Video Game General 2: Definitive/Remastered Edition

@Dustcan
get fucking cooked losers.
rip bozos.

Anyone here has any experience with RPG games with high difficulty?

Depends on the game.

Which are you talking about?

@Dustcan
Ever heard of Whiteclothes the Japanese RPG on Steam? It’s free and it’s quite hard. The only thing that I can understand is the elemental weakness like Pokemon.

Shit be chilly over in Europe:

@CaptainXtra
I mean… have you ever even BEEN to Europe? X)

Never, and it doesn’t have an English translation so no help there.

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@Dustcan
:)

Some people ride rails in style.

Edit: And some don’t know what they’re doing.

@Meanlucario
I love “Freedom Planet.”

@Beau Skunky
Penguin bought me Freedom Planet 2 so I’ve been playing it.

The space and underwater walks in KOTOR.

The always-poorly-implemented “racing” minigames in otherwise non-action-focused games with horse riding or vehicle mechanics.

Marvel Rivals won’t say they are collaborating with Street Fighter and Devil May Cry, but they won’t let that stop them from totally making some SF and DMC skins.

THE BIRTHDAY BOY!

Dave the Diver has a segment where you play as Godzilla and throw down with Ebirah.

How did this not win GOTY?

Finished Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves.

Yeah, this was easily the weakest of the trilogy, but I’d still say it was good overall.

Story and dialogue wise, I think it’s just as phenomenal as the other two. It’s not as cohesive as Sly 2 was, but it wasn’t really trying to be Sly 2. It did it’s own thing here, and I’d say outside of the weird mask shit in Episode 2 (which I’m convinced was just thrown in there to satiate someone’s giant fox girl fetish), it did it well.

The gameplay, unfortunately, is where the game sorta falters. On one hand, Sly, Bentley, and Murray are as fun to play as they were in the previous games, if not moreso. The latter two in particular have been tweaked and refined so that they can now get around the world just as well as Sly can. They can also pick-pocket as well, so that’s cool.

On the other hand though, the game suffers from the same issue I had with Sly 1, and sadly, it’s even worse here. The devs REALLY wanted to add in as much variety to each level as possible, which doesn’t mesh well with the whole “job-based stealth platformer” description that these games are being sold as. Some of these sections are fine enough. I thought the RC stuff with Penelope and blowing shit up as the Panda King was cool. But most of the other sections are either boring as shit, or just plain frustrating.

“Dead Men Tell No Tales” was the absolute nadir of this. Once you get the boat, its almost non-stop boat fights, and they got annoying enough that I ended up purposefully avoiding any ship that I came across. It was THAT egregious.

The hub worlds also felt kind of pointless in the grand scheme of things. They got rid of the clue bottles for some baffling reason, so while they’re technically more intricate than the ones in 2, there’s really no reason to explore them. In Sly 3, they merely exist just so you can get from mission to mission, and at that point, you might as well have just gotten rid of them.

But yeah, it’s the weakest of the trilogy, but it’s still a pretty solid game regardless, and a nice capping point for the series as a whole (and no, I won’t touching Thieves in Time for a long while now, so don’t even bother asking).

Now if you excuse me, it’s time I get back to the Spyro series and actually finish the fucking trilogy.

@Angrybrony
It’s amazing how detailed the bitmap for that newspaper is for such a brief cinematic scene. Remember this was a Dreamcast game.

@Kazapsky
I don’t mind genre shifts if they’re well done. The “unexpected schmup levels” in Kirby are usually well done.
The final boss of “Robobot” felt like a StarFox boss. And you finally get to use Meta Knight’s Halbird ship!

@Dustcan
Hope they eventually get a collab.

@Meanlucario
That’s very generous.

@Dustcan
That stupid fucking song in DA:I fucking cringe so bad every time,

IF they’re well-done, yeah, they can be fun. Kirby games also tend to be balanced toward the lighter end of the challenge scale in general so the inevitable shmup segment tends to be a fairly forgiving experience rather than bullet hell. And more importantly they take the time to make sure the controls actually work.

Shoehorning a racing segment into a turn-based RPG (or pretty much any game that wasn’t primarily about racing to begin with) is almost NEVER well-done. Invariably you end up with janky controls, trash mechanics, and unforgiving difficulty, combined with the usual racing game trope of blatant AI cheating - all in a segment that HAS to be completed to advance the story. No checkpoints, no huge stock of extra lives to fall back on, just back to the nearest savepoint to hike all the way back to an egregiously-long cutscene which may or may not be skippable only to fail again because the developers can’t be arsed to balance this one unskippable story event.

I play an RPG to play an RPG, not Mario Kart on max difficulty.

@Kazapsky
I dunno, the Chocobo Races in FF7 weren’t bad, and the minekart mini game in Super Mario RPG was fun.

@Beau Skunky
They really wanted me and someone else to play it. I decided to buy FP1 and it’s OST to support the devs.

@Meanlucario
The OST is really good. Wish Limited Run Games would release a CD of it, assuming they haven’t already.

@Beau Skunky
If I remember correct, FP1 has the OST for sale, but FP2 doesn’t. Why, I couldn’t tell you.