So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

Mudlan

Currently playing Curse of Monkey Island on pc

Found it recently and got it up and running using ScummVm.... spent hours as a kid trying to get through it. Still love it!

Star Lord

It's good, but I still prefer Secret of Monkey Island, and LeChuck's Revenge!

Mudlan

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

It's good, but I still prefer Secret of Monkey Island, and LeChuck's Revenge!

Never played Secret of MI...not sure why!! Tempted to buy the Telltale version of the series but havent got around to it!

Star Lord

The Telltale ones are not bad, gets better as it gets further into it.

I'd recommend getting the Secret of MI/ LC's Revenge remade versions, they look great, and have the guys back for the voice overs as in Curse of, and if you prefer the original presentation, it switches back to 4:3, original graphics and no voice-overs at the touch of a button.

I love the way the trails work with LeChuck in SoMI

playing 1001 spikes and shovel knight atm, excellant stuff, although shovel knight is a bit on the short side and a tad easy. 1001 spikes on the other hand is crazy hard but very rewarding. The Tower of Nannar arcade mode unlockable is great as is the 4 player muliplayer modes. Also theres an unlockable 'lost levels' mode which is almost as long as the game itself. Great package all in all

God Hand...can't get enough!

Oh and playing through Unreal 1 again. Picked it up on the GOG sale.

J_E

Got a Commodore 64 emulator as I've never played one before, only the Amiga 500. Fired up Monty On The Run. Wow, quite a tough game! Don't think I'll make it to the end without save states...

Andrew76

Playing Mario 3D World and Monster Hunter on the Wii-U, Zelda: A Link Between Worlds on the 3DS XL.

Dear god 3D world can be a frustrating experience sometimes on the later levels; trying to get all 3 green stars, the stamp and the gold flag. Not that it's unfair, just difficult. Such a brilliant game though. Reading on here about how difficult Tropical Freeze can be, I think I'll steer clear of that game altogether. :pac:

Retr0gamer

Andrew76 wrote: »

Dear god 3D world can be a frustrating experience sometimes on the later levels; trying to get all 3 green stars, the stamp and the gold flag.

Wait until you get to the final 2 stages. So much rage!

After completing all golds in mirror mode in mk8 I decided to go back to double dash and really enjoying it. Running in it through the wii u using devolution and pro controller, runs perfectly and looks great over hdmi and on the gamepad screen. Going to rip a few more of my games to the hdd and pack away the downstairs wii, F-zero widescreen mode is incredible too.

CiDeRmAn

I got some time into Sega Rally and Nights on the PS2.
Also played a bit of RGB enhanced Tempest 2000 on the Jag via my new cable.
Mario Picross 2 is getting a lot of play on the GB Micro and I'm getting further into the Special worlds of Mario 3D Land.

Donatron

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I got some time into Sega Rally and Nights on the PS2.
Also played a bit of RGB enhanced Tempest 2000 on the Jag via my new cable.
Mario Picross 2 is getting a lot of play on the GB Micro and I'm getting further into the Special worlds of Mario 3D Land.

Is that Sega Rally any good? Did it only come out in japan i seem to remember?

CiDeRmAn

It's as close as you get to the Arcade version at home.
It's lovely and was only available as a pack in with the Japan only Sega Rally 2006 on the PS2.
We got Sega Rally instead on the PS3 and 360, a very different game.

Playing through Cold Winter on the PS2...

Feels like a cross between SOF & Goldeneye

CiDeRmAn

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Playing through Cold Winter on the PS2...

Feels like a cross between SOF & Goldeneye

I've been telling people around these parts just how good that game is, and it has certainly aged a lot better than Goldeneye.
I personally think the campaign is a lot better than the N64 title to start with.
Who knew, the PS2 would host a stonking FPS.
It's pretty foul mouthed as well though, plenty of swearing!
It's a massive single player campaign too.

Doge

I whole heartedly agree with the love for Cold Winter.

I bought it straight away after seeing it in the PS2 Underrated Gems series on YouTube from teh2dgamer about 3 or 4 years ago.
Serious depth to the game with inventory combos, I don't know of any other fps that let's you move and throw tables and use them as cover.

Very violent and gorey game also when you can shoot off soldiers limbs with AK's!

The story is great, and narrated by the excellent Tom Baker who narrated Little Brittan.


I played all the way to the end without getting bored which is a good sign.

I used have Black fixed in my head as the greatest FPS game on the PS2, but damn Cold Winter gives it a run for it's money, 2 very different games.

CiDeRmAn

Black is certainly polished and quick but I always thought Cold Winter a much better game.

Retr0gamer

I didn't like Black at all. Compared to the likes of PC shooters and even Halo on consoles it was terrible.

waveform

waveform wrote: »

I whole heartedly agree with the love for Cold Winter.

I bought it straight away after seeing it in the PS2 Underrated Gems series on YouTube from teh2dgamer about 3 or 4 years ago.
Serious depth to the game with inventory combos, I don't know of any other fps that let's you move and throw tables and use them as cover.

Very violent and gorey game also when you can shoot off soldiers limbs with AK's!

The story is great, and narrated by the excellent Tom Baker who narrated Little Brittan.


I played all the way to the end without getting bored which is a good sign.

I used have Black fixed in my head as the greatest FPS game on the PS2, but damn Cold Winter gives it a run for it's money, 2 very different games.

Same reason I purchased Cold Winter

Retr0gamer

waveform wrote: »

The story is great, and narrated by the excellent Tom Baker who narrated Little Brittan.

Pfft, kids today

Retr0gamer

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I didn't like Black at all. Compared to the likes of PC shooters and even Halo on consoles it was terrible.

Terrible in what way? Comparing it to PC shooters?? Very vague.

It set out what it wanted to do and the game knows exactly what it us. A console shooter with responsive controls, big explosions, big loud bad ass guns with excellent animations and a meaty feel to them. Also the audio was great.

You can see the influence criterion had on this ala burnout. I personally loved it for the reasons above.

Retr0gamer

It was just a linear corridor with dumb AI. It just felt really aimless and the frame rate was dreadful. The only stand out thing about the game was the graphics. It just felt really limited to me and I was bored to tears of it well before the anticlimax at the end 3 hours in.

Sure you can use the excuse that all it was about was shooting things but even still it didn't do that well with much better games out that did that premise better. Put it up against the likes of Halo, NOLF, Half-Life 2 or many of the better contemporaries and it is really poor. It only got the plaudits for looking good for a PS2 game (I got the XBox version which paled in comparison to XBox games) and the fact that there wasn't much competition on the PS2. Cold Winter is a far better game in comparison.

Donatron

Disruptor on the PS1. A little known Doom clone that's pretty fun! There's no way to look up and down and your character moves at near light speed but worth a look

Edit: I should mention it also has wonderfully bad live action cut scenes that you would swear were from some 90's porno if you saw them out of context

o1s1n

Trying to finish off Jake Hunter on the DS at the moment.

Also trying to get all 96 exits in Super Mario World after recently being shamed for not doing so!

Donatron

o1s1n wrote: »

Also trying to get all 96 exits in Super Mario World after recently being shamed for not doing so!

Is that when the whole world turns weird and all the enemies are brownish marios? Been a long time since I played it!

Retr0gamer

I remember Disruptor well. It was hyped like crazy on the strength of it's graphics but wasn't that great a game on release and most of the enemies were just pre rendered sprites.

As for Mario World, that happens when you beat the secret world.

Mr.Saturn

Donatron wrote: »

Is that when the whole world turns weird and all the enemies are brownish marios? Been a long time since I played it!

It is. I've only done it on the GBA version, which I'm not sure counts considering they give Mario an extra hit from power-up back to super; it ends up being that bit easier that its SNES counterpart.

I'm back on Pokemon Black 2, just to be on-topic. Spent the better side of two evenings trying to breed a Chansey with a bold nature. Now EVing it in Clay Tunnel. I wouldn't mind, but I just came off a replay of Sapphire, where you've got a few options to EV just near the beginning of the game, so ducking Woobats and Boldores can get tedious.

Despite having a small backlog again, I think I'm gonna pick up Inazuma Eleven 2; been itching to get stuck back in after clocking the first one a couple weeks back.

Still alternating between scoping eBay for a reasonable Metroid: Zero Mission and checking Wii-U eShop to see if the EU store has taken cue from its NTSC-J equivalent and released the fecking thing in its GBA section.

STG.Otaku

Christ on a bike! Metal Storm on DSi Ware is a bit good isn't it?

o1s1n

I might be a little late to the party on this one, but anyone been playing The Mysterious Murasame Castle from the 3DS Eshop?

Famicom disk system action game finally localized - uses the Zelda engine. It's hard but really lots of fun.

johnny_ultimate

Decided to start Earthbound again on Wii U since I never finished it last time around.

Forgot how much I hate the damn head mushrooms!