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I started playing LocoRoco yesterday. This game is too adorable from the first second you play it.
 
 

HixdralayHiny - 6 - Cascade, ElwayGuy7, Teto, Necropolis, Sahaqiel, Emmonsomniac
 
Elwayguy7 - 2 - Phanta, Dark_One
 
T1g - 1 - Ammonsa
 
COMMENCING LYNCH


The Town, as they were gazing at the dark and chaotically murdered victims, noticed that one of those among them was happy. It was as if they LIKED the siuation they were in. Such a person is clearly dangerous! They must be some sort of demon wolf or something! With no common sense to stand in their way, the town lynched:
 

 
HixdralayHiny - Guardian Wolf - Town
 
Hixy was the Town's Guardian, who was simply happy that she was going to get the chance to do something with her life! She had the amazing ability to kill every evil wolf every night
 
you guys sure puppyed that one up
 
NIGHT 1 begins now and lasts 36 hours or until i feel like ending it


how do i lock this post

I started playing LocoRoco yesterday. This game is too adorable from the first second you play it.
 
 

Well there's this girl, who's body proportions are just uncomfortable to look at:

NO. That's the one I don't want you to play so that one day if I'm lucky you won't have finished it and I might get that one. This is me being greedy.

So, I have a lot of unfinished PSP games.
 
 

 
 
 
There are 35 of these bad boys. I've finished two.
 
I was talking to Double last night in chat as I was unpacking my PSP games after moving, and came to realize that this is a serious problem. But there's another problem, it turns out. My PSP post-move isn't loading discs very well. The disc drive is stopping and starting if you leave it on a flat surface, but works if you shake it and abuse it a bit. If you move it even slightly midload, or if it decides it's not loading right now, then nope, you're screwed. I think it's on its last legs. But I need to kick my game collection's ass. So, here's the deal. One by one, I'm going to carefully play my PSP games.
 
It's a race! Either I get through 33 games first, or my PSP disc drive stops working entirely before I'm done. If I win the race, I get to bask in the glory of my victory, I'll give my PSP a grand farewell, and there may be candy or other prizes involved. But if I lose, the remaining PSP games that I didn't beat are going to be sent out individually at random to anybody who participates in this thread, because I'm clearly bad and don't deserve to own them.
 
I'll be asking you guys to vote on which game(s) I should play next after I beat one, and I'll also be posting reviews of these games. To participate, all you have to do is post on-topic in this thread. Each post you make is a ticket for a raffle at the end of this thread, for the remaining games (if any) and other prizes.
 
 
Here's the list, including the games I've currently beaten in bold:
 
Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles
Disgaea
Disgaea 2 (restarting after Disgaea 1 to get LOLI RONIN EDITION)
Disgaea Infinite (restarting sort of)
Final Fantasy Tactics (restarting)
Gitaroo Man Lives!
Gradius Collection (all five games)
Half-Minute Hero (nearly done, getting 100% though)
Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley (restarting)
Jeanne D'Arc
Jikandia (restarting)
Knights in the Nightmare
Legend of Heroes III (restarting)
Loco Roco
Lumines (Can this be beaten?)
Lunar Silver Star Story
Mega Man X: Maverick Hunter
Mega Man Powered Up
Mercury and Mercury Meltdown
Metal Gear Ac¡d (a few areas in)
Metal Gear Ac¡d 2 (restarting)
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
Patapon 2 (restarting)
PaRappa the Rapper
Persona (a couple bosses in)
Persona 2: Innocent Sin (a couple bosses in)
Persona 3 Portable (restarting as LITTLE GIRL EDITION)
PoPoLoCrois
Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero?
Riviera: The Promised Land (halfway through, might restart)
Star Ocean: First Departure
Star Ocean: Second Evolution (on the final boss, might restart though)
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (restarting)
ZHP: Unlosing Ranger VS Darkdeath Evilman
 
 
 
Currently Playing: ZHP and LocoRoco
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 OLD POLL
I can't play ZHP all the time though, I need something else as well. ZHP is a roguelike, with a slow grindy progression, a bit repetitive and tactical. So vote on one of these faster, lighter low-commitment games:
 
1. Gitaroo Man Lives!
2. Gradius Collection
3. Loco Roco
4. Other?!

PLEASE READ THE THREAD AND STUFF
 

 
Mufn: 1, Saha: 0
 
We're going to pretty much do what we did last time, except we've swapped our Hero Codes, so he'll be playing on my file and I'll be playing on his file. Improvements:
I have VBA-M so I probably won't corrupt my save and waste 20 minutes every time I use my map I also now have a USB NES controller, so you don't have to suffer through me fumbling through my horrible Xbox 360-controller-for-a-Gameboy-game controls Muffin's going to change the layout of the stream Muffin will have at least 20% less .gov We're telling you when it's happening in advance This will decide whether or not there'll be a tiebreaker. If I win, we'll go back to Ages on our own files using the code it gives us from beating Seasons. Please use IRC to talk about the stream. I would rather not open Muffin's stream chat just to talk to talk to you guys.
 
It'll start sometime in the early afternoon Central US Time, next Wednesday, July 17th. It could last anywhere from 7 to 10 hours, and will be commentated by Muffin and me talking in Skype. Look forward to it!

Its regrettable but I am just not cool enough to be gay like Wallace Wells

I'm translating a Russian module of Munchkin to English, hold steady

 

Man I don't have skin on my face and I go. Just try to find a pick up game. You'd probably have a blast

UGH TOO SHY SKELETON MAN

Munchkin is awesome. Such an evil game that turns people into right bastards. I love it.
 
I'll try to be here for this if it's Munchkin sure

"Were any of you present while the game was playing itself?"

 
 
hehehe

(This game was better than TP and SS)
(Saha never beat it)

NABE HAS SEEN HEDGEHOG IN THE FOG???!!!!??!?!?!?

This isn't a piss-about, LL. If you're not going to take this seriously, please don't comment.

http://www.twitch.tv/fiercemuffin
 
Muff is streaming La-Mulana.
 
 
Quotelog:
 

I was thinking I'd watch a movie sometime. Maybe tonight if people were interested?
More likely the weekend though, so people can actually join.
 
One of these (any):
Attack the Block ParaNorman The Fifth Element  
Still streaming Frasier right now http://www.justin.tv/kolpian

The real answer other than yeah, Sonic gets by more on trivial aspects like character design [for some reason], is probably that they became distracted with what kind of series Sonic is supposed to be. I normally wouldn't say that a series' games "aren't what [series] is about", but hear me out; I'm not saying that they weren't sticking to their traditions, but rather, they're not sticking to a purpose at all.
 
Sonic's original main purpose at first was to make games that had a lot of fast-paced forward action. This was impressive at the time because loading levels fast enough to keep up with fast forward movement was something developers couldn't really do with their limited hardware. They made a solid first game and built upon it in each of the sequels, and it they were all about fast-paced platforming, with the occasional sidekick or two. Fast forward a bit, and Adventure did some good stuff with it, and Adventure 2 did away with the hub world, had fast-paced action and slower-paced levels so as to not burn you out, and a pretty solid narrative. The camera never had any problems to my memory. Both games translated Sonic into the 3D realm pretty well; the Homing Attack was a great idea, since the added third dimension made it difficult to just plain jump onto enemies. Then they came out with Sonic Heroes.
 
I had just gotten over my however-many-hours spent in SA2B when I picked up Heroes thinking it would be just as awesome, if not more. The team mechanic somewhat intrigued me, and the narrative, in concept, was actually pretty sweet: a bunch of heroes, all on different but related paths, collide and intersect to eventually take down the villain that's trying to destroy the world, all the while revealing the backstories of each character and learning more about them.
 
There are things that bothered me at first. SA2/B was originally made for the Dreamcast, which I think had a little less graphical power than the Gamecube, so all the characters' shading remained reserved for the most part, relying more on textures than effects, and the prerendered cut scenes weren't all that mind boggling, but it was all consistent. Heroes' character models had this ugly sheen on them at all times. This is more just me rambling but this was my first impression that Heroes is where the decline really happened, so I'll get back to the main point.
 
Anyway, they had this idea that they would put all three completely differing characters together, and each team had a different character that suited the same purpose. This really wrecked the gameplay because of how monotonous it made everything. In some parts, you would have breakneck speed going on, and you'd be on a roll, and then suddenly you'd have to stop to pointlessly punch down a wall, or beat up a bunch of enemies, or fly up a thing. Switching wasn't very fluid at all, and there wasn't a distinct camera setting for the different characters.
 
Sonic always has to look ahead of him, so the camera doesn't have much to do. Knuckles has to be able to turn around easily, and Tails needs a more overhead view because of how he flies. But it was always stuck on the setting they gave to Sonic. I've always hated using Knuckles in any game past SA2/B, because he's also not very fluid at all, since you're required to punch enemies rather than fly into them with your fists out. On the ground, all his punches make you lurch forward and then stop suddenly, so punching someone, then pivoting to punch another someone, in conjunction with the poor camera, was awful. Just generally hard and annoying to do.
 
Tails was eh, alright, but it was just another pointless break in pace to take him out. Even Sonic and his alternatives fell victim to this, though, especially with the tornado attack thing. It's pretty much an attack that forces you to watch Sonic spin around in a painfully slow attack meant for paralyzing enemies or something.
 
The game also wasn't tested very heavily, so the camera would catch on things, which was definitely a problem. The game overall wasn't that bad, but it was a big step down from SA2/B. The decline started when their design started becoming distracted. They had a solid concept to build around, but they weren't skilled enough to make it all work together, or maybe the concept wasn't very solid at all.
 
So we get to Shadow the Hedgehog. More bad design choices. The narrative was a broken mess, (a laughable one at that) that completely ignores all of what happened in Sonic Heroes, centering around a disjointed, nonsensical (sometimes surreal) and painfully edgy story, layered over a game whose level design and design choices were just awful. The game was not about going fast, but maybe they could make that okay? Obviously not: it was sometimes about platforming, but it was mostly an easter egg hunt utilizing these horrible teleportation pads used to revisit previous parts of the map, and gunplay. The fast sections were largely on-the-rail and not exciting. The guns, due to the poor design of the game, were absolutely useless except in places the game forced you to use them. They were clunky, forced, and pointless, as you can still use the Homing Attack, which was actually faster and easier. They also recycled musical themes from SA2/B and had the most awful and stupid multiplayer in recent memory.
 
Then we reach Sonic '06, and they still have no idea what makes a good game. More stupid design choices, like the mach speed segments that had you running all the time, allowing you to get damaged by the environment. I won't rag on this game too much because it's been done enough, and it was supposedly rushed for a holiday release, but so many aspects of it were just butchered abominations mimicking what used to be a decent franchise.
 
They would again make mistakes in Sonic and the Secret Rings, which made another bad design choice; make the whole game a mach speed segment from Sonic '06. I admit it's interesting in concept, but the game was ONLY this. All the time running forward. It got really monotonous, and there weren't any different gameplay segments to keep it interesting or to give me a break. The soundtrack got old really fast, and the world it was set in was really oddly bleak and uninhabited, so it gave me a really uncomfortable feel most of the time. When a game that tests your reflexes becomes monotonous, it becomes really hard to play it at all.
 
I don't really need to get into the other Sonic games. The other big ones being Sonic Unleashed and Sonic and the Black Knight, but I haven't played Black Knight. My point is really just that they made a game with really horrible design decisions that ended up being poorly executed, in games that were rushed out the door, for people who for some reason, still buy them. Sonic '06 was a platinum family hit? Like, what is that.
 
So really it's our fault.
 
But double really it's their fault for not picking a concept, sticking with it, and putting enough thought and effort into it to make it work. The whole game doesn't need to be about one thing (especially not to extremes like Secret Rings), but design choices should be uncluttered and fluid as possible.

like im really sober but

I think you guys are aokay okay
 
like indescriminately you guys are great okay i mean it i like oyu guys