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Didn't "DS" originally stand for something else, but everyone just called it the Dual Screen, and Nintendo just rolled with it?

Developer's Select I believe, but yeah.

I'm inclined to agree with Metroid Prime Hunters but I'll wait to see if anything else comes up. It's got a huge library with some pretty impressive games. Some others that jump to mind: Disgaea DS, Super Mario 64 DS, LoZ: Phantom Hourglass, Okamiden.

I've been silently agreeing with Metal_DK for ages but it's definitely becoming less of a "yeah I'll incorporate that into my world view" and more of a "oh this is actually maybe the best way of analyzing this particular time period isn't it"

FFDragon posted...

we've reached the point that the response to teetering on the edge of ww3 is to shitpost

The casual revolution of 2007 and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race, or something like that

On the other hand memes are way less deadly than missiles so maybe we should be happy about this...?

Hey_Mister posted...

If the mods aren't sure what's going on I'm just going to point out that as far as I know this is still true...

It's not. Posts about politics have been deleted in topics that have been left alone.

Ah but you see, if they actually say what qualifies then they'll be held to their word about it.

Much better to just have two admins babble randomly and constantly contradict themselves and each other before shutting down the discussion entirely.

Lyndis

Probably not, I'm just thinking about the logistics of being "invited to CE" on a website that has consistently banned people for trying to go to other boards in any sort of group.

If like 100 people from this board all went to CE at once to discuss politics I wonder if that would be allowed or if it would constitute board invasion.

How did Steel Battalion 2 end up in the poll...? And I think that screenshot's actually from the third one, which is for 360.

foolm0r0n posted...

Blame the mod. They always have the choice to ignore a report, but they didn't.

Yeah this. The fact that anyone is actually enforcing this is pretty disappointing.

Thorn posted...

dang i caught my first moderation in around 20 years (last one was 2004 i think maybe even 2003) for not talking about minecraft in the minecraft topic

stay safe everyone

What did they even put down as the reason?

Swing and a miss for the chatbot calling BotW non-horny. It's definitely one of the horniest family friendly games ever made.

I don't know if Firelink Shrine counts. The hub from Demon's Souls definitely would but it's not nearly as memorable.

Peach's Castle
Station Square (Sonic Adventure)
Artisans Homeworld (Spyro 1)

Pretty confident about the first two, less confident about Artisans, will wait for other ideas for the fourth.

Accel_R8 posted...

There's nothing transphobic or whiny about this. These new avatars are genuinely hideous. The new models look like developer pre-alpha placeholders and/or like someone pushed "random" on Fallout's character creator.

I mean, the transphobic part is when you look at the Twitter replies and see a bunch of people being transphobic there. There's nothing inherently transphobic about being upset by this.

WazzupGenius00 posted...

without any context (are the options bad? You havent shown me), this just sounds like a typical entitled gamer dogpile

with some context (reading the angry replies on twitter) I reached the same conclusion, but with "weirdly transphobic" in addition to entitled

Francisco

ZenOfThunder posted...

Robert Mapplethorpe may be horny.

robert mapplethorpe is one of the most controversial photographers of all time explicitly because of his sexual subject matter. this extended to his photographs of flowers, which were intended to bring to mind genitalia and/or sexual intimacy

like idk if horny is a fair descriptor but the man definitely made sex the prime focus of his art

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d2e45ca2.png

me when i try to spell geparty without looking it up

Steel Battalion but I dunno if that's actually true, it just stands out to me as something that hasn't been replicated before or since.

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Are all of Mel's weapons different from Zag's?

Seems like it, but I think the demo only has two. Her starting weapon is a staff with a long jab and a single projectile on Y, her second weapon are the twin swords that are very short range but strong and fast, and have a multi-directional forward burst on Y. Probably best compared to the spear and claws in Hades 1 but different enough to not feel the same.

Selene seems to fill a slightly different role than the other gods that grant boons. Her boons mention powering up depending on your "path of stars" which, idk what that means. Maybe she's closer to Chaos in Hades 1?

I really dislike the second weapon, the Sister Blades. They're very, very short range. I went into Boss 1 with like 90 health and still donked it. Speaking of which, Boss 1 seems to get a different pattern and attacks on attempt 3, or maybe I just really stopped paying attention?

Fishing is back but I haven't found a rod yet.

Kenri posted...

-Seems like you have basic weapon combos on X, cast on Y, and a sigil that traps foes on B, and each of those can be charged to be more powerful, but that consumes magic. Magic does not seem to recharge automatically so like, make it count each run I guess.

I was wrong about this stuff btw. Y is your weapon's special, for the first weapon it's a small projectile which is why I thought it was like the cast from the first game. The sigil on B is your actual cast. There also seem to be lots of ways to recover MP, including ways to make it recharge over time.

-On my second run I killed the miniboss that ended my first run. It's a bit tricky for so early in the game but also very predictable. Basically it can trap you in a patch of roots, shoots a bunch of small projectiles, and has a minion that chases you down while underground then pops up to do a melee attack. You basically just keep circling around it and keep the damage on and it'll go down.

-There are definitely new enemies but most of the ones in this first area aren't terribly exciting. The wailers, an enemy that chases you down while screaming at you, are probably the most annoying unless you kill them as they appear (they don't have much health)

-I got to the first boss (who I'll avoid naming even though it's not really spoilers) and won, but barely. It feels a lot more complicated than Meg in Hades 1; it makes illusory copies of itself, summons minions, and uses a lot of different shockwave-style attacks. It's not terribly difficult though.

-Since you can't progress past here, the demo ends with a little narration and then kills you lol

-The narration reveals that it is indeed Time Itself that is the big bad in this game, which is interesting because like... the characters from the first game definitely look noticeably older. It's Supergiant so I almost wonder if, by the end of the game, the message will be something like "even gods can't live forever".

-The goal of the demo is to beat the first boss 5 times total, but I dunno if I'll give any more impressions here. Depends how much new content I see in further runs I guess.

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I would've signed up if I'd known! Congrats.

I think you still can! Not positive though. If it's still open there's a button to sign up where you'd normally click to buy:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145350/Hades_II/

MoogleKupo141 posted...

i thought about it, but when I read it was even more limited in content than Early Access will be, I decided Id rather just wait a bit longer for proper EA

Yeah it ends after the first boss, so like if Hades 1 ended at Meg.

MartinFF7 posted...

Looking forward to hearing any thoughts/experiences you want to share, assuming testing doesnt come with an NDA or something...

I don't think so? It seems like it's just like a limited demo that automatically makes crash reports (haven't had any yet), not anything official enough that I'd have to agree to an NDA. If I wasn't allowed to share thoughts I feel like they would've made that clear. So with that said...!

-Seems to play perfectly on Steam Deck, so far at least.

-My first run goes pretty poorly, I die at the first miniboss. I feel like 100%ing Hades gave me a big head about how good I'll actually be at this game (not very).

-Seems like you have basic weapon combos on X, cast on Y, and a sigil that traps foes on B, and each of those can be charged to be more powerful, but that consumes magic. Magic does not seem to recharge automatically so like, make it count each run I guess.

-There are new gods and old gods to get blessings from. So far I've seen Apollo and Demeter.

-The goal here is killing Chronos, which is kinda interesting and makes me wonder if they're intentionally merging Chronos with Cronus or if it's specifically Time Itself that is the enemy.

-I am not immune to hot dad Odysseus

Wicked.

Anyone else here sign up for the Steam playtest, and did you get selected?

The white-washing of Steve continues

I think we only got the second topic because of DToast and I think they probably took him out back and shot him in the head after they found out he had said they'd revisit the issue in the future.

100% not getting a third one.

So I tried Rain World again and used the accessibility options to turn off the karma gates so I could get into the next area without grinding. After the game chastised me for destroying its difficulty curve (what difficulty curve?) I found that the next area is completely pitch black. In a normal metroidvania game I would assume that means I need a power-up but here I assume it's just some more bullshit you're expected to endure. Thanks but no thanks!

Jazz

I also vote for darkx's nice barista

"Fool" is generous but yeah

>topic for non-political Americans
>look inside
>the most political Americans I've ever seen

TimmyQuivy posted...

I will answer with a few thoughts:

For consistency, Fandom's Community Creation Policy states that we do not permit communities "whose main purpose is to represent a political party, advocate for or against a political ideology, or generally opine regarding political issues". I think the key word is "advocate". In CE in particular, "News event happened" conveys a very different message to start a conversation than "Political Party was Right Because News Event" happened.

I understand that there is still some ambiguity in that definition. As alluded to by many, "politics" these days is a terminology that is could be extended to many sorts of conversation in every day life. I don't think it's possible (or reasonable) to try to sit here and think of an all-encompossing definition.

But it's also good to be clear about what politics is not:

DToast and now myself endorse one of the moderator's (Uta) example on something that is not inherently political - (original: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/11-team-gamefaqs/80747428/979919729):

"If a game has political theming it's of course fine to talk about that. I don't think anyone is going to be moderated for talking about the anti-capitalist themes of Final Fantasy VII. I don't think anyone is going to get moderated for talking about Wolfenstein either. As for that second comment. Anything that's say, a basic human right or even just a basic fact about reality? That's not political. Just because one particular group likes to make science and social denial their political points doesn't mean those things actually are politics. We're not going to go around moderating people for being Trans or talking about Trans issues "

To broaden it a little - Politics is not discussing political messages directly relating to video game gameplay/design, discussing how a video game incorporated a member of a tradtionally underrepresented group into the game, discussing how an element of your identity is or is not properly represented in a game. Our intention is to use a stringent definition of politics that covers clear trolling and flame wars, and not a loose definition to simply police speech.

Obviously, there is still intepretation in some of these definitions and examples, but common sense can be readily applied for 99% of the things not covered thus.

Well, I got some clarification on what constitutes politics, though tbh this raises more questions than it answers.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a6331733.jpg

gonna post this in the next babe brawl topic to explain the rules change

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7654fbd7.jpg

hornyposting

pair of more tittier boobs

Fluttershy_Pony posted...

Jeopardy
Wheel of Fortune
The Price is Right
Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

This is it

I wanna give a shout out to Luigi's Mansion as well. The particle effects and lighting in that game are something else. Probably not the winner here but very impressive for a launch game.

Nominate Umurangi Generation

It's a well-regarded photography game that's super cheap on Steam until the 22nd

junk_funk posted...

Venonat should evolve into Butterfree. They look soooo alike.

They 100% swapped them to make the early game one more marketable. Venomoth looks like Caterpie and Metapod too. It's a nothing issue but it bugs the shit out of me ngl

My hot take here is that it's Pikmin 2

Third party devs repeatedly struggled to get 100+ moving objects on screen at once on the Wii. Pikmin 2 did it on the GCN while looking gorgeous and, as I recall, having basically no slow down. It also had large levels, the ability to swap between two playable characters in different parts of the world with no loading or lag, and a day/night cycle with dynamic lighting.

MoogleKupo141 posted...

so realistically theres not going to be any reversion of this change because the decision was made three levels above the guy were communicating with and that person is entirely detached from what actually happens here

I mean yeah that's basically how every decision at every corporation works

LightningStrikes posted...

But would a better strategy not just be limiting all politics discussion to the social boards (except where it directly relates to the game or whatever), mandating that the topics always be tagged, and reducing the threshold of moderation while increasing the penalties for things like anti-LGBT sentiment and other bigotry? Seems like that would actually solve the problem rather than just making everybody mad while also making a quarantined extremism factory.

I mean the key mistake you're making here is assuming they're communicating in good faith about what the problem is and why they want to solve it.

MacArrowny posted...

They made a pro-trans post at the same time, so that's definitely not political.

Disagree. "We understand that this is a heated issue and want to remind everyone that all discussions should stay civil and respectful" is not a pro-trans stance and it never has been.

Plug

Johnbobb posted...

I didn't know there was another option until I got the trophy for it

Even the achievement wasn't a tip-off for me, I just found the other method later and went "oh"

Probably Metroid Fusion 1%, though strictly speaking I'm not sure it was harder than some regular playthroughs of other games were (looking at you, Hollow Knight 112%)

YoBlazer posted...

OJ definitely compelled me to make this topic here, but I made a similar topic on CE like a year ago, and the results were practically reversed. The voters there are much more likely to believe accusations regardless of the outcome in the justice system, so I wanted to see how B8 felt.

Yeah I'm pleasantly surprised by the results here (though B8 has a solid track record on stuff like this so maybe surprised is the wrong word). I feel like most people I talk to IRL assume people are guilty if they're so much as stopped by police, much less arrested and put on trial.

are we talking like regular people crime or white collar crime here

Fake