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TalkBack / Re: Yooka-Replaylee (Switch 2) Review

« Last post by broodwars on October 08, 2025, 10:32:50 PM »

I'm surprised to read that someone actually used that World Expansion system in the original game for its intended purpose. In my original playthrough of Yooka-Laylee, I always expanded the worlds before I went in for the first time, so for me they were ALWAYS way too big for what little there was to do in them. I was hoping this remake would have fixed that problem.

My biggest concern with this remake from everything I've read and what I saw in the demo was where the sense of progression was going to be when all of your moves (minus Flight) were unlocked from the beginning. Kinda removes the mystique of a puzzle if you know going into every single one of them that you already have the solution.

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General Gaming / Re: Shocktober VI: Curse of NWR

« Last post by jarodea on October 04, 2025, 09:12:22 PM »

The only horror related game I have on my backlog is Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles.  It's not really a "backlog" game since I beat it on the Wii, but I have it on the Wii U and haven't really touched it.  My current Wii U backlog game is Axiom Verge but I think I'm done with it so there is a free slot.  Oh wait, while I'm typing this and checking things I have ZombiU on my Wii U backlog, so I'll go with that.

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Movies & TV / Re: All Things Netflix! Coming Soon: The Netflix Experience, Live and In Person!??

« Last post by Stratos on October 04, 2025, 12:02:06 AM »

Honestly I don't remember S1 having the issues you described at all. I do agree that S4 was great, but yeah, S3 has its issues and those issues were there to a degree in S2 but mostly contained to some small portions. But I forget a lot of it so it could just be a blended and faded memory. I'll probably re-watch it all one last time leading up to S5, but I don't see myself going back to the show a whole lot after it is all said and done.

Both how long it has taken and the show sagging under the weight of the stakes which have abruptly become very real and very high have taken away the possibility of the classic S1 charm from coming back. The best we can hope for is a great follow up and conclusion to S4, but that depends on a lot of things.

I agree taking a break would be good, then you can get S3-5 all out of the way and make a fine conclusion on everything.

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General Gaming / Re: Shocktober VI: Curse of NWR

« Last post by broodwars on October 03, 2025, 06:34:07 PM »

OK, change of plans: Yooka-Re-Playlee got delayed to December, and I won the local Silent Hill f GameStop preorder 2nd round lottery and got a steelbook. Also, my copy of the Gex Remaster Trilogy arrives tomorrow, though that most likely wouldn't qualify for this despite the obligatory Horror levels.

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General Chat / Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: Did SI Swipe The 2025 Sports Almanac?

« Last post by Khushrenada on October 03, 2025, 03:10:39 AM »

Even if your team goes out in the first round it creates some hope for next year and gives the season some purpose.  With baseball the season is a waste of time for like at least half of the teams that day one the fans know are NOT going to make it.  The Expos only had one playoff appearance in their entire time in Montreal.  Well no wonder they moved.  Who wants to watch a team that's so irrelevent?

The people of the great state of Texas, that's who!  Our perennial also-rans are well loved in spite of their nearly nonexistent playoff record, thank you very much.

Man, things sure changed in the past 15 years after this post. 7 Championship appearances by both Texas teams with 3 wins (2 for Astros, 1 for Rangers).

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General Chat / Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: Did SI Swipe The 2025 Sports Almanac?

« Last post by Khushrenada on October 03, 2025, 02:53:17 AM »

I'm so excited about the Guardians,

Welp, poor Insanolord. It really sucks when a team gets you hyped up in the last weeks of the regular season only to have a quick exit when the playoffs begin.

Was hoping the Red Sox might upset the Yankees but it was not to be. Hope the Jays can knock 'em out. The other series I'd like to watch when I can is Cubs and Brewers. Happy for either team to advance there.

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General Gaming / Re: Shocktober VI: Curse of NWR

« Last post by broodwars on October 02, 2025, 05:42:03 PM »

Probably not much from me this month. I was planning on playing Silent Hill f, but Gamestop utterly failed when it came to securing the Steelbooks they promised so I'm inclined to just wait till Black Friday to pick that game up. I am picking up Tormented Souls 2 later this month, but that comes out on the 23rd so it's possible I might not be done with that game by the end of the month. The other stuff I'm playing this month isn't horror-themed, like Yooka-Replaylee; Xenoblade 2; and TMNT: Splintered Fate (which I've been playing since the physical copy arrived a few days ago).

Might be a good time to play that port of Fear Effect that came out a month or so ago, or to do a proper replay of RE6.

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General Gaming / Re: Shocktober VI: Curse of NWR

« Last post by Adrock on October 02, 2025, 03:52:18 AM »

Mina the Hollower releases on actual Halloween so if there are any arbitrary prizes, anyone who beats that game in October should win by default.

I don’t have a list. I didn’t beat Another Code: Recollection in August so maybe that one again.

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General Gaming / Shocktober VI: Curse of NWR

« Last post by M.K.Ultra on October 02, 2025, 12:01:03 AM »

It's Shocktober again and time for our slightly spooky version of a "what have you been playing" forum topic.

When does this start?

Shocktober begins right now, and will last the entire month of October, ending after Halloween night.

What should I play?

Anything that falls under the classification of a "scary" game. Survival horror, action horror, a horror-themed FPS, anything with zombies, etc. In the interest of having fun, this can be more of a loose definition of what defines a scary game, and constitute anything that is more-or-less "spooky themed". Here are a few games that will come out this month:

• Little Nightmares 3
• Bye Sweet Carole
• Plants versus Zombies: Replanted
• Mina the Hollower
• Hannah

You can think of this as another Backlaugust if you want -- You've probably got horror games in your backlog, and it's time to play them. How many games you want to play is up to you, whether that's just one game or a few games. Any platform, doesn't matter. They can be new games, old games. Even horror games you've already beaten long ago and want to replay. You don't have to choose all of your games up front; you can if you want, but it's fine to just take it one-game-at-a-time.

Here are the previous years' threads:
[2024] [2023] [2022] [2021] [2020].

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General Chat / Re: The Major League Baseball Thread: Did SI Swipe The 2025 Sports Almanac?

« Last post by NWR_insanolord on September 28, 2025, 07:59:50 PM »

The Guardians clinched the Central when the Tigers lost to the Red Sox earlier in the afternoon, but finished the season with a walk-off 3 run home run in the 10th anyway for good measure. What an incredible finish, but now we have to play Detroit for a third series in three weeks.