"A North American version was localized into English but abandoned as commercially unviable. A copy of this prototype was later found and circulated on the Internet as EarthBound Zero."
Ugh. Never mind. Looked it up and the service it uses shut down even though a remote service shouldn't be fucking necessary to trade ingame shit between players.
Dear developers: stop tying up game content with social media you don't plan on keeping up permanently. If you must do so, add a goddamn fallback for when it stops. This is not difficult.
Sincerely, a very irritated bee.
PS: Seriously, this release was almost two years after WiiConnect24 was shut down. Patch that shit out.
TL;DR * some dude extorts keys from devs, especially devs of relatively obscure games * threatens them with bad press/reviews/curation if they don't respond to him * trades the keys away anyway * has a network of six groups, some with over 10000 members * bribes other people to write reviews a certain way using free game keys
If you're a member of any of the following groups:
Original Traders Group Original Curators Group Original Giveaway Group German Giveaway Community Original Society Club Duck Society
I looked into some of the pictures. Getting blackmailed by a guy who uses sentences like "This is more as unprofessionell!" has got to really, REALLY suck.
This sort of thing is the reason I was against the idea of curators, and I haven't really seen much positive in return. Would not be saddened to see the whole feature removed.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I bought something during the GOG Summer Sale and got a free code for SimCity 2000 Special Edition.
Thing is, I already own SimCity 2000 Special Edition.
So if anyone wants the code, let me know and I'll PM it to you. First-come, first-serve.
See but actually that's the kind of bonus stuff I love in Castlevania titles it just seems like on a moment to moment scale Ecclesia is just not as well put together. I don't know how to classify the whole because I'm not far enough, though.
I should probably play the GBA titles. They look to be pretty decently ambitious, and their environments seem more interesting.
I'm just bitter because I'm stuck on Rusalka. But the environments still aren't all that interesting, I stand by that. Does that get better once you enter the castle?
Q-beh Half Minute Hero Ichi Double Pack Valkyria Chronicles Spiderweb Software complete pack (for less than the one game in it that I was actually interested in!)
I'm continuing to watch for flash sales of Ys 6, Gurumin, or FF7/8. But yeah, that was almost half my wishlist.
Also, I bought the Ichi Double Pack, so I have a giftable copy. If anyone's interested in a one-button puzzle game, just speak up.
GOG and Steam Summer Sales at the same time, in fact.
I picked up from GOG: * Secret Agent * Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure * Gex * Valdis Story: Abyssal City * Hocus Pocus * Terraria (DRM-free version, despite having the Steam version myself, so basically now I can lend this copy to a friend to play with me.
Got SimCity 2000 as a freebie, for spending at least $1.
If I spend at least another $3.28, and then I also get S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. I would like to pick up Shovel Knight, but considering that its "regular" discount on Steam is just -15%, it's almost certain that it won't go down to -66% or lower (for a price tag of about $5) on GOG. So I'll need to figure out something else. Maybe I'll just throw in Sudeki and Superfrog? Ehh...
Oh, I also picked up Valkyria Chronicles on Steam, at -75%. Waiting to see if Ikaruga drops below its current -50% discount. I'll definitely pick it up at -75%. Picking up yet another gift copy of Recetter or even the whole Carpe Fulgur set is quite tempting, for just $4.99 for one or $9.99 for the whole set...
I'm mostly just holding out to see if Borderlands: TPS goes down to 75% off from the current 50% discount before I get anything, as it's 29.99 right now and I only have $20.
Some of the other indie stuff on my Wishlist like Trash TV and Broken Age are beckoning, though. Thus, the Struggle begins.
Finished Bunny Must Die 100% 2hr run. Actually, it was closer to 1:15, because I only missed a few pickups when doing the 1hr run anyway.
Trying Chelsea 15%. Good...God. I forgot how fantastically bad Chelsea is. At EVERYTHING. She can spam ladders on air bosses, and that's it -- unless you're on a 15% run, in which case you have one mana and have to wait forever in between attacks. The bosses that are actually exclusive to her are really easy, but literally everything else in the game, up to and including random monsters, throws directional attacks she has no way of defending against.
Lord Pumpkish gets turned into pure luck. I actually beat him once, but died on the way back to the save point because Chelsea still has no fucking directional attack to kill the turrets or the sword bunny that are a) diagonal to the room entrance, and b) take up all available standing space.
I might have a small problem in the standard control schemes department I am used to TF2 controls for FPS (and not even default TF2 for that matter) but I hear TF2 is atypical for FPS games.
Hey, if you switch the red mage for white, and replace the monk with a stupid berserker, that was my last Fiesta party. Granted, I mostly got by via everyone having access to huge heals.
Atropos or whatever the hell his name was got a little sketchy at the end.
The bro and I bought ourselves the Pre-Sequel at 67% off for the Season Pass bundle; we split the cost of a $50 gift card and he had to let go of some trading cards to buy my copy but we both figured it was worth letting go in exchange for being able to play together.
My Steam wallet came out with the previously-placed $20 unscathed. #swag
I wound up beating Lord Pumpkish five times before I could reach the save point and make it stick -_- At least Jester and Alice were relatively easy, despite my epic fails on Jester.
So now I'm at 12% with everything I need to finish the game...except 3 mana. Which will put me at 16%. Obviously I was going to just rush items in a no-save from here anyway, but it's a little weird to have it literally impossible to finish the game with 15% items. Unless I'm missing something, you absolutely need the ladder, bomb, full-screen attack, red and blue orbs, and three mana. Right?
Ugh, fuck. This is so much easier with Bunny because she can shoot in more than one direction. I get the feeling I'm going to be safety-bombing most of the rooms with the AOE.
Okay, so it turns out the AOE attack you get after Alice makes navigating with Chelsea super-easy for the most part. And hilariously cheap.
So now all I have to do is do my no-save pickup run again, without epic failing the final devil like I did this time (I completely forgot her forms...). I know I've damn near flawlessed her before, and Bunny is easy as long as she doesn't missile spam or instakill you with her gold form. I feel like I can finish the 1hr run with only about half the powerups.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Dear developers: stop tying up game content with social media you don't plan on keeping up permanently. If you must do so, add a goddamn fallback for when it stops. This is not difficult.
Sincerely, a very irritated bee.
PS: Seriously, this release was almost two years after WiiConnect24 was shut down. Patch that shit out.
TL;DR
* some dude extorts keys from devs, especially devs of relatively obscure games
* threatens them with bad press/reviews/curation if they don't respond to him
* trades the keys away anyway
* has a network of six groups, some with over 10000 members
* bribes other people to write reviews a certain way using free game keys
If you're a member of any of the following groups:
Original Curators Group
Original Giveaway Group
German Giveaway Community
Original Society Club
Duck Society
This sort of thing is the reason I was against the idea of curators, and I haven't really seen much positive in return. Would not be saddened to see the whole feature removed.
I agree.
See but actually that's the kind of bonus stuff I love in Castlevania titles it just seems like on a moment to moment scale Ecclesia is just not as well put together. I don't know how to classify the whole because I'm not far enough, though.
I should probably play the GBA titles. They look to be pretty decently ambitious, and their environments seem more interesting.
For a real crazy ride exploring the castles, play Symphony and Harmony.
And don't break Rusalka's moais.
I'm doing everything right, she's just a damned sponge. Guess I'll grind a bit.
You know, as I wrote this I was thinking how incomprehensible those sentences would be a hundred years in the future.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Q-beh
Half Minute Hero
Ichi Double Pack
Valkyria Chronicles
Spiderweb Software complete pack (for less than the one game in it that I was actually interested in!)
I'm continuing to watch for flash sales of Ys 6, Gurumin, or FF7/8. But yeah, that was almost half my wishlist.
Also, I bought the Ichi Double Pack, so I have a giftable copy. If anyone's interested in a one-button puzzle game, just speak up.
Also I have...this thing
Unknown package (15121)
So if anyone wants...that? I guess? :S
I picked up from GOG:
* Secret Agent
* Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure
* Gex
* Valdis Story: Abyssal City
* Hocus Pocus
* Terraria (DRM-free version, despite having the Steam version myself, so basically now I can lend this copy to a friend to play with me.
Got SimCity 2000 as a freebie, for spending at least $1.
If I spend at least another $3.28, and then I also get S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. I would like to pick up Shovel Knight, but considering that its "regular" discount on Steam is just -15%, it's almost certain that it won't go down to -66% or lower (for a price tag of about $5) on GOG. So I'll need to figure out something else. Maybe I'll just throw in Sudeki and Superfrog? Ehh...
Oh, I also picked up Valkyria Chronicles on Steam, at -75%. Waiting to see if Ikaruga drops below its current -50% discount. I'll definitely pick it up at -75%. Picking up yet another gift copy of Recetter or even the whole Carpe Fulgur set is quite tempting, for just $4.99 for one or $9.99 for the whole set...
wtf
Some of the other indie stuff on my Wishlist like Trash TV and Broken Age are beckoning, though. Thus, the Struggle begins.
Trying Chelsea 15%. Good...God. I forgot how fantastically bad Chelsea is. At EVERYTHING. She can spam ladders on air bosses, and that's it -- unless you're on a 15% run, in which case you have one mana and have to wait forever in between attacks. The bosses that are actually exclusive to her are really easy, but literally everything else in the game, up to and including random monsters, throws directional attacks she has no way of defending against.
Lord Pumpkish gets turned into pure luck. I actually beat him once, but died on the way back to the save point because Chelsea still has no fucking directional attack to kill the turrets or the sword bunny that are a) diagonal to the room entrance, and b) take up all available standing space.
At least I know Chelsea can cheese Alice.
some play for accomplishment
some play for freedom
some play for catharsis
some play for empathy
some play for bonding
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Monk, Red Mage, Ranger, Dancer. I'm sure those guys didn't want to do actual damage anyway.
Atropos or whatever the hell his name was got a little sketchy at the end.
And I thought Monk is a high damage class?
My Steam wallet came out with the previously-placed $20 unscathed. #swag
So now I'm at 12% with everything I need to finish the game...except 3 mana. Which will put me at 16%. Obviously I was going to just rush items in a no-save from here anyway, but it's a little weird to have it literally impossible to finish the game with 15% items. Unless I'm missing something, you absolutely need the ladder, bomb, full-screen attack, red and blue orbs, and three mana. Right?
Ugh, fuck. This is so much easier with Bunny because she can shoot in more than one direction. I get the feeling I'm going to be safety-bombing most of the rooms with the AOE.
I'm not sure what to call it, other than "very Japanese". BMD is less so, Touhou more so.
So now all I have to do is do my no-save pickup run again, without epic failing the final devil like I did this time (I completely forgot her forms...). I know I've damn near flawlessed her before, and Bunny is easy as long as she doesn't missile spam or instakill you with her gold form. I feel like I can finish the 1hr run with only about half the powerups.
Doesn't quite have the same charm as squid/kid.
Splatoon > TF2
Mother 1 is going to be released (as Earthbound Beginnings) in a few hours on the Wii U virtual console.
What are your thoughts on this announcement?