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  1. I started up a solo run of BOTW earlier this year, with a twist. Not using a guide, trying to find all the shrines and as many koroks as I can, naturally. Seems to fit the spirit of the game.

     

    Now, the twist is, for every one I find, I do a workout set. I started small, and as things get easier, I push the weights or number of reps up. I've focused on pull ups, push ups, leg lifts, curls, squats, and presses. Basically, just as a way to alleviate couch guilt while enjoying my hobby. It's working out great!

     

    Currently I'm up to 40 lbs on the weights, gonna try for 50 soon. Pull ups I do sets of 20. Getting into great shape, and I'm up to 109 shrines, and something like... 440 koroks in about4 or 5 months that I have been playing in my spare time.

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  2. 3 hours ago, StrykerOfEnyo said:

    One of my favs was Syphon Filter, but every installment seems to score lower than the last. I had a lot of love for the Tenchu series, but it disappeared shortly after the PS2 version. I got Tenchu Z on Xbox 360, but it was so basic. I always wanted a modern-looking Tenchu with good graphics, and some new mechanics. I liked the DeathSpank games but there seems to be no chance for any more since the developer switched to phone games and has no desire to go back to console. Seeing Ron Gilbert return for the series would be nice as well.

    Have you played Ghost of Tsushima? I may have likened it once or twice to a modern Tenchu. Great game!

  3. On 3/4/2023 at 10:18 AM, twiztor said:

    just completed the original Crash Bandicoot on the PS1. Man, this game was WAY harder than i expected it to be. some really interesting concepts in this one, and i love the story of how they "hacked" the system to push the boundaries. but some of those levels are SO dark (dark as in lighting, not dark as in tone) that it's damn near impossible to see anything. and some of those 'running away from the camera' stages are so frustrating with the limited depth perception. All of that said, i enjoyed the game quite a bit.

    Loved Crash when it came out. Still holds up fairly well, I recall the controls being very tight.

     

    I started Valkyria Chronicles 4, and while it's a great game, I only got about halfway through it so far. Have a playthrough of BOTW solo lined up after that, and Cyanide & Happiness Freakpocalypse as well. Oh and Crisis Core at some point too...

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  4. If after the current backlog is scanned for PSM, and there happen to be holes in the collection, feel free to reach out via PM on here. I have a complete collection, PSM 1-130, as well as PTOM 1-65, if my memory serves me correctly. I subscribed from issue 8 all the way until the end of the line of PTOM. My only requests would be that they're non destructively scanned, and returned when finished. It's the one magazine collection that means something to me. :)

     

    Funny enough, after a few months of PTOM, I was so bummed out over the change in direction that the magazine had taken, that I donated my entire collection to the local library. Not sure what happened to them, possible someone on here may have ended up with some of them haha. The sense of humor that started in the Game Players era was just gone, fun was sterilized from the magazine after the switch to PTOM. It got better once that editor in chief moved on, but still... a dark time for us PSM loyal.

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  5. 5 minutes ago, ml0045 said:

    No, but I remember playing it a long time ago on an emulator. Pretty neat but never finished it. Started with the cowboy scenario.

    Ah, it's updated 2.5D. Interesting. Thanks for letting me know. I haven't had too much time for games lately.

    I always wanted to play it (I mean, it's Square from their golden era...) but never put in the effort to track it down. Having seem some of Triangle Strategy, I suspect they'll do right by the remaster. Glad to share the news!

  6. 13 hours ago, bogusfrank said:

    I just started Chrono Trigger for the first time. Everyone always told me it was one of the best SNES games, but I was not prepared for how quickly it sucked me in.

    Amazing to me that even nearly 30 years later, that game is still drawing people in the way it does. Truly timeless. 😃

  7. I recall enjoying Splinter Cell from a technical perspective, the gameplay was good. I was always more a fan of the MGS series though. Shame they're both seemingly dead at this point.

     

    Weird as this will sound, I think the best "stealth" game I've seen in the last few years is probably RE7. Talk about getting discovered being a bad thing!

     

    I also really appreciated the ability to utilize stealth in Breath of the Wild. :)

  8. 10 hours ago, GamerZylo said:

    Gex the Gecko; between the internet as a whole, all these different streaming services, and the slow death of tv, I think there'd be something for Gex to work with as a comeback.

    You know what? I like it, a LOT. Who would you have do the voice though? I think Jimmy Carr could be fun in that role...

     

    I still have my long box copy of the first game. :)

  9. Well I dove into FF7R in January. Over the course of three months, I put something like 185 hours into it. Went through every nook and cranny I could, just to take it all in on my first playthrough. Then I tackled Hard Mode. Surprisingly fun, I don't generally bother with "challenging" modes like that, but I enjoyed the combat system so much that I played through it a second time. Only had trouble with a few bosses, the rest of it was a cake walk more or less.

  10. Interesting perspective Kitsunebi. I have a couple project cars, and do all the maintenance for the fleet (as well as help out friends with theirs on occasion) so I can relate to the satisfaction of completing lots of little jobs. The big ones... those can really take some motivation to be mentally prepared for.

     

    As far as gaming goes, I've been into the "big" games for so long, I think nothing of pouring a day or two into one. In fact, if I'm not able to clear out at least two or three hours, I almost never even bother turning one on. Different strokes, I suppose.

     

    That said, I'm a big fan of comics and manga myself, have been for decades now. Trying my best not to rush through Berserk, given that I know Muira's release schedule on that one is, well, let's be polite and call it "glacial" shall we?

  11. Heh, I kinda live in isolation anyhow, even without this pandemic going on. Small town life, I'm sure some of you can relate. To me, I figure entertaining the brain, no matter how one goes about it, is a worthwhile pursuit. So long as your actions don't adversely affect anyone, of course. If you can better yourself in the process, all the better. :)

     

    Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go play some more Breath of the Wild with a friend. Really, this one... I think it fulfills Miyamoto's vision of "exploring as a child" that he created the first game from.

  12. On 4/30/2020 at 9:37 PM, Hamburglar said:

    Link's Awakening remake. It's incredible.

    Loved the original, GBC, and the latest remake. One of my favorite games of all time.

    5 hours ago, ml0045 said:

    This is a little late but I piled 212 hours (counting resets) in Breath of the Wild about a month ago. Getting all 900 korok seeds and all the other stuff. 100% completion.

    Headed toward endgame on this one with a friend. 900 koroks, you say? Sheesh... no wonder it has seemed like we've been tripping all over them lately!

    4 hours ago, kitsunebi said:

    I don't think I've ever devoted that many hours to any one endeavor (well, probably adding stuff to this site😅)  But imagine the anime junkies out there.  Someone who has seen every episode of One Piece has spent 385 hours of their life doing so.  Someone who's watched every episode of Pokemon has spent 462 hours.  I've never played Breath of the Wild, but I KNOW it was a better use of time than watching that many cartoons.

    Hey now, let's not start on how much anime I've watched over the years... Just top of my head, I've seen the DBZ dub (over 300 episodes, if I recall correctly), DB Kai (well, up to about 60 episodes anyway), most of Naruto, much of it twice since I watched it with my wife later on, and this one is 700 episodes... Initial D and Cowboy Bebop with numerous friends that I've introduced those to as well.

     

    I bet I've spent more time watching anime in the last 20 years than gaming.

    1 hour ago, CastleVanity said:

    Final Fantasy 7 Remake. And ii wasn't disappointed.

    I haven't started yet, but what I've seen a friend stream so far... wow. They had the world to risk in remaking that one, and it seems they've done well. I especially love the weight and gravity the atmosphere and characters have. The voice acting too, I refuse to spoil anything, but there's a part where Barrett hits rock bottom that nearly brought me to tears. That'd be the second time that game (including the original) that this has happened.

  13. 10 minutes ago, kitsunebi77 said:

    Bottom line - when there are unavoidable random battles, I want to fight as few of them as possible.  When fighting battles is something I do by choice, I want to fight more of them.  Odd?  Perhaps, but that's the way it is.

    Not at all odd to me. I prefer when an RPG respects your time. Suikoden has always been a series that was good about this, there are random encounters, but, if you're of a sufficient level of experience that you won't really benefit from the battle, you can simply run away, and back to the exploring. There are also Champion Runes that can be equipped that eliminate the encounter entirely unless they are going to be a challenge. As a result, you fight a few battles, end up leveled up enough, and from there you can pretty much breeze through the rest of the area. No grinding truly necessary, which is nice.

     

    I had fun with Mystic Quest, enough so that I replayed it as an adult to see if it was actually a decent game, or if it was just nostalgia. Happy to say, I still had fun with it.

     

    Another RPG that I rather enjoyed the mechanics of? Valkyria Chronicles. Mix an RTS with a shooter with an RPG, and you kinda get the gist of it. The artwork is beautiful as well.

  14. 17 hours ago, kitsunebi77 said:

    I attempted to play the original FF7 twice, and both times I got bored and stopped playing after the game left Midgar.  I hear the new game adds quite a bit to the Midgar portion of the game (seems I wasn't the only one who thought it was the best part), so that's intriguing.  However, I haven't owned a console since the PS2, and don't plan on that ever changing, so my chances of ever playing it are zero.  That's OK, though - the only Final Fantasy games I've ever played to completion are 1 and 4 (well, and Mystic Quest lol), so it's not like I'm their biggest fan.

    I'll agree that the Midgar part was the best part, it was one of the first cohesive "worlds" in a game that actually felt like a place to me. The reveal of the world map though, accompanied by the main theme of the game when you first see that the world is much larger than just Midgar... that part was so memorable to me.

     

    Given the similarities between modern consoles and PC architecture, I could see a PC release someday, so there's that hope for ya...

     

    Also, my first FF was Mystic Quest. I got stuck at one point later in the game where you use the sword on a tree, basically as a key to continue. I had forgotten that you could do that, but in my defense, I was about 10 at the time. 😛

  15. 18 hours ago, kitsunebi77 said:

    No, you're thinking of Final Fantasy Origins.  Final Fantasy Anthology  was FF V (for the first time ever in English) and FF VI.

     

    1 hour ago, Areala said:

    Final Fantasy VI is among my favorite games of all time, so the idea of having a new version with an updated translation and some gorgeous animated cutscenes was quite appealing. Getting an authorized English translation of Final Fantasy V was just a bonus. :)

    *huggles*
    Areala

    That's right, I forgot Origins was a thing! Well, not the games contained, but that V and VI were on a collection as well. Wait... now I had to check what Chronicles contained. It was Chrono Trigger and FFIV.

     

    So, let's talk what else was being hyped in 1996... FF7. I'm excited for the remake to the point that I finally have a current gen console, simply to play FF7R. Anyone else looking forward to it?

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