you know its the truest when you read the save station
FUCK IT WE BALLIN
Me parece de manera no irónica un juegazo
Honestly holds up.
Truly the best JRPG of Eighth gen.
S-So desu ne
I've paid actual money for vidcons that weren't as compelling as this.
Zaubers? Heh, you think you know zaubers? I'll show you zaubers...
"I can see you're no greenhorn when it comes to pre-21st century b-ball vernacular and colloquialisms."
A fill-in-the-blanks RPG whose writing isn't nearly clever enough to make up for its uninspired mechanics. The basketball conceit quickly wears out its welcome, and its attempts at social commentary just amount to mocking weebs, furries, and trans people.
actually legitimately the best game of all time hands down
Underrated Masterpiece.
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truckpump is me (real)
Superb meta game. Too bad they aimed unbelievably high for the sequel. Still it won't be as buggy as Cyberpunk 2077.
An extremely important game to the weirdo freeware scene that (mostly) holds up really well. This game has some of the funniest writing I've ever read in a game. If you've never played this. Do it. Do it now.
This game is the reason why I think it's funny to misuse apostrophe's.
RATING: Great
This game is canon
This game is canon
played this again. incredibly witty and silly to the point where I wanted to include a quote somewhere here review but every line is pure gold. probably not the best from a balance standpoint with certain attacks being far better than others, but I can’t think about this game and not take in all of the love this project pulses with.
it feels strange to say, but this game has deeply affected me on how I want to experience stories, especially those through video games. RPGs have a too-often tendency to be interesting to me for the first hour but completely lose me once battles start happening and I just get too overwhelmed by it all. I don’t want that anymore.
RPGs scare me. the concept of starting into a 50+ hour questline is a monolithic challenge to mentally accept before I get past a title screen. but I place great importance in taking in the loves of others, and I want to be able to experience all of these wonderful stories told via an interactable medium. this ridiculously stupid little story about b-ball has made me want to try to better appreciate what I ultimately consider the largest part of my life. and for any creative project to be able to conjure that determination in me, I can’t consider it as anything less than perfect.
it feels strange to say, but this game has deeply affected me on how I want to experience stories, especially those through video games. RPGs have a too-often tendency to be interesting to me for the first hour but completely lose me once battles start happening and I just get too overwhelmed by it all. I don’t want that anymore.
RPGs scare me. the concept of starting into a 50+ hour questline is a monolithic challenge to mentally accept before I get past a title screen. but I place great importance in taking in the loves of others, and I want to be able to experience all of these wonderful stories told via an interactable medium. this ridiculously stupid little story about b-ball has made me want to try to better appreciate what I ultimately consider the largest part of my life. and for any creative project to be able to conjure that determination in me, I can’t consider it as anything less than perfect.
has to be seen to be believed
played this when i was 12 and now my vocabulary has been permanently altered
The greatest JRPG of our generation. Long live Hoops Barkley.
A dumb idea carried into being a fantastic vidcon experience by being sincere with it's concept, the developers' love for jrpgs and the unstoppable need to dunk on that one guy they keep quoting in their save points.
If you don't slam with the best, you jam with the rest
If you don't slam with the best, you jam with the rest
Uno de los juegos con los que más me he reído en mi vida. Tiene poquísimo QoL, pero para ser del año 2008 está bien.
watched a deathstream of it which turned into an impromptu fandub and it was really funny but like it has such interesting concepts
You played Final Fantasy VII when you were 8 years old.
I played Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, we are not the same.
I played Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, we are not the same.
"if you can't slam with the best, jam with the rest"
there's a million words i could write about the million b-balls dribbled dunked and slam jammed throughout the brief 4-6 hour adventure of barkley and his crew of basketball renegades but the simplest i can write is this: if you have an absurd concept, you need to see it through. riding off the name alone a la kanye quest is a surefire way to make an ass of your lazy self. barkley, shut up and jam: gaiden goes all the way, and it does so with a level of ambition in its writing that shines past its asset rips, and does so with gameplay where diabetes is a status effect, and does so with humor so deadly funny, barkley's practically a litmus test for weeding out those who have a charred black heart and those who don't.
in a world where great stories are a rarity, barkley gaiden will stand the test of time. because they went all the way.
all the way.
there's a million words i could write about the million b-balls dribbled dunked and slam jammed throughout the brief 4-6 hour adventure of barkley and his crew of basketball renegades but the simplest i can write is this: if you have an absurd concept, you need to see it through. riding off the name alone a la kanye quest is a surefire way to make an ass of your lazy self. barkley, shut up and jam: gaiden goes all the way, and it does so with a level of ambition in its writing that shines past its asset rips, and does so with gameplay where diabetes is a status effect, and does so with humor so deadly funny, barkley's practically a litmus test for weeding out those who have a charred black heart and those who don't.
in a world where great stories are a rarity, barkley gaiden will stand the test of time. because they went all the way.
all the way.
This game and the 2000 Arfenhouse 3 RPG game are both in the league of freeware games that essentially start off like shitposts, only they become way more elaborate and honestly way better than they have any right to be. Somehow has a satisfying mix of JRPG mechanics with an often irreverent, offensive and rather funny sense of humour. Could only come out of the mindset of people who are insanely online, trying to jam a bunch of cultural artefacts together - and it works for what it is.
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I have never been more betrayed by a video game character in my history of being alive that I was when Vince--Borg sided with Jordan in the church of Clispaeth and murdered Larry Bird, why Vince-borg why? WHY DAMN YOU?!
still waiting for shut up and jam gaiden 2