So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

Retr0gamer · 13-08-2011 02:33PM

Started the new fan translation of Mother 1 to see if it makes much of a difference. There's a new easy ring to equip at the start that has made the game a total breeze so far, the game is usually a total grindfest.

Also threw on some ninja gaiden for NES, still fantastic. Think I'll try and beat this one.

Myrddin · 13-08-2011 04:50PM

System Shock 2. That is all.

Retr0gamer · 13-08-2011 04:57PM

EnterNow wrote: »

System Shock 2. That is all.

Isn't it just glorious! Best FPS game ever imo.

Steve X2 · 13-08-2011 04:58PM

Tatsunoko Vs Capcom Ultimate All Stars on the Wii.

Pretty decent actually. I've ordered one of those Mad Catz Tatsunoko Vs Capcom Arcade FightStick from amazon as well.

Really getting into my fighters lately and giving no love to the shmups(except on the iPad/iCade) at all.

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Mr.Saturn · 13-08-2011 05:06PM

Steve SI wrote: »

Tatsunoko Vs Capcom Ultimate All Stars on the Wii.

Pretty decent actually. I've ordered one of those Mad Catz Tatsunoko Vs Capcom Arcade FightStick from amazon as well.

Really getting into my fighters lately and giving no love to the shmups(except on the iPad/iCade) at all.

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It's a good game alright. Mind, I'm not sure it's worth getting a stick solely for.

Steve X2 · 13-08-2011 05:59PM

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

It's a good game alright. Mind, I'm not sure it's worth getting a stick solely for.

Only 22 euro with free delivery from Amazon when I included a few other bits. No harm in getting it at that price

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Myrddin · 13-08-2011 06:19PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Isn't it just glorious! Best FPS game ever imo.

Its cyberpunk awsomeness, meets the story is bigger than the player brilliance :cool:

CiDeRmAn · 13-08-2011 06:29PM

Or, alternatively, read a book!
William Gibson, given he invented the genre.
Peter F. Hamilton's series of Greg Mandel books are great too.
Richard Morgan and his Takeshi Kovacs books are superb.
And they are all better than System Shock 2, promise!

Myrddin · 13-08-2011 06:34PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Or, alternatively, read a book!
William Gibson, given he invented the genre.
Peter F. Hamilton's series of Greg Mandel books are great too.
Richard Morgan and his Takeshi Kovacs books are superb.
And they are all better than System Shock 2, promise!

My minds eye has gotten far too lazy in recent years, I find myself reading the words but not building the picture. Shame really, I used to be able to read/enjoy books...then my htpc came along and ruined it

Retr0gamer · 13-08-2011 06:45PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

And they are all better than System Shock 2, promise!

Have you played System Shock 2? The story in that game and the excellent visual symbolism for me is on par with any of the great sci-fi novels. It's seriously that good.

CiDeRmAn · 13-08-2011 08:51PM

Hmmm, you'll have to be more specific about the novels you have read, and of it has colouring in it doesn't count I'm afraid, even if you stayed inside all the lines!

Best book in ages "The Passage" by Julian Cronin.
Also you gotta try the Nights Dawn trilogy by Peter F Hamilton and Ilium and Olympos, The Hyperion Sequence all by Dan Simmons, haven't played any games that come close.

The closest a game came to aping it's written inspiration was Eternal Darkness' riff on the Lovecraft books, not bad, not brilliant but not bad, Color Out Of Space, Call of Cthulhu and the rest are simply sublime, aside from the casual racism, not cool HP, not cool!

Retr0gamer · 13-08-2011 10:04PM

Well I still think System Shock 2 joins the ranks of the very very few games along with the likes of Earthbound, Mother 3 and Silent Hill 2, as a game that can stand shoulder to shoulder with literary greats.

Kingdom Hearts 2 on the other hand can stand up tall as being far and away the worst example of storytelling in any medium.

johnny_ultimate · 13-08-2011 10:36PM

I'm on a David Mitchell buzz at the moment. Anyone with an interest in Japan should read The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, absolutely beautiful and insightful novel. Moving on to Number9Dream now, once I read through Maus and Akira book one. Also, I dare anyone to suggest a game that has the same emotional impact as Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. I've rarely been so engrossed by a single work of art, and have been a Haruki Murakami obsessive ever since.

Oh yeah, games. Ahem. Had a whirl of Probotector during the week, fascinating tech. Plays hypersmooth for an MD game! Just spent an evening with Back to the Future (Episode 2) - good but like all Telltale games not great. Couldn't say no when they were on sale on PSN though. And Catherine, well Catherine is just awesome.

Retr0gamer · 13-08-2011 10:47PM

I liked how Gamesmaster put it when reviewing Probotector: 'faster scrolling than the credits of NYPD Blue'.

Myrddin · 13-08-2011 10:49PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Also, I dare anyone to suggest a game that has the same emotional impact as Kafka on the Shore by Murakami.

Well the obvious choice is SimCity 2000, but to try & break the mould, I'd say...Midnight Resistance on the C64 left some harrowing choices for the player. It touched many on a deep level choosing who lives & who dies (:p)

Retr0gamer · 13-08-2011 10:52PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Also, I dare anyone to suggest a game that has the same emotional impact as Kafka on the Shore by Murakami.

Says your man who's never played Earthbound or Mother 3 :rolleyes:

johnny_ultimate · 13-08-2011 11:00PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Says your man who's never played Earthbound or Mother 3 :rolleyes:

Have you read Kafka on the Shore?

I will play Earthbound one of these games. It's been hyped up to almost godly levels though, which is worrying.

Retr0gamer · 13-08-2011 11:03PM

Kafka on the Shore insists upon itself. It's the worst case of manipulating the reader/viewer to feel something since the ending of Pay it Forward. What the hell is FF6's protagonist doing in it anyway?

...actually I haven't. Is it better than Da Vinci code?

johnny_ultimate · 13-08-2011 11:09PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Is it better than Da Vinci code?

I've actually never read the Da Vinci Code. I watched the film of Angels & Demons and it pretty much confirmed everything I feared a Dan Brown story would be.

Are we stuck in an argument where we keep trying to compare works in vastly different mediums to things the other has never seen / played / read?

*gets coffee*

Retr0gamer · 13-08-2011 11:14PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I've actually never read the Da Vinci Code. I watched the film of Angels & Demons and it pretty much confirmed everything I feared a Dan Brown story would be.

The film is a vast, vast improvement on the book, which says a lot.

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Are we stuck in an argument where we keep trying to compare works in vastly different mediums to things the other has never seen / played / read?

*gets coffee*

Says your man that never played the fan translation of Assault Suit Valken 2.

johnny_ultimate · 13-08-2011 11:17PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The film is a vast, vast improvement on the book, which says a lot.

I don't think I've ever been as tempted to walk out of a cinema as when Ewan McGregor jumped out of a helicopter while there was a giant anti-matter explosion behind him.

And I believe in the book there wasn't even a parachute involved.

SdoowSirhc · 14-08-2011 12:12AM

I'm playing Dragon Ball Z Supersonic Warriors on GBA and King of the Zoo and Mario Bros DX on gameboy color plus loads of SNES games on the snes emu for wii

Retr0gamer · 14-08-2011 12:17AM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I don't think I've ever been as tempted to walk out of a cinema as when Ewan McGregor jumped out of a helicopter while there was a giant anti-matter explosion behind him.

And I believe in the book there wasn't even a parachute involved.

Tom Hanks character managed to survive falling from a helicopter, not ewan mcgregors in the book, by using his coat to slow him down, landing in soft frothy water and by using the power of bad writing. The end of the book is even more daft than the film which is what they changed the most.

SdoowSirhc · 14-08-2011 12:20AM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I don't think I've ever been as tempted to walk out of a cinema as when Ewan McGregor jumped out of a helicopter while there was a giant anti-matter explosion behind him.

And I believe in the book there wasn't even a parachute involved.

Tom Hanks character managed to survive falling from a helicopter, not ewan mcgregors in the book, by using his coat to slow him down, landing in soft frothy water and by using the power of bad writing. The end of the book is even more daft than the film which is what they changed the most.

Well don't you use your coat as a parachute when your falling from a helicopter..?

johnny_ultimate · 14-08-2011 12:45AM

SdoowSirhc wrote: »

Well don't you use your coat as a parachute when your falling from a helicopter..?

falling from a helicopter that's being engulfed in an anti-matter explosion.

It's pretty much a writer seeing how many nonsense fictional physics shenanigans can be stuffed onto a single page / minute of screen time.

The answer is quite a bit.

SdoowSirhc · 14-08-2011 12:48AM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

SdoowSirhc wrote: »

Well don't you use your coat as a parachute when your falling from a helicopter..?

falling from a helicopter that's being engulfed in an anti-matter explosion.

It's pretty much a writer seeing how many nonsense fictional physics shenanigans can be stuffed onto a single page / minute of screen time.

The answer is quite a bit.

well said! So what are you playing at the moment?

CiDeRmAn · 14-08-2011 01:04AM

I say we get Dan Brown, a helicopter and some anti-matter, head for the Vatican and put his writing to the test!

Apparently, there is a secret code in the name "Dan Brown", it means "I can't write for buttons, please give me lots of money".

SdoowSirhc · 14-08-2011 01:12AM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Apparently, there is a secret code in the name "Dan Brown", it means "I can't write for buttons, please give me lots of money".

I knew it... To the knights Templar mobile!

Myrddin · 14-08-2011 11:24AM

SdoowSirhc wrote: »

well said! So what are you playing at the moment?

Reported for trying to get an A&R thread back on topic. Ciderman, looks like we've an idealist here

SdoowSirhc · 14-08-2011 12:59PM

EnterNow wrote: »

SdoowSirhc wrote: »

well said! So what are you playing at the moment?

Reported for trying to get an A&R thread back on topic. Ciderman, looks like we've an idealist here

Sacré Bleu!

So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

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