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So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

CiDeRmAn

Me, I'm playing a bit of Metal Slug X, Micromachines, Einhander via PSP and about to play some Daytona on the Saturn, anyone else?

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eddhorse

I like the Grid games because after you make a horrendous crash out of a corner, you can rewind and try it again.

Doge

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

It is
No hype needed!

It's a game built to reward enjoyable driving rather than a slavish adherence to the racing line.
It's got realistic urban tracks, excellent radio stations, great car selection, it's simply sublime.
The real time clock is fantastic too.
You may sense I'm a bit of a fan....

I think from looking at gameplays I'd probably prefer the Midnight Club and older Need For Speed series more.

Midnight Club had some really good soundtracks also especially Dub Edition.

Doge

o1s1n wrote: »

Anyone else here rarely play racing games?

I generally don't find myself in the humour to play them, at all.

How do you find mario kart and the likes of the fun ones?

I always recommend Motorstorm apocalypse as its really thrilling and Ciderman recommends Motorstorm Pacific Rift.

I guess they're more fun in multiplayer and split screen with friends.

o1s1n

Anyone else here rarely play racing games?

I generally don't find myself in the humour to play them, at all.

CiDeRmAn

80s Synth Pop wrote: »

"Metropolis" Street Racing was followed by Project "Gotham" Racing on XBOX. All good games.

Was DC comics involved in these somehow or was it a developer joke in Bizarre?

Well, Metropolis is simply a name for a generic big city, and Gotham is a borough of New York.
Bigger reason was the team couldn't bring the Metropolis name with them, the dev team publishing MSR with Sega and the new Gotham titles as first party devs for Microsoft and the Xbox... I think....

CiDeRmAn

Doge wrote: »

True, but Ciderman is hyping it up to being some super innovative game of the Gods! :pac:

It is
No hype needed!

It's a game built to reward enjoyable driving rather than a slavish adherence to the racing line.
It's got realistic urban tracks, excellent radio stations, great car selection, it's simply sublime.
The real time clock is fantastic too.
You may sense I'm a bit of a fan....

Doge

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Well unlike the GT series MSR is actually fun to play :P

True, but Ciderman is hyping it up to being some super innovative game of the Gods! :pac:

Retr0gamer

Doge wrote: »

Whats so innovative about it! Looking it just looks like an average racer. Cant see how it compares to the might GT series!

Well unlike the GT series MSR is actually fun to play :P

MrVestek

Doge wrote: »

Whats so innovative about it! Looking it just looks like an average racer. Cant see how it compares to the might GT series!

Right. Time to give your keys to the forum back.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Doge

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Metropolis Street Racer is the racing game of the gods!
Seriously, the amount of innovation, firsts, that are in the.
And the racing itself, just brilliant.
Try to get Daytona for the DC, and dial back the controller sensitivity, you won't believe it's a 15 year old game.

Whats so innovative about it! Looking it just looks like an average racer. Cant see how it compares to the might GT series!

80s Synth Pop

"Metropolis" Street Racing was followed by Project "Gotham" Racing on XBOX. All good games.

Was DC comics involved in these somehow or was it a developer joke in Bizarre?

CiDeRmAn

Metropolis Street Racer is the racing game of the gods!
Seriously, the amount of innovation, firsts, that are in the.
And the racing itself, just brilliant.
Try to get Daytona for the DC, and dial back the controller sensitivity, you won't believe it's a 15 year old game.

Retr0gamer

I played sonic adventure recently and thought it aged incredibly poorly. The engine is held together with sellotape and its full of the same bugs that 2006 had like janky camera, physics and scripted sequences that fail. It's a technical mess. SA2 is found quite boring as well. I just don't think they are good games.

wheresmahbombs

Completed the hero story of Sonic Adventure 2. I give it a solid 4/5 (maybe 4.5/5). Sonic Team USA (SA2 was developed in the USA while SA1 was developed in Japan) did their job interpreting the best parts of SA1 into the game, at least hero story-wise. I'm currently at the 5-minute Rouge stage in the dark story, and this one is often regarded as the game's worst stage.

SA1's quality varies between each character's story. Sonic's is competent, gameplay-wise, while Big's, on the other hand, is just lame. I lean towards Sonic's while I usually overlook Big's and Amy's. Although one day I wanted to play Big's story for ****s and giggles!

wheresmahbombs

I never got to play Jak & Daxter. Looks intriguing, though. I'll need to use a different memory card on my PS2 since R&C2 refuses to save onto it.

Never analysed the rarity of PS2 games, but pre-Wii games are already quite difficult to find.

CiDeRmAn

wheresmahbombs wrote: »

Now I'm off to Ratchet & Clank 2, which I hold a lot of nostalgia for being the first R&C game I've played.

I never got into them myself, preferred the first J&D game but none of the subsequent ones.
Haven on the PS2 is surprisingly good, with some nice fractal effects, and was very cheap and easy to find for a long time, but PS2 games in the wild are getting harder to find.

wheresmahbombs

Now I'm off to Ratchet & Clank 2, which I hold a lot of nostalgia for being the first R&C game I've played.

wheresmahbombs

SA2's Knuckles/Rouge stages can be a pain to get a good rank on first attempt as Sega ruined the radar in that game. In SA1, the radar wasn't order sensitive. It's the opposite in its sequel. The highest I got in Knuckles' stages was a C, more often than not a D or an E, like my recent 2nd attempt on Meteor Herd.
Sonic and Shadow's stages are my favourite. Most of the mech stages with Tails and Eggman were decent.
When I first played SA2 on the PS3 a few months ago, I had a tough time for some reason, likely the controls. Now I'm playing it on Dolphin with an Xbox One controller and I'm mostly having a good time with it. My nostalgia goes to SA1, but from my experience so far, I think SA2 might be the better game overall, thanks to its superior presentation and less pointless fluff.

wheresmahbombs

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

I had a go there for half an hour. It's bloody tricky!

Watched a Gggmanlives review there and he says that the first episode is actually the hardest one so I might go with a different one to start with.

Dabbling with a little bit of Unreal 1 at the moment too because I never got around to it and it's apparently still very good. It's got some pretty huge levels.

I'm tackling Blood's episodes in order at difficulty level 2. Might crank it up to 3 when I start episode 3.

I haven't yet got my hands on the single-player, campaign-oriented Unreal games, but I have played Unreal Tournament ('99), UT2004 and the latest UT, which I had fun with but had a light playerbase when I played it last year. Maybe I'll come back to it if its playerbase has grown. Not sure if I prefer UT99 or UT2004. Never played UT2003 or UT3.

Shapey Fiend

wheresmahbombs wrote: »

Already completed Blood's first episode yesterday. I'm at E2M4 (gotta love the '90s FPS level numbers!) right now. I spent a lot of time in the previous level, overlooking one of the switches.

I had a go there for half an hour. It's bloody tricky!

Watched a Gggmanlives review there and he says that the first episode is actually the hardest one so I might go with a different one to start with.

Dabbling with a little bit of Unreal 1 at the moment too because I never got around to it and it's apparently still very good. It's got some pretty huge levels.

wheresmahbombs

I'm also playing Sonic Adventure 2. Having trouble in the outdoor gravity section of Crazy Gadget right now. I've died over 9,000 times in that section so far.

wheresmahbombs

Already completed Blood's first episode yesterday. I'm at E2M4 (gotta love the '90s FPS level numbers!) right now. I spent a lot of time in the previous level, overlooking one of the switches.

wheresmahbombs

BTW, "The Next Level" in the title refers to one of Sega's marketing slogans, Welcome to the Next Level.

wheresmahbombs

I'm playing Sonic 1: The Next Level, which is a hack of Sonic 1 set in some planet in outer space (probably Mars?), for the nth time. Gotta love the fluid animations in that hack.

CiDeRmAn

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

New Hexen inspired FPS announced the other day looks pretty class. Runs on UE4 but they're using sprites and low poly models to give it chunkiness.

Might use that as an excuse as to why I don't wear tight fit clothes....

Shapey Fiend

New Hexen inspired FPS announced the other day looks pretty class. Runs on UE4 but they're using sprites and low poly models to give it chunkiness.

CiDeRmAn

I've played Hexen on the PS and it's still just fine to see and play.
I guess it's when the system tries to be high end that it all tumbles down.
I still love the versions of Quake on the Saturn and Quake II on the N64, I understand they've been cut down compared to the PC originals but they are pretty impressive none the less.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yu8d4e9sR8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nx7vQoofqM

wheresmahbombs

I'd really dig the Quake SW look in Dusk.

Shapey Fiend

The framerate on SotC was definitely pretty terrible even at release. Still finished it but it was jarring.

Low resolution 3D isn't necessarily a nasty thing. I mean I'm playing Dusk at the moment and it lets you emulate the Quake 1 software look because, hey, it looks kind of cool in retrospect. It even lets you turn the framerate down to "Cinematic" or 24fps. I'm used to having a slightly behind the times PC so while I can tolerate a low framerate I really don't enjoy it much. Generally turn all my settings down to the lowest possible if there's any choppiness. Been playing a lot of Competitive CS:GO lately and there's a lot to be said for that buttery smoothness even on integrated graphics.

Retr0gamer

I'd say it's more to do with the use of all that bloom post processing. Having that all over the screen really tests the GPU and dropping it to a lower resolution would help it out.