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Velorath
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You wouldn't put Hex on your list at all? And yeah, I'd be up for doing a new top 20.
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schild
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No. Because I consider it a board game, not a video game.
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Rendakor
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I'm up for a new top 20; my list today would be pretty different.
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"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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Druzil
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Man, I had no idea so many people liked Pool of Radiance.
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Soulflame
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Death Knights of Krynn is the best Gold Box of all time.
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Zetor
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Death Knights of Krynn is the best Gold Box of all time.
Pretty much. Kinda amusing too, considering the other episodes of the Krynn trilogy weren't that memorable -- DQK highlighted how badly high-level ad&d plays and the maps in CHK were just all over the place. (I still put POR in my top20 because of reasons... mainly rose-colored-glasses nostalgia)
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Velorath
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I just started up a playthrough of Champions of Krynn yesterday.
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Shannow
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Death Knights of Krynn is the best Gold Box of all time.
Curse of the Azure Bonds. Let's fight. Actually now I want to play DKoK. (Come play Arctic, DL MUD!)
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Someone liked something? Who the fuzzy fuck was this heretic? You don't come to this website and enjoy something. Fuck that. ~ The Walrus
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Bunk
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Looked back at that list. A lot more good things have come out in ten years than I realized, 2/3 of my list would likely change.
Schild, I found your list at the end of that thread. Thought it funny that I've only even played 3 of the games on that list, and I'm a fair bit older than you.
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Wow, I dug deep for that 20 list. I've never been very nostalgic and have become even less nostalgic since then. Exception: FFH2
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luckton
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http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4604/NVIDIA is ending 32-bit driver support. You wanna make a game today? That shit better be 64-bit, or you can fuck off. This probably won't effect too many people. If anything MMOs and other online/still-updated games will need to get their shit together if they don't already have a 64-bit client.
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Sky
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http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4604/NVIDIA is ending 32-bit driver support. You wanna make a game today? That shit better be 64-bit, or you can fuck off. This probably won't effect too many people. If anything MMOs and other online/still-updated games will need to get their shit together if they don't already have a 64-bit client. I'm sure a few nvidia employees will have babies during this transition. But yeah, not too many.
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Velorath
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Jan/Feb game releases. Mostly posting this because of the Shadow of the Colossus remaster. I'm strangely interested in Kingdom Come: Deliverance though. I'm sure there stuff missing on here. 1/6Street Fighter V (Arcade Edition) - PS4, XB1, PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWSrQ2ZOnq41/23Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap - PS4, Switch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjJ4kqbnga0The Inpatient - PS4 VR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGWrUjN7huo1/26Monster Hunter World - PS4, XB1, PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBg6KnkpaXUI’ve never played a Monster Hunter game. Maybe I’ll try this. 1/30Dissidia Final Fantasy NT - PS4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx1RYeHn1mkWatched the trailer. Still have no idea what the hell is going on in this game. Railway Empire - PS4, XB1, PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osHJRWJrY2I? (January release date)Red Strings Club - PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ZNwl0qAbgDevolver Digital’s cyberpunk adventure game. 2/2Don’t Knock Twice - PS4 VR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ILLofswU8cBased on the Katee Sackhoff horror movie even I didn’t know existed. Past Cure - PS4, XB1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMCzyQ_owDY2/6 Shadow of the Colossus - PS4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO9az7gPYdEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ActhIPQ_DFQLooks amazing. 2/9Dynasty Warriors 9 - PS4, XB1, PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7gIFAhq8w4Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late[St] - PS4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOkGJGXc5yEThe Seven Deadly Sins: Knights of Britania - PS4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRKhlFB9OP0I’m not the target audience for this game, but there’s a large pig that seems to figure in prominently so there’s that at least. 2/13Kingdom Come: Deliverance - PS4, XB1, PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw9wAnL0XvcKickstarted Eurojank from the Czech Republic, this apparently got some good buzz going for it at Gamescom. Crossing Souls - PS4, PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXQ0chPzJ_k80’s nostalgia-fest. Not sure how representative that trailer is but it borrows directly from Back to the Future, ET, Stand By Me, etc... 2/15Secret of Mana - PS4, PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujF9CZJyshQ2/16Bayonetta 2 + Bayonetta - Switch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SxJGDofOfo2/20Metal Gear Survive - PS4, XB1, PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bEq5M6ILrUHahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. 2/23Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet - PS4, XB1, PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOx1PCIcYFA
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HaemishM
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Don't. The beta was fucking awful.
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Nebu
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Don't. The beta was fucking awful. Anyone know if Dauntless is any better?
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Gimfain
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Don't. The beta was fucking awful. What made it so bad?
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schild
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Don't. The beta was fucking awful. What made it so bad? It's a Monster Hunter game. You either love them or hate them.
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HaemishM
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Controls were shit, all the text was squinty tiny, and while pretty, did I mention that it controlled like ass? Mostly that the controls were really assy.
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Rendakor
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Controls were shit, all the text was squinty tiny, and while pretty, did I mention that it controlled like ass? Mostly that the controls were really assy.
Have you played MH games before? I'm not trying to be snarky; they're a very specific sort of game and clunky controls (along with shit inventory management) are part and parcel of that experience. If the controls here are worse in some way, that's what I'd like to know.
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"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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HaemishM
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Sorry, no I haven't played Monster Hunter games before. My comparisons were to other action combat 3rd person type of games and even among those, it was bad. I think I described it feeling like two blind rhinos trying to fuck in a giant burlap sack.
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Yegolev
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like two blind rhinos trying to fuck in a giant burlap sack.
Then you carve a roast from them and you're playing Monster Hunter. Also you beat up things with a mutant tuba.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Fabricated
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Monster Hunter is basically about becoming one with your preferred weapons' movesets and learning monster tells so they walk into your attacks basically.
If you can't get into that, which is perfectly reasonable because nothing really plays like Monster Hunter- you're not going to like it. It utterly embraces its own clunkiness. I enjoyed the DS versions, but it's pretty fucking grindy.
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Sounds like me defending Gothic/Risen/Elex
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Rendakor
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Monster Hunter is basically about becoming one with your preferred weapons' movesets and learning monster tells so they walk into your attacks basically.
If you can't get into that, which is perfectly reasonable because nothing really plays like Monster Hunter- you're not going to like it. It utterly embraces its own clunkiness. I enjoyed the DS versions, but it's pretty fucking grindy.
The grind is always my problem as well, because it's not a Disgaea-like, turn your brain off kind of grind. It's a "you must be paying attention constantly while farming this boss 10 times" kind of grind and it just gets tedious. The relative lack of in-game documentation and thus the need to constantly be on gamefaqs or some Wiki does not help the matter.
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"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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Job601
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The grind is always my problem as well, because it's not a Disgaea-like, turn your brain off kind of grind. It's a "you must be paying attention constantly while farming this boss 10 times" kind of grind and it just gets tedious. The relative lack of in-game documentation and thus the need to constantly be on gamefaqs or some Wiki does not help the matter. [/quote]
I feel like I would like Monster Hunter if you could just be fighting monsters the whole time; the controls are different but precise. What I remember from the Wii U version was tons of wandering around with loading screens and messing with items. It felt like a game that did not respect my time and which was trying hard to withhold the good parts. It also was a port of a wii game, so really ugly.
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Falconeer
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The controls are precise? I am gonna take your word for it cause I had the exact opposite feeling. Hard to tell if you hit, hard to tell what you hit, hard to tell if you have been hit, and don't get me started on the farce of a monster running away for ten minutes with me chasing only to have the attack animation stop me in my track every time I swing anything, obviously miss because of that, and start chasing again for another two minutes.
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HaemishM
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Yeah, precise are not how I would describe the controls of this latest one. It's the exact opposite of precise.
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Jeff Kelly
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Dark Souls Remaster for Switch, PS4 XBox One and PC. Potentially announced today
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luckton
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Switch confirmed. PRAISE THE SUN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_u7g5BlfiYSkip to the 13:00 mark for Switch gameplay. Though the first 13 minutes is chock full of good stuff coming to the Switch. 0:19 - The World Ends with You -Final Remix- 1:25 - Pokkén Tournament DX DLC 2:21 - Kirby Star Allies 3:25 - Kirby Battle Royale & Dragon Quest Builders Demos 3:44 - Hyrule Warriors Definitive Version 4:32 - Mario Tennis Aces 5:28 - Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA 6:34 - Super Mario Odyssey Update - Luigi’s Balloon World 7:41 - SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy 8:40 - ACA NEOGEO ART OF FIGHTING 2 8:55 - Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle DLC 9:51 - PAYDAY 2 10:38 - Fe 11:12 - Celeste 11:48 - Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for Nintendo Switch 12:50 - Dark Souls Remastered
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« Last Edit: January 11, 2018, 06:21:13 AM by luckton »
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"Those lights, combined with the polygamous Nazi mushrooms, will mess you up."
"Tuning me out doesn't magically change the design or implementation of said design. Though, that'd be neat if it did." -schild
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Bunk
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So apparently CD Project Red sent out a tweet yesterday from the twitter channel for Cyberpunk 2077. First tweet in like five years. It said: "*Beep*"
People got very excited. Rumors of something to be announced today. Or not. Who knows.
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"Welcome to the internet, pussy." - VDL "I have retard strength." - Schild
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Teleku
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert
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Rendakor
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Switch confirmed. PRAISE THE SUN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_u7g5BlfiYSkip to the 13:00 mark for Switch gameplay. Though the first 13 minutes is chock full of good stuff coming to the Switch. 0:19 - The World Ends with You -Final Remix- 1:25 - Pokkén Tournament DX DLC 2:21 - Kirby Star Allies 3:25 - Kirby Battle Royale & Dragon Quest Builders Demos 3:44 - Hyrule Warriors Definitive Version 4:32 - Mario Tennis Aces 5:28 - Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA 6:34 - Super Mario Odyssey Update - Luigi’s Balloon World 7:41 - SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy 8:40 - ACA NEOGEO ART OF FIGHTING 2 8:55 - Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle DLC 9:51 - PAYDAY 2 10:38 - Fe 11:12 - Celeste 11:48 - Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for Nintendo Switch 12:50 - Dark Souls Remastered Goddammit, I guess I really do need to buy a Switch.
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"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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Trippy
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The Switch has its issues but even though its not even a year old yet it already has a decent set of high-quality games available for it already.
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Jeff Kelly
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I'm strangely excited about a new Mario Tennis game.
Also according to several sources DS 1 is not a low effort remaster, they spent more than a year on it.
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Fabricated
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Nintendo Cardboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Bd3HUMkyUI can see kids loving this. I just see like $70 for software+cardboard and balk. This seems like one of those things where at best you'll spend $160 for the whole set for a kid, then they'll build everything, play with it off and on for a month or two until the cardboard starts to wear out and then not really mess with it again. Then the community for it will be supplanted with an army of 30-40somethings building insanely elaborate toys with it.
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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