This is something I'm really interested in, so I was just curious if you guys know what your MBTI types are? I'm an INFP myself.
(If you don't know your type/don't know what it is and you want to know there are a fair few tests you can take, but bear in mind the tests are known for being pretty crappy and inaccurate so if you're genuinely interested in your type it's best to try and work out your type yourself at some point. Here's the test I used way back. Then here's some very condensed videos with basic info on the types, but there's a lot more on google if you're interested.)
Just something I thought of, often when we make edits to games in the database it looks to the person accepting/rejecting the edit like we're replacing good information with bad information or formatting it wrong or something like that, when there's actually a good reason why we're making that edit that we have no way of making clear to the person verifying it.
Do you think it would be helpful to have some kind of note box or something similar added to the editing page for things that lets us leave a note for the person checking it to let them know why we made that change? It can be a bit frustrating when valid edits are rejected.
If you had to choose between only ever being able to play games you've currently already played for the rest of your life, and never being able to play a new game ever again, or never again being able to play a game that has already been released as of today, and only ever being able to play games that are released from tomorrow onwards, which would you pick?
Keep your beloved classics and never be able to experience potentially amazing future releases, or cut yourself off from your old loves and games you regularly play in the hopes that new experiences in the future hold up to them?
I don't want to influence your answers so I won't answer myself. Which is totally not a cop out because I don't know what I'd do.
Stealing and modifying dreama1's very ambitious thread idea.
As the title says. No real rules, feel free to twist them or define genres however you want. I'll chuck in an 'undefinable' too to give the games I can't nail a genre to a chance. I'll skip to fourth gen for mine because I haven't played enough 8-bit games.
Fourth gen/16B RPG - Final Fantasy VI Platformer - Kirby's Fun Pak Action - Castlevania: Vampire's Kiss Puzzle/Arcade - Dragon's Fury Shmup/Rail Shooter - Starwing Survival Horror - Clock Tower (not exactly much competition but it's good anyway)
Fifth gen/32B/64B RPG - Final Fantasy VIII Platformer - Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus Action - Monkey Hero Puzzle/Arcade - Bust-a-Move 2 FPS - Alien Trilogy Shmup/Rail Shooter - Panzer Dragoon Survival Horror - Silent Hill Fighting - Mortal Kombat 3 Sports - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Undefinable - Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories
Sixth gen JRPG - Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES Pseudo-JRPG - Dark Cloud WRPG - The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Platformer - Dr. Muto Action-Adventure - Jet Set Radio Future Action Sandbox - Bully Puzzle/Arcade - Puyo Pop Fever FPS - Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict Shmup/Rail Shooter - Panzer Dragoon Orta Survival Horror - Silent Hill 2/Silent Hill 4: The Room (SH2's a better game, SH4's scarier, dunno which I prefer) Fighting - Soul Calibur II Rhythm - Guitar Hero III Undefinable - Shenmue II
Seventh gen JRPG - Lost Odyssey Pseudo-JRPG - Nier WRPG - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Platformer - Alice: Madness Returns Adventure - 999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors Action-Adventure - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Action Sandbox - Saints Row 2 Action Hack & Slash - No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle Roguelike - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue/Red Rescue Team Puzzle/Arcade - Katamari Forever FPS - BioShock Shmup/Rail Shooter - Child of Eden Survival Horror - Amnesia: The Dark Descent Fighting - BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Rhythm - Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise Undefinable - Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D'S World Championship 2010: Reverse of Arcadia
Eighth gen JRPG - Persona 5 Pseudo-JRPG - Nier: Automata WRPG - Fallout 4 Platformer - Super Mario Odyssey Adventure - Virtue's Last Reward Visual Novel - The House in Fata Morgana Action-Adventure - Gravity Rush Action Sandbox - Grand Theft Auto V Action Hack & Slash - Bayonetta 2 Puzzle/Arcade - Lumines: Electronic Symphony 3PS - Splatoon 2 Survival Horror - Alien: Isolation Rhythm - Superbeat XONiC Undefinable - Freedom Wars (I guess it'd be pseudo-JRPG but I don't have anything else to put here and want to rep this game)
Pseudo-JRPG is a game everyone else calls a JRPG that I don't consider to be a JRPG and wanted an excuse to put into my list.
Just a quick suggestion, at the moment when choosing a category of our collection to view we can only view games we have for a console by region, or a specific category of swag etc. So like, if I want to look at just my or someone else's PS4 games, I have to look at their EU, US and JP games separately and there's no way of viewing them all together, or if I/they have their swag included in their collection we have to view soundtracks, figures, etc separately, and aren't able to see them all together.
It'd be a small change but a helpful one, do you think it could be implemented so we can view all regions of a console or all types of swag together?
I feel like I've phrased this abysmally but hopefully y'all get what I mean.
Edit: To clarify I mean implemented as an option alongside viewing them separately, rather than replacing the current system with one where they're lumped together.
I know you guys have it too. Something that, as a naive, innocent kid, you thought was amazing. You grew up remembering it fondly, then one day you decide to revisit your childhood - Barely able to contain the nostalgia, you finally decide experience that thing you once loved again, and then realise what a mistake you have made in doing so. That thing you loved is bad. It is very bad.
I don't just mean things that are cringey to you now because they're aimed at kids and you're not a kid anymore, I mean things that are bad. It could be a TV show, a game, a film, a book, music, anything.
I decided to make this topic because of a TV series I loved as a kid called Cardcaptors. Cardcaptor Sakura. Whatever you want to call it. It's an old anime dubbed as a kids' series that ran from the very late 90's to early 2000s if I remember right. I would've been about four years old when I first watched it. Back in the day we didn't have any of the big TV networks in our house, we only had the default UK channels 1 - 5. I didn't get to watch TV all that often because either my mum or my brother would be watching it, and even when I did get to watch TV none of my favourite programs ever seemed to be on. Finally catching one of my favourites on TV was like this huge monumental occasion for me, and because of how little I got to watch them I held them in this ridiculously high esteem, and even after growing up I still got this overwhelming feeling of awesome when I thought about them.
So my favourites were Digimon, Pokemon and Cardcaptors. Cardcaptors seemed to be on less often than anything else I liked to watch, so this made it even more amazing when I finally caught it. I remember loving so much about it. It's basically about a girl who finds this book, I don't remember many of the details but by opening the book she looses all these monsters on the world that were sealed in these 'Clow Cards'. By beating one of the monsters it gets sealed back inside its card, and she can summon it from that card to fight the other monsters. So you can kind of think of it as Pokemon meets Yu-Gi-Oh. It's episodic from there, each episode is about all these different monsters and spirits and stuff wreaking havoc in places, the main character fights them using cards she's captured over the course of the series and then gets a new card out of it when she beats it. It was great to watch it to find out what card she was going to be against this time, what it would look like, what cool powers it would have, and watching her get all these new cards as the series progressed.
So it sounds pretty interesting. As a kid it was epic to me. Eventually I sort of forgot about it, then one day adult me was watching a YouTube video about nostalgic animated shows, there was like a 3-second clip from Cardcaptors in it, and my brain just exploded. I remembered everything, and it was great. Eventually I finally decided to revisit it once and for all.
And... well... just look at it.
Now I wouldn't quite call the experience childhood-shattering, because I can see why I wouldn't have noticed or cared about the bad things about it when I was as young as I was, but my god. It is bad. It is so bad it hurts. Did they hire a fucking police siren to voice Sakura?
Still glad I watched it back then, Cardcaptors is probably the reason I ended up liking anime-style things, it's just a shame my childhood was built on a foundation of wrong.
Anyway, have you guys had any similar experiences? Anything you held in really high esteem as a kid, then as an adult learned to hate it with all your heart?
So I have the misfortune of being a game collector living in the UK. To say the least, back in the days of old, we didn't get many games.
Well okay, we kind of did, but every time I hear about an old game that really really catches my attention and I decide to look into it, I find out it never made it into Europe and I can't play it.
Most consoles I can at least find other games I like for, but my Saturn is picking up dust pretty bad right now because I'm really struggling to find some games for it that look interesting to me that were released here. Pretty much the only exclusives I have for it that I can get into are the Panzer Dragoon games, and I've turned every top 10 Saturn games list upside-down to find more I like the look of with no success.
So, fellow buyers of old things, can you guys recommend me some Saturn games you like that were released in the UK? If it helps with recommendations I love me a good story in a game, and I particularly like turn-based or similar style JRPGs. I also like games that try something new/are generally different from other games I've played. I'm a sucker for good soundtracks too. But any recommendations are fine.
At the moment the exclusives I have are Panzer Dragoon 1 2 & Saga, Nights into Dreams and Clockwork Knight.
There are some games that I have my eye on but cost every penny I will ever make in my life ever, but if I see people recommending them I'll try to prioritise them.
Okay, I'm struggling to stay awake right now so sorry if this is a little incoherent. I'll try my best.
Just a small suggestion here that would help a lot. Since a lot of us will have games of different regions for a single console, when we want to view our collection for a console the drop-down menu will let us select, for example, "PlayStation [EU]" or "PlayStation [NA]", but there's no selection that'll let us view our whole PS1 collection at once rather than just viewing games of a specific region. Any chance we could get an option to view all games from all regions for a console implemented at some point?
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