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GreenGoblinOck posted...

I didn't care for that one either though I am not big on Mario games. They're all hard. A few years ago I played Super Mario World on game boy advance til I got stuck in it and couldn't beat the 2nd boss level.

Wow, you suck at video games

I downloaded Pokemon Blue today and there are no color palette options and I can't change the controls. Dammit Nintendo.

Are all 3DS VC games like that? If I get something like Super Mario Land I'd wanna use Y and B

Fuck.

You can change the avatar and the sig, but we can still tell that you're the foot fetish guy

I still think it had fewer levels overall, and some of the levels being secrets diminished their impact for me. The Star World and Special World levels were memorable, but I would have been fine with just those levels. The in-between secrets scattered all over the place were unnecessary. And I'd rather play two short levels with few secrets than one level with a secret exit that requires me to play the majority of the level twice to get both paths.

jayj420 posted...

I just think the levels are a lot more enjoyable in SMW, they have the perfect length. In Yoshi's Island they were too long, in SMB3 they were too short.

But SMB3 has a lot more levels AFAIK. And some levels were short to take advantage of a concept, like the one where you have to run on all the Munchers and collect stars. That level wouldn't be fun if it was really long. And it's such a simple idea, but it was novel, and it's the kind of risk Mario games since don't really take. Having more levels also means more opportunities to take risks.

The sun chase level is also a similar idea, and that one is iconic.

I just hated hearing for years (until BotW came out) that Nintendo wouldn't make a Zelda game that's "true to the series" or however people sugarcoat it. The first Zelda was like that because it was primitive, and the added structure of later games made the series better. I'd say that a dozen+ sequels are more indicative of what's "true" to the series than hanging on to ideas from one game just because it was the first.

I'll admit BotW was awesome, but its approach to open-world was honestly quite different from the first LoZ and a lot of what made it good comes from concepts in other Zelda games besides LoZ.

I think SMW is much more overrated. It's great, but I like SMB3 better because it's so quirky and experimental. Also, SMW just gets confusing to play through with so many of its levels being stuck behind all these different secret, branching paths. Yeah, the secret levels are a cool idea, but why do they make up so much of the game? I think a more linear map style serves this style of gameplay much better; the core appeal is the levels themselves, so I don't want to spend a bunch of time backtracking and wandering through the world map to get the full experience. Yoshi is OP and seems to be implemented at the expense of having oddball rare powerups that SMB3 had.

Mead posted...

Metroid

The game downright sucks

I agree that the first Metroid is pretty lame, but I don't think it's really held in high enough regard to be considered overrated. That reminds me, though, the first Legend of Zelda might be my new answer instead of SM64.

At one point I think I had three jobs while I was in school, but it was combined only like 15 hours a week. The job market is okay here, but lots of people don't even earn enough money to not have to live with their parents.

It hurts when I see industries that I want to get into around here claim about a shortage of talent. Maybe I think too highly of my abilities, but I can't help but feel like perhaps their standards are just too unrealistic.


Anyways, the Rockies had a nice win today. They got back at the Indians with a ninth-inning comeback of their own. It also made Carlos Estevez 5-0 with a 7.23 ERA LOL wins are a great stat

Huh. But Foxx mentioned this was in San Diego, and it's kind of surprising to me that Colorado would stop selling them but not California

I'm sure some customer just fucked around with a sign from the school supplies section.


Is that recent? I thought Walmart stopped selling guns a long time ago. Or maybe they just stopped selling guns in Colorado and that's what I'm thinking of

Also, she's laughing at the absurdity of the question, not the divorce

I wish this guy would be more upfront with his creepy infatuation with Jen. At least Ryan is good for that

Lol, I've only played two of those (Smash and MK). Well, I might have played MW2, there are too many CoD games. I'm not big into RPGs

Renraku_San posted...

And why are you surrounded by so much infidelity in your life

With how much you bring it up, I wonder if we should be asking you the same thing... and if that's not why you bring it up, your obsession is quite weird

Renraku_San posted...

Why do you think it's funny that your dad went through a divorce?

She wasn't even born then dude

Huh, that's a new one. Usually people just say Ocarina of Time.


Super Mario 64 is the most overrated Nintendo game that I've played.

@helly

I had a pretty big update to Windows yesterday, but I still have the Control Panel

DevilSummoner1 posted...

are you 14 years old m8

Eh, considering what we've seen before from Muscles, I thought it would be worse. Korn sucks but they're surprisingly the only nu metal band on there. I'd say I like about half of those, though they certainly are all cliche.

I voted Alice in Chains

Currant_Kaiser posted...

I actually think a complete remake of OoT so that it's got the open-world BotW style might be a worthwhile endeavor.

I don't really understand what you mean by this. If it was open-world, it would just further expose how small the world map really is... unless they significantly added to it, in which case it would basically be a different game at that point.

Okay, buggier

The jump to links for last/last read post only seem to work about a third of the time. Sometimes I'll click a link and it appears to load, but the actual display doesn't update, then I'll try to click it again but I'm actually clicking a link on the page that was supposed to load.

My browser also had a major update around the same time though so I'm not sure if it's because of that

I used to do Tinychat regularly with people and then that sort of moved into doing AIM with those people. It was a weird time.

Eventually I did Skype with a different group of people. We don't do that anymore, but I'm friends with most of them on Facebook. But I don't really talk to them on FB either since most of them still post here and GameFAQs has PMs anyway

It can be something that's been remade before, but don't be silly and name something that just got a 4K edition or whatever.


I really would like to see some N64 remasters. Nintendo won't give those any love. Yeah, they put the Zelda games on 3DS, but where are the HD remakes? I hear people say they wouldn't look good, but I don't know, the Banjo HD remasters seemed fine. Maybe they work better because they have a more cartoony style, but in that case, Mario 64 would still be a good candidate.

I did not need to be tagged for this

Gamechamp played a Sonic game recently? Wow, how unexpected

Now I know somebody is going to make fun of me for always talking about Zelda, but at least the Zelda series isn't full of games that suck ass

Yeah, I feel you. I know I was in a job that some people would consider enviable, but I had that same feeling - no room for growth.

Many people I know who work in retail jobs and the like seem to constantly hop jobs, so I imagine that shit must suck. But they seem to find new jobs all the time despite having been fired from jobs, not having a HS diploma, stuff like that. It makes me feel like if I can't even get one of those jobs I must really be doing something wrong, though on the other hand I fear I may be easily dismissed as overqualified. But I haven't applied to anything like that since graduating college, so I guess we'll see what happens if/when it gets to that point

Greg Holland blew the save again

I don't think naive is really the right word there. I knew it was a risky proposition and that employers generally dislike people who have employment gaps, but I just wanted to try anything different since I wasn't finding a new job while I still had one either. So I'd say the idea was too romantic/optimistic

I guess it's mostly my fault for being naive enough to quit the job I had, but it's not like it would be a different story anyway. I just want a job at this point, I'm going to do what I always wanted to avoid and start applying for retail and other non-degree positions

I had an interview a while ago where I was gone for like 8 hours. Part of that was just driving and they took me out to dinner, but it was exhausting. It's insane that your 5 hour one wasn't even the last step though.

On a related note, I got rejected today on an interview from a couple weeks back that I thought I did well on because I'm just an extreme failure at life and nothing ever goes right

MrMelodramatic posted...

ehh, that's just one person tho. at least most of the board doesn't dislike you

Maybe if you didn't make so many emo-ass topics all the time

Best anything starting with a particular letter isn't very fair, but especially not for video games, where series can be very big and if they all start with the same letter that's a lot of infighting. Hell, just the word "Super", let alone the entire letter S, probably has more strong entries than at least half the rest of the alphabet.

Yeah, I'd probably have a hard time getting into an alliance. Well, and I'd suck at challenges and around camp too. You know what, I'm pretty useless at everything that you need to be good at the game, but it would be fun.

They've had people before who can't swim/are weak swimmers. It's pretty rare for a challenge to require everyone to swim completely solo in deep water. When they have team challenges with swimming parts there's usually a leg that's on land.

Meushell posted...

Duck-I-Says posted...

You just need a weird gimmick that they can exploit on TV. Either that or be a massive asshole.

They really LOVE massive assholes. I've stopped watching for that reason.

Yeah, that was one of the big things that caused me to lose interest. Even though I don't like to watch, I still think it would be fun to participate, though I know it's not all it's cracked up to be. Maybe I can fake being an asshole or go for some kind of nerd gimmick.

I've thought before it would be fun to go on a show like that and basically just play a character. I'd act normal in the private interviews but try to convince all the other contestants that I'm crazy or something. I'm not sure if the producers would love something like that or make you not do it

I mean I'm boring as fuck anyway and they'd probably never take me but why not try

I haven't watched that show in years but I should try out lol

I guess you could say they're chewsing low expectations

I don't know if I have an old version. My update schedule has always seemed a little wonky because it rarely updates but when it does, it's always a huge one that takes forever

Sometimes there isn't even a symbol at all, like when there is some kind of pull-down menu that you just have to know to swipe out. I also hate those sites that load in "panes" that are fixed sections that are meant to fit entirely in your window. Sometimes those don't have scrollbars shown and I think I'm looking at the whole site when it's actually just the top pane

Didn't they get rid of all their mobile OSes? I thought their goal was to just have one Windows, hence why they have these mobile-like apps on desktops and non-touch laptops. IIRC the Windows Phones failed but they still have tablets, so I don't know what you mean by "Windows isn't a mobile platform"

I don't feel like it's just Microsoft. A lot of websites have become less ideal for desktop users as they also try to cater to mobile users. There is a lot of confused design where we still have a bunch of things that are mishmashes of design philosophies for different devices. Of course, website designs have still increased dramatically in quality overall as there have been several innovations and concepts that make them more modular. However, I still hate ones that have overly large text, hide too many links and use unclear/pictorial touch points instead of text menus.

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Peterass posted...

The brakes never work in my dream car

Yeah, this is what happens to me. I think I'm okay at everything else, or if I am a bad driver it's overshadowed by the brakes not working

Dikitain posted...

The settings app is meant to replace control panel, but they keep control panel around so that people don't complain about them changing things.

And yet people still complain about them changing things.

It's almost like they knew that the Settings app sucks. Actually, it's probably okay, but I'd still rather use the control panel. They probably would have been better off removing the Control Panel from the start rather than leaving us with a mostly useful but slightly gimped version.

I just hate how everything in the settings app looks the same. There's no color to the icons. It looks more modern and minimalist, but the unique designs of each icon in the Control Panel helped me remember them.

Edit: Everything looking the same extends to the fairly uniform layouts and window size that the Settings app uses as well. The Control Panel had all kinds of different window layouts and other windows and programs popping up depending on what you selected. You could argue that's objectively "bad" design, but it made it easy to familiarize yourself with all the functions and if you opened something up you could tell if you had the right thing just by the window layout. The Settings app makes you actually read through all the particular settings you just opened in order to tell if you're in the right place.

It's confusing as fuck. As far as I can tell, they both have similar functions and some overlap but there are some that seem to have been removed from the Control Panel, like the Display/Personalize options. There are also some that probably aren't in the Settings app like Device Manager, but I don't know it well enough to say for sure.

I hate it. It seems like the Settings app is meant for touchscreen devices and the Control Panel meant for traditional users. That would be great if they both had the same features and you could choose to disable one or the other, but neither of those are true AFAIK. I just want to use the damn Control Panel to change all my settings because I generally know where everything is from many years of use, but MS has made this very hard.

I don't think I would want this unless they gave some color upgrades, even if it was just a palette selector like the Super Game Boy. Then you have the issue of the screen size being something you want to make bigger, not smaller. You could easily do that, but not without sacrificing the whole idea that these are supposed to look like near-exact, scaled versions of the original.

No, but rent-to-own has always sounded like a scam to me

Hey Eric what do you look like and how come you never post a picture

I have a New 3DS, so I can get the SNES games for it, but I'd probably choose Wii U first if it's available. Portable is nice sometimes, but I still prefer sitting in front of a big TV. If only Nintendo had some kind of console to eliminate this dilemma

Thanks, that's good to know. I had assumed that it was just a "definitive" version that got you everything from both Red and Blue so I'm glad you saved me from that mistake.

The eShop in general seems to have a lot more NES and SNES games than the Wii U one. I thought pretty much all those that made it on to 3DS was also on Wii U, but I'll have to be careful to check between the two shops. And the prospect of getting a SNES Classic further complicates things as it has several items from my wish list. Of course it would be much easier if Nintendo would just GIVE US SWITCH VC

So I turned on my woefully underused 3DS for the first time in like 8 months and was browsing the eShop. I think I wanna try out one of the original Pokemon games. Which one should I choose between RBY? My understanding is it doesn't matter too much, but isn't Yellow a special edition or something?