Superbus

As someone who was there for the original Twilkitri patch and contributed a little bit to the quality testing of it, I want to say that this is outstanding work from what I've seen. Congrats, guys. Now, let's talk about Thracia *SHOT* I do have one question: you guys mention a patching program for patching the ROM. That's good for Windows. But is there something that would work on this on a Mac?

* This was explained above. * As noted, check to see if he's a sweeper keeper. Otherwise, he could just be going out to cut off through balls. * Just gets your guys to know each other and integrate into the squad. If it's early in the season and you have a bunch of new pick-ups in your starting eleven, this is a good training to use before matches for a few weeks. * Yes. Also remember that as he has more duties, his others will become depreciated. It's better having ten coaches doing ten tasks than two coaches, 100% of the time. Hire as many coaches as you can and specialize them. * Basically, experiment. You can set you coach training to be automatic/have assistant pick, and then play with it to get the stars right. Ultimate goal is to have as many 4+ star training parts. There is visualization for when a coach is suited or not for a task.

You should probably determine what kind of game you like to play. Lots of offence? Lots of defence? You should set up your tactics thusly. There are little helpers in the game that explain what different tactics do, how they work, etc. The key thing to remember is that football is not the kind of game where you can answer questions by simply getting better players; you need to have a plan, and a counter plan for the first plan's weaknesses. I.E.: having a bunch of great strikers isn't really useful if you have a low-level team with a salary limit (goalscorers are expensive) and play a 4-4-2. I would say, until you learn the basics - and if you don't know what the positions are, you don't know the basics - that you stick to a standard 4-4-2 or 4-5-1 (move a striker to be a defencive midfielder if you're leaking too many goals) and trust your assistant manager until you figure things out. I learned a lot about the intricacies of football from FM, and the game I broke in with ('07) is far less user friendly than '14 or '15 are.

Just learning GalCiv II made me want to crawl into the fetal position and cry like a bitch. Not sure I'm ready for GalCiv III yet. Especially with Endless Legend being in my queue.

I'm not sure if MLS and their goofy rules are a good place to start. MLS has a salary cap and league-wide ownership. There's too many administrative headaches to worry about. My take? Start with a low-level team in Europe first. Don't even worry about the Football League/Skrill teams; try something like the Welsh League. You don't seem to understand much about football. Where would you rate your knowledge of the sport, on a level of "I'm not playing football I'm playing soccer" - 10?

One of my favourite games of the year is Luftrausers, which is usually played in 40-60 second bursts.

DUDE.

Sleep and exercise. Seriously, anything other than those two things will lead you down a rough path.

i don't see what's "adult" about "OOOOH BLOOD!". Unless it's coming from Henry, of course.

I fail to see how getting a few hundred sales from people dumb enough to buy a game because of a higher rating supersedes losing a few thousand who would never consider a game rated so high.

Is that really on the indies, though? That sounds like classic Nintendo, who still think it's 2001. Japan comes first, Europe might as well be Nunavut, etc.

Wait... Gunvolt's not out in the EU!?

Here's a little test, for those of age to watch this kind of thing: Go watch two episodes of adult sexual content. In both, the participants are nude. But in one, you see the action and the motions, and what is clearly sexual intercourse. The other, you see actual penis-in-vagina (or, if that's not your thing, substitute it because it's clear what I'm saying). Is the latter more attractive than the other? In actuality, not really. Do you need to see a penis and a vagina to know what's going on? Watching a close-up of intercourse is kind of like watching a factory video; it's a repetitive motion of the same two things, over and over. The "wow! It's a cock!" shock wears off very quickly. Now remember that my first example you can see on cable TV. You can't even watch the second legally in the United States unless you're 18. You can watch, say, the sex scene with Halle Berry in Monster's Ball after buying the Blu-Ray in Target. Good luck finding a porno there. Why would you raise the ERSB rating - as Cerberus notes well - just to see blood? Is blood really that shocking? Why would you show blood in Fire Emblem, which is about medieval tactics, and not in, say, the Trauma Centre series, which is literally about operating on the human body?

I think the answer is yes. It's also no. It's important to remember that right now, we're in a bit of a golden age. We have games coming out for every genre, and all of those games are the best that genre has ever seen. That's *every* genre. Point-and-click games are back! For the first time since LucasArts was alive and well, we can play good Point and Click? They're not my genre, but 4X games are, and there's a ton of those outside of the most well known ones. Don't like the new Civilization? OK, there's Endless Space, Endless Legend, Galactic Civilizations II, hell, the classic Spaceward Ho! is available for cheap on Android. Visual novels! VNs are coming back into force, with the Hate series being particularly good. Even the erotic ones don't suck anymore, if early thoughts on Littlewitch Romanesque are an indication. The point of all of this is that if there's a game that's too long - like a JRPG - then there are tons of alternatives that aren't. I'm in my mid-30s and have full-time jobs, so I can't spend 100 hours on a JRPG, but I'll pump a few hours into a game of Civ V. Or an hour into a good indie game. Hell, I can dump a few minutes into a game of pinball, on a table I grew up playing, on my cell phone while taking a shit. If anything makes me want to break out into song and sing about a whole new world, this is it. Games are whatever you want them to be in 2014, and it is glorious.

As an older gamer who doesn't sell much, I have a treasure trove of "rare" games that I can play. I also am surrounded by a local group of retro game stores who used to sponsor content on my old site, so I'm in good shape if they pick up anything else, although saving for a house, wedding, etc. hurt my ability to spend money on old video games. Looking back, the "rarest" game I've played recently? Probably Albert Odyssey for the Saturn, which is going for about $75 nowadays on the third-hand market. I did just pick up the original Mother on eBay for $35.

I can concur that this game is really, really good. It cleans up some of the annoyances that the prior game had. Each Shantae game is its own special snowflake that is indicative of the era that it was made in. The first game (available on the 3DS Virtual Console for like $5) is harder, and not as clean-cut, but it's arguably the most satisfying.

I've gotten a chance to try both games, and... *sigh* These almost ten year old thoughts from Penny Arcade sum up my own.

As noted, you're afraid of failure, it seems. And - armchair psychology here - I think you're projecting failure in a video game to failure in real life. I get it. Do you know how many controllers I've gone through after losses in sports games? I'm willing to bet your therapist is working with you on using failures as a ladder to success. I'll let the professional handle that, but I have a feeling that's where a lot of this comes from. And if you like easy, enjoy the shit out of easy. If your game makes fun of you for it, then fuck that game. We're in a golden age of gaming right now; there's others.

From what little I've seen of you - very little, in one topic - you seem very concerned about perception and identity. It's why you started this thread in the first place. It makes you defensive. You will never please everyone. Sometimes, you won't please anyone. Just plow through that shit. If you need counsel, find a couple of people you trust and are amenable to it, and request it.

You might be waiting awhile, as this has "blown away" Sega's sales expectations. (I don't know what they expected - are their speculators in a time loop from 2006? - but whatever. #1 game on Steam probably isn't going below 10% off for awhile)

Here's a question: why do you feel that not wanting to be challenged is a bad thing? This is supposed to be your leisure time.

Actually, Bruce Bartlett made the argument that Obama is basically a classic, liberal Republican. http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/obama-is-a-republican/

Mount & Blade Warband has its issues, but it's mod-friendly and fun once you get the hang of it.

The PC port - for those familiar with the PS3 version - is great. Yeah, the cutscenes run at 720p; big deal. Everything else, including the DLC, is there. "Anime as fuck" is a very apt description, though. It's the cheeriest description of war I've seen since Cannon Fodder.

I don't need a quiz to tell me that I'm a left libertarian, but I got very similar results to most of you. If you look at the policies and actual actions of Barack Obama throughout the years, you see his rating is accurate. You kind of have to be there to get to where he is.