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ChronxDaHemphog posted...

Was going through some of my oldest issues and wont be able to post some of those posters without damaging the magazine, which Im not quite ready to do yet, but heres a cool picture from the January/February 1990 issue (10) showing off some Mario gear. I remember having the lunchbox that if I go digging around might be able to find.

man... I had that calendar. Some of the art in THAT was weird as hell.

Gotta go w/ PS2 for the sheer scope of the library. I loved by Gamecube, but Nintendo still struggled w/ 3rd party support and this overall was one the darkest periods for Nintendo. Xbox had a small library, but man, the great games on it REALLY hooked me when I finally got one. I played the hell out of Knights the Old Republic I and II, as well as Jade Empire.

I really enjoyed Outer Worlds. As someone else said, id did a good job at world building, and I look forward to them expanding on it in a sequel. Greedfall is similar. Rough around the edges, but cool world building that can be built on.

Deku_Link posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZReBJ8HhR8

I was replaying FFX not long ago and got so damn annoyed by this lol

Eh, its focused on the Brer Rabbit stories which have existed in African-American folklore for a very long time, and they made sure not to include things like the Tar Baby. You'd have to really stretch to turn a ride about animals into a racist thing.

Only main gripe is the constantly respawning enemies. Obviously the games are hard as hell, but they have tight, precise controls and unlimited continues (except for 3) so it's a fair challenge that can be overcome. Still never beat any of em, but i considered even getting go the last boss an accomplishment.

Who the hell compared it to BotW?

dancer62 posted...

All first and second party Nintendo

The Crew

That stupid Sony tomb raider clone.

Uncharted? The game that new Tomb Raider games basically copied?

I played through it once, when it was new and never felt the urge to really revisit it again until listening to a Retronauts episode on it, where they made such a passionate case for it, I decided to give it another go, all these years later. I guess an upside to the remaster is being able to speed up the game, so I'm less annoyed by drawing spells from enemies, so I'm enjoying it a lot more now.

What I didn't expect was to be hit so hard by nostalgia from a game I wasn't all that keen on when it released. Funny thing is, it's less for the game and more for the time it came out. I graduated in 1999, so I remember how anticipated the game was my senior year, and then it released, finally, the fall after I graduated. During that time period, I really didn't do much, other than hang out with a couple of really close friends of mine, and we played FFVIII at my friend's house a lot. Not long after, they both joined the military, so this game reminds me of that like, last few months of feeling like a teenager before we all went our separate ways and had to grow up... which funny enough, "growing up" is kind of a big theme of the game.

Sorry about the long blog post, but, anywho... what are y'all's thoughts on FFVIII?

Some of his attachments are a club.

I walk my dog every day, and had to run to the bank yesterday.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

unless you are a white male, or a male that is getting divorced

I'm a white male living in California, we're doing fine.

They're out of work too, having em go flat broke isn't gonna help anyone.

Wife and I used ours to pay off our furniture from when we moved into our apartment back in August.

You have what's generally considered the worst game of a trilogy that botched the ending so hard they had to release a new ending as DLC vs the best game of it's trilogy, what did you expect?

OhhhJa posted...

Because people like this exist past middle school

Prepare to be grossed out

https://metro.co.uk/2017/10/29/toxic-masculinity-is-preventing-some-men-from-wiping-their-bums-properly-7036601/

Yes. A lot of dudes don't understand the difference between toxic masculinity and masculinity. Toxic masculinity is "I don't go between my cheeks to wipe my ass because that's GAY!", etc.

Went w/ "Alien", although "Jackie Brown" is a super underrated Tarantino movie.

My wife is working from home and has had hours reduced. A bunch of people in her department got furloughed or laid off, so she's lucky. Her company's sales are down 75% because of this (she works in food service supply). I actually had surgery at the end of December, so I'm going back to work monday, and will find out if we're all about to start working from home

The idea is this helps the economy by putting money back in to it. If my wife and I both get laid off money is gonna be VERY tight. Our 1 BR apartment is $1,400/month and that's considered "cheap" for San Diego. We'd basically have to really tighten our belts for awhile until things get back to normal. The problem with that, is that means even less money is going into the economy, so more people are getting laid off, businesses going under, etc. Part of why the Great Depression was so bad was because the Hoover administration's response was to initially do nothing, and just tell people to tighten their belts up more which managed to collapse the economy even more.

Not yet. I've been on leave after surgery, so I've been home since Dec 30th anyway. We'll see what happens though.

hypnox posted...

Yeah retail is the worst. worked at a gamestop, woman tried to buy her kid GTA, told her its rated M for blah blah and she was like yeah what ever, then like 4 hours she came back and tried to return it for HALF of the reasons I told her it was rated M.

Funny thing, years ago I worked at Hollywood Video, and a kid wanted to rent GTA: San Andreas. His mom asked him what it was and he was like "It's a driving game" I decided to speak up so I didn't catch shit just in case and was like "Actually mam, Grand Theft Auto is Rated M, for mature, which means it's intended for players over the age of 17. It has violence, drug use, language, sex, etc"

She turned to her son and was like "1. You are absolutely not getting this game and 2. You're grounded for lying"

I felt bad for the kid, but you gotta protect your own ass when working with the public.

DesertPenguin09 posted...

I always assumed debit was instant. Guess not?

It's a bitch, but yeah it'll come OUT fast, bu it takes a few days to process returns.

No, but the wife and I were running low when this started and we usually buy in bulk at Costco so we only have to shop for it every couple of months and they were cleared out when we went. Just went to Target and snagged some instead.

Been playing Super Mario 3D Land

It's ok. I played until the end of the game, and got hit b a pretty gnarly difficulty spike.. I guess I didn't grind enough when the game opens up because all of a sudden regular enemies were kicking the shit out of me.

thedicemaster posted...

Lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring on the gameboy advance.

you go on an rpg-like quest to destroy the ring and defeat sauron.
just as your journey is really getting underway you climb a hill.
sauron sees you.
game over, you "win".

it's like playing a demo, you're not even halfway into the actual journey and you're presented with what's basically a "buy the game to continue playing" screen without having accomplished any real goal.

I mean... that's how "Fellowship" basically ends.

Carne asada, carnitas

I play all kinds of weird board games and Talisman was never on my radar either. Who the fuck acts like a board game elitist? lol

saspa posted...

That was a pretty good special. Was it new? Because I got total dejavu when she was talking about her father, like I'd heard it before.

The special is new, but she had a 15 minute mini special on Netflix last year I believe, when they did a few of those, so it might have been on that as well, and like I said, she was also on the last season of Last Comic Standing.

Terminator. The first was basically a great slasher film w/ a sci-fi coating, the 2nd was a great action film.

How about mine your own business as it no way effects you.

Check out the Taylor Tomlinson special on Netflix. She came out of the same comedy scene I'm in, and is super talented. Really nice as well. She was on Last Comic Standing a couple years back also. Awesome to see her find success.

UltraKev9 posted...

I was thinking I'd initially disagree with this as I think I'd rather see a normal console from Nintendo but I think I'll agree with your statement. I don't really use the portable aspect of my Switch but I certainly appreciate that I can take it with me if I want to. I guess it's pretty much the only singular console that can do that without buying many additional things, like say the Vita and the PS4's "remote play" function.

I'd love to see Nintendo come out with a really powerful, competitive console like they did back with the SNES that competed directly with the Genesis and that has been sorely lacking since the release of the GameCube which I think was a fantastic system. I'd like to see something as powerful or nearly as powerful as these new systems coming around the end of the year with some modicum of portability and with new technology we certainly didn't have twenty years ago it should be possible. Tablets and smartphones that are as insanely powerful as they are today should make easy platforms for consoles to have smaller footprints.

Nintendo competed on straight up power up until the Wii. PS1 did better because they went with discs, but the N64 hardware was pretty damn powerful for the time. After that, they started shooting themselves in the foot. They had a console that was flat out more powerful than the PS2, but went with mini-discs when a huge PS2 selling point was it being an affordable DVD player as well. Now I'm not saying they'd have win that gen again, but had they ran with DVDs and lured more 3rd parties back to them, the Gamecube would have fared much better.

Been a few years. I probably should, my glasses are falling apart and I'm sure I need a new prescription.

keyblader1985 posted...

Was the 3DS version of OoT not good enough?

It's good, I think people just want updated HD graphics and to play it on a console instead of a handheld.

AllstarSniper32 posted...

So I do see people saying OoT. I honestly thought that since BotW was quite recent people wouldn't have OoT being a top pick.

It and Majora's Mask are ones that would benefit the most from a full on remake, and as much as I love BotW, a remake with the classic Zelda format would be nice. (classic 3D at least)

Seems nice. Y'all weirdo's obsession w/ her is creepy as fuck though.

N64: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It's a basic answer, but that game with better controls and camera would be great. It's still a fun game, but it does show it's age and is clunky in a lot of areas.

PS1: Final Fantasy IX. Feel like the game doesn't get enough love as it didn't seem to have the same fanfare VII and VIII did on release. At that point everyone was gearing up for the PS2 to come out, so late era PS1 games seemed to quietely come and go, and FFX came out about a year later and grabbed everyone's attention.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

The N64 controller was an abomination designed for a 3 handed child.

I literally have ONE hand and never had a single issues using the N64 controller, maybe y'all just have terrible coordination or something.

Gerudo Valley is my OOT jam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hEYvdMoF2g

CaptainStrong posted...

He'll probably get the most votes and then get fucked over at the "Democratic" National Convention.

People keep repeating this, but as long as Bernie goes into the convention with 1,991 delegates there's really nothing they can do. The DNC actually changed their rules after 2016 so super delegates won't have a say unless there's a brokered convention, and even then it's after the 2nd ballot doesn't produce a nominee.

My wife would get all our stuff (which ain't much anyway) and we don't have kids yet, so, pretty cut and dry.

mdfmkrules9999 posted...

Strangely I prefer the slower original Sonic games over pretty much every game thats come after them in the series.

So between Sonic (1-3&K only) vs Mario? Honestly Sonic.

They had the benefit of not feeling like they play themselves. Later Sonic games feel like you just kinda hold the stick in a direction and watch everything fly by.

LinkPizza posted...

Hard choice. For a while, you couldnt even go back in Mario games. Sonic games, you could go back, but it made it tough of some levels... Or complicated. And moving so fast, you could easily lose track of where you were, and how to get back. So, O choose Mario where you could move back over Sonic. And Sonic over Mario where you couldnt go back. And Zelda II is probably e worse Zelda game ever. For the few times Ive tried my best to play it...

You really only couldn't go back in the first Mario game.

Anyway, as a whole, the 2D Mario games smoked Sonic. For a game that hyped up speed, they sure liked slowing Sonic down a lot. There just always seemed more to do in Mario games as well.

Nope. Met my wife before Tinder took off. Met her on OkCupid though so I had some luck with online dating.

Duckface/10

I came across a "Secret World of Alex Mack" erotic fan fic in the late 90s I wish I could forget.

I liked the first one, since it's tone matched the book's pretty well. 2nd and 3rd were ok and tried to do too much.

Revelation34 posted...

I forgot anecdotal evidence is the best kind of proof.

To be fair, a lot of people did buy it because it came with the FFXII demo. The nice thing is it as also a great game on it's own.