>>1261
I haven't played drakengard 3 and 1. I watched terrible playthroughs that skipped many things, and i did bunch of research to find some that are fuller to say the least. I will be watching them soon.
What i will say about drakengard is that the actual cut scenes are fucking good, meanwhile this is the gameplay
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CHnAqxAE7fQ [Play]
It's important to highlight this. The actual flight based combat was conceived first and was fully developed (and based after ace combat of all things) meanwhile the land based combat was thrown in at the last second. As anyone can understand, the main problem is that the ground based gameplay is a rip off of dynasty warriors 2, which is in general a shit franchise. Granted, drakengard was intended to parody and piss on dynasty warriors, it's still a direct rip off and therefore, might not be fun to actually play. (take my words as a grain of salt because i haven't played the games besides only a tiny bit of nier and automata)
The actual story and cutscenes are well produced, one scene that wowed me was when a bard sat down to play a tune, the music was nice. It was a sobering moment. The characters where insane to say the least, the producers caught their square enix bosses at a bad time so they kinda just said "do whatever you want lol" so.. they just did. (the bosses later came back and begged tem to mae changes to the story to make it more marketable but the producers ignored them lol) You have a pedophile, a psychopath, a cannibal, a woman with an incestious complex, and a narcissistic old man as main characters, all of whom are written with realistic emotions amd consequences instead of anime tropes, top notch shit. I like how they potrayed caim, it was a commentary on videogame protagonists who kill thousands of niggers with glee and without any care, and who is also silent due to a personal sacrifice, but also because main characters in video games are also silent.
Something to mention about 3 is, while the gameplay is widely developed and refined, the tone is... jarring to say the least, considering the writing of drakengard. It can be best discribed as juvenile and not in a way that makes sense to the early and later games, or is even funny for the most part. The humor also drips with irony and meta humor at the expense of the player. There are plenty of shitty 4th wall breaks for some reason. Then the graphics are... diffrent then what was given in the first drakengard. Things are designed wildly diffrent, which makes you wonder what the hell changed between drakengard one and 3, like why are the golems diffrent? why are the angels less like the watchers from the first game dispite being the same creatures? why is everything more colorful? and then you have the problem of copy pasted bosses thrown out there to artifically extend the length of the game.
I'll change my focus on nier, and automata later.

They never explained how adam was formed in the first place, I mean if he was created once, then therefore the machines could form another, and ascend and make better machines then the shitty short stubby, then they could have actually wiped all androids out. Hell, it would have been nutty if you where fighting a bunch of short stubbies and they merged into more biblically named fuckers. Hell what's interesting is it's implied those guys are actually biological machines, meaning they are more organic then the androids who themselves have biological components. Why not reuse this? Where the writers lazy, because it seems pretty fucking significant of a happening and no one both in game or irl are treating it seriously. Hell, you could have had the red girls freaking out over their creations and maybe adam or eve could have killed their creators, starting another cycle.
I made the mistake of reading ahead by looking at novels, manga and shit but i haven't really made it too far in game so i don't know if they'll bother with it, but god damn.

>>1265
So androids can eat, and then excrete waste matter, they can cry, especially when sad or scared. They have stomaches, a heart like humans, skin, lungs, they can sweat, they can taste, they have red blood. They have hair that grows, they don't have genitalia, and for whatever reason they can be implanted with human memories, sometimes even the memories their original models where based after. I forgot to mention that combat androids are also installed with a pleasure-generating algorithm that releases chemicals into their circuits during battle, (there's even a quest where a character makes fucking robot meth to replecate the high lol) it gives a type of nearly sexual release, although i must also point out that they cannot feel romantic feelings, instead the closest thing they can feel is familial bonding and units tend to see eachother like brothers, and sisters, and so on instead of romantic partners. Dispite taro wanting otherwise there is no gay robots.
It's interesting to me, because i'm personally wondering how far the extent of their "robotic" nature is really robotic, like what if they are fucked up humans but with electronics installed?

>>1262
In the west we had one game, called Nier. In japan, they had two games, Nier Replicant, and Nier Gestalt.
Nier Gestalt is what was given to us in the west, with the blanket title of "Nier". It was altered because Square Enix thought the west wouldn't like a younger protagonist. It stars an older protagonist, all the dialog was altered to fit this role. In japan, replicant stars a younger protagonist.
The story flow is the same, but dialoge differs to the point where it can be said that it kind of is a diffrent game. Both original nier and replicant has gameplay kind of derivative of god of war. Later, there was a remaster, and upgraded version titled Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139… that adds cut content only featured in novels and world guides, and the gameplay was altered from the clunky god of war, to the smoother nier automata gameplay. This is supposed to be the "full" version of the game.
Which is canon? For whatever reason, both are mentioned as canon but for the most part nier replicant is the one that has the highest favor.
>>1265
The story, and characters and so on of automata, is a good one but it doesn"t feel fully fleshed out or developed. Or atleast maybe the translation for the english dub might be poor because it feels empty, if not slightly confusing. One example is emotions. We're led to believe that androids, atleast the yorha units are not supposed to feel emotions and yet even early in the game, even if it's denied by characters, do act quite emotional, as an example you'll get moments like when an operatior, is crying about how she was rejected by another operator, and 2b has to comfort her. This is kind of explained away by the commander being way to liberal for her own good out of guilt, (in a conspiratorial manner because she's guilty of something) and that the "androids must be emotionless" stems from the pearl harbor decent accident, because emotions fucked everything up,
and is personally enacted by 2b so she doesn't have to feel guilty about being a secret assassin. But i don't really know to be honest, maybe i'm the idiot but i'm way too confused.

Something i ignored on my last two playthroughs of dead space was the audio, I thought it was clever that you can hear his heartbeat when he's scared and you can hear him gasp and wheeze when he's low on health or exausted, which was pretty fucking clever. I guess i really wasn't paying attention back then. It gave the game a bit of a claustrophobic feel.

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YOU FUCKING NECROMORPH!

>>1255
What the fuck does "necromorph has a double meaning" even mean? Is it unitologist gibberish?

>>1256
I just imagine a sad necromorph moderator typing it out with his little hands, maybe the politically correct term for necromorph is "Vitally-challenged"
As i was typing this i did some googling and i found this:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Necromorph
So its slang now for tranny lol.

>>1205
I didn't pay attention to this the first time it was posted, and now after actually watching this, LOL

Can anyone recommend me a setup for best strafes?

Malen how do you Strafe like on SJ etc.?

The megaman zero games for the DS are difficult but really fun, and cool to boot.

Dude, if you like watercolor art in games you really ought to check out SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered. Tomomi Kobayashi really needs more of the love that Yoshitaka Amano used to get.

>>1200
I feel gba is slept on a lot. I just got into mario kart super circuit, one of my new favorites in the series. I should explore the system's library a bit more, but I'm well aware of how much shovelware there is to sift through, that and snes ports.

>>1242
The GBA was one of the system that made me fall in love with vidya games. When I play games from the system now it still has it magic for me. Retro GBA games are must play in my opinion.

Metal Slug Advance for the gba is addicting as fuck and both looks and performs pretty great. I'm a dumbass so i keep fucking myself over but there's no way i can put it down, i gotta make it to the end this time.

>>1221
this but throw in some thinly veiled fetish content like doing a quick time event to escape the monster who'll spank you to death

>>1222
So basically Higurashi Rei as well, but not as lighthearted?

>>1223
Yeah but lets throw in that the main character had a girlfriend much to the dissaproval of the town and her parents, and an ex of the girlfriend character who is a male, beats the girlfriend to death with specifically a baseball bat which kicks off the story. Also you can look at the player characters panties.

>>1220
yeah and I'm really excited about it, since I love silent hill as well as japanese history and religion which this seems to be heavily involved with, but I'm still gonna be mad about silent hills being cancelled until I die lol

>>1230
Did you ever see the P.T aka silent hill easter egg in metal gear solid the phantom pain?

>>1114
https://www.ign.com/articles/notch-says-he-basically-announced-minecraft-2

>>1115
It seems like Notch would like to make a game in general, so it may not be Minecraft per se, but if he manages to make something like Minecraft in this day and, age I'd be amazed.

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1.7.10 has the best and most comfiest mods. Millenaire, Witchery, Minefantasy2, and the LOTR mod are all great, I don't need anything else. I thought about learning Java just to make more mods for 1.7.10 and fix up mods I already like.

I like the Create mod. Factories are such lovely things to build and there are some really powerful options for building like the hose pulley, Wand of Symmetry, and jetpacks (from an addon)
>>1113
He better stop calling it Minecraft 2 if he wants the game to be good. I know he was working on a voxel-based fps set in space that eventually turned into Minecraft, maybe it'll be something to do with that idea

I always thought the cave update was cool, besides the warden boss. Having undergound biomes is a neat idea.

>>583
I feel like thats funny because usually as a series grows, sometimes the later games usually are shit.

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>>577
I finished Thunder Force III. It's a lot easier than the previous game. In fact, this may be the easiest shmup I've ever played. I had to record a whole level for the webm because the bosses all go down in seconds.
Still, I think this game is generally superior to Thunder Force II. Taking away the top-view levels keeps things focused and coherent, and the level design feels more intentional. Again, it leans into the variety of weapons as the main strategic element.
The graphics are greatly improved, not only with better sprites, but also some cool parallax effects and foreground elements, among other things. Likewise, the soundtrack has more nuance and longer loops.
As well-made as it is, this game is easy to recommend, especially for beginners. It might warrant a replay on a higher difficulty eventually, but first I'll move on to Thunder Force IV.

The emulation on the xbox systems, for it's "backwards compatibility" is unreliable, and in many cases has major glitches or bugs that'll make your game damn near unplayable, such as getting the black screen of death or getting your game frozen. Even now in the current year i'll be playing morrowind on the new xbox series x, and although the graphics are cleaned up, the trade off is unstable gameplay where opening up a tab too quick might fuck up the game. Hell, the game might say "fuck you" and quit anyway.
A direct reminder
>Supported Original Xbox and 360 games will run within an emulator and have access to certain Xbox One features, such as recording and broadcasting gameplay. Games do not run directly from discs. A repackaged form of the game is downloaded automatically when a supported game is inserted, while digitally-purchased games will automatically appear for download in the user's library once available. As with Xbox One titles, if the game is installed using physical media, the disc is still required for validation purposes.
Your system requires wifi to download the game from the store, the system CANNOT read the files from the disk. This is the same with people who own an xbox 360, internet is required (also a new hard drive) to access your original xbox games. Most of the problems actually availible on the 360 emulator for original xbox games have not been patched so if you get the black screen of death its microsoft being fuckers and not you or your systems.
Here's another unpatched bug from peacewalker, on the xbox series x, in the year of our lord 2023
Was playing the secret monster hunter level, and while i was fighting a monster he launched a fireball that gave the game INCREDIBLE LAGto the point where the game crashed and refused to open for a very long while.
Playstation, has NATIVE backwards compatibility. It has the chip that can actually read whatever disc depending on the system. As an example, the ps2 can play ps1 games natively, an earlier version of the ps3 can play ps, and ps2 games. Ps4 cannot play ps3 games. ps5 CAN play ps4 games natively, without emulation. There are problems, games might get bugs that cannot be patched, maybe issues with AA and some games not being playable.
This is a fair warning for those interested in investing in a new console and thinking you can somehow enjoy your older games on newer systems without a hitch.

With that out of the way, how are GB/GBA games handling with emulators? I'm assuming that there might be problems with certian games that use the internal clock as an example like pokemon.

>>1
I used to use CDRomance a lot before it went down a while back, and am disappointed to find out that it needs login to use now.
Also what's up with emuparadise. Every one of its links seem to no longer work.

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>>1215
I've been using edge emulation and it's sister site but it seems it's down for now.
This is unrelated, but does anyone know if there's a good dump for the Addams Family game on PC Engine CD? mine looks like this