Posts made by E_Zed_Eh_Intern

@phbz I had no idea this existed. Hopefully this thread can continue to enlighten me with new esports!

FINALLY found a copy of Hitman HD Trilogy for PS3 at a reasonable price. No brainer

@dmcmaster Sad story. Also sad news for fighting game fans because Chaos Code is awesome. If you have a PS3 and like anime fighters, I recommend you pick it up on PSN. Apparently there's also a sequel on PS4.

@bam541 pretty crazy SonicFox crashed out 0-3. I didn't watch but even they said everybody is playing out of their skin so it must have been nuts.

@bam541 I don't know if I've ever even killed that many bots in a row. That 4th kill, had they taken damage already before or are head shots always 1-hit?

@bam541 That is so insane. I have never played whatever game that is (CS?) but am so impressed with the creativity on a map I assume they have all played countless times.

@el-shmiablo he's in the tournament. Silver lining if he loses maybe he can do GF.

It should all probably start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klaWV-szmnY

Things not mentioned in the video:

1. The input to parry is forward. Miss one, you're toast.

2. The input window to parry is 10 frames at most. Not quite frame-perfect but he still hit that 1/6 of a second window 15 times in a row. For the uninitiated, this does not mean you have to mash forward as fast as you can. This means you have to tap forward within that window and at no other time. Then bring your stick back to neutral and hit forward in that window again and then repeat 13 more times.

3. The players were sitting beside each other and Justin stood up and mashed on his buttons and stick to try to distract Daigo during the sequence.

4. Taunting in SF3 gives your character a small buff that stacks. For Ken it's a small damage increase.

5. Justin later said that he knew he had enough life left in case Daigo parried and supered. What he didn't count on was the jump parry into jumping hard kick to start off the punish which pushed it to enough to kill him.

6. Everybody who doesn't play Chun-li hates Chun-li in Third Strike.

@dipset I think that was 2012 and the only reason I remember is because I'm from Vancouver :(

@dipset NBA? Yes. Especially those brutal Warriors vs. Cavs years.

NHL? I'm not so sure. The Blues were third in their DIVISION last year and the President's Trophy winner rarely wins the cup. Although one thing I would say is that it can sometimes dumb down the hockey in the playoffs where lower seeds start playing super tight defence and win a bunch of 1-0 games.

I don't disagree with MLB playoffs being super intense but can you imagine playing 162 games, being 30 games over .500 and not getting in? Not saying it should change but man that would suck.

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Another game from the time when Nintendo felt compelled to shoehorn their control gimmick into their core franchises. And just like all the others (Galaxy 1 & 2, Skyward Sword, Prime 3), this one is worse off for it but still a really good game. I'm only a few hours in but the plan here seems to have been to dumb down the challenge in order to compensate for the dumb controls. I'm cool with it. All things considered, I think they balanced it well.

@el-shmiablo same boat for sure - and we've got our second on the way so I might need to replace Hitman with Hitman Go soon enough. And on top of the time investment, they are also probably the hardest to go back to after a long break because you don't remember the story, what you were grinding for, what skills you liked/wanted etc.

In the last few years I have started:

SMT Devil Summoner Overclocked
SMT Strange Journey Redux
SMT Devil Summoner
SMT Nocturne
SMT Digital Devil Saga
Persona Q
Dragon Quest 2
Final Fantasy 6
Chrono Trigger
Grandia
Xenogears
Suikoden 2

Check my completed games posts; none of them are on there. There were a few others I started and managed to finish in that time but overall, I'm finding that I just don't get the itch with JRPGs like I used to. I'll start and enjoy them enough to play for a while but usually not more than 10 hours in, I can't bring myself to go back to them over short dose action games.

I feel like I'm forgetting about Neverland but there's nothing I can do about it. I used to enjoy these games so much and while I don't hate them, they don't pump hormones through my blood like they used to. Does anybody else have this condition?

Shortly after I had discovered the Allies and didn't really know who each one was, I remember watching a "Talking Syndrome" stream and Huber saying "Knowing" is an awesome movie so I watched it. This began the continuing and rapid decline of my trust in any opinion Huber has on any type of media. Love the personality, hate most things he loves.

But then, on the recent episode of Prison of Love with Ben, they got to talking about enjoying a game rather than just finishing it and moving on. Then Huber mentioned going back to a game and experiencing it "beyond the sphere of judgement" and my head almost exploded.

In the last decade or so, I have found myself enjoying games more when I don't have any expectations for them that have been built by external hype and, while this is likely a reflection of me more than anything, I wonder if this is a thing others experience and not just the ball of energy that is Huber and the nitpicking wet blanket that is me.

My two biggest examples that I look at are Breath of the Wild and Hitman 2016. I didn't love BOTW and I think that at least part of that was because I was just trying to keep pace with the hype. I was trying to get the whole experience that everybody was talking about as quickly as possible. I still dislike a lot about it but I feel like those things would have been easier to forget had the game not been everywhere I turned.

Conversely, Hitman was basically dead by the time I got to it. All the DLC levels were there to play and I could tackle it all however I wanted and there weren't a million videos popping up in my recommended every day. It just felt like this game was mine and I could go through it as I pleased and not have to worry about 10 things I must know before playing or the 15 best secret areas or the one review everybody else disagreed with.

And just to clarify, I'm not talking about things not living up to the hype. End Game, for example, I waited on and didn't really enjoy and admit that that must at least partly be due to my expectations.

tl;dr - do you find it easier to slow down and enjoy something when it is no longer part of the (hate the word but it feels like an appropriate bookend) zeitgeist?

@keir Don't like Animal Crossing but I'm loving the powder-coloured joycons.

Super Mario Galaxy: 2007
New Super Mario Bros Wii: 2009
Super Mario Galaxy 2: 2010
New Super Mario Bros U: 2012
Super Mario 3D World: 2013
Super Mario Maker: 2015
Super Mario Odyssey: 2017
Super Mario Maker 2: 2019

I guess we're not due until at least next year but that doesn't mean we (I) can't dream. I definitely want 3D and think that's what's coming but actual 3D and not 3D World. And I think I want it to go back to pre-Odyssey where the gimmick is just temporary power-ups that you use in specific situations. I love Sunshine and Odyssey but would just like the next one to be more classic platforming. And last but most important, no motion controls ever again.

Friends?

@ff7cloud similar. There's a room fairly early on that if you go in, it soft locks. And you need to go in that room to get the best attack item in the game...or something like that. All I remember for sure is that was a hard quit for me.

@ff7cloud I hope you're not playing on a backwards compatible 80gb PS3

@dipset *Canadian. We must always reference this or people say, "dude, $49.99 at Target"

@gageblackw23 Also, note to all interested, there is a free version of PES every year you can download and it has everything except (I think) for the online "My Team" thing or whatever it's called. I play local all the time and I agree, it's a fantastic game.