Coelacanth

As a kid I thought they were parasitic worms eating my eyeballs from the inside.

Got it on sale semi-recently but haven’t gotten around to playing it yet. Glad to hear you’re enjoying it, I’ve only heard good things.

Don’t mind me if I do wishlist that, that looks interesting actually.

I’m excited to finally get to Infinite, I own it but my backlog priority keeps getting reshuffled. I’ll get to it this year (I think).

It’s always fun to switch it up, I like going for less obvious picks. Especially ones you can pick up early and build a narrative with. I tend to be sentimental like that, it’s fun to build little stories for yourself. I guess I watched too much of the Pokémon anime as a kid.

Uhm I’m pretty sure you can fish up a Chinchou from New Bark Town as soon as you get the Good Rod. If you’re talking about Electabuzz or Raichu the Odd Egg you get from the daycare man can hatch into any of the baby Pokémon so you could get an Elekid or Pichu. Sadly we non-Japanese plebs only get a 14% chance of it being shiny instead of the Japanese 50%, so I don’t tend to reset for a shiny.

Elemental stone access is one of the many reasons Crystal is placed a notch above GS in my ranking!

Lanturn is cool, good typing and can learn water HMs. Move Tutor exists in Crystal and Lanturn learns both Thunderbolt and Ice Beam from it. Can of course teach it Thunder if doing Rain Dance. Never a blockbuster Pokémon but does what you want.

I like Lanturn, but I’ve also used Electabuzz and Jolteon. Raichu is an option and of course early Raiku. Also used non-STAB electric coverage, in fact back in the day I used Gengar, but these days I don’t have anyone to trade with.

What makes Ampharos so mandatory? I used it on my first Gold run back in the day but haven’t since I think. Crystal has a bunch of minor improvements that really add up, I think. Enhanced areas, sprites, addition of the move tutor, battle tower, earlier elemental stones, some Pokémon have new moves, overall more catchable Pokémon… It just is the definitive Gen 2 game. I like the story changes as well, bigger emphasis on Suicune and also female protagonist is cool.

I haven’t played all of them either, and I have played even less of them than you have. I really fell out of love with the series for a while and there are many entries that I started and never finished, latest SM. I never played B2W2 either but its interesting you put it above BW. Maybe I should get on that some day.

Your ranking looks good to me I think from the entries I’ve played, except objectively I think I’d have to rank RBY lower. I love it due to nostalgia but I’m not sure it holds up. Probably would put BW above XY. Would honestly be tempted to rank Crystal separately and put it above GS.

Oh weird! I have never played it on emulator as I still have my 3DS and my physical cartridge. That’s a damn shame.

Have you played HeartGold/SoulSilver? I also think Gen 2 was peak, and the remakes were incredibly faithful while still adding a ton of content. Plus if you can get a physical copy the Pokewalker was really fun!

Most definitely! Gaming is especially annoying since it has three communities that are all very active and basically mirror images of eachother:

!games@lemmy.world !games@sh.itjust.works !gaming@beehaw.org

They are all fairly “serious” with a focus on news, articles and discussion. On the other hand !gaming@lemmy.world is much less so and is pretty much the primary place for general gaming memes.

Don’t know if this counts as a meme or not but if it does get deleted it would probably be welcome at !gaming@lemmy.world

I’m long finished with this game (well, playing it at least, I’m still watching others play it) but these are great changes. Battle Retry is fantastic but this:

Autoplay Dialogue: Added an optional autoplay feature for dialogues outside cutscenes.

is also fantastic for an overall smoother experience. Was very noticeable in the (many) camp conversations where having to input “next” all the time made them feel very stilted. Especially jarring since the dialogue in actual cutscenes is so fluid.

Viva New Vegas is such a great community service. It’s incredible what the modders have done with this scuffed ass game over the years. You can get it feeling remarkably modern once you’re done setting up all the mods. God damn you’re making me tempted to fire it up again and fiddle with my mods…

My stalling of Blasphemous continues. Apparently some time saving features - like teleporting between bonfires or getting the good ending while still being able to get rid of guilt - were added in a DLC. You just gotta donate an exorbitant amount of currency to a tithe box that you have no idea the function of without a Wiki. Sigh.

So instead of grinding currency I went back to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided to finish the DLCs. Desperate Measures was a huge disappointment honestly. Completely linear, extremely short and just clearly a main story mission shamelessly ripped out and sold separately.

A Criminal Past was an extraordinary DLC however. Solid probably 6-8h playtime, awesome level design, lots of actually impactful choices. The replayability seems high enough that I could definitely see myself going back for another run at some point.

This DLC disables your augmentations at the start, and while I don’t like the “lose all your abilities and equipment” trope (especially since it’s a repeat from the Human Revolution DLC) it didn’t bother me as much here. Probably because I took a substantial break between finishing the main story and coming back, so it didn’t really feel like losing abilities.

Pretty early on the DLC gives you the option of using an item to regain the use of your augs, however, it’s heavily implied that doing so would lead to negative consequences so I abstained. For the most part, this was fine. I was actually extremely impressed by the level design, which was well thought out enough to accommodate stealth without augs… except perhaps for the prison riot. I have no idea how you’re supposed to navigate that unseen and non-lethal without augs. But I probably missed something.

Regardless, it was an awesome experience all told, and continuing the trend from Human Revolution once again a DLC is the best part of the game in the New Deus Exes.

Ooh, I had some fun with 20 Minutes to Midnight back when it first came out. Has there been any major updates? Might be fun to reinstall actually.

I haven’t, but then again I don’t subscribe to News or Politics communities.

It does actually kind of look like it, but doing it at Lemmy of all places sounds like a bizarre waste of money and time. Don’t think we’re big enough for those kinds of efforts?

Also some of the “non-lethal” fates you subject people to are way worse than just killing them.