So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

johndoe99 · 27-11-2016 12:01PM

picked up Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex (PS2), for a euro yesterday. Can't remember it being this hard a game when I last played it over a decade ago.

CiDeRmAn · 27-11-2016 01:02PM

My love of Crash, if it ever existed in the first place, died after the excellent 3rd one on the PS, after that I reckon Naughty Dog went on to better it with the first Jak&Daxter title, although I didn't like the follow up games in that franchise.
Ratchet&Clank, same game engine as J&D, just with a scifi make over, and Insomnia made the games succeed by keeping it light and making the same game over and over again, while Naughty Dog decided to make J&D2 go all "street" and just made it sh1te instead.

pasta-solo · 27-11-2016 02:11PM

Crash Bandicoot is a series best left to memory I think... I loved it back in the day, but last time I tried to go back to Crash 2, it felt very stale. Maybe the third one holds up better?

Retr0gamer · 27-11-2016 04:17PM

The third one is better but it's still not exactly top tier platforming. Way better is available, even on PlayStation.

airmax87 · 28-11-2016 11:27PM

sure look

Burzum · 11-12-2016 06:09PM

Just about to start Zone of the Enders on PS2 been to long since I played through that game.

Retr0gamer · 06-01-2017 02:06PM

Fallen out of love with videogames the last few months but think I found the game to get me back into it.

Started playing Shining in the Darkness last night on steam in the megadrive classics collection and had a heap of fun with it, even if I had to use virtual graph to map out the dungeon. It's a simple enough dungeon crawler but a very good on.

The Last Bandit · 06-01-2017 02:54PM

Playing 'The Last of Us' again, this time the PS4 remastered version. I seem to have fallen into a trap whereby I'm replaying games I really enjoyed rather the risking my limited time on new unproved ones

Mr.Saturn · 08-01-2017 07:31PM

So, finally got a crack at Undertale during Steam's Xmas sale. As you might have guessed, I'm a fan of the Mother series, and knew Undertale's creator, Toby Fox, was involved in the Earthbound fan-hack community, so went in with expectations from that. I think it would be a disservice to compare Undertale to Earthbound, but in the same way Mother 3 was a departure from Earthbound/Mother 2, Undertale fits in pretty well with the design outlook of those games, like a ramshackle Mother 4 or somesuch, but doesn't bog itself down trying to pay homage or whatnot to what inspired it.

Also, bonus pic of Toby Fox (blue shirt) meeting Earthbound creator, Shigesato Itoi.

In other news, Itoi's pretty much left games dev behind and is currently focusing on making a social network for pets.

Tom Mann Centuria · 08-01-2017 08:23PM

Watching my son play LoZ Twilight Princess HD (got it yesterday from argos, excellent price for the special edition or whatever it's called). Looks lovely on the Wii U, but I think I prefer the motion controls of the Wii.

Gizmo55 · 26-01-2017 11:50PM

Playing Ninja Gaiden again on the original Xbox. Amazing game.

eddhorse · 27-01-2017 01:46AM

Back in Dark Souls 2, Sorceror build, slow and steady.

readyletsgo · 27-01-2017 09:59AM

Super Mario 64 on the DS. For shame I've never gotten vround to playing it. Controls are a little weird on the ds but it's great on the train to work.

Side note, started re7 last night, it's too intense in VR so playing normally

CiDeRmAn · 27-01-2017 10:04AM

Not retro but Cidonalad is tearing through Bloodborne, doing far better than I did.
I have to accept that he, like most of the rest of the people of Earth, is better at games than me

sweetie · 27-01-2017 10:06AM

Played through Half Life 2 on the Orange Box, backwards compatible on Xbox One.
What a shooter, hasn't aged much at all. Onto Episode 1 and 2 now.

Inviere · 27-01-2017 05:57PM

Super Metroid for me, first play through ever too! I've just returned to the surface after battling through Norfair I think...

Mr.Saturn · 27-01-2017 06:03PM

Inviere wrote: »

Super Metroid for me, first play through ever too! I've just returned to the surface after battling through Norfair I think...

You have me all nostalgic for my first time again. Downloaded it on the VC like 3 years ago, kind of like an "I gotta play this at some stage" afterthought, then it hoovered up all my free time shortly thereafter.

o1s1n · 27-01-2017 06:19PM

Inviere wrote: »

Super Metroid for me, first play through ever too! I've just returned to the surface after battling through Norfair I think...

First time? You lucky bastard!

Star Lord · 27-01-2017 06:24PM

Inviere wrote: »

Super Metroid for me, first play through ever too! I've just returned to the surface after battling through Norfair I think...

I first played it on my cousin's SNES, when I didn't have one of my own, it was a revelation! Such a magnificent game. Very little in it that doesn't hold up, though the ledge grip introduced in Fusion and carried over into Zero Mission (If I remember rightly) is missed when you go back to Super Metroid!

Mr.Saturn · 27-01-2017 06:30PM

Star Lord wrote: »

I first played it on my cousin's SNES, when I didn't have one of my own, it was a revelation! Such a magnificent game. Very little in it that doesn't hold up, though the ledge grip introduced in Fusion and carried over into Zero Mission (If I remember rightly) is missed when you go back to Super Metroid!

Remember thinking they'd gotten rid of it to be consistent with the original, but then suddenly it turns up as an unlock.

Gizmo55 · 28-01-2017 08:41AM

Not exactly retro but playing FFXIII on the 360. This tune is the best music I've ever heard in a video game. Just amazing. Must set up a thread for best music in a video game if there isn't one already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37a7sSxiNi0&list=PL7C498688F14F6A0D&index=12

Retr0gamer · 28-01-2017 09:48AM

Say what you will about the FFXIII games, the soundtracks are incredible.

I finished Dark Forces last. Fantastic Star Wars game with some stellar level design and puzzles that really highlight how awful the state of level design has become in modern games.

I started up another game that uses the same engine, Outlaws. I don't think it's as good as Dark Forces but it's an interesting take on the FPS. Most levels are very open ended and non linear making them fun western shoot outs. All weapons have to be reloaded manually making bullet management an interesting part of the game.

It also did quite a few things that Goldeneye did while pre dating it but doesn't get credited for them like having the first scoped sniper rifle in a game, although team fortress had a non scoped hack job before it. Also had a train level which everyone tried to copy after goldeneye.

CiDeRmAn · 28-01-2017 12:16PM

MDK had a proper scoped sniper rifle ahead of Goldeneye also, that was a bonkers and brilliant game.
Never played the sequel though.

Retr0gamer · 28-01-2017 06:31PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

MDK had a proper scoped sniper rifle ahead of Goldeneye also, that was a bonkers and brilliant game.
Never played the sequel though.

It was out a month after Outlaws and was a fantastic game alright, well on PC, the console ports not so much.

I heard MDK2 is excellent as well but not played it either. It went from Shiny to Bioware who I don't think have the personality to pull it off...

CiDeRmAn · 28-01-2017 07:48PM

I played and finished it on PC, during my brief dalliance with PC gaming.
Just fantastic stuff.
I think, on PC, it paid no heed to your graphics card, and did it all in software.
From daft mad scaling as you plummet to earth and the mix of polygons and sprites in the main game, plus mad humour...
"World's most interesting bomb" for example.

Retr0gamer · 29-01-2017 02:56PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I played and finished it on PC, during my brief dalliance with PC gaming.
Just fantastic stuff.
I think, on PC, it paid no heed to your graphics card, and did it all in software.
From daft mad scaling as you plummet to earth and the mix of polygons and sprites in the main game, plus mad humour...
"World's most interesting bomb" for example.

It originally was totally software rendered but it later came out it a patch to support 3D cards. However in software it actually had some advantages, mostly due to the mush higher resolution textures. It ran like a dream on my P100 due to clever coding and when I got the 3D card patch the in game system analyser said I had a 750 MHz CPU

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

Retr0gamer · 30-01-2017 10:05AM

Finished outlaws. Great game but not a patch on Dark Forces. The engine is a bit janky at times and I encountered quite a few bugs but it is pushing the Jedi engine in ways it was never meant to. I can see why this wasn't a big sales success, the art isn't great and the engine felt ancient even at release, it's way worse looking than the build engine games and it was up against the first wave of true 3D games that were hardware accelerated.

Kimbot · 30-01-2017 10:25AM

Currently playing the NES mini, cracking little machine. Had all the nephews and nieces playing it yesterday (My eldest niece is about 10 turned to her mam and asked "Is this a nintendo from the olden days")

o1s1n · 31-01-2017 09:42PM

Been playing Sin and Punishment all evening. I have to keep looking down to check to make sure someone hasn't replaced my N64 with a different console. Can't believe how gorgeous it looks and how smooth it runs. The amount of enemies on screen at once with the super smooth frame rate is quite a sight to behold.

Jack burton · 31-01-2017 11:33PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Been playing Sin and Punishment all evening. I have to keep looking down to check to make sure someone hasn't replaced my N64 with a different console. Can't believe how gorgeous it looks and how smooth it runs. The amount of enemies on screen at once with the super smooth frame rate is quite a sight to behold.

I saw some gameplay footage of the N64 on YouTube a while ago. Couldn't believe how nice it looked with some good connections and in 60hz. I always rememeber it looking really blocky and crap back when i played it. I must pick up one and get an everdrive

So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

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