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from an interview about The Last Guardian re: Trico, the big monster dog thing:

Here’s Ueda’s take on Trico: “This creature isn’t like the cute pets that exist in other games, or an ally that’s really useful. The role of the creature is ambiguous; that’s something we wanted to express in the game, and it doesn’t always do what you ask it to do."
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Derextreme said:
Star ocean would be my game of choice, and I know it's going to take a while. My issue would be the same as most people, Time and money. 20-40 hours for me right now is 2 weeks to a month, and I really don't want to spend $100 in one day on games.
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not to generic your affected triggers, but I was under the impression from import reviews that Star Ocean 5 was actually pretty bad. is it still hype? I actually got my space jrpg wood deflated a little when I started scanning those.

 
Zimm108 said:
I still have that exact one in my basement and my kid plays with it every once in a while.
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And then you slap him and yell "hands off daddy's toys!" ?

Speaking of toys, who else had this one?

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MildObstruction said:
not to generic your affected triggers, but I was under the impression from import reviews that Star Ocean 5 was actually pretty bad. is it still hype? I actually got my space jrpg wood deflated a little when I started scanning those.
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I pretty much ignore reviews now. Only thing I care about is if the game is technically broken or if the campaign is super short. A lot of rpgs get bashed these days. Maybe I'll look into though, and see what's so bad about it.

munkywawa said:
And then you slap him and yell "hands off daddy's toys!" ?

Speaking of toys, who else had this one?
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*raises hand* I had damn near every turtles toy made. Or at least sold at the stores.
 
MildObstruction said:
uncharted 4 (spoilered for long and also spoilers):

I really hated this game for like the first half. Other than the sweet madagascar chase scene from e3 I didn't find much that I liked and it did start really slow like a bunch of folks mentioned. I think I started enjoying it more when Elena came back in to the picture. She's a good character with a really good VA behind her and the relationship/banter with her and Drake was solid. all of the acting was really impressive actually.

so yeah, probably around chapter 10 or so is when I started getting interested. it just took forever to get there. the story was fine. I actually missed the ridiculous supernatural nonsense from the other uc games I played - I kept waiting for it and waiting for it and was vastly disappointed. I think it really made the game feel like it was dragging since there was literally one enemy (shoreline) for the _entire_ game and they had like 4 visual variations. I know that's par for the course, but some ghost pirates or something would've been a nice wacky change. or anything.

It looks pretty enough, but when I sat there and stared at it as I was moving around I couldn't help but think 'assassins creed does this better' - whenever I'd see Drake's arm try to brush up against a wall or person or other solid object and he misses by a foot I'm just a bit more appreciative of that new AC engine. For all their foibles, ubisoft has really honed the mechanics and interaction of that game. it feels like the main character in an AC game is actually interacting with the world they're in unlike uncharted 4 which honestly felt like programmers were trying to create an illusion of interacting with the world. the excessively weird partner AI didn't help this either - they could run directly in front of bad guys without alerting them (probably for fairness reasons, I get that) and at least on crushing they almost literally can't kill anything. in avery's mansion I let elena sit there and shoot point blank at the last guy in the room for 5 minutes and he wouldn't fall down. I think she actually put 100 bullets in him.

as far as the Crushing difficulty it wasn't that bad - I don't know what happened to simm/vig, but for some reason I breezed through chapter 20 with barely any deaths at all. it was downright fun - I really got a kick out of the long underground cave after Avery's mansion with waves of dudes coming through. the end boss fight with the quasi qte swordfight was absolutely fucking awful though - probably 100+ deaths and took me two hours. too bad, because the actual visuals in that room are probably some of the best I've seen. it was definitely a mistake to start on crushing though. the repeat deaths really destroyed the flow of some of the levels and made the swordfight feel so bloody anticlimactic that I was just glad it was over. everyone that played it on a lower difficulty first and then used bonuses for crushing were smart.

the ending is great. I don't know if it's what fans of the series were hoping for (I wouldn't say that I'm a dyed in the wool uncharted fan) but I loved it. it had just the right amount of wrap-up and happy ending to make it feel like they could close the series out. and the transition to the epilogue surprised me. also, the Drake house is rad.

So, good game. I'm glad I played it. The ending, the nutty firefight underground and the madagascar chase were the highlights for me. I'll be curious to see what they pull together for tlou2.
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I'm glad someone else agrees that the boss fight was just stupid. By far the worst part of the game.
 
Hard drive is getting full. Time to play some of these PS4 games:

Ziggurat - More like Sucks A Lot. The map is ridiculous and going through room by room and finding out I only "beat" 2 rooms is stupid.

Lost Orbit - I like the premise, but I'm not a fan of that narrator (whom mocks me with his speed) or the boosts that seem more like an obstacle than a useful tool. I love to take my time with games like this since they have stages.

Speaking of stages, I finally beat one of my favorite games which I first started playing on the PS3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHMy7u3S3tk

This is probably my favorite theme in Stealth Inc.. I'd buy a Vita just to listen to the music on this.  I'd do the same if Retro Grade was playable.

#backloggrindcontinues

 
Derextreme said:
Trophy deal isn't that big of an issue. I already bought it on sale a while back, and it's something I can talk the wife into playing with me for at least 15 minutes. Though, you just said one of my trigger words.
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Also only single player... I suppose you could pass and play but wouldn't you rather her just make you a sandwich? Eating a sandwich is much more fun than watching your wife play a shitty video game.

 
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I'm pretty sure I had all turtle toys. I still have a ton of stuff at my mom's house including that technodrome. Most of the stuff is missing parts at this point.
 
Ugh, so it's starting to look like I'll probably just return that TMNT game back to Amazon for a refund. I mean I used credit but I'll just Redbox that shit one day. I'll use the credit I get back for Uncharted 4 or something. 

Watched that movie The Witch last night. It was pretty cool but yet again is just another overrated horror movie. 

 
Derextreme said:
I pretty much ignore reviews now. Only thing I care about is if the game is technically broken or if the campaign is super short. A lot of rpgs get bashed these days. Maybe I'll look into though, and see what's so bad about it.
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Not sure if you'd consider it "super short", but Star Ocean 5's main story apparently takes 30-40 hours to finish and there's next-to-no postgame content.

 
My brothers and me had just about every Star Wars, He-man, Transformer, TMNT, Thundercat, DC Super Power, G.I. Joe, WWF, and ToyBiz Marvel/X-Men figure there was back in the day.

In preschool they gave out these made out awards to each kid and mine was for having "the most interesting toys".

 
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I already had a job at the local grocery store by the time the first TMNT toys came out.  I do remember reading the early comics though.

GI Joe, Transformers, and He-Man were the main toys I played with.  I still have an original Optimus Prime in the closet of my old room in my parents house.  I think it is missing the hands though.  

 
Wrencrest said:
It amazes me when I hear things like this. Why would you keep things like that for so long? I mean you didnt live in the same place all these years right? What makes a person want to take all this type of stuff with them when they move? I mean unless you know its a collectors item and worth thousands (which we never knew when we were kids). Its just amazing to me stuff like this even survives that long.

It just amazes me, not trying to say your stupid for keeping it...just a little crazy maybe.
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I didn't have them all these years, my parents did. I guess instead of selling it a garage sale or taking them to Goodwill, they kept them in the basement (unlike my old NES and collection of games which they donated. And Yes I'm still salty about it). Worked out well because then when grandkids come along, they have toys to play with when they visit. But they finally wanted all the stuff out da house, so they moved to mine. Got back the Castle Greyskull along with ThunderCat's Cat's Lair and Mumm-ra's Tomb (where he could transform), and all my SilverHawks figures and Mirage vehicle and giant extra bird thing.

 
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Rounding out the boss levels in MM3 before the Wily levels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQP-ck51EqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOKzVsakZw4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMLeEV2myqA

 
You guys have way better memories than me. I know I had He-Man shit and G.I. Joe shit and How Wheels shit but I couldn't point to any toy for sure as "I had that!" aside from this one:

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And yeah I totally busted that sucker open. No puncture wounds, just stressed the guy out till he popped.

 
GatorBeerGeek said:
I still have an original Optimus Prime in the closet of my old room in my parents house. I think it is missing the hands though.
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I got in a fist fight with a kid in Sunday school because he broke off one of Prime's legs. Not really sure he did it on purpose, but I think he deserved it either way.

 
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I guess it helps to have a basement.  We dont have those in Florida so you either pile shit up in your garage like a disgusting hoarder (and leave your car in the hot sun for thieves) or you use your attic.  But fuck the attic since it is hot as balls and basically a small crawl space in most houses.  So we end up selling things or giving them away so we dont have to deal with the clutter.

 
Vigilante said:
Not sure if you'd consider it "super short", but Star Ocean 5's main story apparently takes 30-40 hours to finish and there's next-to-no postgame content.
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On a related note: Digimon won't end, and I threw my vita across the room this morning after getting stuck
on an eater boss that kept turning all my digimon into dot form so I couldn't do any damage.
finally beat it a few minutes ago but damn that was frustrating

 
I used to have a whole mess of tmnt toys and after a certain point, they lived in a box in my closet along with boxes for all my he men and micro machines.  I still played with them every once in a while, but my mom found the boxes when she was looking for clothes to give to goodwill and figured I was done with them and gave those away too.  I damn near lost my motherfucking mind.  She still feels guilty about it to this day.  And I still have to lie and tell her it's fine.

 
Wrencrest said:
I guess it helps to have a basement. We dont have those in Florida so you either pile shit up in your garage like a disgusting hoarder (and leave your car in the hot sun for thieves) or you use your attic. But fuck the attic since it is hot as balls and basically a small crawl space in most houses. So we end up selling things or giving them away so we dont have to deal with the clutter.
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That's what happened with my toys. I was big on GI Joe and Transformers and had the occasional Star Wars and TMNT toys.

I miss my Transformers toys - particularly the ones where their heads can transform into tiny robots that can fit into the driver's seat of transformed vehicle.

P.S.: I can beat the underwater level of TMNT without dying.

P.S.S: I still have TMNT 2 and my NES.

#dogbonecontroller

 
Star Ocean 5 has battle trophies like SO4 but it's only 100 compared to 900 according to people on the pst.org forum. There were 5 people with the plat by 4/13 which is 2 weeks after release. So yeah I guess it's a much shorter plat. That's certainly not something I'll object to.

Mars: War Logs (the predecessor to Technomancer) took around 20 hours to 100%. It didn't have a plat. Bound by Flame, their last game, had a 25-35 hour plat. So I doubt Technomancer will take that long.

I will say that BbF had four relationship trophies. The most efficient way to play it was to play each gender in one run, doing all the relationship stuff as you go, then make a backup in the last chapter of the game, run through one person's remaining relationship bit (they're mutually exclusive) and then reload to hit the other person's. Unfortunately one requirement is to get every bit of dialogue with the relationship character; if you miss one sentence you miss the trophy and the plat and that's what happened to me on my first run unfortunately. I still plan to go back and finish it off, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Technomancer have the same kind of relationship requirements.

 
Zimm108 said:
New Mega Man cartoon coming 2017.

http://www.capcom-unity.com/capkel/blog/2016/05/26/new-details-about-the-mega-man-animated-series-coming-in-2017

Looks like aimed at younger elementary school kids, as he's a robot in school that discovers he can turn into Mega Man, but he has to keep it a secret. Not really a fan of that concept, but if it gets the boy into it, sure why not.

Here's the new look:

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Maybe Platinum will do a MM game next.

#HYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYPE

 
I remember my grandma buying my older brother and me each a G.I. Joe figure back in the day.  He got Scrap Iron and I got one of the generic Cobra guards.  When we got back to the house I figured out that I could "wind up" the rubberband inside that held the legs and torso together.  I decided that he would make a better helicopter than a guard so I put the figure's arms straight out on each side and watched him twirl around.  I did it so many times that the band broke and my figure was trashed.  This led to me learning to take the figures apart to repair other ones and mix and match pieces to make them look cooler.

 
Vigilante said:
Not sure if you'd consider it "super short", but Star Ocean 5's main story apparently takes 30-40 hours to finish and there's next-to-no postgame content.
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The not much post game content is a little disappointing, but like sage said, I'm OK with the campaign. As long as the story and gameplay are solid.

Sagemoon said:
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On a related note: Digimon won't end, and I threw my vita across the room this morning after getting stuck
on an eater boss that kept turning all my digimon into dot form so I couldn't do any damage.
finally beat it a few minutes ago but damn that was frustrating
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It's going to get worse for you, unfortunately. Lilithmon and bephelmon rage mode are your best friends for the majority. You can't get him for a long time, but once you add ulforceveedramon you'll be set for 90% of what the game throws at you. I'm at 108 hours on the clock, but there's X amount of fall asleep/farm waiting while doing something else time. I did do every single case as they came up though.
 
Zimm108 said:
New Mega Man cartoon coming 2017.

http://www.capcom-unity.com/capkel/blog/2016/05/26/new-details-about-the-mega-man-animated-series-coming-in-2017

Looks like aimed at younger elementary school kids, as he's a robot in school that discovers he can turn into Mega Man, but he has to keep it a secret. Not really a fan of that concept, but if it gets the boy into it, sure why not.

Here's the new look:

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If it acts as an impetus for them to dig into their MM backlog and put out more collections, they can do whatever they want with some cartoon I'm never going to watch.

 
TopsideKracker said:
I remember my grandma buying my older brother and me each a G.I. Joe figure back in the day. He got Scrap Iron and I got one of the generic Cobra guards. When we got back to the house I figured out that I could "wind up" the rubberband inside that held the legs and torso together. I decided that he would make a better helicopter than a guard so I put the figure's arms straight out on each side and watched him twirl around. I did it so many times that the band broke and my figure was trashed. This led to me learning to take the figures apart to repair other ones and mix and match pieces to make them look cooler.
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So you're Sid.

 
TopsideKracker said:
I remember my grandma buying my older brother and me each a G.I. Joe figure back in the day. He got Scrap Iron and I got one of the generic Cobra guards. When we got back to the house I figured out that I could "wind up" the rubberband inside that held the legs and torso together. I decided that he would make a better helicopter than a guard so I put the figure's arms straight out on each side and watched him twirl around. I did it so many times that the band broke and my figure was trashed. This led to me learning to take the figures apart to repair other ones and mix and match pieces to make them look cooler.
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Zimm108 said:
So you're Sid.
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MacGyver.

I can see Top with a mullet too.

 
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Derextreme said:
It's going to get worse for you, unfortunately. Lilithmon and bephelmon rage mode are your best friends for the majority. You can't get him for a long time, but once you add ulforceveedramon you'll be set for 90% of what the game throws at you. I'm at 108 hours on the clock, but there's X amount of fall asleep/farm waiting while doing something else time. I did do every single case as they came up though.
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Ugh, I knew digimon was going to betray me eventually. I think I might have gotten a Lilithmon last night, but I'm not sure. Like a dummy I digivolved my devimon and gatomon that I had been using to steamroll eaters unknowingly. Hadn't really recognized that their set damage attacks were letting me cruise through everything. MegaKabuterimon's INT-piercing has been helping, but I miss the set dmg attacks. Gonna have to actually start buying status clearing items too, because I was trying to run through that boss with maybe 2 dot status cleanse items. Was driving me up a wall since the damn thing would just spam that attack. My save time is about 45hrs now and I feel like the story is just now starting lol. I have been doing all the cases as well though, good for extra exp.

 
munkywawa said:
I used to have a whole mess of tmnt toys and after a certain point, they lived in a box in my closet along with boxes for all my he men and micro machines. I still played with them every once in a while, but my mom found the boxes when she was looking for clothes to give to goodwill and figured I was done with them and gave those away too. I damn near lost my motherfucking mind. She still feels guilty about it to this day. And I still have to lie and tell her it's fine.
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My mom sold all my mini Thundercats, including the lair, in a yard sale.

But the ultimate slap is that she doesn't even remember doing it though... they were so insignificant to her that not only were they denied a box living space in the basement, but were even denied the small courtesy of being a memory.

 
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And the middle child has started a new game on Tearaway, erasing the 30-40% I had completed. Great. *sigh* I thought I had uploaded an earlier save to the cloud for safe keeping but apparently not.

There goes another game I'll never finish.

 
guardian_owl said:
If you join way of the white, you already met him, you can buy miracles from him early. Though your base faith is too low to cast anything of use. Being a WotW member will also decrease your chance of invasions (which is something new I didn't know).

If you take the elevator below firelink down and head to the right you can buy a few spells from a vendor now, though your base intelligence is too low. You need a minimum of 10 to cast anything.

Pyromancy will become an option a little later, in the entrance area of the Depths look closely for a character in distress. Roll to free him and he will make his way back to Firelink Shrine.

You buy spells/miracles/pyromancies from vendors or find them on corpses, then equip them on the atune menu of the bonfire, then equip a catalyst/talsman/pyro flame in a hand slot and then use it like a weapon by pressing R1 or L1.
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I saved a guy in a barrel in the Depths, I'll go look for him at Firelink and try to figure out what I need to level up to cast a pyromancy.

I accidentally stabbed a guy by the elevator that goes up in firelink to the church thingy because I got chased down by a stupid enemy, so now those assholes chase me down all the time. It's really fucking annoying but I'm not going to spend 15000 souls to get them to leave me alone. I'll just avoid them until I'm strong enough to kill them.

 
TopsideKracker said:
haha... I literally had a tin box filled with screws, rubberbands, and various G.I. body parts
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I think my brother did too. I know he had one of those big cabinets people put on their tool bench with the little drawers to hold screws and nails and whatnot, but instead each drawer had a GI Joe dude. It was like a Japanese hotel where they sleep in those pull out beds. Then at the bottom was drawers for figure parts. Had a ton of the vehicles too. My favorite was the one that had the folding bridge that attached to the roof that you could unfold to cross those dangerous living room caverns.

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Cage017 said:
Hard drive is getting full. Time to play some of these PS4 games:

Ziggurat - More like Sucks A Lot. The map is ridiculous and going through room by room and finding out I only "beat" 2 rooms is stupid.

Lost Orbit - I like the premise, but I'm not a fan of that narrator (whom mocks me with his speed) or the boosts that seem more like an obstacle than a useful tool. I love to take my time with games like this since they have stages.

Speaking of stages, I finally beat one of my favorite games which I first started playing on the PS3:

This is probably my favorite theme in Stealth Inc.. I'd buy a Vita just to listen to the music on this. I'd do the same if Retro Grade was playable.

#backloggrindcontinues
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Ziggurat is good, you just much suck a lot at it!

 
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pitfallharry219 said:
I think I've said it here before, but I've turned off episodes of Married with Children in the past because I couldn't stand the ridiculous audience sounds. I like the show, but shut the fuck up already.
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Yeah the Married with Children laugh track was the one I was thinking of. It's intolerable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JtADjU4UH4

 
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