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pitfall ii for atari 2600. it's fun.

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Pokemon Snap. It's still one of the best spinoffs in the series, just behind Stadium. It's a shame they didn't follow up on it until so much later, the new Pokemon just don't interest me, but a gen 2 Snap would have been awesome.

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Played a ROM of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars on my PS Vita, and I must say it‘s really different playing it on there instead of the SNES.
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I think it's an FX chip game, it's probably harder to run, like Star Fox is.
 
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im tryin to finish up elden ring, I did snag fall guys for free from the epic store and also downloaded FarCry 5 and For Honor from Game Pass. Never played any of the three, (Fall Guys, For Honor, Farcry 5), any thoughts?
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🎵KEEP YOUR RIIIIIIFLE BYYYY YOUR SIIIIDE🎵
 
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Got back into Mount and Blade Bannerlord after giving it some space to grow after feeling relatively disappointed by it's state at "launch". I can say that I'm pleasantly surprised by the changes made. This game has really benefited from straight up ripping off some things from Total War. As someone that has played a lot of Total War, I welcome that. Giving commands to troops never worked well enough for me to even bother with in Warband but they've done a great job with it and giving commands to troops and setting them up tactically is just as seamless as it is in Total War and I was delighted to see that the same battle tactics I use in Total War are viable in Bannerlord now (small number of infantry in a shield wall backed up by a retarded number of archers on a hill flanked by a small number of cavalry for harassment). There's also a lot of quality of life improvements that go a really really long way especially when you look at how much the series has been lacking in simple things like that. It's still that same old gameplay loop and probably still not as good as it could be, but I'm enjoying it for now until the veneer of novelty wears thin again and I stop playing it for a couple years.


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I've started playing GTA Online again after learning the new money-making method (it's Cayo Perico. First time stealth might be a bit rough but once you have a route mapped out it's honestly super easy).

I forgot how many major issues this game has. So much so I have to make it a bullet-point list rather than turn it into an essay.
- Shockingly awful load times
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Everything else I could look past, but it's the load times and matchmaking that made me rage quit this game forever. I tried for fucking hours to do setup missions for a heist and made barely any progress, no exaggeration. You sit there in the lobby waiting for someone, anyone, to join. Someone joins. Then leaves. This happens repeatedly for about 15 minutes. Finally you get 4 people in the lobby and you're ready to start the mission. One of the players is unresponsive, won't ready up, and/or is Chinese. Start again with the same bullshit and finally get enough people to start the mission. Everyone's ready and we are starting the mission, awesome! One player leaves as soon as you load into the mission. Start again. Manage to get into the mission again. One player speeds off, one person is just standing there, and the other person can't get into any vehicles because of a bug. If you even end up getting into the mission with everyone paying attention you're inevitably going to have some retard that can't do anything right and keeps dying. One of the most infuriating online experiences I've had in any game.
 
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Yakuza 0


Totally lost but I fell in love by the karaoke part.
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I just started it last week, having never played a game in the series or knowing it's a prequel to the first game (making it a good place to start but a tad overwhelming storywise, I found). I've been playing resource collecting and farming sims for a while and got in the mood for something linear with violence. Now I'm on a mission to patron every noodle joint and become a disco king. I love it.
 
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Playing Klonoa 2 via the Phantasy Reverie series.

I have mixed feelings. The environments look gorgeous, but the remake has a lot of weird issues. Some characters’ facial expressions don’t work like they should, the script has changed in places creating some awkward sounding lines, music cues in cutscenes are off and the lighting doesn’t look right in some places. It’s generally pretty sloppy in presentation compared to the original version.

Still, it’s Klonoa 2 and I love the game. And this is probably the best way to get it that doesn’t involve breaking the back on buying an original copy or having to rely on relatively dodgy emulation. (Although I have heard PS2 emulation has gotten better as of late)

Supposedly, 1’s remake has even more issues. I’ll play that one after finishing 2 and give my thoughts on it.
 
Got ME: Legendary for free, so I guess it's time to waste a couple months on that again. It's nice just having all the DLC already, and there's already a decent mod that makes the ending (slightly) less retarded.
 
Played a bit more of A Plague Tale: Innocence.
I hate when devs disable the "walk slightly faster" button to force you to walk in a long corridor. There's only one lane, let me go past the boring parts FFS.
 
Zelda : Ocarina of Time. If you have nostalgia for OoT, this is a fun rabbithole. I don't think I've played it for 15 years and it holds up better than I expected, and the minor quality of life tweaks they've added such as letting you turn the UI off and backporting the bunny hood from Majora's Mask really make a difference.

Also, there's a cheat that makes every single surface in the game climbable and it's far more entertaining than it should be to spiderman your way out of bounds.
 
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Zelda : Ocarina of Time. If you have nostalgia for OoT, this is a fun rabbithole. I don't think I've played it for 15 years and it holds up better than I expected, and the minor quality of life tweaks they've added such as letting you turn the UI off and backporting the bunny hood from Majora's Mask really make a difference.

Also, there's a cheat that makes every single surface in the game climbable and it's far more entertaining than it should be to spiderman your way out of bounds.
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I watched ZFG play SoH. It looks really cool to see oot in 60fps. I am hopeful for more OOT mods now. Hoping for 3rd quest any day now...
 
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I watched ZFG play SoH. It looks really cool to see oot in 60fps. I am hopeful for more OOT mods now. Hoping for 3rd quest any day now...
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Yeah, I'm excited for it too. There's so much potential especially in regards to map editing as almost every pre-disc zelda game is an intricate puzzlebox of just barely squeezing everything into the memory/space requirements and those have really kept the editor bar to entry high, but with both of those scaled way up we might get the Zelda analogue to Quake : Arcane Dimensions. Here's to hoping.

Same goes for Link to the Past, which is getting a similar treatment as well as Four Swords-style multiplayer.
 
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Horizon Forbidden West.

Yes. I hate playing as basically an angry lesbian feminist posing as action hero but I love the world building
 
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I downloaded As Dusk Falls since I heard it was from former Quantic Dream devs and I wanted to see if it would be a hilarious trainwreck where they introduce something supernatural out of nowhere and completely destroy the tone like Indigo Prophecy. Nothing like that so far, "game" is basically 90% those "holy fuck you're about to get raped make a decision to try not to get raped" scenarios in Heavy Rain. Aesthetically holy fuck is this "games" art style a mixed bag. Some shots it looks fine but some it looks like the product of a a warped timeline where digitized character models from MK became the mainstream.

My main takeaway is that one of the main characters is voiced by Adam Jensen which makes the game entertaining since you can pretend the whole story is more of Jensen's robo cop antics from a Deus Ex 3 we will never get.

Edit: Also the only time you will ever hear someone say "Birdwatching, that's cool!"
 
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Miller said:
Far Cry 5 is pretty good, it's better than FC6.
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I felt FC 5 was a bit of a step backwards from 4, in terms of visuals. Far Cry 5 felt so bland in terms of colours, where FC 4 was vibrant. They at least managed to get that back a bit with New Dawn. I did enjoy the story of Far Cry 5. Would you say to completely steer away from Far Cry 6, or is it still enjoyable enough as a mindless activity for an hour or two after work?
 
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