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Cyberpunk 2077 for released games.

Metroid Dread for unreleased.

I was more hyped for Cyberpunk though, with the hype rivalling that I had for Metal Gear Solid back in the day.

As much as I love the game (it's by far my most played and in my top 5 favorites), and as much as I would enjoy playing online with a fresh start again (I switched to SP after playing online for years), the improvements don't interest me *that* much.

The graphics are nice, but not game-changing (except maybe in a bad way by obscuring enemies and drops). The shared stash is useful, but doesn't offer much space (to the point I'd rather have the old system), and is available in a better form offline through mods.

The biggest downside is that it's a game that demands a lot of time and will prevent me playing other games. I've played enough D2 for 10 lifetimes.

I'll get Metroid Dread instead.

I'd love a new Battle Network on the Switch. A collection would be cool too, and possibly a pre-requisite for a new game. I'm not expecting either though.

OrangeWizard posted...

Given that this is just a poll of NBC's audience, it doesn't count for much.

As far as I'm aware, it's not a poll of just their audience, but a poll of 1000 US adults at random via cell phone. The issue is that it was done by cell phone if anything, but that's fairly standard.

OrangeWizard posted...

This?

I think they're referring to this NBC poll:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/nbc-news-poll-shows-demographic-breakdown-vaccinated-u-s-n1277514

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/biden-s-job-ratings-decline-amid-covid-surge-afghanistan-withdrawal-n1277368

Whites: 66 percent
Blacks: 76 percent
Latinos: 71 percent

PatrickMahomes posted...

I don't know why everyone's savaging the next generation over this. They were raised on touch screens and cloud software, this shouldn't be much or a surprise to anyone

Yeah, I can't really criticize them too much since there were a lot of things from before I started using computers (the mid 90s) that I didn't have a clue about. I had no idea what a "newsgroup" was, how to use the command line (although I learned later for programming), etc. That's not counting other common technologies from just before my time.

If you grow up not needing to know something (e.g. not needing to manage a file system if you just use smartphone apps), it's not a great surprise that you'll get confused when presented with a situation that requires said knowledge.

For people doing a computing course or similar, I would still expect them to be a bit more computer literate than that though.

inloveanddeath0 posted...

Real talk there was this RPG I can't remember but it was from 2004 I think

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean?

I still need to play it, but I've heard good things about it.

A German company created the BioNTech vaccine (plus many of the European doses are made in Europe), if you want to go down the stupid vaccine nationalism route. There's also Oxford/AstraZeneca, which has been used a lot in poorer countries (it's sold at cost and much cheaper and easier to store than other vaccines).

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But mostly that.

Metroid Prime for me, but I am a big Metroid(vania) fan. People were skeptical initially, but it translated the formula from Super Metroid brilliantly, added a few twists of its own, created an amazing atmosphere (helped by great graphics/music/sound), and so on. The Phazon Mines and key hunt brought the game down, but only a little IMO.

The console has some of the best games ever, despite having a relatively small library, so there are a few contenders, including those listed. To add another, REmake was pretty genre-defining.

garan posted...

Skies of Arcadia

Love this one too.

I may not get all details right, but this is my understanding:

Shin Megami Tensei (sometimes the franchise is collectively called Megami Tensei / Mega-Ten) is (primarily) a series of JRPG dungeon crawlers. There are a number of spin-offs, including Persona (a more linear, story-focused JRPG series, where you live the day-to-day life of a teenager while "saving the world"), Digital Devil Saga (more traditional JRPGs), Devil Survivor (strategy RPGs like Fire Emblem), etc.

Persona itself has fighting and rhythm game spin-offs.

If you're not into JRPGs or anime, it'll probably seem like "weeb trash". Well, Persona and its spin-offs anyway. The others, not so much.

Lol, these Breitbart articles are getting crazier and crazier.

There was this one the other day:

https://archive.is/ScAgt

And this:

https://imgur.com/X09YDiR

So why would the metric that is the most convincing one not be all over the place?

It is all over the place (just not necessarily on the fringe blogs these people frequent, unless they're "debunking" it), but Trump supporters refuse to believe it and think it's a lie to get them to take the "poison" (vaccine).

Someone should do the two buttons meme with:

• Button 1: The libs want us to take the vaccine because it's poison and it will kill us (plus the virus is a hoax / just like a cold)
• Button 2: The libs don't want us to take the vaccine because it's very effective against the deadly virus and not taking it will cause more of us to die

My body is fucking ready! Hopefully it delivers. I'm cautiously (just a tad) optimistic.

HagenEx posted...

Sometimes its not about "being long". It's more about replayability, which compared to most indy Metroivanias, the main Metroid games have next to none.

This is coming from someone that has over 500 hours between Dead Cells and Blasphemous though.

I personally enjoy playing around with sequence breaks (in Super, Prime and Zero Mission mainly), so I hope there are a few of those in there. Plus, if it's a high quality, fun, well paced game, that'll add some natural replayability. Fusion doesn't seem like it would be replayable, but I must have replayed it at least 5 times.

It's not great, but it's something.

You know what would be really awesome though? An inbuilt randomizer!

The same people that compare vaccination to the Holocaust and say they (the unvaccinated) are as oppressed as the Jews were back then are now calling themselves "purebloods", a term reminiscent of what the Nazis would say. They have no self-awareness whatsoever.

Will_VIIII posted...

Why are the videos all blurred out

Huh, I didn't have that issue before. It seems to go away after a few seconds for some reason (maybe they're blurred while loading).

"Why should your "right" to not smell weed override my freedom to smoke weed! If you don't like it, you're free to wear a mask."

Naysaspace posted...

Wheres @luigi13579

I want him to give explicit examples of what he defines as proper souces. Specific names.

I was referring specifically to the Twitter source in the first post. The sources in the prior two posts were posted as I was replying.

If those sources back up the exact claim in the opening post (i.e. that no adult is being resuscitated in any hospital in Idaho), then I'm obviously not going to argue.

Yeah, Rockstar ain't happening.

As for CDPR, Zenimax is a far bigger deal tbqh.

I'll wait for a proper source (since I've seen a lot of nonsense online about this sort of thing before), but obviously it'd be awful if true. It doesn't seem quite right to me tbh (the initial claim).

At most you could argue the jump between generations was biggest (although probably not even that), but that graphics had peaked? Nah.

What I will say is that there were some gorgeous 2D / sprite-based games back then: https://onezero.medium.com/the-forgotten-pixel-art-masterpieces-of-the-playstation-1-era-8b453dfe00bf

I think modern equivalents often fail to capture that quality of art style / animation (and that matters potentially more than raw graphical power or the latest technical innovations).

Black Pope Iseem?

I liked this libertarian 'utopia' that developed a bear problem:

https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project

And this one where one of the main founders was a huge grifter and fell out with everyone:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bn53b3/atlas-mugged-922-v21n10

Cool. This is the one with the woman in the shower that turns out to be a hologram, right?

I have it and Nightfire for the GameCube, and enjoyed both.

"We've got a real hero coming up... that man's a real hero too, he served."

Lol.

Kingdom Hearts
God of War (apart from a demo of 3)
Battlefield
Monster Hunter
Dark Souls (if you don't count Demon's Souls)

If seat belts work, why traffic lights and speed bumps and speed cameras and airbags and crumple zones?

CommonStar posted...

More people die from the vaccine? Lol what is this dude on about.

Some shitty fringe blogs took all the deaths from VAERS and used them to make that claim, so now it gets parroted a lot.

My body is ready.

Care homes don't exist?

Suez II: Electric Boogaloo

Foreman? Foreman99 rings a bell.

Can't say I've heard the other part though.

I tend to like games that are somewhere in the middle (Deus Ex, Metroidvanias generally, some RPGs, even Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil (originals), etc.) the best.

If that's a cop-out, then probably linear games when comparing the two extremes.

There are a handful of open world games that are some of my favorites (Morrowind, New Vegas, San Andreas), but the rest mostly bore me in large doses. On the other hand, there are tons of linear games where the linearity does not bother me in the slightest and that I could play constantly (Mario, Mega Man, various action games, shooters, other platformers, etc.).

If they genuinely think like this, they can kindly waive their to right 'mainstream' hospital treatment.

Of course, when they're dying and they realize their shitty treatments don't work, they're always happy to use up a bed and ventilator then.

In the school library (on a computer). I think I overheard people saying something big had happened, so I looked up BBC News and read about it pretty much as it was happening.

We're 5 hours ahead here in the UK, so it would have been around 1pm.

Wonder what they'd say about the hot springs scene in the De[slur for Japanese] translation of Tales of Phantasia. In fact, wasn't there a shit storm about De[slur]'s name (for obvious reasons)?

It's all good though, since the hardship and suffering will bring back British values: https://inews.co.uk/news/brexit/brexit-no-deal-blessing-sas-anthony-middleton-236080

Remember that? Lol. *facepalm*

I'm not sure what to do. I'm quite content with single player in the original game (which I started playing exclusively about 10 years ago), but it would be nice to play on Battle.net again, with everyone starting afresh. The relative lack of stash space is a bit concerning for a hoarder like myself. At least you could make unlimited accounts in the original.

I also don't want to get addicted and play it to the exclusion of all other games, with the likes of Metroid Dread coming soon. I've already played it for thousands of hours over the years and would probably rather stick with new games.

It depends on the game. Randomized loot would be exhausting if it were in every game with loot in any form. I'd rather it stayed in online RPGs, roguelikes/lites or games like Diablo.

At most, other games (regular J/WRPGs) could have a hybrid system where items are mostly fixed, with some randomization (if done well), but no more than that for me (unless the game has significant elements of the games/genres mentioned in the previous paragraph).

So the answer is B (mostly).

So you took the plunge and installed it. I haven't actually tried it yet myself, but there's no reason not to use it if you don't use many mods / any mods it doesn't support (the number of which is gradually decreasing). It's apparently not a million miles away from parity with the original engine, and has various improvements built in.

Tom Clark posted...

There's some good ones on GBA for sure, but SNES definitely takes this.

Pretty much. Even counting the SNES ports as GBA games, the SNES has more where they came from.

I do love MMBN, Pokemon is Pokemon, Golden Sun is decent, and Mother 3 is supposed to be great (still have to play it). Other than those (and the ports, and SRPGs if you count them), what's left? Shining Soul? Sword of Mana? They're not exactly well thought of.

OpenMW might be worth a try.

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

This guy got it twice and still wont get the vaccine, crazy

That'll probably embolden him. "I've had it twice and I'm fine, so it can't be that bad."

Played it for the first time recently and I would definitely recommend it. The time travel mechanic is like one big puzzle to solve and always kept me engaged (although the story isn't bad for a JRPG story either). The grid-based battle system is cool, but runs out of ideas a bit later on. Aht's traps > all.

I used to always get it mixed up with Radiata Stories, but I had no idea the two games were linked (loosely?) until recently. How is Radiata Stores actually?

It's worse than that. From what I read, anyone in the entire US can sue anyone who assists (or intends to assist) in an abortion (in Texas after 6 weeks) in virtually any way.

Nah. It's a great game, but there are a few I like better, such is the strength of the SNES library. Super Metroid, A Link to the Past, Super Mario World, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Mega Man X, etc.

The survey was a Facebook survey where users were asked to report their educational level. The fraction of self-reported PhDs was small, only about 3% of the entire sample:

A fucking Facebook survey? No way that could backfire...

To be included in the analysis sample, participants had to complete the questions on vaccine uptake and intent, and report a gender other than prefer to self-describe.. This exclusion was made after discovering that the majority of fill-in responses for self-described gender were political/discriminatory statements or otherwise questionable answers (e.g. Apache Helicopter or Unicorn), and that as a group, those who selected self-described gender (<1% of the sample) had a high frequency of uncommon responses (e.g., Hispanic ethnicity [41.4%], the oldest age group [23.2% 75 years] and highest education level [28.1% Doctorate]), suggesting the survey was not completed in good faith.

Lol.

IIRC, there's a book in Morrowind about what it's like to be Soul Trapped.