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Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Frank said:
Expanding, this game is fucking rad. I do not regret paying the 20 bucks for it on Ebay on a whim.

It's like a weird collecting Zelda game that also has elements of Soul Blaser (repopulating a town) and then suddenly you're commanding a huge tank fighting another tank and suddenly it's very FTLish with more direct control of your character. I love the tank battles. They can get really hectic trying to shoot down enemy ammo while sneaking in my own shots. I love the variety of ammo and getting the right mix of ammo to accomplish S(ub)LIME performances.

Best name for an enemy tank so far: Huge Tree Tank named Chrono Twigger.

Are there any other games like this? Because this is my favorite DS game right now.
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I'm pretty sure more people than me play handhelds here :p. See the Animal Crossing thread. I don't think I've heard of similar games. Rocket Slime 3 is out on 3DS in Japan, but hasn't been localized to North America.


On my end, if I said I was near the end of Shin Megami Tensei IV, I was pretty damn wrong. I thought I was almost finished after checking a guide's table of contents to get an idea of where I was, but then today I checked another one's table of contents that said there were several more sections beyond where that first guide said "End", in fact, there's more story to come than what I've seen so far. I now know why--first guide got a bad, fake-out ending and just assumed that was the real point of conclusion.

Which is really fucking dumb. That's like someone fighting Lavos too soon in Chrono Trigger, getting the "but the future refused to change" screen, and assuming that was how the game ended.
 
Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

I dunno what it is, but I can't stand handheld systems. Never have. Even my PSP I bought the TV connection cords to play the games on it. If 3DS had something similar, I probably would have bought one to play on my TV.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Gilgamesh said:
I dunno what it is, but I can't stand handheld systems. Never have. Even my PSP I bought the TV connection cords to play the games on it. If 3DS had something similar, I probably would have bought one to play on my TV.
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Kinda ruins both the 'portable' and the '3D' part of that, doesn't it?
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Ravenpoe said:
Kinda ruins both the 'portable' and the '3D' part of that, doesn't it?
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I think he's saying that there are 3DS games he'd like to play on his TV because he wants to play those games, not for the portability or 3D.

I don't play my 3DS a lot just so it can be handheld; before this, most of my gaming was on the TV. But right now 3DS has a lot of the game I want to play, and I'd want to play them regardless of their system.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

I find I play my 3DS/Vita at night in bed a lot. Or while watching TV. Sometimes I want to game but don't want to be tied to the TV or my computer desk.
 
Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

See, in bed or on the shitter, I read books on my tablet.

Also @Quotemander Prime hit the nail on the head, I don't care about portability (I seriously cannot name a single place I would have time to play a handheld in public and at home, I would use my television anyway) and the 3D doesn't appeal to me in the least. The games are what draw me, so I really wish we had something like this:
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Gilgamesh said:
See, in bed or on the shitter, I read books on my tablet.

Also @Quotemander Prime hit the nail on the head, I don't care about portability (I seriously cannot name a single place I would have time to play a handheld in public and at home, I would use my television anyway) and the 3D doesn't appeal to me in the least. The games are what draw me, so I really wish we had something like this:
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Yeah, considering the Wii U is a giant DS, there's no reason they shouldn't be able to do this, except for the rare port between systems, like Donkey Kong Country Returns or (rumored) Kid Icarus Uprising, for which the ideal control scheme would involve a Wiimote and nunchuk, not a 3DS or gamepad.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Frank said:
Are there any other games like this? Because this is my favorite DS game right now.
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There's a Japanese sequel to it: Slime MoriMori Dragon Quest 3, but it hasn't/might not get an English release. However, if you have a Japanese 3DS, you really don't need to know much Japanese at all to play it. It's basically the same game, except with pirate ships instead of tanks and an over world you can sail around on.
 
Frank

Frank

I only played a little bit before the RNG bullshit and limited attempts soured me on it forever.

I say a little bit like I didn't go 100 levels in.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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The web version is way better than the mobile version.

Candy Crush is a harmless, fun diversion.

Candy Crush Saga is a malevolent force.
 
Frank

Frank

I've read some stuff that theorizes that the game will screw you from time to time on what comes down so that you can't win in order to encourage the purchase of the inapp extra crap.

Even if that isn't true, it still feels often enough like it is.

Ah yes, and I'm talking about Saga.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Yeah, I heard all the hype about candy crush, so I googled it and went to play it online a few times at king.com and thought, huh, this is kinda fun, a good short term timewaster, pleasantly short on bullshit.

So flash forward a few weeks and I check for an android version, find Candy Crush SAGA, and discover that Glove and Boots were totally right. This is torture. This is malignancy incarnate. This. Is. Evil.

Edit, dammit, ninjad on the video.
 
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GasBandit

GasBandit

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Bowielee said:
So, I broke down and pre-ordered Saint's Row 4 on Steam. I'll be playing the hell out of that game come 11 o'clock.
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Ordinarily I would take you to task for preordering ANYTHING, but really, day-of preordering doesn't really count like that because it doesn't drive marketing/development metrics.

So I'll just be jealous cause I refuse to pay full price for a game.
 
Frank

Frank

Ahh shit, I saw Bowie playing the inauguration station thing, so I downloaded it, made the fattest, grossest person I could, then when I quit they showed a trailer I hadn't seen before and it won me.

I was gonna wait for it to be cheap, but no more.
 
Necronic

Necronic

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Payday2 is pretty amazing. Every game feels like you're Val Kilmer/Rober DeNiero in heat walking down the street with the bags of money in a 30 minute firefight. There is a certain part of it that bothers me. Maybe the indiscriminant murder of police officers.....

ed: This is definitely a multiplayer game though.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Necronic said:
Payday2 is pretty amazing. Every game feels like you're Val Kilmer/Rober DeNiero in heat walking down the street with the bags of money in a 30 minute firefight. There is a certain part of it that bothers me. Maybe the indiscriminant murder of police officers.....

ed: This is definitely a multiplayer game though.
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The police officers aren't saints. They never try to make you surrender (like a real officer would). They face no penalty for shooting civilians (who don' get hurt by their bullets) so they'll gleefully fire THROUGH them at you. They also imply that anytime they try to steal back your money/gold/drugs/whatever, it's not going to the evidence locker... it's going to be sold by them. So the cops in Payday 2 pretty much deserve anything you throw at them.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Finished Shin Megami Tensei IV. The final section was cool, but ...

The ending felt a little underwhelming with all my fellows dead.

As with Devil Survivor, I feel I'm missing vital parts of the plot by going the Chaos route. When I sided with the angels in Devil Survivor, I learned the whole plot. Example, who the hell is talking to the main character at the beginning? In Devil Survivor, going the angel route, you discover who it is. Same with Persona 3.

Didn't find out in this. I can make assumptions, but I'd like to know for sure. Oh well, good reason to play through it again.
 
Frank

Frank

AshburnerX said:
The police officers aren't saints. They never try to make you surrender (like a real officer would). They face no penalty for shooting civilians (who don' get hurt by their bullets) so they'll gleefully fire THROUGH them at you. They also imply that anytime they try to steal back your money/gold/drugs/whatever, it's not going to the evidence locker... it's going to be sold by them. So the cops in Payday 2 pretty much deserve anything you throw at them.
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Pathetic way to justify what the game is.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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The cops even in the first Payday game don't react realistically. I mean, really, what chief is going to keep sending in patrolmen with pistols en masse to confront the robbers who just put the first 10 cops in the morgue? You'd think the attrition would force a strategy change at some point. I'm pretty sure in the Mercy Hospital mission I had to kill more cops than are actually on the payroll in Philly.
 
Frank

Frank

I probably should have elucidated my point, I don't have an issue with killing cops in games (I own every Grand Theft Auto).

My issue is the sad attempt to make it justifiable because these are the baaaaaaaad cops. I always find this shit pathetic and insulting.
 
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