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Son Of General Retro Discussion

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,059 ✭✭✭Doge


    Steve SI wrote: »
    its just not fair on The RAGE as they're not knowledgeable on the whole retro game thing as it's just a small part of their business.

    Are they really that unknowledgeable in there? I've never been to the store but didn't expect this to be the case.

    Usually when someone runs a business for a niche market, they're pretty knowledgeable or at least in my experience anyways.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    waveform wrote: »
    Are they really that unknowledgeable in there? I've never been to the store but didn't expect this to be the case.

    Usually when someone runs a business for a niche market, they're pretty knowledgeable or at least in my experience anyways.

    I'd say they know their stuff about the music/record side of the business really well. The whole retro game side is relatively new and a small part of the business.

    .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,059 ✭✭✭Doge


    Steve SI wrote: »
    I'd say they know their stuff about the music/record side of the business really well. The whole retro game side is relatively new and a small part of the business.

    .

    Ah okay! Didn't realize it was a music store originally.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭a5y


    Sera wrote: »
    just saw on FB, that RE6 premium ed is $1200 and comes with Leon's Jacket >link<

    I couldn't buy that, even if I was a big RE fan. It'd kill me if I turned up at a convention and some cosplayer had made themselves a better one from scratch.

    But if they included one of those injector pistols from the first Resident Evil film built to a "hero" prop standard it'd be a different matter altogether.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Thats where they are making a mistake though, I think that the guys in charge there should be asking people who know the retro game scene ( i.e good few of the chaps and chapettes here ) for whatever info they need and really play into the game scenes and do on-line orders, host a few tournaments, get some proper T shirts etc to sell and stuff like that. Even maybe source some cabs for people willing to buy

    But that being said they are surviving in a time when most businesses are closing down so if they can find people to pay some fairly high prices (€25 for a mega man 2 cart, compared to my €15 boxed with manual copy for example ) well done to them.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭a5y


    waveform wrote: »
    Are they really that unknowledgeable in there? I've never been to the store but didn't expect this to be the case.

    Usually when someone runs a business for a niche market, they're pretty knowledgeable or at least in my experience anyways.

    Me: Hi, umm, do you sell VMUs? You know, for the Dreamcast?

    Friendly Guy behind Counter: Sure.

    FGbC produces an unboxed VMU in nice enough, (though the lid is vanished to the realm of odd socks).

    Me: Oh, cool. So, how much are they?

    FGbC: €10

    Me: "...Oooh. Ummm. I'll think about it, thanks."

    !?!:confused:?!

    They've nice staff there, genuinely likeable. But sometimes the pricing makes me wonder if I just walking in on a Monty Python sketch. Considering boxed, near-mint VMUs, with new batteries start from £0.99 / €1.21 on Amazon.co.uk I think that price was, ahem, on the steep side, even if delivery is a few euro extra.

    I don't know if it was that they weren't knowledgeable on the going rate of one common Dreamcast peripheral or whether people really will pay that much rather than wait a few days for delivery from an online store. I know they've higher overheads, but... wow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Thats where they are making a mistake though, I think that the guys in charge there should be asking people who know the retro game scene ( i.e good few of the chaps and chapettes here ) for whatever info they need and really play into the game scenes and do on-line orders, host a few tournaments, get some proper T shirts etc to sell and stuff like that. Even maybe source some cabs for people willing to buy

    But that being said they are surviving in a time when most businesses are closing down so if they can find people to pay some fairly high prices (€25 for a mega man 2 cart, compared to my €15 boxed with manual copy for example ) well done to them.

    They'd much rather ban a boards.ie games mod from their facebook page for not liking a game they're selling instead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    DinoRex wrote: »
    They'd much rather ban a boards.ie games mod from their facebook page for not liking a game they're selling instead.

    Exactamundo!

    Where as if it was me I'd bring retro into the shop and have him explain why its ****.....and it is btw....record it and put it up on the facebook page. And it doesnt matter if its good or not..correct me if im wrong but its a fairly sought after game for collectors sake isnt it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Yep. I'd watch Retr0 give a powerpoint presentation on why Legend of Dragoon sucks. Who wouldn't?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    I'm actually pissing myself at the thought of that...a packed lecture hall and a man at the front of the room with a laser pointer and a screenshot of LOD on the screen with the typical Irish giving out terms "its a load of ****e......its bollox.....**** sake..and etc"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Then watch blood come out his ears as a crowd member burns a copy of gunstar heroes


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    No, I wouldn't burn it, just make him watch as others play it and mock it, all whilst conducting a reading, with a Powerpoint visual aid, of the Edge 6/10 review.. ;)
    Not only would there be blood seeping from his ears but something browner seeping in the pants dept.


    Oh Retr0, what would we do without you to abuse, there really aren't enough pantry owning types here to take up the "most slagged" mantle, nor are there enough hipsters, although I think Dino is sailing quite close to this one, or so my spys tell me!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    No, I wouldn't burn it, just make him watch as others play it and mock it, all whilst conducting a reading, with a Powerpoint visual aid, of the Edge 6/10 review.. ;)
    Not only would there be blood seeping from his ears but something browner seeping in the pants dept.


    Oh Retr0, what would we do without you to abuse, there really aren't enough pantry owning types here to take up the "most slagged" mantle, nor are there enough hipsters, although I think Dino is sailing quite close to this one, or so my spys tell me!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    I'm not hip, I'm just horribly old fashioned. There's a subtle difference.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Well I predict that the last of the hipsters will die out in about 2014, so we'll see whos what then


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,843 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    DinoRex wrote: »
    Yep. I'd watch Retr0 give a powerpoint presentation on why Legend of Dragoon sucks. Who wouldn't?

    I only need one slide:

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    DinoRex wrote: »
    Amusingly the crappy facebook app my iPhone keeps assigning your face to their updates. It's disconcerting.

    Well I said LoD was a terrible game but I also said it was one that people are willing to pay a lot of money for. I think it was more when some commented on how their games looked crap on an LCD screen when they were trying to sell composite cables and I left a comment talking about the virtues of RGB scart over stinking composite was the straw that broke the camels back :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    A guy the other day posted this up on reddit:

    'My Retro gaming mansion - this is how I live"
    http://imgur.com/a/5Qpmo#0

    I got downvoted for suggesting that might not be the best telly for the job.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,843 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Kind of reminds me of an episode of Cribs when some nobody rapper was showing MTV around and he was showing off his arcade cabinet. He said it had every arcade game ever made built into it and he paid $60,000 for it.... for a mame cab.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Just got Legend of Grimrock... it looks and plays great... but I have no idea how I'm supposed to attack in it... the manual and tutorial don't seem to mention that...


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,723 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    That's because it's an avant garde dungeon crawler where you're constantly reminded that the pacifist approach to life is more rewarding, and as long as you learn that the giant spiders are just trying to survive too, you will die in a cocoon of enlightenment.


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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,476 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    DinoRex wrote: »
    Just got Legend of Grimrock... it looks and plays great... but I have no idea how I'm supposed to attack in it... the manual and tutorial don't seem to mention that...

    Right click on either "hand" section for each character to attack with that item. Magic is different, right click then select a spell and click the blue image to the right of them.

    Lol I take it you ignored the Tutorial message at the very start then. :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Ha.. Just figured it out after spending ages luring snails into traps.

    The tutorial I looked at doesn't seem to mention attacking at all except for the fact that the guys in the back can only do ranged attacks.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,476 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    DinoRex wrote: »
    Ha.. Just figured it out after spending ages luring snails into traps.

    The tutorial I looked at doesn't seem to mention attacking at all except for the fact that the guys in the back can only do ranged attacks.

    Says it on the second page of the tutorial but easily missed I guess. Have only just got to the second level but liking it a lot so far. Found the control scheme took a little while to get used to. Nice and atmospheric too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    DinoRex wrote: »
    A guy the other day posted this up on reddit:

    'My Retro gaming mansion - this is how I live"
    http://imgur.com/a/5Qpmo#0

    I got downvoted for suggesting that might not be the best telly for the job.

    Pfff what a n00b, doesnt even have a 3DO, and I bet those are all composite cables


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Puzzle Bobble 4 (JAMMA pcb version), any good??

    .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Pfff what a n00b, doesnt even have a 3DO, and I bet those are all composite cables

    I'd say Dale Parish started foaming at the mouth and soiling his undertrousers at some of the later images in that guys collection.

    Shame he doesn't have an X68000 or FM Towns II either though. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Andrew76 wrote: »
    Says it on the second page of the tutorial but easily missed I guess. Have only just got to the second level but liking it a lot so far. Found the control scheme took a little while to get used to. Nice and atmospheric too.

    I like how the plot has them all chained together to explain the fact that they are standing in a tight 2x2 grid formation.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Steve SI wrote: »
    Puzzle Bobble 4 (JAMMA pcb version), any good??

    .

    To be honest, Puzzle Bobble 2 is where it's at.
    After that they started adding bells and whistles, weighted platforms, special bubbles with various new powers, just kinda diluted the mix.
    The first one is superb, but the second on decanted the best and added just enough, later iterations just over egged it, in my opinion.

    That said Taito is Taito and, if it's reasonable, any silicon with it's logo is probably worth owning.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,476 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    DinoRex wrote: »
    I like how the plot has them all chained together to explain the fact that they are standing in a tight 2x2 grid formation.

    Aye! Got my ass handed to me by some little green fecker spitting poisonous gas at me, need to figure how to kill him. :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    To be honest, Puzzle Bobble 2 is where it's at.
    After that they started adding bells and whistles, weighted platforms, special bubbles with various new powers, just kinda diluted the mix.
    The first one is superb, but the second on decanted the best and added just enough, later iterations just over egged it, in my opinion.

    That said Taito is Taito and, if it's reasonable, any silicon with it's logo is probably worth owning.

    Yeah, It was 60 euro including the Taito F3 system so I just went for it.
    Irish based as well so postage is pretty cheap, even though its sent via courier.

    .


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,843 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    To be honest, Puzzle Bobble 2 is where it's at.
    After that they started adding bells and whistles, weighted platforms, special bubbles with various new powers, just kinda diluted the mix.
    The first one is superb, but the second on decanted the best and added just enough, later iterations just over egged it, in my opinion.

    I actually think Puzzle Bobble 2 is a step too far. The purity of the first game is where it's at.
    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    That said Taito is Taito and, if it's reasonable, any silicon with it's logo is probably worth owning.

    Other than Darius, that game give R-type Final a run for it's money in the most boring shmup category.........

    *grabs popcorn for the fireworks*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    I actually think Puzzle Bobble 2 is a step too far. The purity of the first game is where it's at.



    Other than Darius, that game give R-type Final a run for it's money in the most boring shmup category.........

    *grabs popcorn for the fireworks*

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    On a non retro note, anyone seen the latest episode of Game of Thrones? I can't believe they got "That" scene past the censors ;)

    I downloaded it so not sure if "That" scene was broadcast on TV over here.

    .


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 5,390 Mod ✭✭✭✭Optimus Prime


    i seen it, not sure what scene you are talking about though and i downloaded it myself, im guessing it was one of the durty scenes though?? haha


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    keithgeo wrote: »
    i seen it, not sure what scene you are talking about though and i downloaded it myself.

    Hmm, not sure how to word it without getting to graphic for this forum.
    Well there is the scene where that guy wipes that stuff from that girls mouth after she was entertaining that other guy with said mouth.

    Sex scenes are ten a penny these days on TV but HBO are really going for it with Game of Thrones.

    Edit:
    No ban for my description please mods :o
    It's as clean as I could make it.

    .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,563 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Steve SI wrote: »
    Hmm, not sure how to word it without getting to graphic for this forum.
    Well there is the scene where that guy wipes that stuff from that girls mouth after she was entertaining that other guy with said mouth.

    Sex scenes are ten a penny these days on TV but HBO are really going for it with Game of Thrones.

    Edit:
    No ban for my description please mods :o
    It's as clean as I could make it.

    .

    Going over the top with it. Half the stuff isn't in the book and anything there adding is the dirty stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Never read the books but sex really is all a bit much and adds nothing.

    We have the internet for porn, we don't need it in our TV drama.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    Going over the top with it. Half the stuff isn't in the book and anything there adding is the dirty stuff.

    Hmm, well considering George R R Martins obsession with describing things and places as smelling of, well, hmm, man juice I'm glad we have more sexy scenes and less (but not none) scenes of people sitting and talking about said smells.

    To be honest the more sexy scenes the merrier if you ask me :D

    But you are right, even in the last ep there was a sex scene that wasn't in the book.

    .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Steve SI wrote: »
    Edit:
    No ban for my description please mods :o
    It's as clean as I could make it.

    .

    Ban? I don't think so. For Cidey, that's lotion & kleenex fodder right there. He'll prob thank you :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,563 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Steve SI wrote: »
    Hmm, well considering George R R Martins obsession with describing things and places as smelling of, well, hmm, man juice I'm glad we have more sexy scenes and less (but not none) scenes of people sitting and talking about said smells.

    To be honest the more sexy scenes the merrier if you ask me :D

    But you are right, even in the last ep there was a sex scene that wasn't in the book.

    .
    There was 2. In the brothel (okay not a sex scene but that's all new material, even that character osha/asha is a added) and at the end.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Ban? I don't think so. For Cidey, that's lotion & kleenex fodder right there. He'll prob thank you :p

    Actually most of my fantasies feature games consoles and carts with SD slots... slots.. he he.. he he he... bungholio.... I need TP....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Time for a bit of Max Payne action on the iPad 3.

    .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    keithgeo wrote: »
    im guessing it was one of the durty scenes though?? haha
    it can be as bad as The Room


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,723 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Atlus are shutting down the Demon's Souls US servers next month. One of the cruel albeit inevitable problems with contemporary gaming.

    If anyone hasn't played it online as it's meant to be played, now is the time to get unmercifully broken down and love every minute of it.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    I actually think Puzzle Bobble 2 is a step too far. The purity of the first game is where it's at.

    Ah Retr0, when you're wrong, you're so wrong....
    Back to LoD with you....
    You know, RAGE's FB page isn't the only place to be banned from.... :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,258 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Atlus are shutting down the Demon's Souls US servers next month. One of the cruel albeit inevitable problems with contemporary gaming.

    If anyone hasn't played it online as it's meant to be played, now is the time to get unmercifully broken down and love every minute of it.

    Serious? Is there a reason why they're being shut down so soon? That seems like an awful loss - especially for myself as I played it all offline!

    On a completely unrelated note, The Philippines has a humidity level that makes outside literally feel like you're walking through a sauna. I've been in hot temperatures before but jesus christ, this is on another level. I must look like I'm on the edge of death to the locals. :pac:


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,723 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Seems to be as simple as Atlus being unable to maintain the servers anymore, especially when nearly everyone has migrated to Dark Souls.

    Fare thee well, online Demon's Souls, we hardly knew Ye and your complex world tendency features.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Realised last night I have an old uncompleted FF7 save on my ps3.
    Well I cant let the best rpg ever stay uncompleted can I?

    /runs :pac:


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