[Rud31]

I mostly watch Game Trailers and only kind of listen to what they say and just have a gut reaction to the footage. They are pretty good about getting bits and pieces from across the entire game.
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[Mr. Mechanical]

For AAA/mainstream stuff I find IGN and Game Informer have gotten less terrible as the years have gone on. It's still just marketing from big publishers but it's a bit classier these days. For everything else I use SB/Neogaf to find out about new stuff and just watch youtube footage of gameplay for things I'm curious about.
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[schroeder]

RockPaperShotgun is good on PC games and AllGamesBeta has a steady stream of trailers and announcements.

[dongle]

Thanks! Yeah, I'm mostly on Polygon and RPS. NeoGAF has forever irritated me for some reason (I'm being diplomatic). AllGamesBeta is nice – the stream of images satisfies much of my curiosity.

[jodeaux]

[Rita]

I like Siliconera, although it doesn't have much for those interested in high-budget western games.

[Felix]

yeah, I'd put Eurogamer over Polygon as well (most people I know who really like Polygon know most of the writers ethics in game journalism lol, their editorial pieces are usually good but their reviews are like sub-actionbutton writing-an-unrelated-editorial-and-giving-a-stupid-score which would be fine if the first top 10 list they published wasn't also a paean to terrible taste, it's like the middlebrow garbage AV Club of videogames). I prefer RPS to either of them, though.

RPS is seriously great. It's part of the whole Shut Up & Sit Down late-20s-British-tabletop-critic set (Leigh's partner and his friends) and they are consistently thoughtful and articulate and have good taste.

following RPS and Eurogamer on Twitter is totally manageable and a good way to get their headlines fwiw.

[tacotaskforce]

I'm happy getting my videogame news exclusively through allgamesbeta.com

Are any of the RPG maker games on steam worth playing instead of, as an example, tracking down a DS copy of Dragon Quest 6?
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[Tulpa]

I generally like SUSD but I would never describe them as thoughtful and articulate. Moderately entertaining, middle brow entry level tastes (which is fine, they're probably the best gateway to board games right now). It says a lot that they prefer Mascarade to Coup.

The same goes for RPS as well. They're good at getting you excited about the medium but their tastes are kind of a joke once you're more in-depth in the medium. Doesn't one of them refuse to play on any difficulty higher than easy? Still, they're generally ok at highlighting if anything exciting is coming out.
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[tacotaskforce]

I just want to understand why RPGM is apparently viable as a commercial platform. I always figured it was 100% for vanity projects.

Man, I wonder what japanese RPGM games have been like.
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[Ronnoc]

I am down with any list that rates Company of Heroes over Starcraft, but I have never understood why anyone, let alone everyone likes Dawn of War over #2.

I'm sure it's the single-player or something

[Tulpa]

Well sure, SUSD talks a good game about standing above the BGG crowds but (1) It's pretty hard to dislike a Vlaada Chvatil game, dude's kind of a genius atm, so it's not surprising that he gets universal praise from every quarter and (2) They talk shit about some thematic games but it's really inconsistent. Like, ok they don't like Arkham Horror but they think Tales of the Arabian Nights is amazing and that Cosmic Encounter is (literally) the greatest game ever made. Like it's fine to not like experience generator games but at least be a little consistent. (OK Arkham Horror does suck, but they also have a strong dislike of Eldritch Horror even though it fixes most of the glaring issues with the original game, and at that point I can't really tell what's fundamentally better about reading flavor text in TotAN or having wacky random events in Cosmic Encounter vs doing the same in Eldritch Horror)

Their tastes are pretty clear: They like games that are good at parties where lots of ridiculous random things happen every single turn. That's why they prefer Mascarade, a casual large group game, over Coup, a tight strategic game with a max of 5 players. That's why they think Cosmic Encounter is the greatest game ever made instead of something on par with Eldritch Horror. That's why they like a shit game like Ladies and Gentlemen at all. Etc etc etc

Like, don't get me wrong, they're a much better gateway to board gaming than Wil Wheaton's youtube show, but I wouldn't watch SUSD alone. I'd at least also watch Rahdo videos and read Fortress Ameritrash just so that I get a clear breadth of tastes and don't automatically assume the tastes of the most overtly charismatic of the bunch are actually objective and factual.

As far as RPS's top strategy games list, uh, Endless Legend honestly kind of blows. I don't understand anyone loving that game the way RPS does.
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[Felix]

Endless Legend is the only game high up on that list I hadn't tried, and I was going to try it on the strength of that list, so now maybe I'll wait longer. Thanks! Likewise, I'll definitely check out Rahdo and Ameritrash, and I can appreciate how frustrating it is to listen to me praise what are in your mind one-note critics. I certainly don't agree with SU&SD's top 25 in full, but that's not what a top 25 is for; I don't like Arabian Nights particularly much, and I can't understand leaving off something like Agricola, or going with Twilight Imperium over Eclipse, but I do really, really love Cosmic Encounter and I could see how it's almost the only appropriate #1 on their terms. they have a strong bias in favour of interactivity for interactivity's sake, but so do I. and I do have them to thank for a lot of somewhat obscure stuff I might not have gotten into otherwise, like Consulting Detective and Mysterium and Space Cadets, though it seems like you were well aware of those from your neck of the woods, too.

It's fair to say that in general I tend to find common ground with critics for what I don't like rather than what I actually like -- the reason I read Salon for movie reviews is because they were the only ones I could find on Rotten Tomatoes who found Wall-E too facile, eight or however many years ago, and now I appreciate Andrew O'Hehir's essays as much as the actual reviews -- so that might be why I tend to over-identify with SUSD for rejecting overly solitary and overly thematic stuff. and as far as "rising above" the BGG fray, I'm really excited to finally try Twilight Struggle; I could never be convinced to drop $70 on a two-player game since I do most of my tabletop stuff in bigger groups, but the guys who are supposed to working on Matsuno's kickstarter game are apparently trying to push a Unity version of TS out the door by summertime first.

[chocolatecoffin]

Has anyone played Darkest Dungeon lately? Have they patched the fun into the combat yet?
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[Loki Laufeyson]

wasn't there some "easy guide to play mahjong" page specifically for helping people play mahjong videogames somewhere?
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[zombieman000]

The closest I could think of was barticle's mahjong FAQs for the Yakuza games (FAQ for 4).

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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[jodeaux]

Can anyone here help me with video settings regarding The Last Story? There must be some combination that won't make my eyes bleed when I play. Should I set it to 480p or 480i? HD or SD? I hooked my wii up to an HD TV with component cables and set it to 480p widescreen but it doesn't look all that great. I've tried pretty much every combination and nothing is satisfactory. I have consulted the interwebs, but I trust you fine folks the most.

[notbov]

the answer is to play on a SD or ED (480p) set or a CRT computer monitor so you can eliminate any and all scaling. like, trying to play on a 1080p set means the scaler in the TV has to figure out what the missing ~1.6 million pixels are doing, where as something that's native or multiscan is just like "whatever, show this shit"

comedy answer: Dolphin
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[Loki Laufeyson]

has a full version of the fangame "namco super heroes" ever surfaced?
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[jodeaux]

just bought Ninety Nine Nights for 7$. I've heard that its more interesting/different than the typical mousou garbage? Is this true? Can someone please elaborate?

[Rud31]

YOU TELL US GAME OWNER.
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[jodeaux]

Roarrrrrrr!!!!

[Loki Laufeyson]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

I was probably told about it at some point, but I only just became cognizant of the fact that Neo Geo Pocket cartridges, instead of having ROM for the game and a separate SRAM for save data, actually consist of flash memory (Flash RAM?) with a chunk at the end left unprotected so the system can write to it.

would this actually have been a smart/cost-effective design decision during the late 90s, or just SNK/Aruze being weird, like the DAC capabilities that very few games ended up using?

[km]

At this point Obsidian has fixed (to my knowledge) all of the terrible bugs in Pillars of Eternity and yeah, it's pretty fun if you liked Baldur's Gate. The story is neither horrible nor great, though I actually didn't see the act 3 reveal coming. Combat is pretty fun once you figure out the rules. Fortunately the copious tooltips are actually pretty helpful. I definitely recommend poking around the big dungeon as soon as you can. Guiding my underleveled party through was the most fun I had in the game.

Play it with the options to show you unavailable dialog options and metagame info turned off


I wonder why it's so hard to design an RPG where you don't have basically unlimited money at the end
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[The King]

Does anyone know any arcades in the Tokyo area that have Radiant Silvergun and Steep Slope Sliders machines?
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[Renfrew]

Not sure about Steep Slope Sliders but I'd be willing to bet Mikado which is right next to Takadonobaba Station has Radiant Silvergun. It may be in and out of Hey Arcade in Akihabara as well.
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[Rud31]

For Silvergun yeah Renfrew hit the two that probably would. Ikaruga is more common than Silvergun though. I know the old Sega arcade in Jyuugaoka used to have Ikaruga but I havent' beent here there in 3+ years. In 2015 it might just be easier to list every game center in Tokyo. I could do this at least for everyone I know that is still around.

Oh if you can stand it being the sleaziest place in town you could try New Shimbashi building. Be prepared or also be looking for a lots of offers to an HJ.

There used to be good arcades in Kabukicho but I think those have also closed.

If your Japanese is good enough you can actually make requests to Try to have a specific machine.

wait.

wait.

wait.

I think Radiant Silvergun is on Nesica??? Nope. God. Arcades are sort of their last breaths. You actually would have better luck trying to find them at some random stop in Chiba I think. Funabashi has at least two old style arcades. Tsuga has always been a low priority station that I mean to re-investigate.

Just get on the hell-bound snail monorail and get off at every stop and ask the station attendant IS THERE AN ARCADE HERE? There's a saturday. I'm sorry if you live on the monorail I seem to maybe remember that you do. And I'm sorry that you live on the monorail.
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[Renfrew]

I rode the monorail in west Tokyo once. Is it just as bad in the east?
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[Rud31]

I'm talking about the Chiba Monorail. In which you can pay 300 yen or take a 10 minute walk. It's suspended so that's kind of neat. But someone made a joke just move to 4 stops on the monorail and pay 40,000 yen for a nice apartment and never go outside.
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[Rud31]

https://www.facebook.com/pages/%E3%83%90%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%88%E3%82%A5%E3%82%B6%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89/1445804155713811

Go here.

It is...somewhere in Chiba?
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[The King]

That looks hard to get to, but I'm tempted to figure it out for Lucky and Wild next to Crisis Zone.
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[The King]

Found a Radiant Silvergun machine in Tsudanuma.
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[Rud31]

woah what?

woah. I went to Tsudanuma several times and almost considered living there, but don't remember an arcade. Like in the post before I was specificlly trying to think of an arcade in Tsudanuma. It is a nice boring town. Used to have a terrible mexican bar and a terrible taco place.
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