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1 hour ago, mikechorney said:

How successful was it?

1 million as of 2016 there has been no news about sales numbers since then except for 100,000 digital downloads between PS4/Vita in Japan.

92/100 on metacritic on both versions.

There are probably other ways of determining success, but yeah.

52 minutes ago, mikechorney said:

Undertale is $10.

Do you think Undertales success would have been halted if it was $60?

4 minutes ago, mikechorney said:

If it was released today on PS4 for the first time -- exactly as it was released on SNES in '95 -  fpr $60.  Do you thing it would be widely recognized as one of the best RPGs of all time?  Would it be in the conversation for GOTY in 2018?

Considering how well a games like Undertale and Cave Story did in the gaming scene, I'd say yes, it would.

Post game reviews, fines for those found to have excessive dives.

I'm pretty boring. My go to pizza is Pepperoni and Black Olives. I also really like Meat Lovers or as one of the local pizza joint calls it the cardiac arrest.

There are some other random ones I like as well, like there is a tiki misala pizza at same local place. I'm pretty open to eating any kind of pizza.

Except Hawaiian.

First season ended right as it was getting good. I was in a lull at the beginning of the show.

Looks boring. I dashed around a bit, but nothing in any of the battles caught my eye. Kept just skipping forward to the next battle hoping to see something interesting, but meh.

I'm going to go with the Xbox 360.

I've always had gaming in my life as far back as I can remember we've always had a SNES, we got the N64 and the Gamecube, PS2, I somehow convinced my parents to get me Halo and a Xbox for my birthday. Usually these were Christmas type presents and games were always hard to come by, we were always renting at Hollywood Video, Hastings, and Blockbuster.

The 360 was all me though. I got a job, saved up for the Halo 3 limited edition Xbox 360 (almost caved a couple times and bought a regular one so I could play Oblivion). It has by far my largest library of games, although not necessarily any of my favorites. It also represented a time when my friends and I were old enough to actual compete in MLG for Halo and though only one of us actually competed, we played A LOT of Halo and had probably more LANs than I can count.  Tons of all nighters staying up playing newly released games. It was just a good time and the Xbox 360 was the console that kept on giving.

Sleep: 42

Work: 42.5

Free Time: 83.5

This does change when I'm in school however. Then 6-8 hours a week are spent in school, with whatever hours of the week spent on homework.

Free time is probably what you guessed it to be. Gaming, reading, TV, social events, etc.

Objectively probably the 3DS or DS. Just because the largeness of the library and so many great titles.

Subjectively I'd go with the GBA. It was more or less the peak of my handheld gaming.

I heard Iconoclasts was pretty good, but completely overshadowed by Celeste on release.

Ni No Kuni II just got a rather large patch that should address a lot of peoples issues with the game on release (difficulty probably being the biggest)

Don't think I really have a favorite for releases this year.

God of War would probably be the closest, but I just stopped playing it one day and haven't had any desire to pick it back up

Born of Osiris - The Eternal Reign

I started listening to BoS when they dropped the Discovery. It was a pleasant find, fast technical sections, some hard chugg sections, some light synths added in, nothing ever felt repetitious on the album. Always something new and fresh in every song. Then Tomorrow We Die Alive dropped and I completely lost whatever faith I had after listening to the album. The album had one song that I found tolerable. I disliked it so much I completely avoided Soul Sphere and tER.

Well I got bored on Saturday and hit up the old record shop and saw that they had this album on sale. It reminds me of the reason I started listening to BoS in the first place. Less synths throughout the album overall, which isn't a bad thing, but those were some of my favorite parts from Discovery. They keep up with no chorus, each song is a new take, and back to the BoS that I enjoyed. If I have to fault anything its that they switch it up a little too much. Just when I'd start digging a part in a song the song would switch into something else.

I just wikipedia'd the album, had no idea the whole thing was a retake of the original (never listened to it outside of Bow Down). Its an extremely solid album (especially for their first album).

Overall 7.5/10

Favorite Song:

1 hour ago, TwinIon said:

My loyalty has been rewarded! I've heard a few good things about NieR: Automata, so how about that on the PC.

Good choice ??

As much as I like the elite, the paddles are way to susceptible to accidental presses. If you are really into the paddles I'd recommend getting a scuf or a Battlebeavercustom (there is a scuf elite controller for $299). I can't justify the extra money for the elite as just a base controller either. Don't get me wrong, its got a nice weighted feeling to it, great build quality, I just don't think its worth an extra $100.

A regular xbox one controller for $40 is probably the easiest/cheapest solution. Elite if you have the money and are itching for something more.

DS4 if you prefer playstation controller layout.

7 hours ago, therockdltj said:

I tried building my last PC and ended up having to give it to a friend to fix because it wouldn't turn on. It took him a week to undo whatever I did. I do appreciate the offer I just want to order one already built to avoid that problem again. 

No worries! Good luck on the new pre-built!

Fortnite makes me really wish the Destiny had cross-play or at the very least transferal of characters. I'd go buy it a third time if I could jump around.

1 - A classic Halo. No sprint, no spartan abilities. You could literally take CE, add some guns, get rid of the jump delay, tighten strafe a little bit so its not so floaty. Add all of the maps from Halo 1-3. Boom best Halo multiplayer to come out in years.

2 - Take Escape from Tarkov, Destiny, and Hunt: Showdown and mix them. Escape from Tarkov's permadeath, but you tweak it a bit. Once you reach a certain "power level" milestones you keep that power level when you die, but you lose any gear you had on you at the time and are given just a basic gun, gear, items, when you come back. Anything left in your stash is safe. Add in Destiny's hub-world, raids, patrols, strikes, etc to give more variety to the missions you select, but like in Hunt: Showdown you go up against people in everything you do. Each mission/map is just kind of a really large area so that you have a lot of ways to get to the target. Target can be anything, killing someone, hijacking something, hacking data, etc.

Maybe throw in a PvE mode if you just enjoy the game, but rewards aren't as good or AI becomes a lot tougher in that there is still a very real chance you could die and lose everything.

47 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

Tonight's recipient is @Nokt - what will it be?

Lets do Mooncrash for Prey (Steam) if thats all right with you.

Thank you!

9 hours ago, TwinIon said:

What kind of show would you guys like to see this from this series?

 

The obvious route is to make it about MC and his squad. Keep it tightly focused on them and make it a 'team on a mission' kind of thing. Like if you made an episode of Stargate into a whole series. I think there's potential there but I'm not thrilled with the idea.

 

If they wanted to, they could make this an expanse like show, alternating between the Earth politics of meeting alien life, a ship commander, and the front line soldiers. If you wanted to really get into the Covenant you could almost go kinda Game of Thrones with all their machinations, but I think that's probably a bridge too far.

 

They could do a Voyager/BSG style show about a capital ship that ends up far from home. I think that could make for a flexible premise where they need to solve some big mystery, and there are enough characters and considerations that it's not all about space soldiers shooting stuff.

Band of brothers ODST style. MC/Blue team with some cameo appearances like in Landfall where the whole mission is about the MC, but you don't really see him.

8 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

This. It's hard to believe such an incredible sci-fi novel is a prequel to a video game. I was so disappointed in the half-assed animated adaption of it that MS made when Halo 5 released. Blech.

I sadly never could get into Nylund's writing when I was younger. Maybe I should try to read it again.

Force Unleashed I/II were pretty good games. People have a problem with II, but I don't really mind it. It was a fun game

Dark Forces just reminds me of my childhood, but I've still never beaten the game, I get a couple of levels in and quit.

On 6/28/2018 at 2:24 PM, skillzdadirecta said:

What are the best Star Wars games out there, P.C. and Console? I never beat KOTOR 2, maybe I should fix that at some point.

You definitely should play KOTOR 2.

Also which battlefront are we talking about, the new ones or old, because if you haven't played the old, you should.

I might possibly have an I5-6600, mobo, and a PSU that I could send to you if you go the building your own PC route.

The mobo does have the little plastic clip broken off the GPU slot, but I never had any problems with it for the couple of years I used it.

I'm sure that these will be back in stock eventually, but Amazon.co.uk has had stock on these for awhile.

More expensive, but shipping to the US isn't bad (I think its like $10).

The skirt achievement is also on steam, had to dig through a list to find it.

Couple of things, I'm fairly confident Nier hasn't been patched on steam since release. I personally only had the game crash once and experienced no other issues, but your mileage may vary.

The multiple playthroughs cover different parts of the story, you aren't really retreading over the same ground that much. You do tread a little bit over similar parts, but they are pretty different and like @Massdriver said, they get shorter as well.

Lastly, after the third or fourth playthrough it will ask if you want to give up your save, you will lose it permanently. However I think its an achievement, if thats your thing.

I also highly recommend this game

6 minutes ago, Brick said:

So if Cayde-6 really is going to stay dead, I wonder if that decision has anything to do with Nathan Fillion and if his availability is reducing.

I'd bet the latter. However I really despise Destiny's writing, not just the overall lack of a story, but the one liners you hear so often from the cast. So him leaving doesn't really bother as much as it normally would.

1 hour ago, Emblazon said:

Finally, while I don't really listen to rap much any more, NF's new album, Perception is stellar:

 

I’ll probably have to give the rest of the album, but I’ve really liked some of his singles in the past. I’m kind of afraid that he doesn’t really have to much variety or range in his music. Most of the singles I like sound pretty similar.