beard_of_zeus

@lego_my_eggo: Wow, thank you so much for the link to that browser plugin!!! I was going to manually catalog all my Ps3/Vita digital purchases in a spreadsheet this weekend before the web store goes kaput (mainly for ease of reference later on, but also to download some stuff onto my Vita I may have forgotten about...turns out I own more digital PSP/PS1 games than I remember) - that plugin made it trivial to export the info and save it off. You saved me a lot of work this weekend :)

What I have seen of the Switch port is very impressive, it runs/looks really good except for some slowdown I saw twice when there was a ton of enemies. But even with the slowdown, it didn't feel laggy, if that makes sense, I felt like I still had decent control over the character.

I played for a couple hours today and got to the second boss, really loving it so far. I had been wanting to play this for quite a while, but was holding out until 1.0 dropped.

Definitely agree with this, even having only played for a couple hours so far. It makes a great impression from the get-go.

I definitely think there is something to this thought. I was racking my brain and trying to come up with PS2 action RPG games with similar combat systems - Rogue Galaxy, Ys: Arc of Naphistim, etc. The only game that pre-dates KH that I could come up with was Dark Cloud 2, and it came out only like a month before. Dark Cloud 1 was around PS2 launch, but its combat is not nearly as good, so I excluded it.

Desperados 3 definitely has my top spot, it is a stealth masterpiece, I loved it. Been replaying a bunch of the missions and trying to complete some of the harder optional challenges. More people should check it out.

My number 2 is probably Murder by Numbers, honestly. What a good murder mystery visual novel Picross game with way better writing than you would expect!

I also played a lot of other excellent games, but they didn't come out in 2020. For example, I am kicking myself for putting off playing Yakuza 5 for so long (I blame the fact that it was a digital-only PS3 release originally), it is probably my fav in the series now, tied with Yakuza 0.

In terms of new releases, I've played a ton of Nioh 2, it's more Nioh, and totally solid. I wish they would have pared down some of the systems and tried to streamline it a little more, but I was able to wrap my head around it and it got its hooks into me.

The other new game I (surprisingly) played a lot of was Zombie Army 4. Picked it up on sale a while after Abby did that quick look, and gotta say, it's a lot of dumb fun. Campaign is surprisingly solid (even solo! also, the final boss/level is fantastic), horde mode is fun & very replayable, and they have weekly events with interesting rule tweaks that I have been checking back in on. Online (at least on PS4) is still quite populated, too.

Yeah, Murder by Numbers is great, definitely in my top 3 games so far this year! I'm almost done with the last case I think (game is longer than I thought, my Switch tells me I have 20 hours played). The writing & characterization is like, staggeringly good, probably the best I've seen in a game in a while (would not have thought I would be saying that about a Picross game, but hey, here we are). And the cast is quite diverse, too, which is great. Not a lot of games with a recently divorced black woman as the main character and a whole case devoted to figuring out if a giant parade float that crashed into a drag club is a hate crime or not. And they somehow balance heady topics like that with a semi-breezy tone and totally nail it, somehow.

Hi there, I noticed this bug for the first time today, this is on a Safari browser on iOS 13.3.1 on my iPad mini 4 (where I end up watching a lot of GB videos).

Basically, I started a video (in this case the video was: https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/we-be-truckin/2970-20030 but I tried this on a couple random older videos and had the exact same issue), but when I tapped the Full Screen icon in the lower right, it did not change the size of the video at all, and as a side effect, I could hear the audio continue as normal, but the video was frozen on the frame when I tapped Full Screen.

This does not seem to be an issue on my laptop (Windows 10, Firefox 74.0) however, I've only noticed it on the configuration I mentioned above.

Thanks in advance for looking into this!

I agree, I liked the default text box size being bigger. Now I basically always have to expand each entry manually, as I'm usually writing more than a line of text.

Thanks for the in-depth write up of what sounds like an awful mish-mash of bad game design across the board. The prelude about the game lineage makes sense to me, I never enjoyed any of the SaGa games I tried (Unlimited Saga, which you mentioned, I remember giving up on pretty quickly) because their game design (especially the luck/randomness based components) was always a real turnoff to me.

FF2 was always the game in the series I had heard was pretty bad, but I had no real perspective as to why; this was a real eye-opener!

@redhotchilimist:

Yeah, Wild Guns Reloaded is still my dream game for them to do for this feature. I think it is just the right amount of difficulty, plus a hell of a fun game. Reloaded has infinite continues, so they could limit themselves to a 1CC run or something.

I just picked up that NeoGeo mini a couple days ago, and Shock Troopers (and a sequel, apparently, which I haven't tried yet) is on there. I had never heard of it before, and gave it a shot, are you are right, that game is awesome! Kinda reminds me of Jackal, but way better looking/sounding and with more interesting perspectives and such - probably not a coincidence that one of the playable characters is named Jackal, haha.

It might be a little easy for a This Is A Run, though? I managed to beat the game by myself on my third try (although maybe I picked an easy route? I went through Valley and then switched to Mountain halfway through)

I just picked this up on the cheap at Best Buy yesterday, so I’m down for challenges as well. I’m on the East Coast, USA, FYI.

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