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You know you're into a game when you start taking handwritten notes
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Fri, 09 Oct 2015 12:56:40
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What games have you done this for?

For me:

  • Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life, I had seasons and crops to plant and plan for the year.
  • Animal Crossing - keeping track of which of my four characters had which furniture sets.
  • Splatoon - researching exactly what the abilities of the clothing do and noting what the best equips were.
  • FFCC - the damn game didn't have a map unless you had a gba and link cable hooked up. So I drew some maps, crappy game anyway.

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Fri, 09 Oct 2015 15:52:19
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The last game I remember doing this for was Pandora's Tower.

Prior to that Dark Souls, I made detailed checklists of the more hard to get trophies

Did it for others before but don't remember now.

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Fri, 09 Oct 2015 16:53:14
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I rarely made notes unless it was to memorize a maze in a level or wrote down a passcode.  I did have very detailed Super Mario World  of worlds and levels.  SMW is probably my favorite 2D art style and I loved to recreate it.

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Fri, 09 Oct 2015 18:26:02
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Mental notes are all I need. My mental acquity is phenomenal. Nyaa

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Fri, 09 Oct 2015 19:24:44
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Fuck man. I haven't made notes for a game in 20 years. Back then it was mainly for maps and passwords.

If I need to make notes then I'm playing something far too complex, or I'm taking it too seriously. Either way it's a sign that I need to talk away and go back to something simpler or less frustrating.
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Fri, 09 Oct 2015 21:51:52
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In Animal Crossing I printed out a checklist of all of K.K. Slider's songs and crossed it off when I got that song.

I also had a notebook for EV training Pokemon it had a whole list of which Pokemon granted which EV when you defeated them and how many they gave in that stat.

I also had a section for the team I wanted their natures and moves.

I also had a scratch paper and would tally every pokemon I fought for that EV because you can only have 255 total EVs.

That was the only time I ever did EV training because it was too much work.

SUPER MARIO MAKER LEVELS:

  • SMB Mix-Up! (1AB2-0000-0047-5A7D)
  • Storm the Castle (77BD-0000-00E0-A9C0)

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Fri, 09 Oct 2015 22:23:33
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Fez, but I don't like that game that much.

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Sat, 10 Oct 2015 02:29:22
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Usually it's for adventure games with lazy puzzles, so it's a good sign that I'm not into something. Last one was probably Broken Sword 5.

That or I'm reviewing a PC game and can't be bothered alt-tabbing.

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Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:04:16
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travo said:

I rarely made notes unless it was to memorize a maze in a level or wrote down a passcode.  I did have very detailed Super Mario World  of worlds and levels.  SMW is probably my favorite 2D art style and I loved to recreate it.

Did you keep any of them? Would be cool to see your drawings.

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Mental notes are all I need. My mental acquity is phenomenal. Nyaa

You don't need notes because your attention span is zero. Nyaa

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Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:10:08

No, I never was quite satisfied with what I drew.

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Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:16:17

Do you have any other gaming related artwork we could see?

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Sat, 10 Oct 2015 13:19:45

Sadly, no.  I didn't really draw video games, with SMW being the exception.  Maybe I'll work on something one day.

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Sat, 10 Oct 2015 14:44:02
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gamingeek said:

You don't need notes because your attention span is zero. Nyaa

What are we talking about? I'm lost.

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Sat, 10 Oct 2015 20:39:15
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Don't worry I made a note for you.

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Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:32:38
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Sadly, no.  I didn't really draw video games, with SMW being the exception.  Maybe I'll work on something one day.

The stuff you put on that note sending application we all had on 3DS when we were playing that silly guess the game thing was amazing!

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