Video Game General 2: Definitive/Remastered Edition

I bought an arcade cabinet.

@Zincy  
Neat

@Zincy  
Been wanting to get one myself but the cabinets for the games I want are too expensive. Which did you get anyway?

How am I supposed to beat Canary Mary the third time in Cloud Cuckooland?

@Kiryu-Chan
 
One of the Arcade1UP ones. Cheapish, 500 bucks at Best Buy. Had every PacMan (except Ms. Pac Man weirdly), Dig Dug 1 and 2 (which does things for me), Galaga, Galaxia, Mappy, and some weird Japanese game called Rompers.

@Meanlucario  
No one bought it thinking it was bigger, the entire meme was about how obviously bad it looked as a DLC instead a gain as a fucking freebie to encourage people to buy the game new, and again dumb fucks reacting to it like that is what caused other devs to carve out actual pieces of the game to try and get players to buy the game new,

@Thanotos Omega  
Thing is, it came out when DLCs were sold in catalogues and you could be bought over the phone. No one really understood how bad it was until it was too late. Here’s the video I watched about it. And every bad thing starts somewhere.

@Background Pony #A92B  
Lmao the 4th time for the cheato page is where it gets tough.
 
Trick I did was mash and when I got tired. Pause the game to recover and after a while resume mashing and rinse and repeat.
 
Her AI will speed up if you’re ahead of her and going fast. So if you slow down from the speed you used to pass her she’ll overtake you eventually when you’re tired.

@Meanlucario  
Blizzard released another buggy remaster?  

@Meanlucario  
Blizzard gonna be one of the worst companies in the 2020s.  
It’s already replaced EA.

@igotnopicks  
Blizzard is a branch of Activision.

Wonder if Diablo Immortal will be buggy too. Assuming they’re even still working on that.

@Terton  
I don’t see why not. Buggy launches is the industry norm.

DBD is adding a witch character…as a survivor.
 
Weird flex but okay.

@Meanlucario  
And we’re the beta testers.

Was Nintendo Power the original walkthrough?

@phoenixacezero  
That’s what I’ve been saying.

@Background Pony #A92B  
They certainly had them.

What if, instead of lives, a game has a death counter that keeps track of how many times you die, and dying too many times affects the ranking you get when you beat the level?

@Background Pony #A92B
 
Destroy All Humans did something like that.

@Dustcan  
Yeah, counting your clones.
 
I don’t know if the first game did anything with it, but the second had a boss character that was revived every time you killed him, according to the number of times you died.

@Background Pony #A92B
 
Sekiro did a version of that

One bad thing about lives in games is that when you get low, you either have to go to a previous, easier level to get more (Donkey Kong Country) or stay in one spot and keep killing enemies and hope one of them drops an extra life (Mega Man).
 
Both are big wastes of time that could be spent getting farther in the game.