I feel like I've seen it but yeah no idea.

https://howlongtobeat.com/user/Every1luvsali

Nothing yet but joining the site, posting “best games” in the answerphone and not adding any games or avatar in 10 hours doesn’t exactly scream genuine user.

https://howlongtobeat.com/user/Mimina12

Necrobumping a 6 year old thread to paste an ai slop summary before promoting crypto scams.

DMC (2013)
I get why most people ignore or even hate this game, and that’s a shame because it’s an excellent, fun game with great gameplay with (almost) everything the DMC franchise has to offer.
Bias made many people miss out on this gem. I hope time vindicates it!

I honestly think most of the negative reaction at the time was because of two things

i) It wasn't Capcom.
ii) It's a younger Dante with a different look.

It's a really good game, but people on the internet were too busy complaining about things that weren't a reflection on the quality of the game before they even played it.

Global Defense Force is a misspelled dupe of Global Defence Force

Addie no Okurimono: To Moze from Addie (Correct title)
Addie's Present

Kyuiin (Correct title)
Kyuin

Nonogram Prophecy
Nonograms Prophecy (Correct title)

KiraKira stars Idol project Nagisa (correct Title)
Kirakira Stars Project Nagisa

https://howlongtobeat.com/user/versacib3

I’ve separately posted their junk game entry in the relevant thread

https://howlongtobeat.com/game/173324

Junk entry by spammer

Even if you find that post it was changed so it won’t help you

Hmm, interesting theory. I've submitted hundreds of games, have hundreds of posts, and have a pinned video tutorial in the Discord and haven't earned the badge personally. I almost feel like it's randomly given to long-time users.

I almost feel like it's randomly given to long-time users.

For the record I'm positive (based on recollection rather than evidence) I got mine in April 2000, a few days before my custom badge, nether of which I was told about in advance. This would have been less than two years after joining.

They showed up fine for me, both posted at the time and now, and on different devices.

It’s a secret known only to Everdred

I'm not sure if it's just because I'm wholly new to the site, but after adding my games and reviews, I noticed they don't seem to appear and count for the game's stats. Is there some kind of mechanic that requires me to interact more or have more "user time"?

A number of submission types have to be approved manually, so it’s not really a question of time spent here.

I believe there is also a system where extreme edge case time submissions as well as submissions for games without enough entries to give a proper average also have to be approved.

If you submit a new game page then it will have to be approved in all cases

In cases where I have finished a game in some form but are continuing, or plan to go back and do more, I tag as completed and then playing/backlog as an additional field.

The status of game is a checkbox rather than a radio button, so you can have as many statuses/lists as you want applied to a single play through.

Someone else can go

That'll be Faxanadu.

No, for the same reason we don't have Windows as a platform. The "PC" platform is a catch-all. Having a separate DOS platform would just result in duplication because of the amount of DOS games which are available for Windows (directly, or indirectly through bundled Dosbox or game specific wrappers).

Linux is its own platform because it's a multi purpose operating system that runs on different classes of hardware many of which are not PC's.

What a cool project.

I don't think we've had a case like this before. I think community feedback would be interesting for a decision like this. The site itself says the product is still in beta. It doesn't qualify under our usual platform standards. Its a virtual platform that runs on "PC". Doesn't really work as a storefront because games can be obtained from all over.

What is status of PICO-8?
PICO-8 is now in Beta, and is feature-complete with the exception of online score submissions, which are planned for 0.3.

Is it possible to sell my PICO-8 cartridges?
There isn't an official PICO-8 marketplace, but you are free to do what you like with cartridge you have exported, including selling them in other markplaces like itch.io or uploading them to advertising-driven sites like Newgrounds and Kongregate. Just make sure you have permission from any other contributing authors first!

It's been in beta for a long time then, I'm sure I knew of it before I joined the site. I think it was mostly used on the Pocketchip platform when that launched so I guess I assumed that was the intended host. It did come with it installed.

I do think it should be added.
- A software platform can still be a platform, Linux is a software platform not a hardware platform. The platform is a defined set of standards and Pico-8 has a defined set of standards that define a Pico-8 game.
- There are emulators, some people play the games on android handhelds.
- It has unique games
- It's more of a game platform than say, the Sega Pico which is basically an educational toy for small children but is represented on the site.

I think it qualifies as a legitimate individual platform in spite of its unique situation.The only thing stopping it is a minor technicality which I think can be overlooked, especially given one of the intended uses is to install on old computers to repurpose them.

If we're going off precedent of previous entries on this site, all the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters should be separate entries from their NES/SNES counterparts...

https://howlongtobeat.com/game/3480
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/3495
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/94537
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/3499
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/3516
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/3519

These versions aren’t just remasters, they feature entirely rebuilt assets (graphics, UI, arrangements) plus game boosts like EXP/gil multipliers and the ability to turn off random encounters. These can drastically change completion times which makes combining them with the originals misleading for users tracking playtime.

These are examples of other games with similar overhauls that got separate entries...

Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/2838

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/92790

Star Ocean: The Second Story
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/9047

Star Ocean: The Second Story R
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/130455

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/9383

Super Mario RPG (2023)
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/130456

If these titles were separated out into separate entries, the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters should be treated the same way.

I disagree for several reasons, between what constitutes a separate game, the average times, the established conventions already set and your examples.

These versions aren’t just remasters, they feature entirely rebuilt assets (graphics, UI, arrangements)

Firstly this part isn't relevant to wether they should be split or not, behind the shiny coat of paint they are fundamentally the same game

plus game boosts like EXP/gil multipliers and the ability to turn off random encounters. These can drastically change completion times which makes combining them with the originals misleading for users tracking playtime.

This is really the meat of the discussion.

The inclusion of quality of life features like this bring a valid debate but there are things we need to take into account. While these are officially sanctioned additions, they don't do anything you can't already do with an emulator or cheat device. And some people are just good enough to not need these things and still get comparatively low times (the RNG in FF1 is very easy to exploit if you know how).

I also looked at the actual data and while there is clearly a lot of people playing these games using the modern versions (and many of them leave specific notes on what they did), the times largely are consistent or in range of times for the original, ps1 "ports" or PSP versions as applicable. Additionally there are people playing the remasters with high times where they haven't used the feature. Only III seems to be truly biased towards the remaster but that is more about the availability of III having never been ported, only the 3d remake. VI is a good example, the remaster times are no faster than the quickest Super Nintendo run.

Crucially the average times are broadly the same as they should be without the remasters. At least the margin of error would be quite small. These were already popular games with a wide range of times that show that the more data you have the more reliable and consistent the average are. If anything the remasters have proved that by not distorting the averages. Or perhaps they may have just corrected out, it's not uncommon for games with lots of entries to still be higher averages than I would consider to be an average play through.

It's also worth pointing out that the 7-9 ports also have adjustments available and again the averages are not really affected.

The X/X-2 remaster only has the feature on Steam and even on PS2 FFX is actually different in NTSC and Pal (where the Pal version is effectively a port of International with the extra content), so those two titles can't be split . There is actually scope to consider a merge of XII International and Zodiac Age, I would need to look into that. So the pixel remasters are no different to any of the other modern versions of the series so there is consistency.

These are examples of other games with similar overhauls that got separate entries...

I don't think any of these examples help your case.

Mario RPG probably should be merged.

DQIII has new content and a larger map, which trumps any debate about visual style hiding similar gameplay.

Star Ocean seems to focus on lots of small updates that don't necessarily scream a different game, however enough of them would seem to add up to offer a differing experience to the original. It also has a new game plus mode to differentiate it from the original as that can be classed as additional content.

I'm new to this site so I doubt my feedback will be anything new, but I'm really bothered by how the bulk edit treats "beaten" and "completed" as synonyms. Those two don't mean the same thing, especially not for a site that tracks both beaten and 100%. I just set a game to 100% complete and I don't see any special label for that in my collection, if Beat and Completed are the same I'd like to have some sort of indication. Maybe I'm too Steam-brained, but I'm just going through my beat/completed list to manually edit the ones I have at 100% and it's hard to tell which ones I already edited as well. ;w;

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How do I set my playstyle of a particular game I played? (Rushed/Average/Leisure)
Or is this automatically deduced by the site in comparison to other players?

Playstyle is effectively crowdsourced from all times.