Son Of General Retro Discussion

alpahaeagle

My son's PS3 went bang the other month, and I gave him mine while he is waiting on SANTA to replace his system .....I bought GT5 for it and was not to impressed tbh. Had a huge update ( can't remember the size. ) Left the system downloading for @ 1-2 hours and then had to wait for the thing to install......

Any way the plus side is....I can now get back to playing my xbox, finished gears of war 3 on hardcore and got to the final boss on Insane.

Said feck this ( after trying to kill the boss for the 70 time ) treaded into extravision for 25€ and got Forza4.......

Got Gears 3 for 20€ and just got Forza 4 for the same....Happy days

Myrddin

alpahaeagle wrote: »

I work for MS

Were you telling me before that o1s1n was the coffee boy?

Pyongyang

EnterNow wrote: »

Were you telling me before that o1s1n was the fluffer?

FYP.

DinoRex

oh... 11.11.11

See you all back here in 12 hours!

alpahaeagle

EnterNow wrote: »

Were you telling me before that o1s1n was the coffee boy?

He is also the biscuit boy as well......:rolleyes:

johnny_ultimate

Speaking of biscuits...

Screw 11-11-11 11:11, today marks a much more important public holiday:

http://www.tofugu.com/2010/11/11/what-is-pocky-day-11-11/

Here's to you, delicious chocolate covered snack!

o1s1n

alpahaeagle wrote: »

He is also the biscuit boy as well......:rolleyes:

Get off boards and go back to cleaning the toilets! :P

alpahaeagle

o1s1n wrote: »

Get off boards and go back to cleaning the toilets! :P

I would but you did them already......;)

ghostchant

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Just to warn you that the next three or four hours are by a distance the hardest of the game. Take your time, persevere and don't let 'em get you down. Even when the most dastardly trick in the game - it involves a gate - will make you want to rage quit something fierce.

Rage quit at that point is exactly what I did...haven't picked it up since actually! Know better now, will be getting back to it soon

johnny_ultimate

ghostchant wrote: »

Rage quit at that point is exactly what I did...haven't picked it up since actually! Know better now, will be getting back to it soon

Yeah, I wish I had a picture of my face when I discovered it. As Bender might say, 'killing all humans' seemed like a more than appropriate response at the time.

CiDeRmAn

Well, I look forward to venting here in good time so!
I need that Drake Sword, apparently, here dragon dragon...

johnny_ultimate

Never did get the Drake sword - just went for the blitz attack when I eventually did slay the dragon in question (heavy soul arrow - run away - heavy soul arrow - run away x10).

Once you get past the next boss and achieve a certain story event, the game becomes more manageable. And then you can look forward to the slow trickle of uber weapons

Retr0gamer

Just got the new issue of retrogamer magazine (from the new balbriggan easons ). Seems like a fantastic issue. There's a huge making of FFVII article with Kitase, can't wait to read it. There's also a making of Radiant Silvergun, which should be as good as the rest of the treasure article. There's also a making of Revenge of Shinobi and Kid Chameleon, a game I hate but will definitely like to read about it. Jetman, Monty Mole and Panzer Dragoon Orta as well and the X68000 are covered. There's also someone from the god awful Probe Software in the developer hot seat.

Steve X2

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Just got the new issue of retrogamer magazine (from the new balbriggan easons ). Seems like a fantastic issue. There's a huge making of FFVII article with Kitase, can't wait to read it. There's also a making of Radiant Silvergun, which should be as good as the rest of the treasure article. There's also a making of Revenge of Shinobi and Kid Chameleon, a game I hate but will definitely like to read about it. Jetman, Monty Mole and Panzer Dragoon Orta as well and the X68000 are covered. There's also someone from the god awful Probe Software in the developer hot seat.

It's well for some to have their own magazine





Seriously though I got the mag last week and its a decent issue all right.
Well worth picking up and the reason I got Panzer Dragoon Orta in the post today.

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Pyongyang

I've not picked up the magazine for a few months now, but seeing as Radiant Silvergun and Probe are featured I think I'll grab it on my iPad.

Are either of these features a good read, or just a couple of paragraphs?

CiDeRmAn

Steve SI wrote: »

It's well for some to have their own magazine





Seriously though I got the mag last week and its a decent issue all right.
Well worth picking up and the reason I got Panzer Dragoon Orta in the post today.

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Just thought I'd quote this message, just because it's such a lovely picture.

Hey, here's a thought!
We have a LBGT forum here, haven't we?
What if we......

Steve X2

Pyongyang wrote: »

I've not picked up the magazine for a few months now, but seeing as Radiant Silvergun and Probe are featured I think I'll grab it on my iPad.

Are either of these features a good read, or just a couple of paragraphs?

I can loan you the mag on iPad if you like?

The app supports that feature.

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Myrddin

Steve SI wrote: »

It's well for some to have their own magazine





Seriously though I got the mag last week and its a decent issue all right.
Well worth picking up and the reason I got Panzer Dragoon Orta in the post today.

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Utter photoshopic genious :D:D

Pyongyang

Cheers Ulysses! How does that work? I've not used that feature yet.

Steve X2

I do really like the cover of the new issue as well.




@Pyongyang
I just stick your email address in the share option on my app and I lose access to it for up to 4 days and then I get it back after that or after your finished.

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DinoRex

And I'm back for more One goodness!

Steve X2

Just replaced the screen lens on my best condition Game Boy DMG-01.
Man it looks brand new, and I only spent 4 or 5 euro on the official lens and postage.

I stuck a pic in the retro repair thread for anyone interested.

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DinoRex

Steve SI wrote: »

@Pyongyang
I just stick your email address in the share option on my app and I lose access to it for up to 4 days and then I get it back after that or after your finished.

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I did not know this. I have a Games TM subscription on the iPad. We should work something out.

Picked up Skyrim today... enjoying it... I'll imagine I'll get bored though... Don't think I lasted too long with Oblivion...

Pyongyang

DinoRex wrote: »

I did not know this. I have a Games TM subscription on the iPad. We should work something out.

Sounds like a plan. A forum library of sorts.



:pac:

Retr0gamer

Retrogamer FFVII article was a bit disappointing. Unlike the excellent Resi one there was nothing about the trainwreck development of the game which would have been interesting and it was really afraid to criticise the game even going so far to compliment the 'depth' of the materia system which is probably the most simplistic and dull battle system of the FF series. Still not a bad read though but I'm guessing Square had some silly conditions that had to be fulfilled to get it published unlike Shinji Mikami who is no longer at Capcom and spilled the beans.

o1s1n

HAHAHAHAHA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFxlfdhpGd4

Pyongyang

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Retrogamer FFVII article was a bit disappointing.

What's the rest of the mag like this month? If I've to only get it to read the Radiant Silvergun article then I'll just rob Ulysses' copy.

Have they ever had Darius as the cover photo? Again, I mean this:



And not this:

Retr0gamer

Retrogamer magazine is always a good read it's just that when they are dealing with employees of japanese companies that still work at the company they made the game for then it's hard to get anything negative out of them. It's just the way japanese companies work. Just disappointed it wasn't as good as the Resi article from last month. I haven't read the rest of the magazine just that article.

Not sure if they ever covered Darius since I've only been getting the magazine the last 2 years. Write in and ask them, I'm sure they'll get back to you.

Pyongyang

A cool Darius cover would be spectacular I think (even though you hate the first ones ).

I found a similar issue too with Retro Gamer company interviews. The Cave one was really good, but didn't really press enough buttons to get more juicy info out of them that isn't really already well known anyway. So although it was a really good read and obviously a coup for the magazine, I came away from it feeling that I hadn't really learned anything new.

Is the Probe article good? I actually quite liked some of their titles. Were they not generally well liked?

Retr0gamer

I found Probe did some okay titles but most of their conversions were really piss poor including a disgraceful bubble bobble and rainbow islands conversion for saturn and of course the god awful megadrive mortal kombat games.