Lurker > Mr Crispy

A Few Good Men would probably fit better into a list based on the legal system/trials. Though such a list would probably be kind of niche and not get many participants.

Dr
Turtles

Katanagatari is probably a bad idea for something light, since it's by Nisioisin and each episode is like 50 minutes long and it's almost entirely dialog.

Harvest Moon - the game boy one
Metroid - 2
Metal Gear - Ghost Babel
Lufia - Ruins of Lore
R-Type - the GBC version
Breath of Fire - 4
SMT - Demikids
Klonoa - Empire of Dreams
Bomberman - Panic Bomber (VB)
Mario Tennis - Mario Tennis (VB)
Perfect Dark - the GBC game
Wizardry - Tale of the Forsaken Land
Castlevania - Circle of the Moon
Bionic Commando - Elite Forces
Blaster Master - Enemy Below
Crystalis - the GBC version
Ogre Battle - TO Knights of Lodis
Metal Slug - Metal Slug Advance
Zone of the Enders - Fist of Mars
King of Fighters - Neo Blood
Gradius - Nemesis (the first game boy one)
Kingdom Hearts - Chain of Memories
Atelier - Iris
Legend of Heroes - Tear of Vermillion

also while I bought Ninja Gaiden Black before it, the first NG game I actually played was Dragon Sword.

(the takeaway is probably that I bought a lot more portable games growing up than console games. >_>)

I was going to guess Eversion, and I was right.

Kong
Tetris

Zelda
Mario

Mega
Castlevania
Metroid

I didn't mean that they didn't look like real people, I just meant that it kind of seemed like in general with the art direction the developers were trying to shoot at some sort of middle ground between trying to be photo realistic and trying to look like one of the CGI animated Star Wars series (not that I've actually seen any of those), so it seems like they were trying to model a bunch of facial detail in some of the cutscenes than necessary and just makes it come off as more weird/unnatural than anything (particularly since the engine doesn't seem to be that great with hair, and has general problems with texture pop in).

the other human characters don't seem so bad, maybe because they don't get as much screen time/closeups (and in Merrin's case she's supposed to be somewhat alien/unnatural looking).

Finished Fallen Order (and got the platinum)

Decent game, but it kind of feels like it had a lot of content cut (whether for time/budget reasons, or to save it for a sequel). Like I would have expected at least 1-2 more planets... kind of feels like they duct taped together what they had in places (like having two tombs on Zeffo, can't help but think they moved one there after cutting a planet) and threw in a bunch of powerup requiring barriers to disguise the length by breaking it up and making you go to another planet before you could continue. Also the developers clearly weren't expecting you to backtrack, since there's all sorts of really baffling one way paths/shortcuts, doors that get locked but never get unlocked so you have to take some super roundabout path or alternate entrance to get back to where you were if you wanted to go back for what you missed.

The lightsaber boss fights were really fun, and reflecting blaster shots back at doofuses was entertaining but the skill tree was pretty small and generally force powers didn't really seem like using since they eat up force power faster than you could get it back since it doesn't regenerate on its own like stamina you have to hit something to get it back or use a stim (when you get the upgrade). Like they could have had it so that you got all your force back when you killed something (make it an upgrade or something), then the weak stormtroopers and such that die in 1 hit could be a resource and you would have a tradeoff (do you want to thin them out first so you can focus on strong enemies without worrying about getting hit, or do you save them so you can restore your force after you use it up?). And I can't help but think that there was some plans for another lightsaber style but it got cut down to one move (which I used on accident too often because it was mapped to guard+attack) again due to time/resources or to save it as a new feature for a sequel.

Graphics felt kind of off sometimes too. The creatures looked fine, the environments were a bit mixed (some of the organic/outdoor environments didn't quite seem up to par), and then some of the human characters like Cere and Cal just kind of fell into the uncanny valley. The Wookie fur was also a joke.

that covers most of it I guess.

Mario
Metroid

ninkendo posted...

(it's also kinda strange that SE continues to push SaGa like this because I don't think it's ever going to take off)

SaGa is a pretty big and influential series in Japan, one of Square's highest selling series despite being developed on a much smaller budget than FF games. Pokemon exists only because it was influenced by the SaGa series.

tropics
fantasy

ghosts
kirby

storm
mega

anyway, I ended up buying Fallen Order earlier in the month despite not really intending to because the price was so low, and I've been working on it through the month despite not posting about it.

Got done with the boss fight on Kashyyyk last night, so I assume I'm probably around halfway (depending on how much backtracking I decide to do).

I was thinking about playing SA2 again since I had it on steam, but I already got all 180 emblems in it back when it came out (I consider myself to be pretty bad at games, and getting all the emblems is one of the only accomplishments that's actually something of an accomplishment... the other one is finishing the Extra stage in Imperishable Night.) so it's not really a priority.

mario
lolo

dragon
mega

Nominate OFF and Yakuza 2 Kiwami

Space Funeral
Omori
Eversion

punch
dr

Loki cheering while watching Thor and Hulk fight in Ragnarok.

dragon
carmen

contra
mario

zelda
star

river
castle

Mega
Duck

I would have considered voting for Galaga though, if it was Galaga 88 which pushed the fixed scrolling shooter thing about as far as it can go. I meant to come back and nominate it but I forgot whoops.

mario
mansion

uh let me try to think of some more out of the box options first

1 Solomon's Key
2 Fire n Ice
3 M.C. Kids
4 U-four-ia: The Saga
5 Gradius 2: Gofer no Yabou (Arcade)
6 Power Blade

Seconding
7 Adventures of Lolo
8 Phantasy Star
9 Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap
10 Metal Storm
11 Dr. Mario
12 Sonic the Hedgehog (SMS)

I'll decide on more later

Buy Culdcept Revolt.

Beat Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

Nominate OFF

Last Order is finished. It's Mars Chronicle that's unfinished.

As you can guess from the title, it's mostly a prequel about Alita's past on Mars. I say "mostly" because I think so far there's only been one volume worth of content set in the "present" day after Last Order.

ghost trick was more about possessing objects to manipulate them (hence the title).

pfft. I've bought skyrim 3 times and haven't even played it yet.

(though, all three times were at a significant discount so I probably only payed as much as it would have cost to have bought it new when it first came out)

Into the Breach?

nuclear disarmament

Zone of the Enders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqYWlb2A55c

I started Everybody's gone to the rapture last night and spoilers it's actually pretty bad.

the walking speed is horrendously slow, and there's almost no practical difference between that and the """"running"""" speed, probably at least in part to pad out the run time. Also instead of trying to lead you into interesting locations, it seems to like to lead you around in circles again probably just to waste your time and pad out the runtime.

the lack of interactivity also bothers me a lot, like you can't pick up say fliers and things to get a closer look at them or try to open doors and such that aren't already open. there's a ball on the ground and there's no physics to it, you can't interact or move it so why even bother putting a ball in there to begin with? it just makes it seem really artificial in a video gamey way.

don't really find what's going on to be particularly interesting or compelling either.

oh, also apparently it doesn't actually let you manually save and exit and then continue from where you left off (there's just an autosave at certain points) so you have to be careful about not losing progress if you don't have the time or aren't going to try to finish it all in one sitting.

oh I forgot about Dark Souls 2. I probably spent close to the amount I did in the other games, but I've only just entered the castle.

I'd probably try to finish it if it wasn't for my PS3 apparently starting to break down (does the 3 beeps when you turn it on)

Monster Hunter Freedom 2.

then after that probably something like Magna Carta or Blazing Souls or XCX

European Extreme difficulty level

Paper Mario beaten

funny how this month turned out the opposite as I intended. >_>

finished chapter 7, so I guess I'll try to make as much progress into chapter 8 as I can tonight so I have less to do tomorrow.

probably not have time to go back to do oddworld though, I'll just finish it on my own time.

eh probably something Touhou I guess.

if you go back to older chapters for more halos, chests/resting places/muspelheim challenges that gave you hearts as rewards will give you healing items instead. would probably be faster than trying to farm halos from older levels to buy them.

also I finished chapter 6 in paper mario last night so I'm still on course to finish it tomorrow (doing a chapter a day).

finished chapter 3 in Paper mario last night.

! (the sound effect)

I wasn't talking about a video let's play, it was a screenshot one. Maybe I was thinking of the wrong person? it's been ages since it was made.

mostly I remember it harping over how ridiculous the owl puzzle was.

edit ok someone knew what I was talking about.