What kind of monster puts up fifteen videos on youtube and shuts them out to the public. Reading through the dark souls journey, since I've the time and I'm not motivated for much else right now. Watched the last video with Gwyn. Opening made my stomach crawl for reasons. Great parry chains on Gwyn. Props to playing risky with PW too. I don't think I'd ever heard your voice before now. Weird to hear it. Halfwise what I'd've imagined but not what I'd expect. I guess to make things slightly more on topic with collecting, did you every try out any of the other souls games?

I do own every Souls game, but besides DaS, I've only ever tried DaS2 for about ten minutes before my body viscerally rejected it. I found it revolting. It was like waking up to find all my possessions swapped for replicas with slight imperfections, and it was just the most off-putting experience. I'd like to give it another shot eventually, but yeah. Bad first impression.

I believe it was you who told me to stick it out with the first game, though, when I was still expressing my grievances with the multiplayer and such (which I still loathe). I appreciate that, because now it's one of my favorite games of all time, even if it's starting to fall a little out of favor with the younger generation these days.

Sorry for not responding to your (multiple) other posts btw. I'm not ignoring them; I'll respond as soon as I can.

Same reason why academy members get to vote on what wins an Oscar despite not watching any of the movies.

And I can understand wanting to put cringe redditors in their place, but Napalm is right; TLoU2 didn’t do anything truly outstanding.

the award for innovation in accessibility, at the very least, was well-deserved

a friend of mine has been reading The Rise of Kyoshi, which is supposed to be good i guess?

idk if i could get into tertiary material like this myself, though

oh, good—so you got to see me finish dark souls after all

In all seriousness, like Ender said, despite everything, you being alive is obviously preferable to you being dead, and knowing the truth really is the most important thing to me in the end. In any case, very few people get to know what people will say about them after they die, so congratulations on that. That must've been surreal.

I went ahead and re-examined all of the interactions we've had on this new account of yours, given that they've been thoroughly recontextualized. It was an interesting experience. I've never really had a negative interaction with you as Sandtrap, which I can't really say about almost anyone else here, so I'm happy to say that we've more or less always been on good terms, even under this new identity of yours. A few philosophical disagreements here and there, but if my memory serves correctly, we've never really fought over much.

There were a number of users who called your bluff, and I won't lie and say that I wasn't the least bit skeptical myself, but I chose to give you the benefit of the doubt, because it seemed like the right attitude to have at the time—and I stand by that.

However, simultaneously, I think it's very important for you to understand what you've really done here. People lie, that's whatever. But lying about your own death, I think, is somewhat of a jumping off point for your trustworthiness. It tends to call everything you've ever said to us into question, because if you're willing to lie about something like that, it begs the question as to what you wouldn't lie about. You know what I mean? It's the only logical question I have left to ask.

I don't know how we proceed at this point, but that's how I'm feeling about this little plot twist here at the moment. To reiterate, I'm glad you're okay, because I'm glad when anyone's okay, but I guess I'm still trying to process a lot of this.

Is Elden Ring really that hyped? I thought Cyberpunk would've been on the list, although I guess it launched recently so that might explain it.

i mean, it's a collab between the dark souls guy and the game of thrones guy, so not too surprising imo

that said, i did expect it to go to botw2, but i'm biased

Quote from: CMD.exe on December 10, 2020, 01:14:41 PM

>The Last of Us 2

deserved

will probably win too

lol

>The Last of Us 2

deserved

will probably win too

I thought not, it's not a story the Jedi would tell you.

what did you just say?

about mein kampf?

if it's meh/good, i get to enjoy a good eva thing one last time

if it's bad, i get to become an anituber and write up a big video essay on why it's bad and rake in lots of youtube money

win win

i mean, they're used pretty interchangeably here, although i suppose "store" is more common

YouTube

Also, how can you watch cutscenes like this without getting chills? For every dumb Goofy/Donald moment, there's a moment like this.

it's a good moment, but that roxas prologue did not need to be 3 hours long

or if it did, it didn't need to be so boooooring

On unrelated note, have you heard of the game called Hades?

yeah, i recently picked it up as my September game at 20% off

haven't tried it yet, but i've heard great things so i'll play it soon

When it comes to the gummi ships, there are definitely some things you just tolerate more or just like more as a child. The appeal isn't the same when I come back to it now, but I think maybe it's because it was also the first game where I could not just fly, but also build a spaceship. So 9-13 year old me thought it was the coolest shit ever. Same thing goes for the light/dark stuff lmao, it was very fake pseudo-deep but it tried to be profound in a way I hadn't been exposed to before.

you ever play r&c? the second game has customizable ships, too, so i feel like if you haven't, you'd probably have a field day with that game, because it has the sickest space battles i've ever seen for a game that isn't entirely focused on them

Quote from: Verbatim on December 02, 2020, 05:21:47 AM

finally playing through kh2

this series is trash and i regret everything

Why you have been playing it still, lol

boredom, and it's not actually that bad tbh, i'm just pretty disappointed after all the great things i've heard

a buddy of mine is convinced that once i make it to a certain point in the game, i'll turn around on it, so i'm holding out for that—because he said if i'm still not into it at that point, i don't have to play the rest of the series

Pretty good NES haul:

StarTropics
Bubble Bobble
Lode Runner
Mighty Bomb Jack
Athena
Taboo: The Sixth Sense
Werewolf: The Last Warrior
Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll
Castle of Dragon
Pipe Dream
Iron Tank: The Invasion of Normandy
Ultimate Air Combat
F-15 Strike Eagle
Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing
Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach
Athletic World
Super Team Games
M.C. Kids
Spot: The Video Game
Mad Max
Jeopardy! Junior Edition
Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular
The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
Sesame Street: Big Bird's Hide & Speak
Fisher-Price: Perfect Fit
...and some weird unlicensed game called Impossible Mission II.

The five games at the top of this list were things I've been trying to hunt down for ages—StarTropics and Bubble Bobble because they're good games, and the other three because they're all classic games from 1987, which is old as fuck, and I've always wanted to collect all of the oldest ones from the '80s. We only need 43 more before we can say we own the entire '80s collection (although there's one in particular—Stadium Events—that we'll never get).

Taboo: The Sixth Sense is neat because it's not a game, but a tarot card simulator. It's supposed to read your future or something, and I guess there's urban legends about it predicting people's murders, or some shit like that? So that's fun.

Iron Tank is interesting in that it's actually a sequel to a game called TNK III, which marked the debut of Ralf Jones, who is one of the Ikari Warriors, who would later go on to star in series like Metal Slug and The King of Fighters. I've always appreciated how basically every SNK game ever is part of a shared universe. I think that's super cool.

M.C. Kids and Spot: The Video Game complete the "corporate food industry" trilogy, as it were, since I've had Yo! Noid in the collection for a very long time. I don't believe there's any more of these to get, so I think I have them all now. These games are sponsored by McDonald's, 7-Up, and Domino's respectively, which is pretty funny. Unfortunately, the cartridge for M.C. Kids is pretty fucked up around where the PCB is. The PCB itself appears to be fine, but it's exposed and difficult to insert, so I'm gonna have to figure out how to replace the casing... but unfortunately, it's broken along the label side, so it'll be difficult to find a solution that keeps the label intact.

You'd never guess the most valuable game in this batch: it's Athletic World. Similar to World Class Track Meet, this is one of those track & field games that requires you to have a peripheral known as the Power Pad. It's basically a DDR pad that produces controller inputs by stepping on it. There's only a handful of games that require it, and it's certainly an interesting relic of technology, but it's not actually why this particular game is valuable.

Really, it's just because of the label. If you have a loose Athletic World cartridge, and it doesn't say the words "Family Fun Fitness" (FFF) on the cover, then the game is only gonna go for about $10. If you do have that label, however, the game shoots up to about $85 loose... and the one we picked up just so happens to have the FFF label, making it the second most valuable NES game in our collection (behind Stack-Up, still valued at about $100 loose).

I don't even think the poor guy who sold it to us even realized, but that's the game. Gotta be on top of that shit.

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