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I guess it is also mandatory to remind that a Raspberry Pi 3 + case + SD card + 2 non-garbage controllers + USB cable + HDMI cable is more expensive than a SNES Mini (which you can easily turn into a retropie if you want to, or just add SNES games to its library while keeping the very nice...

There was an interesting bit between runs about the way GDQ works. Basically they are organizing a fundraiser for a charity (Prevent Cancer in winter, Doctors Without Borders in summer), so they make a budget for the event, submit it to the charity and, if they are ok with it, the charity pays...

There are many recent games featured. That being said, devising and optimizing the route for a speedrun is something that takes time, so the most optimized runs are naturally of older games. Also, most games have different categories, the most broken games usually having glitchless, warpless or...

He assumed there was based on what he knew of Tyrell's plan?

When a game that has already been shown in previous years is on the schedule again, it means that the run has changed significantly, that the run being showed is of a different category or that it is an event of sorts (blindfold, 2 players 1 controller, race, etc). I am not sure what the runs...

Wanted to watch a DVD, flicked through TV channels first... ended up rewatching, Nolan's magician vs magician jigsaw puzzle of a movie: The Prestige. I still have minor reservations about the film that I rated 5/6 back then, but the movie is extremely entertaining in the light of the reveals...

So you spend time on you tube and suddenly you find yourself listen to wierd italian rap about Young Trunks coming from the future, being a Super Sayan, having blue hair, eating McNuggets with sweet & sour sauce and getting sucked by C-18... (these ar indeed some of the lyrics).

Reading the thread's title, my first though was the machine gun in Cave Story. The idea is that, thanks to its recoil, you can use it as a kind of jet-pack, so suddenly you fly around levels thanks to your gun. Second idea was Another World's laser pistol. You tap to shoot a laser, you hold a...

You can get the ice beam pretty early and I don't think there is an enemy that can't be frozen (other than bosses). Once you have ice and 15ish missiles, there isn't really any tough enemy (a missile always kill a frozen enemy) other than maybe the lava sea-horses thingies that spit fire, but...

So yeah, I played through Metroid in one go earlier today. It took me a little bit less than 5 hours. I had played it and finished it back in... '89 or '90 and I don't think I replayed it since. I saw some speedrun of it in recent years, but they were of little assistance as they are full of odd...

The new thread is not up yet and I am already done with Metroid :p I was familiar with the game though. Not super familiar, but familiar enough. Super Metroid should take a little bit longer.

The Megadrive/Genesis being still plugged in I made a somewhat honest attempt at playing a classic: The Super Shinobi aka The Revenge of Shinobi outside Japan. This is a good looking game by Genesis' standards, the music is competently done by Yuzo Koshiro (known for the terrible dance music of...

I can understand the argument for mice in some games, but trying to pretend that a XIXth century typing device is the best interface for XXIst century video games is a bit silly.

I'll check in a bit, but I think in the original game, the game was not Gradius but another shoot'em up that was popular in Japan and obscure in the West. That being said, Ganbare Goemon aka Legend of the Mystical Ninja was really a loved game in my local import scene back at the time of its...

I have been playing some Earthbound with a friend once a week. The other day we got stuck for a bit at a boss fight and, before we discovered the joke way to kill him easily, we made a couple attempts with some elaborate strategies. This made me realize how absolutely none of the boss fights in...

I voted for the 2 non-rpg games I own and have not played: God Hand and Dino City. For reference (since it's the game I submitted) God Hand is a 3D brawler and is the last game made by Clover Studio. It is supposedly one of the best action game ever made with a bazillion customizable combos and...

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Victory! I feel like I semi-cheesed the last stretch, because I was probably like 5 or 6 levels higher than I should have been and since I had not used a single "big" item through the whole game I finished the final fight with like 90% of my mana pool (well... technic points). It should also be...

I think I am on pace to be done by the end of the month! Lvl 46 currently and about to embark in what is possibly maybe the final stretch? But I might also get Rick-Rolled (by Rick Ross though, Not Rick Astley). For a game with a grand total of 8 side quests, you would think they would be a...

PS2 God Hand... if no one has the game and it's non trivial to get it on emulation..... NES Metal Gear.

So... At the Carnival ended up being pretty interesting. It's the same type of puzzles than in the other games (none as maddening as in 3 in Three though) and there is also a meta-puzzle (though it is absolutely trivial), but it does something the other two games do not: use the puzzles to...

It's games I have so I am just making some recommendations for others: Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons is one of the greatest indie game of the last few years (controller is a must though, but I guess all PC gamers have controllers these days). Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a psychedelic...

Thanks for the kind words and likes guys. I need the support because that Cliff Johnson fellow packaged several of his games in that neat emulator thingy... so I played through 3 in Three. The game structure is basically the same except just about everything turned sour. All of the fairytale...

I guess someone got punished for not following the story properly! But it is true that in this type of game it's not always clear if some of the key actions have to be performed by the player or if they will take place automatically or in cut scenes. One becomes pretty aware of this type of...

Reading stuff on the internet is very dangerous as it makes you discover and play the strangest games... so I end up playing and beating The Fool's Errand a 1987 adventure/puzzle game for... Macintosh! In all its black and white glory! It's especially notable for its structure: the game is a...

Correct me if I am wrong, but in Final Fantasy, at least from IV onward (so the 16-bit ones), there were save points in dungeons. And in Dragon Quest, if you died, you were sent back to the latest church you went to and lost all (or half?) of the money you were carrying with you (but keeping xp...

That's more or less what I am doing except I don't run from battle. We are the heroes: we fight! :) @Xadion I think the spell names in english are severely hampered by the character limit (also equipment etc). In japanese it's a little better, with many spells having english names that sorta...

Enemy damage is so strange in this game. It feels all your average trash mob has abilities that can 2 or 3 shot your characters. It does not really make the game hard or anything, it just mean you have to heal up after every - single - fight... it's a bit tedious. Let's just say I grinded some...

@Hathe Solo chicken dinner with 3 kills? Very passive play or you just landed alone some place isolated?

Making some progress in PS IV. Early on I had the game froze twice, probably because old cartridge + old console = dodgy connection, but had no issue since. Also there is a script of the main quest on GameFAQs, so I can play in japanese and go back to read what I played through to be sure I did...

On the RPG front I am curious to see that 40min Dragon Warrior run with RNG control. I understand how a TAS does it, but what kind of wierd setup is used for a human to perform it live and even be marathon safe?

The Golden Axe vol 3 is there (Kin no ono - dai 3 kan) as is Run! Hedgehog, Run! (Hashire! Harinezumi!!), but between them are The Ceramic Soldier (Seramikku no heitai), The Naked Queen (Hadaka no Jyoousama), Motavian... something? (Motabian shikkaku) and Great Men Biographies : Dr. Ruben (Ijin...

The Megadrive is dusted and plugged so I played QuackShot (starring Donald Duck!). This is a treasure hunting platformer, with Donald disguised as Indiana Jones (using a gun firing plungers in lieu of a whip). The structure of the game is very neat. There are levels all around the world (only 4...

The silver bullet in Jason Schreier's review is: 'it’s all width, no depth'. The world in this game is pretty appealing but the game part seems like an orgy of useless and confusing systems that only allows for a myriad of numbers to slowly go up. I guess some have that itch that needs to be...