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14 minutes ago, MagusSmurf said:

It’s not the same game. DKL1 has entirely different level layouts as well as a large number of new level themes, enemies, and obstacles. Even putting graphics and sound aside (though DKL1’s graphics are certainly a shining example of doing something because you can instead of because you should), the physics and scrolling are substantially worse. I’m not sure it’s even shorter. Only 4 worlds instead of DKC1’s 6 but I’m 95% sure DKL1’s worlds have considerably more levels.

Of course it's not literally the same. I meant "the same" as in "very similar".

And you are right that the are more levels in each world. In total it makes 40 (dkc) vs 34 (dkl) levels including bosses, which is less a difference then what I expected.

Maybe the levels themselves are shorter? I dunnon, just my personal experience with each was that dkc dragged on and on and on... and on the other hand dkl was pretty nice.

On 7/25/2021 at 11:54 PM, sg17 said:

Recently tried to play f-zero gx, and I'm surprised that my controller is still intact and not smashed to pieces on the wall. The story mode ridiculously impossible to finish.

But honestly, great game. It really exceeded my expectations, and I expected quite a lot.  Only thing I wish is that it had the soundtrack from f-zero x on the n64.

Update a week later:

Tried more, but finally rage quit.

This game should be a benchmark for sadism.

I'm surprised no one has f-zero x in their top 10. For me, it's the best racing game I've played on the system. I also agree with every praise Paper Mario got here. I remember it as being the first game I was ever like totally impressed by and  aware of it. It's amazing.

On 7/30/2021 at 8:14 AM, koifish said:

I always think back to this guy who was desperate to sell through a box of fidget spinners for whatever he could get, as he put his life savings into them and then the bubble burst.

 

fidget spinner bubble? that's a thing?

On 7/30/2021 at 5:48 PM, MagusSmurf said:

are you implying DKL1 > DKC1

what

Yep. And the reason is that it's the same game just shorter. The main problem I had with dkc1 is that after like 1/3 of the game it feels like the same thing again and again. But I like to complete games, so it felt like a "chore". I guess it's a non-issue for ppl who don't have the completion ocd.

DKC is repetitive and boring. The graphics are amazing of course, but that's all it has.

DKC2 on the other hand is a masterpiece. DKC3 is also great. The DKL's are also solid. Only the first installment mediocre-ish.

Sorry ppl, I know now everybody here is going to hate me. Just deal with the truth lol

Recently tried to play f-zero gx, and I'm surprised that my controller is still intact and not smashed to pieces on the wall. The story mode ridiculously impossible to finish.

But honestly, great game. It really exceeded my expectations, and I expected quite a lot.  Only thing I wish is that it had the soundtrack from f-zero x on the n64.

13 hours ago, LeatherRebel5150 said:

I’d be interested in a pokémon Green like that if its really a translation of the japan version with all the old sprite work from over there. What would be the problem with that its just a romhack i assume? I cant speak to the box, was there ever a box for that game in the US?

12 hours ago, Tanooki said:

Agreed, I was thinking both that earlier, but also if it's actually the correct one to be translated because our RED and BLUE aren't the same pair Japan got either when they skimmed games down from 3 to 2 for the US.  I think green became blue, and blue got lost, so that would have to be pokemon blue on that one, or, there would need to be a R B G for each with the original translation and pre-standard sprites they stuck with.

I'd understand if it didn't look like an official release. Fan translations/hacks totally make sense to me, and I don't care too much for the ip issues because most of the time these are done in reasonably good faith. But here, I just find the fact it looks like an official release as kind of ugly and unfitting.

It's not always that making something look like an official release is bad. For example, there's the Pokemon Yellow for NES I see on ebay all the time. But it's so obvious that it's not an official release, so making it look like that is kind of nice. But when something looks convincing enough, it's sort of an uncanny valley that I don't like.

Honestly what I really find hard to understand is stuff like this

or this

Why would anyone want something like this?

On 5/28/2021 at 10:44 PM, MiamiSlice said:

Let me tell you what I cannot fathom: people who spend years trying to track down a game, sometimes at a reasonable price, sometimes waiting until they can finally afford it, and then they are like "I can finally play this game!" Like, wtf? Just emulate it! JUST EMULATE IT! I mean I have my dumb reasons for collecting authentic games but if I ever just want to play a retro game I have zero qualms about emulating it. I am not going to wait years to obtain a copy secondhand for just that purpose. That's insane.

I totally get it. I guess there is much more excitement if you wait patiently until you get a copy. So they sort of engineer more excitement and satisfaction for themselves in the hobby, and this actually makes a lot of sense. Also, it probably motivates them much more to find it.

I think lightning strikes don't shrink go-karts irl.

I really enjoyed MM, but I liked OOT more. Something about the atmosphere I guess... For some reason, in MM Termina feels sort of lonely. I guess it's because you reset the clock every time and then you have no ongoing interaction with other characters in the story. 

Haven't been here for some time. Here is what I added the last couple of months. Finally done getting the manuals for all the loose carts I have

11 minutes ago, Californication said:

It is amazing to me how people keep starting this discussion as Hamas is shooting rockets.

First off the Palestineans were living there first. The Israelis were given the land around Palestine. 

Second, now that the Israelis are there they cut Palestinean access to the water and other countrys off. Because Palestine cannot access other areas freely they cannot support many businesses and their economy has been decimated.

Third, in the constant wars that Israel has started against Palestine they have destroyed their hospitals, schools, power plants so they have made basic necessities unattainable. Palestineans have power for a few hours a day.

Fourth, The Israeli's have set up police check points on the Palestinean land so that the Palestinean's need certain identification to pass through and they clearly get harassed at these check points.

Fifth, for years now, the Israelis have been breaking international law by building housing moving further and further into Palestinean land to slowly take it over. (Kind of the way America encroached on Native American land slowly taking it over)

Sixth, the Israelis are having Israeili "settlers" move into homes where Palestineans are living and if the Palestineans complain they beat them or put them in jail and give the home to the settler. They are literally stealing the Palestinean homes. 

The Israelis have created an apartheid state and the Palestineans have no legal power to protect themselves or enjoy basic freedoms. Hamas shoots these pitiful rockets out of desperation. They have no legal way to redress the atrocities the Israelis are visiting on Palestine. 

So when people keep starting the conversation at Hamas is shooting rockets, Israel has the right to protrct themselves, it sounds silly to anyone who pays attention to the situation.

 

You are right with your criticism of Israel, but wrong in seeing Hamas as fighting for Palestinian freedom. Supporting the Palestinians doesn't mean supporting Hamas.

@Californication

Hamas is firing rockets on Israeli civilians for political gain. Last couple of weeks there were rising tensions in neighborhoods in east Jerusalem, with Palestinians protesting the continuing oppression by Israel (if you like, I can gladly go into more specific details). The struggle and protests were popular and grassroots, and Israeli police responded violently, as they tend to do.

What Hamas wants? To gain political credit in the eyes of the Palestinian population, as if they are responsible and leading these protests. To make people identify Hamas as representing these protests, even though they don't.

Personally, I completely support the Palestinian struggle to end the Israeli occupation, and to end all of forms of discrimination inside Israel. The current Israeli attack on Gaza is atrocious, and currently Israel is denying any cease fire talk (after all, the Israeli leadership was also just waiting for the oppurtunity to attack). But Hamas is not a party concerned with ending the occupation, they are only concerned with maintaining their political power.

I don't want it to come off as if I'm saying Hamas is responsible for the deaths in Gaza. It's the Israeli government that's responsible (and the last couple of days, all I'm doing every evening is demonstrating in the streets with this message). All I'm saying is that unfortunately, the actions of Hamas are not meant to support the struggle against the Israeli oppression.

35 minutes ago, AdamW said:

I think Pokemon gen I-III are overpriced by comparison to most other GB/GBC/GBA games (it makes little sense that Pokemon CIBs are selling for more than CIB Demikids Dark, for instance)...but OTOH, I think it's possible that if you take a long term view and compare with prices for various hard-case generation games, CIB GB/GBC/GBA is undervalued in general right now. So it's a tricky spot. It's possible the Pokemon games are closer to where GB/GBC/GBA prices might stabilize in the long term than other games are.

That said, I ain't buying at $900 In an example of current variable pricing, I did pick up a very specific Blue CIB I was looking for for $275 yesterday. Same day that https://www.ebay.com/itm/124698585973?nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true went for $985. Still, that one did come with a fancy acrylic case, and we all know those are worth $700!

I think GB is very distinct from GBC and GBA.

First, from what I can see there are a lot more cibs out there for GBA, a couple of times I considered getting a cib just because I'm always looking for cart+manual and there were actually much more options for cibs and they tended to cost like getting the cart and the manual separately. Never did it because I don't want it to fill up space and I also don't want to take apart a cib to flip the box.

Second, I think the original gameboy has much more iconic titles. I think most the people who contributed to the rising prices of cibs want to get like two or three games they really like, and not a ton of games. And I think GBC/GBA games tend to be much less iconic then GB games.

3 hours ago, avatar! said:

I'm honestly not scared by jump scares. The first scare in the game, sure maybe that will get you. After that, it's all "ho-hum"... psychological horrors on the other hand will really get you and those are the best! Can't say I've met many that really stand out, and in fact most games people call "psychological horrors" are anything but... although two that readily come to mind are

Silent Hill (the first one)
Clock Tower (first two)

Of modern games, probably the best in a long time was

Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice

which was honestly not particularly "scary" but very well done.

For me it's not even the jump scares themselves, more like that I just hate the feeling of constantly anticipating the jump scares.

3 hours ago, MrWunderful said:

I cant imagine playing a current gen resident evil. 
 

The images ive seen make it look horrifying and I cant stand jump scares. Played the first one when it came it out and scared the shit out of me, never looked back. 

I can totally relate. I mean, as a kid even the redeads in Ocarina of Time on the n64 were a bit more then I can handle lol.

Don't know about you people, but I'm actually starting to see stuff cool off a bit, especially in the realm of **SUPER RARE!!1*** pokemon games. I was priced out of a bunch gba titles like a month or two ago, most notably LeafGreen reached like $120 in auctions which is unbelievable. Now I see $95 BINs sitting there for a couple of days with no buyers. Hopefully partial sanity will be restored soon.

Now playing Wind Waker on the cube. I'm deeply impressed and enjoying it!

I've always wanted to play Animal Crossing on the cube, but I really don't want that much commitment.

On 4/28/2021 at 6:34 AM, rdrunner said:

If 10-year-old me could beat this game with a little practice, it can't be that bad.

I couldn't even get through death mountain without save states in my 20s....

Still, I realize this is a very good game.

For whoever buys it, I think it's a better idea to spend that money (or much less actually) on psychological therapy for dealing with insecurities.

33 minutes ago, MiamiSlice said:

Did this one get posted yet? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-Mario-Land-Nintendo-Game-Boy-1989-GREEN-Screenshots-First-Print-Edition/402794665879

Same idea, it has green screenshots, but in one of the pictures you can see the side says "For sale and use in USA and Canada only." 

Isn't it weird that the manual has "1" in the end? I thought this should mean not first run.

Never played, seems interesting, but also I'm hesitant because it looks like a commitment.