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Post by Xeogred on Aug 14, 2018 18:23:20 GMT -5
Speaking of Silent Hill, that creature is both really impressive and terrifying. Something about the low-fi PS2 aesthetics (it kind of looks like a Simple 2000 game tbh) makes it even worse / better. It's basically its asshole, too. The first phase is the turtle face head thing for a throwback to Contra 3, then it turns around and you see THIS! Boogers and puke flying everywhere. Yeah I actually was kind of laughing at how hilariously nasty it was.
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Post by Ex on Aug 18, 2018 22:02:35 GMT -5
I have not forgotten about Severance: Blade Of Darkness, the game @tsumuri set me up to play this month. GOG no longer sells it sadly, but digging through my archives, I found the digital copy I bought years ago from GOG when it was still there. So I'm all set to play it. I'm planning on starting Severance next week. I'm in the middle of two RPGs right now; Final Fantasy X and Mass Effect 2, but I'll try to squeeze Severance in there somehow. Watching Youtube videos I have to say, there's no way in hell FromSoftware didn't take uh, "inspiration" for the Souls series via Severance: Blade of Darkness. The similarities are blatant uncanny.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2018 4:02:29 GMT -5
Watching Youtube videos I have to say, there's no way in hell FromSoftware didn't take uh, "inspiration" for the Souls series via Severance: Blade of Darkness. Severance has something even the Souls games sorely lack: The best dismemberment system since Soldier of Fortune.
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Post by toei on Aug 19, 2018 15:46:34 GMT -5
So, time crept up on me, and it's already late August. I don't know that I'll have time to tackle Shinobi PS2 at all before the month is done. I'm working on something video game-related right now, and I want to stay on it while my interest is at its highest. I don't know how long it'll take me, but I've only got two week-ends before September. I might just still try neo-Shinobi then, but I guess this means I finish this challenge with a 2/3.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 19, 2018 16:02:09 GMT -5
Oh, if you're in the South, the summer isn't over for a while yet.
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Post by toei on Aug 19, 2018 16:34:21 GMT -5
Even up here, it's gonna be hot for a good while longer. Maybe we can turn September in a special extension month?
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Post by chibby on Aug 19, 2018 16:51:01 GMT -5
Even up here, it's gonna be hot for a good while longer. Maybe we can turn September in a special extension month? I mean, what are we going to do, charge you a late fee? I can't speak for anyone else here, but I don't think anyone is super picky about how you meet the terms of the challenge. The idea was just that it'd be fun to get people out of their comfort zone/talking about games we've recommended for each other. Anyway I'm not going to shame anyone for not meeting a specific deadline, when your hobbies turn into chores it kills the fun.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 19, 2018 18:46:19 GMT -5
Yeah, that's what I'm going to do. I still have a run of Thief Gold I need to do, and if I don't get to it this month, I'll try for the next. Despite beating a few games, I've felt like I'm in a bit of gaming doldrums as of late.
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Post by anayo on Aug 19, 2018 19:47:05 GMT -5
anayo = Nightmare Circus-He already tested and stopped playing this, so I'm not sure what Anayo's playing this month. I beat Dune: Battle for Arrakis for July, so I'm playing Ghouls and Ghosts for August. I'm taking a break from Ghouls and Ghosts. This break may or may not be permanent. Here's why: First impressions: I love the presentation, premise, music, and atmosphere of Ghouls and Ghosts. I have a few bones to pick with the difficulty (no pun intended, although now once that wordplay has come to my attention, it strikes me as a happy accident, so I'm not changing it). I thought G&G's difficulty would be stimulating and fun, since I've beaten titles like Darius II and Revenge of Shinobi this year. Here's the thing, though: DII and RoS had a mixture of gentle parts and hard parts. Parts like, "On level 5 there's a tricky enemy formation that's hard to break through." I died on it a dozen times, then turned the corner and figured it out. Then a little later there might be another part like that. Ultimately though I could feel the sense of progress and growing proficiency. So psychologically I could think ahead and tell myself, "I'll beat this if I keep at it for a few more days." This feedback loop kept me coming back until I beat them. Ghouls and Ghosts is nothing but parts like that "tricky enemy formation on level 5 that kept kicking my ass" part. Imagine Super Mario Bros., except you die as soon as you reach the first question mark box. You die 4 of 5 times figuring it out, then the process starts over again as soon as you reach the first warp pipe. Then you repeat the process again when you reach the first goomba. And again at the first koopa troopa. Granted, Ghouls and Ghosts offers "practice mode", which I presume gives you unlimited lives and continues so you can figure the game out before taking it on "for real". The thing is, with unlimited attempts I managed get past each hairy part (not sure why I bother phrasing that way, since all the parts are hairy parts), but I would walk away from the accomplishment with a feeling that smacked suspiciously of coincidence or luck. Sure, I got through the gauntlet of bottomless pits where you have to hop on temporarily extended goblin tongues and a conveyor belt of hovering stones while airborne enemies take pot shots at you, but if you handed me the controller and said, "Do it again." I sure as hell couldn't reproduce it. So then I started rationalizing that I'd just need to practice. Then I think my brain started categorizing it as work, because the proficiency needed to clear every challenge this game threw at me seemed so remote and distant that I just couldn't visualize when I'd attain it. Then I started procrastinating, because I'd get home from work tired from the actual stuff I do 8 hours a day and didn't relish the idea of unwinding to even more work. Then before I knew it two weeks had gone by and I hadn't touched any Sega Genesis games, because I told myself I needed to clear G&G before I could do that. So... I turned it off and started playing Trouble Shooter instead. I like it. I game overed on stage 2 on my first attempt, then got as far as stage 4 on my third attempt. I think I'll beat it within a week.
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Post by toei on Aug 19, 2018 20:23:02 GMT -5
Yeah, same reason I'm not too interested in playing through Ghouls and Ghosts even though I almost beat it as a kid. It's nothing but tricky parts. I just don't have the patience for it.
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