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So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

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  • #2222
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,553 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Sure 'Project Eden' was one of the Rez working titles.


  • #2223
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,794 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I "obtained" the Genki rockets album, its very good indeed.


  • #2224
    Retr0gamer
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    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    I "obtained" the Genki rockets album, its very good indeed.

    It's absolute muck, especially the last couple of songs but there's 4 or 5 on there that that bloody game child of eden has made me addicted to :(


  • #2225
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,794 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Isn't it a pity there isn't a thumbs down button :(
    Probably doesn't like Freezepop either...

    I quite the remixes at the end btw.


  • #2226
    Retr0gamer
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    The remixes are usually the best thing about the songs. There's far too much cheese and a few ropey songs to challenging Surfer Rosa any time soon.


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  • #2227
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,666 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    After finishing Child of Eden I went through a few days where I couldn't stop listening to Heavenly Star. Junk, but super catchy junk.


  • #2228
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,794 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    So,
    Child Of Eden...


    To Kinect or not to Kinect?

    I have both and think a non-kinect approach is best, using the Kinect you wind up back at the start screen and exhausted/sweaty repeatedly!


  • #2229
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,666 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    I haven't tried Kinect, but playing well rather than just OK is demanding enough with a controller :pac:

    So yeah, controller with strategically placed extra controllers around erogenous zones the couch to make it that bit easier to pick up on the appropriate beat.


  • #2230
    o1s1n
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    Master of the Universe


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    erogenous zones

    Needs more strikeout :(


  • #2231
    Retr0gamer
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    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    I haven't tried Kinect, but playing well rather than just OK is demanding enough with a controller :pac:

    So yeah, controller with strategically placed extra controllers around erogenous zones the couch to make it that bit easier to pick up on the appropriate beat.

    The game really needs a trance vibrator.


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  • #2232
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,794 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    And a well informed 2nd hand market, maybe one of those ebay warning pages,

    "So you're buying a trance vibrator for Rez or Child of Eden? Here are the health concerns and links to protective latex sheaths for your device, and a selection of hygienic wipes if you insist on playing 'bare back'"


  • #2233
    valleyoftheunos
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    Castlevania on the GBA and not Quite retro but played a brief bit of Mario Kart Wii last night with the girlfriend. First time I've played it in well over 12 months, had forgotten just how good it is, was online with it for an hour this evening.


  • #2234
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,794 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Finding the back catalogue getting raided right now, so playing Half Life 2: Ep2 right now, never got to finishing it so having a blast right now, those Hunters are b@stards!
    Also playing the second Mechwarrior game on the xbox as well as trying not to get blasted out of the sky again in Panzer Dragoon Orta.


  • #2235
    o1s1n
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    PD Orta gets suprisingly difficult doesn't it? Great game though. Another reason to keep an Xbox knocking about. Such a shame Microsoft mangled the backwards compatability on that one!

    I broke out the A1200 yesterday. Been meaning to take that out for a while. Due to space restrictions I had to run it on my LCD tv. And amazingly - it didn't look ****! I thought my eyes would be bleeding with the lack of scanlines..but no, the games looked quite nice.

    Spent a bit of time playing the CD32 version of Road Kill. Great fun so it is. I really wish they made a Micro Machines on the system with that kind of visual detail.


  • #2236
    Myrddin
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    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Finding the back catalogue getting raided right now, so playing Half Life 2: Ep2 right now, never got to finishing it so having a blast right now

    I thought the way the game ended was exceptional, very cinematic'y. Then again, I'm a devout Half Life worshipper :o Very, very good game. Only second to the original. Gabe Newell is also a jerk.


  • #2237
    johnny_ultimate
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    EnterNow wrote: »
    I thought the way the game ended was exceptional, very cinematic'y.

    Cinematic is a curious word to use there. What I love about Half-Life is the way it tells the story without dragging you away to pointless cutscenes - it's much more of a 'game' than most, rarely taking away interactivity. It's why the end of Episode 2 -
    where for the first time, barring the 'stranger' endings of the original and sequel, the stranger 'lose control' over Freeman - is so utterly heartbreaking and powerful.
    Yeah, I love Half-Life, it's the game every FPS maker should hold up as an example of how to do the genre right. Half-Life 2 is still one of my favourite games of all time, it's a masterfully designed game from beginning to end.

    Also trying to work through a sizable backlog of freebies and Steam sales. Loving Frozen Synapse, the best online game I've played in a long time. So-so about inFamous and Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty (what a dodgy title). Adore Jamestown. All topped with the occasional dip into Dynamite Headdy or Earthworm Jim!


  • #2238
    Retr0gamer
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    The new Ratchet and Clank games got so much praise but I really thought they were very average. I guess coming out as an exclusive while the PS3 was starved of games helped.


  • #2239
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,794 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Someone was trying to get me to buy Infamous 2 the other day, no thanks says I, found the first one a bit boring tbh, after gaming for as long as us it's got to the point that a game really has to be interesting to make us play, make us invest in it.
    I find often that the big budget games become boring rehashes of games long since finished, while other sometimes flawed games are fun simply because they dare to offer some kernel of the new..
    I would consider every 3rd person brawler since God of War in the former category, aside perhaps for Bayonetta, they all are a meaningless blur of big attacks, little attacks, opening chests for magic and life extensions.
    I would be more in mind to play EDF/GDF or Powerdrome.


  • #2240
    Damokc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭Damokc


    spent the last few weeks playing the very 1st Carmageddon...pixilated madness..love it.


  • #2241
    o1s1n
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    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    I would consider every 3rd person brawler since God of War in the former category, aside perhaps for Bayonetta, they all are a meaningless blur of big attacks, little attacks, opening chests for magic and life extensions.
    I would be more in mind to play EDF/GDF or Powerdrome.

    Thank feck you can always fall back on your other love, 2d brawlers.

    Oh wait :(


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  • #2242
    johnny_ultimate
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    The new Ratchet and Clank games got so much praise but I really thought they were very average. I guess coming out as an exclusive while the PS3 was starved of games helped.

    Yeah I remember them getting praise all over the shop. This is the first R&C I've played and I'm honestly just a bit bored by the whole thing. The platforming is rubbish. The weaponry is interesting but poorly implemented (six axis controls can **** right off). And actually shooting just feels like a ****ter implementation of shooting mechanics from much better games. Rail grinding is cool though. I'm guessing the PS2 games are a bit better?

    As for brawlers, Castlevania Lords of Shadow is surprisingly enjoyable despite robbing nearly every single game mechanic from other games. It's the scale that impresses. But then again, I always fail to see the appeal of God of War, a franchise I enjoy but don't love. Give me the glory of Bayonetta anyday, still probably my game of this console gen!


  • #2243
    CiDeRmAn
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    Thank feck you can always fall back on your other love, 2d brawlers.

    Oh wait :(

    Ah well, I like some 2d fighting games alright, The Last Blade and it's sequel being top of the list, but when some genius thinks to himself..
    "Hmm, I know what would make this better, lets reduce the move set to four actions, lets make the play arena scroll horizontally and, feck it no time to be original, just reuse the same handful of enemies and use a palette swap to make the saps believe they are different enemies, brilliant!"

    Do we really have to revisit the factual suck-edness that is Streets of Rage and Golden Axe? Really, do you want to be ridiculed again, in front of all your mate? ;)


  • #2244
    o1s1n
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    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Do we really have to revisit the factual suck-edness that is Streets of Rage and Golden Axe? Really, do you want to be ridiculed again, in front of all your mate? ;)

    How you get away with trolling a forum you moderate I'll never know :p


  • #2245
    Retr0gamer
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    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    I'm guessing the PS2 games are a bit better?

    It's more of the same really. Found them good but not worth bothering with.


  • #2246
    CiDeRmAn
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    Best.
    Job.
    In.
    The.
    World!

    I know, sorry, lets go back to baiting Retr0 instead!


  • #2247
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    lets go back to baiting Retr0 instead!

    Basically the ethos of the forum :p


  • #2248
    o1s1n
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    EnterNow wrote: »
    Basically the ethos of the forum :p

    Sure didn't our Lord himself on the cross pause to bait Retr0 before giving himself up for the world?


  • #2249
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Sure didn't our Lord himself on the cross pause to bait Retr0 before giving himself up for the world?

    A nice Teddage adapted for the situation - nicely done :D


  • #2250
    Andrew76
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    Sure didn't our Lord himself on the cross pause to bait Retr0 before giving himself up for the world?

    Forgive them for not owning NES'es or something? Or what was it he said?


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  • #2251
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Andrew76 wrote: »
    Forgive them for not owning NES'es or something? Or what was it he said?

    More specific though...something about moderators of the Ninteno forum, and lover of all things Nintendo not spending 15 quid on a NES. Eternal damnation/ridicule followed I think...


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