OT: HFPens Community Lounge: Or Ogrezilla and LOGiK's Nerd Thread ;)

[Randy Butternubs]

Metroid Prime Remastered

I love love love this game. And I near 100%'d for the first time. Those damn miss-able ice shriek bats.

 

[Empoleon8771]

I love love love this game. And I near 100%'d for the first time. Those damn miss-able ice shriek bats.

I’ve never played it but I watched a YouTube video calling it “the best GameCube game of all time” and then I saw the remastered switch version had a 10/10 rating. Seems like it should be a really good game.

 

[bambamcam4ever]

I’ve never played it but I watched a YouTube video calling it “the best GameCube game of all time” and then I saw the remastered switch version had a 10/10 rating. Seems like it should be a really good game.

It's probably the best game Nintendo has ever made outside of the Zelda series.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Bought Longlegs for less than $2. Worth it.

I read that it was a spiritual successor to Silence of the Lambs. It isn't. But I liked it.

Spoilers? Minor though.

Spoiler

There's some supernatural stuff to the movie

 

[Ogrezilla]

I may have to look into Echos of Wisdom, that was one I dismissed pretty immediately as not being interested. I tried Link’s Awakening and couldn’t get into it, so I was thinking Echos of Wisdom wouldn’t work for me either. But if it’s good it could be worth looking into.

Depends what you don't like about Links Awakening. Same art style exactly, but the style of gameplay is pretty different. Echos is more open and more problem solving with different tools available where LA was very straightforward "go the right way to get the right item to get past the next obstacle" style of old school zelda. Not to say you don't also have that in Echos, it's still a Zelda game. But it's definitely a twist on the Zelda formula gameplay-wise.

I just bought Metroid Prime Reloaded and I think that’s going to be my next switch game.

I haven't played the remaster, but Metroid Prime is a great game.

It's probably the best game Nintendo has ever made outside of the Zelda series.

I'd agree it's their best 3D game outside of the Zelda series. Super Metroid is my shit though.

 

[LOGiK]

Finished reading Anna Karenina a few hours ago. 42 reading days to complete but I slowed down at some point because I hate finishing a good book and leaving the world.

Thats the third russian author I've read now, Dostoyevski, Bulgakov and Tolstoy.
All three are excellent in their own beautiful way, but I have to say, and it isn't a simple choice, but The Brothers Karamozov is my favorite so far.
Think I'm going with The Idiot next.... (not counting the massive Discworld books I read... some I blaze through so fast and they are barely 'book' size imo. I'll celebrate each of the series completed -roughly 8 books each- or after the franchise completion =]

 

[Empoleon8771]

Depends what you don't like about Links Awakening. Same art style exactly, but the style of gameplay is pretty different. Echos is more open and more problem solving with different tools available where LA was very straightforward "go the right way to get the right item to get past the next obstacle" style of old school zelda. Not to say you don't also have that in Echos, it's still a Zelda game. But it's definitely a twist on the Zelda formula gameplay-wise.


I haven't played the remaster, but Metroid Prime is a great game.



I'd agree it's their best 3D game outside of the Zelda series. Super Metroid is my shit though.

Yeah it wasn’t the art style with links awakening, it was the gameplay that I wasn’t a fan of. Felt very repetitive and slow. If Echos is a more open game I think that would be a much better fit.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Bought Longlegs for less than $2. Worth it.

I read that it was a spiritual successor to Silence of the Lambs. It isn't. But I liked it.

Spoilers? Minor though.

Spoiler

There's some supernatural stuff to the movie

I wasn't a fan, it's not a spoiler to say there's a supernatural element to it mate, it's literally in the description tags on imdb. I thought Cage was going to be in it more, felt he was great in his role, but yeah...the supernatural element of the story derailed it for me. Because there's a big element of it. It's what ruined the movie for me. Felt like how the show Sugar had the dumb reveal, ruined the entire show.

Perkins does have a lot of talent in that genre, I hope his next movie hits for me. I really wanted to like Longlegs, the trailer had me super pumped to see it, damn it. There's been so many shit horror/thrillers, I give up hoping for a good one. I don't even know if the new Salems Lot is worth it. Stephen King is ass, he has great ideas, his books are 50% amazing, 50% what the f*** were you thinking with that second half bullshit. But I've heard good things about Salems Lot.

 

[Ogrezilla]

Yeah it wasn’t the art style with links awakening, it was the gameplay that I wasn’t a fan of. Felt very repetitive and slow. If Echos is a more open game I think that would be a much better fit.

remember that aside from graphics, the whole game design of Links Awakening is from gameboy in 1993

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Salems Lot remake was garbage. It lived up to King's work in that respect.

 

[Shrimper]

Does anyone get an error saying "Header too large" sometimes? Can't view the site on my tablet

 

[Big McLargehuge]

remember that aside from graphics, the whole game design of Links Awakening is from gameboy in 1993

Echoes is well en route to be about the 10th Zelda game that I abandon around 5 hours in; completely unable to understand the appeal.

I mean it's a billion times better than Ocarina, but what game isn't? Donkey Kong 64? Correct.