Do you dare to enter the dangerous world of 1400s Mythic Germany and fight back against Satan and his followers?

Do you dare to learn what those 4-character abbreviations stand for because we didn't have enough room on the screen to actually type out the full name of each skill?

Do you dare to enter the DARKLANDS???

(It took me like 3 goddarn hours just to create my party while writing down what my reasoning is. I'm exhausted. Will post it someday.)

The PS5 Pro will cost $1,199 AUD in Australia

https://press-start.com.au/news/playstation/2024/09/11/ps5-pro-price-australia/

I recently got a raise which has left me with some discretionary funds.

Having also just settled from a move I've been on FB marketplace and other similar sites. And when I say into these sites, I mean DEEP in it.

I offer my services to friends who can't be fricked because the autism drives my body.

You want an entire bedroom set for $100? Easy - the sellers are moving interstate and need it gone.

You want a specific type of discontinued ikea furntiture? I'll find it in my sleep for $12.

Art deco paintings / posters? Please, for pennies from a deceased estate.

But then an ad came across my marketplace feed. "Digimon World, PAL PS1, disc only - $80"

MARSEY WHAT? Surely not!?

So on a whim, I searched for a few of my old favourite PS1 games and I was horrified at the after market for some of these games as just discs with no / busted cases. I mean, I know COVID drove the market insane and t being in a PAL territory also applies an exponent to the rarity but this pricing was diabolical.

So I have been DETERMINED to find bargains. In Aus OR overseas. Luckily I have friends in parts of the UK and Europe who visit and can bypass the butt raping of shipping costs.

So far I have managed to find CiB versions for at minimum $20 AUD less than their current market value of:

• Digimon World

• Vagrant Story

• Guardian's Crusade

• Star Ocean 2 (just the discs but I have a copy where the discs are kind of fricked so this gives me CiB)

• Chocobo Racing (NTSC-U sadly since PAL version cost is ridiculous)

• Wild Arms

My collection from childhood already consists of:

• Grandia (Greatest hits version)

• FF7, FF8, FF9

• FF Anthology

• Tron Bonne (apparently this game is disgustingly rare - I had my parents get it from ebay in the UK in like 2000 for $50AUD)

• Jade Cocoon (which I didn't realy like tbh)

I'm thinking if I can find PAL versions of:

• FFT

• Legend of Legaia

• Legend of Dragoon

• Chocobos Dungeon II

• Suikoden I

• Suikoden II

• Koudelka

• Megaman Legends

• Megaman Legends 2

• Parasite Eve (only in NTSC)

Then my little collection will be complete.

The goal is to not open a vein in the case of Legend of Legaia, the Suikodens, and Megaman Legends but THAT'S a tall order.

But FRICK is it exhausting. It just comes down to getting lucky and trying to avoid losing to retro resellers who up buy cheap and up the price by 200%.

And after this long a post, I hear you wonder, 'P-Buss, why not just emulate?' and my reply is 'The need to has CONSUMED ME' plus I like using the original hardware :).

In ANYCASE I'm seriously hoping that more situations like a sealed shipment of Rule of Rose being found in Italy occur to drop the bottom out of these markets, at least for a bit before resellers snap them up.

In CONCLUSION:

Anyone got some good lead on PAL games if you're in the US where they're worth comparably less (or even a copy of Parasite Eve)?

ALSO - What are the jewels in your collections /r/drama? Mine is the aforementioned Tron Bonne.

I was wondering why such a cool looking game wasn't getting more attention. Then I played some of it and realised god this game has some bad writing. Why would they make a story based game, put so much effort into the graphics, but then hire such a shit writer?

Has anyone played this one? Does it get any better?

I especially get annoyed by bad use of profanity. I think a lot of writers grow up in polite middle class homes and then try to write swearing into their stories but don't actually know how to swear themselves so it comes off as awkward and unnatural. The dialogue in this game seems to be just a lot of 'frick's thrown around and sounds more like squabbling children than the cutting remarks of a private detective. !writecel you know what I mean?

Example dialogue to show what I'm talking about:

Poor wittle incels.

SIX HUNDRED NINETY NINE US DOLLARS

SIX HUNDRED NINETY NINE BRITISH POUNDS

SEVEN HUNDRED NINETY NINE EUROS

DISC DRIVE NOT INCLUDED

Reminder that over 300 people work on Minecraft to deliver less content in a year than a single unpaid modder can deliver in a week part-time

Despite this lackluster pace Microsoft announced recently that they will be cutting back on Minecraft updates and updating it even slower

!g*mers what are your favorite MC mods

No Argentine child, you may not use words I don't like in your popular Spanish language vidya publication! You will rebrand or enjoy prison!

an unlisted YouTube video confirms it's PS5 Pro (duh) https://t.co/TkuEPocXcW https://t.co/aCh54rS5xP pic.twitter.com/E8R50AZf1N

— Wario64 (@Wario64) September 9, 2024

!cuteandvalid !g*mers

Apparently this was the guy making the victoria age mod

i got shadowbanned from reddit for posting it

but here you go

yes it's a google doc but it's not a tracking one, view it in incognito if you must

!nms !g*mers

obviously dead space 1 and 2 are in the running as well, but it's hard to beat SOMA.

Now I can really fast track my schizophrenia

— ogzerozeni (@ogzerozeni) September 4, 2024

🧵 why link's vai outfit is built from orientalism and racism

an educative thread written by an actual arab descendant who's still actively engaged in arab culture https://t.co/vWIojeyRnz pic.twitter.com/uDs8hFrQgh

— bea (@SlLENTPRINCESS) September 8, 2024

What are you playing currently?

!g*mers

Previous Iterations:

2024

2023

Other rDrama vidya content

Last week's game: Hollow Knight

Final Score: (10*6+9*13+8*10+7*9+6*3+5*1+4*1+3*0+2*0+1*2)/(6+13+10+9+3+1+1+0+0+2) = 8.4

All Previous Games:

Game to Discuss?

This week, let's discuss the Street Fighter IV series. Some would say this game single-handedly saved fighting games after nearing death in early 2000s, but others would say that for all the good it brought, it also heralded the future of SF i.e. constantly nostalgia baiting with the World Warriors Does the gameplay make up for the SF2 baiting? Are Ultras worse than Hitler? Was Elena a warcriminal?!

Thanks to @DeforesterCarpathian for the blurb

Future game discussions:

September 15: The Witcher

September 22: Anno (1404-2205)

September 29: Huniepop

October 6: Katamari Damacy

carp, capy, geto, donger pin please

I went looking for a decent stealth game and noticed these were on sale. Alternatives would be welcome as well.

!g*mers

The full list

Yesterday, longtime Destiny 2 'tuber TDT released a video titled "I am Quitting Destiny 2." Not entirely surprising, given the absolute state of the game.

Due to many of his fans misinterpreting the title of his video as well as the word 'quit,' he released a community post to clarify his position.

I know videos similar to this have been made before but this time this isnt a "maybe" or a "I hope we dont have to" this is a very scary pivot in the channel. Please watch the whole thing (lolno its 25 minutes) to get answers to some of your questions, one thing I want to make clear is that I will be keeping around Spicy Clips because I like them but "normal" destiny content is going away and I will only return out of pure desperation but I am going to try to avoid that at all costs.

Thank you for the support. And I hope to catch you around in other games. This video was TERRIFYING to make.

He's quitting Destiny 2 but still mining his fanbase for D2 content. Spicy Clips is his series where he brings on other D2bers and personalities and reacts to other people's clips. Of course with YouTube being the way it is, this is by far his most popular segment with every other series not doing nearly as well. This is also part of a trend of D2bers trying to branch out to other games, only to get 4-figure viewcounts and find out in horror that their entire fanbase wants D2 and absolutely nothing else.

Watch the chud's grave dance