The Blackangel

About 30 different NES and Atari games. All from the 70's and early 80's. The newest game I play on a regular basis is FF8 which came out in 1999. I'm not the biggest fan of new stuff, and I love the old stuff. Give me a game controller that has one button and a joystick with blocky dot matrix graphics, and you will have a very happy girl on your hands.

Most of these aren't exactly franchises, but I wouldn't mind a sequel or two anyway. *************************************************************** Dante's Inferno Spyro (but bring it back to the original gameplay format) Another Zelda similar to Majoras Mask Banjo Kazooie Blackthorne Contra

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Games that do that drive me nuts. I haven't played Soul Caliber in probably more than 10 years for that very reason. If you play the quest part of the game, and don't set it as easy, then after a few victories, you start fights where you begin the fight with half life or less and an invisible enemy where all you can see is a small part of their weapon. Then you have games that give you no heads up that it's even happening. Like Ghouls 'N Ghosts. It's already hard enough with a one hit kill and no continues, but the further you get in the game, the weaker you get, while the stronger your enemies get. A little fucking notice please, guys? If you want to make a game like that, awesome. Go for it. I like a challenge too. But if you make a game that you have no intention of anyone ever beating, then you're an asshole.

It's good to see followers of Allah.

Yeah, but if we did that, then they would just claim that the windows weren't actually windows, but TV screens used to try to trick them. You know, since they're soooooooooooo much smarter than the rest of us.

I still have Netflix. I like documentaries, and there's also a lot of movie choices for films that I've either never heard of or just haven't seen. Yet. Also if you're into stand up comedy they have an awesome selection. I highly recommend Felipe Esparza. He's the funniest man alive. For those here that are Latino/Latina you will love him. He's Mexican and pokes a lot of jokes at his heritage. There's one streaming service that you may like though. It's Shudder. They show nothing but horror, thriller, and suspense movies. I've been meaning to sign up, but always forget about it. And their library is enormous.

I don't clip coupons. My purse is heavy enough as it is. But There's some things I look for. The occasional discount code when I order pizza online. Things like that I take advantage of. But even though coupons save a bit of money, most of the time the coupons are for stuff I don't really ever buy anyway.

I've preordered games, but never a console. I always wait around a year or more if I have intent on getting a new generation console. The price has gone down by then, their upgraded stuff is out which gives me more options. There are more games to choose from many of which have also gone down in price. I just don't see the point of paying $650 on release day, when I can pay $300 if I just wait a bit.

Colecovision, Atari 2600, Game Boy, GBA SP, NES, SNES, N64, Game Cube, Wii, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PSP, Xbox 360, Xbox One X I know there's a couple other systems, but off the top of my head I can't think of them. I don't have a Colecovision at the moment. I'm looking for a good deal on one. Well I have the classic piece of shit, but it's just not the same. Nostalgia goes a long way for me. As for the rest of the systems the only 2 we don't use anymore are the Game Cube and Wii. We use the PS2, but only to Play PS1 games really. Neither of us have played a PS2 game in forever. And the Game Boy. I always use my GBA SP. It's easier to just keep a couple of them charged.

It seems like a lot of the Walking Dead games were over hyped. They tried to capitalize off the popularity of the show, but lacked so much. If I remember correctly, there was even a couple that didn't have a single character from the show? Or was that intentional? Either way, they seemed to fall short.

I picked up Shovel Knight recently, but haven't actually gotten around to playing it. But it looks like a lot of fun.

We may be in more of a "cold war" state at the moment. There are always going to be people that are hardcore loyal to one brand and want all others destroyed. There are going to be people who really don't give a shit as long as the game is fun and the controller doesn't hurt their hand and is easy to use. We may end up with a thing like the restaurant thing from the movie Demolition Man, if anyone remembers that. There were franchise wars and the only one that survived was Taco Bell. So in the future all restaurants were Taco Bell. The same thing may happen with games. But If I had to put my money on one, I would say Nintendo has the best shot at that survival. I mean how many kick ass systems have come and gone during the Nintendo lifetime? Granted they were idiots when they backed out of their deal with Sony, but still. Yes Xbox and PS are killing it in the console market, and Nintendo is keeping up fairly well, but it's seemed to lag in the past before and came out on top.

I grew up in the 80's when 14k of space stood as tall as a man. At that time only governmental facilities had computers. So I grew up on consoles, and still prefer that way today. I grew up on Nintendo, and it's still my preferred company. I have nothing against Sega or PlayStation, they're great too. I'm not going to get into Xbox, I hate it. But after Win95 came out, computers started getting cheaper. I learned how to build them during the Win98 era. So I was able to play games like Diablo, AoE, MDK, and other early birdies. Nowadays, I have no real interest in PC gaming. Most of what I've seen is online gaming, the rest is stuff I'm just not into. I'm not going to completely rule PC gaming out forever, but as it sits right now, I'm sticking with consoles for the foreseeable future.

Jar Jar didn't bug me too much. But Hayden Christiansen made me want a brain enema, or to have my entire memory wiped clean. It doesn't matter what the movie is. If Christiansen is anywhere near it, it's not worth seeing. But the thing that really pissed me off was the end of episode 6. They actually had the audacity to remove Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker when he was part of the force with Yoda and Obi-Wan and replace him with Christiansen. That was when I vowed to never watch that movie again unless it was an original copy on VHS, from the 80's. Before Christiansen was born.

The whole Star Wars thing makes me sick. When Lucas sold the rights to Disney, they took that as a green light to release the most worthless, pathetic excuses for a franchise expansion since Jaws The Revenge. It was perfect at the end of episode 6. Making more ruined the saga.

2019 is the year of remakes, and shitty sequels.

Nothing much past N64/PS1. The only system I play that's newer is a bit of PS3.

Diablo 2 was good about this. It had 3 settings. Normal, Nightmare, and Hell. You had to beat the previous setting to unlock the next one. It also had another difficulty feature. Hardcore. In that, no matter where you are in the game, If you die, that's it. You have to start from the very beginning of the entire game, with nothing that you had previously found. Obviously that part is entirely optional, and I never chose that option. I pretty much sucked at the game without creating my own items, but you always have the choices. Also if you want to make it extra hard, you can stick with the equipment you have at the beginning of the game and never upgrade anything. But you can do that in pretty much any game, so I don't know if that one really counts.

Ah I get what you're saying. I think a few hints at some thing would be a good idea. There are some games with things in it that are so well hidden that without a players guide, you would very possibly never know of their existence. Even after playing the games for years, and wondering what the hell that blank spot is for, you just can't figure it out. Once again I'm gonna draw from FF8 for this one. Without a players guide, who here thinks they could have found the GF's Doomtrain, Eden, Bahamut, Tonberry, and Diablos? Possibly even Brothers? Did you pick up at any point the connection between Squall and Laguna? How about Rinoa and Julia? If you miss one specific key conversation at precisely the correct time at the beginning of the game on disc 1, you don't have another chance to get Diablos until the end of the game on disc 4. Hell the first 2 or 3 times I played the game, I didn't realize that there are 2 free GF's that you can get if you just turn on your study panel in the class room. Turn it on, click tutorial, and boom! You have Quezacotl and Shiva. Not exactly the most cryptic or well hidden secret, but how many first time players are actually gonna go to their study panel? It's a class room. What are they gonna study? Algebra? Pass.

I have most of it uploaded to a page hidden within a website. But unless I know you really well I don't share it.

I'm glad you guys are up to date on this type of thing, because I had no idea they were making a new Bill & Ted movie. Is the same guy playing Bill?

I always like playing Triple Triad in FF8. It's an easy and fun way to get items you need for upgrading your weapons and items you need in general.

I'm an amateur writer. I've finished 2 novels, a few short stories, and a shitload of unconventional poetry. I don't know if that counts as a craft or not, but I enjoy it because I get to be god (or in my case goddess) and do whatever I want to the characters. I can get out my frustrations and be as cruel or kind as I want.