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Shout out to Oblivion for its just-run-at-this-arrow HUD being a major influence in ruining my immersion in video game worlds for the past 18 years. (Still love Oblivion tho)

AD&D: Pool of Radiance is done. This game is very long, but more enjoyable than M&M because you always have new clear goals and the maps are full of more actual stuff even if it's just fun little flavor. It does get tedious, but lots of areas have logical ways to stop or get around random encounters. The relatively low stakes are cool, helping out a town with the local kobolds and a weird guy in a pyramid polluting the river. It does feel like a low level D&D campaign. Fun stuff. I ended up with a party of F, F/C, F/M, C, M which seemed fine. I never needed more than my F/C to heal and the mage spell Stinking Cloud is incredibly OP, so if I was powergaming through again I might try 4x F/M, 1x M/C. I would also make absolutely sure to roll 18 constitution for all my guys for that precious HP. Thieves are useless. This game doesn't have many traps and I simply ran through all of them with no issues. M&M and Pool of Radiance are definitely the longest NES games I've ever played. I wonder how @ZeldaFreak is doing with Mutant Virus and Bases Loaded IV

Is @Johnny making you buy silly Disney GBA games

I mean it's not all legislation but 3 Supreme Court picks and striking down national abortion rights and affirmative action, Masterpiece Cakeshop, reduced EPA oversight of fossil fuels, maintaining the gun control status quo of thoughts and prayers, etc. It might not be popular but conservatives certainly are effective at achieving their goals. What are the Biden admin's biggest wins? An infrastructure bill, Covid economic soft landing, and ending the occupation of Afghanistan? While great, that sure doesn't feel like some win for the left, it just feels like, you know, stuff that everyone should agree is good? And so we ratchet on.

Gameplay doesn't get better than Path of Exile with no loot filter

Maybe 6 tho

Get Holiday Road out of my head. I didn't ask for this. One, singular, earworm word cannot make an entire song. 3/10. RoooOOOOHhAAAHhhhooooHOOOoAAd.

Benstylus? What's up? Branching out from the ol' UGTZ?

SOTN is a foundational game! We wouldn't be forced to deal with the term """Metroidvania""" without it, and you're not going to tell me anyone would ever say that if only Simon's Quest existed. 10/10 by default.

Zoo Keeper rules. I've had this Taito multicade thing in my office for the longest time and literally the only thing I ever play on it is Zoo Keeper.

"Meh. There's plenty of better alternatives to this" sounds very right. AC2 alone made the original feel boring and repetitive, let alone all the pirate shanty singing, Greek naval warfare simulation stuff the series got later on. 4/10

10. We must embrace the 10.

I work with a middle-aged Korean woman who doesn't play video games, but interjected when me and a buddy were talking about competitive SC2. We said "Wait I thought you don't play video games" and she said "Well Starcraft, everyone plays Starcraft".

If it's 8 or so hours before your bedtime, that's barely enough time to squeeze in a run of Blaster Master. Today's the day!

Hyper Demon is a modern big-budget game that's 100% a score leaderboard. If it isn't big budget, how did they afford all those demons?

Ice Ice Baby got its own thread, so you know off the bat these are B-listers.

Big enough for fcgamer’s standards

The average game is a 5. Embrace the 5.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/116043543066 Not sure if this was posted somewhere but it's not often we get numbers beyond "uhhhh its rare, so 10,000". It's cool to have a barometer of real production numbers compared to how rare something "feels". Sonic Heroes Super Monkey Ball Duo Pack - 7500 Super Monkey Ball 2-Pack - 14819 Sonic Adventure 2-pack - 10800 Pure Evil 2-pack - 12600

I was going to make a comment that Batman wouldn't kill people, but I guess this is the game where he has a gun.

AD&D Pool of Radiance. This game seems really cool. I thought I was getting sick of old RPGs, but it turns out Might and Magic can just be exhausting since it takes a really long time in between discovering new things. After you've committed mass murder or killed the boss on a particular map, random encounters stop and you can explore mostly at leisure (which both makes sense and seems like oddly high quality of life for a game from 1988). The slaughter is frequently broken up by little story encounters in certain rooms and even if they're 10 seconds long they're appreciated.

I think it's alright. A lot of the platforming is slow-ish and can be precise to the point of being finnicky (at least if you want to avoid hits). The wall jump mechanic and mood are pretty rad. I think I'd like it more if it went more into the platforming and had fewer annoying enemies. Joker is a pretty cool boss too. 6/10

Donkey Kong Jr Math I think they're saying Japanese like math, lol.

This game rules, thanks for never stopping All this work is going into by far the best fighting game on NES.