Deady

What a thrill

I have a hard enough time with this visual style as is, I definitely wouldn’t want to try it in (occasionally) fast paced games like Zelda or Metroid.

I’ve read two articles here today and seen the word “stunning” four times. I’m tired of this word.

The hunt for those actors has been such a task over the years. The physical actors in the FMV scenes didn’t do the voice overs and were only credited by their first names. I think there was also a coincidence where the voice actor who played Barry was also named Greg and caused mass confusion. (Or his name was actually Barry, I can’t remember)

Either way it’s cool to see them together. I’d read excerpts from an interview with Greg where he talked about how unhappy Inezh was during the muggy nighttime shoots for the opening cinematic. Apparently they were all being devoured by mosquitoes.

Resident Evil was my first PlayStation game and I have played it 57,000,000 times.

Without looking in the cabinet I think my rarest/most valuable games remaining after selling a big box of them last year are original, complete Silent Hill 1, 2, and 3.

1: Take character names from an existing intellectual property
2: Write something almost completely unrelated using those character names
3: ?????
4: Fail

It takes skill to adapt an existing story to work well in a different medium. See - To Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather, Rosemary’s Baby (an almost word for word adaptation of the novel, right down to what characters wear and eat in certain scenes), The Princess Bride, The Lord of the Rings. It takes a wizard to take an existing story and turn it on its head in a way that is thought provoking and effective. See - Dr Strangelove, The Shining, Apocalypse Now. It takes far less skill to give up on adaptation and just write your own garbage using familiar names and settings to get your foot in the door.

Is it fair for me to immediately doubt a game every time I see “stunning” in the subheader?

@AstroTheGamosian @Fath I’m a Banderita man myself. I could seriously sit here and eat the giant fajita size flour tortillas or the corn tostadas with nothing on them but I only use actual tortillas for special occasions now. I’m old enough and I’ve had a bad enough relationship with food that I have to keep an eye on myself.

These days I mainly use Joseph’s wraps and pitas with my breakfasts and lunches. They’re some weird hippy crap made of flax and oat bran and happy thoughts, so they have a nice balance of protein, carbs, and fiber. They never go bad, they never tear each other, and each unit only has 60 calories.

@Ogbert STUNNING. LEGENDARY. NINTENDOLIFE.

@EarthboundBenjy I agree. I think one of the most expensive Star Wars action figures ever sold was a Boba Fett that accidentally got two left hands at the factory.

I received LoZ on NES way back in the long long ago for my birthday. It was still the eighties so I couldn’t have been more than four years old. I’ve played it start to finish more times than any other game, by far.

I’ve said it before and I carry on about it at every opportunity but man, just put together a team to drop some fresh $30-40 handheld size Zelda games to fill the gaps like they used to do.

Without a dedicated handheld we’ve got tentpoles and not much else.

I work in a retail warehouse and I’ve found it odd for a while that the OLED model fits six in a case and the original switch only fits five. That big packaging looked nice on its own but just ugly next to the OLED packaging.

My only problem is that I can spot these full cases on the receiving line from far away despite the fact that they don’t have any identifying features as Nintendo product and now I’m going to have to get an eye on the new type to make sure they’re handled correctly.

That wasn’t a rally at all. How do I thumbs down this whole article because it doesn’t make sense and the author forgot there’s an actual Pokémon called Gloom?

That lady in the final photo looks like the coziest person on earth.

You can eat a car, a boat, and all your enemies, it’s fine. There’s always room for dessert.

It’s more than a cheesy flatbread, but less than a pizza.

I’d say from the screenshots it also passes as a show-er.

Staring at the thumbnail, wondering what is on that kid’s face. I just woke up and it took me a few minutes to realize it’s his hand, and it is nowhere near his face.

The JP box is way too busy. The NA/EU box has enough going on while keeping a focus on Nathan and the Castle, it’s eye catching and striking. The JP box, while pretty, doesn’t seem focused enough to grab the attention of an uninitiated passing customer. I think the yellow color of the English title logo stands out more than the red as well.

The very first game that was ever specifically mine was a gold Legend of Zelda for NES, which I received over thirty years ago and still have. Cartridge only, nothing special, but I would like it to be launched into the sun with my remains.

I think I would briefly consider playing fortnite if they added Bret Hart.

If it’s pretty, etc etc

@Silly_G I received around a thousand copies of this game at work Monday. I had to walk away from the pallet briefly and made sure to count them again when I came back. We have security and camera cover is heavy but yeah theft is entirely possible. Theft might be more common at stores than at the warehouse level. At the warehouse we are overpaid and our benefits are great.

I forgot about this until Monday afternoon at work when I discovered I had a half hour to receive around 500 copies of this and around a thousand of XC3. I have no idea where this month has gone.

This is a really cool game. The moments when you realize you’re not going to be able to save everyone or defeat every enemy, and you have to start taking desperate measures just to squeak by are very satisfying.

You recommended The Song of Achilles last year and I picked it up right before a trip, nearly burst into tears on the first page and decided to hold off. Once I’ve read everything I can by Michael Moorcock and have time clear to feel even more awful than usual I’m going back to Song. I’ve read other versions of the Iliad and Odyssey and I’ve been into various mythologies since I was a kid, and I have the Iliad and the Odyssey translations by Fagles on standby.

I was deeply disappointed with the Witcher book series (yes I am aware that it came first) to the point where I don’t care about the game anymore even though that got me to pick up the books.

For wine I suggest damn fine cab called Ed by Edmundo from Argentina. Sounds like madness but this is $10 wine that tastes in the $50-60 range. With that said, I’ll usually just take a few stouts myself.

@Ogbert I’m guessing the sizes look strange in the photo because it’s likely a composite and not a picture of an arranged setting. Kind of like how movie posters never look quite right. That or 2” refers to a sort of baseline or average for scaling.

I did just recently see some toy advent calendars come through receiving at work but not many, and not these ones. We’re primarily working through literal tons of back to school stuff.

Excellent sub header. I still have my GB 007, love it.

He shall overthrow the mighty and lay waste their temples. He shall redeem the despised and wreak vengeance in the name of the burned and the tortured.

Hail fluffy lamb satan

@SteamEngenius I’m not into this model of gaming but I agree with you. I’ve spent plenty of money over the years going to live music, movies, broadway shows, sporting events or going down to play craps with no expectation of winning. This is pure walletburn with no physical lasting value, but a great time while it’s happening.

Nothing lasts, take the good times where you can get them.

@RadioHedgeFund NBA is the one major American sports league that is actually big and influential outside of North America. Specifically, and most importantly to companies trying to make money off of it, it’s a big deal in China.

An article about a simple collectible without the words “stunning” or “legendary” in the header. Who are you and what have you done with nintendolife?

Anyway it’s a nice piece, the H shield is such a visually satisfying design and this one has a shelf-ready size to fit in with prized books and other collectibles.

After playing One Step From Eden on switch I went and tried the first battle network on Wii U and loved it but held off buying the pile in the hopes we’d get a collection and booooooom

Good. Now we can be thankless bahstids and portbeg for Knights in the Nightmare, Dark Spire, Yggdra Union, Riviera, etcetcetc while not actually buying the Personas.

Personae?

I’m most surprised and very much looking forward to mega man battle network collection.

The railroad game looks good, DQ treasures maybe, I don’t know what captain velvet meteor is but it looks cool, Harvestella 50/50.

I have P5R on ps4/5 and all the old ones on ps3 but I might dip into 3/4 depending on price.

We don’t talk about Halo, no, no, no.

Figuring out emulation on xbseries and bouncing around all of these for minutes at a time trying to lock into something: Invisible Inc, Nowhere Prophet, Neoverse, Disco Elysium, Turtles, and Sega ages Phantasy Star. I want to restart Xenoblade 2 and finish it some time this year.

@GregamanX It seems to have to do with attacking midair while moving from a higher elevation to a lower, like moving off a ledge in the sewer or subway. It’s happened to me a handful of times.

I didn’t preorder this because I had a feeling it would be one of those games that (to a layman) inexplicably can’t run on switch. Oh well. I’ll keep checking for patches and updates, I have the option of getting it on PS5. I enjoy tacticals and I’ve always loved Shadowrun for Genesis.

These pretzels are making me thirsty.

@abdias Well, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night takes three and the original Legend of Zelda takes one, so hey.

Also I was wondering why April’s upward elbow seemed so familiar. I doubt it’s actually a callback to Karin in SF Alpha 3 but at least this cued the memory.

Getting every “Most KO” and “Longest Combo” online as April O’Neill in Turtles.

Bits of Neoverse Trinity edition here and there. Despite reviews it runs fine on switch and the controls aren’t horrible.

Reading more Michael Moorcock, now on Behold the Man before returning to Von Bek. I recently secured a very rare signed, fine condition hardcover first edition Stealer of Souls from 1963 to go with my 1965 Stormbringer. This is Elric’s first appearance in book form, and this copy may be the ultimate Black Sword collectible. (There is an argument to be made for Yoshitaka Amano’s Elric statue)

I recently had a power outage and still haven’t bothered resetting the clocks on my stove or microwave, just my coffee machine. Then, I also had to format my PS5 extended storage drive, delete all the PS4 games that somehow got shunted from it to the console, then redownload all of them to the usb. I started that on Wednesday morning and it’s still going.

The switch maintained its power and storage, and clock (!!!) because it has portable powah.

So yes, clocks. Clocks everywhere.

@OldManHermit My hope is that if I keep buying all these Capcom collections we’ll eventually get Rival Schools and Power Stone in some form or another.

I bought my PSP one day on my lunch break at work way back when and played Crisis Core on the train ride home, and many more round trips after that. I look forward to new life being breathed into this game.

The concept of an eternal spirit working universe to universe to keep everything from falling apart is straight out of Moorcock, so I’m in. The story intro actually mentions the holy grail mending the fabric of the existence, which is the basis of The Warhound and the World’s Pain. The visuals are smelly but they don’t need to be great in tactical. I’ll be splitting time between this and Turtles for a bit.

I wish the characters were bigger. Other than that I think it looks ok.

@KateGray I somehow missed this article and was just looking at the listing on the eshop. This caught my eye, “There are as many worlds as there are stars in the sky. In each stands Camelot; in each there is a Grail, but there is only one Merlin and his eternal burden is to stand against the horror from beyond. Each world that is saved is saved forever, each world that is lost is lost for good.”

This is straight out of Moorcock and I’m so ready for it.

When I backed out of the game information the eshop list refreshed and the game was gone, because it had released while I was reading. I’ll take this as a sign from the multiverse and buy immediately.

Also, Banner Saga will smash your heart to pieces.

UP FROM DA 36 CHAMBAAAAAAAHS

Looks a little more than inspired by Blasphemous but we’ll see how it goes.