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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,268 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Got a few things in during the week although most want' retro so I'll leave those out.

    Finally got Professor Layton and the Last Spectre. Got the US version which has all the content unlike the EU version (and the crappy voice acting). So I now finally have all the DS Layton games.

    Also Finally got Ar Tonelico 2. The 2 Ar Tonelico PS2 games seem to be getting hard to find.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    just finished Last Specter, wasn't as good as the first three imo.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,268 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    ...I've played maybe 30 minutes of the first game. Damn you backlog.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    I've got all the DS Laton game and the fist 3DS one.Relly enjoyed all the DS ones but didn't think much of the one I got on 3DS, don't think I'll bother with the Azran Legacy but I may get Layton Phoenix Wright game at some stage.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,268 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Got a few US only 3DS games there.

    Picked up Rune Factory 4 boxed and from the estore I got Chibi Robo Photo Finder and Yumi's Odd Odyssey.

    Kind of annoying this region locking thing but even more annoying is region specific digital content. I think Yumi's is coming to Europe but no word on Photo Finder. I'll probably have to pick up a EU 3DS soon since it's getting it's own exclusives as well.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,753 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    With thanks to The Groutch, I now have Kirby Squeak Squad for the DS.
    Nearly ready for the launch of Kirby Triple Trouble on the 3DS!
    Just Dreamland 2 on the Gameboy and I have all the Kirby platformers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Dropped in to GameSexchange today to see what the stock was like. Not been in the place for ages but jasus it's pretty depressing. So many sports games on so many formats :(

    Picked up Strikers 1945 on the PSX for fiver to make the trip in some way worthwhile.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,619 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Got Bravely Default on adverts last week. Broke my foot as well so now I have time to pkwy it.
    The only 3DS well apart from Link that's gets the 3D effect turned on for me.
    Absolutely gorgeous visuals. The artwork for the towns and the 3d effect are top notch.
    Also like how the fans lets you grind fast or nit at all. It's up to yourself with the option to increase or decrease the probability of an encounter. It's doesn't quite have Earthbounds approach to blowing away weaker opponents but with the auto play you can Almost do it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    A couple of bits.

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    I'll be playing OOT next. Never properly played a Zelda game so figured it'd be a good place to start!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    I'll be playing OOT next. Never properly played a Zelda game so figured it'd be a good place to start!

    Stick with it, the game is slow to start & graphically hasn't aged greatly...but underneath that is an incredible game.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,268 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Oot like all other 3D zelda games can take a long time to click so stick with it.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,753 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I had a blast of the N64 OoT recently, having finished the 3DS version last year.
    I have to say, the visuals still look ok, given the game is now 16 years old, and the manner that most N64 games have dated, and dated badly.
    The music is as atmospheric a scene setter as ever there was and taking the jump command away from the player, which seemed plenty weird at the time, makes lots of sense now.
    Cracking stuff.
    I stuff have gotten precisely no where in Majoras Mask, in fact, on a recent restart I got even less far than I did the first time before I gave up!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,268 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Majora's mask takes even longer to get into. It wasn't until I'd beaten the first dungeon that the game clicked with me and I loved it. That's a serious chunk of game time since even getting to the dungeon is a mammoth task and the dungeon itself is huge.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,413 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I wandered around OOT's Kokiri Forest recently enough in the Rift - still unimpressed :pac:


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,753 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    o1s1n wrote: »
    I wandered around OOT's Kokiri Forest recently enough in the Rift - still unimpressed :pac:

    We'll what the Rift makes of you being damned to hell..... yeah, you heard me...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,413 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Hell for me is Kokiri Forest rendered in basic geometric shapes, low textures, vaseline blur and foggy draw distances, so yeah, I've already been there :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,729 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Hell for me is Kokiri Forest rendered in basic geometric shapes, low textures, vaseline blur and foggy draw distances, so yeah, I've already been there :P

    Does it have a 'Like' button yet ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Hell for me is Kokiri Forest rendered in basic geometric shapes, low textures, vaseline blur and foggy draw distances, so yeah, I've already been there :P

    It's official...o1s1n is a graphics whore :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,413 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Does it have a 'Like' button yet ?

    I'm still waiting for it to do this...!

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    Myrddin wrote: »
    It's official...o1s1n is a graphics whore :P

    I just like my aesthetics to be pleasing is all :P

    Kokiri forest in ALTTP is a gorgeous representation of a forest.

    The main section of Kokiri forest in OOT looks like an ATB course. I'm surprised Link doesn't zoom around it on a scrambler :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    I just like my aesthetics to be pleasing is all :P

    Kokiri forest in ALTTP is a gorgeous representation of a forest.

    The main section of Kokiri forest in OOT looks like an ATB course. I'm surprised Link doesn't zoom around it on a scrambler :pac:

    I'd agree that LttP was a more pleasing art style than OoT...but to render such a gorgeous world as Hyrule is in LttP, in 3D on the N64 was never going to happen. I remember the first ever time I turned on an N64 with OoT in it...I turned it off in disgust probably not ten mins later because of the graphics. And that was back then! But underneath the look of OoT, is a masterpiece...you just have to dig to find it.

    I'd agree with Cidey that today OoT hasn't aged as badly as other N64 games, & to me now, still looks OK. But when I play it, I'm too busy enjoying the gameplay & music to waste time analyzing the graphics :o


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,268 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    OoT also has the N64 problem of a game engine that seems to be held together by the optimism of the coders.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,413 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    The game just never appealed to me. I played it when it was released on my cousin's console with high hopes for something great and didn't like it at all. It seemed like a step back from the Playstation games I was playing at the time.

    I've gone back to it a few times since (most recent was playing it through completely on the 3DS) and although I can fully appreciate that it's a great game, it just never 'clicked' for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,413 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    By the way, I got those game case cover thingies in the post. They're really brilliant. Couldn't recommend them enough for people with cardboard game boxes.

    They even have a nice bonus of reshaping mangled game boxes. I've a few which were literally flattened/bent out of shape to the point where they were no longer a box. Stuck them in these cases and they have their shape back now.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,753 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    o1s1n wrote: »
    By the way, I got those game case cover thingies in the post. They're really brilliant. Couldn't recommend them enough for people with cardboard game boxes.

    They even have a nice bonus of reshaping mangled game boxes. I've a few which were literally flattened/bent out of shape to the point where they were no longer a box. Stuck them in these cases and they have their shape back now.

    Don't care.
    You are now dead to me.
    So why am I even quoting and replying to you, now that you are dead?
    I don't know.
    I'm odd that way I guess....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,413 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Don't care.
    You are now dead to me.
    So why am I even quoting and replying to you, now that you are dead?
    I don't know.
    I'm odd that way I guess....

    That level of righteous indignation is only allowed when you've actually finished the game :p


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,753 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    o1s1n wrote: »
    That level of righteous indignation is only allowed when you've actually finished the game :p

    I did, January 2013, while is in hospital having the heart checked out.
    They found the heart, turned out decades of hating side scrolling beatem ups had shrunken it somewhat, and I completed the 3DS edition of OoT!
    Indignation Is Mine!!! And so is all the Righteous I can carry!!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,268 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    o1s1n wrote: »
    The game just never appealed to me. I played it when it was released on my cousin's console with high hopes for something great and didn't like it at all. It seemed like a step back from the Playstation games I was playing at the time.

    It was technically way ahead of anything on the playstation at the time and offered a vast playing area that no other PS1 game could match for a long time. Well except Megaman Legends but everyone forgets that it did a lot of what OoT did first!


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 5,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Optimus Prime


    o1s1n wrote: »
    By the way, I got those game case cover thingies in the post. They're really brilliant. Couldn't recommend them enough for people with cardboard game boxes.

    They even have a nice bonus of reshaping mangled game boxes. I've a few which were literally flattened/bent out of shape to the point where they were no longer a box. Stuck them in these cases and they have their shape back now.

    Sentinal64 do loads of different types now, i was looking on their site last night, they even do ones for Console boxes, think the snes and n64 anyways.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭airmax87


    Still waiting on my neo geo USB pad from playasia, It's been a good few weeks :'(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,413 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    It was technically way ahead of anything on the playstation at the time and offered a vast playing area that no other PS1 game could match for a long time. Well except Megaman Legends but everyone forgets that it did a lot of what OoT did first!

    Ah yeah, I'm not debating any of that. What I mean is my teenage eye was going from looking at things with lovely detailed prerendered backgrounds and smaller, but more enemy filled areas (Think Resident Evil 2 and the likes) to something like OOT with sparse open areas and low res textures. It didn't look nearly as nice and felt almost unfinished.
    keithgeo wrote: »
    Sentinal64 do loads of different types now, i was looking on their site last night, they even do ones for Console boxes, think the snes and n64 anyways.

    The guys I got mine from had them for everything you can imagine. Even protective sleeves for Megadrive boxes - the madness of that :D


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