Posts by Lace Sabatons

Quote from kilovh

@Sardonic Pickle Blood Money is by a zillion miles the best hitman game. So good. All anyone ever wanted was more of that, jsut expanded. Then we got hitman absolution, which is the best argument for squeenix to never get involved in an action title again (although they did make sleeping dogs which I am currently enjoying)

Hitman 1: Honestly just too old to be very playable anymore.
Hitman 2: BETTER NOT RUN, OR YOU'LL DIE!
Hitman 3: A clunky HD remake in disguise.
Hitman 4: Pretty much perfection.

I actually enjoyed what parts of Absolution I played, though I lost interest at about level 4, so it can't have been that good.

I've written a hundred different positive reviews of Shovel Knight at this point, I hardly even know what to say about it anymore.

It is a perfect game, without any notworthy flaws. And it does so very many things right.

If you have any love at all for the 2D platformer, play Shovel Knight. It puts every other entry in the genre to shame.

Sorry brochacho, I'm a fat fuck.

I should probably start working out before I die.

Final Fantasy 4 Celtic Moon.

Is it weird that I have an entire playlist with a half dozen different versions of the Final Fantasy 4 soundtrack on it?

Quote from JennyorAlice

I have all of the Mario Games and all of the Harry Potter games for the Wii. Those are the type of games that I normally enjoy playing. But then I'm a big Harry Potter fan and I grew up on Mario so.......

I'm a humongous, ginormous Harry Potter fan. Are the Wii games really worth playing, though? They looked pretty bad to me, but I never really gave them a chance.

I spent many happy hours playing Tales of Symphonia; though recent attempts to play the game have revealed to me that it's actually really bad.

Eternal Darkness is eternally underrated. One of the only horror games I've ever really enjoyed, I think. Also, the first level of Sonic Adventure 2 is good.

I'm partial to the original DS. I haven't been able to get my hands on a 3DS yet. I'm not fond of anything 3D though, so I'm not really stoked to give it a try.

Also, the old gameboy color should get an honorable mention for being lightweight, tiny, and having a phenomenal library of games.

I think @Sardonic Pickle will have input on this.

I only just started playing this game, but it just feels wrong somehow. I can't place my fingers on it.

It feels close enough to a classic SMB game that I find myself playing it with confidence. I run and jump with the self-assurance of an old pro. But I keep just missing the mark. Falling it a pit I think I should have avoided, getting killed by an enemy I could swear I jumped on.

Am I just being cantankerous? Do other people have this issue at all?

The second game I ever owned on the Nintendo 64. I remember feeling like such a failure because I couldn't beat it without cheats. Little did I realize at the time that when I was 28 years old, I would still count SotE as one of the hardest fuckin' games ever.

Even the cheat was difficult to enter. I needed to keep a pile of rubber bands next to the console, because it was impossible for me to press all the necessary buttons with my fingers.

We've been having fun with NES tracks, and there are easily just as many good tracks on the SNES. I'll start us out with a couple oddball picks of my own:

First level of Contra III has some pretty dissonant music. Action packed, frantic to the point of being schizophrenic, and just oozing with a kind of Terminator style.

The 7th Saga is a game I discovered when I used Kaaza to download a pack of "every SNES game ever." It's an RPG where you walk around in a Mode 7 3D world. Pretty neat, with a very soothing, lovely overworld theme.

I mean, as a series, I think Mario Kart has as much life in it as the Mario series itself. Perhaps even a little more. Racing is literally the oldest human game there is.

Specifically though, I think the SNES Mario Kart is pretty much a dead game for me. I've never really been a fan of racing games to start with, but the faux-3D, Mode 7 racing games on the SNES are the worst for me. I can't play either this, or F-Zero worth a damn.

Doublde Dash is my favorite.

As a kid, these were the fucking tops for me. I played Ninja Gaiden 2 the most, but NG1 was phenomenal as well. I confess, NG3 has always been too difficult to hold my attention. I actually haven't played any of the rebooted games.

I never really understood the game's powerup system. But the jumps were tight, and the sword swing was instantaneous, and the way enemies "popped" when they died was really satisfying.

They did occasionally feel a little cheap with the fucking eagles and bats that seem impossible to track. And the enemy respawn could be unforgiving. Bird bumped you a few feet back? Step forward and it spawns again!

Still, high quality games. I sometimes feel like the only person who really played them. Does anyone else have memories of these?

HOW HAS THIS NOT BEEN POSTED YET?

I blame myself, and submit to a public flogging.

Is Link a blonde, or a brunette?

Yesterday I would have asked something completely inappropriate. Something to set you off balance so I could assert dominance as the rockin'ist dude on the forums. Buuuuuuuuuuuuut they've told me I have to stop doing that sort of thing now.

So instead I will merely say welcome to the forums, and ask what is the most blood you've ever seen in a single place?

Of course, there's a vast gulf of difference between good natured trash talk, and the kind of bilious harassment that we often directed towards women online. It's a question, I think, of whether the words come from a place of anger, or from a feeling of competition.

As to the study, the way I understand it is this:

-There is a room full of men, and a cake.
-Everybody in the room gets a piece of cake depending on how good they are at video games. The winners get big pieces, the losers get small pieces.
-Some women come into the room.
-The women also get pieces of cake depending on how good they are at video games.
-The men who were winning don't care. They're still in the upper-half of video game players, so they still get good sized pieces of cake.
-The men who were losing get angry. They're still losing, and now the piece of cake they're getting is really really small!
-The loser men hate the women for taking all of the cake.
-Except the cake was never real in the first place.
-But the losers are still mad about it.

"Duty" is actually interesting to me. In LttP, Link is descended from the order of royal knights. It implies a kind of intimate, hereditary fealty. He was literally born to fight for her.

Regarding your spoiler...yeah, somewhere in the back of my mind I thought that might be the case. It's disappointing. "Destiny" is the absolute least interesting possibility.

Harmontown 153.

http://www.harmontown.com/category/podcasts/

They talk about feminism and shit.

I mean, if you've got a personal need for the physical artifact of the game and the console, I can appreciate that. I have a great love for the physical artifacts myself, I just don't need them.

I'd be curious to hear from others, though. I feel like I've seen a lot of emulator hate on these boards in particular. Possibly from @The Inhaling One or @Pekachew ?

The only game where I regularly play online with strangers is Chivalry, which has a pretty decent community. Though it doesn't have voice chat the way a lot of other games do. And I guess there's WoW. I do enjoy playing games with other people, but I much prefer to play with people I know.

As to those who harass women...yeah. Fuckin losers. But we all already knew that, right?