said:

Normal person: Man, finally I can truly see how many Sealed Mario 64's VGA have graded! 

Tyler:

 

You have to look that up to know that game is DIRT COMMON TRASH? You must be new here

13 minutes ago, wongojack said:

I mean, I like line puzzles, but I didn't realize the whole game was going to be made up of them.

Maybe I was playing it wrong and there were some other puzzles to discover.

You're missing out on EVEN BETTER line puzzles

The Witness and Baba is You are my two favorite puzzle games.

I love the vibes and look of The Witness and the puzzle design is amazing. Every puzzle adds a new a-ha moment. It’s never simply the same concept repeated in different way for filler. Filler gameplay?? Jonathan Blow would never! It is easy to see where the many years of design and polish went. It’s a masterpiece. The only bad part of the entire, very long game is a few audio puzzles that might as well be impossible.

Baba is You gets ridiculously hard and some later complex words are unintuitive for my small brain. Every time I thought I learned some fundamental concept of a puzzle solution, new mechanics would make me start from square 1. Very un-sokoban-like in that way.

Both games make you break out graph paper and do like… math. They are frequently sit down and work on one frustrating puzzle type games, not sit down and breeze through a dozen puzzles for dopamine hit games.

11 minutes ago, OptOut said:

You had access to the full libraries of every console ever made, and THIS was in your top picks to search for? 

You are a special breed, Tyler!

It’s the dumbest thing I could think of that someone would grade 

The most memorable days are my longest days. Staying up all night watching Laserdisc horror movies on Halloween in middle school, not sleeping for a two days straight with gaming, music, and partying with friends at Magfest back when I could physically do that in my 20s , a long day hiking in the middle of nowhere desert turned into a night of games and shows at Vegas. Damn it's all hedonistic entertainment, I should lie and say something more sentimental.

On 4/14/2024 at 6:16 AM, fcgamer said:

Wouldn't say it was my best day, but November 14th was pretty legendary, about 18 years ago 

Is that the day you started lining up for the Nintendo Wii? Same.

3 minutes ago, final fight cd said:

How the heck is a disc based game qualified?

I dunno how VGA works. Sometimes with high value rare stuff they'll grade it when it's not new (Prototypes, NWC stuff). I know Wata has "NS" graded slide box Genesis games, which means the seal was so bad someone told Wata to take it off, but you can be sure no one ever slid the inner box out of the slip cover

Someone tell me something interesting they found. You can only search for individual games right?

NWC Gray: 2 (Seems really low?)
NWC Gold: 1 (Also seems too low? I've seen multiple maybe they were regraded)
Stadium Events: 8
Steel Battalion Big Box: 2
Elemental Gearbolt Assassin's Case: 1
BOTW Master Edition: 65
Doom PC: 0 (1 listed as v1.666 which means it must be opened afaik)
Chase the Chuck Wagon: 0
GTA: San Andreas PS2: ~450 (Anything more common than this?)

Cool project since Blinking Light Win is basically dead (or just always out of stock?). It looks like almost the same thing.

1 hour ago, Strange said:

Any lesser known stuff that you did like? Ys and Rondo are definitely on my radar but I’m going to try to dig deeper.

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58 minutes ago, sp1nz said:

Even Sonic 1 beats it for me

It's too easy and the main power up's benefit is skipping over parts of the level, which is like making the P wing the main power up in SMB3. It's not as varied as SMB3 or YI. It's too expensive CIB. 10/10, almost as good as NSMBU Deluxe.

sonic 2 is good, i said it

On 4/8/2024 at 9:46 AM, a3quit4s said:

My favorite argument so far is Sonic 2 is gonna win because it’s popular and people haven’t played the other games in a fucking game collecting forum full of people who play a shit ton of different games across any system lmao

There's this one high up guy who usually hasn't played it though