So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

a5y · 02-05-2012 02:58PM

Elder Scrolls IV/Oblivion

Since this isn't my first time playing it I knew about the option to change my character's appearance at the end of the first "dungeon".

What I didn't quite realise is how bloody dark it is and how impossible it is to get a proper look at my characters appearance 2nd time around.

Think :"Did you dress yourself in the dark? FFS...", only with full species and gender assignment with plastic surgery too.

Also, since I'm playing unmodded (to test everything out) my ugly face is for keeps. And since I've neither a graphics card or even a 20" monitor they'll be looking like Baldrick if they're lucky.

Alas poor Elomar, truly those goblins pummelled you with the ugly stick...

If the Bethesda art team saw what I see, they'd cry :pac:

CiDeRmAn · 03-05-2012 08:03AM

Oblivion is a great game but I have to wonder, how many people will invest time in that game in the future?
To put it another way, how many folk still play Morrowind?
I have it on the Xbox and its a huge game, lots to do, good story, but who has the 50 hours to invest in an old sandbox RPG?
Oblivion is an even better game but again, who has the time to invest in it?
Skyrim is out now over 6 months and I am dying to play it but don't know where the time is going to come from, same goes, to a lesser extent, with Mass Effect 3.

OwaynOTT · 03-05-2012 11:53AM

Konami collection 2 on the gameboy colour. Continuing the Konami love in with Castlevania New Generations on megadrive.

Loving Paradious on the gameboy despite the limitations. Just need to tilt the screen here to catch the light, ah crap no this way damn you clouds!
Really wanna get it on the Snes now.

Castlevania is good. Not too difficult either especially using the spear guy. The stage in Italy is excellent. Eerie music and its disorientating progressing through the stage. Haven't killed the yoke at the end but was only playing for a half hour or so, hoping to crack it later.

Have three Castlevania games coming in the post and can't wait to get stuck in and kinda wanna get a PS1 now as well to play the castlevania on that. Damn Konami and tgeir excellent library of games and damn Castkevania for being addictive.

Worse time to get stuck into games during exams.

Retr0gamer · 03-05-2012 12:44PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

good story

Ah now come on... :P

johnny_ultimate · 03-05-2012 01:02PM

Lad in Castle: 'Hello Generic Fantasy Character, did you hear King *unpronouncablename* summoned a demon gate? You must go find his illegitimate brother or someone and do something. It likely involves dungeon crawling and looting corpses.'

Generic Fantasy Character stands in front of Lad in Castle so Lad in Castle cannot move, and just keeps saying 'Hello'. Generic Fantasy Character pickpockets Lad in Castle. Becomes overburdened.

Player plays better game instead.

o1s1n · 03-05-2012 01:04PM

Fantasy games like that have just become so generic I stopped playing them a long time ago.

Only game with dragons and swords I've gone near lately is Dark Souls.

Retr0gamer · 03-05-2012 01:14PM

Dark and Demon's Souls fantasy settings and stories are far from generic thankfully. Also manages some amazing art despite being in the usually bland sark fantasy setting.

OwaynOTT · 03-05-2012 03:44PM

Just got Circle of the Moon there now. Gave it a whirl. Not bad pity the screen I'd so small and the sound from a micro is so low. Might pop it in the gameboy player later and give it another whirl.

Doge · 04-05-2012 07:05PM

Look at the mighty graphics of this 2003 Drifting game for the PS2!

Battle Gear 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-nGTRkLLsw

Working speedo and rev counter and everything, ahead of it's time!

It only took gran turismo a full decade to give us a cockpit view! :rolleyes:

This was one of things I loved about the first TOCA game on the PSX,
that along with Colin Mc Rae Rally was a turning point in racing games.

johnny_ultimate · 04-05-2012 08:28PM

Playing some G-Darius.

That's how you do boss battles.

CiDeRmAn · 04-05-2012 08:33PM

Very nice Waveform, working car instruments in 2003, very cool...

But Oh!
Whats this???
Could it be licenced car interiors, with working rev and speedo in Need For Speed on the 3DO dating from 1994??
And, it's on a much cooler set of tracks too, none of your circuit drifty nonsense, this is point to point at its best baby!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fgdi8AZLX0

CiDeRmAn · 04-05-2012 08:45PM

Finished Lost Planet 2 this evening!
What a great fun game, sure there is something fodderish about the less than bright enemy troops, but no more than the opposition in the campaign of MW, the visuals are really eye popping too and the mechs, sorry, Vital Suits are varied, fun and useful, not a one trick pony either.
Well worth the tenner it cost and I recommend it as summer time playing to one and all at that price.
Tbh, if it was €40 it would still have been worth it, the level structure is bizarre, it goes back to the lobby after each mission, some of which are over in 2 minutes, the areas really built for multiplayer co-op at harder difficulties, and some of the targets of your bug hunt are very very impressive.
I returned to the first game, briefly, to see if it shone in the glow of its enjoyable descendant and, no, no it doesn't, it's control scheme and bizarre save point system make it a turd in a dress.

Steve X2 · 04-05-2012 09:18PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Very nice Waveform, working car instruments in 2003, very cool...

But Oh!
Whats this???
Could it be licenced car interiors, with working rev and speedo in Need For Speed on the 3DO dating from 1994??
And, it's on a much cooler set of tracks too, none of your circuit drifty nonsense, this is point to point at its best baby!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fgdi8AZLX0

Was thinking the exact same thing when I seen Waveforms vid.
I'm starting to think his first console was a Playstation or PS2 :eek:

Say it aint so Wavey man?????

Now I must go and play Need For Speed on the 3DO after watching that vid.

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CiDeRmAn · 04-05-2012 09:28PM

The Pacific coast and Alpine tracks look so, so good to take a drive on in that game, I spent so much time I think I knew every corner and bump in the road, not to mention the weight and feel of the car upon the asphalt, I think it was the first game I ever really loved.... sniff....
And then the PS version came along, slightly smoother frame rate but the graphics are gaudier and, while I can appreciate the circuit additions to the game they do dilute the mix somewhat, making it into a more formulaic title, reducing the time the player will spend developing a "relationship" with each point to point track, just like someone will "learn" a level in Ghouls and Ghosts, so too here you develop that innate feeling rounding an uphill hard turn in the Alpine track...
Unforgettable stuff, it really is.

Steve X2 · 04-05-2012 10:13PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

The Pacific coast and Alpine tracks look so, so good to take a drive on in that game, I spent so much time I think I knew every corner and bump in the road, not to mention the weight and feel of the car upon the asphalt, I think it was the first game I ever really loved.... sniff....
And then the PS version came along, slightly smoother frame rate but the graphics are gaudier and, while I can appreciate the circuit additions to the game they do dilute the mix somewhat, making it into a more formulaic title, reducing the time the player will spend developing a "relationship" with each point to point track, just like someone will "learn" a level in Ghouls and Ghosts, so too here you develop that innate feeling rounding an uphill hard turn in the Alpine track...
Unforgettable stuff, it really is.

You're bringing a reminiscent tear to my eye cidey

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CiDeRmAn · 04-05-2012 10:50PM

Other people don't understand, they weren't there, some weren't even born!
Other were seduced and went straight from the 16 bit to the PSX, dropping trou' for the sideways sliding delights of Ridge Racer, the fools!
Need for Speed was the game that made arcade racers seen lightweight and vacuous.
The only racer that came close, outside of the NFS series was Rage Racer, a controversial choice for many but my favorite of the franchise.
Need for Speed Road Challnge was class as well, Hot Pursuit 2 on the PS2 was a class act too, and then things got grim, with a slight glow of hope with Most Wanted.
Didn't improve again until Hot Pursuit on the current gen.
The Shift games are cool but they are not, at heart, NFS games, the less said about Pro Street the better!

Doge · 05-05-2012 12:53AM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Could it be licenced car interiors, with working rev and speedo in Need For Speed on the 3DO dating from 1994??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fgdi8AZLX0

I was more taken back by how great the graphics were and how detailed it looked for an early ps2 game!

And as for working rev and speedo counters?

Pfffft....

If the 3DO is as far back as you can remember, then you're definitely getting forgetful in your old age man! :pac:

I can remember playing racing games which had interior views with working clocks on my commodore 64 ffs....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drLKG0EKKMg

Doge · 05-05-2012 12:57AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Doge · 05-05-2012 10:43AM

One of my favourites is NFS Porsche Unleashed / 2000,
the PC and PSX versions were 2 completely different beasts, but great in their own rights.

The evolution mode in the PSX version had a cracking soundtrack,
I fell in love when I unlocked the Porsche 959.

Even though the PC version has much better graphics, I enjoyed the gameplay more on the PS version.

Theres a nice history of NFS games here:

High Stakes is one I missed out on, looks fantastic!

CiDeRmAn · 05-05-2012 11:36AM

The pc version was pretty sweet I'll grant you, had it myself.
The PSX version is good.but not as good, imho.
Don't need a timeline of NFS, I lived through it and have them all!
Even the truly awful NFS2, both PC and PSX games were dreadful, F198 levels of pantsness there.

raven999 · 06-05-2012 09:47PM

am playing grandia jap version on the saturn some say this version is better than the psx one

Retr0gamer · 06-05-2012 10:03PM

It looks an awful lot better but I'd rather play it in english.

raven999 · 07-05-2012 12:10AM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It looks an awful lot better but I'd rather play it in english.

i played the pal one on the psx a few months ago just wanted to have a go at the saturn version

Retr0gamer · 07-05-2012 01:09AM

I think the PAL version might be the one to go for like Suikoden 2. I heard the US one has a crap translation, didn't notice it in the PAL one but then it was a while ago that I played it.

CiDeRmAn · 07-05-2012 07:29AM

Not sure what to tackle next.... might just head back to DQXIII, it's been sitting there, barely played for a couple of years now....

Retr0gamer · 07-05-2012 12:14PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Not sure what to tackle next.... might just head back to DQXIII, it's been sitting there, barely played for a couple of years now....

Managed to get yourself a delorean and show off now since I'm stuck with DQIX?

Pyongyang · 07-05-2012 02:59PM

Not playing anything right now. I'm reading a dictionary (never thought I'd ever say that). Here's a photo I took of some cool Kanji in my book.

Steve X2 · 07-05-2012 04:34PM

Pyongyang wrote: »

Not playing anything right now. I'm reading a dictionary (never thought I'd ever say that). Here's a photo I took of some cool Kanji in my book.

"Japanese for Dummies" is worth getting. It was one of the first books I got when I started to learn the language and it really helped me get to grasps with it at the start.

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Pyongyang · 07-05-2012 05:50PM

I've been mainly learning Hiragana and have those nailed nearly. Katakana next then on to Kanji!

Not tried the book you suggest but will certainly give it a look.

Steve X2 · 07-05-2012 05:58PM

Pyongyang wrote: »

I've been mainly learning Hiragana and have those nailed nearly. Katakana next then on to Kanji!

Not tried the book you suggest but will certainly give it a look.

Cool, that "Dummies" book is handy for learning the basics of actually speaking to people on a basic level.
Worth a look for sure.

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