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| Topic | SHINE's End of the Year/Decade video game lists |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 5:52:50 PM #20 | |
| Topic | 2019 Beaten Games is a wrap |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 5:19:14 PM #3 | |
| Topic | SHINE's End of the Year/Decade video game lists |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 4:27:14 PM #17 | One list down! Top 5 Old Games of 2019 1. The Legend of Heroes: Trails From Zero/Trails to Azure 2. Final Fantasy VIII Remastered 3. Dragon Quest V (PS2 Remake) 4. Yakuza 6/Yakuza Kiwami 2 5. Vanquish --- |
| Topic | SHINE's End of the Year/Decade video game lists |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 4:25:22 PM #16 | TOP 5 OLD GAMES OF 2019 #1 The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero/Trails to Azure (Released in Japan 2010 and 2011 respectively) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCFars0Xyxg Really just two halves of the bigger story that is the Crossbell duology. After spending the first chunk of 2019 finishing my PS2 collection, I spent the majority of my spring and summer catching up on all the Trails games I hadn't played yet (and replaying some that I had already played) in preparation for Trails of Cold Steel III in the fall and obviously the Crossbell games were the biggest gap that I needed to fill. I had been following the Geofront translation for a year or two and when it became clear they weren't going to even finish up Zero before Cold Steel III was out I took it upon myself to acquire the Chinese PC versions of these games that had been patched with a fan translation and the voice acting from the Evolution versions of these games. Zero is pretty similar to Trails in the Sky FC where it's a lot of worldbuilding (specifically Crossbell and the tensions between Erebonia and Calvard), but also twice is long as TitS FC was. It also tied off some storylines that were still hanging around from the TitS trilogy. Azure was the big payoff though. This game is a thrill ride from beginning to end featuring a lot of old and new characters and accompanied by an engaging plot you come to expect from the Trails series. Whenever I make my MCU comparisons if Trails of Cold Steel III is the Infinity War of the series, then Azure is the Civil War. By the end I think I would consider it my favorite game in the series and definitely one of the best JRPGs of all time. Now of course just a few weeks ago they finally announced PS4 ports of both of these games, so if they ever bring them over I'll gladly play them both again for trophies and I implore you all do the same. --- |
| Topic | SHINE's End of the Year/Decade video game lists |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 3:51:22 PM #15 | TOP 5 OLD GAMES OF 2019 #2 Final Fantasy VIII: Remastered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liHKeemjdbI Bros you know I've always been on that FF8 train. It's my favorite of the 32/64 bit era of RPGs. I was absolutely dying when both FF7 and FF9 got the PS4 port treatment with slightly cleaner graphics and trophy support. Then FF7 had its remake announced and I had basically given up hope as you heard the rumors of FF8 having its source code lost and all that. Lo and behold at E3 this year they announced they were giving it the remaster treatment. A step beyond what the FF7/9 PS4 ports got, but not quite that full remake treatment. What we got was definitely FF8 as it always was, but the character models were vastly improved over how they originally looked. It also had all those QoL improvements like 3x speed and instant limit breaks and what not. You better believe I used that 3x speed to do all the queen of cards stuff, refining 100 of all the best magic and getting everyone's ultimate weapons before the end of disk 1. FF8 still an amazing card game with very unique systems that allow you to easily break the game and pretty much do whatever you want. --- |
| Topic | Todd and Aaron's Game Awards 2019 |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 3:50:58 PM #4 | |
| Topic | SHINE's End of the Year/Decade video game lists |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 3:26:54 PM #13 | TOP 5 OLD GAMES OF 2019 #3 Dragon Quest V (PS2 Remake) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoKk8Z9q1dY I spent a good chunk of early 2019 finally finishing up playing my entire PS2 collection and putting the console away for good. To celebrate finishing it, I ended it by ordering one of those custom made fan translations that they put on a disk and realistic looking packaging. I still had to softmod my PS2 to play the disk though I forget what it was called, but it's a program that's loaded through the memory card and tricked the PS2 into thinking it was reading a legitimate disk. Anyway it's Dragon Quest V, but with polygons. You already know that's a great game so I don't really have to say more than that. The DS versions were based on this remake so it's pretty similar to that version other than Deborah isn't there. --- |
| Topic | SHINE's End of the Year/Decade video game lists |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 3:21:25 PM #12 | TOP 5 OLD GAMES OF 2019 #4. Yakuza 6/Yakuza Kiwami 2 (Both released in 2018 in English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vng-2rETJK0 I could have included either game in this spot and the writeup would mostly be the same, so why not include both? I missed both of these games in 2018 because I was still catching up on older games in the series. Yakuza 2 was already a great game on PS2 and remaking it in the new Dragon Engine really let it shine. I enjoyed reliving that game's story while also benefiting from the new quality of life improvements the new engine provided. Also it had a ton of older NJPW wrestlers in it like Mutoh and Chono as part of a new tower defense mode, which may mark the only time I've ever enjoyed a tower defense game. Also Kiryu punches a tiger in the face. Yakuza 6 was the debut of the Dragon Engine so it didn't quite run as well as Kiwami 2 did and served as the final chapter in Kiryu's storyline. Personally though I felt it was more of an epilogue and that the story really wrapped up with Yakuza 5 and this was just more of "hey what's Kiryu been up to in his older age still kickin ass that's our boi, Kiryu" This one also had NJPW wrestlers in it, but it was more current guys like Okada and Tanahashi and it was REVERSE TOWER DEFENSE and was also fun to play through. --- |
| Topic | SHINE's End of the Year/Decade video game lists |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 1:30:24 PM #11 | well I got one write up out before work. I might just work on these in a text document at work and import them over as I have time from my phone. --- |
| Topic | Game of the Decade Poll Fixed |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 1:21:21 PM #3 | the one with Brett Favre on the cover --- |
| Topic | SHINE's End of the Year/Decade video game lists |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 1:19:20 PM #9 | Anyway lets get the old games out the way first because old is old TOP 5 OLD GAMES OF 2019 #5 - Vanquish (Oct 2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XvTIp1oZjo This was one of the few PS3 games made by Platinum Games I never got around to. I ended up including it in my poll for what I should play for Platinum #200 which was made of requests of various friends and B8ers. This was the request of my friend Mike who passed away unexpectedly a llittle over a year ago as he was never able to platinum it and wanted to see if I could. I'm not sure if I ever became adept at seemlessly switching between attacking enemies and boosting around the environment, but I managed my through. The main game itself very short only like 5 hours long, but the real challenge comes in the post game tactical challenges where you have to survive waves of enemies. I included the video of the final one because that took me like 2 days straight of constant practicing to finally overcome it. A great game I'm sad I took 9 years to get to and a worth Platinum #200. --- |
| Topic | SHINE's End of the Year/Decade video game lists |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 1:11:42 PM #8 | I can confirm Death Stranding is a video game it has many gameplay systems --- |
| Topic | Anime and Manga Topic 273: Dreams of being a Beastar |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 1:09:32 PM #174 | North America how could you betray my rubberman like that --- |
| Topic | SHINE's End of the Year/Decade video game lists |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 1:01:56 PM #4 | also a DISCLAIMER to mitigate expectations on this list I love to play video game-ass video games. I mainly stick to AAA titles. I usually only delve into indie games when people start to talk about them a lot so I feel obligated to check them out. Even then I only rank these games based on how much I enjoy playing them as video games. Games that get throttled up because they're supposed to make you think or feel an array of emotions don't really do anything for me. --- |
| Topic | January 2020 Video Games |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 12:52:12 PM #16 | oh right I did see that, but I wasn't completely sure how much of it is new game like if this is a full Final Mix situation or not --- |
| Topic | SHINE's End of the Year/Decade video game lists |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 12:46:06 PM #1 | Bros it's that time again. I'll be doing the lists I do every year, but also throwing in my favorite games of the Decade because why not. I have the lists pretty much set, but haven't done any of the writeups for them. Since there's so many lists this year I'll try to keep them shorter than I have in the past. I do work today though so the majority of the lists won't hit until tonight and tomorrow morning, but I figured I might as well get the topic up to remind myself to actually do it. 2019 was a year of ton of great games although I wouldn't say a single one was what I would consider to be an outstanding game of the generation. As the last proper full year of this generation of consoles we benefited from developers knowing the hardware and just making good ass video games. We also got to witness the continued resurgence of Capcom which began last year with Monster Hunter World and Mega Man 11, the Battle Royale genre reaching its 3rd stage of evolution and Kojima finally unleashing his load all over everyone. Anyway here's the categories for this year. I'll fill them up with writeups if I have time at work, but if not later tonight TOP 5 OLD GAMES - These are games that didn't release in 2019 or games that got ports/remasteres in 2019 that I played. Remakes do not go into this category TOP 8 GAMES I WISH I PLAYED - Games I had intended to play in 2019 and just didn't have the time to get to. If there's a game you can complain isn't on the main list it's probably in here! TOP 5 HONORABLE MENTIONS - Games that may have been in my top 10 at some point and dropped off, but I still feel like I wanted to at least mention them TOP 10 FAVORITE GAMES OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY DRAGON QUEST XI S: ECHOES OF AN ELUSIVE AGE - I always call this list my favorite instead of Best because we all have unique tastes and sometimes your favorite games aren't always the best games. Also DQ11 was my 2018 GotY. The Switch version is better in every way, but I only had time to play it for a few hours. Instead of just not really mentioning it, it's presenting this year's category. TOP 15 GAMES OF THE DECADE - I wasn't keeping an active list of this so I had to go back and read through every release of the past 10 years and try to order them. It's probably not perfect, but I'm okay with it as it looks now. This will probably have some honorable mentions as well, but maybe not write ups for them. Also I did limit this to one game per franchise otherwise it might be overrun by a handful of them. TOP 5 MOST ANTICIPATED GAMES FOR 2020 AND BEYOND - There's always more video games. --- |
| Topic | Star Wars: Fallen Order is the most derivative game I've played in a while. |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 1:24:10 AM #17 | As someone who loves Shadows of the Empire there's a lot I'll put up with in a Star Wars game --- |
| Topic | January 2020 Video Games |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 1:17:43 AM #8 | whoops the in Ry didn't copy correctly --- |
| Topic | January 2020 Video Games |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 1:10:16 AM #5 | of course I voted Kakarot Ever since I was 12 when I played Legend of the Super Saiyan on SNES I've been waiting for a DBZ RPG that actually covers the entire story in a single game and we're finally here 22 years later and it looks fun to play on top of that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk-wIgg9fNk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDrBQPJk2lQ Hey maybe if it succeeds they'll do one for Dragon Ball or Super :O --- |
| Topic | January 2020 Video Games |
| ninkendo 12/31/19 1:01:52 AM #1 | New Decade New Games
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Starting either tomorrow night or Wednesday morning I'll start putting up all my Game of the Year/Decade lists including all the favorites that I do every year Top 5 Old Games! Top ?? Games I Wish I Played in 2019! (number not decided yet) Top 10 Games of the Year with 5 or so honorable mentions! Top 5 Most Anticipated Games! Top 10 Games of the Decade!!! Fun list for everyone to say w0w SHINE sure likes them vidya gaemz --- |
| Topic | My games of the decade |
| ninkendo 12/30/19 9:51:21 PM #4 | Look forward to all my games of the year/decade lists within the next 48 hours --- |
| Topic | Are you supposed to tip at Sonic |
| ninkendo 12/30/19 6:10:32 PM #14 | This has been very informative thus far --- |
| Topic | Are you supposed to tip at Sonic |
| ninkendo 12/30/19 5:08:14 PM #1 | Sonic Drive In
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My reasoning is there's plenty of sonic's with an actual drive-through and not just a place to park and you wouldn't tip there just like you wouldnt any other fast food place so why would it be any different for when you actually have them bring the food to you --- |
| Topic | I think I'll have to change the way I play games |
| ninkendo 12/30/19 2:47:51 AM #9 | |
| Topic | SHINE Containment Topic X: Looks like my summer vacation is...over |
| ninkendo 12/30/19 2:16:10 AM #354 | Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 6/34 Trophies Obtained! Defeated Gyoubu Masataka Oniwa https://twitter.com/shineget64/status/1211545319244288000 --- |
| Topic | Giant Bomb Topic - Spring 2019 |
| ninkendo 12/30/19 1:30:46 AM #463 | It's a direct result of the people talking it up so much but not wanting to get into specifics for spoiler reasons you just assume its that way from the beginning --- |
| Topic | Giant Bomb Topic - Spring 2019 |
| ninkendo 12/30/19 1:21:25 AM #461 | DeepsPraw posted... There's no time limit in the tutorial, but I guess Jeff is also the kind of guy to just follow mission objectives and not stop to smell the roses. that's true, but he didn't know that. I also kinda rushed through that first area thinking I was on a time limit. --- |
| Topic | Anime and Manga Topic 273: Dreams of being a Beastar |
| ninkendo 12/30/19 1:18:43 AM #169 | Didn't realize Season 4 of Food Wars already finished Guessing it only finishes the current arc and doesn't get into all the stuff everyone hates --- |
| Topic | Giant Bomb Topic - Spring 2019 |
| ninkendo 12/30/19 12:54:51 AM #458 | From Jeff's point of view the game is punishing him by even having a time limit in the first place as he feels he has to run through everything and ignore the details because that's what decades of playing video games that isn't this or Majora's Mask has taught him. In the end he's wrong on this matter, but it's easy to see how he had the experience he did. --- |
| Topic | Giant Bomb Topic - Spring 2019 |
| ninkendo 12/30/19 12:41:03 AM #456 | Jeff does not play by a game's rules he plays by the rules he sets forth having reviewed thousands of videogames He rejects anything that intentionally punishes you for trying to play a videogame the way you would normally play a videogame --- |
| Topic | So what exactly is bad about Pokemon Sword and Shield? |
| ninkendo 12/30/19 12:18:27 AM #25 | For me combination of the pokedex (maintaining a living dex is the main reason I played the series) and the fact the first console game isn't a bigger step forward it's just a nicer looking version of the 3DS games. --- |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| ninkendo 12/30/19 12:15:47 AM #3 | When I rebought some of my stolen games I noticed some of the DS games like Order of Ecclesia the plastic of the cardtridge was a darker shade of black than other DS games. I assumed it was pirated. --- |
| Topic | SHINE Containment Topic X: Looks like my summer vacation is...over |
| ninkendo 12/30/19 12:10:39 AM #353 | Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 5/34 Trophies Obtained! Defeated Lady Butterfly. https://twitter.com/shineget64/status/1211513804426792960 --- |
| Topic | Giant Bomb Topic - Spring 2019 |
| ninkendo 12/30/19 12:09:34 AM #453 | I was about 4-5 loops in before I figured out you could translate things --- |
| Topic | Giant Bomb Topic - Spring 2019 |
| ninkendo 12/29/19 7:30:04 PM #441 | |
| Topic | Anime and Manga Topic 273: Dreams of being a Beastar |
| ninkendo 12/29/19 4:52:17 PM #167 | |
| Topic | SHINE Containment Topic X: Looks like my summer vacation is...over |
| ninkendo 12/29/19 3:59:35 PM #352 | Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 4/34 Trophies Obtained! Encountered the Memorial Mob https://twitter.com/shineget64/status/1211390954017632257 --- |
| Topic | SHINE Containment Topic X: Looks like my summer vacation is...over |
| ninkendo 12/29/19 3:15:29 PM #351 | Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 3/34 Trophies Obtained! Used Resurrection for the first time. https://twitter.com/shineget64/status/1211378534960238595 --- |
| Topic | NFL Week 17 Discussion Topic |
| ninkendo 12/29/19 2:12:54 PM #10 | when you remember the lionz are built to beat the Packers and no other team --- |
| Topic | Giant Bomb Topic - Spring 2019 |
| ninkendo 12/29/19 12:00:09 PM #438 | |
| Topic | Looks like Version 1.00 of Project Lunar finally came out for the Genesis mini |
| ninkendo 12/29/19 11:53:41 AM #9 | although I did enjoy replaying the various genesis batman games last night (Batman Forever doesn't work it's super glitched out) --- |
| Topic | Looks like Version 1.00 of Project Lunar finally came out for the Genesis mini |
| ninkendo 12/29/19 11:48:35 AM #8 | I tested it this morning after adding more games and discovered the limit is about 87 games before the main menu starts to freak out and crash luckily folders are in update 1.01 so I'm going to wait for that --- |
| Topic | Looks like Version 1.00 of Project Lunar finally came out for the Genesis mini |
| ninkendo 12/29/19 2:41:37 AM #6 | even without this it was already the best of the mini consoles! --- |
| Topic | Looks like Version 1.00 of Project Lunar finally came out for the Genesis mini |
| ninkendo 12/29/19 2:22:13 AM #4 | that means more it supports USB wifi adaptors I'm slowly adding games in because you can only do them one by one. Almost done with B's! --- |
| Topic | SHINE Containment Topic X: Looks like my summer vacation is...over |
| ninkendo 12/29/19 1:09:09 AM #350 | Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 2/34 Trophies Obtained! Obtained the Shinobi Prosthetic https://twitter.com/shineget64/status/1211166932143165441 --- |
| Topic | SHINE Containment Topic X: Looks like my summer vacation is...over |
| ninkendo 12/29/19 12:34:55 AM #349 | Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 1/34 Trophies Obtained! Received the Kusabimaru from Kuro. https://twitter.com/shineget64/status/1211158157755604992 --- |
| Topic | Lemillion, you son of a bitch |
| ninkendo 12/28/19 11:35:23 PM #4 | impressive that MHA continues to top itself --- |
| Topic | Anime of the Year 2019 - Ballot phase |
| ninkendo 12/28/19 11:34:41 PM #49 | I'm guessing we haven't seen the best yet that Overhaul has to offer --- |
| Topic | Anime and Manga Topic 273: Dreams of being a Beastar |
| ninkendo 12/28/19 11:15:17 PM #159 | No One Piece tonight but then an episode on 1/5 but then no episode again on 1/12! matching those oda breaks --- |
| Topic | Aww Yeah Platinum #221 GET! - Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD |
| ninkendo 12/28/19 10:49:18 PM #1 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--t1EMQyGS8 https://www.truetrophies.com/game/Super-Monkey-Ball-Banana-Blitz/trophies?gamerid=5932&showall=1 https://twitter.com/shineget64/status/1211130877658443782 Bros it's that bad gamecube monkey ball game Except now it's better because you can actually control it like Monkey Ball 1 and 2 Although the game is much easier now because it was designed with the motion controls in mind. It unfortunately also doesn't fix the somewhat bland level design and the fact there's bosses at the end of every world. None of which are particularly fun to fight. Still the improvement to the controls alone moved this up from a 4/10 game to like a 6 or 7/10 game. They even added Sonic into the game as an unlockable! Everyone loves Sonic! I also linked to the new title theme they made just for this game because it's too catchy for me not to. The platinum requirements were as follows:
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