/arcade/ - vidya gaems and other gaems too

>>1377
lol mobile "games"

WARFRAME's Yareli

MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA for Halloween 2021

Thymesia

>>1377
Warpath - Official Live Action Film (Showdown II: Centenary)

I tried to get into Yu-Gi-Oh when Master Duel came out, but my locals closed soon after I got interested into the paper game
Now I just play online

Android: Netrunner is hands down the best trading card game I've ever played. The asymmetry really enhances the runner vs corp theme. It's not actually a trading card game because it just released full sets with everything. And now that WotC has dropped it and a community effort has picked it up to make new cards, there's an even smaller profit incentive to ruin it.

>>1694
I got into Yugioh right when it came out. Noticed them next to the Pokemon cards and bought some plus I recognized the Konami logo from games that I loved. Fell in love with this franchise and played competitively all the way until 2018. I still have a bit of my collection but I have had to sell out of it over the years since.

>>1764
Happy to see another Netrunner player here, I love that game! It's not just the best card game, I think it's one of the best board games I've ever played too. I even got into the tournament scene despite never being interested in that for other games and I made some great memories doing it, my local community is fantastic. My interest has waned a little thanks to the years of online play but now that meatspace events are starting to ramp up I'm hoping to get back into it.
I love how tightly the theme is woven into the gameplay, with even little details like the hand/deck/bin having specific names depending on which side you're playing. Feels great to play too with all the mind games, economy management and risk calculations you need to do to try and win. I used to be an avid MtG player but I can never see myself returning to it. Especially after what WotC did, they're never getting another penny from me.

These new team-up cards are a pretty cute idea, I like them a lot

I've been itching to play Grandia for the first time on the Saturn, since I heard that version is better than the PSX one. I know that there's an HD remaster on Steam but the graphics seem a bit off in comparison, like the textures are blurry. The pixelated look seems to just work better in my opinion.

>>1712
Didn't Soul Hackers get a localised 3DS port?

Gonna to play some Darkstalkers 3 for spooky month

>>1713
Yeah but I prefer the style of the original. They made some changes to the art and sped up animations but in these early CD games the slow motion adds to the atmosphere. The way that the animations float lazily around the screen and the bizarre sound effects is quite mesmorising.

A fan-translation of Sakura Taisen 2 was recently announced to be in the works and the team released a translation of the demo disc.
https://segaxtreme.net/resources/sakura-wars-2-special-demo-english-patch.151/
I can't wait for the full game.

The Saturn version of Tokimemo is getting a fan-translation!
https://twitter.com/PandaMoniumGR/status/1621747372693790721?s=20
It's still in a very early WIP though.

Thank you OP! Wish you jolly holidays as well!

Grabbed one, thanks a bunch! I should try repaying sometime
Happy holidays!

>>1746

Grabbed Aporia.
Thanks Sushi. Merry Christmas!

grabbed chroma squad
ty sushi <3

Grabbed the turing test
thanks OP

>>995
Even with all the DLCs there's some big differences between games. Among them is the revamped battle mode, the 200cc time trials, the extra characters such as king boo, inklings, etc. and the comeback of the double item box and also the ability to carry 2 items at the same time. Regarding items there's the feather and the boo which aren't in the WiiU version and there's also the difference in stats between karts and characters, so instead of there being like 8 different "tiers" or so there's like 13 on the switch.

And there's the thing known as firehopping or something like that which seemingly was removed on the switch so even the way to move through stages might have been modified a bit. So yeah, they knew what to add to make it worth it to buy it on the switch.

>>990
Did you manage to complete Zelda fellow sushi?
I'm looking for a WWHD copy but they're all over 40€ here. I might really need to mod my console

>>1033
Sorry sushi, not yet, I got a few Koroks, got tired of looking for them and decided to try Axiom Verge which was fun but I certainly didn't get invested in the story. Got child of light dowloaded somewhere but have yet to get to it.
Ah yeah, with the sudden realization that it sold poorly people starting collecting the games and consoles for the "game collector" badge and coupled with corona the prices went through the roof while they started becoming more scarce. And with them killing the eshops of some regions and removing games nobody would fault you for modyfing the system I guess. In any case hope you can get to play soon!

OP here, I managed to finish Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE at Hard difficulty, really good and satisfying game, you can clearly see it was made by the SMT team in some points and that's a plus! I also managed to finally get a copy of WWHD and I've finished it as well. Making my way through Xenoblade Chronicles X now, this game is so massive it makes me feel wanderlust

OP here, resuscitating the thread to say that me and other friends celebrated the console's 10th birthday (in Europe) with a cake and party hats. We played some Mario Party 10, Wii Party U, Smash 4 and such.

>>1482
I recently found out about noctis, a DOS space explorer written in C and assembly with some cool generation. It's not as detailed or powerful as what's available now, but it is quite relaxing to play.
I'm not sure if it is truly the "best" in utilization but I like that it is pure space exploration with pretty much no fluff mechanics. The simplicity, while a bit lame for today's standards, makes it pretty appealing imo. You just explore cool planets with enough effort needed to travel between planets to make even small discoveries feel significant.

>>1483
I've actually been wanting to play Noctis for a while. I remember seeing it mentioned in a thread on a certain imageboard, and I was intrigued. But I then forgot about what site it was from, so thoroughly that I even forgot that I had bookmarked it. It looks just as cool as I remembered thinking it was.
I don't think simplicity is bad at all. If anything, I think more games need some of its fat trimmed off. I think having focused, if narrow set of mechanics is a good thing, though there is still charm in having complexity for the sake of properly simulating a real life task.

I only experienced procedural generation used in action RPGs with Diablo & Hades.

>>1483
You can find animals if you're lucky.

>>1729
In the time since my original post i actually have
here it is + some other cool pics I've taken. i haven't played the game too much, but it is nice to play when listening to an album or something

I like it, but would have liked it more if (Hot Topic warning) The gay couple was less hamfisted. I dunno why, but it seems common for western developers to put gay relationships in a pedestal while normal ones are ostracized. I think they should make these relationships more flawed because, human beings are that way and we can't be all kooky about something which is still being taboo in many societies. Even the silliest romcom has characters with flaws in them. Scholars of the Wilbur Sin for example has a gay couple but it's actually very well written, with highs and lows, just to give an example
Other than that, the Jimi Hendrix level was really really good. I think the game was, because of what I said before, not that great, but it could have been better really.
inb4 i get called a shitlord

>>1721
I suppose if you compare how Helmut and Bobs relationship was showcased with Ford and Lucrecia's, theirs was made to look flawless while bob's and lucrecia's had a lot of problems. In terms of being hamfisted, I thought it wasn't made immensely grandiose, but maybe I'm just used to it as you see a lot of homos in western media now. I just wished the comedic writing had more balls like the first one, them taking the piss out of the mentally unwell was funny (like the milk man) but I guess now the game has to be about being a 'decent human being' by caring about mental health, so you can't do characters like that anymore. You could do both, have comedic moments about how insane someone is while slowly fixing them with care. At least overall its aesthetics (even though in unreal engine everyone looks they were coated in Vaseline so it looks less gritty then the first one), gameplay, and level designs were great. The controls on Raz are way tighter, and the new variety of enemies you have which force you to make use of your new, different powers were definitely and improvement on the first one. I think I prefer the level designs in the Psychonauts 1 as they were far crazier, but in 2, all the levels have a special uniqueness to them, which make them very fun to explore. I think I enjoyed Ford's Fractured Minds levels the most, but the jimi hendrix one was great, very colourful and vibrant.

>>1722
I think something that was fairly lackluster as well is how the other campers, I forgot the name of them, don't get much spotlight for the whole game until the final boss.
Like, it would have been cool to do some side missions with them instead of just collecting things in the overworld. The one baking was the one I liked the most, I wish her story was more fleshed out.
Even then, I am glad something like this got out. It was better than most current vidya as of late.

>>1723
>I think something that was fairly lackluster as well is how the other campers, I forgot the name of them, don't get much spotlight for the whole game until the final boss.

This is something I forgot to mention. Yes, I completely agree with you, they're barely used, and all of them (except Sam Boole) are completely unlikeable. Not that there wasn't unlikeable characters in the first one, but they at least had funny, interesting character traits, while these ones in 2 are just narcissistic teens who are 'too cool for school'. But if they were more fleshed out and the game showed other sides to their personality in, as you said, some cool side missions, rather than just collecting shit around the map, that would've been great. At least the Psychic Seven were fun and sort of made up for the lackluster campers.

>>1689
Please don't do that. Focus on your studies!

>>1691
Well I did sent my PC to a service so I haven't been playing much of it as of late.
But even then, there's a horrible visual glitch with the shadows in The Mountains of Giants that makes it unplayable for me, along with the constant crashes and resource draining.
Hopefully I get my PC ready before Thursday next week. And even more hopefully, that bug is patched by then, since it makes the game look incredibly ugly

Elden Ring or Dark Souls 4?

>>1698
Elden Ring made me get into Monster Hunter so it's not all lost

Elden sovls