So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

7sr2z3fely84g5

Forgot to mention this great port,c64/mig/sega port probably be well known,this was done quiet well on speccy-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY8yHMFNftA

OwaynOTT

Everyone will be happy to know Ive defeated Ryu on first attempt on four separate occasions last night.
Finally came across his weakness, repeated kicks to the face.
Surprisingly, that is also Eddie Honda's, Blanka's and Ken's weakness.

Got as far as Vega with no continues last night and bam! Got beat stupid. So gave up and flicked on the Fraiser box set for comfort.
Would of beat him but girlfriend started knitting and it threw my focus, thats my excuse and I'm sticking with it.

Have to say Balrog is a useless character. Low kick, low kick, low kick, low kick and perfect.

Playing Turtles in Time later today. Used to love that game.

Retr0gamer

For CPU characters just bait them into doing a special and then punish. I found guile the toughest on harder difficulties due to the fact that the CPU can pull charge moves out of its ass without the need to charge for 2 seconds. Sagat is another tough customer but it's all about getting close enough through his tiger shot barrage to bait him into a tiger uppercut and punish. The difficulty being that if you get too close that tiger uppercut will take close to 25% of your health.

Mr.Saturn

OwaynOTT wrote: »

ust been playing street fighter 2 turbo. Gone are the days when I could pass it without continues.
All I have to say is, I hated fighting Ryu when was small and I f**kin' hate him more now. I guess I just dont have the skills.

Waiting on Super street fighter 2 in post. Can't remember that but I use to own it. Any good?
Also is Alpha good? Never heard of that before or if I did I blocked it out because of Ryu being so prominent on the cover.

F**kinG Ryu.

Alpha plays almost more like an SNK fighter, whatwith the slightly more methodical movement and the emphasis on defending. If you've a Dreamcast, I cannot recommend Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike enough. Actually, the majority of Capcom fighters on the Dreamcast are near perfect ways of wasting your life.

Cots1

Finally tracked down a copy of silent hill 2 should be good having just played the first one.

o1s1n

Cots1 wrote: »

Finally tracked down a copy of silent hill 2 should be good having just played the first one.

I had to stop playing Silent Hill 2 as I found it so bleak and oppressive it was putting me in a downer.

I'll have to get back to it. It's hard to though when you have things like Katamari to play

CiDeRmAn

I had to stop playing Silent Hill 2 at one time as well, as I had to change my pants...
That is one scary game, and I insisted on playing it at 2 in the morning...

Retr0gamer

Didn't find silent hill 2 thatscarybut my god is it depressing and oppressive. Also the ending I got was just horrible. If anyone that has beaten the game wants to look it up search youtube for the 'in water' silent hill 2 ending. I think it's by far and away the best ending in the game and very appropriate but god... it's not nice. Also, not much of a spoiler for the ending but I'll spoilerise it anyway

the actress that reads the letter at the end was fantastic. Jeremy Blaustein said that while they were recording it some people broke into tears and the actress really did break into tears while reading it.

Only two other games that have effected me more emotionally than silent hill 2 were the endings to earthbound and mother 3.

*sniff*

Cots1

Yeah i got a great deal on adverts for silent hill and a bunch of other games, just popped in Project ZERO really freaky game that one.

johnny_ultimate

I can't fault the atmosphere of either Silent Hill 2 or Project Zero - truly disturbing stuff.

It's the darn survival horror mechanics and game design that means I usually give up

NeoKubrick

Silent Hill 2 was a beautiful experience, but the "intentionally" clunky mechanics retard the playthrough; I gave up on Silent Hill 3. If you want the best Silent Hill experience, play it with headphones - every toilet break is welcome respite.

Strictly not retro, but virtually retro, I'm finally playing Crysis. The designers encourage boring turtle tactics but once you break free of that idiocy, the combat is good. The complexity of the options are a weak point.

I'm attempting to play Final Fantasy XII on the PCSX emulator but the framerate crawls. Anyone with any experience of getting the best out of this emulator? May pick up Jak 3 and play it.

Retr0gamer

A friend of mine has used it for Persona 3 and 4 and Ar Tonelico. He's got a ropey framerate as well which I'm sure is worse to deal with on the more real time FF12.

Retr0gamer

You are probably better off getting a PS2 to play PS2 games rather than emulators. I'm very pedantic with my emulation but still once you hit the 32-bit era and accelerated 3D you end up with inaccurate emulation that at worst can make games unplayable and usually end up with some graphical glitches. Also PCSX2 uses plugins which can be a mess to deal with and usually ends up with people trying to improve the graphics or other features further removing it from the original vision. Personally don't like them myself. This is just based of personal experience with the old epscxe and well, I am pedantic about emulation.

As for Project Zero, I own all the games but only ever played about 2 hours of the first one. Really should play more of that series.

CiDeRmAn

The scariest game I have ever played was FFVII, scary because after the 20th f'ing random battle I realised there would be another 20 hours of this line dancing, unavoidable crap.
This is simply my opinion, let the trolls/fanboys attack away.

Retr0gamer

The scariest game I ever played was Firewarrior. Scary because it actually existed :P

NeoKubrick

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You are probably better off getting a PS2 to play PS2 games rather than emulators. I'm very pedantic with my emulation but still once you hit the 32-bit era and accelerated 3D you end up with inaccurate emulation that at worst can make games unplayable and usually end up with some graphical glitches. Also PCSX2 uses plugins which can be a mess to deal with and usually ends up with people trying to improve the graphics or other features further removing it from the original vision. Personally don't like them myself. This is just based of personal experience with the old epscxe and well, I am pedantic about emulation.

As for Project Zero, I own all the games but only ever played about 2 hours of the first one. Really should play more of that series.

I'm not partial to the constant fucking about with them myself, but I spend half my time away from home. So, it's sometimes just practical.

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

The scariest game I have ever played was FFVII, scary because after the 20th f'ing random battle I realised there would be another 20 hours of this line dancing, unavoidable crap.
This is simply my opinion, let the trolls/fanboys attack away.

On a serious note, scariest games I have played were Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and IV: Oblivion. The games were so immersive and complemented by the first-person perspective, you were lulled into believing that you were at risk. I remember one night at three in the morning playing Morrowind and going to sleep (in-game) at an Inn and waking up and turning to see a Corspus attacking me. I was stuck between scared ****less and impressed that a game could achieve such genuine fear.

Cots1

Haven't really ever been scared from a game,thus my recent urge to play such games,saying that about 7 years ago played a bit too much theme park and had nightmares of running a theme park, too much pressure for my liking haven't gone back to it since.

tribesman78

Just got back out my copy of Birth of the federation. Man i loved this game.

CiDeRmAn

Thinking of Elder scrolls games, I may have jumped at times when rounding a corner, middle of reloading and bang, a super mutant stranding over me, a great game though, haven't made the jump to new Vegas at all, looks like more of the same.

Retr0gamer

Haha, couldn't get into Elder Scrolls myself. The bang of generic fantasy off it was over powering and I just got bored. When they added guns, gore and an interesting setting though I was hooked

johnny_ultimate

Oblivion - it was OK, and I was playing it with only minor enthusiasm. Mechanics frustrated as much as they impressed. But one day I checked the playtime and I was at like 120 hours :eek: Still have no idea how I spent that time. Mostly hiding in shadows and waiting so my health would recharge.

megaten

I loved morrowind, wasn't a big fan of Oblivion. I don't really want to go round a 80km world.

mondeo

I'm playing Putty on my Amiga

I'm playing Crystal Kingdom Dizzy on my Spectrum

OwaynOTT

Super Street Fighter 2 on SNES.

Bit of a letdown after Turbo. Ruined the music, I mean Kens sage is just not at all enjoyable now, new announcer, getting perfect just not worth i anymore and the graphics aren't that much better, I know its the same console and all that but it just underwhelms.

And it's a slow as a really slow thing. After turbo it's nearly unplayable. I know theres a Super STreet Fighter 2 turbo but its not on SNES only Saturn. is that right?

Also liking Evermore but prefer Secret of Mana. Solely for the music.

o1s1n

I'm currently breaking one of my rules (!) playing multiple games at once. It's mainly down to figuring out how to get the oul debug ps2 going.

So on the ps2 -

Persona 4 - fantastic! wish I had more hours in the day to play this. Oddly enough, I actually like the OC-ish American dub for once.

We Love Katamari - I can't get over how many things in this game can be moved/stick to your Katamari. It's crazy. You go towards a house, think you're going to stop - but no, it comes apart piece by piece. Really impressive for the ps2.

Raiden 3 - Finally managed to get this going last night. Wasn't expecting much after they made one of my favourite gaming franchises 3d instead of 2d...but wanted to give it a go out of curiosity. It's a good game! hurrah!

Manhunt 2 beta - I've played through a hacked version on the PSP which got rid of the censorship, but there was still some of the more extreme stuff left out. So I thought I'd give the proper beta a run through. Some of the executions are truely gut wrenching. Which is impressive given how much the engine has aged.

I still haven't gone back to Silent Hill 2. It makes Manhunt 2 seem like something for children. I've never had a game put me on such a downer.

Retr0gamer

I think Persona 4's american dub is fantastic!

paperwork

Rouge Squadron!

OwaynOTT

Megaman x2. Music not bad but can't beat intro to megaman 2

paperwork

have I just gotten retarded or was Rogue Squadron always this hard?

Retr0gamer

Twas a whore alright.