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Post by JDarkside on Feb 6, 2023 18:12:54 GMT -5
If you can believe it, I've managed to get through 6/8ths of the main Yakuza franchise without ever bothering with the tiger drop. Cheesy dropkicks, ftw. I believe this gets my membership revoked or something. Nah, it's cool. I'm not great with it myself, mostly doing it by accident, with exception to when I tried fighting Shin in Judgment and spammed it to get through his first phase, when his moves were really predictable. Glad I decided not to do the fight, though, because he apparently gets a move that affects the framerate of the game. Unimaginably cruel, which is fair for the bonus boss.
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Post by lurker on Feb 6, 2023 21:55:32 GMT -5
Without getting into the controversies with the author herself or her writing, it's weird that IGN's review of the latest Harry Potter game comes across like it has two different scores. The actual review sounds like something that would get somewhere around a 7, but the final score is a 9, even after the critic brought up many flaws.
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Post by windfisch on Feb 7, 2023 0:23:57 GMT -5
So you prefer Donkey Kong 64? That's bold, I respect that. I can see the misunderstanding, but I've never really played DK64 (outside of a bit at a furniture store where my parents dropped me off in the kiddie corner back when I was like 5 - but I was failing so hard that an older kid, who clearly had the game at home, took over to show me how to play it). My choice of 3D platformer of the 90's would be Banjo-Kazooie FWIW. To me that's just taking SM64 but making it better. I was really just kiddykonging, putting words in your mouth on purpose.
For me its the opposite: I barely played any Banjo (both, game and musical instrument) but quite a bit of DK64. The latter obviously bears resemblance to Banjo in many ways. DK64 almost was a very good game, if it weren't for the ridiculous item collecting aspect.
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Post by kaoru on Feb 7, 2023 4:11:41 GMT -5
What I remember people complaining about in the Crash remake trilogy were slightly wonky hitboxes? Like it being hard to judge if you land on an enemy the right way or not. And platforms having rounded edges on the hitboxes so you can slip off their ends despite landing on them.
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Post by retr0gamer on Feb 7, 2023 4:28:35 GMT -5
What I remember people complaining about in the Crash remake trilogy were slightly wonky hitboxes? Like it being hard to judge if you land on an enemy the right way or not. And platforms having rounded edges on the hitboxes so you can slip off their ends despite landing on them. That's pretty much it. Crash uses a pillbox hitbox which is more modern but the original had a cube. It means you end up sliding off platforms you just about make. They seem to have made improvements as I'm not noticing it with crash 2 but i played crash 1 at launch and it was obnoxious.
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Post by dsparil on Feb 7, 2023 5:25:48 GMT -5
Without getting into the controversies with the author herself or her writing, it's weird that IGN's review of the latest Harry Potter game comes across like it has two different scores. The actual review sounds like something that would get somewhere around a 7, but the final score is a 9, even after the critic brought up many flaws. I haven't really paid attention to IGN in a long time, but I got the impression that it's basically "10 if you're a fan and maybe minus 1 for no quidditch". It didn't sound that great otherwise.
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Post by JDarkside on Feb 7, 2023 5:45:35 GMT -5
On the Crash remakes, I remember that a youtuber I like named B-Mask was really hard on the art design of that game and ever since I can't unsee how bad the realistic lighting works with those models. When you see that Crash model next to the 4 one, you REALLY see it, how the latter was made to look good without lighting or post processing, and the former just, uh, doesn't. At all. It makes the Spyro remakes stand out because they went bonkers for the first two games art design wise, additions and revisions making a more unified new look built on the old.
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Post by lurker on Feb 7, 2023 9:48:27 GMT -5
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Feb 7, 2023 12:31:41 GMT -5
I am pretty curious what they're going to fill 40 minutes with. You've got your Zelda and Pikmin 4. Maybe they'll throw in Advance Wars briefly. Kirby just got another trailer, so they won't wase too much time on that. Apart from that, I have no idea what they're even working on at the moment. Xeno 3 DLC and MK8DX DLC won't take that much time to go over either, if they're even a part of this Direct. Splatoon 3's new season might get a first trailer, but those trailers are always a bit short and they usually don't explain too much. So, there's gotta be some meaty new reveals right? Right? I was really just kiddykonging, putting words in your mouth on purpose.
For me its the opposite: I barely played any Banjo (both, game and musical instrument) but quite a bit of DK64. The latter obviously bears resemblance to Banjo in many ways. DK64 almost was a very good game, if it weren't for the ridiculous item collecting aspect.
I've been meaning to get to it. I had the idea to go through all of Rare's N64 games a while back (not in order of release date or anything), but I've been procrastinating on getting acquainted with Goldeneye's controls for the last two years. I gave that a brief spin to see if the cart worked, and all the control options were very rough. After that was going to be DK64. If you haven't played much Banjo, can we at least agree that Rayman 2 > both SM64 and Crash?
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Post by windfisch on Feb 7, 2023 13:19:23 GMT -5
I've been meaning to get to it. I had the idea to go through all of Rare's N64 games a while back (not in order of release date or anything), but I've been procrastinating on getting acquainted with Goldeneye's controls for the last two years. I gave that a brief spin to see if the cart worked, and all the control options were very rough. After that was going to be DK64. If you haven't played much Banjo, can we at least agree that Rayman 2 > both SM64 and Crash? Haven't played too much Rayman 2 either, sorry. I believe I had a highly legal copy for Dreamcast once (or just a DC/PC demo?), but for some reason I didn't play much of it. Sonic's Adventures had me occupied, I guess. It seemed very good though. I tried the PS1 version a while ago, which was graphically the least impressive version, but still fun. I want to believe that at least the Dreamcast game is better than Crash and maybe even Mario 64 (the latter, while groundbreaking, still has a couple of issues). Can't say for sure, I'm afraid.
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Post by excelsior on Feb 8, 2023 3:28:45 GMT -5
I am pretty curious what they're going to fill 40 minutes with. You've got your Zelda and Pikmin 4. Maybe they'll throw in Advance Wars briefly. Kirby just got another trailer, so they won't wase too much time on that. Apart from that, I have no idea what they're even working on at the moment. Xeno 3 DLC and MK8DX DLC won't take that much time to go over either, if they're even a part of this Direct. Splatoon 3's new season might get a first trailer, but those trailers are always a bit short and they usually don't explain too much. So, there's gotta be some meaty new reveals right? Right? There's that weird Bayonetta spin off, Octopath 2 and Fire Emblem Engage DLC that could all show up as smaller things for a Direct. The other major one is the Mario movie (lets hope not). There does seem to be some genuine hope for Silksong this time around too. We'll definitely get some new announcements, since everything is dated and there's nothing beyond Zelda outside of Pikmin. I'd be surprised if anything new qualified as 'meaty' though.
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Post by lurker on Feb 8, 2023 10:51:17 GMT -5
There'll probably be at least one surprise remaster.
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Feb 8, 2023 11:56:15 GMT -5
There's that weird Bayonetta spin off, Octopath 2 and Fire Emblem Engage DLC that could all show up as smaller things for a Direct. The other major one is the Mario movie (lets hope not). There does seem to be some genuine hope for Silksong this time around too. We'll definitely get some new announcements, since everything is dated and there's nothing beyond Zelda outside of Pikmin. I'd be surprised if anything new qualified as 'meaty' though.[/quote] I thought that Bayo spinoff already came out for some reason. Shows you how invested I am in that franchise. FE DLC is another one, but yeah, outside of that it's rather empty on the 1st party front, or Zelda and Pikmin are going to have to majorly blow us away.
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Post by dsparil on Feb 8, 2023 12:43:39 GMT -5
There's still the last DLC hero for XBC3 soon but also the main portion is supposed to be out this year. That seems like a given though. A recent DidYouKnowGaming video reminded me that the only thing that Retro has released since Tropical Freeze is… a port of Tropical Freeze five years ago. Maybe everyone there is just working on MP4 now though.
Total wild guess, Final Fantasy VII Remake.
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Post by windfisch on Feb 8, 2023 13:31:47 GMT -5
A recent DidYouKnowGaming video reminded me that the only thing that Retro has released since Tropical Freeze is… a port of Tropical Freeze five years ago. Maybe everyone there is just working on MP4 now though. Right, because that epic new logo won't materialise all by itself.
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