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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: greenraven on July 26, 2012, 02:30:52 AM
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I notice this place is on a bit of a downward activity slope. So I thought I'd come entertain you folks by whoring myself out and peddling some of my wares. I offer you fine ladies and gentlemen a compilation of game reviews that I have written of the various years.
Browse around, if you see something you like just click on it and it'll take you straight to the review.
(http://www.angel-spire.com/forum/style_images/4_aspbannerreview0001.PNG) (http://www.angel-spire.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2644)
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Another valuable service I can offer to tide over your boredom is a sanctified red light district. Semi-mature content for semi-mature people...
(http://www.angel-spire.com/forum/uploads/IMG28-1252329299.gif) (http://www.angel-spire.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2038)
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Love your emphasis on boobs XD
Sigma star saga looks kinda cool, actually. I never heard of it before.
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I am a proud citizen of the internet, it's almost a mandate I make an emphasis on the boobs! XD
Also, Lucas and I both know 2 artists that worked on Sigma Star Saga. *feels proud* :D
(Atooi did the background and I can't remember the name of the girl that did the character models. Stitchy? I think?)
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There's a tonne of games I've never heard of in there, so I'll probably check some of them out. Love your writing style!
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Yeah, I generally tend to focus on the obscure gems. I mean who wants to read another review of Call of Duty or God of War, right? I'd like to think that I offer people something new and different to experience than the same regurgitated crap. XD
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I have played three of these games.
Can any guess which?
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Soul Calibur, Golden Sun, and Metroid?
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1 out of 3.
Metroid.
The other two are very random.
One in particular is probably going to make public perception of me go "what the ****"
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Princess Maker or Marble Cooking, definitely the WTF calibur games.
And I'd say X-com is the 3rd.
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I really wanna play X-Com. I have it on Steam, but there's no tutorial or anything like that.
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I really wanna play X-Com. I have it on Steam, but there's no tutorial or anything like that.
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The classic legends are all hardcore (by today's standards), you don't get no stinking tutorials. You turn it on and just play. XD
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Never, played X-Com.
I have, however played Princess Maker, which is hard as ****.
And kind of cracked out.
The last one is Geist, which apparently only us two liked.
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The classic legends are all hardcore (by today's standards), you don't get no stinking tutorials. You turn it on and just play. XD
I call bullshit on that. Those games came with goddamn textbooks. Those were your tutorials.
Also, a lot of the older games did **** like put questions or something into the games and stick the answers in the manuals just to piss you off. Or piracy protection, or whatever.
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Am I the only one who pick up a game and learn by doing? Some people seem to have trouble understanding the simplest thing such as HUDs, menu interfaces ect ect.
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That's good game design advice in general.
Think I'm going to do a game jam next month.
Sounds like fun.
Off topic.
And I prefer playing by doing.
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Yeah, being able to pick up and play without a tutorial is usually due to good game design, simplistic games, or being part of a popular genre (see: modern FPS)
Here's a video to demonstrate my point. EMBEDDING, HO!
Sequelitis - Mega Man Classic vs. Mega Man X (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpigqfcvlM#ws)
But in the olden days, games could be downright complex, or maybe just not nearly as refined as they are today, so those manuals were actually important! It's a foreign concept today, especially with the focus on including an in-game tutorial for the simplest concepts (Press A to jump? Whoa ****!), and making sure the idea of reloading doesn't escape your grasp. This is apparent if you take a look at today's "manuals". I **** you not, I opened a game case recently and took out a single sheet of paper that was folded in half and stapled as an act of good faith or something with little more than a page-and-a-half of legal mumbo-jumbo and a picture of the controller. Black-and-white, of course.
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Arkham City had a trifold in it.
And a bigass catalog.
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Precisely. Fold a sheet in half and stuff in more adds than you can shake a stick at to meet some sort of arbitrary paper quota and call it a day.
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Trifold only had legal **** in it (a lot of legal ****) and instructions on how to put the disc in.
Nothing on actually playing the game.
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I'm a big fan of the type of game that's easy to get into, and not terribly difficult to do well at, if you don't really know what you're doing... but if you want to tackle hard obstacles, you need the edges that hide in the complexity of the systems. Well-made strategy games are like this, and I never faulted them for having mammoth rule books.
Also, that video was sweet, and it's disappointing that there are so few others of that series. Especially since I don't care about Castlevania.
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I think that's because it's a fairly new series for him. I want more, but Egoraptor is a busy man.
Something about writing a piece about sequels that actually have some significance...
Eh.
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Games should be easy to get into but challenging to beat.
I doubt a lot of people had trouble getting into games such as pokemon rumble or diablo. You hit stuff till they die and they drop money. And if you actually want to know something there's usually an in-game description when you asks for it.
Like how holding your mouse over a stat in Diablo 3 explains what it actually does. Like people getting gear with "+ block chance" when they're not using a shield. And they're all "I gotz leek 12% block chance, fuggin awesome." And I'm like. "Yeah, 12% to reduce the damage by 0..." And they're like "WTF!!!?" - all they had to do was hover that mouse over the block stat and it is explained as such "You chance to block with a shield." And then "reduces the damage taken by 0-0"
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I'm frightened.
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The last one is Geist, which apparently only us two liked.
Liek oh mai gawd! Someone else who's heard of Geist?! You are officially my new best friend here! :D
Seriously, that game is such a sleeper hit. They need to make a remake for the newer gens. :(
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Liek oh mai gawd! Someone else who's heard of Geist?! You are officially my new best friend here! :D
Seriously, that game is such a sleeper hit. They need to make a remake for the newer gens. :(
A buddy of mine went on and on about geist. Watched him play it but never got me hooked. But it's pretty interesting.
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I almost bought Geist years back, but all I'd heard about it was that it was "meh" at best. Now, I kind of wish I had it. I've grown to love those mediocre games for no particular reason, and Geist seems like a pretty good game to scratch that itch.
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I liked it.
It was far from perfect, but I did play the **** out of it.
The possession mechanic was pretty neat, although at this point in time I think it could be done better.
As long as you manage your expectations accordingly, you'll have fun.
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As a connoisseur of the mediocre medium, I can say that I've mastered gauging my expectations. I mean, when I play games from the late 1990s/early 2000s for the first time and can still find something about them to be amazing (usually visuals or something), then you know I'm gauging my expectations quite well.
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I think what made Geist "mediocre" were the limitations of the time. The idea was for too big than what could be crammed into the actual disk.
I'm pretty confident that if there was a remake for the modern systems it would be pretty awesome. Especially having ONLINE multiplayer! You only have so much fun blasting mindless bots. The whole "host vs ghost" mechanic is pretty neat game of cat and mouse when you're up against a human mind.
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For those of you interested I just did a few more reviews. Just click on the pics and it'll take you straight to the review. :)
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I've been reviewing a lot of mobile games lately because that's what I've been entertaining myself with mostly. The days of playing solitaire on your phone are pretty much over, mobile games are real contenders these days.
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Question. How many of you are into RPing? (Roleplaying.)
I notice there's an RP board here, but it's dead as ****. My place just recently had a swift kick in the rear and the RP section booted up again. If you're into that sort of nerdery, come on over and join party (http://www.angel-spire.com/forum/index.php?showforum=28). (Pun very much so intended.) :P
Or if you're the lazy sort that doesn't feel like registering, I suppose I could ask the respective owners for permission and copy/paste them here for you guys and gals to enjoy.
One way or the other though, what do you saying to a little text based dungeoning and dragoning? ;)
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RPing is fun and all. But it doesn't really get a lot of priority when life comes crashing down on you. Feels like you gotta be in a certain mood to be able to write beautiful posts and all that.
I like it and all, just hard to get people together for it.
Don't think it's necessary to copy RP's over here though, would be kinda weird.
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I didn't mean the copying the whole RP, just the first post with the rules.
Also one of the RPs, this one (http://www.angel-spire.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2940), was designed with people's busy schedules in mind. It's for people who want to RP but don't have the time to read/write a novel worth of paragraphs. It's basically a super chatroom session full of nonsense and hijinks. ;)
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Might be up for it, might not be. Life's a little hectic right now so we'll see.
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Looking forward to any new arrivals that decide to come check us out. :)