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It's way cheaper than nearly all other new Ps5 games. I'll probably be picking it up on release

Anyone who thinks 2 is the best game of the series should try playing 1, 3, or 4

This is pretty much exactly what I figured! Not selling it to me, sorry

A movie you can't really rate just based on the entertainment value on screen. There's so much more to this, and it really made me respect Sacha Baron Cohen as a satirist. The guy is a genius and brave as fuck. The sequel is surprisingly good as well.

A step down from the first game, and not as good as the third, but it's fine. I wrote about this game at length not even a year ago:

I've seen pictures of these characters before. That's where my familiarity with them both begins and ends Not gonna pretend it looks particularly appealing

Yeah, I love FF6 and 5 but for very different reason. 5 is lighthearted and fun. Just go on an adventure and don't think too hard about the plot and characters. The world is cool regardless. FF6 has a surprisingly gripping storyline with some really engaging events underway. It was the first game I ever played that managed to pull that off on such a scale, and to this date I don't think many other games really come close.

In this case you should honestly like Gain Ground (hell, it IS a single-screen arcade game). It's a lot more fun than it looks.

Psh. OptOut started this and he knows it

Dragon Fighter is obscure? You're killing me

I'm going to take a good guess and say that if you spent 2 hours on one level, you probably got a game over more than a few times. Maybe that's why people say it's difficult?

Still trying to understand the theme of this thread

When you're rolling, you can't take damage. When someone attacks you and you are familiar enough with their attack animation to know how it will play out, roll into their attack with correct timing, so you can counterattack immediately afterwards. This is really important for an early boss which will gate off the rest of the game until you get a good feeling for this.

Bomberman 64?

Definitely resist the urge to spoil yourself at this point! So that trip to the esper gate wasn't what you expected, but the game is gonna surprise you eventually. Honestly, just stay completely off guides until that point (and ideally a while after). FF6 is pretty straight forward and whenever you need to go somewhere specific to progress the story, the game always tells you quite clearly what it is you need to do, so I don't really think relying on a guide should be necessary at all. If you have any questions, better to ask here instead.

This is the most bootleg looking NES cart I've seen in a while. There are no logos on the label, the image is stretched horizontally, and the paper itself looks like a photocopy. I'm curious what about it makes you think it could be legit?

I rarely buy NES games anymore, because I basically have everything I want. "The complete set" as they say, except across all regions, and without all the garbage shovelware. There's only a handful of the more spicy titles left that I still don't own - Cowboy Kid, Young Indiana Jones, Over Horizon, Cosmo Police Galivan and a few I don't really remember. But some times there are games I just didn't consider previously, for various reasons. The Ultima series, of course, is mostly at home on PC platforms, with the console versions being massively simplified - "dumbed down" even. On paper that's not really ideal for a series that's notable specifically for its complex underlying systems. Ultima 4, however is a game that's often highlighted as one of the better NES RPGs, and I think most people would tell you that this game and the original PC/Apple2 version are two entirely different games, and I feel like my exploration of the NES library isn't really complete unless I've played it. Playing it without playing any of the PC Ultima games beforehand does feel kind of dirty though. This is also one of those annoying games that aren't particularly "expensive" as just a single cartridge, but which are only available as an import - so with shipping and customs and everything, it ends up costing three times as much, more expensive than any modern PS5 game would have been And I feel like I'm gonna miss the manual for this one particularly.

If you rely on the Contra code to get through the game, and wish you could get more than 30 minutes out of it, there's a really simple cure for that. Practice beating the game without cheat codes and without continuing

Comix Zone isn't even good. The question is whether Splatterhouse 2 is

Agreed. All the games are great, but 4 is where I felt the MM series really coming together in a single flawless package!

@Gloves arguing the "moral rights to pirate" is a completely different subject that's never gonna end well anyway

It's not really DLC. Like you said, it's already included in the physical game, and doesn't actually require any additional purchase. If the game did have day 1 DLC, I don't think the fact that other games also have that should excuse it. It's always scummy, and should be criticised every time it happens.

Oh, this game is on my backlog list for 2024, so I'd love to participate. I guess the contest is over already?

Marble Madness without a trackball sounds like something that just wouldn't work, but I've heard people speaking really favourably about tengen's MegaDrive port as well. Haven't heard that much about the NES port before.