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- Comment on List of 3rd person shooter-3D platformer hybrids I know of (and looking for more) 2 weeks ago:
Too bad, but I guess that’s what happens when a site is crowd-edited. Changing the genre might not be something people stop to change. Pragmata and Akimboy are just listed as a “Behind View” “Action” games. The filter uses AND operators which means that users would need to mark up games with all 3 tags to work that way.
Fun to see that 2D side scrollers are considered 3rd person by some users though!
- Comment on List of 3rd person shooter-3D platformer hybrids I know of (and looking for more) 2 weeks ago:
You can try this
www.mobygames.com/game/genre:behind-view/
In the genre filter you can add Platform and Action and Shooter
- Comment on Nier Automata 2 weeks ago:
Loved this one and the anime too.
- Comment on What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been playing games since the 80s. I wouldn’t call myself a gamer. Here are a few personal hallmarks…
- Crash ‘n’ the Boys: Street Challenge on NES was the first time I had fun playing multiplayer.
- Metroid II: Return of Samus was the first game I was addicted to. Super Metroid is still my favourite game.
- UMKIII was the first game I actually got pretty good at.
- Starcraft. My brother played this and I loved being a spectator, in hindsight I realized that gaming could be a sport that people would watch at this moment.
- Quake and Descent were the first times I got motion sickness playing games!
- Counter-Strike because everyone played it at university.
- FFVII because I never played it and it is apparently kinda famous…
- Comment on Is Flappy Bird a good game? 3 weeks ago:
I play this version at work sometimes
- Comment on [question] help me pick a game 3 weeks ago:
I’ve only played one and I recommend it: NieR:Automata. If you don’t choose that one, you can watch the series.
- Comment on GrapheneOS calls on privacy focused app developers to boycott European Unified Attestation 4 weeks ago:
Just use the link to the Mastodon post. That site is junk.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
The Toaplan Arcade Collections were on sale. 16+ games (if you count the different releases of some games).
I also played Thank Goodness You’re Here. Good fun.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It has been going on for awhile. The CEO sees this as an opportunity.
- Comment on Forget your astral sign, which Muppet do you want to be? 1 month ago:
Me?
Me Sid.
Me want cookie.
Nom nom nom nom.
C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me…
- Comment on This game is my apocalypse - A thoughtful review of Terra Nil from a Solarpunk's perspective 2 months ago:
I played on Switch and on 2 occasions this game crashed forcing me to restart the map. It was so frustrating. As soon as I finished it 100% I deleted it. Too bad, because like you said, bugs severely impact this game.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Annalynn is on sale (Switch), so I picked that up. Immensely fun, looking forward to unlocking more palettes.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
The other day we saw a coop game on sale and decided to get it. My partner and my son aren’t fans, but I think it is just challenging enough for pick up and play.
Snow Bros. Wonderland is the game. An attempted reboot of the single screen platformer by TOAPLAN.
This game is hampered by input lag and frustrating platforming, nobody else wants to finish it, but I will because now I’m so pissed off at it that I need to rage-complete it.
- Comment on Tanglewood released on Nintendo Switch 3 months ago:
Cool. I’d play it if it ever goes on sale.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Super fighting robot… MEGA MAN!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ufVQIUEiYc
I’ll take more Mega Man. I’ll take Mega Man X.
- Comment on Games you played inside video games. 4 months ago:
Good Boy Galaxy has some in-game games including Poopsweeper (a Minesweeper clone), Fishing, Rhythm games, juggling and a Star Fox/Railshooter game
- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 4 months ago:
- Comment on My thumb stick on my 3ds is disintegrating, and my switch is starting to follow. Please help. 4 months ago:
I’be replaced my Switch sticks with cheap kits I’ve bought off different stores. You should be able to get similar kits.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 4 months ago:
- No quick restart options for arcade-style games like shmups
- Games that end up being too easy once you unlock of figure out one mechanic or technique like dash-dodge or iframe rolling and now the entire game is just the same loop
- Unskippable or long intros or cutscenes (I sold Guilty Gear Strive because of that eagle thing…)
- The spam garbage ripoffs on the Nintendo eShop that shouldn’t be there
- Code in a box
- When DLC characters are visible on character select even if you didn’t buy them (looking at those 10 greyed-out characters on SF6 are so annoying)
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 4 months ago:
Super Metroid will always be my favourite. I also enjoyed Axiom Verge and Bloodstained ROTN.
I generally like shorter Metroidvania like Iconoclasts and some of the Shantae series or even Yoku’s Island Express which has some backtracking.
The Metroidvania tag is a bit like Dubstep in music, a lot of those Dubstep tracks aren’t Dubstep but they can still be fun for some people.
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 4 months ago:
Based on current tastes…
- Super Metroid
- SSBU or a Street Fighter
- FFVI (because I still haven’t finished it) or Chrono Trigger
- a shmup, any vertical shmup, Crimzon Clover WE probably
- Mega Man X
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 4 months ago:
This is Bubble-101. Before the thing exists, imagine the future…
threatening that another country will get there first combined with pure players like Nvidia, the uncertainty of whether or not it could be a good investment and being able to convince governments and investors to pump money into it.
If AGI ever becomes what they are promising, everything after 2022 should be a case study for marketing and communications students because they are doing a piss-poor job inspiring confidence and just sound like grifters.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendstions Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 months ago:
I rewarded myself this week with a newer release than what I would normally be drawn to when I saw a game in the bargain bin.
I picked up Guilty Gear -STRIVE- at -30% for the Switch. Where I live, that made it cheaper than on Amazon and cheaper than the digital version has ever been.
I haven’t played any fighting game in ages and while I had seen clips of this game, I had never played it or any Arc System Works games (BlazBlu-, Dragon Ball FighterZ) so everything about it is a little knew to me. My fighting game experience is lots of Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct, some Street Fighter and Darkstalkers, about two hours of Skullgirls, and maybe an hour of Samurai Shodown, Red Earth, and Cyberbots.
My initial impressions are positive. There isn’t a soul online to play with, but I’ll be working my way through training for quite some time. Graphics are very impressive. Music-wise, it isn’t something that I’d ever listen to willingly, but it certainly suits the game and sets it apart from others in the genre.
Mechanics and controls are just right for someone like me, but I don’t understand their ranking system for online play. You have to play a match and the system ranks you on that and won’t allow you to play ranked matches below your level. Ranking me 6 out of 8 might be generous since I literally just mashed the same button.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 5 months ago:
Not everyone’s thing, but there are pre-90s shmups that are ok…
Here are some games I’ve played
- Scramble
- Xevious
- Stinger
- Liquid Kids (excellent)
- NewZealand Story (excellent)
- Rastan
- Omega Fighter
- Growl
- Darius I / II
- Gradius
- X-Multiply
- Contra
- TwinBee
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 months ago:
After seeing comments here on patientgamers I was reminded that I wanted to play Yoku’s Island Express. So I did. 97% complete. Not sure what’s left to do but I’ll figure it out.
Also around half-way through Pepper Grinder so I’ll be working on that for a couple evenings.
- Comment on Were you blessed to experience this masterpiece? 😼 5 months ago:
Same, only played local but I got the game for something like $13 CAD.
I did have the internet connection module, but not for playing online.
I picked up both items in order to use Phoenix to play pirated game but ended up liking PSO.
- Comment on Built to last 5 months ago:
Back in the Nintendo era we picked up a copy of Final Fantasy I when the local rental shop went out of business… The battery in it was 100% dead. So my brother would just leave the Nintendo on.
I don’t think I’ve had a console affected by this though.
Recently I had an Evercade cart die. It was the flash memory that gave up, though. Not the battery.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 5 months ago:
Anything under 3 is the swimsuit ending :)
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 5 months ago:
Probably winter 91 or spring 92. Not sure when, but I saw the ads on TV and I needed to get Metroid II: Return of Samus.
I was 7.
I asked. I begged. And for Christmas or a birthday it came.
Every day when I came home from school, I played. Sometimes I took it with me and played at lunch.
Nobody else played that game. Nobody knew what I was talking about. I took the booklet with me and tried to draw the creatures.
I was stuck at one point. It lasted weeks. Maybe longer. One night before dinner I made some progress. My mother actually let me keep playing until I got to a save point.
Whatever feeling I had at that moment, I’m not sure I’ll find it again, but my expression must have been enough. I made it to the save point.
Eventually I beat the game but I’d look forward to getting home to try and speedrun it 100% And eventually I could consistantly beat it under 3 hours with 100% items. I haven’t had a game since that I’ve enjoyed as much except maybe a few shmups.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 6 months ago:
Most any criticism of the show is true. I will day that it is a good series to watch with people who haven’t watched Star Trek before because it is a little un-Trek-ish and there is less to stop and explain. Also, since the mission is top secret it has little overlap with anything except SNW.
As a Star Trek fan, I was happy to get more Trek, the same as I was happy to get more Picard (that S2 was a pain though!), Lower Decks, Prodigy, and even the Short Treks.
My wife was pulled into the world of Star Trek by Discovery (a full 36 years after I’d started watching the franchise) and now she loves it and wants to watch all of the other series. So, Discovery gets a point for that.
(I haven’t seen Section 31 yet. It is supposed to be very bad.)