So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

MP is a pain in the arse in DQIX, alas. Played it with a friend a few times but the time you mess finish up putting party members away and getting together in the same place... It is fun when you get there, just a lot of effort.

I take it it can't be played over internet? (DS connected to router, connected to series of tube, connected to router, connected to friends' DS) That's a bit of a bummer. There's some famous maps with ridiculous monsters and rewards I was hoping to get my hands on, and this sounds like its going to be more difficult to do now.

I've played a few DQ (IV, VIII and IX) in-depth but never finished one :pac: DQIX is good, but definitely suffers from the lack of a more coherent story, and it's a real shame they did away with individual party members in favour of customisation. Feels a bit hollow as a result.

I know exactly what you mean. I gave up on it completely and even deleted my save first time around since I was promising myself I'd stop (it was a time sink and I really wasn't enjoying it). This is my second time around, and I'd made my party around a theme to inject some personality into them. Worked out a little better, and got OK likenesses at character creation too.

^ Thief


^ Mage

^ Priest

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Overall happy so far and can't wait to get some more games. Just purchased Guardian Heroes from an Irish seller on eBay, so should have it soon. Looks brilliant!

Gah. I've really put getting a multiplayer adapter and extra pads for a Saturn off too damn long. Probably should get a decent sized TV first before bothering though.

o1s1n wrote: »

If it is faulty then just use it as a good reason to upgrade to a 4-in-1 cart. They're a must have for the Saturn

Losing data from a Saturn battery feels bad. Though I am looking forward for killing my way through GH again.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Actually the cartridge slots on saturns are notoriously bad. If you are inserting different cartridges in them then the metal wears down and eventually you'll have trouble with the saturn reading carts.

Damn. Didn't know that, but the upside of losing my data is the slot should still be close to pristine. Anyone make replacement parts or are they just pulled out of broken Saturns?

Again this is another reason why you should have a 4 in 1. Put it in the cart slot, if it works you'll never have to remove it. In fact you have absolutely no reason not to have a 4 in 1 cart. It's pretty much essential for a Saturn.

What about Saturn Bomberman + Netlink?

Megaman 1,2 and 3 or how I learned to love the megadrive and wily wars.

The seem a lot easier on the megadrive. Were the games altered much?

Also playing Darius Twin on the Snes and I love it. After Pop n Twinbee it's the only shoot em up that's really nabbed my attention. The music is excellent which helps.
Any other good Shmups on the Snes? Did I say that right?:o

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Yup the physics are way off on the megadrive Wily Wars games. The NES versions are much better in every way for me. Better music and controls. A nice curiosity though.

Ah the music in the nes ones are far better and the megaman 2 intro is surely the greatest bit of music in human history.

Deleted User wrote: »

Zombies ate my neighbors on the SNES. Still as great as ever to pick up and play, and even more fun if you have a spare person lying around.

Really good game. Extremely difficult to get to the end though. Keep meaning to try out Ghoul Patrol, it's a sequel kinda.

Saturn

• Guardian Heroes - I'm getting pummelled on Hard mode on my mission to unlock everyone for multiplayer using only hard mode, and no tricks whatsoever.

Dreamcast

• Chu Chu Rocket - I'm thinking I need to get this on my Android phone to see what the port is like. The x/y/a/b = left/up/down/right thing is something that's taking me ages to get accustomed to.
• Jet Set Radio - Did not expect this to be so, so different from JSRF. Pleasingly hard, but I can see why Sega released De La JSR.
• Virtua Fighter 3tb - I need to buy an ASCII pad for the Dreamcast so, so bad. Or a Saturn>Dreamcast convertor box. Playing VF3 with the regular controllers feels perverse. And why is the analogue stick doing nothing whatsoever?!

EnterNow wrote: »

Playing some World of Illusion via the wonders of the Nomad. Ah yes, back when games were games

The only illusion games I played as a kid was Caste Of Illusion and Land of Illusion on the SMS.

Castle of the illusion was basic enough in terms of graphics and gameplay, but was alright.

Land of Illusion had evolved beautiful in both aspects though, lovely detail for an SMS game and lots of nice game mechanics added also.


I can remember Land of Illusion being quite an eerie, tense but magical game all at the same time.

It's a combination of the eerie but brilliant music, the enemies and the bosses.

It's hard to explain. You've motivated me to fire it back up to see how it plays now.

I haven't played with my Mickey™ in about 20 years......;)

Playing tales of symphonia on the gamecube. Trying to get to grips with the combat system at the moment - have a feeling bosses will hand my ass to me if i dont get it sussed soon

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Just hack away and dodge, not much too it

Is that really all there is to it ? I've been doing that but my companions kept dying, I thought I was missing something in the strategies section.

Good game though.

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