General Gaming Discussion

[piñardilla]

Super Mario Bros. 3 has now been beaten in under 3 minutes in a TAS.

What happens exactly: By using a glitch that embeds Mario in the wall of the pipe's by a pixel, the game sees him as standing on the pipe's end cap and allows him to go "down" it (that it's an up-pipe doesn't matter) until he exits outside the normal map boundaries in a glitched area. There, he jumps and hits an invisible note block, which, being out-of-bounds, causes a memory write outside the normal tile data addresses that screws up the way the processor interprets memory addresses. This leads to a series of incorrect instructions being read from unintended areas of the ROM, until eventually a stack overflow causes it to start reading instructions from RAM addresses near where the x-positions of enemies are stored. By positioning the koopa shells beforehand, arbitrary code can be written in their x-positions, which the player uses to jump to the subroutine with the Princess's room.

[Sparkyopteryx]

Please god let this Smash leak be false. We already have characters wasting slots in the game as it is. The last thing they need is a joke character like Rhythm Heaven Choir Boys.

Whoa wait, what? Got a link? My curiosity is piqued now.

[Toshabi]

He moves awkwardly so it seems fake...but then again...he moves awkwardly in his game. x-x

Obvious fake.



If they were to add a rhythm heaven character in, it'd totally have to be Karate Joe.

[Term]

PSN Flash Sale is hitting me hard like the Steam sales.

Picked up Spec Ops: The Line because it was one of those games people kept saying was severely underrated. Also got Guacamelee because Metroidvania featuring luchadors. Where could I go wrong?

Also picked up PayDay 2 and Remember Me for free.

I can't sing the praises of PS Plus enough.

Also need to get through Last of Us: Left Behind and Infamous: Second Son.

[Battlechili1]

Cannot stop playing Persona 3 FES.
Last week I bought Final Fantasy Tactics, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES, and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner- Raidou Kuzunoha VS The Soulless Army on PSN. Wow, do I love Shin Megami Tensei Games.

Persona 3 FES is like half life simulator and half rpg, and I LOVE it. The rap/pop background music, the dating and relationship building during the day, the seemingly suicidal combat, the color, the writing...I love it. It does tend to drag a little at times (the game moves very slowly), but its been fun every since I bought it.
About to hit the next full moon in the game. I think I've played it about 15 hours already.

As for Devil Summoner....I once played its sequel on PS2 and I prefer the sequel. The combat has more to it and the game is harder. So far the original is pretty easy and short too. It says I've played it about 7 hours and I'm already on Episode 3 (I believe the game has 5 episodes). I like how action oriented the game is though. Its nice to play an RPG that isn't turn-based for a change, and its story moves much faster than Persona, which makes it great as something to play when I don't feel like Persona. I also love the graphics. A lot of people seem to say that the game's graphics are pretty bad, but its got style.


EDIT: Since I'm on such a Shin Megami Tensei binge, I'm probably gonna get SMT IV once I get that 3DS.

[Toshabi]

Payday 2 is so much better on the PC cause Toshabi.

[TheMysteriousL]

Cannot stop playing Persona 3 FES.
Last week I bought Final Fantasy Tactics, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES, and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner- Raidou Kuzunoha VS The Soulless Army on PSN. Wow, do I love Shin Megami Tensei Games.

Persona 3 FES is like half life simulator and half rpg, and I LOVE it. The rap/pop background music, the dating and relationship building during the day, the seemingly suicidal combat, the color, the writing...I love it. It does tend to drag a little at times (the game moves very slowly), but its been fun every since I bought it.
About to hit the next full moon in the game. I think I've played it about 15 hours already.

As for Devil Summoner....I once played its sequel on PS2 and I prefer the sequel. The combat has more to it and the game is harder. So far the original is pretty easy and short too. It says I've played it about 7 hours and I'm already on Episode 3 (I believe the game has 5 episodes). I like how action oriented the game is though. Its nice to play an RPG that isn't turn-based for a change, and its story moves much faster than Persona, which makes it great as something to play when I don't feel like Persona. I also love the graphics. A lot of people seem to say that the game's graphics are pretty bad, but its got style.


EDIT: Since I'm on such a Shin Megami Tensei binge, I'm probably gonna get SMT IV once I get that 3DS.

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You should totally try out Persona 4! It's my personal favorite, and what introduced me to the series.

It's also quite silly at times.

[lorenith]

Got Child of Light and have been taking turns playing Aurora. It's a pretty nice game, I was a little bit worried that I'd get bored by the battle system, but it's actually pretty fun to manage the timeline and stuff. It's a really beautiful game, it has an interesting narrative, and good sound design.

We've played for about 10 hours now, not done yet, but I really like it.

[Term]

Secret to Titanfall.

Play fast and move like a maniac.

Sounds like most games made by those ex-Infinity Ward guys.

Frantic pace, quick turnover on respawns.

[Toshabi]

I'm very depressed that this will probably never be completed (and I've been watching this since day 1). Apparently, we're getting a release 2016.


..........not very likely.


The writing and everything about the game made this game WAY fucking better than cavestory.