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Super Metroid if that counts.

I can beat Diablo II in less than that on a single difficulty, but Hell mode is where the game really starts, so I won't go with that.

pegusus123456 posted...

Frankie Boyler on Margaret Thatcher: "For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person."

As a Scot, I can confirm this sentiment.

This was one reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax_(Great_Britain)

Milkman5 posted...

They are my favorite 2D Zelda games

Pretty much. I like the Link's Awakening style.

It's hard to know exactly what was going on in her head when she said that.

My interpretation when I saw it yesterday was her implying that immigrants are more likely to commit rape and essentially calling the Democrats' bluff (i.e. "Let's see if you really want these immigrants when they can rape with impunity.").

Atifar's is probably more likely though. That at least wouldn't be as awful as the above, but that's not saying much.

Cyberpunk 2077

Metroid Prime 4

Shin Megami Tensei V (this is a matter of taste, but I'm more of a main series kinda guy)

ModLogic posted...

ive played 2 past the spider boss then got bored of it because it wasn't getting better. i gave it a fair chance.

Fair enough. 2 is more of a love it or hate it game though. 1 is a bit closer to Super in structure.

Valkyrie Profile
Etrian Odyssey
Mario RPG

ModLogic posted...

prime shouldn't even be on the list of contenders. shitty ass generic fps with metroid skin mods.

Aren't you the one that didn't even play it? There's no point in even arguing anyway, especially in light of that information.

Hairy-man posted...

Metroid Prime 2 is rarely talked about.

I loved it

Same. It actually does some things better than Prime 1, like the bosses, but the dark world is a tad annoying at the beginning (before the Dark and Light suits). It also sucks that you can't do the key hunt until the end (unlike in Prime 1 where you can start it relatively early on).

I generally go with Prime, but Super is more or less equally as good for me.

Ninja-Yatsu posted...

I don't think I like any of the Contra games I've tried.

You tried The Alien Wars on the SNES? It's fun, but I'm not great at it.

NeonOctopus posted...

Mega Man 1 is so impossibly hard >_>

The stages aren't *too* bad, but the bosses (without the pause glitch) are insane. Especially in the Wily stages.

I find the Mega Man games from 2 onward to be perfectly playable still.

YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

you can be scared by numbers or face reality

america has 300 million people and more land mass than many countries combined

things are different here, numbers are misleading

The best country doesn't make excuses!

YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

than live in a country that would imprison or kill people like him or who otherwise are different

https://i.redd.it/k8jmktqa01hy.jpg

Don't really care.

I guess when I think about it, it's fair. I would have considered the SNES to be retro in 2010, 20 years on, so those consoles are too if I go purely by that length of time.

I, Garland, will knock you all down.

I found a few way back in Gold (Mareep, Geodude and others IIRC) and also got Pokerus (which I haven't had since).

Then I didn't find any for years, until I got one in Moon recently (Salandit I think). I was EV training using SOS battles when it appeared.

I'm no fan of JBP, but that interview was full of strawmen.

Shadow Hearts
Valkyrie Profile
Grandia

Questionmarktarius posted...

Any version of Prime after the initial NA pressing screws over sequence breaks hard. Even if you do manage to get past the "fixes" that attempt to make the tricky jumps impossible, you'll find that doors are hard-locked, or there's an invisible wall, until you're supposed to do whatever you're attempting.

Yeah, I have the PAL version, unfortunately. Even then, it's still way more open than Fusion. There are ways around some of the changes; things are just more difficult (e.g. the initial scan-dash to get the Space Jump). It does suck though.

The thing with Fusion is that it doesn't just nudge you in the right direction, but it actively does pretty much everything in its power to stop you going out of sequence. Areas are artificially blocked off (as in, you can't get through even with the right power-up). Many crucial power-ups must be "downloaded" and the downloads are adjusted behind the scenes if you somehow get a power-up you're not supposed to.

I still love the game, but the original, Super, Zero Mission and Prime are undeniably more open at the very least. Not all the sequence breaks are intentional of course, but they're there, and when you do pull them off, the games generally roll with it. Not so in Fusion.

Great game, but I do prefer the traditional Metroids for the most part. I appreciate that it does something a bit different with the horror elements / the SA-X. Samus' dialogue is actually tolerable; it gives her a bit of personality without being totally cringe worthy.

Hairy-man posted...

Just hopefully the beam shoots a little farther haha

There's a power-up for that, although it's technically optional (in ZM).

Well, don't come crying when a family member dies while the medics deal with administrative nonsense like this. How long would actually take them to verify all this? Regardless of how long, it's precious time that could be spent actually treating someone.

s0nicfan posted...

I'm not refuting the truthfulness of it. I'm illustrating that the author's intent was pretty clear from the first sentence.

The 1901 Dorlands Medical Dictionary defined heterosexuality as an abnormal or perverted appetite toward the opposite sex. More than two decades later, in 1923, Merriam Websters dictionary similarly defined it as morbid sexual passion for one of the opposite sex. It wasnt until 1934 that heterosexuality was graced with the meaning were familiar with today: manifestation of sexual passion for one of the opposite sex; normal sexuality.

I don't see what the issue is. The intent is pretty clear, but it's nothing particularly alarming. Just surprising.

s0nicfan posted...

EDIT: This is literally the first sentence of the article:

If that is indeed true, so what? Should they lie and say that wasn't the definition? If they want to illustrate how the definition changed over the years, then that would be as good a place as any to start.

Mizznox posted...

Only read about 1/3 of the way through, but it sounds more like a history of the term "heterosexual" and how society's views on sexuality have been constantly evolving. It's not saying that men and women having sex was ever abnormal or anything like that.

Pretty much. Misunderstandings are going to happen when people don't read beyond the bloody headline.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

typically when someone says "I would ___" it's followed by a conditional

Well, this *is* Trump we're talking about. Normal rules of grammar don't apply when he speaks.

not_shawn_z posted...

Whoa. That took a weird turn. We were having a regular conversation, and then you decided to inject racism into it

Lmao.

I don't remember this. Not sure how I missed it.

I personally think so. The graphics and music are timelessly beautiful. The battles are not really anything special now, but were fairly well done at the time. The story is simple but effective. It doesn't take too long to get going but holds enough back to keep you interested.

It was ahead of its time (no pun intended :P) in some regards with no random battles and the way it handled multiple endings, time travel and other aspects. The lack of random battles goes both ways: you can control when a battle is triggered, but many enemies are placed in such a way that they can't be avoided.

Funny gets the fanny.

0 on a typical day.

Vyrulisse posted...

EYE Divine Cybermancy

I do own that game, but haven't played through much of it. Is it worth it if I like Deus Ex / cyberpunk?

Still Killer7.

What a wild ride it is from start to finish. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Came in to say The End from MGS3, for several reasons:

- Not knowing where he is and therefore when you're straying into his sights (which makes the fight rather intense);
- The variety of strategies that you can employ to beat him;
- The neat tricks that can be used to skip him altogether (as well as the other Easter eggs and secrets);
- The way that the game continues even when you lose (I won't say more than that for fear of spoilers);
- The large, atmospheric area that the boss fight takes place in.

I remember that account.

My account is old, but far from the oldest. I used the site since the late 90s (originally for Pokemon R/B), but didn't create an account until 2005 (this one). So, I'm a post-LUE noob too.

The 'shithole' part is completely unbecoming of the president, but it's the wider context of what he said that is the issue (the former is merely a distraction). It's the fact that people from these 'shithole' countries need to justify themselves in ways that other people don't. "Why are those people coming over here?" Even in the slim possibility that this isn't his intention, it plays right into the hands of the more unsavory elements in the country.

I'm sort of with Mal on this one, but I could certainly believe that it happened.

Also, remember the one with Sadiq Khan?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2017/dec/07/home-is-south-london-mate-sadiq-khan-asked-about-coming-home-to-pakistan-video

Lol.

Jordan Peterson was losing his mind over Google's search algorithm the other day. It was good entertainment at least.

FLUFFYGERM posted...

Examples where the market is abhorrently greedy and needs government to regulate it for the greater good?

The run up to the 2008 crash seems like an obvious example.

Both together (e.g. Metroid)!

I think VG music should always be somewhat catchy though, so definitely the former if it's a choice between the two.

I loved Alpha Protocol too. It was flawed in many ways, but it had its plus points and was rather unique. I appreciate when games do something a bit different. I'd rather have games like that than polished ones that play it safe.

darkphoenix181 posted...

Also the fact that one of the elite 4 uses only ice types...

Don't know how I forgot to mention that.

hollow_shrine posted...

Ghost.

Yeah, Ghost was rarer in the earlier gens. I think Ice has since supplanted it though.

M_Live posted...

I thought dual types weren't in gen 1 initially

Nah, there were quite a few, e.g. Normal/Flying, Grass/Poison and Rock/Ground.

Nope, but it definitely is underused. Is it still the rarest Pokemon type?

It's fairly easy to remember given Lapras, Jynx, Articuno, Dewgong, Cloyster, etc. Also with how useful Freeze was in gen 1 since Pokemon never thawed out naturally.

Well, here you are.

voldothegr8 posted...

Why? People hailed the ACA as a success before it ever fully kicked in.

Well, they jumped the gun. You can comment on individual aspects as they have an effect, but declaring the whole thing a success at this stage is a bit premature (ditto for the ACA).