So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

Riesen_Meal

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Finished Tomb Raider 2. It's a step up in graphical quality from the first and a massive step back in terms of level design, gameplay and charm. The levels and settings just aren't as interesting as the first game and the focus on combat doesn't pay off since the combat was ****e to begin with.

Was that the one that started off in her mansion and she went to London and got a shotgun early on?

Retr0gamer

Fieldog wrote: »

Was that the one that started off in her mansion and she went to London and got a shotgun early on?

That was TR3 I think? I think that's the only one in London although I've not much memories of Chronicles and Last Revelation so might be them.

Doge

TR2 starts in the mansion alright but TR3 has London as a location, the train station iirc.

o1s1n

I was hammered in the gypsy rose on Friday night playing their sf2 cab. God its in bits. Still managed to kick the crap out of everyone :pac:

Funny thing is I'm only remembering this now three days later.

MrVestek

I was in the Gypsey recently and didn't spot an SFII cab in there, where is it?

MrVestek

MrVestek wrote: »

I was in the Gypsey recently and didn't spot an SFII cab in there, where is it?

Mod Edit : Nope, Nope, Nopedy Nope

o1s1n

MrVestek wrote: »

I was in the Gypsey recently and didn't spot an SFII cab in there, where is it?

In beside the pool table where the cafe used to be. Its a little converted poker cab with an LCD and mangled sticks.

The Last Bandit

o1s1n wrote: »

In beside the pool table where the cafe used to be. Its a little converted poker cab with an LCD and mangled sticks.

Sounds like they bought it on Adverts so for a few grand !!

MrVestek

BrownFinger wrote: »

Mod Edit : Nope, Nope, Nopedy Nope

Ohh dear what happened here?!

Ah ha ha ha

Doge

Dang, think i just missed out on some traveller humour. You should of posted it in Nein 11!

airmax87

Myrddin

Spent a while ripping my recent Wii & Gamecube games to hdd (USB Loader GX is a work of art), & while testing out House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return, I accidentally got hooked - what a cracking game! Seems a very decent conversion too!

Tchoin

Been playing Blazing Star and other SNK titles from the recent SNK Mobile Humble Bundle - sort of retro :P

Also, a bit of King of Fighters R-2 on the NGPC.

TechnoFreek

airmax87 wrote: »

What you playing that on airmax?

Thargor

Cant bring myself to spend any time clearing my retro back catalouge anymore with the Witcher III soaking up all my gaming time at the minute, everything else pales next to it.

airmax87

Cant get enough of RR type 4

CiDeRmAn

Never liked that one, though no where near as bad as R:Racing, such a bad game.
Rage Racer was the one that was the best for me.
Initially I was disappointed that it wasn't Rave Racer, but the game had so much depth, probably the first game of the series to embrace the options available on a console.

Retr0gamer

R:Racing was amazing... for Pac Man Vs.

Shapey Fiend

You've reminded me of Valve Limit R, the worst racing game I've ever played.

CiDeRmAn

Auto Modellista

Looks like it was made by the gods
Plays like it was made by doubly incontinent donkeys

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

Atavan-Halen

I was so disappointed after reading reviews of auto modelista in magazines thinking it looked great, then I got it and played it just never clicked with me and I felt the cars maxed out speed too fast.

CiDeRmAn

The handling just felt broken to me.
Often, when this occurs, people who can't face it say the handling model is just too complicated or realistic or some such nonsense, truth is it's just fecked.
They didn't have to perform miracles with it, just slot in arcade handling, as seen in dozens if not hundreds of racing titles up to that point, and the visuals alone would have made it a must own.
But, instead, they tried something bizarre and just spoiled it.
Something similar happened with that Alfa Romeo racer, SCAR, lovely looking but weird RPG elements and handling just made it pants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1mk0pAl5qA

This was another one
Vanishing Point, I had it on the DC but it later came out on the PS, looked great but played like a dog, though the stunt mode was cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju9OPBegTZI

Another controversial one is the V-Rally series.
It never looked the best, but it was fast and fluid and, for some reason, the cars bounced around like they'd been filled with helium. When you got the hang of it that was forgiveable but it was strange. And then McCrae came out and that was that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqVkMG6RBf4

eddhorse

Also reminds me of Network Q Rally (1996). lots of bumper car action.
After Colin McRae came along , it was forgotten about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV28_0PKA08

And just for the heck of it some others i had on a piece of dirt pc.

Interstate 76 (1997)

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

Motorhead (1998)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0A2uWu52WI

Whats that isometric rally game, was on snes and arcade i think?

airmax87

I'm almost sure modellista has the same announcer as capcom vs snk 2

CiDeRmAn

Big fan of Network Q, I loved that game.
But McCrae was a game changer, no pun intended, on a scale similar to Gran Turismo for track day fans

Shapey Fiend

Rally Cross 1/2 are my favourite PSOne racers. The wacky physics and shortcuts made them incredibly fun in multiplayer, and still quite fun in single player. Take any of the turns slightly wrong and you end up on your roof. Gave me the same sense of satisfaction I got from the first Wipeout where a perfect lap felt like a big accomplishment.

CiDeRmAn

I loved Interstate 76, it used the same engine as the Mechwarrior titles, and ran just fine on my 200Mhz PC.
So cool, it used the restrictions that technology wrought on the visuals as a style, and kept it consistent throughout the game, along with great cutscenes, voice acting and use of music, pre-empting the whole Grindhouse phenomenon....
Sorry, Phenomenon = Mahna Mahna inside my noggin....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ

eddhorse

Ah i thought i was the only one on the planet that had Interstate 76. Music was funky. Voice acting was pretty good alright. It was a very difficult game as far as i remember.

CiDeRmAn

I remember the scene where you were supposed to be escorting a school bus full of kids and, if you failed, you heard the driver cry out on the CB "the children are burning!"