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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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Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I love the GB version of Donkey Kong, the one that also uses the Super Game Boy Snes attachment, it's superb, possibly the best arcade conversion ever!

Donkey Kong '94?

The original levels at the start are only the beginning of the game. After them the game becomes excellent and turns into a superb puzzle platformer.

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

]the one that also uses the Super Game Boy Snes attachment,

I picked one of them up about four years ago as part of a snes lot in a charity shop. Still havent tried the thing out yet! Not sure where any of my GB games are though

I tend to find carts for potable systems go missing way too easily. Especially GB ones as they came in damn cardboard boxes.

A Doozer

Sonic the hedgehog and shinobi.

That blue hegehog started it all for me. *sigh*

trout

Sega Bass Fishing on the Dreamcast ... it's so bad, it's good.

CiDeRmAn

Yup, I enjoyed it, can't wait for the next instalment, to be called, "DOOM 4" or something original like that!
id will probably release it after Rage, which also so looks tres cool.
But enough of this current gen malarkey, back to retro goodness...

I love the GB version of Donkey Kong, the one that also uses the Super Game Boy Snes attachment, it's superb, possibly the best arcade conversion ever!

CCCP^

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Pity the game was a bit bland.

It's a bit linear and the way enemies just spawn out of nowhere to ambush you is a trick used far too many times but on the other hand, the atmosphere and graphics are amazing and really well done. They could have done better with the flashlight system for light - I think if you could have strapped a flashlight to your gun but still had to find batteries for it and conserve the power, that would have been good.

NeoKubrick

No matter how many times you say it, it won't come true.

I don't think it strictly qualifies as retro, but Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn is basically a Gamecube game in Wii's clothing. It's now the most frustrating game I've had the pleasure of playing, and I still love it. I've experienced the frustrations of the first game where I played through the game on hard mode until I met the final boss and finally admitted defeat that it was impossible to beat him with my characters; thus, throwing away around thirty hours plus of my life. I accepted that because it was 'hard mode', but on 'Normal' for Radiant Dawn, I'm nearly at defeat.

I've proceeded to the endgame without the laguz royals and I think, in so many words, I'm done. I first hit the brickwall in part three, but just managed to spam the boss with Kurth to level him enough to do more than ten damage (this was after 300 turns). Hit it again in part four, where I realized that to survive I'd have to recruit the two dragons in part three, which meant doing the 200 turn part three map again. I'm at the final part and boss, and first impressions don't look good. I'd snap the disc in two if I found it was impossible for me to complete the game, if I didn't want to start all over and playthrough again.

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Which?
Doom 3 I suppose, although, I really enjoyed it, but then, I have room in my heart for many types of FPS, be it, Doom, H*lo, Quake etc.
I'm enjoying Wolfenstein right now, although Edge gave it a mere 5, and I seem to remember having fun with Prey as well, a game that can be bought these days for less than a tenner.

Well that explains the fetish with a painfully average FPS that will not be named :P

steve_

I ported all my PS1 collection to my psp. Iv been playing through Legacy of Kain Blood omen which i finished last night now im on Soul Reaver. Maybe the best story ever told in a video game, so many delicious twists and turns not to mention excellent voice acting and character design.

Busted out my N64 the other week and me and my mates has a super smash bros session. Then naturally i was lured in to replay Ocarina of Time. This is my all time favorite game, its a blend of childhood memories mixed with great music and immersive gameplay that keep this game close to my heart.

CiDeRmAn

Which?
Doom 3 I suppose, although, I really enjoyed it, but then, I have room in my heart for many types of FPS, be it, Doom, H*lo, Quake etc.
I'm enjoying Wolfenstein right now, although Edge gave it a mere 5, and I seem to remember having fun with Prey as well, a game that can be bought these days for less than a tenner.

Retr0gamer

Pity the game was a bit bland.

CiDeRmAn

Doom3 on the Xbox is amazing, really incredible, as if you were getting next gen visuals on a current gen machine, same with Burnout Revenge, looked amazing on the Xbox.

civildefence

The original Resident Evil & Die Hard Trilogy on the PS1.

Die Hard 2 with the light gun

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Also JetStrike on the Amiga, anyone remember it?

CCCP^

RichCRX wrote: »

GCN-Zelda Windwaker
Sega Mega-Streets of rage
PS1-Hogs of War
N64-Duke Nukem

Hogs of War was a fun game, I like Rik Mayall. He was brilliant in Bottom and the Young Ones. I'm almost finished Quake on the Nintendo 64 now, and when I do, accomplishment will wash over me in an awesome wave, but I will be left with a considerale gap to fill. I have lined up Doom 64 next.

N64 - Quake I
PS2 - Pro Evolution Soccer 6
DC - Jet Set Radio

The bits where you are challenged by another skater to do specific moves is troubling me at the moment, no matter what I do I can't seem to ace it, so I might go back to Sonic Adventure or bring out the Xbox for Doom 3.

RichCRX

GCN-Zelda Windwaker
Sega Mega-Streets of rage
PS1-Hogs of War
N64-Duke Nukem

97i9y3941

me too,had it on Amiga aswell,way better version...

Kinetic^

On the Snes. I originally played it on the mega drive.

97i9y3941

which port of desert strike?

Kinetic^

Played some Desert Strike & Rock n Roll racing earlier, both epic games .... still!

97i9y3941

samurai shodown on my neo geo cd console,still a great game,speaking of Quake,the saturn version was excellent..

CiDeRmAn

As for Call of Cthulhu on the Xbox, nope never played it, but just looked it up and found it here,
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox/home/562603.html
Sorry I missed it.
Eternal Darkness and Quake are the closest to the Lovecraft tales in tone, and very good indeed, especially Eternal Darkness, the controls on certain characters is a tad wooden, but only because you are controlling, not a battle hardened space marine but several weaker, more human individuals, none of whom are fighters, and so why should they wield a sword or gun like a pro?

Hopefully a future movie of At the Mountains of Madness will bring us a similarly themed game, although the very good "The Thing" may have beaten them to it!

The Cthulhu mythos is far too strong for a game dev to ignore, perhaps some day..

TinCool

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I preferred Quake 2 on the PS1. It was a stunning conversion and a technical marvel.

I prefer Quake2 on the PC. Poured about 2 years of actual play time in to that game.

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I think it's funny that a lot of people from the turok development team went to retro studios and perfected FPS jumping in Metroid Prime after failing miserably in Turok.

Now, there's something I didn't know when I got up this morning, hmm....

But then Metroid Prime is AWESOME!
And given that one of the primary things Metroid is all about is jumping, it's just as well they got the hang of it!

Otherwise it'd be like making a Sonic game without any speed.... Oh, wait a minute....

Retr0gamer

I didn't like Eternal Darkness that much.

The story was excellent, the soundtrack, effects and atmosphere were excellent and the writing and voice acting some of the best ever. The game however was just a dog to play.

Gummy Panda

CCCP^ wrote: »

CiDeRmAn, have you ever heard of call of Cthulhu for the Xbox? I was interested in getting it at one point, I love Lovecraft stories, but apparently it's not that good

If you love Lovecraft, then Eternal Darkness is a great game to get for the GC.

Retr0gamer

I preferred Quake 2 on the PS1. It was a stunning conversion and a technical marvel. The dual analogue control system was excellent in it as well and one of the first uses and multitap 4 player was excellent.

What I usually do is concentrate on one JRPG or long game and keep 1 or 2 dumb action games in reserve when I get the ineviteable JRPG burnout after a 5 hour session.

CCCP^

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Ever get a restless bored feeling when playing through your games. Today I'm off work and it feels like i can't decide what to play. When i do pick something it can't keep my attention for too long. Now these are good games that would normally have me playing hours.

Is it due to expanding my games library too fast and having too much choice?

Policenauts was also pissing me off today

Yeah, that happens. I just stick with a few consoles. My room is like this: PS2, N64 and Dreamcast all setup. Playing a couple of different games on each - Sonic Unleashed, Pro Evolution Soccer 6 and Tomb Raider Anniversary for the PS2, Quake on the N64 and Jet Set Radio on the DC. When I get sick of one game, I just put the other one on. There's enough diversity between those games to keep me going. Jet Set Radio I am starting to get into, beautiful visuals in that game, easily rival anything on the PS2 or Xbox.

CiDeRmAn wrote:

I also have Quake64 and, apart from the Saturn version, it's pretty brilliant, and scary!
The Shambler rocks and I especially love the Lovecraft "Elder Ones" theme that runs through it, sadly replaced by a scifi cliche for Quake 2/4/Wars.
I would really like a true sequel to Quake, not holding out too much hope some 14 years after it's initial release!
Turok sucked, the fogging was truely atrocious, dinos and enemies running at you from this pea-soup mist, the amount of platform jumping was odd as well, the FPS perspective not lending itself well to precision leaps, leading to many falls and restarts.
Turok 2 only trumped it by having better visuals and awesome weapons, still too much fog though!

Quake64 is pure genius. Easily the best FPS for that console console, I am addicted to it. I would love to see a Quake remake in the near future, whatever console had it I would buy straight away. CiDeRmAn, have you ever heard of call of Cthulhu for the Xbox? I was interested in getting it at one point, I love Lovecraft stories, but apparently it's not that good

Retr0gamer

Agree entirely with the above.

o1s1n

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Is it due to expanding my games library too fast and having too much choice?

Yep, that's exactly it. Spoiled for choice. I think the biggest example of this is with emulators. You go to play something and instead flick through a couple, get bored and turn it off.

Best way around it is to make a point of beating specific games rather than randomly just dipping in to your collection on any given day.

Gummy Panda

Ever get a restless bored feeling when playing through your games. Today I'm off work and it feels like i can't decide what to play. When i do pick something it can't keep my attention for too long. Now these are good games that would normally have me playing hours.

Is it due to expanding my games library too fast and having too much choice?

Policenauts was also pissing me off today