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Post by teddykongcountry on Dec 31, 2017 2:34:34 GMT
We've all had quite a year as far as modern gaming but we each lead our own personal lives of gaming very much influenced by our tastes. Some of you may be ecstatic about how the year fared and others longing for a different experience.
With this year in retrospect, what do you resolve to do the same or differently in the upcoming year?
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Post by stratogustav on Dec 31, 2017 3:17:39 GMT
I'm fully satisfied with 2017s releases that I can confidently say I don't need or want new games. As far as I'm concerned they can stop releasing new games. The stuff I have could keep me busy for years to come.
That said, I know I will be buying games in 2018 because there is always cool stuff coming out. Besides buying some of the stellar games from 2017 I don't have yet, I know I will be getting games I'm excited about like Dragon Ball Fighterz that I pray to have a PS3 version so I can play it on my arcade machine, although my hopes are low fo that.
I'm also excited for Ace Combat 7 to fully experience it on VR and I really hope F1 will finally become VR compatible as well.
There are things I want that hopefully I'll get in 2018 like a decent wheel for my PS4 and physical copies of the cool racing games I had been missing on.
Something I also wish is to have a NES Classic that doesn't become rare and that supports buying more NES Classic games for it besides the ones already there. That would mean that a similar thing could get done for the SNES next year.
It would be amazing to have a NES Classic and a SNES Classic with full libraries, even if they are only the non-licensed games, but knowing Nintendo that is unlikely to happen.
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Post by Cervantes on Dec 31, 2017 9:37:10 GMT
I think I'll finally buy myself a new NES and go after all the Ninja Gaiden and Mega Man NES games - years and years ago, my old NES broke and my Ninja Gaiden 2 and MM 6 copies (besides other NES games) were lost when my parents moved to another house. They weren't the best at moving, they usually lost a lot of things - or just got rid of them, I don't know.
I'll see if I get a chance to buy and play Nier Automata and Nioh, those two games are awesome.
About my backlog, I'll look into finally playing and beating Rise of the Tomb Raider, Dragon's Dogma, Dark Souls 2, Saints Row 4 and the DS/3DS Zelda games. I already started Tomb Raider. For my Saturn games, I'll try learning a bit more of japanese while playing the Phantasy Star Collection - this week, I just started playing and translating Phantasy Star 1; it's a painstakingly slow process, but it's fun and I was already learning a lot. Keep in mind my japanese is at very very very beginning level, so I have to look up the meaning of almost every single word.
For 2018 releases, the only ones I can think of are Shenmue 3 amd Bloodstained and I'm very interested in both of them. I can't remember any other games.
For announcements, I hope Team Ninja finally gets another shot at Ninja Gaiden; after the good reception of Nioh, I have faith in them.
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Post by teddykongcountry on Dec 31, 2017 14:20:03 GMT
Awesome goals boys! Love the idea of decking out your PS4, stratogustav. If your library is extensive enough, you might as well show it the best love possible. Cervantes - if you need any help with Phantasy Star, I'm playing through the original right now. You picked a nice game to start Japanese with as the text boxes usually span one slide. Forward me any and all snapshots you have and I'll do my best to assist you. |
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Post by Balder on Dec 31, 2017 14:59:30 GMT
My gaming resolution for this year failed, but not because of me. It was to take back my first place in gamerscore of my friends. I've always had the most, but last year one of my friends quit college and never bothered to get a job. He plays Xbox all day and has demolished me in gamerscore. I have given up as it's impossible to both study and beat someone who plays all day. This year I'll try to beat more games than I buy. So I either need to play a lot or just don't buy anything. My backlog is massive and I'll never run out of games to play.
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Post by teddykongcountry on Dec 31, 2017 15:30:17 GMT
Balder - Very perceptive! Gamerscore is really tough to attain since you have to commit to one console, complete preconceived challenges, and compete with lord-knows the type of commitment others bring to the table. The good thing is that the achievement system is INCREDIBLY addicting and easy to make that commitment to. Your resolution is very similar to my resolution; I've got tons of RPGs to play through on console and I aim to do so. Good luck!
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Post by Balder on Dec 31, 2017 16:52:24 GMT
Balder - Very perceptive! Gamerscore is really tough to attain since you have to commit to one console, complete preconceived challenges, and compete with lord-knows the type of commitment others bring to the table. The good thing is that the achievement system is INCREDIBLY addicting and easy to make that commitment to. Your resolution is very similar to my resolution; I've got tons of RPGs to play through on console and I aim to do so. Good luck! I was very close (only about 1000G difference) then his score skyrocketed. |
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Post by spidershinobi on Dec 31, 2017 22:44:03 GMT
2017 was surprisingly busy for me, so I didn't play many of the games I wanted to play or even finish many I started.
So this year I MUST finish Tales of Xillia completely, and if things go well I'll at least started Tales of Xillia 2.
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Post by dschult3 on Jan 1, 2018 16:30:27 GMT
After I finish Xenoblade 2, I'm going to find a European 7800 controller for a decent price.
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Post by teddykongcountry on Jan 1, 2018 16:55:29 GMT
spidershinobi - I can echo that. There was not a moment that I had little to no obligation during my spare time for consistent gaming. This complicated a lot of what otherwise would have been a strong year for me (games like DQ VIII, Chrono Cross and Yooka-Laylee [by a hair] remained oddly incompleted). I'm hoping to rectify that this year. dschult3 - On any other forum, those two things put into conversation with one another would leave readers jumbled but your comment hypothetically receives 100% Lord Karnage approval.
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Jan 1, 2018 20:05:36 GMT
Dan E. Kool's gaming resolution of 2018 is 720p.
1080p when in Docked Mode.
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Post by Cervantes on Jan 1, 2018 21:30:47 GMT
Cervantes - if you need any help with Phantasy Star, I'm playing through the original right now. You picked a nice game to start Japanese with as the text boxes usually span one slide. Forward me any and all snapshots you have and I'll do my best to assist you. Thanks, mate! The reason I chose it is because the text is both short enough for a RPG and the Saturn version uses both hiragana and katakana - it neither uses kanji, which I'm just starting to learn, nor is katakana only (the Master System version), which would be too confusing. I found a website that has the complete retranslated script, so what I do is try to translate a text box on my own and then compare it to the retranslation so I can see what I got right or wrong. It's painfully slow and I must have spent two to three hours just on the first town, but hey, it was actually fun!  This is true edutainment. I'll have to restart it, though, as my wife also wants to get back on learning japanese and accepted going along with this madness. Maybe we'll try it later this week. |
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Post by teddykongcountry on Jan 1, 2018 21:48:13 GMT
Cervantes - that's a true love relationship where you can enjoy a game together like that! That sounds like it would make for a great lets-play / livestream series but hey! no pressure  Do you have to start over from the beginning or can you catch her up to speed on what you learned so far? I suppose you're obliged to make the lady happy.
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Post by centipede on Jan 2, 2018 9:41:37 GMT
For one, I'd like to start a new library of physical copies for my new Mega Drive HD. Maybe get some of the new releases like Piers Solar (or something). I will also try to sell some games I don't play anymore. Do yo know anybody who's interested in buying my old Guild Wars MMORPG account? And, for al ong time, I want to find a friend who I can regularly co-op or vs. me online. The only game me and Balder have in common is f___ing Halo! Everybody else I know has upgraded to XBOne, so we're not compatible any more. Cervantes I don't get why you're translating a game that's already been translated. Even the Japan-only remakes of PS1&2 have been fan translated. Is this just an exercise in learning Japanese? |
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Post by Cervantes on Jan 2, 2018 10:29:48 GMT
centipede - Yes, just an exercise! I chose it exactly because there are translations, so I can see if I'm getting it right. teddykongcountry - A livestream would be mostly "people spending hours looking at words in dictionaries", I don't think that would be very appealing.  I'll start over as I'm obliged, of course! But it's also good to see if I'll still remember the phrases/words I got right the first time.
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This is true edutainment. I'll have to restart it, though, as my wife also wants to get back on learning japanese and accepted going along with this madness. Maybe we'll try it later this week.
I'll start over as I'm obliged, of course! But it's also good to see if I'll still remember the phrases/words I got right the first time.