[Toups]

it's not a particularly lonely game though
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[Rud31]

Going across 3 planets sounds pretty epic to my 6 year old, 16 year old, and 26 year old self.
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[Rud31]

Watching the Terry fight in Dragon Quest VI made me want to break my DS.

Why doesn't the whole game look that awesome?
Why isn't the battle system THAT?

edit: 11:20
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[protoblax]

The Sims 3 on the iPhone is a surprisingly lonely game.
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[Moogs]

[allensmithee]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[allensmithee]

I talked about it up there!

NO ATB! D:
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[Mr. Mechanical]

Checked my stats last night in GTA 4 and I'm at 46% on the game I started a few months ago. Currently going around doing the pigeons because a couple missions ago I opened up the third island.

I could walk around in this game with the camera behind his shoulder and watch Niko breath forever.

I was considering starting over to try something I've never tried before but I think I'll wait and try it on a fresh save where I'm not trying to go for 100%. What I'm considering is playing through the entire story without stealing a single car or killing a single person (unless I need to kill them in order to advance the narrative). I would even try to avoid killing police who come after me during missions by shooting them in the legs and then running so I would only be killing people I absolutely needed to in order to advance. It sounds like a really challenging but really rewarding way to try to experience the game.

Or maybe I'll try it when I play Episodes from Liberty City after I finish up with 4.
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[parker]

Somebody play Trenched with me. Xbox live gold is free for the weekend I think.
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[Rud31]

[Deets]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[Hekatoncheir]

[Mr. Mechanical]

[internisus]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

You clearly have no clue what that would actually be as a battle system either.

[allensmithee]

Ew, no, that'd be gross.

Just have it be a menu based battle system like DQ, and just as snappy as DQ is (seriously, I love the DS games because everything is snappy), and if you don't press anything you just wait around awkwardly and if you do press something you do it, and because it is snappy you probably press something because you're not sighing at it not being snappy.

And then it is purely aesthetic but that's okay (fuck more than plain menu based battle systems in RPGs (unless they're Grandia))
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[negativedge]

[allensmithee]

basically true.

also, i played a bunch of Virtua Fighter on MAME and it was swell. I wish I had a better Saturn controller, because I'd certainly jam on the sequel. And I wish I didn't know I have to give back the 360 soon because I'd start obsessing over VF5 again (seriously, I have an 89-0 w/l record with Eileen in that game) and i don't want to go through withdrawal again.

but vf1 that's a fancy thing. the emulation is basically perfect, except this one weird thing, where hair items float in the ground. so like, Pai Chan's pigtails are in the ground. it is kind of really fucking surreal.

damn, vf2 is such an improvement to this game. and yet, i still love vf1. I mean, somehow, the flat polygons and lack of textures really appeals to me.

someday, vf3 will have a perfect version out/i'll have a good joystick and play the inferior genki ver. on dc.


... i want final showdown ):
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[Loki Laufeyson]

[allensmithee]

yup! that was how i first played virtua fighter. :D
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[ChoAnikiFan1994]

playing Live A Live in an attempt to make a legitimate Let's Play because it's one of my favorite games that i have the means to record

(if i could i would do an Eternal Sonata LP because i'm one of the aliens who thinks Eternal Sonata is awesome)

also considering giving Radiant Historia a real chance even though i don't like what little i played of it, since i'd like to play an RPG i haven't played through before

i can't really play things that aren't RPGs for any significant length of time anymore (although i plan on getting back to SpaceChem and beating it because it owns). i couldn't even beat Vanquish ffs, although i attribute that mostly to Act 3 being fucking garbage and destroying my enthusiasm
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[CubaLibre]

[Toto]

[negativedge]

[ChoAnikiFan1994]

[Broco]

Started playing XBLA half-minute Hero. Hella low-budget looking but still as entertaining as I expected. I like that both your level and gold reset each quest. Only equipment carries over, and you can redo old quests if you missed something great (which seems rare anyway).

[ionustron]

[Ghost Dinosaur]

Finally hopping on this Persona 4 bus. I'm about two-ish hours in. So far it's way too fucking chatty (I knew there'd be a lot of dialogue, but I didn't realize that so much of it would be repeating shit that was already said), but the best parts make me feel like I'm playing a Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie. Gonna keep at it for that reason, but I really hope things improve once I get past this endless prologue.

[Rud31]

[negativedge]

yes, the beginning of Grandia is pretty text heavy and a bit non standard. you have to like play hide and seek and do some weird things in the first town, which is actually a rather large town by JRPG standards as well.

[ChoAnikiFan1994]

[negativedge]

[remote]

Playing Link's Awakening and every time I open a chest that's like, "You got 50 rupees!" I can't help but imagine the game show host from Slumdog Millionaire saying it.
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[ChoAnikiFan1994]

DSiXL hurts my hands + the dpad/buttons are terrible, but DSphat's screen is too dark and tiny to go back to. DS dilemma

to top it off, Radiant Historia broke its stride by throwing a dumbass "fetch 5 specific twigs from this forest" thing at me and it's not even a sidequest
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[GrimmSweeper]

That's really the only crime they commit in an otherwise wonderfully paced game.
Although you might have to do it twice. :|

[ChoAnikiFan1994]

[Loki Laufeyson]

been playing justice gakuen nekketsu seisyun nikki 2 and reminiscing about how i was once obsessed with the rival schools game and this one was the "lost" game that only came out in japan and i'd never get to play.

i also went and searched for rival schools oc on deviantart, but there were disappointingly few results. the only really notable one was a street fighter/rival schools oc who attends tamagawa minami HS, and once saved sakura from bullies.

sakura, who travels the world fighting superhuman martial artists needed saving from bullies. well.
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[Tlon]

played more Gears of War. I thought the 'stop and pop' gameplay would be boring, but its more dynamic than I expected. love knee-capping a Locust and letting the light-hating bugs get them, or popping one with a shotgun as it tries to melee me
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[Felix]

Yeah, I don't know of anybody who wasn't amazed by how well Gears came together (regardless of how you feel about the level design / sequel / sequel's level design). I've deliberately not finished the fifth chapter of the original game's campaign in four years just so that I won't actually be disappointed that they aren't porting 2 or 3 to PC.