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Topic | Post Each Time You Beat a Game: 2023 Edition Part II |
Kenri 10/05/23 1:35:39 AM #37 | AM2R: Return of Samus (PC)
This game rocks. It feels exactly like a lost game in a trilogy with Fusion and Zero Mission. It's a shame Nintendo hasn't made any new Metroid games since Other M but at least there are some great fan games like this one and A Robot Named Fight. --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Fill in the Blank 67: One ___ |
Kenri 10/05/23 1:30:12 AM #38 | Winged Angel
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Topic | Politics Containment Topic 407: Lauren Boebert's Handiwork |
Kenri 10/04/23 3:50:55 PM #198 | PeaceFrog posted...
In other news on incompetence, the great British empire is scrapping plans for a high speed rail across the country side, and devoting those funds instead to alternative projects... some of which have already been completed years ago.California Great Britain --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 407: Lauren Boebert's Handiwork |
Kenri 10/04/23 3:00:25 PM #194 | Still insane to me that you can just bring stuff up for a vote without letting anyone read it. Clown government.
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Topic | How many ads are too much on mobile game? |
Kenri 10/04/23 2:42:03 PM #10 | I answered as best I could but a lot of this depends on how good the game is and how annoying the ads are. Like banner ads that are a static image of an actual product are effectively a different type of ad to me than banner ads that play an animation or advertise some stupid clickbait thing.
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Topic | Looking for opinions on this interaction I had at work tonight |
Kenri 10/04/23 1:29:11 PM #24 | ChichiriMuyo posted...
So at my night job I work at a gas station, and we lock the doors at around seven and do other business through a window. This girl comes up and has some nice looking tattoos but I can't see them too well, so after I clear out my line I go over to her car to ask her if it would be cool if I checked out her body art.I'm glad it worked out here but I'm begging you to please consider how bad this looks before doing it again in the future --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Lying to get a remote job, wish me luck! |
Kenri 10/04/23 12:31:56 PM #74 | NeatoAnAccount posted...
If I say "yes, my requirement is working from home" they are instantly dumpstering my application. My interviewer would probably admit it too. If I just ask "so if i said i had to work from home you wouldn't be interviewing me right" they would say "right" and then they have admitted to it.Correct, because that's not a reasonable accommodation to a job where they (claim to) need you around in-person. --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Lying to get a remote job, wish me luck! |
Kenri 10/04/23 3:31:58 AM #55 | HaRRicH posted...
Imagine your first year under your belt at this new job you manipulated your way into -- feeling smug and clever now that you've gotten away with it.you're already giving this plan way too much credit --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Fill in the Blank 66: The Dark ___ |
Kenri 10/03/23 11:49:44 PM #11 | Trilogy
Is that anything? I dunno. My next thought was Materials which also does not fit but it's getting closer. Then I went to the Magic set just called "The Dark" which also is not an answer. I think my brain failed this prompt. --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Lying to get a remote job, wish me luck! |
Kenri 10/03/23 11:30:23 PM #43 | George Costanza ass plan
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Topic | What is the best series with 5-10 games? |
Kenri 10/03/23 1:34:34 PM #34 | -hotdogturtle-- posted...
Oh so this is gonna be another one of those topics where people fudge the numbers so people can fake-math their favorite giant series into having "only" 10 games. Just like the developers do when they name/number those games. Looks like a lot of people still fall for it.when you think about it there are only like 8 real mario games so I vote for that --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Best Paper Mario game? |
Kenri 10/03/23 11:19:18 AM #9 | I haven't played most of them but I'm a staunch PM1 > TTYD kind of person
I also played Origami King and liked parts of it but hated other parts too much to finish it --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Fill in the blank 65: Color ___ (add suffixes or a U as needed) |
Kenri 10/03/23 12:59:44 AM #29 | Splash
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Topic | October Game of the Month Club ft. Gone Home, Pac-Man, and Little Nightmares |
Kenri 10/02/23 2:21:37 AM #5 | Kenri has beaten Gone Home
This was a replay and wow this game is a lot less stressful Anyway I love this game. Love to explore a big house. Also love a game about --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Fill in the Blank 64: Fall___ |
Kenri 10/02/23 2:11:59 AM #34 | Out Boy
honestly though my first thought was just the season --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Fill in the Blank 63: Doctor ___ (or Dr. ___) |
Kenri 10/01/23 12:11:24 AM #9 | trdl23 posted...
Doom --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Fill in the Blank 62: Agent ___ |
Kenri 09/30/23 12:53:20 AM #20 | Smith
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Topic | Politics Containment Topic 407: Lauren Boebert's Handiwork |
Kenri 09/29/23 4:14:26 PM #145 | ChaosTonyV4 posted...
Id hope people would see Biden or Trump speak and realize both dudes are different types of braindead, but here we are.There are plenty of politicians who are <50 and I'd still call them braindead. The age issue is only really relevant once we have a more intelligent government generally --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Fill in the Blank 61: ___girl (or ___ Girl) |
Kenri 09/29/23 2:17:43 AM #27 | Lopen posted...
Squirrel --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Fill in the Blank 60: ___ Hero (or ___hero) |
Kenri 09/28/23 2:12:14 AM #35 | Super
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Topic | I've been having continuous nightmares |
Kenri 09/27/23 10:44:17 PM #5 | I had this same side effect on a new antidepressant. It was a hard "no" for me and I had to work with my doctor to find a different medication. Sometimes it can take a while to find one that works for you but it's your doctor's job to help you do that, so don't be afraid to just tell them it's not working and you need something else.
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Topic | Politics Containment Topic 407: Lauren Boebert's Handiwork |
Kenri 09/27/23 4:33:34 PM #84 | Xeybozn posted...
Wow, I can hardly believe that. There's only two justices with that conflict of interest? And neither of them is Thomas? Biggest SCOTUS surprise in quite a while."Thomas, no!" "Hey, what'd I do?" "Sorry, force of habit. Roberts, no!" --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Fill in the Blank 59: Mal___ |
Kenri 09/27/23 12:33:12 AM #18 | Ware
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Topic | Fill in the Blank 58: This is ___ |
Kenri 09/26/23 12:28:01 AM #3 | Sparta
Ugh --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | September Game of the Month Club ft. Half-Life 2: EP1, ABZU, and Magical Drop II |
Kenri 09/25/23 5:32:40 PM #44 | I might replay Gone Home because I like it and it's been a while, but I think I'm a pass on the other two
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Topic | Fill in the Blank 57: ___ware |
Kenri 09/25/23 3:29:49 AM #40 | Wario
Nominate: --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Politics Containment Topic 407: Lauren Boebert's Handiwork |
Kenri 09/23/23 2:41:44 PM #47 | Thorn posted...
We were discussing Newsom a couple weeks ago, but he just threw the trans community under the bus by vetoing a bill the legislature passed to codify that in custody hearings judges should take into account whether a parent affirms their child's gender identity.shout-out to me in the previous topic for posting about how newsom's a bad presidential candidate just because he "kinda sucks shit", can't wait to vote against this dude in the primary --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Fill in the Blank 55: The Real ___ |
Kenri 09/23/23 1:13:58 AM #23 | Great_Paul posted...
Slim Shady --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | L-Block is how we got Trump |
Kenri 09/22/23 11:31:08 PM #2 | except l-block got more votes than its opponents
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Topic | We have GameFAQs Contests at home |
Kenri 09/22/23 9:32:39 PM #12 | I have played so so so many Nintendo games and like half of my bracket was still a mystery to me. If you put a gun to my head and asked me to tell you anything about some of the Kirby games I was voting on, tell my family I love them.
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Topic | Kirby & the Amazing Mirror hits NSO next week |
Kenri 09/22/23 1:44:52 AM #13 | WazzupGenius00 posted...
You guys are crazy, even as single player this game sucks. I just love one way doors all over the map in my Metroidvania gamesIt was elevated to Metroidvania status back when there was basically nothing else out there that came close, but I don't think it's a strong example of one in 2023. It's definitely a Kirby game first, and those games often won't let you backtrack at all without restarting the whole level, so it kinda just comes with the territory. tl;dr: one way doors suck but I don't think it hurts the game much --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Eccentric characters in Ace Attorney: Do they make the games better or worse? |
Kenri 09/22/23 1:38:53 AM #9 | I'm taking this to mean the characters that are eccentric by Ace Attorney standards and those ones are definitely low quality almost all the time. They don't always actively detract from the game but I'm almost never glad to see them.
I think the whole cast being a little eccentric makes the games way better though. I guess my overall take is that being eccentric is fine but there needs to be something else to your character too. --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Fill in the Blank 54: Put it ___ |
Kenri 09/22/23 1:33:24 AM #31 | In
:/ --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Apollo Justice Trilogy Release Date: 1/25/2024 |
Kenri 09/21/23 4:10:21 PM #15 | Radix posted...
the other 2 games are better than apollo justice rightDual Destinies is better but I'd call Spirit of Justice pretty solidly worse. Last case of SoJ is better than anything in AJ though. --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Fill in the Blank 53: ___ Up |
Kenri 09/21/23 1:43:14 AM #29 | fuck
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Topic | September Game of the Month Club ft. Half-Life 2: EP1, ABZU, and Magical Drop II |
Kenri 09/20/23 11:58:28 PM #30 | Nominate Signalis and Lone Survivor
since everyone is nominating spooky games --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | They did it they fixed Cyberpunk 2077 |
Kenri 09/20/23 1:56:53 PM #6 | My friend's been trying to get me to play this for like 2 years now, maybe it's finally time.
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Topic | Physical/Digital Games |
Kenri 09/20/23 2:50:59 AM #58 | UshiromiyaEva posted...
Isn't XS3 supposed to be the only good one...The best Xenosaga is 2, or probably 1 actually but it's funnier to say 2 because everyone hates that one. --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Post Each Time You Beat a Game: 2023 Edition Part II |
Kenri 09/20/23 2:45:38 AM #20 | 8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure (Steam)
Okay so I've been sleeping on this game because most of the reception I've seen has been that it's kind of mid, but no, this game is rad as hell. What a great metroidvania. It's got everything I want from this genre of game, even weirdcute characters and a story I was somewhat invested in. It's basically about a Korean afterlife bureaucracy, which immediately reminded me of Death's Door, but I like this game's story, characters, and aesthetic like 100x more. Gameplay-wise the most interesting thing it did to shake up the metroidvania formula was make your grounded attacks (specifically the last hit of your melee combo) so so so much stronger than your aerials, which really changes up the usual [jump -> attack -> attack again while landing -> repeat] metroidvania combat without going all Soulsy instead. It's not a hard game like it pretends to be but it's juuust tough enough to feel satisfying when you kill a boss or beat a tricky section. I 100%ed this (except for some challenge achievements that would require separate playthroughs, and achievements for getting the bad/neutral endings) and enjoyed basically every minute of it. Great game. --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Fill in the Blank 52: I can't ___ |
Kenri 09/20/23 2:36:00 AM #31 | believe it!
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Topic | Physical/Digital Games |
Kenri 09/19/23 4:03:20 PM #38 | Depends on the system. Switch, mostly physical. PS5, mostly digital. PC, only digital.
Once physical games starting having constant patches and lengthy installs that was the turning point for me. I want to put in a game cart/disc and start playing immediately. If I have to do an install then your physical game is effectively just a code in a box. --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Fill in the Blank 51: John ___ |
Kenri 09/19/23 2:04:28 AM #28 | Risinger
Got Achievement Hunter on the brain because of them rebranding, I guess, because this is a weird pull otherwise. --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | I guess Achievement Hunter is finally dead. |
Kenri 09/18/23 8:30:32 PM #10 | TheRock1525 posted...
Yeah when it was just the gents and lads they played very well off of each other.I thought Fiona fit in pretty well, though it took her a while. ... and then she left like a month later lmao --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Unity plans to start charging devs per installation |
Kenri 09/18/23 7:35:19 PM #176 | voltch posted...
Still find it weird how in an era of tech companies laying off people and trimming the fat, Unity's still got 7700 employees. Surely that number can be reduced.I can think of a way to reduce it to 7699 at least --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | I guess Achievement Hunter is finally dead. |
Kenri 09/18/23 7:31:51 PM #4 | They've been barely treading water for a while now. I used to watch them every day but with all the garbage that's happened in the last couple years, no thanks.
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Topic | Unity plans to start charging devs per installation |
Kenri 09/18/23 5:43:48 PM #164 | Grand_Kirby posted...
https://twitter.com/Toadsanime/status/1703714817830211845Wow, wait until Unity learns about every single other charity Waiving the fee for charity bundles was never gonna happen anyway though so this doesn't really change anything, it's just extra evidence for how generally shitty they are --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Fill in the Blank 49: ___ball |
Kenri 09/17/23 2:08:02 AM #28 | Foot and kick at almost the exact same time
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Topic | September Game of the Month Club ft. Half-Life 2: EP1, ABZU, and Magical Drop II |
Kenri 09/16/23 5:53:54 PM #26 | Episode 1 is kind of unique and I do like it but it's definitely the weakest part of Half-Life 2. Episode 2 is bigger and better all around.
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Topic | Post Each Time You Beat a Game: 2023 Edition Part II |
Kenri 09/16/23 3:17:35 AM #8 | 9 Years of Shadows (Steam)
A beautiful metroidvania with a couple unique systems. You get a handful of elemental armors as major powerups and you use them both as progression upgrades (e.g. water armor lets you explore flooded areas) and to deal extra damage to enemies by hitting them with their elemental weaknesses. But you can't always breeze through doing the latter, because sometimes e.g. plant enemies will be in a water room, so you can't use fire armor. There's also a very unique health system. By default you die in 2 hits, but you have a shield that regenerates a little whenever you hit an enemy. This shield is also the ammo for your projectile, and enemies chunk off huge amounts of it when they hit you. When it's fully exhausted, you can either refill it quickly by passing an active reload QTE or by standing still for a few seconds to charge a heal. It's a lot like Hollow Knight, but it slightly fixes the problem with healing in that game, which is that you can just keep yourself topped off by healing anytime you get hurt. Here you can only heal when you're most vulnerable, so screwing up a heal is pretty devastating (often a game over). There's no way to get back lost HP other than reaching a save point, but shield is easy to get back, so there's a real risk/reward to being aggressive or spamming projectiles vs. playing safely and defensively to preserve shield. My biggest issues are that the game's pretty linear, the enemy variety is very very low, and the story is kind of half-baked despite how emotional it's clearly supposed to be. Amusingly, the two most common complaints I've seen from others are that 1) the game is too easy and 2) the game is too hard, so I guess YMMV on that. --- Congrats to BKSheikah, who knows more about years than anyone else. |
Topic | Fill in the Blank 48: Re___ (prefix) |
Kenri 09/16/23 2:17:19 AM #31 | Build
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