So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

CiDeRmAn · 07-05-2012 07:40PM

Ahhh,
I see what I did there...
I, of course, meant to say Dragon Quest VIII...

My first Latin numeral error in a long long time, I am suitably shamed..

OwaynOTT · 09-05-2012 07:18PM

God damn! I hope your all happy. Ruined street fighter on the Snes for me. Was playing Street Fughter Alpha 2 on it there and it's just not enjoyable as street fighter on my Saturn.

a5y · 09-05-2012 07:41PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

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.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Ah now come on...

I don't know why I like Oblivion. I think its actually a guilty pleasure. I'm just OK with (or used to turning a deaf ear to) so much of the stuff that's executed so poorly in the game.

I think its similar to how much I let slide when playing Final Fantasy VII.

:pac: "I've heard others say the same."

johnny_ultimate · 09-05-2012 09:04PM

I can't complain about the scope of Oblivion / Skyrim's world. They can be a joy to just simply wander around in and take in the sights. There's few, if any, gaming worlds that feel so grand, so beautiful, so mysterious.

What bothers me is everything within the world. The repetitive dungeons. The lame combat. The pitifully generic fantasy tropes. The creepiness of the inhabitants. Becoming overburdened (inventory management is my least favourite things about all Bethesda games, hands-down). I really thought Skyrim would address these complaints to some degree. But no, it's just Oblivion with snow and a new menu system. There's so much potential in the games, but Bethesda just seem to lack the talent to give it that extra 'push' into greatness. IMO, of course.

CiDeRmAn · 09-05-2012 09:14PM

I just like the fact you can go off mission and have a blast just being good/bad.
Sure, the dungeons are repetitive, perhaps this is where the next gen will come in, random dungeons of an epic nature, don't care, I'll be still trying to finish Oblivion!

The Last Bandit · 09-05-2012 09:25PM

Super star wars on snes, thoroughly awesome..

a5y · 09-05-2012 09:43PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I can't complain about the scope of Oblivion / Skyrim's world. They can be a joy to just simply wander around in and take in the sights. There's few, if any, gaming worlds that feel so grand, so beautiful, so mysterious.

What bothers me is everything within the world. The repetitive dungeons. The lame combat. The pitifully generic fantasy tropes. The creepiness of the inhabitants. Becoming overburdened (inventory management is my least favourite things about all Bethesda games, hands-down). I really thought Skyrim would address these complaints to some degree. But no, it's just Oblivion with snow and a new menu system. There's so much potential in the games, but Bethesda just seem to lack the talent to give it that extra 'push' into greatness. IMO, of course.

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I just like the fact you can go off mission and have a blast just being good/bad.
Sure, the dungeons are repetitive, perhaps this is where the next gen will come in, random dungeons of an epic nature, don't care, I'll be still trying to finish Oblivion!

The over-encumbered game mechanic is plain broken. It is a symphony of suck. :mad:

That it hasn't been thrown out has meant other things that are repetitive, immersion breaking and unfun have become fixtures - expected even in new Elder Scrolls games.

I don't enjoy repetitive mental division, and don't consider it a hobby, but seemingly Bethesda thinks I'm a total fiend for calculating item value to item weight ratios, just so I can afford to buy items from a shop keeper who behaves more like a vending machine than a shop keeper.

I don't go to shop keepers so I can repeated play a minigame that results in them not hating the sight of me either. Not after already going through my "arrows are 10:1 versus books are 10:1, which of the venders do I get on with better? Wait, do they even buy books in this town? What's their mercantile rating?" crap.

One thing I haven't tried doing is killing ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE who has an annoying minigame or mechanic that as a player you're stuck using. Perhaps the Dark Brotherhood have an employee of the month award or a scoreboard. :cool:

Steve X2 · 09-05-2012 09:48PM

Playing a few games on the Nintendo iQue for the first time this evening. Frame rate on Fzero definitely seems better than on the standard N64. The Chinese language is a bit of a pain though to be honest and as I said before this is more a curiosity and collectors item than something you'd actually use regularly.

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Doge · 09-05-2012 11:40PM

Was playing HyperChase again tonight for what seemed like a half an hour tonight, but was actually an hour.
Man that Veccy totally defies the space time continuum, it just sucks you in.

I have to say I'm struggling to get anywhere better than just over 3000 points in GAME 2, which has 5 lives.

The fact I'm only using my thumbs with the controller probably doesn't help,

but button 4 needs more pressure than the others due to wear, and I'm not used to arcade controls either.

It's tricky to keep that button under constant pressure with any fingers.

So my current tactic is to take my left thumb off the analog stick - to shift up into 4th gear quickly and keep it in that gear, and then put my left thumb back on the analog stick!

Sometimes I use the controller arcade style while shifting upto 4th, and then switch immediately back to using my thumbs.

Pretty challenging game!

I wonder if I made a modified Playstation conroller, would it up my score!

unky chop chop · 13-05-2012 04:05PM

Giving a bit of time to Dragon Blaze.
Never really gave it time before,but it's a great Psikyo shooter that I've overlooked.
The Mechanic to separate from your dragon is brilliant.

a5y · 13-05-2012 05:03PM

unky chop chop wrote: »

Giving a bit of time to Dragon Blaze.
Never really gave it time before,but it's a great Psikyo shooter that I've overlooked.
The Mechanic to separate from your dragon is brilliant.

Any rumours that I'm wearing a silly hat and downloading Panzer Dragoon 1 for my Saturn right this second after reading comment are vicious half-truths which I refuse to dignify with further comment.

a5y · 13-05-2012 11:26PM

Sticking this in here for anyone playing DayZ. Not strickly retro but I know a few of the regulars here are downloading that silly big file as I type, so this seems appropriate-ish, sorta, kinda.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26271525/chernarus_big_png%20version.png

I still have the unflattened PSD too with all the layers, but that will take f***ing ages to upload on my connection. Little point bothering unless there's some interest in it there's little reason to wait for it to go up.

Bit of a WIP this. One or two extra features to go on it.

CiDeRmAn · 13-05-2012 11:29PM

Yeah, Dragon Blaze is one of a series of games for the PS2 that can be bought for little money from eBay.fr or .de
It seems that lovely vert shmups had euro launches but on budget labels, and not in every territory, at least not in any sort of numbers.
As a result they are readily available on the continent but the sellers don't usually see the need to include countries outside their own in the auction.
Happily every case so far has been happy to ship to Ireland, so I have some cracking games now Dragon Blaze included, Castle of Shikigami II, Samurai Aces, loads of great ones often for around 5 or 6 euro, not including postage.

I'd love the Super Indiana Jones game for the Snes, better balanced than the often cheap deaths of the Super Star Wars series.

Sparks43 · 13-05-2012 11:38PM

Playing Boulder Dash 2 on my psp the last few weeks.With the aim to score over 1 Million Points

I am on 825,000 at the moment

a5y · 14-05-2012 12:02AM

Sparks43 wrote: »

Playing Boulder Dash 2 on my psp the last few weeks.With the aim to score over 1 Million Points

I am on 825,000 at the moment

So are you going to broaden the claim in your sig in the near future?

CiDeRmAn · 14-05-2012 08:10AM

"The Worlds Best Boulder Dash Player"
or maybe
"The Universes Best Boulder Dash Player!"

It's quite an achievement....

right up there with

"Irish Champion Rise of the Robots Player"

"Worlds Best ShaqFu Player!"

Deary deary me, how we missed you at the Beers Sparks!

How did the communion go?
Did you get the subject of Boulder Dash into the day somewhere????

Sparks43 · 14-05-2012 12:53PM

It was a brilliant day m8 tiring but brilliant.My daughter had a brilliant day and she is off shopping later:eek:

And Boulder Dash did come up in conversation but it was other people that mentioned it not me:D

Update: Played late into last night and i am now up to 900k

All going well i will break the 1 million mark in the next few days:D

DinoRex · 14-05-2012 04:12PM

Will the officials from Guinness be on hand to monitor the result?

o1s1n · 14-05-2012 04:13PM

DinoRex wrote: »

Will the officials from Guinness be on hand to monitor the result?

Atavan has probably consumed enough of Diageo's products at this point to make him an honourary member.

Myrddin · 14-05-2012 04:17PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Atavan has probably consumed enough of Diageo's products at this point to make him an honourary member.

Isn't he applying currently to change his handle to Diageo Van Halen?

Sparks43 · 15-05-2012 01:18AM

Bang

Just hit the target

Went from 999,998 to 000,001

Happened on B5 after completing the game way too many times

Now time to sleep

btw i have a save state that proves my achievement:D

o1s1n · 15-05-2012 08:57AM

Congrats!

Have you checked the Twin Glaxies website to see what the world record is?

Jack burton · 15-05-2012 09:37AM

No record for the psp version on twin galaxies anyway

Sparks43 · 15-05-2012 02:48PM

Jack burton wrote: »

No record for the psp version on twin galaxies anyway

I played it on the vice emu on the psp

So my score was 999,998

The current world record is 2,788 on the c64

*Readys a change of Sig*

Retr0gamer · 15-05-2012 04:35PM

If you aren't playing Xenoblade then you really should be. I'm 60 hours in and can safely say it's by far and away the best RPG since Persona 4. You can stick Skyrim and Mass Effect up your arse.

o1s1n · 15-05-2012 04:36PM

Played 10 hours, got distracted by Dark Souls, never went back unfortunately.

raven999 · 15-05-2012 08:32PM

am playing grandia on jap saturn not doing to bad am just over 3 hours in also playing shining wisdom pal inbetween

MrVestek · 16-05-2012 09:18AM

Speaking of all this Twin Galaxies stuff I just watched that documentary 'King of Kong' last night, definitely worth viewing if you haven't already.

Retr0gamer · 16-05-2012 11:04AM

Played some Gaia Seed lately. It's one of the rarest japanese PS1 shmups but it's going for a fiver on PSN in the imports section. It's got a weird Darius vibe to the game what with the weird music and strange art design. It's also got one of the best/worst engrish intro's and endings ever.

Anyway the game is worth playing but I finished it on my first go with the bad ending (if you want the good ending then time out the final boss to get a second form). It's still worth playing to just to experience how bizarre the game is. Also the game has a recharging shield mechanic, yes like Halo does except in a shmup!

Achilles wrote: »

Speaking of all this Twin Galaxies stuff I just watched that documentary 'King of Kong' last night, definitely worth viewing if you haven't already.

Bit late to the party

ghostchant · 16-05-2012 11:43AM

I've been playing FF8. With a mountain of arguably far better games waiting to be played for the first time. I don't know why.

So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

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