Board 8 > transience's video game topic 53: toastyfrog rides again.

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the pirate boss on cuphead fucking ROASTED me after he beat me

"Ar, your skills be like buried treasure: a myth."

god damn
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I was looking into Wii U emulation tonight and it looks like it's progressed really far in the last year. I wonder how playable Xenoblade X is right now.
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ganon are you dating a persona character
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The Great(Games)est Place On Earth
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so is anybody gettign South Park: The Fractured but Whole?

the Stick of Truth was so god damn charming and was really well done, much better than anyone expected. it sounds like this new one is more of the same, and people are positive about that and I would be too

unfortunately, I just really don't like the Coon joke or story or anything. it's terrible, cringe-worthy and i feel like it's going to make me dislike the game so I haven't bought it yet.
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I have no affinity for South Park in the slightest, so pretty much anything related to these games goes completely unnoticed by me.
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hey, EO5 is out tomorrow. that snuck up on me. I've become accustomed to 3DS releases on Thursday/Friday.

maybe I should start EO4 one of these days.
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I'm quite deep into eo5 now. it's good but I liked eo4 more.
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EO4 is great.

I wish I had time for EO5. I almost wish 2018 had no games coming out so I could have another year to hit all of the 2017 games I missed.
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what are your early 2018 games? I don't think there's much announced with a date I'm interested in. There's Monster Hunter in January, and then State of Decay in.... April, May?

obviously a million indie games will come out between then, so the point is moot
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a little something called Secret of Mana

maybe Lost Sphear if that ends up looking good
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Nioh Complete for PC hit $37 at CDK, so I preordered.
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The Mana Sword posted...

a little something called Secret of Mana

maybe Lost Sphear if that ends up looking good

I forgot the most important early 2018 game

https://abload.de/img/dissidia-final-fantas55kmc.jpg
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Who's that in the middle? Knight?
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it's the warrior of light
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who does he think he is, getting the centre over lightning
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I agree and square can expect a sternly worded letter from me by the end of the wek
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wow, EA shut down Visceral.
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not that I was super interested in it to begin with, but I don't have much faith that star wars game is going to turn out very good. based on the statement they put out it sounds like they're completely scrapping what they had and starting from scratch.
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I was only interested in it because of the pedigree (Amy Hennig + Visceral). who knows what this new thing will be. Star Wars The Division, maybe.
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I'm sure whatever it is, it'll have loot boxes
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George Lucas' Battle Royale
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In lighter news, whos up for a free Megaten platformer?

https://www.atlus.co.jp/news/5854/
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it's pretty good! toastyfrog himself wrote about it earlier:
https://retronauts.com/article/623/atlus-fake-jack-bros-side-scroller-is-real-free-and-on-pc
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well this is annoying

i have one quest and one sidequest remaining in Shadow of War

i'm like 10 levels underleveled for the sidequest, despite doing literally every single thing to do in this game, every collectible, every other quest. it would take another 10 hours of grinding to get to the level i need.

also the final quest is probably heavy on nazgul fighting and as far as i'm concerned, fighting the nazgul is the worst part of this game. aggressively unfun. the back half has been loaded with it
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Beat The Evil Within 2 and enjoyed myself. It was a solid 8, if I was going to score it.

EO5 arrived today but I'll probably start it after I beat EO4. And I'll get back on that after I beat Samus Returns.

So how would you compare it to the first Evil Within?
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eo5 has its hooks in me real deep

like eo4 deep. I just needed to unlock more abilities.
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Hows its stand up to 3 and 4 so far?
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digiiiiiiiii posted...

well this is annoying

i have one quest and one sidequest remaining in Shadow of War

i'm like 10 levels underleveled for the sidequest, despite doing literally every single thing to do in this game, every collectible, every other quest. it would take another 10 hours of grinding to get to the level i need.

also the final quest is probably heavy on nazgul fighting and as far as i'm concerned, fighting the nazgul is the worst part of this game. aggressively unfun. the back half has been loaded with it

Gotta get them legendary orcs yo
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WazzupGenius00 posted...

digiiiiiiiii posted...

well this is annoying

i have one quest and one sidequest remaining in Shadow of War

i'm like 10 levels underleveled for the sidequest, despite doing literally every single thing to do in this game, every collectible, every other quest. it would take another 10 hours of grinding to get to the level i need.

also the final quest is probably heavy on nazgul fighting and as far as i'm concerned, fighting the nazgul is the worst part of this game. aggressively unfun. the back half has been loaded with it

Gotta get them legendary orcs yo

that stuff is totally false, for the record. legendary orcs aren't special
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I'm in world 3 of Cuphead. I hate this robot
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Oh, the Switch can now take video captures. That's neat.

More importantly you can now set your profile pic to T-Rex Mario.
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great news everyone, Star Ocean 4 HD comes out Nov. 28th, and its only $20.99. Plus 10% off if you buy it within the first two weeks!

And its coming to PC!
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The Mana Sword posted...

Hows its stand up to 3 and 4 so far?

3 has the boat and 4 has the balloon. 5.. doesn't have anything major distracting from the dungeon crawling and that's a little odd at first. you're just grinding away. it has a lot of personal touches in the dungeons that make them feel fleshed out. there's probably 7-8 different little unique spots on each floor where something will happen and you'll get an item or some experience or whatever.

everything feels a little better than before. lots of quality of life types of changes that have been woven into the remakes but will feel like a big step forward if you're coming straight from 4.

character creation is deeper now. you choose one of four races and each race has a set of starting classes. you can eventually change classes. you get 8 portraits to choose from, a bunch of different battle voices and can change how your guy looks (hair, skin color, etc).

instead of subclassing, you'll hit a point where you can choose to build your character in one of two ways - so a healer that can learn powerful healing magic or stick with basic stuff and go down a melee path, or a fighter who can focus on bindings or pure strength. that stuff is really fun. the classes aren't great at first but really diversify after you unlock class mastery.

overall it's more of the same but everything is fleshed out more. I'd put it around 4's level. I'm playing on advanced difficulty and it's no joke. the game has had no problem beating me down and I've had to really slowly struggle to get stronger. I think I like it a lot this way but others may want to stick with basic difficulty if they're not super into the series like I am.
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That sounds pretty good. Maybe I'll get out of my anti-handheld funk before the end of the year and give it a shot.
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The Mana Sword posted...

great news everyone, Star Ocean 4 HD comes out Nov. 28th, and its only $20.99. Plus 10% off if you buy it within the first two weeks!

And its coming to PC!

@ninkendo
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Star Ocean 4: warrants a PC port
Dragon Quest Builders: similarities to the biggest paid game in the world that first found wide success on PC. warrants a Vita port.
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The Mana Sword posted...

That sounds pretty good. Maybe I'll get out of my anti-handheld funk before the end of the year and give it a shot.

grab the demo, it's the same as eo4's
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Watching some Fire Emblem Warriors gameplay vids. I wish I could be excited for this game. It's a concept I've wanted for a long time but the roster is a joke, and with these kinds of crossover games that's what matters more than anything else.
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Yeah I kinda feel the same about that game. I really liked DQH and probably would have gotten into FEW but Nintendos insistence on ignoring everything pre-Awakening is really frustrating.
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yeah but who needs anyone other than tharja
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good point
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She's not even in the base game!! Enjoy paying some more bucks for someone who should've already been there
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at least we have Anna, Marth, Caeda, Tiki, Celica, and Lyn with Minerva, Navarre, and Linde as DLC

leaving off popular characters like Ike is a joke though
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KamikazePotato posted...

She's not even in the base game!! Enjoy paying some more bucks for someone who should've already been there

what the fuck

she's probably among the 5 most popular characters in the entire series
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Arti posted...

at least we have Anna, Marth, Caeda, Tiki, Celica, and Lyn with Minerva, Navarre, and Linde as DLC

leaving off popular characters like Ike is a joke though

It's easy to reduce it to "where is Ike??" because seriously, where is Ike, but really it's the fact that we got virtually nothing from Fire Emblem 7-10 is dumb. Not only did they saturate the game with Awakening and Fates characters and-

iiicon posted...

KamikazePotato posted...

She's not even in the base game!! Enjoy paying some more bucks for someone who should've already been there

what the fuck

she's probably among the 5 most popular characters in the entire series

And they didn't even put in a lot of the most popular characters from Awakening and Fates.
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well at least it has Hinoka

but does anyone other than me care about Hinoka
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iiicon posted...

well at least it has Hinoka

but does anyone other than me care about Hinoka

nope
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