toxicitizen

Don't even joke about that!

Yeah okay, that makes sense. I've admittedly not played the Galaxy games but I thought SM3DL was infinitely better than the 64/Sunshine formula. I played those two back in the day and they were alright but they didn't blow me away or anything. 3D Land totally did. I thought the idea of 2D Mario level design within a 3D space was pretty novel and a ton of fun. The Wii U has Bayonetta 2 and The Wonderful 101, though. That's some pretty goddamn solid exclusives right there.

Isn't Zelda still coming to Wii U? Also, coming right off of Super Mario 3D Land, you got Super Mario 3D World, which is even better from the looks of it! It's actually a genius move, think about it! "Our launch line-up isn't weak you guys, it's totally just the usual summer drought!"

So, I'm unclear on the specifics here but videogamesplus.ca either ordered reprints or found some stock sitting in a warehouse or something. So, they now have a bunch of rare NDS games up for reserve. Stuff like Infinite Space, Dragon Quest Monsters Joker, etc.. Most of these games are pretty rare and new copies can cost a lot online. I was looking through the list, not really planning to get anything, and spotted this and I just had to jump on it. The original was one of the first games I bought for my old DS and it was pretty great. It's another of those games that I just had to hold on to when I sold the system. It was one of the first DS games I looked for when I got my 3DS and I couldn't find a new copy for less than 90$. Getting it for the usual 40 bucks full price for handheld games feels like a goddamn steal by comparison.

Who needs video games on Steam when we got this? It's a shame they're only rentals, though. I could've been tempted to grab some if they were purchases.

Dark Souls III. Finished it a couple nights ago and it was everything I wanted it to be and more. In many ways, this is the real Dark Souls II. It feels like a true sequel to the original in ways Dark Souls II simply didn't. DSII was still a solid game but now it retroactively feels kind of random because of how much DSIII ties everything together so much better. Like, it almost makes DSII feel like it should've been its own new IP similar to Bloodborne. At the very least, I feel like people probably would've been kinder to it had it not been for the Dark Souls name. The only "issue" that comes to mind is that it felt short compared to the previous two games. It took me about 30h to beat whereas a first playthrough of the original was a solid 50h. I can't really call it a problem, though. The original had some pacing issues in its second half and DSIII pretty much avoids all of that stuff. 30h is still a pretty good length and I think might be the sweet spot for this series. Beyond that, I had no performance issues whatsoever on PC and no area or boss comes to mind as being particularly bad or anything, which can't be said for the first two games. I'll have to give it a few more playthroughs before I can rank it with 100% certainty but so far it's definitely at least a close second to the original. Possibly even the best out of all three. Can't wait to see what the DLC will be! Until then, NG+ should keep me busy. Still got some more achievements to get and a few more endings to see, as well. off topic: Is there any particular reason why the post box expands and scrolls horizontally now? Is that something I can turn off on my end? It makes longer posts kind of a pain in the ass to type.

So, someone hacked the Atlus Japan website and for a little while it looked like the release date as well as confirmation of a PC version had leaked. I am pretty glad I woke up late today. It was already debunked by the time I heard about it, so I didn't have time to actually believe and get all my hopes and dreams crushed in one fell swoop.

Nah, upgrading your weapon is the most important thing in Souls. While it might not deal the absolutely most optimal amount of damage, even your starting weapon can carry you through the entire game if properly upgraded. I'm still rocking a sword I found in the early game. You really don't need to "upgrade" to a different weapon if you don't want to. Mostly, just picking a weapon whose fighting style works for you is what's important. That's happened to me a few times. Some enemies are just pretty fast at jumping at you in this one, so you usually want to dodge at first to open them up rather than just rush in sword swinging. And I say that as someone whose playstyle is usually to try and kill enemies before they can react to my presence.

HOLY SHIT! I just got to Mind. Blown. Seriously, I mean, although it definitely has major flaws, I always felt like Dark Souls II got a lot of undeserved shit. But goddamn it what the fuck was that piece of crap? This is the real Dark Souls II. Holy shit!

The first AVGN game was surprisingly good. Definitely one of the best challenging platformers I've played, I had a blast with it. I meant to get the sequel at launch but didn't, for some reason. I should probably get around to that soonish...

The reason FFVII and FFVIII have shitty controller support is because S-E just threw the old ports from the late 90s on Steam with little to no work done on them. It's not just the DS4, even my DS3 (which was a 360 controller as far as my PC could tell) didn't work all that well with it. FFIX is a brand new port, though. So, I'd expect it to be more in line with modern expectations from a PC port.

Yeah, I was pretty bummed out when I looked up the current state of the series. There's some mobile game called Layton 7 that they're working on but it doesn't actually feature Professor Layton I don't think there's been any news about it in a while. With that and Fantasy Life 2 also being a mobile game, it looks like Level-5 might be moving away from the 3DS altogether.

That's only if you're Square-Enix. Sega is a bit faster, Valkyria Chronicles only took 6 years!

Well, at least you know for sure that's coming eventually. I'm still hoping for a PC version announcement...

Since I know there's a few SMT fans on here, might as well post that Shin Megami Tensei IV: Final is coming west as Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse this summer. There was little doubt it would eventually come but this is much earlier than I expected. I really hope it won't be too close to Dragon Quest VII, making time for just one massive JRPG is already hard enough these days. So, I guess that means I need to finish Persona Q already so that I can get started on SMTIV...

Completely forgot these two were coming out for 3DS VC today! Super Metroid is a goddamn classic and I'm WAY overdue for a replay. And I was holding off on playing Link Between Worlds until now so that I could replay Link to the Past first. Gotta say, even though I really dislike buying digitally with Nintendo, I really love having those SNES games on my 3DS. This is the last batch of the initial announcement, though. Hopefully they announce more soon. Super Mario RPG would be another great one to have. edit: oh and I guess I forgot to post it but this came in today I played the first game back when I had my original DS and loved it. It was one of the few DS games I just couldn't bring myself to sell along with my DS since I knew I'd likely get a 3DS eventually and would regret not keeping them. This is the third game, though, so I still need the second one. But it was like 10 bucks brand new on ebay, so I couldn't resist.

About fucking time. S-E was starting to run out of "early 2016".

So, just a heads up, I started watching that launch trailer yesterday and quickly stopped it because it was starting to show stuff I didn't wanna see. But from what I just heard, apparently it shows pretty much every single boss area as well as parts of the ending cutscene?? I mean, wtf?? Are Bandai Namco fucking retarded or something?

Yeah, prioritizing satellites is generally the way to go early on. This isn't entirely necessary but it's also not a bad idea since it's a pretty linear upgrade with no downsides. Again, not entirely necessary. But that's the thing about EU: as long as you can manage your panic levels, there's basically no penalty for ignoring the story missions. But here's the thing, I'd recommend doing the alien base soon because: 1) It's the first main story mission, it's not that hard and doesn't expect you to have end-game gear. Putting it off for that long really isn't necessary. 2) The game has this weird, backwards difficulty curve where it actually gets easier as you upgrade your stuff. The first few months are definitely the hardests out of the entire game. So, basically what you're doing here is extending the period where the game gets piss easy and it might end up making it kinda boring in the long run. Yeah, like I said, it's likely to only get easier going forward. You shouldn't have anything to worry about, as long as you play carefully.

I can't stop playing Super Mario 3D Land! First, I beat the main worlds. Then I beat the special worlds. Then I found out I could get up to five stars on my save file so I went back and replayed the levels where I didn't land at the top of the flagpole. And now I started replaying all the levels as Luigi for the final star.

Super Mario 3D Land. Holy shit, this game is great! I was initially planning on playing it slowly, a level or two here and there, without making it my main focus. But when my copy got here tuesday, I fired it up just to try it and ended up not playing anything else until I finished it. I really dug how the level design was a throwback to old-school 2D Mario without actually being a side-scroller. I haven't played a lot of modern Mario games but I thought this style was much better than the formula I was used to (Mario 64 and Sunshine, basically). Now I kinda want to play 3D World, though. At first I liked how short the levels were but now that it's over I really want to play something similar but on a bigger scale. I wonder if my cousin would let me borrow his Wii U... Oh well, at least I still have the Special worlds to work through. Think I'll hold off a bit on playing those, though. I'm on the last dungeon of Persona Q and I'd really like to finish it before Dark Souls III comes out.

So, "trying out Super Mario 3D Land real quick" yesterday somehow turned into "play almost nonstop for two days straight". That game is fantastic! Anyway, so, I was looking at what other Mario games there are on 3DS and noticed there was a New Super Mario Bros. 2. I never got around to getting this one back when I owned an original DS, so I figured I might as well go back and start with it before getting the sequel. This was a used copy on eBay. I usually hate buying used (especially on the internet) but the new ones were all pretty overpriced and it's not like this is some rare, out-of-print Atlus game or anything like that. There was a picture of the actual item and it seemed to be in pretty good condition, so whatever.

So, yesterday I was on Amazon and added all those games to my cart. When I got to the order review page, I saw the total price and kinda went "Eh... maybe not." I let them sit in the cart, meaning to come back later and decide which one(s) to remove. Then I came home drunk at 4AM and just sent the order through. Oh well... I haven't played a first-party Nintendo game in like a decade, so I'm really looking forward to playing a Mario and Zelda game again. The other two, well, they're SMT and you can never have too much SMT in your life. That being said, at this point I probably have enough of them to last me through the entire year (if I played nothing else), so I think I'm good for a little while.

I imagine that having the people responsible for coming up with it spread across like 7 different timezones must make it pretty difficult to brainstorm a coherent overall narrative.