The Blackangel

When Watching Grass Grow Simulator is released, that is the day I officially quit gaming for good, and throw every game and console I own in the trash. And if some asshole is working on development on that one, well..... .....One of us ain't coming out of that one intact.

It already looks to have a lot more combative action than its predecessor. It's on my wish list for games that will be hopefully released sometime in 2022. Or in 2023. Either way I'm looking forward to it.

Funds aside, it's an ethics thing for me. I don't care how rich I am. If I was shitting quarters and wiping my ass with hundreds, I still wouldn't buy from a scalper. I don't care if they're selling it for $1 or $1,000. I'm not doing it. I don't care what you or the next person do. But for me, it's just not happening.

RDR2 is somewhat like that. It shows you where you need to go eventually if you want to advance the story, but otherwise you're not required to do a damn bit of it.

I feel like true fantasy games are long gone. Sure, we still have Zelda and sparse others. The problem is that they are nothing compared to what they used to be. Something that's a true wizards and warriors style game. The so called "fantasy" games we have now are a joke.

@Rain Dew contacted someone on CL today about a PS5 that they were selling. When she asked why they were selling it, they flat out told her that they were a scalper and trying to make money. I warned her that if she bought one from a scalper that I would throw it in the yard and put a shotgun shell through it. She wanted to to do, but I flat out told her NO. So we're still without, and we're going to stay that way until the scalpers are no longer an option. I don't tell her "no" like that often, but this time I put my foot down.

I play a Switch Lite, so I don't have the docking ability. But that's not a problem for me, as I never had intention of playing it on a TV anyway. I got it for the portability.

I found this while looking at the Microsoft website. Apparently you can design an Xbox controller to fit however you want it to look. Pretty sweet if you ask me. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/configure/xbox-design-lab/900WZDF9XJVG

Tetris. There is nothing in it. Just blocks falling from the top of the screen. There is literally nothing there.

Please oh great gaming Gods! Hear my prayer! END THIS SIMULATOR SHIT! I DON'T WANT TO BE ALIVE WHEN SITTING IN A CHAIR SIMULATOR HITS!

Two come to mind at the moment. The Rocketeer(NES/SNES) and The Wizard Of Oz(SNES). 'Nuff said.

Adult video games have been around since 1982. Custer's Revenge is an old Atari game that featured a naked cowboy with a visible erection making his way over to a tied up Native American woman and raping her when he got to her. The "adult" games nowadays can't compare to something that is on the obscene factor that Custer's Revenge reached. Granted, I have no problem with adult games. Hell I play a couple myself. But Custer's Revenge goes too damn far for me.

After the colossal failure of the Virtual Boy, they're still scared of going that way. Virtual Boy was supposed to be their entry into the VR world. It was universally hated for many reasons. Nintendo lost millions, possibly billions on it. There were less than 100 games for it. So if they can get past that fear, they might. Hell they might secretly have something in production that they're trying to perfect. They're shady enough to keep secrets pretty well hidden. With the occasional disgruntled employee leaking information, and then being both fired and sued when they discover who it was. VR is the wave of the future. But maybe not necessarily for every platform. I mean Nintendo was just a playing card manufacturer in the 1800's. Now look at them.

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I would go back to 1985, when the NES hit the western market. I was born in 1982, and I remember the explosion of gaming when it landed. Everyone was buying it. It typically came with the 3 game cart that had SMB/Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet on it. Some only had SMB/Duck Hunt but a lot had the triple. Oh my god how awesome SMB was, and how advanced those graphics were. The games that were coming out were so random and unique that you could never get bored as they were all so different. Zelda, Mario, Spy Hunter, Blaster Master. None of them had a single thing in common. Then there were games like A Boy And His Blob, Astyanax, Clash At Demonhead, Excitebike, Marble Madness, and Rygar just to name a few. And the most explosive game of all time was SMB 3. Today we have eSports and gaming competition, but no game has ever made the impact that SMB 3 did.

Nintendo is too selfish with their games. They may give a game or two a shot, but they will never actually release a game on PC. Just look at Mario Paint. They would never give Microsoft, and in thus Xbox, any kind of access to their games. They are misers when it comes to that shit. Ebenezer Scrooge was a philanthropist compared to Nintendo. It's just not going to happen. I know they tried it in the past with Zelda, and that went so horrible that it could possibly have destroyed the entire Zelda franchise if enough people had played those games. Especially if it was the first Zelda games they had ever played.

Yeah I remember playing it in SMB3. The only way to play it was in 2 player mode though unfortunately. It was somewhat of a secret in the game though to most gamers at the time. Or Easter egg if you prefer.

That's a hell of a scandal. I know someone who has a copy of San Andreas that they picked up on the day it was released, as he is a fan of the series. He doesn't play the older titles anymore, so I could probably buy it off him for a good price. Not that I have any secret desire to play anything racy, but just to have the original copy that has everything in it before everyone freaked out and recalled the game.

Actually Mario has been around longer than that. His first appearance (aside from Donkey Kong) was a game called Mario Bros. Not Super Mario Bros. It was originally released on Atari 2600. The game was later ported to the NES. Here's a video showing them both. Atari 2600 NES

I play Hatred a lot. The violence wasn't an issue because it was too violent. It was an issue because of why he was committing the violence. The Antagonist was violent for the sake of violence. He was tired of the people of the world, and decided to take as many of them down with him as he could. I play it because I know exactly how he feels. I play it because in the game, I can kill as many innocent people as I want when the urge hits me to actually do it IRL. Instead I boot up Hatred, and the urge is sated. Excessive violence was never the issue, as there are dozens, possibly hundreds of other games out there that are just as violent. It's the reason behind the violence. I'm not well versed on the GTA franchise. What is the Hot Coffee Mod?

That's a wise move. Typically when a person gets their hopes up, they are devastated by the experience falling through. It's part of why I don't plan, but instead, I improvise. I deal with things as they come at me and don't worry about what's going to happen 5, 10, 60 minutes from now. I don't worry about tomorrow, next week, next month, next year and so on. I don't know if I'll be alive in 10 minutes or even10 seconds for that matter. So I don't see a reason to plan. I will say however that I would be willing to acquire and play this game when it comes out if it's as good as it looks, assuming I'm still alive to do so. We don't know what the future will bring, nor when it will bring it. Maybe I live recklessly, but it works for me.

Oh yeah. It's mine. I just hope it gets released on more than Xbox like the first one did. I mean, having a game where the protagonist has the same mental disorders that the gamer has? I couldn't pass the first one up, for that and many other reasons. the person here who introduced me to the game knows about that. But considering the she and I are both schizophrenic (I also have other issues) the game meant more to me than it did to a lot of people.

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Some would call it a severe case of OCD, others (like you) would praise it. And in case anyone is wondering I have played every single game down there, and beaten the vast majority of them. Off the top of my head the only one I can think of that I have yet to beat is Legacy Of The Wizard on NES. I've talked about it before. 30 years playing that god damn game and I still haven't beaten the bastard. The fucking crowns are impossible to find. I'm a hairs breath away from saying "screw it" and plugging it in with a Game Genie. I use the Game Genie on a lot of my games anyway, but I use it to cripple myself in some way so that the games are more challenging. LOTW would be one case where I would power myself up.

We all do it in at least one game. We just have this drive to collect everything, do every side quest, hunt every animal. But which games do you do it in? I'm a completionist in FF8, Castlevania SOTN, and RDR2. In FF8 I always have to try to collect at least one of every item. There's 18 pages to hold your items in your inventory screen, and so far I've only filled the first 15. So I have a lot of items left to find. In Castlevania, I have done that one. Every single item that can be collected, I have gotten them. It's not difficult, just tedious at times. Some enemies just don't want to give up the item you're after. In RDR2, I want to get every animal identified, and almost all of them hunted. The only ones I won't hunt and kill are the rats. But I'll still study them so they're in my compendium. Anything else is fair game for a bullet. So what game(s) do you just have to completely do absolutely everything in?