So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

MrVestek

Steve X2 wrote: »

I read that as you have loads of friends, some still in their original packaging!

I need more coffee

Well myself and a friend once had an adventure with cellophane.

Actually... you know what? Never mind...

Doge

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Forza is just so bloody boring, give me Test Drive Unlimited on the 360 instead.

The only problem I find with TDU is the fact its all Road Racing, most races feel like a drag race.

Theres no real good track design, its mostly long straights or square turns at junctions.

Thats the drawback of trying to model the location as close as possible to a Hawaiian Island.

airmax87

MrVestek wrote: »

I have loads of them spare, some even still in original packaging. If you need another one let me know.

I have some third party controllers that you can just take off my hands because they're rubbish awesome Madcatz yolks altogether.

don't they have the nice 6 button layout ? more the merrier

MrVestek

airmax87 wrote: »

don't they have the nice 6 button layout ? more the merrier

Yeah. It's like this only blue.



I'll bring it into work with me controller and you can collect it if you like. You based in Dublin?

airmax87

MrVestek wrote: »

Yeah. It's like this only blue.



I'll bring it into work with me controller and you can collect it if you like. You based in Dublin?

Down in Celbridge area but work in baggot st mon-fri if thats any use ?

Myrddin

Spent an hour playtesting all the Super Famicom carts I've got over the last while, & it struck me. Those of us who grew up in the 16bit wars/era were lucky sob's... The amount of sheer quality titles, the gorgeous pixel graphics, the music...it really was the golden era of gaming.

Retr0gamer

I kind of prefer the 32 bit era myself. sure some of the games have aged extremely poorly but I just found it very exciting, especially the advent of so many new gameplay ideas and genres. The arcades were slowly dying but the developers were producing some of the best games ever in the arcades, SNK, Capcom and Sega in particular. On playstation you had the birth of genres like survival horror, stealth games and others. And in between those big name games you have Sony bank rolling gambles like parappa the rappa. There were so many inventive games since development costs were so low, they might not have been successful often but they were interesting. The PC was gaining power faster than any other time with the advent of 3D accelerators. It was the golden age for PC gaming and saw the advent of online gaming, mmos and tthe rebirth of the western RPG. Sega was struggling but putting out amazing games none the less and the Saturn was a fantastic console hampered by awful western management. Nintendo was the only disappointment. Their own games were excellent but the N64 really struggled due to poor hardware design. They also forgot the Gameboy until Pokemon exploded.

Myrddin

Yeah I like the 32bit era myself, there was a LOT of innovation...and the jump from 16 to 32bit was an instant "the future is now" moment. Arguably though, those early jaw dropping 32bit games pale in comparison to the visuals of the established 16bit stuff, & while something like Battle Arena Toshinden on the PS1 would make your eyes bleed today, games like Super Street Fighter 2 on the Snes look so much better.

That said, it spawned new genres like survival horror etc...which would have been so limited on the 16bit machines, resident evil v clock tower for example.

CiDeRmAn

Welcome to the dawn of survival horror...
I bring you...
Blue Stinger!!

Solm

Currently playing MOH - Vanguard on PS 3 60 gig.

MrVestek

airmax87 wrote: »

Down in Celbridge area but work in baggot st mon-fri if thats any use ?

Send me a PM there.

Cheers.

Mr.Saturn

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, GBA VC on the Wii-U.

It's kinda strange, it apes Mario RPG a lot, but adds in these finicky button combos which, after 3 hours in, still aren't intuitive (which you can probaly chalk up to its emulation, I guess). The balance is a bit off too, where if you turn right instead of left, you end up fighting random battles with enemies 10 times stronger than you. The reliance on the rhythmic defense/offense is almost cruel as well. Otherwise, the standard of difficulty is the usual Mario RPG below-average. Them spikes, like.

Otherwise, it's stuff with the usual Mario RPG brand of wit, warmth and absurdity, just slightly disappointed in how it all comes together.

Retr0gamer

I really enjoyed the game and had no problems with button timing. I'm guessing it's the usual LCD lag issues.

CiDeRmAn

Silhouette Mirage is mental.
Trying to figure out the bonkers rules....

pajor

A little over a year ago, I moved here to NL. Bought a PS1 for €10 from a CEX type place. Played Gran Turismo 2 a lot and then sorta just stopped playing. But I'm back playing it a lot again. On ~67% completion now. Have even for the first time ever actually been doing the Endurance races.

I had GT2 when I was about 11, so the nostalgia is just amazing.

da gamer

Took out the nes for the first time in a looooong time. Playing kabuki quantum fighter at the moment. It's a super side scrolling platformer that can be quiet challenging, I'd recommend it to anyone who is a fan of metroid-espue platformers.

o1s1n

Went back to Castlevania IV today after playing a lot of Castlevania XX.

First thing to notice - dear lord, the visuals! You really can see how much SNES sprite art and hardware exploitation developed over the console's life. Its quite jarring actually.

Still, for all its visual mode 7 fancy, XX is still ridiculously inferior to IV. Its just nowhere near as playable.

Mr.Saturn

Weird you mention that. I just finished Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow this morning and was looking around for another entry to play and , I dunno, the janky quality of IV really stood out to me. Always thought it was a later game, but nope, 1991.

Anyways, it's that time of the year again where I'm decked with deadlines, exams, work stuff and other commitments and I somehow stave it all off by ploughing through my backlog. Getting to grips with the original F-Zero on the Wii VC (one of the few titles they have that's not a PAL version). Kinda similar to the Castlevania point above, where it lacks the visual and mechanic smoothness one'd eventually come to expect. F-Zero really punishes where one fails to master how to lean-in to the corner. Later entries'd be a bit more forgiving, such as the GBA titles, with an on-and-off lean/turn, but nope, not here, if don't perfectly angle and execute the turn then you're hopping off the rails and crashing out. I can kinda feel this is gonna be on of those "white whale" games.

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

Went back to Castlevania IV today after playing a lot of Castlevania XX.

First thing to notice - dear lord, the visuals! You really can see how much SNES sprite art and hardware exploitation developed over the console's life. Its quite jarring actually.

Still, for all its visual mode 7 fancy, XX is still ridiculously inferior to IV. Its just nowhere near as playable.

The soundtrack though is near peerless.

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The soundtrack though is near peerless.

Indeed, its leagues ahead of the art direction, in fact I think it makes the visual limitations even more jarring.

spankrocket

I'm playing Unreal Tournament 99 and UT 2004, can't belive the servers are still active all these years, I'm also playing the **** out of Brutal Doom, and I found a cool mod for doom 2 called Demon Steele, which is a mix of anime and doom, its wicked stuff

still to this day I'm playing Streets of Rage 2, that's my fave brawler of all time

gymman39

Played some metal slug today on my gpd xd..great game

Mr.Saturn

gymman39 wrote: »

Played some metal slug today on my gpd xd..great game

Still my favourite of the original SNK-led 3(or 4, technically). The first one is a typical arcade game, where you're getting nothing for free, but it doesn't rip the mick like 2/X and 3, which become less games and more coin-extraction devices in their second-halves.

CiDeRmAn

I nearly prefer In The Hunt, same team but pre SNK, just an incredible amount of character in what is a side scrolling shooter.

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I nearly prefer In The Hunt, same team but pre SNK, just an incredible amount of character in what is a side scrolling shooter.

Its fantastic alright, but it still isn't in the same league as the original Metal Slug IMO.

Between the slowdown and massive hitbox, I find much of it unplayable. Frustratingly so.

...although maybe I'm just **** :pac:

TechnoFreek

Metal slug 6 on the cab via demul.more of the same but very enjoyable none the less.

Also some street fighter alpha 2 on groovymame. Never been good at the sf games but I've always found alpha 2 accessible with a great art style. Nice level of speed and fluidity too.

Mr.Saturn

I absolutely adore the SNES port of Alpha 2. It feels like it's a product of a coding challenge and they just released it when some chap did the impossible.

CiDeRmAn

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

I absolutely adore the SNES port of Alpha 2. It feels like it's a product of a coding challenge and they just released it when some chap did the impossible.

Yeah
Some stunning stuff in the last days of the SNES
From Alpha 2 and Yoshi's Island to Donkey Kong Country 3 and , latest of all, Kirby's Dreamland 3 in 97.

Mr.Saturn

Ah DKC 3. Played it for the first time a couple years back and it has this wonderful end-of-Summer melancholy atmosphere. Does it so well it kinda obscures the fact that you can trace the origins of Rare's shift to "let's hide lots of content behind collect-a-thons" philosophy.

o1s1n

Two hours into Rule of Rose for the first time and I just won my first battle - by frantically stabbing some odd thing to death with a fork.

What a peculiar game.