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Feed it into my fat face

If I don't brush teeth before leaving the house I feel absolutely vile. The one time I forgot in the last few years, I bought a bad toothbrush & toothpaste from a petrol station and did it in the bathroom at work

If I have breakfast at home, it's after.

I hate having no breakfast, but sometimes I have it at work (I have an emergency supply of porridge pots in the cupboard).

If I wake up in time to do the full routine, brushing teeth is last. I don't get why you'd compromise the taste

Purple

I love all 3, but find it really hard to pick one.

I lost my copy of 2 for years, so I think I'm inclined to go with that one because of the absence

Boy

Sheep007 posted...

Thank you! I just straight up didn't realise that carried over.

I felt like I knew everything about the game and that's a new one on me.

For about 6 months post-game, and then again after the dlc, I thought about Outer Wilds a lot

SeabassDebeste posted...

i was told that it could be beaten in 22 minutes or so once you know what you're doing. being unable to fly even in tutorial mode didn't feel particularly promising and there feels like there's a ton of content on the home planet. i have no idea what is or isn't a clue with the way information trickles out here talking to NPCs and trying to use my scope thing.

Outer Wilds legit took me 20, 25 hours to finish (admittedly I play slow)

Whoever told you it could be done in 22 minutes was massaging the truth at best.

Oh yeah I never mastered the RC ship and I think it made me anxious about piloting the real thing. There's a chance it genuinely delayed how long I took before becoming fully confident with the ship. I didn't love the ship controls, but I grew to appreciate them.

And the rest of the package is mind-blowing.

Everything in Outer Wilds is kind of purposeful.

Yeah I never found it aimless at any point. I picked a place, went there, and within a couple of hours had a series of tasks and things to build towards, places to go, etc.

That said, I got the meditate to next loop thing pretty early on B8's recommendation, and that made things much easier and smoother.

I remember thinking the second one was slightly too short for what it was trying to do, but I liked it

Venom horse fuckin ruled though, I love how that looked

MacArrowny posted...

Have you considered that maybe you're just bad at it? Gears and Gambits really isn't that hard, especially since the game gives you a number of presets you can use.

I never had time to be bad at it. Rejected immediately as bad and a youtube guide situation. I guess I am or would be bad at it, but I started it and I was just like "nope, fuckin done". Minigame burnout maybe.

Ifrit posted...

Haven't gotten to gears and gambits yet. But sit-ups weren't that bad. They were fun, even. As long as you turn off Trigger Effect Intensity.

Oh yeah. That was the big change for me

Oh yeah, Condor was bad, but I forgot how bad it was - I identified it as "bad" and copied a YT video move-for-move straight away, so it ended up being painless

Gears and Gambits I identified as bad, did the same thing, it didn't work at first, and that made it even worse

Sit ups weren't bad tbh. Gears and Gambits has been number one with a bullet so far. Absolutely vile. All the others are like, mostly fine, bearable at worst.

I liked piano once I raised the speed

Wow, I'm missing one Pirate Jetsam and this is the dumbest fucking thing ever

Aladdin?

Yeah I think it's the best way to balance Fandom's insane bullshit with allowing some discussion.

More just like, relaxing the rule for non-game social boards, I would say. For me personally I'd say the "Containment Topic" model could be the way forward for all of the non-CE social boards, like PotD etc.

Dancedreamer posted...

Are we really back, or are we back until the higher ups at Fandom change their mind? I'm leery.

I mean, yesterday we lost the politics tag and today this is being allowed. We will always be at the mercy of Fandom's capricious whims. I was told by Toast that it could change. But this is the "for now" stance.

I like the multi-phase battles. I think there's an argument that each phase can be its own health bar.

So we're allowed this, as per DToast, as long as it's basically the only political topic on the board (which is pretty much how it was before the politics topic ban).

Also apologies for the shit title, I'm not good at them

Yeah the general thing of the boss battles having these barriers where they no longer took damage leading to the limit break being wasted was a real pain

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One of my favorite villains in a videogame - I think 1-4 has been largely outclassed by the stuff that came after it, with the exception of the fact that they've never matched Von Karma. He is almost the sole reason that 1-4, in my eyes, can still hang with 5-6, 3-5, 2-4 etc.

Never played the Edgeworth games in fairness.

Yeah I think it's crazy that nobody on the jury was just secretly in favour of said transphobic candidate, I thought for sure that would sink them and it would end up as a mistrial.

Yeah

I think I might give the edge to Remake because my playthrough for Rebirth ended up lasting 10 weeks, and I've still got a bunch of postgame shizz to do, but one area I'd definitely say Rebirth was better is that the padding was like...the normal kind of padding. It's that open world padding that I'm now so used to it doesn't feel as obvious as, say, The Drum.

ZaziGuado posted...

I'm on Chapter 17 my first playthrough of Remake. I have no nostalgia for the original having only played the first 10ish hours about five years ago. That still gives me a base for which to compare Remake too, however, and I am exhausted by the amount of filler in the game. Well, maybe not the amount but rather the type? Rather than things being expanded and explored in greater depth, many missions and tasks feel drawn out and bolted on. It's fun enough, but I'm ready for this playthrough to be done (or at least to move on to Intermission) and the promise of Rebirth has been a strong motivator.

I'll edit to say that I do like the character development and interactions. I think that part was done well and I don't really have any trouble with that despite some at-times weird voice acting and audio mixing.

I've said this before but Remake has prime examples to me of stuff being fleshed out (Wall Market) and some of being fleshed out (Ghost Train section). Like some of the extra stuff was good, some was unnecessary and felt like what it was - a way to lengthen the midgar section.

Of the core campaign experience within Rebirth I can't think of anything that was padding in that way, but there's plenty of more typical open world padding.

Fuck marry and kill

Not 100% sure I want to play SH2. Genuinely cost me sleep for months when I was a teen.

Yeah ff7r cloud is close to ff7 cloud, and I like that a lot

When I finally actually played FF7 as an adult, in 2014, I was surprised at how likeable and non-emo he was. He got flanderised insanely in other stuff and I'm glad they recentred him in Remake.

Pokemon Go
Duolingo?

And 6 Wordle-type games.

I did the bee thing and then pretty much smoked the Gilgamesh summons first try. One attempt to feel out Odin/Alex a bit but that was all. Odin didn't even get off a Zantetsuken.

I guess I'll start the hard mode playthrough soon.

bread

Just gonna cover all the bases then

Sonic 3
Sonic and Knuckles
Sonic 3 and Knuckles
Sonic 2

Outer Wilds
Metal Gear Solid 2
Sonic 2
XIII

The first three mostly represent different eras of my life. Adult, adolescent, kid. XIII obviously stands alone due to other reasons. Outer Wilds and MGS2 are my two favourite games, but Sonic 2 and XIII would be lower down in the top 10, so it's not necessarily "my 4 favorite games". MGS3 and RE4 felt a bit redundant in this. Tough to exclude Pokemon though, either RBY (childhood) or BW (university).

-uh

Mugwump

Alright cool, I'll give it another shot

oh well fuckin bully for you two

I didn't like how the atmosphere of the forgotten city kinda got choked out too. The creepy atmosphere, etc

I really liked TotA in general. The design, the gravity stuff (could have done more with it tbh), the character stuff. It was only really some of the story stuff that happened after escaping that bothered me. Convoluted and choked the life out of the game's most famous moment

Bitto posted...

Completing the protorelic quest completely. After doing this, fight each region's mini-boss (like the Quetzacoatl) on Hard Mode so you can make use of the rewards from the protorelic.

But that looked like late-game stuff to me. Like, Kujata and Phoenix beat the fuck out of me

Cool. I'll get it. Might take me a while though - this was an 11-week playthrough albeit with a vacation in the middle.

Couple of things. Do you need to finish a chapter for any progress to be saved
E.g. if I go polish off a sidequest or something do I then have to see the chapter through to the end for my game to register that I finished it? Like if I do that bee quest in Nibelheim do I then need to finish the whole chapter to keep the exp? I seem to remember that being a thing in remake or something like that.

Anywhere good for AP farming? Same place with the bees?
Also, to finish the game in hard mode, I take it it's ok to just replay each chapter separately and complete them one at a time (so I can hypothetically do chapter 1 in hard mode and then like do another chapter on easy and I'll never need to replay C1 again in hard mode).

Final boss had two cool moments for me personally

Beat Bahamut by summoning my own Bahamut
Beat final form of Sephiroth with Ascension -> Aertih limit move that fills Cloud's limit -> Ascension a second time. Felt very final and climactic

Also I assume Sephiroth didn't straight up impale Aerith for ratings purposes, which is kind of a shame

colliding posted...

I feel like I actually felt the impact more since they teased her being saved so much

There was some amount of ambiguity over whether she was dead and by the time it was beyond doubt I was done. Kind of a shame.

Anyway, might go for the Plat. I'm level 50 or so. How would you guys recommend I proceed?

Did every quest available except UPA and the final Photorelic quests (I felt underlevelled), and I guess I didn't bother with hard mode Condor or Gambits.

I read about a strat including the Nibel bees to farm exp. Is it worth powering up to level 70 or so before doing hard mode?

Also!

Good to finally read the spoiler topic (took me a minute to find it)

Well the final boss went on for fucking ever but I loved it - each phase ruled. That said, I only died once (to Jenova) then powered through the rest first try, though not without some hairy moments

That said they blunted Aerith's death to the point of almost non-impact, and that's really fuckin dumb.