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This review makes it seem like Dungeon Explorer would be pretty fun, though it has a password system for saving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5vH6_Ewx7Y

So for first round I'll pick up

*All 3 turbografx games (Bonk, Adventure Island, Dungeon Explorer)

*Both ToeJam and Earl Games for comparison sake

*Sonic CD (have the rest of them from that era via the Ultimate Sonic Sega PS3 collection)

*Valkyrie Chronicles 2

will decide later on Sega Genesis PSP Collection and Yakuza: Dead Souls.

 
pharmacrest said:
Your wives all sound terrible. Except they don't. I really need one of you to go off on a tirade about your wives soon. I feel like a one man wolf pack right now.
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my wife is pretty cool, she knows when to keep her mouth shut

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Glad I passed over Pocket RPG at that price. Trophy guide said its wicked short even if it seemed fun and looked rough.

Looks like Monster Monpiece and Little Kings Story is it for me then.
 
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An article about city segregation:
http://io9.com/data-visualization-shows-how-segragated-our-cities-are-1714418166

Here's a link to a map that shows a breakdown of races across the US. You can zoom in on your city to see how the racial divide is. The data is from 2010. http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html?utm_medium=App.net&utm_source=PourOver

In my city the southside is mostly Mexicans. It's interesting to actually see all the orange dots.
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I didn't read the article, but I know Milwaukee is one of, if not the most segregated city in the US

Edit: top 3 are Chicago, Atlanta, and Milwaukee
 
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Zimm108 said:
Glad I passed over Pocket RPG at that price. Trophy guide said its wicked short even if it seemed fun and looked rough.

Looks like Monster Monpiece and Little Kings Story is it for me then.
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Pro-tip: Don't play Monster Monpiece on the bus if you want that chick to fall asleep on you again.

 
So even I underestimated the grind for Beach Buggy Racing.  The in game timer says I have played for 31 hours.  I am at 48% of the grindy distance traveled trophy.  I am at 42% of the grindy career earnings trophy.  Yet, my in game completion stat says I am at 98%.

Those last 2 trophies really are the absolute worst.

 
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Stotch, does this trophy guide for Ys on Vita look better than the PST.org one?

http://psnprofiles.com/guide/2854-Ys-Memories-of-Celceta-Trophy-Guide
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It is. I found MoC too tedious to go for the plat, but I did spend quite a bit of time staring at the PST.org guide and the PSNP one is better. Velo can weigh in, too, since he got the plat.

I do have to admit I generally prefer guides on PSNP, though. The guide has links to info for each trophy (the roadmaps on pst.org do not), the formatting tends to be better, and the coloring of the trophies based on whether you have it or not is very convenient.

 
Man, that feels good:

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Witcher 3 was so fun (110-120 hours' worth, maybe?), and definitely my GotY runner-up. I wasn't planning to make it part of #JumpingJune, but...oh well.

 
I really enjoyed Dead Souls.  Though a lot of that enjoyment comes from the love of the Yakuza series in general.  The very thin story is alright but it all the wackiness you come to expect from the series.  Controls would have to be my main complaint as it took a while to get used to them.  I plat the game and enjoyed even the final grind in the dungeons. 

 
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So has anyone played Yakuza: Dead Souls? It interests me, but reviews seems to be pretty split on it.
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i really enjoyed it but im a huge yakuza fan. it's like a fan fiction yakuza with zombies and you get to play as one of the fun bad guys in the series (no spoilers) and a barrett guy with a gun arm ;)

 
Cleaner7 said:
An article about city segregation:
http://io9.com/data-visualization-shows-how-segragated-our-cities-are-1714418166

Here's a link to a map that shows a breakdown of races across the US. You can zoom in on your city to see how the racial divide is. The data is from 2010. http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html?utm_medium=App.net&utm_source=PourOver

In my city the southside is mostly Mexicans. It's interesting to actually see all the orange dots.
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We had a fun time yesterday at pridefest. It is great to see so many different types of people.

 
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I just finished the first stage of Yakuza: Dead Souls. Ended up with an A score; did well on everything but completion time and damage taken, which I'm not surprised by. Hit level 5 right at the end.

Disc version of Yakuza: Dead Souls is pretty bad about loading times and loading often even after installing to HDD. At first you get about 2-3 minutes between loads. Not sure how the digital version compares. Seems to go into loading whenever you go in and out of cut scenes and back into gameplay. The opening does that a lot, but I'm hoping the open world aspect doesn't have loading once I get further in.

Graphics are honestly kind of low quality in gameplay. Rotated the camera around and the first character's face is really blurry. Checked online to confirm--Yakuza games run at less than 720p. The in-game cutscenes look quite a bit better, oddly, especially during dialog where they show characters from a closer viewpoint and increase the detail accordingly, but running around the city at night with lit signs and jaggies on all the pedestrians everywhere looks like crap. It looks quite a bit worse than Infamous 1 for comparison.

Camera is a bit weird and definitely feels dated. Going to take some getting used to. When in free fire mode you move the camera with the right analog. When in aim mode look switches from being controlled with the right analog to the left analog. So you're holding down L2 and moving the left analog to aim. Feels awkward. There's another controller layout but it doesn't seem much better. There's no way to control individual button behavior that I can see.

The first ability you get from leveling is a head focus. So you hit R2 to aim, it zooms in on the head of a zombie, you fire with R1 to put it down, repeat. Works quite well and helps avoid some of the above camera shenanigans. There are QTE bits in the gameplay, though I'm not sure how widespread they are yet.

Characters are immediately likable. The game already feels 1000x better than stuff like L4D2 as far as that goes. Granted the characters and relationships already have a lot of work in them from the Yakuza series, but even without knowing that background stuff it carries through into Dead Souls quite well so far.

Despite the dated feel I'm liking the game well enough so far. Not far enough in to know if I'll want to do the multiple playthroughs required for the plat. Depends on whether I get use enough to the controls that I no longer feel like I'm fighting them while trying to enjoy the game.

 
Oh man. Today was a good day. Ft myers girl stalked my LinkedIn profile and a buddy and i played golf and the cart girl was cute with a great rack.

Turns out she is friends with some family that my friend is friends with. They are all at the beach this week and I guess they are all going. I may try to tag along next Friday night.
 
Mirroring that SkyTV app from my phone to FireTV didn't work too well. Way too pixelated for viewing. The stream was just fine on the phone, however.

 
I've been interested in Yakuza Dead Souls, and it's not a bad price, but since we got Yakuza 4 for plus I'm going to hold out and hope Dead Souls isn't far behind.

 
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