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So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition
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Master of the UniverseJoin Date:Posts: 36045
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Shenmue at the time was a truly unique experience, more than the sum of parts.
I remember getting near the end of 2 and then learning that the third installment (of a planned 7?) was on hold. So I never finished 2, hoping to join them up.
Unfortunately I haven't heard great things about shenmue 3, so I'll probably never finish 2.
Sega really put out the strangest stuff, sometimes good, sometimes rubbish, but certainly different. Those panzer dragoon games are a good example too, just really strange commercially, but they've stood the test of time. Haven't beaten Saga yet, but it's supposed to be up there with the best rpg's ever made?
Dreamcast 2, any decade now!
I am hoping that reaction to Shenmue 3 is more due to a modern audience not 'getting it' rather than the game itself being bad, from what I've read they really kept the gameplay very similar with QTEs and waiting etc, which would drive a modern gamer mental
Saga is bloody brilliant, it completely bucks the RPG trend you usually see and cuts out all filler, so what you are left with is a short game but a really well put together, concise one. Definitely worth a run through if you haven't yet and not too much of a time commitment.0 -
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I am hoping that reaction to Shenmue 3 is more due to a modern audience not 'getting it' rather than the game itself being bad, from what I've read they really kept the gameplay very similar with QTEs and waiting etc, which would drive a modern gamer mental
Saga is bloody brilliant, it completely bucks the RPG trend you usually see and cuts out all filler, so what you are left with is a short game but a really well put together, concise one. Definitely worth a run through if you haven't yet and not too much of a time commitment.
A friend of mine played through shenmue 3 , and being a big fan of the originals back in the day and now, he said they got the feel right, but that it's bursting with emptiness. Like going into a room and being able to open 20 drawers, but nothing's there. Going by his reaction I'd guess they had much bigger plans but as usual cut it way down, and it shows?? Only one way to find out!
Yeah I've had panzer dragoon saga for donkeys years, but always put off playing it. Now that I've gotten a decent tv again I plan on playing through stuff instead of letting dust gather. So I hope it lives up to expectations.
The one I have is in quite decent nick, and here's a picture because of covid boredom (coredome?!).
I remember bumping into a bloke who used to work for Sega and he had two brand new, never opened copies of the game. Just nabbed them out of the workplace when it was shutting down!0 -
Master of the UniverseJoin Date:Posts: 36045
Retr0gamer wrote: »I won't ever hide my love for Saga. It's an incredible RPG and a good shout as the best of that 32-bit era. And without the filler it manages to tell a really epic hard sci-fi tale and yet only clocks in at about 24 hours. I basically sat down and beat each disc of it in an evening with the final disk taking two nights.
Yeah the one and only time I've played through it was that time you gave me a lend of your copy, absolutely chewed through it in no time at all. Was when that Enternow chap sold me his 29 inch Trinitron back in the day and was the first game I played on it.
Soundtrack absolutely pumping out of two massive speakers, magical experience!A friend of mine played through shenmue 3 , and being a big fan of the originals back in the day and now, he said they got the feel right, but that it's bursting with emptiness. Like going into a room and being able to open 20 drawers, but nothing's there. Going by his reaction I'd guess they had much bigger plans but as usual cut it way down, and it shows?? Only one way to find out!
Yeah I've had panzer dragoon saga for donkeys years, but always put off playing it. Now that I've gotten a decent tv again I plan on playing through stuff instead of letting dust gather. So I hope it lives up to expectations.
The one I have is in quite decent nick, and here's a picture because of covid boredom (coredome?!).
I remember bumping into a bloke who used to work for Sega and he had two brand new, never opened copies of the game. Just nabbed them out of the workplace when it was shutting down!
Nice! I'd recommend buying one of these protective sleeves for it.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1x-Schutzhulle-0-4mm-PET-Sega-Saturn-Big-Box-Games-Panzer-Dragoon-Saga-Protector/373436665654?hash=item56f28f4f36:g:njwAAOSwNJFgCwFe
I hate being precious with my games, but there's something about the cardboard sleeve for PDS that's just screaming out to be destroyed. I lashed my copy in one of these and now don't have to worry about it anymore.0 -
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Retr0gamer wrote: »How have you managed not to play it yet!
You really should play it. If you are put off by the prospect of playing a multi hour RPG then you really shouldn't be. The game is really short for an RPG and you'll just blast through it. It's pretty easy as well. I know myself I didn't expect much from it and ended up inhaling it in less than a week.
About the protective sleeve things, I have some of them knocking about, but I generally just bubble wrap delicate things. I swear, the amount of bubble wrap I've gone through by now I could've opened my own factory!
About playing saga, I did finish the first disc once, but again there's something really unsatisfying about playing on modern Telly's. So, I'll fix that problem soon!
I don't think I'm very good at finishing games with n general! Just over Christmas there I actually finished Aliens on the arcade, like 300 years after first playing it
Seriously though, I've owned the game for waaay more than a decade, it's a bit crazy to think back!
Last night I dusted off metal slug X for the arcade, and again, didn't finish it, but got to the final level. I do give myself 1 continue no matter how many credits show up, and if I don't do it, I don't do it.
Really good game series though, the attention to detail is right up there at the top, so much going on in the background, great fun. I need to get metal slug 3 on the mvs because it's supposed to be the best?
There's a few of us that dream up challenges for games and send pictures back and forth, in this case the switch vs arcade version, I'm not actually losing my marbles just taking pictures of everything...yet!
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Correct, apologies. Sonic 2 was a two act structure, but despite that, the levels just felt 'tighter' than the ones in Sonic 3. The devs seem to have gone for a "look at how big these levels are!" approach, which for me, makes them a bit less interesting. In Sonic 1 & 2, no matter where you where in a level, you kinda had an idea still of where you where in relation to everything else...not so in this case for me anyway, I kinda feel at sea in them, & that just makes you want to travel right for no reason.
Carnival Night Zone was a písstake. No need for a level to be this much of a mess.
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