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  • edited 2018-05-10 02:42:59
    "I've come to the conclusion that this is a VERY STUPID IDEA."
    Free game alert: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    More free games (h/t to a friend of mine):

    https://www.humblebundle.com/store/the-flame-in-the-flood/

    also
    https://www.humblebundle.com/mission/spring-sale-rewards
    free games from buying games during this Humble Store sales event.
  • edited 2018-05-12 21:21:41
    My arms are falling off!
    I was having fun climbing up items in Disgaea 5 by having a bunch of units kill enemy units but that got boring and I found far more efficient ways to grind so now I'm just having my Sage just spam Land Decimator and busting out other units only to clean up the remains.
  • "I've come to the conclusion that this is a VERY STUPID IDEA."
    Another free game alert: Stories: The Path of Destinies
  • edited 2018-05-13 07:40:53
    My arms are falling off!
    FAST RMX is pretty adequate for not-F-Zero. The netcode is awful though, and I've been tricked by the interface many times into thinking I finished first but actually 2nd or even 3rd.
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    @Bluesy_Cowgirl for some reason this makes me think of you https://pixelhunter.itch.io/bones-n-metal
    Raydere wrote: »
    FAST RMX is pretty adequate for not-F-Zero. The netcode is awful though, and I've been tricked by the interface many times into thinking I finished first but actually 2nd or even 3rd.

    Is this a freeware fangame?
  • Bovarian Mammarian
    Bones n Metal is a very METAL game with skeletons and everything
  • edited 2018-05-23 18:31:17
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    (repost)

    Steam recently made all profiles default to not showing the games on the associated account. Previously, hiding one's games list was only possible by making the entire profile private, but it's now possible to have an otherwise public profile that just doesn't show what games you have or have played recently.

    It's still unknown (and there's no consensus judgement call among the userbase) whether this change was made in response to privacy laws, or to stifle the sales figure estimation site known as SteamSpy, which crawled public profiles and then applied some statistical methods in order to estimate how many people owned or recently bought a given game.

    Incidentally, fellow digital distributor and competitor GOG recently (not sure exactly when though; I haven't been following it religiously) released its own social features recently, which includes a games list. It defaults to friends being able to see your full list while all GOG users being able to see your recent activity. (But you can choose from everyone, GOG users, GOG friends, or only yourself.)
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    [16:32:50] interesting
    [16:32:51] http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4003/
    [16:32:52] [www.romhacking.net] Romhacking.net - Hacks - Shadowhawk Stereo & Bug Fixes
    [16:32:59] if you're wondering why this is interesting
    [16:33:01] http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/09/prototype_of_unreleased_snes_title_shadowhawk_surfaces_online
    [16:33:02] [www.nintendolife.com] Prototype Of Unreleased SNES Title Shadowhawk Surfaces Online - Nintendo Life

    Also, the DLCs of this game seem to be free to claim for 48 hours.
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/436180/Raiders_of_the_Broken_Planet/
  • TotalBiscuit has passed away.
  • edited 2018-05-25 18:05:21
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Yeah, I'm sad to hear of that. FWIW I was reading SpaceDrake's twitter eulogizing last night. I didn't hugely like (nor dislike) the guy (though I often scoffed at his "Framerate Police" curation feed), but I did appreciate that he had the intention of being a consumer advocate. And he most certainly didn't deserve to die of cancer at just 33.



    In other news, more free games: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/hacknet-deluxe
  • edited 2018-05-26 05:00:46
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    In games that I totally ignored that were really the best, the two We Cheer games for the original (original? is it really that old already?) Nintendo Wii are apparently actually the best thing. They feature lots of American pop songs from when I liked pop songs and are cheerleading games made by Bandai Namco!

    Turns out the Switch isn't backward compatible, so I'd need to get a Wii U to play We Cheer, which feels exactly as hipster as my video game decisions need to be.

    Oh totally forgot; the reason I now know this is because I'm trying to find the All Star Cheerleader soundtrack and it... basically doesn't exist, so I'll probably have to get an ISO and extract it myself.
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Super Metroid
    2:09
    100%

    And this was with failing at getting GT's missile tank and then going back to get it and failing another two times at getting it.

    And miscellaneous other nonsense.
  • There is love everywhere, I already know
    Yay~
  • Bovarian Mammarian
    not a bad time
  • edited 2018-06-03 18:36:31
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3800/
    oh wow, this is gonna be interesting

    edit: further edit: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3861/
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
  • Bovarian Mammarian
    upside-down AoS, eh?

    might try that.
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    GOG sale!

    I wonder whether I should get Ys Seven, or Crypt of the Necrodancer + an Ys game I already own on Steam. I need to spend at least $5 to get Sunless Sea.
  • "I've come to the conclusion that this is a VERY STUPID IDEA."
  • "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Ziggurat for free on GOG.com
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    lrdgck wrote: »
    Ziggurat for free on GOG.com
    I love it when games on my wishlist get freebie'd.
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Some thoughts on speedrunning a game.

    It's been about 14 years since the first time I watched a Super Metroid speedrun. I'm only just now getting the itch to speedrun it.

    I never expected to feel this itch. I remember, back then, I was more so thinking, the game was very much about the atmospheric elements to me. Or more accurately, I think I never got into the game that well because it wasn't, specifically because my first exposure to the full game was not myself playing it but rather a speedrun. (I had played a tiny bit of the game as a kid, up to the first boss, but that was it.) It was entirely the mechanics of the game, with little understanding of the flavor elements. Compare my experiences of Metroid Fusion, Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, and some other similar games, where I went in blind and love the heck out of them as a result.

    What touched off my finally getting the speedrunning itch came not from playing SMet itself -- which I did play once, some years after I watched a speedrun of it for the first time, but then I put it down because I felt its controls were more wonky than Metroid Zero Mission's controls -- but rather, playing a SMet hack a friend was playing (UE specifically), then playing another SMet hack after that, and then another. I'd seen enough of SMet over the years to become generally familiar with it, and then these new hacks generated new experiences while making use of familiar conceptual territory, especially with regards to gameplay.

    So suddenly, rather than appreciating the game for its flavor elements -- or failing to do so because I was pre-spoiled by a speedrun -- I was actually appreciating the game for its gameplay elements. I went and did a 100% run of the game, and I'm still itching for more.
  • Bovarian Mammarian
    Speedrunning a game can be insanely fun for some reason, and Super Met is one of the best for it.

    Maybe we should RACE it ha ha
  • Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I am not racing it until I actually learn how to mockball.
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