The Coop

Yeah, games can get pretty personal at times, huh? How many flame wars have broken out here over one game or another? Some folks just take it way too personally when someone bags on a game they're fond of... like the put down was for them, and not the game. Take The Immortal for example. This is a game I had a lot of fun with. Detailed and clean graphics, good music, great animation for the time, tough but not unfair puzzles and sections, simple fights, and interesting characters. To me, this game was pure challenging fun. Yet to quite a few, it was an impossible to play turd. I could sit and defend it all day, but that won't change the fact that I'm in the minority on it. The game isn't broken with bad controls or spotty hit detection, it's just hard. And that level of difficulty turns a lot of people off to it, much like how an art style or gameplay type can do the same (the latter of which is another reason so many hate TI). I can't comment on the "Prime" series, as I've never played either of them. But I've taken a lot of shit for enjoying The Immortal, and I still defend it when these kinds of game requests come up. To me, the "Must Haves" aren't always the ones that got all the attention, or loads of high scoring reviews. Sometimes, they're the ones that to you, brought everything together for a great game that you enjoy playing over and over again. And really, I think that's part of what these types of threads are about... people pointing out their "Must Haves" that may not seem like it at first

Questionable by your tastes perhaps, Bahamut, but not theirs. If the thread maker goes off and looks up a game, finds it to be poorly reviewed, they're going to come back and ask "How could you like this game?" (assuming another poster doesn't ask them that before hand). Then the person can state why they liked it, and what they disagree with in other reviews. I refer back to my original point about "I don't agree". Someone could post every last reason why they liked a given game, and still have a dozen people saying that person's on drugs/full of shit/has no taste. And so, off the thread maker goes to see what's up. A lot of wasted effort, that results in the same actions in the end. Besides... if sephfire is like so many other people, he'll be looking up more info on the games listed whether someone posts a mini-review or not. Blindly saying "OKAY!" and forking out cash because of a single game review or list on OCR isn't a good plan. And if he has questions on a given game later, he's perfectly free to ask them. A lot of folks have no problems answering such questions, but they're not really up for giving all the hows and whys on something unless they've actually been asked. So, if Sephfire or anyone's curious as to why someone chose a game, all they gotta do is ask. An answer won't be far behind

Folks aren't able to look up stuff on their own anymore? I can honestly say I've thought about every game on my list. A game isn't there unless I've played it, thoroughly enjoyed it, and weighed it against similar games over the last few years that the list has been added to. I could go into detail about each and every one of the titles on my list, but what would be the point? All it's going to take is one person saying "I don't agree", and the thread maker's going to go and find reviews and info on the game themselves anyway. With a quick stop by sites like IGN, Gamespot, Gamefaqs (depending on the reviewer, and mostly for the older titles), Mobygames, Game Rankings, Rotten Tomatoes, and other sites like them, they'll get all the info they'll need, as well as (usually) more than enough reviews, screenshots, and viewpoints to help them make up their mind. And if they can't, then they can ask about it in the thread they made. If a game is listed by someone, it means they liked it (well, maybe not megadave's one list ). From there, it's up to the one asking for games to do the research beyond someone's implied, or written out, "I liked it".

How so? All you need is a Game Genie to play import Genesis (aka MegaDrive) titles, and the cartridges needed to play import Saturn games are plentiful, and cost less than many games (with the best ones being the 4-in-1 carts, which you can still buy new). Games like Vampire Savior and Thunder Force IV are quite cheap these days, and while the likes of Radiant Silvergun and Gley Lancer are up there in price thanks to eBay sellers and their "OMG RARE L@@K" bullshit, so are the American releases for things like Marvel vs Capcom 2, Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves, and basically anything released by Atlus. But just because it's expensive now, doesn't mean it will be when they spot a copy. And if they look up info on a game and like the way it sounds, then when they spot that cheaper copy, they can act on it quicker. Besides... if I'm going to make a list, I may as well make one that covers everything I really liked on a system over the years, instead of just touching on a few. The more they have to look into, the better

Well if you're honest, you buy them from one of the many places import games are readily available either in store, or online. I'm not going to refrain from recommending something, just because they might download it, or get a pirated copy from somewhere. After all, nearly every game I listed can be gotten that way these days. It'd be a pretty short list if I avoided all such titles, ya know? the-almighty-tallest- Shit! I knew something felt like it was missing from the Saturn list. I also forgot Metal Black, Dungeons and Dragon's Collection and Layer Section II. Missed Metal Slug Anthology for the PS2 as well. I fixed that though. Bahamut- I left that off, because I've heard (and read) the emulation isn't as good as the MegaMan Anniversary Collection. Plus, I don't recommend what I haven't played myself. Good reviews is one thing, but I prefer first hand experience

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Primal Rage. It's on a number of systems (old and new), but the version to go after would be the XBox/PS2 version in Midway's Arcade Treasures 2.

Until S-E makes Einhander II, they're just a one trick pony to me. As much as I'm enjoying FF XII, I'm actually getting sick of seeing the franchise popping up as they constantly whore it out with spin-offs, sequels and re-ports. They've got a good number of non-RPG games waiting for a well deserved sequel. Maybe someone should remind them that there are other genres besides RPGs in the gaming world.

Shortly after Nintendo boasted that it's current working on 127 games, a partial list of the titles "in the pipe" was leaked. Here's some of what's coming between Summer '07, and Winter '11... Mario Galaxy Mario Party 8 Mario Party 9 Mario Party 10 Mario Party 11 Mario Party 12 Metroid Prime 3 Metroid Prime 4 Metroid Prime 5 Mario Tennis 2 Mario Tennis 3 Mario Tennis 4 Mario Tennis 5 Mario Strikers Charged Mario Strikers Amped Mario Strikers Tweaked Mario Strikers Cranked Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Mario & Sonic at the Special Olympic Games Ultra Paper Mario Rock, Paper Mario, Scissors Legend of Zelda: Daybreak Prince Legend of Zelda: Mid Afternoon Pauper Star Fox Wii Star Fox Wii² (its development name is "WiiWii") Kirby's Adventure Kirby's Adventure 2 * Kirby's Dirty Adventure (packed with the new Wii-mote that includes a vibration function) Mario and Donkey Kong's Karaoke Mario and Donkey Kong's Karaoke Extra Salsa Mix Super Smash Brothers Brawl Super Smash Brothers Fistacuffs Super Smash Brothers Themsfightinwords * Super Smashed Brothers: Vicious Crosswinds Luigi's Mansion 2: Still Suckin' *= Limited release under Nintendo's new "Kiddie No-Mo" label.

Didn't Sony say the same thing about the sticking button on PSPs?

I'd be wandering around the forums in an amnesic state, popping into random threads with a lost look on my face asking, "Do you know who I am?".

That's the version I was using when I switched back to 2.0.0.1. It crashed regularly on me.

Do I really need to explain anything?

Mine's pretty easy to remember

Alright, here's what I did for the moment. As I mentioned before, all the crashing started with the 2.0.0.2 update. So, I went back and grabbed the 2.0.0.1 version of FireFox, and thus far, I've had not a single crash. Seems something happened, and currently there's nothing on Mozilla's help forum that does anything besides telling people it's not FireFox, but a plug-in. They suggest going through their standard "FireFox crashes" diagnostic, but people still say the browser crashes even after doing all the things the diagnostic says to do. I even read a post or two flat out refusing to believe that it was FireFox at all... like somehow FireFox couldn't possibly have a bug in it. I can also no longer find the threads that talked about the browser crashing to the desktop, which puzzles me. So, try going back to 2.0.0.1 and see if it helps.

They'd rather play the "what if?" game. Gives them some time in the spotlight... despite being in that spotlight for the wrong reasons.

It was in the gaming world by the time the N64 came along. Carts were first labeled in kilobytes, then in megabits by the time the Master System and NES showed up. The Genesis, SNES and Neo-Geo continued using this memory number, until CDs started becoming the norm with the PS1 and the Saturn. By the time the N64 hit, the term "megabits" when referring to video games was seen as the terminology of the past. Nintendo clung to that term, so that their games sounded huge with a "whopping 512mb of memory"... or greater. Now, considering that 16-bit games stopped at 40mb (Super Street Fighter 2, Sonic and Knuckles, etc.), it wouldn't have looked good for a new system to say its games were 64MB. I mean, we might know the difference between mb and MB, but when marketing a new system to the general public and younger kids (where the average person probably didn't know the difference), I doubt Nintendo wanted comments like "What? That's it? My Genesis games are only a little smaller. I thought this was next generation stuff.". So, they stuck with the "old" megabits line to make their games sound massive. "megabits" is a lot like referring to a gaming system's power in "bits" (8bit, 16bit, 32bit, etc.). By the time the Dreamcast arrived, it was an out dated terminology for the video game world. The same thing happened to "megabits" before the N64 rolled around. So while yes, the term is still viable in the computer and data worlds, in the video game world, it's "old".

'Tis witchcraft! HE MUST BE PURIFIED BY FIRE!

Did he happen to mention how many megabits that song would take up on a typical N64 cart? I say "megabits" because N64 carts were still using that old memory size terminology.

Yeah. VGMix2 went down because of the hack (and the inability to figure out how to fix it due to VGMix2's apparent haphazard coding). VGMix3 isn't up yet because virt and them are doing all the programming themselves, and haven't finished it.

I'd rather have him go back in time and bitch slap the idiot that decided to go with the cart format for the N64.

About a week or so ago, I finally beat the Golmore Jungle's Elder Wyrm... and damn did it feel good. I tried so many times since I first mentioned that thing in here, and the closest I got was getting him down to about 2/5 of a bar of life before everything gave out. That spore attack is viscous. I actually gave up for a while. I figured "fuck this", and walked away from the game for probably a good month or so. I was just so tired of fighting that thing. Then about a week before I won, I got the hankering to give the game another whirl, and just started level grinding. Buying better weapons, spells and items out the wazoo. After a while (and about eight level ups), I decided to give the Elder Wyrm another go. Got my ass handed to me a few times, then decided to try something. As soon as the thing was getting ready to cast Spore, I started character switching. Fran (my main character) was the first to be moved away from the thing. Once she was far enough, I switched off her Gambits, and left her standing there casting Cure on herself. Then I switched to the next character (Vaan), and got him running away. By the time the spell was cast, only the one remaining character was hit, which left two to do the needed healing and whatnot. I lost Vaan twice during the battle, but managed to bring him back both times so that all three characters got the experience at the end. Yeah, yeah... every says this boss was sooooo easy. Well, it wasn't for me. FFXII is a a bit of a different RPG for an old schooler like me, and seeing that thing die felt damn good. Since then, I've been kicking some pretty righteous ass on the bosses I've encountered (I'm on the big Pharos tower, with the second boss beaten). As I said in the AIMMS thread, is sure feels good to see new territory.

It's the 80s all over again!

Yes, if you've only said "no" to something once, you can still come