Topic: Restraint (Read 13538 times)

Classic · « **Reply #120 on:** April 22, 2011, 09:18:33 AM »

You strike me as a hoarder teg.

teg · « **Reply #121 on:** April 22, 2011, 11:41:45 AM »

Oh definitely. I'm a collector, but once every year I try to purge everything. I'm just really bad with games because it's so hard to get rid of older games/find them in the first place.

I'm a lot worse for systems than I am for games, though. Check this out:

NES (1 game)
SNES (1 game)
N64 (3 games)
8 Gamecube games (formerly owned a Gamecube)
Wii (13 games)
XBox (6 games)
PS2 (4 games)
PS3 (10 games)
Dreamcast (1 game)
GBA (6 games)
two DS lites (12 games; formerly owned a DS phat and a DSi as well)
3DS (1 game)
GP2X Wiz (0 games)

I also used to own a PSP and a PS1, but I don't have any games for either.

So I own approximately 1 console for every 5 games that I have.

Bal · « **Reply #122 on:** April 22, 2011, 01:42:18 PM »

I still have every console I have ever owned going back to Atari 2600

LaserBeing · « **Reply #123 on:** April 22, 2011, 05:38:48 PM »

I need to get my NES fixed up at some point. My sister broke the power cable literally one month after Nintendo stopped selling replacement NES parts.

Lottel · « **Reply #124 on:** April 22, 2011, 07:47:43 PM »

From where I am sitting right here and I'll count the physical games I haven't played for more than 45 minutes.
...23.
Twenty three games I've not played for more than 45 minutes that I can see from my seat right here.

WAIT. 24. Spirit Tracks.

And those are physical games. I have 37 games on steam. I've beaten the Orange Box and Portal 2. The rest I've touched briefly if they were lucky. And then PSN? Oof. I've got Plus and an itchy shopping finger so 20 games on there I've not played past the first level.

...
Wait. My physical PC games are right behind me lemme... 28. It'd be 27 but I spy another Harvest Moon on top of it.

Motherfucker.

Twenty eight physical games I've not played more than 45 minutes within a quick glance.
What the fuck am I doing with my life?

EDIT: I am SO glad my SNES, Wii, and Genesis is in the other room. Add the GCN to that and there's 4 gens of consoles...

Classic · « **Reply #125 on:** April 22, 2011, 10:20:04 PM »

Hey, if you're a hoarder, pick one thing to hoard and hoard the shit out of it.

It's better than stamps at least. Fuck stamps.

Lottel · « **Reply #126 on:** April 22, 2011, 10:39:20 PM »

Hoarding is FINE. Hoarding something and never touching it?
That's a problem

Ocksi · « **Reply #127 on:** April 23, 2011, 12:17:46 AM »

This whole conversation serves as a reminder that, assuming I ever actually get my shit together and find real(!) work, I've got to send all my old gaming shit out as Dirty Santa freebies to a couple people!

Classic · « **Reply #128 on:** April 23, 2011, 12:38:28 AM »

Quote from: Lottel on April 22, 2011, 10:39:20 PM

Hoarding is FINE. Hoarding something and never touching it?
That's a problem

You're not allowed to touch the stamps you hoard lottel. It's like you don't understand the concept of hoarding. The critical factor is that you have it.
I mean, there's clearly a point at which hoarding gets bad for you and that's the point of the restraint thread and services like the backloggery. But once something enters into your hoard don't sell it.
If you do, you inevitably become Parish.

Ziiro · « **Reply #129 on:** April 23, 2011, 10:43:40 AM »

My stack of games I purchase then never play is becoming incredibly stupid.

But hey, now that I'm unemployed again, I may have time for it all! So there's that, I guess.

teg · « **Reply #130 on:** May 31, 2011, 10:31:24 AM »

Hey, so since I likely won't have a job for a little while, I'm seeing how much of my backlog I can clear.

I just finished Ocarina Of Time after being stuck on Ganondorf for a few years. Next I'm thinking about clearing Nier.

Bal · « **Reply #131 on:** June 01, 2011, 03:27:18 AM »

St-stuck on Ganondorf? How?

Maybe it was just that super-genius gamer brain you have as a kid, but I one shot that dude back in the day, which now that I think about it was the eighth grade. Does your kid-gamer-genius brain last that long?

teg · « **Reply #132 on:** June 01, 2011, 11:11:26 AM »

I always missed the light arrow shots since the window of opportunity is so small and I'm terrible at aiming with an analog stick. And since it takes a lot of magic power to fire once I usually ran out.

Bal · « **Reply #133 on:** June 01, 2011, 11:13:22 AM »

You don't even have to aim the light arrow shots, if I recall. Just lock on to him while he's stunned from the reflected energy blasts and you can't miss. Then you hookshot over and beat the crap out of him.

teg · « **Reply #134 on:** June 01, 2011, 11:25:27 AM »

You can't lock on as far as I know. I thought Navi wouldn't get close?

Also I creamed him on my last try if that's any consolation.

So it looks like I'm almost done Nier. I thought the game was a lot longer but Talking Time tells me I hit the halfway point a while ago. I may run out of backlog faster than expected.

Man, what I gonna' finish next after Nier?

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #135 on:** June 01, 2011, 11:38:52 AM »

Nier, from what I've seen, suffers from a five hour main plot, with a hundred hours of side quests.

Nerd · « **Reply #136 on:** June 01, 2011, 01:05:23 PM »

Quote from: Beat Bandit on June 01, 2011, 11:38:52 AM

Nier, from what I've seen, suffers from a five hour main plot, with a hundred hours of side quests.

can't you say that about most rpgs these days tho--(WARNING WHILE YOU WERE TYPING TWENTY REPLIES PREEMPTIVELY FLAMED YOU)

I think I beat Nier in about 12-15, totally ignoring all the (admittedly pointless) optional side-quests. Some of that is padding due to some dumb required fetch-questy type stuff in the first hour or two, and you have to revisit areas to complete the latter half of the game (they at least have the decency to add new bosses or map sections in the retread segments though). That is just kind of a thing with the genre though, y'know? The bosses are pretty awesome and the writing and characters are better than average, for whatever that's worth.

Bal · « **Reply #137 on:** June 01, 2011, 10:59:43 PM »

I can't remember the last JPRG I played, honestly. I think it was probably FFX, or something. They've been pretty creatively bankrupt since the orgy of crazy titles on the PSone. Personally, I blame Enix for turning Square into the Final Fantasy company. Once upon a time, for every Final Fantasy you got, you also got a Brave Fencer Musashi, or a Xenogears, or even an Einhander. Nowadays what you get is Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII Vs. How exciting.

Brentai · « **Reply #138 on:** June 02, 2011, 12:24:50 AM »

The pure JRPG is a pretty broken genre that was invented to maneuver around technical limitations that basically don't exist any more. Everything good about it has already been so perfectly integrated into other genres that they aren't even called "RPG elements" any more (thank God, that was so stupid) so the only people making JRPGs as we understand them anymore are either catering to that niche that still enjoys turn-based battles, random encounters and/or grinding, or are making Dragon Quest. Even the main FF series is kind of a weird action hybrid now (though FF has basically become just a generic brand name - as I'm fond of pointing out, I worked on six titles at Square, five of which had "Final Fantasy" in the title, and none of which were a part of the Final Fantasy series).

Though we could just be back in the RPG Translation Ghetto that existed in every console generation except the Sony dominated ones, too.

teg · « **Reply #139 on:** June 02, 2011, 05:32:31 AM »

Quote from: Bal on June 01, 2011, 10:59:43 PM

Personally, I blame Enix for turning Square into the Final Fantasy company. Once upon a time, for every Final Fantasy you got, you also got a Brave Fencer Musashi, or a Xenogears, or even an Einhander. Nowadays what you get is Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII Vs. How exciting.

Don't forget Kingdom Hearts.

It's funny because I'm actually kind of interested in Squeenix lately. I don't give a shit about Final Fantasy, but they made Nier and The World Ends With You, both of which are fantastic.

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