Lurker > Paratroopa1

Wow DuckTales at 6. Honestly, I've never gotten the hype over DuckTales, I think it's a playable but mediocre NES game. It's not, like, bad, but it wouldn't even make my top 100.

https://youtu.be/sukeGQAAjVM?si=nIzELhvZZ-HtMsp-

Man I dunno. Maybe I'm just built different. I'm really good at this type of puzzle game and he just seems really flustered by Wario's Woods. I don't really find it flustering at all.

God I can't believe he put Wario's Woods below Yo! Noid, an actual shit game, lol. Like I know the difficulty of doing a huge list like this, it's so dependent on your mood day to day, but jesus CHRIST, Yo Noid?

Man I dunno. Like, he liked Krazy Kreatures but is it really almost 100 spots better than Wario's Woods? I think Wario's Woods is like kinda straightforwardly the better game.

Man, that ranking of Wario's Woods is wild. Wario's Woods is good! Vaaaastly better puzzle game than Yoshi, too, which he only put just below it. Wario's Woods and Dr. Mario are my biggest disagreements with him on this list so far, even more than putting Rygar in the top 5 or Ninja Gaiden at 17th.

IMO Dr. Mario is really only interesting if you speedrun it. If you speedrun it (or play it vs) it's hellllllla interesting. The problem with it as a casual puzzle game, imo, is that it naturally gets easier as the level goes on, which is sort of weird. After you've cleared like 25% of the viruses, the rest is just cleanup - everyone gets to that point at the end where there's just one virus left and a bunch of garbage and it's just cleanup but you're not in danger of losing. Puzzle games feel like they should get more difficult as time goes on so this feels like a weird aspect to Dr. Mario where so much of it is cleanup.

I LOVE Dr. Mario though because I speedrun it, and that completely changes everything because now really efficient and clever usage of your pills MATTERS, and the time's still ticking no matter how many viruses you clear so the lack of danger doesn't matter.

The original Bomberman is pretty whatever, imo, it's simple and not that interesting. The Bomberman games that people actually remember as being good are the ones with multiplayer, and this one doesn't have multiplayer.

Confession: I have actually never played Bionic Commando

Pin-Bot did seem pretty cool. It's visually striking for an NES pinball game and it looked creative.

Reservation Dogs has to be one of the most confusingly named things ever, up there with Outer Wilds/The Outer Worlds

I feel like he was pretty hard on Tetris. It's fucking Tetris. It's not one of my favorite NES games of all time, but it's one of the easiest games to have a nice time playing on the system. Then again, most of the games above Tetris are pretty decent.

Wow even the juggernaut of Montana State couldn't handle... Butler. Well, okay! Fascinating simulation!

It's his list so he can do what he wants, I just think Rygar blows lol

SHINE_GET_64 posted...

well that's fine not everyone has to like the same things

Yeah. It's just the only game at the top of his list that confuses me, I think every other game in the top of his list is pretty good lol

I just don't get what everyone sees in Rygar. It looks bad, it sounds bad, it doesn't play very fun, I just don't get it?? And I'm pretty amenable to NES jank - I play a lot of NES games recreationally to this day, I'm no stranger - but it just has too much NES jank for my tastes. I just don't get Rygar.

Is it a hot take that Rygar sucks? I think Rygar sucks and I have no idea why he likes it so much lol

The top of his list would make sense to me otherwise but hey we've all got our personal faves

Even with Holy Cross and Butler's insane results up to this point, I have full belief in Montana State in this sim. They look completely unstoppable

I think it's hilarious that of all the FBS teams to make it to the final four... it's USC, the most overrated team in the sim's rankings, lol

the one team that you know probably WOULD have gotten upset by Montana State or someone stupid

Montana State is winning this whole thing. The sim is delusional about FCS teams, but it's EXTRA delusional about Montana State.

I think Mike Tyson's Punch-Out is one of the very rare NES games where, unless you're already personally familiar with it, a modern understanding of video games doesn't teach you how to play it immediately. If you've never played a Punch-Out game before and you play MTPO, figuring out how to play well is not going to be obvious to you until you've practiced it quite a bit. There aren't a lot of games on the NES I can think of that are like this - most of them are fairly easily 'solved' by the accumulated knowledge and skill of any modern gamer but MTPO remains mysterious and challenging. It's a weirdly well-aged game in that way. I think it'd be kind of fun to make a list of NES games that are challenging for a modern audience because of their unique game design (not just because they are super hard and unforgiving).

lol

I have 1200 hours in Spire lol. I still feel like I'm terrible at it

Had a much longer lifespan than Hades or Inscryption did for me - couldn't enjoy Inscryption's roguelike mode at all

Captain America: The First Avenger reboot!

I feel like X-Men is the MCU's one and only chance to actually right the entire ship. They might make a good F4 film but if they want to actually stabilize the reputation of the whole cinematic universe as a whole X-Men HAS to be really good

I appreciate that Mega Man 1 got a decent ranking, even though it's considered sort of a black sheep nowadays I think it gets graded on an unfair curve compared to its sequels and it's still a step ahead of most NES games

I don't get Cassette Beasts but I feel like I'd be the only one to anti-recommend it

I do feel like there's probably a lot of people who feel like they need to see the Disney+ shows first, so they won't see it in the theater and wait until it comes out on Disney+ as well and just watch it then. I know that's what happened with my mom until I assured her that she didn't need to see Ms Marvel or Secret Invasion or whatever.

Jeez, I don't get why it was this movie of all movies that people finally just had no interest in. It's a shame, because almost everyone here seems to agree that it was pretty decent. Honestly it's probably my third favorite post-Endgame MCU movie after GotG3 and NWH.

I don't want to get into an unrelated fight in this topic so I'll just summarize my position: when a game is about discovery, I want to preserve as many of those discoveries as possible for as many people as possible. Some of us prefer not to have the first mysteries of the game scratched off already. If spoilers don't bother you and you want to know the game's conceit before going in you can just look up what the game is on wikipedia or something.

Why wouldn't you have the Russo brothers direct every Avengers film forever, are they just refusing to do it for some reason

Mega Man

Paratroopa1 posted...

Japan

wait I got this reversed lol

Japan

TotK but I haven't gotten to BG3 yet and it might change my mind

KamikazePotato posted...

https://gonintendo.com/contents/13262-ex-nintendo-staffers-describe-the-mass-panic-when-nintendo-thought-zelda-breath-of

Interesting article. For all we make fun of the Game Awards, a lot of game developers clearly do care about them.

EDIT: Also this tidbit about Elden Ring boosting in sales thanks to TGA.

https://www.eurogamer.net/elden-ring-sales-surge-attributed-to-the-game-awards-win

I know we kinda razz on the TGA for being the dumb schlock entertainment awards show that it is, but I'm a firm believer that this sort of thing really does matter to the industry and I think it's good discussion fodder to have landed on an awards show that we consider to be like, canonical in the sort of way the oscars are - a similarly dumb schlock entertainment awards show. I'm glad we have it. Honestly, it's about as close to consensus GOTY choices as we're going to get - I think they do better than the oscars do at this.

azuarc posted...

I don't think Crosscode qualifies as a "non-puzzle game."

I mean, at the end of the day it sure as hell doesn't qualify but I didn't sign up for it (despite loving puzzle games)

My answer to this topic by the way is just the game Crosscode in general - the entire second half of the game is just laden with stuff that made me look up Youtube videos because it was too complicated for me to figure out.

For my purposes, this does include action-adventures and RPGs that do normally have a lot of puzzles in them - I just mean not stuff that's explicitly meant to have hard puzzles in it like The Witness, Baba is You, etc.

The other puzzle game topic got me thinking about this and I'm trying to think of good examples. I know there's puzzles that have made people quit non-puzzle games before but I can't think of what they are right now.

skullbone posted...

The only thing that kinda bugged me about The Witness was finding a puzzle that you needed more context to solve from another area.

I mean technically you could probably solve all puzzles on first glance (probably, I don't know for sure) but there are definitely areas that are designed to teach you the concepts behind puzzles. So sometimes you'll stumble on something and bang your head against a wall until you run into the 1 puzzle that teaches you how to solve it and suddenly it's easy.

I felt like understanding that you needed more context to solve a puzzle that you'd just stumbled upon was kind of part of the game, although sometimes I solved stuff early anyway

GANON1025 posted...

- Part of this transition and de-emphasis on the continuity of D+ shows means that Feige will be working primarily on films again and Marvel will have official showrunners in charge of most of the story decisions of the shows.

...oh, god, this *wasn't* what they were already doing?

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Sword of the Surviving Guardian
Moonlight Canyon
The Wastes Where Life Began

Medium! (Sees The Witness listed as a 'hard' puzzle game) Oh, uh... hard.

The other day I went to the used game store and looked at the prices some of the more popular NES/SNES games are selling at just as loose copies and it did psychic damage to me. I don't really wanna sell my games but uh... if I ever have a medical emergency I know how I'm raising the money

igordebraga posted...

This could work a lot. The MCU blooper reels are always fun, including this gem. Dunno if all from Black Widow onwards have them on D+, but it's something to miss from the Blu-ray days. https://youtu.be/hGhz5o2cWKc?si=Hu8a3QaRtOzYYAqd

holy shit I've never seen this lmao

Leonhart4 posted...

It's finally happening: Jimbo Fisher is getting fired

......After a 51-10 win? That's novel

I'm just going to random.org this because I'm annoyed

Level 3

Detroit -2.5
New England +1.5

Um... sure.

Bonus: CJ Stroud

Why do we have SO MANY remakes of rpgs where the fonts and text box are just absolute garbage. why do people consistently get this wrong? this is by far not even the worst example, but it's so weird

Xtlm posted...

I said this back in 2015 but nobody wanted to listen lol

Normally I don't really believe these types of narratives - but good lord it is depressing just how inevitable it was that penn state would win every game but lose to ohio state and michigan. I mean I don't have a horse in the race, but I know the pain of following a team that you know will win all the games it's supposed to but be unable to take the next step. it's weirdly much worse than watching a team scrap out a 6-win season and go to a crappy bowl because you just stop even caring

Jayden Daniels is really, really gunning for the Heisman and good for him but it's making me sad. I really, really need this one. Washington isn't even close to ever having a Heisman winner (nobody even in the top 3) and LSU just had one so please just let me have this one, please

_PandaMaster_ posted...

LMAO!!!!!

Washington player pulled a DeSean Jackson on a potential pick 6.

4D chess; the Huskies got a safety on the next play to get 2 points and the ball back.