Just talk about whatever game you're playin, want to play, want to buy, what you just bought - whatever.

Just a nice, lazy places to spout random crap about games.

I'll also start us off.

Lately, I've been trying to whittle down my games I've wrapped vs games I own ratio. Now, to fascilitate this, I'm picking ONE system, and I'll only play one game on that particular system until I finish it, while trying to play it as much as possible. Other systems are fair game, but I should mainly focus on this first system.

This, I hope, will make it so I don't fall under the "3 Day curse" where I want to play a game, drop the one I'm currently playing, and play it religiously for 3 days before I suddenly get a craving for the next game - leaving a trail of half-finished games in my wake I'll eventually have to restart (AGAIN) to get the full experience.

Currently, this has begun with Tales of Symphonia, a great game to start me off with. I've been tempted with Legends of Legaia, Baten Kaitos, FF Crytsal Chronicles, but This time, I've stood my ground. I'm a little intimidated that I haven't reached the second disc yet, though ^_^.

I have decided I am going to beat the entire Donkey Kong Country trilogy.

Fuck yeah.

I swear i can't take the music of super mario world 2 from my head U_U

Fucking hell I've been playing Ravenshield for years now, and I still love it.

I can't wait for Merc 2 and Ordnance project to come out.

I like

A hotdog

In my eye

from Super Mario

but merc 2 is poo

Wario has a Ps2

But like the poo

Mario likes you

but you try it up the poo

Mario Mario Mario oh mario you raped Tomb raider oh mario!

A cow for a cow my kingdons for a hoe

Ps2 oh you suck, but not as hard as Ps3.

>>4 WHAT!

http://www.digitalnasties.com/forum/topic162.html

I still play battlefield 1942 and its mods

Hitman 2 is fucking hard as hell. It's easy to just run and gun in it, but the point, to me, is to be stealthy. I COULD run around shooting every guy I see in the face, and the missions would be relatively easy, but that's not fun. If I wanted to do that I would play doom or something. To be stealthy, and get the highest rating, you need a hell of a lot of skill.

I'm actually glad it's so hard, because I can play games like splinter cell with too much ease and get by without any alerts. But Hitman presents some challenge.

And Tenchu as well. I have Fatal Shadows for PS2, and it's so much fun, but also frustrating. I'm on that level were you have to fight Futaba, and every time I play it I can get by all the guards without a single alert, but when I have to battle the boss I always get fucked up.

I wish I could reinstall Far Cry, that was so much fun when you tried to be stealthy. Hard as fuck to be stealthy though, but I liked the flexibility. Shame that my gaming system got fried... Now I can hardly play anything made past 2003.

I just got a PS3 and decided to start it off with FFXII. I'm enjoying it so far. Love the new battle system. Sazh makes up for the other characters and kind of crappy story. I guess I'm weird in that the linearity isn't really bothering me. Makes finding chests a lot easier at least.

I want to get Demon Souls soon.

>>1

Oh man, I have such a hard on for Baten Kaitos. It was my first rpg. Looking back it was probably stupid, but I loved that shit when I was 12, so I hope you enjoy it.

I have like 20 games I'm in the middle of playing, but I can be assed to finish any one in particular...

To begin this possible wall of text, here's some background - I've had a Dreamcast since sometime in 2000. the RF cable, however, has been broken since 2008, and I only -just- got around to using ebay to grab the SCART cable I need. Even so, that console is fucking awesome.

Shenmue is still fun to this day. Not as amazing as it looked back then, but it's immensely fun to just forget the plot and waste every penny you earned on arcade games and capsule figures (still looking for the Sonic figure). Sonic Adventure 2 aged pretty well, too, despite the writing reminding me of a generic Shonen anime (think Dragonball). The only problem I have with it is how Knuckles' stages seem like pointless filler.

Also, Jet Set Radio (or Jet Grind Radio in the US) and ChuChu Rocket are probably some of the most original games I've ever played.

Been playing Azure Dreams on the GBC. I already finished it on PSX, so I figured I'd give this one a try.

So much harder...

On the plus side, I have two barongs! MUAHAHAHAHA

>>12 cont.

To give you an idea of how much harder the game is, the retard who owned this game before I got it had a save where he'd been to the tower 67 times, and he still hasn't managed to get past the boss on level 20.

(Tales of Symphonia)

Sheena needs more screen time. And more fan art.

Currently playing LovePlus. My girlfriend is Manaka. I feel like now that the "chase" is over and I made her my girlfriend, I've lost all interest. Wow, just like real life.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. I'm still afraid of shooting at people, even if it's just a game.

I'm really lookin' forward to Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light.

I hope once Dragon Quest 9 comes out, we'll finally get a release date for Dragon Quest 6...

I've been playing Jump! Ultimate Stars for years now and I can't stop playing it since it has alot of weeaboo animu characters that I like. So far, I'm playing as Muhyo and I'm beating the shit out of a ton of people on Wi-fi. Feels good, man.

The splinter cell games really went downhill. Damn Ubi. Honestly, the first two sc's were good, but had lots of room for improvement. The third one was really good, but still had TONS of room for improvement.

So what does Ubi do with the next splinter cell? They clone the 3rd, and make the story 10x cheesier and the gear 10x less tactical.

For the fifth: rinse, wash, and repeat.

This seems to be a habit amongst major game makers today...

I'm glad there are so many old games out there, that I haven't tried, that have a lot of good gameplay.

>>18

It finally has a release date! Its Valentine's Day, which arguably would have fit better with DQ5, what with getting married in the game. Unless DQ6 also has a marriage part.

I have immersed myself in the universe of FF7.

I have finished Final Fantasy VII and Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII.

I watched Advent Children Complete last night. I have yet to watch the Last Order OVA or On the way to a Smile OVA. I am currently playing Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII.

I only wish Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII was released in a playable English format. Sadly thats the game I want to play the most. The Turks are awesome.

On the subject of Final Fantasy, I just beat the last boss in FFIV Advance. Trying to stick with it and explore the Lunar Ruins but I keep looking over at FFV. After I've beaten the final boss and watch the credit roll, I feel kinda done with a game and lose all motivation to check out any post game extras.

>>23

If I remember right, the Lunar Ruins were impossibly hard. Then again I rushed the final boss at a low level and barely won, so...

I hate grinding so I never finished the Lunar Ruins.

>>24
All my characters are around level 70, is that high? I had a bit of a wander around there and Rydia turned back into a loli to my delight. I think I'll carry on exploring for now.

I don't see why this area can't be entered before the boss and still be optional? To stop you from getting broken gear for the final boss?

Maybe I'm worrying too much about this and being a bit of a completionist (should be a word), I feel like it would be wrong to ignore a huge dungeon they went to the trouble of adding.

How do other people feel about post game content?

One other thing that bugged me - I wish Parom and Palom had their personalities swapped. The cocky, arrogant boy and the sweet, polite, mature girl is over done.

I love "Ore no shikabane wo koete yuke".
This is an unusual style RPG that the characters' lives are very short so that you see them die many times.
When they die their descendants continue the adventure. Descendants are sometimes stronger than their parents. You should strengthen their DNA. I feel the game is really fun because the characters' lives are limited so that if you got a strong one you should take action until he die. Finally the great-(around 30x or more?)-great-grandson beats the final boss. The story is touching and the game itself is absolutely outstanding.

>>25
well you gotta remember the time when this game was released, stuff like Parom and Palom was unheard of at the time so of course they were going to follow the tropes of other media

>>27
In the After Years (which I personally like), Palom became alot cooler, while Porom became a bit more emotional.

I thought this growth in them was well done, especially since they now have things of great concern to them.

Hell, I personally think a lot of After Years was done well, even if a good chunk of it was just rehash. There's more of it that's remixed well and also original to make me over look that fact. Fuck year, Edge.

DVD of "THE COVE" is being distributed free of charge in Sea Shepherd now.

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DVD of "THE COVE" is being distributed free of charge in Sea Shepherd now.

Please contact the application method each mail address described in following URL.

http://www.seashepherd.org/contact/general-public.html

Sea Shepherd has already begun serving in Japan and each country.
You also must apply.

So I finally got around to completing fallout New Vegas. I went the Yes Man route which was a pretty disappointing ending in my opinion. I might replay it and go with Caesar or the NCR.

Alright, check safebooru's comments list. A lot of pictures with Snivy are getting comments lately. I wonder if the Snivy meme isn't dead after all...

Every week I eagerly check the import section on PSN to see if they've brought I Am The Chef to the US shores. Every week I am dsappointed. Does anyone know if a translated version has been dropped anywhere on the net?

Sengoku Gensokyo is probably the highest concentration of pure awesomeness I have experienced in quite a while.

I mean, you lead Touhou characters in an all-out war with each other. What more could ANYONE possibly want?

Why is Vagrant Story always so compelling to start but so tedious at the midpoint? Why are there several magnitudes more games in the final fantasy style than games in the Brave Fencer Musashi/Castlevania III style?

There is rarely a Japanese who eats the whale.

I couldn't finish Pokemon Black. I got to the 3rd badge and just lost all interest. It looks like after 13 years of Pokemon, my love for the series has finally come to a close.

I feel like talking about Umihara Kawase. I just got to field 35 and couldn't beat it, grrrrr! I've played this game a lot but there's still places I can't reach. And I still haven't beaten that crab...

>>38
Maybe because you realized you're just playing more or less the same game over and over again with some graphical updates?

Pokemon is a huge cash cow, so I can't blame Nintendo for pumping out sequels, but I find it hard to give two flaming shits about anything past yellow. Maybe replaying red or blue will rekindle your poké-love?

>>38
I was done with Pokémon at Emerald - I lost interest and never even finished all the gyms let alone the Elite 4 or whatever. I gave Diamond a go after seeing Gundam Penguin and getting caught up in the hype but it sucked hard and I didn't bother to pick it up again.

Finally, Xenogears is on the PSN. I can't believe it took so damn long.

In other news, I now understand why everyone hates Xenosaga EP II. everything is designed to WASTE YOUR DAMNED TIME.

Xenosaga III is fantastic so far.

I've been playing Jump Ultimate Stars for 5 years.

Holy shit...I love this game despite the assholes and cheaters on it.

I am Japanese

The force required to protect the lives of the world world
Please help! There is little time remaining

Nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan is highly toxic plutonium around the world, strontium, iodine, threatened the health of people scattered cesium

Despite the radioactive material is scattered around the globe with just a single point of meltdown in the region of Japan

Japan, now lets spread radioactive material world of dark debris caked all over again in all 47 locations across the country!

Thank you, the government and the press

Downloaded Armored Brigade a few days ago and am really loving the realistic way the entire thing is put together. My only real complaints are the limited OOB collection and the lack of a decent scenario editor. Assuming it had these things, I'd probably even buy it.

I'm playing FF4 on the DS right now. I like it, but I didn't realize it was so short...

I've been playing Ys Seven. Before now I had only played Ys: The Ark of Napishtim on the PSP. So far I'm liking Ys Seven a lot more than Napishtim. Thats not to say Napishtim was bad. It just wasn't exactly that memorable in my opinion.

I'm currently at the Wind Precincts, which I gauge to be about maybe about half way done with the game. I really have no basis for this assumption.

Dungeon Defenders is really awesome, but it needs a LOT of work to make it easy

I can tell just from one day of playing that the class I picked, the squire, has overpowered towers

We didn't even need to fight ourselves on one map, I'd just make a bowling ball turret at the head of each staircase and crossbow turrets to kill any air units, nothing would pass.It was on medium, maybe on harder modes you dont feel it, but compared to what others were doing I got that impression.Also people are retarded and making public online games where they want to solo and kick anyone that joins, instead of just making a lan game or a private game so they are not listed at all.

The game also suffers from being a console port to pc, at first I thought I was doing something wrong but you need to let your character autoaim every time then atack, shit sucks and makes you not want to fight at all especially when you can't target the more dangerous ones in the horde of hundreds that are coming to beat you down into nothing.

I'm still playing Persona 2 IS on the PSP.
I have one question though,
are the Monster Hunter games any good?

>>48
Yeah, but you only need one depending on who you play with.

If you prefer being online, go with tri for wii or possibly freedom Unite with adhoc party, Xlink, or something else.

If you play alone and/or with local pals, consider freedom unite as well, but don't count Tri G for 3DS out either.

That said, I've been replaying Donkey Kong '94 like a goddamn madman. It's hilarious to break the stage like a motherfucker and get through stages that should only take 20 to 30(-35) seconds "normally" in like 5 to 10. It's like "see this shit to climb? Yeah, you can backflip and spring flip through that shit in like 5 seconds flat AND beat the stage). It's incredible.

>>49 here
the funny thing about this that I forgot to mention is that it is very easy to die while doing this shit without great reactions, ideal planning and results, and perfect understanding of mechanics and how X behaves in Y way as a result of Z and so on.

Again, it makes you feel like a champ if you do, especially after fucking up a few times.

>>50

sounds interesting. can you show a video demonstration of this technique?

Greetings,

Let me tell you the story of Ascian. We started back in march this year. Back then I didn't really have anything in particular to do, and I felt like getting involved in something. So I started what we at first referred to as a "Neckbeard Gaming Community" by creating a thread on /v/. It was actually quite successful and we came up with the name Ascian (which means shadowless, it's a bit hipster-ish, I know) and I bought the domain "ascian.me". We were, and still are, using Skype as our main method of communication. Slowly people started dropping off and getting "dropped off" (kicked). We still had some core members, though, most of which are still left. Then in august, I think it was, we did another mass recruitment. We got a lot of new members, and of those the majority got kicked within the first few days or dropped off after a while, but we still got a few more core members.
We recently started a blog (ascian.me/blog) for gaming news. It actually did get quite some success and we earned some money from it that will be used to buy servers.
Now we are about 10 core members. By “core member” I mean a member that is active and online mostly every day. Most of us live in Europe (I actually purchased the domain ascian.eu, it might be useful), but we welcome people from nearly anywhere as long as they aren't faggots (unwanted scum, we'll know when we talk to them) and can speak decent English.
Now, we come to the point of this thread. We still have our core member base, but the community has stagnated a little bit. Well, not stagnated, but it would be nice to have some fresh people come in. As we are a little bit picky with the type of people we allow in (we don't just pick random teenagers off the streets because they like Halo), getting new members is a bit troublesome. That is why I am posting here.

What do we have to offer?
Well, we like to discuss all kinds of things, preferably vidya-related, and then play some bro-op. We don't really have the numbers to regularly play anything but bro-op. Of course, if our member-count was to increase, things could change.
We have Skype-calls most evenings, so it would be a bonus if you are comfortable with talking to other human beings using your voice, but it is not required.

Are you interested? Fill in the form at http://ascian.me/join

(we won't be too picky with the invites right now, we'll just kick the trash if needed)

i've been playing this 1999 playstation game called ちっぽけラルフの大冒険. anybody that likes 2d platformers and unforgiving difficulty should definitely find a copy. one hit sends you back to a checkpoint, and you get a game over after 3 lives, generally sending you back to a checkpoint further back. lots of precise jumps are necessary and level memorisation helps. it's not unbeatable or anything (as long as you continue), but expect to be doing certain parts and boss battles over and over again and using tons of continues. good music and great graphics, too. one of the best platformers i've played.

I've been playing the Japanese version of Final Fantasy VI. This game has such a touching story, and I love the characters.

<A>what if new fzero
<B>is this a bet
<A>a prayer

Street Fighter 2: New Legacy ~ a fan-mod to make Super SF2 Turbo more balanced.
https://newlegacy.fr/

For example:
https://newlegacy.fr/old/osagat.html

>>11 Is Shenmue still fun to this day? I got it on PS4 in the sale recently cos I'd heard it was good, but I also heard it can get a bit tedious.

I got Britney's Dance Beat on PS2 for £1 the other day. I'm thinking I'll plug my TV into my guitar FX pedals and play it with heavy distortion and delay

>>58 that sounds fun as **** anon. i wonder how it will sound. delay makes everything so atmospheric. also that cost is a dealmaker. i played batman today

I want to tell you all about a funny bug I found in Olympic Soccer on PS1. I was playing against the computer, and they lobbed the ball towards my goal. While the ball was in the air, I was mashing X to header the ball, when the half-time whistle blew. At half-time, all the players immediately rush towards the dugout, but since I was mashing X, it skipped the whole halftime ceremony and the players reappeared on the pitch at opposite ends. However, the ball was still in the air flying towards the goal, and after swapping sides that was now the computer's goal. The ball went into the net and I was awarded a goal before the half had started! Isn't that interesting?

yep it sure is. i liked playing crash,spyro,tekken, and final fantasy

>>61 Me too, happy days! I liked FF7 but I was too young to understand the concept of RPGs, levelling up to beat bosses etc. Got stuck at Materia Keeper for ages, then one day managed to fluke a win, but went the wrong way afterwards and got stuck in the sidequest where Yuffie steals all your materia. Had no chance to beat the boss, so was completely stuck there.

The PlayStation Magazine did a thing for a while on the demo discs where you could download save data for various games (all characters unlocked, all weapons, stuff like that) and they had a FFVII save just before heading in to fight Sephiroth. I played it a lot from that point, doing lots of sidequests and things, but I've never actually seen most of the game properly...

Crash and Spyro were great, but Ape Escape was the best platformer on PS1

>>61 Who did you play most in Tekken? I liked Yoshimitsu when I was young but now I like Asuka and Jun

>>64 i own tekken and tekken 3 of which i played more. i never stuck to one character and i played kazuya and law i absolutely loved his sound effects and extreme acrobatic kicks. his parry was fucking amazin when he put his knee up and backflipped off the opponents leg. furthermore i agree yoshimitsu had an indefinate appeal.
>>63 i own ape escape as well. it is truly fun however the gem collection in crash 2 had its replay value and the adorable polar bear levels in snow are super fun.

dubs

>>62 this sounds like a precise replica of my ff7 experience. i was at gamestop with my dad and the clerk recommended ff7 it had quite the reputation at that time only once i played ff7 in adulthood had i came to appreciate its artform and battles . i played it many times getting stuck and not knowing where to go and coming back to it. i even once got stuck ok angel sephiroth ad gave in then restarted the game many many months later. i recently completed it a few years ago.

Golazo! Football League is a pretty fun arcade football game, but my country isn't in it so I gave it a 2-star review. It's fun to play but I'm just like, I guess I'll go Holland or Japan or something

Things you build in factorio have an uncanny resemblance to living creatures, with conveyor belts being the blood flow.

playing outer wilds made me feel like a little kid again

I felt like shooting some baddies today so I played some Rainbow Six Vegas 2 on PS3. It was fun but so annoying when you sneak around a corner and came face to face with a terrorist, but when you try to step back behind cover your teammates are right there blocking you and you get shot

>>63
I prefer the spyro games overall but ape escape has really unique, endearing charm to it. I love that each monkey has a name and a little personality. What a great game.

I want more games that can be played with one hand

I want a new Armored Core title...
FROMSOFTWARE needs to think back to their old fans and push AC again :/

>>73
Eroge?

I love Rocket League but I'm not that great at it, but it's even more fun when teammates get mad at me when I make a mistake!

Found some cheats for touhou. I can't die without seeing all endings.

ttps://www.reddit.com/r/touhou/comments/gyytco/are_there_cheats_for_touhou/
ttps://www.reddit.com/r/touhou/comments/3ejp3h/guide_using_spoileral_for_efficient_practice/
http://wcs.main.jp/index/software/spal/
cheater.up.seesaa.net/th/thssg.zip

Finished touhou 15 on very very easy. Burger fairy's hip movements are delightful. That one winged girl gave me some yandere vibes, she was super serious during introduction but was smiling during the fight itself.

Touhou 15 on one hand is a noticeable spike in difficulty, on other hand it actually lowers it much lower than in most games. It adds savestates pretty much. But to compensate, ZUN made patterns harder overall. It's good, I don't have to restart the game and replay those boring first 3 stages again and again to have another chance on stage 5.

There is no touhou thread here, huh. Maybe I should create one? Need to post links to wikis and such.

>>80 Go for it dude!

As for me, I've been playing Borderlands 1 for the first time

After a decade or more of being recommended it I finally played and beat Ghost Trick.

It's crazy how nostalgic it feels now, definitely some of the best feelings I've gotten playing a video game recently.

https://aeongenesis.net/projects/?show_complete=true
so many games to pick from

>>81
I played B1 for the first time not too long ago after having played B2 and Pre-Sequel first.
Combat and Skills feels unpolished in comparison (especially the way elements are handled) but it's fine otherwise.
I can see why some fans of 1 hate what happened going on, I think the aesthetic and tone really did go downhill even though 2 is my first game in the series. 1 did have a problem with areas being VERY same-y and hard to remember due to being overly brown.

BPM: Bullets Per Minute (2020) is way too fun for what looks like an unironic unity store asset flip. Who knew clicking heads to the beat was so satisfying?

My friend gave me FF7 remake for PS4, what a pal <3

Would I maybe be the only person in the whole world to play RC Stunt Copter on the PS1 this crisp Christmas day? Me and my brother also played:

• Total Drivin' (PS1)
• Euro 2000 (PS1)
• Porsche Challenge (PS1)
• Colin McRae Rally (PS1)
• Moto Racer (PS1)
• Need For Speed Underground 2 (PS2)
• SSX3 (PS2)
• Super Bomberman R (PS4)
• Rocket League (PS4)
• Tekken 7 (PS4)

Nostalgic fun...

Now the key to controlling Ogre is this pendant...

Recently got into Lobotomy Corporation. My journey went something like this:

• Ooh, this game "Library of Ruina" looks cool. Very stylish UI.
• Huh, it's a Korean deckbuilding rpg-battler, but also a sequel to another game... "Lobotomy Corporation"
• After some research, the previous game (LC) looks like a flash game (ew) and seems to take hours and hours to finish, not to mention that it's (apparently) stupidly grindy. Pass for now, but it looks like the sequel can be played standalone.

Plays some LoR

• wow this game rules. but definitely seems like I'm missing some lore. let's watch the cutscenes from LC
• ok, I watched all the cutscenes from LC (that took, like, 5 hours?)... back to LoR
• OK... this game is still great but now I'm intrigued about how the original game plays. The steam sale is still on, so let's purchase LC.
• before playing LC, I'm going to mod it and make it less punishing. No big deal since there's no achievements...

20 hours later

• Very glad I decided to give this a go - not only is it a great game in and of itself, but it makes LoR that much better. However, I really wish I had played it from the get go instead of taking this roundabout route. However, I still have a lot of playtime to go...

Someone on steam describes this game as "Korean Autism Management Simulation" which is v accurate & should probably indicate if it's for you or not. My recommendation is (1) unless you're a serious masochist, I would grab some mods that make grinding for stats easier, make it so deaths are not permanent, and make gifts more common, and (2) name your employees after either people you know or characters in media you enjoy. Feels like it would be a lot more fun to do that than sticking with the random names like I did.

>>90

>looks like a flash game (ew)

What's the problem??

Megaman would be so much better if you could switch weapons without pausing the game and opening the menu. And aiming with your mouse. And being 3d. Basically, megaman would be much better if it was quake.

Quake would be so much better if it had catchy music and cute girls.

With Live a live getting a remake, I felt an urge to replay the game so I tried getting the roms from emuparadise using the workaround but firefox is blocking my download. I was wondering if anyone here knows if the site is still safe to use?

>>94 Is that a SNES game? I went to emuparadise and it wouldn't let me (not sure of the workaround you mentioned) but I can confirm I downloaded Live A Live for the SNES from RomHustler no problem

I disabled all firefox "warnings" long ago after they started marking one site I used as unsafe. Malware usually only exists in exe and dll files, it is technically possible to be infected through just roms (if emulator developer was very clumsy and allowed stack overflows or buffer overflows or something like that), but it's very very unlikely. Download emulators from well known sites, download roms from wherever you want.

I'm surprised emuparadise is still a thing, I though it was forced to not exist.

To disable Malware Protection in Firefox,
Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Uncheck Block dangerous and deceptive content.
type about:config in the address bar, and change those to false
browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled
browser.safebrowsing.phishing.enabled
maybe browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.enabled and rest

https://privacysavvy.com/security/safe-browsing/firefox-privacy-security-ultimate-guide/
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-malware-protection-work
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/14163
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/10/30/how-safe-browsing-fails-to-protect-user-privacy/
https://www.top-password.com/blog/how-to-disable-malware-protection-in-firefox/
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections

>>95
>>96
Thanks very much for the help.

Final Fantasy VII Remake is making me happy, it's so nice seeing all these people and places again come to life! I wish there was a first-person view, I just want to look at everything. Also there should be a hug button so Cloud can give Tifa and Aerith a nice cuddle

Got a weird urge to play FIFA '97 today... pretty clunky, but it was the first fully-3D FIFA game. Played an indoor 5-a-side tournament, as far as I know only FIFA 97 and 98 had this indoor mode, and none of the later ones did. The computer was beating me due to the clunky controls, so I swapped to the other team and hacked the goalie to get them all sent off! However, once a certain number of players have been sent off, you no longer get red cards - in FIFA 98, after I think 4 or 5 get sent off the match is abandoned and the other team automatically wins 3-0.

I got FIFA 98 when it came out but got 96 and 97 a few years later... the guy in Electronic Boutique seemed confused why I'd want to buy these old ones

Looking up cheats for FIFA 97 just now I came across this:

>Play track six of the game disk in a CD player to hear singing by John Motson, a member of the EA development team.

I already knew about the John Motson song, because any time we got a new PS1 game we'd always put it in a CD player to see if there was any music, but it's pretty funny seeing him described as “a member of the EA development team”. (He's maybe Britain's most well-known football commentator for like 40 years)

The PS1 version of FIFA '96 had a 3D pitch but 2D sprites, as did Jonah Lomu Rugby

I got Bomberman Hardball on PS2 recently. I love Bomberman but hadn't heard of it. It's Bomberman plus tennis, baseball and golf modes. I only played the Tennis one so far, but it was just a basic tennis game - I was expecting some bomb element? Like in Anna Kournikova Smash Court Tennis on PS1 there was a bomb tennis mode, where a bomb is placed where the ball bounces, so you have to avoid explosions as well as hit the ball.

I liked the “Home” menu on Bomberman, he is chilling in his house :)

Anna Kournikova Smash Court Tennis was fun though, you could unlock a bunch of characters from other Namco games like Tekken and Time Crisis

Shame that Hudson Soft had to be bought over by Konami of all people. If you like the Bomberman series I'd recommend Bomberman World and Wars for the Playstation. I have fond memories of the the both of them. Wars is especially unique in that it's a TRPG and is in some ways reminiscent of chess.

I'm meh towards Bomberman, but Bombergirl was quite a game. I somehow killed like a week or two just getting all content, images, and voicelines out of it.

It's a japanese only game, and arcade only game. They planned to make a pc version, but had some problems with payment and scrapped the whole idea. At least that's what they say. I got my hands on pc version and played it offline, it was an experience. It's made in unity engine.

>>104 Yeah, but it was pretty cool how in Super Bomberman R on PS4 you could play as a bunch of Konami characters like Snake, Raiden, Ape Escape monkey, Pyramid Head etc. I had Mega Bomberman on the Mega Drive but not played any of the PS1 ones. Wars looks pretty fun, looks like Final Fantasy Tactics!

>>105 Hmmm looks quite nice, cute characters :)

Anyone interested in that Tiny Tina's Wonderlands thing? I haven't seen any gameplay but when I was playing Borderlands I kept shooting Tiny Tina cos she was so annoying

>>103 I thought “Hmmm I wonder if someone's done a video of all the hidden characters on youtube?” (I unlocked them all but lost my memory card) and found some interesting things. Firstly, I didn't know about these hidden pictures hidden behind the wall in the practice area: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rNU9qGqMrg and the music also brought back memories so I wondered if someone might be sharing the soundtrack or a rip on slsk (sometimes you get lucky...) and came across a massive collection of PS1 midi files! Downloading now, interested to hear some of these.

Then I found this, I knew there were other Smash Court games but I didn't know anything about them, it's nice to see Xiaoyu running around playing tennis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI8RsUQW848

>>106
Ape escape games are so fun. Especially when the did the minigame spinoff with the boats and laser swirds and propellar race courses

>>109 The minigames in Ape Escape 1 and 2 were great fun. I remember trying to unlock all the monkeys in the Monkey Boxing game in the first one, it got pretty hard. I actually bought Ape Escape 2 again on PS4 recently, even though I 100%'d it on PS2, it was worth it just to play MONKEY FOOTBALL again!

111GeT likes RePeATiNg GeTTeriNo's

I'd love it if they re-released Ape Escape 3 on PS4, but I heard it's complicated licensing-wise because of the Metal Gear Solid stuff in it

yeah those tiny apes are o so adorable. from the ones with capes or rotating lights or sunglasses or swords or really even plain

Suddenly got a weird urge to play No Fear Downhill Mountain Biking (I don't have it though)

Bought some pervy game on PS4 called Hentai vs Evil for a fiver, looking forward to trying it out later, I guess

sonic the niggercock

>>115 Very easy Platinum if you're into that

Tryin' ta find a copy of BLOODY ROAR 2 on PS1, or maybe 3 on PS2 which I was unaware of, if I can find it cheap

>Tryin' ta

Are you a nigger?

>>119 Nope, I'm just windin' you up, too easy

What is windin'? Sounds chinese.

>>121 Get ON-TOPIC or get OFF DA BOARD!

I played a game I've never played before the other day, I can't remember what it was called but I think it comes preinstalled on the 3DS - you take a photo of your face and it makes baddies out of it, and you use the built-in camera to shoot your heads down in the room you're in. I was sitting on the toilet blasting balls at my heads flying around the bathroom! What drugs were they on when they came up with that idea XD

Played Little Witch Nobeta (cute & funny dark souls), and it was fun and pretty charming but slightly rough around the edges in some places. Supposedly it's going to be finished later this year; looking forward to that.

vc: incume (no!!!)

A funny thing happened to me the other day. I was playing Lego Worlds and found you can spawn little bunny rabbits. They hop about, or you can pick them up, and if you throw them in the water they swim. They are so cute... I thought “omg, that is so cute... I think I'm going to cry...” and then I started crying

Anyone play MGSV? I finished the game, and I'm currently grinding to level up my base to unlock the crazy weapons. Every couple of weeks I'll switch it on to collect SP, I earn enough to get 12 S++ soldiers. It's taking ages. I think the way you're supposed to do it is play online and rob other players, but you also get robbed of staff and resources yourself. Still a while away from some cool weapons.

Create a MGSV thread, and in the span of next 20 years someone who played that game will eventually show up.

Guys, if you were to make a crossover of various rpg game characters, which ones would work well together? Various rpg work slightly differently, so I'm curious which ones would be most compatible. You can add non rpg characters as well, but you need to specify their abilities or how they would play.

I never played this ReBoot game for the PS1, I was just watching this longplay and thought the credits screen was pretty fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX4NBA45Js0&t=2h7m44s

Steam Next Fes has me downloading hundreds of demos so I can level my shiny badge. Really puts into perspective the kind of stupid shit that motivates me to actually have fun, but now that I've got going I'm really enjoying playing so many different games.

What games use real world logistics? For example, I want to know what materials are needed for making plastic. Civilization and Factorio probably use real resources, probably.

Oh man, I finished Pokémon Ultra Moon a while ago and completed my pokédex, and now I went back to get all 100 totem stickers... i worked my way through a guide and got to the end but missed one! Now I need to go back through the whole list to find the one I somehow missed

>>130 I feel like maybe searching for something like "minecraft expanded realism production" is most likely to hit something like this. Civ is not very realistic, at least based on my experience with it. Honourable mention to Autonauts which does seem fairly realistic when it comes to this sort of thing.

>>88 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4b5hSqSp7mA

I need to improve my dodging in Xonotic. Aim is decent from training, but that doesn't mean anything if I take 2 direct rockets and die. Tips?

Vivid Knight is cute & addictive.

I have been playing Sonic 3&K and have managed to die at the exact same spot in FBZ over 50 times now, in the exact same way, each time.
I repeat the exact same failed jump time and time again without difference.
I begin to suspect that I am clinically retarded.

>>136 Is that on Sonic Origins?

>>138 Hadn't heard of Sonic 3 AIR, interesting. Maybe a silly question but had you played them before? I had 1, 2 and & Knuckles on the Mega Drive but not 3, so 3 always had a kind of exotic energy to me growing up, if that makes sense

Ahahah it's so satisfying in Rocket League when the other team has one toxic player, making snide remarks about teammate and opponent alike, and then you rough him up in extra time when he's in goals and your teammate scores the winner!

>>101 FIFA 2000 on the PS1 had a scratch 'n' sniff disc, it had a grassy aroma!!

The final boss in Metal Gear Rising Revengence is sooooo good. Everything is so cheesy but it works!

Still surprised that there are whole communities playing the old PS2/GC DBZ fighting games over netplay, even if they're on Discord.

Now that I can just buy touhou fangames on steam my library is growing out of control

£300 for Jonah Lomu Rugby on PS1!!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403597134144

>its the official Jomah rugby game paly hard and fast with the worlds powerful winger i the video game he designed!

Why don't people always bring the right element to Alatreon hunts huh why???

Receive You The Prototype is probably one of my favorite boss themes of all time. It's the kind of theme you play in your head while fighting OTHER games' bosses.

I was introduced to vinted.com over xmas, which is mostly for vintage clothes but had a bunch of retro games as well. I bought some interesting PS1 and PS2 games this month, all for about a tenner. Let me to tell you about them!

Let's get the golf games out of the way: Cyber Tiger, PGA Tour '98 (both PS1) and International Golf Pro (PS2). They were all pretty shit. Cyber Tiger is a cartoony golf game featuring Tiger Woods, and you can also play as Teen versions of Tiger and other characters. It seemed a bit creepy tbh. PGA '98 I got because I loved FIFA '98, and the box art was similar, so I was curious to check it out. It's kinda interesting how the annual wave of EA Sports games have a common look each year, I guess. It was only a pound and not that good. International Golf Pro was also pretty boring.

Another one I got was Psybadek for PS1 for 50p. I had the demo of it, I think it was on the same demo disc as Crash Bandicoot 3. I remember it got shit reviews at the time. It's a kinda cute snowboard racer thing where you collect little crystal things, but it's not very fun

Then I got The Italian Job for PS1. It feels like the Driver games but set in London and Turin like the film. I had a demo of this as well, I remember that the demo was a chase mission from the game, but the mission only starts when you drive into it - if you reversed and went down an alley you were able to explore the whole London level with no time limit. I wonder if that was done deliberately? I found the steering clunky like a lot of driving games of this time.

I also got two copies of Brian Lara Cricket, a standard edition and a platinum edition (he was selling them together for £1). I know absolutely nothing about cricket so I was just mashing buttons to throw the ball and hit it. Didn't know what any of the numbers meant for scoring. It had something I've noticed on a few PS1 games I've played on the PS3, where the sounds stops working and just plays a high-pitched EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE noise for a while; then when I hit the ball it changes frequency. I wonder if this is some sound glitch related to the PS3 handling sounds differently than the native PS1 or something?

Just for a laugh I wondered what would happen if I swapped the game out and put the platinum version in while it was still running. It carried on playing no trouble.

Anyone here still play MUGEN games?

played one porn fighting game made in mugen last year. Had only 2 characters.

>>154
Do you happen to remember the name of it?

no. Remind me in one week, I'll dig through my hdd.

>>152 IIRC platinum PS1 games were simply a re-release with a fancier [citation needed] box - games that had "gone platinum" were given a special border on the box to signify that they were some sort of best seller. I would expect the discs to be identical, unless there's some difference I don't know about

>>157 Yeah I figured they'd be functionally identical despite them looking different (original releases had artwork on the discs, Platinum versions have generic shiny discs).

>>156
What's that fucking game? You never came back, faggot. Probably didn't even have a nude mugen game.

mugen was fun. too bad i deleted my setup.
tried to rebuild it but all the files can be pretty much only be found on mugenarchive and mugenarchive operators are fags.
no i dont want to donate or contribute to access the files.
what good is an archive that is not mirrored and only gate kept for the purpose of making money?
oh well. nothing good lasts forever.

>>160 Making money isn't the “purpose”, it's to offset the cost of leeching bandwidth

yakuza reincarnation is surprisingly good.
I think I realized one thing about isekai, it is probably to make stories culture neutral, to make export of stories easier. Few culture references that foreigners just wouldn't get.

I've got a copy of that Shadow of the Colossus remake on PS4 sitting on my desk and its been begging me to play it. I really oughta make time for it

I got to play some games with a few people on my emulators through netplay today. It was pretty fun.

>>161
Hosting is dirt cheap and I guarantee they do more than break even with their shitty donations and banner ads.

Got the new Metroid prime remaster, the dual analog is awkward and it looks much, much darker, but overall it's fun to replay Metroid Prime again, almost fresh after about half a decade when I last played it (Prime trilogy on Wii U). It almost is like when I first played it in 2004.

Really, really suck at stealth games. This is what I get for being impatient.

Raging Loop has been fun so far, interesting werewolf-inspired visual novel with elements of zero escape, when they cry... I'm a little worried it's about to jump the shark though, but here's hoping it rides the wave out.

I got a couple of shitty PS1 football games last week, “Football Madness” and “European Super League”. Football Madness could be pretty fun if it wasn't so clunky, it's rare to find fun arcadey football games with power-ups and stuff.

>>160
i never managed to actually get into mugen. it looks really fun but the jank puts me off too much

God damn Resident Evil 4 is salve for the soul. Whenever I feel like shit I just boot it up and I'm always having fun.

>>171
I hope you're not talking about the reboot.

Someone at work was talking about some new Warhammer kart racer or something called SPEED FREEKS or something, and it reminded me of the PS1 kart racer SPEED FREAKS, which I had the demo of. I remember it got a good score in the PS magazine so I thought I'd pick it up. I also got the demo it was on, disc 49, which also features the pre-release demo of THPS1, Um Jammer Lammy, and EVIL ZONE which I am currently trying to get a hold of! It also has a pretty fun Net Yaroze game, a multiplayer tank battle game.

Like a lot of PS1 games I buy for nostalgic reasons, Speed Freaks wasn't as good as I remember. The demo of THPS was interesting though; recently I've been playing the 1+2 remake, so it's weird going back to before it began, the camera and the controls are really bad!

>>172
The original Resident Evil 4 was a mistake. It’s not a real survival horror, the story sucks, Ashley sucks, and Leon is suddenly blonde now. The remake could have been an opportunity to give us the static camera, 4 item inventory and tank controls we deserved but no…..

just finished sega's mario galaxy bootleg (sonic lost world) and i am never touching that game again

After talking about arcadey football games with power-ups earlier, I came across a Lego football game for PS2 I'd never heard of called Football Mania. It's actually really fun! It's lego, but there's no building aspect, just the players are lego men.

It has a simple shooting system with aftertouch controls, so it's fun curving shots in or chipping the goalie from the halfway line and stuff. One of the power-ups turns the ball into a rocket that aims for the goal, so you can chip it up in your own half and rocket in above the goalie.

The story mode is kinda mad, it's just a football game but the story has you chasing a guy who stole the trophy, and he escapes into space so you need to beat teams to get the parts for your own spaceship, eventually playing on Mars. The teams are themed lego men like cowboys and skeletons and aliens and pirates. It has various pitches of different shapes and sizes. It also has a normal Lego Cup mode with a range of national teams, and some minigames where you can unlock special players.

It was a fiver!

I don't have a rant, just that I'm dogshit at shmups and trying to get better. Ikaruga is where I'm starting.

Playing gacha trash, Limbus Company, because I really enjoyed Project Moon's other games. Can't believe it's come to this.

>>175 this game fucking sucks dick, I tried to 100% it back in 2018 and having to replay those boring ass levels sent me into a spiralling depression

Replaying the Oracles games, I remember why I never finished them. Oracle of Seasons is fine, up until you very easily sequence break in the middle of the game and everything starts getting incredibly tedious. And that tedium is even worse in Ages. I hate that I feel like I should have started Ages first to have Seasons be my Linked Game.

>>175
I 100%'d Lost World when it came out on Wii U, and while it sucked to get through, I had fond memories of it. Recently hacked my 3DS and tried to play that version because I'd always wanted to and nearly immediately physically recoiled. The 3D is not helpful at all and the field of view is just really bad. Want to replay the main game on PC just to have a sanic on the computer but it's so obviously not worth it.

I also hacked my 3DS recently and I was playing Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood at the weekend. I recently played a Zelda game I can't remember the name of on it as well. I don't really like the movement control on either of them, touching with the stylus in the direction you want to move.

I finally decided to try call of duty. It sucks. I regret wasting the 18 minutes it took to emulate this trash. Why did anyone like this?

>>183
Half-Life 2 hadn't come out so standards for FPS were real low. I think most people were flabbergasted that it had something resembling a storyline and AI allies that weren't 100% dead weight.

Some gamers also had a complex about vidya games being widely rejected as Real Art at the time, and a game depicting a "realistic" "cinematic" "war story" seemed like a step in the direction of being accepted by the cultural elite.

POSTAL 4 could have easily made the trans army the new Taliban(as in they are literally everywhere if you look hard enough) and the fact that they only stuck with the bog-standard SJW joke feels lazy to me; for a Postal game that's saying something.

I really hate the boss fights in Silent Hill 2. They all feel too easy and you really don't have to think much about it. As long as you saved up enough ammo and health drinks you'll beat them easy. The whole fight with Eddie felt dumb as shit.

>>186
SH2 is generally too easy.

Undertale Yellow finally came out. It feels more and more like each major character was made to be the intentionally defective version of their Undertale counterpart, though I only just reached the Dunes.

Fuck Dunebud. Burn in hell Dunebud. I have no idea how to spare Dunebud.

I have no excuses to not play FortressOne right now, I just burnt out of arena FPS altogether and would rather not put the effort into improving so I'll self-sabotage by not practicing at all.

Today I got GENSOU SkyDrift in the PSN sale, it's a touhou racing game. It's really fun! The tracks are really cool.

Are there any Punch-Out likes that've come out recently? I'm tired of replaying the Big Boy Boxing demo.

>>191
EA used to make the Fight Night series but since then there haven't been any boxing games. Just UFC ones.

>>192
I'm not looking for a realistic boxing game, just one specifically in Punch-Out's style. There was one on the GBA I know about, but I'm too lazy to emulate it so looking for other options first.

>>193 Not recent but I liked the Ready To Rumble Boxing games on PS1. The boxing minigame in Ape Escape 1 was fun as well

>>190
I got this on PC last year but wasn't really feeling it. I'm sure it's great with friends.

Which games have good gunplay?
https://4-ch.net/hobby/kareha.pl/1624447304/l50
I like to go BANG

Test

>>/hobby/1624447304/l50

>>193 Animal Boxing on the DS

I found this again after a few years. It was released by Al-Qaeda's media arm as a sort of fuck you to the original, where you invade Iraq and shoot up Saddam. I remember the media covering this when it came out. Nothing really good to say about it other than the soundtrack having some quality Arabic verse and the ability to wipe out Bush. Its surreal how that guy has been rehabilitated by the mainstream media.
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/quest-for-bush-night-of-bush-capturing-eyp

Thinking about playing a few PS2 games today.

MGS 1 feels overrated. Don't get me wrong its a great game but whole sections of it are just rehashed from Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake. The chase sequence at the end, the ninja boss, female love interest etc. Meryl is just a rehash of Holly and Otacon is Dr. Madner. Then you realize Kojima does this with a lot of his games. They all have a situtation where your captured and have to endure a button mashing torture sequence that will give you arthritis. They all have a scenario where you have to save a guy who's captured and knows a bit of the big dark secret but never enough and also happens to be on the other side and in disguise. There's always a diguised female helper (Holly, Gustava, Meryl, Eva) whose cover gets blown and a an ally/friend Snake knows from way back ends up betraying him (Miller/Liquid, Campbell in MGS2, The Boss etc). When will we stop heaping praise on this man for reheating the same damn story multiple times?

>>201 I always took that as a deliberate idea of history repeating itself, the same events playing out in different contexts with different participants, as time spirals out. Each iteration has certain roles taken on by different characters, as you say - I always felt we were supposed to notice that events repeat themselves in each game, and the characters dutifully taking on their roles mostly don't realise their position in the bigger picture. There is an overarching story of the "deep state" Patriots orchestrating the events that unfold, each character playing their part. Snake and Otacon think they're stalking the Patriots, then find out they behaved exactly as the Patriots predicted they would when they lured them in. Raiden takes his mission seriously, but it's made obvious to the player that it is a simulation based on Snake's previous missions, and he is a puppet playing his part.

It makes me think of in the Bible how Judas betrayed Jesus for seemingly selfish reasons, but he was just playing the part he had to play for Jesus to be arrested and executed, in the divine plan to save humanity... or in the Bhagavad Gita when Krishna tells Arjuna that all humans are born to play the part He intended for them in his grand plan.

There was something else in the Japanese version which to me suggested the repitition of ideas and characters was deliberate. Certain characters are voiced by the same voice actress, which isn't the case in the English version, but my memory is a bit fuzzy on which ones...

>>202
Kojima just likes recycling scenes. Now that I think of it a lot of games from that era were the same. The first three Resident Evil games share virtually identical sequences too. Like the way all Star Wars movies have signiature set pieces. The real problem is how messy and convoluted the plot becomes. I took it as the Rashomon effect and postmodern hyperreality. Since the story is always revealed through different characters explanations and monologues, they are all just explaining their own subjective point of view and interpretation of what they think is really happening instead of objective reality. They are all more or less unreliable narrators.

But MGS4 is where things go wrong because it contradicts all the previous games on factual grounds. Solid Snake was killed off at the end of the tanker scenario in MGS2 and all the characters Raiden meets are revealed to be a simulation. But suddenly in MGS4 they're all back again and all of them are real and they're all related to people from MGS3. That one game just screws up the entire lore of the series.

I always thought the Patriots were basically a placeholder for the US shadow empire (the way Godzilla was used to represent nukes) and its schemes to manipulate and control the world rather than a Godlike entity that controls everything. Its more like samurai movies where there's this overarching idea of fate and humans (even powerful groups like the Patriots) are all foolish creatures playing games of power with each other that are doomed to fail while Heaven or Buddha silently watch. The only good guys are noble samurai regardless of whose side they are on.

>>203

>Solid Snake was killed off at the end of the tanker scenario in MGS2

I thought he survived, he's Pliskin in the Plant chapter? Which is a simulation, in the sense that a fire drill is a simulation, it's not just virtual reality. The characters he meets are simulations of the real ones we meet in MGS4? I really liked that about the MGS series, it makes you re-evaluate what you thought were “factual grounds”, and story is often told through the characters' own subjective interpretations.

>he couldn't have survived. Huge tankers that displace thousands of tons kill sailors by dragging them down as they sink.

He's Solid Snake! He's built different! I believe he did, and he was Pliskin.

The tanker really sank, and Big Shell was really built around it. The events and participants there were planned by the Patriots to recreate Shadow Moses, not so much as a training exercise for Raiden but to test the S3 plan, and how an individual can be manipulated with misinformation. This is done to Raiden and the player (even before the game was released, like how all the previews hyped up the return of Solid Snake, then it turns out he's a side character you only play as for a couple of hours). I think there's ambiguity around the word “simulation”, it's a simulation in the sense that it's staged, like how police might train in a simulated terror attack - not a computer simulation.

>>The characters he meets are simulations of the real ones we meet in MGS4?

My bad I was referring to the Colonel and Rose... they are AI chatbot versions of the versions we meet in MGS1 and 4. But Solidus, Vamp, Emma etc. are real and playing their part in the simulation. Remember Solidus raised Raiden as a child soldier and later orchestrated the events of MGS1 (getting Ocelot to convince Liquid to highjack REX). Raiden and Vamp are the same as the ones in MGS4, and Solidus's real body was recovered to rebuild Big Boss.
These Rose and Colonel chatbots predicted what we see today with AI chatbot versions of famous figures from through the ages. If the S3 plan (as Ocelot understood it) was to refine the perfect soldier like Solid Snake, you can see how each soldier having a personalised AI version of the Colonel and a save game lady that Snake had could be incredibly useful on the battlefield.
Do you think in the near future, real soldiers will be using AI to help them in battle the way the Colonel AI does for Raiden?

>MGS4 kinda does away with that. It gives you answers.

I agree, I think the misinformation was deliberate and interesting in MGS2, and then I remember how exciting it was the first time I played MGS4 getting those cold hard truths! And I think those rehashed situations and characters were a deliberate part of the master narrative of the series.

This morning I was playing Super Airwolf for the Mega Drive. In maybe 1997 I bought a copy from a pawn shop, but the cartridge was a weird shape, with ribbed ridges down the sides, and it didn't fit in my Sega. I never learned why, was it for a different model or something? Well I finally played it for the first time today, it's a pretty fun top-down scrolling shooter. The music's pretty good as well

>>206
Kojima got his idea of simulation from Baudrillard who was popular in Japan at the time. The idea is that simulation isn't a fake version of something real or a lie that hides the truth. Its a representation of an object that claims to be faithful but has no real connection to it. A simulation replaces the thing its supposed to represent. Porn is supposed to be raw uncensored real sex but nobody used to have sex like that irl. People end up modelling their meatspace sex lives on internet porn so it ends up becoming real or more accurately replacing what was real. Our ability to distinguish between real and artifical has broken down. The Big Shell incident is a staged event based on myths about Shadow Moses. Its designed to take rookies like Raiden and turn them into replacements for Solid Snake. All of the bosses, the bad guys, the mission profile are rough copies of MGS1. Its a meta commentary on gaming i.e. Konami will just pump out soulless Metal Gear clones that rehash the first game and the military will turn warfare into a game and use gaming to recruit mindless soldiers. The breakdown of our ability to distinguish truth and falsehood will make us easy to control through manipulating content.

This also means we don't know where the line between real and staged is in the game. For all we know, Snake/Pliskin, Otacon, EE etc are all actors and the big reveal at the end is part of the exercise. Its one of the what ifs of the game. Do Snake and Otacon actually interfere in the Patriots' simulation or are they just actors too?

>Do you think in the near future, real soldiers will be using AI to help them in battle the way the Colonel AI does for Raiden?

They already do that. Usually it means taking metadata and demographic information to generate kill lists for drones, death squads, or the air force.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-nsas-skynet-program-may-be-killing-thousands-of-innocent-people/

This is more recent
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how-israel-uses-ai-to-select-bombing-targets

>>208

>They already do that

Yeah I knew about that, I was meaning specifically like how in MGS1, Snake has direct one-to-one communication with the Colonel, then in MGS2 this role is replaced by an AI version of the Colonel. In real life, a human commanding officer can command his troop as a whole, but can't give every soldier his full attention at all times; if all of that officer's expertise and experience could be stored as an AI entity and each soldier had their own personal Colonel guiding them in real-time in battle, military operations would be more efficient...
We already have this happening with AI chatbots of famous figures, I wonder how long before individual real-life soldiers will be making decisions in the field based on AI guidance...
I'm stoned and I'm rambling hehe :P

I just got the platinum trophy on maybe the second-worst football game I ever played. It's called Super Arcade Soccer 2021, and I got it for about £2 in a PSN sale. Everything about it is shit, but at least it was entertainingly shit. Here's some funny things I found:

• Player stats seem to have a huge effect on shooting accuracy, but not pass or lob accuracy. The best way to score is to use high-powered passes instead of the shoot button.
• There is no point aiming penalties for this reason, the best way is to aim straight ahead and press shoot, the game will decide which direction you're shooting
• Goalkeepers seem to either have lighting-quick responses, or have been lobotomised, when reacting to each individual shot in the game.
• You can often chip it from halfway up the pitch and the GK will watch it bounce past him into the net
• Goalkeepers seem to have a thing that causes other players to fall when they come close. I think this is for when they dive at an attacker's feet and save the ball, but it means you can run up the whole pitch with your GK and opponents will fall over when they try to tackle you
• GKs don't have tackle animations, but it still plays the sfx when you press the button
• Like many football games, there is a radar view at the bottom showing player positions. There are no walls around the pitch, so you can run forever away from play, and watch the radar marker run across the screen. I got my player markers up on the scoreboard at the top of the screen.
• Usually in football games, just like real life, a game is abandoned if too many players are sent off. Not this game. I am currently soft-locked, because I got all 10 outfield players sent off, and when the other team scored, the goalie is taking kick-off, but he has no one to kick it to, so now they're just standing there with time paused.

I like to play Jet De Go nowadays. It's fun to have a civilian airplane game that focuses more on the feeling of flying than on making sure you spend 20 minutes going through checklists before you're allowed to move the plane. The physics are so simplified it can actually be disorienting when you're used to flying games (even Ace Combat), and you don't have to remember too many buttons since most functions are just outsourced to hitting triangle, so it's a fairly simple game. The gameplay of Jet De Go 2 is odd, though: it's basically an arcade game, but a large part of your time playing it is spent flying basically straight and level without doing anything for 100 mile segments because you're in control of the whole flight (unlike the first game which fast forwards automatically until you need to make a course adjustment), so you wind up having quite a busy arcade game during takeoff and landing, followed by 30+ minutes of not doing very much. It's like if Ace Combat made you fly the plane across the map to get to the combat zone before you were allowed to battle. That doesn't bother me personally, but it's an odd design decision to put so much waiting in an arcade title. Maybe you're just supposed to enjoy the super low-resolution satellite photo scenery of Japan passing by - though that doesn't help much if you're doing a long overwater flight to Okinawa...
Anyway, as a bonus the games are a neat time capsule of Japan Airlines in the years that they were released (2000, 2002, and 2005) and the soundtrack is good.

So Touhou EsOD runs at like 3000 fps on my machine and I'm trying to my hardest to beat the game without installing the patch for shits and giggles so far I've made it as far 36% through with pretty abysmal high scores.

im so lonely https://www.twitch.tv/yunzhi9

I just bought Viva Football off ebay but accidentally got the unusable PC version instead of the PS1 one >_<

I’ve been trying to relive my teen years by recreating 9/11 in FSX but I always get the flight path wrong and I can’t go on YouTube anymore to see how to do it

>>217 After I 100%'d GTA San Andreas I used to do 9/11s on the skyscrapers in downtown Los Santos. You could also lead police jets to crash into them

Every platformer should have the ability to backflip.

This game looks really fun! I want it! https://youtu.be/fZRDu2noW-U?t=5622

Is there an English patch for the Serial Experiments Lain PS1 game?

I bought 3 games in the PSN sale yesterday for 10 bucks!

• King Of Fighters '98 (I never played any of these before)
• Cyber Pool (this is a quite addictive pool-based puzzle game. It's fun, but the worst thing about it is how slow it is. Other pool and snooker games I played had a "speed up time" button so you don't have to wait for the balls to settle)
• Two Point Hospital (I always wanted to play Theme Hospital back in the day, so I'm looking forward to trying this)

Two Point Hospital is quite addictive! The diseases are funny ^_^

I just realized you can go into the hospital in GTA IV and shoot the patients.

I wish there was a brothel management game where you can traffic and manage girls and shotas to high paying clients and dispose of troublemakers in dirty creeks

>>225
I doubt you'll find that last part but check these out
https://vndb.org/g3593

I think the wee battery in my PS2 has died, so it can no longer save the date and time. I've been playing some new games I picked up and the save files say 1999

I'm trying to play REmake and I love it but Jill's jiggly boob physics keep distracting me from the horror

I was just thinking about a little game phenomenon I realised I haven't seen for a long time. In old games that let you adjust the screen position, I would often see a screen that says LOADING... and then the screen would shift a few pixels when it loaded my screen adjustment setting 👆👉

been playing alot of higurashi lately. good story, in the middle of chapter 3 at the moment. cant wait to see how the story unfolds in the Answer arcs

>>231 glad you are enjoying it - it's one of my favs. wish I could read it for the first time again

I bought 6 games for less than £20 yesterday!

• In the PSN sale I got Worms (PS1 Emulation) (it was free!) and Worms World Party (£2 or something). I had them both on PS1 but it was fun revisiting them. These emulated version let you rewind time so I was owning the computer with perfect shots :P
• I also got Kandagawa Jet Girls, I watched the anime a while ago. So far it is quite fun, and the menus are nice.
• In CEX I found This Is Football 2003 and Super Bust-A-Move 2 for PS2. Not played them yet. You can find quite interesting stuff sometimes at CEX, but every one I've ever been in has been staffed by the most awkward nerds in the world, I don't know why it's always such a painful experience.
• I got Soul Calibur VI in Cash Converters for £7. I was waiting at the counter for maybe 6 seconds, the girl was tidying stuff away, when her supervisor was like hey! Serve this guy! And she was all apologetic but I really didn't care, she was clearly busy and I'd only just got there. She was looking at it while ringing it up and said hmmm looks pretty cool, looks like Tekken or something! And I said yeah a guy at my work was talking about it the other day, and then it was here, it must be fate or something :) and she was like huhh yeah that seems to be happening a lot recently! Very strange! And she had such a pretty smile, it's burnt into my mind, maybe I'll go back and buy something else!

I spent $10 yesterday for a used copy of Resident Evil Directors Cut edition for the PS1. I found it in a thrift store. Practically a steal. The disk and box aren’t in great condition but it runs fine so far.

>>234 ah how I love that basement music.

>>235
How did they manage to fuck that up? Also they promised an uncensored intro but didn't deliver because of a production error?! Begs the question, of all versions of Resident Evil, which was the best release? My bet's on the DS version because it made the knife usable and added some extra enemies.

>>236
The soundtrack of the director's cut sucked cause the composer was just bad at his job, he also pretended to be deaf to avoid any criticism.
Also
The best version of resident evil is the gamecube remake, the steam remaster would have been the best if they didn't lose the original renders of the backgrounds they had to use the compressed gamecube ones.

I fucking love Ultraman Fighting Evolution 3.