/ch3/ - Video Games

>>9442
I'm not a kid or a pedo. In game I bring pedos like you to justice. That's what this is, you know: satanic black magic, sick shit!

>MMO
No thanks OP I prefer games of skill.

>>9446
Heh, not quite.

>>9450
What's your opinion on Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards? I'm playing it for the first time, and it's pretty solid. Seems it would be good for speedruns.

>>9459
A boring snail-paced turd that inexplicably dumped a lot of the great ideas of Super Star… That's what I thought about it on release. It wasn't until years later when I finally played Dream Land 3 that I realized actually 64 was just following in its bland footsteps. Personally Crystal Shards was the game that made me stop caring about Kirby as a series.

>>9460
I'm sorry to differ with you, sir, but Crystal Shards is ludo. Even if you didn't like Crystal Shards, you should consider playing Forgotten Land, it's arguably the best of the entire series.

>>9461
I'd like to hear why you think a snail-paced game might be good for speed running. Even Dream Land 2 is better even though Kirby has no sprint ability in that one, because the levels are more compressed and there are many other ways to get around fast. The default sprint and walking speeds are slow as fuck in Crystal Shards while most of the levels are lateral left-right affairs, and as far as powers go it has the ice skate combo and that's about it.

>>9462
>I'd like to hear why you think a snail-paced game might be good for speed running.
At first, I thought it was really slow, but it's just the framerate, admittedly the game's biggest flaw. You might recall Kirby's Adventure had a pretty bad framerate, too, and even some points where it slowed down to a crawl when there was a lot going on, but most people point to Kirby's Adventure as being the best of the series, or at least setting the standard, because it's so great overall. However, speed running is not necessarily about how fast the actual game moves, it's more of a demonstration of the player's quickness in completing the levels as fast as they can possibly be completed.

speed running is for aspies that are creatively bankrupt. MMO's require personalization. Speed runners just copy what other's have done already.
>you're never getting a wr

>>9459
Crystal shards lost a lot of good stuff from super star but the ability mixing was cool.

>>9469
Or it would have been if half the combos weren't lame and dumb. Or at least if there was actually a reasonably consistent mechanical expectation for what type of ability a combination might give you. Dream Land 2 did this kind of thing better with the animal pal + power combinations. Can't remember how well Dream Land 3 executed it.

>>9475
>Or at least if there was actually a reasonably consistent mechanical expectation for what type of ability a combination might give you.
I kind of like being surprised. The main gripe I have is when you find a shard that you need a certain mixed ability to break the barrier for, from enemies that don't exist on that stage, so then it's this scavenger hunt of going back to previous levels and finding the right enemies to mix, then, you can't exit the stage you've already cleared, you've got to go through it again, surviving with the mixed ability without being killed, then, go back to the stage you needed it for to get the shard, and go through that stage all over again. I know the Japanese love this kind of repetition, maybe I'm just old and jaded, but at least you can savescum now to save yourself some time.

>>9475
>>9462
played through most of dream land 2 for the first time this month, there's a good hack that makes it full color
it's crazy how the game is normally pretty carefree, but getting the items needed to 100% it involves maneuvers that require complete mastery of the controls and mechanics

>>9499
I love dreamland 2 and the entore dark matter saga tbh.