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@DogDetective

1. the ability to attack multiple enemies at once.
2. the team attack

both definitely help. i think enemies do more damage before but thats mitigated.

free items seem a bit more prevalent

but yeah im almost done at like 12 hours

@LEGEND_MARIOID every 3ds gave me hand cramps. same as the GBA. not too bad, but noticeable after hours

the 2ds never did

my favorite. it fit my man hands way better than the 3DS did. i also dislike flipping things open- even during early cellphone days i preferred a bar phone or a swivel phone

but the 2DS was beyond perfect. but it certainly wasnt indestructible- i had 4 and that little sliding bar that turned off the screen broke on all of them

@OorWullie i call some "no reload shooters". i'm a huge gamer, game hours a day, but my best friend of 32 years only games with me. for whatever reason he's always stuck in the mid 90s doom method of every gun just having a few hundred bullets. he often forgets to reload, and dies as a result. i literally look at new games for us to play as "is it so 90s there is no reload?!"

i play the original Doom/Doom 2 multiple times a month to this day, but every time i read "boomer shooter" i imagine its an old dude throwing expired dunkin donuts coupons at a starbucks employee and demanding she honor them

or shouting "Back in my day we had no problem paying for a house and college! whats a new house cost these days, 300 a month? and i bet college is up to $100 a month now! Bootstraps!"

so in this game for anyone that hasnt played, when you die you respawn without your weapons and have to kill your zombified self to get them back
including your health upgrades
i'm a pretty good gamer but i am STUCK because i am near the very end of the game, in a save point surrounded by enemies, and i cannot for the life of me make it more than a couple screens without dying. or, i manage to to my old self, and die immediately.

apparently i am missing a really good upgrade from further back in the game thatll make it a lot easier but

i guess ill try yet again to get there

bigger problem is, ill go months without playing, start again, and need to master the controls and weapon quirks.

instead i die 20 times in a row and give up

i'm glad the game has way more content now, but the lack of a party or real interaction with NPCs kinda has me wary. people have called it minecraft in space and thats not at all what i like

then ill see the gorgeous space views and some kinda black hole area and

aaaand then i read about how people spent 100 hours grinding to get a ship upgrade and i'm just.....no

@DonSerrot the different farm types are also huge! so many games its always the same exact farm. you could show me any harvest moon screenshot of one i've played and i wont be sure if its my farm or not.

but you show me a stardew valley screenshot and its so much more complex

the beach farm is like a whole new game

@umbreon_sylveon agreed. i own maybe 2,000 games, used to work for EA games. its my main hobby.

stardew is my favorite game of all time by a pretty decent amount

earthbound, fallout, mass effect and mario rpg are up there, but stardew just combines the best of all

if i were told i could only play one game for the rest of my life, it wouldnt be a hard decision
at all

@msvt its really good. several characters have broken homes, one guy has PTSD, two are alcoholics.

BUT MOST OF THE GAME IS SUPER SWEET

but when it gets dark it gets dark. the people feel real, and the multiplayer is fantastic.

in multiplayer you can all marry someone else, or each other.

for a game about farming, you sure get involved in who had an affair and why this person hasnt been seen in a year ...

I saw harvest moon in nintendo power and fell in love with it. I've owned almost every title, and some of the story of seasons titles. I haven't liked the newer games, and was blown away by Stardew Valley.

i have stardew valley tattoos, shirts, and love everything about it. Absolutely amazing to me that it was made entirely by one dude

i run a 45,000 person stardew facebook group, and one person looked at their achievements and realized after 250 hours playing, they were only about 30% through completion.

some people call the community center the main quest, but finishing it unlocks most of the game- i've always seen it more as a tutorial that shows you the basics.

a tutorial that takes 50 hours

i love doom and fallout and mass effect and resident evil, but every night before i go to sleep, i try to play about 20 mins of stardew, harvest moon or animal crossing

@ShadowSniper7 sounds like those families making garbage wages should reconsider having kids they can't afford?

@ShadowSniper7 they've literally had 6 years to save up a dime a day and get a big kid job.

@15roundTKO no problem! always here to keep things in perspective and remind people that even a $50 price hike is barely 1-2 hours pay for an average adult. so who cares?

would anyone care if they did? it costs about a day's wages for an adult, and has been out like 6 years. if you never had one, you've had the better part of a decade to save up, and if you already have bought 3-4 like many people have, just save up a day or two

even a 20% price increase is barely anything for something as low as $250

Most pre-orders are sold out quickly, but i've occasionally come across a years-old call of duty or other game in walmart or bestbuy, covered in dust, with the pre-order or collector's edition goodies still inside, only now 90% off since its been so long

tower defense and run and gun make me happy. i also like having a lightning gun even if its unpredictable

I somehow only saw the words "fun asians" followed by "agile europeans" and was very worried for a moment

i had something similar for my harvest moon themed wedding, and dressed as the villager for a friend's wedding.

i'm honestly likely getting these for someone

@Zuljaras not as cheap as an amiibo certainly but for that quality and being just over one day's pay at a decent job, totally worth it for something youll remember the rest of your life!

@Browny i do my part by working at a company that starts everyone at 22 an hour, and by getting rid of our unpaid intern program at my last job. Even our full time student workers deserve at least twice minimum wage, and get it.

@HedgehogEngine ahh that makes sense. i own my home and school was awhile ago, so the only thing thats really gone up for me is grocery prices. that was a good summary, thank you!

@Browny expecting $20 an hour is expecting the bare minimum. If you have a highly marketable skill, start at 30-50 an hour and go from there. $9 an hour is a joke wage by a corrupt business owner

@HedgehogEngine i honestly dont see it that much as due to speculation, but more people being forced to look for new jobs- and being shocked to find out what's out there. I remember working a junk job for a few weeks that paid $8 an hour, and i left it for an identical job that paid 24 an hour, which is what that job actually should pay.

Some people had worked their for years thinking "hey its $1 an hour more than retail and i dont have to deal with customers!"

now those same people are forced to find new jobs- and suddenly realizing they were being taken advantage of the entire time.

@Browny I still wouldn't consider that a shortage of workers, just a shortage of companies with good pay.

@Browny sounds like awful jobs to me. Most people can't get unemployment if they quit and no one is leaving $30-40 an hour office jobs for the $15-20 an hour unemployment caps out at if they do manage to get it.

People do leave poorly run companies that lied about the pay and job, however...

an unstoppable, God-mode character tearing nazis to pieces is exactly what america needs right now!

KOTOR changed my life. It was the first open world RPG i played, and it really accelerated my love of gaming. I normally game an hour a day but I must have played KOTOR for 16 hours a day for 2-3 days until i beat it

i eventually got a job at EA games because of my love of kotor, and my decade-long career in software testing was only made possible because of that first EA job.

Earthbound was also a huge factor

the 16 users in my family share plan sure are gonna be happy to not pay $25 each

but now that my account price went up to $160 those buggers better chip in a couple bucks

i play doom weekly with 2 of my friends. we were never big into quake but wanted to mix it up a bit

one of us can never join our match, and more annoyingly when we do splitscreen it shows that "no other accounts are valid" or some such.

it legit looks like even for splitscreen you need to pick a player with a PAID copy of the game

for splitscreen.

anyone else have this issue?

Nintendo Power was always very friendly and kid-safe, with polite responses to customer inquiries and reviews that never got edgey.

One of only 2 times i saw snark in NP was when they had written a multi page article for the 110 or 120 year anniversary of Nintendo, going on about how the company was founded in 1889 in the end of the samurai and cowboy eras, not long after the american civil war, in a time of steamships and yadda yadda yadda.

1889 is referenced 100 times along with all of those historical items. someone wrote it in and said "i think you have a typo, you claim nintendo was founded in 1889 when it clearly isnt that old". The NP editor just replied "...did...did you manage to read even a word of the article?"

@Zuljaras haaa I liked airborne a little but testing the 3,000 tire types and spoiler combinations would have driven me crazy

It takes me nearly 200 hours to 100% amalur, even playing daily I only managed to beat it a few times

I was a QA tester on the original for two years. I’ve put well over 2,000 hours into it and never got tired of the combat nor the environments and loved it

There is an insane amount of dialog, however

@WiltonRoots my job at EA games involved counting framerates so to be fair i have mentioned it in a job interview or two, so you might be onto something there...

All gameboy games ran at 60FPS. The PS4 runs at 30FPS.

Frames ps really arent as exciting as neckbeards want you to think

@Silly_G i always want special edition music as a download. itll sync to my phone, pc, and tablet all at once. what would i do with a CD or tape? go back to 1990 when CD players still existed?!?

i play my switch 2-3 hours a day, have ever since it came out and i'm not 100% sure if the cartridge goes in the top or bottom if i dont look

@sanderev dang, this merchandise collection is some kinda merchandise collection?! crazy

@Manah only grandpas want physical games. the rest of us went digital 20-25 years ago

@RushDawg yeah crazy they didnt throw a 2MB gameboy game onto a 16GB cartridge.

@Magician what's it like to be insulted by a soundtrack cd and art book?

i dont think i still own a single game from any collector's edition i have. why bother? i have 200 games on my switch, forcing one to live in a tiny plastic cart is just a waste of space

@NEStalgia customer, seller, murdered, victim, person eating pizza, pizza eating a person... its all the same!

@ObsidianEleven on a kotaku article i said i don't trust kickstarter, since so many of the games never come out. Shovel Knight was the only one i could think of, and said so- bloodstained and mighty no 9 werent out yet.

I got over 200 replies asking me if i heard ofa little thing called shovelknight.

Yes, in what, a decade of kickstarters, i have in fact heard of shovelstarter: kicknight .

@SegaBlueSky investments pay you. You are paying them. You're not an investor, you're a customer, and since you're frequently paying way more to kickstart than the purchase price in a store, even then you're less a customer and more the victim of a scam.

@NEStalgia invest money? for a decade old game that was already finished on switch before the kickstarter even started? that's not an investment, that's a donation to a for-profit enterprise.

@EllenJMiller if you wanted to buy the game, just buy the game. throwing down many times the cost of the game to help a multi-million dollar a year business make more money is the reason you DONATED in the first place

@ArtiomNLS yeah those mario kart and skyrim reviews were weird too. like who's even heard of those games?

@ZeldaFanboy78 in the photo at the top he's playing Machete, and both the writer/director and Trejo himself have said he's the same uncle as the man in spy kids, this is what he does when the kids arent around

@ballistic90 yes, story of seasons is in fact a remake of story of seasons.

@NTELLIGENTMAN good thing you can still use credit cards on nintendo.com, bestbuy, amazon, and 200 other websites to buy eshop games