Posts made by E_Zed_Eh_Intern

@tokyoslim is your profile pic Nicholas Cage?

@oscillator thought I'd seen you talking prices here. Clearly I was wrong. Apologies for profiling all gamers as Sony gamers.

@DIPSET @El-Shmiablo @Oscillator pre-orders for games are up on Amazon.ca and they ARE $89.99. Early adopter I am not.

@tokyoslim Jesus Christ, 1/3 longer than vanilla? That sounds terrible. 3, 4 and 5 are all already WAY too long and drag on with text-heavy cutscenes for the last several hours. Royal prob would have pushed this off of HM if I had played that version so don't worry, the vote has been balanced.

$629.99 and $499.99 at Walmart Canada.

@dipset get on the el-shmintern train, bruh. All the kinks are ironed out after a year anyway. I repeat, I just got Borderlands 3 Super Deluxe Edition (season pass)!for $30 CAD. It's a year old.

@happygaming I would also recommend looking up "best (sport name here) plays". Seeing people do insane things always gets me hyped to watch or play more.

That in mind, you might want to look up players too. Here are a few suggestions for fun to watch players

Football: Michael Vick, Barry Sanders, OBJ

Soccer: Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo (I love Messi but I think his talent is less overt to the layperson)

Hockey: Pavel Bure, Alex Ovechkin (skills and hits), Pavel Datsyuk, Jaromir Have, Mario Lemieux, Iguchi Aito

Basketball: Vince Carter (2000 dunk contest), Derrick Rose (on the bulls), Allen Iverson, Steph Curry, Kenyon Martin

Baseball: Jim Edmonds, baseball is generally dry but Jomboy Media's breakdowns on YouTube are short and awesome

@dmcmaster it's basically the greatest hits from PS4 available free for ps+ subscribers, I think?

Anyways, that was brutal. Buy a PS5 to play all your PS4 games and a PS3 remake. No system sellers here for me.

@happygaming Forest of Illusion music is just the best. I also still get lost every time I play SMW.

@brannox totally agree about Jump Up Superstar. I don't hate it but it's just an average song that got played up for one reason or another.

@bard91 keep meaning to break that game out and finally give it a shot. Thanks!

Super Mario Bros. 3: Giant Land - This is where you always wanted to get to. Interest waned shortly after. Giant goombas, giant koopas and the adorable giant hammer bros.

Super Mario 64: Castle Gardens - Bit of a cheat here as it's not a full level but I'm counting it; explanation to follow. I don't particularly like the Beatles but I've always said I respect how big of a movement they were. I just felt like they were something you had to have been there for to fully get and appreciate. This is how I also feel about Super Mario 64 and the first time you took control of Mario in the Castle Gardens. You were taking Mario's very first steps in 3D and it's hard to name a more significant moment in gaming than that.

Super Mario Odyssey: Cascade Kingdom - It's weird to me that a game from 2017 can already bring back nostalgia but seeing this level for the first made me so giddy. No more platforming on sphere or ridiculous waggle. I finally had my kind of 3D Mario back. And I could be a dinosaur. I can't say if I prefer this, Wooded Kingdom or Metro Kingdom but Cascade will always be the first image I have when somebody mentions this amazing (though bloated) game.

Upon review, it's actually surprising to me that I don't have anything from Super Mario World as that's generally tied with 64 for my favourite Mario game. Time to rethink life again. I also may revisit this after playing 3D All-Stars.

Mario is a somewhat unique franchise in gaming in that it's been around so long and has always been so child-friendly that every generation since 1985 has grown up with him in different ways. I provide this precursor because I feel like Mario is nostalgic for everybody but in different ways and from different iterations. And, since we tend to value things that make us nostalgic very highly, I'm curious to find out not just what Mario worlds we all love but why.

The 2D games tend to have a collection of levels within a world while the 3D games tend to have each level be a large (ish) world on their own. With that established, what are your favourite Mario Worlds (in before "Super Mario World")?

@danjin44 any chance we could make a thread for this game and move this post there?

@el-shmiablo and a skateboard controller with no wheels

@dipset Imagine being a Stars fan in Dallas and not being able to get any info about your team playing in the finals because the Cowboys lost on a 4th down gamble again.

@dipset prob shouldn't feel so bad about losing to the stars now

@happygaming your deal with Metal Jesus is the same as mine with Happy Console Gamer. He and I are from the same Vancouver suburb so when he talks about it I get super nostalgic. He's also very much into retro but also talks about new stuff all the time.

@scotty not sure. I just know the game was digital-only on PS3 and has since been delisted and people always say it's such a shame. But it's back now.

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