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Gypsy

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Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.
« Reply #2970 on: April 24, 2017, 03:44:32 PM »
Really digging into Snatcher tonight. Played about 2 and a half hours so far. Probably will finish it this week I would think.

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« Reply #2971 on: April 29, 2017, 08:17:18 AM »
Finished Snatcher the other day. Twas good. Got my 10 cents worth for sure.

Playing Super Metroid now. Japanese cart, but it has an English text option when you start a game, so lol.

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Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.
« Reply #2972 on: April 29, 2017, 09:51:20 AM »
Playing Super Metroid now. Japanese cart, but it has an English text option when you start a game, so lol.

Huh, that's cool, didn't know that. Great game obviously, you'll enjoy it.

I do have a Snatcher Sega CD image, wanted to beat it after Popful Mail, but I never got back around to playing with the Kega emulator. It's on the backlog, and an important part of gaming history, I should make the time for it eventually.

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Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.
« Reply #2973 on: April 29, 2017, 09:57:31 AM »
Finished Snatcher the other day. Twas good. Got my 10 cents worth for sure.

Playing Super Metroid now. Japanese cart, but it has an English text option when you start a game, so lol.

I was unaware of that as well. I doubt there is anything different game play or sprit wise. However it does make me want to get a CIB copy as I like the box art. And now it will be playable.

Which. Wait. When did a CIB copy of super metroid for the famicom become a $70 game?  I remember motto long ago you could get a lot of super famicom CIB games for $70 WITH super metroid Mario kart and so forth. Man five years later and prices spiked.
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Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.
« Reply #2974 on: April 29, 2017, 10:04:14 AM »
Ok you made me pop in my NTSC copy of Metroid. How is it I never realized it had Japanese text options.

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« Reply #2975 on: April 29, 2017, 10:33:39 AM »
I wanted to get to Trails in the sky SC, but it's been so long since the first I decided to replay it to get back up to speed with places/chaacters.
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Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.
« Reply #2976 on: April 29, 2017, 10:44:12 AM »
Huh, that's cool, didn't know that. Great game obviously, you'll enjoy it.

I do have a Snatcher Sega CD image, wanted to beat it after Popful Mail, but I never got back around to playing with the Kega emulator. It's on the backlog, and an important part of gaming history, I should make the time for it eventually.

Yeah it's fantastic. I played a couple hours before I knew it. The game is pretty intuitive too, and it isn't difficult to progress.

As for Snatcher I will just say that normally I don't have a ton of patience for vns. And, I'm sure some would classify it as an adventure game, but I think it's much closer to a vn. Regardless the point is I ended up finishing the game in 2 and a half sittings (first sitting I ran through the first part, then I played some more a couple days later, had to go do some other stuff but left the system on and got right back to finishing it). It was better than I expected going in and kinda feels like a decent sci-fi movie.

I was unaware of that as well. I doubt there is anything different game play or sprit wise. However it does make me want to get a CIB copy as I like the box art. And now it will be playable.

Which. Wait. When did a CIB copy of super metroid for the famicom become a $70 game?  I remember motto long ago you could get a lot of super famicom CIB games for $70 WITH super metroid Mario kart and so forth. Man five years later and prices spiked.

Yeah I would be the games are identical aside from the physical differences with the cart.

The art is great. The price should be closer to $50, that's what it was valued at in trade at least. I did a fair bit of fun trading recently. Got rid of my Nomad that I never really used with some Genny games for a SNES mini, SM CIB and Nosferatu loose cart. Buuuuut anyway yeah Japan is basically getting strip mined of their games by game hungry US and EU gamers. As the game sales fly the stock dwindles and the prices increase. Fortunately with a game like SM a ton of copies were made, so a Japanese loose cart should only be like $20-25 instead of whatever awful price a US cart commands.

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Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.
« Reply #2977 on: May 02, 2017, 05:10:36 AM »
Finished Super Metroid last night. Fantastic game. Usually I'm skeptical of older games so universally praised but it lives up to the street cred it has.

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« Reply #2978 on: May 02, 2017, 05:15:51 AM »
I finished up Brandish on the PSP over the weekend and tried starting up the PCE version.  I don't know if I got the stamina to play through it again but with clunkier controls, so maybe it's one I'll chip away at over time.  A floor or two a week maybe?
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Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.
« Reply #2979 on: May 02, 2017, 09:06:49 AM »
I'm going to play some PS1 tonight. Maybe I'll finally finish a playthrough Alundra.

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« Reply #2980 on: May 02, 2017, 12:12:47 PM »
I started trails of cold steel last night, and I am not sure how I feel about it. I've never watched a school anime, so this is a bit alien to me. I hope the story picks up and takes you elsewhere, but the starting area and excessive amounts of poor dialog hasn't put it in my mind as a must get back to playing it.

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Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.
« Reply #2981 on: May 02, 2017, 12:33:46 PM »
I started trails of cold steel last night, and I am not sure how I feel about it. I've never watched a school anime, so this is a bit alien to me. I hope the story picks up and takes you elsewhere, but the starting area and excessive amounts of poor dialog hasn't put it in my mind as a must get back to playing it.

Aren't 98% of Anime shows and movies about high school?

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« Reply #2982 on: May 02, 2017, 12:54:44 PM »
I started trails of cold steel last night, and I am not sure how I feel about it. I've never watched a school anime, so this is a bit alien to me. I hope the story picks up and takes you elsewhere, but the starting area and excessive amounts of poor dialog hasn't put it in my mind as a must get back to playing it.

You do eventually start going off campus, but I don't remember the dialog getting any better. It's typical JRPG stuff.

I enjoyed it enough that I'll buy the sequel though. I also did everything you can on one playthrough. I thought about platting it for a sec but then I came to my senses. I think I'll get to the sequel this year at some point, but right now I already have a few games queued up.

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« Reply #2983 on: May 02, 2017, 04:31:27 PM »
Played a little warhammer 40k dawn of  war 3 this afternoon followed by some Oreshika:  Tainted Bloodlines this evening. Still trying to decide if I want to buy a cd attachment for my atari jaguar. Lol.

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Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.
« Reply #2984 on: May 03, 2017, 06:27:40 AM »
Played a little warhammer 40k dawn of  war 3 this afternoon followed by some Oreshika:  Tainted Bloodlines this evening. Still trying to decide if I want to buy a cd attachment for my atari jaguar. Lol.
How are the Warhammer games? I've been tempted to buy a few of them in the past. I used to play 40k tabletop, so I'd like to give some of these a try but they all receive mediocre reviews.
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