11-Mar-19 8:11pm
#1

Frank

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Welcome to The GameTZ Game Club! This is my attempt at forming an easy to get into book club type thing, but with games! Anybody, and everybody, is welcome to join in on the fun!

Rules:

- Each month a random game will be chosen, by myself, for the club to play. Games can vary from the beginning of gaming onward to current-generation platforms. There are no limitations!

- You have from the 1st of every month to 11:59PM EST of the final day to complete the designated game. 100% completion isn't required. The point of the club is to provoke game discussion, as well as give GameTZ veterans and new users a place to mingle!]

- For every game completed, post a picture as proof of your completion Example. This is essential in order to receive your badge and entry to the monthly raffle.

- You will be awarded with a badge each month you complete the game. All badges will be proudly displayed next to your name in the original post. As long as you "roll credits" the game is considered beaten!

- Some months will feature prizes! Every user to complete the game of the month will be thrown into a drawing to win prizes! Users will be assigned a number and users will be randomly generated at some point the following month.

- Prizes will vary. Prizes will beon a donation basis by either me or another member. Sometimes physical, sometimes digital. If you would like to contribute, drop me a message.

- If you don't own the game, and you have access to it on another platform, you're welcome to play it that way. Just make sure that it's the same version, to qualify for the prize or badge.

- If you do not want to participate in the games, but would like to join in on the conversations, please do!

- If you would like to join, just post here, and I'll add you to the list of users. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or criticism, please don't hesitate to post them!

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Spider-Man Miles Morales | Spider-Man 2
Initial Release Dates: 2020 | 2023
Platforms: PS4, PS5 | PS5
Badge: Coming Soon

Badge Opportunities

image Platinum TZ - Just join the Game Club group and you'll be granted this complimentary first badge.

image Monthly - Complete the chosen monthly game to earn the badge.

image Previous Months - Complete any ONE badge of month’s past. (One additional per month)

image Gold TZ - Complete 20 or more games to receive the Gold TZ Badge.

image Contributor - Contribute a prize at least once to earn the contributor badge.

image Secret Santa - Participate in at least one GameTZ Secret Santa or High Roller Gift Exchange.

image Custom Badge There is no official way to receive one. So far only 3 have been granted

Members:

Past Months:

image October 2023: Resident Evil 4 | Resident Evil 4 (2023)
image September 2023: Dead Space Franchise
image July 2023: New Super Mario Bros. Franchise
image June 2023: Mirror's Edge Franchise
image May 2023: Just Shapes & Beats
image March 2023: Metroid Prime
image February 2023: Cuphead
image January 2023: High on Life

image December 2022: Super Mario World
image November 2022: Bioshock 2
image October 2022: Death Stranding
image September 2022: Stray
image August 2022: Chernoblite
image July 2022: TMNT Franchise
image May 2022: Gris
imageApril 2022: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
image March 2022: Subsurface Circular
image February 2022: Crysis Franchise
image January 2022 : Marvel's Spider-Man

image November 2021: Ori Franchise
image October 2021: Until Dawn
image September 2021: Guitar Hero Franchise
image August 2021: Metroid | Metroid Zero Mission
image July 2021: Tetris Effect
image June 2021: Horizon Zero Dawn
image May 2021: Ghost Squad
image April 2021: Bioshock
image March 2021: LittleBigPlanet Franchise
image February 2021: MediEvil
image January 2021: Super Mario Galaxy

image November 2020: Oddworld Abe's Odyssey
image October 2020: Resident Evil 7
image September 2020: Batman: Arkham City
image August 2020: Trover Saves The Universe
image July 2020: Super Mario Land
image June 2020: Untitled Goose Game
image May 2020: Tacoma
image April 2020: Last of Us
image March 2020: Shovel Knight
image February 2020: Portal 2

image December 2019: Outer Worlds
image November 2019: Yooka-Laylee
image October 2019: Resident Evil 2 (2019)
image September 2019: Doom
image August 2019: Steamworld Dig
image July 2019: Journey
image June 2019: Super Mario RPG
image May 2019: Borderlands
image April 2019: Adventure Island

Skipping Messages Here

4-Jul-23 4:37pm
#241

Frank

Everything should be up to date. If anyone's missing a badge, please lemme know.

Also, Happy 4th of July!

5-Jul-23 1:09am
#242

Slickriven

Thanks Frank.

Played some more NWMB-Wii and accidentally found the hidden exit door in World 3-Ghost to the canon and shot myself to World 6. Pretty stoked about that since while I wasn't hating this, as mentioned before 2D Mario lost it's shine in my view and generally just frustrates me now. So jumping to 6 should let me finish sooner and with less frustration and hand cramps from the Wiimote in landscape mode.

5-Jul-23 1:44am
#243

Renaissance2K

Slickriven wrote:
Thanks Frank. Played some more NWMB-Wii and accidentally found the hidden exit door in World 3-Ghost to the canon and shot myself to World 6. Pretty stoked about that since while I wasn't hating this, as mentioned before 2D Mario lost it's shine in my view and generally just frustrates me now. So jumping to 6 should let me finish sooner and with less frustration and hand cramps from the Wiimote in landscape mode.
As somebody who's played at least a little bit of every game in the series over the past week or so, there's something about NSMB Wii that makes it more frustrating than the other ones. I can't really pinpoint what, though. It might be control or physics related.

5-Jul-23 2:20am
#244

Slickriven

Renaissance2K wrote:
As somebody who's played at least a little bit of every game in the series over the past week or so, there's something about NSMB Wii that makes it more frustrating than the other ones. I can't really pinpoint what, though. It might be control or physics related.
I think part of my hang-up with 2D Mario stems from using emulation and save states a bit too much the past 2+ years. I've got into a place where I really dislike failing and with save states I can and would use and abuse them preventing deaths and even taking almost any damage. When I played SMW for this thread back in December, within a few levels I was just so annoyed with taking damage and the slippery controls/feeling in that. I was playing on my SNES mini and it has save states but I think I wasn't using them a ton.
With NSMB-Wii, I'm up to 25ish lives from collecting 100s of coins and the 8 red coins often and so forth, but still dying gets pretty annoying to me. World 1 I did reasonably well in, World 2 (sand world) a few levels ate several lives, but thankfully 1 of them was basically optional and I just went to the other. World 3 (ice world) got a little annoying with the penguin suit and sliding/falling around resulting in damage taken or deaths, then the bullet-Bills started to show up. So frustration crept in some, but had I not found the shortcut, I was about to visit the mid-world castle and would've stopped playing for that session likely after beating it.

For sure the controller's cramped holding position doesn't make playing it for too long too much fun as my hands get sore. The recommended BOSS controller thing could be decent, but I haven't sought one out. For now I'll stick with the Wiimote and just limit sessions to only a few levels.

5-Jul-23 7:13pm
#245

Frank

From memory, all of the game's physics are identical, minus the first game and the 3DS variant.

5-Jul-23 10:44pm
#246

Slickriven

Good grief I just love rage quitting a friggin Mario game @!#%@#$^%$@^!!!!!!!!!

World 6-6 rather sucked, taking a good 6-8+ tries and stoking the fires of annoyance and then the 6-Final-Castle wasn't bad until after the checkpoint with these tilting platforms that tilted into lava which is an instant death and then there's these spike balls rolling above you banging around and every 10 seconds or maybe less they can optionally and basically randomly drop from some spaces in that ceiling.
I got so pissed and sick of dropping lives that I just straight held in the Wiimote power button and shut the Fk'r off. I realize that means I'll need to replay 6-6 again, but this is EXACTLY why I stopped playing Mario games basically after SMW, just way too infuriating.
I guess I should have stopped either after the 6-Mid-Castle or after 6-6, but after 6-6 was just a small Bullet-Bill type interaction designed to give you 3x mushrooms and then it was on to the castle, which before this I only needed 1 or maybe 2 tries to beat the boss, and generally would reach him without too much difficulty. Also the game wants to save for you after those castles, but if you want to save just after a standard level it's some quick-save thing that says you can only do that once - whatever the heck that means.

I will beat this... I will slowly and surely start hating it more and more, but I will complete it. Bah.
EDIT - So I wanted to know if 6-6 was the only level that I would need to redo, and annoyingly I'll have to redo 6-5 as well which wasn't that bad, but had a huge spiked fish that would come at you and a few places jumping to avoid it, if you didn't take it out with a fireball, were royal PITA areas thanks to rising/lowering water levels or the 'cliff-edge' sections. Then on the wiki I was looking at, I noticed that 6-6 has a secret exit to world 8... so now I'm going to try for that and end this sucka asap.

6-Jul-23 2:23am
#247

Slickriven

Gave it another try and that went a lot better. Only needed 1 shot at 6-5 and stumbled upon a vine to get out of the level a bit earlier, which let me skip 6-6 and go right to the final castle. Initially I was thinking that I should go back because I wanted to warp to World 8, but figured I should try the castle at least twice and sure enough I beat it on my 2nd try. Then I beat the sky pirate ship and made it to World 7. I wisely quit while I was pleased with that progress. The sky pirate levels were always my favorites from SMB3, especially the music, so I'm glad I got to do that one.

6-Jul-23 3:59pm
#248

SupremeSarna

I think I’ll participate this time. I’m gonna bring NSMB on vacation next week to play multiplayer with the fam, so I’ll do it then.

6-Jul-23 8:46pm
#249

benstylus

Started a new NSMB, finished NSMB. Thanks, Warp Cannons!

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6-Jul-23 8:57pm
#250

Renaissance2K

Yeah, these games were made to be portable...

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6-Jul-23 10:15pm
#251

Slickriven

Another evening, another session, another F@#$ Y*@ Mario.
Level 7-1 wasn't very fun, 7-2 and 7-3 were alright, then 7-Mid-Castle. The slowly rising tiltable platform was just annoying in the first section, but it's second appearance with the walking bombas dropping on you was hot garbage - 8+ attempts often starting with a mushroom and I only reached the boss like 50% of the time and each time he got me b/c I was already small by then. I don't know how a platform that rises that slow can be so stressful.

2nd F-U quit via holding down the power button in as many nights. I hate this game. I'm considering returning to World 6 and shooting for that 1-way ticket out of there to 8 via the warp cannon.

7-Jul-23 7:59am
#252

benstylus

Slickriven wrote:
Another evening, another session, another F@#$ Y*@ Mario. Level 7-1 wasn't very fun, 7-2 and 7-3 were alright, then 7-Mid-Castle. The slowly rising tiltable platform was just annoying in the first section, but it's second appearance with the walking bombas dropping on you was hot garbage - 8+ attempts often starting with a mushroom and I only reached the boss like 50% of the time and each time he got me b/c I was already small by then. I don't know how a platform that rises that slow can be so stressful. 2nd F-U quit via holding down the power button in as many nights. I hate this game. I'm considering returning to World 6 and shooting for that 1-way ticket out of there to 8 via the warp cannon.
I'm glad to hear someone who isn't complaining that Mario games are too easy/for babies.

7-Jul-23 11:05am
#253

Slickriven

@benstylus thing is, I really wouldn't call the levels hard. Annoying for sure, but even after dying that many times and getting pissed, I still had like 24 lives remaining. It's more like they know certain level designs are BS so they give you a ton of lives and expect you to keep ploughing through the garbage... It's a 'challenge' via s#itty design.
Most levels take 1-2 attempts, and some times a level can frustrate me a bunch, then I take a break and come back and beat it on the first or second try, so I'm sure plenty of this is on me. Also like I said prior, I think the use and basically abuse of Save States by me on many similar platformers has messed up my expectations of my own progression.

7-Jul-23 1:59pm
#254

Slickriven

More updates - y'all sick of me yet?
Played today (have the day off) and decided to put the condom thing on my Wiimote and the fat bit around the D-pad was actually helpful, so that was a plus. I decided to go back to 6-6 to warp to World 8 and that wasn't too bad. I beat 6-5 on 2 tries and actually got out the secret exit in 6-6 without losing any lives. In World 8 I made it to and beat the Mid-Castle all without losing more than 2 lives on any level.
I then took on 8-4 and the dark swimming was crappy, so after just 1 failed attempt and knowing the game saved after the Mid-Castle I quit. Am happy with my progress. My next update should be about me beating this.

7-Jul-23 9:37pm
#255

Slickriven

Well I would've loved this update to be me claiming I beat it, but that flarking lava in the fight against Bowser S U C K E D !
Pleasantly I got 8-4, 5 and 6 without even dying, then I beat the final air pirate ship after I think 3 tries and it wasn't too bad, though the boss I was doing the ground pound wrong the first time and shaking the stupid controller vs. just holding the down direction. Bowser's castle wasn't too bad and took me like 3 tries to reach the checkpoint right before him... but then that final (I think) chase sequence just sucked. I got to the propeller hat most times, but I'll be a SOAB if I didn't just land in that lava like 7 times. Thanks to the coins, I only net lost maybe 2 lives before just giving up. So I'll need to redo the first part of the castle when I try this again. But that Dpad is too small, and my thumb is sore.

So close to ending this painful and frustrating romp.

7-Jul-23 9:39pm
#256

Frank

Renaissance2K wrote:
Yeah, these games were made to be portable... ...
That sexy beast belong to you?

8-Jul-23 2:57pm
#257

Slickriven

Thank Goodness that is finally over!!

It took a bit longer than I wanted, but I finally beat Bowser. Just getting to the checkpoint this time took close to 10 times, and I am recalling that it surely took me closer to that many tries last night too. I know for sure that I get too antsy or impatient after seeing an area a few times and want to push through it and by pushing/rushing only make more mistakes and further frustrate myself. So dumb on my part... 100% did that in this game, especially in the final stage. After I got to the checkpoint I proceeded to fail a good 10+ times <sigh>. I failed so much that I got the Luigi block to show me how to beat the level (got this last time too). I decided to watch it to see how far I had yet to go in the level and yeah I hadn't even reached a whole section past the final vertical wall obstructions - anyhow I also noticed that the Luigi tutorial thingy, he never ran or did any momentum jumps, while I did them endlessly. I didn't take much from that only trying to slow myself down some... and about my 3rd time after watching that I FINALLY reached the end and saved Peach.

So all in, I did the majority of Worlds 1, 2, 6, & 8. I unintentionally (but happily) warped from 3's Haunted House to 6, then beat most of 6 and advanced to 7 only to get frustrated with the Mid-Castle in 7. I quit and lost that progression, but decided to backtrack to 6-6 and take the warp to 8. Overall 8 wasn't too bad and I beat most of the levels in 1-3 lives. But that final was just a bear. My left thumb is sore again with that darn small d-pad.

I think more than any other game you've selected, @Frank, I earned this one via the most frustration and perseverance.
Proof: https://photos.app.g...

8-Jul-23 8:41pm
#258

benstylus

New Super Mario Bros 2. for 3DS completed.

The warp cannons stages in this one are my favorite part.

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9-Jul-23 11:04am
#259

Bleed_DukeBlue

There's a Target circle offer up now for $30 off certain Mario games, and New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe on Switch is included. If you have a store with one nearby, you can get it for a little over $20 ($19.99 + tax).

9-Jul-23 11:26am
#260

Feeb

Bleed_DukeBlue wrote:
There's a Target circle offer up now for $30 off certain Mario games, and New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe on Switch is included. If you have a store with one nearby, you can get it for a little over $20 ($19.99 + tax).
Go Check your stores. Lots of sales, some toys at 70% off too.

https://twitter.com/...

9-Jul-23 2:06pm
#261

Frank

Feeb wrote:
Bleed_DukeBlue wrote:> There's a Target circle offer up now for $30 off certain Mario games, and New Super> Mario Bros U Deluxe on Switch is included. If you have a store with one nearby,> you can get it for a little over $20 ($19.99 + tax). Go Check your stores. Lots of sales, some toys at 70% off too. https://twitter.com/...
Any other games on sale besides It Takes Two?

My store has 5 copies of It Takes Two available. I can pick up a copy for someone, if the price is accurate, but I don't want to stop if that's the only game.

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