Anthony wrote:...aaand I just beat Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest. That was actually really easy with a walkthrough. Maybe I spoiled it, maybe not. It wasn't a bad game, but it wasn't nearly as fun as the first one. I need to find Castlevania 3 now.
I always really liked Simon's Quest. Very open, not much direction, and lots to explore. A pretty good challenge as well, especially if you were tackling the game with no guidance It was a great accomplishment when I finally finished it.
The challenge in Simon's Quest was definitely more in the adventure aspect than the actual gameplay.
I'm going to tackle Gradius now, then Life Force, and finally Gradius III. I don't want to pay for Castlevania III right now, so I'll play something else to tide me over.
Life Force is kind of a weird game, if you're familiar with the arcade versions of it.
Yes, plural.
There's Salamander (the normal one), Life Force US (every stage has stage 1's background, recolored. Also there's a story about travelling through a cyborg's body or some shit), and Life Force JP (entire game is essentially rom-hacked to make the whole thing look like the inside of a body. Also completely different story than either.)
Good luck with Gradius III. Even Konami knows they made the arcade version way too damn hard, because that's what they call the hidden difficulty in the Snes game: "Arcade".
King Aquamentus wrote:
Good luck with Gradius III. Even Konami knows they made the arcade version way too damn hard, because that's what they call the hidden difficulty in the Snes game: "Arcade".
Arcade games are meant to be hard. More deaths = more continues = more money.
That's why NES games were as hard as they were. All the game developers from that era cut their teeth designing arcade games. They stuck with what they knew.
I've actually gotten pretty far in Gradius III without cheating. I've played it a lot over the years.
I'm give up
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Finished Paper Mario, the Thousand Year Door. I'm out of Paper Mario games, now.
Don't know what I'll play next. Maybe I'll get back to my library trek. I'm still on the Playstation.
I got pretty far in Gradius, but I got bored with it. I'll pick it up again later.
I'm currently playing The Guardian Legend, and it's pretty good so far. It's like a Gradius/Metroid/Zelda game. Check it out if you haven't already.
I also took a break tonight and beat Legendary Wings for the first time. I'm pretty happy with that. It wasn't actually all that hard. It seemed so much harder when I was a kid.
recently restarted Final Fantasy XII. This game... so good. One of my favorite JRPGs for sure.
In between tossing cupcakes at cars on the freeway, I'm playing some PS1 games.
Janus wrote:recently restarted Final Fantasy XII. This game... so good. One of my favorite JRPGs for sure.
There's also something else of interest that is unique to XII: It is the most balanced FF game by far. The one category where FF games generally fails (for me at least) is replayability as there never is a difficulty option. Most of them are just waaay too easy. However, with XII there's an accessory called "firefly" that fixes this. If you equip your characters with this it's possible to beat the game without ever gaining a level - also called the "Low-Level challenge" I believe. Unlike some other jrpg games with a LLC that are next to impossible without some sort of trick/farming/grinding, XII is pretty straight-forward. I highly recommend trying it if you've beaten the game already and are already familiar with it. It's very simple: In the very beginning of the game you just have to kill no non-boss enemies till around the wall that casts X-Zone or maybe just a little after that. 😊
What they call an "augmented reality" game on cell phones. Portals are located in real places around the world, and you walk by and tag them with your phone. You can fortify your own portals, link portals to make fields, and attack enemy portals. Get you out of the house.
One of my friends has been pushing me to play for a while and I finally gave in. We walked around town yesterday recreating links that had been lost from an attack, and my friend had me doing all the work so I could level up a bit while he supplied me with the items needed. Worth checking out.
It's in closed beta now, but you can request a invite at http://www.ingress.com/
Got Dark Moon yesterday. Playing the hell outta it.
Been awhile since I posted, anyways I've been playing Disgeae: hour of darkness, and Disgeae 2.
The first one is amazing, while the second has a sucktastic story...
Every six months or so, (Possibly with a window far smaller than that, even.) I start up a new game of Skyrim, decked out with some fairly impressive usage of mods. I tend to always take the " mod" because I always find it ridiculous how you can only wear one or two of each even though you have ten fingers and toes and can just drape a thing around your neck ad-infinitum. Really enjoying those "new content" type add-ons, such as the quest to rebuild Helgen, or the Moonpath to Elsweyr.
Also, the [url=http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/8429/?]Interesting NPCs mod is incredible. It may be absolutely batshit huge (1.3 or so GIgabytes.) but it's definitely space well dedicated. It doesn't really seem to add any new interactive content other than conversations, but every one of those conversations is incredibly deep, interesting, and thoughtful. You'll encounter everything from a man who cannot smell who moved into a dead man's house while the man is still rotting in his bed, a young woman practicing the necromantic arts as an actual form of abstract art, a Khajit abandoned at birth at the steps of Cloud Ruler temple and truly is a formidable swordswoman who killed her mentor, a cast-out Judiciar High-Elf with sarcastic scorn at her command, and so much more. Definitely get it.
Playing Oracle of Ages (3DS VC version) and having some fun. Never got to play the original release of it (didn't have a GB Color, only the GB Pocket and didn't get a GBA until a few years ago) and am looking forward to it and Seasons.
Been playing Odin Sphere, and getting my ass handed to me left and right... I don't know why but this game is harder then shit. >.<
I just got the God of War Saga a few days ago. I've never played any of the games in this series in earnest, but they're pretty incredible. I started with Chains of Olympus, since that is set before the first GoW. It's fun as hell, though perhaps I shouldn't have jumped into Spartan difficulty. It's... pretty unforgiving at times.
Animal Crossing New Leaf (but most of you know that already), waiting on my copy of Project X Zone in the mail, still also playing Oracle of Ages and Fire Emblem Awakening. I sometimes wonder how I get anything done outside of gaming and work.
Did finally buy me a 3ds and obtained my two first games for it! Which consist of Fire Emblem Awakening and Shin Megami Tensei IV... yeah the club Nintendo deal influenced my buy on games.
Which I made a wise decision on games FE:A Was a amazing game and SMT4 is getting to become a classic game for me :3
And I spent my 30 dollars in credits from that deal with those games and bought a heap of digital games which consisted of...
TLoZ: Links awakening (GBC)
TLoZ: Oracle of ages (GBC)
TLoZ: Oracle of Seasons (GBC)
Super Mario Land 2: The 6 coins (GB)
Gunman Clive (3DS Ware)
Photo Dojo (DSiWare)
All pretty darn good, this is great for my first time with a 3DS. 😊
Ventus wrote:Did finally buy me a 3ds and obtained my two first games for it! Which consist of Fire Emblem Awakening and Shin Megami Tensei IV... yeah the club Nintendo deal influenced my buy on games.The three gameboy Zelda games are all incredible and Six Goden Coins is my single favorite 2D Mario platformer.
Which I made a wise decision on games FE:A Was a amazing game and SMT4 is getting to become a classic game for me :3And I spent my 30 dollars in credits from that deal with those games and bought a heap of digital games which consisted of...
TLoZ: Links awakening (GBC)
TLoZ: Oracle of ages (GBC)
TLoZ: Oracle of Seasons (GBC)
Super Mario Land 2: The 6 coins (GB)
Gunman Clive (3DS Ware)
Photo Dojo (DSiWare)All pretty darn good, this is great for my first time with a 3DS. 😊
You've done well, my child.
I've been playing Persona 4 and I've beaten it a week ago, and so I went and started Persona 3: FES up... This game is driving me crazy.
Dragon Warrior VII.
DW1 was by far the most not really exciting type of do the exact same thing over and over in a spiral motion, leave town until hp halved, return to town with remaining hp, repeat, that I got addicted to the silliness of that concept as a child, so I decided to play through this one.
The only games I've got right now that I want to start are Ni No Kuni, and the two Witcher games. But daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamnit, school starts in five days.
I guess I can finally get around the Arkham Asylum.
I've finally got around to trying the second quest in The Legend of Zelda again, as I've never completed it. So far I've got the triforce from dungeons 1, 2, and 3, but the only items I've found are the boomerang, magic boomerang, and whistle (plus the blue candle, arrow, magic shield, and blue ring from shops). I haven't found any of the other dungeon entrances yet, and I feel like maybe I missed an important item besides just the boomerangs. It's a bit perplexing, really.
Jennifer wrote:I've finally got around to trying the second quest in The Legend of Zelda again, as I've never completed it. So far I've got the triforce from dungeons 1, 2, and 3, but the only items I've found are the boomerang, magic boomerang, and whistle (plus the blue candle, arrow, magic shield, and blue ring from shops). I haven't found any of the other dungeon entrances yet, and I feel like maybe I missed an important item besides just the boomerangs. It's a bit perplexing, really.
So far so good 😊
I'm in the middle of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
Found a nice linkshell group in Final Fantasy 11 and have been more active in it lately than any other game I currently play, except for Animal Crossing New Leaf.
Also, both PC and 360 versions of Terraia and 360 version of Minecraft (when not playing either of the above 2 games)
Ocarina of Time 3D on the Gateway. Never played through the Master Quest so working towards that.
Stopped playing Animal Crossing. Plan on rewinding the date to catch up. Lol.
Replaying through the Splinter Cell series, Gamecube versions, 2/3's through the first. The Chinese are bloody observant, keep getting killed lol.
