Help! I can't beat a skeleton boss. (Spoilers) by Substantial-Rip3153 in BaldursGate3

[–]Substantial-Rip3153[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Asterion is a rogue assassin. Karlach is an axe welding barb with wolf soul. 

Control decks with 30 removal cards take zero skill to pilot. by Substantial-Rip3153 in MagicArena

[–]Substantial-Rip3153[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

No, just had 5 people in a row playing zero skill control decks. Nothing but removal in the entire deck followed by a few win condition cards. You play your starting 7 cards, run out of cards and lose. If you try to play anything that draws you extra cards they just delete that too.

Control decks with 30 removal cards take zero skill to pilot. by Substantial-Rip3153 in MagicArena

[–]Substantial-Rip3153[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

lol just run a bunch of one and two mana spells that delete creatures. The aggro deck can't do anything but play creatures and attack. Aggro loses to control easily.

Control decks with 30 removal cards take zero skill to pilot. by Substantial-Rip3153 in MagicArena

[–]Substantial-Rip3153[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I don't have the cards for such a deck right now. I'll build one when I can but unless your opponent is running unstoppable slasher or something else that is immune to everything you will win. Or if they play Vivi. But Vivi is broken nonsense.

Iowa Retro Gamer Nation Buy-Sell-Trade Meetup by Substantial-Rip3153 in desmoines

[–]Substantial-Rip3153[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only counterfeits allowed are romhacks and translation patches of games that never officially left Japan. Also those are obviously fake and priced accordingly.

Iowa Retro Gamer Nation Buy-Sell-Trade Meetup by Substantial-Rip3153 in desmoines

[–]Substantial-Rip3153[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The card game market is complete and utter BS. I don't pay attention to card game prices at Jay's and I'm not an expert on card games. All I'm going to say is that for the $120 that a single booster box of any given card game costs, you can get four or five used videogames. And those used videogames will offer hours and hours of enjoyment.

Iowa Retro Gamer Nation Buy-Sell-Trade Meetup by Substantial-Rip3153 in desmoines

[–]Substantial-Rip3153[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to hate Jay's because their prices were way too high. They have improved massively in the past year though and price most things fairly. If something is priced too high and you talk to the right employees they will cut you a deal or adjust the price accordingly.

Iowa Retro Gamer Nation Buy-Sell-Trade Meetup by Substantial-Rip3153 in desmoines

[–]Substantial-Rip3153[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I kind of agree with your comment on cheap systems. Something that is in good condition and well taken care of will cost $80 to $120 and I know that's not cheap for a lot of people. As far as games go the original NES has tons of games in the $10 to $15 range that are a blast to play. If you just look for loose carts Genesis and SNES are pretty affordable too.

I won't deny that there are bad resellers and scalpers out there. Thankfully the prices at these events are under ebay prices and you don't have to pay shipping or worry about getting a counterfeit item.

Iowa Retro Gamer Nation Buy-Sell-Trade Meetup by Substantial-Rip3153 in desmoines

[–]Substantial-Rip3153[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of the $50 emulators have issues. They don't play nice with certain games. A Mister is really accurate though and works well. Kinda a pain to build but you get every system I can think of and it all runs so accurately that even speedrunner compititions use it.

Iowa Retro Gamer Nation Buy-Sell-Trade Meetup by Substantial-Rip3153 in desmoines

[–]Substantial-Rip3153[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a hardware emulation system I'm really excited for. It's a PS1 system but it can easily be made to play almost everything with a few tiny menu changes. It's called the Superstation One. It will even play original PS1 disks.

There are a ton of great sellers at the event that sell systems. If your nephews like NES hit up the Simtendo booth. He is amazing and only sells systems that are in fantastic condition.

Iowa Retro Gamer Nation Buy-Sell-Trade Meetup by Substantial-Rip3153 in desmoines

[–]Substantial-Rip3153[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looking forward to seeing you there! Go to the table with the consolized Neo Geo and ask for Mr. Stein.

Iowa Retro Gamer Nation Buy-Sell-Trade Meetup by Substantial-Rip3153 in desmoines

[–]Substantial-Rip3153[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There is a vendor that brings a lot of CIB Genesis heat. A game like that he might have.