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Once, again, learn to English. Facetious bad grammar aside... I didn't say no one is paying $60 for games. I said "people" are not willing to pay $60. The normative inference to be drawn, being a sizeable enough segment of potential customers won't bite at $60, ergo the prompt deep sales. I'll tell you what. YOU tie Reticently in that English quiz Razor posted on SRK a couple of years back, and then get back to me.

Sigh. The base game is "full price" at $60. The Nissan Rogue S is "full price"at $15K. The special edition game is "full price" at $100. The Nissan Rogue SL is "full price" at $18K. They are different products.

I quite clearly stated that whatever the addition increased cost you pay for a special edition, you pay "full price" for said special edition. Inference and context. How do they work?

Because his dick is slightly longer than mine, albeit considerably thinner? He wasn't always Super Mario gone the way of the Frozen theme.

Then you need to learn how to comprehend English better. I am sorry, but it is evidently a fact.

Taxes are part of "full price". If a special edition costs more, it is still "full price", no more, no less.

Wat.

They kind of HAVE to. They have finally figured out that people won't pay $60 I mean $70 for a digital game st launch, when the hard copy is less and PC has pre-sale discounts. I have 50ish games on my PS4 Pro, and less than a handful bought at full-price. Of those, RE2:R and DQ11 were the only ones that I do not wholly regret buying at full price, Day One. Borderlands 3 was... a disappointment, to say the least. And Persona 5: The Royal is excellent, I hear... but I simply haven't gotten around to it yet, so paying full-price was impetuous. With load times what they were this gen, I decided to forego disks, AND install a Samsung SSD into my Pro. I do not mind waiting a month or two for a flash sale at $40 or less. If the game doesn't go down in 2 months time though, I wait for that deep $30 or under sale. I can wait. I am no addict. I am a customer. And games aren't crack.

I used it on pretty much all of the endgame chalice bosses... old fast skinny dude with dual sickles cannot handle the pressure. Feels good. Orphan still remains my most hated boss fight in the whole game. I'd run the front end almost exclusively 2-handing my Axe (had to go pistol and single hand Axe on Logarius... had a million near wins, spacing it out 2-handed, but that second form... fuck 'dat), but switched over to Moonlight in the DLC - which I completed, and then the end-game chalice dungeons, before hitting up Wet Nurse. I died so many times at Orphan, it was straight up Groundhog Day up in that Nightmare. I finally fell back to my O.G. preference, and perfected his first form 2-handing the Axe like a boss, before going the Logarius route on his second phase.

I roll with 'dat Str/Arc build. I love that thing. It makes short shrift of so many end-game bosses, it is just plain nuts.

When you're living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and the only option available for lumbar relief is your canonical Character Class.

The first area/first part of the RPD is the most redankulous RNG in the entire game. Which is to say the most bullshit randomness of any game I have ever played. The 2 Lickers was in Claire A Side, right? Yeah. That was a grand meta-test of "Don't jump." You had X. on your heels, and had to walk out of the West Office around them, open the door, unlock the other door, grab the crank and grenade, and position yourself where you could dash around the opposite side that X. comes a'pimp stalking, exit the room, then stop, then walk out into the hall, around the Licker, dashing into the West Office again. And Gods forbid you left that corpse next to the safe alone. Good times. Whilst I agree that ammo was plentiful after the RPD, on Side A, Side B Hardcore took the RNG fuckery and cranked it up even further. But yeah. RE4 IS phenomenal. There is a reason why I have purchased it 3 times in as many generations.

I honestly think that O. 2 didn't age nearly as well as my previous prescription for nostalgia glasses would have led me to believe. RE4 is phenomenal. But those goddammit QTEs, unless cheesed, are utter and complete bullshit, and really have no place in the game, imo. But what makes RE2:R the better game, once again, in my opinion, is the legitimate scarcity of resources, coupled with the oppressive claustrophobia. Merchant upgrades really ameliorated any and all sense of fear of running out of bam-bam, in RE4, and with it, a huge portion of the tension - even on the first playthrough.

RE2:R has made me a believer in properly done remakes. After S+ing all 4 scenarios on Hardcore, I am now of the opinion that it is by far and away the single best RE ever made. And one of the best games of this entire generation.

Ego Souls

Final Fantasy 6 and A Link to the Past.

I still maintain that Hibiki was the best part of CvS2.

analogous.. Me'Shell O. Bison ain't suing for Veep status. O. Man Homo No Homo mix ups for days can keep it. Me'Shell gettin' paper runnin' game on OrochiRogLander, squattin' at downback who's on fourth, like a Ross, best believe, act like you know.

At least it ain't page analingus.

Exactly my point. Lol. The term itself isn't bad. The way it is applied is.

Yup. It needs to be a directly similar experience for the term to have any value. If you call something a Metroid, I expect very similar attributes re: 2D labyrinth with power ups and weapons and armor. If you call something an Igavania, I expect a lengthy side-scrolling leveling RPG, with butt tons of weapons, armors, and other items, with secrets galore, all tucked behind item/skill gated puzzles and bosses standing in the way of your progress. Hell, Metroid is more of an Igavania than 99% of the games calling themselves Metroidvanias. And that's just plain wrong on so many levels.

I always interpreted it literally. That helps in an definition. So, to me, it means a game that literally has game systems very much directly similar to Symphony of the Night. It is like if a game is dubbed an "Arcade Racer", I expect something in the vein of Sega Rally. If a game such as Mario Kart, or Burnout, uses that as part of it's description, to describe its general feel, I find it is accurate and perfectly acceptable. Or if a game is dubbed a Side-Scrolling Beat 'em Up, I expect something akin to Double Dragon. Somethimg like Dragon's Crown, or Shadow over Mystra incorporating that into its description is also acceptable. Using bullshit allusions invoking the name of a game such as Dark Souls to inspire purchases of something rather dissimilar, such as Nioh, is pathetic, and if there were any justice in the world would lead to the hiring of a more scrupulous marketing team. I like Nioh. But it could be called a deliberate, slow-paced, punishing, low enemy count loot-based game with a stamina bar, and that would be entirely more accurate. Not pithy, by any means... but a whole lot more accurate than calling it a game in the same vein as Dark Souls.

Que crowds of anti-maskers surrounding the polling stations in 3,2,1...

Oh. Damn. I was hoping for at least weapons and whatnot.

That is PRECISELY why I said it, lol. I "get" yo' (~slide from you're to your) Mad Dog. ;)