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TP mostly notable for having a lot of clever dungeon setpieces iirc. i liked the one that was in a big ruined mansion

i missed everything between WW and Breath, so hoping for Switch/eShop ports

It's tough because it doesn't exactly favor my usual 'pick it up and play for an hour or so here and there' style of gaming.

I know what you mean, but I think it does break down into shorter sections pretty well. Like just getting to the next bonfire, or working on a boss.

xp everything in that span is on the weak side for zelda tbh. link between worlds i haven't played, maybe that ones ok

I'm only about 10 hours into BotW. no doubt it's the best zelda

it's like they took the best bits of dark souls and zelda and melded it with an amazing childlike-sense-of-wonder engine plus an awesome physics-and-chemistry engine

I probably would not have slept on Jumping Flash! if I had ever heard any mention of it being a first-person platformer. How is that not more of a thing? Game's pretty cool, btw. Also playing Pac-Man World, which is a surprisingly-solid low-key platformer in its own right. I just hope I finish these games before the Y2K bug destroys the wrold.

It just occurred to me that probably a third of the games I play with any regularity are from that era. Load me up with some FPS and JRPG games from the mid-90s and I'm a happy boy.

when the psx first came out it came with a demo disc, and one of the games on it was a level from jumping flash. i played it over and over back in the day, and never played the real game. i'm with you in your surprise that it wasn't more of a thing. maybe the idea got stale after a few levels? or maybe the game wasn't properly distributed or marketed?

Super Mario 64

got 60 stars, right now doing the Shifting Sand Land red coin star. i love this so much. at first i played the level and was like, ugh, this is a bad level, but now i know where all the instant death pits are and all the flight power ups. this level is a really cool showcase of the 3D elements. there are so many ways to fly into the air (respawning flight cap power ups on the pyramid and in the desert), or be launched into a propeller leap (bounce on a levitating Shy Guy or jump into a quicksand vortex's dust devil) that you can use to get between all the different parts of the level. still it's tough af. like how when you land on the pyramid you have to land on a flat part or else you slide into the quicksand V(^o^)V

my sister-in-law demanded my wife buy the ace attorney rerelease. i tried it once but gave up in disgust when i found out they hadn't even bothered to implement voir dire.

just started playing hellblade: senua's sacrifice

anyone else tried it? an hour or so in the gameplay itself is unremarkable but the atmosphere and sound design is phenomenal

Old Lunch Jumping Flash 2 is even better! I played the hell out of both of them at the time, but my friends were completely uninterested (just as I was with the many permutations of Street Fighter II that they obsessively played). I think American audiences weren't ready for the nippon cutesy-pie stuff at the time?

Always wanted to play Robbit Mon Dieu despite its poor reviews

Crimzon Clover World Ignition is a blast, but I feel like it must be a bullet hell on training wheels, because it's the first true bullet hell shoot-em-up I've played but it's nowhere near as difficult as I'd expected! Infinite continues helps a lot, I guess.

Man, I would've been all over Jumping Flash back in the day if I'd known it existed. Most of the contemporaneous stuff I bought and loved for PS1 was the weirdo Japanese stuff like Um Jammer Lammy and Bust-a-Groove.

(Also, quasi non-sequitur complaint, but even though you can technically play PS1 discs on a PS3, there's a minute delay which renders rhythm games at the very least pretty much unplayable and it breaks my heart because I haven't Bust-ed a Groove in a very very long time.)

Two inspirations today: people playing Risk at the bar makes me want to play Civ; and watching a lego cartoon with orca makes me want to play Warcraft. Oh and replaying gta 4 also on my list.

pandemic legacy season 1

picked up the PS4 version of FFXII for next to nothing, it and FFII are the only games in the series that I’ve never touched so figured it was about time. Played the first couple of hours and ... feelings are mixed. The world and story so far are pretty good, much better than the usual FF fare. The battle system however is non existent, thank fuck for the fast forward button. Does it get any better? It’s funny coming to this after playing XC2 a couple of months ago, which has a similar idea except with loads of player interaction.

finally finished The Last Guardian, which remained pretty frustrating the whole way through, and allowed myself to order Hitman which i've been wanting to play for a while

I've been watching youtubes of Hitman & thinking it looks great

the psvr last guardian thing is short but super-fun - hanging out with trico and feeding him snacks is a blast

bored at work, hiding and playing 10000000

ha I finally "beat" you must build a boat this weekend

Dragonball FighterZ is pretty goddamn good

I want a fighting game but I don't like the video style of that one, have watched enough youtube to figure that out.

picked up "Getting Over It" yesterday evening. only played for 15 minutes or so but it was preceded by a half hour session of showing someone QWOP for the first time

one golden time i made it to 80m on QWOP. far enough to deal with a hurdle. i've never come anywhere close to that, otherwise.

i finished qwop and i will never, ever play getting over it

explain "finished qwop"... it's beatable?

i think you have to get to like... 100m? then it tells you how fast you ran 100m

i beat it on april 1 2011 and posted the screen to my fb and... it was april 1 so nobody believed me

https://i.imgur.com/RnEjlJA.jpg

dag tho

will m u are my hero

Just got Monster Hunter World. It’s pretty fun so far. The monsters and weapons are cool and you get a cute kitty cat sidekick to help you in battle.

Also playing the new Monster Hunter. This isn’t gonna be for everyone, but I’m really enjoying it, especially with friends. Also feel like, as I approach it, this is a game that doesn’t really “start” until the higher levels where it gets difficult enough that you have to dig into the plethora of items at your disposable (which I’ve mostly ignored so far) and tailor your gear to the monsters. Looking forward to it.

how close to open world souls is it?

have decided to make jrpgs my Gamer's Theme for 2018 after xenoblade 2 rekindled my excitement for the genre

starting off with mother 3, a game that i've started a couple times in the past but never finished

Sweet, maybe you can join me in my journey through one of these games that I started sometime in the past year or so and have not yet finished:

Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy 2
Final Fantasy 3
Final Fantasy 4
Ys
Ys 2
Phantasy Star
Phantasy Star 2
Sword of Vermilion
Chrono Trigger

My takeaway being that I enjoy playing but apparently not completing them (the first two Personas being the only ones in recent memory that I saw through to the end).

FF4 is most likely to hit my queue out of those, it's another one ive started in the past but never finished

how close to open world souls is it?

I think the big Souls/Monster Hunter connection is that the weapons (numbering in the teens here) are all really deep and when you get good with one it’s pretty damn satisfying.

Also a zillion different items and armors and upgrade paths and stats. It’s one you’ll be playing for a while if it connects.

Rly wish MonHun were on Switch, fuckin Capcom

thx for background there, may try to check that out when i have free time (which i won't)

bout to wrap up Super Mario 64. i have 75 stars and have fought Bowser a few times now, feel like i can beat the game.

kind of feel like the level design loses focus after the first two floors (once you get to the area w all the non-enter-able paintings). the wet/dry level is super obnoxious. rainbow road the kind of level you would play through once in SMB3 and be thankful you never have to do again. the clock level is awesome though.

i prefer Super Mario Odyssey but i can def see how if you grew up with this it could be your GOAT. simply incredible how many things they got right on the first attempt.

heh i loved the upper floor levels when i was a kid and hated the basement ones

tiny-huge island represent

the catapult enemies you have to use in wet-dry world are pretty awful but the sunken village was hugely romantic to young me

tall tall mountain is cool at first. having the monkey steal your hat and now your hat is just gone is great. but on your 5th time up that mountain... jeez.

Lots of Fall. Various podcasts dedicated to MES. This exact minute The Fall Live at Hacienda 1983-85. The song is Kicker Conspiracy.