Posts by Lace Sabatons

I really don't know what metric is good to use for naming a kid.

On the one hand, I'd never want to give a kid a common name. If my kid ever met someone with the same name that they have, I'd like that to be a surprise.

At the same time, I wouldn't want my kid's name to cause them too many problems.

I'd like to give my kid a role model. But have you ever noticed that people with well known names never actually seem to amount to anything themselves?

In the end, I think you should name your kid for your kid's sake.

I'm really talking more about how we view ourselves, and how American culture makes us feel about the balance of our own lives.

Economics is a different discussion, and one I don't think I've got the intellectual chops for. I have opinions, but they're weak and poorly supported. That shit is complicated, and a common sense approach tends not to work out the way you think it will. And everything is such a massive, interconnected web that a change that seems eminently reasonable, can have completely undesirable consequences.

For reals. Final Fantasy 4, 5, and 6? Chrono Trigger? These are games I never could have played without emulation. Particularly because when I played them, those games weren't yet being re-released on every new platform that came out. Your choice was between emulation, and paying hundreds of dollars for a cartridge on eBay. (Or, in the case of 5, importing a cartridge and a Super Famicom from Japan, and learning to speak Japanese.) And when they did get re-releases on the PS1, those releases SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED. So much load times.

Also, I once got all 120 stars in Super Mario 64 on an emulator. Using a keyboard as my only input device. Because I'm pro.

The Advance was great for being the first console to really begin the trend of taking classic games and porting them to handhelds.

Though the OoT style yips and YEAGHs added to LttP were criminal. =P

I feel like the edges of some of the platforms are a little...slippery? Where I don't know if I quite made it or not, and I end up sliding off the edge.

I mean, I enjoy it. It's a little annoying how infrequently you're allowed to save, but the powerups are neat and the levels are creative.

Maybe LoL siphoned off the shittier players. =P

So, help me out here: Why does Hitman Contracts suck?

I mean, I agree it sucks. I never enjoyed it. Apparently none of us enjoyed it. But I don't really know what about it sucks so much.

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I agree. I didn't mind the linear gameplay either myself.

Linear gameplay is undervalued in our modern games culture.

Although, I do tend to think that an RPG should be more open. But FFX used its linearity to great effect, and you were able to revisit the old areas once you got the airship, and do quests that weren't available when you went through the first time. Sooo, yeah. Good game.

I drive a '94 Escort I bought used when I was 16. No dealership to talk to. =P

That's a lot of impressive work for just a couple days!

I only ever played the remake of Resi 1 on the GC. It didn't hold my interest, though I wouldn't mind taking another crack at it.

I am a stupidly huge fan of the movies. >=D

I'm not an economist, but by all accounts the gold standard is unsustainable. And I hardly think the metric by which we measure our wealth is the root cause of any social decline.

I don't really follow you there.

What's the most sexist remark you've ever heard in your life? The title of the thread?

I've never really been very handy with cars, but I figure this is a good opportunity to teach myself about vehicle maintenance.

Google is being a dick, though.

I have wonderful memories of playing Silent Assassin. But it was hard as balls. About 1/3rd of the way through the game, I always give up on stealth and just run-and-gun most missions.

Yeah, I originally got excited about it because it was supposed to be a "back to basics" RPG from what I'd read. (I actually recall gushing about how excited I was in the Spira Online shoutbox. It's one of the very few games in my life that I bought brand new). Due to some futzing with save files, I never actually beat it. But, about 2 years ago, my girlfriend Morrie and I decided we should try playing some games together. So we played that.

We still never finished it though, because of the aforementioned not-goodness.

I think, actually, that my younger siblings ended up playing through the whole thing. So the purchase wasn't a total waste.

It was gorgeous.

Plus, the idea of a multiplayer RPG, where different party members can be controlled by different players during combat, was pretty neat. But the implementation was so fucking bad, with the camera constantly locked on to player. Player 1 had to constantly make sure they were far enough away from the enemies so that the camera would zoom out enough for player 2 to see themselves.

One of my favorite games is a free indie game called Iji.

A few months ago when I told someone about it, they told me it sounded a lot like ABUSE. I played a little bit of ABUSE on a website that ran old DOS games through a browser, and it was really good. But I hate playing games through a browser, so I want to get it working on my own computer.

The GBC also loses some points for using actual batteries to power itself. The rechargeable battery on the DS is a game changer for me.

I wonder if the battery in my copy of Oracle of Seasons still works. It never occurred to me that those games were old enough for the save batteries to die.

I've been trying to get a copy of "ABUSE" that I can run reliably for awhile now. Old DOS games are so good, but some of the most difficult games to really get ahold of.

Old DOS games might be the ones that I regret missing out on the most.