I would like to say that I picked up Ducktales Remastered on Steam and the only crash I had was while I was trying to stream it well after I had beaten the game, and i think that was because of options I was screwing around with with Procaster moreso than the game's fault, because it crashed pretty much the moment I selected a level.
I'm also kinda gaga about pretty much everything Wayforward does and am a total apologist for thier shortcomings. Shantae happens to be one of my top 5 favorite games of all time, as a matter of fact!
You've talked about my incredible nerd mastery of Mega Man during the Mega Man 3 RetroActive.
Also, yeah. I have a history with Ducktales as well as both a TV show and a kickass video game.
Ducktales Remastered is something to me that I'd equate to like... Ogre Battle 64 with Vanillaware doing the graphics would be to James.
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I am SO sick of Mass Effect. You have NO clue.
None.
like...
Okay, I have to explain this, because Mass Effect as a series that has not only made me incredibly bitter towards EA, but also towards my father and Microsoft's efforts in the console space entirely. It is a grand tale of woe, sorrow, multiple hardware failures, and thousands of dollars spent on the most superfluous bullshit -EVER-.
Pretty much, I rented Mass Effect 1 on a whim. I had never played a Bioware game before. My friend thought me insane for never having played KOTOR. So... I try this game. rent it. Then my dad starts watching me play it and thinks it looks "Cool as ****". He wanted to try it. and so I let him start a file.
And he played it
And played it
and played it
and wouldn't let me take it back to blockbuster.
And beat it before I did, but not before repeatedly getting stuck and demanding I play the most frustrating part of the game after he had been all but ignoring the leveling up and loot systems. or every time he couldn't open a box by playing simon says.
And then he IMMEDIATLEY started a new game. named Shepherd the same thing. Chose the same class, history... everything. and proceeded to play it again.
and again.
and again. Getting stuck in the same spots mind you and demanding I super guide him through the piss annoying parts each time.
Then my Xbox RROD'd. SWEET FREEDOM! at least for a bit. then we got it fixed by MS. by this time, ME2 was out, so he was constantly playing through that knee high barrier shooter over and over and over and over and over. then the CD drive went out on the xbox and he kept paying local dweebs to repair the thing, get it to work for a month,a nd something NEW would crap out on it. at this point I had sold all my retail games and just handed him the console because I was so sick of Mass Effect as a series. It had somehow degraded in quality with ME2's streamlining and got rid of all the crazy loot and wide open areas and things I had liked.
but my dad continued to play. this is when I got sick of the monotony a little bit and forced him to play something that wasn't the soldier class.
at any rate, he still plays Mass Effect 1-3 repeatedly to this day. he's gone through about 3 or 4 used Xboxes that he tried to pay people to repair on multiple occasions before giving up on them.
He still can't beat the Matriarch Benezia or the Simon Says puzzles for unlocking boxes in the first game. Also, a few weeks back he apparantly got enough war assets to see the green ending of Mass Effect 3 for the first time. he's currently got an Xbox 360 Slim with no HDD so he can't play his precious DLC or watch his extended ME3 ending. So that's nice.
Anyhow, I never bothered with Mass Effect 3. My dad effectively has ruined that trilogy for me.
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I've been playing KDL2 since 1995. it's one of those Kirby games made by what I like to refer to as the Hal B-Team. While Sakurai directly works on stuff like Kirby's Adventure, Kirby Super Star, and Super Star's ever famous spiritual sequel, SUPER SMASH BROS., the B-Team continued to make these shallow half-attempts at Kirby games with lazy level design, some lazy attempt at trying to do a mix n' match thing with copy abilities instead of just putting in the proper copy ability variety that has multiple moves, and a collect the chaos emeralds style final boss with goopey alien eyeballs of some sort.
That being said, I like Kirby a lot, so even the B-Team games like Crystal Shards, KDL2, and KDL3 have their charm.
Also, Johnny needs to play more KDL3 just so he can get to the Samus cameo.
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I got nothing on RotTK, but I'm putting a thing here regardless because why dafuq not? I've decided I'm commenting on every segment of New Business in this post.
That being said, this was amusing to listen to how befuddled James was at this game.
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The way Johnny describes Steamworld dig reminds me a tad of Terraria's progression, although with that game, ti's obviously not as thought out because procedural generation. Regardless, this game does sound appealing and I might have to try it out~!
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Even if Mario is attached to it, Golf really isn't my thing. that being said, I can appreciate the RPG mode on these things because by comparison, I -LOVE- Mario Tennis, so I can appreciate all the banter about this one.
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I'll do a different post for listener mail, methinks.