The Blackangel

I was sent this link through a text earlier to check the status of the stimulus checks we're supposed to be getting. It should spit out a date for when your check is estimated to come. If you're curious check it out. https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/get-my-payment

I don't use social media. The closest I come to that shit is a couple forums(like VGR), and YouTube.

Sonic was a disappointment to me, because the first three were, for all intents and purposes, identical. Sure the levels were drawn differently, but there was noting that made them unique except the number printed on the label.

You make a very good point. Like, I loved Zelda from the original all the way up through the N64. But when Wind Waker came out, I was disgusted. If I wanted to watch a cartoon, I would watch a cartoon. It made me want to puke. And Twilight Princess was a total let down. They went too much for graphics, and too little for story. Final Fantasy also had it's problems. I love the first six, and FF8 is my all time favorite. But FF7, and then FF9-FF14 were, in my opinion, just horrible games. FF15 looks decent, but I haven't played it a whole lot. Final Fantasy has a lot of problems.

My all time favorite game on the NES was Blaster Master. On SNES it was probably Zelda A Link To The Past. Maybe Legend Of The Mystical Ninja. On N64 it was hands down Zelda Ocarina Of Time. I hated Game Cube, and wasn't a particularly big fan of the Wii either. With Switch there are so many DDL games and physical games to pick from it's impossible to pick one. Many of my favorites from the old days have been remastered, or at lest ported to the Switch. The three that I play the most however, are FF8, Goblin Sword (DDL), and Zelda Links Awakening.

I'm not the biggest fan of FPS games, but I like how this one looks. Do you know if it's strictly a Steam game, or if it's available through the Nintendo eShop?

Lagging games is annoying as hell. I got the FF8 remaster on my PC before I bought the dual FF7/FF8 cart for my Switch. On the computer however it lagged so bad that it took forever to do pretty much anything. It drove me so nuts, that I actually stopped playing it and went back to the disc and Switch. As for crashes, as long as I'm not in the middle of something important, or at least not far into the game, I don't completely lose my shit. I started up my very first time playing Skyrim a couple months ago, and as soon as I escaped the tower where the dragon was attacking and got to that little village, the game crashed. It just started pulsing slowly in and out of focus and circling the room I was in really slowly. I don't know what the hell happened. I was at full health, and no one was attacking me. It just fucked up. But from what I understand that was pretty much the norm for the early releases. I was playing it on PS3. But I recently got it for Switch, so here's hoping it doesn't fuckup.

Wow, you are young. I have never heard the words "Wii" and "nostalgia" in the same sentence. But then again, I'm coming from the Atari/Colecovision/NES era. I remember when the NES came out in 1985, the graphics and capabilities of the system were so high tech, everyone was blown away. Now people look at it and think something like "Those poor people. They had to suffer through something like that." I get a kick out of that. But something that pisses me off, is people playing the flashback/classic/mini consoles and thinking they have had a true experience with the old stuff. That shit is nothing more than an emulator. Also I have never heard of a Nintendo Touch. What is it? A successor to the Switch, or the next thing Nintendo is releasing to keep up with the PS5 and Xbox Series X?

Are you asking for help in Uncharted or Skyrim?

eighty, uh..... um..... give me a minute..... carry the one.... divided by..... with a remainder of six.... is it nine? 89?

It would be interesting to see what a twisted mind like mine would come up with. Everyone would most likely be an elf of some race. High elves, wood elves, dark elves, you get the picture. If there were any humans in my design they would be slaves. Also you gotta have some other kinds in there like vampires. Both psy and sang vampires. My character on Skyrim is a high elf, and rather bitchy. 😁😈

Zelda OoT, and trying to catch a fucking fish that will get me the gold scale.

I remember back in the N64/PS1 era, I was initially personally opposed to playing FF8. Hear me out on this one. I was used to playing games that followed a specific map. Think games like Castlevania SOTN. Or Zelda OoT. Also any Mario Game. So when I looked at FF8 I wasn't wanting to play because I thought it was too "open" of a game. Meaning that the world was too big, and you could just circle the globe endlessly. With a game like that, I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing next. And to be honest, with what I was used to, it kinda scared me. But now we have open end games like Skyrim, and I look at FF8 and think "I can't believe I thought that was such an open game". Does anyone else ever think things like this?

I'm making this post as a 180 to the post about games that left you disappointed. We all have games that we heavily anticipate and are excited as hell for, and are counting down the minutes until their release. As already mentioned, there are often games that left a lot to be desired, and left us feeling disappointed or even cheated. But then there are games that blow our minds as to how awesome they are. More than we ever expected. For me I would have to say the number one game is a tie between Mario 64 and Zelda OoT. I knew going in that the N64 was a revolutionary piece of hardware, but the level of dynamics, not just graphics, but game capabilities, was more than I ever could have expected. I had been playing either side scrollers, or games that look down from above at your character. The 360° view of them went above and beyond. What are the games that surpassed your expectations?

Those were all a bit too cartoony for what I'm looking for. I did however mark Detention in my wish list, just so I could remember it.

I'm looking for a good horror game for my Switch. Not something action oriented. Instead I'm looking for something like the game @skyfire posted HERE. Something with the creep factor all the way up to a full 10/10. Or if there's any at 15/10 or more that would be even better. Basically, I'm looking for something that could possibly make me shit my pants.

As we move into the future, more and more games are becoming digital downloads. even now, many games are sold in plastic boxes the same as before, but there is no disc or cartridge inside the box. Only a digital code to download the game. So it looks to me that by the time the era of consoles after the PS5/ Series X/ Switch are known as the "previous" era, everything will be purely digital. There will be no such thing as a physical game made anymore. Which means Sony will lose big bucks, as they own the patent on BLU-Ray discs, and that's what most disc systems are using currently as they hold vastly more data than other disc formats. To me, the only possible life left for physical games is Nintendo. They have always went with physical games. Granted, anything you can get physical for Switch you can also get digital, but they are still programming carts. Farewell physical games. It was fun while it lasted.

Fitting isn't it?

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I can't play DKC, even though I have the entire trilogy on SNES. It pisses me off too much.

What is Persona 5? I've never heard of it.

NES — Blaster Master Legacy Of The Wizard Astynax Contra Bubble Bobble Excitebike The Legend Of Zelda Punch Out Q*Bert Spy Hunter T&C Surf Designs Wizards & Warriors Zelda 2 SNES— Blackthorne F-Zero Illusion Of Gaia The Legend Of The Mystical Ninja Zelda A Link To The Past Mario Is Missing N64– 1080 Snowboarding Banjo Kazooie Hexen Mario Kart 64 Zelda Ocarina Of Time Zelda Majoras Mask Game Boy— Metroid II Zelda Links Awakening Zelda Oracle Of Ages/Seasons Sega Genesis— Ghouls ‘N Ghosts Pitfall The Mayan Adventure Sonic & Knuckles PS1– Castlevania SOTN FF8 Atari— Asteroids Berzerk Dig Dug Donkey Kong Frogger Joust Mario Bros (NOT SMB) Pac-Man Pitfall Q*Bert Space Invaders Swordquest: Earthworld Swordquesr: Fireworld That’s just a quick list. It’s not a complete list, but just a few of my regulars. But I want to note that NONE of these are that flashback bullshit. They are ALL the real thing.

Not everyone. There’s always that one kid in school that everyone hates.

Yeah it's a Montana. It needs work, right now. When I'm sitting at a light, it sounds like the transmission is grinding some. But when I get going the noise stops. I'm wanting to get some money saved up and try to trade it in and get a new one. Don't get me wrong, it's a great van. The only problem I have with it as far as opinion goes is that the ramp deploys from the side, which can make parking a bitch, even in the handicapped spots. People like to park within 6" of you which means I can't load my damn chair. If the load was from the back instead, that wouldn't raise a problem. But I don't know, I kinda like the way it's set up. It's a really nice van. I got lucky with it. I got it for $8000. I sold the car I had before that for $4700, so that covered more than half of it. Now aside from the chair, the most valuable thing I own is my skull collection and my Zippo collection. SO if I need money desperately, I could dip into them. I don't want to, but I could if I have to.