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Chimp! What's the deal with Air Ride? I've never gotten it.sheeeeesh got that Smash Ultimate, Kirby Air Ride, Uprising, Gen5, Nintendo Land, Minecraft, Sunshine and many more bangers goddaaaaamn
Chimp! What's the deal with Air Ride? I've never gotten it.sheeeeesh got that Smash Ultimate, Kirby Air Ride, Uprising, Gen5, Nintendo Land, Minecraft, Sunshine and many more bangers goddaaaaamn
Ooh! That's a good one! I better also embrace my character here...what? Not enough Mario from Famiboards' Self Proclaimed #1 Super Mario Fan™? Well, you asked for it.
Guess the theme of each row and you get a big thumbs up from me!
I had a sub sandwich today, courtesy of Mr. Sub, est. 1968 the superior sub sandwich shop
SUBWAY SIMULATORRRRRR
City trial is a lot of fun to explore, there's many options for rides, random events going on, and you can get lucky or unlucky with the items/stat bonuses you collect... So it just makes every match a little different.Chimp! What's the deal with Air Ride? I've never gotten it.
Played Intergrade recently and the dynamic track "The Runaround" (in different parts on the OST) was a crazy surprise. Made the sequence so much more fun!I was so busy at work the last week and away from the page I forgot to do the 4th pop quiz. We will instead make it a final exam. Here we go:
Understanding Jazz - Music 401: This was an actual class I took in college, and set me on the path to love jazz music. Anyhow, give me your best jazz video game composition or performance. Preferably in game but will take covers and renditions if that’s your favorite.
Environmental Science 412: In honor of FF7 Rebirth, What is the best plot line, vignette, super power, whatever that has to do with cataclysmic events, be they ecological or biological? Can be loose in the interpretation here. I recommend spoiler tagging to be safe.
Subshine - I mean Sunshine is too good for this list, it's way better than that
slap on some headphones and enjoy "Secret of Forest," from The Brink of Time:Understanding Jazz - Music 401: This was an actual class I took in college, and set me on the path to love jazz music. Anyhow, give me your best jazz video game composition or performance. Preferably in game but will take covers and renditions if that’s your favorite.
Oh yall better believe this entire post is gonna be about Chrono TriggerEnvironmental Science 412: In honor of FF7 Rebirth, What is the best plot line, vignette, super power, whatever that has to do with cataclysmic events, be they ecological or biological? Can be loose in the interpretation here. I recommend spoiler tagging to be safe.
I appreciate the thoroughness. I rented it but only played City Trial once or twice with CPU opponents. Maybe one day…City trial is a lot of fun to explore, there's many options for rides, random events going on, and you can get lucky or unlucky with the items/stat bonuses you collect... So it just makes every match a little different.
Truth is I used to play it a lot with my cousin (and other friends) and as kids I think exploring the city for the first time is much more engaging. It took us pretty damn long to find all secrets, no idea if it'd be the same as a more experienced player... The modes also have 120 achievements each, so you always have an idea what to try next (we only really played City Trial). The bummer is that those 7 minutes spent in the city only culminate in a single minigame, definitely anticlimactic. But it's also fun that one person wins and you can be back to play a new round in probably around a minute.
Also just a cool game to hang out in if you've known the city for as long as my cousin and I do. Around when we were finishing high school we used to play city trial and just talk while playing on autopilot with the occasional fun moment to take us out of the conversation. There is PVP after all so if you wanna be cheeky to your friends...
Having said that I get anyone who doesn't connect with the game as much. For me it would easily be my most wanted game for a Gamecube NSO and a sequel with just 1 or 2 more City Trial maps has been one of my most wanted games for a loooong time.
Very long winded response to a simple question lol. It's very late here, but I hope some of this made sense.
yeah the minute I went to 36 I wished I'd gone to 16 insteadtbh I feel like adding more than 25 is kinda defeating the purpose a lil bit
Happy birthday! I hope it still is - I know I’m late after a busy day… but either way, happy birthday!It's my 40th birthday today, so I'm going to be self-indulgent for a minute and channel my inner Mary Schmich.
So here's some random thoughts and advice based on my own meandering experience of 35 or 36* years of bullshit in this hobby:
Trust me on the sunscreen
- Games are for everyone
- If you haven't found a game you like, keep looking, it's out there.
- Games are art but most games are pop, commercial, or kitsch art. That whole debate is/was stupid anyways.
- Specs are borderline meaningless like 90% of the time
- Good art direction will beat raw pixel pushing every single time
- Games are best when they're small and focused
- The vast majority of "news" in gaming doesn't matter the following week
- I'm not a "gamer", I'm "someone who enjoys playing games". No one says they're a "booker" or "movier".
- Nintendo makes some weird decisions sometimes but I think they're on the right track most of the time
- Nintendo is basically on their own "generation" timeline ever since the Wii
- Microsoft is a software service company that happens to have a games division
- Sony is an entertainment production and consumer electronics company that happens to have a games division
- Nintendo is a toy company that just wants to keep families entertained
- Wear sunscreen
- Don't be online so much that you lose touch with reality
- Learn to simply let people enjoy what they like
- Embrace impermanence. Not every series can last 40 years or stay the same. New directions don't invalidate the things that happened previously.
- A good "old" game will still be good years and decades later
- There's not enough time to enjoy every game that comes out.
- There's not enough time to waste it arguing with people who are only there to rob you of your most valuable asset.
- Games are for everyone
- Find what you like and stick with it
- Explore new genres or developers on occasion
- Retry things you didn't like to see if your tastes or approach has changed
- Cultivate a "bullshit detector", it will help prevent disappointment when a game is overhyped
- Japanese retail sales are something to keep an eye on, not because it presents Nintendo in a very rosy light, but because it often dictates where a significant part of the industry is heading
- Know your gaming history and understand that a lot of tech is cyclical, stuff falls in and out of favor regularly
- Games should be covered in the Arts & Entertainment sections of newspapers/magazines not the Technology section
- Gaming hardware should be covered in the Technology section
- Despite what their PR teams on social media want you to think, corporations are not your friend
- Don't be insecure about your interests
- Find at least one thing that gets you away from the screen and moving around, you'll be happy you did so
- Games are for everyone
* I've not been able to definitively determine if it was '87 or '88 when I was gifted an NES
I dunno how people are able to narrow down a list of favorites to just 25 games, lol. Hell, I don’t know how people can even compare and rank favorites across entirely different series and genres (which is why my chart isn’t ranked, just kinda grouped by series and generally ordered by release date). There are small a handful of games that I can say are definitely top favorites of mine (Super Smash Bros., Kirby Air Ride, Kid Icarus: Uprising, etc.) but after those there are just far too many games that I love and that are important to me in various ways for me to pick and choose just a select few as favorites. That’s why I ended up going with 144 (I mistakenly said 120 before BUT NO, THERE ARE EVEN MORE!! lol), and even then it was a struggle and I had to cut many games out that I would have liked to list as well.tbh I feel like adding more than 25 is kinda defeating the purpose a lil bit
I've seen these done as a 3x3... maybe you could do a 2x2 lolThere are small a handful of games that I can say are definitely top favorites of mine (Super Smash Bros., Kirby Air Ride, Kid Icarus: Uprising, etc.)
3x3 was the original way of doing it! But it's less about favorites and more about showing your tastes. Like if someone saw your 3x3, they'd be able to recommend you something you'd like.I've seen these done as a 3x3...
That would be totally defeating the point, though. These charts are supposed to give people an idea of your gaming tastes and/or the games that are most important to you, no? Like, sure, Sakurai’s games tend to be a particular favorite of mine, but that’s completely ignoring everything else, including many other games that are even more important to me for various reasons.I've seen these done as a 3x3... maybe you could do a 2x2 lol
I feel like making your list super long actually tells me less about your taste, since at that point all I know is that you like hundreds of different games. There's value in limiting something to a small sample size, since it's the things you value most, it tells the most about your tastes and what you prefer the most. There's either generally less connective tissue between games, or more repetition, when you get to super big lists, neither of which is very helpful to determine taste and give recs (unless all you like is a few series, in which case a shorter list would do anyways).That would be totally defeating the point, though. These charts are supposed to give people an idea of your gaming tastes and/or the games that are most important to you, no?
Sure, I get that, and it probably works for most people, but what if you’re just the kind of person who doesn’t really gravitate towards favoring a relatively small selection of specific types of games (beyond “Nintendo games” which is a huge variety of games, series, genres, etc.) and instead has a wide range of games that you enjoy and love, all for variety of different reasons that makes it impossible to rank or pick favorites? ‘Cause that’s me; despite mostly just playing Nintendo games, there is no shortage of games that I play and absolutely love.I feel like making your list super long actually tells me less about your taste, since at that point all I know is that you like hundreds of different games. There's value in limiting something to a small sample size, since it's the things you value most, it tells the most about your tastes and what you prefer the most. There's either generally less connective tissue between games, or more repetition, when you get to super big lists, neither of which is very helpful to determine taste and give recs (unless all you like is a few series, in which case a shorter list would do anyways).
Still cool to see your list though, at least I now know there's one Game & Wario fan out there
Goldilocks and the Three Topsters5x5 is too many, 3x3 is too few, 4x4 is really where it's at
I wanna know what the big connection is between music we grew up with and our emotional state because Megumi Hayashibara's "Midnight Blue" still makes my heart fuckin soar and I don't really understand why
There seem to be some issues with the devices, especially with the Oled Switch. I’d wait and see if I were you.Has anyone bought one of those Nitro Decks for the Switch? Was tempted by the GameCube purple one but only thing holding me off purchasing is it not being compatible with the next Switch.
We'll just have a famiboards session when it comes to NSOI appreciate the thoroughness. I rented it but only played City Trial once or twice with CPU opponents. Maybe one day…
Just glad to see you back on the boards!
those games are all awesome thoDone some thinking and I've narrowed down my Topsters to a Top 8:
Had to make quite a few changes, but I think this turned out pretty good!
This isn't actually my Top 8, if you don't get the joke
4312Done some thinking and I've narrowed down my Topsters to a Top 8:
Had to make quite a few changes, but I think this turned out pretty good!
This isn't actually my Top 8, if you don't get the joke
EDIT: I'm at a loss for words that's nobody's got this so far.
Staring intensely at this for an hour until I see the loss meme in itDone some thinking and I've narrowed down my Topsters to a Top 8:
Had to make quite a few changes, but I think this turned out pretty good!
This isn't actually my Top 8, if you don't get the joke
EDIT: I'm at a loss for words that's nobody's got this so far.
I’m guessing it’s more than just Uncharted 4 Remastered.Done some thinking and I've narrowed down my Topsters to a Top 8:
Had to make quite a few changes, but I think this turned out pretty good!
This isn't actually my Top 8, if you don't get the joke
EDIT: I'm at a loss for words that's nobody's got this so far.
Update: amazing vibes but man it's crashed on me four times in like a couple hours of playing. I lose barely any progress so it's not that bad, but it's a bit annoying.Eastward has some amazing vibes