The Blackangel

When it gets later int eh game, I tend to leave FF8 running for a day or two to farm items. I equip counter, and an elemental attack that will heal whatever I'm fighting. I also turn on the invincibility, so that I don't get killed. It requires Rinoa in your party, and she has to have the Angelo Search ability learned. Leave it running, and let Angelo come in and dig up items over the next several days. Is that cheating? It's the only way I've been able to get a couple items in game, such as Ribbons. I don't know where I actually stand on this, but I'm leaning more toward it being cheating. But I also know that when I get to a point in the 3rd disc era I tend to get bored. I rarely go to the 4th disc, because the only place to go is Ultimecia's castle, and the "bosses" there are pathetically easy, including her. So there's little to nothing to do on the 4th disc. But either way I'm curious what others think. Is it cheating, despite the fact that I'm now in mostly goof off point?

You can already gamble through apps as if you were actually in a casino. Real money, virtual slot machine. Virtual poker. Virtual blackjack. All with real money. I don't remember the title, but there was a game released, that the more you played, the more money you could make doing it. I think it was a mobile game and went the way of the dodo several years ago. As for being able to verify age, most of the time you have to have a credit card and ID to put on file with the app/game. There's obviously no IOU's in this.

Games nowadays offer very little actual challenge. There's not a whole lot that you have to do to win at the game. And with open world games, you don't even have to play the story of the game. Also some of the main quest choices are entirely optional so you don't have to involve yourself in them. In RDR2 you can stay out picking herbs and hunting deer all the time and never see your camp again. Games need a serious shake up to get some challenge back. Devs need to look back at the early days, mainly the 1980's, and see what made those game so successful and what the challenge in them was like.

It looks interesting. I'd have to get on game pass to see what it's going for before I would say whether I have any actual interest first.

Considering that you get to execute inmates, I'm interested. But @Empire is unfortunately right. If it exists, there's a simulator game for it. Has anyone else come across House Cleaning Simulator yet? If you think I'm full of shit, I don't blame you. I wouldn't believe me either. But I actually saw the mind bending monstrosity at Walmart recently. This entire simulator fad has officially gone way too damn far.

While the world is too obsessed with technology, the real world isn’t going anywhere. Until we finally destroy the environment and render the earth completely uninhabitable, there’s no plausible chance of it happening.

Geocaching always seemed too complicated to me to figure it out. It looks like fun, but it seems to just be beyond me.

I think games were just a completely different enterprise back then. Games were more unique, and some were so massive that you had to spend a lot more time than expected to find your way around. For example Blaster Master is a huge game. You will spend hours in Area 2 trying to find the boss if you don’t know your way already. And you would think that the way to the next world would be found in the world you’re currently in. Two leads to three, three leads to four, four leads to five, etc. Not so much. For example the entrance to Area 4 is found in Area 1. It’s one of the games that had kids calling up the developers and going WHAT THE FUCK?!

Considering the amazing job he has done, and the respect he gives all the members (even the ones he's not fond of) I'm nominating @Shagger for member of the month.

Exactly. When a game has a task or dungeon that is simply impossible to do, I lose my mind. I have been playing Zelda: Goddess Of Wisdom for 6 years now, and the way it's designed, I have only beaten 3 dungeons. It put bosses from Link To The Past in it, but the ones who scripted it, over powered them, and they're near impossible to beat. And on top of that, normal sword slashes pass right through most of the time, doing absolutely no damage. So you have to figure out what attack mode actually damages them while trying to not die. A challenge is great. An unbeatable challenge is unfair and cruel.

I don't drink often, only when I have a craving. But that said, RDR2 has a strange effect on me. When Arthur picks up a bottle of whiskey, I always want a shot. So I keep a bottle of Evan Williams beside me. It's 100 proof, and my favorite. I don't take a shot every time, but a lot of the time I just get a craving. I haven't been drunk in forever. I keep myself in check, but I do give into the urge once in a while to take a drink.

I like a challenge, but a reasonable one. I don't like games that are designed to not be beaten. That is just ridiculous and cruel to the player. If you think I'm bullshitting you, then go out and buy a copy of Zelda: Goddess Of Wisdom, and see how well you do on it. It's a ROM-hack on SNES, so it may be difficult to find. But that game is literally designed to not be beaten.

I always recommend a disc capable version of a system. Forget the price of the console itself for the moment. The disc system contains all the capabilities on a digital system. But as already said it also has the capability to run a disc based game. Also there may come a game that is only released on a disc that you really want. Well you're screwed there, unless you buy a second console that has disc capabilities. Whether you ever actually use it is irrelevant. It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. Also, say you have a game that is a DDL on your Xbox One. Well you're going to have to buy it again for your Xbox Series S. Or if you have it on disc. You're going to have to buy it again. You're going to end up rebuying a lot of games. It just makes a lot more sense to me to get the disc capable version of a console than to get the completely digital version that lacks disc capabilities.

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That's honestly not something that ever crossed my mind. I would say they train 12 hours minimum. Like Super Smash Bros would take a ton of constant training to be at a competition level. Any random fighting game like Mortal Kombat would take a shitload of training as well. You can't just do it for an hour or two to reach competition level. To truly master a game, you have to play it several hours a day, and I assume for several years as well. Also I wonder, how does a person get into eSports to be a competitor? I haven't been able to find a definitive answer to that question anywhere. I may be doing a bad search, but I just can't find it.

I know. 😉

I got to watching their videos again, and have a question. Unfortunately the only way I could think of to get it answered was to bump this thread so people would know what the hell I'm talking about. Listen to the actors talk in their real voice at the end of the videos. Someone who knows, would you tell me if they have a British accent or Australian accent? Those are the two that I just can't tell apart. There's a few others, but considering the actors of these videos, the others are irrelevant.

Under General Gaming, or possibly General Chat. Whichever you think would be more appropriate. But considering they're game reviews, General Gaming would probably be the best. Or if you feel like it, try giving them their entire new board.

I bought @Rain Dew this exact kind of chair a few years ago, and she loves it. It's not any theme or anything, it's just blue and black colored. But the design of the chair is identical. So I can confirm that they're really comfortable. The two pillows on it can be annoying as hell, depending on how you angle the chair to use it. But otherwise we have no issues whatsoever with it.

I like the color scheme on a couple of the chairs, but unfortunately they're just a smidge out of my price range. Especially since I'm currently paying off two loans for my Camaro.

For the most part, sports games seem to be a waste of time to me. Games around professional sports like NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA just to name a few seem to offer nothing more than an updated roster. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love hockey. But nothing really changed between NHL13 and NHL14. Individual sports, where you’re a team of one, can be an exception. For example the snowboarding games I played all offer different courses, and increasingly more challenging stunts to pull off for the qualifiers.

You’re absolutely right. Games back then were immensely more challenging. We didn’t have guides, or online walkthroughs, or even the internet to look for help from other gamers. The only way to get any tips was word of mouth. Mainly I’m talking about the NES. But even the next couple generations were almost as bad. Nowadays every game has in depth guides, and online walkthroughs written by scores of people. In all honesty, the closest thing we had back then was a Game Genie.

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