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Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:18:55
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Ravenprose said:

I've never been too bothered about finishing games. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. As long as I'm having fun.  


Clearly your doing it wrong. Nyaa
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Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:33:07
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No breaks?! Don't flick between games?! GASP Inconcievable! Nyaa

I'm always playing 2 to 4 games at the same time. But with a Xeno game, they are so hard to get back into if you break for too long.
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I bounce around so much that I've started writing myself notes and taking screenshots on my tablet while gaming so I don't forget things. I've never really needed to do that before, but they do help.

It's funny, when I think back it's the games I take written notes for that I remember the most. That I'm interested enough to jot down notes shows I love a game enough to make that effort.

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Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:37:16
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Good question, what games can you remember that you wrote notes for and why?

For me the big one that comes to mind is Harvest Moon A Wonderful life. I played that game so hard I had wrist pain. Having to plan out when to plant things and when they grew, what to feed them etc.

Then Majoras Mask, I still have notes from like 1998 or whenever it came out with quests I needed to do, even the bombers notebook code. I used it when replaying the 3DS version.

Breath of the Wild I had a list with items needed and how to get them to power up my armor sets.

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Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:46:03
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[techpowerup.com]Switch 2 screen has VRR, HDR and is 120hz Famiboards user claims

Switch 2 screen will offer glasses free holographic imaging and will cure cancer.  TheVGPress user claims.

So the story is that this user, when he created his account at Famiboards his 2nd ever post told us the Teraflops in both docked and handheld, 10 days before we had the clock speeds leak. He got them spot on. And he's now saying he knows about the screen.

A Taiwanese website that dealt with chips and stuff did at one point say it was a 1080p 120hz screen. But another said it was 60hz.

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Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:30:22
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Good question, what games can you remember that you wrote notes for and why?

For me the big one that comes to mind is Harvest Moon A Wonderful life. I played that game so hard I had wrist pain. Having to plan out when to plant things and when they grew, what to feed them etc.

Then Majoras Mask, I still have notes from like 1998 or whenever it came out with quests I needed to do, even the bombers notebook code. I used it when replaying the 3DS version.

Breath of the Wild I had a list with items needed and how to get them to power up my armor sets.

As a kid, I had notebooks with my Atari high scores. I'd dedicate a whole page to each game and would draw the game's logo and characters at the top of the page. Unfortunately, they have been lost to time. I wish I still had them.

OG Xbox Morrowind because the in game journal was broken

I have lots of notes for Civ 6 too.

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Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:35:38
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I was always drawing maps with the proper way to get through a dungeon. I even wrote down the levels that were the easiest and quickest way to the end in SMB2 and 3.

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Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:39:25
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I couldn't tell you the last game I had to take notes for, but it was a regular part of gaming when I was playing all those Sierra and Lucas Art adventure games back in the day. Between maps and puzzles, I can't see how anyone would have been able to keep that all in their head.

Actually, come to think of it last year. I replayed Quest for Glory 3 and 4, and I'm pretty sure I started jotting down notes for both of those.

But I don't think modern games really call for it unless you're really doing it out of convenience. In-game mapping is pretty much ingrained as a part of modern gaming that the days of needing graph paper are over.
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Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:07:27
I've played lots of recent games without maps and they usually piss me off.

The ones that don't are ones that manage to naturally funnel you in the right direction without you even realising it.

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Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:37:32

I was never good at making maps for games. The first games I attemped map making was Pitfall (Atari 2600) and Phantasy Star (SMS).  I have trouble reading in-game maps too, lol.

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Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:26:28

Can only recall of one time where I made a map in a game. It was Wizardry V on the SNES. Don’t think I played all the way through it though.

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Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:35:58
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I bought They Always Run.

It's really cool like a 80s or 90s science fiction movie atmosphere.

The graphics are great looking, almost like painted concept art come to life. You are this mutant bounty Hunter with 3 arms.

It almost feels like a 2D Batman Arkham game, both in the positives and negatives. So you do all sorts of cool cinematic moves like leaping onto railings, sliding down ladders, you have stealth and ledge kills. You can also instant kill when jumping down on someone.

The enemies are quite fun in that you can lead them about and they will sometimes chase you. So you can split up groups and take them out individually. Others will shout and taunt at you to come back and will spot you on the ladder underneath them and shout "Come up from there" and other stuff.

You can climb on gratings like super Mario world. The negative which is also Arkham like is that your character will lurch about to attack enemies. Controls in general feel imprecise. The movement and platforming is fine, even though it feels jaggy. When you're in a tough fight it doesn't ever feel right to me, though it's something I'm getting used to its tricks.

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Sun, 23 Mar 2025 04:55:51
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I was messing around with a new game of BotW, and I found this item. LOL

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Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:42:56
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What the heck? I never saw that before.

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Sun, 23 Mar 2025 11:16:06
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What the heck? I never saw that before.

Me neither. It was in a treasure chest on the Great Plateau near one of the shrines.

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Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:16:09
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Godamnit Hotline Miami 2, on the later levels it's SO freaking hard.

The first game seems like a cakewalk compared to this.

The problem is that it really highlights the games significant problems. You get shot repeatedly, or killed by enemies rushing you that you can't even see. They are literally off the screen and even looking forward won't show them.

Then the windows ramp up later on, there are no hiding spots, you can get shot from two rooms away through a plant pot.

Your knife attack won't always work even if you spam it as enemies cut you in the fraction of a second between swipes.

But it's the lock on that is the biggest problem. You can Z lock onto one enemy, but when you move the right stick to look around it switches targets. Meanwhile if it's locked onto a target when other enemies come at you, you are facing the wrong direction and can't even fight back.

You have stages where you can't even pick up enemy weapons. And these fat guys that you can't melee.

And your aiming just instant lenient enough most of the time. You can be holding the stick in the exact direction of the enemy but you miss by 2mm. It's really exposed when you have the bear double machine gun and it works the way a normal gun should.

The story is also all over the place, like the first game but worse. It's one of those games you have to Google to work out what's going on.

And yet I love the game and can't stop playing it.

I just wish you could mark enemies, maybe 2 at a time and order them. So you hit the first and the lock on switches to the 2nd enemy after the first dies.

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Sun, 23 Mar 2025 14:07:30
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I swear half the difficulty in Zelda OoT just fighting the camera.

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Sun, 23 Mar 2025 14:51:02
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Ravenprose said:
gamingeek said:
What the heck? I never saw that before.

Me neither. It was in a treasure chest on the Great Plateau near one of the shrines.

Not to look like I’m bragging or anything but I saw it in my playthrough.

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Sun, 23 Mar 2025 15:23:30
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Not to look like I’m bragging or anything but I saw it in my playthrough.

Yeah it's part of the expansion pass. I remember adding The expansion pass after I had been playing the game for quite a while, so it wasn't there to find initially.

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Sun, 23 Mar 2025 17:18:01
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Yeah it's part of the expansion pass. I remember adding The expansion pass after I had been playing the game for quite a while, so it wasn't there to find initially.

Ah, ok. That makes sense.

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Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:58:19
Hotline Miami 2 is now taking the piss. There's these bald bastards, who actually blink out of existence and blink through walls to attack you at the speed of light.

It's like fighting Nightcrawler with a stick.

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