So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

o1s1n

Well, I thought New Super Mario Bros 2 couldn't let me down any more - boy was I wrong.

First, I accidentally discovered the route to one of the secret worlds. Okay, fair enough..I got lucky, but I kind of wanted to work for it.

The stage itself was boring and bland.

Finished it anyway and thought I'd focus on finishing World 6.

Got up to the big castle at the end. Everything was a piece of cake up to that point, including the castle itself and Bowser.

Finished that part, expecting at World stage 6 to be extended with a few more levels and the real end.

Nope. That was it. :mad::mad::mad:

I've still a good few more star coins to get, so that should keep me busy for another little while. But after playing the greatness that was Super Mario Land 3DS and just how big that was, I cant help but feel cheated

CiDeRmAn

Yeah, this is one of the first Mario platformers that I just can't be bothered picking up new.
Worse than that, the thieving gits in the shops will knock off a generous €5 when it's preowned.
The only other one I was a bit "M'eh" over was NSMB Wii.

I look to see what the WiiU has in store.... more NSMB... frak that!
Where's a new SMB title Ninty?
Even Super Mario Galaxy 3 would have been cool.

Roll on Luigis Mansion 2 on my 3DS, and the sticker themed Paper Mario as well.

Some innovation please Ninty!

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Yeah, this is one of the first Mario platformers that I just can't be bothered picking up new.
Worse than that, the thieving gits in the shops will knock off a generous €5 when it's preowned.
The only other one I was a bit "M'eh" over was NSMB Wii.

I look to see what the WiiU has in store.... more NSMB... frak that!
Where's a new SMB title Ninty?
Even Super Mario Galaxy 3 would have been cool.

Roll on Luigis Mansion 2 on my 3DS, and the sticker themed Paper Mario as well.

Some innovation please Ninty!

Hopefully the game is a bit longer than the first one on the Gamecube.

o1s1n

What's really annoying me about this game is it could have been great. It just feels totally incomplete. Like they reached the fake type early ending Mario games can have and decided to make it the real ending

CiDeRmAn

Oh, I don't really mind, that game was an exquisite set of dioramas, the 3DS is the perfect place for it, the solidity of the visual elements, not to mention the fact that Nintendo originally intended to use a 3D device with the game.
The length, well, I drop in and out of most of my 3DS collection, so I'll be happy however long it is.

Retr0gamer

Steve SI wrote: »

Hopefully the game is a bit longer than the first one on the Gamecube.

You know what. With the amount of games I have and the majority of them being 40-100 hour RPGs the Gamecube game is the perfect length. As long as its enjoyable I'm perfectly fine by that. Best game this year has been Journey, a game I played in one 2-3 hour sitting and it cost more than most other downloadable games but the short length actually helped it. Wonderful stuff.

CiDeRmAn

Giving Sonic Generations a blast atm.
What a pity they couldn't resist temptation.
Why do they have to justify the DC games and the following 13 years of awful Sonic games in 3D when they could have just given us a couple of hours of classic Sonic action, with a hint of 2.5D gameplay, if they must.
But no, more running into the screen, running into things you can't know are there until you run into them

And my 360 isn't logging into XBLA due to a local network problem so my 800 MS points are going unspent!

Fez?
JSR:HD (although I already have JSR and JSRF)

what should I be spending the points on??

o1s1n

Booted up X Men clone wars for the Megadrive. It started as Psylocke - I've never played as her before.

After about half a second, after seeing her moves, she instantly seemed familiar.

'Wait a minute..this character is Chakan! WTF?!'

Then I picked up some health and I am convinced it's the same sound effect as one used in Chakan. Same goes for Psylockes sound effects.

the groutch

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

And my 360 isn't logging into XBLA due to a local network problem so my 800 MS points are going unspent!

Fez?
JSR:HD (although I already have JSR and JSRF)

what should I be spending the points on??

Guardian Heroes

o1s1n

Unless you can skip all the text in that version I'd pass! Drove me mental on the Saturn.

the groutch

you can't 100% skip the text, just goes at about 10x speed, so you're not literally sitting there waiting.

unky chop chop

Gunstar Heroes,any of the Metal Slugs on XBLA,VF5,Rez HD,Space Invaders Invinity, Wonderboy compilation,Street of rage compilation or if you don't have them yet..Shadow complex, Trials Evolution and Super Meatboy.

Steve X2

unky chop chop wrote: »

Gunstar Heroes,any of the Metal Slugs on XBLA,VF5,Rez HD,Space Invaders Invinity, Wonderboy compilation,Street of rage compilation or if you don't have them yet..Shadow complex, Trials Evolution and Super Meatboy.

I love Super Meatboy and cant wait to see it on iOS. I actually have it on my Hyperspin setup on the candy.

johnny_ultimate

Super Meatboy on iOS?! There are some games touchscreens just aren't suitable for! The pixel perfect platforming is tough enough with a 360 pad...

Steve X2

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Super Meatboy on iOS?! There are some games touchscreens just aren't suitable for! The pixel perfect platforming is tough enough with a 360 pad...

Yeah, but their changing the gameplay completely so I want to see what they come up with as they've said they hate the way platformers are controlled on most iOS games.
You should try playing it with real arcade controls, it's quite fun on the candy.

CiDeRmAn

Got Fez.... looks great, I uncomfortable buying it 'coz the dev is a dick.

unky chop chop

Steve SI wrote: »

Yeah, but their changing the gameplay completely so I want to see what they come up with as they've said they hate the way platformers are controlled on most iOS games.
You should try playing it with real arcade controls, it's quite fun on the candy.

Yeah I play It on XBLA on my cab as well,Good craic
It's like a version of Trials..bit with meat.
BTW if IOS ever has a good conversion of a game,playable in swipey sh1tey touchscreen mode, I will tip my hat to the developer and then shove it up my A$$ before eating it.

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Got Fez.... looks great, I uncomfortable buying it 'coz the dev is a dick.

Well I got over that. He is a complete and utter muppet of the highest order.

I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't buy the game when I bought all the Dragon Quest games. The composer of the Dragon Quest games is one of those japanese crazies that denies there were any japanese concentration camps during world war 2 and all the atrocities carried out by the japanese military on POW and the natives of the pacific islands they occupied. He went so far as to put an advert in the LA Times stating that these atrocities were made up. I think that's far worse than anything Phil Fish is capable of.

The Last Bandit

Chrono Trigger - I may be at it some time

a5y

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Well I got over that. He is a complete and utter muppet of the highest order.

I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't buy the game when I bought all the Dragon Quest games. The composer of the Dragon Quest games is one of those japanese crazies that denies there were any japanese concentration camps during world war 2 and all the atrocities carried out by the japanese military on POW and the natives of the pacific islands they occupied. He went so far as to put an advert in the LA Times stating that these atrocities were made up. I think that's far worse than anything Phil Fish is capable of.

Wow.

So, was I particularly oblivious to an open secret or is it something almost no one who plays JRPGs talks about?

(There needs to be a list)

Edit:

Currently playing:

• Vagrant Story - my combo timing is awful; loading up a halfway through the story save when I've not played VS makes for frustration
• Minecraft+Technic+Permadeath - I started on an island full of polar bears and not a single blasted rubber tree (ouch). Channel Tunnel at 80% completion. If the next island has no rubber trees it becomes a nuclear test site.
• Terraria - No tutorial mixed with odd WASD keyboard & mouse controls. Shelved, but I'll come back to it.

Retr0gamer

a5y wrote: »

Wow.

So, was I particularly oblivious to an open secret or is it something almost no one who plays JRPGs talks about?

Only found out recently. Also it was the Washington Post, not the LA Times:

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=24627#.UGF5_FFCBbw

ghostchant

unky chop chop wrote: »

Yeah I play It on XBLA on my cab as well,Good craic
It's like a version of Trials..bit with meat.
BTW if IOS ever has a good conversion of a game,playable in swipey sh1tey touchscreen mode, I will tip my hat to the developer and then shove it up my A$$ before eating it.

The Cave shmup conversions and Infinity Gene. Bon appetit :P

johnny_ultimate

Impressed by the iOS controls for Super Hexagon too, but then all you can do is move left or right!

Fiendishly addicting game. Managed to get past level one. Now just the five harder ones

ghostchant

Just downloaded it and gave it a go there. Very good stuff! Terry Cavanagh is no one-trick-pony anyway. Lasted 36 seconds and it said I was at level 4. Is that right?

Edit: aha, just went to stage select and saw the levels. Guess I'm not a gaming god then

johnny_ultimate

Yeah each of the six levels has five or six sections - you complete each one at the 60 second mark. It is engrossing, but also breaks your heart every thirty seconds or so

Retr0gamer

ghostchant wrote: »

Terry Cavanagh is no one-trick-pony anyway.

He's made some wonderful short flash based games, you sgould check out oiche mhaith.

ghostchant

Yeah I'd heard about that, this is only the second one of his I've actually played. Never on a computer except when working, is it likely to see a release on anything else?

Steve X2

Got a nice little shmup compilation disc (well, .cdi file really) on the Dreamcast. So playing the 3 games that came on it, "Under Defeat", "Triggerheart Exelica" and a weird little Cel shaded shmup call "Radirgy".
Radirgy isnt my cup of tea but Under Defeat is of course excellent and "Triggerheart Exelica" is pretty decent as well.

CiDeRmAn

Radirgy is at least colourful, wait til you play Karous, monochrome shooter, not everyones cup of tea either, but it is readily available on the Wii.

Smyths have Blastworks for the Wii for 99c, which is nice, it includes ABAgames collection of titles as unlockables as well, which is the real draw there.

Retr0gamer

I always found trigger heart and especially Radirgy very mediocre bullet hell games.