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I don't see Dante on your list PBGuns? In a Nintendo game starring Mario? Hahahahahahahahahaha
Whatchu tryin' to pull?
@Kharaxel: I took this screenshot from a flashback.The Trigun anime was already good enough and followed the plot to some extent. I actually prefer the way it leads through events as opposed to the manga (which is also good, just not as goood, IMO). Badlands Rumble was exactly what we needed. Stuff that doesn't fit in the anime, but what the hell, it's amazingly good anyway.
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Hellsing was one of the earlier mangas that influenced me, I still love it. Another one is Trigun but Badlands Rumble was just fanservice. I want them to do a Trigun anime remake that actually follows the plot >O
Yes, my mum is a bigger otaku than I am. Problem?
Um, something may or may not have gone wrong but Super Robot Taisen OG Saga Endless Frontier is a turn-based RPG...Give Rhapsody a try. It's probably one of the easiest and most entertaining strategy RPGs around. Good entry point.
...=w=a I thought this was about new things D: But it seems it's also unique in that it's the one in the series that plays like this. Okay time to find a different Super Robot Taisen...
There are a bunch, any recommendations? orz
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This is rather "late to the party" gaming instead of an "open your mind" challenge.In a forum of mostly weeaboos, I am currently reading a reply of a guy who tells me he's trying out some of the finest role-playing games ever made, and enjoying them.
After years, almost decades, of mostly JRPGs I am currently getting into WRPG/CRPGs. Namely Baldur's Gate 1+2+Expansion and Planescape Torment. I should have picked them up earlier. They're REALLY good. Also spending more time on Diablo 2 and, with the sequel coming soon, tried the Witcher 1. Really neat-o. These should keep me occupied for a while. I'm just not used to mouse+keyboard controls, and my desktop layout doesn't make the whole thing more comfortable either. C'est la vie
Thing is, I never really viewed it that way. I personally enjoy doing tactical stuff, so the backseat position kind of fit me like a glove. Really, in the crazy world of Mario Kart you're never really sitting there and doing nothing. You're either watching for karts to punch/steal from, being aware of collected items, and watching the road so that you can correct a mistake if/when the driver makes one. "Constantly doing stuff" doesn't exactly have to constitute of something that's more 'action-packed', as the backseat driver carries an equal importance to the driver, it's just a different style of play altogether. Quick reaction and a sharp eye both go along way in either position, and one can't really function without the other. I personally had fun being the backseat driver, and certainly wouldn't call it a useless mode. If it ever comes back it'd be neat as an optional mode or something. More options are never a bad thing when it comes to games, I'd say.No, it doesn't carry an equal importance to the driver. It's simply the item guy, as I said. You can't look back or aim, so no extra functionality other than that leaning thing. And all you do is take out the fun mechanic of the race from the driver. The item-throwing mechanic. You literally do less than you'd do in Mario Galaxy if you picked the optional helper. A game does not need someone extra to be "aware of items" or "watch out for driver mistakes to correct". This isn't Colin McRae, it's Mario Kart. Those things are what the driver should be doing in the first place. If you like it, then sure, I got nothing against it. But it's a useless mechanic from a second player's point of view. A Mario Kart game doesn't require those incredibly detailed things. You just race and have fun.
Yeah, I loved the way the karts 'felt' in SC, even moreso than 64. Also, SC has the unique distinction of being the only game where Red Shells have an effect when tossed backwards. It would just lie there motionless until someone got into the vicinity of it, in which case it would lock-on to the person who "woke it up" and hit them. It was a neat concept, and it kinda stinks that they just up and scrapped it like that.
On the other hand, the coin-collecting never really sat well with me. With so many carts in close proximity, you were bound to bump into people quite a bit. Considering the fact that you lost a coin every time someone bumped you, and you automatically spun out after losing all of them...yeah. That got annoying really quickly. Thankfully you could turn them off in VS mode, and there were plenty of courses where you could collect a bundle of them so you could unlock the SNES courses.
As far as the whole co-op thing goes, I actually liked being the backseat driver! At first glance you'd think that the only job was to toss items, but there's so much more strategy involved in that position. You actually had the ability to sway the kart left or right using L or R, and this could do anything from help them dodge a Green Shell/Banana to avoiding falling into a pit for P1 making a driving mistake. Swaying into a kart adjacent to you would cause you to punch them, which not only hit them but would steal their item if they were carrying once. The backseat position is actually pretty important in its own right and serves to complement or correct the playing style of the driver. I think the one thing that would've been nice was some kind of rear-view cam; since you're back there you should actually be able to see who's behind you and what's coming at you. Would be nice as you could in theory prepare for what's coming and try to intercept it. I do agree with PB's complaints about Double Dash as a whole, but I thought that the co-op mechanic was interesting and maybe could be revisited in a game that's more balanced as an optional mode of play.I understand that the backseat position felt cool and it felt like you could influence some stuff, but it was ultimately completely useless as a Mario Kart mode, man. It's just not fun to play that way. If you were constantly doing stuff, then yes. But any game that has you wait for anything to happen while the other player plays happily while you do nothing most of the time, is just not a good one.
I do think that Super Circuit is a very underrated game, though. It doesn't suffer from a lot of the balance problems that are discussed in the newer titles, and plays like a neat fusion of SMK and MK64. It did have a very interesting gimmick for its Rainbow Road, in that the majority of the walls were jump panels and could do anything from creating a shortcut to careening you off of the edge of the stage. A lot of the tracks and music were nice too, such as Snow Land, Cheese Land, Boo Lake, Sky Garden, and the Bowser tracks.
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