Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

OwaynOTT

Quite useless.

DinoRex

This one is better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmQ5LsNMXZ4

DinoRex

Amazing price for Witcher 2 if you don't already have it.

http://www.gog.com/en/promo/the_witcher_series__gem__promo/

It's the closest thing you'll ever get to a decent Game of Thrones game.

Retr0gamer

It's cheaper to buy both together I might have to give it a miss though. I still have the first game to beat and god knows when I'll get around to it.

johnny_ultimate

Everyone vote for Driver San Francisco on Steam! I want it cheap, and they've had the rare decency to have a Mac port.

Retr0gamer

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Everyone vote for Driver San Francisco on Steam! I want it cheap, and they've had the rare decency to have a Mac port.

I'll Need for Speed. It's your own fault for going for the hipster option. I also do want that game :P

a5y

DinoRex wrote: »

This one is better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmQ5LsNMXZ4

For one minute I really did think it was going to seek out a table and flip it over.

I really miss Robot Wars.

DinoRex

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Everyone vote for Driver San Francisco on Steam! I want it cheap, and they've had the rare decency to have a Mac port.

I'm waiting for this vote:

a5y

DinoRex wrote: »

I'm waiting for this vote:

Why would you post this??? I'm going to agonise over this all day now.

I'm not even a big Half Life fan, but by Odin I want something to give the brown coloured waste high wall filled misogyny screaming FPS genre a kick up the arse and move it forward. I'm having logical mule paralysis here.

a5y

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Everyone vote for Driver San Francisco on Steam! I want it cheap, and they've had the rare decency to have a Mac port.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'll Need for Speed. It's your own fault for going for the hipster option. I also do want that game :P

Alas poor Ultimate.

(Yeah OK, I voted for Need For Speed too. But only because I've fond memories of The Need For Speed on Saturn and sour one's of Driv3r)

Steve X2

Just a heads up to anyone wanting to grab some Sugru.
You can get 50% off with the coupon code 50facebookjuly18 until midnight tonight.
I just got some there and it works perfectly and postage was only about 2 Euro.

http://sugru.com/buy

safetyboy

just bought 2 packs, cheers!

DinoRex

I KNEW IT!

That cat is a total prick... look what he's doing to the Friendship Fort on steam!

Retr0gamer

Tihs article on MGS 4 is probably the worst piece of pretentious horse**** I've ever read:

http://www.1up.com/features/sons-big-bucks-metal-gear

Mr.Saturn

The author has an MA in Poetry. A degree that, from what I've met, seen and read, actively rewards getting away with bull****.

Myrddin

Following on from his obscure NES titles video, Mo' Fo' Mike is at it again with top ten obscure SNES titles

Dr Bob

a5y wrote: »

Alas poor Ultimate.

(Yeah OK, I voted for Need For Speed too. But only because I've fond memories of The Need For Speed on Saturn and sour one's of Driv3r)

The steam sale is killing me!
have..to..check ..every...few..hours
at this stage the only one I'm looking out for is oblivion, which missed out on the vote by 1 freakin percent
plus I keep getting a weird urge to buy that train simulator thing....
Thief 13 is up there at the mo cheap if anyone doesnt have them

Retr0gamer

EnterNow wrote: »

Following on from his obscure NES titles video, Mo' Fo' Mike is at it again with top ten obscure SNES titles

It was no where near as good. Knew all of those games unlike his NES one which had quite a few new ones to me. It's also got a ciderman scaring amount of capcom belt scrolling beat em ups

a5y

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It was no where near as good. Knew all of those games unlike his NES one which had quite a few new ones to me. It's also got a ciderman scaring amount of capcom belt scrolling beat em ups

I think by the time the SNES launched Nintendo's marketing machine in the US had gotten its act together so there really were far less obscure US SNES games to pick from. Ruling out obscure PAL region stuff didn't make sense to me though. I mean, sure there's huge language and culture barrier between the US and Japanese stuff, but why's he rule out stuff that's available in the English language when its all equally available on eBay? That's just silly.

And is Rock & Roll Racing obscure? I certainly know it, and there are tons of SNES games I'm not familiar with. Maybe it sold poorly in the US.

DinoRex

Dr Bob wrote: »

The steam sale is killing me!
have..to..check ..every...few..hours
at this stage the only one I'm looking out for is oblivion, which missed out on the vote by 1 freakin percent
plus I keep getting a weird urge to buy that train simulator thing....
Thief 13 is up there at the mo cheap if anyone doesnt have them

I got the Train Sim along with the Zombie DLC for it.

a5y

DinoRex wrote: »

I got the Train Sim along with the Zombie DLC for it.

You know what that Day Z mod needs?

A fat controller and some trains keeping a regular schedule.

And a trainspotting minigame too, and I'm not talking about a Scottish heroin story.

johnny_ultimate

Can't believe they ****ed up Tony Hawks HD.

Oh wait, it's Activision and Robomodo.

I can totally believe they ****ed up Tony Hawks HD.

a5y

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Can't believe they ****ed up Tony Hawks HD.

Oh wait, it's Activision and Robomodo.

I can totally believe they ****ed up Tony Hawks HD.

I thought Activision went out of business, but I was confusing them with Midway. Wonder how I lumped those two together

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

I'm all for decoden but this is ridiculous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YJnc-vgp_o

a5y

Sera wrote: »

I'm all for decoden but this is ridiculous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YJnc-vgp_o

Honestly?

I like it. I think it looks good. No joke, no sarcasm.

Too many handheld consoles have case designs that look too Modernist.

At least back in the the time of the Atari Lynx and the Game Gear some of the lines look like they were taken off the bezels of arcade machines, and the Game Boy Micro looked like the good old NES.

May as well use those smooth flat and unforgivably sterile clamshell cases Nintendo insist upon as a canvas for something fun, at least until they start making consoles with proper select buttons that never get used for a single blasted thing again.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

a5y wrote: »

Honestly?
I like it. I think it looks good. No joke, no sarcasm.

it's too blingy for me and thought the pieces were too big, can't imagine it's comfortable holding, something like this, this or thisis better IMO

a5y

Sera wrote: »

it's too blingy for me and thought the pieces were too big, can't imagine it's comfortable holding, something like this, this or thisis better IMO

I like the first 2. The third one I'm not so keen on, reminds me too much of rhinestones and I've seen so many Chinese knock-offs with 3d Mario graphics on 'em that only pixel art Mario looks official any more.

Still, its a nice design for even weight and a good grip.

But I definitely throw my lot in with the ludicrous stucco-and-Rococo-inspired folly of BLING on the back of my DSL camp.

johnny_ultimate

a5y wrote: »

I thought Activision went out of business

Nope Activision (also known as the Activision of Evil) are still there, making disgusting amounts of money and destroying gaming one sequel at a time

safetyboy

2 copies of Espgaluda 2 black label that went missing in the post in December just arrived 8 months later.

CiDeRmAn

This popped up on Teefury today, I didn't know what it was about but my son laughed his ass off!

DinoRex

It's Slow Poke juxtaposed with The Flash.

OwaynOTT

It's Slow Flash or it's Flash Poke. Myself I don't like the connotations of the second there.

DinoRex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywqlYujA0zQ

Retr0gamer

Here's something very interesting. A few weeks back there was a discussion about how Shigesato Itoi's Mother/Earthbound games were very similar to how Murakami's work. Well it seems that Itoi and Murakami wrote a book together with a series of short stories of theirs. It's never been translated but has been fan translated or is in the process of being:

http://theotherrandomnamewastaken.blogspot.ie/2012/07/murakamiitoi-lets-meet-in-dream.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/ppOsw+(Misc.)

johnny_ultimate

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Here's something very interesting. A few weeks back there was a discussion about how Shigesato Itoi's Mother/Earthbound games were very similar to how Murakami's work. Well it seems that Itoi and Murakami wrote a book together with a series of short stories of theirs.[/url]

^ I told you this already

Retr0gamer

Sera wrote: »

^ I told you this already

I know but did you tell me about the translation as well?

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I know but did you tell me about the translation as well?

I'm sure I said someone was working on at least, we were driving somewhere and you were talking about Itoi's ads

Myrddin

Sera wrote: »

^ I told you this already

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I know but did you tell me about the translation as well?

Sera wrote: »

I'm sure I said someone was working on at least, we were driving somewhere and you were talking about Itoi's ads

Relationship forum is that way

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Myrddin

a5y wrote: »

I think by the time the SNES launched Nintendo's marketing machine in the US had gotten its act together so there really were far less obscure US SNES games to pick from.

This. I think everyone just knows the Snes library far more than the NES one regards obscurities/collectables

CiDeRmAn

I want Chrono Trigger now!
And it's expensive!
And I've no US Snes yet!
Ah Bugger!

johnny_ultimate

You know those times when a single screenshot sells a game to you?

CiDeRmAn

What is it?

johnny_ultimate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QAhiQTCZI

Unfortunately it's only Xbox Indie Games at the mo., which is still bizarrely not available round these parts. Should be on PC soon though. Some serious fruit hell mechanics going down!

CiDeRmAn

Damn you Indie marketplace! Damn your damn eyes!!!!!


Reminds me of Superfrog for some reason

Jack burton

Well I had a good few things in my watchlist this week but the steam sale happened so lets hope I can get some more paypal money and get some retro goodness next week

I assume everyones wallets has gotten a slapping aswell this week

Mr.Saturn

And now, some baseless speculation that Nintendo are making a move on acquiring RARE:

http://www.zeldainformer.com/news/comments/rumor-nintendo-attempting-to-negotiate-its-way-into-ownership-of-banjo-and

Retr0gamer

I can't see MS letting them do considering they are now pretty much MS's R&D team and had a big hand in the Kinect and also developing the Dashboard updates.

How the mighty have fallen. While I think Rares output since the NES days and onwards is mostly over rated they never made a bad game other than the exception of Donkey Kong 64. I'd much rather old Rare back.... And Blast Corps 2.

Mr.Saturn

The only reason I see this gaining any steam is for the reasons you mentioned, RARE is essentially a dead-brand with a few bits of key licensing, whose duties could quite easily be re-absorbed into Microsoft Studios, should MS decide to part with it. It'd cost them very little, aside from what they, in hindsight, overpaid for in the first place.

Mind, it's all bollocks in anyways, but still.....

The Last Bandit

Not many of the original staff still left there by now. Nice piece on Eurogamer a while ago about their fall from grace.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-08-who-killed-rare