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Gaming Discussion / Re: Your #1 RPG you ever played?

« on: Today at 02:24:24 pm »

has anyone else beaten Skies of Arcadia?

Yup.  I had the Dreamcast version, but didn't finish it there.  Did on the GC.  It's good stuff.  Straight JRPG, of course, and there are a few things that can get annoying, but honestly it's a really, really good take on most of the genre tropes.  It just executes the vision of a JRPG so well that it's hard to find fault.

Mine would definitely have to be Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals. That game is a brilliant masterpiece.

Oh, wow, rolling with the DS version?  Interesting.  I enjoyed it, too, although I still liked the SNES version better.  But Curse was great fun, and much more than I was expecting, especially after I let go of my fanboy rage that it would be an action-RPG instead of a straight-up remake.  Worth every penny I spent on it.

I'm probably alone when I say Star Ocean 3.

I loved it until I hit the last third of the game, and the difficulty went absurd.  Seriously, guys, what gives?  Took me a lot of abusing the crafting system, and then I was nearly untouchable for the end run. 

I'd also say that my ranking of FFs is unconventional as well (but I guess not unheard of). It goes like FF6=FF7>FF10=FF12>FF8>FF13>FF9>FF4>FF5>FF3>FF1>FF2.

If there's anything I've learned, it's that pretty much everyone's is unconventional.  I think to be truly weird, you'd have to put FF2 at the top.  (But then, the Dawn of Souls version is actually pretty good, so...  maybe it's conceivable.)

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Your #1 RPG you ever played?

« on: May 22, 2013, 05:27:47 pm »

Yeah, we've been here before.  Chrono Trigger.  There have been others that have come close (including games from that generation, particularly FFVI and Lufia II), but none have dislodged it yet.

If we want to split out Western RPGs...  I think I'll roll with Knights of the Old Republic.  It's really the first Western RPG that I really stuck with.  Mass Effect was great, but it's not what I'd consider a pure RPG.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: XBOX ONE

« on: May 21, 2013, 05:10:18 pm »

I'm reading conflicting reports on the used market.  Their support said here that the Wired article isn't right...  but I want more details.  If it's like Steam on a disc, they can just take a hike.

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General Discussion / Re: Hey if anybody is looking for a great controller for cheap take a look :D

« on: May 09, 2013, 01:52:53 pm »

A switch on the back to take it off XInput compatibility mode?  That's a nice feature to have.  I'm driven crazy by the Afterglow controller I use, as everything defaults to the analog stick.  Games that don't allow you to map things to the d-pad are really annoying.

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General Discussion / Re: Tell me more about how we should support the KeystoneXL pipeline.

« on: May 09, 2013, 01:50:15 pm »

Let's just get rid of all of it, right?

In all seriousness, there's always some degree of risk with pretty much all our energy resources, at least those that are capable of providing our energy needs.  Solar and wind sounds nice, but can't even come close to what industrialized nations need.  I think we should leverage all of the resources we have, and I'm definitely in favor of more nuclear, although then you get (potentially) something far worse than an oil spill.  Look at how everyone went bonkers over Fukushima.  (Still, outdated plant, once-in-a-lifetime tsunami, etc.)

As for electric cars, you still have to supply the electricity, which means either coal, natural gas, or nuclear.  So I'm not sure you really change your footprint that much.  Not that I entirely buy into that, at least in the U.S.  We're watching our emissions much more carefully than, say, China or India.

Oh, eminent domain is total bull****.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Your personal gaming Holy Grails, what are they?

« on: May 09, 2013, 11:12:14 am »

Oh, stuff that we want, then.

• A Turbo Duo.
• A Neo Geo (preferably an arcade cabinet).
• Panzer Dragoon Saga

That's a good start. 

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Your personal gaming Holy Grails, what are they?

« on: May 08, 2013, 07:47:10 pm »

Huh. I use LoD disc 2 to boot the memory card exploit, so it sits in my ps2 permanently.

Hah.  Better than using Tomb Raider, like I did.

By the way, look into Free McBoot.  I think Gid was the one that pointed it out to me (and if it wasn't, I'm sorry!), and it makes it where you don't even have to have a trigger disc.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: PSP games still coming

« on: May 06, 2013, 05:54:36 pm »

Did the PSP get walloped?  Sure.  But it wasn't that one-sided.  It was a good deal better than the Vita vs. 3DS battle is going right now, and I've gotten tons of mileage out of my PSP.  And I am what people around here would consider a Nintendo fanboy.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Your personal gaming Holy Grails, what are they?

« on: May 06, 2013, 02:49:09 pm »

• Complete copy of Chrono Trigger (paid $15 back in the day).
• Complete copy of Suikoden II.  Almost passed on it, brother convinced me otherwise.  Thank you, bro!
• Cart-only Terranigma.  My only SNES import, straight from the land down under. 
• Complete Dragon Warrior IV.  Got it for Christmas one year.  Also complete Dragon Warrior III, just not in great shape (video store pickup).

I've got a lot of other stuff, some complete, some not.  I've got pretty much all the RPGs on PSX, excluding King's Field 1/2 and Chocobo's Dungeon 2, and several boxed NES games (though not sealed), including the aforementioned TMNT: Tournament Fighters.  That's a legitimately fun game, by the way!

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Those of you who have a 3DS XL please help a brother out.

« on: April 23, 2013, 03:21:36 pm »

Mine had a dead pixel, so I returned it.  Next one was just fine.  The experience is much more positive overall than the original.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Nintendo announces RPGs

« on: April 21, 2013, 10:09:05 pm »

It's decent to good.  I enjoyed it, but it isn't as good as any of the other games in the series.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Nintendo announces RPGs

« on: April 21, 2013, 06:56:55 pm »

It sucks because it's a shitty game, not because it reuses art assets. Sticker Star has to be one of the worst games I've seen from Nintendo in years.

Well, I guess we know where you stand on the matter.  I exercise my right to respectfully disagree. 

Also, Soul Hackers is pretty boss.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Nintendo announces RPGs

« on: April 20, 2013, 12:06:15 am »

Yahtzee regarded it as pretty terrible, lamely borrowing the old Paper Mario art assets for no good purpose.

I know it's his shtick, but he's full of it on this one.  I greatly enjoyed my time with the game.  Is it really an RPG anymore?  No, more an action-adventure.  But that doesn't mean it sucks.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Ducktales remake announced

« on: March 22, 2013, 03:50:40 pm »

Whoa.  Didn't see that one coming.  Now, if they'd remaster DuckTales 2 and bring the market price down on the NES cart.  That's what will happen, right?  Right?

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Decent indie platformers, Zelda-likes, metroidvanias, etc?

« on: March 22, 2013, 01:42:36 pm »

Anyone mention Retro City Rampage?  If not, well...  Retro City Rampage.

It's not indie, but I'd recommend Outland.  It's an interesting mix of Metroid, Prince of Persia, and Ikaruga.
Well crap, apparently there isn't a PC port of Outland.  What gives?

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General Discussion / Re: SEGA Dreamcast RPG translations anybody?

« on: March 14, 2013, 04:01:40 pm »

Weirdly, sort of on this topic, I found a translation for Frame Gride on a dreamcast ISO webpage the other day while looking for a way to boot my import D2 discs. Or at least that's what it claimed to be. Full ISO though, so can't really submit it.

Whaaaaaat?  Man, I'm gonna have to track this down.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: How to beat Castlevania

« on: March 14, 2013, 12:43:29 pm »

Well, it's one of the reasons, anyway.  It also happens to be a darn fine game, even if it's not as hard as its forebears.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Hackers Find F-Zero AX Arcade Game Hidden In Nintendo Gamecube's F-Zero GX

« on: March 13, 2013, 04:17:59 pm »

Fascinating.  I'm shocked it has been there this whole time and not found.  I think I'm going to have to track down an Action Replay.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Victoly!

« on: March 13, 2013, 03:57:44 pm »

Finished the 3D Classics version of Kid Icarus.  Fun stuff, a few little (optional) gameplay tweaks, saving, and some nifty backgrounds to replace the outright blackness.  It still has the original game's inverted difficulty curve.  It's relatively easy by NES standards if you can clear the first world.  That first life extension, in particular, makes the biggest difference in the world.

Now, I hope they make the 3D Classics version of Kirby's Adventure the next bonus on Club Nintendo.  I need an excuse to play through the best NES platformer again, anyway. 

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General Discussion / Re: North Korea ends truce with South Korea.

« on: March 13, 2013, 01:08:30 pm »

Unless, of course, he's as crazy as he seems.  When you've got a wild card like that, you can never be too sure.  Tinpot dictators don't use the same kind of logic we do.

Not saying, of course, that it isn't just bluster, more that we cannot afford to just dismiss it without doing due diligence.