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@MindfulGamer The spirit of old Mexico with a little big city panache

Legally distinct is the best kind of distinct.

More seriously, how does this get a push while Monster Train gets buried for “lack of interest” as one writer put it. Who did Monster Train piss off in the locker room?

Professor Utonium! This is awful. Hopefully he can recover enough functioning to have a decent retirement. It will be hard.

I wish he had talked about giving voice to Orpheus a bit, Lament of Orpheus is incredible. Ah, well. The Jeff Buckley influence makes a lot of sense.

Best way to get rid of an annoying Bethany is to call her Stephanie all the time.

I’ll bite when it gets down to tree bitty and I want to play something ridiculous.

I’ve already put 90 hours into Monster Train.

Slay the Spire is a legit 10/10. I have a few of the others and I picked up One Step from Eden in this sale and I’m having a lot of fun with it. I might go back and get the Mega Man Battle Network games on the Wii U shop because of it.

Patrick Wilson pretty much exclusively appears in bad movies but I’ve just loved the squinty palooka ever since Phantom.

#teamRaoul

Dentists are fueled by hate, I would never be able to take one on in a fighting game. On the other hand, the eye doctor where I got my first pair of glasses told me Mortal Kombat’s blood code. Those were times.

I have a pile of imported soundtrack CDs from before the days of streaming. These days I almost exclusively use youtube. It would be nice if CDs were more readily available for listening in the car.

How many copies of Jive magazine can I fit in there

I’m with PJ on Link’s Awakening. I eventually came around to the remake but the gameboy version is my second most loved/replayed Zelda game after the very first.

I’d also be up for Qix.

Ok. Review King’s Bounty 2 instead, please and thank you.

Give Claire a ponytail and Leonard a shave. I’ll end up seeing it on a $5 Tuesday with no expectations. I’m not into the idea of doing both stories in one movie.

I see how RE 1 could be hard to stretch into a full length feature but RE2, in the hands of an imaginative professional, would be cake. It’s just going to be trimmed back and hurried in this.

@Spiders I wake up at 4:20 AM for work, but the game is easily keeping me up past midnight every night. I cannot put it down, so glad I got it. I’ll just have to load a bunch more carbs into my breakfast until I finally stop playing this.

@MindfulGamer this is pretty much what my brother said when I showed him the ending of the first Banner Saga. To be fair, most fantasy worlds are troubled in some way or another until the protagonist intervenes.

Nice, I really liked Legend of Keepers and Banner Saga was simply stunning from start to finish. I’ll look forward to this, but I’m not going to hold it to the Banner Saga standard.

I liked the original Valfaris and this is giving me some Einhander vibes. Dig it.

All I see in this cover image are PlayStation action buttons

I have a beat up cartridge-only Legend of Zelda I’ve had for nearly my entire life. Something like that trades for $5 or less but this copy of Zelda is priceless to me, it is bound to me.

Conversely, the recent trend of sealed games fetching ridiculously inflated prices for the first time ever does nothing for me. It sounded fake from the start. I don’t think I’d buy something just to sell it, and the things I keep on display here are just regular things I’ve collected along the way.

With that said, I was recently at a used book store and found a 97 year old book with only 1,000 prints in the world for $7.50. Scarcity doesn’t equal value but it’s still fun to look at and I have a thing for old books. Therefore, I would pay $7.50 for this Mario.

I fear it will be one of those games that looks perfectly reasonable but runs like crap on switch for some reason. Nevertheless, everything about this game is right up my alley and I trust Team 17 based entirely on Blasphemous and Monster Sanctuary.

I’ll give Quake a whirl. I missed PC games in the 90s because we uh, did not have a pc in the house.

@vio He’d probably want to stay out of church too. They’ve got loads of dead jesuses in there.

These values suddenly appearing out of nowhere recently seemed as legit as NFTs. It was always bad and stupid, it continues to be bad and stupid, and hopefully it fades away soon.

Pretty much anything from Final Fantasy, especially the Tavnazian Archipelago theme from FFXI, Terra’s theme, and FF7 overworld.

The Lament of Orpheus from Hades is one of the best songs ever to appear in a videogame, but it is far too draining to listen for too long. I think a similar rule applies to so many spectacular battle themes from games over the years.

Axiom Verge 2! Into the Breach! Monster Train! Bwaaaaaaaa

I’ve read all over the place that this might be better than StS so I’m thrilled it’s on switch now. Downloading and going to give it a lot of time after work tomorrow.

Sounds like the humans are all awful. Oh well, a cat is fine too.

Hamster wheeled, puzzle injected, and stepping out over the line art.

I’ll see myself out.

One day I decided I wanted a Super Gameboy while we were at the flea market. Flea markets are really damn huge in New Jersey. An elderly Indian fella running a used games stall did not have one, but he called his brother who had a store a half hour away, and that guy did have one. The elderly Indian fella told him we were heading over.

We drove over there only to find that someone else had come in and bought it, the brother of the flea market guy thought that these mystery guests were the ones on the way from his brother’s stall. So this guy called his cousin, who also had a secondhand store another half hour away, and HE had one too. A half hour and $30 later I had my SGB and went home to enjoy Link’s Awakening on a tv screen a couple decades and change early.

Wow, that explains the overalls pretty well. Love FFX and never knew this.

@Vortexeo He’s also Obi Wan Kenobi on Clone Wars (along with dozens and dozens of other roles)

Finishing up some books first (Witcher: Sword of Destiny and Tolkien’s edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) then jumping back on Golden Sun the Lost Age on Wii U VC. I have a pile of switch games ready to go in SMT 3, Skyward Sword, and Disgaea 6, along with Banners of Ruin and Mr X Nightmare in Streets of Rage 4.

I’m moving to a beautiful three day work week (3x12, plus a raise because apparently this shift structure is undesirable) soon so I’ll actually have time to play through everything that’s been waiting.

I’ll get to Blaster Master eventually but I’m about to start Banners of Ruin (after finishing a couple books, and Golden Sun Lost Age on Wii U) and hoping for the best.

They are all over the shelves at my local GameStops and Targets. In fact, 3D all stars was even recently on sale.

Hades is a great game with so many powerful character moments you almost never get in the rogue types. Mending the broken hearts of Achilles, Patroclus, Eurydice and Orpheus just feels really damn good, and the Lament of Orpheus is one of the best songs ever to appear in a videogame. Arriving back in hell to find that the background music has changed, only to hear a sorrowful wail float across the room, and realize that Orpheus has found his voice again is a stunning experience. A masterpiece, a national treasure, and a bloody wonder.

I recently sold a pile of my old games to a store/website here, then bought a Wii U from them and got eshop versions of all the games I sold (plus some PS1 replacements on my old PS3), and still had a grand left over. The collection or physical copy fetish doesn’t appeal to me. It was a little painful to sell off some games I’ve had for over 20 years, some of which were gifts, but truth is they were just sitting in a box in my closet.

If I had any idea how to use a computer I’d probably emulate or use steam, as it stands the only game I’ve ever pirated was Shadowrun for Sega Genesis, which I already owned, but I’m not storing a CRT tv in my closet.

The article says the client pays $50 for 30 minutes, I’m willing to bet most people who’d partake in this would be blown out after a minute or two. However, if you have the energy to smash things for a half hour then you have the energy to go take a damn walk for a half hour instead, or lift some weights, or play ring fit, or prepare a meal, or sit down and do something else you like until the feeling passes.

This business sounds like it’s going to get a lot of fat teenage boys injured.

Whew, wow. My god. The classics.

Not Nintendo, but Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles for psp had the entire Symphony of the Night “hidden” in it. You had to play the actual psp game to the third or fourth level and get a hidden pickup to unlock it. It was actually mentioned on the back cover of the game. SotN was a port of the Japanese version which had one or two more familiars and some other secrets. This version hidden on psp also had newly localized and recorded voice acting. No more miserable little piles of secrets.

Don’t play moba, don’t play Pokémon spin-offs, don’t like free to play/micro transactions, etc etc. After sw/sh, early trailers for arceus, and the move from bank to home, not likely to play main line pokemon either.

Every time I hear the name Mabel I think of the terrible pro wrestler from the 90s.

When I was a tiny, my mom would hide birthday gifts and play hot and cold to find them. We had an NES in the basement and I was enamored with Mario and Tetris but for the third or fourth birthday, I got my own game, and it was a shiny gold cartridge called Zelda. Turning that game on, seeing the story scroll by and reading that the villain had a very familiar name, and hearing the overworld music for the first time all stand out in my memory after all this time.

One day when I was still a tiny I was just watching a plumber doing work in the basement and he looked over and asked, “That a Nintendo?” Yup. “Got Zelda?” Yup. “Let me show you something” and that’s how I learned the locations of every heart container and the magic sword.

I never actually cleared the game until I was eleven. I still don’t know if I had a predilection toward fantasy stuff back then or if the cart just stood out to my mom because of the color.

Runner up: there’s a moment in Twilight Princess where Midna actually kind of acknowledges to Link that, yes, this is really hard and she appreciates his efforts, and he shouldn’t have to do all this. It’s a once in a series event.

@gaga64 Ha, no prob. It really makes the Castlevania gba games look fantastic.

I just got a Wii U that has a little bit of this. Much more annoyingly, the right stick constantly thinks it’s being pressed in, so screen smoothing during VC games turns on and off every few seconds which I might not even notice if not for the intrusive onscreen message. It’s killing me.

My switch joy cons started drifting early on, despite not using it much. It probably is just a dust issue in my case. Nevertheless, procon all the way.

@BloodNinja Skip Kaepora Gaebora button while we’re at it.

I see you coming, owl. Just keep flying and mind your business.

“This is the end.” Big clue. It is literally The End from Metal Gear Solid 3, and no matter what you do, it takes seven hours to kill him.

I’ve been thinking about this game, guess I’m going to get it for realz now

I gave up and decided on a Wii U for virtual console. It should arrive Monday. Sold a bunch of my old stuff to a retro game store/site here to pay for it (and a couple months’ rent).

I’ve used tabletop mode during some long Dr appointments my wife has had. I set the switch on top of my car’s steering column and it works out well. Done the same thing on a handful of occasions with a pile of pillows on my lap. Beats handheld for me because my neck is a wreck and looking down gets old fast.

Legitimately setting it on a table more than two feet away is out of the question though.

@scannerdarkly7 True, the only way it is remotely comfortable is to lean all the way back on the couch and rest my head on the back of it. My neck and upper back are a wasteland so looking down for any amount of time is torture.

When I get home from work the first thing I do is remove everything from my pockets and sit down on an ottoman directly next to the door to take off my boots. It’s another 5-10 minutes before I can manage to stand again.

The ottoman is right next to the tv stand, opposite end from where the switch is docked. I may move the switch to the other end to be like this guy. His posture is spectacular.