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I'll probably run NES Exodus at some point, along with Quest of the Avatar. F the Ultima 5/6/7 Nintendo ports though. 5 in particular is basically unplayable. I remember the free Dragon Warrior promotion with Nintendo Power. I missed out on it (and the whole NES era) and didn't procure a...

I played this circa 1995 or so. Not sure if it was new at that point but I think it was. Also I'm about 90% sure it was some kind of shareware because that was all I had on PC at the time. It might have only included the first of the four levels as a demo.

NO IMAGINATION Weird servers need to be more of a thing. A permadeath server where everyone has, essentially, one life, is another crazy idea / recipe for chaos that we'll probably never see.

Just thought that area was kind of interesting because it's easy to miss. Yeah I think you're right. I replayed that section and looked around more and that door goes into the sector wall, where they presumably had climbed up. So the door isn't a "door to nowhere" so much as just the door they...

Reposted from another thread, maybe someone can figure this one out. IIRC the game had a white background (might have been snowy graphics, might have been a flat white background). You moved around in an overhead tile format, up/down/left/right in single square steps. Main thing was the giants...

Here's the iconic cover shot of FF7. I noticed something weird though. Near the beginning of chapter 16 in Part 1, there's a long hallway that goes off the main path: And this hallway ends in a dead end with no treasure, which is already kind of unusual. But also, it has this great big door...

Guy says something interesting at the beginning, that the whole Deep State concept has been kind of poisoned by politics and Trump using it as a catch-all for everyone he doesn't like. On the reverse end of the spectrum I think a lot of folks on the left have allowed themselves to fall into...

IIRC Xegony and Bristlebane have strong raid games right now but I'm probably wrong. FV is likely the highest-pop regular server. Mischief is likely highest-pop TLP and is currently on... House of Thule, I believe? Other people can answer all of this better than I can though. In any case I'd...

I really like that Rebirth gives you dialogue and action options sometimes. So you can make Cloud, just for a moment, be a little less of a dickwad.

Yeah IDK about this one

Who died in RL? Watched a couple episodes, it really is good.

I wonder how someone becomes so important that they can make decisions over the heads of the federal government and aren't answerable to our elected officials. Presumably there are people above the heads of the FBI and CIA who we don't even know about. How did they get there? Who picked them...

You talking about that couple that lost a few hours and claimed abduction? The Hills, I think. Yeah their story was similar to an Outer Limits episode. Which was also James Cameron's situation when he "had a dream about Terminator". I have no doubt he did dream up a metal skeleton walking out of...

I think Exodus is only on NES. It's a pretty rough port and hard to play. Quest of the Avatar is also on NES and is a fantastic port. They made it more like Dragon Warrior and I've seen people say it's a top 20 game on the system. Finally the NES got Ultima 5 as well but it was a completely...

Oh is it? I figured it was just "Gay Teenagers: The Show". Well, I'll check it out.

This is a good example of my main issue with JRPGs, how frequently they expect you to find one thing or talk to one person to progress the story. It's fine if it's some magical macguffin in a nearby dungeon that the story is pointing you at; that's normal. The issue is when you're just trying to...

The modern remake project is objectively way, way, way nicer than the original in pretty much every regard. The only places it falls short are narratively and in the area of capturing moods (like having Midgar slums be so damn bright).

They're just imitating EQ, as they've done so much of, and it was time to imitate the Drakkin. But yeah, I'm really surprised the Ogres were never added as a playable race. Seemed like they were set up for that from the beginning.

Well it isn't Elder Scrolls 6, or even ES6 news. It's better than ES6.

After some more choice paralysis I fired up Neverwinter Nights, now playing some of that. Had two seemingly game-ending glitches (i.e. spots where I got trapped because something didn't happen that was supposed to) and I'm only one dungeon in. Definitely a game where you want to do backup saves...

Don't even remember what buffs there were in the game, just that on the Flask of Wondrous Physick I went with Heal Half HP + Regeneration for pretty much all of the game. Use that as your first heal on a boss fight and enjoy the regen for a while. Margit seemed so tough the first time through...

I'm gonna watch it too one of these days, mainly for the Latina and Sydney. Not that Sydney looks like Sydney or anything but yeah. Speaking of which, uh What movie is this from, so I can do research? Please not Euphoria, please not Euphoria

Very possibly, but if so, then Greys have to be one of the biggest mass psychoses in human history. Tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people who have claimed to see them or thought they saw them. If every single one of those people were either lying or completely deluded... then...

I haven't been outright rejected in years, you bestiality-committing autistic beanbag.

This movie would have probably been a lot more well-liked if they didn't strap down Sydney's puppies to make her more mannish.

"Combat focused expansion pack for Baldur's Gate" is good for me, 'cause I liked the combat and wanted some more dungeon crawling out of it. It being linear is also good for me, can't get lost if the game is all linear. Got a couple days to kill and decided this morning to fire up a CRPG, only...

I don't get it. The Abyss? All I remember from that is aliens telling people not to use nukes. Holy shit what a great idea for a game.

Well, if they could figure out how to get rid of Hell Levels back in the day by smoothing out the EXP curve from 1-60, then they should be able to fix something like this... if the will is there.

I've got a similar question: Probably gonna knock them all out soon either way, but are any of Vaniki's raid achievements particularly must-do to have the rewards for the next server? I did everything up through level 55 IIRC and still have most of those claims banked (except the Emperor Ssra...

As someone who sucks at action games and doesn't think Elden Ring is that hard (if you use everything available to you), I'm curious to see how the DLC handles difficulty. Does it stay more or less accessible and keep the invisible difficulty slider of the main game, or do they go all in with...

Fahrenheit 451 - The newer movie starring... Michael B. Jordan?? Didn't have high hopes for this and expected it to be geared towards a teenage audience, but the villain is played by Michael Shannon and that single-handedly carries it. By the end I'd say it was actually passable and got some of...

What's the best way to watch T2 or Aliens at this point? I've got T2 on both VHS and Blu-Ray. Never bothered getting a 4K player despite having a 4K TV. For movies it really doesn't seem to make much of a difference, or even worsens them in some cases. Far as I can tell DVD is too low-res and...

You still playing IWD? Another really good long-form video worth adding here that mostly focuses on CRPGs but also gets into the contribution of JRPGs a bit, or at least the late 80's early 90's ones that branched off of the CRPG genre. This video single-handedly got me pumped to do more CRPGs...

For 90% of the card battles I won by focusing on just taking over the majority of the board so the CPU had nowhere to go. Those cards that can be placed on an existing card to flip the pawns next to them were ideal for freezing out the CPU.

Sounds like the lifetime sub was kind of like buying into bitcoin in the 2010's. Seemed like an iffy prospect at the time while actually being an incredibly good deal.

They need to fix whatever the issue is with mob exp at level 111+ and just let mobs give normal exp at that point. While they're at it, having 101+ not immediately nullify exp from pre-TDS zones would also be nice. I don't know if this is a coding issue or an exp curve / numbers issue. As in...

IIRC silver is pretty useless after a point because it'll "blue out" most high level raid equipment you have on and cut your HEM by like 80%. It lets you log in and that's about it. Never gave much thought to it as a result, I'm either subbed or not subbed.

Well...well... I disagree. Level 1 epic server let's GOOOO.