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mnk posted...

Legendary Edition is currently $44 on GMG... Very tempting to just grab it now.

I've seen a few people predict that the base game will be in next month's Humble Choice (to try and get people who'll buy the season pass when the last DLC lands), so I'll wait and see if they guessed right, and if not buy the LE on Tuesday.

I'm thinking of going deeper underground. There's too much panic in this town.

F-Zero, Metroid and Star Fox all have crossover potential with each other, even without the inevitable Smash Bros Assemble. Start with a film about Cpt Falcon uncovering a conspiracy at the F-Zero GP, then have a stinger with him picking up a new bounty, but being warned that he's not the only one after it and showing shadowy outlines of the Hunter Gunship and an Arwing...

I haven't played The Answer, but... how much would have to change to make a version that follows on from FeMC's route? I assume neither MC actually appears, so do they just need to change the pronouns used when people talk about them, or are there more significant story changes between the two routes?

I haven't seen the show, but the original comic run of Runaways was superb. After the original story arc wrapped up it seemed like the writers weren't sure what to do with it, so just threw ideas and characters at the wall to see what stuck, but it was still fun.

Then it went on a long hiatus during which Marvel apparently lost interest in everyone but Nico (I believe at one point half the case were slated to be killed off in some Battle Royale knockoff miniseries, but the fans revolted). I think they revived/rebooted it after that, but I haven't read any of the newer stuff.

*Points down at signature*
It's from the song Silent Hill, by Seanan McGuire.

Another of my favourites from her, in the song Wicked Girls goes:
"Our roads may be golden or broken or lost, but we'll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost"

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Also they should pay the folks for the Triple Trouble remake and just add that instead.

Wait, there's a finished TT remake? I know there have been attempts at 16-bit style remakes of the 8-bit games, but I've never heard of one releasing.

The Amy-in-Sonic 1/2/3K hacks are absolutely brilliant, as long as they can get the slower pace and hammer moves right, an official version of those is definitely getting my money.

And then they should put her in Mania.

andylt posted...

Capcom hasn't had a 3DS sale in Europe in over 3 years D:

My fault. I finally got around to finishing Dual Destinies and decided to buy the DLC and SoJ next time they went on sale. Naturally, this was about a week after the last time they ever went on sale.

Buy a bunch of Hama beads (or Perler seems to be the more common make in the US, as far as I can tell), find some fanmade (or official if they exist) low-res sprites of your favourite characters, and make your own merch.

My room is covered in 8- and 16- bit style sprites of everyone from Link and Mario to Persona 3 FeMC and the cast of Arkham Horror.

No, but I did think he was psychic for a while because I misheard the announcer introducing the cartoon saying 'sidekick'.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2088511/PowerWash_Simulator__Midgar_Special_Pack/

Time to finally clean up Midgar

The Expanse - Never seen the series, but I read the first book. Loved it, looking forward to the rest.

Illumunae Files - YA System Shock/Dead Space, presented as a dossier of in-universe documents from a damaged ship trying to flee an attack on a mining colony.

Legends and Lattes - Cozy little fantasy novel about a half-orc barbarian who retires from adventuring to set up a shop selling a remarkable new product she discovered in a distant land- coffee.

I tried it, then almost immediately uninstalled it when I realised how little input there is during battles. It claimed to be an RPG, I was expecting strategy!

Also, my one aim going into it was to get Chun-Li as my main character, and it looks like she's behind a paywall.

It's probably stretching the definition of 'hat' too far, but for recentish iconic headgear, maybe an Assassin's hood?

swirIdude posted...

I really thought they were gonna save this announcement for the season finale.

"Although Mr Oliver has indeed passed away, his unquiet spirit is unable to rest until he has run out of serious problems to expose. Accordingly, we have recomissioned LWT for another twenty years"

Ads, no.

But if we're counting trailers, then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZqrG1bdGtg

It seems to have flown under the radar, to the point that I keep forgetting it exists (especially as physical carts seem to be rare here), but I saw a copy up for sale today and was wondering if people think it's worth picking up.

Dishonourable mention to Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

Doesn't it require a constant server connection to play at all? They say they're going to keep it going after the delisting, but if it's making them literally no money, that server is getting turned off by the end of the year, guaranteed.

Only just launched in Early Access and they're already announcing DLC? And said DLC is only the tenth character?

I guess they're really banking on Workshop modders to finish this for them, aren't they?

Street Fighter

The (possible) problem with your solution is that it prevents players from developing a preferred playstyle. If the best strategy for every boss is "Find and use the correct weapon", then if the weapon in question is of a type that you don't like using (say, a massive sword with a long windup would annoy me, others might love that and hate using daggers that deal rapid chip damage), it's going to alienate people who like setting up a character a particular way.

Now, you might think "forcing people out of their comfort zone" is a good thing, but I expect it would get a lot of backlash from existing soulsborneringwhatever fans, who seem to be very keen on builds, especially if it was a From release and not just another third-party soulslike.

For anyone unfamiliar with the term, the Masquerade is the idea that the supernatural exists but is hiding from mundane society. Breaking the Masquerade is when ordinary people find out that they've been living alongside magic users and vampires and all sorts without knowing about it.

I know lots of series where the Masquerade broke some time ago in the backstory and society has mostly adjusted (The Hollows, True Blood), and some where the Masquerade is clearly very strained but nominally intact (Dresden Files), but I'm looking for something where it definitively breaks early on, and the world reacting and adjusting is a major theme.

The only one I can think of is the Kitty Norville series, which is fun but not exactly great, and I'm hoping there's better out there.

In the old days, completing notable challenges would often unlock a little bit of bonus content.

Now, completing a challenge makes the game go 'ding' and the bonus content costs 4.99

He's watching Yewtube, I presume.

colliding posted...

why does the tree have to be male

Because he's got wood.

Not yet. Waiting for the slim model they announced a while back.

I just hope that the optional external disc drive doesn't end up being ultra-rare and prone to breakage, effectively making all slims digital-only 'accidentally'.

Fairytale of New York

scarletspeed7 posted...

I enjoy being a complete leech on the Epic Store and using all of its free content and assets without contributing a cent towards its actual bottom line.

Same

Although since they apparently have a publishing deal with Remedy, if Alan Wake 2 ends up as a permanent EGS exclusive, that'll be the one thing that gets me to spend money there.

Hatoful Boyfriend seems like the odd one out in this list. What's going on with that?

Game I bought a stupidly overpriced new gaming PC just so I could play and then didn't award: Hitman 2
I never thought this would really exist but now it does this crappy excuse for a timeline is briefly wonderful award: Return to Monkey Island
I've never been so relaxed and stressed simultaneously award: Melody's Escape 2

I'm surprised you missed the announcement of the change. There was plenty of phanphare.

I'd download a Tesla if it would actually negatively impact Elon Musk's wealth.

Honestly, the thing I hate most about the mobile gaming climate isn't the horribly predatory business model (though that is, of course, utterly reprehensible)- it's the fact that a lot of these games have great artwork and sprite work, sometimes really good (if padded) plots, and it's all completely wasted on barely-there gameplay and thrown away after a couple of years.

Companies should be required to not only allow fan-run servers for defunct games, but release the necessary code as part of the shutdown process. It'll never happen, but it would make these pieces of crap so much less infuriating if something could be salvaged from them.

_Blur_ posted...

Do people...actually think it's about Jesus or religion? Must not have really listened to a single lyric.

I guess they don't really care for music, do they?

I prefer not to use them, but my work sometimes gives me Amazon vouchers as a 'bonus', so I use those (since I figure it would be helping Amazon even more to leave the credit unspent).

Haven't spent my own real money with them in years though.

LiquidOshawott posted...

Who are these people who keep asking for NFTs

who are all these companies targeting?

They're targetting the people who were excited about NFTs two years ago when some high-ranking executive put these projects into work, and nobody has dared point out to them that they've not only missed the boat, but the boat has hit an iceberg, sunk, and is somehow on fire underwater.

Modded Skyrim > RE4 > Vanilla Skyrim

Does PUBG even have any lore to tie another game into?

HeroicCrono posted...

Trump would never resign. He would have waited for the monarch to fire him.

To be clear, she was absolutely 100% fired. She had a meeting with the 1922 comittee in which she was informed that she would be resigning.

The monarch can't really fire a PM, although the pretense that they can is considered important enough that it sort of acts as a check on Prime Ministerial overreach.

Maybe they're consdering making Sims 5 'free' from the start, and are going to be monitoring new players to see how best to goad them into buying DLC.

It's hard to argue with your reasoning for putting Eight so low, but I have to say that he's always been my favourite Doctor even with only the TV Movie to judge him by. Everything about the way McGann played him is, to me, a perfect encapsulation of what makes the Doctor the Doctor.

Well, except the line about being half-human, but gods know that's been lampshaded and retconned a dozen or more times since.

I'm going to admit to being the odd guy out and say that I found it harder to maintain interest in P4G after P3P, but that's probably mainly because Portable Girl is one of my favourite character designs ever and I found P4 Guy really bland after her.

Also P4 gave me a much worse feeling of "I'm sure I'm neglecting some really important mechanic/event chain that will come back to bite me in the backside before the end of the game"

Should the Cockroach People loot the remnants of human civilisation for resources, or preserve them as a grim reminder of the fate they strive to avoid?

Yeah, I was expecting more of a reboot too, but this does look like Dead Space 1 but prettier.

And also apparently Isaac speaks this time. For some reason, that one change makes me way more interested in this than I was before.

Kenri posted...

absolutely vindicated but god someone please make a browser that is even less like chrome than firefox is

Lynx is looking better and better.