The Revenge of the Post Here When You Get Something New thread

o1s1n

Ah yes, I remember the days of playing PC Doom, Duke 3D and Quake with arrow keys, Ctrl for shoot and alt for strafe.

Dont think I really used WASD and mouse until HL came along. I quite like it for Quake, but Doom and Duke 3D don't feel right unless you're using the arrow keys

The Last Bandit

Picked up "Puzzle Bobble" & "Metal Slug" for the Neogeo. Both bootlegs but hey the price was right

Doge

o1s1n wrote: »

Ah yes, I remember the days of playing PC Doom, Duke 3D and Quake with arrow keys, Ctrl for shoot and alt for strafe.

Dont think I really used WASD and mouse until HL came along. I quite like it for Quake, but Doom and Duke 3D don't feel right unless you're using the arrow keys

Duke 3D was a bit of a balls this way as you had take your right hand off the arrows, and use 7 and 1 on the numpad to aim up and down!

Its much easier to play it with WASD these days.

Retr0gamer

Old school Duke Nukem 3D worked with mouse look and WASD as did all the build engine games.

Doge

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Old school Duke Nukem 3D worked with mouse look and WASD as did all the build engine games.

That's true, but I bet very few, if any used it that way when it came out first.

The default controls were the arrow keys.

o1s1n

waveform wrote: »

That's true, but I bet very few, if any used it that way when it came out first.

The default controls were the arrow keys.

Yeah it didn't even occur to me to switch to WASD and the mouse at the time as I didn't know that setup existed.

Retr0gamer

It was only with Quake that the set up became popular, although games like Descent and system shock had something similar as the defualt set up.

STG.Otaku

Just received some really nice shoejuice!

Skweek! (PC Engine)
Adorable puzzler. Top game and lots of fun!




Gradius (PC Engine)
Probably the best home version after the X68000.




Gradius II (PC Engine)
As fun as discovering €5 in an old jacket pocket!




Download 2 (PC Engine)
One of the best Game Over screens ever!




Super Darius 2 (PC Engine)

Owned this now for 5 minutes and have already cupped my beltnuggets and expelled litres of trouser custard over the sheer joy of this game's presence in my home!

CiDeRmAn

Nice one on the Gradius games, look brilliant.
Is Parodius on that system too, and whats it like?

STG.Otaku

Thanks!

Parodius? Not sure. I only have Paro Wars. Never got round to buying any of them yet.

Casey120

Nice stuff STG:Otaku

I secured me a Xbox 360 Akai Katana shin Cave shop edition on YHJ today, it's the one that comes with the huge CAVE box :pac:

Los Lobos

STG.Otaku wrote: »

Just received some really nice shoejuice!

Skweek! (PC Engine)
Adorable puzzler. Top game and lots of fun!




Gradius (PC Engine)
Probably the best home version after the X68000.




Gradius II (PC Engine)
As fun as discovering €5 in an old jacket pocket!




Download 2 (PC Engine)
One of the best Game Over screens ever!




Super Darius 2 (PC Engine)

Owned this now for 5 minutes and have already cupped my beltnuggets and expelled litres of trouser custard over the sheer joy of this game's presence in my home!

Ah no way, from the pic I assume Squeek is the same game as Slider on the Game Gear? I still play Slider regularly, great fun

STG.Otaku

I think it is yes. I will check that out!

Got this this morning, time for a bit of Danmaku Unlimited on it!

Jack burton

Very nice

Always wondered why the box has a wood grain pattern on it, first time I saw one I though it was a special edition and expected the phone to have the same pattern

MrVestek

Jack burton wrote: »

Very nice

Always wondered why the box has a wood grain pattern on it, first time I saw one I though it was a special edition and expected the phone to have the same pattern

All of their Galaxy phones seem to have this. My S4 (may she rest in peace) had this effect on the box too.

STG.Otaku

I thought similar. It's kind of an odd design. That said, the Note 3 has a weird leather back, totally different to my S4 and the Mega I had previously, those designs haven't changed. Loving the S Pen though. That thing is brilliant. If the Mega would have had an S Pen I'd have probably kept it.

Another parcel just arrived too! I forgot I ordered this, the limited edition Darius Odyssey book. This thing is probably the ultimate Darius book by a long way. It's just one giant Darius encyclopedia!

Really nicely laid out, gorgeous print quality and paper stock and tonnes of great photos including sketches, concept art... heck, even photos of the cabinets being built!

Every single Darius game is covered here. It's brilliant. THE #1 Darius resource without question. I'm in love with this book.

Doge

STG.Otaku wrote: »

I thought similar. It's kind of an odd design. That said, the Note 3 has a weird leather back, totally different to my S4 and the Mega I had previously, those designs haven't changed.

Did you get rid of the Nokia Lumia?

When I first saw that you were buying one on here, I was like why the **** are you buying a Windows Phone?

But I never actually said it in a post. :P

CiDeRmAn

I got my first Glucometer yesterday!
Does that count??

STG.Otaku

waveform wrote: »

Did you get rid of the Nokia Lumia?

When I first saw that you were buying one on here, I was like why the **** are you buying a Windows Phone?

But I never actually said it in a post. :P

I had a Lumia 800 and that went. Had the Galaxy Mega and that went. The Note 3 is a keeper I think!

Jack burton

Just backed the Sega Mega Drive book on Kickstarter.

Shipping around June time which will be nice and speedy enough but still time to forget it and have a suprise. The last book I backed has 11 months until I it arrives haha

o1s1n

It's going to be an agonizing wait for that one! I want it now

Jack burton

Really cant wait to get my hands on it. I didnt get a chance to get the arcade artwork book, thats one I'll regret now!

Anyone go for the £200 one?

Just got the book myself for £30, I'm just so generous for Christmas thats all I'm spending on myself :P

I've a load of games in my watch list on Ebay for presents and when i win a few of them I know its going to be very hard to give them away haha

Dr Bob

Jack burton wrote: »

I'm a lefty and I find default mouse and keyboard setup does me great! Headshots for all!

Doesnt matter whether you're a lefty or righty .....as long as you invert the y axis...;)

o1s1n

Dr Bob wrote: »

Doesnt matter whether you're a lefty or righty .....as long as you invert the y axis...;)

Flight sims only, flight sims only!!!

Myrddin

Dr Bob wrote: »

Doesnt matter whether you're a lefty or righty .....as long as you invert the y axis...;)

You sick, sick people who do that...

Jack burton

Dr Bob wrote: »

Doesnt matter whether you're a lefty or righty .....as long as you invert the y axis...;)

Retr0gamer

Myrddin wrote: »

You sick, sick people who do that...

Inverting the y-axis is the right way to do it. all the old school quake players used to do it. It's only when noobies came in that didn't invert that non-inverting became the Justin Bieber of mouse orientation, popular but ultimately wrong.

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Inverting the y-axis is the right way to do it. all the old school quake players used to do it. It's only when noobies came in that didn't invert that non-inverting became the Justin Bieber of mouse orientation, popular but ultimately wrong.

Inverting the Y axis is for flight sims as it mimics the pilot's stick. You press forward, the plane goes down, you pull back, the plane goes up.

When FPS mouse controls were first being devised, they went with this as it carried on from flight sim type thinking.

As FPS games advanced, it was realized that this was not actually optimum and the Y axis should not be inverted.

When it comes to an FPS, the mouse is your 'eyes' and not a control stick. You look up with your eyes to look up and down with your eyes to look down.

I know you made the argument before that it's actually your 'neck' and not your 'eyes'.

Are you looking around right now with your neck while reading this? I bet not :P

Also just to add - if you invert the mouse look Y axis while you play a FPS, I hope you do the same while navigating your computer's desktop? :P

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Inverting the y-axis is the right way to do it. all the old school quake players used to do it. It's only when noobies came in that didn't invert that non-inverting became the Justin Bieber of mouse orientation, popular but ultimately wrong.

I suppose you travel to work on a Steam train & sweep chimneys the weekends too? :P For flight sims, yes, absolutely. For an FPS game, mother of god no...it feels awfully unnatural

glass_onion

Jack burton wrote: »

Really cant wait to get my hands on it. I didnt get a chance to get the arcade artwork book, thats one I'll regret now!

Here - http://artcade.co.uk/