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Evil Multifarious
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I think Eddy is playing The Witcher, so:
Contra 3 is the best SNES game.
I explained why on an old blog I wrote for.
In the SNES era, though, most people just went right for the throat and tried to make the gamiest game that ever gamed. That’s why many of this generation’s games are scrotum-blisteringly hard. Some of them are terrible, some of them are sadistic, some of them were just kinda fun ways to kill time and waste precious seconds of your life and childhood, and some of them – some of them – were truly transcendent.
Contra 3 is the brutal, flesh-tearing king of these games.
If you have not played Contra 3, I contend that you have missed out on the best game for the SNES. It is merciless but not cruel, it forces you to learn skills and build on them without becoming repetitive, and it flings you into wildly varying situations and hammers at your reflexes, your patience and your perseverance until you either die and give up, or you crawl to the end of the stage over the flaming corpse of a six-hundred-story robot demon from hell.
Contra 3 played alone is a pure and wonderful thing, but played cooperatively it is unassailably the most fun you can have on the SNES. The only thing better than being a lone gun-toting hero mowing down hordes of aliens is standing back to back with a friend against waves of horrible monstrous adversity.
This game is where my love affair with brutally hard games began, and it is the only SNES game I will occasionally load up and play for more than half an hour, because it is so good. Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden could stand to learn something from Contra 3. None of this prolonged cutscene bullshit, with protagonists who have feelings and voices and who spasmodically attempt to play out some kind of feeble drama in between the horrible, horrible bouts of murder. No. Look to Contra 3, and take note.
Contra 3 is aliens shooting at you and then a huge alien shooting at you, and then explosions and fire and a ruined highway with a flying scorpion robot thing and then some bikes and then a plane and then you are fucking standing on missiles flying through the air, and you are still shooting aliens. There is no explanation. It is not needed. All you have to do is stay alive, and move from the left to the right. It’s just like reading a sentence.
The sentence is FUCK YEEEAAAAAAH.
Almost every game in my top ten "most fucking rad-ass bitchin' motherfuckin' fun game" list is from the current gen, or last gen. This is the only one that has stayed up there.
Do yourself a favour and play some Contra 3 tonight.
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what kind of second string shit is this
*launches missiles*
i am literally throwing up on myself in horror.
this works particularly well with your avatar
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Tard wouldn't apologize.
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Good?
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Also, you can check what Eddy is doing if you're in the D&D steam group. YOU CAN ALWAYS BE WATCHING HIM.
I command you. Acquiesce or suffer the same fate as Raven.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
play it or i'll mail you my pants.
I've got brown corduroy bell bottoms. They make me unreasonably happy sometimes, but most of my more fashion conscious friends can't figure out why I like them.
Their loss.
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3
IS
MY
SHIZ
NIT
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I've seen worse. Bring it, pants boy.
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nes 4 lyfe suck it 90's
Brazzers. Nice.
Pfft, the last boss in Contra 3 did YOU WILL DIE before it was cool.
GOOD THING DARK SOULS ISN'T AN SNES GAME THEN
He needs to be dressed up as Captain Jack.
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Oh damn, that music. Memories!
what you're saying is you ain't no fucking pussy
fuckin' pussy is what you does, not what you is, is what you sayin'
*cough*
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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can you imagine if you could play contra 3 in flight
that would be one of the greatest things ever
RIP, little brother.
I particularly enjoyed listening to the 3-year-old deadmau5 tracks on that system
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Be good to each other.
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