Oh god yeah. I LOVE Pokémon but the highest a Pokémon game has gotten from me is a 7/10 (Smoon, Bwhite) in many years. bwhite had a great story with great mechanics and great QoL. Smoon had EVERY Pokémon in it and was the last game to do so. The beginning was an awful slog, but I loved all the locations, music, QoL features, and the endgame was incredible. Loved Battle Tower and how simple the game made to see the IVs of your Pokémon, while still keeping it challenging to breed a near perfect or perfect one.

The Switch main line games are mediocre to abysmal (ScarVio are neigh unplayable on the Switch) and the Legends game are good: 6/10 for Arceus and I just started ZA or whatever on an emulator and don’t have an opinion at all on it yet, other than it sure does look nice at 1440p/60 hahaha

I want a game review site where there’s a number and it’s legit. Like

1/10 - Irredeemably bad. The music is terrible, the sounds are grating (or missing), the visuals hurt to look at (or are completely boring, which might be worse.) controls make it frustrating to navigate. I also give this to bland games with extremely predatory monetization, where the goal of the game is “make as much money as possible from whales”. Usually a mediocre mobile game skinned to a popular IP, maybe with some of the same aspects as that other game, but a huge wall where suddenly it’s spendin’ time.

2/10 - this is rough. Like, really rough. Something about it is either unique, funny, or novel, so it gets a point for that. Overall, you’re proooobably gonna want to skip this. It’s going to be tough for even big updates to fix the flaws in this game.

3/10 - this game has some redeeming qualities, but huge flaws as well. Worth it to try if you can get a deal, but needs a lot of work, and won’t be for everyone. Probable skip for most folks.

4/10 - A good game with many flaws, but worth picking up if you’re really into this kind of game. Maybe this has been done better by other games, or maybe there’s glitches. It’s not terrible, but below average.

5/10 - a perfectly serviceable game. If you like this series, you’ll certainly be playing it. If you like this game type, it’s worth checking out. A lot of CoDs and BF games have fallen here since BF4 for me.

6/10 - A good game. It’s good! Above average, and definitely worth playing if you like this type. This is the most stacked category for games I’ve played overall.

7/10 - Pick this game up, it’s very good. If this is on a console with a smaller library (N64, Dreamcast, 32x, GameCube) deeefintiely pick it up.

8/10 - A True Great. Few or no flaws, very fun. Great controls, interesting graphics, fun story, overall just a stellar game. Play this.

9/10 - almost perfect in every way. Maybe perfect, but a genre that might limit people. Or incredible but very difficult to play without spending a lot of money (Alyx comes to mind when I say that, but that’s an eight for me)

10/10 - Should almost never be given out. Incredible flawless perfection that everyone in the world with most of their limbs, sight, and vision in tact MUST check out. I have very few games (or movies, shows, books) that get a 10. We don’t need to grade things like their parents are getting a report card, some 10s I see given out are baffling.

Are there like… forums on I2P? Like… good ones, where people talk about hobbies and maybe they’re moderated well enough? Or is that just 2001-Me’s insanely wishful thinking? Forums used to be my favorite thing on the internet until they mostly kinda went away.

Is that even possible to have that anymore? Something seemed to fundamentally change when smartphones made the internet accessible to everyone, not just the kind of people whose interests involve sitting at a computer all day.

If my current hardware failed and I had to go buy a tablet for some reason, I’d… yeah I’m out

(I have 13? 14 computers?)

If you like music games, it’s a HOOT! It’s very difficult at the highest levels but it’s basically IIDX for the PSP. It’s incredible. There’s DJ Max Portable 1, 2, Clazzaquai, and Black Square. I’ve completed the first two and played a chunk of Clazzaquai and BS, and DJMP 2 is easily the best of the bunch for me.

Got any favorite PSP games?

Excellent article, very interesting fix! Love the writing style :3

I still have my original PSP! A face button wore out from mashing over the years—my favorite PSP series is DJ Max Portable. I could still get the button to trigger, but it required a horrific amount of force. I disassembled my beloved PSP and did the most terrifying thing I had ever done to a console: I used a hole punch on an old NES sleeve to punch out four circles, then hand-cut a small cross out. I punched a hole in the middle of the cross, then hot-glued the sleeve bits to the D-pad and button contacts inside my PSP.

I put it back together, trying soooo hard not to get dust from the grungy apartment I was living it underneath the screen. Fully assembled, the screen was somehow immaculate! I booted up DJMP2… The buttons that was broken was now working. It was working incredibly. The D-Pad and face buttons are now incredibly sensitive, requiring half, maybe a quarter of the force my other PSPs do!

I love the audio and screen on my Vita, playing games through Adrenaline… But having the big ol’ super sensitive D-Pad and buttons on the PSP makes DJMP infinitely better-feeling to play.

I’m curious how they’d respond to this… as far as I know, there were a handful of mods for other games that kinda did the concept but no actual games, certainly not the way any games do BR after PUBG’s release. H1Z1? But not really, as PUBG’s creator did a lot of that…

the closest things would probably be last-man-standing shooters but those aren’t BR games.

I worked with a Barb Adcock! Her E-mail was indeed [firstinitial][lastname]@school, which must’ve been a hoot with students.

I’ve heard Apple TV is great, but I can’t bring myself to use a limited device for media at home… I recently replaced our raspberry pi media players with a levovo tinys that I got for a steal (under 100USD each, i5/16/256!) because my partner uses YouTube while working and I can’t bear to have ads playing in the house. Got a PiHole but that doesn’t work on sites where the ads are served from their own servers. If I was going to get any box thingy to play media at this point though, it’d for sure be an appletv—they seem the most polished and least invasive of any premade box like that.

I had a friend with rich parents who had one and it diiiiiid have some burn-in. Old rear-projection and early plasma TVs were verrry susceptible to that hahaha

As a kid, I would have been CRUSHED if we had one of these and I couldn’t play SNES on it…

“Is This Duck?”

oh no wait no

If only… our 27” family CRT was like a thousand dollars. A nobody had rear projection TVs until like the 2000s!

Awwwh, I’m so sorry you had a bad experience D: that sucks ass! You really gotta ease your way into VR. I played short bursts of games that don’t require moving much until I got more comfy. Then I played moving-around games using a program called NaLo, which lets you swing your arms at your sides or in front of you to walk, which really helped me get used to ambulation! Now I’m totally comfy moving around smoothly, but it took some getting used to for sure.

The only tech I wanna wear on my face for an extended period of time are VR kits, but I’m mostly playing music games and I’ve been quite sedentary for a long while so I have to work back up to “extended periods of time” D:

Right now I’ve got a good half hour to an hour of high level play and I’m rekt. I used to be able to go for a few hours at least… I don’t think I could even do multiple hours of walking around Skyrim anymore.

man sex

Happy Pride!

Thank yoooou! <3 It was very interesting!

Never tried an opiate before (by choice—I’ve tried everything else!) but they asked me if I wanted something for pain, and after my partner chastising me a lil bit about me minimizing my pain (“oh, I’m at a six or so” “RAI, you’ve been curled into a ball crying for two days. YOU’RE IN HOSPITAL!” “…okay, maybe a nine. I’m still conscious so it’s probably fine”) I said I’d love that. They injected me with morphene which was neat, then a later nurse was like “oh strange, they marked you down to get (other type of thing with morphene in the name but more words before it), do you want to change or stay with what you’ve got? It’s quite a bit stronger.” I figured I’ll proooobably (and very hopefully) never have that chance/option again, so I happily agreed. That was a very floaty week.

I know she’s my favorite; of that, I am certain.

ehehehe that’s a good one

Oh man, have you heard of Dragonborn Speaks Naturally? You can scream the shouts, for sure, but you actually say the lines of dialogue your character speaks to NPCs to select them! Paired with VR (and a hundred other mods) it’s one of the craziest game experiences I’ve ever played!

hugs my oldest game machine’s 13-year-old 550w PSU that’s now powering a 2070s and still kickin

Lil champion! I put a kilowatt in my main machine now just because I wanted to, but that old machine is now a VR music game machine and still works perfectly!