PixlBit

I've always seen "grinding" as doing the same tedious but simple thing over and over again in order to level up, like I felt I did in Portrait of Ruin before facing Dracula, and I've honestly never interpreted a different connotation from anything I've read, including your definition, which I feel I just more or less repeated here.

But then, as you might have guessed from a Castlevania game being my reference point, I just flat out don't play JRPGs very often, if at all, but I do feel like I grasp the concept and what people mean when they use that word.

Speaking of false advertising, I think all I know of Sex, Lies, and Videotape was thinking it was something different in my adolescence cause I saw it was on Cinemax at a late time.

Then I realized it was a movie movie, and never watched it again.

I remember where all the items are and stuff too, but it just feels like busy work to me sometimes. And yet, there's just something about the series that's hypnotic, and it's probably in part thanks to all that backtracking.

You and TheLastNinja are really making me realize how much Metroid-induced cognitive dissonance I have today. lol

Yeah, I never played the series until Prime and Fusion, then bought Zero Mission later, too. I also played the first Metroid on Prime's disc and Zero Mission's cartridge.Played Super Metroid a bit through emulation, and rented Echoes a few times.

And yet, while I obviously enjoy these, I can't say I have the love affair people do with them. There is something about backtracking that will always dull my senses a bit, but it is a great series, and until Prime (which frustrated the crap out of me at first, cause I was not used to having the "where to go" indicator be that infrequent in games, even having grown up with them since NES) I had never played much like it.

I wouldn't mind beating them all in order ... especially cause if I ever get past that bitch of a first game, it'll be smooth sailing from there. lol

I'm applying for a sales rep position today, so hopefully that pans out cause part of the reason I'm so regular here is cause post-grad job-searching has not led to much in the span of a year, other than my freelance job, which I wish would pick up more often than it does.

Otherwise, I plan to keep going with my diet and exercise, only about 15 or so pounds to go to reach my goal weight.

Maybe if I get more work my way, I'll feel justified getting back into gaming. Anyway, congrats on finding the SNES mini, beating Gaiden, all the other stuff, and enjoy summer vacation.

1. Paper Mario 2. Pokemon 3. Golden Sun 4. Super Mario RPG 5. Final Fantasy X and ... yup, I think that's all I ever played RPG-wise, and the last two were ones I either rented once (FFX) or mostly watched a friend play (Super Mario RPG).

Sweet!

I've honestly never played any of these. What I know of Capcom is mostly action/platformer and fighting titles on consoles.

Actually, I did play Ghosts and Golblins on an online emulator site (nintendo8.com), so never mind, but it still wasn't arcade version.

Never played it, but have seen the Angry Joe rant a while back. Man, that inventory made him an Angry Joe.

Yeah, it's worth seeing in theaters, I think.