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General / Re: Let's Name The Top 100 Racing Games Together

« on: August 03, 2020, 05:32:41 pm »

In my opinion, Excitebots Trick Racing is pretty damn underrated. It's absurd, it's crazy, but if you can get used to the controls then it's a lot of dumb fun.



1. Gran Turismo
2. Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled
3. Micro Machines V4
4. F-Zero GX
5. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
6. ChoroQ
7. Rock and Roll Racing
8. R.C. Pro-Am
9. Diddy Kong Racing
10. R4: Ridge Racer Type 4
11. Crash Team Racing
12. Burnout 3: Takedown
13. Split / Second
14. Wave Race 64
15. Mario Kart DS
16. F-Zero X
17. Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
18. Hot Wheels: Turbo Racing
19. Mario Kart 64
20. OutRun
21. Need For Speed Underground
22. SSX Tricky
23. Death Rally
24. Hydro Thunder
25. Crazy Taxi 2
26. Wipeout 2097
27. Cruis'n USA
28. Jet Moto 2
29. Wip3out
30. Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition
31. Excitebots Trick Racing

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General / Re: Which Gaming Device Do You Have The Most And Least Amount Of Games For & Why

« on: May 11, 2019, 07:38:00 pm »

Most: PS3 with 69 games (including one not logged in this site's database but I'm too lazy to enter it myself... it's Demon's Souls but the Korean version)
Because there are a lot of great games from that generation, including many exclusives I love (BlazBlue and Disgaea come to mind immediately). And so many of them are cheap right now, so I'm playing catch-up in getting all of the ones I really want.

Least: Nintendo 64 with 5 games.
Because it's the newest console in my collection, and while I have a list of 15 more games I need to collect sometime, I'm not in any hurry to get them. I'd like to get games for all my consoles, not just one.

And I know better, know that I should distinguish between GB, GBC, and GBA, but I tend to think about all of those consoles as a collective since I only own a GBA SP. So for the sake of being 100% accurate, the least is actually GB, since the only game I own is Super Mario Land.

(Actually the least games I own for any console is 0 since I don't have any Atari games, or any XboxOne games, or and Genesis games...)

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General / Re: Going For Quantity Or Quality In Games

« on: May 11, 2019, 07:28:35 pm »

This is something I consider every time I buy games, although my metric is quality relative to the game's cost. I do want to have some rare and relatively expensive games to boast about in my collection. That's why I have games like Suikoden 2 and Eternal Darkness, great games which are hard to find and harder to find cheap and in good condition. But at the same time, I only let myself spend $45 weekly on games, if that, so a lot of weeks I'll buy 2-3 games I know are good but have a low enough market value. Right now I haven't expanded my collection to "bad" games or quality-unknown games, I don't have that much to burn.

So it really depends on my mood each week, and what I find in stores. Generally speaking, if I think I can get the game for less if I wait a few months, then I don't buy it. That's why I rarely buy brand new releases or DLC. After that, I just get whatever strikes me, and maybe I'll splurge twice a year or so to buy a new console or a game as expensive as Suikoden 2.

This might not have answered the thread topic specifically, but it's just my personal rationale.

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General / Re: Have you ever found a shiny Pokemon?

« on: April 26, 2019, 03:15:57 pm »

I'll throw my hat in this ring, since Pokemon is most of my childhood and still a large part of my newfound adulthood...

Technically first encountered the shiny red Gyarados in Silver and Crystal. That one is scripted. It doesn't count.
Actually first caught a shiny geodude in LeafGreen's victory road. It's been lost to the aether though, must've deleted my save file with it when I was a kid, I didn't have a way to trade it between gen 3 games.
I don't think I encountered any shinies in gen 4.
The next I remember for sure was shiny Basculin in White 2. I was EV training at the time. And now I absolutely hate Basculin because (A) it's a terrible Pokemon, (B) super generic design, even with the two forms, and (C) its shiny is virtually no different than normal. To encounter something so rare but so underwhelming still upsets me.
I think there was one in generation 6 but I can't recall specifically.
In moon I found a shiny Hakomo-o. I was SOS chaining to find one holding a razor claw (because that was the only way to get one, and get Weavile by association) when it spawned, I remember saying "forget the item, I'm catching the shiny!" Turns out it was also holding a razor claw. So, hands-down that was the best shiny encounter.
In Ultra Sun I found a shiny Staryu and shiny Pineco. No neat story with those though, although I think I was SOS chaining for competitively viable pokemon with both cases.
And a friend has given me a few shinies. However this friend also hacks / generates Pokemon for competitive play. Personally I'm fine with hacking like that, but I can't say in good faith those shinies are legit.

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Classic Video Games / Re: How fragmented do you think the gaming community is?

« on: February 14, 2019, 02:00:25 pm »

Now, I could be wrong in what I'm about to say, but this is all what I've observed. Take it with a grain of salt.

By your definition of fragmented, I'd say yes, it is super fragmented. Easy to see why too, because everyone likes different things. Similarly, everyone places different emphasis on how much and how often they game. There's no real rhyme or reason aside from that, but that's fine. There are people like my brother who plays games only a few times per week, if that, and when they do it's always some variation of a FPS. I also met a good friend at college who only really plays Pokemon games and not much else. He even plays competitively, and he's super passionate about the series, but he's not a big gamer aside from that.

Then you have people like me, and I'm sure many others on this site. I couldn't stand to limit myself to one genre or one game or series, and a lot of the fun I have gaming is from playing many things, finding lesser known games, looking for inventive ways developers crossed two or more genres, whatever. Seeing all kinds of things in gaming is what I enjoy. For me being a self-proclaimed collector, I don't have a specific direction. I find good games and I buy them. And of course, I have favorites. I prefer action-heavy games, turn-based strategy RPGs, games that offer difficult but fair challenge, and games which out heavy emphasis on great level design. I'm not as big a fan of open world sandboxes, branching narratives, or overly elaborate stories, though sometimes I'll play one and absolutely love it. Variety is my enjoyment.

So yeah, it really is as simple as seeing what each person prefers in a game and how they enjoy them. Nothing wrong with it.

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Classic Video Games / Re: E.T. The Video Game

« on: February 14, 2019, 01:42:22 pm »

I'm 21, so predictably everything Atari-related is beyond my first-hand experience. Hell, I've never even seen ET the movie. That said, by the time I do branch out into retro collecting, ET will be a high priority for me to get simply because of the story behind it. I've read every article I can find about the video game crash, seen every documentary, studied everyone's analysis, and the overwhelming consensus is that ET did not cause it... market oversaturation and a lack of quality assurance did. ET was just a scapegoat, or the straw that broke the camel's back. And I'm going to be candid, of all the games I've seen, ET strikes me as incredibly amazing considering it was developed basically from scratch, in only five weeks, without modern development tools, environments, libraries, assets and etc.

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Video Showcase / Re: Can Somebody Recommend A Funny Video Game Channel On Youtube?

« on: July 22, 2018, 09:11:40 pm »

Most of the channels / Youtubers I watch focus more on information, reviews, top # lists, etc rather than pure comedy, but a lot of them have their own brand of humor weaved in. But that aside, some of my favorites are RelaxAlax, Scott the Woz, OutsideXbox / Xtra, PlaystationAccess, and The Completionist. Again, not strictly video game humor channels, but video game channels which I get an occasional laugh from. I'll be interested in whatever else gets recommended too.

I'll second JonTron, he's hilarious but pretty inactive these days.

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General / Re: Night Trap Returns

« on: July 28, 2017, 07:38:11 pm »

Night Trap, AKA half of the reason that ESRB exists despite the fact that it barely qualifies as M by their metrics.

I'm not usually into horror games, but this would be an interesting item to have just for the history behind it.

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General / Re: What Would Another Video Game Crash Mean To You?

« on: July 28, 2017, 11:01:16 am »

I was just talking with a good friend about this. I've done a fair amount of research into the 1983 crash, what happened leading up to it, after it, blah blah basic stuff from Wikipedia though, and I would bet my life that it won't happen like that again (if I was legally old enough to gamble in the U.S.) Of course, the primary reason for the crash then was over-saturation of the market, but more specifically it was an absence of quality control. I think in the overall view of the time, console games were a fad or simple toy, barely respectable in any capacity unlike the industry today, and yet everyone wanted to capitalize on the trend (like today and fidget spinners, etc). What resulted was shelves full of terrible, sometimes copy-pasted games that virtually nobody wanted, with E.T. being the infamous final straw.

Because the industry has grown much higher than Atari's peak, and is balanced by many more, more influential actors (console manufacturers, triple-A game developers, indie game developers...), I personally believe it would take an almost-literal apocalypse for another crash.

Not to mention, a crash would de-value everything, not make everything more expensive. If anything, I'd go on a shopping spree to pick up the wreckage before it fixes itself.

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General / Re: Intro thread

« on: March 16, 2017, 05:51:02 pm »

Hey everyone. Don't know any of you yet, but isn't that the point of an introductions thread?

Anyway, I'm epicninjask123 (or on some other sites I'll shorten this to eninjask123) and I've been meaning for some time to electronically compile my game library. A friend recommended I use an online database, and lo and behold I've got an account here. Though I'll tell my friends I'm a collector, I wouldn't say I have anything particularly brag-worthy, but I don't personally know many people with as much physical games as me so I've got that on them.

Right now I'm a college sophomore in computer science, which takes about as much time as most expect, so I've got quite a backlog stocked up. And since food, school, and games cost money, I'm trying not to buy too much games right now, let alone recent releases (though I really want Nier Automata and Horizon: Zero Dawn... and many others). That said, I'm hoping I could get involved with the community more. Welcome me, and nice to meet whoever responds!