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So, I wanted to get something before the Steam sale ends. I have never played any Splinter Cell or Max Payne games, and their bundles are on sale right now. But so is The Messenger, a game I am very interested in (I never turn down a good Metroidvania). So looking for opinions.

Grim Fandango
Max Payne 2
Guilty Gear XX

Good on you man. Now to check if I have any keys lying around to do similar.

zebatov posted...

What kind of cheating? Like game saves where you switch serial numbers with another gamer's save so the system thinks it's yours?

Mostly dealing with online rankings afaik.

zebatov posted...

AverageBoss posted...

Still appears to be using peer to peer rather than dedicated servers though, which is annoying.

The really bad part is that they lock save backups behind the subscription. The only way you can backup Switch save data is through the cloud, and only while you have an active subscription. Its a baffling and terrible restriction that I hope gets rolled back.

I had better connections in Gears of War on a 512kb dl back in 2006 than I have on servers today.

So there's no way to save to a drive? No way to copy or dl?

Nope. The completely BS reason they gave was that its an anti-cheating measure. Of course every other game company has figured out how to let you backup saves for free, while avoiding cheating (even Nintendo themselves with the Wii and Wii U).

Still appears to be using peer to peer rather than dedicated servers though, which is annoying.

The really bad part is that they lock save backups behind the subscription. The only way you can backup Switch save data is through the cloud, and only while you have an active subscription. Its a baffling and terrible restriction that I hope gets rolled back.

Hollow Knight is the best I have played in the genre in years (its also VERY meaty for its price).

What I have played of Timespinner thus far I have enjoyed.

Star Trek: TNG
DS9
Voyager
Enterprise

Batman: TAS
Superman: TAS
Justice League/JLU
Batman Beyond
Gargoyles
Animaniacs

Mobile Suit Gundam
Gundam Zeta
G Gundam
Gundam Wing
00 Gundam
Monster
Fullmetal Alchemist
FMA: Brotherhood
G.T.O.
.......

Honestly too many more to name, and so many I can't remember.

There actually is an exclusive boss to the PSP version. Dracula has a 3rd form on Rondo that is hard as hell. Don't believe its present anywhere else.

Think you have most of the big 2018 releases covered already.

I don't like Ubisoft games either but Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (and its Donkey Kong DLC) was a pleasant surprise, and very fun if you like Xcom style games.

Torna DLC if you played and liked Xenoblade 2.

Also never liked ME. Played through the first one, and disliked everything about it so much (story, characters, and especially gameplay), never touched ME2.

Morrowind is better than Oblivion and Skyrim.

The Prime Trilogy was the pinnacle of Metroid, with Prime 2 as the best of said trilogy.

My last time shopping at GS was when they were charging $80 for used copies of Xenoblade and the Metroid Prime Trilogy on Wii. That was disgusting all on its own and there were allegations they were cracking open the rare new copies they got to mark them as used and jack up the price.

I feel Legend off Dragoon might be one of the odder exclusions givens it was a game produced by Sony.

Hollow Knight
Shovel Knight
Dust

Nintendo and Falcom are most certainly my top 2. Everything else is so far behind its actually hard for me to pick a definitive 3rd.

Surprised at how much screen time Isaac, Hector, and Carmilla got. I expected nothing more than a brief cameo. Quite the redesign for Isaac though, but I can understand why.

The absence of Grant and Death so far is a bit odd. Maybe season 3.

Not horrible when its written out and you can read and solve it like a math problem, still really annoying though.

It being spoken to you though and trying to figure it out just like that would be atrocious though.

My top are probably:

1. Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood
2. Monster (not as good on the rewatch since all the mystery elements are spoiled)
3. YYH
4. Great Teacher Onizuka
5. Outlaw Star
6. Gundam (just all of it)
7. Baka and Test
8. Wolf Children
9. Slayers
10. Oh! Edo Rocket

EclairReturns posted...

But I still haven't figured out what career I wish to pursue with it. At first, I wanted to be an actuary, but now I'm not so sure anymore.

Try not to worry if you have not figured it out yet. People change, plans change, circumstances change.

I spent 5 years prepping for military service (4 years JROTC and 1 year ROTC), then was denied due to medical stuff.

Had to change course on a dime and decided to pursue law. Got my prelaw degree, then the job market for that completely fell through around here (offices wanting 8+ years of experience, $9 an hour pay for paralegal work).

Now I am attempting to get into teaching here. Got all my tests taken care of, and about to start shooting out applications, as soon as I get back from visiting my ailing grandfather. Working for $13 an hour at a local grocery to pay bills in the meantime.

I just want the ability to back up save data on my SD card, like every other system out there (including the Wii and Wii U).

man101 posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

Hop103 posted...

The shooter probably has a cocktail of mental illnesses much her male shooter counterparts (a lot of the more debilitating mental illnesses are starting to crop up in women a lot more). We need better mental health services in America.

this. i've said it before. its not so much a gun problem as it is a mental illness problem. take the guns away and they'd find another way to do the same if not comparable amount of harm. don't put a band-aid on the problem find the source.

I love this counter argument. Name one other readily accessible way to easily kill a lot of people in a matter of seconds with little chance of them stopping you. How often do you hear of a mentally ill person killing 4+ other people through any other means? Because we have shootings about once a week. Sometimes several.

If it were discovered that mentally ill people were murdering crowds with mustard gas bombs made out of two ingredients you can buy at Walmart, those things would be pulled from every store shelf in the country and you'd need a work permit to buy them. But oh no, magical guns are exempt from analysis or criticism or restrictions because something something 2nd amendment tyrannical government murica

I mean, rifle clubs used to be a thing in the US, and kids used to bring their guns to school (my father did). People used to drive around with gun racks on their vehicles. The percentage of the population that owns a firearm is down. The Brady Bill and Thompson machine gun ban used to not be a thing. Despite all this mass shootings are WAY up, and really did not become prevalent until the 90s.

There is also the fact that other countries that allow their citizens to have firearms don't have these problems.

I am not going to claim every or any mass shooting is a result of mental illness, because I am not an expert. I do know that suicide rates have also exploded in recent years here, so we obviously have issues on that front. But I can't help feeling that, many are going after a symptom, rather than the disease itself.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Zareth posted...

But then we wouldn't have the whole argument over how to pronounce his name.

He's a surfer dude found in the sea, why would it not be prounced tide-us?

Well, they pronounced it Tee-dus in Dissidia. Can't think of anywhere else his name is spoken out loud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2FEBqdxaeo&feature=youtu.be&t=1m4s

I felt this was a great ending for this season. Not the best episode, but a very good one nonetheless.

Gotrek Gurnisson is pretty badass. Though Gimli gets my wins for me.

WastelandCowboy posted...

Guardians of the Galaxy I and II - backstory of the Guardians and backstory on the Reality and Power Stones
Black Panther - Wakanda backstory
Avengers: Age of Ultron - Vision and Mind Stone backstory
Thor: Ragnorak - Thor, Loki, Hulk, and Space Stone backstory
Captain America: The First Avenger - Space Stone and Red Skull backstory
Captain America: Civil War - backstory on breakup of Avengers
Doctor Strange - Doctor Strange and Time Stone backstory
The Avengers - Reason for Chitauri invasion and backstory on Mind and Space Stones
Iron Man 3 - Tony Stark/Thanos backstory
Spiderman: Homecoming - Pepper Potts, Tony Stark, and Peter Parker backstory

In all honesty, all of the movies tie well together and the after-credits scenes add more details.

Reality Stone was Thor: The Dark World.

Happens in a few Castlevania games, Lords of Shadow and Lament of Innocence off the top of my head.

Smash Bros Brawl.

Happens in the Metal Gear franchise a few times.

Trails in the Sky and Trails of Cold Steel I think it happens once or twice.

I mean in my idea world, Rebels would have been handled differently, while Clone Wars would have continued to completion without the interruption. The 7-9 trilogy would have combined the stories of Mara Jade, Kyle Katarn, and Thrawn into a single story becoming its own thing. Basically Kyle vs. Thrawn with Mara Jade as villain who turns good after the 1st movie. I imagine it opening at the end of a battle between two imperial fleets with the loser being forced to surrender and submit to Thrawn as he goes about forcefully reuniting the Imperial remnants with Mara at his side (initially).

GanonsSpirit posted...

Why don't they just adapt the Thrawn trilogy?

Because Thrawn in the new canon is now active and has his downfall pre-A New Hope.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

No wonder Lucas had the Genndy Tartakovsky Clone Wars declared non-canon - he was annoyed by just how terrible it made him look, by proving just how easy it was to do it better.

That series was only declared non-canon because it conflicted with the CG series.

Dave Filoni would be my pick given how great Clone Wars and Rebels were overall. He clearly cares about characters and setting far more than anyone doing the films at this point.

There are FAR more Japanese games I like than American, European or otherwise. Castlevania, early Final Fantasy, Mega Man, Zelda, Mario, Pokemon, Metal Gear, Dark Souls, Tales, Trails, Okami, the list goes on and on.

The list of non-Japanese games I enjoy are far fewer, and mostly in the indie scene.

White Palace is decent practice for the true final boss.

Still have not beaten the Nightmare King. I should go back and try that again.

Fantastic game at almost every turn overall imo, especially for how much you get at such a cheap price. Can't wait for the last free dlc.

Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

Well, the whole story was too long anyway. They couldve ridden on eagles and tossed the ring in. Wouldve taken a few hours at least.

Except they could not have, for multiple reasons.

But MM9s main problem was not simple delays. From all accounts this campaign seems to actually be taking its backers and testers thoughts under consideration, which is the exact opposite of what MM9 did.

DeltaBladeX posted...

So keep looking for the DS version that I still can't find -_-

About the only place you will find in nowadays is Amazon. Its not terribly priced. $50 new, $30 used.

Ogurisama posted...

DeltaBladeX posted...

Ogurisama posted...

I got it on steam, they have fixed the issues with it. There is a few minor graphical issues that are easy to ignore.

Oh right, I forgot they ported it there. Is it based on the DS version?

Now its own thing
Has the extra dungeon from the DS version, but not the monster battle thing (which kinda sucked anyway imo)
Though it also has few of the things from the iOS and Android versions in its options, but you can change that.

Oh did not realize they added the extra dungeon in. I don't remember it being present at launch.

DeltaBladeX posted...

Ogurisama posted...

I got it on steam, they have fixed the issues with it. There is a few minor graphical issues that are easy to ignore.

Oh right, I forgot they ported it there. Is it based on the DS version?

No, its based on the IOS version unfortunately.

Its had several problems since launch, including 1 point where save points were made solid, and therefore unusable. They have fixed all the technical issues now, but it uses ugly health/atb bars placed right on top of the battle (for reasons) and does not have any of the additional PS1 or DS content.

Eisenhower did a pretty good job of keeping his campaign promises. Its been awhile though. Then again he is also the only president in US history to give us simultaneously 8 straight years of economic growth and peace time.

LinkPizza posted...

Is it fun, though? I keep seeing it on my switch. I've been thinking about it...

I loved it back on the PS2. But it has been a long time since I played it. I am tempted to get the new release, but the fact that Japan got a physical version and we only got digital bums me a bit. Might just get the PC version instead.

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Unbridled9 posted...

I hope they do. I wanna see more of both the mainline and side games.

Did anyone play the RPG? Under-rated game IMO. Was pretty fun.

Legends or a different RPG? I mean despite my trying to keep up I'm sure there's a bunch that got by me. Quiet releases on smaller platforms or whatever.

If Legends yeah I have both and they were good. Not so much an RPG as a third person shooter I guess, definitely unlike the main series. Never did play Tron Bonne though.

Hes probably referring to Mega Man X Command Mission for the Game Cube, which was an actual turn based RPG.

As of Korra:

Earth now has the potential for lava bending.

Bloodbending can even be done in broad daylight from someone skilled enough.

Air bending can give you true flight (though only 2 people over thousands of years have managed it).

Tough choices.

Lunar 2: Eternal Blue for PS1 as well (after you play the 1st anyways). I actually much prefer it to the original, but I think I am in the minority on that.

Legend of Dragoon and Legend of Legia (no relation whatsoever between them) both have quite the cult following. I found them both okish personally.

Most of the rest have already been mentioned.

From my all time favorite game series.