So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

Jack burton

Retr0gamer wrote: »

So it's taken nearly 20 years but I finally did it, I beat Revenge of Shinobi. I booted it up last night for a quick game and was playing the game of my life so decided to see how far I could get. I thought I would have trouble when I reached the last stage because of that god damned maze but I somehow managed to recall the correct path through from my memory. Then I faced my ultimate stumbling block the man with the lethal hair, Neo Zeed. Took me 5 lives to get a pattern but once I got that down I started making some real progress. Then on my last life and continue I finally beat the game!

OwaynOTT

EnterNow wrote: »

Btw, I'm fugging loving Earthbound

I can't play mine until after Christmas.

murphyebass

So I got my Neo Geo Pocket Colour yesterday in the post. Its in mint condition, with the box and spare watch battery still in its wrapper. Mad really. So I better keep it all nice and mint now incase I ever want to sell it on, who knows... doubt it though.

Checked it worked ok and then wife grabbed it and wrapped it for my xmas present as we had agreed!! Doh!

In fairness I have loads of other stuff to keep me occupied till then (I'm looking at you Halo 4, damn you and your addictive nature!!) and if I'm honest I'm kinda happy about it as it'll be a fantastic xmas day gift to play.

Anyway I'll post up picks around xmas of my new NGPC... cant believe I finally own something from Neo Geo.

Roll on xmas!!

Myrddin

murphyebass wrote: »

In fairness I have loads of other stuff to keep me occupied till then (I'm looking at you Halo 4, damn you and your addictive nature!!)

murphyebass

In my defence I'm currently playing Mario 3 on DS as well so its not all Halo 4.

On a side note Mario 3 is tough boss wise, getting past the sky boat thing before the boss wrecks my head.

TechnoFreek

Playing Garou Mark of the Wolves.

Wouldn't be too familiar with any of the Neo Geo series of fighting games but really impressed with this.

o1s1n

Have you noticed the song Children by Robert Miles in it yet? One of my biggest 'WTF' moments in gaming

MrVestek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flPBoVYkyx4

Is this another case of videogame producers 'paying homage' or did they actually have the rights to do this?

TechnoFreek

o1s1n wrote: »

Have you noticed the song Children by Robert Miles in it yet? One of my biggest 'WTF' moments in gaming

Even on low volume as the baby was asleep I spotted it almost instantly. WTF indeed!

Oisin, have you played many of the Fatal Fury games. How does this rate?

Retr0gamer

Garou: Mark of the Wolves is up there with Street Fighter 3 3rd Strike as one of the best fighting games ever made.

It plays an awful lot different to the other fatal fury games, it's closer to King of Fighters than anything. If you like the SNK style of gameplay then check out KoF 96, 97 and XIII, Samurai Shodown 2, Last Blade 2, Real Bout Fatal Fury.

o1s1n

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Even on low volume as the baby was asleep I spotted it almost instantly. WTF indeed!

Oisin, have you played many of the Fatal Fury games. How does this rate?

Apparantly the sound designer (cant remember his name) was a big Robert Miles fan. It's another one of those cases where a Janapese designer rips off a western song and nobody really notices until the internet comes along :pac:

The Fatal Fury games I'm not really that into. They're nowhere in the same league as GMOTW, Samurai Showdown 2 and The Last Blade 1&2.

I remember one of them has really slick animation though, think it's Fatal Fury 3?

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

I remember one of them has really slick animation though, think it's Fatal Fury 3?

Might be Art of Fighting 3 you are thinking of, that game looks incredible.

murphyebass

murphyebass wrote: »

I...On a side note Mario 3 is tough boss wise, getting past the sky boat thing before the boss wrecks my head.

Don't know how anyone else feels about that level, but to me it's the toughest one in the game. A handful of times i've whizzed through it on one life, but more often than not i just die over and over. Once you die and lose your racoon tail you're f*ck*d, it's a lot harder with no floaty, forgiving jumps. Those moles chucking spanners are a right pain in the arse...

My fave plan is to make sure to have a p-wing in the inventory and keep it specially for that level, and just fly over the whole thing.

Cheating FTW!!

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Might be Art of Fighting 3 you are thinking of, that game looks incredible.

That's it! I have an AOF 3 MVS cart somewhere but haven't played it in ages. From what I remember, the sprites were huge and stupidly fluid for the Neo Geo.

TechnoFreek

Right so. Locate a the moves list and tap some more Mark of the Wolves tonight.

murphyebass

So I decided to give halo 4 a rest and get back to retro for the evening.
I remembered I'd bought the sega megadrive collection for xbox so went with Sonic 1. I completed it with a helping hand from the save feature if I'm honest.
As I've said before 90's games were not easy.
Looking forward to going through golden axe, shinobi and streets of rage!
Sonic 2 first though were he can spin on demand unlike sonic 1, which did bug me.

CiDeRmAn

Tried to play some current gen games, specifically Rage, fup me but I was bored....
It's just the same mechanic, again and again, with some fancy graphics, rinse and repeat....
Plus the addition of monster closets and stupid bloody disguised doors that wait until a preordained number of enemies are dispatched before opening....
And it's such a nice looking game, why did they forget the gameplay?

Mr.Saturn

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

And it's such a nice looking game, why did they forget the gameplay?

It's pretty commonplace these days, especially among some of the bigger companies. By the time the devs have gotten their orders from the publisher, had it repeatedly battered that they've pretty much to start fresh a few times, and woof! Dev window is gone by the time they've reach an agreement on concepts and art-direction, so they've to make a game in a tenth the amount of time required. Enter padding and nonsensical notions.

I find this most prevalent in a lot of Activision's dev-farming, where it springs some license on a struggling dev it's enveloped, sees what they can do with it, once suitably impressed with the initial results, it then turns around tells them to finish in such a space of time that you may as well give up on maintaining relationships for the next three months.

I'm going to stop there before I fully sound like a deeply embittered Kotick-basher. Too late, you say?

Mind, I dunno what Rage's excuse is, considering it was supposed to be ID's big comeback.

Dr Bob

Gauntlet....all of them.
more youtube channel madness.

seanmacc

Dr Bob wrote: »

Gauntlet....all of them.
more youtube channel madness.

Had the multi pack on the Commadore 64. 14 hours I spent playing Gauntlet 2 one time and still never got near the end.

pdbhp

Spent the whole day on Sunday playing Metal Slug on PS with my son.
He loved it, kept commenting on how it looked.

o1s1n

pdbhp wrote: »

Spent the whole day on Sunday playing Metal Slug on PS with my son.
He loved it, kept commenting on how it looked.

Well done, you now know you have suceeded as a parent

CiDeRmAn

My young fella is now on the end boss in Kameo, and watching him play it, the game looks amazing, and it's a 360 launch title!

Retr0gamer

Finished Catrap today. It's an excellent puzzler that gets seriously difficult later on.

Also reached the 5th Stratum of Etrian Odyssey and the story has gotten very interesting.

Myrddin

'Cleared' Forza 4. Between that & Horizon I think I need a break from racing games.

Birds of Steel is up next for the 360, gotta save Blighty & stop the Gerries crossing the channel!

The Last Bandit

Just starting GOW3 and The Witcher, FF III is the only bit of retro going on at the moment apart for getting humiliated by the games on the 60-in-1 board over and over...

ebbsy

Chelnov on the MD.

Great game.

DinoRex

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

My young fella is now on the end boss in Kameo, and watching him play it, the game looks amazing, and it's a 360 launch title!

Kameo was great. Could never understand why it wasn't popular. Really seems like the last of Rare's magic was put into it and it sadly also seemed to mean the end of platform games as everything was FPS from then on with the 360.

Of course is was originally supposed to be a Gamecube title.

Retr0gamer

As far as I recall it was too easy and too short.

It's a bit like Pikmin and Luigi's Mansion. People complained that they were too easy and short as well while in today's terms they seem like epics. I guess people were expecting a Banjo Kazooie rip off from Kameo with a similarly massive game time.

Mr.Saturn

How do the original Banjo games hold up? I've been curious about'em for ages, but from every snippet of gameplay I've seen, it just seems to be a lot of trekking and collecting.