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« on: June 10, 2026, 08:43:57 am »
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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2026!!!
« on: May 14, 2026, 11:04:53 am »
I will give 2 reviews of games that are not abandoned or beaten but I am not really playing for typical reasons.
7. Fortnite (PC)
When this game came out originally, I had watched a fair bit of it on Twitch, primarily on SandyRavage and Trexcapades' channels. So I already had some idea about it and the fact that I wouldn't be interested in building anything. In fact, I unbound the build key entirely. In its current state, it reminds me a lot of a mobile game with all of the purchase options. I won my first match on solo zero build and also my first 3. It wasn't until I tried other modes that I ran into the knowledge gap. As with most BRs, it suffers from the fact they make things too easy. The only other BRs I have played are H1Z1, Blackout and Warzone 1.0.
Ground gun variety is very low, which is surprising, or there is not enough discernable differentiation. Throwables don't have their own key. There are way too many control options in menus. SBMM being present isn't a big deal but the game does have EOMM present which is a big deal. Not going to complain about controller players having aim assist, at least it is not as aggregious as in Warzone. Downed players have too much heal, as is also common in modern BRs. There doesn't seem to be a headshot damage multiplier present.
I do like that it has settings for individual sound sources with mic, voice chat and game audio. Controls are quite smooth and had good turning radius speeds. I primarily used the DMR, ADS is ok going from 3rd to 1st but that transition is always a little weird.
In general, it is more of a game to play with friends for me, rather than something I am actually interested in.
8. Roblox (PC)
I didn't really know what Roblox was outside of seeing memes or news stories. I thought it was a Minecraft ripoff. It is interesting that crossplay functionality exists between PC and cell phone players.
What Roblox really reminded me of, in a low level way, was ActiveWorlds. AW wasn't designed for gaming as its primary, rather to allow the creation of virtual worlds. Games certainly exist(ed) in AW. I do not know what creative tools exist for Roblox, but they probably aren't as ad hoc as AW was. For example, AW ran on Renderware before RW had any real tools, before it got picked by Rockstar for use in GTA3. You had to build models and do texture mapping with a text editor bitd.
Roblox is obviously not designed to be used on a computer. First, the account creation captcha renders extremely small on a monitor, to the point where it is difficult to view the symbols you have to match up. I had to run through the captcha 18 times before I got it right. There is no clear direction on the site how to install the game on a computer that does not have access to the MS Store aka non-retail editions of Windows which my computers use. It is possible, using the "Player" application (as an LLM informed me) but you can't download that standalone from the site and the site doesn't mention it specifically. You only can DL the player when you try to run a game for the first time. There is also not any way to remap controls, so when you are in a game you have to figure it out and not all of the games use the same controls, specifically camera control with the mouse. Look speed is way to high as a base setting even using a low DPI setting. You can camera clip in a lot of games due to the mouse and (apparently) there is a significant brightness difference between cell phone and PC where some textures are only visible on PC. Also, if you are using a PC without a camera, it is impossible to do age verification.
In general, it is a party game, something to play with friends. There are some interesting things people have created, but nothing I had found really hooked me. Some things I found familiar to games I can play elsewhere and that are better.
7. Fortnite (PC)
When this game came out originally, I had watched a fair bit of it on Twitch, primarily on SandyRavage and Trexcapades' channels. So I already had some idea about it and the fact that I wouldn't be interested in building anything. In fact, I unbound the build key entirely. In its current state, it reminds me a lot of a mobile game with all of the purchase options. I won my first match on solo zero build and also my first 3. It wasn't until I tried other modes that I ran into the knowledge gap. As with most BRs, it suffers from the fact they make things too easy. The only other BRs I have played are H1Z1, Blackout and Warzone 1.0.
Ground gun variety is very low, which is surprising, or there is not enough discernable differentiation. Throwables don't have their own key. There are way too many control options in menus. SBMM being present isn't a big deal but the game does have EOMM present which is a big deal. Not going to complain about controller players having aim assist, at least it is not as aggregious as in Warzone. Downed players have too much heal, as is also common in modern BRs. There doesn't seem to be a headshot damage multiplier present.
I do like that it has settings for individual sound sources with mic, voice chat and game audio. Controls are quite smooth and had good turning radius speeds. I primarily used the DMR, ADS is ok going from 3rd to 1st but that transition is always a little weird.
In general, it is more of a game to play with friends for me, rather than something I am actually interested in.
8. Roblox (PC)
I didn't really know what Roblox was outside of seeing memes or news stories. I thought it was a Minecraft ripoff. It is interesting that crossplay functionality exists between PC and cell phone players.
What Roblox really reminded me of, in a low level way, was ActiveWorlds. AW wasn't designed for gaming as its primary, rather to allow the creation of virtual worlds. Games certainly exist(ed) in AW. I do not know what creative tools exist for Roblox, but they probably aren't as ad hoc as AW was. For example, AW ran on Renderware before RW had any real tools, before it got picked by Rockstar for use in GTA3. You had to build models and do texture mapping with a text editor bitd.
Roblox is obviously not designed to be used on a computer. First, the account creation captcha renders extremely small on a monitor, to the point where it is difficult to view the symbols you have to match up. I had to run through the captcha 18 times before I got it right. There is no clear direction on the site how to install the game on a computer that does not have access to the MS Store aka non-retail editions of Windows which my computers use. It is possible, using the "Player" application (as an LLM informed me) but you can't download that standalone from the site and the site doesn't mention it specifically. You only can DL the player when you try to run a game for the first time. There is also not any way to remap controls, so when you are in a game you have to figure it out and not all of the games use the same controls, specifically camera control with the mouse. Look speed is way to high as a base setting even using a low DPI setting. You can camera clip in a lot of games due to the mouse and (apparently) there is a significant brightness difference between cell phone and PC where some textures are only visible on PC. Also, if you are using a PC without a camera, it is impossible to do age verification.
In general, it is a party game, something to play with friends. There are some interesting things people have created, but nothing I had found really hooked me. Some things I found familiar to games I can play elsewhere and that are better.
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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Question about N64 JP Big boxes
« on: May 11, 2026, 09:36:14 am »
Ok yes, you can make an entry for that box inside of the box.
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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Question about N64 JP Big boxes
« on: May 07, 2026, 10:31:56 am »
For Pikachu Genki Dechu, the other box that exists is from inside of that one. The information is already present on that entry.
Perfect Dark only appears to have the 2 releases we already have.
For the others you need to be more specific in what you are asking.
Perfect Dark only appears to have the 2 releases we already have.
For the others you need to be more specific in what you are asking.
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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: nintendo ds and 3ds demos
« on: April 30, 2026, 09:32:58 am »Quote
your literrly asking for verry specific information that is IMPOSSIBLE to get all we know about thsoe demos is that they where used in kiosks in eu countries was nintednogs in an kiosk in polland for example? maybe but no way to find out.
We put information in that is confirmed. If we don't know, or it can't be proven, then we leave that out. We can always add information later, and it is best to not presume information in the case we are wrong.
Real world example:
Mario Tennis Open demo being sold in Spain has a cart item number of LNZ-CTR-AGAP-EUR and a back number of AGAP52041B
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/317211178810
Mario Tennis Open demo being sold in England has a cart item number of LNZ-CTR-AGAP-EUR and a back number of AGAP52041B (the same)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266708249037
Can we presume that the cart sold in England is from England and the cart sold in Spain is from Spain? Yes
Can we prove that? No
Can we presume that all carts in EU have the same 2 numbers? Yes
Can we prove that carts from other countries in EU have the same 2 numbers? No
So we put the information that we know for sure. We know this cart with these 2 numbers are from Europe.
The item number is the number from the cart label like usual. Put the back number in description.
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News / Re: Site Status / Crash recovery information and planning
« on: April 25, 2026, 09:05:08 am »I really wonder how this list is compiled, as I updated around a little above 400 front images since we were invited to do so, as I am sure others did, yet won’t see my nick here. Not that I care really much, but it confuses me, as I assume you collect these stats from the same DB that is able to list users’ validated edits.
This data is from a pivot table on the spreadsheet.
The worker column was originally intended to just mark an entry with a name so that other DB staff who use the sheet know that an entry is being looked at and not to duplicate effort. I later added other users to there just to indicate if someone else had changed the art before we got that entry. Not that we need to give attribution in an internal tool like that, but it may have been helpful if we ever needed to revisit something. One day I just wondered how many I had done and made the pivot table, and it just counts everyone.
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News / Re: Site Status / Crash recovery information and planning
« on: April 23, 2026, 10:50:30 pm »
I need to work on that again.
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News / Re: Advanced Style Guide update and feedback thread
« on: April 21, 2026, 09:50:08 am »I understand that—I didn't mean to imply that the common name rule should be overwritten in these scenarios. I've merely provided examples of how letters and symbols may be substituted for numbers.
However, the common name rule does not dictate entry name formatting as you've said. With that understanding, the final four examples I provided in my previous post—MDK, NG, SSX, and XCOM: Enemy Within—feature title acronyms that are either only known with supplemental in-game information (that you've said we should ignore) or have no data information at all and are merely formatted as such as a stylistic choice. So, should those entry names remain in all uppercase, or should they instead be formatted to title case?
MDK and NG are acronyms, so they are fine. SSX is common to be represented that way.
XCOM is a different story since it is common to see it as Xcom. X-COM and X-Com. But searching for XCOM shows that it is overwhelmingly represented all capitalized, especially on Wikipedia. So we should keep it like that also.
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News / Re: Advanced Style Guide update and feedback thread
« on: April 20, 2026, 11:25:39 am »
Common Name rule stands on this, then we have our exceptions: symbols or our own naming choices... which I believe covers the Resident Evil VII example.
But the version of the name with the actual words can be put into alt-name.
But the version of the name with the actual words can be put into alt-name.
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News / Re: Advanced Style Guide update and feedback thread
« on: April 18, 2026, 10:28:49 am »
I'm sure there are other examples and I'd want to compare those first. I don't know whether those are using numbers like that or not. But if so, then the "word" they are supposed to represent should be in the alt name.
Not that we need to be concerned with game content for the purposes of our entries, but an LP of the game indicates D1AL-ogue is a named location within the game, named in the opening cut-scene.
https://youtu.be/VAh8nNSJLN4?si=6jldAmYD0TEglmCi&t=75
Not that we need to be concerned with game content for the purposes of our entries, but an LP of the game indicates D1AL-ogue is a named location within the game, named in the opening cut-scene.
https://youtu.be/VAh8nNSJLN4?si=6jldAmYD0TEglmCi&t=75
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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: nintendo ds and 3ds demos
« on: April 13, 2026, 10:38:15 am »
In a category like Demos, you can do it as
[US] and [EU]
but not
(US) and (EU)
but only to differntiate two entries.
[US] and [EU]
but not
(US) and (EU)
but only to differntiate two entries.
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Video Game Auction Watch / Re: My eBay Game Collection SALE
« on: April 01, 2026, 10:06:40 am »
Market section is for users of the site.
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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Category/Platform Requests 2.0
« on: March 28, 2026, 09:37:15 am »
Merchandise, Miscellaneous
Hi all,
I hope this post finds you well.
I wanted to confirm the most suitable category for "Conker's Little Black Book"?
Vgprintads on Tumblr has scans: https://vgprintads.tumblr.com/post/52998827818/conkers-bad-fur-day-promotional-booklet/amp
Thank you.
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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Category/Platform Requests 2.0
« on: March 27, 2026, 09:59:23 am »
These are not consoles, they require a PC to use.
Net Jet "System" itself and the skin would be considered PC Accessory
the Net Jet cartridges would be PC Games
thus the Net Jet System packaged would be an "accessory with a game" and should be named as such. The same would apply to Konami Live items.
Net Jet "System" itself and the skin would be considered PC Accessory
the Net Jet cartridges would be PC Games
thus the Net Jet System packaged would be an "accessory with a game" and should be named as such. The same would apply to Konami Live items.
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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2026!!!
« on: March 27, 2026, 09:49:48 am »
I'm allowed to start late
1. Major League Manager (PC)
2. Dropsum 2.0 (browser)
3. Diablo III (PC)
4. Civilization V (PC)
5. Mincraft [Nomifactory, Mechanical Mastery] (PC)
6. Skyrim LE (PC)
7. Fortnite (PC)
8. Roblox (PC)
Totals
played: 8
beaten: 0
abandoned: 0
demo: 0
Quote from: Ignition365's Modified Legend
green games are games that have been beaten/endless in 2025
blue games are in progress.
standard games are games I am not currently trying to beat or have been beat in previous years.
red games are games that have been abandoned.
1. Major League Manager (PC)
2. Dropsum 2.0 (browser)
3. Diablo III (PC)
4. Civilization V (PC)
5. Mincraft [Nomifactory, Mechanical Mastery] (PC)
6. Skyrim LE (PC)
7. Fortnite (PC)
8. Roblox (PC)
Totals
played: 8
beaten: 0
abandoned: 0
demo: 0