So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

CiDeRmAn

Never liked the Snes version of UN Squadron, not sure why..
Mariokart on the Snes, another one of those games a gamer is supposed to love, but I prefer the awesome GBA edition, if going for the Mode 7 look, and the very enjoyable GC and Wii versions, less said about the N64 edition the better.
(I also love Diddy Kong Racing on the N64, not so much the DS remake)

Amalgam

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Quake 2 and Alien Ressurrection were great games on the PS1

Ugh, I thought Quake 2 on the PS1 was plodding, once the novelty wore off, they did 'flatten' some of the map areas, if I remember. Too many check points also.

The split screen multiplay was impressive though, the players also had heads that would show up in Quake III..

Alien Ressurrection was superb though. I got so nervous playing it..

CiDeRmAn

Yes, I have Alien Ressurection, very cool game, real brown trouser stuff.
Wish I had a playstation mouse to play it "properly" though...

Quake 2, only really at home on the PC of course, followed by the DC conversion and the N64 edition too, the PS edition only looked good when played via bleemcast, otherwise it was wretched looking..,
The Saturn meanwhile had an amazing conversion of Quake on it, mmm (resisted talking about DEATH TANKKKK again, well, nearly)

evercloserunion

Currently getting into M.U.L.E. on my Atari emulator. Had a hankering for an economy simulator and had to go back to the 80s to find a good one.

CiDeRmAn

evercloserunion wrote: »

Currently getting into M.U.L.E. on my Atari emulator. Had a hankering for an economy simulator and had to go back to the 80s to find a good one.

I don't understand, what's an economy simulator?

Is it a second hand one from Aer Lingus that's lets you fly a 737?
Would it not be cheaper to just buy a slightly used actual 737 from Ryanair?

o1s1n

Alien Resurrection was great alright. I remember the first time trying to use the newfangled control scheme. Made my brain hurt.

'Two analog sticks to move..?' /does not compute

evercloserunion

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I don't understand, what's an economy simulator?

Is it a second hand one from Aer Lingus that's lets you fly a 737?
Would it not be cheaper to just buy a slightly used actual 737 from Ryanair?

:pac:

I'm not sure t what extent you're joking so in case you actually don't know what I mean, economy simulator = simulates economy (supply and demand etc). In M.U.L.E. you have to harvest resources and buy from/sell to other players, and the price you pay/get depends on supply and demand. Great craic altogether.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.L.E.

CiDeRmAn

Ah, now I understand, I remember the ads for the game back in the day, but at that time I was playing the Speccy and so never played it.
I have never heard of such genre games being called "Economy Simulators", more commonly it is called "Resource Management", albeit quite different in implementation to Elite, C&C and other titles that utilise in-game resource exploitation or a functioning economy.
I believe most of the MMORPGs have economies of their own, with trade and payments, using in game currencies, EVE online and WoW being the two ones that spring ot mind.

Retr0gamer

I never played M.U.L.E. but they went on about it in an episode of retronauts, saying how it was an excellent game and a forgotten classic that tried to kick start multiplayr gaming.

CiDeRmAn

Didn't Space War kick start both gaming and multiplayer gaming, at the same time!

And wasn't Kickstart great, especially the one where the kid falls, with motorbike, onto the log rendering himself sterile, Hahaha!

Retr0gamer

Well it wasone of the first ever 4 player games if i remember correctly and it was built for multiplayer since the way to win was to form pacts with you're friends and stab each other in the back.

CCCP^

Mostly sticking with the PS2 tonight. Played Pro Evolution 6, WipEout Pulse, Dark Chronicle and Steel Lancer Arena International.

97i9y3941

ah the ps2,had some absolute gems in its time,anyone ever play shadow of rome,i f#cking loved that game it was epic..

CCCP^

I used to have it and really liked the fighting parts in the Colliseum, really cool. But then it went off on a total tangent sneaking about Rome and stuff. That's not what I signed up for Capcom! GIVE ME THE VIOLENCE! I didn't finish it

o1s1n

I found the colosseum bits in that game so much fun that I actually managed to sit through all the boring stealth levels till the end. In the hope that there'd be more gore action. Which there was! Hurrah!

Nothing like beating a stunned guy to death with his own soggy arm. Or those super moves where you cleave a guy in half.

Great fun!

CCCP^

Those bits were great. They didn't need the stealth bits at all or even any need for a storyline, just the gory violence would have been fine for me.

powerxtreme

oooh must track down my copy of alien ressurection. that was a great game. After getting used to the two analog sticks to move i could never go back. Which was a pity as I wanted to play duke nukem 3d again on the ps1 but could not go back to the old control layout.

o1s1n

powerxtreme wrote: »

Which was a pity as I wanted to play duke nukem 3d again on the ps1 but could not go back to the old control layout.

You're dead right. It completely destroyed any FPS console game that uses one analog stick.

I'm looking at you, n64!

CiDeRmAn

I have Duke Nukem 3d on a couple of consoles, PS, XBLA, I have the gba one too!
As for Shadows of Rome, still have it, bought it a couple of years ago, yet to play it!

I have Dark Chronicle, but like most of my JRPGs I play for the first hour, fall asleep and never see them again, Rogue Galaxy is about to go the same way, haven't played in 3 months, it's about to migrate upstairs, to the cold cold room were the PS2 games go to hiberate!

Actually, what's Wipeout Pulse on the PS2 like?
It's quite expensive but the PSP edition is very nice, and I can only hope the PS2 is an even better fit for it.

CCCP^

Well if you have the PSP edition I wouldn't see the point of picking it up, but since I didn't I got it and I really liked it. After Fusion, it's a return to the pure racing style of the games with less of an emphasis on combat, although that is still there. The tracks are good and the graphics and colours are vibrant and stand out, plays smooth. There is very little lag like you would find on Fusion although if you get alot of ships on screen and then an explosion it will happen.

The music is good, took a little while for me to get used to as its more modern kind of dance-techno. The competition breaks down into races you must come atleast 1st, 2nd or 3rd in. So you might have one race that is just a basic single race but then you also have knockouts (destroy as many ships as possible) or the zone races (go as fast as you can for as long as you can).

Retr0gamer

Don't you get everything in Pure and Pulse with Wipeout HD and it's expansion except better looking?

CCCP^

I don't know, I'm still using a PS2.

CiDeRmAn

It really is something special on the PS3, awesome stuff

CCCP^

Had a PS2 session tonight. Got some WipEout Pulse played, doing fairly well in that and got the hang of it now. Was playing that for most of the night.

Then I stuck on Sonic Unleashed as I hadn't played it in a few months. Don't really like the Nightime missions when your a Werehog, I'm really playing those just to get to the Daytime missions again when your speeding along, those are cool. I don't know why Sega didn't just make the game entirely composed of the Daytime parts, would have been an excellent game.

After that I stuck on Frequency, which is like Amplitude. Personally I prefer Frequency, I like the style and the music appeals more to my tastes. Quick game of Pro Evo 6 and then XG3 Racing. XG3 Extreme G Racing is definetly a hidden gem of racing games, particularly futuristic racing games. I think Acclaim did a great job with that game and I will probably start playing more of it again.

Finished off the night with Capcom vs SNK 2 but wasn't that much into it honestly and just played 2 fights before losing to Ken (it's always Ken!).

Retr0gamer

CCCP^ wrote: »

XG3 Extreme G Racing is definetly a hidden gem of racing games, particularly futuristic racing games. I think Acclaim did a great job with that game and I will probably start playing more of it again.

The only decent thing Akklaim ever did other than publishing Darius Gaiden in the west.

CCCP^

Retr0gamer wrote: »

In my opinion the only decent thing Akklaim ever did other than publishing Darius Gaiden in the west.

There, fixed that last post for you. Your welcome.

Retr0gamer

CCCP^ wrote: »

There, fixed that last post for you. Your welcome.

Akklaim brought out another decent game? I'd like to know what it is.

Edit: Okay I forgot decent conversions of NBA Jam and publishing Burnout :P

CCCP^

I'm not getting into an argument with you about games Acclaim have made. You have your own tastes and I have mine and we'll leave it at that. I happen to like XGR3 and think it's a decent game. Have you played it?

CiDeRmAn

I seem to remember people going pretty ga-ga over Turok when Acclaim released it, although that may have been because there wasn't an awful lot of new releases for the N64 at the time.
Turok 2 wasn't so bad, I think.....
Burnout makes the companies existence essential though, imagine a world without it!
We'd be snowed under (no current weather pun intended) with car modification games and "street" racing a la Need for Speed Underground, Juiced and so on.

Gummy Panda

Acclaim published Double Dragon 2 for the NES so they get a thumbs up
from me.