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How did you like it? Its one of the better metroidvanias imo (though far from the best).

Found a SNES at a local second hand music shop for $60. Wasn't really in the mood to buy one, but it was in pretty good condition. No yellowing, no chips, no deep scratches, aside from being a bit dirty and a highlighter mark on the side it in as good of condition you can ask for. The controller is absolutely disgusting, I asked them to bag it separately because of how gross it was. I plan on buying a gamebit driver so I can take both of them apart and give them a good clean.

I'm assuming hes talking about the french article that said "Concerning Final Fantasy VII Remake, which is a title loaded with a lot of mystery for now, it will be different from the original Final Fantasy VII. If we make a compilation, these games will hardly have an overall coherence. It will be difficult because there is no more continuity between the Compilation and the Remake for the moment" This was over a year ago however and they simply stated for the moment. I've seen a few articles that confirm some details between Before Crisis, Crisis Core, and the remake with details from the demo. Personally losing the Compilation is probably a good thing. Most of it is not great.

Unsure if you are aware or not, but Frictional didn't develop Machine for Pigs, they only published it. It was developed by The Chinese Room, who's only other game that I have any knowledge of is Dear Esther. The monster encounters can be a bit frustrating sometimes, but its just a walking simulator without it. Not that its entirely a bad thing, just food for thought.

Seems like they are going for existentialism route again. I loved the ending of SOMA, but it had me messed up for awhile.

I was looking around on their website and none of the pre-orders even include a beta anymore. The closest thing is early access - you get to play the game 7 days early. Then I found this. https://mundfish.com/en/2019/10/05/important-news/

Unsure if this has been mentioned but there is a "secret ending" or something if you choose 20 minutes instead of 30 for the bomb. You also get an exclusive PS4 theme if you download the demo before a certain date. I haven't read/seen much as I want to go into this pretty blind.

Nah it works well. Played the beta 1.0 release last month(?) and had a blast.

It isn't even available on the 4K disc. Its only watchable on the blu-ray which is disheartening.

Got a PS2 for Christmas when it came out. Wasn't even on my list of things I wanted for Christmas (was primarily a Nintendo family) though I dabbled in Final Fantasy VII - IX. Brother and I fought over it for the next couple months so that we could play Final Fantasy X.

Oh yeah, there are definitely better routes to take. None of the game is really that hard, but it emphasizes the games lack of direction. Its great to allow the player to tackle any obstacle whenever they choose, but giving them a rough semblance of a route to follow goes a long way towards a natural progression and a deeper understanding of the game. Just throwing them in and saying here you go isn't always fun. I can't imagine someone who isn't a vet in metroidvania's liking Hollow Knight all that much from the get go. I only have my own experiences to go off of and the video shares my opinion, I don't have much else to go off of. I typically just throw my first few orbs into stamina, 3-4 stamina points and you're set for a long period of time really. Its mostly that the artwork keeps the same general appearance in every area. The actual artwork might look different, but its giving off the same vibe as everything that came before it. Its not a drastic enough change in scenery to make it feel any different than the area before it. The hue changes, musical compositions, change in enemies help, but overall I couldn't pick one area out from any other area and tell you what part of the map that came from.

He is overly harsh on Hollow Knight, but I can't say that I disagree with a lot of his points. BotW is still giving you pushes you in directions of what to do next as soon as you leave the Plateau. The game tasks you with searching out Impa in Kakariko Village, Purah in Hateno, the divine beasts. Its just your own choice whether to follow its guidance or not. The game doesn't punish you for the exploration either, it rewards you in most situations with shrines, great fairies, equipment. You'll inevitably reach an area that your are under geared for, but the game isn't punishing you for dying. You lose nothing upon each death and the game autosaves often. You can also instantly teleport out of any situation that you don't want to be in. Hollow Knight is harder by design and having a completely open design means that you'll inevitably end up in areas that you probably shouldn't be in. The game has such little direction in where and what you should be doing though that its fairly easy to end up in a place that you shouldn't be in and you are constantly being punished for exploring. I'm all for having a little difficulty spike in a game and being able to increase my own difficulty, but I'm not even making that decision in Hollow Knight. The game isn't giving me any direction on what/where I should be, I won't know that I shouldn't be in an area until I'm half way through it surrounded by hard enemies and tough platforming. At that point you're either deciding if you should go back for your ghost to get your money or just count it as a loss. You can easily miss some power ups in BotW like not finding a great fairy even missing the master sword. Difference being though that BotW is easily beatable without any of that. Having to 100% complete an area to find an important shop seems a bit extreme in a game that is already hard by design. I can't say that I ever ran into that shop in my couple attempts to play the game or even knew about its existence. There is variance in Hollow Knights areas, but most of it feels samey. The differences in visuals just isn't drastic enough to make it feel hugely different in the entire map. There are subtle differences, it just all feels really samey. His comment about the ground pound in Ori is 100% his fault. He is playing with a controller that doesn't have a great d-pad. It's like me playing Celeste for playing with an Xbox One d-pad and blaming the game that my button presses aren't precise. He also side steps Axiom Verges problems too. There are too many powerups and most of them are absolutely useless in the grand scheme of the game. I think I kept a rotation of 3-4 in total. The soundtrack is not one of his highlights at all, it goes from bearable to absolutely annoying.

This does a pretty good job of rating current metroidvania games. Though I think he focuses more on the negative rather than a lot of the positives, nor would I rate Axiom Verge that high.

The Aeron (probably their most popular chair) is $1350

It'll probably be extremely expensive as well. HermanMiller isn't cheap

Didn't mean to quote it is a good day to die (WC2)

This is what I bought and left at my parents when I moved out. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00R2AZLD2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 No complaints, it handled our house relatively well. A few dead spots here and there in corners of the house, but both floors got covered really well. Might want a mesh network like twinlon said if you have a larger area.

One of my all time favorite movies. It does get heavily overlooked compared to Spirited Away.

No Man's Sky has done a pretty good job of making their game fun while still charging people money. I guess Anthem does have microtransactions though. I wouldn't count it out either way.

My first gaming PC was just my family computer that I popped a Nvidia GPU (GT 220 maybe?) that I bought at BestBuy. I ended up buying a Radeon 4850 off a guy from a Halo Myspace group and he advised me I should get more RAM as well. I didn't build my own PC until the i5 2500k. Same guy that sold me the 4850 helped me pick out the parts for this build and walked me through how to set it up.

Well I guess at least the other game is still alive? Kind of

Control Metro Exodus Star Wars Battlefront 2 Despite being a pretty run of the mill FPS campaign, Battlefront 2's campaign is a lot better than I was anticipating. Highly recommend it despite it being a 4-6 hour experience, probably longer if you play the DLC.

That Folio is hot, but I can't imagine spending that much on a book.

Just in case you were looking for some options LG 27GL850-B $450 27" 1440p 144hz GSYNC compatible IPS Panel Samsung LC27JG56QQNXZA $300 27" Curved1440p 144hz Freesync VA Panel I own both of these, I know that a lot of people don't like curved, but I hardly even noticed it after a couple hours of gaming. I also really really like VA panels over IPS because IPS glow is super annoying.

I love both of these movies. Book of Eli 47% Hot Rod 39% Digimon the Movie 24% Pokemon the Movie 2000 19% Tron Legacy 51% close enough Secret Life of Walter Mitty 51% National Treasure 46% Super Troopers 36% Atlantis (Disney) 49% Rush Hour 3 19% Kingdom of Heaven 39% Mummy Returns 47% Prior to 2000 Tommy Boy 42% Legend 36% Hook 26% Boondock Saints 22%