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General / Re: VGCollect 2023 Secret Santa!
« on: December 08, 2023, 08:54:05 pm »
Is someone streaming for folks to watch?

No one volunteered. I'm just sending a private zoom link so if you want to stream like last year feel free. Otherwise I'll upload it to YouTube after

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General / Re: VGCollect 2023 Secret Santa!
« on: December 07, 2023, 09:17:08 am »
So far we should have 4 people confirmed for tomorrow's opening! Myself, Kash, Cartagia and Ferraroso. Let me know if that isn't correct and once we get the attendees finalized I will send you all a zoom link over PM tomorrow.

You don't have to have a gift open either to participate in the fun! :)

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General / Re: VGCollect 2023 Secret Santa!
« on: December 05, 2023, 04:22:08 pm »
I don't know how many people that are not part of the Santa are interested in watching live but if not, we might just record a zoom meeting an upload it to YouTube if that's okay with the group.

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General / Re: VGCollect 2023 Secret Santa!
« on: December 05, 2023, 09:46:52 am »
I say we just do Friday at 9 EST like we originally planned.

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General / Re: VGCollect 2023 Secret Santa!
« on: December 04, 2023, 02:57:57 pm »
I just updated my availability.

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General / Re: VGCollect 2023 Secret Santa!
« on: December 03, 2023, 01:34:42 pm »
12/9 in the afternoon in the states would work. But I think that would mean koemo couldn't join.
That's fine, no worries. Though I hope I can watch the stream later :). I'll open my secret santa on my birthday

Don't we have the same birthday or am I misremembering? Mine's the 14th

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General / Re: VGCollect 2023 Secret Santa!
« on: December 01, 2023, 12:07:04 pm »
I'll try my best to be there on the 8th!!

We were thinking 9 PM UTC-05:00 on the 8th, what time would that be for you and is it something that would work?

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General / Re: VGCollect 2023 Secret Santa!
« on: November 30, 2023, 12:57:56 pm »
Well, to get things back on track, my gift is supposed to arrive today! How many folks would like to record an opening on the 8th? I think we had two people say yes and another say they couldn't make it?

I'm still looking clear for the 8th.

Are you able to stream Zoom to your Twitch channel? I can try to figure it out myself but I don't know Twitch very well.

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General / Re: VGCollect 2023 Secret Santa!
« on: November 30, 2023, 12:08:55 pm »
Well, to get things back on track, my gift is supposed to arrive today! How many folks would like to record an opening on the 8th? I think we had two people say yes and another say they couldn't make it?

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I'm excited for my copy of Castlevania Advance collection! It should arrive from LRG within the next couple of weeks  :D

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2023!!!
« on: November 29, 2023, 08:53:46 am »
Game 21 - Paper Mario (Wii U) - 24 Hours

The first Paper Mario to me seems to be overlooked considerably compared to it's bigger brother, The Thousand-Year Door. And while TTYD is almost a direct upgrade to the original in pretty much every way, that shouldn't mean that the first entry isn't worth playing.

It's worth recognizing the groundwork that Paper Mario 1 laid out for future games in the series, and it's really quite an impressive game. The visuals in particular are some of the most striking on the N64, and still hold up even to this day. I'd say Paper Mario is the best looking game on the entire system. It has gorgeous environments and beautiful animations that build a colorful and imaginative world. The gameplay set the standard for future games, implementing a fun turn-based system with action commands to either increase or take less damage, as well as an interesting badge system to customize Mario's abilities. Mario is also paired with a cast of colorful characters that help you both in battle and while exploring the world. The story, while standard and a little bland, does enough to move you along through the game and is overall pretty well done.

There were some aspects of Paper Mario that I thought could have been better. For one, I kind of despise most of the music. It all felt very superficial and oftentimes annoying. There were some good tracks though. For all of the whopping 8 characters that join you during your journey, they only have a small moment of character development when they join your party and then they never speak or do anything meaningful for the rest of the game. Limiting your progression to only 30 BP really stunted any chance at meaningful experimentation with your badges, which was disappointing.

Playing on the Wii U, I also really didn't like that the C-stick menu commands were mapped to the right stick. While this matches up with the N64's button layout, I was constantly moving the stick in the wrong direction on accident since you need to press the stick in an exact cardinal direction to make the right menu come up, and I would constantly mess up and pick the wrong menu because the Wii U analog stick isn't precise enough.

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General / Re: VGCollect 2023 Secret Santa!
« on: November 28, 2023, 02:18:36 pm »
I'm not your Santa either Masamune, but I'm sorry that you were disappointed with your gift. I think the mistake with the Steamworld Dig game is very easy one to make. I doubt I would have been able to tell the difference.

However, if you don't count the Game Gear game and treat Steamworld Dig as loose, the approximate value is still $70 not including shipping. I like many others, tend to overspend during this event, and it's not fair to those who do follow our budget to be expected to do the same and then be criticized for doing the "bare minimum".

I think the real conversation here is whether our budget should be increased for next year. And I think we should be stricter about following that budget so that it is more fair for all involved.

The value and budget aren't the real issues. The real issue was not going off the list that was given.

Like Cartagia said, I think that was a very honest mistake. Based off your post I see the instructions "only use games off my wishlist," but the additional notes say that items listed in your Sell List are "options" for Secret Santa, not that the Sell List contains the ONLY games that should be considered as gifts. I could totally understand someone thinking that as long as a game is on either list, it's an acceptable gift option.

Gift giving is tough, especially for someone you don't know. We have a good group of folks here who have participated in this event for many years, and I'm sure whoever was your Santa wanted you to enjoy your gift and didn't intend to send something that wasn't to your expectations. I think we should give them the benefit of the doubt, rather than assume they were lazy and did the bare minimum.

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General / Re: VGCollect 2023 Secret Santa!
« on: November 28, 2023, 08:04:20 am »
I'm not your Santa either Masamune, but I'm sorry that you were dissapponted with your gift. I think the mistake with the Steamworld Dig game is very easy one to make. I doubt I would have been able to tell the difference.

However, if you don't count the Game Gear game and treat Steamworld Dig as loose, the approximate value is still $70 not including shipping. I like many others, tend to overspend during this event, and it's not fair to those who do follow our budget to be expected to do the same and then be criticized for doing the "bare minimum".

I think the real conversation here is whether our budget should be increased for next year. And I think we should be stricter about following that budget so that it is more fair for all involved.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2023!!!
« on: November 27, 2023, 02:21:01 pm »
Game 20 - Operation C (Switch) - 3 Hours

Beat this game without having to use any continues. For an early Game Boy game, Operation C has a lot of really great things going for it. For one, it plays beautifully, something that a lot of portable versions can't say. It plays like a perfect little mash-up of Contra and Super C including the controls and music. There aren't as many weapons, but the new homing weapon was my favorite and I preferred it over the spread gun. It isn't a very long game, at only 5 stages, but what is there was very enjoyable.

As a side note, I'm not sure how many more games I will be finishing on the Contra Anniversary Collection. I've tried the arcade originals of the first two Contra games and didn't really like playing them. I was also very disappointed to find that Contra Hard Corps doesn't allow for any button remapping. So other than Contra III I'm not sure if this collection will have much more to offer.

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General / Re: Black Friday 2023
« on: November 23, 2023, 09:50:03 am »
I was also hoping for a PS5 deal because I really want to play the Silent Hill 2 remake when that comes out. Maybe next year!

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