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I start a lot of games, but stick with very few.

Describes more games than I care to count, especially modern games!

I used to apply that criticism to games I somewhat enjoyed, but then couldn't reach a save point. I'd quit PS2 games because I didn't have an hour and a half at my disposal to play...If it Auto Saved or had frequent save points it would have been fine ...

but that ending tho, made everything worth it, I ain't gonna spoil anything.

So much darkness. Especially when Dothraki swords got snuffed.

~90 bloody minutes, but watchable

Some of those give me the biggest fits. Dozens of hours on Doom (2016) and Witcher 3 on highest settings, never a crash that I can recall. 15 minutes of Ys: Oath in Felghana or newly gotten Hat in Time, and stuff goes crazy with what their support forums refer to as "known issues - no resolution"

My issue is reading about and buying games is a lot more convenient and takes less time than actually playing them.

Yep. I love my PS4 Pro + VR, and despise my i7 + 1080GTX for this very reason.

How's Ys 1&2 on PC vs TurboCD?

No way. Gotta play Ys 6 next on PC. Playing 7 first might upset the balance of space/time and all that jazz.

@deepthaw - Chronicles on PC is a great remake. It keeps everything about the originals intact, for better or worse, but updates sound/graphics/dialog and a few quality of life type of tweaks. If you didn't already like the games, I don't figure it'll change any opinions, but I had a blast replaying with a few updates, then tearing through the boss rush modes.

Shovel Knight

Phoenix Wright Trilogy

Horizon Chase Turbo

I have that same coupon. The offerings are a bunch of crap, mostly on Wii U, and not very generous with discounts.

I would get Star Fox Zero if I didn't already have it.

Yep. That's a bummer. I was thinking it's gonna be a "pick what you want and take 30% off." Boo!

What I would do (and YMMV) I'd get some key words about the topic and then try to find it online in Non-Slideshow format.

Annoying aren't they?   Or when they show a teaser picture that you have to be near the end of the article to find what it was about?

Recipes are awful for this now! I just want the recipe, not to have to scroll through seven pages of your mom-blog about how your kids just LOOOOOVE it and 175 Instagram photos because you need an attention fix. Just give the friggin ingredients up front.

Cafeman.

I used to use a coffee cup with Smithore (M.U.L.E.) on it....

Cafeman was it.  Thanks!

Everyone wants to monetize their shitty opinions. Youtube is the worst thing to happen to the internet.

@John Stamos Mullet  I wouldn't yet declare a winner for that contest.  Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, 4chan, 8chan, reddit, and the speedrunning community have all been in contention for the top spot.

All of those are terrible too, sure. But YouTube is the only one where people have tried to turn the terrible crap they post on there into a "career". The only qualification for these chuckleheads to become a professional reviewer of (insert pop culture item here) is to have $30 to buy a webcam, and the shamelessness to record their hardcore edgelord opinions which are shared by the worst dregs of humanity. 

I beat it on Switch but had to cheat by using the save feature.  Super hard game!

I can get to the end boss on Mission 4 consistently with one credit.  Magic gets him down to a single hit, and sometimes I can land that hit and move on, other times nope.  Funny thing about Mandara, though… I can get there with a single life, but I can NEVER beat that boss until I’ve died a couple of times.  I’m not sure what’s the deal, but it seems impossible until it has slapped me around a bit.   Switch version (Sega Ages) is great!  The “cheat” features on that helped me learn the placements.

That Mandara boss is a snap if you get right up to the columns and use your magic.  The columns will overtake you as the magic goes off, then you get bumped backwards in front of the statue head.  Destroy it before it can shoot fireballs.  Easy!  Too bad this doesn't work on the Master System (can't use magic on bosses).

Think that's bad. The collective intelligence of AA goes to hell on the taco thread.

Last year it was a garbage dump. This month it's a landfill.

I'm gonna do some side by side features comparison matrices with mono spaced fonts so everything lines up.

Pancake breakfast vs Ataribox

Nintendo Switch vs Ataribox

Keatah vs Ataribox

It's gonna be landfilleriffic and you'll laugh til you stop.

I love the taco thread! lot of good laughs there...Nutari brought it on themselves, being sue-happy, lying, impersonating "Atari", calling that abomination a VCS...

If we got reputation points for receiving those I'd probably be around 950,000 by now.

I'd be a big fan of a face palm personally.

Just type it out.

Yes. And comments from random users and even bots are considered verifiable sources to back-up outlandish claims. Its all a feedback loop. It works like this: make up fake story, get users to comment = we have verification! Then on the TV news "here's what is trending on Twitter"...even more verification! Easy peasy

And...the same news sites charge you a subscription fee after a couple "free" views to read what they plagerized.

They deserve a bit more credit than that; sometimes they copy and paste it from Reddit, too!

Just be glad you didn't get a NeverExplode!

sounds kinky lol

They really "got you".

lol, I guess they thought the "video game fairy" snuck in some code without the programmer's knowledge.

Should reply with, "Whaaaaa!?   How'd That get in there?"

In Intellivision lingo that is an unintended "feature!"

Apple's been screwing up so many basic things with their updates for years. How some of this crap goes undetected before release defies reason. Yes, *some* of the bugs eventually get fixed, but typically have to wait until so many more updates before they finally address them.

Apple has made quite a few missteps over the past decade.  Their hardware and software have gotten worse, although it looks like recently they've started to turn around their hardware (the latest MacBook Pro is a nice improvement, as is the new Mac Pro, even if it's stupidly expensive).  Their software is much buggier than it used to be, no doubt about it.

I had to disable all Windows 10 updates in order to have a stable, usable system. Like ya'll I don't understand the incessant need to constantly make changes.

It probably doesn't count for "consumable items" like filters.  I wonder if Amazon would actually keep sending new filters when you return the old ones for being clogged up. 

A careless oversight (tons of them these days), but you'd think since it's a contract of sorts, that they'd have to honor it. You should try it!  

Wish I got a warranty on my Atari Age membership.?

When it comes to Video Games, that includes this forum or other online articles, I still prefer the old school way of READING about the topic, with accompanying pictures. It's become a lost art form. Most people seem to just do the 'post a video and run' method.

My favorite ? is getting a video article then a WORD FOR WORD written transcript underneath it. Who gets paid to do this??

Or if it's a "top whatever number" list article and its a slideshow that takes you to a new page each time and each new page is 85% ads, and the 'next' button is tiny and located at the bottom of the page after six or seven sound-on video ads. Sorry lads, AdBlock's on for that crap if I don't back out immediately. 

It's gonna depend on how detailed you want the sprite to be, and how complicated the animation is, really.  What exactly are you wanting done?

Nothing really complicated. Basically a little square guy walking in 4 directions, 2 - 4 frames of animation in each direction.  16 x 16 pixels, 3 colors.  Animation like the main character in "Minit" is the best example that comes to mind.  We have the character design already, just not sure what $$ to offer the artist.  He put it in my court, and I don't wanna lowball anyone, as I mentioned.  

Top down right? 16x16 is pretty small and should not take much time to do. $10-20 ($1 per frame?) would seem about right to me for just a single sprite. Obviously if you were having them design the sprite it would be more. I know it would only take me about an hour to do, less if you already had a base sprite. But I'm used to using like 16 colors max (and 64x64 for most things) on sprites, 3 would be harder.

RPGmaker would be neat to try. I think it's expensive but Humble Bundle has had it for next to nothing more than once.

I use Pyxel Edit to make tiles and Piskel for most sprites (mostly because it has a great mirror tool which Pyxel edit lacks).

I use GraphicsGale which went freeware a couple of years ago.

Wow, almost tempted myself at that price. What's TopCashBack though? I added it to the cart, went to check out and it said I'll save $.40 for picking it up. lol

TopCashBack is a websit that gives you small percentages back for buying at walmart/target/amazon, etc. Usually 1 - 5 percent back, but they frequently have offers like "spend $25 and get an extra $5 back," which is what I used for the C64. I signed up and started using it when Star Wars Episode 7 released. They gave 100% of the price back, and that pulled me in

Ahhh... wow, thanks for the explanation!

Remember, video games are the cause of all violence in the world, so it's best to avoid them.

As a tall person, I can confirm we have flashing vulnerable points whenever we go into fight mode.

Perfect!   I've always got gobs of coins and usually joke "I'll do my share..."  (And pay with lots of coins...)

I think that's a legit gripe.
I went through the same thing trying out "Super Lucky's Tale" on Xbox Game Pass.

The opening is, of course, an unskippable movie that seriously looks like it's made for little kids or creepy furries.

Nevertheless, around the 5 minute mark I promptly quit the game and uninstalled it.  
Developers need to get a clue about this sort of stupid nonsense as it is unnecessary.  Users should vote with their dollars and avoid these games.

That's why I only play "retro" style games that are quick to get into and only need a few minutes of my life.

No more immersive games for me until I retire...

Did those Amico boxes finally make their way into the store proper??

OK, OK,  couldn't resist....Seriously,  now some real guy should answer and I should be ignored 

See... I'm with ya, because very first thought when I saw the line was "well, shit... maybe they're all showing up expecting to get Amicos since (I thought) a lot of places still had the end of month as the release. 

Guitar (Shielded) or Speaker (Unshielded)?

headphones   🤣  you're on the right track, though. it's for some recording/music stuff