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07 Mar 2016, 9:25 pm

Couple guys at work want to get into the 3DS VC Pokemon games.

As usual, I'm lagging behind :D


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09 Mar 2016, 7:22 am

Burned out on Fallout 4. Now i'm in the process of playing Stardew Valley til I hate it too. :') It's like Harvest Moon for the PC! Super cute. Anyone else been playing it?



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09 Mar 2016, 7:44 am

I have now managed to finally beat Dark Souls. Now playing Dark Souls 2.


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09 Mar 2016, 8:58 am

Is the second Harvest Moon game any good? I found it on the 3DS e-shop and I'm thinking about getting it since I can't get Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones.


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09 Mar 2016, 9:22 am

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Is the second Harvest Moon game any good?


If you mean Harvest Moon 2 GBC, then yes, it's pretty good. It picks up right where the previous game left off, and adds lots of new things, almost feeling like the Super Nintendo game. Almost. Not quite.

The first handheld game wasn't very good. The third game takes place right after 2, in some ways it's not as good, but in a lot of ways it's better, and you can actually get married this time (though you don't get to choose who).

PS. Holy cow, you have a lot of posts for only having been here a few months @_@


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09 Mar 2016, 2:07 pm

The Binding of Issac. I've become somewhat obsessed with this game, despite the fact that I was sure I'd wouldn't enjoy it. It has all the elements I avoid in games: it's a roguelike so death is permanent, it's very fast paced and requires quick decision making, it's unforgiving and an unlucky pickup can completely screw your run. Yet somehow it's become one of my favorite games.

I don't know how it does it, but it makes you feel so vulnerable and so overpowered at the same time. It has some of the most creative bosses and level design I've ever come across. It can be tough, but I've never once felt that a death was anything other but my own fault. And when you think you've beaten the game, it's just the beginning. There's so much to unlock, so many endings, so many sub dungeons.

I've sunk sixty hours into a game that can be completed in just one or two.



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09 Mar 2016, 2:14 pm

^^Yes, I have been busy! :lol: I've found that I like Rune Factory 4 best instead of Harvest Moon, but I was wondering whether to give the series a try again. Any suggestions?
Tomorrow I'll be playing FE: Fates Revelation! :cheers:


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09 Mar 2016, 5:39 pm

Won bioshock I and II so back to Skyrim.



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09 Mar 2016, 8:30 pm

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The Binding of Issac. I've become somewhat obsessed with this game, despite the fact that I was sure I'd wouldn't enjoy it. It has all the elements I avoid in games: it's a roguelike so death is permanent, it's very fast paced and requires quick decision making, it's unforgiving and an unlucky pickup can completely screw your run. Yet somehow it's become one of my favorite games.

I don't know how it does it, but it makes you feel so vulnerable and so overpowered at the same time. It has some of the most creative bosses and level design I've ever come across. It can be tough, but I've never once felt that a death was anything other but my own fault. And when you think you've beaten the game, it's just the beginning. There's so much to unlock, so many endings, so many sub dungeons.

I've sunk sixty hours into a game that can be completed in just one or two.


ALOT of roguelikes are like this. Frankly, alot of difficult games are like this. They tend to offer way more satisfaction and replay value (and other things) than easier games do, particularly AAA games which tend to be more than a bit shallow.

The only real issue with Isaac is that there are a few very specific things that are genuinely badly designed. The Lost, for instance; I didnt bother using this character more than a few hours. Unlocking things with the Lost is not based on pure skill (in ANY truly good roguelike, skill can ALWAYS trump the RNG, even when things look dire) but are instead very, VERY luck based. Particularly considering the game's occaisional "unavoidable damage rooms", rooms which werent set up quite right, causing you to take an unavoidable hit if you DONT have extremely specific items. For the Lost, this is an instant game over if you happen to encounter one of these rooms. Specific boss fights can also cause this. If you find the "four Gurdy Jrs at once" room with the Lost? It's game over unless you have a very high speed stat, and even then, the random angles they move at can sometimes produce an undodgable attack. Typically this happens in the Dark Room level, so you go ALL THE WAY through the rest of the game... only to have an RNG death because it gave you that room. There are others like that too.

Generally I'm used to games that are WAY more challenging than this, and normally I never, ever use cheats or something, but that particular bit of Isaac is just so badly thought out and annoying that I just said "screw it" and forcibly unlocked that stuff so I could actually enjoy the items that were behind it. Some of the game's challenges are this way as well. Particularly those that are in Afterbirth; there's one challenge that involves getting past Sheol, I think it is, in less than 15 minutes. That... is not about skill. That's about extreme luck, because you either get both speed-up items (many of them) *and* just happen to constantly choose the correct path through each floor (which, of course, is purely RNG based) or you *will* fail the challenge.

But that's really the only flaw in the game. It's not my favorite roguelike, but it's very darn close. I've given it a few hundred hours and continue to play it pretty regularly.



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09 Mar 2016, 10:08 pm

Kuraudo777 wrote:
Any suggestions?


I really liked the original Harvest Moon for SNES, but I haven't played it in ages. I just beat 2 and 3 on the GBC, that might not be a bad option, especially with how cheap and portable they are (on the 3DS). I haven't tried any of the Rune Factory games.

I've heard the GBA one (Friends of Mineral Town) is one of the best ones, if you can pick it up. I think the other really good one was on the GameCube, but it's been a while, I can't remember.


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10 Mar 2016, 2:13 am

Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Bought all the DLC some time ago, but never got around to play it until now.

May do the same with Pillars of Eternity next (although it's DLC content got mediocre reviews, at best).



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10 Mar 2016, 10:33 am

^^I checked again and it turns out that the game I found was Harvest Moon 3 GBC. I might get it after all.


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10 Mar 2016, 10:52 am

I'm pretty sure they have all three ;)

3 was good, I liked a lot of the new stuff, but I felt like there should have been more to do in town. Also, maybe I just had a bad ROM, but it seemed like there was a glitch where your stamina never ran out o_o

Now I kind of want to play Mineral Town. I've just been playing ACNL and Pokemon Red at work lately.


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10 Mar 2016, 10:57 am

Rune Factory 4 is one of my favourite games. I highly recommend it. It's the only game I know of in which a divine dragon can call you insulting names. :lol:


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10 Mar 2016, 12:50 pm

Since I'm broke and can't afford FE Fates I'm playing Super Smash Bros Wii U. And doing terribly online, because I suck at the game. That or I have the bad luck of always encountering expert players.



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10 Mar 2016, 9:08 pm

I'm currently playing Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation! :cheers: I'm only on Chapter 4, though, since I went all the way back to the Prologue to gain extra experience points.


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