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Balrog0 posted...

I didnt mind the trance system or how skill learning worked, though

just speeding up the ATB works, but honestly that becomes FFX if taken to the extreme

To be honest, I prefer pure(r) turn-based games like the Shin Megami Tensei series and FF1-3/X. As far as I'm concerned, either go fully turn-based or fully action-based. I'm not massively into these hybrid systems. Aside from timed button presses and shit like Super Mario RPG, FFVIII and Shadow Hearts. I don't mind that if it's done well.

The PS1 is great and was right up there in terms of originality and excitement at the time due to it being one of the first popular, mainstream consoles with dedicated 3D graphics capabilities.

The down side: the graphics and gameplay were at that awkward stage due to 3D gaming being relatively new, but the games were fun as fuck regardless. Although, there were a bunch of good 2D games as well.

Metal Gear Solid blew my mind. This trailer in particular was amazing:


The Tekken series gave me many hours of entertainment:



Crash and Spyro were fun. And Tomba!, Oddworld and more in terms of platformers.

You had Resi, Silent Hill and Fear Effect in terms of survival horror games.

And not to forget the masses of JRPGs. I don't really get when people say the system didn't have much outside of JRPGs. It had great games in many genres.

--kresnik-- posted...

The burden of proof lies with the accuser (you).

Nah, it lies with the person making the original claim, but let's play this game:

Oh, a big advantage I forgot to mention: the ability to more easily micro-manage (and therefore control a party).

I was going to mention Super Robot Taisen IV on the Super Famicom, but its translation only really changes the menu items. It's a pretty good SRPG regardless.

If you don't mind slightly more recent games, there's SRT Alpha Gaiden (2001), Original Generation (2002, 2006 in NA) and Original Generation 2 (2005, 2006 in NA). The first has a fan translation, the other two official translations / NA/EU releases.

@G is 3D, but the other 2 are classic in pretty much every sense, release date aside. They're not dissimilar to IV, except that they're in English and on the GBA.

Same.

I can appreciate that it's not for everyone and that devs are trying to evolve their games, but I do probably prefer it for the most part. I certainly don't want all RPGs to be turn-based, but it seems like there are hardly any (big budget / AAA ones on home console / PC) nowadays.

Turn-based combat has its advantages, like being able to function the same in all environments (if it's purely turn-based and/or takes place in a separate screen), being able to utilize more detailed animations without disrupting the combat, it being easier to accommodate story / dialogue within battle scenes, etc. I like how it's more "metaphorical" (see FFVII's world-destroying attack in the final battle).

pinky0926 posted...

No. But Brits (particular English) are know as the worst tourists of Europe. We're the assholes who think culture means sitting on a beach in spain in a football jersey with a pint of carling.

Scots are by and large actually quite cultured and most of them tend to leave Scotland.

The British idea of speaking Spanish on holiday is to add an o to the end of certain words lol.

pinky0926 posted...

If it's banter then fairgame, but if its someone who's being wilfully ignorant then goddamnit triggered

I vaguely remember Eminem at T in the Park shouting "England!" Did that actually happen?

Nah. I don't even really consider it a news source at all, just a place for discussion.

People from Northern Ireland are generally called British too, even if they technically aren't. Colloquially, British is used to mean "from the UK", even if, again, that's not strictly true.

And yeah, Ireland is completely separate from the rest of the UK (including NI). That's why Brexit is such a big deal for Ireland and NI. It opens a huge can of worms. See the Good Friday Agreement. Also, for trade, keeping things the same is a terrible deal for Ireland (since basically, you could drive goods from NI to Ireland and ship them to the EU tariff free, despite not being in the EU any more).

Parappa09 posted...

yeah but they don't like being called british, they prefer scottish >.>

I don't really care either way to be honest. I use them both pretty much interchangeably without even thinking about it.

pinky0926 posted...

but I get triggered if someone calls me English :P

Haha, true.

Edit: I got it wrong. It's actually from a "Muharram march" last year supposedly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muharram

Still not what was claimed, so:

Fake news!

For all their whining, those in The_Donald and similarly minded people are responsible for a good chunk of it.

thronedfire2 posted...

circle of the moon is my favorite

It's up there with AoS and SotN for me.

It's almost like a fusion between classic and modern. It's one of the more difficult Metroidvanias, the atmosphere is darker rather than anime-esque and you're stick with the whip (well, aside from powers that temporarily change your weapon).

It's hard to pick one really.

If you loved SotN, try the GBA/DS games. Aria of Sorrow is great. I hear Dawn of Sorrow and Order of Ecclesia are good too, but haven't played them. I've played all the others though. Harmony of Dissonance was the worst of the Metroidvanias. I quite liked Circle of the Moon and Portrait of Ruin, but the opinions of them are a bit mixed I think.

SCIV is great as far as the classics go.

lilJoe457 posted...

So internet freedom is leaving. So what do some folks suggest. Net neutrality. Yeah because that's what we need. The government and other governing bodies to be in charge of something else and run it horribly.

The internet in the US has operated under net neutrality from the beginning (with rules being formalized in 2010 and becoming legally binding recently) and has gone from strength to strength. Net neutrality does not mean the government 'running it' anyway. It just means that certain traffic can't be prioritized (outside of some specific instances I think) and that internet users can't effectively be gouged. That's even more important nowadays with the lack of choice for most. Gutting the net neutrality rules would only benefit ISPs.

The illegal stuff aside, companies like Facebook, Google, etc. are too powerful these days (and getting more so), and making the internet into a bit of a "walled garden" rather than the "wild west". Those bigger sites that are gobbling more of the internet up with their bigger market share.

If net neutrality goes, then the internet will inevitably go even further down that route, with the big ISPs favoring their own sites/content over others.

Just the best year in gaming history so far.

You'll love LateStageCapitalism. :P

Fairly cookie-cutter choices probably.

I'm not *that* familiar with the later gen Pokemon to be honest.

"great story" is perhaps pushing it a little, but Shining Force I and II on the Genesis are well worth playing.

There's also Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (Super Famicom). There's Bahamut Lagoon on the same system, but I'm not sure about the translation status of that one. They were released pretty close to when you specified, if not very slightly later.

WW2 is the one I most enjoy learning about anyway. It seems like the obvious choice too.

Russian Pope Iseem

Haha.

It's kinda sad that it could almost be real.

inb4butthurt

PS2 > SNES > PS1 for me, in terms of original libraries (i.e. not counting backwards compatibility, re-releases, etc.).

Honorable mentions: 360/PS3, Genesis and GameCube; GBA/DS/3DS if handhelds count

FLUFFYGERM posted...

that'll never exist

Probably not.

I think it's a reaction against modern captalism / neoliberalism, which they feel is unsustainable and makes people do terrible things to survive within it. Communism is basically the antithesis of that: a classless, moneyless, stateless society.

ManLink4321 posted...

Meh, I've fought them before.

Are you the demi-fiend?

COVxy posted...

You can read as much as you want, that won't make you as much as an authority on the subject as an actual scientist who does the work.

Yep. Reading something is one thing; being able to look at it critically and comprehend it is another. Having the tools to experiment and put your knowledge into practice help a great deal too. And being around experts that you can learn from.

Books ain't cheap either. And on the internet, there's a lot of shit to wade through.

pinky0926 posted...

A bit of both. It has a real mix of everyone.

I think most people are center left. But there are a few very right and very left people that stand out and make a lot of noise.

Pretty much.

It can be hard to tell at times given the trolls that drown out everyone else, the posters (typically right-wingers) that are "totally unbiased centrists/libertarians", etc.

The mods may lean left though, or at least you'd think so given how often they're accused of having a left-wing bias. You'd think few would have a reason to complain if the board really is so left-leaning.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Come on, guys, you don't actually think he's new to the board, do you?

Nah.

Golf and home ownership, eh?

ChromaticAngel posted...

I thought it was an alt-right thing that means "this person is jewish" but maybe I'm mistaken.

Same. I only just learned this recently.

Phantom36 posted...

Haven't played it yet so I have no opinion.

Same.

It's in its honeymoon period though. Will it last at #1? We'll see. Maybe it is just that good.

The Great Muta 22 posted...

Isn't that last picture the one from Charlottesville after a neo nazi ran down those people?

The second pic is photoshopped too. I think the original was from a protest in Greece IIRC.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/photo-antifa-man-assaulting-officer-doctored-analysis-shows/

I wouldn't be surprised if the first is also BS.

Geocities and Yahoo! Games too

Naysaspace posted...

Ebaumsworld

Oh, so you can mention it now.

Why was it banned from being mentioned on here again? I don't think it was (just) because of the content.

You reminisce about the 90s and 00s an awful lot. :P

Wariodorf posted...

Flashplayer.com

I was going to mention that and Newgrounds.

There was also that site that was (and still is?) banned from being mentioned on here. ebaumsworld

stickdeath

Technically YouTube too, when it first came out.

pojo.com for Pokemon shit.

candystand.com (gone now I think)

The Cartoon Network site.

RPG > Action/Adventure > Shooter > Platformer (and Stealth games for something not on the list)

I tend to play a lot of games that combine those genres too, particularly Role-playing Shooters (e.g. System Shock series, Deus Ex series and modern Fallout games). A lot of Metroidvanias are pretty much Action/Adventure + Platformer too (and sometimes + Shooter as well, especially if sidescrolling shooters count).

Humans developing the level of intelligence they now have was one big glitch.

I remember reading something along those lines, that human intelligence was one big "accident" or something.

I thought for a sec you were talking about the CEgal.

The butthurt in the comments is hilarious. Those comments are bad even by YT standards.

It's clear the "thousands of mansplainers" is referring to the sexist respondents to the magazine column. It's a bit of a stupid term, but it's kinda justified in this situation. They say gender is nothing to do with it, but clearly that wasn't the case for the respondents.

Take your pick.

pinky0926 posted...

then have these so-called experts estimate to us what the temperature and climate was

Literally senior researchers with relevant PhDs in this field spending decades calculating things as a matter of mathematical certainty

God this fucking asshole really rustles my jimmies

If they're "so-called" experts, what does that make him?

Dunning-Kruger Effect at work.

pinky0926 posted...

the most tacky display of wealth imaginable

I think Paris Hilton's dog house has it beat.

Gerrard was a far better player tbqh. Becks played in better teams.

Extreme nationalism
Expansionism
Racial superiority
Consolidating capital (as opposed to redistribution)
Banning Trade Unions
Relaxing gun control laws for everyone except for the 'inferior' sectors of the population (e.g. Jews)
Mass privatizations in the 1930s (the term actually comes from an Economist article on German economic policy at the time)

They literally killed off the left-wing of the party (the Strasserists and Rohm on the Night of the Long Knives). The SDP (socialists) were the only party to vote against the Enabling Act, despite threats of violence. The equivalents of modern conservatives / classical liberals voted unanimously for it.

Mal_Fet posted...

Because voices on the left are doing their best to equate right-wing ideals like small government, free speech, and property rights with fascism.

Linking free speech and small government to fascism is obviously idiotic, but that doesn't mean you reply to that with more idiocy.

On property rights, fascists were very much "in bed" with the aristocracy, land owners / farmers, etc. Although, obviously it's not specifically a fascist policy. That'd be idiotic to claim too.

Definitely detail.

I'd take Morrowind over Skyrim/Oblivion for example. More towns/cities, interiors, etc. densely populated with NPCs and quests beats large open spaces any day. I also like having to find my own way (using directions and familiarity with landmarks), which gets tedious in larger games.

The brilliant thing about Morrowind is that if a character is mentioned, you can probably find them somewhere and interact with them. That sort of detail is what I want to see. Of course, a lot of dialogue is repeated, but there's still way more unique dialogue than in the later games. You can thank voice acting for that though.

BLAKUboy posted...

Though, ideally, not every fucking game would be open-world. Unfortunately that's the meme now or something.

That too. Semi-open games like Deus Ex and Metroid are great too. Even the classic Resident Evils and Metal Gear Solid are technically like this, most JRPGs too.

Pics_nao_plz posted...

Grove Street.

Damn, beat me to it. :P

I was about to say: "At least it used to be before I fucked everythang up."