drahkon Posted Saturday at 11:13 AM Posted Saturday at 11:13 AM 8 minutes ago, Hero-of-Time said: Absolutely Awesome. The HD collection is on my wishlist. Hope it'll get a deep sale this year.
Glen-i Posted Saturday at 11:41 AM Posted Saturday at 11:41 AM 37 minutes ago, Hero-of-Time said: Absolutely I have to assume you're using some kind of guide for that? Grandia has a ridiculous amount of cut-off points where you can't go back to previous areas.
Happenstance Posted Saturday at 11:46 AM Posted Saturday at 11:46 AM I always meant to go back to Grandma. I was playing it a few years ago but dropped off. Need to grab the HD collection at some point.
Glen-i Posted Saturday at 11:51 AM Posted Saturday at 11:51 AM 4 minutes ago, Happenstance said: I always meant to go back to Grandma. Call your Grandma, damnit!
Happenstance Posted Saturday at 12:05 PM Posted Saturday at 12:05 PM 13 minutes ago, Glen-i said: Call your Grandma, damnit! Unfortunately they both died. As I said, waiting for the HD remakes. 3
Hero-of-Time Posted Saturday at 12:21 PM Posted Saturday at 12:21 PM 39 minutes ago, Glen-i said: I have to assume you're using some kind of guide for that? Grandia has a ridiculous amount of cut-off points where you can't go back to previous areas. Yeah. There are only a few missable trophies, the biggest being finding all of the Mana Eggs.
drahkon Posted Saturday at 01:49 PM Posted Saturday at 01:49 PM @Julius Could you replace my old gaming pledge with this: Decided to remove some games and add two PSVita and 3 Steam Deck games to have some more platform variety. 1
Julius Posted Saturday at 02:03 PM Author Posted Saturday at 02:03 PM (edited) 18 minutes ago, drahkon said: @Julius Could you replace my old gaming pledge with this: Absolutely not! That would be bordering on sacrilege! ...yeah that's no problem, it's done Haven't heard of some of those new additions before - so looking forward to hearing your thoughts on them! Edited Saturday at 02:07 PM by Julius 1
Cube Posted Saturday at 02:27 PM Posted Saturday at 02:27 PM @Julius I've also made a gaming pledge, however mine is slightly different. I'm working on going through GameCube games, but for some I'm being a bit loose with completion and stuff (depending on boredom/frustration) as there's a lot to get through. Therefore, I've picked based on the minimum place I want to reach alongside, but also picking 10 games I've not played before that I want to give a full and fair chance to, completing them properly. (And, yes, Jungle Beat will be with the Bongos) 3 3
Dcubed Posted Saturday at 03:12 PM Posted Saturday at 03:12 PM 44 minutes ago, Cube said: @Julius I've also made a gaming pledge, however mine is slightly different. I'm working on going through GameCube games, but for some I'm being a bit loose with completion and stuff (depending on boredom/frustration) as there's a lot to get through. Therefore, I've picked based on the minimum place I want to reach alongside, but also picking 10 games I've not played before that I want to give a full and fair chance to, completing them properly. (And, yes, Jungle Beat will be with the Bongos) Guess I know what complete console library you’ll be playing after you’re done with the N64 then 1
Cube Posted Saturday at 03:21 PM Posted Saturday at 03:21 PM 5 minutes ago, Dcubed said: Guess I know what complete console library you’ll be playing after you’re done with the N64 then I let myself get quite a bit in advance before I start posting my daily articles of each game, so I've already made a dent in the GameCube library. 1
Julius Posted Saturday at 04:16 PM Author Posted Saturday at 04:16 PM Great to see so many joining in and making their own pledges! 1 hour ago, Cube said: @Julius I've also made a gaming pledge Added to the wall of pledges, glad to have you aboard Cube - nice diverse and interesting line-up you've got there! Looking forward to reading your thoughts on them 1 hour ago, Dcubed said: Guess I know what complete console library you’ll be playing after you’re done with the N64 then The OUYA? I don't know how you managed to get that from his pledge list though... 2
Hero-of-Time Posted yesterday at 08:59 AM Posted yesterday at 08:59 AM I finished off Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition. It didn't take long to grind the coins I needed to purchase everything I was missing. Many people said playing one of the Super Mario Bros. 2 stages was the quickest way to earn money but I found this way was far more lucrative. 60 coins every few seconds. It was definitely the way to go. With the Switch 2 being released this year, I need to try and get on top on my original Switch games. I decided to crack on with Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection Vol.1. I played Metal Slug: First Mission a year or two back but didn't really play around with any of the other titles. This was pretty fun. I loved the chunky sprites on show here, which is something that I love about this handheld system. It's quite amazing how the game plays when you consider there are only a couple of buttons to work with. I went through the game with all of the characters (ending shots below) and unlocked the hidden character and I have no idea who he is. Shout out to Billy Kane who was a thorn in my side in every single playthrough that I done. Dude kept battering with his stick combo and seemed to be always one step ahead of me. I'd rather have fought Geese Howard another round than take on Billy again. Next up... I enjoyed this one a lot more, purely because it allowed you to turn the speed up. The previous game was a little slow and here I was able to crank things up to the speed I preferred. Once again, I went through the game with each of the characters and unlocked all of the secret ones (ending shots at the bottom). The endings are pretty funny, with each of the girls winning the tournament and getting to make a wish but most of the time the wish goes wrong. A neat feature in the game is the ability to unlock items. You can equip one of them to help give you the advantage in a fight but if you lose the battle then you also lose the item. These are obtained by doing certain things in a match, like getting a perfect victory of finishing an opponent with a special move. What I did enjoy when playing through both of these games is the tasks you needed to do to get extra fighters. Remember when a fighting game wasn't sold off to the players piece by piece and you could actually earn extra fighters by doing various things in game? Happy days. Ending screens for both games 4 1
drahkon Posted yesterday at 09:19 AM Posted yesterday at 09:19 AM (edited) Started playing 20 Minutes Till Dawn It's a rogue-lite survival game that provides more player agency than the one that started it all: Vampire Survivors. It's basically a twin-stick shooter with elements of the particular genre spawned by VS. Each run takes 20 minutes to win (duh) and it took me 100 minutes in total to get my first win. I was crazy op by the end. There is a lot to unlock (12 characters, 10 weapons, several permanent upgrades) and of course difficulty modifiers (similar to Ascensions in Slay the Spire). Not sure, how much time I'll spend with this, though. I feel like I've kinda seen it all already? I'll probably just try to win a few more runs with different characters and weapons and then that's it. I'll have my final thoughts ready then. Oh, did I mention Slay the Spire? While the wait for the sequel continues, I decided to delete my save file and start from scratch. This time, I'm going for one particular part of the Downfall Mod. I've had this installed on my Steam Deck for quite a while and I've enjoyed playing with the new character in standard mode, but what makes this mod so ridiculous is the addition of 8 new characters and these are only playable in a "different" mode: Downfall In this campaign you choose a character which is a boss in standard mode, for example: Slime Boss Each character comes with its own set of cards and rules and it's crazy how much work the creators of this mod have put into them...e.g.: These new slimes then are basically your minions and attack automatically at the start of your turn (and have some other special functions like adding block or weakening the enemy). The goal in this campaign is to stop the standard characters you love so much from reaching the heart. You descend the spire and at the end of each Act you have to fight one of these characters. They are the bosses now! And they can get stupidly strong I will try to get as far into Ascensions as possible with Slime Boss until StS 2 is out in early access. Edited yesterday at 09:20 AM by drahkon 2
BowserBasher Posted yesterday at 12:53 PM Posted yesterday at 12:53 PM Right, I weren't going to join in as most of the games will be playing are just going to be new Switch games, but at the moment there's not a lot I've seen that I'd be playing. So it would have been like two or three. But then I thought I'd include some GC games (as I've been able to play them using Dolphin) so I've been looking at some I never had and am wanting to play them. So I've got 10 here, top row are Switch plus one NSO N64 game, and the rest are GC games. OxenFree II - I picked this in a sale recently, well last year, as I loved the first one and this was like a couple of £ so I jumped on it then but have never got around to playing it just yet. Stray - I remember seeing this somewhere, and thought it was a neat little game and possibly right up my alley, but then seemed to forget about it. Came across it again recently and have now been looking to purchase it as it's usually only around £25 - £30. No More Heroes (1 and 2) - Right, so I picked these up from the eShop a few years ago when I had been given quite a bit of money on gift cards. They were in a sale and I had heard they were decent. I remember I started the first one but as usual with me, new Switch games get released and I move on to them, but for some reason I never came back to this. And I've never touched the second one. So I hope I can change that. Banjo-Tooie - I did actual start playing this on NSO when it came out and I think I've done the first two or three levels. I never finished this when I had it on the N64 (at least I don't remember finishing it) so I am wanting to give it a go again. Hopefully I can get back into it and give it a go. Onto old GC games. I never had any of these so am wanting to give these a go. 007 Nightfire - Of the 4 Bond games on. GC that I could see, this seems to be one of the more favoured ones. So I've put it on the list of games to try. I know nothing of it so will be going in blind. P.N. 03 - I remember seeing this in magazines and liking the look of it. I don't remember why I never got it, maybe it just didn't then get the attention I thought. But anyway, I've forgotten most of what I saw of it, but I've always wanted to give it a go. Eternal Darkness - Another one that passed me by. Well, I did get this as a Christmas present one year from a friend but I don't think I ever got around to playing it. I know there's a lot of stuff that happens which involved the memory card or time and something with a sanity meter, so I'm not sure how/if that still works in the emulated games. Either way, it was supposed to be good so I'm now wanting to get around to playing it. TimeSplitters: Future Perfect - Whilst looking up games I may have missed on GC. I came across this (along with TimeSplitter 2) and thought it looked like a game I'd enjoy. Know nothing of the games so will be going in blind. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds - I was a huge fan of the show but I never knew about this around the time I had the GC. Looked it up and it seems to be decent so I wanted to give it a go and see. So hopefully I'll get around to at least half of these. @Julius just so you can add me to the first post. 4 2
Julius Posted yesterday at 02:21 PM Author Posted yesterday at 02:21 PM (edited) Added to the first post @BowserBasher, glad to have you aboard Nice and diverse pledge, too! Weirdly I've played only one of those games and it was a few hours of Nightfire on PS2, feel like it's one my dad picked up from a charity shop or pre-owned from GAME or Gamestation along with some others. Can't remember much about it if I'm being totally honest so I'm particularly looking forward to hearing your thoughts if/when you get around to it! Edited yesterday at 02:21 PM by Julius 1
WackerJr Posted yesterday at 04:00 PM Posted yesterday at 04:00 PM On 1/11/2025 at 7:27 AM, Hero-of-Time said: With me looking to do the same this year,I've been looking at prices and it's crazy how little you get for Wii U games. Sure, one or two have held their value but most have just hit rock bottom levels. Probably due to most of them being ported to the Switch. Glad I wasn’t the only one surprised by that! Before checking, I’d just assumed that they would’ve been available in smaller numbers due to the dreadful Wii U sales so the sale prices would’ve been pretty good, so I was painfully disappointed. 1
martinist Posted 23 hours ago Posted 23 hours ago Currently finished Saints Row, 2, 3 and 4. Working on Gat out of Hell then i'll move on to Volitions death nail that is the Saints Row reboot.. 2
Jonnas Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago Man, these Gamecube-focused pledges look like a wishlist taken right out of 2005. Warms my heart to see them. 15 hours ago, Hero-of-Time said: unlocked the hidden character and I have no idea who he is. Looking at your pictures... it's Alfred, right? He was part of a Fatal Fury spinoff that never really took off. 1 1
Hero-of-Time Posted 11 hours ago Posted 11 hours ago 4 hours ago, Jonnas said: Looking at your pictures... it's Alfred, right? He was part of a Fatal Fury spinoff that never really took off. Aye. That's the fella.
Dufniall Posted 6 hours ago Posted 6 hours ago Thought I'd also join in on the fun and make a pledge. It'll be a good incentive to clean some of the backlog. Hope to get at least a couple off the list before the Switch 2 arrives! Nier: Automata - Has been in my Steam library for a while, started it once but never got around to playing it a lot. Having it handheld on the Steam Deck might help! Resident Evil 3 Remake - I played RE 2 Remake last year and absolutely loved it. The modern take on the classic RE formula worked perfect, and I enjoyed it much more than RE7. So next in line is RE3 Remake, knowing it's not as great as RE2 but excited to play it. Pokémon Ultra Moon - My gaming cabinet is a bit of a mess, so I want to move all my stuff that's older than Switch into storage. But before I can do that I need to finish a couple of 3DS games so they can get shelved. One of those is Pokémon Ultra Moon. It's also the only Pokémon generation I haven't played a game from, so also need to finish it for completion goals! Tomb Raider I-II-III Remastered - I finished the first game in this remaster last year, but still need to (and want to!) finish the other ones. 2 and 3 are the games I played a lot when I was a kid, so it'll be fun to replay them in a HD sauce. Command & Conquer Remastered Collection - Another one in my pc backlog, a game I picked up a while ago but never played a lot. Not the biggest C&C fan but I do love Red Alert, so I hope to finish both of them this year. The Witcher III Wild Hunt - The big one. It's been in my backlog for quite some time, but never got around to starting it. I've started it recently but feel a bit overwhelmed by it, also looking at the time it takes to complete it. But the setting is appealing and I also recently started reading the books and I already recognized stuff in the short time I played the game. Time to push through, let's see if I can get this one done by the end of the year. Sonic Frontiers - One from the Switch backlog, picked it up in a sale and played it a little bit but was quite taken aback by the horrible performance. Still, I want to see what SEGA did with open world Sonic. Kirby: Planet Robobot - The other game from my 3DS backlog that I need to finish. Cutting some corners here as I actually completed the story mode last week (and loved it!). But I want to play the Meta Knightmare Returns mode as well. Starcraft Remastered - Another RTS (and another remaster, I've got quite a lot of these on my pledge...) I picked up along the road but never finished. Starcraft is my favourite pc-franchise and I've played this game (and SC2) to death already, but not yet in remastered form. And the expansion Brood War is included as well, which is even better than the main game. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity - Cutting corners again as I'm already a dozen or more hours into this, and I usually play a couple of levels in between other games. So it's about time this gets done and dusted. 2 1
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