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So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

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    #7262
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,557 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Fecking "I'm Daisy" ruined it for me, I blame Retr0 and Dinorex, because I can't remember which one was swapping her out all the time.


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    #7263
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,051 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Hi I'm Daisy!
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    #7264
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,557 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
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    #7265
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,919 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    God help you if Daisy is your designated, rubber-banding rival throughout Double Dash's All Cup mode.


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    #7266
    wheresmahbombs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭wheresmahbombs


    Mr.Saturn wrote: »
    God help you if Daisy is your designated, rubber-banding rival throughout Double Dash's All Cup mode.

    I've come 1st in a perfect 100cc Mushroom Cup as the Koopa Troopas, and I'm glad to inform you that she came last :).


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    #7267
    Burzum
    Registered Users Posts: 567 ✭✭✭Burzum


    Playing Super Strike Gunner for the SNES at the minute. It's not bad but its not great either.


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    #7268
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,919 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    wheresmahbombs wrote: »
    I've come 1st in a perfect 100cc Mushroom Cup as the Koopa Troopas, and I'm glad to inform you that she came last :).

    No small feat. Actually went back to Double Dash not too long having played like 9 billion hours of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (conservative estimate) and was surprised as to how merciless the Double Dash AI is.

    Like, for example, I recall a few years back I was finishing up the All Cup on 150cc and only needed to finish 3rd to win it out on points. All was going fine until exactly the last stretch of the last lap of Rainbow Road and then everyone, and not a syllable of exaggeration, every god damn bit of AI decided I had to go. To say I was hockeyed out of it is underselling it.


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    #7269
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,051 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    The final cup of Double Dash did my head in. The AI is an awful cheating swine in that game. It drove me up the wall.

    At least It made me so good at Rainbow Road in that game that I embarrassed everyone at the beers when we played it and I finished at least 10 minutes before everyone else.
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    #7270
    CiDeRmAn
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    The final cup of Double Dash did my head in. The AI is an awful cheating swine in that game. It drove me up the wall.

    At least It made me so good at Rainbow Road in that game that I embarrassed everyone at the beers when we played it and I finished at least 10 minutes before everyone else.

    That was awesome, the Beers and projectors, not the fecking Rainbow Road!


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    #7271
    Doge
    Registered Users Posts: 8,992 ✭✭✭Doge


    That was a disaster, half of us didn't know which car we were controlling at the start! A practice lap would have helped!


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    #7272
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,051 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Doge wrote: »
    That was a disaster, half of us didn't know which car we were controlling at the start! A practice lap would have helped!

    Excuses...
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    #7273
    Doge
    Registered Users Posts: 8,992 ✭✭✭Doge


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Excuses...

    Not hard to beat 7 others when they dont even know which car they're controlling on screen! ;)

    Its not a petty excuse like blaming a poor Ghost and Goblins run on a controller! :pac:


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    #7274
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,667 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Doge wrote: »

    Its not a petty excuse like blaming a poor Ghost and Goblins run on a controller! :pac:

    Is he still at that? Last time it was dodgy emulation on Ciderdudes cab :D


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    #7275
    CiDeRmAn
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    Is he still at that? Last time it was dodgy emulation on Ciderdudes cab :D

    Ha!
    A dodgy arcade stick Megadrive thingy, he was right of course, brutal emulation but it was a lousy controller.
    But then, he used that excuse so often!
    Plus, he can't twerk!


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    #7276
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,051 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Doge wrote: »
    Not hard to beat 7 others when they dont even know which car they're controlling on screen! ;)

    Its not a petty excuse like blaming a poor Ghost and Goblins run on a controller! :pac:

    There's beating 7 others.

    Then there's finishing the race, walking down stairs, having a long chat then wandering back upstairs and wondering why nobody else has finished :pac:

    I played GnG again in an arcade recently and I've near totally lost my knack for that game.... still blame the controller!
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    #7277
    Inviere
    Registered Users Posts: 7,572 ✭✭✭Inviere


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    There's beating 7 others.

    Only beating 7 others? Pfft, noob :p

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    #7278
    CiDeRmAn
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    There's beating 7 others.

    Then there's finishing the race, walking down stairs, having a long chat then wandering back upstairs and wondering why nobody else has finished :pac:

    I played GnG again in an arcade recently and I've near totally lost my knack for that game.... still blame the controller!

    I thought we were playing outside?


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    #7279
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,667 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    I thought we were playing outside?

    Haha! Where did he go?

    Do you have a basement under your front lawn populated with gnomes?


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    #7280
    CiDeRmAn
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    Haha! Where did he go?

    Do you have a basement under your front lawn populated with gnomes?

    Sshhhh....
    That's where the command centre is...


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    #7281
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,051 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    I thought we were playing outside?

    The Rainbow Road massacre occurred in the games room.

    This place is full of rainbow road massacre deniers.
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    #7282
    Dr Bob
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    The Rainbow Road massacre occurred in the games room.

    This place is full of rainbow road massacre deniers.

    shudder..I hope to NEVER see Rainbow Road again for the rest of my life...it was that bad!


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    #7283
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,051 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    So on a bit of a videogaming lul at the moment, nothing really excites me so taking a break for a while and catching up on TV shows.

    Was back in my parents today and with only a 360 to entertain me I went on the store and saw Ninja Gaiden Black. Bought it and gave it a quick go and my god I'd forgotten how utterly amazing the game is. The combat mechanics married with the level design and just the how satisfying everything is to do (other than controlling the camera), it's a true masterpiece.

    It got me thinking. Those types of mechanics and painstakingly designed levels just are not present in modern Triple A games. You only get it in the best indie games and the odd game like Dark Souls/Bloodborne. Its no wonder modern big budget games weren't exciting me. Nothing can hold a candle to excitement you get from the likes of Ninja Gaiden, something I felt was a lot more common during that era of gaming.
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    #7284
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    I've been meaning to play Shenmue for a few years now so yesterday i decided enough was enough, its time to have a blast off of it and it was... a bit crap.

    I see what they were trying to do with the game and I commend them for it but imo they failed entirely. The time system is infuriating, with no ability to speed it up so while i'm waiting for someone to appear at around "7ish" I have to kill time by playing with the toy capsule machine or going for a game of Space Harrier.
    Thats fine for a while but when I can't find your man im looking for I go home, in to bed and start it all again the next day, waiting an age playing the capsule machine again:mad: The pacing here is shockingly bad.
    Also, the combat is boring and the QTE pointless.
    I know ive probably not even scratched the surface of the game and personally I love a slow burner but Shenmue has done nothing to entice me to fire it up again today


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    #7285
    Shapey Fiend
    Registered Users Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭Shapey Fiend


    Shenmue is terrible for all the reasons you mentioned. Plus the story and voice acting are horrendous. The only part I enjoyed was playing good games at the arcade and maybe the novelty of the capsule toys. Wait till you get to the infuriation that is forklift racing. I'm a Sega fanboy, although admittedly not a huge adventure game fan, and I couldn't really find much enjoyment from it and gave up just before the end feeling quite perplexed as to why it's considered a work of genius.


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    #7286
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,667 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Philistines! :D

    Shenmue is great, the problem is it's 20 years old. Most of the key components in it which were groundbreaking at the time have been surpassed many times over in subsequent games and are things we just take for granted now - So the original concepts come off looking a tad archaic.

    Still holds it own IMO, played through it 3 - 4 years ago and really enjoyed it.


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    #7287
    [Deleted User]
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    I agree it was groundbreaking for it's time but when you force the player to be at a certain place at a particular time to progress the story but give them precious little to occupy their time while waiting, then thats just bad game design.
    At no point in gaming history would end users have said that sounded like a good idea


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    #7288
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,667 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    See it's just not a traditional 'game' in that respect so I don't think it deserves to be treated as such. It's meant to be a virtual life simulator. You get bored in real life. Go to the arcade and play Space Harrier for a while to kill some time. Enjoy the weather (!). Listen to some tunes on the walkman. It's a bizarre concept and hasn't aged particularly well as I was saying, but if you try and get your mind into that kind of sphere of thinking you can really see what the devs were going for.

    Not to say I wasn't frustrated at those parts, I was. But that's life :pac:


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    #7289
    Retr0gamer
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    Anyone know where I can find some sailors?
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    #7290
    Inviere
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Anyone know where I can find some sailors?

    ...that picture in 3, 2, 1....

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    #7291
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,557 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Did the Yakuza series take over from Shenmue in anyway?
    I own the DC games but I've never played them.


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