So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

Tom Mann Centuria · 06-05-2020 11:24AM

Playing Soul Bubbles on the DS, unfortunately not on my original cart which the kids, when they were much younger, deposited somewhere never to be seen again.

Gradius · 06-05-2020 12:15PM

hellsing101 wrote: »

Have been struggling through Castlevania Requiem on PS4, Rondo of Blood is kicking my arse.

You have the perfect name for that

o1s1n · 10-05-2020 07:21PM

Finally came first on Acropolis Expert in VR Racing.

Could never get through the last lap, always ran out of time on the last stage coming out of the hair pin.

God that was gratifying :pac:

Retr0gamer · 10-05-2020 09:30PM

Playing Final Fantasy Legend on the Gameboy and it's a little gem of a game. Crazy that it came out in 1989 during the launch window of the system as it's quite a complex game and far better than even nintendos games on the system at the time.

It's the first in the Saga series so expect little handholding and weird mechanics.

You make a party of three classes. Humans who are fairly basic but don't level up normally. You have to buy stat upgrades in shops. Espers that gain states randomly after battle and also gain and lose spells randomly. Then there's mutants who transform into different creatures from eating enemies. There's a complex methodology behind it but it might as well be random for how obtuse it is.

It's perfectly suited to the handheld, being 8-12 hours long and you can also save anywhere at any time, rather forward thinking for a 1989 handheld game.

Eugenia Iliopoulou · 10-05-2020 11:01PM

Worms

Inviere · 11-05-2020 07:28AM

Was just browsing games through Launcbox looking for something to get stuck into...and happened to start up Super Mario World. Really enjoying it again after many many years. Not promised on the 96 exits at this stage, we'll see how it goes....:o

Retr0gamer · 11-05-2020 09:59AM

Hoping you get back to Mario 64 someday. Do think you have to give it a bit more time as I still believe it's one of the finest 3D platformers ever made. Maybe when the source port gets non-inverted y-axis controls!

Maybe check out a speed run of the game, a 70 star one. Always gets me wanting to play it again when you see how technical and crazy the movement is in the game.

Inviere · 11-05-2020 10:24AM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Hoping you get back to Mario 64 someday. Do think you have to give it a bit more time as I still believe it's one of the finest 3D platformers ever made. Maybe when the source port gets non-inverted y-axis controls!

Maybe check out a speed run of the game, a 70 star one. Always gets me wanting to play it again when you see how technical and crazy the movement is in the game.

I'll go back to it for sure, but it'll likely be whatever Ninty have planned for it on Switch I'd say. After coming from Odyssey, it's a tough tough transition backwards. Odyssey was that good imo.

Couple of teething problems with SMW....firstly, I was sure you could save on the overworld map...and after trying every button, the only thing I could think of was Start & Select....unfortunately that happens to be a controller hotkey to exit a game on Launchbox that I'd forgotten! So I lost a bit of progress doing that, just a few levels, nothing major....I've already caught back up. Secondly, the damn game doesn't save your extra lives etc...so when you resume at a later time, you're back to 5 lives! Obviously to prevent 1up farming, but was a bit weird to re-discover this! I'm debating now whether to use save states as a result, but use them as I would normal saves....or whether I should play it OG.

Retr0gamer · 11-05-2020 10:53AM

If you want to save just beat a ghost house or castle. Will let you save even if you've beaten it already.

The extra lives thing can be annoying as sometimes you have to farm. I'm grand with it but when I was rubbish from the bridge levels on you'd have to do a bit of live farming when you restart. Once you get to the forest there's a level that is amazing for extra life farming and it's rather fun to do so it becomes a non-issue. (It's a level with a rotating item box. If you get the star you can cause absolutely havoc and rack up insane amounts of lives)

To be honest if you are just saving on the world map you aren't cheating yourself as playing through a ghost house or castle again is a pain.

Inviere · 13-05-2020 05:38PM

Really enjoying Super Mario World, what a gem of a game....and a consoel launch game to boot! I think I've 30 odd levels done so far, half of Star Road, and three Switch Palaces done. Haven't played this far into the game in well over 20 years I'd say, & it has lost nothing.

It's rage inducing at times, but only because of silly twitchy movements on my part. The game would be unplayable on an emulator without RetroArch's Run-Ahead feature to reduce latency....really makes the game 'feel' right.

Inviere · 15-05-2020 11:01AM

Inviere wrote: »

Really enjoying Super Mario World, what a gem of a game

Forest of Illusion complete, and Star Road complete. By god the Special Stage levels are sadistic....I've three out of the eight of them done & I'm beginning to sound like Mike Matei with the cursive outbursts

Retr0gamer · 15-05-2020 11:10AM

Special stages are a complete whore.

Inviere · 15-05-2020 11:15AM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Special stages are a complete whore.

FUUUUUCK!!!!

Infernum · 15-05-2020 11:22AM

I've been at Sensi! There's a great 2020 mod for the PC port that lets you play with the original Amiga graphics and stuff, with updated team databases and such. I've been having great fun with it.

Inviere · 15-05-2020 11:26AM

Infernum wrote: »

I've been at Sensi! There's a great 2020 mod for the PC port that lets you play with the original Amiga graphics and stuff, with updated team databases and such. I've been having great fun with it.

Sensi is utterly timeless, still amazing fun to play

hellsing101 · 15-05-2020 11:31AM

Not a football fan but that it is a great game, never played amiga version though, was MD for me.

The Nal · 15-05-2020 11:55AM

Infernum wrote: »

I've been at Sensi! There's a great 2020 mod for the PC port that lets you play with the original Amiga graphics and stuff, with updated team databases and such. I've been having great fun with it.

Does anyone have a working Sensi disk 1 for the Amiga by any chance? Original Sensi. Ive a disk 2 choc full of teams I made but no disk 1.

DaveyDave · 15-05-2020 12:20PM

Haven't set up any retro consoles in the new house yet, just playing GTA IV The Ballad of Gay Tony on Xbox One at the moment.

hellsing101 · 15-05-2020 12:28PM

DaveyDave wrote: »

Haven't set up any retro consoles in the new house yet, just playing GTA IV The Ballad of Gay Tony on Xbox One at the moment.

The good ol days where Rockstar made quality DLC.

barryribs · 15-05-2020 12:35PM

DaveyDave wrote: »

Haven't set up any retro consoles in the new house yet, just playing GTA IV The Ballad of Gay Tony on Xbox One at the moment.

It's absolutely tremendous. I always hated how dull the colour spectrum on GTA4 was, I thought this added some much needed flair.

Infernum · 15-05-2020 12:43PM

Inviere wrote: »

Sensi is utterly timeless, still amazing fun to play

It really is! I can't score to save my life half the time, but it's one of those games where the thrill is in getting that goal when you least expect it.

Retr0gamer · 15-05-2020 11:14PM

Playing Halo 2 since it recently got released on PC and.... It's a pile of pants. Well not totally terrible but its so obviously rushed. It yo-yo's between good/great missions to outright terrible missions. There's more of the later unfortunately. The devs were so pushed for time they made the same mistakes as in the first game but they are even more unforgivable here. There's a plethora of boring corridor stages that resemble the awful Library level in the original. And the flood are back and just as boring to right in this but with no good story reason (remember the unique ringworld of halo? well there's loads of them). The story is utter gubbins. Bringing back the flood was a huge mistake and having Audry II make and appearance and not sing is madness.

Looking forward to Halo 3 being released as I remember it being a lot better with much better level design except for one level at the end when they bring the flood and boring level design back for one of the worst designed FPS levels in history.

Inviere · 16-05-2020 08:03AM

Was confused there as I thought the Master Chief collection was released on PC yonks ago....turns out it was, but the games are staggered release? Are they remastering the older ones or something?

Retr0gamer · 16-05-2020 02:31PM

Basically it's the same as the Xbox release from ages ago. And they're pretty regular with releasing the games. Few snafus, reach is ruined by the god awful sound mixing on all platforms that still isn't fixed yet but they all are really good conversions so far

johnny_ultimate · 16-05-2020 02:57PM

Was wondering if there were issues with Reach. Tried the PC version when it launched and the sound was so flat it was extremely weird. Would go as far as saying it was game-ruining - was wondering whether that’s what the original version was like as I hadn’t played it since release.

Retr0gamer · 16-05-2020 03:33PM

Original release sounds excellent. It's a known issue with the game. The sound mixing is waaaaaaay off. It's in all versions of the master chief collection. Apparently it's not an easy fix but is being worked on.

I would call it game ruining as well. It's very jarring when your sniper rifle is quieter than your footsteps or the brunt 400 metres away.

Retr0gamer · 17-05-2020 12:31AM

Playing Sonic Adventure 2 and it's.... really bad. Hard to think this game came out when the N64 had so many better 3D platformers. The Dreamcasrt even had Rayman 2 which was way better. Somehow this game feels jankier than Sonic Adventure 1 and you can tell how rushed it was.

Mr.Saturn · 17-05-2020 12:49AM

SA2 tends to fly under the radar when discussing bad Sonic because of the nosedive the franchise took mid-00s but it's an utterly baffling game that took alllllll of the wrong lessons from SA1. Somewhere around the stuttery Tails kart mission you realize the game was made by absolute madmen.

Retr0gamer · 17-05-2020 11:43AM

It feels rushed more than anything. Everything outside of the sonic levels are like concepts than fully fleshed out games. And the sonic levels are way jankier than even SA1. I've seen the city escape level being played perfectly and it looks like a thrill but a first time players experience of it is you bouncing off the walls uncontrollably.

It's a step back from SA1 with no hub levels and just a linear progression.

Retr0gamer · 20-05-2020 11:24AM

Finished the Hero story of SA2. Started the Dark story of SA2. It somehow got worse. And then the Rouge levels are just knuckles levels again.

I hate this game.

So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

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