So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

valleyoftheunos

After ignoring my family for hours on end between christmas eve and st. Stephen's day in order to play through Minish Cap I spent last night playing through the final Dungeon only to repeatedly have my a$$ handed to me by Vaati.

I may or may not bother going back to put the finishers on it but I absolutely adored every minute of it. The pacing of it was spot on, the world engaging and begging to be explored fully and fusing Kinstones became a little bit addictive. Playing on the original Hardware really improved the experience for me also.

Am a bit sad that it is all but done which I think is probably one of the highest compliments that can be paid to a game, will have to look at Link's Awakening and the Oracle games now.

DinoRex

valleyoftheunos wrote: »

After ignoring my family for hours on end between christmas eve and st. Stephen's day in order to play through Minish Cap I spent last night playing through the final Dungeon only to repeatedly have my a$$ handed to me by Vaati.

I was never able to defeat him either back in the day. Hope to try again on the 3DS.

johnny_ultimate

Minish Cap was the last great portable Zelda game. I consider the Wind Waker sequels to be a dark age of repetitive dungeon design and unnecessarily time consuming overworlds. Moments of brilliance, but I gave up on both with a sigh well before finishing them (although later returned to Phantom Hourglass)

Retr0gamer

Only played the phantom hourglass but didn't like it that much at all. It was a walk in the park and didn't grab me at all. Loved Minish Cap though but my favourite portable zelda's are the oracle games, so difficult but so rewarding. Which reminds me... I never did finish links awakening

Nintendo should get capcom flagship back to zelda games.

o1s1n

Phantom Hourglass was great! Repeating the same dungeon a lot was a bit of a pain, but I really really enjoyed that game.

Spirit Tracks on the other hand, meh. Gave up on it pretty early. The whole train driving thing was wreaking my head.

Andrew76

Gave up on Phantom Hourglass too, just never warmed to the stylus controls for movement and attacking. Can't remember if there was an option to use the d-pad like the other handheld versions.

pdbhp

Gave up on Phantom Hourglass about half way through myself, there wasn't anything wrong with it per se but it just came across as bland,must get back into it though as my missus played through the whole game and loved it.

johnny_ultimate

I'm not quite sure what it is about Phantom Hourglass, because I do love Wind Waker, and they did tidy up certain aspects of that. Think it was the stealth sections that got me. And while they improved them for Spirit Tracks - and had some fun, unexpected subversions of 'em too - I agree with Andrew that the train was just a bad idea. An unnecessarily frustrating process getting from place to place.

o1s1n

I told myself I wouldn't buy anything else for the 3DS until I'd finished my current lot, but couldn't resist Mighty Switch Force.

Lovely game! The sprite art really works well with the 3D effects. Feckin steal for 6 euro.

valleyoftheunos

Phantom Hourglass was the first Zelda game I ever played to completion, For whatever reason I kept coming back to it even after months of hiatus. yes all the sailing was tedious at times and it was a bit too easy but it was a world I wanted to explore and I really liked the controls.

Spirt Tracks was much the same, I wanted to see all of Hyrule and to meet all the characters in it, the Train idea was a little weird but then again its Zelda, its not to worried about making sense.

unky chop chop

Giving Rainbow islands a good going over at the moment.
What a game.
Just downloaded the xbox version tonight as well...Absolute pile of crap.
wtf...I turned it off in disgust after 5 minutes.Graphics,sound,gameplay..all mangled and ya can't even change to original

DinoRex

Managed to pick up a second hand copy of Heavy Rain this week for a tenner.

I'd started playing it before, but the copy I was playing belonged to my ex-flatmates, ex-boyfriend. She dumped him because he was an evil sociopath (no really, the guy had 2 fiances on the side) and I never got to complete it.

Of course I turn on my PS3 I have updates to install... and then a 1.2GB update to Heavy Rain.

Turns out it's been updated to the Playstation Move version, which is nice that they give it free to people who had just bought the regular version of the game but I don't have the Playstation Move so it would have been nice to have been given the option of the pointless install.

johnny_ultimate

Don't even get me started on PS3 updates. I'd be almost certain the Disgaea 4 updates I've installed are bigger than the game itself.

As for Heavy Rain, yet another game to add to the 'stop playing half an hour before the end' sort of game story A game whose ambition I admire, but whose execution is shambolic.

DinoRex

I wish Nomad Soul would get a release on Gog. Would love to play it again... never did finish it the first time around.

Although just looking at it's Wiki entry it seems it had a Dreamcast version, I did not know that.

pdbhp

Danny Phantom - Urban Jungle on GBA. Sounds shít but it's actually a shmup and not a bad one at that.

D4RK ONION

Jamestown. Lots of it! Stuck on "The Luge" challenge. It's one of those things I know isn't all that hard but I just cannot get past it. Possibly because playing the 3 minute stage before the boss appears has, at this point, become soul-destroyingly easy.

Also if anyone wants a few games of Alpha 2 on GGPO, let me know

Myrddin

Just finished Battlestations Midway on the 360, inspired by a bit of Saving Private Ryan over the xmas. It's only for the naval buffs, not very 'sim' either, very arcadey. But not bad all the same.

Onto its sequel next, Battlestations Pacific

pdbhp

EnterNow wrote: »

Just finished Battlestations Midway on the 360, inspired by a bit of Saving Private Ryan over the xmas. It's only for the naval buffs, not very 'sim' either, very arcadey. But not bad all the same.

Onto its sequel next, Battlestations Pacific

Always thought that game looked kinda good but then I'm not a big fan of strategy games especially naval strategy

Myrddin

pdbhp wrote: »

Always thought that game looked kinda good but then I'm not a big fan of strategy games especially naval strategy

Very little strategy involved, very much arcade-type action. You start out small & work your way up to fleets of ships/planes, controlling them as a fleet or as individual units. I enjoyed it, kinda easy & short though

pdbhp

EnterNow wrote: »

Very little strategy involved, very much arcade-type action. You start out small & work your way up to fleets of ships/planes, controlling them as a fleet or as individual units. I enjoyed it, kinda easy & short though

Might pick it up then as I've seen if for feck al lin the shops. The cover is nice though, thats what drew me to it in the first place

CiDeRmAn

And the most creative swearing in a game goes to...
Bulletstorm!

Just started it this morning, working my way through the mountain of games I have accrued over December.
It's fun but the language is so foul it's funny, and the lead character is a complete smeg-head!
Operation Flashpoint: Red River seems like the previous game, Dragon Rising crossed with MW3, still fun though.

Retr0gamer

Wizardry on PSN has gone from tough to crushingly difficult. The last two floors of the main dungeon are horrible due to these ****ers called Leapers. Not only do they have instant death attacks but they also have an attack that levels you down not 1 but 2 levels! that's about 3 hours of levelling lost in one fell swoop. Thankfully I have a priest that can one shot them but sometimes the ****ers get lucky so I have to save scum

happyman81

Heavy Rain - pretty good, but not as good as the critics would have you believe. I completed it in two days as well. Thankfully it was only €15.

CiDeRmAn

I find myself trying a little bit of everything right now, Prey, Red River and Super Mario 3D Land were on the menu yesterday.
Son is on the last boss in Skylanders, and it's just a long, mean grind, purely designed to make children pester their parents to buy more characters so they can have more lives to fight the bugger. Not Nice.

eddhorse

happyman81 wrote: »

Heavy Rain - pretty good, but not as good as the critics would have you believe. I completed it in two days as well. Thankfully it was only €15.

^^
Loved this game,

Just finished Uncharted 3, gonna try it on "crushing" difficulty next.

Also trying to finish Dr Robotniks Mean Bean Machine.....hard hard hard

Myrddin

After finishing Battlestations Midway, my WW2 thirst isn't quite quenched yet. Battlestations pacific, the sequel, seems utter rubbish & nowhere near as polished or involving as the first so I'll skip on.

Started IL2 Sturovik - Birds of Prey on the 360. It's good, damned good. Very polished, & it's just perfectly set in between a flight simulator & an action type arcade game. Quite an achievement on a console, & it's very well done

CiDeRmAn

EnterNow wrote: »

Started IL2 Sturovik - Birds of Prey on the 360. It's good, damned good. Very polished, & it's just perfectly set in between a flight simulator & an action type arcade game. Quite an achievement on a console, & it's very well done

I was looking at that for a while, looks pretty nice.
What are the controls like?
I always find that the lack of a flight stick for the 360 lets them down.

Have you tried the Apache sim yet, is it arcadey or like a sim, if you have?


I might have to go back to Flight Unlimited II/III and LHX Attack Chopper in the meantime!

Myrddin

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I was looking at that for a while, looks pretty nice.
What are the controls like?
I always find that the lack of a flight stick for the 360 lets them down.

Have you tried the Apache sim yet, is it arcadey or like a sim, if you have?


I might have to go back to Flight Unlimited II/III and LHX Attack Chopper in the meantime!

The controls are just a matter of getting used to really, they differ from the plane controls in BS: Midway, so playing the two sequentially like I've done, its hard to adjust to the controls on IL2. But again its just a matter of getting used to them.

All in all though, its a little bit more than a no brainer action type flight game, & on higher difficulty levels, flying alone is challenging - let alone dogfights. I think they did a great job getting something like this running on a console, & to have it controllable on a pad is no mean feat!

I havn't tried Apache, it it on the 360? My love of flight games is more or less restriced to WW2

o1s1n

Just finished the last of the special stage levels in Super Mario 3D land. Some of them were a real challange. Especially the checkpointless, time limited, shadow Mario, jump enabled flip switch bottomless pit levels!

293 out of 320 star coins collected in total. Not sure if I'll bother getting 100% of them..been playing the game far too long already.

Can finally move on to Mario Kart 7 now! Only played about 5 minutes worth of that so far.

Jack burton

I beat the first world of the special stages and havnt picked up the game since. Must finish it off soon.

I'm still playing the new Deus Ex, really one of the best games to come out of last year I think