Makar

4 hours ago, Tanooki said:

Phantom Hourglass was so bad I didn't even bother with the other after seeing the comments on that being somewhat similar.  The combination of the borderline broken touch controls that turned Link into sonic going all spinball on accident more than just being able to natural was a big issue.  But couple that with the re-run, repeat dungeon from grating hell to keep backtracking too along wiht it was the eventual kiss of death and sell off of the game for me.  Visuals and audio great, atmosphere fun, control and that hell space was too much to tolerate.

Huh we had a very different experience. I don’t remember the game being bad or the controls being bad at all. If you want bad controls for a more recent game look at kid Icarus uprising. 

On 3/13/2022 at 7:41 PM, Makar said:

Didn’t make a list this year but I did just beat my first game yesterday - Pokémon legends Arceus. 

And I’m up to two games beaten this year now lol. Just finished up Wargroove on the switch. Excellent game 

After a couple years of on and off playing and getting stuck on the 2nd to last battle in the game, I have FINALLY beaten Wargroove. Super good game especially if you like tactics games like Fire Emblem and Advance Wars. It has its own charm, it’s not too easy, and it has nice battle mechanics. 

The 2nd to last battle took me a ton of tries to beat and I got a lovely D rank when I finally did lol. You’re extremely outnumbered, the enemy takes control of one of your units every other turn, you can’t get more units easily at all, and if you lose any unit during the battle you lose. 

The last battle was tough too but not as bad as the 2nd to last one. 
 

Alright I gotta add Wargroove to the list just for the last 2 battles in the game alone. It’s a tactics game like advance wars. The 2nd to last battle took me at least 15 tries to beat and I only ended up beating it by resorting to a checkpoint I saved in the game. If any single unit on your team dies in this battle, you lose. One tiny wrong move and you’re done. then the last battle was pretty tough too. Not as bad but you have a tiny crew against a giant force. Solid game, definitely recommend but tough at the end. 

42 minutes ago, LutherDestroysTheGond said:

I snagged the CE since it seems it's the final 3DS release.  The ordering opened like 90 seconds early so I pounced on it.  I normally don't do CEs, especially with LRG as I was basically paying $30 for stickers and a CD.  Just worried that if I wanted it down the line I'd be gouged by scalpers.  

Only 1000 copies of the CE. That coin looks pretty cool

1 hour ago, LutherDestroysTheGond said:

Surprised no one mentioned Kokopolo at Linited Run Games today.  The standard edition of both games is still available. But the dual pack and CE are all sold out.  

Thanks for the reminder! Only 2500 copies and the game looks interesting yes please. 

20 hours ago, CMR said:

I thought Zelda Phantom Hourglass was fantastic.  I had a really good time with it, but Spirit Tracks just felt like a chore.

Good call with phantom hourglass. I forgot about that one

6 hours ago, Dr. Morbis said:

It says at the top to rate the games based on personal preferences.  By your logic, there's no point doing polls on any games back past maybe PS3 since, you know, all those old video games have been superceded by the PS4 and PS5 games, right?  Should a poll on Goldeneye be getting all 3's and 4's since Call of Duty is "so much better" ?!? wtf!

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Anyway, as for Mario Kart 64, I gave it a 9/10 for personal preferences - it's a fun racing game and I still play it to this day; the only thing really keeping me from giving it a 10 is that they went way too far with the ridiculous rubberbanding.  Other than that, yeah, it has all the usual pratfalls of being an N64 game, but I don't hold them against each individual game.  Either you still enjoy playing the N64 or you don't... 

Mario Kart 64 just really isn’t good. The controls are awful and you can barely see the course on many levels. The only Mario kart that is worse than N64 is super Mario kart. You want the successor games in a franchise to improve and that is the case with Mario kart. You don’t want games to be like Pokémon where they regress with later iterations. There are plentyyyyy of old games that are better than newer games or still just as good, or even different, but aged well. Super Mario bros 3 for example is better than new super Mario bros or really most current Mario games. Mario 64 just really didn’t age well. Star fox 64 did. I could go on and on. Smash bros is worse than later iterations, etc etc

Had to give it a 4 since every Mario kart that came after it is better in every way. Saying Mario kart 64 is a good game is like having played call of duty but still saying 007 on n64 is a good game. At the time of release we all thought these n64 games were good because we didnt have much to compare them too but they’re super outdated and have not aged well at all. 

7 minutes ago, JamesRobot said:

Battle Kid and Battle Kid 2.  

There is some seriously ridiculous shit in BK2.   I died 6953 times.

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These are the notes I took to get through a crazy ass code puzzle room.

 

What are you the Zodiac killer or something?

I gotta say fire emblem conquest was pretty difficult. That might be it for me. Cave story’s final boss was tough but other than that not too crazy. Not too many more after that come to mind right away

From what I remember, both geometry wars galaxies and tingles rosy rupeeland used the touchscreen well. I would add Pokémon trozei but that one just ended up scratching your screen real badly. 

6 minutes ago, AirVillain said:

Excellent conversation. Great input.

 

Yeah, well... after he was terribly offended by my first "offer", it was difficult to get back onto the rails. I straight up said "You tell me what you want for the stuff and I will tell you yes or no." 

 

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. Where does this guy think I'm going to buy games for this system? 
 

Haha, it was just so odd because I couldn't have explained myself or asked for a price any clearer. 

Just tell me how much god damned money you want for this untested shit! 

 

Lol I really don’t understand that owner.
 

I had a kinda similar situation years ago where  this store’s games were all like 50-100% over the going rate and I pointed that out to them and they really didn’t like that and told me not to come back to the store. Like sorry bro, maybe don’t price the $50 smash bros game for $100?

That owner sounds like a giant clown. Wouldn’t be surprised if his store closes in the next year or so. Doesn’t seem like he knows how to run a business or interact with customers 

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30 minutes ago, ZeldaFreak said:

Yup, don't forget to change the background

Much better now 

The game will be starting relatively soon within the next hour and a half ish. 
 

here’s the link for where you’ll play this round in case anyone didn’t see. 
 

This is your 24hr reminder that the game starts TOMORROW at 10pm EST 

1) @Gloves
2) @WalterWhiteJr.
3) @Rhapsody98
4) @Brickman
5) @Hammerfestus
6) @fcgamer
7) @ZeldaFreak
8. @G-type
9) @PuppyWaffles
10) @Br81zad
11) @DefaultGen
12) @Bettington Bear
13) @JVOSS
14) @Romiked2689
15) @Kalebrok
16) @Splain
17) @BeccaAnne
18) @RH 

Yea maybe not the best thing to go off of. It does remind me of shantae and the pirates curse for 3DS though. Only one copy per GameStop store. They sat on shelves for weeks with no one buying them. Fast forward to now and it’s over $100. I don’t think that’ll happen with digimon survive though 

All roles have been sent out now! As a reminder please no discussing the game yet. That’ll come this Thursday night at 10pm EST in the other thread in the werewolf club

Roles are being sent now and will trickle in throughout the afternoon and night when I have free time. No talking about anything game related yet. Please wait until Thursday night at 10pm EST. Get familiar with your roles and please privately ask me any questions you have about your role

@JVOSS I didn’t know you were such a pikmin fan

3 hours ago, G-type said:

1) @Gloves  not so bright
2) @WalterWhiteJr.  little wolfie again
3) @Rhapsody98  townie
4) @Brickmantownie
5) @Hammerfestustownie
6) @fcgamertownie
7) @ZeldaFreakwolf
8. @G-type townie.  <------- Black background?! Was this copy-pasted from the wolf chat?!!
9) @PuppyWaffles townie
10) @Br81zadtownie
11) @DefaultGenwolf
12) @Bettington Beartonwie
13) @JVOSSof course townie
14) @Romiked2689wolf
15) @Kalebroktownie
16) @Splainindy
17) @BeccaAnnetownie
18) @RH  townie....

That black text background cost kokiri one game when he was a wolf

I was at GameStop today and saw they had one new copy of Digimon Survive. This is a game I was planning on waiting to get until I found a pre owned copy. I asked the guy there if he had played it and he said no and that copies of the game are hard to find. He said each GameStop only got however many were preordered and that the copy they had was a preorder that someone never picked up. I didn’t 100% buy the rarity thing, thinking it was a marketing tactic so I looked on eBay and sure enough this game is already going for more than MSRP. 

The game can still be bought on Amazon and gamestops website for $60 so who knows if it really is uncommon. It may not be super hard to find yet since it did just come out a little over a week ago but who knows, maybe this ends up being a harder one to find in due time.  I did end up getting that copy and can’t wait to play it. Tactical digimon game, yes please.