So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

johnny_ultimate

Yeah Im playing Enemy Unknown at the moment too, really enjoying it. Kudos to Firaxis for finally figuring out RTS controls on a console.

Donatron

Playing Star Ocean First Departure on PSP. First star ocean game i've played and enjoying it so far.

Some of the voice acting is a little cringe, especially in battles, but the battle system itself is pretty decent.

Retr0gamer

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Yeah Im playing Enemy Unknown at the moment too, really enjoying it. Kudos to Firaxis for finally figuring out RTS controls on a console.

Well it's turn based not a RTS so you can take your time so it suits a console and stuff like FF Tactics, Fire emblem and Tactics Ogre had those same controls nailed down years ago.

It's missing so much of the complexity that made the original one of the best games I've ever played but then again this one was easy to pick up and play whereas it took a while for me to get my head around the original and for it to click with me.

Flaregon

Crash 2 right now, just got the red crystal and it stalled....and it's the digital copy at that....

HeartOfTheCity

After playing MGS2 for half an hour last night, it’s become apparent that when I’m told ‘stealth’, I hear ‘be a bull in a china shop’. ‘Stay out of sight’, the Colonel says. I say ‘Balls to this, I want to get heavy handed with the analogue stick and run into a bunch of lads, unarmed, and be chased and shot at for ten minutes’.

And Rose appears to be the neediest female I’ve ever encountered.

MrVestek

That's exactly how I play Metal Gear too... sometimes I chance my arm running down a corridor to get to the next area with just enough health left to survive as it takes more time to be crafty about it.

I love the Metal Gear games... but I'm also ****e at them! :P

richymcdermott

Rose: jack do you know what day it is

Raiden: no i don't know what is it ?

rose: its okay , just concentrate on your misson


Raiden: -_________-

MrVestek

Ohhh god I just had flashbacks of I NEED SCISSORS.... 61!!!!

avatan... hold me...

HeartOfTheCity

My first ten minutes of MGS2, summed up : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey-0CsdEjm8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

MrVestek

JUMP CROUCH HIDE TOGGLE MAPS TEABAG... TEABAG...

CiDeRmAn

Achilles wrote: »

JUMP CROUCH HIDE TOGGLE MAPS TEABAG... TEABAG...

Well, it's no wonder you suck at the game if you insist on mixing up gameplay with sexual adventurism, such as teabagging!

o1s1n

Finished off Fire Emblem this evening. What a fantastic game. Addictive time sink - really worth it though. Couldn't recommend it more.

There's so much extra content in the game. I think I've almost 10 spot pass side quests to go back and finish.

Would love to start it all over again on the hard setting but I just don't have the time.

HeartOfTheCity

Zelda : Link To The Past on the GBA will be my game of choice for the next week as there's a lot of travelling on the cards. Haven't played it since I was, at a guess, 7. I am excited.

o1s1n

Started playing Secret of Evermore yesterday. Amazing how it instantly feels like it was made in America rather than Japan. Something really clunky about it, both the visuals and the controls.

Retr0gamer

It gets a lot of hate but I maintain it's still a great game just not Secret of Mana great.

HeartOfTheCity

Yup, Zelda : LTTP is proving to be absolutely brilliant on the GBA. It's making a painfully long train journey fly by.

CosmicSmash

HeartOfTheCity wrote: »

Yup, Zelda : LTTP is proving to be absolutely brilliant on the GBA. It's making a painfully long train journey fly by.

It's a great port plus you get the added bonus of Four Swords.

unky chop chop

Kinda retro, playing Castlevania Lord of the shadows.
I'm surprised...It's actually a very nice game, stays kinda true to the original.
Some of the puzzles really make no sense and the camera can be a load of arse but i'm enjoying it

Retr0gamer

It's a good game but I'm not sure it stays true to the originals at all. It was never a Castlevania game, it was called Lords of Shadows until near the end Konami decided to slap the name on it. The old CV games for me are all about precision platforming and combat whereas the god of war style is too lose and level design dull (with some horrendous levels like the swamp thrown in as well).

I still really enjoyed it but it just wasn't a vania game for me. At least it wasn't a train wreck like Mirror of Fate.

unky chop chop

Ohh i never knew that it was labeled castlevania at the last moment.
I suppose I have said its true to its roots is because it really isn't the open world formula crap I was expecting, Its more of an on the rails platformer....not really lose at all I think.
My only gripe is that the developers through in too many stupid puzzles for no reason.

Still a surprisingly good next gen game methinks and has got me in the mood to play all the retro series again.

Andrew76

Had a go of Rymdkapsel on the N7 earlier, not normally one for real-time strategy games but this pretty good. Lovely aesthetic and soundtrack to it.

My first go lasted a pitiful 26 minutes.

CiDeRmAn

Here's a peculiar thing...
I am currently finishing the main story of GTA4, just on the last couple of missions now.
And a lot of fun has been had too.
No problem there.
The problem is, is it time, finally, to start Skyrim?
That game has been sitting there, taunting me for some time now.
I don't want to start it, then get distracted by something else shiny that comes out (like GTAV!)
I know that, if I get into it, I'm likely to say goodbye to some 50/60 hours of my time.
So, should I go for it?
Or allow vacuous experiences like Gears of War 3, Killzone 3, Resistance 3 and a whole host of other games with 3 in the title take over????

In other words
What should I be playing at the mo???

o1s1n

Don't bother with Skyrim, it's a snorefest! Many more interesting games you could put all that time into instead. How about a Snes RPG you've never played?

johnny_ultimate

Yeah Skyrim is super dull, really never got the obsession with it. For a game with so much effort poured into it, it's amazing how it just feels like an expansion pack of the previous game.

Anyway, in the final stages of Spec Ops: The Line at the moment. Certainly interesting the way it subverts and damns all those jingoistic military shooters, especially in the sequence that emulates that COD4 bombing level in a frightening new context. Also clever casting Nolan North as the lunatic Nathan Drake would surely have been with that many genocides under his belt. The actual gameplay is quite uninspiring. But at the same time it kind of has to be, to make the player question their past virtual mass murders.

James Howlett

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Here's a peculiar thing...
I am currently finishing the main story of GTA4, just on the last couple of missions now.
And a lot of fun has been had too.
No problem there.
The problem is, is it time, finally, to start Skyrim?
That game has been sitting there, taunting me for some time now.
I don't want to start it, then get distracted by something else shiny that comes out (like GTAV!)
I know that, if I get into it, I'm likely to say goodbye to some 50/60 hours of my time.
So, should I go for it?
Or allow vacuous experiences like Gears of War 3, Killzone 3, Resistance 3 and a whole host of other games with 3 in the title take over????

In other words
What should I be playing at the mo???

I imagine that GTA4 was quite the time sink and GTA V will no doubt be the same so if I were you I'd pick some quick and disposable titles until GTA V hits.

CiDeRmAn

Well, there is Earthbound and Chronotrigger there, I hear they both have gotten good reviews and lack a Retr0 written hate-page somewhere on the interweb, so maybe I'll start with them!

As for Spec Ops: The Line, yeah, that rattled me at times, as the sanity started to slip and the FPS typical acts I was committing, well turns out they had consequences, which the game was never afraid to show me, nice game but hard to say "enjoyable". Nolan North was great, a nice turn that show's he can do more than Nathan Drake and all the facsimiles of him that he churns out in the rest of the games he's in.

Might also get Gears 3 finished, barely started it and I don't imagine it's particularly long.

Retr0gamer

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Yeah Skyrim is super dull, really never got the obsession with it. For a game with so much effort poured into it, it's amazing how it just feels like an expansion pack of the previous game.

Anyway, in the final stages of Spec Ops: The Line at the moment. Certainly interesting the way it subverts and damns all those jingoistic military shooters, especially in the sequence that emulates that COD4 bombing level in a frightening new context. Also clever casting Nolan North as the lunatic Nathan Drake would surely have been with that many genocides under his belt. The actual gameplay is quite uninspiring. But at the same time it kind of has to be, to make the player question their past virtual mass murders.

It may not be 100% successful but it's one of the most interesting games in years. Really love how it deals with not only military shooters but also the players themselves. Not seen a game deal with something like that since No More Heroes. It's good to read up about it afterwards to find of more about it, especially places where your actions actually do have consequences although you might not know it. Hope you can understand my problems with that scene at the end of the Last of Us as well now!

unky chop chop

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Here's a peculiar thing...
I am currently finishing the main story of GTA4, just on the last couple of missions now.
And a lot of fun has been had too.
No problem there.
The problem is, is it time, finally, to start Skyrim?
That game has been sitting there, taunting me for some time now.
I don't want to start it, then get distracted by something else shiny that comes out (like GTAV!)
I know that, if I get into it, I'm likely to say goodbye to some 50/60 hours of my time.
So, should I go for it?
Or allow vacuous experiences like Gears of War 3, Killzone 3, Resistance 3 and a whole host of other games with 3 in the title take over????

In other words
What should I be playing at the mo???

Ahhh give Skyrim a whirl.
Deffo my game of 2012, Be prepared to grow a beard,develop an albino like skin complication and hum the theme tune to yourself in your undies!
It took me over a year to complete, clocking in over 100+ hours.
You can forget all other games when you embark on the journey.
What a journey though, you really can't miss it.

CiDeRmAn

Ahhhh!!!!!

And, if I don't do something with it it'll be lost in the mania that will be the arrival of the PS4 into the house!

[sarcasm] And that's not considering the deluge of incredible WiiU games doubtlessly around the corner! [/sarcasm]

CosmicSmash

Never bother getting current gen stuff at release, wait a few months and pick them up for 20-25 euro. Tomb Raider is worth a play through if you haven't sampled it, short game but a lot better than I thought it would be.