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So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition
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Started Crysis on the 360 as well, the original game that's downloadable from XBLA, a tough title, certainly more demanding than Crysis 2. Looks great as well, some natural limits compared to the top notch PC editions, but it is a good looking game.
It's highly impressive they got it running on a console, a 360 into the bargain...but there's a gulf between it & the pc version, rather than a 'natural limit'
I know a lot of people hate the term 'consolised', but my god Crysis 1 is a prime example of it. The simplified controls, the heavily lesser graphics...still, a good tech exercise if anything0 -
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Played a bit of Under Defeat HD last night. Really great port but I think there's a little more slow down in the Arcade version than the original DC version although I can't confirm it. The New mode is in proper widescreen but takes a while to get used to since it feels like you turn too far due to the new aspect ratio. They also upped the difficulty considerably in this mode. There's more enemies, bullets are faster and there's more of them and the support pods take longer to charge up and disappear quicker.
Played some Castlevania 3. Nothing else to say except that this game is superb and the PAL version is a 50Hz crime.
Also played some Legacy of the Wizard. It's quite an early action RPG for the NES but a really good one once you have either the manual or look up what the different characters and items do. It's tough and has a huge game world. It's a Falcom game so the music is of course excellent. There's a great episode of Game Centre CX with this as the challenge game.
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Yep playing the PS3 version of it, picked it up in New York for $85 + tax which was a fair price considering it costs the same without shipping online. Definitely worth picking up and it makes up for me not picking it up on DC when I had the chance.
As for AvsP I came very close to 1cc'ing it. I had the skills to do it and was having the game of my life in the omni plex during a summer camp visit before I was forcefully dragged away from the machine on the second last stage to watch Batman Forever. You should check out the youtube videos of it, there's a lot of skill to playing the game that you wouldn't realise especially when playing as the female character.
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After the SFC arrived today, I played SNES games for the first time @ 60 Hz non-emulated.
Super Mario Kart @ 60Hz + 150cc = pure awesomeness!
Played Pilotwings also which I thoroughly enjoyed.
It's the go to game for winding down and chilling out with.
Played the SNES remake of SMB 1 and a bit of Wolf 3D also.
After many years of solely playing Sega and Playstation consoles, this was really refreshing and I've grown a new love for the SNES.0 -
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Playing some Super Mario Bros recently. This time I got to 6-4 after my first pathetic attempt, which I blame for it being emulated. I blame this one on LCD lag :P
Have also been playing a lot of Thief 2 recently as well. I'm really liking it but I feel that Thief 1 had better variety in levels. Thief 2 seems to be mainly just sneaking around human establishments without any of the horror or more inventive levels of the first game. Still a great game though and it's nice to play a first person game with really non-linear levels.
I'm playing a disc version and not the GoG version so it was a bitch to get it to run on Windows 7 but eventually got it to work. Even more annoying was getting EAX to work to make the sound effects propagate more realistically. I don't have a creative card so had to download Alchemy universal, a program that is next to impossible to find. Then I had sound in game but none in movies so had to get another fan made program to convert the movies to 16-bit which took me bout an hour to figure out how to use (had to be run in compatibility mode with administrative mode turned on, pain in the ass). However it's more than worth it since you can judge where gaurds are very easily just from the sounds of their footsteps.
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Forgot to mention I gave Chaos Engine a go yesterday also.
The implementation of the L & R buttons is fantastic, you can turn without moving forward.
Also the way you strafe left and right with those buttons in Wolf 3D.
I think the only thing I used those for on my cousins SNES back in the day,
was for jumping in Mario Kart.
Trying to strafe in the Strike games on the megadrive, without shooting a rocket is awkward at best!
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Ah now, nobody can ever talk about a Snes Strike game favourably after hearing this mostrosity! :P
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Ah now, nobody can ever talk about a Snes Strike game favourably after hearing this mostrosity! :P
The funny thing is that the SNES has the power to sound exactly like the Mega Drive with the right sampling (albeit at a much lower sample rate than hearing raw FM goodness!)0 -
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johnny_ultimate wrote: »Playing a little bit of Roger Ebert's favourite videogame.
http://hardcoregaming101.net/cosmologyofkyoto/cosmologyofkyoto.htm
Trippy ****.
More like hipster **** :P
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My performance at Daytona USA on the Saturn has me reconsidering the wisdom of my plans to sit the driving test. I'd like to blame the Saturn controller, however:
- I'm generally bad at all driving games. I reduced the difficulty to easy and still could only come 7th on the easiest track!
- Everyone knows the Saturn controller is one of the most perfect joypads ever made, even if the D pad is built for 2D fighters and not steering...
Other games:
In The Hunt, again on the Saturn. On Madness mode. Because I play shooters on the hardest mode.
Question for anyone who knows their shmups: Can anyone tell me this, does In The Hunt (PAL version) on the Saturn actually save high scores?
I got to the 4th level, felt I'd achieved something on my first go, entered my high score and went to back up the data from the internal battery to my 4-in-1 cart and there was no data to back up. I know its only one score and beginners one at that but its a real downer.
0 - I'm generally bad at all driving games. I reduced the difficulty to easy and still could only come 7th on the easiest track!
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