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9. Beat a remake or enhanced port

Saints Row the 3rd Remastered

It doesn't hold up. There were some fun ideas along the way, but I never want to play it ever again.

9/52

47. Play a technically unbeatable game for at least six hours

Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town

You can lose a lot of time trying to get things going in that game. Honestly not sure if I'll be playing much of anything else for a while.

8/52

2. Beat a game released between 1990-1999

Sunset Riders

It was through the Arcade Archives, but there wasn't much lost in the translation. It's still fun, and there's still no way I'd win with less than $10 in quarters.

7/52

5. Beat a game released in 2020

Shantae and the Seven Sirens

6/52

52 Assassins Creed Odyssey, more or less

I havent finished or really started the DLC, but Ive finished vanilla and I want a break.

Thats the trifecta, so on to another series.

51 Assassin's Creed Origins

I finished the main story and one of the DLCs. Maybe I'll play the other DLC someday, but for now I'm calling it.

4/52

50 : Assassin's Creed Rogue

I'd rage quit the game before on the last mission because the combat is terrible. I figured I'd finish it tonight. I'm working on AC: Origins now, and I've got Odyssey for later.

3/52.

12. Beat a game made by a developer you've never tried

To the Moon - Freebird Games

Short, poignant, and it'll probably stick with me for a while. Currently on sale on the Nintendo eShop, but right now you'll get a better deal through Steam.

2/50.

40 Beat a game with a Metascore below 70.

Terminator: Resistance. It isn't great, but it is fun. I expect sales fairly soon, so wait for those.

v_charon posted...

Good morning starshine

The Earth says, "Hello."

Tag for incentive. I don't think I'll make too much progress because of work, but it would be nice to knock a few games off my list.

lordjers posted...

Castlevania: The Adventure isn't that hard and I feel attacked whenever someone says it's bad (yes I have multiple battle scars).

Once you get past that screen, you're right. The rest of the game is comparably easy.

wg64Z posted...

This is getting sad. For a group of people who say "Who cares?" you sure need a ton of validation from every single fringe case and example.

Use your own criteria. That's it. Just because a game is buggy or laggy doesnt make it impossible, just difficult (And probably not much fun, so why are you playing it?).

Early Gameboy library, there weren't that many options. Years later, I wanted to see whether I could get past it. Watch the video, you need to nail that jump.

wg64Z posted...

Again, it's beatable though. If it was solely designed to kill you it would be a room of spikes.

This game is frequently littered with slowdown; it's not generally optimized. I'm not sure what the guy in this video used, but this is where people usually die. And then they have to start over and over and over... notice that this is a 30 minute video. This game sucked, and it was only this hard because of wonky jumping and system limitations.

https://youtu.be/VBd7Qs0SMZE?t=419

wg64Z posted...

Which game was that? Cause a screen that's designed to make you start over if you run out of lives sounds like a normal Video Game.

Castlevania: The Adventure. There is a screen on the second stage with three falling platforms. Its sole purpose is to artificially extend the life of the game. Im sure there are YouTube videos, but Im not looking them up at work.

Lopen posted...

Let me explain why they're the same to start

In both cases you're circumventing a lot of the intended experience by using a game mechanic

One you're outright skipping a difficult part, one you're trivializing a difficult part, or many difficult parts, to the point where you're basically no longer experiencing what that portion of the game has to offer to the player.

Like when a segment of the game exists to challenge you and you are using features not in the original release to trivialize that challenge, what you're doing is removing that aspect of the game. Not unlike passwording through some difficult levels, I think.

I used the save state feature on the 3DS to get through one screen that was broken and buggy that was designed to force players to start the game over once they ran out of lives. I dont care what people say, Ill cheat and not bat an eye.

I cant remember what games came out over the last ten years. I was unemployed ten years ago, and the last decade was a blur.

Voted Trump. I still don't trust the guy and his foreign policy scares me, but he's been sort of a... what's the word? Not a "beacon", but a person whose presence has had an influence on politics in a large number of countries. (No, not "corrupt", either.)

I had a strange dream last night where I did something horribly cruel to a bird's nest and then the entire Internet had it out for me. In real life, I generally like birds and certainly wouldn't destroy a nest.

Have any of you had similar dreams?

Have a nice dinner and save the playthrough for the weekend. If your birthday is on a weekend, then do it on the other day.

TheRock1525 posted...

Assassin's Creed Origins

I'm so sorry.

There's a good gameplay loop in there, and I'm near the end, but there are also mechanics that have caused me to rage quit (primarily centered around animations that take far too long - stupid chain assassinations kill horses instead of the rider because they take so long).

It depends on what you mean by "beat". If you mean successfully reaching the end of the game, then sure. If you mean fully completed the game based on skill, then no.

I voted yes because it's not important enough to fight over.

Paratroopa1 posted...

I know you maybe didn't mean it like this but did you really think fast food workers weren't working their asses off? I mean, shit, I would not last a week - people who have the stomach for that job are just better people than I am

I had no idea. Customers only ever see the front end. When I was doing low wage jobs, either they weren't this demanding or I don't remember them being like this.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

I spent a decade in fast food positions before landing my office job. It's something I recommend everyone go through for exactly this reason. It helps to be empathetic as a customer and to understand just how malleable someone has to be to thrive in that environment.

Lesson learned, believe me.

I've got a ton of debt and decided to try Dave Ramsey's approach to getting out of it. I got a job at McDonald's and have worked two shifts there.

They've had me clean the grill for the last two days. I'm having the hardest time doing it, since there are all of these nooks and crannies you need to scrape out, and it takes muscles I haven't really used in a very long time since my primary job is office work.

Everybody else there, it's no big thing. They step in and know exactly what they're doing around a machine that can probably cook them if they're not careful. I'm being showed up with basic machine maintenance by people young enough to be my kids.

They're also able to stand for long periods without any obvious signs of distress. I, on the other hand, feel like my back is going to give out if my feet don't go first. (I bought shoe inserts for the feet, but they don't seem to be helping.)

Yes, I can push buttons to cook the meat, and I can flip the burgers over and today I even helped to assemble a few of the sandwiches. I'm just not very good at a lot of the little things. I don't know how long I am for the fast food business, but I do know that those kids put in a lot of work.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

One of my regrets is that I didn't go for the PS Classic at $20 before it sold out.

I guess they finally sold through.

If it makes you feel any better, I spent $100 on the damn thing.

The one that sticks out was an Indie game called A Knight's Quest. I got through the tutorial and wasn't really feeling it, and once I got to the first city and saw what it had in terms of world building I walked away and never touched it again.

Usually the PS4 because of storage. I've got a lot more space on my PS4 hard drive than my Switch memory card.

I'm not 100 percent when I'd worked it out, but I do remember my mother sitting me down and explaining it (more or less confirming my suspicions). I don't remember when that was, just that it happened.

Pay off my student loan debt (preferably early). Maybe get married? It's a long shot at my age.

Congratulations!

Tales of Vesperia is on sale right now on the eShop for $25. If she has the digital storage for it, it might be a fun thing to drop on her.

Really? That kind of blowout to THOSE pictures? Is it because of the film grain in Cindy's pictures?

Yes. Got it for free at work, like PrinceOfKoopas. I've got small nieces and nephews, my parents are older, and I don't like the idea of getting sick in the first place. Reduce the risk, at least.

As far as the business is concerned, shes been doing this far longer than I have.

Starfleet. As Dr. Farnsworth said, I dont want to live on this planet anymore.

Nelson_Mandela posted...

Anyone who donates to those buckets is literally killing LGBT people

You're absolutely right. There are tiny LGBT people lining the bottom of those buckets, and when people drop their coins in they're crushed horribly from above.

I don't even own a scarf.

Sometimes, if I have some money to give.

Yes. I stayed off of it for as long as I could, I went on it and hated myself for doing it, and I ran out but managed to get hired right around the end of it. It changed my perspective on things.

Bad decision. They didn't provide those papers during the discovery period so they should have been inadmissible.

For those wondering, I worked in county government. There were some genuinely corrupt people who went to jail around that time. I wasn't one of them, but I'm convinced that my asking the wrong questions is what brought my situation to a head. That, and the fact that my supervisor was afraid of me for reasons that escape me.

The reason I'm so upset is that they've already screwed me once before with our settlement (I dropped my appeal, they were supposed to give me a neutral reference, they didn't and I only found out a couple of years into my job search). How easy would it have been for some malicious somebody to plant something else in there?

I lost my job 10 years ago. Setting everything else aside, it was my fault for taking the bait and I should have walked away when given the opportunity.

By all rights and measures, Im better off now than I was there. Im just afraid that one or more of the people involved will show up again, or that my old workplace will screw me over somehow. Ive kept some very painful documents on hand just in case something happens.

Id like to be free from all of this. I learned the hard way that this group practically requires me to keep a paper trail, so Id like to figure out when its ok to shred my stuff. If you were in my position, what steps would you take to ensure that you were completely in the clear?

Gambling (lottery). I spent an awful lot of money, even when I really didn't want to. It never reached the clinical level since I managed to cut back at some point. I still play, just not regularly.

These games were way beyond my skill level. Not only did you have to beat a level in order to get a new weapon, but you had to do a good job of it in the process.

Why did you start drinking so early?

I didn't think they put you under general anesthesia for it. I was under sedation for both of mine (apparently they wanted my compliance for a little bit), and I have a few unpleasant snippets of memory from them.

davidponte posted...

Facebook is for old people

Can confirm. I am old and I use Facebook.

Yes, I know, GameStop is evil and must be destroyed.

Marc's is selling $50 GameStop gift cards for $45 until 12-17 (Tuesday). The same deal on Wayfair and Old Navy gift cards, if you're looking to buy gifts for people. Source: Email advertisement.

Devil Hunter Yoko.

You're going to kill it in the court case. Just show up, the other side hasn't provided the documents and I don't think they'll be allowed to present them now.