The Syndicate

Epignosis wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2018 4:36 pm We've got the first one. It's fun, but the network connection kept dropping us out of matches, which soured me.

That's annoying. The first game was pretty good too. I prefer the 2nd mainly because the Switch controls > Wii U controls, but both are solid.

speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2017 12:15 pm
Epignosis wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2017 10:09 pm Get Cuphead.

Fun shit.
I'm planning on it. Just for the visuals and bosses.

Definitely seems really neat, I'll have to get it myself one of these days as well.

Lately I've been playing Splatoon 2 off and on. Great game when I want to just take a break from everything for a little bit.

So I bought Bit.Trip Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien on a whim based on solid reviews for it, and I'm glad I did. Surprisingly addicting and tons of fun.

a2thezebra wrote:Do any of you play http://slither.io? It's a simultaneously soothing and intense online game with themes of crony capitalism and the power of causality over the individual will. My high score is 26,861. Beat it if you can. Here's proof:

I have not tried this, but it sounds intriguing! I'll have to try it.

As for me, I haven't been playing much lately due to being busy with research and teaching, but I have been occasionally playing Yoshi's Woolly World with Spacedaisy. Fun game!

Bass_the_Clever wrote:So my amazing girlfriend bought me One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 and the newest Naruto game both are the shit.

Dude! We need to play Naruto again. I haven't played it since we last played. Lol.

Vompatti wrote:I need to get an Atari 2600

I do too.

Bass_the_Clever wrote:So they released all the Bioshock games for ps4, goodbye spare time. Lol

I need to get a PS4; my Xbox 360 is collecting dust. Maybe I'll just wait for the new console at this point.

Advance Wars. Love this game. Can't believe I missed it back when I had my GBA.

timmer wrote:I'm so crack addicted to Pokemon Go.

That's how I was the first week or so it came out, I probably would still be if I wasn't too occupied with other stuff!

So I have been playing a bit more video games than usual lately, but still not often. Feeling retro these days! Over the past few weeks, I've been swapping back and forth between Mega Man 2, the NES Castlevania trilogy, and Pokemon Blue all on the virtual console (Wii U/3DS).

Although my family used to have Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, and 3, Super Mario World, Legend of Zelda, and other NES/SNES games when I was a child, many of these old NES/SNES games were ones I never got to play back in the day, since we didn't have them and my parents sold those game systems once we received the GCN, and my childhood was much more focused on the N64 and GCN (console-wise), and the various Game Boy systems (portable-wise). So it's great to replay some (Pokemon Blue, Mario games, etc.) but perhaps even better to play classics I didn't get to play until the past couple of years (such as Mega Man and Castlevania). As I delved into music during my teenage years as well, I neglected gaming for quite some time, so now it's been nice to play some catchup, even if at a slow pace due to the PhD.

agleaminranks wrote:I'm in the process of trying to catch 'em all: working on completing the living Pokedex with help from Omega Ruby, X, White II, Diamond, Pearl, and the new port of Blue. I have about 600 out of 720 total now.

I'm also switching between The Division and Battlefront when I need my big budget action fix.

I'm also close to finishing A Link Between Worlds, Fallout 4, the Xenoblade Chronicles 3DS port, Xenoblade X on Wii U, and I still have to play Majora's Mask 3DS even though it's my favorite Zelda game and I got it when it first came out like over a year ago.

On top of that I also recently got the Metroid Prime trilogy and Mass Effect trilogy on cheap so I'm slowly working my way through those. At the end of the second and first games of those, respectively.

I have like a trillion games from Games with Gold to finish playing through (Deus Ex, Thief, Tomb Raider, the Rare Replay collection, Valiant Hearts, Outlast, How to Survive, Sunset Overdrive)....

And yet with all of these goddamn games I need to finish, I just picked up Pokken Tournament and I started a new file in Shin Megami Tensei IV. I am stupid.

(Shin Megami Tensei IV is effing incredible though, I think it's the best Shin Megami game in the whole 30-some years of the series, better than Persona even. The battle mechanics and demon fusion I think have finally been perfected, and the story and gameplay is gripping.)

Wow, nice!

How do you feel about Xenoblade Chronicles the original and X?

I'm hoping to pick up a couple of games soon but I've been crazy busy! I did play some Super Meat Boy recently after not having played in for quite some time. An infuriating but really awesome game. I'm not good enough! I'll beat it by myself completely one of these days. Some of these bandages are ridiculous.

Anyone else play Pokken Tournament? It's a refreshingly fun fighter game, and despite my love for Pokemon Stadium way back when, fulfills a childhood desire to actually be able to control a pokemon in a live match, rather than watching them exchange RPG-esque blows back and forth.

Definitely recommended by this sock for any pokemon and/or fighting game fan.

Mongoose wrote:I played the Mad Max game on PS4. It's good or getting out aggression

That's what Super Smash Bros. is for me. The Wii U version never gets old.

So I finally finished Earthbound, though I didn't really get to play it again since before my parents visited for Christmas until just recently. Amazing game. Already working on a mafia game based off of it.

nutella wrote:Who wants to talk about the new Smash 4 characters because HOLY SHIT BAYONETTA Thanks to my dorm/friend group's Wii I've already been able to try out Bayonetta and Corrin and they're both really fun. We also just recently got Cloud and he's pretty interesting too. They all seem pretty strong. Mostly Bayonetta's moves kinda blow my mind.

Both of them are awesome, but for my style I much prefer Corrin. I was always big on the Fire Emblem characters (with Ike being a huge player in my rotation until they brought back Roy, occasionally using Marth as well), but I'm increasingly finding that Corrin might just be the best one for me. The last few times I've played online against my brother I've been consistently winning matches with her, regardless of who he uses, and that's quite bizarre these days. So I'm stoked.

A Person wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:Regarding Shovel Knight, AP, how do you like it?
I like it a fair amount so far. It's a 2D platformer with some interesting combat elements. It is a bit frustrating, things you have to jump over like spikes, magma, pits, etc all kill you instantly, and some parts are pretty frustrating for uncoordinated scrubs like me. But it's also really rewarding, has a great sense of humor, has a good soundtrack, nice graphics, and has an interesting story so far. I'm playing as the Plague Knight (free DLC that is supposed to be unlocked after beating the game as Shovel Knight (but I cheated )) and you can buy different sorts of casing, powder, fuses and arcana and mix them all to create bombs for individual circumstances. I normally don't get deep into games but I've played every day since I got it.

I've been thinking about purchasing it for some time now, so I think I just might do that.

I love Bioshock Infinite! I can understand why it gets criticisms from a gameplay perspective though.

Regarding Shovel Knight, AP, how do you like it?

I finally got a hold of Xenoblade Chronicles (the original), and it's pretty sweet from what little I've played so far.

I got my brother Splatoon for Christmas, so I've been playing that again recently. Awesome game.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:So I guess you already went through the revelation that "Ness doesn't actually have PK Fire and PK Thunder despite having them on Smash".

Yeah, I was like wtf? Lol. Smash Ness is more Paula than Ness, but I won't complain, though I kept wondering when I would learn them in Earthbound for a while there!

I've been playing a lot of Smash Wii U lately.

Well, not playing per se...

I definitely will be making an Earthbound mafia game, that's for sure.

I'm almost at Fourside now, actually! I was hoping to finish this game before the semester starts... might not happen with Christmas, Smashfest, and my parents visiting, but I'm really glad I stuck with it this time.

MovingPictures07 wrote:I'm now addicted to Earthbound.

+1

I'm now addicted to Earthbound.

So I'm taking a break from Earthbound to replay something I haven't played in over a decade on the Gameboy Advance... Wario Land 4. I remember loving it when I was younger, saw it on Wii U Virtual Console, bought it this morning.

Epignosis wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:
Epignosis wrote:Best SNES RPG ever: Chrono Trigger. Easily.
Won't disagree with that.
That reminds me- I need to finish my Chrono Trigger Mafia.

I'd definitely play that.

It'd be nice if Chrono Trigger got a Wii U virtual console re-release.

Epignosis wrote:Best SNES RPG ever: Chrono Trigger. Easily.

Won't disagree with that.

I get sucked pretty easily into RPGs though; I find them inherently addicting. Just never have the time to devote to them anymore. But back in the day, it would have to be a crappy game for me to put down an RPG.

Epignosis wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:Just started playing Earthbound for the first time, at my brother's insistence.
I started that game a few months ago and couldn't get over how nonsensical it was.

It is pretty crazy so far and I've only played for 10 minutes. Lol.

Just started playing Earthbound for the first time, at my brother's insistence.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:Just beat Super Mario Bros for the first time in my life. After being stuck in world 8 for weeks.

It was incredibly epic.

I was destricting myself from starting another game because I wanted to fulfill this mission. Now I can finally move on to something else.

Nice!

I've just started Earthbound.

Annie and I have been playing yoshiwoollly world and it's so awesome!!

Super Mario Maker. Love it. It's a shame this didn't come out 10 years ago, younger Alex had much more time.

XthAtGAm3RGuYX wrote:Don't lie MP you dont play video games. You just get on Xbox to watch Netflix

I don't play them as often as I'd like to, just don't have time.

Re: Netflix, usually that's Annie. Sometimes it's me. Sometimes it's both of us. :P

Just the other day, Annie and I got Splatoon, thanks to wedding gifts, and we're definitely enjoying it from what we've been able to play so far.

MovingPictures07 wrote:So I just bought character DLC that was released today for Super Smash Wii U (and 3DS): Lucas, Roy, and Ryu.

So fucking stoked. Can't wait to use these guys. I really hope they come out with amiibos for all of them, especially Ryu.

All three are awesome.

Ryu, of course, lives up to expectations.

Roy was my fucking man in Melee, so I'm glad to see I'm comfortable using him again after all of this time. He'll likely be my new go-to Fire Emblem character instead of Ike, who I had to pick up once they didn't bring Roy back.

Lucas is just a better version of Ness.

So I just bought character DLC that was released today for Super Smash Wii U (and 3DS): Lucas, Roy, and Ryu.

So fucking stoked. Can't wait to use these guys. I really hope they come out with amiibos for all of them, especially Ryu.

XthAtGAm3RGuYX wrote:Yeah Smash Bros 4 is pretty cool. I play Zero Suit Samus, and then I have Pikachu for fun. Banzai Bandana Pikachu is the best, followed closely by Birthday Hat Pikachu for extra headbutt damage.

I know, right?

Haha, nice. I typically play any of the following fighters, from roughly most to least frequently used: Ike, Marth, Bowser, Duck Hunt, King Dedede, Lucario, Ganondorf, Shulk, Little Mac, Captain Falcon, and Mr. Game and Watch.

I started a replay of Galaxy 2 about half a year ago, but sadly it has been shelved due to lack of time to devote to it. I'll have to get around to that again at some point.

nijuukyugou wrote:I started Super Mario Galaxy (the first one) over again the other day. I'd forgotten half the levels and how ridiculously addictive it is.

YES!

Galaxy 1 and 2 are so amazing, I can't even.

I did manage to sneak in some Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U time last night. Love that game.

XthAtGAm3RGuYX wrote:
Bass_the_Clever wrote:Im play pokemon y right now and I am really liking the new graphics and the new staters.
GEN 1 MASTER RACE

I beat the entire game using only pokemon from the first two generations, exceptions being pokemon that are given to you like Lucario and such.

Though I did mess around with newer pokemon after i beat it. Gardevoir with Dazzling Gleam was retarded in 3v3 online battles.

Lol, I can understand why.

Pokemon Y is a solid game. I didn't play any Pokemon game since the 2nd gen, but finally checked out Y last November or so, and it was definitely a great way to revitalize my interest in the series.

Oooh, duly noted.

Definitely. It looks like Fire Emblem: Awakening for the 3DS is incredibly well-acclaimed, so I might consider getting that as my next 3DS game, actually.

Wishful thinking, probably, but it looks really sweet and seems to retain many of the elements from Radiant Dawn that you described.

Started playing The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD remake for the Wii U yesterday for part of Annie's birthday celebration. About time. What a game.

Due to both of our schedules being busy, I doubt it'll get finished any time soon, but it seems the plan is to sneak some time for it here and there.

Epignosis wrote:
timmer wrote:
Epignosis wrote:I have never had anything to do with Fire Emblem outside of Smash Bros.

What am I missing?
It's an RPG with a zillion characters, level ups, kind of Final Fantasy ish I guess? Many of the character can switch between human and animal form - they are vulnerable and weak as humans, very strong as animals, a neat risk/reward thing.

I guess I love the game because there are some missions where you need to pick like 18 characters to enter a level, and you've got 25 to pick from, let's say. If you always use the same guys, they will level up a lot and get really strong but in later levels were you are forced to bring the weaker people into missions, those characters will die and weaken your overall team. But, if you spread the levelling up too smoothly around the characters your group will be too weak at endgame.

Lots of long term and short term strategy in character choices.
Sounds like my kind of game.

This.

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