Son Of General Retro Discussion

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The boss battles were absolutely terrible and the combat was very simplistic if fun. Also thought the scarecrow levels weren't as good as people made them out to be. It had a good game world to explore and it was lots of fun and most of all the stealth combat was spectacularly good and I wish there was an awful lot more in it. It was great but had problems and wasn't perfect. If it didn't have batman in it I'd say it wouldn't have reviewed as well. It's in the high 80's for me, not the 95+ that some places gave it, that would be reserved for near faultless games.

Valid points although I wouldn't say the boss battles were terrible.

I thought the combat was perfect, neither button masher nor an overly complex combo system, I thought it had a great balance of finesse, timing and cracking skulls. its rare to find a game where having 20+ enemies coming at you has you rubbing your hands together with glee.

For me where the game excelled was the exploration, riddler finding and over all atmosphere all of it was near perfect and compelling with Mark Hamill's Joker as the cherry on top.

I don't think really there is such a think as a perfect game, not with the scope and complexity of games now, they all contain flaws in somerespect but I felt Batman AA's were very small. That said I don't believe in handing out perfect scores either, AA would be a 90 though, only Uncharted would come close to that this generation, although in fairness there is plenty of stuff I've not played.

DinoRex wrote: »

Bah... ordered a CD32 off eBay a month ago, got on to the seller yesterday to let him know I hadn't received it yet and he said it had it had been returned saying my delivery address couldn't be found.

It was my exact address, couldn't be more precise without writing directions for the postman on there.

Anyone have any experience with An Post fecking up like this? Any chance they have a mechanism for me to be compensated? As I'm down about €30 now and looking at another €30 to have the thing delivered again.

I get mail all the time and the building, while new, has been there for about 3 and a half years.

Have it sent to my address if you like. I'll be sure to pass it on to you at some stage <during the century>

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Retr0gamer wrote: »

I only buy games I want to play. I might never get around to said game but I buy it with the intention of playing it.

So do I sometimes, but people who devote themselves to single formats with the interntion of buying games for just that end up buying loads of crap - you're much better off buying the best games for all the systems available as opposed to buying up Game X just because its on your favourite console.

Re-reading that post of mine there I don't think I made the point clearly or concisely. I guess I was respectfully disagreeing with Oisin's view that single format collecting is a good idea - I don't think it is. You're better off with the top twenty or thirty games for all of the most popular systems as opposed to a mixed bag of 300 games for one machine only in my humble opinion.

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Ah, you appear to be in the wrong forum here, collecting is what we do, heck, its what we are.
Seem to remember another poster here making noises about how ridiculous Retro game collecting is, you're not him are you?
And its probably for the best if you never come to a Beers in my house, if the collection of masses of cool Retro goodness is not your thing, could send you right over the edge!

There's this whole argument about collecting vs. playing going on across YouTube at the minute. To be honest with you, I'm a player first and think that's the way to go in general, but I do collect games as well, but only good ones that are worth my time and money. So if a game is good then I'll "collect" it if you see what I'm getting at.

Having said that, my credentials as a collector are in place - I only buy mint and complete retro games for example and have a collection of about 500 games. Plus I love a good poke in bargain bins and whatnot in search of decent deals.

I hope that clears things up.

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I'll collect when the price is right, and I'll always buy with the intention of playing (doesn't always work out, of course).

That said, I'm also a bit cynical the concept of a complete collection. Nice, sure, but I'd rather quality over quantity any day of the week. If you have the money, fair enough. But if you're purposefully buying crap just to own them / bragging rights, then perhaps it's time to step back (unless 'complete' only means a very small amount of bad games, in which case I'm sure you could make an acceptable exception).

The only format that is possibly worth getting a complete set for is the Neo Geo Pocket Color. Mainly because the line-up is mostly excellent, and a few crap games here and there is no big deal.

I've seen some crazy **** though lately - Finngamer on YouTube - great guy it has to be said - has a complete N64 collection now. I ADORE the N64! However... he bought some awful video games. He even spent $250 for a manual for ClayFighter 63 1/3: Sculptor's Edition just so he could have a "complete" copy :rolleyes: Think what he could have bought for that money elsewhere?