Yeah there are several ways to get up that hill... repeated jumping and kicking is one of the fastest. Here was probably trying to get up one of the boundary walls or the white hill with the bombs rolling down... or the hills near the cannon pyramid to get up the mountain... there’s so many!

The N64 controller and Mario 64 were definitely made for each other. Fantastic game!

Agreed, if anything I’d expect text to get localized that literally never occurs in the game but is still in the dialogue library because it didn’t get cleaned up when its reference was removed. QA gets the blame because their charter is to prevent this, but it definitely sounds like more of a non-air-tight procedure…

Speaking of older games, I know I often replay games out of nostalgia. I’ve replayed Ocarina of Time many times just to sink into that familiar rhythm and revel in happy childhood memories. Mario Kart 64, Mario 64, Jet Force Gemini, Diddy Kong Racing, Star Fox 64, and Breath of Fire are some of my goto nostalgia games…

Every RPG should use the shoulder button(s) as alternate action buttons like I think I remember DQVIII doing!

Don’t forget Android and iOS when you mention re-releases since those are the platforms with the widest availability for these now. I played FF IV on Android and loved it!

For what it’s worth Xenoblade Chronicles captured my childlike wonder much more than the other half dozen or so RPG’s I’ve played lately. It may have helped that I’d never played a combat system anywhere close to it and was a huge sucker for the beautiful wide open spaces (and no system better than a wii to spoil me…

I still get chills from the covert mission where you’re instructed to “sanitize the area” so no one finds out what happened there (in an expansion to Freespace 1 I think?). It was a cold introduction to that story line that immediately made you wonder if you were still the hero. Probably helped that I was like 12.

So basically it’s the usual answer... If you don’t already know that you need the expensive one, get the cheap one. If the cheap one is cheaper than the previous model, this is a sale. If 4k and HDR and having Pro in the name are things you’ve been wallowing in dispair about for years wishing you had more pixels than…

Repetitiveness may also depend on some kind of boringness half-life or something... someone who expects to be only half as engaged after 40 hours might call it repetitive at 30 hours, where you enjoyed it a lot for 20 hours with no preconceived expectation of a 40 hour learning curve and 100's of hours of replay…

The arguments on either side of whether or not to do gender-divided events to help encourage and grow the community remind me of a few things.

After fooling myself into thinking I liked RPG’s for the story for years I now realize that while the writing may be mediocre the interactive narrative experience that I get to participate in is what I appreciate. There are times where the gameplay, music, story, setting, characters, or art are by themselves mediocre…

After playing final fantasies, dragon quests, tales ofs, breaths of fire, xenothings, last story, rogue galaxy, and whatever else, I’m pretty much always expecting final henchman, villain, villain mutated, then evil cloud of evil. When this doesn’t occur I complement the games originality, because in JRPGs something…

I’d love to hear your thoughts on how Dimensions compares with III and V, especially since they play the same on mobile.

I also love that in the community on SDA, even casual folks could contribute to strategy, finding glitches, timing, research, discussion, specializing on a single trick or level, etc. Just look at the “thanks” list in many of the run comments. While some runs happen in a vacuum, many are a culmination of a vast array…

This sounds like what I remember of the Speedrun community 10 years ago, but I thought that in recent years casual speedrunning amongst a community was really popular in addition to the elite few that actually set records. I’d wager the rise in casual speedrunning is thanks heavily to things like Youtube improving…

Yeah for me it was multiple issues of Nintendo Power talking about F Zero X, Earthbound 64, and other souped up Nintendo properties. I remember looking forward to it for years and staring longingly at the port that has always been on the bottom of every N64. Years later in the speedrun community at Speed Demos Archive…

It would still be proprietary, it would just be developed commercially instead of in house. There’s a whole spectrum of solutions between COTS: Commercial off the Shelf and a fully custom in-house solution. For most things on SLS (I’m a NASA engineer working in propulsion), even if it’s implemented by a commercial…

I completely agree, plus applying the water at lunch mindset to everything and you’re able to live on like half the expenses ... “pay cash for cars” outright is my second pet peeve rule after “don’t eat out.” Amazing the amount of money that can go towards things that may not be someone’s top priority. Live with your…

So the iOS activation error stuff seems related to icloud activation including things like find my iPhone? Makes me wonder if my wife’s 5s that has never had icloud activated, and never had find my iPhone turned on would have the password at boot / Apple ID activation step at all... Is there not still a category of…