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It's not really possible (or worthwhile spending the time trying) to boil things down to a formula or checklist like that in my experience. Something I really liked 15 years ago, I can be pretty meh about today. It's not the game that's changed; any specific thing you could have picked out that game as having 15 years ago, it still has today.

Have to ditto this. Play Analogue first.

Ditto this, I picked it up and am having a blast. It's part terraria (2D digging, but no building) part metroidvania (progress gated by upgrades/power ups).

I will say that part of the appeal is a game of intuiting "rules" with imperfect knowledge, like Mao. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_(card_game) There are too many characters to memorize all the matchups (and you can't necessarily do it by name or sprite because there are a bunch of identically named characters with identical sprites, but vastly different AI), but you can guess at a character's origin as characters can tend to be (somewhat) reasonably matched against other characters from the same creator. Also chat lies to you constantly about which character is better (except when they're not), so it becomes a game about reading the temperature of a room that's spewing 'ALL IN ON LOLI WAIFU TOO STRONK 4 MEXIBEAM' at about ten messages a second. Which is hilarious.

I don't think it's that, because I never bet with real $ and if the saltybet betting were for real money, I would have been all "fuck THAT" The fact that it's fake money lets me have a virtual stake in the outcome that just watching the fights does not.

breaking out some embeds since there's a limit of 2 apparently: This is probably my favourite song by The Sugarman Three: This is probably my favourite song by The Budos Band (the other two are playlists so wouldn't embed anyways)

Yeah I meant to drop a bunch of links to videos but was posting from my phone and lazy. I tend to prefer instrumental stuff, so I'm all over the Mighty Imperials, Menahan Street Band, Budos Band, & Sugarman 3, but if you like stuff with vocals, maybe start with Charles Bradley. Here's my favourite of his: This is a pretty catchy song from The Mighty Imperials This is probably my favourite song by The Sugarman Three: This is probably my favourite song by The Budos Band If you like Wu Tang Clan, someone did a mashup of them with Budos band which is interesting: But right now, I'm all over The Crossing by The Menahan Street Band I don't think I've ever had such unmitigated love for pretty much all the music from a given (admittedly small) label. There's usually one or two artists where I'm like "eh, that's not my thing," but Daptone is like all stuff I like.

I haven't popped in here in a while but my love of Daptone records abides. I like pretty much everything they do. Some of it, I don't necessarily LOVE, but it's all likable. Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley, Mighty Imperials, Menahan Street Band, Budos Band, Sugarman 3. ALL GOOD. My current obsession is MSB's album The Crossing which is like their usual schtick crossed with a spaghetti western/morricone flavor.

Papa Y Yo was a PSN exclusive at first and is on Steam now.

Maybe with regard to the particular issues you were talking about, but: ( from http://thefullbrightcompany.com/2013/08/26/patch-1-01-now-available/ )

I have played and was really impressed by this one as well. Beyond the narrative stuff, the bar fight strikes me as one of the best user generated content demonstrations of what the engine is capable of too. As a fight set piece, it's more complex than anything in the official campaign. There are multiple factions (which will partially fight against each other rather than just being after your team), you can get factions to flee by inflicting enough damage/killing their leader(?) instead of having to murder everybody.

zomg cake shenanigans

While there is a sense in which what you guys are saying is true, I think it's also playing to the stereotype of what a nerd is. It's entirely possible to be an art/film/architecture/poetry/drama/critical theory (think the Situationists and the notion of psychogeography) nerd.

Cars only get knocked out of your wake (i.e. behind/beside you). You do knock a car away in front of you if you're still pressing the dash button when you hit it, so you need to let go of that at the same time as (or a split second before) you hit the ragdoll button and make contact.

If you build up a head of steam with the super run before ragdolling into a car, it's possible to have enough momentum that you can bounce around nearly indefinitely. I've done more than $1million without stopping on a good run. I'd say it's WAY easier than it was in SR3 where you had to do things like pick a spot on the highway so there'd be more cars etc. Totally unecessary here as with a decent initial fling, you can cartwheel clear across the other side of town/turn corners in mid ragdoll while still keeping enough momentum to keep going etc.

Just finished last night (nowhere near 100% though). If you think about it, sure, there are a ton of flaws (even just in comparison to the last one), but in the moment, the feeling of gliding around like a superhero makes all that stuff go away. I've played crackdown, protoype and both infamouses and I'd say SRIV does the movement better.

Oh man, if Morley cigarettes puts two things into the same universe, the Tommy Westphall Hypothesis just got a bit bigger.

I'm wondering about that save file stuff. I couldn't figure out how to get hate plus to detect my saves (and I never did the harem end for analogue), so I do wonder what I'm missing. Having said that, I have to sheepishly admit I have temporarily dropped Hate Plus (and all other gaming) when I picked up that immersive glowy thing chasing sim, Saints Row IV. What I've seen of Hate Plus (about 2 days in):

This a pretty good gaem you guys. I like jumping to the glowy bits so I can jump faster/higher to get to other glowy bits.

Just popped in to post that.

Exactly what a member of the inner cabal of the wizarding-industrial complex conspiracy would be required to say.

I don't know about this. I mean what you say is obviously true, but on some level games are so often about taking on a role that is very different from our real lives. I've never been a space marine or wizard (well, that I can tell you guys about. real wizards have to pinky swear not to talk about it. it's like fight club.), for instance, but I'm able to relate to the challenges they face.

It's been as high as #2.

It's basically it, if you're a goals driven kind of player. But bells don't mean all that much when you're trying to track down the last piece of a furniture collection or the last bug/fossil you need to finish off the museum. I played a lot MORE when I was making daily trips to the island to farm bells, but I'm wouldn't say I enjoy the game less now that I don't do that. I am playing a lot less now that I have other things to play though.

There's salad dressing in the fridge named after a member of this forum.