Steven Pendleton

Yeah, I don't think it will release this year, but we'll probably see some news at EVO. I forget how long they said they would be adding stuff to KOF, but KOF is super popular and Garou isn't, so KOF is probably going to take priority over everything else. Terry was in Super Smash Bros, so now that everyone knows that he exists, it would be nice if everyone actually played Garou for once. Sometimes I feel like people only ever care about KOF, but I still like Real Bout Special more than any KOF game, including 98. Still need to try 98UM, though.

Has there been any word on the new Garou/Fatal Fury yet? I haven't seen anything, but I found a thing a while ago where someone that is working on it said it's going to use 3D models. I passed on KOFXV, but I definitely won't miss this when it launches.

I don't know. Other people complain about it, but I only use it as a charging thing. It charges the system as expected, and that's all I really want from it.

So apparently these guys finally fixed all of the broken stuff? Damn, it sure took them long enough! Now how long will it take for them to fix the apparent problems with the Dock? Mine is just used as a charging station and nothing more, so I don't know what's wrong with it, but apparently it's a pain to use or something.

I should not have said this, but I did and now I regret it. I'm sorry. I'm going to see myself out for the indefinite future.

Yeah, my old PC still works fine. All I need to do is put a new GPU in if I really want to upgrade, and I can get an older GPU if I wanted to. People are still running games at max on the 1080Ti and stuff, but I have just the regular 1080. I really regret not getting the Ti, as that has scaled incredibly well from what I have heard. I didn't think it was worth the extra cash at the time, but now I regret it. Oh well. If I'm being honest, though, after Battlefield V was a huge mess, I more or less gave up on modern games, which is why I haven't upgraded since 2017. I'll still pick stuff up on occasion, but I don't really see many things that are super interesting must-have games anymore, my PC has scaled far better than expected, and new games in Japan are ridiculously expensive regardless of platform, with stuff costing 7000~10000 yen new, so it's kind of like... yeah. Not especially appealing + expensive = nope. That's why I got into PC Engine, Saturn, Neo Geo, and older arcade games. Never played that stuff before and disappointed with a lot of modern stuff, so might as well go back and play the stuff that I missed, which was a lot. I do still need to go buy that new Fire Emblem, though... As for whatever Nintendo does next, I hope it's just a Switch with more Blast Processing™, and I imagine that is exactly what it will be. Only Nintendo knows, but we'll see. I imagine that whatever tech they used to make the Switch has vastly improved versions available now, so it will be cool to see it. Apparently the games that are on Switch and compatible with the Steam Deck are a toss up as to which way to play is better; some are better on Switch and some are better on Steam Deck, so who knows. I haven't looked at mobile hardware at all, so I am not sure what phones and stuff are capable of these days.

Then you're doing something wrong. Here, let me help you Use V-sync, G-sync, FreeSync, or a VRR monitor Turn shadows down slightly Get a sound card Then do you have any suggestions for what I should play? I am always looking for new things. There are a few things that I do still need to get, like the Dead Space remake, although I am not really sure if I like Isaac's new design that much, not that it really matters, I guess. Edit: Aw damn it it has Denuvo. Well, so much for that, I guess. The one downside of PC: Denuvo. Great way to greatly reduce my interest in something... Please no open world... I find those games to be incredibly dull. I only bought Death Stranding because Kojima, and I only played Horizon Zero Dawn because I somehow got it for free, although I'm still not really sure how. Prove it. I think it will too and I hope it does, but we don't know yet. I believe you said some time ago to always buy tech based on what is known about its capabilities in the present and not hypothetical possibilities, so I'm guessing you have some sort of inside information or something. What the hell are you even talking about? Did they fix something? If they did, it's probably because I used the powers of my awesomeness to raise peoples' awareness of the issues and Analogue finally fixed it, so if anything, I should be given credit. If you want trolling, go to the Super Nintendo section and have some fun with that lifeform Kirk as he does a pretty damn good Tommy Tallarico impression in that section.

I'm still running stuff like Death Stranding Director's Cut at max settings flawlessly on my ancient-ass PC with a GPU from 2016 and a CPU from 2017, and I bought one of them used, although I no longer remember which one it was. It actually runs Relayer better than the PS5 does, as I've noticed severe slowdown on PS5 that isn't there at all on the PC, even though the PS5 was the lead development platform. It's possible that other games will run better on PS5 than my PC, but it's still super hilarious that an old PC that I built with used parts considerably outperforms a brand-new console that I bought like 2 months ago. Those weird anti-PC humans would have you believe that consoles are perfect or whatever, but seeing the PS5 struggle and fail to do stuff that my old PC can do effortlessly makes me quite pleased that my PC still keeps up with and surpasses modern consoles. Death Stranding Director's Cut is probably the most modern game that I have and definitely the most demanding game that I have and I am not planning on buying anything super demanding in the future, but it will be interesting to see how my PC scales in the future. As for the Switch, it really struggles to run things like Shin Megami Tensei V, and both Metroid Dread and Metroid Prime Remastered run at sub-native resolutions to keep their framerates up. Apparently even some of the newer Nintendo-developed games run and look like shit, but I the only Nintendo things that I care about are Metroid and Fire Emblem, so I don't know. That really shouldn't be the case since Alien: Isolation and the Metroid games look nice and run well on Switch, but hardware sales are decreasing and developers are quite plainly having extreme difficulty with hardware limitations, so at this point the Switch is probably at or even perhaps beyond the end of its practical life span as a development platform for modern games. Meanwhile, PC is eternal, PS4 games (mostly) work on PS5, and only Nintendo knows if its next system will support Switch games. Oh yeah, I always forget Xbox exists since we don't really have that system in this country. It has some form of backwards compatibility, I guess. Not sure how it works, but that's apparently slightly more future-proof than PS4 running on PS5 or something like that.

Twin Hawk and Daisenpuu are very, very different games. It's more or less similar to how Kyuukyoku Tiger and Twin Cobra are very different games, and in the same manner, but the difficulty change is backwards, with Twin Hawk being significantly more difficult than Daisenpuu. It's the only Toaplan STG where the overseas version is harder than the Japanese version.

Not much is here this time. I spent most of my time playing R-Type Final 3 Evolved, apparently. Arcade Fighting Hawk - 16 Hishouzame - 30 Kaitei Daisensou - 31 Out Zone - 12 Raiden DX - 10 RayForce - 5 RayStorm - 5 Tatsujin Ou - 8 Thunder Dragon 2 - 7

It's finally time to play Granada. No, it's not called Granada X. This isn't really a traditional shooting game, but it looks cool and I want to play it, so here it is. Rules Granada = 3 Rank = Normal The typical format for score submission will be used: Name - score - stage It seems this game ends instead of looping, so if you get the clear, write ALL for stage. It should show your score on the title screen after finishing the game if you need it, as it looks like your HUD goes away very quickly after killing the final boss. Also don't forget to vote for the next game! Poll closes on the 1st of June at 0000 GMT. Hopefully I'll not get distracted by real life too much next time.

Golden Week exists. I think you can probably tell what I did during it by looking at what is below. Arcade Hishouzame - 65 Kyuukyoku Tiger - 709 R-Type Leo - 10 Sennou Game Teki- Paki - 10 Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzle-dama - 5 G/MD Hellfire - 34 Saturn Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzle-dama - 33

Arcade games, and all of them on real PCBs. Memodama is also back. Can't really play my Zero Wing PCB because my monitor is vertical and I really don't want to rotate it just to play Zero Wing because the moment I want to play any other game I own I'll have to rotate it back to vertical again. Arcade Dragon Spirit - 15 Hishouzame - 178 Horror Story ("Asia" version) - 20 The two versions of Horror Story now have official designations: Ver.A is the one that begins in Asia and Ver.B is the one that begins in America. Is anyone actually going to remember that in the future? Kyuukyoku Tiger - 430 Out Zone - 37 Raiden DX - 10 Tatsujin Ou - 25 Zero Wing - 4 Saturn Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzledama - 33

As far as I know, Satakore is the best https://www.satakore.com/

Going to be out of town for a few days, so I'll post a few days early. Arcade Kyuukyoku Tiger - 189 Out Zone - 25 Slap Fight - 154

I am rather neutral on Nintendo as a whole; I find most of their games well-designed but really boring aside from Metroid and Fire Emblem, both of which I love, especially Metroid, but everyone knows how much I love Metroid lol. I buy all of their hardware anyway because they get some awesome exclusive games from other companies sometimes, like Shin Megami Tensei IV.

Let me know when Switch gets Dangun Feveron, Battle Garegga, and Mahou Daisakusen, and why does everyone think I hate Nintendo? I hate all post-Dreamcast consoles equally except the Switch, which I actually like more than the rest of them! PS2 is... okay, I guess, mostly for its ridiculous library of exclusive games. And actually, yeah, Gamecube is pretty cool as well. And someone almost has a counterstop on the hardest game on the Switch (and I think several people have counterstops on it on PS4), and I could have gotten my 1CC of Kyuukyoku Tiger on Switch instead of PS4 if I wanted to. That doesn't mean that the Switch doesn't have more lag than the PS4, because it usually does. Even the PS5 seems to have more lag than the PS4 does in some instances! Yeah, I don't get it either, but the fighting game community seems to hate the PS5 for this reason, and I know the PS5 version of Raiden IV has over twice the lag of the PS4 version for some weird reason. Even if it's only 1~2 frames more, more lag is more lag and more lag is bad. There are people that can detect individual frames of lag. I am not one of them, but for those that can, they should be made aware of it because there are people that dislike playing on Switch because it has higher lag than other modern systems. If you really care about lag, though, PC is the best. PC is the best anyway, but yeah. Oh yeah, while you are here, I met Ichikawa-san the other day and got him to sign my Slap Fight MD.

Like what?

Furigana is generally considered to be bad because you can start to rely on it heavily and then you won't be able to read properly. No choice but to learn the readings. If you really want to practice and can't study it in school, play games in Japanese. It's not the best way, but it helps. I'm playing Amagami on the Vita right now, and that's nothing but text, so yeah, something like that is good. If you want something older, play Sakura Taisen on Dreamcast. Yes, Dreamcast, not Saturn. PC is also good if you can get it to work. 2007 version should be okay on Windows 10.

One more shooting game that is an absolute must-play on the Saturn: After Burner II. Get the Mission Stick and play After Burner II. As far as I can remember it's arcade perfect or really damn close to it, and I am pretty sure it lets you choose which version of the soundtrack you want. I have seen the arcade PCB at the local arcade game store for 220,000 yen and you don't even get the full experience unless you have the moving cabinet (lol good luck getting that), so the Saturn version with the Mission Stick is the next best thing and considerably cheaper. Space Harrier is probably also really good on Saturn, but I have the original printing of the game, which doesn't work on later Saturns.

Japanese people will always say your Japanese is really good if you can manage to do as little as stumble through putting four or five words together. Best way to do it is to go to school and learn there because your teacher will demolish you if you make even the smallest of mistakes. I have always felt that people want instant results, and they don't get that with Japanese since it takes forever to learn kanji. Learning it is not hard, but it does take quite some time. Decades, perhaps, and even Japanese people constantly learn new kanji for the duration of their lives. One of the hardest things to read is actually the names of people. Place names are usually not so bad, but the names of people are a mess. Probably at least partially has to do with German being the first foreign language that I studied and Japanese being the third, with Spanish in the middle. I had a pretty good idea of what I was doing by that point. German grammar is absolutely not the same as English, though. The conjugation and stuff is all completely different. Japanese grammar, in comparison, is extremely simple in most cases.

多分日本語が使えるユーザーの数が少ないと思うが誰かがいったらこのスレを作った。

ここで文法が良くないところが多くて沢山練習した方が良いと思う。 Yeah, I can play visual novels and stuff entirely in Japanese, with no Google Translate or DeepL or anything else like that, but I practice a lot. A LOT. At first my brain felt like it was going to explode after playing games in Japanese for maybe 20~30 minutes, but now I can go for 8 hours straight or more if I really wanted to. Playing Saturn games or something like that in Japanese will be difficult unless your Japanese is probably around mid~upper elementary school native level. Of course, media in pretty much any language is like that, so English or German or whatever is going to be the same. There is a foreign language section of the forum specifically for non-English-language discussion. Not many people use it and there isn't a Japanese thread as far as I know, but I'll go make one, I guess.

まぁ、人やゲームによって難しくて全然出来ないゲームもあると思うぞ。俺の場合は科学の言葉とかはちょっと無理っす。 But yeah, in general I can play pretty much most things. I know a few Japanese game devs and I can mostly talk to them well enough, so I guess it works.

In that case get a PS4, or, better, a PS5 instead since it has a few things that the Switch is missing (Battle Garegga, Mahou Daisakusen, etc.). PS4/PS5 having less input lag on pretty much everything that is on it and Switch and also PS4 being at least slightly more future-proof due to PS5's backwards compatibility is also nice. At this point only Nintendo knows if the next Nintendo system will support Switch games.