Alexandra Hall's discussions

It’s this genre. I’ve never felt the urge to play one myself but they have lots of fans.

I was going to say “Hell is other people” but apparently I’d be twisting its original meaning. Not that that really matters much, but. Anyway, sounds exasperating.

I’m fine with primitive games, just haven’t had fun with a Megaten yet. The summoning / fusion stuff always makes me feel like I need to have a FAQ on hand to get decent results, which annoys me. Can feel more like work.

Yeah, I’ve never had any luck with SMT games either. I’m always so intrigued by their aesthetics and storylines but the gameplay tends to leave me cold. Read more

Thanks for noting the omission; fixed.

is this Jake? from high school?
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but i don’t care about myself, as evidenced by the sheer number of hours i spend playing and thinking about video games Read more

I dunno why it’s so hard to just pick and start playing something. Read more

doctors HATE how many english translations just appeared for this top-secret GAME BOY version of star fox!

Damn cool.

That it does.

You absolutely haven’t. What are you doing with your one wild and precious life?

Yeah, used to be a childhood dream to play NES in a movie theater. Thought that’d be a great birthday event or something.

Right. I just meant that even if you rip the audio from a YouTube vid, it is already too compressed / compromised in quality to be worth keeping, imo. (Others feel differently of course.) So it’s a bummer if something only exists there!

Brains are weird for sure. And differently weird in different weirdos.

That’s by T&E Soft though. Star Fox is a closely related Argonaut game, and one people care about. Read more

I actually got that Dracula soundtrack for my birthday as a teen. I’d never really noticed it having short loops though. Read more

Outstanding.

Muscle memory is real. But I actually have done temporary/situational swaps in a few games to make it easier to execute certain button combos when I need to rely on/spam them. I absolutely hate when a game asks me to regularly bridge from B to X (Nintendo mappings) or any other combo that makes me move from my… Read more