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The Last Bandit wrote: »Just get a clean 21" Trinitron TV. Not as tweakable but picture quality is excellent on them and also have RF input if RetroGamer ever decides to call over
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Hmmm thought it might have been that Snatcher game but not sure if you already have that. Doesn't fit the bill with "not even a good game". So presumably it's cartridge based if you're concerned about it being legit - did the seller not confirm that for you seeing as you're obviously paying a fair whack for it?
"not even a good game" would apply to Snatcher, it's actually more of a visual novel than a game Some people love it, others really don't get the appeal. Personally, I bloody adore the game! 0 -
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"not even a good game" would apply to Snatcher, it's actually more of a visual novel than a game Some people love it, others really don't get the appeal. Personally, I bloody adore the game!
People that don't like Snatcher should be filed under moron right next to the Dark Souls haters.
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CosmicSmash wrote: »Any sign of that postman yet?
Nah, t'will be next week I'd say.Retr0gamer wrote: »People that don't like Snatcher should be filed under moron right next to the Dark Souls haters.
I think so too, but such ilk are out there
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Wow, must be getting old now, Wipeout 3 (Wip3out) was released here 16 years ago in September, or so says wiki
I remember how impressive it was, or at I found it so.
Some people were disappointing, I think, that it wasn't more like Wipeout 2097, but I thought it was superb.
I have the SE version as well, that fixes some bugs, adds 10 tracks to the existing 12, 8 from the previous 2 games in the series and 2 from the Japanese release of Wipeout 3, and introduces link up play with two consoles, tvs and copies of the game.
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Wasn't a big fan of Wip3out. I do remember a big Sony marketing push for it particularly one designed specifically for Dublin which was strange. I think by the time it was released the whole wipeout thing had passed. People had moved on to Gran Turismo and we had already seen f zero X on the N64 with its unfaltering 60 (smelly 50 for pal) fps gameplay which was just a whole lot more fun than wipeout which still relied too much on weapons than actual racing.
It wasn't bad though just ended up not interested in it and therefore it didn't get played much and I passed over the SE version.
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Atavan-Halen wrote: »There was a PlayStation press conference in Dublin in 99 and there were a couple of special demo or promo games given out for it with a shamrock on the disc. Someone posted a pic on a Facebook group but can't seem to find it now.
There were posters put up in all the big public transport areas with 'Wip3out the Northside' or Southside on them as well. Not often you get such region specific promotion of, well anything really.I much preferred Wipeout to F-Zero, the GC majesty came close to converting me, but I still love Wipeout 2097 before all others, and the PSP and Vita games are incredible, particularly the latter, with the tracks from the PS3 Wipeout HD/Fury being added to the portable package for free if you bought them via PSN for the home machine.
Yes, it was more about weapons than FZero, but then I don't see that as a problem, they are simply very different games.
Wipeout 3 SE is well worth picking up imho
The problem is that Wipeout just isn't that good of a racing game. The F-zero titles are all about racing and it's your skill racing is what affects how well you do in a race. While there is AI catch up in the games usually it's not that obvious and if you race well you'll be way out in front. With Wipeout the game just doesn't hold up on the harder difficulties. The racing becomes rote and getting past racers mostly relies on the weapons you get and you can predict how the racing AI will react, It's like you get past one racer and the next one slows down so you can get past them. It's just when I got to Wip3out after playing the crap out of 2097 I could see right through this and was no longer impressed by it when there was a plethora of better racers out there. F-zero might have spoiled me, it looked like absolute ass but it plays like a dream compared to the 25 fps update of wip3out. I was never really impressed by a Wipeout game until the PSP versions and then HD which are legitimately excellent but still don't hold a candle to F-zero or even Sega's best racers.
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A case of 'I havent a clue about this so I'll look up Wikipedia and wing it' journalism. It's totally written from an American perspective as well, I bet most of those indie developers weren't old enough to play one in Ireland and the UK the NES wasn't popular at all until it became a budget substitute for the 16 bit consoles. It's kindof annoying that that bit of revisionist ill informed history is going to be archived with that paper while better online articles will probably be lost once servers go down.
There'll probably be a lot more of this crap in the future as games journalists get younger and younger. You wouldn't expect a movie critic to have not seen classics like citizen Kane but most of the younger journalists would have no clue of older games or obscure games. Paradoxically hand it's hard to expect some one to invest all that time boning up on old games since its a significantly bigger time investment.
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Well, of someone asked you to write a retrospective piece on a console you were unfamiliar with, you might start with a trip to the wiki page, but you might follow that with a go on the games themselves, at least via emu, and take in some of the material written about them over the years.
A few references to relatively local Nintendo first/third parties like Rare would have been a start, but the notion that an indie dev would have any recognition of NES games, when most of them seem to be more enamoured with IOS games instead.
But you're right Retr0, why waste valuable time doing any actual research when a look at the wiki page and a quick phonecall to a couple of indie devs will suffice.
I was always under the misunderstanding that, while parts of the globe were under the thrall of the Famicom and NES, and smaller numbers had one of the Sega 8bit variants, we in this part of Europe had the ST and Amiga, which segued into the Megadrive era.
The Snes kinda came along, on the tail end of the super successful Gameboy, the handheld that had to have a hand in bringing Nintendo IP into the greater public domain.
Perhaps it was unfair to suggest that, in fact, the NES had relatively little impact in Ireland at all, because we were all too busy playing Amiga and ST?
It wasn't just the ST and Amiga, the 8 bit micros were huge sellers as well, well into the 90s. Sure I had my C64 until Christmas 1993 when I got a hand me down Arnotts display model. The NES priced itself out of the market in Europe with games costing about 50 to 60 Irish pounds and the base console was woefully overpriced as well. All games were shipped from Japan increasing cost. Sega/Virgin were selling the master system cheaper and games cost about 25-30 pounds on that system. On the home micros prices were cheaper again. Most or Europe especially the UK and Ireland were deep in a recession do the NES just didn't make sense. The big European areas for the NES was Germany which got a big push since Nintendo HQ was there and the Nordic countries where the distributors did an excellent job advertising the system.
It's also a bit annoying when the videogame crash is brought up so much particularly by a European publication. The crash was localised to the U.S. only with the videogames market in both Japan and Europe remaining vibrant and healthy. There were some small crashes in Europe, many 8 bit devs folded in the early 80s when piracy became rampant and the industry consolidated around big publishers. However the 16 bit market was just taking off then.
The SNES and Megadrive finally making a splash in Europe was due to the consoles offering cheaper and often better experiences than the 8 and 16 bit systems, well an initially cheaper investment when compared to the 16 bit systems. Arcade quality games and graphics were what people wanted and the japanese developed games on these systems gave people that. They also came along when piracy was getting out of control on the 16 bit systems,
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