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| Topic | The Great 2020 Video Game Challenge |
| RyoCaliente 11/25/20 1:53:01 PM #379 | 23. Beat a sports game Pool Nation FX (XBO) Nothing says sports like pool. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | The Great 2020 Video Game Challenge |
| RyoCaliente 11/17/20 5:44:17 PM #369 | 48. Beat a game that starts with the first letter of your username Rainbow Six Vegas (360) --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | The Great 2020 Video Game Challenge |
| RyoCaliente 10/27/20 3:02:34 PM #360 | 7. Beat a game in a series you've already played some of Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep - Final Mix (PS3) --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | The Great 2020 Video Game Challenge |
| RyoCaliente 09/20/20 5:30:57 PM #334 | 2. Beat a game released between 1990-1999 Crusader: No Remorse (1995) Fun game, amazing OST, fun FMV, awful controls. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | The Great 2020 Video Game Challenge |
| RyoCaliente 08/18/20 4:38:54 PM #296 | 28. Beat a game with the supernatural as a central theme Oxenfree 7/50 --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | The Great 2020 Video Game Challenge |
| RyoCaliente 07/10/20 8:28:09 PM #259 | 42. Beat another user's favorite game Braid --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | The Great 2020 Video Game Challenge |
| RyoCaliente 06/14/20 6:12:59 PM #230 | 1. Beat a game released before 1990 Space Harrier --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | The Great 2020 Video Game Challenge |
| RyoCaliente 06/06/20 12:52:40 PM #211 | 46. Beat a game you received for free or through a paid subscription service Forza Motorsport 6 --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Post Each Time You Beat a Game: 2020 Edition |
| RyoCaliente 06/06/20 12:49:12 PM #471 | Forza Motorsport 6 (XBO) Fun enough racing game. I was kinda done with near the end because the tracks didn't change all that much and neither did the cars you were racing with. The Formula One cars did change things up a bit, but they were also pretty annoying to get used to. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | The Great 2020 Video Game Challenge |
| RyoCaliente 05/24/20 12:31:00 PM #191 | 41. Beat a game with a Metascore above 90 The Last of Us 3/52 --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Post Each Time You Beat a Game: 2020 Edition |
| RyoCaliente 05/24/20 12:28:06 PM #457 | The Last of Us (PS3) I have to say I really enjoyed this game. Not enough to put in best games of all time category or so much that I'm extremely hyped for TLoU II, but I did really enjoy it. I like how even once you get more guns, and you upgrade your guns, and you upgrade yourself, combat encounters never become comfortable. Every combat encounter stays tense and I found myself constantly using the listen mode to make sure there was nobody around. The final area got a bit silly with how well all the enemies could take bullets, but I'll allow it because it was the final area. Writing-wise, I also found it to be quite good. I feel like the relationships between all the characters that were introduced was very clear. I like how throughout the game you keep getting reminders that Joel is not really a good person, but you ignore it because he can be nice and funny and has a great relationship with Ellie and he then gets contrasted by scumbags like David who do carry their group/town of people but have awful personal "things". Ellie, I was very impressed by; kids in media are 9/10 atrocious, but Ellie never really annoyed me from a writing perspective (I highlight writing because fuck that dumb scene where Joel wrestles that one hunter who smashes him down a floor on that rebar when Ellie could have just shot him but oh no we couldn't have done the winter scene then!). If anything, I do feel like the game kinda has a pacing problem. Half of the game takes place during the summer, and the other half cycles through fall, winter, and spring pretty quickly, which is a shame because it's nice to get the difference in outfits and locales. I think someone like Tess could've stuck around a bit longer so that her end is more impactful for both Joel and Ellie, but I understand they wanted to focus on the Joel and Ellie relationship as soon as possible. I think the most frustrated I got with the game was in the winter segment; Ellie plays so much differently than Joel and it's annoying when you spend a lot of the game leveling up a guy and upgrading all his tools and then you get basically a Lvl 1 character for a chapter. Even though I was very stealthy throughout the playthrough, it was difficult because I felt that there were no second chances; you get spotted, you're dead. Like every enemy became a clicker. Anyway, I do really like this game and will probably check out the DLC. I wish I had known it takes place during/before the winter chapter, and then I probably would have played it during/before that, but oh well. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Post Each Time You Beat a Game: 2020 Edition |
| RyoCaliente 03/12/20 4:59:58 PM #233 | Pokemon HeartGold (NDS) Properly beat it this time, aka beating Red. Grinding is so much easier in these remakes because you can spam phone calls to Gym Leaders. The fact that I had to grind does point to my teams flaws, but I still love them all dearly, which is what Pokmon is all about for me. Sploosh and Ms. Mittens probably the MVPs. Final team: Prodigy (Typhlosion) Lvl. 71, Sploosh (Politoed) Lvl. 71, Jet (Togekiss) Lvl. 70, Ms. Mittens (Ambipom) Lvl. 71, Flowey (Sunflora) Lvl. 70, A Tree. (Sudowoodo) Lvl. 70 --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | deo listens to Classic Sonic level themes for the first time and ranks them |
| RyoCaliente 02/17/20 11:59:56 AM #236 | Chemical Plant Zone IS Sonic. It's the audio personification of Genesis does what Nintendon't. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | The Great 2020 Video Game Challenge |
| RyoCaliente 02/09/20 4:45:55 PM #73 | RyoCaliente posted... 3. Beat a game released between 2000-2009 Moved to 11. Beat a game made by a developer you like (BioWare) 5. Beat a game released in 2020 Kentucky Route Zero --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Post Each Time You Beat a Game: 2020 Edition |
| RyoCaliente 02/09/20 4:25:37 PM #133 | Kentucky Route Zero (GOG.com) Act V was a lot shorter than I expected. Because it had been a while, I did have trouble remembering some of the characters but I still felt this act pretty well. I can't really say much about it. I enjoyed this weird, emotional and intriguing experience. I don't think this game is for everybody, but if you're a gamer, you need to play a game like this at some point, just to kinda get an idea and broaden your mind to what a game can be. Act III still has one of my favourite gaming moments of all time, so I don't regret playing this at all. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 02/07/20 2:27:47 PM #482 | Heroic Bigpun posted... I have battled every trainer and even every wild pokemon and my boys are lvl 50-53 Did you fight all 16 Gym Leaders? Did you rematch the Gym Leaders by getting their phone numbers at random times and calling them at specific times? Did you beat the upgraded E4? Even so, you're probably still gonna have to grind...I have to aswell... --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 02/06/20 2:32:03 PM #469 | Mewtwo59 posted... I'd either transfer or use the Pokathlon for stones over waiting for a call. That was terrible back in Crystal when you could keep toggling daylight savings for calls. It has to be even worse now. I'll never forget being at the Indigo Plateau, getting ready to take on the E4 and getting a call from a guy who then gave me a Fire Stone so I could evolve my Growlithe and take Arcanine into the E4 battles. Lucky. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 02/05/20 1:43:36 PM #443 | I used Mamoswine in my Diamond run, it's a beast! --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 02/01/20 6:50:33 PM #393 | Mewtwo59 posted... I'd say it's better even without Technician. You trade 10 base power and a 10% chance of raising attack for +1 priority and perfect accuracy. Sure, but Metal Claw gets STAB on Scizor. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/31/20 4:38:05 PM #381 | Heroic Bigpun posted... Also I remember slash doing crits more often In Gen I, critical hit rate ran off your Speed stat. So Pokemon like Persian, Tauros, Dugtrio,... were used a lot purely because their high Speed stat allowed them to crit often. Scyther wasn't used a lot (because Bug/Flying isn't/wasn't a good type), but if it was used, that was the strategy to go for as well: Agility+Slash. I don't know how it's decided post Gen I though. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/30/20 4:16:32 PM #368 | The WORST thing about Voltorb Flip (and the Battle Frontier) is that all the good moves are hidden behind it. I HAD to play Voltorb Flip because otherwise my Politoed wasn't getting an Ice movie to beat Clair OR Lance. Anyways, if you're having trouble, this might help, it's still a grind though: http://www.voltorbflip.com/ --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/29/20 6:00:20 PM #349 | Whirlpool is not necessary at all, only to get in the Dragon's Den, to the E4 the first time and the Whirl Islands. There's no need to teach it to have it on your team at all times. Same goes for Rock Smash really. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/29/20 2:39:57 PM #345 | Heroic Bigpun posted... Steel loses to fighting and fire right? Steel is immune to poison and super effective against...Rock and Ice. Dark is weak to Bug and Fighting. So Honchkrow is super-effective to it's two Dark weaknesses. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/29/20 12:20:31 PM #330 | Heroic Bigpun posted... I found a whole new basement level but it leads to a dead end so I don't know what the point was. On Fridays, you can find a Lapras there. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/28/20 6:28:48 PM #323 | Togekiss is such a battle upgrade over Togetic. Way speedier, hits much harder...if you have a Heart Scale, go to the Move Relearner in Blackthorn and give it Air Slash for special STAB! And it's got a great sound too. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/28/20 4:12:02 PM #319 | BCN is down to the max health of a Pokemon and then level shenanigans and I think you can get outstatted as well if you're unlucky. Do Pokathlon, it's a lot easier if you are decent at the minigames. I don't know how much the difficulty increases after the E4, but the only one that wanted to make me stab my eyes out was Skill (and maybe Power, but mostly Skill). --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/27/20 4:03:16 PM #315 | Leave Johto, I think you can buy Dusk Balls once you boarded the SS Aqua, the catch rate on those at night (or in a cave) is ridiculous. Also, congrats on your win. Umbreon knocked my team out on my first run. Then my Ambipom used Taunt and it couldn't Double Team anymore, hehehe. Then I just cried against Lance's Gyarados for an hour before beating him. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/26/20 12:45:28 PM #257 | Heroic Bigpun posted... I can't think of anything else to do than go to kanto now! Yeah, it's only available post Johto, unless you trade one from DPPt. You can get one from winning the Bug Catching Contest and from getting x amount of points in the Pokathlon (which is what I did in HG), but also only after the E4. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/25/20 7:59:12 PM #232 | Obviously Red Gyarados. In my OG Crystal playthrough I found a shiny Tentacool. In my most recent Crystal playthrough, the Odd Egg hatched into a shiny Smoochum. I didn't use the Tentacool, but the Smoochum did turn into a Jynx and became a big part of my party. In Pokemon Ruby I managed to get a shiny Solrock, which was pretty cool. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/25/20 7:03:25 PM #229 | The most important thing is having an Electric-type yourself. I don't have one, and any decent trainer with a Gyarados is just the bane of my existence. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | The Great 2020 Video Game Challenge |
| RyoCaliente 01/24/20 11:19:33 AM #47 | 3. Beat a game released between 2000-2009 Jade Empire (2005) --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Post Each Time You Beat a Game: 2020 Edition |
| RyoCaliente 01/24/20 11:05:24 AM #89 | Jade Empire (Xbox [XBO]) It was fun enough. It reminded me a lot of Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect: flawed games but with plenty of potential. Odd that they never decided to make a Jade Empire 2 and finetune it like they did Mass Effect, but oh well. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/24/20 6:15:01 AM #222 | Mewtwo59 posted... Aren't they catchable in the Safari Zone? Slugma isn't. Houndour is but you need to place 4 blocks, and you can only place blocks once you've received the National Pokedex. You can actually get a Slugma egg by giving Primo a correct code in Violet City, but still. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/23/20 6:41:08 PM #206 | Hbthebattle posted... It was every worse in the originals, Pokemon like Houndour or Slugma werent catchable until postgame Houndour and Slugma aren't catchable until postgame in HGSS either. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/22/20 2:46:04 PM #193 | TsunamiXXVIII posted... Huh. Strange.I think you actually get the call as soon as you clear the hideout in Mahogany. Anyway, listen to the radio a bit. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/21/20 3:25:57 PM #186 | Mewtwo59 posted... Yeah, the Johto gyms really don't have the greatest selection of Pokmon. Though a couple are hurt by the lack of options, like Morty's gym and the 8th gym. The 8th gym did get a little better in HGSS, to its credit. I mean, Morty has two Haunters, and GSC introduces a new Ghost Pokmon. Falkner has two Kanto Pokmon, when he could easily have had a Hoothoot or a Noctowl. Bugsy has only Kanto Pokemon, when it wouldn't have been that much of a challenging upgrade to give him a Ledian or an Ariados or a Yanma or something. Why not give Chuck a Tyrogue or a Hitmontop? Couldn't Jasmine have had a Skarmory? How about giving Pryce a Sneasel? I love the entirety of the Gen II Pokedex, but their availability or lack thereof. (to be caught or seen) is baffling. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/07/20 2:44:53 PM #147 | There is another route near Ecruteak where maybe there are some trainers you could use to level up. Onix learns Iron Tail at level 41. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/07/20 12:44:50 PM #140 | Gen II has the best new Pokemon, I pretty much love all of them, but the way they were made available and usable is baffling and dumb. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 01/04/20 5:18:28 AM #126 | Also Leaf Stone evolves Oddish into Vileplume. To get a Bellossom, you need a Sun Stone, which you can get by winning the Bug Catching Contest in the National Park (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday iirc) so you can grab it now. Evolving Togetic will only be possible in the post-game, however. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | what is the best first level in a game? |
| RyoCaliente 01/01/20 7:17:47 AM #58 | Destiny Islands > Twilight Town all the way. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Holy Crap what is that!?!? |
| RyoCaliente 01/01/20 4:35:30 AM #21 | Life-Force Breath (https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Life-Force_Breath) Beams from the mouth? Okay, I guess that's a thing. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 12/31/19 6:49:25 PM #61 | Mewtwo59 posted... Either Growlithe or Vulpix was route 36 in Gold and Silver. They put Growlithe on route 35 in Crystal, but if you can get to route 35, then you can get to route 36. No, that's the thing. Crystal added a patch of grass on Route 36 near Violet City and Ruins of Alph that you could access. In Gold/Silver, this grass didn't exist and you couldn't access the rest of the route because of a certain tree. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 12/31/19 6:30:17 PM #59 | Mewtwo59 posted... with the lack of Fire types FTFY. At least Crystal gave you early doggo. Should've been like that in all of Gen II. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | what is the best first level in a game? |
| RyoCaliente 12/31/19 6:24:33 PM #13 | Mega Man Zero 2, if only for the music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnPmafeR3xE I'd also put pretty much every Half-Life game in this category. KingButz posted... Deus Ex had a pretty great first level In my opinion, it's a little too unforgiving. I can appreciate the freedom you get, but especially if you play it nowadays, it's kinda jarring how it's just like "deal with it". I don't remember if Deus Ex had a tutorial to let you get used to the controls, but I remember dying often and not knowing what to do at all when I first played it. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 12/31/19 6:15:35 PM #54 | I wasn't hyped on Dunsparce, but considering Ruth's run in Easy Allies' Silver Squad playthrough, I respect it! Flash is not necessary to progress in HGSS (although it might be for the legendary...I only recently played HG so I don't know about that). All the other uses for Flash are strictly "sidequests". And yes, Gyarados probably would make a good HM slave, you'll want Waterfall on Grater. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- please insert disc 2. |
| RyoCaliente 12/31/19 11:23:12 AM #87 | I haven't 100 % Cave Story either, because fuck Ballos. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Ol Punny plays Pokemon Soul Silver for the first time *SPOILERS* |
| RyoCaliente 12/31/19 8:09:07 AM #19 | Gen I and II don't really have great all-round HM slaves. I think Bellsprout learns both Cut and Flash. After that you might be well off getting a Psyduck or something. Also HGSS are great, have fun. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | If you use rewind/save state to finish a game, did you beat it? |
| RyoCaliente 12/29/19 10:01:10 AM #29 | All the old games were hard as shit to draw out the length anyway, so if there's any way to shorten it, it's fair. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition. |
| RyoCaliente 12/29/19 5:25:27 AM #331 | Glad to see FFX be properly appreciated. The Sending is still top 3 cutscenes of all time, as far as I'm concerned. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
| Topic | Think of a video game character before entering |
| RyoCaliente 12/25/19 1:25:51 PM #13 | Well, Commander Shepard, I don't know how you pulled it off, but you actually made the Nice List. --- How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious! |
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