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I beat Phantasy Star 4 last week. Was a good game. One plus was that it’s not as grindy as most older RPGs, but I did spend some time Leveling up anyway. They throw Star dews and moon dews at you, which made the game considerably easier toward the end. Still required a lot of healing/item management along the way, though. I still think PS2 is better, but I did enjoy PS4. It was nice to finally play through it after all these years. 

5/10

I played through it when it came out and don’t remember a thing about it. Not the gameplay, not the story, not the music. Was just another RPG to blow through as I was hungry for RPGs in the SNES era. 

@maxlords love your avatar! One of my favorite games

11 minutes ago, The Strangest said:

I’ve finally been sitting down and making an effort to beat Ninja Gaiden, not just play the first couple of levels casually. For the record, I’m bad at video games. Act 3-2 was the first level that gave me some real trouble but after much trial and error I think I have that stage and all of its hazards memorized pixel by pixel.

Good luck! It’s really not too bad, especially if you have spin slash

I’m playing Phantasy Star IV on the Switch Genesis Classics. Pretty fun. Nice visuals and cut scenes, but I haven’t been too impressed with the OST like I have with II and III. 

Not really interested in playing it. But doesn’t seem bad. Reminds me of Shadow of the Colossus. 

I think it was this one that got me into sandbox games. I love the open world games and enjoyed this one. 8/10

2 hours ago, Bearcat-Doug said:

That sounds like me if I had to pick between the beat up one or a SMB 3 custom console. While I'm at it I'll add that SMB 3 is even more overrated than Mega Man 2.

SMB3 is overrated, agree. I don't get why SMB2 gets so much flak. I think it's the best one of the NES series.

Just came on here to vent more frustrations about Odyssey. TOO MANY MOONS! I don't necessarily sneer at every attempt to artificially extend gameplay, but this is ridiculous. So why do I continue to play it? I feel like it's now my job to get the 500 moons and see what happens. This reminds me of when I played Spiderman 2 for PS2 and I was told I needed to achieve a certain number of fights or rescues or something like that (forget, it's been so long), and then after going through all of that was told that it doesn't change anything and I get nothing for my effort. Utter BS.

I’ve been looking forward to Last of Us II and don’t want to hear a thing about it until I play for myself. These people need to get real problems to worry about. Games aren’t the end-all-be-all.

^^Lol I love it!

Finally got caught up. Have been helping my stepmom with my dad and getting used to this schedule.

I'm definitely down for another month of this or a continuing thread about video game music in general. One of my niche loves that I seldom get to share with others.

On 6/7/2020 at 11:52 AM, Reed Rothchild said:

...I guess the closest thing that is coming to mind over the last decade would be Moonlighter.  I don't know if it was acclaimed or not, but man was it flawed.  Coulda been so good but they really dropped the ball on fleshing things out.

Still, I did kinda enjoy the playthrough here and there though... shit I guess I did like it.  Even if it was nothing like what I wanted it to be.

Moonlighter was a bit of a disappointment. I did enjoy it for what it was, but there isn't much to the game, really. Apparently there's DLC... might be worth it for $7.

Not interested in playing it. Wasn't my kind of game back then, and even now I wouldn't be able to get into it because of how it looks. I've never even owned an N64. Played Mario 64 at a friend's place.

54 minutes ago, ninjistar said:

Agreed. Start here. This is what's in my head.

 

I really like the jazz version:

10 hours ago, Sumez said:

Do you, though? IIRC you can buy an endless amount of moons from coins. I think it's intended like a fallback solution for people who find the moons too hard to get normally? Which doesn't make sense of course, as there's a crazy surplus of moons that take no effort to obtain.

Nope, just one to buy. But you can give Toad 50 coins to tell you where one of the moons is hiding. 

On 6/7/2020 at 10:46 AM, captmorgandrinker said:

Super Mario Odyssey.

I'm playing through Super Mario Odyssey right now. I do like it, but it's nowhere as addicting for me as the Galaxies were. Also... I like finding the moons, but there are just way too many of them... why do you have to spend 100 coins on one in each shop??

On 6/8/2020 at 10:36 PM, Tanooki said:

Earthbound -- in the later 90s I played the hell out of it guide and all and finished it, it was a nice ride, but I didn't get the love some had for it as it didn't feel like life altering, and then the asinine level of fanboy rage and love over the years it confuses me to no end.  The game has quite a few questionable to annoying design quirks either can either like or hate, no middle ground really.  In all fairness I could probably just never play it again or casually tap it with the sd2snes and be fine, but seeing the last time I got a copy around 9 years ago when it had crept over $100 even then for all of $2 I decided no amount of bait pricing would make me dump it as it cost me basically nothing.

Here's another one I agree with. I played through the entire game and found it lackluster. I don't remember any of the OST, certainly don't remember very much of the game at all. I really don't understand the fandom.

On 6/7/2020 at 4:46 PM, DoctorEncore said:

 

I thought TLoU was pretty much universally acclaimed, but I've heard similar complaints now from numerous people. I still plan to play it, but my expectations are tempered, which will probably result in a much better experience.

I really enjoyed it. The story isn't all that groundbreaking, but I like the angle they took with it. Also enjoyed the interactions between the main characters. If you don't like games that require stealth, though, I think you'll get tired of it quickly. I actually suck at stealth, even though I enjoy it. 

On 6/7/2020 at 10:04 AM, MegaMan52 said:

Final Fantasy VII. I'm dead serious.

If I want to play an RPG from Square, I'd greatly prefer playing Super Mario RPG instead. Or even the original Final Fantasy.

Same. I mentioned it in another thread. The previous Final Fantasies I've played are so much better.

3 minutes ago, 0xDEAFC0DE said:

Yesss!! I meant to look up if that game was licensed since I wasn't familiar with the source. My favorite track is the Mushroom Forest Stage (which I think is the games most well known song as well). I'm going to add that to my honorable mentions now, thanks.

I love Mushroom Forest! I was debating between that and Nightmare Land, but I decided to go with the latter.

6 minutes ago, ZeldaFreak said:

I was kind of expecting that to be an unpopular opinion given how much love there is for 8-bit stuff 'round these parts, but I'm glad you agree with me. I never even played Ducktales, but I also had a pretty emotional reaction when I first heard the remastered version a few years back. It's such an iconic song that I've been hearing it pretty much all my life despite the fact I never actually played the game.

I really recommend the remastered version. It's leaps and bounds better than the original; you wouldn't be missing anything. And it has voice acting by as much of the original cast as possible.

If anyone's awake and wants to listen to some Zelda stuff on piano, check out lara6683 on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lara6683

On 6/3/2020 at 1:27 AM, ZeldaFreak said:

 

Day 9: (Licensed) | Moon Theme - Ducktales Remastered
This is the only reason I didn't use the Moon Theme on the 8-bit day, because I knew I could use it today instead (And also because I wanted to use the remastered version since I personally prefer it over the original.)

The remastered version is amazing. I literally wept when I listened to it for the first time.

Oh, I didn't know shmups were included... ah well

On 6/5/2020 at 9:34 PM, rdrunner said:

 

Day 3 8-Bit: Air Fortress (NES), Title Screen - Hard to get more 8-Bit than this.  Had to fit it in somewhere!

Good music there but the game... yikes. I hate pressure situations, so I didn't get along well with it.