Rally-Vincent--- Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 11 hours ago, Cassylvania said: Couldn't see your guess, but was it Suicide Squad? Because Suicide Squad is definitely on the list. You listed Noah as one of the worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassylvania Posted March 9, 2020 Author Share Posted March 9, 2020 3 hours ago, Rally-Vincent--- said: You listed Noah as one of the worst. Hey, congrats for getting the first post on page 100. I'm so glad those words will forever be enshrined in that position on this thread. Yes, Noah IS one of the worst. I'm not sure if I'd put it above or below Suicide Squad. I had low expectations for them both, but Suicide Squad had a solid cast and access to the best rogues' gallery ever created. Noah had an even better cast, but it didn't know who it was making a movie for. Suicide Squad made me mad. Noah just made me confused. My other worst movies would be In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (don't come to my house and beat me up, Uwe Boll), The Disappointments Room (well, at least the name was accurate), Left Behind (Nick Cage cosplaying as a pilot), and the aforementioned Devil's Knot. I swear I'm not against religion. I just think it hasn't always been well-represented in movies. And honestly, if we consider me laughing at least once to be reason not to give a movie a "1" rating, I think only TDR and DK would make the list. I was in tears watching Noah and Suicide Squad. But that's different than something like Birdemic, which I expect to be terrible. I'm not paying money to see that. How about best movies? We don't have to be negative all the time. All of these movies got a perfect score from me: Batman: The Dark Knight Braveheart Coraline Creed II Everybody's Fine Gone Girl Gran Torino Groundhog Day Inside Out Kingsman: The Secret Service La La Land Moana Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Pitch Perfect Pitch Perfect 2 Rocky Rocky II Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse Wonder Wreck-It Ralph Zootopia Keep in mind those are only movies I've seen since I started doing this. (Some of them were re-watches.) Other really good movies I saw were Joker, Music and Lyrics, Silver Linings Playbook, and Wild, but there was something that held me back from giving them a 10. Gone Girl has flipped between a 9 and 10 a few times. I can completely understand someone loving that movie or hating it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally-Vincent--- Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 32 minutes ago, Cassylvania said: How about best movies? We don't have to be negative all the time. All of these movies got a perfect score from me: Why not? All the way better than farming crowns in Nuclear Throne. But I'll make it favorite instead of best movies. My favortie movies aren't necessarily good movies (and not all 10s either). In no particular order: Goodfellas Aliens The Last Boy Scout Payback Joint Security Area Das Boot Master And Commander Children of Men Heavenly Creatures Demolition Man Ghostbusters Corpse Bride Apocalypto District 9 Harry Brown The Virgin Suicides Fried Green Tomatoes 13 Going on 30 How to lose a guy in 10 days Imagine Me & You Blast From The Past While you were sleeping Full Metal Jacket Reservoir Dogs Letters From Iwo Jima The Page Turner Shang-High Noon 27 Dresses Lost and Delirious 28 Days later Finding Dory That should be enough for now, should it? Man, favorite movies stack up quickly over a couple of decades... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grotz99 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 (edited) Those are both great lists and I have seen most of those. Some of the movies I like got poor scores, but I personally like them (looking at you Boondock Saints on Rotten Tomatoes), which is why you can't trust review sites sometimes. Here are some of my favorites that I can think of right now: The Departed (still on Netflix I think if you haven't seen it) The Matrix Deadpool Alien Ironman Full Metal Jacket Incredibles (so many good Pixar movies, but this is first for me) Batman Begins 28 Days Later Die Hard James Bond: You Only Live Twice (again, a lot to like but this is #1) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Inception Spirited Away Boondock Saints Blade Runner The Quiet Place Tombstone Anchorman Pirates of the Carribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl Now You See Me Pulp Fiction SunShine The Bourne Identity Thank You for Smoking The Fifth Element The Prestige This list can go on for a while, but I think I'll stop there... Edited March 10, 2020 by Grotz99 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassylvania Posted March 11, 2020 Author Share Posted March 11, 2020 Dang, I should've only asked for a top five list. I can't possibly comment on all these movies. Oh, well. Let's try! On 3/9/2020 at 7:18 PM, Rally-Vincent--- said: In no particular order: Goodfellas Aliens The Last Boy Scout Payback Joint Security Area Das Boot Master And Commander Children of Men Heavenly Creatures Demolition Man Ghostbusters Corpse Bride Apocalypto District 9 Harry Brown The Virgin Suicides Fried Green Tomatoes 13 Going on 30 How to lose a guy in 10 days Imagine Me & You Blast From The Past While you were sleeping Full Metal Jacket Reservoir Dogs Letters From Iwo Jima The Page Turner Shang-High Noon 27 Dresses Lost and Delirious 28 Days later Finding Dory Goodfellas is easily a 10. I think I've talked about it here before, but it's not on my list because I apparently haven't watched it in the past seven years. (Which is probably not true, but I usually don't rate movies if I'm only catching the second half while flipping through channels.) Aliens is a classic. I watched Master and Commander in the movie theater when I was in high school and remember liking it. Demolition Man is a classic too. I'm assuming you mean the original Ghostbusters. (Who am I kidding? Of course you do.) The others...um... Hm... Well, I watched Full Metal Jacket. I have mixed opinions on that movie, but I kinda consider it to be two films, so it's hard for me to give it a rating. Finding Dory is the only other one I saw, but I preferred the original, and even that isn't very high on my favorite animated movies list. I should really put one of those together sometime. I think it's perfectly fine to separate "favorite" from "best" when it comes to ratings. For example, I think Her is a well-made movie. The acting is great, the story is interesting, and you could probably center an entire course in university around the philosophy and implications of that society. I also hated every minute of it. Fun Size, on the other hand, has no reason for being as enjoyable as it was. If I was judging a movie only by its chances of winning an award, Her would be much higher than a 4, but I'd be lying if I said I liked it. I do feel most of the movies on my list deserve to be there, but I'll admit I have some bias when it comes to the Rocky films and anything with Anna Kendrick in it. Everybody's Fine and Wonder earn their places by making me feel actual emotions. I watch a lot of dramas and rom-coms, believe it or not, but I rarely give them anything above a 6. I'm talking too much about my movies now, but I haven't seen a lot of the ones you've mentioned, and the ones I have are all pretty well-known. 11 hours ago, Grotz99 said: Here are some of my favorites that I can think of right now: The Departed (still on Netflix I think if you haven't seen it) The Matrix Deadpool Alien Ironman Full Metal Jacket Incredibles (so many good Pixar movies, but this is first for me) Batman Begins 28 Days Later Die Hard James Bond: You Only Live Twice (again, a lot to like but this is #1) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Inception Spirited Away Boondock Saints Blade Runner The Quiet Place Tombstone Anchorman Pirates of the Carribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl Now You See Me Pulp Fiction SunShine The Bourne Identity Thank You for Smoking The Fifth Element The Prestige Now, for you... Yeah, this is the opposite. It'd be easier to name the ones I haven't seen than the ones I have. Some of the ones I want to point out, though... You make a good point with Batman Begins. I know I put Heath Ledger on my list, but I tend to agree with those that say the first Christopher Nolan film was the best. It'll get a 10 if I watch it again. There are just so many movies out there that I'd rather watch something new than what is now a 15-year-old film (can you believe it?), and I don't think it's fair to start rating every movie I've seen in my life. That's why a lot of the ones you named, like Indiana Jones and Tombstone (I freakin' love westerns), aren't on my list. You Only Live Twice is an interesting Bond movie to put as your favorite. I think I've said before that I don't consider the pre-Daniel Craig movies to be particularly good (and even he's been batting 50/50), but that might be my favorite with Sean Connery. It'd be between that and Goldfinger. You know, when I was a kid, I used to have all of these movies on VHS, and I watched some of them so much that the spools began to unravel. At one point, I even had the movies ranked from my favorite to least favorite. I wish I could find that list somewhere, but I know I'm one of the only people who actually liked For Your Eyes Only. Every time I see a ranked list on the internet, I just quickly look to see where they put that, and it's almost always near the very bottom. At least everybody seems to agree about Die Another Day... I need to watch The Incredibles. It kinda came out at a time when I was sick of superhero movies and...well, not much has changed. I'm a bit all over the place when it comes to Pixar. I LOVED Toy Story, Inside Out (obviously), Up, and Wall-E. I thought Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo were OK. I did not like Brave or A Bug's Life, and I have no interest in Cars. For all three of those, it's because of the animation. You got some cool stuff, though. You seem to like action and sci-fi. I don't know why The Boondock Saints is rated so low on RT. I actually remember the night I watched that. I did a double feature with that and Toy Story 3 as my 99th and 100th movie to be rated, and it ended up being one of the best movie nights I ever had. Most double feature nights end in misery. It's very hard to find two good movies that I haven't seen before. I usually settle for one decent flick and then some stupid comedy to make me want to go to bed early. I watched 21 last night. (No, not 21 Jump Street.) That was actually pretty good. Those were simpler times for Kevin Spacey. Anybody else, feel free to drop your list too. Maybe make some suggestions that are still on Netflix. I'll add The Departed to my...no, wait. Already watched it. Gave it an 8. You see, this is why I do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inuty Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 I don´t look a lot of movies. Can only recommend to look Oldboy, the Korean original Version of the movies (not the western Version). But I think you Need to look the movie twice to see the small Details of the movie. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grotz99 Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 (edited) 12 hours ago, Cassylvania said: You Only Live Twice is an interesting Bond movie to put as your favorite. I think I've said before that I don't consider the pre-Daniel Craig movies to be particularly good (and even he's been batting 50/50), but that might be my favorite with Sean Connery. It'd be between that and Goldfinger. You know, when I was a kid, I used to have all of these movies on VHS, and I watched some of them so much that the spools began to unravel. At one point, I even had the movies ranked from my favorite to least favorite. I wish I could find that list somewhere, but I know I'm one of the only people who actually liked For Your Eyes Only. Every time I see a ranked list on the internet, I just quickly look to see where they put that, and it's almost always near the very bottom. At least everybody seems to agree about Die Another Day... James Bond for me is mostly built off nostalgia because I use to watch them with my Dad. I probably chose "You Only Live Twice" because its the one I can remember the most and it had to do with him being in Japan...also ninjas! I did buy the blu-ray set which helps you see the flaws in the movies more clearly, but I still watch them every now and then and as long as you know not to take them too seriously, they are entertaining. Goldeneye would also be up for a similar reason as it was one of the first I watched as a kid when we were playing the game on N64. The newer Daniel Craig ones are OK, except for "Quantum of Solace", I did not like that one. I had to put one up there for those reasons. You would think with the casting that "Die Another Day" had some potential, but it really did fall flat. It's hard to choose between that and "Quantum of Solace" for last place for me, but I might be forgetting some others. Looks like it might be time to go through them again... 12 hours ago, Cassylvania said: You got some cool stuff, though. You seem to like action and sci-fi. I don't know why The Boondock Saints is rated so low on RT. I actually remember the night I watched that. I did a double feature with that and Toy Story 3 as my 99th and 100th movie to be rated, and it ended up being one of the best movie nights I ever had. Most double feature nights end in misery. It's very hard to find two good movies that I haven't seen before. I usually settle for one decent flick and then some stupid comedy to make me want to go to bed early. I don't have a running list so it is hard to put everything I can think of. There are some comedies and dramas that would probably make the list like "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Dodgeball" (i do like some stupid comedies sometimes) that I couldn't think of when I made this. This is why I don't rank them and these are just ones that are really in the forefront of my mind from watching multiple times. 12 hours ago, Cassylvania said: I need to watch The Incredibles. It kinda came out at a time when I was sick of superhero movies and...well, not much has changed. I'm a bit all over the place when it comes to Pixar. I LOVED Toy Story, Inside Out (obviously), Up, and Wall-E. I thought Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo were OK. I did not like Brave or A Bug's Life, and I have no interest in Cars. For all three of those, it's because of the animation. I was going to try to rank the Pixar movies, but it was pretty hard. Along with "Incredibles" I would put "Up", "Wall-E", "Toy Story" set and "Coco" up there. Coco is a little underrated, but I really liked the art and story. The songs are also pretty catchy. There is one I did not get through and need to try again, which is "Good Dinosaur", it might have been when I was watching it, but the first 30 mins didn't grab me. Edited March 11, 2020 by Grotz99 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally-Vincent--- Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 On 23.2.2020 at 9:41 PM, Rally-Vincent--- said: Erica is all right. I enjoy the game, but since I started to plan milestones, I want them to be games that take top spots on my like-list if possible. I think I'll have a stab at Girls und Panzer. If I like it as much as the Anime (and if the used copy I just ordered is not damaged), I may make that the milestone. Ugh - I managed to buy the wrong version without english subtitles. Hopefully, it'll still go all right. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassylvania Posted March 13, 2020 Author Share Posted March 13, 2020 On 3/11/2020 at 0:02 PM, Grotz99 said: James Bond for me is mostly built off nostalgia because I use to watch them with my Dad. I probably chose "You Only Live Twice" because its the one I can remember the most and it had to do with him being in Japan...also ninjas! I did buy the blu-ray set which helps you see the flaws in the movies more clearly, but I still watch them every now and then and as long as you know not to take them too seriously, they are entertaining. Goldeneye would also be up for a similar reason as it was one of the first I watched as a kid when we were playing the game on N64. The newer Daniel Craig ones are OK, except for "Quantum of Solace", I did not like that one. I had to put one up there for those reasons. You would think with the casting that "Die Another Day" had some potential, but it really did fall flat. It's hard to choose between that and "Quantum of Solace" for last place for me, but I might be forgetting some others. Looks like it might be time to go through them again... If I had to choose, Goldeneye is my favorite with Pierce Brosnan (I thought the others were bad, but The World is Not Enough is a guilty pleasure of mine), You Only Live Twice and Goldfinger are tied for my favorite with Sean Connery, and Casino Royale with Daniel Craig is up there with some of the best movies I've ever seen. I actually really liked Roger Moore. Hard to pick a favorite for him. Like I said, I'm one of the only people in the world to like For Your Eyes Only, but I actually think The Man with the Golden Gun (another unpopular one) is my favorite. It reminds me of Batman and Joker, with that whole, "We're not so different, you and me," Christopher Lee villain. And I thought the Dalton and Lazenby films were fine. License to Kill didn't even need to be a Bond movie. Die Another Die is the worst in my opinion, but Quantum of Solace isn't far behind. The only thing that salvages it for me is knowing it was sandwiched between two awesome films. I didn't care for Spectre. That may have been one of the most disappointing movies I saw in the theater last decade. Craig seems to be bouncing back and forth between good and bad, so I'm hoping No Time to Die is worth the (now extended) wait. On 3/11/2020 at 0:02 PM, Grotz99 said: I was going to try to rank the Pixar movies, but it was pretty hard. Along with "Incredibles" I would put "Up", "Wall-E", "Toy Story" set and "Coco" up there. Coco is a little underrated, but I really liked the art and story. The songs are also pretty catchy. There is one I did not get through and need to try again, which is "Good Dinosaur", it might have been when I was watching it, but the first 30 mins didn't grab me. Still gotta watch those. I wish Disney+ had...more options. They have those two, so maybe I'll check them out this weekend, but I was hoping for every Disney production. I'll have to think about rankings. I might just start out with something simple, like favorite Disney villains or princesses. (And, of course, we would have to define who is eligible for that list.) 5 hours ago, Rally-Vincent--- said: Ugh - I managed to buy the wrong version without english subtitles. Hopefully, it'll still go all right. I did something similar. I bought Langrisser I & II, even though the trophy list is entirely in Japanese. I'm going to assume it's like some of the Atelier games and will still have English translations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassylvania Posted March 17, 2020 Author Share Posted March 17, 2020 Well, Pennsylvania is shut down for the next two weeks (like most of the country right now), so I guess I'll have a lot of time for gaming. Kinda works out because I'm really falling behind on this event and my drawing. Just got my 9000th trophy. I'll let you guys have a good laugh over what it is. This might be a good time to start Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, if anybody wants to help me with the Boned trophy. I figure I'll probably be close to 10k around...I dunno, maybe the beginning of October, if I'm averaging five trophies a day. We also got this topic to 100 pages and 100k views, which is pretty amazing. We must have a lot of lurkers out there. I did watch The Good Dinosaur over the weekend, which I enjoyed. Since I'm apparently not going to work tomorrow, I guess I'll watch Coco next. And then maybe all of Outlander because, you know, what else am I going to do? Oh, and I started Indivisible. I'm not sure if I'll platinum it or Hundred Knight first. I'm basically done with Hundred Knight, but I have to clear 100 floors of the Tower of Illusion on max difficulty, which could take a few hours. It shouldn't be hard, but some of the floors have multiple rooms, and it's just a lot of button-mashing. My thumbs are going to hate me. Has anyone played Medievil? I was thinking of making it my last game for this event, but the only category I have left is the one involving mini-games, and I'm not sure there are any mini-games in that. But there aren't any really in Hundred Knight, Indivisible (as far as I know), or Hollow Knight either... And if you're wondering why so many of my games involve knights, that's because it's all part of my plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sword Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) 27 minutes ago, Cassylvania said: And if you're wondering why so many of my games involve knights, that's because it's all part of my plan. This sounds suspicious... Better keep an eye on that over there... Haha. Also, your 9000th trophy name... lmao. That's pretty awesome though. Fits you well. 9k in 4 years though. That's pretty awesome at least for me, I'm not sure if that's normal or not though for 4 years. I look at my meager counts (with ezpz's mind you) and go "Bleh". Can't imagine ever having numbers like that. I've been so tempted to stack games (I have no problem with ezpz's but the temptation to stack them is alluring to me). Must resist though! I live in Iowa so I'm not sure if we're in the same boat as Pennsylvania. I know I still have to go to work tomorrow, so, that's a bummer. Two weeks off would have taken us right up to the week before Final Fantasy 7 remake... I might just have to call in sick that week, you know? ;D You mentioned lurkers and that happens to be me. I'm just in awe of high % trophy hunters (99% and above). It's a personal goal of mine and seeing consistency in others gives me hope I can one day take on the same mantle. I'm not sure if you exclusively go for % completion but even if you don't, having that high of a completion rate is pretty cool none the less. Anyway, the reason I decided to poke in and say hi again was because of your 9k (congrats) and I wanted to know your opinion on Hundred Knight. It's a game that's come across my radar a few times. Is it a hard plat in your opinion? Skill based? Is it grindy? I saw you mentioned max difficulty in there which always throws me off at first glance. I'm one of those paranoid people plays very little hard games. Only one I have on my profile is Super Meat Boy and I'm lightly upset on that one because I'm not sure if I can beat it. Ideally would like to 100% every game I own so I'm not trying to play too many games that are hard in an unnecessarily, brutal, almost impossible way. Edit: Oh and unfortunately I haven't played Medievil. It reminds me of old classic gamecube style games though looking at it (I just pulled up a video of it on YouTube). Is it a remake of something from that era? Edited March 17, 2020 by SanctifiedSword 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassylvania Posted March 17, 2020 Author Share Posted March 17, 2020 15 hours ago, SanctifiedSword said: Also, your 9000th trophy name... lmao. That's pretty awesome though. Fits you well. 9k in 4 years though. That's pretty awesome at least for me, I'm not sure if that's normal or not though for 4 years. I look at my meager counts (with ezpz's mind you) and go "Bleh". Can't imagine ever having numbers like that. I've been so tempted to stack games (I have no problem with ezpz's but the temptation to stack them is alluring to me). Must resist though! I'd have twice as many trophies if I hadn't been making new accounts all the time from 2011 to 2015. That's something I'm just going to have to get over. There's nothing wrong with easy games or stacking. I'd stack the XCOM games, if I could. Right now, I think the only "sort of" stack I have is Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, and that's only if you consider two games with completely separate trophy lists to be a stack. My second will probably be Specter of Torment (since it was technically Shovel Knight DLC) or Demon's Souls Remastered (if the rumors are true). Of course, I'd have to go back and platinum Demon's Souls for the eighty-seventh time... You're averaging 4.6 trophies per day, which is about on pace with me. I think I was around 5 per day before I started doing community events. But yeah, it all depends on the kinds of games you play. You have some easy ones, but then you're tackling stuff like SMB, Bloodborne, and Diablo III. If you want longevity at this hobby, you gotta find a system that works for you. I think anybody would get burned out only playing super easy or super long/hard games. 15 hours ago, SanctifiedSword said: Anyway, the reason I decided to poke in and say hi again was because of your 9k (congrats) and I wanted to know your opinion on Hundred Knight. It's a game that's come across my radar a few times. Is it a hard plat in your opinion? Skill based? Is it grindy? I saw you mentioned max difficulty in there which always throws me off at first glance. I'm one of those paranoid people plays very little hard games. Only one I have on my profile is Super Meat Boy and I'm lightly upset on that one because I'm not sure if I can beat it. Ideally would like to 100% every game I own so I'm not trying to play too many games that are hard in an unnecessarily, brutal, almost impossible way. I'm working on a detailed review, but I'll say the game is probably longer than it is hard. From what I understand, there are two versions of the game (the original on PS3 and the remastered version on PS4), and the biggest difference between them is the Tower of Illusion, which only exists on the PS4 version. The ToI is basically a training ground where you can farm for experience and gear. It can make the main campaign significantly easier because you gain access to it early on, but it makes the post-game trophies much harder because you actually have to clear the tower on the highest difficulty. To put that into perspective, I'm currently max level with a sword that has 11k attack, and I'm doing zero damage to most enemies on the very first floor. I die in one hit. According to the guide I'm using, you want a defense of at least 70k, and mine is 8k. That is not a typo. I'm not even sure how you're supposed to do that. But one idea I found on the internet is to set the tower to max difficulty and scour the first floor for treasures, which have the chance of being a major upgrade. Once I have a few, I can hopefully take on some enemies, which might drop more upgrades. As far as difficulty goes... Nah, it's not bad. It's a lot like the Disgaea games, where almost every "difficult" level or boss fight can be overcome by grinding for levels or equipment. Once you get to Chapter 12, the difficulty really ramps up, but I went from dying in one hit to being immune to every attack thrown my way. There's very poor balancing here. I don't know if I'd recommend the game. I'm still thinking about that. But no way would I suggest this as your first game of this genre, if you haven't played an NIS game before. (The closest thing you have on your profile is probably Star Ocean V, but I've never played it to use it as a comparison.) 16 hours ago, SanctifiedSword said: Edit: Oh and unfortunately I haven't played Medievil. It reminds me of old classic gamecube style games though looking at it (I just pulled up a video of it on YouTube). Is it a remake of something from that era? I guess it was a PS1 game that was pretty popular, but this is my first time hearing about it too. Seems to be a bit like...well, Hundred Knight, honestly. Lots of hacking and simple puzzle solving. I was wondering if some of the puzzles would count as mini-games, but I don't want to Google them because I might stumble across the solutions. Nothing pisses me off more than turning to the crosswords section in the newspaper and seeing the answers on the bottom. No matter how hard I try, I'll inevitably see one or two words that I now know are in the puzzle. Put them on a different page, people! I'm still mad that Moana was the answer to one of the Final Jeopardy questions last week, but I accidentally skipped too far ahead during the commercials and saw it. I almost NEVER get Final Jeopardy right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briste Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 On 3/16/2020 at 11:03 PM, Cassylvania said: This might be a good time to start Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, if anybody wants to help me with the Boned trophy. I'm still game to do this with you whenever. I bought it a month or so ago when it was on sale so can pretty much go at a moments notice. Now that I've finished PoE, I can come back up for air lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassylvania Posted March 20, 2020 Author Share Posted March 20, 2020 (edited) On 3/18/2020 at 11:56 PM, Briste said: I'm still game to do this with you whenever. I bought it a month or so ago when it was on sale so can pretty much go at a moments notice. Now that I've finished PoE, I can come back up for air lol Until you start your next ridiculously long game... You won't see me doing stuff like that. Platinum #205 - The Witch and the Hundred Knight: Revival Edition 50 hours to platinum, my ass. Let's break it down. The graphics are about what you'd expect from a Nippon Ichi game: beautiful character models, OK environments (perhaps a little bland), and the usual 3D-corridor-or-outside-area-but-you-can't-run-off-the-edge level design that seems to be present in every JRPG. If I had one complaint, it would be that some enemy spells are hard to see, causing you to take damage from something you never saw coming. This becomes more problematic later in the game, where a single spell can hit you, and especially in Chapter 12, where the levels are almost too dark to see. The voicework is...also what you'd expect from a Nippon Ichi game. Like the Atelier series, the only character whose voice didn't make me cringe was the main character. Metallia's voice is perfect. The others range between not very good and oh-God-where-is-the-mute-button. (Mostly the girls. I kinda liked Arlecchino's voice, but the "Yes..." after every line got annoying, dood.) Fortunately, your character, the titular Hundred Knight, doesn't speak at all. In RPGs, that's common, as the writers want to create a sense of immersion, but it comes across as strange here because you're almost completely ignored by the other characters. Should that bother me more than it does? Maybe, but the Hundred Knight is a mindless servant. It makes sense that you'd only be acknowledged when Metallia wants something done. Oh, and the game wastes no time in telling you that you are a moron either, as Metallia gets you to eat ABC gum as soon as the game starts. The story is where things get weird. This shit is dark. There's murder, rape, profanity (that is barely censored), and a number of things that delve into fetish territory. If you're too squeamish to watch Game of Thrones, you shouldn't play this. Combat looks WAY more confusing than it is. You can have up to three weapon sets, and each weapon set can have up to five weapons. Weapons are things like hammers, lances, swords, and staves, and each weapon has slash, blunt, or magic damage. Some enemies are weaker to or stronger against certain types of damage, so you can't just rely on a single weapon to carry you through the game. The way I see it, you have two choices. You could equip a weapon set for each type of damage, or you could try mixing it up. Mixing it up is a lot less work, but combat will take longer because you're wasting time hitting enemies with less effective weapons. I found a Pumpkin Staff alpha early in the game that made combat a breeze because it shot three homing fireballs at a time AND had the poison effect. This was amazing because it meant I could just stand back and shoot, effectively neutralizing any enemy who couldn't use projectiles or magic. Even if the enemy was resistant to magic, the poison would take hold and shred their HP. It's probably the most useful status effect to have on a weapon. Do you have to equip five weapons? No, not really. The more weapons you have equipped, the more damage the ones further down in the sequence do. For example, a lance in the first position might do x1.0 damage, but a lance in the second position might do x1.1 damage. Or x1.2. Or x2.0. I have no clue how these numbers are calculated. For the most part, I found it easier just to equip my best two or three weapons. Swords and staves (preferably the ones that shoot fireballs) seem to be the best. Hammers are slow, but you'll want at least one blunt weapon for taking out Golems, since they are immune to any other kind of damage. You can also use Tochka, which are like magic spells. You get about eight or nine throughout the game, but there are only two you need: the pillar that shoots magic balls and the flying discs. The pillar is probably a little better because it doubles as a decoy, but the flying discs are great against weaker enemies and some bosses. The only annoying thing is having to "set" a Tochka every time you enter a stage. I wish the game remembered the one you had previously selected. There's more. Dodging at the precise moment lets you enter bullet time, which is useful for getting in a few easy hits or catching your breath. You can also activate God Mode (it probably has a different name) by holding down the triangle button once your AP is high enough. This trivializes most bosses, but it also depletes your Gcal meter, which is basically how long you have to play a level until you're fucked. Once your Gcal meter hits zero, your stats decrease, your health begins to plummet, and you'll be kicked out of the stage if you die instead of being revived. Oh, and the Gcal meter decreases every time you need to heal or refill your stamina, so you'll spend a lot of time exiting and re-entering the same stage. I'm not sure who thought that was good game design. Sound confusing? I told you it's not. You’re primarily going to spam the square button. That's it. You'll need X to run circles around enemies while you wait for your health to refill or your Tochka to kill everything, and circle is useful if there's an unavoidable attack coming your way, but it's mostly square. The bosses try their best to present a challenge, but most of them only have two or three attacks, and some of them cycle through them in a predictable pattern. For example, there’s a worm in one of the later stages that alternates between doing a swipe attack and shooting slow-moving orbs from his tail. He lets his guard down while releasing the orbs, so that’s when you want to hit him. Every fourth "swipe" is replaced with a deadly electrical attack, so you know to stay away. Then he’ll repeat the sequence. Other bosses are less predictable, but they still attack at set intervals. Then there's the Tower of Illusion, which is new to the PS4 version of the game. This makes the main game much easier because you can farm for weapons and experience, and the post-game much harder because now there are trophies related to the ToI. The first 100 floors on normal difficulty aren't bad -- you just have to wait until you advance further in the story to unlock them all -- but the basement floors on max difficulty are ridiculous. Enemies are level 99, you die in one hit, and your weapons do little to no damage, until you start to farm for upgrades. This could take a few hours. Basically, you want to start by sacrificing two omega weapons to unlock max difficulty and then search the first floor for chests. (Make sure to die once before picking anything up because that's the only way to use the flower to return to base.) Just keep farming and upgrading your gear until you can start damaging enemies. Then you can farm them for upgrades too. Before long, you're the one taking no damage and killing every enemy in one hit. Then it's just another 10 hours (or three episodes of Outlander and 32 PlayStation Access videos) until you get to floor 100... And that’s your platinum, guys. Not a game I'm going to recommend, but not bad for a lengthy button-masher. Edited March 20, 2020 by Cassylvania 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rune_Crys Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 (edited) On 3/16/2020 at 10:03 PM, Cassylvania said: Well, Pennsylvania is shut down for the next two weeks (like most of the country right now), so I guess I'll have a lot of time for gaming. Kinda works out because I'm really falling behind on this event and my drawing. It's me, Chris, the guy who used to be RuneEyesDragon. I'm sort of in the same boat as you are, most of my own town, San Antonio, is under lock-down due to the Corona Virus. It's not that bad, it's just that everyone is now in "It's the End of the World as We Know It" Mass Hysteria mode and building underground bunkers and stocking them for ten years before people eat their own flesh. It's really really sad because every store is completely looted and it's very hard to get anything good these days. I asked my dad to pick up stuff for pizza fixings, and all he could find was stuff for his homemade pizza crust(which is really really thick and doughy as it's a quick bread with yeast and flour only) and some generic cheese because all of the good made crusts were gone. I can't even get Diet Dr. Pepper anymore because people are looting it left and right to stock for their bunkers. I think people are taking this epidemic way too seriously, like it's leprosy or the Black Plague. I'm glad we have video games to keep us sane. I just got to Platinum #31 on my new account(yes, another new account, I won't bother saying it's the last because you're going to say I'm a liar, but I am trying blank accounts for game trials to see if I can handle tougher games, I know I shouldn't be afraid to just give up on a game if I can't platinum it on my account, I'm so sorry) and just bought Scribblenauts Mega Pack on sale and completed the Scribblenauts Unlimited trophies. I enjoyed Scribblenauts years ago on the DS and am glad to see that it made the transition to PS4, though the way you enter words is a bit archaic. You should give it a try, especially since you love Batman. Scribblenauts Unmasked has a lot of DC lore in it for a Scribblenauts crossover. Praying this panic settle down, I'm having troubling staying fit as I can't go to the gym anymore due to them locking it down for health reasons. Edited March 21, 2020 by Rune_Crys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassylvania Posted March 22, 2020 Author Share Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) On 3/20/2020 at 11:34 PM, Rune_Crys said: Praying this panic settle down, I'm having troubling staying fit as I can't go to the gym anymore due to them locking it down for health reasons. I started doing P90X before this all began, which worked out nicely because you never have to leave your house. You only need weights, a yoga mat, a pull-up bar, and about an hour a day. I'm doing the diet plan too, but it's not too far removed from what I would normally eat. You just gotta really watch your carbs. Otherwise, yeah, I played a Scribblenauts game before and liked it. 75% off is a pretty good deal. I probably have enough games in my backlog to get me through this lockdown, but one or two more won't hurt. Adding it to my cart. Oh, and... Platinum #206 - Indivisible This game, guys. This game. I remember first hearing about it back in 2015, but I guess it didn't come to the PS4 until late last year. Figured I'd give it a try since the art style reminded me of Shantae and we've been waiting on Seven Sirens since about three milestones ago... Let's begin with the graphics. They're beautiful. The music and voice acting are superb too. I didn't really like Ajna's voice at first, because I felt the accent was a little off, but it grew on me. The story is...above average for an indie title, I'd say. It starts out simple enough -- a typical revenge story -- but it grows into something more, stressing the importance of friendship and the meaning of being a hero, without feeling ham-fisted. Think of Avatar: The Last Airbender (the show, not the movie). It's that style of humor and storytelling. The gameplay is evenly split between being a Metroidvania platformer and a turn-based RPG. It's like having your cake and eating it too. The platforming is fairly challenging, but never to the point of frustration. The extremely generous checkpoint system helps with that. As the game progresses, Ajna learns new abilities that make traversal easier, but I found her first ability (Axe Hang) and Barnacle Grip to be the hardest to master. You really have to remember to HOLD the button or she'll whiff. When you come across an enemy, you can try to avoid him or get in the first strike, but making contact usually initiates combat. I said that it's turn-based, and that's mostly true, but you can attack any time that one of your characters has an action point. You can have up to four characters on your team at any time, and each one is assigned a separate button on the controller. For example, the X button will always control the character at the bottom of the formation. You'll need to use that button to both attack and defend with that character. Holding up or down before attacking will trigger different moves (usually a juggle or an aerial attack). There are actually a LOT of characters to choose from (more than you'd think), and they each have fairly unique abilities. If I had to think of a comparison, it's sorta like Darkest Dungeon, where every class has its advantages, and any combination of classes can be viable. The only one you're stuck using all the time is Ajna, but she has an Iddhi (basically a shared "power" meter) that can revive all downed teammates, so you don't even need a healer. Most of the time. Depending which direction you are moving when combat is initiated, the characters on the "left" and "right" of the formation may be swapped between the square and circle button, so I recommend using one of those for Ajna and another for a character who you primarily just spam basic attacks with. When I used a healer (usually Ginseng), I'd keep her at the top of the formation, and I'd put more of a tactical character at the bottom (such as Nuna, who can lay down traps). The only downside I see to all this is, because almost any combination of characters will work (and everybody shares experience), there's really no incentive to use anybody outside of your A-team. I almost wish that teammates were randomly decided at the beginning of each battle, or that some characters were pivotal for taking on certain enemies. They kinda do that by giving Tungar, for example, an AoE attack, and Phoebe a very strong aerial takedown, but those feel more like a convenience than a necessity. I think it would be better if you were forced to master the intricacies of every character, because the developers clearly took the time to give them each their own playstyle. (Shut up, autocorrect. That is too a word.) I don't really have a favorite character. Every time someone new joined my team, I tried to replace an existing character. Personality-wise, I liked Dhar, Razmi, and Nuna the most, but the characters who join in the second half of the game seem to be stronger. Kampan's Iddhi is hilariously overpowered. There's not much else to say, other than this is now one of my favorite games on the PS4. I'd put it up there with the best indie titles, so highly recommended in the $20-30 range. Edited March 22, 2020 by Cassylvania 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rune_Crys Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 3 hours ago, Cassylvania said: I started doing P90X before this all began, which worked out nicely because you never have to leave your house. You only need weights, a yoga mat, a pull-up bar, and about an hour a day. I'm doing the diet plan too, but it's not too far removed from what I would normally eat. You just gotta really watch your carbs. Otherwise, yeah, I played a Scribblenauts game before and liked it. 75% off is a pretty good deal. I probably have enough games in my backlog to get me through this lockdown, but one or two more won't hurt. Adding it to my cart. Oh, and... Platinum #206 - Indivisible This game, guys. This game. I remember first hearing about it back in 2015, but I guess it didn't come to the PS4 until late last year. Figured I'd give it a try since the art style reminded me of Shantae and we've been waiting on Seven Sirens since about three milestones ago... Let's begin with the graphics. They're beautiful. The music and voice acting are superb too. I didn't really like Ajna's voice at first, because I felt the accent was a little off, but it grew on me. The story is...above average for an indie title, I'd say. It starts out simple enough -- a typical revenge story -- but it grows into something more, stressing the importance of friendship and the meaning of being a hero, without feeling ham-fisted. Think of Avatar: The Last Airbender (the show, not the movie). It's that style of humor and storytelling. The gameplay is evenly split between being a Metroidvania platformer and a turn-based RPG. It's like having your cake and eating it too. The platforming is fairly challenging, but never to the point of frustration. The extremely generous checkpoint system helps with that. As the game progresses, Ajna learns new abilities that make traversal easier, but I found her first ability (Axe Hang) and Barnacle Grip to be the hardest to master. You really have to remember to HOLD the button or she'll whiff. When you come across an enemy, you can try to avoid him or get in the first strike, but making contact usually initiates combat. I said that it's turn-based, and that's mostly true, but you can attack any time that one of your characters has an action point. You can have up to four characters on your team at any time, and each one is assigned a separate button on the controller. For example, the X button will always control the character at the bottom of the formation. You'll need to use that button to both attack and defend with that character. Holding up or down before attacking will trigger different moves (usually a juggle or an aerial attack). There are actually a LOT of characters to choose from (more than you'd think), and they each have fairly unique abilities. If I had to think of a comparison, it's sorta like Darkest Dungeon, where every class has its advantages, and any combination of classes can be viable. The only one you're stuck using all the time is Ajna, but she has an Iddhi (basically a shared "power" meter) that can revive all downed teammates, so you don't even need a healer. Most of the time. Depending which direction you are moving when combat is initiated, the characters on the "left" and "right" of the formation may be swapped between the square and circle button, so I recommend using one of those for Ajna and another for a character who you primarily just spam basic attacks with. When I used a healer (usually Ginseng), I'd keep her at the top of the formation, and I'd put more of a tactical character at the bottom (such as Nuna, who can lay down traps). The only downside I see to all this is, because almost any combination of characters will work (and everybody shares experience), there's really no incentive to use anybody outside of your A-team. I almost wish that teammates were randomly decided at the beginning of each battle, or that some characters were pivotal for taking on certain enemies. They kinda do that by giving Tungar, for example, an AoE attack, and Phoebe a very strong aerial takedown, but those feel more like a convenience than a necessity. I think it would be better if you were forced to master the intricacies of every character, because the developers clearly took the time to give them each their own playstyle. (Shut up, autocorrect. That is too a word.) I don't really have a favorite character. Every time someone new joined my team, I tried to replace an existing character. Personality-wise, I liked Dhar, Razmi, and Nuna the most, but the characters who join in the second half of the game seem to be stronger. Kampan's Iddhi is hilariously overpowered. There's not much else to say, other than this is now one of my favorite games on the PS4. I'd put it up there with the best indie titles, so highly recommended in the $20-30 range. I'm glad you're adding Scribblenauts Mega Pack to the list, the two games you get in the bundle are really awesome. One tip: Make Maxwell "Invincible Flying Fast" and you will have a lot less headaches. The game expects you to climb ladders and stairs but the "Flying" adjective really breaks the game and "Invincible" will save your A$$ in Unmasked as you'll be attacked. A Lot. Also, be careful of zombies, the undead adjective they give you sucks. "Fast" is there because flying Maxwell is slow as molasses. Might try Indivisible in the future, when I am sure I haven't spent too much money. Now that Wizard101 is settling down for me and getting stale, I am working more on my PSN account. I'm research speedruns of games who do the platinum run to see how they do it most efficiently so I don't get sick of the grinding in the RPGs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_Tonto Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 I earned all the achievements for Indivisible, when I completed the game earlier this year. It's one of those games I wish I had been able to kickstart, because I enjoyed it so much. I'll likely pick it up on PS4, after they release all the post-launch DLC characters. Congratulations on earning the platinum. Also on your first page I have a minor suggestion for re-organising some of your games. Perhaps you could include a Metroidvania/MetroidvaniaKnight section? You could put Bloodstained, The Guacamelee series, Castlevania Rondo of Blood/Symphony of the Night, Hollow Knight etc in there? Also I dunno if it's on your to play list, but I'd recommend a title called Hob. I recently completed it on Steam and it has a PS4 release as well. I also see you've been recommended Transistor before, so I won't bother listing all of SuperGiant's games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rune_Crys Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 (edited) On 3/16/2020 at 10:03 PM, Cassylvania said: Kinda works out because I'm really falling behind on this event and my drawing. Definitely works out when you can't go to church or the gym, like I have to accept. My dad said the only holy mass available was at his Byzantine church at Wednesday evening which sucks as it disobeys the Sabbath. Then the local bishop himself said "don't come, just stay home for a while" and basically blasphemed the faith in favor of health and hygiene. I guess even God cannot stop the demon virus. (Disgaea 4 lore says that drinking an angel's blood cures any disease, I wish Artina could come down and donate two pints of blood to end this stupid virus because I am sure that everyone will end up under house quarantine. I have to wear a mask to get groceries but then again my youngest sister went into medicine and gave birth so she's palpitating for her baby girl getting the COVID-19. ) At least I was motivated to actually try to get the platinum in Disgaea 4 Complete. Having a bit of fun, grinding is boring but you have to do it or you'll never beat the required super-bosses. I don't really have a list of movies myself as I don't watch movies anymore(even without the Virus shutting down theaters, it's still not worth $6 for a passive experience, I read a lot of mysteries if I need to do something else), I watch Youtube stuff but Death Becomes Her is a grim comedy about a man who gets caught between two immortal women if you like that sort of stuff. It was a good watch even though I still have nightmares about one of the women getting her chest blown out by a blunderbuss. Such as that, I am very glad you warned me away from The Witch and the Hundred Knight series. I was thinking about playing them but didn't because I wasn't sure I could handle the game's mechanics. Now I know from your experiences that the game is nasty as balls, considering that Metallia wants to turn the world into a fetid swamp by destroying foci of power. Yikes. (And what's scarier? She's a recruitable character in Disgaea 5 as a DLC character, but her Overlord power is probably the best one for getting lots of monsters captured in a second). Edited March 25, 2020 by Rune_Crys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassylvania Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 On 3/24/2020 at 2:37 PM, James_Tonto said: Also on your first page I have a minor suggestion for re-organising some of your games. Perhaps you could include a Metroidvania/MetroidvaniaKnight section? You could put Bloodstained, The Guacamelee series, Castlevania Rondo of Blood/Symphony of the Night, Hollow Knight etc in there? Also I dunno if it's on your to play list, but I'd recommend a title called Hob. I recently completed it on Steam and it has a PS4 release as well. I also see you've been recommended Transistor before, so I won't bother listing all of SuperGiant's games. Not a bad idea. I have a few other ideas for new categories, but I wanted to wait until I have at least three games that would qualify. If I have less, I've just been putting them in the "Unique" category. The problem with Metroidvania as a category is that its essentially Action Platformer, which I like right now because it's the first to appear alphabetically. Which of those games do you think would not be classified as Metroidvania? I mean, I guess you could say Spyro and Crash, but is that just because they're 3D and have levels instead of a single map? The idea of having to get upgrades and return to previous areas is still there. But Owlboy should count. So should Chronicles of Teddy. Would Celeste? Shantae? If we're defining a Metroidvania game as only having one dungeon, we'd have to split the Shantae series, as only Risky's Revenge would qualify. I think that's why I've held off on doing that. Of course, it does create a conflict with other categories. Guacamelee, Dust (from what I remember), and Alice could probably be considered Action Platfomers too. In fact, I think I'm going to move Guacamelee, as I'm finding it harder to justify its placement after playing Indivisible. They're very similar games. What do you think about having a category for Collectathons? That would take care of Spyro, Yooka-Laylee, and AHiT, but it still leaves Celeste, Crash, and that asshole Bubsy up in the air. I guess Precision Platformers are a thing, but then you have Shovel Knight, which is basically Shantae with clothes. Mark of the Ninja is...I dunno. Some of these games are really hard to classify. And Hob is already on my list. ? 3 hours ago, Rune_Crys said: Such as that, I am very glad you warned me away from The Witch and the Hundred Knight series. I was thinking about playing them but didn't because I wasn't sure I could handle the game's mechanics. Now I know from your experiences that the game is nasty as balls, considering that Metallia wants to turn the world into a fetid swamp by destroying foci of power. Yikes. (And what's scarier? She's a recruitable character in Disgaea 5 as a DLC character, but her Overlord power is probably the best one for getting lots of monsters captured in a second). Well, Metallia has her reasons... But yeah, it's not kid-friendly at all. I knew the story was a little dark going in, but...well, I heard the same thing about Dragon Quest XI. They are worlds apart. I would only recommend the game to you (knowing how you feel about obscenity) if you're going to skip all the dialogue. But you'd still have to deal with the boss fight where Metallia is naked... SPEAKING OF NUDITY (hey, not all my transitions can work seamlessly)... Platinum #207 - Medievil Oh, look -- a retro game I can't gush over purely out of nostalgia, because I never played it as a kid. First of all, what an improvement on the graphics. I'm perfectly fine if developers want to keep releasing old games with a fresh coat of paint. Unfortunately, I know that just doing that won't solve the other issues with older games, such as bad controls and a janky camera. Unless they're going to completely remake the game, I expect that. So, as someone who never played the original, I'm going to say this was fine. Not great, but I can see the appeal. My biggest problem is that it reminded me of Alice -- not Madness Returns, but American McGee's Alice, which had slippy controls, questionable hit boxes, and a disjointed combat system. Toggling between two weapons is a new feature from what I understand, but what does it really matter when combat is just exchanging blows with an enemy or running in circles and swinging your weapon wildly? Sometimes I'd take on several enemies at once and receive no damage, while other times a single enemy would decimate my health bar. There was just no consistency. The music is good. Very good. The voicework is fine, but Sir Dan doesn't really speak (understandably so) and it's hard to compare to the AMAZING Spyro Reignited Trilogy, which is what all PS1 remasters should strive to be. The puzzles, though, guys. They are cryptic (HAHA, get it?). I used a guide for most of the game because I'm trying to get this done by the end of the month for the community event, but I can see how some people could have been stuck on this game for months. And I'm not talking about the individual puzzles in each level, which were simple enough, but the hidden items across all levels that are required to advance the story. I wonder how many kids wandered around aimlessly back in the day, unsure of where to go next. Anyway, you ever get to a boss in a game and you just watch him cycle through the same two predictable attacks, and you think to yourself, "Seriously? Dude, I've beaten every Soulsborne game out there. Do you honestly think you have a chance?" That was me fighting the Stained Glass Demon. The game definitely got harder (don't be fooled by the 47% platinum rarity -- if you die, which I did a lot, you have to do the whole level over again), but that made me giggle. But yeah. Cool game I missed out on. I think it's a little overpriced right now considering it's a sub-10 hour platinum, but might be worth a look if you see it in the bargain bin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_Tonto Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 (edited) I personally define Metroidvania's as 2D games, with lots of quests, sidequests a huge map to explore and incentive to revisit previous areas to find secrets or other unlockables.The Spyro trilogy I feel falls under the collectathon umbrella of games, as you are incentivised in all three games to find and collect every gem, track down every dragon egg, relic orb etc. So I think it's a good idea to create a collectathon category. The collectathon genre is pretty easy to define, 3D games, where you are rewarded or encouraged to find collectables and are rewarded in some manner for doing so. So Yooka-Laylee, The Spyro/Crash trilogies and A Hat in Time spring to mind, when thinking of those. Also congrats on becoming a fellow hero of Gallowmere, funny you should mention American McGee's Alice, as I am now playing through that myself. Working through the Wonderland Forest, where I paused, though not because it was late. But because the clock on my PS3 is set two hours ahead, so I thought it was much later XD. I feel the jumping is better and the movement smoother in Medievil, but it can be a little slippy in places. I'm hoping we'll get a Medievil 2 remake sometime, now Sir Dan has returned to the modern platforms ^^. I never played it as a kid, and well American McGee's is reminding me why I don't miss as many older games XD. Flashbacks to so many missed platforms, due to stiff controls. Anyways, I agree this seems like a case where they coulda improved the classic a little further, like maybe simplify the pirate ship but make the pirate boss encounter even better? Or give the Stain Glass Demon a new form? Spyro 3 had room for improvement as well, like adding in intro and ending cutscenes to keep it more in line with the previous titles. Their absence as I mentioned in my own thoughts on Spyro 3, was really notable. One other thing, are you going back to Shovel Knight this year? Now that the King Knight content is out? Edited March 26, 2020 by James_Tonto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassylvania Posted March 26, 2020 Author Share Posted March 26, 2020 12 hours ago, James_Tonto said: I personally define Metroidvania's as 2D games, with lots of quests, sidequests a huge map to explore and incentive to revisit previous areas to find secrets or other unlockables.The Spyro trilogy I feel falls under the collectathon umbrella of games, as you are incentivised in all three games to find and collect every gem, track down every dragon egg, relic orb etc. So I think it's a good idea to create a collectathon category. The collectathon genre is pretty easy to define, 3D games, where you are rewarded or encouraged to find collectables and are rewarded in some manner for doing so. So Yooka-Laylee, The Spyro/Crash trilogies and A Hat in Time spring to mind, when thinking of those. That could work. I like the idea of having more retro-themed genres. I'd also like to have an "Arcade" category, for games like Dragon's Lair and Iron Crypticle. Right now, they're under Shooter, but they're closer to Broforce than Uncharted or Tomb Raider. I'd also like to break up Turn-Based/Tactical RPG, since XCOM and Atelier are very different series. Easiest way would probably be to add a category for JRPGs... It gets complicated, though. Is Medievil a collecathon? What about Alice? Is Peggle 2 an arcade game or puzzle? Where does Undertale belong? Oh! When I was moving things around yesterday, I realized that by dragging the game icon from my profile to the OP, it turns the icon into an active link. So, I took the time to update the OP so that every icon will take you to my trophies for that game. I don't think anybody cares to see the time stamps or anything, but it could be useful if you see an image and aren't sure what game it is referring to. 12 hours ago, James_Tonto said: One other thing, are you going back to Shovel Knight this year? Now that the King Knight content is out? I had planned to do Shovel Knight for the current community event, but it wasn't allowed because it's only DLC. I was very sad because I was looking forward to drawing King Knight. I guess I'm just going to have to push through with Hollow Knight... That's my only goal for the next week. Finish Hollow Knight. And, um...yeah, lots of Animal Crossing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grotz99 Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 11 minutes ago, Cassylvania said: And, um...yeah, lots of Animal Crossing. Got this as well, but they really screwed the pooch if you have more than 1 person playing it on a single Switch. Luckily, it wasn't really for me and I'm just an observer or extra gatherer, which is fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rune_Crys Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 20 hours ago, Cassylvania said: But you'd still have to deal with the boss fight where Metallia is naked... SPEAKING OF NUDITY Nudity isn't really too difficult for me to swallow, considering how I've played a few titles like X-BLAZE LOST which has a cutscene where one of the heroes stumbles upon a naked woman in the middle of a junkyard. (She covers her modesty with her hands, mind you, but it still freaks the character out. ) The reason I bothered with this game in the Blazblue series is because it's a visual novel that has interactive collectibles. However, as it's $40 and not dropping, I am not buying it again. It's just seeing characters have graphic sex, and especially violent rape(I[ was forced to watch a PSA video in college showing someone getting raped at a party by her boyfriend and I couldn't bear to watch him doing it as it showed their crotches), is something that bothers me a lot. I'm not a prude by any means, I've read many book series which have the following characters: A female protagonist who is working her way up in society, a cat she ends up adopting, and a male love interest. One series, based on a black cat in Las Vegas called Midnight Louie, has the main character end up having sex with a magician who brings her to Las Vegas but ditches her due to issues with his past, tries to make it up to her, fails due to him failing to save someone from falling to their death in front of her, and then gets laid by a Swedish psychologist. It's all words, but I have a very strong imagination. I just don't like to watch people having sex on the big screen. That said, I've said my piece. Make of it as you will. Glad you enjoyed Medievil, I thought it was interesting but retro games aren't really my thing. Right now I am busy with Disgaea 4 Complete+, a madman's nightmare as I need to find a weapon to duplicates equipment and that stupid Nekomata is leading me on wild goose chases for the Puppy Paw Stick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally-Vincent--- Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 21 hours ago, Cassylvania said: But you'd still have to deal with the boss fight where Metallia is naked... SPEAKING OF NUDITY (hey, not all my transitions can work seamlessly) Pics or it didn't happen... ( I wrote that to have a reason to quote that part because the "seamlessly" amused me in that context). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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