Reed Rothchild

True words.  It is foolish and wrong to mourn the websites that died. Rather we should thank God that such websites lived.  I think Patton said that.  Very ahead of his time technologywise.

10 minutes ago, Quest4Nes said:

Mr Landers you do have the SNES  contest Archive saved right? Did you update the records from last year?

Yeah.  I was gonna post it, but back on day one I didn't have permissions for that forum.  I'll get back to it eventually.  Our good friend @guillavoie did me the favor of backing up the actual monthly threads too

I wouldn't even bother posting over there, out of respect for the dead

edit: Nooo! Beaten to the punch

I only own my Steve Young Jersey from when I was 10.  I'm thinking of busting it out for Halloween

1 hour ago, guitarzombie said:

 

From Dusk til Dawn?

To paraphrase what I once said

NES is better for games where you're trying to get through it in a single shot, or going for high scores, or for general arcade experiences.  Contras, Castlevanias, Mega Mans, Ninja Gaidens, Donkey Kongs, Bubble Bobble, etc.

SNES is better for bigger, deeper playthroughs.  The RPGs, Link to the Past, Super Metroid, etc.

Finished The Illustrated Man.  Lots of winners in there.  And not far into the "Sun Dome" story I realized I had already read it.  In The Sound of Thunder compilation.

Starting up The Hero of Ages

5 hours ago, Fleck586 said:

 Bought it on sale at gamestop. It is way down on my backlog. But I really hope I get to play it at some point

Funny, I just got it in the mail today.  I couldn't tell if it was truly out of print or not (not likely), but it definitely seems like a low print run sorta game, so I just went ahead and got it while I could.

I love that style of game.

And keep in mind you and I are very much both old school JRPG guys.

My top 10 11 favorites:

A Link Between Worlds

Shin Megami Tensei IV

Shin Megami Tensei IV - Apocalypse

Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright (the best Layton game and the best Wright game)

Puzzles and Dragons - Mario Edition (seriously)

Fire Emblem Fates

Persona Q

Super Mario 3D World

Mario Golf World Tour

Metroid Samus Returns

Virtue's Last Reward

Honorable mentions

Theatrythym Curtain Call

Layton 5

Layton 6

Rhythm Thief

Fire Emblem Awakening

Any Etrian Odyssey game

Zero Time Dilemna

Shovel Knight

Shantae Pirates Curse

Azure Striker Gunvolt

The ports that you can't go wrong with

Dragon Quest VII

Dragon Quest VIII

Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor Reclocked

Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker

Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey

Radiant Historia

Star Fox 64

Ocarina of Time

Majora's Mask

Rayman 2

Luigi's Mansion

Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga

Mario and Luigi Bowser's Inside Story

Donkey Kong Country Returns

Xenoblade

Haven't played yet

Fire Emblem Echoes

Ever Oasis

Persona Q2

Stella Glow

Bravely Default and Second

Any of those Pokemans games

On 10/23/2019 at 7:44 PM, MrMark0673 said:

The Dragon Quest VIII remake on the 3DS is easily the best JRPG I've ever played.  I enjoyed Dragon Quest IX a ton as well, but I think people were more mixed on that than some others in the series.

I bought  a Switch like 2 years ago now hoping that they would port DQXI over.  It was my first pre-order game ever, but unfortunately I haven't had time to try it out yet.  New curriculum at school and family have taken up a ton of my time.  Hoping to really dig into it around the new year.

 

I love DQ8 so much.  Haven't done the 3DS version, which I hear has changed voice actor(s), but it's on my replay list.

2 hours ago, MeganJoanne said:

Gave a couple of Gameboy games a try.

Battle of Olympus for Gameboy is terrible. Character now has a floaty jump, enemies behave slightly different, you can be hit back repeatedly until dead, if you strike while an olive or leaf are in front of you they get destroyed (WTF), and enemies take more hits. I could not even make it to Athena because the hoppy hoofed guys kept killing me. Damn shame, ruin a perfectly good classic like that.

Final Fantasy Adventure, feels like Mystic Quest on the SNES but active battles like Legend of Zelda. Okay except for limitations not just on keys but mattocks and those are used to break walls, problem is guessing which walls are breakable. Sure one could think, well Zelda was like that will the bombs, only with these mattocks, I haven't seen an enemy drop any. Enemies seem to be able to wander anywhere, across river, through solid rock. The music is good thus far from what I heard though and I don't mind the simplicity of the gameplay. Just got the mirror after killing the dragon/hydra boss.

I'm also playing that right now.  You can swing a sword at walls to hear a sound signifying they can be broken, and I think every dungeon should have a random spawning mob that drops mattocks.

18 minutes ago, skinnygrinny said:

Rotfl! Imagine if mrs. Sanda sees this lol she gonna be like “what in the fuck is wrong with you?”. 
 

mrs kai be like “you cheating on me?” 

Believe me, she already thinks this

Someone find me skinnys avatar after he lost that bet to me

@JamesRobot

On 10/28/2019 at 12:54 AM, skinnygrinny said:

I gotta say quaze is the next best looking guy behind me. That reed guy is weird looking! 

Then why'd you settle down and have kids with me?

1 hour ago, empire said:

I dont drink booze so hows about coffee 

 

What is that, the German version of Link's Awakening?

Now we truly do know who the real monster is

Agent, bodyguard, unauthorized biographer and drug dealer-- uh, keeper-awayer.

21 hours ago, Gloves said:

I had the CD bundle version of Super Robot Taisen but it was one of the first games I sold when I joined NA in 2017. Kiiiiinda regret doing so as I never reeeeally gave the game a proper go, but I will say that I do seem to recall the combat being more fan service than strategy. And I mean that's probably fine for what it is, but I like difficulty in my RPGs if it can be helped.

I had it and played through it and got rid of it.  Before it spiked in value.

It's pretty meh.

I had it.  But traded it to RLH.  It's probably WATA slabbed now.

I should probably be trying harder to work on this now that I basically have no carts to buy.  But it's been nice having money again.

No way I'm owning 8 NBA Jam guides though.

Goddamn that final guy!

Beat Jim Lee's Wild Cats on the last continue, on the last life.  I got to him on my first credit...

Niners are 7-0 and my man Kupp is killing it.  I was shouting his name from the rooftops back in 2013

Myth 4

Skies of Arcadia 2

Ikaruga 2

Devil Survivor 3

Wind Waker 2

Ocarina of Time 2

Killer 7 2

Blast Corps 2

Star Fox 64 2

3D Dot Heroes 2

Skygunner 2

Warcraft IV

Grim Fandango 2

Flinthook 2

Darkest Dungeon 2

Radiant Historia 2

Vagrant Story 2

Front Mission 6

Tactics Ogres 2

Ogre Battle 3

Final Fantasy Tactics 2

Sunset Riders 2

Some of those have sequels, but they took several steps back.  I want direct sequels.

I'll work on updating the OPs tonight, and try to get fully caught up after finishing my current batch of writing