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I love the bosses in the fantasy zone games. Their designs are simple but very memorable, with most being giant, slightly menacing faces. Bosses that are just a giant face are cool.

>>934
what game is this guy from?

>>944
He's from Sub Terrania on the genesis/mega drive. The cool part is that after you kill him his skin melts off and leaves his skeletal corpse just sitting there.

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the first boss from an obscure (though not obscure enough to be without an english translation patch) famicom rpg "adventures in the otaku galaxy".
Looks like a pretty typical nerd to me. I gave up on this game shortly after beating him when the game crashed on me randomly

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I played through Looney Tunes on the Game Boy recently. It's pretty top tier for the system but the bosses are odd. I can think of other instances where Japanese developers given a western property make up weird enemy designs for games, but for Looney Tunes in particular the juxtaposition just struck me.

>>814
Although, zeroes was supposed to be the first mission in Phantom pain, and konami cut a fuck ton of content out of phantom pain and in a way, its like you as the player feel the phantom pain of what the game really should have been. I think a good chunk of lost content was leaked on youtube which includes a "mission 51". Also one of the lost missions is venom snake returning to where the whole ground zeroes inccident took place.

Playing Metal gear 2: Solid Snake.
It's much more fun then the first game. I realised that i'm an idiot and there was lasers in a room and i didn't use the goggles i just found to make them visible...
There was a room on the first floor with two guards and if you hide under a desk and stay still for a while, a military theme will play and the guards will salute and a voice from the speakers will say "attention" which is pretty wild.
I like how you can crouch in this game and how guards can be distracted and how they can roam around to try and find you unlike the first game where they just stand there.

I don't know if there's a lore reason for miller being useless in metal gear 2 unless he's actually a decoy or something.
So, i beat the first boss, which was pretty thrilling since it took me a long while to figure out how to kill him because of his habit to teleport. I like the amount of dialoge from the character unlike the previous game where there isn't much really.
Fuck NATO
I was happy to see that they re-used a throwaway character from the last game, it turns out the original name for the character was "blackcollar" which is an action sci-fi book with a similar character who's a space ninja and the name "black color" was a shitty translation from the english translators and they later changed the name to fucking "black ninja". i feel like that sequence of snake realising the governmet he's working for are a bunch of niggers is kind of related to mgs3 with big boss realising that the boss was a fall guy for the government, maybe thats just me though.

They finally updated the metal gear volume 1 collection to use 4K ultra HD. Really kept me waiting there.

I picked up metal gear 2 after a long while, i had just came back from staking the green hat guy through the jungle so i wouldn't get lost. I totally fucking forgot what i was supposed to do so after getting a stinger missle i backtracked to the sandy area and sure enougth, another boss battle but this time with a helicopter.
I'm a fan of the gimmick weapons and boss fights. I'm also a fan of the backtracking because atleast in this game i'm curious as of what's hiding behind locked doors.

I killed the end in metal gear solid three without having to do his boss fight, levels earlier during his secomd appearance near a warehouse the boss, her son and the end are discussing whatever bullshit amx i figured "fuck it, might as well kill that guy" so i did and the game fucking took it into account story-wise. I didn't realise afterwards he was supposed to have a massive boss fight because for me i had to face revolver ocelot's elite unit. I probably should next time, i heard it was legendary.

>>1054
the boss battle at the end of chapter 9 was shit and it felt like the type of thing in a stereotypical action game. you got to explode some bullshit and you have to kill a tripod at the same time, you have to cripple the tripod because if you kill it you'll waste ammo because it'll respawn over and over. you have to run to both sides of the room and shoot off an explosive at the thing (and not at the tripod) over and over.... waste of time really, kind of unfortunate because thd other boss battles in the game was actually really cool besides this bullshit. i'm getting ever closer to finishing the game for fucking once which is great because i have been stuck on an earlier chapter since forever.

>>1042
I finished the Sylvando quest and it was an absolute slog. Now I am on the Jade quest which will be much more enjoyable. I guess I am going to play as all the party members before they find each other.

>>960
I finished the next two chapters of Banner of the Maid. If I thought the battles would be easy, I was sadly mistaken. In chapter 20, you could not lose any units which made the chapter infuriating. In chapter 21, you could not lose the main two units, which was easier said than done because the chapter had every unit weakness. Overall, it was fun, and I am ready to progress.

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>>1104
I am nearing the end of the game. The ending I am seeming to receive is the Jacobin ending. The second to last level the main character took out Marie Antionette. I have some side quests left to do and the final chapter. I will finally get the main character Brother Napoleon for the final battle. The gameplay has been good with nice variety with not impossible difficulty.

>>1106
I beat the game. I am glad I played the game. It is a pretty under the radar game and the gameplay was quite nice. I'd recommend the game if you are fan of jrpgs.

it was revealed that i was getting monitored by shuji, and he dismissed yukaris complaints about it, and afterwards damn near let yukari get killed so that my persona power would activate. when she basically admitted what was going on i personally felt like she's one of the only trusteorthy person on SEES. not a fan of shuji, and i'm getting a feeling that SEES is nothing but a glownigger operation and that even if i can trust the others, everyone is getting used somehow for some stupid fucking goal i don't know about yet like it seems too simple for shit to be like "join the government and save the world"
i don't understand why i was made leader, if its another glowop or if it's bad writing, i feel that yukari should have been although to be honest she couldn't even use the evoker so it seems like maybe it had to be this way?
junpei seems too green to even join SEES, a part of me is wondering if he's gonna fuck up somehow, but at the same time he also made an interesting point, why make the evoker a gun? he pointed out it was nutty for someone to like, point a gun at their face and pull the trigger, why not a remote or button? maybe the fear reaction or the
desensitization to death?

Does anyone else struggle with finding SP restoring items? Are you really forced to scrounge through only vending machines or will the medicine shop sell that stuff eventually?
It seems to be my biggest bane. At least in 5 you can get shit from the cafe but it seems in 3 i am out of luck (so far).

Yeah i checked and its already april 23 in game and i pretty much knocked out tartarus on april 20. I mean fully wiped tartarus, all 22 floors, all chests, all shadows even the bosses without skipping anything. by the time it was over my team had no SP left besides junpei, and we all had our health knocked down to a quarter, with no healing items left that we got from the start. From 5000 starting shekels to buy shit got doubled to roughly 20000. This was on normal difficulty so maybe i should have started on something harder lol.

The full moon event was bitchin'
Nice visual flair and some drama with a really cool boss. I liked the timed battle aspect that got turned up every time the boss fast forwarded time, i was lucky as hell to be well prepared and at a decent level, otherwise i would've probably gotten fucked. I don't know why junpei was acting out though. Afterwards it was comfy actually being able to hang out with junpei (have a soft spot for comic books and i really like arcades and junpei having a great voice actor is a plus) and i'm looking forwards to fucking finally getting to know the other teammates.

so i played a bit of nier automata. thd gameplay is that of darksouls, you have the doge button with i frames, light attack, heavy attack, and then a new thing which is the dron thing that can shoot at people. you also still have to deal with a large amount of enemies swarming you, and gimmick bosses with patterns to memorise.
i'm playing on the nintendo switch and part of the problem that comes to mind is the camera. in the intro there is several sequences that change the cameras perspective and gameplay, and it zooms out way too fucking far to the point where i have no god damn clue what i'm doing whatsoever. i'd also like it if they didn't rely on the "swarm enemies" tactic since its kind of an old meme for games. i find the story kind of dubious as of yet because it makes no sense. your a robot right? you die and get reset and you don't really lose anything and they feel emotions but also have to suppress their feelings but like such a big deal was made out of a character dying for no real reason.
part of the thing i enjoyed was the bullet hell stuff, haven't played a game with those features and i thought it was neat. keep in mind i played up to the point where you make it on to earth and free roam so i don't know much so my opinion is more surface-level.

I tried playing a bit of Elin (I pirated it from here since it's an early access title: https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=137363) and well, some stuff put me off from the game. The inventory management is actual hell as there are too many item variations, not enough storage. you cut down a tree, and instead of just getting “wood” you get some random type of wood. cut down a few more trees, and now you’re stuck figuring out where the hell to put all this junk. A big selling point seems to be that it's also a colony manager but the system makes not much sense when almost all of the NPCs feel dead. All of them have some random portrait slapped on them, so i’ll talk to a kid npc and suddenly see some old dude as their portrait and when you hit “talk” every npc has basically the same lines. The stamina system has a "realism' gimmick applied to it that limits how many actions you can do in a day which honestly is more annoying than immersive. The keybinds have a steep learning curve, no way around it. for the first few hours, you’re gonna keep mixing up buttons and misclicking all over the place. honestly, it’s kind of dumb how unintuitive it feels. The building system is a bit of a nightmare since you are manually placing every single object with a very confusing interface, and no, you can’t even drag walls. you have to manually place them too, piece by piece. it’s tedious as hell. I'm not sure if there's like a "fun" part yet because it feels like it wants me to endlessly grind for features that are not implemented yet, and I have not even gotten to the "paying taxes" part people keep complaining about. it’s a case of a game trying to be too many things at once, so it sacrifices depth in each. Nothing feels fleshed out enough to actually work well, apart from maybe the dungeon-crawler aspect. Maybe I'll try playing some more of it later.

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>>343
seems like they toned the game down for reload, as an example in the opening when the girl is going to shoot herself, she says her every action and when i watched the original sequence on youtube she was quiet anx it had paranoid, jagged edits to bring in some tension so you had no fucking clue if she was actually trying to kill herself or something. in the sequence where the guy gets melted into a shadow, the camera pans away lmao instead of showing it, alot of the visuals are kinda brighter then usual like i watched a vid on the old game and the dorm was darker and kinda unsettling. also the artwork, the original visuals had more personality like look at pic related, original had its own thing going and the newer version has more of a typical anime feel. i literally haven't played persona 3 before so i have no clue about these types of things, reload might be good but these things caught my eye.

>>1081
There are no limiters on exploring tartar sauce, as so long as you have health and SP you can pretty much go as far as you want. I was playing normally and killing all enemies in the room and defeating the gatekeepers and i made it to floor 15.

>>948
At the same time, maybe that might have been the point? I kind of felt as i was going on with the story that it felt fine not exactly knowing too much about them, Like if i was the leader of a gang and they where my allies in arms instead of personal friends. It's just a though, though.i

Ryuji is pretty much (atleast so far) the only sane person in game, i would label him the designated straight man since he has questioned everything, which needs to be done untill real answers are had. Everything comes with a price and i don't think getting the persona power is going to work out well in the end. I don't trust big nose and i feel like i'm being pushed in some direction to influence something beyond my current understanding. I can understand morgana is the guide but he can really be a bitch sometimes especially to ryuji even though he was being moral, and asking the right questions. which i don't enjoy that much hearing.
I immediatly deduced that the gym teacher was raping girls and i wanted to kill the fucker since day one. It would have been diffrent for me if he was just a dick although he literally broke ryuji's leg and who knows if he did the same to more kids so honestly fuck that guy. I get where ryuji is coming from about not killing the gym teacher and all but i don't really care and it's not like i have a choice because i'm gonna get expelled so...
I reached the point in game where i have ann on my team and i have the whole day or two to prepare or whatever so i can raid the castle. Also i appreciate the usage of literature and jungian philosphy although i am confused why there are cryptids and mythological critters and demons in game as the shadows i mean i thought this game had to do with the inner psyche not the supernatural but i'm sure it'll get explained soon, i am still in april so its way too early for me to know everything about the game world.

ps5 can be so stressful at times especially because it's timed and there's only so much you can do in a day and your wondering if you missed something or if you made the right choice

WAIT A FUCKING MOMENT
ps5 is a inverse of the magical girl genre you play a male high schooler, with a magical abilities
you channel through an ideal alter ego and you have a cat mascot familiar to guide you, and theres singing and dancing i got myself conned wtf

Something that pisses me off about goro's social link or whatever it's called is when the game decided to male something more obvious then it already was (atleast to me)
You see, i've played pool before where the other person was a total asshole, trying to make some bullshit public show or being a dick in general. It was obvious when he switched hands because i was watching him play and it was clear he was a nigger. Don't get me wrong in the context of the story this is pretty fun, psychological cat (literally me) and mouse game. I already hated him from the start when he called makoto a basic bitch. he's trying to sound like some perfect detective and the fact he has to be on tv makes him even more of a bitch. i'm guessing he's mr law on the outside but on the inside he's a serial killer or something.
It also felt he was a pseudointellectual pompous ass when he quouted hegel to somehow mean that "we can both work together". Maybe he figured i might be head of the phantom thieves since tv shows hardly ever pick people to answer shit at random? I also am guessing he was the black mask guy but its more of an out of the blue guess, but maybe it makes sense because makoto mentioned how maybe the app can get hijacked so he could have actually been the first persona user before me, maybe its why those people went nuts because he killed their souls? Either way fuck him.
I like the direction of the story, kind of, having to do detective work to find the source of the drug dealing was thrilling in my opinion. Not a fan of ryuji getting mollested without being able to step in, also i'm sensing the eventual downfall of the phantom thieves in the style of deathnote due to how sloppy makoto and ryuji where with information security. How the flying fuck are they going to get out of the mafia guy and his pictures, i mean there was like 6 people in the same room are we gonna have to brain wash them all?

A feature of ps5 i'm still not a fan off is how the training wheels are still on, and its june. i assumed by the end of april i would have full access to the games features but then and there in june it goes into tutorial mode and holds my hand on how to do something somewhat trival or the thing i mentioned earlier where they explain something obvious like goro switching hands. Maybe i nick pick too much, though.

Back in the day i played rocketslime, Can't look at the monsters the same way after that game. I found a copy of V which i plan on playing soon, currently i'm playing IX and it's so fucking good. I personally thought i was blinded by nostalga, the only downsides i can feel are partymembers that you pretty much create with no personality and then some minor grinding but other then that it was smooth sailing to me. The writing still lives up after the 4 boss battles and several major locations i traveled to again, i forgot that the doctors wife in coffingwell died at the end of the boss battle and it felt like a gut punch.
I adapted to the game quite well all of my party members all are made to complement eachother, a priest for healing and recovering teammates from status effects, a warrior for heavy attacks and defence, a mage for all the magical bullshit and stats buffs, and me the all around guy. I plan on becoming a ranger this time around because i was foolish and passed on the oppertunity the last time.
On my last playthrough i wasn't even thinking and got stuck on damn near the last boss battle because i wasn't really playing the game like i was supposed to, i was underleveled, i button mashed and all my armor and weapons was wrong. this time in the four hours i was playing i knocked out several bosses on one try, dont get me wrong though, it took skill on some. (the hexigoon was terrible because it was too easy and it boiled down with a back and fourth of "i hit you and you hit me" four times untill he died)
I like the whole "angels" thing and the mixing of religions for a very dramatic story, and i like how both screens are used for dramatic cutscenes like two dragons fighting.

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GUYS WE’VE GOT A LEFTOVER THANKSGIVING TURKEY ON THE LOOSE!

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What the actual fuck is this shit guys? I reached the store and everything was unlocked... https://steamcommunity.com/app/47780/discussions/0/828940351636697923/ FUCKING EA
Apparently you can fix this by replacing the deadspace2.exe with the 1.0 file from here: https://gamecopyworld.eu/games/pc_dead_space_2.shtml
Also pic related feels like it could be a /yu/ banner.

>>1088
I was playing on console and all i got was some extra secret rooms from buying dead space ignition, some extra bullshit from buying the severed dlc, and then the free refurbished plasma cutter from owning a save file of OG dead space. I think some of the fuckery has to do with the steam platform too.

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Just so I don't forget next time how I did it here's a way to extract dead space 1/2 audio files.
1. git clone https://github.com/gibbed/Gibbed.Visceral
2. cd Gibbed.Visceral
3. git submodule update --init --recursive
4. Download Visual Studio: If you don't have a Windows account, get it from here: https://gist.github.com/pablotolentino/61ae8cfeea48548b6ad1489534e8482d
5. During installation, select .NET desktop development
6. Open Visual Studio and load the folder/project where Gibbed.Visceral.sln is located.
7. Select the recommended method to run the project with the latest .NET Framework.
8. Go to Build -> Build Solution. (If it says 0 failed, the build was successful.)
9. Near the Start button, select Gibbed.Visceral.BigViewer from the dropdown menu then hit the Start button to run.
10. Open -> select any .DAT file from your Dead Space game directory.
11. Look for a folder named audiostreams: Right-click it and select Save to extract the folder. (There could be audiostream folders in multiple .DAT files)
12. Download VGMStream to convert .snu files to .wav: https://github.com/vgmstream/vgmstream/releases
13. Use this Python script to convert .snu to .wav:

import os
import subprocess

root_dir = r"\audiostreams"  # The folder containing .snu files
vgmstream_dir = r"\vgmstream-win64"  # Path to VGMStream directory containing `vgmstream-cli.exe`
output_dir = os.path.join(vgmstream_dir, "output")

if not os.path.exists(output_dir):
    os.makedirs(output_dir)

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(root_dir):
    for file in files:
        if file.endswith(".snu"): 
            input_file = os.path.join(root, file)
            output_file = os.path.join(output_dir, f"{os.path.splitext(file)[0]}.wav")

            command = [
                os.path.join(vgmstream_dir, "vgmstream-cli.exe"),
                "-o", output_file,  
                input_file         
            ]

            print(f"Converting: {file} -> {output_file}")
            subprocess.run(command, shell=True)

print(f"All conversions completed. WAV files are in: {output_dir}")