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THIS TOPIC WILL HAVE UNMARKED SPOILERS, You enter at your own risk

Ok now that I scared everyone away, spoilers will be really light for the most part

Who am I?
Nobody! I have an account that's turning a whopping 19 in July, I'm widely hated by most of B8, banned from the discord, and spent the last 4.5 years at a job for a dying company (Gamestop). So why this topic? Well my thing is I like beating games.

So what drives you as a gamer?
Beating games, earning trophies, and doing sidequests. Boy I love sidequests. As of this intro post I have 1,484 games beaten.

Where can I see a list?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18fxsQoDN72mD0odoxm-N7qezR2eqQsS1iEu1b_aH6vQ/edit?usp=sharing

RAWR IM SO ANGRY YOU CANT BEAT
Shhh I don't care about your requirements versus mine

Can I suggest a game for you to play?
Sure, but high warning that uh...well my backlogs pretty hefty
https://www.backloggery.com/stingx2

Can I ask questions
I'm pretty much open door policy on questions
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Good luck with the gallbladder surgery
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So to start us off this is what I'm atm working on. Sort of I'm actually having gallbladder surgery tomorrow morning so I'll either die or recover, but expect to be in the hospital 3 to 5 days. I'm bringing my 3ds though. So maybe I'll feel good at some point

Backlog: 3,060

Shakedown Hawaii
I bought this because I loved Retro City Rampage when it first dropped on vita years back. Was really hoping for a good reference fest or at the very least some good humor. So this game has none of that. The entire game can be boiled down to

-Protag Old Man watches tv or hears about some shady business practice
-Calls up an employee to demand more info
-Steals, blows up, kills, or acts like a public ass
-Turns out X practice was a dumb idea

That's quite literally the whole game. It looks neat sure but the writing, gameplay, and well any originality are just shot by repetition. The game also breaks missions up in strange ways that even though their are 111 of them, it feels like 300. You see if old protag guy goes to get a burger, thats essentially a mission but not a full mission complete even if it says mission complete. Then his boring rapper wannabe son steals a tv and pawns it, ok missio...nope not really. Usually 4 of these mini missions equal an actual mission.

Then theres the whole business shakedown, buyout, and profit part. Its kinda as broken as Assassins Creed renovation system they had in the ezio trilogy. You start off broke but within an hour you're rich forever.

Rayman PS1
I think the biggest thing I learned about Rayman ps1 is that Ubisoft had very little idea on planning versus execution. Not counting the SNES prototype, yes this started as a snes game, their are 5 different Rayman 1s. Each have wildly different stuff from hit detection boxes being edited, damage scaled, one of the PC versions has the ability to exit any level to the main map, levels added, levels cut, and levels switched around. There are moments Rayman works really well, but most of the time you just sit there asking why. I've currently beaten every level before the Candy Chataeu...but now must backtrack to get all the electoons. Currently have 40% and I'm sure the final world will be chock full of mistakes and bad choices.
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ninkendo posted...

Good luck with the gallbladder surgery

thanks, hoping to live and rebuild my life ...again. woo
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Bump
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Today im coming home, should be getting some light gaming in
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Bubsy Paws on Fire
You know I actually LIKE Bubsy 3D. It's bad but once you understand what they were going for (remember it was in development alongside mario 64, they didn't know they hadn't figured out 3D completely like Nintendo did) its playable. I actually think the jumping in Bubsy 3D is fine.

But anyway todays game is Paws on Fire or as I call it Bit Trip Runner 4: Featuring Bubsy and the Faces of Evil



Look at those amazing faces. Yeah I have no idea why they went that direction or why this game exists. It really feels like the Yo Noid of 2019. Its playable, its boring as hell, and is really easy.

Its a runner game and uh it requires you to play each level 3 times

Once as Bubsy he glides and pounces
Once as Virgil he double jumps and can slide under stuff
Once as Woolie, she makes the level into a very poor shmup

Then if you collect the arnold medal which is impossible to miss you get to play a really bad sonic 2 bonus stage thats 30 seconds long and offers 0 challenge. But dont worry you get to spill buckets of farts. Yeah this games a real miss.
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why'd you get banned from discord
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BEATEN: Metroid Zero Mission GBA
Yeah I actually never finished this game, a couple of years ago I streamed the game during Extra Life but pooped out at the stealth section. So yesterday ended up picking the game up from there and beat it. I gotta say the stealth was not my favorite aspect but the remainder of the game was pretty aces.
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BEATEN Bubsy Paws on Fire PS4
There isn't much more to say here, Bubsy Paws on Fire is a baffling entry in the series that isn't awful but isn't fun. Its also a runner game and not a platformer.
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BEATEN: Shakedown Hawaii PS4
Shakedown Hawaii is done, was not a fan one bit. Pretty 16 bit graphics and neat sprite work do not change the fact the game was 111 missions of a boring slog, featuring one note characters and 0 note jokes. The excellent writing from Retro City Rampage was just missing. The challenges were fun at least, pretty much the only part of the game I enjoyed. It also had this dumb property management system that was the equivalent of just buying a property and letting the money pile in. Money that you only need to A. buy properties, and B. buy the CEO upgrades that are awesome...and then shortly after that you mostly play as two other characters that can't be upgraded.
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BEATEN: Monster Hunter World PS4
I started and stopped this game three times, its "OK". There are aspects that are really cool but too much of this game never gives you the power feel you really seek from the game. That makes hunting even weaker monsters such a boring chore.

Good Parts
-Graphics
-Music
-Variety of weapon styles
-Huge world that draws you in
-Coop

Bad Parts
-Bad tutorials
-Over complicates simple things
-Never feel strong
-Too many one shots from unbalanced monsters
-Cutscenes are painful unless introducing a monster
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3rd best game of 2018 :O

Fun 250 hour platinum
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ninkendo posted...

3rd best game of 2018 :O

Fun 250 hour platinum

I'm wildly impressed by that. the crowns seem impossible
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Monster Hunter World: Mindlessly grinding little things, game still frustrates me even post beat

Bully: I'm on chapter 2, just blazing the story thru

Fire Emblem Birthright: Waifus are forever, only have 5 more females to marry up before endgame. then I gotta decide conquest or revelations
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Monster Hunter World: Upto 8 Crowns total, I'm enjoying hacking away at this. I'm still bad at this

Bully: I'm on chapter 3, the instant fail from adults grabbing you without even giving me a chance to triangle button mash myself out is bad

Fire Emblem Birthright: Almost done my romances

Bloodstained is taking over my life in 5 days for sure
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Cadence of Hyrule: Haven't cleared a dungeon yet but after 2 hrs in love with this game

Monster Hunter World: Beat my first Beselguise, Armor starting to get on point.

Fire Emblem Birthright: Counted 4 romances left to waifu
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92 Platinums are now down and I've bogged down my gaming trying to make these good. And unfortunately the Telltale shutdown has me shifting course

I may regret this but because Telltale games are being delisted and I don't want to deal with this hassle if I switch playstations or my ps4 dies...I'm just banging out the Telltale stuff now. Also this should lead me into my plat 100, which I'll stop for Bully. Yes it was Sleeping Dogs but I really like the Valedictorian trophy name for that plat, and Bully was a favorite (this is my third time 100%ing it)

=Telltale Order
Guardians of the Galaxy (on ep 2)
Game of Thrones
Walking Dead S1
Minecraft Story mode S1
Walking Dead Michonne
Wolf Among Us
Tales from the Borderlands
Walking Dead Next Episode
Repeat til done which will just become alternating minecraft and walking dead for awhile

That pegs
Plat 93 Gotg
Plat 94 Walking Dead S1
Plat 95 Minecraft Story Mode S1
Plat 96 Wolf Among Us
Plat 97 Tales from the Borderlands
Plat 98 Game of Thrones
Plat 99 Walking Dead S2
Plat 100 Bully
Plat 101 Walking Dead S3
Plat 102 Minecraft Story Mode S2
Plat 103 Walking Dead Final
Plat 104 EASY GAME POPOFF BEGINS

Unless my math is crazy off
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I didnt realize until that list that Michonne didnt get a plat. I guess it makes sense with the shortened episode count.
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JonThePenguin posted...

I didnt realize until that list that Michonne didnt get a plat. I guess it makes sense with the shortened episode count.

I always forget it exists to be fair

Fire Emblem Birthright Beaten
MASSIVE SPOILERS

This ones hard to sum up. Its impossible not to compare this to Awakening, hell they literally copied and pasted Tharja into this game. The brilliance of Awakening was the main characters had depth, they were likable, and everything in the game had reasoning. In Fates Corrin never really grows, he has a great setup but instantly joins into a sickening and constant BROTHER, SISTER, OMG. Robin in Awakening was supposed to be you, represent you and yet Robin had plotted character traits. Corrin just feels empty.

In fact because the game has split into two...actually three versions in reality everything feels stale and half finished. I shouldn't be at endgame with every character married off and dozens more conversations in...and have nothing to say about a character. Ryoma is the future king of the Hoshidan people and there isn't anything I know about him. I don't even know if hes aggressive or not, its bewildering to write so bland and distant.

The children thing also needs some attention here. In Awakening the plot was the current timeline was heading for disaster, so children of the future decide to take the risk and change history...possibly ending their own. In this game its just lazy, two characters have a kid...then they dump that baby in a magic Marvel Comics microverse where three weeks can be 16 to 25 years. So they wait a few weeks and then go recruit their child, who understandably hates them, then after a battle force them to recruit into war. Mind you we aren't talking alternate dimensions so you have some children who are now older than the parents.

Look I understand this sounds nitpicky, and the games purpose is to give you super strong units. Which is very necessary as by endgame I had maybe 6 units that could fight on their own easily, the rest of the 40 some units needing a hope and a prayer and great rng. Yeah I could have made them stronger with a already censored but still ultra creepy minigame.

The other hesitation here for appreciation is the story itself. By the end of Birthright and 40+ hours I know Corrins tale (also his dragon mode is WORTHLESS and a liability if anything) but I still don't really understand Azura and her deal. I don't understand the main boss motive and reasoning since he trails off and no one questions it. I know I enjoyed moments of this game but so much felt like they had this grand game planned then Nintendo is like $$$ split it up dev team *whip crack*. Pokemon works cause its the same exact game, but half the characters are trapped in the other version along with half the plot. AND THEN THE TRUE ENDING IS A THIRD VERSION SO DOES ANYTHING EVEN MATTER?!

So naturally I started Conquest up lol
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