I'm an Earthbound man, myself. Say "fuzzy pickles!"Damn, beaten to the punch.
I'm an Earthbound man, myself. Say "fuzzy pickles!"
Damn, beaten to the punch.
Oh man, is so awesome. All fighting Master Belch. All scaring away ghosts with a band that is clearly The Blues Brothers. Oh, and that reminds me. The Mr. Saturn font is my favorite font ever. BOING!
The Mr. Saturn font is great in a language you can read well, but, as I learned while playing through EB in Japanese, it is hell on wheels in a language you read poorly. Even at the slowest text-speed setting, I just kinda gave up on the Saturn-font-hiragana.
Also, a protip for localizers: making the two lead dudes wear a green suit and a red suit and removing "Brothers" from the band name does not make the characters any less obviously the Blues Brothers. It's a hack about on the level of changing alcohol references to coffee references: your ass is covered, but nobody is fooled.
Am I the other person who wonders what kind of video game uber-mascot would result from cross-breeding a Mr. Saturn with a moogle?
What the fuck is that thing? A teratoma that has been fashioned by the pathologist to form some type of animal with eyes?
Ew, dude. Totally uncalled for. Post a link next time with a "gross, NSFW" warning instead of putting the image in your post.
There was a child born a few weeks to a month ago without any bones. It was on the morning news, and my SO and I both shuddered when we heard the story. He was born alive, in apparently one of the few cases of this happening, and news story that informed me of this indicated the family was awaiting their son's inevitable death. For some reason, the child in that story is what I thought of when I saw that pic, and thought it was a photo of one of those types of kids. Hence my horrified reaction.Okay, that's understandable. There is something spine-chilling about the concept of a child being born entirely without bones; I know my mother talked about teaching a girl who was somehow born without functional elbows, and that weirded me out pretty badly. Even within the subcategory of "birth defects that are so bad that the baby will be stillborn or nearly so," birth without bones is eerie.
Anyone ever get the Gutsy Bat?
I have a copy of Mafia, and I had high hopes for it. I never could get it off the ground. I remember a console game for the original Nintendo (I believe) in which you were a knight battling other knights, and there was some jousting, and I think there may have been a significant strategy component. I can never remember the name of that game, but it was a kick in the ******.
the marathon series was always underloved.
I rocked Marathon so hard when I first got my PowerPC 7?00 (can't remember the number). I loved the hell out of that game. Trust Ark to bring it up - good call!
source.bungie.org
Why would they be pissed?
Any true IT guys should be able to install Marathon for you from their copy.
Or quake at the very least.
I think this was done somewhere else but I didn't have an internet connected wii at that point so, yes, this is a good plan nDed.
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well, it certainly beats my (simplify simplify)
35:1643 Cans:posts ratio. (damn, that is one tough ratio.)
man, maybe I can take a lesson from this.
the lesson is: the cans dont mean anything
Harvest Moon.
I know, I know.
There's a bajillion sequels to it, so it can't be *that* underappreciated, but everyone I ask about it seems to hate it.
I think there's something to be said about a game where you start playing, and think, "This has got to be the dumbest thing I've ever played;" then you look up, and eight hours have gone by in what seems to be an instant, all while you've been taking care of your little farm and trying to woo the pink-haired girl.
I put so much time into milking cows and bringing the chickens in and out.
Harvest Moon.
I know, I know.
There's a bajillion sequels to it, so it can't be *that* underappreciated, but everyone I ask about it seems to hate it.
I think there's something to be said about a game where you start playing, and think, "This has got to be the dumbest thing I've ever played;" then you look up, and eight hours have gone by in what seems to be an instant, all while you've been taking care of your little farm and trying to woo the pink-haired girl.
Oh man, what platform did you play Harvest Moon on? I played it on our game cube until it just seemed that nothing was happening, then gave up... does your kid ever grow up? Get married? I wanted to know, but just wasn't willing to invest the time. I put so much time into milking cows and bringing the chickens in and out.
I have two GameCube versions (A Wonderful Life and Another Wonderful Life), but I haven't played them yet. I've played it on SNES and GBA (Friends of Mineral Town), and both of those versions allow you to get married and have kids (they stay small on the SNES version, but they grow up a little bit in the GBA version). The main character, as far as I can tell, doesn't seem to age any. I could just be unobservant, though.
I think this was done somewhere else but I didn't have an internet connected wii at that point so, yes, this is a good plan nDed.
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In A Wonderful Life, your child will grow to preadolescence or so, I believe. Your main character and supporting cast will also age, although aging will not affect the main character's capabilities. His hair will gradually start to gray (although the game ends before it goes entirely gray), his face will become more lined, and his lucky bandana will become sun-faded as I recall. Other characters his age undergo similar changes, a few of the older characters in town die, and the children in town grow into adolescence.
Most Harvest Moons don't implement this sort of thing, but most of them either end or go into a time-stasis after a few years anyway.
Oh god.. see I thought I was working toward getting my son married off, or at least getting him to work on the farm. Also, the old guy's sweet wife died before I quit playing A Wonderful Life. I kept giving him his favorite food to cheer him up, but he was mostly depressed. If things just go on like this, I'm pretty glad I stopped. I really thought I was working toward something.
Also, yeah... all that hay. Cuddling and washing the cows was pretty cute though.
Cuddling . . . the cows was pretty cute though.
so, um, I want to play these cute games you are talking about. Unfortunately the last nintendy system we have is the 64.
so, um, I want to play these cute games you are talking about. Unfortunately the last nintendy system we have is the 64.
Here is a thing that I did with a can of spray-paint:Man, now I'm gonna have to spraypaint my GameCube controller white.
(image of Wii and spraypainted-white GameCube controller removed because it's just a few posts above this one and I don't really see the point of including it a second time)
Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (or its American equivalent Elite Beat Agents) for the DS
Though RE4 is brilliant if you've never played it in the original incarnation and there are plenty of games like strikers which I've been told I need to play.
I got EBA and even though the songs aren't really to my taste they really grew on me.
The Wii is finally readily available in the Chicago area, and I was thinking of getting one earlier this week when I remembered that I barely have enough time to do the things I already need or want to do.
I haven't played Ouendan. I might try to get my hands on 2 but I always shy away from imports because I'm afraid I wouldn't know whats going on.
Bioshock is available on Steam
I think the Wii has a pretty decent amount of interesting stuff on the way before the end of the year
Three words:
Guitar. Hero. Three.
Yeah but the old developers (harmonix) aren't working on it anymore, they sold it to activision and have started a new franchise called rock band. Previews indicate it looks like guitar hero turned up to 11.
I'm just saying, never having been a Sony gamer, I'm thrilled to pieces that I'm finally going to get a chance to play GH without annoying the staff at Best Buy. I don't care if it's a low-res re-release of the original game...the fact that it's coming to Wii at all is simply marvelous.
Played Bioshock today. Besides the fact that I'm still getting used to the clumsy 360 controller, this game is basically LIQUID JESUS IN A WAFFLECONE.
It's probably not underappreciated, though.
Played Bioshock today. Besides the fact that I'm still getting used to the clumsy 360 controller, this game is basically LIQUID JESUS IN A WAFFLECONE.It may not be widely underappreciated, but I sure didn't appreciate it!
It's probably not underappreciated, though.
Two guys are playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Both are on the same team, but one of them blatantly teamkills the other one. The guy who gets killed says, "Hey, man! I'm on your team here! Don't you know the difference between the good guys and the bad guys?!"
The other guy replies, "Ohhh.... I thought we were playing Call of Duty 4: Postmodern Warfare."
Searching every store in the greater San Francisco area doesn't sound too fun.
still haven't figured out a way to beat the Big Daddies without dying a bunch of times and just getting my three or four shots in each life before being revitalized again.
My steam username is Decarabas though if you want to add me.