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Gaming / Any neat boss fight experiences you would like to share?

« on: May 09, 2009, 09:49:16 AM »

So yeah, I'm the kinda player who wants to find creative ways to finish off a boss in games, just because I simply think it looks awesome. <airhead talking>

One day, I played Kingdom Hearts II again from the beginning up till that point where you fought the Twilight Thorn. I got it's HP down to 1, but I didn't land a finishing move on it. It played that Reaction Command sequence for the final time, but after when Roxas throws that Keyblade at the boss and falls back to the ground, the boss lands on his head and is defeated, to my surprise. The head slam counted as a Finisher, while Roxas is still lying on the floor! I laughed so hard at that.

If it will make any more sense, I have it all on video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSw53drbvIA

So to reiterate the question: Do any of you recall any interesting boss fight experiences that you would like to share? (Examples: Won the boss with 1HP with no items, miraculous victory in the end, seemingly good battle turned upside down, sudden stupid death by accident, etc.)

(Yeah, it 12:30AM here, gotta get to bed. zzzz)

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Gaming / Japan would rather have more Rockman DASH than Rockman X

« on: May 04, 2009, 11:36:49 AM »

http://kotaku.com/5238574/what-sequels-does-japan-want

I'm honestly astonished that DASH even made it to this list. If anything, this little development would make a Rockman DASH 3 possibly the most wanted Rockman game in Japan, and the third most wanted game from Capcom. Also, I didn't know Japan wanted Shenmue THAT much, it didn't even sell well initially over there.


Other contenders on the list are:
1. Sakura Taisen (aka Sakura Wars) 267 votes
2. Shenmue 249 votes
3. Okami 204 votes
4. Gotchaforce 189 votes
5. Xenogears 185 votes
6. Breath of Fire 180 votes
7. Rockman DASH (aka Mega Man Legends) 176 votes
8. Ogre Battle 174 votes
9. Chikyuu Boueigun (aka Earth Defense Force) 162 votes
10. Kowloon's Gate 151 votes
11. Shinobido 141 votes
12. Demon's Souls 123 votes
13. Rockman X (aka Mega Man X) 110 votes
14. Chrono 107 votes
15. Z.O.E 94 votes
16. Mother 92 votes
17. Romancing SaGa 90 votes
18. Senjou no Valkyria (aka Valkyria Chronicles) 87 votes
19. Justice Gakuen 82 votes
20. Medarot 81 votes
21. Subarashiki Kono Sekai (aka The World Ends With You) 79 votes
22. Shadow Hearts 77 votes
23. Ore no Shikabane o Koete Yuke 75 votes
24. Panzer Dragoon 72 votes
25. Baten Kaitos 69 votes
26. Infinite Undiscovery 65 votes
27. Lost Odyssey 65 votes
28. Wild Arms 64 votes
29. OZ 60 votes
30. Jet Set Radio 59 votes
31. Dewprism 58 votes
32. Ougon no Taiyou (aka Golden Sun) 57 votes
33. Another Century's Episode 56 votes
33. Estopolis Denki (aka Lufia) 56 votes
33. Fire Pro Wrestling Spike 56 votes
36. Biohazard Outbreak 55 votes
37. Eternal Arcadia (aka Skies of Arcadia) 54 votes
38. Shirokishi Monogatari: Inishie no Kodou (aka White Knight Chronicles) 51 votes
39. Panzer Front 50 votes
40. Seiken Densetsu 48 votes
41. Front Mission 46 votes
42. Grandia 43 votes
43. Arc The Lad 42 votes
44. Bullet Witch 41 votes
45. Racing Lagoon 39 votes
46. Drag-On Dragoon 37 votes
47. Panekit 36 votes
48. Metal Wolf Chaos 33 votes
49. Tokimeki Memorial 33 votes
50. Famicom Tantei Kurabu 30 votes

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Gaming / About Steel Battalion series

« on: April 13, 2009, 08:34:42 PM »

Alright, so yesterday I bought a copy of Steel Battalion and its sequel with the jumbo ass controller and pedals in good condition for $25 USD at a garage sale. The reason I bought these is because I realize that they go for a lot of money on eBay so I thought I'd sell 'em, but after reading about how good these are on Xbox, I'm starting to have second thoughts. I just want to know what's are these games about? Are they as good as many people make them out to be? I don't even have an Xbox. Are they worth keeping?

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Gaming / Sonic The Hedgehog CD (FINISHED AT PART 29!) (4/18/09)

« on: April 12, 2009, 08:39:06 AM »

Sonic CD is what IHMO call the quintessential CD-based 2D Sonic game. If that sounds too high-phrased to anyone, its because there really is no other Sonic game of its kind. I personally find the time concept ahead of its time as a Sonic game. If I had never played or heard of Sonic CD before during the GEN/MD era, and I was a Saturn owner waiting for a true Sonic game at the time, I would have expected the time concept to have shown up in a Sonic 4. I have no idea if that makes any sense, so don't argue with me. So yeah, basically I would have expected such a concept to arise later in time.

For anyone's enjoyment, or if you've absolutely nothing better to do, which was sort of the case with me. I'd like to show my You Tube PEMNAS playthough in order of how I played it. I personally love this game.

Playlist:
(Part 1) Start Up + Palmtree Panic Zone 1
(Part 2) First Special Stage
(Part 3) Palmtree Panic Zone 2
(Part 4) Second Special Stage
(Part 5) Palmtree Panic Zone 3
(Part 6) Collision Chaos Zone 1
(Part 7) Third Special Stage
(Part 8) Collision Chaos Zone 2
(Part 9) Fourth Special Stage
(Part 10) Collision Chaos Zone 3
(Part 11) Tidal Tempest Zone 1
(Part 12) Fifth Special Stage
(Part 13) Tidal Tempest Zone 2
(Part 14) Sixth Special Stage
(Part 15) Tidal Tempest Zone 3
(Part 16) Quartz Quadrant Zone 1
(Part 17) Quartz Quadrant Zone 2
(Part 18) Seventh AND Final Special Stage
(Part 19) Quartz Quadrant Zone 3
(Part 20) Wacky Workbench Zone 1
(Part 21) Wacky Workbench Zone 2
(Part 22) Wacky Workbench Zone 3
(Part 23) Stardust Speedway Zone 1
(Part 24) Stardust Speedway Zone 2
(Part 25) Stardust Speedway Zone 3
(Part 26) Metallic Madness Zone 1
(Part 27) Metallic Madness Zone 2
(Part 28) Metallic Madness Zone 3 & FINAL FEVER!
(Part 29 / THE END) Cosmic Eternity - Good Ending

The playthrough consists of individual videos, each containing a Zone and a Special Stage between each of them. Also, PEMNAS stands for "PLEASE EXCUSE MY NOOB ASS SKILLS". I invented the term myself. Its created to separate my videos from being called a Speed-Run (its not meant to be one) or a walkthrough. Its really just to show others my average-level game skillz in da game. I know, its probably a stupid little gimmick but I just felt like being creative. Whatever.

FINISHED!! Thanks for watching everyone!!!

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Anime & Manga / 4KIDS TV offering Uncut Yu-Gi-Oh episodes. In Japanese. On YouTube. Free.

« on: March 18, 2009, 05:34:37 AM »

http://news.toonzone.net/articles/28962/4k...-oh-via-youtube

First episode is here. No subs. (Yet?)

And then the Anime fans/4Kids haters went freaking bonkers.

Good job, 4Kids. Now please bring out those uncut Sonic X episodes here on YouTube as well.

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Off The Wall / In the event of someone from the internet dies....

« on: March 16, 2009, 01:11:14 AM »

Somewhat misleading subject name I know.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090314/ap_on_hi_te/tec_death_online

NEW YORK - When Jerald Spangenberg collapsed and died in the middle of a quest in an online game, his daughter embarked on a quest of her own: to let her father's gaming friends know that he hadn't just decided to desert them.

It wasn't easy, because she didn't have her father's "World of Warcraft" password and the game's publisher couldn't help her. Eventually, Melissa Allen Spangenberg reached her father's friends by asking around online for the "guild" he belonged to.

One of them, Chuck Pagoria in Morgantown, Ky., heard about Spangenberg's death three weeks later. Pagoria had put his absence down to an argument among the gamers that night.

"I figured he probably just needed some time to cool off," Pagoria said. "I was kind of extremely shocked and blown away when I heard the reason that he hadn't been back. Nobody had any way of finding this out."

With online social networks becoming ever more important in our lives, they're also becoming an important element in our deaths. Spangenberg, who died suddenly from an abdominal aneurysm at 57, was unprepared, but others are leaving detailed instructions. There's even a tiny industry that has sprung up to help people wrap up their online contacts after their deaths.

When Robert Bryant's father died last year, he left his son a little black USB flash drive in a drawer in his home office in Lawton, Okla. It was underneath a cup his son had once given him for his birthday. The drive contained a list of contacts for his son to notify, including the administrator of an online group he had been in.

"It was kind of creepy because I was telling all these people that my dad was dead," Bryant said. "It did help me out quite a bit, though, because it allowed me to clear up a lot of that stuff and I had time to help my mom with whatever she needed."

David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has had plenty of time to think about the issue.

"I work in the world's largest medical center, and what you see here every day is people showing up in ambulances who didn't expect that just five minutes earlier," he said. "If you suddenly die or go into a coma, there can be a lot of things that are only in your head in terms of where things are stored, where your passwords are."

He set up a site called Deathswitch, where people can set up e-mails that will be sent out automatically if they don't check in at intervals they specify, like once a week. For $20 per year, members can create up to 30 e-mails with attachments like video files.

It's not really a profit-making venture, and Eagleman isn't sure about how many members it has — "probably close to a thousand." Nor does he know what's in the e-mails that have been created. Until they're sent out, they're encrypted so that only their creators can read them.

If Deathswitch sounds morbid, there's an alternative site: Slightly Morbid. It also sends e-mail when a member dies, but doesn't rely on them logging in periodically while they're alive. Instead, members have to give trusted friends or family the information needed to log in to the site and start the notification process if something should happen.

The site was created by Mike and Pamela Potter in Colorado Springs, Colo. They also run a business that makes software for online games. Pamela said they realized the need for a service like this when one of their online friends, who had volunteered a lot of time helping their customers on a Web message board, suddenly disappeared.

He wasn't dead: Three months later, he came back from his summer vacation, which he'd spent without Internet access. By then, the Potters had already had Slightlymorbid.com up and running for two weeks.

A third site with a similar concept plans to launch in April. Legacy Locker will charge $30 per year. It will require a copy of a death certificate before releasing information.

Peter Vogel, in Tampa, Fla., was never able to reach all of his stepson Nathan's online friends after the boy died last year at age 13 during an epileptic seizure.

A few years earlier, someone had hacked into one of the boy's accounts, so Vogel, a computer administrator, taught Nathan to choose passwords that couldn't be easily guessed. He also taught the boy not to write passwords down, so Nathan left no trail to follow.

Vogel himself has a trusted friend who knows all his important login information. As he points out, having access to a person's e-mail account is the most important thing, because many Web site passwords can be retrieved through e-mail.

Vogel joked that he hoped the only reason his friend would be called on to use his access within "the next hundred years or so" would be if Vogel forgets his own passwords.

But, he said, "as Nathan has proven, anything can happen any time, even if you're only 13."

I wonder what people here (On the internet) would do if they heard that I kicked the bucket?

Nothing. No memorial, no ritual, no counseling service, no candle vigil, no nothing. The world will keep turning and turning and turning.

I guess what I'm trying to say is is that if you died (unless you were someone close to me) I'll feel some pity, but the news of your death (thought terrible none-the-less) will be gone with the wind by the time I hit the bed at the of the day. Sleeping soundly.

Ok here's two questions (Don't have to answer both), how would you feel if someone in the internet died? Also, do any of you guys happen have a plan like this for your death?
Pardon my half-assed thinking.

Discuss.

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Gaming / Animal Abuse in video games

« on: March 08, 2009, 07:10:03 AM »

Have you ever noticed any animal abuse in video games?

I know that in some games like Mega Man Legends where you can do more then just kick dogs. In fact, in its Japanese counterpart, Rockman DASH, you can not only kick the dog to save a certain female character early in the game, but you can even kick cats, and shoot down birds too with no penalty whatsoever. (This video is almost full of annotations that save me the trouble of describing everything in complete detail.)

There's more too. In many Zelda games you can strike at the Cuccos (The chickens) out of amusement. Though, they'll practically curse you with a flurry of them after your cruel ass.

Also, in the MOTHER/EarthBound series, you can strikes stray dogs, crows, etc. with a baseball bat. Even though its in self-defense. Plus, in MOTHER 3, there's a character that shocks his monkey servant out of amusement.

And lets not forget Duck Hunt.

What kind of examples of "animal abuse" do you spot in video games nowadays and before?

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Off The Wall / What's in your 'fridge?

« on: February 28, 2009, 08:13:53 AM »

Well let's see...





I've got yogurt, milk, Hawaiian Punch, sour cream, ranch dressing, soda, margarine, ham and turkey slices, tomatoes, sliced bread, leftover delicious Pupusas, whip cream, and among other things.   


So... What's in your 'fridge?

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Gaming / PlayStation power cord help

« on: February 16, 2009, 08:27:08 AM »

Is it possible if I can plug a PS2 AC cord into an old PSX model without frying it? I’ve just got an old “rare” SCPH-1001 model and I fear of ruining it soon. I’ve tried using a Saturn power cord and it powered on, but I got paranoid and I took it off. If I can’t use a PS2 or Saturn power cord, what else could I use?

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DASH / Unused/Alternate dialogue found in Mega Man Legends 1 disc

« on: February 11, 2009, 11:43:25 PM »

A few weeks ago, being a sucker for pre-release/unseen/beta/oddities content for games that I am, I was peeking into the first Legends and I some pretty interesting things in the XA directory of the disc. In other words, I may have found some unused dialogue in the game.

And yeah I happened to make a video of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn20ZW76nYM

Unused dialogue includes alternate lines for MegaMan on unlocking the portals to the living quarters, unheard cheering from the TV Reporter after presumably clearing the Bonnes' robots in City Hall, and more intended dialogue from the Inspector after foiling the "bank robbery".

Pretty cool what you can find unused in games, huh? I wonder if Capcom initially planned on adding more content to MML during its localization. Speaking of which, I wonder what took so long to bring the game to the US? Localization of the game dragged on till May if the games files are any indication.

EDIT: As a matter of fact, besides the content that was edited in the localization, I've come to the realization the MML has two new exclusive tracks that weren't featured in DASH 1: the Staff Roll tune and the Pop CD. I'll get more on that later as I need to log-off soon.

EDIT 2: I should have added "Alternate" for the topic name.

EDIT: I'll finish this topic once i'm done with my business

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Gaming / Where, How, or When did you learn about the cheat codes for the first time?

« on: January 05, 2009, 12:30:54 PM »

Where did you guys learn about the cheat codes for the first time. Obviously, most 16-bit games came out before the internet, so did you hear about it from your friends, or did you just accidentally discover them?

I first discovered Sonic 1 and 2 cheats (and game cheat codes in general) from the 100th issue of EGM on Nov 1997. I totally recall feeling very ecstatic about a level select included in Sonic 1 so I didn’t have to deal with Labyrinth Zone anymore. Debug Mode was awesome too because you got to mess with objects from the game like those teleporter boxes which I would often place them in a row for me to spindash through and break them, just for the screen to strobe flash and the game to crash just for kicks.

Oh, and that Blue Sphere game? I had no idea it existed until when I was in second grade, when a fifth grader told me that if I pressed A + B + C at the same time with a non-Sonic game cartridge, I could have access to the millions of Special Stages within Sonic & Knuckles, which Blue Sphere basically was. I know its not really a cheat code tale, but it was awesome to get game info through word of mouth at the time.

God those were the days.

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Entertainment / Breaking: The voice actress of Meowth ~ Maddie Blaustein has died....

« on: December 18, 2008, 11:27:03 PM »

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-12-16/pokemon-voice-actress-maddie-blaustein-passes-away
http://www.4kids.tv/buzz/view/2005

Oh my god. Not too long ago, I’ve read her interviews and she seemed like a very passionate, brave, and awesome person too. I’ve heard Meowth’s replacement in the PUSA dub of the Pokemon anime before, and I always knew you couldn’t have Meowth without her.

I wish her well in the next life.

EDIT: Damn. Now that I think about, all the cooler people are dying this year…

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Off The Wall / Bad parenting, or "All about shitty parents topic"

« on: December 14, 2008, 05:01:26 AM »

Meh.

Last month, I was in the library at my college campus using the computers, there was this black dude sitting next to me looking at freaking Usher or something with his 2-3 year old son. The kid keeps asking about his mother and starts complaining, father tells him to shut up "Yo' mama's with yo' outha mama", and then the kid starts whining. He calmly whispers to the kid, "Shut the f**k up, I said shut the f**k up", and then "Want me to pop you in the f**king mouth?", kid get ferocious, slams the keyboard, and then SMAAASH!! Father pops the kids mouth and screams at the kid who, at this point, starts crying very faintly, then outright brawls like a lion. The dad then proceeds to grab him by the arms and heads toward the exit (and as they exited the building by the door, starts dragging him by the hair.  ) with everyone around watching the scene. I didn't see no cops around, now that I think about.

Any unfortunate sightings or stories about sad-excuse mommies and daddies beating their kids, or just bad parenting you wish to share?

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Off The Wall / The most terrible thing you have ever done, Anywhere.

« on: December 05, 2008, 07:56:23 PM »

Title says it all, contest is currently on!

I hated this troll (Or at least I think it was.) named Lunchebox from the Mega Man Matrix (Worse forum ever) forums so I PM'd him some animal pornography. Long story.

And then I got an instant perma-ban.