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I'm holding off buying just because KH3 plummeted in price so quickly after I paid the full 50 for it on launch day.

So now watch this one hold its value forever, or turn out to have supply issues that cause preowned prices to skyrocket
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"We've awarded the contract to supply the world with coronavirus vaccines to Umbrella Pharmaceuticals"
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I've starte playing Berseria and really enjoy it, and I've heard that it's a prequel to Zestiria where knowing the plot of that game adds a lot of meaning to the plot of Berseria. But everyone apparently hates Zestiria.

It really bugs me to be playing part of an interconnected story out of order, and Zestiria is pretty cheap right now... so what's wrong with it? Bad story? Bad characters? Bad mechanics? And is it so bad that it's not worth playing through if it will make Berseria even more enjoyable?

(Also, since they're both on sale right now- Vesperia is good, right?)
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The flag of the United Federation of Planets
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Crescent-Moon posted...

Something that looks like a fraud from a site I've never heard of... Seems legit?

GAME is pretty much the biggest video game retailer in the UK. Mainly because they're the only one left on the high street after they bought all the good shops and shut them down.
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https://www.game.co.uk/en/games/pokemon/

Gosh, what a surprise, it isn't there. I guess Nintendo must have given them a stern talking to for putting it up too early
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iiicon posted...

Austin Walker is hosting a tabletop session today with both Commander Shepards, which I'm pretty excited about!
https://twitter.com/bioware/status/1324773448636264448

I spent that entire video wondering what system they'd be playing before remembering that Blades in the Dark is a thing.
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"They said making a new Mass Effect game after Andromeda's failure would be a suicide mission. Prove them wrong"
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The actual fight at the end of AC2 isn't great, but thematically...a fist-fight with the Pope in a secret precursor-tech vault under the Vatican is anything but underwhelming.
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I was a bit miffed at the end of Mass Effect 1 when I talked Saren into defying the reapers by killing himself, then had to fight his ninja exoskeleton anyway. It was a pretty silly boss design even aside from the part where it undermined what felt like a seriously cool achievement
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Try to find the villain. It sounds like you've built a world, so what about that world does someone want to destroy, change, or abuse for personal gain? What's motivating them to incite the conflict that your heroes will overcome? And how is the villain framing that conflict in their own mind so that they can see themself as the hero?
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I loved it.

The Cipher class was so much fun to play as. I'm not a big fan of caster classes in a lot of games because I'm bad at spending resources- if I can only use something a limited number of times, I'll hoard it for way too long. Ciphers are melee/caster hybrids who earn spell points (or Focus) by hitting things, get a bonus to damage as long as Focus isn't maxed, and Focus resets to a level-based minimum when out of combat. All of which combined mean that even I was tossing out debuffs and AOE damage effects in every fight. Heck, after a while I was opening every combat by paralysing the closest enemy and stabbing it to death before it got a turn.

So yeah. Great game with one aspect that was designed pretty much specifically for me.

Oh, and there's a respec available so if you do wind up building a character badly, they can be fixed (for a fee).
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^I believe it's technically booting, in the sense that loads and then crashes rather than crashing during loading.

Then again, they say that Pathway to Glory is playable and I can't get that going either, so I may be doing something wrong.
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Well, I've done some more testing (and found the compatibility tracker on the project's github), and it looks like there's not a lot of games in a playable state. I guess the developers knew Shadowkey was the only N-Gage game most people care about and focused on it.

In other words, we're still waiting on that mass Board 8 playthrough of Operation Shadow.
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Goes by the name of EKA2L1. The sound is rather buggy, but otherwise Shadowkey seems to run nicely.

So if there's anyone else who's been waiting years for a chance to play this, or any of the handful of other alleged hidden gems doomed to obscurity by being on the infamous tacophone, now's your chance!

Now if I can just figure out how to get hold of that Metal Gear Mobile game...
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Seanan McGuire - Pretty Little Dead Girl
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Professor Henry Jones Sr. and the Last Crusade
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Pink - Blow Me (One Last Kiss)
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paperwarior posted...

What is the meteor's platform

Eliminating crime, taxation, poverty, and all life on Earth.
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So, Fata Morgana is on sale on GOG at the moment. I'll probably get it, but what's the situation with there being better art in other versions? Is there likely to be an upgrade patch/mod for the PC version, or might it be worth waiting to see if there's a separate rerelease with new art?
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Snake5555555555 posted...

The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

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Pumpkin Patch by Seanan McGuire
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Shalebridge Cradle
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Hah, variant!

I've watched the original series and enjoyed it. I know that there's a couple of more-or-less direct sequels, a few side stories, a few 'next generation' type stories in the same setting but later on and not particularly connected to the original, and then a whole bunch of alternate universes.

Which shows/films are particularly good, and which are worth avoiding?
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Probably Kingdom Hearts III, solely because it dropped in price so quickly. I paid 50 at launch and it was half that a few weeks later. I love the game though.

For games I paid close to RRP for and actually didn't like... Final Fantasy XV.
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Michiko Naruke (Wild ARMs)

Because even though she hasn't done much beside Wild ARMs, and even though the other people listed in this topic have done amazing work, she made To the End of the Wilderness and they didn't, so she wins.
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I'm curious about something to do with Fate/Stay Night- it has three main routes, and the Realta Nua version has them as three separate programs. But how did it work originally? Were they still entirely separate and you just picked from a menu, or did they split off from choices during the story?

If the latter, does that mean there's a bit of story missing from RN?

On a similar subject, is it 'safe' to play some of the off-genre Fate spinoffs (like Extra and Extella) before reading the full VN, or are they all part of a consistent story that will be spoiled and/or make no sense if I haven't played everything in order?
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UshiromiyaEva posted...

It's a translation thing.

As much as people give Ace Attorney guff for "EAT YOUR HAMBURGERS APOLLO", that kind of thing does clean up wierd quirks like that.

I rather like Ace Attorney's half-assed relocation. It's like they did a genuinely bad job at first, then just decided to run with it and have fun with this weirdly Japan-centric bit of Los Angeles.
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That reminds me of something that bugged me in DR2- where is Hope's Peak Academy supposed to be? Most characters have Japanese names, but they also act as if Japanese is a foreign language none of them speak. Is this a quirk of the translation, or is the cast canonically not Japanese?

(For the record, I've played 1&2. I think 1 had a slightly better cast and overall plot, but 2 had better cases and probably told its arc story better. Honestly, they're both great. I'm currently playing UDG before I move onto the anime and then V3. I'm not hearing good things about the DR3 dub though, which is unfortunate as I don't normally like watching subs)
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Oh good, even more catering to fucking streamers. Please tell me I can opt not to have it automatically capture gameplay at all times and instead devote those resources to something useful?
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Did anyone else instinctively use L, A and R for Donald, Sora and Goofy respectively? It feels weird to have three characters and three attack buttons laid out the same way, but make them all interchangeable as long as you press the right number of them.

That should definitely be an optional difficulty modifier in the full game.
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So, in Resident Evil, Milla Jovovich played a character who was basically a D&D fantasy heroine... and now in Monster Hunter she's playing a military type who's searching for a missing Bravo Team.

Did they actually plan both films at the same time and accidentally swap the lead characters?
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metaIslug posted...

Presumably3 massive games, all for $60, and the publisher is EA. There has to be a catch

The catch is that it's been 'leaked' roughly once a week for years and there's still no definitive sign that it exists.
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The InCryptid novel series.
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Holy crap, I knew they were bringing back Animaniacs, but it never ocurred to me until now that that included Pinky & the Brain.

Narf.
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Just FF: Spirits Within. Which I liked, and own on DVD.
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So I'm guessing that Leon gets sent along with STARS to represent the 'regular' RCPD. And maybe Claire was visiting Chris and became one of the missing hikers, but turns up alive having made it to the 'safety' of the mansion by the time Bravo gets there?

EDIT: Wait, they've got Damian Darhk in a Resi film and he's not Wesker? Fricking William Birkin? Sod the inevitable racelift arguments, that's a bad casting decision.
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I'd just like to point out that "adaptation of a fantasy game inexplicably involves reality-displaced modern US military character" is literally what Uwe Boll did to Dungeon Siege. The Monster Hunter film is borrowing ideas from Uwe Boll.
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It should be Project Zero here, but the NTSC version works better in PCSX2. And has a slightly better title. But much, much worse boxart and logo.

So yeah. Zero/Fatal Frame/Project Zero, depending on where you live, is a very Japanese horror series where schoolgirls fight ghosts by taking pictures of them with a magic camera.

Thoughts so far-

- Voice acting is awful
- Miku looks a bit like P3P FeMC. This makes her awesome.
- I wish I'd known from the start I'm supposed to be photographing the non-threatening ghosts for extra spirit points (EXP). I figured that would be akin to killing friendlies, but apparently not.
- The seemingly friendly child ghost asking for help/helping me and the big bad ghost killing everyone are probably two aspects of the same person.
- Japanese horror is severely fucked up. Even if these rituals work, you have to wonder how people came up with them in the first place. "Okay, just strangling them doesn't work, let's try keeping the sacrifice in solitary confinement for a decade first, then use ropes to pull all their extremities off at once. If that doesn't appease the devil, I don't know what will!"

I'm enjoying this. Not quite as terrifying as I'd expected once I got used to the tone. Incidentally, what's the general consensus on original v wiimake of Project Zero 2?
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Kill it with fire
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Some time in December, which I guess is 'after Thanksgiving', except I'm British so Thanksgiving isn't a thing that factors into decisions.
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Should be the Dragon Quest Builder.
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I mean, if that's what it takes to convince him to accept the loss, then I guess it would be worth it.
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Fiolina Germi

Because ever since the round of speculation about SNK characters (which turned out to be Terry), she's been the character I most want and hope every new announcement will be.
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Hypothetically, if we did get a remake of the original Metal Gear with David Hayter... who would voice Big Boss? David Hayter again, even though it's not supposed to be obvious he's related to Solid Snake at that point? The guy who voiced BB at the end of MGS4? Kiefer Sutherland because it was really Venom Snake all along? But was Solid Snake talking to Venom Snake on the radio, or was the real Big Boss at FOXHOUND HQ while Venom ran Outer Heaven?.
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Waluigi1 posted...

I just assume all competitive games have it built in because why wouldn't they?

Because if skill mattered, why would people buy better boosts?
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Why would anyone want anything Metal Gear related from a Kojima-less Konami?

I mean, I'd love Hideo to go back and add some complexity and mindfuckery to the stories of Outer Heaven and Zanzibar Land, but if he's not involved I wouldn't touch the Pachinko Factory's output with a barge pole.
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Tell you what, I'll 'happily' pay $70 (well, 70, which is even more of a pisstake, although not as much as it used to be thanks to fucking Brexit) if that 70 gets me an actually complete game, without bits arbitrarily cut out to be resold at a frankly ridiculous markup.

I mean, the low RRP is why you were 'forced' to sell all that DLC, right? So you don't have to do that any more, right?
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First thought was Assassin's Creed 2, since "What the fuck" is the last line spoken in the main storyline

But Control is definitely making me ask 'what the fuck' currently.
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Command & Conquer, because I've just been playing it and have Hell March stuck in my head.

I can imagine building a musical number around "You can't kill the Messiah"
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