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« Reply #1620 on: October 11, 2018, 07:57:57 AM »
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@Jazz Even then, don't think you'll necessarily have all this attention and mental energy to game in bed. Believe me, so many odd things here and there become crucial when a child is born and requires your attention.
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« Reply #1621 on: October 11, 2018, 08:07:58 AM »
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@Jazz Even then, don't think you'll necessarily have all this attention and mental energy to game in bed. Believe me, so many odd things here and there become crucial when a child is born and requires your attention.

We shall see. Our first little one had to sleep with me exclusively for a while after she was born since her mother had a few complications. She consequently got a little to used to body warmth and knowing when I was right next to her, so it took about 3 years for her to start sleeping on her own. Which made for some really annoying naps in the middle of the day where I'd otherwise spend 2-3 hours staring at the ceiling if it was one of those days she didn't permit me to move much. If I got lucky though, I could do the WII U for a bit...Didn't happen a lot, but better than nothing, for sure.
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« Reply #1622 on: October 11, 2018, 11:00:59 AM »
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I've never been a Sonic fan, but I'm really into Sonic Mania+ on Switch at the moment. If the old Sonic games are this good, I've definitely been missing out.

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« Reply #1623 on: October 11, 2018, 11:48:59 PM »
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I've never been a Sonic fan, but I'm really into Sonic Mania+ on Switch at the moment. If the old Sonic games are this good, I've definitely been missing out.

I'd definitely recommend Sonic's 2, 3, and Sonic & Knucles. Those three games are what I like to call the Death Egg trilogy. In my opinion they rank the highest in terms of sonic greatness.
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« Reply #1624 on: October 11, 2018, 11:54:39 PM »
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I've never been a Sonic fan, but I'm really into Sonic Mania+ on Switch at the moment. If the old Sonic games are this good, I've definitely been missing out.

I would say Mania ranks in the 'better' category, even when it comes to oldschool sonic. I agree with X about 2 and 3, personally I've never liked S&K or Sonic CD, but people rave about them.
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« Reply #1625 on: October 12, 2018, 03:49:20 AM »
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Pour one out for my Leon Belmont build on Skyrim Special Edition, who passed away last night.

He died as he lived: neck deep in vampires (ha), killing them one by one. I decided it was a fitting end for a guy with a murder-boner for vampires, so that’s that. The king of vampire slaying is dead.

Fortunately, his daughter, Alessia Laguardia has taken up his whip, and gone into the Monster Hunting business. The whip ain’t what it used to be (I actually toned down the power of the enchantments by half to simulate wear and tear), but there’s still no finer implement for killing vampires, werewolves, and other nocturnal nasties this side of Artaeum. Long live the Queen.

At some point I will get pics of her up on Tumblr. But she looks BADASS.
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« Reply #1626 on: October 12, 2018, 09:45:55 AM »
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personally I've never liked S&K or Sonic CD, but people rave about them.

S&K is actually part 2 of Sonic 3. I don't know why but the developers broke the game up into two parts before launch.
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« Reply #1627 on: October 12, 2018, 10:39:39 AM »
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I “beat” Sonic Mania yesterday (missing most of the chaos emeralds etc) and I’m going to keep playing it but I went ahead and got a copy of Sonic 2 on Steam. Going to give that a shot soon.

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« Reply #1628 on: October 12, 2018, 05:25:33 PM »
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S&K is actually part 2 of Sonic 3. I don't know why but the developers broke the game up into two parts before launch.

Hang on. Knuckles was an add on to 2 and 3 with the S&K cart. But if you put the cart in by itself, S&K is its own game.
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« Reply #1629 on: October 12, 2018, 06:11:43 PM »
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I know. But if you read up on the development history of the two titles you will find that they were planned originally as one game.
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« Reply #1630 on: October 13, 2018, 08:23:38 PM »
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I know. But if you read up on the development history of the two titles you will find that they were planned originally as one game.

Right okay. Maybe it's me but I still feel like S&K and CD feel more similar.

Sonic 3 feels like a cross between 1/2 to me.

Mania has borrowed elements but feels more like its own game to me.
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« Reply #1631 on: October 16, 2018, 11:57:36 PM »
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The Doom Eternal reveal got me all hyped up, so I had to play the last one all over again. I seriously can't wait for Eternal. It's gonna be such a loooooong wait too...  :'(

Been on and off on Arkham Knight lately...it just feels so different from the rest of the Arkham games, and not in a good way. Really not a fan of the AR challenges that involve racing and vehicular combat. I just really don't like the Batmobile that much in this game. Still not sure if I want to go for the Knightfall ending, or just watch it on youtube.
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« Reply #1632 on: October 17, 2018, 11:39:58 AM »
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Been on and off on Arkham Knight lately...it just feels so different from the rest of the Arkham games, and not in a good way. Really not a fan of the AR challenges that involve racing and vehicular combat. I just really don't like the Batmobile that much in this game. Still not sure if I want to go for the Knightfall ending, or just watch it on youtube.

I LOVED Arkham Asylum and City, easily in my top 5 favorite games of last console gen... but similarly, I could not get into Arkham Knight. There are several reasons, but the batmobile really negatively impacted the whole experience for me. There was simply too much of it required to get through the game, and I'm just not the biggest fan of driving or car combat games. There was also no metroid-esque feeling of player progression like in the first to Batman games either. I loved the first two games so much that I was certain I would love Knight as well, but somehow they dropped the ball with that game.

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« Reply #1633 on: October 17, 2018, 07:27:54 PM »
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Honestly, I liked Arkham Origins.

I like that it felt like an expansion pack to City (because it basically was) that explored some earlier events and opened up the scope of the map so you could really explore Gotham City more with Arkham City's incredible fluidity. Getting to go visit the COMPLETE overworld map of Arkham City before it got turned into a Prison Shantytown was just icing on the cake.

And Troy Baker did one MEAN Mark Hamill impression. Kudos.
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« Reply #1634 on: October 18, 2018, 09:35:30 AM »
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Honestly, I liked Arkham Origins.

I still haven't played that. I'll probably try to pick it up next time I'm in the Batman mood.

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