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News and Announcements / Re: Board Game Strategy

« on: April 18, 2013, 08:56:24 pm »

I would be super pumped to see a Race for the Galaxy blog pop up here...

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: December 19, 2012, 04:31:48 pm »

I love Mario games, but for me the Galaxy games are a tad overrated. I still enjoyed them, but I have no desire to replay them or 100% complete them. They didn't have the same... heart, I guess? For my money, Sunshine was infinitely more delightful.

I think I've found the only other person in the world who likes Super Mario Sunshine. What an underrated game that was! The FLUDD-less action segments are by far the most challenging/satisfying a Mario game has been in years. Just don't get me started about those stupid blue coins...

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: December 18, 2012, 10:49:57 am »

I've played SMRPG on a ROM (never released in the UK ), and I have to say, it's good, but man, all the Paper Mario games are so much better (despite being newer). Well, Super Paper Mario is a different beast entirely, still a great game, but not so much an RPG.

Nostalgia is powerful, I suppose. I enjoyed the Paper Mario games, but not as much as I enjoyed SMRPG as a kid. Besides, SMRPG paved the way for all those shiny new Paper Mario games. Bow to Squaresoft! Now, please make me another Chrono game.

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: December 17, 2012, 11:09:42 am »

Anyone have the pleasure of playing Super Mario RPG for the SNES? I beat that game like once a year. Sometimes I just listen to the soundtrack while I'm playing Dominion or something.

I've been hoping for years that Geno and Mallow would see the light of day in another game...

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: December 07, 2012, 01:06:38 pm »

For all Final Fantasy enthusiasts, I recommend Theatrhythm on the DS. 

I'm not an FF fan, but I played the demo and I'm considering getting it as I do like a rhythm game (but unless there's a compelling reason to do so, I will probably try to play as many songs on the top difficulty only).

You have to beat each song on lower difficulty to unlock its harder difficulty versions.  So there will be some "easy going" early on, but I didn't mind it - it was helpful to get fully accustomed to the interface.

It's totally worth it just to listen to "The Man with the Machine Gun" from FF8 over and over and over and....

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: December 06, 2012, 08:32:12 am »

Volt: Did you never play Xenogears? I'm currently replaying it (for like, the 10th time) through an emulator on my mobile, but it was hands down the best storied game I ever encountered, and the music... Oh man, I can listen to the CD for hours on end. SO good.

Xenogears is awesome. Xenosaga is less so. I did receive Xenoblade Chronicles for my birthday, which is supposed to be the best JRPG of this console generation. I've been super pumped to play it.

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: December 05, 2012, 03:30:32 pm »

Someone mentioned Persona in passing.  I cannot recommend the Shin Megami Tensei series and its spinoffs highly enough.  Persona 4 may be the best RPG on the PS2.  Persona 3 is also terrific, as is Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.  On the DS/3DS, the Devil Survivor games, as well as Strange Journey.

I have a Vita and two games: Persona 3 Portable (PSP game) and Persona 4: The Golden.

Theatrhythm was fun for awhile, but got old quick. I am very fond of kick to the pants hard platformers. If you enjoyed Super Meat Boy, I highly recommend Dustforce.

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General Discussion / Re: Everyone with right-aligned Pokemon signatures

« on: December 05, 2012, 11:30:52 am »

It's really hard to compare the two series, but in my opinion the best of Zelda beats the best of FF. Lately, FF has been getting worse at a much faster pace than Zelda has been getting worse. And this is coming from someone who didn't think FF13 was a total disaster. My biggest problem with Zelda lately is how safe the series has been playing it. I want another radical game like Majora's Mask. You can't fault Square Enix for trying to make FFs different, even if some of the games fall flat on their faces.

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General Discussion / Re: Drinking

« on: December 05, 2012, 11:22:06 am »

What's your favorite rum?  I'm looking for something relatively complex, that can be sipped, like fine cognac or bourbon.

For general purpose drinking, the Kraken has grown on me quite a bit. It's by far the best spiced rum I've had and it's pretty cheap too. It's the only spiced rum that I've been able to enjoy on the rocks. Appleton Estate Reserve makes a really nice smooth daquiri (and no, not the stupid girly frozen ones, just simple syrup and lime). Gosling's Black Seal is great with ginger beer if you can find some near you.

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General Discussion / Re: His Dark Materials?

« on: December 05, 2012, 11:17:18 am »

I read these over ten years ago and remember enjoying them quite a bit. Maybe it's time I revisit them to give them a proper judgement. I was only 13 at the time.

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: December 05, 2012, 10:42:59 am »

In TP, I liked the Sky dungeon, but Zant and Ganon's respective strongholds were fairly tedious. So I agree with you. The Temple of Time and the Snowpeak Ruins were absolutely the best.

IN SS, there are two more dungeons after the Sandship, and they are both really awesome. The final dungeon is extremely unique.

I'm just now getting around to beating SS, and I have to say the second fire temple was pretty awesome. The Song of the Hero parts were pretty meh, though, with the exception of the Thunder Dragon part. That was fun. I'm really looking forward to the last dungeon which I should be beating tonight.

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: November 20, 2012, 01:08:13 pm »

I bought a vita just for the Persona 4 remake...

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General Discussion / Re: Baseball MVP

« on: November 16, 2012, 01:39:03 pm »

I knew Cabrera would win, but I really wanted to see Trout walk away with MVP. There's just a lot of old-fashioned thinking among the baseball writers who vote for the award. To me, if you want to pick MVP based off of who was most "valuable" to their team, with extra points for getting your team to the postseason, then you could reasonably argue that only players from playoff-bound teams should appear on the ballot at all.

More importantly, Trout's achievements are historic. Very few people EVER have had a season like him. Cabrera was simply fortunate because nobody else happened to beat him in any of the three triple crown categories (which are dumb anyway). Many other players in history have put up the numbers that Cabrera did, including Cabrera himself in previous years. Cabrera won the MVP because of the storyline of the triple crown, postseason run, and the feeling overall that he is a "clutch" player.

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: November 02, 2012, 04:50:33 pm »

I didn't mean to turn this into a DotA topic. Anybody played any recent mmorpgs? I was thinking of trying Guild Wars 2 out. I was also a hardcore FFXI player (get your laughs out now), so I'm actually looking forward to this reboot of FFXIV. That game was so terrible when it launched...

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: November 02, 2012, 01:18:34 pm »

Maybe try League of Legends? Riot is very active in doing what they can to improve community behaviour.

Oh man, if i did that I would never hear the end of it from my DotA friends.

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: November 02, 2012, 10:52:30 am »

That's the sad part. I really like the game. I bet it would be really fun in a group of friends playing casually. The eSport aspect of the community just really makes it suck. Maybe we could get some friendly forum Dota 2 matches going...

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: November 02, 2012, 09:38:38 am »

Yeah, I suppose that is true. There's something extra angry about DOTA, though. I played all sorts of competitive/cooperative games with my friend for years and I never saw him get angry like that. There's something about DOTA that makes everybody feel like they're the best player in the world. It really doesn't help that the difficulty curve is very high and that the game requires a ton of team coordination. It can't be fun to expect teamwork from random public games. My friend wouldn't even apologize for being an ass. "That's just how DOTA is" was his response. F that game.

Revenge is sweet. I kick his ass at Dominion.

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: November 02, 2012, 09:09:06 am »

I quit partially for the same reasons as lekkit, but also because a lot of competitive Pokemon players are really vulgar people.

Never, ever, ever play DOTA then. Worst gaming community I have ever seen. That game destroys friendships. My best friend is really into it and tried to get me to play. When I finally did, my suckage lost us games and you would have thought I was causing the downfall of western civilization. Needless to say I refuse to play anymore. The whole community is a cesspool of the worst qualities in gamers.

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: November 02, 2012, 08:26:44 am »

I found Phantom Glass to be not-terrible and Spirit Tracks to be moderately-better, but I can also be annoying and point out Ocarina of Time 3DS (which I just finished, and will come back to for Master Quest later)

I really didn't like either DS Zelda game, and OOT 3DS doesn't count. Master quest has ruined OOT for me forever though. I used to play through that game about once every 3 months or so, but I finally finished a master quest playthrough about a year ago and haven't touched the game since. The master quest spirit and shadow temples were too frustrating.

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: November 01, 2012, 04:41:41 pm »

Now, there hasn't been a good handheld Zelda since Minish Cap...

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: November 01, 2012, 04:34:58 pm »

Well, I'm a Zelda apologist. In my opinion, Skyward Sword is much better than Twilight Princess. I don't know if it's better than Wind Waker. It's certainly not better than OOT or MM.

I would encourage you to keep playing though. I found the post-Sandship phase of the game highly rewarding. A lot of the story is illogically delayed until the late game, but when it comes, it's fairly compelling.

I will agree that the dungeons got better and better as the game went on, unlike in Twilight Princess which seemed to peak around the middle and get worse as the game went on. I thought the sky temple, twilight temple, and Ganon's palace were pretty lame. The final phase of the Ganon fight though... Man that was great. So was Wind Waker's.

Interestingly, even though MM is one of my favorite Zeldas, I realized it is one that I have replayed very few times. Instead of replaying, I would fire up my 100% file and mess around with the masks. The fierce diety mask glitch where you can run around the world in super form was pretty sweet.

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: November 01, 2012, 04:21:39 pm »

I got pretty far into Skyward Sword (I think I had just beat the big sand ship thing) when my Wii died. After I got it fixed I had no desire to replay back to that point. It's been six months since then and I just last week decided to start up again, but my progress is slow. There's just something missing with this game that makes me not want to play it again (even though I enjoyed it my first time through). Twilight princess was the same for me, as I've only beaten it twice. This is coming from a huge Zelda fan. I've played through Ocarina at least 50 times and Wind Waker about 10.

I would agree with whoever mentioned Fi as a major source of problems for the game. She's so annoying. I also really wish they made the motion controls optional, though that would make the game far easier. Particularly in boss fights I have found myself cursing at the controls as I die because they were too unresponsive.

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: November 01, 2012, 04:02:09 pm »

Yeah, what was up with that? "We're gonna make the game that's chronologically the first in a timeline spanning millennia, and in that game we'll make constant references to a time centuries before that, in which they had freaking robots."

To quote the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past (from Aqua Teen)...

"Because now, in the future, the past has occurred."

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Other Games / Re: Whats in your Board game collection?

« on: November 01, 2012, 03:54:39 pm »

I'm a lifelong video gamer who has recently (last year or two) gotten into some strategy card games, so my list is short:

Dominion (base through alchemy)
Citadels
Race For the Galaxy

I bought RFTG last week and I have to say that I am becoming completely obsessed with it. Keldon's AI is pretty amazing. Now if only I had some friends to play it with IRL...

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games

« on: November 01, 2012, 03:34:39 pm »

I have mixed feelings about Final Fantasy. I never finished VII or VIII (which is odd for me), but I enjoyed them. I loved IX. X was very good. X-2 was meh. I disliked XII. I despised XIII.

I love talking about FF games because everybody has a different opinion. My feelings of the games are rooted heavily in nostalgia. Since my gaming really started in the SNES era, VI and IV are my favs. IX and XII are close behind. I liked the lighthearted tone of those games and I feel they had really great battle systems. VII is good, but somewhat overrated. XIII was an interesting and well made game, but I feel that the game was hurt by a lack of NPCs to interact with (let alone the complete lack of towns). I don't really understand the "walking through a tunnel" complaint because one of the most popular games in the series (X) was almost as linear (there were just more diversions along the way). Don't even get me started about VIII. Hands down the worst game in the series, except for its music... "The Man with the Machine Gun" is probably the greatest battle theme ever written.