VideoGame_Discussion

ErickRPG wrote:

I just don't order anything fragile or expensive from Amazon. Last things I bought there were a tub of plastic dinosaurs, some labels, a manga, a detached finger, and switch game.

My CE was also sent in a bubble mailer, but just a little minor corner damage to the outer sleeve.

benstylus wrote:
We won't talk about the elephant in the room... the Switch game obviously... 😂

BloodPuppetX wrote:

Lucky for you, aside from the slightly damaged corners, which I can usually overlook, there was a small tear starting in the heavy duty outer box itself, the box the cards came in had a tab completely ripped off, and was smashed in hard enough of a way that the little bag containing dice had left indents on several of the cards. It was also smashed hard enough that the grooves of the Switch case were cutting into the games' coverart.

I also thought it was strange that the game itself was not shrink wrapped in both copies that were sent to me. Were they opened just to slap the code insert into the case?

nonamesleft wrote:

Don't worry it was a cheap one. Just needed it to hit the free shipping threshold because prime is for suckers.

benstylus wrote:
And the detached finger?

incubus421 wrote:

My game also wasn't shrink wrapped, and I saw others mention it on reddit. So I guess that applies to all the CEs. I don't see any issue with it since the CE itself was sealed. So collectors can still leave it unopened. I've also heard about that happening to others regarding the card game.

incubus421 wrote:
This is why (or one of the reasons why) I quit Amazon. Going on a year sober. Rather than do it right… they’re just like #shrug keep it and shut up.

nonamesleft wrote:

Oh that was for the perfectly normal everyday things you would use a detached finger for.

benstylus wrote:
Oh yeah, silly me... Should have known.

Bill even got a little $ for it.


I didn't get it to practice Nails, I got it because it's just realistic enough to be convincing at a glance.

Right now it is at work in a cup of dry erase markers.

Hopefully the cleaning lady doesn't clean those

loztdogs wrote:

As the lowly peasant in this relationship, I will take the small victory.....even though Amazon isn't even aware of the battle we waged.

I have over 30 hours into Unicorn Overlord so far. (Including the 8 hours I put in the demo.) I won a level 25 battle yesterday with most of my units level 20 or less, and that let me go to the northern snowy area. I've mostly finished Cornia and Drakenhold, and have done some battles in the elf land as well. I recently started messing with the gambit system for the first time and it's fun setting it up to get units to do what you want. For instance, one of the elves has an attack that can summon a fairy, which can affect another skill she uses. So I set up so that she always does the former first, which summons the fairy as long as her health is full. Probably going to be one of my favorite strategy games, based on how much I've been enjoying it.

I'm also considering getting Kingdom Come Deliverance tomorrow. I'm always down for a big open world RPG. Might wait for a sale though.

I don't know if anyone else has been following this, but with the Wii U online servers going offline for good in about 3 weeks, a team of players have been working together to clear every last level in Super Mario Maker before that happens and the game becomes unplayable. As of 5 hours ago there is only one level left that remains unbeaten:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siz4oB4CGKo

Speaking of Wii U, just for old times sake a couple hours ago I went and played Mario Kart 8 online. There are just barely enough people still playing that I actually got in a few races with a full lobby.

PizzaTheHutt wrote:


Can you not upload levels anymore?

KCPenguins wrote:


They stopped allowing new levels in March 2021 (same day they killed off Super Mario 35 and stopped producing Super Mario 3D All-stars). After April 8 you won't be able to play any levels unless you download them now while the servers are still up.

Wasn't there a level that took the creater well over 1000 hours to upload it? Did that get beat?

KCPenguins wrote:


He spent 7 years trying to beat that level so he could finally upload it. Unfortunately by the time he beat it, it was around a year and a half after the game stopped allowing new uploads. The only version of that level that exists is in his personal save file. He did upload a dumbed down version of it with a dev exit just so other players would be able to play the level, but because of that dev exit, it has been cleared many times, idk if anyone besides him beat it the intended hard way.

So sad...

benstylus wrote:
Ha.

Does Arceous ever just open up? I just started playing it as my kid has been asking me to and it's the first Pokémon game I kind of enjoy. Only downside is all the dialogue and 'go here do this'. I think I'd really dig it if it was Pokémon BotW, where you were free to roam an overworld and challenge anything you come across. I've given a few Pokémon games a chance, this is the only one that's held my interest for more than a few minutes.

PizzaTheHutt wrote:
I don't understand. In the video, it's beaten.

nonamesleft wrote:


I assume that's a video of the person who uploaded it. You are required to beat it in order to upload it.

nonamesleft wrote:


@KCPenguins is right. That video was recorded (way back in 2017) by the guy who made the level and had to beat it himself before he could upload it for others to play. But the game doesn't count the uploader's clear beyond that, so it is still listed as being unbeaten in the game itself. So far around 1100 people have played this level, and there are over 92,000 failed attempts combined between them.

Just realized I still have $16 on my Nintendo account from a gift card. What are some recommendations for Switch games under that price point?

DBZ Kakarot Deluxe Edition is only $20 so I may drop the extra $4 for that, but wanna know if there's anything I shouldn't miss.

At evillecon, have an atgames legends flashback out which has Famicom Tetris built in. This guy has been playing it for about hour

Not a single game but playing over and over.

Anyone who has played it knows it is a terrible version of the game compared to pretty much every other console version. And yet he plays. And plays.

PizzaTheHutt wrote:


90,000 of those failed attempts are by 30 players... lol

KCPenguins wrote:
Ahhhhh, didn't know that. Now it makes sense to me. 'click' - the sound of the puzzle pieces falling into place :)

benstylus wrote:

Maybe he's punishing himself. Otherwise, I just don't get it.

citizen_zane wrote:

Right? The system also has Tetris Plus 2 which is by every measure a better game. Additionally we had Tetris Effect, Puyo Puyo Tetris 1 and 2, Nintendo Tetris for NES, Tetris The Grand Master, Tetris Battle Gaiden, Gameboy Tetris for Switch Online, and if he had brought a DS or 3DS we could have fired up a wireless game of Tetris DS with him!

But instead it was Famicom Tetris.

benstylus wrote:

Maybe he's played a lot of the other versions, but he's never seen the Famicom version?

I don't know much about Tetris, but I like to play different versions of games I enjoy, including the bad ones.

Guys I’m doing it, I’m really doing it. Finally played further than the second world of Super Mario Bros 2. Up to world 5!

After like… 30 years of only ever getting past the first Birdo fight before losing interest, I’m finally plowing through. I gotta say, the first levels of SMB2 does the game no justice. It gets so much better once you get past the second world. Loving the balanced difficulty that still makes me flip out, but also satisfies me when a level is complete.

Legit felt like a kid again discovering what SMB2 actually had in store after having played only a little bit of it since I legitimately WAS a kid. Mario always does it to me, I tell ya. When Wonder came out, I felt transported back to a simpler time, and now SMB2 is having the same effect.

Otaku100 wrote:


If you have played any other version of Tetris besides maybe the earliest computer versions, even just a few minutes of Famicom Tetris would be enough to make you want to play any of those other versions instead. He played for at least an hour and a half, right up until a few minutes before the Tetris tournament started. (He did not participate in the tournament.)

benstylus wrote:

Maybe he was just mesmerized by how bad it was?

What makes the Famicom version such a bad version anyway? Does it just have poor performance, does it mess up the basics, or is it something else?

It messes up the basics pretty badly.

https://youtu.be/KpMDXUKz3XI

theJaw wrote:

yay! gratz for that feeling.

benstylus wrote:

Wow the rights situation with Tetris back then sounds bizarre.

I think I get why the Famicom version is considered so bad now.

@Otaku100 give the movie Tetris a go. Real fun and more or less accurate to the real story save for some drama added in.

Hollywood can't help but Hollywood. Was particularly evident in Oppenheimer, which was a shame as the actual story didn't need it.

https://mynintendonews.com/2024/03/21/nintendo-rev...


Kind of sad they cut this concept from Wonder, but I guess it wouldn't really fit what they were going for. They should really flesh this out as a full fledged game and make it available to purchase.

New SW Battlefront collection and Contra Galuga getting mixed reviews. Not too surprising. Funny enough last I checked the Switch version of Contra had slightly better reviews than the PS5 version. For Battlefront many of the complaints seem to center around online play of which I have little interest in. We'll see if they clean them up and I'll probably get both when on sale.

Anyone get either?