I'm starting to get better at MHR now. Got used to a few weapons and finished the first few quests. I have a friend of mine who's playing it as well, hopefully we'll be able to play!
@Sunsy Thankfully we didn't have any outages! My internet was slow at times, but other than that and that huge blizzard, everything was ok. Hopefully you'll get that Peach set while it's out! I would like having it too.
The only Phantasy Star game I played was Phantasy Star IV, though that was just a little bit of it. I heard it's really good and rivals even the SNES's best RPGs.
Yeah indeed! I like the plushes you showed off, too. Also just wondering, do you have Mario Party Superstars? It'd be fun to play a round with you.
"Give yourself the gift of being joyfully you."
Favorite games: Super Mario 3D World, Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Playing: Hollow Knight
Ask if you want to be Switch friends with me, but I'd like to know you first. Thanks! ❤️
Since we're now sharing plushies, some of the other gaming plush I have. Though I have an old Sonic and Tails plush from my childhood in my closet.
On the subject of plushies, my Trolls ones because I love these characters. I also have other characters I like.
Always loved collecting plushies based on cartoon and gaming characters I like.
@Zuljaras That's really an adorable gift. Pikachu looks so big.
@MarioLover92 That's good. I think the last blizzard we had was in late January. No power or net issues, spent a chunk of the day following the storm on YouTube, and playing World of Tanks Blitz. She looks really cool as a Lego set.
I never did play IV, I did play the first three Phantasy Star thanks to that old GBA collection. It's cool you got to try the fourth game in the series. I remember Phantasy Star III looked great, and the opening song is beautiful. Brings a tear to my eye.
Thanks, I'm noticing others are posting too, so posted some more. No, I don't have it. I do have Super Mario Party.
Boo to "Daylight Savings Time". More like "Most of the population will be moodier and sleep deprived over the next few days". Ugh.
(This time change wreaks havoc on those of us who hate mornings....)
Also, much luck to those dealing with the powdery white stuff. Didn't get any of that here other than a dusting a few days ago. That's probably it for the season.
@BruceCM I did manage to find and complete all the Shrines! A handful were doozies to locate.
@StarPoint Same, for the most part. Except possibly the first and second games, I've achieved 100% on items/upgrades on all 2D entries barring Dread (haven't played it yet). I'm pretty sure I also found everything in Other M, though I'm unsure if I can say the same for all three Metroid Prime entries. I'm fairly certain I found all the health upgrades anyway.
@MarioLover92 Yep, those two franchises confsin some of the few exceptions to my "Don't be a completionist" movement. It's a mindset I picked up back in the days when I had way more time and less games on my hands. It hasn't aged well. XD MH is quite fun with friends, though I'm so rusty bu this point that I'm sure I'd need to spend a bit of time training. Heck, I was just properly getting the hang of the switch axe when I stopped playing.
@Tyranexx First, profuse apologies for the delay. I've been very busy and finding time to sit down and belt out a reply good enough to pay back the effort you put into yours, has been rare lately. When I tried to commit time to put this to writing I got caught up in a paper I’m writing. It’s a research paper, and the topic’s open. Meaning I went and chose to write about how Final Fantasy games illustrate the human condition. Or storytelling. I’ll post some of the writing when it happens; it’s due next year after all.
But now that you're done and dusted with Xenoblade 2, it's time to begin absolutely nitpicking it. I love doing that with games I own, because I tend to get so absorbed in games (good ones at least) that for a time I'm pretty oblivious to faults and shortcomings of said game. An example of this would be Death Stranding; only after beating the game did I watch and read reviews complaining (deservedly in some cases) about stuff. Xenoblade 2 upon retrospect can be contrived and vague to the point of frustration, thinking about it more. It’ll make replaying the game a little more painful when I eventually get back to it when I begin the Xenoblade 3 hype.
KOS-MOS was one of the most lucky instances I’ve ever had in my life. All the grinding and meaningless time wasting, and somehow lucking into getting the rarest Rare Blade in the whole game. Which is exactly why I’m glad there’s another entry in the series, so I can gradually forget about the shortcomings of 2. Agreed that Xenoblade games are well balanced, as well as Monolith’s tendency to try new things. Torna-wise, the online feedback sounds spot-on, from a fairly objective point of view, the plot was honestly more investing than that of the main game. But I’ll say little more, since you can tell me eventually whether you agree or not.
Having played Final Fantasy XV a lot more, I can only recommend it more. I feel ashamed to say that the writing, world building and those little character moments were lost on me when I first played it, but since I committed to enjoying the whole thing I’ve only realised now just how detailed and complex the game is. I’ve put in over 20 hours so far, doing pretty much any sidequest I can get my hands on, and so far I’ve done about two thirds of the game’s story. From chapter 10 onwards it gets very linear, and you don’t get access to the open world anymore, but the story gets a bit better. Hopefully you’ve enjoyed your handheld titles, as well as Octopath! I’d love to hear how the latter turned out.
Yeah, Celeste is part of a breed of games that takes player enjoyment seriously. The game’s designed well enough that death is a simple learning opportunity, not a massive setback. I’m not hating on Souls games but this game is the perfect response to the crazy “git gud” cultists that truly believe there’s no way to truly enjoy a game if you’re not good enough to play it normally. I put on Assist Mode for a few screens here and there, especially in the later levels, but it didn’t change my enjoyment of the game. Other times I could have used the assist but I chose to persevere… and what do you know, my satisfaction increased.
No worried however. I love playing God in video games as much as the next person. As for The Batman, your points are spot-on. So glad I got around to seeing it in spite of the runtime, because it’s a film that doesn’t like to rush things. Come to think of it over the last two years or so, this has kinda been a recurring theme throughout filmmaking. How due to pandemic viewing, and less emphasis on actual cinemas.
Today I learned you can use Picture in Picture mode in MacOS and Windows to watch youtube videos on their own little floating overlay, away from the browser.
@Eel On PC, that feature in Firefox browser usually works against me/pisses me off.😁 I hit Back to go to a previous page, expecting a video to terminate, but instead, a floating window appears and keeps playing the video when I didn't want it to keep playing. It gets so annoying that I have to into firefox settings to disable it. And it's like, root settings for the browser. In order to disable the setting, I have use a dev command in the address bar and then agree to undestand my actions my break the software. So, in my experience, the picture in picture video feature is diabolical. Every once in a while an update defaults the setting back to "Enabled", just to spite me. 😁 Then I have to search the internet again to find the exact dev command that disables it. It's not user friendly at all.
Nope, I only really heard about those games after playing Bayonetta 1 & 2, @Zuljaras .... Which have a big advantage, IMO If you play them, do let us know what you think, though!
No idea what that is or how Bayonetta 1 & 2 don't look amazing to you but in general gameplay, they're supposed to be similar, @Zuljaras .... Let us know what you think of the DMC ones when you've played those, anyway, though
@BruceCM I checked 5 mins of gameplay of the first one and it looked interesting. A Castle with monsters ... just for me!
As for Bayonetta the games look good in terms of animations and action but I can't get over the extreme oversexualization. It is a little too much for me. I see what people love about the games but I can't enjoy them
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