I have both games. I loved Chronicles of the Sword. One of the best modes in a fighting game ever.
Link is so far only 1 of a handful of guest characters that actually feels like he fits into the setting of the series.
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Link is so far only 1 of a handful of guest characters that actually feels like he fits into the setting of the series.
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Developers are way too afraid of being weird nowadays, and that has objectively made gaming worse as a whole.
Tying a game's financial success to the score given by people who might not understand it has made the whole industry back away from the likes of The Neverhood and Armed & Delirious. It's all about rehashing the same proven formulas, the same tropes and sob stories over and over now.
Tying a game's financial success to the score given by people who might not understand it has made the whole industry back away from the likes of The Neverhood and Armed & Delirious. It's all about rehashing the same proven formulas, the same tropes and sob stories over and over now.
I think your missing the point. yes they would be torn apart but because of them we got the good games you have today. When released they were pioneers in the field. Its like now we have self landing rockets but its due to the space race in the 60's. Have you seen the Apollo capsules they look like coffins almost barbaric to the capsules now but they ushered in a new age.
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Rockman 1 is really not that hard, I dont get what all those people are saying
It's nowhere near Castlevania 1
Has anyone said anything about the Nintendo Switch yet? That it sucks and is overpriced? That you could've played most of its library for far less money had you spared a hundred more bucks for a SteamDeck instead? The official Nintendo games aren't even that good, at least not worth $60-80. Every day I use my Switch to play a game I could buy on Steam or even pirate and play it on anything, I feel absolutely cucked.
Who could hate the best 3d fighter ever
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the switch 2 has no dpad AGAIN what the actualy fuck
Now that we're at the end of the console's life, I can pretty definitively say that I didn't really like it. Apart from Breath of the Wild, which was my personal game of the generation (and what I'd call the "best" game of the 2010s), I can't really recall a single original title on the platform that I actually liked. Not counting retro games, I only ever owned BOTW (which isn't an exclusive), Odyssey, and Octopath Traveler, and I thought the latter two were pretty goshdarned terrible.
I didn't like the hardware at all, either – the joy-cons really had no advantages over a regular controller, sliding them in and out was kind of a pain, the screen scratched on me pretty darn easily, and using the entire handheld unit often felt clumsy and awkward. (The Wii U's big, chunky handheld controller didn't have this problem!) I only ever played on a base model, but it just didn't feel that good to play. AND THAT'S NOT EVEN GETTING INTO THE DRIFT
It was an OK console, I guess. I had way more fun with the Wii U, and several trillion billion gazillion times more fun with the 3DS. Given the choice today, I'd go with a Steam Deck (or, honestly, a New 3DS XL or an OLED Vita) no questions asked.
I think... I think... the Switch 2 is going to go better. Obviously it's far too early to tell at this point, and I'm 100% not buying one within a full year of launch, but I do think that they've made some improvements to the hardware – the new joy-con "snap" system looks a lot better, and I'm glad there's a bigger screen. (Let's hope it's OLED!) We'll see about all the mouse bullshit, and the new control stick features. The lack of a proper D-pad is sad, but humanity seemed to forget how to make them in the late 2000s, so I guess I can't really blame Nintendo for that. I just kind of miss regular handheld gaming.
I always liked it much more than 4
Much better looking despite being on the far weaker console and has its faire share of fancy effects to boot, awesome soundtrack, so much variety in stages enemies and bosses, multiple characters like in 3, great fun to play and also still difficult (sfc castlevania is too easy)
Much better looking despite being on the far weaker console and has its faire share of fancy effects to boot, awesome soundtrack, so much variety in stages enemies and bosses, multiple characters like in 3, great fun to play and also still difficult (sfc castlevania is too easy)
The switch is terrible, but i'm biased against consoles and especially nintendo so i kept my mouth shut about that.
If you want a real hot take....
Nintendo has never been a good gaming company, it's been really good at market control and brainwashing people into servitude, it made a few good games but overall the company has been terrible to it's customers are essentially in a cult imo.
There, that's your true hot take.
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I think bloodlines is only disliked more because it doesn't have infinite continues, as a game i agree.
Man... I should've gone for a Steam Deck, or a 3DS. But I don't think I'll spend a large amount of money on video games ever again, if it's not to support independent creators.
I just can't trust Big N-word anymore. As long as they keep treating their clients and fans as the enemy, nothing they do, no matter the quality and potential value, will ever be safe from being blurred by the shape of greed.
Dragon Quest games are all mediocre, and boring, but with good music.
Sonic CD is the worst 2-D Sonic game ever done, but again, with good music.
MGS4 was the best game in the series.
Resident Evil 5 was the best game in the series.
Samurai Shodown 2 > Street Fighter 2
X-Men vs Street Fighter was the best VS game, and way better than MvC2, and MvC1 was better than 2 as well.
Sonic CD is the worst 2-D Sonic game ever done, but again, with good music.
MGS4 was the best game in the series.
Resident Evil 5 was the best game in the series.
Samurai Shodown 2 > Street Fighter 2
X-Men vs Street Fighter was the best VS game, and way better than MvC2, and MvC1 was better than 2 as well.
Same, it's actually my favorite of the classics. It's the most interesting setting in the series, taking part all around europe instead of just in dracula's castle and its surroundings, and every level feels unique and fun to play.
Also I always thought IV was overrated, lots of its gimmicks like the moving rooms just don't work properly and it feels like they added the 8 direction whip simply because they thought it was cool without considering how easily it can break some sections
i disagree with the music in dragon quest/warrior. i never really cared for it. i like the DWM2 the most.
all sonic games except for 1 have good music. even '06 has good music. the bioware sonic game is the only one that everyone seems to truly dislike.
i like peace walker the best; guns of the patriots is still pretty spectacular.
no comment on RE. haven't played one yet.
Kart fighter > Samurai Showdown.
no comment. been forever since i played a street fighter game.
Indeed I love the fact you're travelling across europe! And again the enemy variety is so good, stuff like the pisa stage where the minotaurs take those pillars from the backround to use as weapons? So neat
Not just that but the fact you have air control, there's a reason grant in 3 is an optional character and has weaker defense and attack (talking about the og version), because air control and climbing are so good in a castlevania game he could have 1 hp and still be a great character
The fact you can move in midair in 3 makes it sooo easy, plus all the range you have, you attack faster too. You really dont have to learn positioning and enemy beheaviour anymore.
For this reason some people love it other think it's underwhelming
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Sonic CD is hated by ike 70% of internet comments I dunno if thats an npopular opinion
MGS4 is awesome, just because it has like almost every gun from the series (wish it had the colt saa though..)
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Ok so I think my biggest hot take is that Dragon's Crown is kind of mid.
Might be shocking to hear since I'm a big Vanillaware fan, but I personally think they focused on the multiplayer aspect too much, and while I understand why they did it since the game is supposed to be like a DND campaign, it makes it not really fun to play if you're doing it solo imo.
Like you have to either playing with people in-person or with a group of people online in voice chat for it to be fun imo.
Might be shocking to hear since I'm a big Vanillaware fan, but I personally think they focused on the multiplayer aspect too much, and while I understand why they did it since the game is supposed to be like a DND campaign, it makes it not really fun to play if you're doing it solo imo.
Like you have to either playing with people in-person or with a group of people online in voice chat for it to be fun imo.
Sorry I cannot agree because of Sonic Blast (not 3D Blast, just Blast) on the Game Gear and Sonic 4 (Episode 1 even though Episode 2, while being significantly better, is too short).
Games.com Sonic Jam maybe but this doesn't count.
yeah, it's definitely meant to be played with friends. it's been years since i played it. i just collect fan art of the sorceress and the vampire babes nowadays.
I hate Uncharted, forced myseklf through 1 after all the praise it got and Im never getting those days back
The final boss is a goddamn qte
Mild take but I just feel like saying it, Parthners in Time deserves just as much love as Superstar Saga
The final boss is a goddamn qte
Mild take but I just feel like saying it, Parthners in Time deserves just as much love as Superstar Saga
yeah, partners in time was fun. maybe one day it'll be ported over or remastered on a new nintendo system.
I wonder if you could call it the darkest mario game, it's at least there
It didnt have blood but a toad does get polverized in front of ario's eyes and the shroob's kamikaze attack made my eyes go wide
i don't remember that, but i'll have to go back and play it. doesn't sound out of the ordinary for a nintendo game though.
I borrowed the trilogy about 10 years ago and I still haven't managed to finish the first game because I find the exploration fairly dull and linear and also those endless shooting parts are unbearable. Why is there an entire troop of generic grunts every single area if you are supposedly in hard-to-reach ruins in the middle of nowhere??
i guess that you've never heard of grunt troops express airlines? it's a highly rated and affordable airline run by king koopa.
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to be more serious, if there weren't human enemies to deal with, the developers would have to make animal models or make up some monsters to populate the area, and those can be harder to make animations for, and you would either have to carry melee weapons or have guns with very large ammo counts to avoid running out of ammo. otherwise, platforming would be the only way of having gameplay.
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*Prepares a Armor vest and some weapons* Here i go...
The OG XBOX controller, the infamous Duke, is far less intuitive to use than some people remembvers, i like the Joystick and the D.pad, while less confy than Switch or Xbox X it is still confortable, alas my main gripes are the size (People with big hands will still find it fine) and the whole Six face buttons scheme tries to replicate the L/R 1/2 mapping from the DualShocks or the then recent Gamecube Controller, i troed playing like if it was Saturn's pad bit the black and white buttons at times feels like they tried to be L/R 1's, the fact that the Select and Start buttons are at the buttons brings one of the few gripes i have against the Dreamcast controller, since from the NES we are used to having them between the D-pad and the face buttons (Unless you had the brick Gameboys) understandable in handhelds, clumsy and confusing in Consoles
Not even the New model is safe, rather than making the Black and White buttons shoulder buttons they added them BELOW the buttons, the Pause and Select also ended BELOW the D-pad, making the space where they could fit better fell lonely and nude, i had an XBOX for a week, and in that time i wanted to be able to connect my XBOX ONE joystick before deciding my Sis, who lives far from us since she married, could have some after job fun and gave it to her
XBOX OG may have classic games, but playing it with the joystick is cumbersome, the best way is to hack the console to get peripherials or on PC via amulation
The OG XBOX controller, the infamous Duke, is far less intuitive to use than some people remembvers, i like the Joystick and the D.pad, while less confy than Switch or Xbox X it is still confortable, alas my main gripes are the size (People with big hands will still find it fine) and the whole Six face buttons scheme tries to replicate the L/R 1/2 mapping from the DualShocks or the then recent Gamecube Controller, i troed playing like if it was Saturn's pad bit the black and white buttons at times feels like they tried to be L/R 1's, the fact that the Select and Start buttons are at the buttons brings one of the few gripes i have against the Dreamcast controller, since from the NES we are used to having them between the D-pad and the face buttons (Unless you had the brick Gameboys) understandable in handhelds, clumsy and confusing in Consoles
Not even the New model is safe, rather than making the Black and White buttons shoulder buttons they added them BELOW the buttons, the Pause and Select also ended BELOW the D-pad, making the space where they could fit better fell lonely and nude, i had an XBOX for a week, and in that time i wanted to be able to connect my XBOX ONE joystick before deciding my Sis, who lives far from us since she married, could have some after job fun and gave it to her
XBOX OG may have classic games, but playing it with the joystick is cumbersome, the best way is to hack the console to get peripherials or on PC via amulation
Here we go...
Not doing this to stoke any fires, but I honestly think that Burnout is the most overrated Arcade Racing series in history. The only good thing about them was the focus on 60fps, but I never, ever liked the visuals, HATED the music and couldn't stand the style of gameplay. I don't get the crashes, why would you want to constantly slow yourself down in an arcade racer? I guess the appeal of it was that it wasn't technically demanding when it came to racing technique from the player, and it was flash and style over substance but that's what makes it incredibly boring to me.
To make matters worse for those of you who live and die by Burnout 3/Revenge, the only Burnout I can tolerate and sometimes occasionally Burnout Paradise. But I mute the awful music. It's too bad you can't mute the Paradise City track at the start of the game.
Again, this is all true, and I figured this'd be the best place to vent about it
Not doing this to stoke any fires, but I honestly think that Burnout is the most overrated Arcade Racing series in history. The only good thing about them was the focus on 60fps, but I never, ever liked the visuals, HATED the music and couldn't stand the style of gameplay. I don't get the crashes, why would you want to constantly slow yourself down in an arcade racer? I guess the appeal of it was that it wasn't technically demanding when it came to racing technique from the player, and it was flash and style over substance but that's what makes it incredibly boring to me.
To make matters worse for those of you who live and die by Burnout 3/Revenge, the only Burnout I can tolerate and sometimes occasionally Burnout Paradise. But I mute the awful music. It's too bad you can't mute the Paradise City track at the start of the game.
Again, this is all true, and I figured this'd be the best place to vent about it
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