The Blackangel

Elsweyr just came out. It's a gorgeous game, graphically speaking.

From the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed, what’s the best part of your day? For me it’s taking a long hot shower right before I get ready for bed. I look forward to that all day. It’s relaxing and the stress just melts away. For the most part, at least. So what is your favorite?

I'm another one on this list. After 37 years, I'm numb. I'm either detached and feel nothing, or explosive, and genuinely dangerously angry. And with being bipolar and schizophrenic (among other things), that just makes the situation even worse.

My left collar bone has extra corners from me landing wrong when I came off a bull. I love bull riding to this day, but being in a wheelchair kinda keeps my ride time rather, sparse, shall we say?

If the game has its own suggestion, most of the time I'll just go with that. But my previous statement still stands.

Personally I can't play those kind of games. My time in the Marines has my emotional capability to handle that kind of thing so damaged, that it's at absolute zero. I can't even handle mere references in cartoons.

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For me that would have to be FF8. I always end up feeling close to the characters. Like they're family, or like I was at the orphanage with them. Like I'm the 7th member of the group. The story is just so captivating that the world around me ceases to exist. But I know how to keep myself in the real world. I have my babies (4 dogs, 2 birds, 1 rat) and they always come first. This is my macaw. His name is Dante's Inferno. He's an evil little bastard, but he's still my buddy.

Dude? Did you miss the fact that I'm a girl?

I buy and sell on CL all the time. And I make pretty good money doing it.

I see continuous remakes, and next edition of games that should have been done ten titles ago. Things like Mortal Kombat. I get that it's an extremely popular series. But it's getting to the point where it's like "Ok. It's time to stop. We don't need to see Scorpion taking a shit, since that's all that's left." I'm personally getting really sick of it. Hell due to this constant "next in the series" shit, I almost can't bring myself to play the original MK on my SNES anymore. It's like Friday The 13th. There are literally 10 sequels and one remake. Can we say STOP?

I have 3 NES & 3 SNES consoles, all in perfect working order. I pick up bundles off CL all the time. If there's a problem with a cartridge system I fix it and resell it. Or hang on to it for myself. I have a couple N64,s and a few Sega's. Both gen1 and gen2 Sega's. I also have 3 PS3's and more PS2's than I know what to do with. Then there's also my Atari 2600, and Sears Home Gaming System. But that one I don't play because it's complete in box and I don't want to fuck anything up.

Ok. That's it. The Batman series has officially given up.

I still play my NES, SNES, & N64 regularly. None of them are modded, and they are the original actual systems. I have no problems as of yet, but you're right. They will break down eventually. The NES can be moody as hell, but that's to be expected from a 34 year old system. They were released in 1985 after all. But either way, I'm sticking to gaming that way.

You do have the facts right, but there's one major thing you're forgetting. Nostalgia. For a lot of us, things like emulators and flashback consoles make us want to puke. We can't bring ourselves to play it unless it's the real thing. I grew up in the Atari 2600 and Colecovision era. I ended up getting the flashback for both systems as gifts a couple years ago. I can't even bring myself to open the boxes. They sit in my closet untouched. Nostalgia carries a lot more weight than a lot of people realize.

My favorite was always the Diablo font. Something about it just clicked with me. Off the top of my head I can't really think of one from gaming that I hate, but there is one that I've always despised. It's that fucking blood font. I can't stand it. It's so stupid. If you're not under 10 years old, then by using it you're only going to make yourself and everyone around you look like an idiot. My all time favorite font however is Minister 5.

Thanks the Gods I'm a solo gamer.

I either go with my nickname or screen name typically. My nickname is Panda due to my love of bamboo. The Blackangel is a name that I've had for over 20 years.

I'm sitting here playing Castlevania: SOTN. I just got the Holy Symbol. I stopped for a second to get a quick drink, and saw something I had never noticed before. While Alucard is under water, if you look for a second you can see his breath bubbles floating to the top of the water. I thought that was kinda interesting. So what are some things you never noticed before until way later?

I just plug it in when I go to bed.

The problem there is that SJW's are completely bigoted and intolerant. They go nuclear if something doesn't fit into their tiny bubble of "ME ME ME". In their eyes every last person on earth is required to conform to what they want at all times. Individuality is a crime now. If I wasn't in a wheelchair, I would like to stomp every one of them I see into the ground. They are doing nothing good for the world. They are only fucking up literally EVERYTHING they touch.

Yeah. I play them daily. They're almost the only consoles I play.

Very true, but it's an easy scapegoat.

Deadpool 2 10/10 Not as good as the first one but still funny as hell. Ryan Reynolds always does an amazing job in roles with characters who are complete cynics.

I think a lot of it depends on how open world the game is. If you're in a confined space that is the exact same every time, it can get boring. Compare virtually any Final Fantasy game to a game like Castlevania: SOTN. Wide open world vs closed castle with the exact same map and path order every time until you reach the invert. Once in the invert you can choose the way you want to go at will, but prior to that the game has a set pattern for you to follow if you want to progress thru the game.