So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

Retr0gamer · 12-09-2011 09:28PM

I was actually supposed to ask for a go of Need for Speed at the last retro beers in your place but forgot

Mr Vengeance · 13-09-2011 10:58PM

I have the Saturn out, my 32" CRT tated and I've Battle Garegga ready to go

Retr0gamer · 13-09-2011 11:01PM

Battle Garegga is a bit of a whore since the bullets are so small it works a lot better in Tate mode. Which can lead to a broken TV. Great game though!

o1s1n · 13-09-2011 11:01PM

Sweet!

Try not to break your spine when putting that CRT back horizontal :pac:

Mr Vengeance · 13-09-2011 11:48PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Battle Garegga is a bit of a whore since the bullets are so small it works a lot better in Tate mode. Which can lead to a broken TV. Great game though!

You get used to the bullets and debris after a while. And I don't care about the TV as its a bit shagged to be honest with you. Having said that, it takes it tating well - its been tated many many times and I've never had any problems with the picture. It works a treat and you just got to see Layer Section running in tate mode - its like a different game :eek: Resolution is far better and the paralax looks incredible on the first couple of stages. Such a pity I'm not that great at it!

o1s1n wrote: »

Sweet!

Try not to break your spine when putting that CRT back horizontal :pac:

Its my foot I'm worried about - I have nightmares at the thought of dropping it on my toes :eek:

Pyongyang · 13-09-2011 11:53PM

Mr Vengeance wrote: »

Its my foot I'm worried about - I have nightmares at the thought of dropping it on my toes :eek:

<insert crude, childish comment here>

Fnarr! Fnarr! Eh?! *nudge* Eh?!

batari · 14-09-2011 01:31PM

Finished Quake II on Ps1 last night.

On Retr0's advice, gonna give Drilldozer for GBA a go today, looks enjoyable from the few minutes I've given it.

Retr0gamer · 14-09-2011 02:17PM

Quake 2 on the PS1 is a technical marvel. But it's still Quake 2. It's kind of dated and did nothing special.

Drill Dozer is fantastic. It's a pity the Game Freak don't get to break away from the Pokemon franchise more often.

CiDeRmAn · 14-09-2011 03:38PM

Don't listen to the man, Quake 2 was one of the first, proper marines in space games, full of quasi military lingo and a nice use of atmosphere.
It came out a full 2 years before Aliens Vs Predator on the PC and used the whole Aliens Colonial Marines schtick as a springboard.
I had a ball with it at the time.
I think I have the PS version somewhere.
I had the N64 version at one stage, that was pretty nice too.
Also, Quake 2 on the PS was one of the poster games to demo the Bleemcast project on the DC, along with Gran Turismo, looking incredible with the visuals enhanced to near PC levels.
I have never played this edition myself after Sony sued the Bleemcast people into the stone age.

Quake on the Saturn is probably one of the most stunning conversions I have ever seen, given the host hardware was never supposed to be able to do what it was doing.
It'd be like your Gameboy suddenly deciding to play a nice, monochrome version of Crysis...

Retr0gamer · 14-09-2011 03:47PM

I enjoyed my time with Quake 2 but in retrospect it really hasn't aged well at all. It's one of the ugliest games ever made. Coloured lighting was the new thing at the time and the way it was overused in the ugly brown levels looks god awful now where once we were looking in awe at what our 200 euro 3DFX Voodoo 2 was pulling off. It also didn't ship with any multiplayer component. If it wasn't such a good game to show off the new graphics cards it would have gotten slated. However when it did get patched it was worth it for one thing alone, the Edge is probably the greatest multiplayer map ever made. Gamespot I think did a good article on how overrated it was. Goldeneye had come out that summer and shown that in single player terms that FPS games could be so much more. Also Unreal came out 6 months later and in terms of technology it absolutely blew Quake 2 out of the water. In terms of gameplay it was another stinker although there's a lot of people that will defend it not remembering that after the atmospheric opening the game descending into a bog standard Quake 1 clone.

vangoz · 14-09-2011 04:50PM

Haver to agree the single player experience on Quake 2 wasnt very good. Granted the start was great but went down hill from there. I never even bothered completing it back then.

I played through system shock 2 recently, have to say the gameplay and atmosphere is still top notch, granted the graphics have aged somewhat but it still does the job..... very creepy and enjoyable game.
Have to man up next time and go the psi upgrade route

CiDeRmAn · 14-09-2011 05:57PM

I swear, some people check the post history of regular "knowledgeable" gamers and latch on to their pet love, so hoping to cement some sort of legitimacy by association...

Only joking, System Shock 2 is crazy good, pity that there aren't more like it.

One day we may look back on the new Deus Ex like this.

valleyoftheunos · 14-09-2011 11:14PM

played through Super Mario Land 2 ther this evening. its an absolute technical marvel and its brevity is somewhat to be expected as a result but I was amazed that it was so lacking in challenge. I'm useless at games but I pretty much waltzed through it, only the final Wario level was in anyway tough.

Those Mario guys don't mess up very often do they.

Retr0gamer · 14-09-2011 11:35PM

valleyoftheunos wrote: »

Those Mario guys don't mess up very often do they.

It's actually made by a different team to the main mario team. It was Gunpei Yokoi's team that developed it (also did super metroid).

batari · 15-09-2011 09:09AM

A great game, sadly let down by how easy it is. It finishes and you really feel like there is more to come. I do love going back to it though.

If you've finished it, now you need to play Warioland!

Mr.Saturn · 15-09-2011 03:19PM

I finished Mother last night, again. -Insert trademark Mother related fanboy posturing-. Needless to add, it was a good night.

Mr Vengeance · 17-09-2011 05:58PM

I woke up this morning with a MASSIVE urge to play Quake 2 - funny you guys should mention it

I actually had it on the N64 for a bit back in the day, but I thought the single player wasn't up to the lofty heights of the likes of Goldeneye so off it went back to the shop, and I exchanged it for.... Conker on the GBC.... which was ****, really really awful, which was unusual for Rare at the time, and after I finished that in about a day, and realising that it was a truly terrible game that I didn't want in my library, I exchanged that too one last time! Got Tetris DX instead

But yeah, Quake II. Well there was something just very fun about it back then - it was very dated when it came out on the N64 in about 1999, and I wasn't up for its basic gameplay charms. I played it on PC in college on LAN a few years later and loved it though. I particularly liked the satisfying Grenade Launcher weapon - that took real skill to use effectively, but it was a great piece of kit once you got the hang of it. I really loved the sound of the grenades bouncing off the metal surfaces and shizz. Great memories!

I'm playing mostly Crysis 2 on the 360 anyway, but I did play the XBLA demo of Radiant Silvergun and its really a pish-poor representation of the game

It puts the player slap bang into the middle of level 2, just before a really hard set-piece, but thankfully finishes up with one of the best bosses in the whole game. Overall, the demo is far too short, far too hard, and doesn't do the game justice at all - why not give the player say half of the first stage? Thats a great place to begin surely!!!!!

The demo does look great though and controls fairly well. They've done a great job on the reamke by the looks of things but the demo is really shooting the developers' hopes of making a few quid in the foot, if the target market for this game are the curious gamers out there who aren't hardcore enough to own the original disc. I can see more casual players give it a shot because of the title's notoriety, then run a ****ing mile.

Pity.

CiDeRmAn · 17-09-2011 08:16PM

Be aware that Crysis is inbound for the consoles, which is cool.
A better game apparently, I have it on the pc but my machine doesn't have the kahones to run it properly..

Quake III on the DC, multiplayer via the built in modem, great fun!
I still have my QuakeIII tshirt, although it's a tad faded and a little tight these days!
Quake IV was a disappointment, a tad easy but nice to tie up the Quake II story line.

Me, I'd like to see a proper sequel to the first game, with the whole Lovecraft thang going on.

Pyongyang · 17-09-2011 09:00PM

I love System Shock 2 but I love the Thief series more, which is why I bought the collection recently.

It's a shame Looking Glass went out of business. Even though their legacy spilled to pastures new it will never be the same, even if Thief 4 is made.

Mr Vengeance · 18-09-2011 12:11AM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Be aware that Crysis is inbound for the consoles, which is cool.
A better game apparently, I have it on the pc but my machine doesn't have the kahones to run it properly..

Quake III on the DC, multiplayer via the built in modem, great fun!
I still have my QuakeIII tshirt, although it's a tad faded and a little tight these days!
Quake IV was a disappointment, a tad easy but nice to tie up the Quake II story line.

Me, I'd like to see a proper sequel to the first game, with the whole Lovecraft thang going on.

Lovecraft eh? Have you ever played Clive Barker's Undying? Its one of my favourite PC games of all time - its set off the Irish coast and everything!

CiDeRmAn · 18-09-2011 11:05AM

I have the Thief they brought out for the Xbox, it's class, looks great and i suck at it!

Looking Glass rocked, I was a big fan of the 3 Flight Unlimited games, the only flight sims I was any good at, mostly because I could land a sea plane!

Irish places in videogames, I still shudder at Folklore, a game that could have been a lot better, had they only asked some Irish people first!

johnny_ultimate · 18-09-2011 05:16PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Irish places in videogames, I still shudder at Folklore, a game that could have been a lot better, had they only asked some Irish people first!

The portrayal of the Irish in pop culture is always absurd. It's like the whole world views us as a twee nation stuck in the early 1900s (outside Dublin still is, of course

), as opposed to a modern nation who ironically critique their portrayal of us on internet forums.

CiDeRmAn · 18-09-2011 09:17PM

Well, imagine a Fable style adventure set in Ireland instead of Cornwall, or where-ever it was.
Perhaps a dating sim set in a VEC in Tallaght?
Maybe a vertically scrolling shoot'em up based over locations in Balbriggan?

Atavan-Halen · 18-09-2011 09:20PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Perhaps a dating sim set in a VEC in Tallaght?

"Alri Jacinta, giz a shot of yer box"

Myrddin · 19-09-2011 10:49AM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Well, imagine a Fable style adventure set in Ireland instead of Cornwall, or where-ever it was.
Perhaps a dating sim set in a VEC in Tallaght?
Maybe a vertically scrolling shoot'em up based over locations in Balbriggan?

Wasn't Half Life based off daily life in Tallaght?

Retr0gamer · 19-09-2011 11:07AM

EnterNow wrote: »

Wasn't Half Life based off daily life in Tallaght?

That place is full of theoretical physicists.

johnny_ultimate · 19-09-2011 12:21PM

I thought the subtitle for Half-Life was 'The Misadventures of Ciderma we mean Gordon Freeman"

CiDeRmAn · 19-09-2011 08:12PM

Yeah, that was a hard day at the office I'll tell ya!
Needless to say, in the aftermath of that incident, the annual performance review could've gone better.
No bonus for me that year

On the other hand I walked into a job for the G-Man fairly quick, no questions asked, well aside from the job offer, I wonder what would have happened if i said no?
Anyhow, I'm told the new job starts in a few months, some place called City 17, and the wages are pretty good!
Awesome, I'll never have to see a headcrab again, brilliant, what can go wrong?!

pdbhp · 19-09-2011 08:15PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Yeah, that was a hard day at the office I'll tell ya!
Needless to say, in the aftermath of that incident, the annual performance review could've gone better.
No bonus for me that year
On the other hand I walked into a job for the G-Man fairly quick, no questions asked, well aside from the job offer, I wonder what would have happened if i said no?
Anyhow, I'm told the new job starts in a few months, some place called City 17, and the wages are pretty good!
Awesome, I'll never have to see a headcrab again, brilliant, what can go wrong?!

Good man Cidonabloke looks like we're both on the up and up maybe we should do the lottery!

CiDeRmAn · 19-09-2011 08:26PM

Ok, I'm going to let you in on a secret....

I am really Gordon Freeman, and I'm actually hiding in plain sight, working as a Clinical Nurse Manager (grade 2), in a HSE owned house in The Naul.
Turns out every Clinical Nurse Manager (grade 2) is, in fact, a theoretical physicist in hiding.
If you really want to know Clinical Nurse Manager (grade 1) are typically theoretical chemists in hiding, you can tell by the smell of ether...
And Clinical Nurse Manager (grade 3) are invariably aerospace engineers keeping their heads down.

This explains, completely, why the HSE is in such a mess but does possess such a wonderful array of particle accelerators, cracking towers and launch tubes in each and every hospital....

Or,
not...

I may have forgotten to take my dried frog pill this morning...

Excuse me while I have a lie down to get my bearings...

Or, head over to the Playstation forum and rave on about Gears 3, just to piss them off!

So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

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