#GameTalk

[gamenewsnet]

Occult Card-Crafting Narrative RPG - The Horror at Highrook is coming out May 1st Read the full article here: https://ift.tt/bSA06az More at Game-News.co.uk

[ngsndr]

SEQUELS, DIE DIE WELT BRAUCHT? News zu GHOST OF YOTEI & Fazit zu TONY HA...

[britneyshakespeare]

honestly reilly being the second evicted houseguest was so good for matt's game. he never really had the danger of being involved in a showmance but he scooped up all her allies that were most loyal to her. that and the next week hisam, who was his side's most obvious next target, was backdoored by his own allies, so he had no real enemies. he did just well enough in comps to be a sought-after ally but not too well that people were clamoring to get him out, nor did he stir the pot enough socially to make himself a target. he just sat back being a pretty mediocre bb player overall but always in a good spot. as much as reilly's early exit was like the handful alliance's sad tragedy it benefited all of them.

[mhedusard]

Lil' silly

[ciderspunk2077]

Say hi, Vanny o7

[antialiasis]

Just one more thing about the Mew trick: TheScythe's version of the trick, the one that spread in 2003, talked about two ways of doing it, one where you Fly to Lavender Town and head west onto Route 8 and one where you go to Saffron City and go through the east exit onto Route 8. I always felt at the time that the Lavender Town route was sort of obviously the easier way to do it, what with being a shorter path where you don't have to go through a gatehouse, and bringing Saffron into the instructions was kind of unnecessarily complicating things. I left out the Saffron route entirely when I wrote my own writeup on the Mew trick for TCoD. Later, when I thought back to it, I wondered if the reason the method talked about doing it via Saffron was that originally it'd been discovered via Saffron, and then someone had later realized it also worked with Lavender and added that as an alternative.

Turns out both the May 2002 version on JesseWorld and the March 2003 one on GameTalk do indeed describe the Saffron route and not the Lavender one! TheScythe doesn't seem to indicate in her thread that the Lavender method was her own improvisation on it, but she did say she'd seen it on two websites before. In the thread, she actually provided a second link to GameTalk, only to the Pokémon Yellow section, and unfortunately that page was never archived - maybe that version mentioned Lavender, or perhaps by a second website she really meant an entirely different website that did suggest the Lavender version. Or maybe she did first come up with using Lavender! Either way, I'm really tickled that my speculation that Saffron was the originally discovered route seems very likely correct.

[shinysamurott9]

2024 Gametalk: Mega Man X5 Improvement Project

So I want to try making a thread or series of posts talking about all the games I play over this year. I'll start with this one, the Mega Man X5 Improvement Project

So I've played most of the main Megaman platformers via the Legacy Collections, haven't played BN completely, SF or Legends though. As anyone who has played the main platformers can tell you, quality can vary a lot, especially, especially with the X Series. Base X5 is definitely on the weaker end of the spectrum imo. It's not an awful game but it's a major step down from X4 and it has a lot of issues and poor execution. From what I've read a lot of that comes down to a significantly lower budget and little direction from Inafune beyond "Conclude the story".

I was aware of the improvement hack for a long while but I got curious about it a few days back and decided that I'd give it a shot, and frankly, I was extremely impressed. This game fixes, not every issue with X5, but a hell of a lot of them, along with a lot of miscellaneous changes. This includes, letting X use incomplete armours, Heart Tanks sharing between X and Zero, additional ways to get certain items, letting Zero get all Heart Tanks and all parts being obtainable with no worry about rank.

There's plenty of other notable changes like a proper retranslation to be more accurate to the original script and removal of RNG with the Shuttle, but the things mentioned above are the most important to me because let me tell you, they are absolute game changers when playing through. It allows you to be so much more flexible with the order you fight each boss, making the game so much more replayable, an essential element to Megaman games imo.

It really does feel like you can get a lot more out of the characters tool kits. The Gaea Armour is not just viable for X, but actually really good, because of some rebalancing, and the fact you're not locked out of using it until basically the end of the game. Many of the special weapons are given new functions. Like Dark Hold giving you Spike Immunity, F-Laser and Charged Tri Thunder being able to destroy the bomb in Duff Mcwhalen's stage, Zero's F Splasher being able to push Gaea Blocks and you can even re-enable the Fourth Armour’s Nova Strike if you want it.

There are some issues I have with the game though. Some of the original design decisions don't mesh well with the new changes, primarily the timer, which is made basically irrelevant by all the streamlining. It was never that big of a factor in a playthrough unless you wanted parts but now it's just kind of superfluous. A lot of the not great parts of the stages still aren't great. Duff Mcwhalen is still mostly an autoscroller, Volt Kraken still has the Bike Section, Zero Stage 1 is still a replica of Quick Man and the Shadow Devil still exists. The hack does what it can to remedy this like speeding up the autoscrollers, lowering the amount of energy items you need to get from the bike section to get the Falcon Armour Part and making it so you won't get caught on walls in Zero Stage 1. Shadow Devil still kinda suck though, especially as Zero.

I'm not gonna hold these issues against the hack or it's creators though as the ideal solution would be to completely rework or replace these elements with something better, which is definitely beyond the scope of a rom patch like this. What I will say though is while they did a lot to improve the Gaea Armour, in my playthroughs at least, the Falcon Armour felt really underutilised. It's entirely possible to get everything you would otherwise need Falcon for via other methods such as the more accessible parts, the updated Special Weapons, using Zero or some combination of these three factors. I literally never needed to use it on my second playthrough. This could be just down to my playstyle but in almost every situation, the Fourth or Gaea armours were strictly better in my opinion. I feel like if it had the ability to charge special weapons like X6 then it would at least be on par with the Fourth Armour. Maybe it would have more use in an X solo run but idk.

The complaints here are mostly minor. Overall, the hack is a fantastic piece of work, it improves on X5 in almost every aspect it can reasonably be expected to. I honestly think it brings X5 up to the same level as a lot of the better Megaman games. Maybe not as good as X1 , X2 or X4, but probably not far behind them. If you've ever played X5, like it or not, I'd heavily recommend this hack. I'd put it in A Tier easily.

Why did I rank it like it’s a tier list? Cause it is.

For the last year or so I've been progressively ranking all the games I've ever played. I thought it would be a neat way to look at everything. X5 Improvement ranks in A Tier between Pikmin 3 and Megaman ZX. I'll update it with each game i finish. Feel free to roast me for my taste in games.

[heartchivist]

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[dmggamingpodcast]

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[gamenewsnet]

My Friendly Neighborhood has arrived for consoles! Read the full article here: https://ift.tt/k3npSy1 More at Game-News.co.uk

[ngsndr]

XBOX AM ENDE? MICROSOFT streicht und feuert knallhart! | Game Talk

[leveldownpodcast]

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[pandorasbugs]

my lil guy is terrified :(

[bobastudios]

This time last week, we were at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology giving our first ever keynote presentation! 🥳

Even after giving so many talks, it was still intimidating being /the/ highlight speaker of a larger event! 😱

But we loved seeing all the senior capstone projects! And the little PB&J hors d'oeuvres! 🥪🥜🍓 Oh, and the talk went smoothly, too! 🤭

[serahdreamy]

Child Names

Cliff: For Cliff, I knew that I wanted his child's name to reflect his own, since he is a character that finds so much joy in being a father. I chose "River" since they are both geographic land features. Image-wise, I see a sturdy cliff watching as the river winds it way through the world.

Huang: I wanted to choose a name that reflected Huang's financial sense. "Yuan" is one of the words used for Chinese currency. My understanding is that "Renminbi" is used more often, but I thought "Yuan" worked better as a name.

Marie: I wanted a name that reflected Marie's love of books, so I named her daughter "Shellie." Together they are Marie & Shellie, a homage to Frankenstein's author "Mary Shelley."