merphle wrote:Stealthpizza wrote:Kingdom hearts is on pc. Should I add this to my 2025 game list? If so which one do I start with so it makes sense?
Yes, that's my plan too. Also note that there are mods available over at nexusmods.com for them.
Correct playing order from a Reddit post:
KH 1.5+2.5 Collection:
- KH Final Mix (2002)
- KH Re:Chain of Memories (2004)
- KH2 Final Mix (2006)
- KH 358/2 Days (2009) [Cutscene movie]
- KH Birth by Sleep Final Mix (2010)
- KH Re:Coded (2011) [Cutscene movie]
KH 2.8 Collection:
- KH Dream Drop Distance HD (2012)
- KH X Back Cover (2017) [Movie]
- KH 0.2 A Fragmentary Passage (2017)
KH3 + ReMind DLC (2019-2020)
Plus one to this. This is the order I’ve been playing in as I work my way through the series. Only have KH3 now!
For what it's worth, a few years back, the JPRG club voted for KH + Chain of Memories, and zero people got through Chain of Memories. It was grindy and exhausting, from what I remember, and it was a totally different style of game from KH. If you don't like it, I wouldn't stick with it out of some sense of obligation.
I have played KH, LH CoM, KH2, and KH3 (I lost the thread when they started releasing games on platforms I didn't own).
If you want 2000-era fanservice of 90s Disney and Square RPGs, these games are for you. If the thought if slogging through 100s of hours of dated game design for an incompressible story that doesn't stand up to an ounce of scrutiny doesn't appeal to you, then it may be time to look elsewhere.
And this is the guy who for decades had something like this is my icon on this and other forums.
For what it's worth, a few years back, the JPRG club voted for KH + Chain of Memories, and zero people got through Chain of Memories. It was grindy and exhausting, from what I remember, and it was a totally different style of game from KH. If you don't like it, I wouldn't stick with it out of some sense of obligation.
I actually managed to complete Chain of Memories. Both playthroughs as Sora and Riki, and on Proud difficulty! It’s a very frustrating game, but it’s also pretty cheeseable once you get the right cards. I thought it would have made for an interesting turn based deck builder. The real-time combat is just a mess. Unfortunately, it’s important to the overall KH plot, and KH2’s opening makes even less sense if you’re not aware of how Chain of Memories ends.
Does this make me look fat?
Does this make me look fat?
Yes, yes it does.
Does this make me look fat?
No. It’s the fat that makes you look fat.
MaxShrek wrote:Does this make me look fat?
No. It’s the fat that makes you look fat.
Good, just making sure.
The Llamasoft: Jeff Minter Story story is on sale again for $20. Is this collection/story worth it?
I don't know about that in particular, but Jeff Minter is a fascinating individual.
The inclusion of Colourspace alone makes it worthy for me. I spent hours playing with that on my Atari ST in the late 1980s.
Does this make me look fat?
To know for sure, I'd have to see you without it.
MaxShrek wrote:Does this make me look fat?
To know for sure, I'd have to see you without it.
Don't tease.
So Gladiator 2 is about Maximus' son, but the character wasn't mentioned as his son in part 1. Isn't that a spoiler?
What is your definition of a spoiler?
Was it canon that he was the son of Maximus? Not according to part 1.
If that’s the case, I’d call it a retcon, not a spoiler.
I thought they heavily implied that it was incest. The son of Commodus and his sister.
I thought they heavily implied that it was incest. The son of Commodus and his sister.
Isn’t that Skibidi Toilet?
My name is not uncommon where I live. There is an older, very much non-tech-savvy dude who continues to use my email address for things, despite me telling him to stop. I just got an email confirmation for a hotel reservation this summer. Should I cancel it or not?
Ask them how much it is to upgrade to the penthouse suite.
-BEP
My name is not uncommon where I live. There is an older, very much non-tech-savvy dude who continues to use my email address for things, despite me telling him to stop. I just got an email confirmation for a hotel reservation this summer. Should I cancel it or not?
My forum name is part of my email address, despite being totally unrelated to my real name.
There are a lot of people around the world who have that name, and who apparently put my email address into forms. I very frequently get email for hotel bookings, flight delays, sunday school schedules, and stuff like that.
I have, so far, resisted the urge to respond to some of these messages in unproductive ways.
Since you've already told them to stop before and they've continued, I would definitely cancel it. Don't click on anything in the email on the off-chance that it's a phishing scam. Contact the hotel directly and tell them that you received a confirmation for a reservation that you did not make.
So Gladiator 2 is about Maximus' son, but the character wasn't mentioned as his son in part 1. Isn't that a spoiler?
Isn't a sequel really the ultimate spoiler?
I would not cancel it, for a very good reason. The hotel will reach out to find why there was no response to the confirmation, and/or to let the customer know it was cancelled. This is a real incentive to get it right.
Cancelling the confirmation when you know it's not yours - definitely wire fraud, bad karma. Calling the hotel to let them know you didn't make the reservation - yeah, I get it but that just confuses the old dude. "You called us to cancel and said you didn't make the reservation, sir". He still does not understand what went wrong.
Robear, hotels do not reach out to follow-up on confirmations. That is just an email to show you booked, basically a receipt. They do not care if you reply to it or not, or even if you show up and check-in. If you don't check in and paid in advance, they keep your money. If you did not pay in advance, they charge their no-show / cancellation fee to the card you used to make the reservation. It is all automated.
Cancelling the confirmation when you know it's not yours - definitely wire fraud, bad karma. Calling the hotel to let them know you didn't make the reservation - yeah, I get it but that just confuses the old dude. "You called us to cancel and said you didn't make the reservation, sir". He still does not understand what went wrong.
Tough cheese, that's his problem. If we're talking about wire fraud, how is making a reservation using someone else's address, after they've explained about it and repeatedly asked you not to do that, not wire fraud?
They're not causing you to spend money or otherwise harming you, so it's not fraud. If you upgrade their reservation, or cancel it, causing them to lose money, that's different.
It's a minor inconvenience at most, right? Seems like making a mountain out of a molehill.
This happened to me years ago. There was a journalist, Anna Badkhen, who had written a book and was doing press for it. I got about a dozen emails from various places intended for her. Some of them were time sensitive. Fortunately, I discovered her actual email—not rocket science, it was badkhen on gmail—and I forwarded all her emails. She was very grateful and even sent me a signed hardback copy of her book (Peace Meals, a recipe book with stories about civilian families living through wars, who were the source of the recipes).
Eventually she got it worked out. Not sure if she got a new email address or what, but I stopped getting her emails.
As an early adopter of gmail (my college roommate had one of those beta-test accounts) I have an account that's just my first initial, last name, and I have received a lot of misdirected mail over the years. My all-time favorite was from a woman who was trying to flirt with some military guy, an "I love a man in uniform" thing. Sadly for her, I have neither a military wardrobe nor physique!
My go-to is just to delete stuff or report spam unless I am getting an email from an actual person, in which case (if I'm feeling nice) I might say "hey you have the wrong address." Canceling the reservation feels extreme to me, because the harm to you -- a slight tax on your time -- is very small compared with the harm to him -- showing up at the hotel and having no room to sleep in. It is also not clear that this guy would ever understand that the reservation was cancelled by you, because it was sent to the wrong address, and if that doesn't happen, there's no reason to think he'd change his behavior.
It stops being a minor inconvenience once you've informed them that they are using your email address and asked them to stop. You say this person is not tech savvy but how sure are you. I'm not going to trust any person that is willfully using your information to have innocent intentions.
Part of your contact information is now attached to this persons reservation and, if something happens where the hotel (or the police) need to contact the person that made it, you will, at minimum, need to explain why your email address is attached to it.
Reply to the email and ask to have a wake up call at 5am every day during your stay
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