Lurker > Paratroopa1

Lives are great and more games should utilize them.

Games where you can retry a single part of the game over and over ad infinitum until you fluke into getting it right once, and then never have to revisit it again, don't really have the same kind of challenge as games that force you to prove that you can complete a challenge *consistently.* That's really the whole point of making you do things over and over again.

I understand that that type of gameplay isn't for everyone, and not all games needs to have this kind of system. A lot of games don't need them - Super Mario 64, for instance, is a game where lives are a completely vestigial concept that only exist because they didn't realize they could get rid of them, and it's still challenging enough since you have to complete enough challenges on the way to getting a star that the "proof" that you can do something is still substantial enough.

Some games are more about exploration or puzzle solving or story or whatever and don't really need lives either. But a lot of action games could really stand to ask more of their players sometimes - I love games with lives and even old-school continue systems where you have to start the entire game over. It'd be nice to have more of them.

New York Jets (3-5)
New Orleans Saints (5-2)
Carolina Panthers (5-3)
New York Giants (1-6)
Tennessee Titans (4-3)
Jacksonville Jaguars (4-3)
Philadelphia Eagles (7-1)
Houston Texans (3-4)
Seattle Seahawks (5-2)
San Francisco 49ers (0-8)
Dallas Cowboys (4-3)
Miami Dolphins (4-3)
Detroit Lions (3-4)

HOME TEAMS GO

except the packers

It's completely explicable - Georgia has a win over the #3 team, Alabama doesn't

The CFP doesn't care about performance in past years

Yeah ever since like a week ago I have regularly had to reboot Firefox every 2 hours or so to stop it from doing this

It's really bad

Hey, I'm not reading this topic since I'm only halfway through the game right now so I'm posting this blind, but I'm wondering if anyone could archive this topic for me to read later after I'm done with DRV3? That would really help me out a lot.

MysticBrohan posted...

id like to say im surprised by the pushback, but i almost forgot that no white person can accept the fact that they mightve commited an act of racism in their life. as if the admission of one simple instance where they may have been racially insensitive condemns them as a filthy racist for life.
i just wanted to complain about an annoying thing that a lot of white people do. sorry i blamed you all for slavery

I'm sorry about white people

I assure you most of them are genuinely, if naively, just curious

davidponte posted...

Future great Jimmy G traded to the 49ers for a 2nd round pick. I'm legit upset at this trade.

I was really confused by this post at first because I couldn't understand why the Seahawks would trade their starting TE to the 49ers

The more republicans talk, the more they actually make me convinced that Hillary didn't do shit

If she had, they'd have better ammo

Jesus fuck I just realized Penn State fucked me

Finally, a good video game movie

One of the biggest question marks to me will be how much credit the SEC is given in the CFP rankings. Honestly, the SEC is on a down year, and I think people are a bit slow to realize it because it has (rightfully) earned so much respect over so many successful seasons. I do think Georgia is legit, and I think they should receive serious consideration if Alabama is their only loss. But the SEC is kind of shit.

Barack Obama is probably not going to have to be on a jury

5tarscream posted...

So to be clear I passed this level?

Yeah

I put on all my UW gear and went as a Husky fan

That Stanford/Oregon State pick, barring something crazy happening, is going to have Oregon State cover AND hit the under, holy shit

Level 4: Philadelphia 30+

Bonus: 5

In most RPGs, ESPECIALLY JRPGs, the benefits from weapons vastly outstrip the benefits from armor. I have no idea why this is, but it just is - the defense stat tends to be given much less weight than the attack stat, and then on top of that, most of the actually dangerous attacks will be magic or something else that's not subject to defense, so it's better to pick up the weapons, which pretty much always scale up helpfully, making it so that you can kill mobs quick and make boss fights shorter so that you need to spend fewer healing items powering through them.

In a game like Darkest Dungeon though, I go armor first, then weapon.

I have never felt more accomplished than when I beat Sonic's Crisis City on my last life with seven friends behind me cheering me on

it's literally one of my greatest achievements

that tornado's carrying a car

I was thinking about this recently, actually, and what's amazing about SM64 is that, despite being one of the very first 3D platformers ever (I think there might have been something that qualifies before SM64 but I don't remember what), it nailed so many elements of its design perfectly - namely, the movement, and how fun it is to run and jump in its environments. What's really disappointing to me, and really kind of a shame for the 3D platforming genre, is that I don't think any 3D platformer ever improved on this. SM64 still remains the most fun game to just move around in. That includes later Mario games too - Sunshine and Galaxy, while they're still fun, don't feel quite as kinetic, as acrobatic, as free as SM64 - you don't accelerate into your jumps quite as pleasingly, you always feel like you have too much air resistance and drag whenever you try to maneuver in the air, and there's never enough walls to do wall kicks off of. SM64 is really not a perfect game by any means - the level design shows a lot of flaws, plenty of the stars are not really that fun to collect at all and rely on some stupid gimmicks, the worlds in general don't quite live up to being as fun or inventive later in the game as they are early on (the first floor of the castle is magical but it kind of nosedives after that). But it really nailed the movement. I hope Odyssey can kind of get back to what SM64 did so well at least a little, but I think, for some reason, it might never be repeated.

Oh I've played it. You can really only appreciate its truly terrible qualities by actually playing it

Sonic 06

All 3D Sonic games are terrible, but Sonic 06 is The Room of video games

this is an unironic vote, I think Sonic 06 is fucking hilarious to play

Mr Lasastryke posted...

yeah for what it's worth, it's not really a run and gun game. it's roughly 25% run and gun and 75% boss battles.

Well, they're run and gun boss battles though

It's a run and gun in the same way that Contra III is a run and gun (except Contra III is much more difficult)

It's 15 points AGAINST your favor for BOTH teams

So you get Stanford -36 AND Oregon State +6 - if either of these results occur, you advance

No you don't get to move it 15 points in your favor for either team, that would make it hilariously easy to pass

Leonhart4 posted...

Poor Makoto. So boring and normal you don't even get ranked.

I feel worse for the people who die and get banished from the rankings

You don't need to be a run n' gun expert, you just need to have a passing familiarity of games from the 90's to not get completely run over by the game

It's good and you should probably get it if you think it sounds interesting

Level 5:

Penn State (+0.5)

I just stopped when I got here. I don't really know if Penn State is going to win this game, but taking them straight up seems better than any other option I'm going to get.

Yeah what you did was tease the lines 15 points, which makes them both piss easy: what you ACTUALLY get is:

Stanford (-36) OR Oregon State (+6)

MUCH more difficult!

There is no way that line should be Stanford -6 after pleasing it 15 points

Jakyl25 posted...

I cant believe this guy was at any point considered a trusted advisor to the President

Oh come now, I know that not only can you believe it, but that it's not surprising at all

-5 would be -20 or -10 (for the underdog), but yes

I'm sorry but I just can't accept people grumbling over this - Twitch can't be cheap to operate, I don't give a flying fuck about emoticons, if this will extract money from people who have way too much money to throw around, then who cares, if it helps keep Twitch alive and free to use

Totally a scumslip

Wait, so he's saying that this whole thing is a conspiracy theory perpetrated by God?

If this is how they're going to wring money out of whales so they don't have to wring it out of ME, bring it on

Those are the current choices for MVP? yikes

Baltimore Ravens (3-4)
Minnesota Vikings (5-2)
Atlanta Falcons (3-3)
Carolina Panthers (4-3)
Philadelphia Eagles (6-1)
New Orleans Saints (4-2)
New England Patriots (5-2)
Oakland Raiders (3-4)
Cincinnati Bengals (2-4)
Seattle Seahawks (4-2)
Washington Redskins (3-3)
Pittsburgh Steelers (5-2)
Kansas City Chiefs (5-2)

We're really inflicting the Browns on London now?

Die Hard I think is especially timeless. It's not 80's at all, except that it set a standard for... well, 90's action movies, actually

Ferris Bueller's Day Off was the first movie I thought of

In my opinion, some of the answers - Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Die Hard most notably - although they are peak achievements of 80's movies, I think they transcend the time period in which they were made, and are too timeless to be "the most 80's movies"

Jakyl25 posted...

Yeah it took me a minute to process that he or she was trying to say white nationalists arent racist

At first I thought he meant a commitment level to the cause is what separates them. Active racism vs passive racism!

Yeah that's what I thought too

11037 was so obvious that I actually did not understand that it was "supposed" to read as 11037 at first - I ONLY saw the upside-down "Leon." I immediately assumed when I saw it that it had to be a red herring planted by the real killer, and that Leon would be the suspect of the first case... but then nobody ever brought it up, and kept talking about 11037, and that made me really, really confused.

Oh yeah that's a good one. NEVER look up anything about this game, for any reason. If you have a question, ask someone. Absolutely do not look it up under any circumstances - the internet is fucking littered with spoilers for this game like no other game.

Oh yeah, I recommend going one of the easier two difficulty things, especially on minigames, hard level really adds nothing at all. Normal logic is ok

Wouldn't really worry about maximizing free time that badly, just use it as you see fit and you can see the rest later in an extra mode or just watch it on youtube. You can't really "maximize" it in a normal run of the game anyway, for reasons.

Nothing else to really mention as far as I can think of.

I would want to play, I'm bored

OF COURSE you did

No need to be so coy Anagram, it's more like you knew that I would want pictures

I thought that was pretty good

Jackbox 4 has been fun so far but I would also say it has the most involved/complicated games of the bunch, I think. I think I still feel that Jackbox 3 is the most solid overall.

What the hell WVU/Baylor COMPLETELY fucked me in the 4th quarter, that's ridiculous

So how about that cupcake Fresno State, eh?

I would really like to try Monster Seeking Monster again now that I have a better read on how the mechanics work, I think there could be some interesting metas as you get a hang of the roles. Definitely one of the higher-concept Jackbox games, like Bidiots

Bracketeering was cool but not amazing, feel like I'd like to see some better prompts

I guess those were the only two I played actually