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Youngster Joey

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  1. As someone who uses Linux mainly, gaming on Linux has come a long way. More recent games are better about compatibility through Proton. Older games pre-2016 can be a struggle. So it's not perfect, and I expect many will be disappointed when they discover the SteamDeck isn't the portable gaming PC they're imagining, and they'll give up when it requires tinkering inside Linux to obtain some form of playability (with oddities and crashing still possible.) I'm curious to see how it may handle emulation. I'm on board if it's proven to handle PS2 and GameCube/Wii emulation.
  2. I'm looking forward to playing Skyward Sword soon. I never played the original for a length of time because when it released, I had a CRT TV when SS on the Wii forces 16:9 (meaning the display image was tiny on my 4:3 CRT), and I didn't like the motion controls. I'm thinking it'll be nice to play on the Switch Lite. It's been a long time since I played a 3D Zelda with traditional dungeons that isn't my annual Ocarina of Time playthrough. Also Groose.
  3. If I want to try one of the Atelier games, which one should I play?
  4. There's a lot of games coming out this Summer. Skyward Sword, TWEWY NEO, and Tales of Arise are what I'm eyeing. And even if there weren't, I have a backlog for a lifetime. I can't bring myself to be excited for TWEWY NEO. I loved the original, but it's been 13 years. After over a decade of being tormented with teases for a sequel, I don't care too much. But I'll still have fun playing it alongside my girlfriend who's more excited than I am. Having Square develop a sequel sooner would have been a disaster. Their development was pretty bad in the PS3 era, and has only become somewhat good in the last few years. Makes me remember when my interest in gaming was at it's lowest in 2011 and 2012. I was pretty close to selling my 3DS for a DSi because all I was doing at the time was playing Pokemon White 1 & 2. Gaming has been much better since with some lulls (2015), but the last legendary year was 2017.
  5. 1. All the meats and cheeses. 2. Cheese, mushrooms, jalapenos, and whatever spicy sauce offered. 3. Beer or wine.
  6. Today I learned that amongst a team of dozen people who collectively spent over 1000 hours of their lives on a fan translation, literally none of them thought to import a copy of Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem. Instead they all worked from a bad dump of a ROM, then proceed to request you have also have said bad ROM to patch the game.
  7. Started playing Persona 3 Portable. My girlfriend kept telling me that FES is the best choice, but my availability of the TV and PS2 is very limited, so none of that matters if it's inconvenient that I may never play all the extra content. Persona games are great when you have an entire day to yourself. We're all trying to stay inside with the heat wave going on in the PNW.
  8. Happy birthday! I finished SMT Soul Hackers last night. I've always had to lower the difficulty for the final boss in any SMT game, which discourages me a little in playing some of the older games like Raidou. But Soul Hackers was great. I liked that I still had plenty of demons to look forward to fusing even in the endgame, which I felt wasn't the case in 4 and 4A. This is also one of the few games I wish had gone on longer. Spending more time with the Spookies would have been nice.
  9. Lately I've been ordering Japan-exclusive games to play them via fan translations. I've now got all the Dragon Quest monsters games released on 3DS. My girlfriend really wanted Rocket Slime 3, so I grabbed that too. Tales of Destiny DC with it's fan translation is now available to me. I was thinking on grabbing FE New Mystery of the Emblem.
  10. Wait, but Paper Mario was released February 5th in 2001... I remember getting it for my birthday just a few days after release. You folks are 4 months late. I feel like TTYD falls into this paradox that when people think of "Paper Mario" they think of TTYD rather than the original. And most people who like TTYD completely disregard the original. Kingdom Hearts has the same problem, where apparently everyone started with 2, and write off the first game.
  11. If there's any game worth buying 3 times, it's Dragon Quest XI. Bought it for PC since it was on sale. I've spent about $300 on this game with having bought the PS4 original Collector's edition ($200), Switch ($60), and now PC ($30).
  12. I'm the Rattata inside you I have your back to the wall Survive the fall from grace Wear the comfy and easy to wear shorts of the wrath of Arceus (One more God rejected!) I'm the Rattata inside you (One more God rejected!) I have your back to the wall (One more God rejected!) Survive the fall from grace Wear the comfy and easy to wear shorts of the wrath of Arceus (F.E.A.R!) Fear Arceus and give top-percentage to him For the hour of his Judgement has come to you! (Now!) When the thousand years have expired Chrom will be released Judgement has come to you! I'm the Rattata inside you I have your back to the wall Survive the fall from grace Wear the comfy and easy to wear shorts of the wrath of Arceus (One more God rejected!) I'm the Rattata inside you (One more God rejected!) I have your back to the wall (One more God rejected!) Survive the fall from grace Wear the comfy and easy to wear shorts of the wrath of Arceus (F.E.A.R!) Fear Arceus and give top-percentage to him For the hour of his Judgement has come to you!
  13. I just started playing Soul Hackers on 3DS yesterday. Good so far. Almost ran out of magnetite, not knowing that I needed it to have my demons summoned out. Also there's no good voice option. There's auto-play, but there's no way of toggling it off during scenes. And if you don't have it on, you instead hear this annoying "BING" every time you press the button to advance dialogue. Voice volume is also very low with no option to adjust sound. Also demons don't level up, which is weird.
  14. Even 4 years after the Switch being on the market, I've never even thought of it replacing my 3DS. I still play it most days, and I have a huge backlog (mostly Atlus titles) to tackle. Along with some of the best games Nintendo has produced in the past decade, there's plenty of reason for the 3DS to remain active. I'm also biased in the fact the 3DS was there all through out college, and I look back fondly on the days of getting together with people for Pokemon X & Y, Animal Crossing, and Smash.
  15. I understand some of what Kodiack mentioned, mainly closing up ports for HTTP and HTTPS. Got my copy of Tales of Destiny DC in the mail, and got it ripped. Curious to try the ongoing fan translation.
  16. Mario's Picross was my choice game to help me fall asleep for a year and a half. Easily one of the best Gameboy games. Speaking of which, I've been on a Gameboy fix lately after listening to Retronauts.
  17. I also picked up the "Ask Iwata" book. Haven't read it yet, but I'm hoping it won't feel like a transcript of Gaming Historian's video about him. Dropped Monster Hunter Stories recently. I was finding the combat and mechanics to be too slow and frustrating. My time is too valuable to continue playing something that I will probably find forgettable. Last night I started playing Glory of Heracles on the DS to help myself sleep. It did it's job, but as I resume playing it, it's actually... Pretty alright? Super generic, but the Greek mythology theme and localization is great so far.
  18. Dragon Quest 2 is one of my favorite DQ games, even over 3. 2 is a weird beast that always keeps you on your toes. 3 is great, but kind of boring by comparison. You should read on some of the speedrunning tactics that have come up lately, that's something interesting. I finished Tales of the Abyss with my roommate and girlfriend this past week. They really enjoyed the game, and I'm happy I got to share it with them. We still have Graces, Berseria, and Vesperia to play together. I may try convincing them to play Eternia with me at some point.
  19. I have the S20 "Fan Edition" that, despite it's name, has no 3.5mm jack. The other week I encountered an issue where I couldn't watch YouTube videos in private at home because my kindle battery needed to be charged, and I left my USB-C to 3.5mm adapter at work. I think I'm realizing I'm an old man in the new digital world. I bought a Security+ book that previous editions would include a CD with the book on pdf. But this new book no longer offers this. I returned the book and instead got the ebook version after seeing a guide on how to convert kindle books to pdf. But despite my best efforts, drm got in the way. I guess ownership is a thing of the past. I'm just an old man now who likes to reminisce about the days when you could have MP3s for the music you bought, PDFs for your books, and we didn't have pay to avoid ads.
  20. Good to know. I'm picking Reina this time around. So it looks like I should be good, besides the time I'll need to invest in pairing everyone.
  21. I'm currently replaying Fire Emblem Fates: Revelations. I wish instead of just letting you have every character, they instead gave you a limited mix of Hoshidan and Nohrian characters. All these characters make it a nightmare to search for one. I'm attempting a "complete" playthrough where I do all the DLC as well. I did something similar with Awakening before, but in order to do the Xenologue chapters featuring the kids, I needed to marry everyone off so the kids had the stats and abilities to survive. Is that the same case here?
  22. Happy Birthday! But yeah, I rarely ever use fast travel in BotW. The world is always fun to explore, and I often find korok seeds to my destination. My only complaints towards the game are it's guardian dungeons, and having something like a queue of weapons to auto equip when one breaks would be cool.
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