@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Ah, okay. Well, in that case, you're forgiven. Although: PushSquare?
@Tyranexx Well, agreed there. I don't like the whole gore for the sake of gore either. Not because I'm squeamish, but because I think it's stupid. Also because I could have offed all of these offenders in the first 10 minutes of the movie already, but they always make all these characters so stupid and weak, that I actually don't even feel sorry for them, if they get stuffed in a meat grinder...
@Morpheel Don't sell yourself short. That drawing is actually pretty decent.
On a side note: what's copic? I obviously get that they're markers, but is it a brand or what?
@ReaderRagfish Haha, told ya. It's an annoyingly simple yet entertaining, or dare I say it: addictive game...
@ThanosReXXX it’s a Japanese brand that is very expensive, and professional artists on YouTube seem to REALLY like them.
Since they’re alcohol based and have a soft pointy paintbrush-type nib, the are very nice to work with. This set also came with a lining pen and a glitter marker. The pen is very useful since the markers go right under it and don’t disturb the line art, though I’m not sure what to do with the glitter.
The glitter pen is also blue, although the color itself seems to disappear if you use it over the other markers/the pen. The glitter stays pretty visible though.
@Morpheel Ah, only got the blue set, huh? Must have cost quite a bit, then.
Well, in that case, the choice will probably be limited to Mega Man, Sonic, a Smurf, the Tick or Cookie Monster...
@Morpheel Well, you could of course get the basic sets and mix colors. With a red and yellow set to compliment the blue one, you can make all kinds of mixes and gradients, that'll prevent you from having to get green, orange, purple and brown sets...
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy So, a 2DS has been your most recent Nintendo device? That's quite a while ago, then. Never had any cravings for the Minis either? But it is true, they are always doing something interesting at some point, so in regards to that, I can understand you wanting to keep tabs on them.
And who knows? Perhaps that Switch will get a whole lot cheaper in the months following this year's E3.
Even if that's not the case in the short term, there's always another Black Friday or holiday sale to look forward to...
All I can say is that it is most definitely worth it. I basically own all Nintendo consoles (edit: and almost all handhelds) ever since I started buying Nintendo hardware during the N64 days (never had a NES or SNES, but I remedied that by buying both Mini consoles), but the Switch is really the most enjoyable one so far. And the most important thing, much like all of their toys, it does really exude that typical Nintendo magic, that no other brand has been able to copy, much less equal, to this day.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Your weekend homework is to go play EarthBound on an SNES, haha.
My friend brought his PS1 and RE2 for a sleep over in junior high. I couldn't get over the background moaning of the zombies in the street from the first part. If I imitate it decades later, I still get goosebumps.
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I remember playing re1 on gamecube in my bedroom with my buddies, always with the lights on, and always tossing the controller to one of them when stuff got too real hahah. I wasn't into resident evil on ps1 so it wasn't until the gamecube that had me hooked on the series.
So, now that we know the second set of games coming to the Genesis Mini, I just have to pray to the God I don't believe in that everything turns out fine emulation-wise, because goddamn if this system doesn't have a stellar line-up so far. I can't believe it's getting licensed Disney stuff, Contra: Hard Corps AND Castlevania: Bloodlines.
Currently Playing: Yakuza Kiwami 2 (PC); Unicorn Overlord (NS)
I played some of RE4 on Wii all by myself. That was the first time I could play one myself, I was boosted by courage from Eternal Darkness and then Doom on Xbox. Things got real very fast.
Another rough one (that I finished!!) was Alan Wake on 360. That game is the bee's feets, ya'll. Toss RE4, The Shining, Luigi's Mansion, and Twin Peaks in a blender; Out comes Alan Wake. Some of the things those creatures would say... There were quite a few moments I was screaming and standing up while trying to escape things.
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@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy At least you can say you tried it! To be fair, I can't really enjoy turn based RPGs anymore FWIW. That game just has a childhood factor on my nostalgia meter.
I'm actually struggling to decide which re to get next month. I have re 1 and 4 still on gamecube ( I never got into 4 so I've barely played it). I played quite a bit of re0 but never finished it. Part of me wants all 3 but that's alotta dough to drop in one shot. Of course I can get just the origins collection first since I really want to play thru 0 and 1 is my favorite in the series. But since I never really played 4 i want to see if all these years later I have a different tune toward it.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Even though friends of mine did own the original PSX, and I actually was somewhat impressed by the T-Rex demo, Sony never managed to grab me personally, with any of their gaming products. I chose the N64 because of the far more stable 3D, instead of the PSX with it's (to me) highly annoying "wibbly-wobbly heat wave" effect 3D.
Just in case you've ever wondered about that: this was due to Sony choosing for fixed point calculation, which doesn't allow for as much localization of precision as the N64's superior floating point calculation, and means that a developer actually needs to think relatively carefully about game distance units. Choosing a fixed point of reference means you have to adjust the entire level, AND all camera points to that point/these points, in a game or level, in order for all of them to move in perfect unison.
And of course, these older consoles had severe limits concerning draw distances anyway, meaning that programmers had to be VERY smart about calculating (and using) these reference points.
Somehow, it does seem that most Sony developers either didn't care, or just thought the drawbacks vs the benefits were small enough to ignore, since most PSX titles have this effect going on pretty much all of the time.
In contrast, floating point calculates (and corrects) on the fly, which might create a bit more pop up here or there, but always give you a correct and more stable representation of a 3D object.
And contrary to a lot of N64 haters, I actually also preferred the N64's softer, smoother polygons, as opposed to Sony's harsher representation, making everything look like it was built with Ministeck bricks.
Oh, well. To each their own, I suppose. And Sony did of course handle their marketing extremely well, which as a marketing man myself, is something I can appreciate, to a point. And they had far more games, something they would succeed in doing again for several more generations, so credits to them for that as well, but between my initial choice for Nintendo, and Sony's screw ups over the years, concerning dialing back backwards compatibility, messing up online and credit card data and what not, and coming up with all sorts of WAY to expensive proprietary media and peripherals, the choice has always been clear for me.
And for all the non-Nintendo stuff, I've always chosen the other side over Sony, so Microsoft is my go to third party triple A game console supplier of choice.
By the way: if you're spooked by things stalking you in games, you should try RE: Code Veronica...
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy No, your memory hasn't failed you: there was indeed no constantly stalking enemy in Code Veronica, but there were several of those moments, so I'd imagine if someone doesn't like stuff like that, then the amount or duration of it being in a game wouldn't really matter all that much...
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