>>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

Spyro the dragon is something else. I might be biased because i grew up with games that had shitty low poly graphics but even now it looks, plays and sounds good. I remember playing spyro when i was 5 at a friends house and the crash bandicoot racing game. But spyro still hits me like a ton of bricks when ever i remember it. I was playing spyro remastered recently and its great don't get me wrong, it doesn't beat the original.

Playing games on the bionicle website was fun, two of the games gave you FREE music like from paramore, and a dutch band called cryoshell, the ones i'm most nostalgic for was the mata nui online games, the music for one thing was incredible, the visuals was nice because you can finally see what it looked like in the books, and i love the gameplay, classic point and click with fun minigames. I remember one that was basically soccer and it was fun as heck.

>>1126
One sad thing to see was they stopped selling Bionicles. I remember my family looking for bionicles and finding out they were discontinued at Legoworld.

>>1127
It was a sad day indeed. Especially since they rapidly ended the story and the figures got downgraded, and lacked articulation. Terrible sendoff if you asked me.

I was a big Golden Sun fan.
That said, I was playing N64 with my friends recently and realized how much Smash 64 and Pokemon Stadium I played as a child. I say this because I kept winning.

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I haven't played many puzzle games to be fair, but I've enjoyed puzzle 'n desu for the snes. It is a cute game where you have to push colored blocks around to make them appear in a line of three or more which makes them disappear. It also has a timer so you have to think quickly, although with emulators cheating is easy (I didn't). The music is neat, the visuals are pleasant, overall it feels quite nice to play although I've never finished it and recently have lost my saves after a retroarch update.
It is available in japanese only but it's not hard to guess what menu items mean and the story is illustrated.

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I don't know if any of you care about columns, but I like the columns III guy more than I actually like any of the games. Good riddance to columns, I say; the games are pretty below average. More games should have this kind of retarded marketing where a random man is farting around on the cover.

>>1196
lol do you have a link to that

>>72
If you were a real gamer you'd be able to imagine the story as you go. The selfless I block. The treacherous Z and S blocks, only playing nice with their own kind. The diplomatic T. The stalwart O block, unwilling to compromise its principles for anything... they are all characters as vivid as anything from Lord of the Rings and familiar as friends to me.

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>>1198
the tetris blocks all have names and personalities too.

something i don't understand about dragon quest 9 is the price of goods, like holy shit why is everything overpriced? there's no way in hell i can catch up unless i grind for an hour to generate the cash to buy my crew the latest gear.
>>1110
how is the story of dragon quest 11? 9 so far is actually working out well, all of the little stories pack an emotional punch for me, recently there was one about a living doll amd a giant spider and it was pretty tragic of a story.

>>1111
I don't understand why i'm so stupid. So there's this place called swinedimples and i got my ass kicked by the boss and i was wondering why the game is so fucking hard, because i thougt it was an easier boss in my memory, so i looked at a guide and he's supposed to be like level 36 meanwhile i'm level 25 and to make matters worse i missed the area i was supposed to find before swinedimples with an easier boss, Batsureg. I don't even know how to reach that place? I feel like zoro from one piece i'm so fucking lost lol.

>>1122
After going through the proper order the swinedimple boss was actually a cakewalk, even though i didn'g level up too much in the prosess. Batsureg also worked out because the ranger class is a glass cannon so you you are stuck with basic bitch gear till late game, and that place also had real ranger gear. Early on the only place that had gear you can use was at port laffian and by that time your level 10 so basically your stuck with level 10 gear untill you reach level 30. The vanish ability is nice during a boss battle because i basically can snipe, and i have the bonus of all the cool ranger spells and buffs to use in battle, and it made time fly faster then the previous time i played dragon quest as a martial artist.

The cockney slang in dragon quest nine is starting to piss me off. I think it's the localization, but it's just grating to read because sometimes it becomes gibberish like some parts of dark souls, like when you meet the talking cat.
Also it's weird that at first a boss battle is fucking hard but after the second try it ends up being a cakewalk? The hog guy whos name i forgot wiped out my team one by one on the first try and after painfully griding for an hour to reach level 32 i go back and the battle was fine? I think i used the same strategy of vanishing then buffing the shit out of my team mates, so i don't understand what changed at all.
Also i like the fake out where you get power ranger armor and you think your gonna do a cool boss battle and watch a killer animation sequence only to get arrested seconds later.

So i think i made it to the point where the game is damn near over in IX
The last boss battle i fought was against Godwyn, who was a bitch to beat the last time, mainly because he's a nigger who removes any buffs and status effects placed on my team and his (at the time) unexpected SECOND BOSS FIGHT took me off guard. This time i faired slightly better, my team mates died twice but other then that it was basically me just throwing random shit just to see what works. Now the royal pain in my ass will be corvis, the problem with that faggot is that he's a fucking TRIPLE BOSS FIGHT. I'm like level 30 something and i was thinking at this point i'll focus on reaching fucking 50 and maybe grind for gear and weapons. Sucks bit hey, the game is nearly fucking over.

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 made it to the third full moon event and a bit further after that, like the 50th floor of tartarus, i enjoy the tone of the game and the situation where your just a guy in a fucked up situation with this unreal bullshit messing up the real world, hard to explain but it's like lovecraft or fucking ghostbusters as a somewhat shitty example. Unlike 5 where your just a superhero.
I wanted to throw up in my mouth though when you get new outfits, they do this faggoty "the right stuff" slow walk as if they expect me to say "wow so cool!"
How about stop with that bullshit? It's just as fucking retarded as every other thing reusing the fucking akira slide like fuck you, stop it.
Maybe this is just me, but also it feels easy as fuck, like i don't have to put too much effort into survival like i thought i'd reach a difficulty spike sooner or later.

>>1150
Did you really pay for a new copy or something?

Currently playing Manor Lords again ever since the Early Access release and I was already mad back then that the game lacked basic features such as another AI player on the map and honest to god with the most recent update I think it's the exact same release that I played a year ago. There's absolutely fucking nothing new and it all still SUCKS BALLS.

>>1150
Another fucking frustrating thing is the handholding and literal 20 minute tutorial, and i wanted to activate survival mode but for whatever reason it's not popping up in the settings so i'm hoping to see if after the handholding is over i'll actually get access to the fucking settings.

>>1151
5 bucks for a ps4 copy lol

The capcom fighting collection is actually pretty fucking good, part of my problem as usual is,just the typical "skill issues" but the games are really fun.
Cyberbots has a fun story, visuals and gameplay and not only are there sperate characters with diffrent storylines, but several diffrent mechs to choose from, and diffrent usages per mech, if i had issues against a boss, then changing out to a diffrent mech with a diffrent skillset and fighting style might give me the edge i need.
Red earth is outstanding too, has some cool features like "leveling up" and getting buffs against attacks kinda like a fusion of an RPG and a fighting game. You also get special endings based on stuff you did and i ended up getting the bad ending lol.
Played a bit of darkstalkers, i love the characters and OST.
Still pretty dogshit at streetfighters lol, even at the most easiest difficulty, the good thing is that there's a "training mode" so maybe if i work hard enough i can break through just panic buttonmashing to win.

>>372
i remember when 2 dollar HORSE ARMOR for oblivion was considered retarded and "too expensive"
then EA fucked retards over by making the real ending for dead space 3 DLC
doesnt seem like shit is changing for the better.

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Goddamn

>>513
So basically extra cosmetics and a few levels? seems like its a better deal to go vanilla.

They made the new dlc for persona 3, a remake of the answer arc, they release it as a, singular item for 20 bucks, then they remove the original 20 dollar dlc and combine it with cosmetics and raise the price to 30 bucks. That's really stupid if you ask me. Especially since if you bought FES back in the day and got the dlc baked into the disc.

>>1120
Not counting inflation, 30 USD could get you the FES edition back in the day as well. Keep in mind, this was before internet distribution of content was widely feasible in Japan and part of the west, as it was a rather new concept (unless you were an Xbox/Xbox 360 user, where it is rather common at that point).

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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.