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Post by excelsior on Sept 9, 2024 4:24:39 GMT -5
What is everyone playing lately? I'm still working on the Mega Man Legacy Collection. I finished with 4 a couple of days ago and will start with 5 soon. Most of my Mega Man experience from childhood is with the first two games, so from then onwards they're much fresher to me Anyway, the series seems to keep getting better and I would put 4 as my favourite so far. I was a little disappointed in the last two fights, which I thought could have been more interesting. The actual stages I found to be a real treat, though.
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Post by retr0gamer on Sept 9, 2024 5:13:09 GMT -5
Have my PS2 set up so playing a lot on that. Playing Digital Devil Saga which I want to finish before October so I can start some horror games. Also playing a lot on emulators. Castlevania 3 but I also want to play through sin and punishment since I finished radiant silvergun finally and it reminded me how much I miss treasure.
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Post by JDarkside on Sept 9, 2024 5:41:55 GMT -5
I'm waiting on a surgery Thursday (it's pretty routine but I've had to do a lot of prep and paperwork because I had to get a slot very early), so I've been a bit distracted. Primarily that new picross game from Jupiter, which I am three puzzles from finishing. Outside that, mostly some odd adult games I can't talk about here for obvious reasons - but I will mention one I found called Town of Magic is absurdly dense with stuff to do. I took me 24 hours to nearly reach the end of the current content. The game has been in development for four years and it shows, including polish with the sprite art (which has been updated a few times).
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Post by dsparil on Sept 9, 2024 9:06:38 GMT -5
I wish you well on your surgery!
I started Etrian Odyssey HD, did a fail post on it, deleted that almost immediately and now I'm close to the end. Not at the original DS difficulty which is exceptionally tedious more than it is difficult.
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Post by Apollo Chungus on Sept 9, 2024 10:21:28 GMT -5
Oh nice, I forgot the first three games got HD ports last year. Glad to hear you're close to the end now, I've no clue if you've played the other games in the series so I'm looking forward to seeing what you think of this one.
I also wish JDarkside on their surgery! : )
I've been bouncing back and forth between stuff so often I haven't made much progress in anything (which is why I did that big post in the Game Fail thread last night where I shelved five or six games lol), but this afternoon I downloaded a bunch of Game Boy and GBA games to play on the 3DS that I'd never played before - Tetris*, Mario's Picross, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, and Mario vs Donkey Kong.
They were all quite good, and I very much enjoyed how bite-sized they were. You can easily play through a stage or race in a couple minutes, so you can make a solid amount of progress in a very short span of time. It's something I appreciated hugely about New Super Mario Bros when I played it last week during my holiday to Waterville, and perhaps it's the kind of game I need at the moment. I often find I'm not comfortable starting up a game that I wanna get immersed enough in, in case I have to go do something or get called away, but then I get a bit "umm ahh I dunno" about starting anything and end up playing nothing. So having games that you can boot up and get right into within 10-20 seconds is helping with my indecisiveness a good bit. Hopefully, I'll chip away at them and have a generally good time. Thank god for the 3DS, the best handheld. : )
*Obviously I've played Tetris before, I mean the GB version specifically lol
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Post by excelsior on Sept 10, 2024 1:02:19 GMT -5
All the best to you on your surgery, JD. retr0gamer - Are you doing just one or both parts of DDS? They're relatively short individually, so I'd imagine you can get through comfortably for October. Combined of course, that's more of a challenge.
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Post by retr0gamer on Sept 10, 2024 18:03:50 GMT -5
Doing both but I think I'll only finish DDS 1 by October. Not getting as much time in the evenings to play as I used to!
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Post by lurker on Sept 11, 2024 15:51:25 GMT -5
None of that PS5 Pro demonstration seemed encouraging.
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Post by lurker on Sept 11, 2024 23:27:00 GMT -5
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Post by excelsior on Sept 12, 2024 1:18:36 GMT -5
None of that PS5 Pro demonstration seemed encouraging. I can't say I've seen it, nor did I know that a formal announcement had been made, but in concept I can only see a PS5 Pro as a tone deaf product that doesn't solve an actual consumer need beyond those who are more interested in high numbers than actually playing video games. I still see some people clamoring for more and more specs, though it begs an understanding as to why, and I'm sure they make such a minority at this point. At a time when we're frequently being reminded that spiraling budgets are problematic with Sony themselves even feeling the impact of this, the push for a more powerful console is a questionable decision at best.
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Post by spanky on Sept 12, 2024 7:07:44 GMT -5
$699 dollars for the PS5? This is dredging up bad memories of the 3D0...
I have no idea how people keep up with this stuff nowadays. A modestly priced Switch 2 will absolutely dominate the market.
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Post by excelsior on Sept 12, 2024 7:32:47 GMT -5
I have no idea how people keep up with this stuff nowadays. A modestly priced Switch 2 will absolutely dominate the market. They work a second job, of course. I agree with you about a modestly priced Switch, but I'm not sure that's what we'll get. What would you consider a modest price? I can't imagine it being lower than the $399 mark.
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Post by spanky on Sept 12, 2024 10:43:45 GMT -5
I have no idea how people keep up with this stuff nowadays. A modestly priced Switch 2 will absolutely dominate the market. They work a second job, of course. I agree with you about a modestly priced Switch, but I'm not sure that's what we'll get. What would you consider a modest price? I can't imagine it being lower than the $399 mark. Ah getting a second job, glad to see Sony still has the same consumer strategy. The Switch was $299? You're probably right about the $399. Honestly I'd think I'd be OK with that. I've gotten a ton of mileage out of my Switch...
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Post by chronotigger65 on Sept 12, 2024 11:26:33 GMT -5
Don't really much care for the Dreamcast unless I was looking for another retro system to get. But with the used game market being so expensive these days I probably won't buy one unless things go back down. I'm more likely to get a Xbox 360 for used consoles (if I could find a decent working one that is.)
Changing the subject a bit does it seem that Mortal Kombat 1 doesn't get much love unlike the previous games. I check Youtube everyday for stuff about the game and there's a lot of video talking about it being disliked or failing. I believe it was one of the games at EVO or another video game competition that had the lowest number of player entries for the show. Besides that the state that WB Games is in with Warner Brothers looking possibly selling their game division off. It also didn't help that the Suicide Squad game failed to sell. Whatever the case if Netherrelam Studios get sold to someone else I how that they continue the next DLC stuff. Seeing the next guest characters look really interest just wish they has Pinhead of Hellraiser or Ash of Evil Dead/Army of Darkness for once.
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Post by lurker on Sept 12, 2024 11:46:18 GMT -5
Saw a stream of the collection’s MvC 2 last night and found out that it does in fact have the alt stages that were included in the console releases and the version of the clock tower stage with the functional clock.
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