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Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs' Big Break - Haunted House is an arrangement of Edvard Grieg's - In The Hall Of The Mountain King:
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Microtransactions are part of the reason for negative Steam reviews and maybe most of the reason for some reviewers but the main issue for the negative/mixed review score on Steam is poor optimization, poor performance, crashing + DRM (Denuvo and/or Enigma, both of which can also causes poor performance for many and might be key player(s) in frequent crashing). Japanese devs often fumble their game's PC version launches, some fix them later but DRM stays there for a bit or indefinitely. DRM is just a plague on paying PC customers to suffer from issues while pirates get cleaned up versions and are rewarded for not paying.
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Whether or not actual legal issues with Wata operations exist, I'd at least think some of the following counts for something: 1: False advertising of turnarounds is probably something. Especially if proof of queue skipping/preferential treatment beyond expedited tiers of grading. 2: Didn't some employee(s) sell their own company's graded games while it was said by themselves that they aren't allowed to do that within the company? 3: Hyping up the masses and bringing outside investors/collectors to pump the market is not just that, since Wata takes a fee of 2%(?) on graded games AND it's on their appraisal, since they have to make you pay before you can even go to auction. For example: "There are no comps on this x game price but our opinion, and the opinion of big sealed collectors we are in contact with, is that the game is worth 200k so pay up 4k to get it back in your hands." All of this is compounded by the in-the-know clique of sealed collectors already having their wares full of premium "hype" items, so I'm curious if they had the same treatment as "new" customers on grade strictness, fees, queue order, auction dates and what have you. 4: Incestuous exclusivity partnership with Heritage Auctions at the start. In case I'm wrong on things and/or nothing is illegal, there are still many scummy people and practices involved.
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He had an iconic and recognizable style for character/creature illustrations and even with the insane amount of designs he made, most of them felt different with their size/color/personality etc. Great feat. I'm a basic bitch who has mainly been exposed to Dragon Ball, Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger but R.I.P. to a legend
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Monster World IV
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Only 5 More Games to Complete your Collection
sp1nz replied to T-Pac's topic in General Collecting Discussion
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Battle Mania Daiginjou
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Alisia Dragoon
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Feisty February
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Gunstar Heroes
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Contra: Hard Corps
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Shining Force II
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Special Movie Debate: AFI 100 Years 100 Movies
sp1nz replied to Reed Rothchild's topic in Everything Else
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Some of my favorite soundtracks alphabetically: Akumajou Densetsu Armored Core 2 Axelay Bayonetta Contra III: The Alien Wars Contra: Hard Corps Disgaea: Hour of Darkness eXceed 3rd - JADE PENETRATE - Final Fantasy IX Final Fantasy VI Final Fantasy VII Furi Gunstar Heroes Ketsui Kizuna Jigoku Tachi EXTRA Langrisser II Lufia: The Legend Returns Mamorukun Curse! Mortal Kombat II Mushihimesama Futari Old School Musical Phantasy Star IV Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi Shining Force II Sonic Mania Star Ocean: The Second Story Streets of Rage 3 Suikoden Tierkreis Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Wild ARMs Xeno Crisis
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Beat Every Game Boy Game - 2024 - 117/566
sp1nz replied to Splain's topic in Site-run Events & Contests
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Beat Every Game Boy Game - 2024 - 117/566
sp1nz replied to Splain's topic in Site-run Events & Contests
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Most of my big box PC collection and last image contains what I have from my teenage years + couple modern.
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Beat Every Game Boy Game - 2024 - 117/566
sp1nz replied to Splain's topic in Site-run Events & Contests
I noticed the Japanese games clause just now, so 2 Japanese games I did this year + 1 western: [JAPAN] Ayakashi no Shiro https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/gameboy/579619-ayakashi-no-shiro [JAPAN] Ganso!! Yancha-Maru https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/gameboy/569718-ganso-yancha-maru Kid Dracula -
December+January arrivals:
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Beat Every Game Boy Game - 2024 - 117/566
sp1nz replied to Splain's topic in Site-run Events & Contests
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Beat Every Game Boy Game - 2024 - 117/566
sp1nz replied to Splain's topic in Site-run Events & Contests
I've been playing on RetroAchievements and random rolling games to master this year, so might as well join this endeavor. Here's first 5 I've beaten this year that are on the list unclaimed (in clear order): Kirby's Block Ball The Flintstones Balloon Kid The Little Mermaid The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt -
Yeah, indeed. Anyway on Steam platform alone Celeste has 78438 reviews and Cuphead has 135731 reviews. Original Super Meat Boy has 24720. Now how you want to interpret any of that is up in the air, but it's certainly no "unknown" game. Thinking more about it, I think it's THE platformer to play since Super Meat Boy for indies. Of course it won't be everyone's cup of tea in any case.
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Not at all directed to you, mainly meant RH with the "It's just one of those games I've seen around for the last several years, but I've not heard anything about it. I think this was an LRG release" and maybe sprinkled in some other comments. I'm not trying to paint people who don't know x thing in a negative light, just expressing my surprise/shock at the finding. I guess in general looking at retrohead forumers talking you could say that large parts of gaming sphere, especially in the current day, don't really exist to them, so in that sense it's not even surprising. EDIT: I seem to have pulled the "Switch game" out of my ass in the context of this thread, when I should've said the "LRG game".
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It's one of the most known/popular games in the spaces I'm in, so when people say they've heard about it for being a Switch game or have just heard about it in passing it just throws me for a loop. Like in my mind it's maybe one step removed from Cuphead's popularity as an indie game. Maybe that part of my comment was stupid but I just got that air from couple comments in the thread already and felt like putting it out there. Anyway appreciate anyone's opinion/experience being different than mine.
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One of the better 2D platformers in the last 20 years, but not quite at the status of "one of my favorite" games ever on this scale, so 9/10. Fresh mechanic mixture of 8 direction air dashing and stamina-based wall climb. Masterclass in level design, mechanics allow for high speed movement, good level gimmicks that keep the gameplay fresh, fun collectibles, graphics have distinctive feel to them, good story and characters, difficulty can be tuned to be easiest shit ever with assists or hard deathless runs with optional golden berries. It's the full package for someone looking for a great platformer. Also really shows how some people are not in the indie space, especially on PC when they don't know about this yet, just saying.