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Metroid Prime is pretty good.
It is. It really didn't sell as well as it deserved.
*holds in rant about Other M*
As run through Bad Translator:
Original text:
"The color of water around here certainly"
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"Visitors"
This explains SO MUCH about Phantasy Star II.
I just found a game where, after you get the Eleventh Hour Superpower, you can still lose.
And no it's not just "it's harder to lose". It's actually easier to lose.
It's RefleX, btw.
So I recently got Torchlight II while it was on sale, and now I've started playing it for the first time. Let me tell you, in the first hour of gameplay this game is already miles better than the first game, and this is coming from someone who absolutely loved Torchlight.
For one, the presentation is quite a bit better. Just watching the intro animation I knew I was in for one hell of a game. The interface is more streamlined and aesthetically pleasing, and the graphics look a good deal prettier. The gameplay has numerous tweaks, such as new gameplay mechanics (charge, for example), and not needing to use identify scrolls on every enchanted item, only rare ones. Finally, the game has a much more varied setting. You actually get to do things outside! Holy crap!
TL2 is incredible. I wish Diablo Tres was more like it. Hell, TL2 could ditch the Embermage and I'd still love it.
Favorite build: Outlander with 5/15 in Glaive Throw, maxed Cursed Daggers and maxed Stone Pact. Use Shield+Wand or possibly Shield+Pistol. Maxed important passives like elemental mastery, dodge mastery, and share the wealth. Assorted 1/15 in skills like Rune Vault. That 5/15 Glaive Throw is the perfect balance of good damage and manageable mana cost. The other two skills are just great backup. Spamming glaives does surprisingly great damage despite the weapon choice, because it isn't attached to weapon DPS.
I am so painfully close to 100%'ing Recettear. Just a whole bunch of random Crystal Nightmare drops. 36 of them. And for some reason, a really low-level Arma part and one carpet from Euria.
The final 10 floors of Crystal Nightmare are such a pain though. You die in 2-3 hits, and if a bomb drifts just the wrong way during your attack animation it explodes in your face for twice your HP bar.
Purse-owner 5!
...OK, so it's just cryptic shots of chairs and chains. But then again, the first teasers for Persona 3 were teenagers shooting themselves in the head. And the first teasers for Persona 4 were empty couches and TV static. I'm feeling the 12+ months of hype!
The Marine in Sword of the Stars: the Pit is just hilariously bad at fucking EVERYTHING. He just failed 7/8 50% rolls on his field surgery kit, and all of his antivenoms, threw a grenade in the wrong direction by over 60 degrees to hit a wall and dud it, then missed with most of his assault rifle's clip and died to a low-level security bot. Also, he failed twice to cook a goddamned cheese sandwich.
Also a heads-up about the Steam Autumn sale. Flash sales and everything, so keep an eye out.
I'm probably going to pick up the Toki Tori 2 bundle, which for some reason is cheaper than just buying Toki Tori 2. So since I already own Toki Tori 1, Edge, and Rush, I'm probably going to have copies of those to give away in the near future.
Just curious...
Are there any western-style RPGs with animesque art?
Someone tell me what to get on the Steam sale. Forced looks awesome, but I don't know if I'd be able to get people together to play it.
I'm mostly looking for something upbeat (and probably fantasy oriented) instead of depressing as hell, but everything seems to be in a competition for grimdarkest.
Maybe I'll just wait for the holiday sale. Or buy a Wii U.
Phantasy Star II done. The ending was hilariously stupid and riddled with typos and incomplete text.
I'm starting to think I have a love-hate relationship with Steam. It's an awesome service, but having so many games at my disposal at a time pretty much guarantees that I'll never finish any of them.
@Bastion: Ether Vapor Remaster is a shmup with a pretty good unfolding story presentation, as well as gameplay that's forgiving to newbies but hard on experienced shmup players. $1.99.
@Zennistrad: At one point a month or two ago, I wrote up a master list of all the PC games I still want. I stopped browsing new releases (and people still end up pointing me to them when there are new bundles available anyway). I think it's gonna take me another $200 to get through the rest of this list, going at about $5 a game.
I've also decided that if I pick up a bundle and I don't care about the other games, I'm perfectly fine with ignoring them.
^ Yeah, I got Bit Trip Runner with one of the packages I got entirely for other games. It was hilariously awful, but I did literally get it for free. Actually, since the trading cards came out, taking a few minutes to install it and leave it on and muted in the background for a couple hours while reading fanfiction gave me money.
In other news I now have a giftable copy of Toki Tori 1, Rush, and Edge, because Two Tribes likes to sell entire packages for less than the individual price of the newest title in said package. BECAUSE REASONS. Shoot me a PM if anyone wants them -- I enjoyed all three. The first two have demos if you want to try them out, and Edge is pretty easy to look up on Youtube.
And if anyone PM's me after I give them away, they're still up for like 50 cents apiece on Steam for another 9 hours or so.
Also for some reason they gave me three 10% off coupons for Toki Tori 2, and I'm not sure they even applied to the bundle. So yeah, that's a thing I can give away afterward.
Let it be known, for the record, in Recettear, if you fill a multiple-item order with a regular-priced item and a high-priced item, the buyer will demand regular price for the high-priced item.
(I dunno what happens if you use two high-priced items, or if you put the high-priced item first.)
Edit: It's a bit more complicated, actually. It depends on which item you put first. If you put the high-price item first, the customer will actually treat the whole order as high-priced and their WTP will be effectively doubled (as long as it's in their budget).
Not only will it be doubled, but the near-pin on high price is usually around 230%-ish.
Also, for reasons probably related to Steam giving me three Toki Tori 2 coupons, I logged in this morning to see a second giftable copy of Rush and Edge. I dunno what it is with Two Tribes, but...okay.
I thought they were having trouble selling it, hence my having seen Toki Tori 1 go on sale at 90% off.
Also, I've played Edge. Fun little game.
You know what's the worst feeling in System Shock 2? Hearing a door open that wasn't you.
Recettear: Both halves of Crystal Nightmare complete with Charme. She's terrible if you don't know how to use her, and AMAZING if you do.
^^ How about having no ammo and hearing spider chatter?
Ys I and II Chronicles are great as history lessons and soundtrack listenings, but man is the bump system boring. It's basically a test of "is your level and equipment good enough" rather than anything resembling strategy or dexterity. The boss battles in Ys II are decent, though. Beat Ys I about a week or two ago; very close to the end of Ys II (just beat first boss in the Shrine of Solomon).
Play Nightmare. You have to be genuinely good at the system to not get demolished by random monsters.
Personally, I thought the event flagging was the weak point of the games. There were several parts where you have to walk back and forth between towns or leave a town and come back for no particularly obvious reason in order to trip some arbitrary hidden event flag that makes dudes do more useful things.
So this is strange.
Remember Wooden Sen'SeY, from the Groupees Build a Greenlight Bundle (BAGB)? Well, it feel off of Greenlight due to circumstances I still don't know (all I found was a Google search that very, very, very vaguely hinted at some sort of terms-of-service violation, though that might have been irrelevant text that got picked up).
And then, suddenly: a release on the Store. No greenlit confirmation, no Greenlight page.
There are people asking for Steam keys, though...as they should, actually, because they were promised keys in the BAGB. I want to see how this unfolds.
Finally have a 3DS, so I've been using it for games like Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Shin Megami Tensei IV, and Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
Ended up also having to get a Circle Pad Pro because MH3U is shit otherwise. Plus I plan to get Kid Icarus: Uprising and that game is unplayable for lefties such as me without a CPP (since either Circle Pad is used for movement, but the one on the 3DS itself is on the left).
Tried playing Diadra Empty yesterday.
It is...interesting. Certaintly different from what I expected. Strafing doesn't auto-aim so apparenlty I need to work on figuring out how to use it.
Anyway, apparently I'm gradually paring down the various shmups I've accumulated but haven't gotten around to playing.
beaten: Ether Vapor Remaster, eXceed 1st, eXceed 3rd
played significantly: Flying Red Barrel, eXceed 2nd, RefleX
sampled: Starscape, Ballistic, Really Big Sky, Diadra Empty, Acceleration of Suguri, Depth Hunter
have yet to touch: Inferno+, SATAZIUS, KAMUI, cloudphobia, Hellsinker, Strike Suit Zero, Arkadianax, Dawnstar, Qlione, Pyroclysm, Suguri, Retrovirus, Pester, Reef Shot
(i'm using a somewhat loose defintion of shmup here, please don't throw tomatoes at me)
Satazius is great if you prefer 90's-style scrolling shooters. It's a lot like R-Type or Gradius but with less fake trial-and-error difficulty. As much as I like danmaku shooters these style of scrolling shooters don't get a lot of appreciation these days.
I'd forgotten how horribly unfair the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon postgame was. My escort client just got oneshot with a Silver Wind from three screens away, because it hits the whole room no matter how big it is.
EDIT: FUCKING ASS. Same client gets all the way to near the end of the dungeon, and then hits a pitfall trap and dies instantly.
@Bee
why does Polite Children + Big Screw = School Counter
> Egypt
> mah jong
To be fair, though, this is actually mahjong solitaire, which is basically just a tile-matching game, and apparently using a custom tileset.