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Sonichuman Level 18

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2 hours ago, purbeast said:

Holy shit I was watching the Super Mario Kart episode of Game Historian and was reading the comments and someone mentioned Sami Cetin being the worlds best SMK player, so I searched youtube for him.

 

This is CRAZY how good these guys are lmao!

 

 

These guys are on another level with this game.  This is pretty crazy stuff.  It's crazy how after watching the Gaming Historian I understand what they're doing with the power sliding especially just keeping just doing it slightly on straightaways if possible.

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iStu X Level 18

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1 hour ago, Chadouken said:

I think @iStu X has a couple on display.

Yeah. But my collection is 200+. 
if all he has in around two dozen then there isn’t really anything special he’d need. Some kind of long shelf or small multi tiered/compartment book case. 🤷‍♂️

 

others recommendations are better than mine 

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purbeast Level 13

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1 hour ago, Sonichuman said:

These guys are on another level with this game.  This is pretty crazy stuff.  It's crazy how after watching the Gaming Historian I understand what they're doing with the power sliding especially just keeping just doing it slightly on straightaways if possible.

It was much easier to do that "drifting on a straight away" (snaking) in the DS version where you don't even jump when pressing the shoulder buttons.  I honestly had no clue it was even a thing in SMK until that video.

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Sonichuman Level 18

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26 minutes ago, purbeast said:

It was much easier to do that "drifting on a straight away" (snaking) in the DS version where you don't even jump when pressing the shoulder buttons.  I honestly had no clue it was even a thing in SMK until that video.

Yeah, Snaking is WAY easier than what the fuck they're doing in this game.  They're essentially holding the shoulder button to be in perpetual powerslide at all nearly all times.  When they're on the straightaways they're just tapping left or right JUST ENOUGH to be doing a slight powerslide and keep it.  I don't even know what the timing is on that or if that is a Bowser or DKjr only thing but I'm tempted to try it out because with the way how powersliding works in this game I'd imagine it's delicate balance.  Any part at like at 5:50 where the character is not facing forward but at a slight tilt but still kinda going straight is them doing that.

 

Edit: And I didn't even know you can do that offroad and still manage to keep your speed somewhat which is even more crazy.

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purbeast Level 13

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23 minutes ago, Sonichuman said:

Yeah, Snaking is WAY easier than what the fuck they're doing in this game.  They're essentially holding the shoulder button to be in perpetual powerslide at all nearly all times.  When they're on the straightaways they're just tapping left or right JUST ENOUGH to be doing a slight powerslide and keep it.  I don't even know what the timing is on that or if that is a Bowser or DKjr only thing but I'm tempted to try it out because with the way how powersliding works in this game I'd imagine it's delicate balance.  Any part at like at 5:50 where the character is not facing forward but at a slight tilt but still kinda going straight is them doing that.

 

Edit: And I didn't even know you can do that offroad and still manage to keep your speed somewhat which is even more crazy.

The "drifting" into the jump on Mario GP2 by the P2 dude was like WTF?  He was totally turned to the right but going to the left and in the dirt but losing no speed at all lol.  He did it multiple times too.  I noticed he did some sort of jump into the jump that caused that to happen.

 

I also noticed how they would manually jump over all of the little jumps on the tracks.  I wonder if it's to keep better control or because you drop speed slightly if you go off the jump but assuming the former.  And then holy shit the shortcuts on the ghost track in special cup.  LMAO I had no clue about some of those!

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Sonichuman Level 18

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8 minutes ago, purbeast said:

The "drifting" into the jump on Mario GP2 by the P2 dude was like WTF?  He was totally turned to the right but going to the left and in the dirt but losing no speed at all lol.  He did it multiple times too.  I noticed he did some sort of jump into the jump that caused that to happen.

 

I also noticed how they would manually jump over all of the little jumps on the tracks.  I wonder if it's to keep better control or because you drop speed slightly if you go off the jump but assuming the former.  And then holy shit the shortcuts on the ghost track in special cup.  LMAO I had no clue about some of those!

They have to manually jump both to keep speed and also because they're going so fast that it's possible to hit a normal jump and you go so high that you land right into the lava after the next jump.

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purbeast Level 13

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2 minutes ago, Sonichuman said:

They have to manually jump both to keep speed and also because they're going so fast that it's possible to hit a normal jump and you go so high that you land right into the lava after the next jump.

Nah but they did it where that wouldn't happen, like on ghost house 1 on the random little jump.  I've definitely jumped into the lava on bowser castle though by hitting the jumps.

 

If you go back and watch it, pretty much every jump that goes over a gap they manually jump over it no matter where it is in the track.

 

Them dudes on a whole other level lol.  I thought I was the shit back in the day playing on Xband and beating the #2 guy in SMK.  Apparently I'm trash.

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Sonichuman Level 18

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4 minutes ago, purbeast said:

Nah but they did it where that wouldn't happen, like on ghost house 1 on the random little jump.  I've definitely jumped into the lava on bowser castle though by hitting the jumps.

 

If you go back and watch it, pretty much every jump that goes over a gap they manually jump over it no matter where it is in the track.

 

Them dudes on a whole other level lol.  I thought I was the shit back in the day playing on Xband and beating the #2 guy in SMK.  Apparently I'm trash.

And then there's that Mushroom tech that I didn't know about where you hit the wall once with the boost and have to miss it on the 2nd to get an even longer boost that sometimes lasts for a ridiculously long amount time time.  Definitely knew nothing about this.

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MillionX Level 16

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One of my favorites from the NES era was Guardian Legend... though it was tough to find for some reason; I only saw it at Blockbuster at the time, so I just had to be happy renting it on repeated occasions.  There was also Little Nemo the Dream Master and Karnov as the slightly lesser-known stuff that was fun for me back then.  

 

A friend at the time had the Master System, and my favorite on that system was definitely Space Harrier.  There was a "Planet Harriers" game in the works for Dreamcast but that would never come to be when they ended the system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Harriers

ah, thanks to youtube I finally get to see how this actually looked...it was an arcade game, and yep, the Dreamcast game never materialized due to the system dying...eh, doesn't look quite as good as I remember though.

 

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Hecatom Level 18

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1 hour ago, Sonichuman said:

DNF Duel announced grand balance patch, new dlc character, and Switch release

https://www.gematsu.com/2022/12/dnf-duel-grand-balance-patch-dlc-character-spectre-and-switch-version-announced

 

What I love about this, is that Some months ago, I told my friends who I play with is that the character I wanted the most to be added to DnF was Female Slayer, and here she is the 1st DLC char

 

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I got robbed in Salmon Run last night. We are giving Cohozuna the WORK. I got the Blaster and I'm WHALING on that MF. He's almost dead. He's practically in the ground or the sea or wherever you bury EVA sizded Salmonids. Victory is assured. But then the game said: Can't let you do that, Star Fox.

 

The connection is unstable.

 

Me:

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No Way Omg GIF by Major League Soccer

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I. AM. LIVID. 

 

There is no salt for anything. No salt for fries. No salt for any angry streamers. I have ALL of the salt. I AM THE SALT.

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MillionX Level 16

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That power-leveling in Diablo 3 is just too sweet every time... I created a new wizard for the hell of it, this late into the season.  Thanks to that "Gem of Ease", I had him equipped with a level 70 primal weapon right from level 1....along with that power in the Kanai cube that makes it so gold also grants experience ("custarian wristguards").  I should've timed how fast the leveling was going... in a matter of minutes... probably 20 or so... this fresh character was already up to the late 50s....didn't take long to get him all the way to 70 and then fully geared up with legendary stuff.  Besides that primal, I also have a legacy of dreams gem so his power was insane for not having set item bonuses yet.

 

Out of curiosity I checked this out since Elder Scrolls Online came to mind recently, and I was thinking about getting into that again...but apparently vampirism got a bit of a nerf to the mist form in PvE content specifically...

...a shame that this game had to be made as an mmo... that aspect of it has always been terribly disappointing to me, since I don't like that genre normally....partly because it's a genre that *has* to be online-only by default, due to its very nature.  ..as if to add insult to injury... in the time I played ESO, it was actually far more stable/reliable than some editions of Skyrim.  I could play for hours on end without any bizarre, typical Bethesda half-ass "issues" ruining my fun.

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OPTIMUS124 Level 16

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3 hours ago, Sonichuman said:

 

I feel so bad for the Guerilla Games team. Their last two big projects are stellar but are released in the same window as other well received titles. Their product team needs some black ops intel regarding what else is coming out around them. The only other game in recent memory with similar luck was Titanfall 2. 

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2 hours ago, OPTIMUS124 said:

I feel so bad for the Guerilla Games team. Their last two big projects are stellar but are released in the same window as other well received titles. Their product team needs some black ops intel regarding what else is coming out around them. The only other game in recent memory with similar luck was Titanfall 2. 

Yeah, they have been shafted every time, although, with HFW, I feel that the game was kind of subpar when compared to the previous game and the current competition.

The game feels old when it comes to its design and the story doesnt hold up in a way that makes you ignore its issues that the game has.

 

Plus, they uglified Alloy, and she nevers shuts up 🤣

 

 

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3 hours ago, Hecatom said:

Yeah, they have been shafted every time, although, with HFW, I feel that the game was kind of subpar when compared to the previous game and the current competition.

I would say that the novelty wore off. In a similar vein, GOWR is stellar in (mo-cap) performance and looks but is a more refined version of the previous entry. 

 

3 hours ago, Hecatom said:

The game feels old when it comes to its design and the story doesnt hold up in a way that makes you ignore its issues that the game has.

I feel the same way about GOWR. Its still great, but playing through the title, the first game had a much tighter story. 

 

3 hours ago, Hecatom said:

Plus, they uglified Alloy, and she nevers shuts up 🤣

The former was much less of a concern than the latter 🤣

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3 hours ago, Hecatom said:

Yeah, they have been shafted every time, although, with HFW, I feel that the game was kind of subpar when compared to the previous game and the current competition.

The game feels old when it comes to its design and the story doesnt hold up in a way that makes you ignore its issues that the game has.

 

Plus, they uglified Alloy, and she nevers shuts up 🤣

 

 

That game is still in my back log. I couldn't pull myself away from the first game and I keep forgetting I have the second one. I really need to put the disk in my PS5 and start up the game. I popped it in to install the game and get my free PS5 upgrade and never bothered to actually play it. As for the Alloy appearance situation, if you don't want your character to have a pretty face then don't scan the face of an attractive woman. It's the most pointless controversy ever. No one forced Hannah Hoekstra on them, they chose her. I didn't see anyone complaining about her being too attractive in the first game.

 

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7 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

That game is still in my back log. I couldn't pull myself away from the first game and I keep forgetting I have the second one. I really need to put the disk in my PS5 and start up the game. I popped it in to install the game and get my free PS5 upgrade and never bothered to actually play it. As for the Alloy appearance situation, if you don't want your character to have a pretty face then don't scan the face of an attractive woman. It's the most pointless controversy ever. No one forced Hannah Hoekstra on them, they chose her. I didn't see anyone complaining about her being too attractive in the first game.

 

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Agreed. It's a talking point that I wondered about through my playthrough but never really impacted the experience. 

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I literally did not see any difference between Aloy's HZD face and her HFW face that couldn't be chalked up to graphical upgrades. But hey, I'm not the best judge. I just now started seeing Eminem's face in his daughter Hallie Jade's.

 

But I hate "controversies" like that. If you're at all miffed that Aloy's "uglier", I'll blow your mind when I tell you that porn is free.

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12 minutes ago, axeman61 said:

I literally did not see any difference between Aloy's HZD face and her HFW face that couldn't be chalked up to graphical upgrades. But hey, I'm not the best judge. I just now started seeing Eminem's face in his daughter Hallie Jade's.

 

But I hate "controversies" like that. If you're at all miffed that Aloy's "uglier", I'll blow your mind when I tell you that porn is free.

I'm not a tinfoil hat guy but I honestly wonder if they didn't do this on purpose for the controversy. As I said earlier Aloy's appearance wasn't a thing in HZD. Well with one exception, a lot of people were freaked out by child Aloy 🤣

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She's definitely a little chunkier in the face but she's not even remotely ugly and I feel bad for some of yalls ladies if you think Aloy suddenly is. Hope your girl don't ever gain a couple lbs. 

 

I think the statement they put out about it was really badly worded. She's not uglier, she just looks less like a super model and more like someone who actually lives in "The Wild." She's not gonna be a 120lb waif with perfect weight proportions, she eats what she can find, shes not on the Marvel diet. So she's gonna be a bit heavy with muscle all over her body, including her face and it's gonna make her look a bit heavy because muscle is bulky and weighs a lot. 

 

Like the decision makes perfect sense with the life she leads. 

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Sonichuman Level 18

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Can't say I really cared about how Aloy looked so long as she wasn't like morbidly obese doing all that running, swimming, jumping and sliding around while fighting the machines (Which would be funny...think there's a skin for Nathan Drake that made him fat in Uncharted 2 IIRC).  Attractiveness is a generally subjective thing and I thought personally she looked ok.  She's not at a level that that if she offered I would turn her down *shrug*.

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Sonichuman Level 18

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1 hour ago, VirginDefiler said:

 

other than gowr and anno idk any good games that came out this year. 

i need to see the categories of this year on their twitter cuz. shrug.

i hope itll be a fun vga this year cuz ever since 2020 quarantine the vga have been dull.

hoping some actual memorable premieres pop up.

A good chunk of the likely GotY contenders that were going to get released this year got shifted into next year leaving Elden Ring and Dad of War Ragnarok to sweep up.  There were still a lot of great games that released this year that were included in the nominations like Bayo 3 and XBC 3 but they are unlikely to win in any cat where those 2 are in save for the slim chance of story or music (more so XBC3 than Bayo 3).

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46 minutes ago, Sonichuman said:

Can't say I really cared about how Aloy looked so long as she wasn't like morbidly obese doing all that running, swimming, jumping and sliding around while fighting the machines (Which would be funny...think there's a skin for Nathan Drake that made him fat in Uncharted 2 IIRC).  Attractiveness is a generally subjective thing and I thought personally she looked ok.  She's not at a level that that if she offered I would turn her down *shrug*.

Yea it was called like Donut Mode or something. They even pitched Drakes voice down so he would sound deep and baritone. Was pretty funny. I admit to never using it tho. 

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Sonichuman Level 18

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13 minutes ago, YourFavGrandpa said:

damn, got my hopes up for nothing

Not trying to kill ya hopes just keeping expectations in check.  If its anything like DBFZ it'll still be good/great to take on the go for practice and for locals but of course because of tbe nature of the system a good chunk of the connections will be wireless.  I'm kind of curious if rollback is just too resource intensive to work on the Switch since no games are even trying to implement it.

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20 minutes ago, Sonichuman said:

Not trying to kill ya hopes just keeping expectations in check.  If its anything like DBFZ it'll still be good/great to take on the go for practice and for locals but of course because of tbe nature of the system a good chunk of the connections will be wireless.  I'm kind of curious if rollback is just too resource intensive to work on the Switch since no games are even trying to implement it.

I thought Arika added to the Switch version of Fighting EX Layer earlier this year?  I remember my version of the game updating and the netcode was certainly improved. Wait here is an article.

 

https://nintendoeverything.com/fighting-ex-layer-another-dash-2-2-0-april-update-to-add-new-netcode-on-switch/

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