Quote from: Verbatim on June 27, 2017, 02:58:15 PM

it's kinda funny how you play strategy games to feel smart though

Boy you got me there. That's the exact reason why I play them xD

there's no need to get insecure about it

personally i'd rather play chess instead of Look at Map for 8 Hours and Pretend Like You're Playing a Game

or Stare at Ants Moving Slowly from One Place to Another to Slowly Kill Other Ants

Quote from: Verbatim on June 27, 2017, 12:54:43 PM

i'd struggle playing the game for longer than 3 minutes

Cause strategy games are too much to comprehend for your tiny brain

they're actually extremely easy, so it makes sense why you like them so much

but for me, it makes them boring

i love strategy games when there are actual things going on instead of absolutely nothing for hours on end

Quote from: Verbatim on June 27, 2017, 12:01:36 AM

hopefully

you know if half of the things you said on here got out, you would become an unapproachable pariah, right?

do you think people don't already know what i believe offline

Super fucking boring. People constantly asking you if random movies are good, straightening up shelves, making room for new releases, making sure the returns in the drop slot are actually what they're supposed to be, calling people who left the wrong movie/no movie at all on the cases and then being yelled at for their mistakes.

And shit music constantly being played.

what you call boring, i call soul-crushing

hopefully

>metroidvania

meh

0.8

A six hour drive, and I have a pretty decent view of it.

Quote from: Verbatim on June 26, 2017, 02:21:57 PM

Quote from: Ian on June 26, 2017, 02:15:16 PM

The real question is how much will a majority of the people interested have to pay to scalpers to get one after the inevitable shortages?

"Nintendo has also confirmed to IGN that the company plans to ship 'significantly more' SNES Classic units than it did for the NES Classic."

So 10 more than the NES Classic? Gotcha.

no reason to believe this

The real question is how much will a majority of the people interested have to pay to scalpers to get one after the inevitable shortages?

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/26/15874154/nintendo-snes-classic-edition-release-date-price-announced

Games:

Contra III: Alien Wars
Donkey Kong Country
EarthBound
Final Fantasy III (but it's actually Final Fantasy VI, obviously)
F-Zero
Kirby Super Star
Kirby's Dream Course
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Mega Man X
Secret of Mana
Star Fox
Star Fox 2 (holy fuck)
Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
Super Castlevania IV
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Super Mario World
Super Metroid
Super Punch-Out!!
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

>Star Fox 2 was a planned sequel to the original Star Fox for the SNES
>canceled and never officially released because the SNES was on its way out.
>over time, a ROM of the unfinished game surfaced on the Internet
>been playable on emulators for ages
>finally getting an official release
>there's a legal way to play Star Fox 2 now
>only morally-upstanding people like me will appreciate how awesome this is

have them watch blackfish

Sure, I guess, depending on the girl?

Do people under the age of 30 still slow dance?

I actually had a video idea where I'd talk about this in-depth, but I guess I can touch upon it here.

My dad was hugely into gaming in his childhood, but he never really ventured beyond the NES and SNES. He hated handhelds and didn't like Sega. By the time I was born, the PS1 had already been released in America, but my dad still only had his two Nintendo consoles—and understandably so; since he became a father, he probably didn't have much time to be playing video games anymore.

That said, even though I was born well into the fifth generation, I pretty much grew up with old-school Nintendo games, and the same ones my dad used to play.

When I was two or three, the first game I ever played was Sesame Street: ABC & 123 for the NES, which was a two-in-one educational game for toddlers such as myself at the time. I'm not sure if it actually taught me anything—I think it just kind of tripped me out.



Eventually, when I turned three or four, I tried lots of other games—among the classics, the Super Mario Bros. trilogy, The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, Metroid, Castlevania, Contra, and plenty more. I loved them all—even the not-so-good ones like Karnov and Deadly Towers—but I particularly enjoyed Zelda and Castlevania.

Naturally, I was terrible, and could never make it very far into any game without my dad's help—I preferred to watch my dad play anyway, because he actually knew what he was doing. Super Mario Bros. may just have been the first game I've ever beaten, even though I probably used the warp zones. My dad would beat everything else—even Punch-Out!!, which is pretty impressive, given that the game's challenge is based on your own reaction time, and he was already pushing 30 (your reaction time peaks in your mid-20s). The only game that ever gave him trouble was Castlevania and Zelda II, which are pretty intense games—kinda the Dark Souls of that era.

When I watched him play Metroid, he kept Samus's gender a secret from me until he beat it. I always appreciated that.

Today, I've beaten almost all the games that kicked my ass as a child—I still have to beat Punch-Out!!, though, and some day, I will.

By the time my dad introduced me to the Super Nintendo, I was six years old, and video games had become my favorite hobby. There was almost nothing else I wanted to do—nothing else came close. My favorite SNES games to play were Killer Instinct, A Link to the Past, Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, and Yoshi's Island. I liked Super Metroid, too, but I only declared it my favorite game sometime in my adulthood a couple summers ago.

This was also around the same time I got my turquoise Game Boy Color. That was when I discovered Pokémon, obviously, and played some dope-ass games like Wario Land 3 and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons.

Never really played the Nintendo 64 in my childhood—we picked one up much later. As such, all I knew at the time were 8-bit to 16-bit sprite-based graphics. The first next-gen console we had ever bought since I was baby was the PlayStation 2, which was quite the leap in graphical capability—I remember that being a mind-blowing experience. From there, we got ourselves a GameCube—never bought an Xbox until early adulthood, because fuck Xbox.

At some point in my teens, my dad and I decided to start collecting old video game consoles—even obscure ones like the Vectrex and the Fairchild Channel F—and now we own nearly every major console in existence, with the exception of Microsoft's, because Microsoft can suck a fat dick.

In summary: my first console was the NES, and my first game was an educational Sesame Street game. Gaming is still one of my favorite pastimes, and even my dad's interest in gaming has slowly been rekindling as of late. Between the two of us, we have over 1000 games in our collection across pretty much any console you could name.

idk i just call him that

Trying to get the Diskun trophy (trophy that basically signifies 100% completion) in SSBM was fucking stupidly difficult. I've never had so jump through so many stupid little hoops.

The trophy requires you to score every single "bonus point" after a match at least once. When you complete a match in that game, you'll get points based on the random shit you did during the fight—like, you'll score 1000 points if you bounced on a Goomba's head or something, or you'll get 2000 points if you KO'd while someone using a certain item. You can also lose points—maybe you'll lose 500 points for missing too many grabs.

There's also really stupid and obscure ones. You get 8000 points for throwing a Poké Ball during a game and having a Celebi or Mew pop out, for example. Mew has a 1 in 151 chance of appearing, but only after you unlocked every character and every stage (which, in itself, takes a lot of work). Celebi has a 1 in 251 chance of appearing, but only after you do a bunch of other chores first.

Then there are bonuses that are just asinine. There's one called Hammer Drop, that simply requires you to drop a hammer. As in, the item. The problem is, once you pick up this item, your character starts swinging it around uncontrollably, like in Donkey Kong, making it impossible to drop except under some extremely obscure circumstances, like getting hit by lava as you're swinging it around, making it so you can drop it. It's so fucking weird.

And then of course, there are bonuses that are just straight-up insanely difficult, like No Damage Clear, which has you beating one of the arcade modes without taking one single solitary hit. Even when you set the game to Very Easy, this is an extremely frustrating one to get, and I'll never forget when I finally did it with my main man Roy.

Here's a whole list of the rest of the bonuses you have to get.

Once the game records them all, you unlock the final trophy:



I probably consider this my #1 gaming accomplishment.