So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

Might be interesting to give Doki Doki Panic a go afterwards to see how it plays in comparison. Wonder are there any gameplay elements which actually suit the original better. (or is it just a 1:1 reskin?)

There's a similar reskin job on the Megadrive, you're probably aware of it - Magical Flying Hat Turbo Adventure became Decap Attack in Europe. Looks like there were far more changes put through in that case though.

Inviere

Not really enjoying Super Mario Bros. 2 at all....it's an ok game in its own right, but as a Mario game (!), it's pretty poor. Quite repetitive, music quite generic and re-used, game itself is pretty one dimensional with the only variety being the end of world bosses...

Bit of a slog sadly, though I'm at world 5-2 & I gather there's only 7 worlds so thankfully not too long to go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKO4dDbalOo

Love that game, always wanted to pick up an Atomiswave mobo and get a copy of it.

Finished Resident Evil 4 last night. The urge to start new game+ was very high!

Too many other games to get through though so it will have to wait.

Rather annoyingly, the timer on the game keeps running even when you turn the console off. It was a similar problem to the one I had with Blasphemous on the Switch.

So my RE4 completion time was 99hours, 59 minutes, 59 sections, literally maxed out the clock due to it :eek:

I'd say in reality it was about 20 hours or a little under.

KeRbDoG

Fired up the Naomi/NetDimm cab yesterday and noticed more Atomiswave games got converted over to the Naomi.
Dolphin Blue is just strange

Shapey Fiend

Flashback is one of those games that really benefits from having Youtube around. There were a few crucial points I used always get stuck on in that game and had to use the level select codes to progress.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Resident Evil 5 is a good if not great game. The focus on co-op meant it couldn't have the wildly inventive scenarios ad Resi 4 and it's always going to be a bad version of Resi 4.

Resident Evil 6 however is a giant steaming pile of horse**** and one of the worst games I've played in a very long time.

True, it wasnt even that 6 was **** (which it was) but it was really flawed gameplay wise i thought and it was soul sucking to play more than 45 mins at a time.

Resident Evil 5 is a good if not great game. The focus on co-op meant it couldn't have the wildly inventive scenarios ad Resi 4 and it's always going to be a bad version of Resi 4.

Resident Evil 6 however is a giant steaming pile of horse**** and one of the worst games I've played in a very long time.

Yeah they never got mad attention, revelations 2 was on PSN on sale for 7 euro recently i believe too, its a good game, its split into an episodic story line and that helped alot i found.

I always forget about the Revelations games - played the first one on the 3DS when it came out. Thought the Jill sections were great actually.

Never did play the sequel though, will look into picking that up. (Tends to be on sale on the Switch store a lot actually)

o1s1n wrote: »

Resident Evil 5 really didn't get a lot of love when it came out. I remember playing through it at the time in the full knowledge of all the bad reviews and wasn't very fold of it myself.

Would be interested in giving it a go now after finishing 4 just to see what it's like after a decade.

Actually come to think of it, it's the last RE game I played in the main line of games. Haven't gone anywhere near 6 or 7.

RE5 is a decent game for what it is, its not a resident evil game really, but its a good game. If you have the time i'd advise you play 7 or the revelations series (ideally revelations 2)

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

The only other game that gave me flashbacks in the real world was Ico, and the brightness and birdsong of early morning.
It was/is exactly like when you step outside the castle, particularly the first time.
Just gorgeous.
Must play that through again

Here's something that's terrifying about ICO - it's 20 years old next year! :eek:

barryribs wrote: »

After the talk of RE a few weeks back, I went back and completed 5. Had never gotten beyond the third stage before, always found the setting awful and the controls awkward.

It only took 13 years for me to realise it's actually a great game. RE4 gets a lot of the praise for revolutionising the game play, but 5 is actually just more of the same. The QTE's are fine, I don't mind them too much. The whole boulder punching thing is ridiculous, but so is the giant mechanical robot chasing you in 4.

I can't get my head around how much I liked 4 for the GC, but couldn't stomach 5. Have 6 lined up now for Monday

Resident Evil 5 really didn't get a lot of love when it came out. I remember playing through it at the time in the full knowledge of all the bad reviews and wasn't very fold of it myself.

Would be interested in giving it a go now after finishing 4 just to see what it's like after a decade.

Actually come to think of it, it's the last RE game I played in the main line of games. Haven't gone anywhere near 6 or 7.

barryribs

After the talk of RE a few weeks back, I went back and completed 5. Had never gotten beyond the third stage before, always found the setting awful and the controls awkward.

It only took 13 years for me to realise it's actually a great game. RE4 gets a lot of the praise for revolutionising the game play, but 5 is actually just more of the same. The QTE's are fine, I don't mind them too much. The whole boulder punching thing is ridiculous, but so is the giant mechanical robot chasing you in 4.

I can't get my head around how much I liked 4 for the GC, but couldn't stomach 5. Have 6 lined up now for Monday

The Nal

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

The only other game that gave me flashbacks in the real world was Ico, and the brightness and birdsong of early morning.
It was/is exactly like when you step outside the castle, particularly the first time.
Just gorgeous.
Must play that through again

Oh you've just given me my game to play at the weekend. Amiga emulator will be used.

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CiDeRmAn

The only other game that gave me flashbacks in the real world was Ico, and the brightness and birdsong of early morning.
It was/is exactly like when you step outside the castle, particularly the first time.
Just gorgeous.
Must play that through again

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I think the sound of a chainsaw gave me flashbacks to RE4 for ages...

Haha! Ah those chainsaw bastards give me the Willie's alright. One slice of their weapon and it's game over. Lost many a head to them on this playthrough!

CiDeRmAn

I think the sound of a chainsaw gave me flashbacks to RE4 for ages...

Just coming to the end of RE4 now, loving every moment.

Well, apart for one little thing...the QTEs! Bloody hell have they dated. A lot.

Especially the QTEs in the middle of a cut scene. I tend to do a bit of sound mastering any time a cut scene comes on from that era and lower the volume down a bit to save myself the embarrassment of the dodgy dialogue.

Oh you were holding the remote were you? Tough luck! You should really have been holding the control pad as you'd to press the shoulder buttons to dodge that knife attack. Now you're dead, back to the start of the cut scene with you.

:mad:

Shapey Fiend

My father and I take my son out for half the day each so he's not hunched in front of a screen for 12 hours straight. He managed to solve this issue but doubling or tripling up on screens. He'll be playing Mario on the Switch with volume off, maybe a little Youtube game commentary on the tablet, plus some Spongebob on Netflix with visually impaired mode turned on so he can follow what's going on without looking at the screen.

The Nal

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I don't know, I kind of liked watching my friends play games I was better at. Also had a friend that wanted to watch me play all the time as I was better than them, even at their own games. I'd ask if they wanted to play and they would say they are happy to just watch.

My friend that was big into PC gaming and got me into it I would watch them play Warcraft and Doom and other games a lot. But it was never like twitch, it was a more interactive experience, joking, coming up with plans etc.

And on the other side I really like watching speed running events.

Yeah here and there if it helps you in the end but just watching hours and hours of someone else gaming when you could be playing yourself seems odd to me. We all had that friend growing up who invited you over and then made you sit there and watch them play a single player game for hours.

The Nal wrote: »

Whats with the kids loving watching other people play games? When I was a kid that was my idea of hell.

I don't know, I kind of liked watching my friends play games I was better at. Also had a friend that wanted to watch me play all the time as I was better than them, even at their own games. I'd ask if they wanted to play and they would say they are happy to just watch.

My friend that was big into PC gaming and got me into it I would watch them play Warcraft and Doom and other games a lot. But it was never like twitch, it was a more interactive experience, joking, coming up with plans etc.

And on the other side I really like watching speed running events.

The Nal

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

My 5 year old has been watching too much Mario related Youtube over lockdown. I swear to god the other day he was telling some other disinterested kid in the playground Mario 2/Doki Doki Panic facts and mangling the pronounciation of Shigeru Miyamoto.

Whats with the kids loving watching other people play games? When I was a kid that was my idea of hell.

Shapey Fiend

My 5 year old has been watching too much Mario related Youtube over lockdown. I swear to god the other day he was telling some other disinterested kid in the playground Mario 2/Doki Doki Panic facts and mangling the pronounciation of Shigeru Miyamoto.

That's pretty much how it went down according to Howard Philips.

He was asked to play the game to see if it would be suitable for release in America and was shocked at how hard it was and not much fun. Also he thought the game would be poorly received due to how dated the visuals were, at the time NES games had moved on massively in terms of graphics and complexity.

I think Doki Doki Panic was an easy one to pick as it was made by the SMB team and at the Time mario's platforming gameplay wasn't nailed to a particular style, he had stared in Donkey Kong, the single screen Mario Bros game before that and Wrecking Crew. So probably didn't seem that weird a decision.

bmorrissey wrote: »

Really good GTA game, i actually picked it up a few weeks back, i really gotta jump back into it, really fun game

DaveyDave wrote: »

I'm looking forward to playing Chinatown Wars as I've never played it before. I knew it was on DS and then iOS later but didn't know it was on PSP until I bought it a while ago!

The one oddity about playing it on the PSP over the DS is it still has all of the DS stylus type bits - but the movements have been changed over to work with the PSP controls. So to remove a screw from a panel, you rotate the analogue stick etc rather than using a stylus to screw it out. It kind of works and they did what they could, but those elements would definitely work better on a DS.

Inviere wrote: »

Yep playing exclusively with Peach at the moment. It holds up in the sense that the game itself seems a fun & weird little game....it's just hard to judge it as a Mario game (because it isn't one really, it's essentially a romhack of another game).

It was such an odd move, I'd love to have been in the Nintendo board room when they decided to do that. Must have thought they were going to print money when Mario 2 landed from Japan, freaked out when they played it and went through a rake of platformers to see if there was anything remotely similar that they could reskin.

Inviere

o1s1n wrote: »

Princess Peach float your way through, easy peasy - I don't think I've actually played that game since Mario All-Stars was released, does it hold up at all?

Yep playing exclusively with Peach at the moment. It holds up in the sense that the game itself seems a fun & weird little game....it's just hard to judge it as a Mario game (because it isn't one really, it's essentially a romhack of another game).

DaveyDave

I'm looking forward to playing Chinatown Wars as I've never played it before. I knew it was on DS and then iOS later but didn't know it was on PSP until I bought it a while ago!

o1s1n wrote: »

Princess Peach float your way through, easy peasy - I don't think I've actually played that game since Mario All-Stars was released, does it hold up at all?

I really like it. One of the more unique NES platformers and has way more weird in it than most other mario games.

o1s1n wrote: »

Absolutely loving my PSP at the moment, completely hooked on GTA Chinatown Wars.

It did take my eyes a bit to get used to the lower resolutions after being absolutely spoiled by the Switch, was actually a little jarring at first.

But once they adjusted - wow, there really is an amazingly realised little city in that game. It's incredibly playable and fun.

Really good GTA game, i actually picked it up a few weeks back, i really gotta jump back into it, really fun game