Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

Myrddin · 14-02-2013 08:53PM

krudler wrote: »

I really wish I'd played Alan Wake again before I sold my xbox though

I have to admit I did enjoy that game quite a bit.

/In before Retr0 & a Deadly Premonition comparison to Alan Wake

CiDeRmAn · 14-02-2013 08:58PM

EnterNow wrote: »

Indy Market place

Unless you are resident in Ireland and don't want to or are ignorant of messing with the DNS and whatnot, then there is no Indie Marketplace in this Dojo!

krudler · 14-02-2013 08:58PM

EnterNow wrote: »

I have to admit I did enjoy that game quite a bit.

/In before Retr0 & a Deadly Premonition comparison to Alan Wake

It's flawed and has some seriously sh1tty mechanics but it was intriguing, I loved the "previously on Alan Wake!" episode recaps, like it was a tv show.

I haven't played Deadly Premonition, I really should.

Myrddin · 14-02-2013 09:00PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Unless you are resident in Ireland and don't want to or are ignorant of messing with the DNS and whatnot, then there is no Indie Marketplace in this Dojo!

Easy when you know how, & no DNS fiddling needed

krudler · 14-02-2013 09:00PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

So did anyone else read the big twist in Colonial Marines? It's the most idiotic thing they could have done and to make matters worse Fox count the games story as canon. I would have told the person who wrote the script that he will never work in the industry again. Anyway I'll spoiler it in case someone really does want to play the game but I'm warning you, you'll be horrified with how dumb it is.
You find a soldier from the original marine team from Aliens who then helps you. So what would make sense? Hudson? Apone? Others that had an off screen death. How about the according to Alien 3 dead Hicks. Yes, Hicks is found still alive. It's not even Fox doing a retcon and saying Alien 3 never happened. Apparently the company boarded the Sulaco, took Hicks, placed a fake body in his place (who? apparently according to Hicks it's explained away as 'a long story').

What.
In.
The.
Actual.
Fuck.

Retr0gamer · 14-02-2013 09:01PM

EnterNow wrote: »

Installs - No mandatory installs which take an utter age. So couple that with a download that took forever, an install that took forever, a game update that took a while & you get the PS3's way of doing things.

I'd go so far as to say every game requires a mandatory install on the 360 now. If you don't you'll have to listen to a jet engine going off in the room as you play and increase the likelihood of a RROD by an awful lot.

Another reason I prefer the PS3 because even if it's a mandatory install it's less than installing a full 5-7+GB game on the 360. I won't risk playing a game on my 360 without installing it on the HD. What gets even more annoying is that I have a 20GB HD on the 360 which translates to about 13 GB which gets used up fast which means I can only have 1 game installed on my 360.

In comparison I only ran out of room on my 60 GB PS3 recently and that was easily remedied so it never happens again.

EnterNow wrote: »

/In before Retr0 & a Deadly Premonition comparison to Alan Wake

Sure there's no comparison, Deadly Premonition is quite simply the better game :P

Myrddin · 14-02-2013 09:04PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'd go so far as to say every game requires a mandatory install on the 360 now. If you don't you'll have to listen to a jet engine going off in the room as you play and increase the likelihood of a RROD by an awful lot.

I can't say I've noticed that with the Slim model

Another reason I prefer the PS3 because even if it's a mandatory install it's less than installing a full 5-7+GB game on the 360. I won't risk playing a game on my 360 without installing it on the HD. What gets even more annoying is that I have a 20GB HD on the 360 which translates to about 13 GB which gets used up fast which means I can only have 1 game installed on my 360.

The 30 doesn't install the games padding though, at least I don't think it does?

CiDeRmAn · 14-02-2013 09:06PM

EnterNow wrote: »

Easy when you know how, & no DNS fiddling needed

Well, I set up a account of my good non-real friend who lives abroad most of the year.... but I can't buy anything!

But what I have seen of the Indie market place, it's pretty neat, pity MS are killing off XNA, will this mean that access to the games there are now limited to this generation?
If folk are relying on the build quality of the 360 to see them through the decades and allow them access to their XNA based purchases, I fear for them!

And no hypocrite was bigger than Sony, who continually harped on about the free nature of their online service over the free/premium service option on the 360's network, only to turn around and do it them selves with the PSN+ account.
The only decent feature of which is the manner in which it backs up your saves to the cloud while the console sleeps.
The free games are locked to the + account and are, in the main, budget titles anyway, so I can have a free copy of Resident Evil 5? For the duration of my + account I can, or I can pay less than a tenner in any shop and own it forever!

14-02-2013 09:06PM

Andrew76 wrote: »

...is there anything being built in it's place?

The owners want to build cafes, shops, apartments, the usual sh1te...

It's an awful eyesore of a building really, I'm only sad to see it gone because it represents a big part of my childhood, but its a good example of everything that was (and still is) wrong with Irish city planning. There's no overall plan for the feel or ethos or atmosphere of our urban spaces, it's all a mishmash of peace meal one-off developments for short sighted commercial reasons. "Throw up an apartment block here" or "lash a shopping centre into that gap there" and give no thought to how it will fit into the overall feel of things.

We could take a leaf out of the book of a lot of modern European cities when it comes to urban planning integration....

Anyways, rant over. No more arcades in Bray :-( Boo-urns!

Mr.Saturn · 14-02-2013 09:22PM

Deleted User wrote: »

The owners want to build cafes, shops, apartments, the usual sh1te...

It's an awful eyesore of a building really, I'm only sad to see it gone because it represents a big part of my childhood, but its a good example of everything that was (and still is) wrong with Irish city planning. There's no overall plan for the feel or ethos or atmosphere of our urban spaces, it's all a mishmash of peace meal one-off developments for short sighted commercial reasons. "Throw up an apartment block here" or "lash a shopping centre into that gap there" and give no thought to how it will fit into the overall feel of things.

We could take a leaf out of the book of a lot of modern European cities when it comes to urban planning integration....

Anyways, rant over. No more arcades in Bray :-( Boo-urns!

They've still got an okay selection upstairs in Star (who own Dawson, I believe); Outrun 2 SP, Mario Kart GP, Tank! Tank! Tank!, Afterburner: Climax and HotD4. Their stuff is actually maintained too. Unlike Dr. Quirkey's, where I visited for the last time last year, and was greeted with a faulty Silent Hill: Arcade rig, coupled with a Sega Rally set-up that was overheating and had nothing on the monitor but an OS death-screen. Mind, there's still a vanilla Virtua Fighter 5 cabinet in handy order, but I can't think of anyone who'd dedicate time to that, since it's now antiquated by VF5: Final Showdown.

Don't Bray Bowl still have some machines?

johnny_ultimate · 14-02-2013 09:56PM

The machines in Bray Bowl are in bits. BYOB nights = poor machines.

They have brought out some of their old candy cabs again though, plus the Virtua Sports ones. Vintage Space Invaders cab too. Weren't plugged in last time I was there though...

o1s1n · 14-02-2013 10:11PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

They have brought out some of their old candy cabs again though, plus the Virtua Sports ones. Vintage Space Invaders cab too. Weren't plugged in last time I was there though...

WATTTT??????

Do you mean their Naomi cabs? I can't remember them ever having real proper candy cabs? Will have to drop in and take a look.

I remember hearing about ten years ago that they had a load of cabs down in the basement and would sell them for about 100 euro each with whatever game you wanted.

Myrddin · 14-02-2013 10:47PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Well, I set up a account of my good non-real friend who lives abroad most of the year.... but I can't buy anything!

You should be able to buy from it with an alt account, I've bought from it very recently with a UK account

johnny_ultimate · 14-02-2013 11:03PM

o1s1n wrote: »

WATTTT??????

Do you mean their Naomi cabs? I can't remember them ever having real proper candy cabs? Will have to drop in and take a look.

I remember hearing about ten years ago that they had a load of cabs down in the basement and would sell them for about 100 euro each with whatever game you wanted.

Sorry, candy cabs may have been the wrong terminology, I'm no expert on cabs. I grabbed some pics on the way out, but the light was ****. Definitely the Naomis anyway, others probably just general misc. cabs...

Myrddin · 14-02-2013 11:04PM

They look like big rear projection cabs....drool. Loving the twin sit down Electrocoins too...further droolage

Augmerson · 14-02-2013 11:22PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ke3UhTuESA

krudler · 15-02-2013 12:03AM

It's a pity that proper arcades are basically no more, you find the odd good game in seaside places but now its all rhythm games and racing stuff. I practically lived in the local arcade in Limerick as a teenager, proper one too it was, barely any lights past the ones coming from the games, fag burns on the cabinets, stuff like Street Fighter, MK, Bubble Bobble etc etc, good times...

Retr0gamer · 15-02-2013 12:05AM

I grew up on the airports finest. Go for a swim in ALSAA then with that excuse out of the way it was off to 1 credit Mercs.

krudler · 15-02-2013 02:30AM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I grew up on the airports finest. Go for a swim in ALSAA then with that excuse out of the way it was off to 1 credit Mercs.

ha Mercs was the job, we used to go to the seaside donkeys years ago and the small chipper had Mercs and a SFII machine beside each other, the SFII was one of those hacked ones where if you were Ken your fireballs moved up and down and as Guile you could just bombard people with sonic booms that were really fast. the local pub had a great little arcade out the back with about 15 machines, Blood Brothers, Wrestlefest, Cadash, Willow, Bad Dudes Vs Dragon Ninja, Bubble Bobble, Outrun, Sunset Riders and some shmup that I can't remember, they're the ones that stick out in my mind. Christ I miss real arcades. I was in Lahinch years ago with an ex and there was a working Double Dragon in decent condition, I asked if I could buy it but they wouldnt sell it to me lol

MrVestek · 15-02-2013 03:57AM

There was a decent enough arcade in the underground pool hall of The Belgard Inn years ago in Tallaght... now THAT was the business. Can't really remember what machines they had there but there were apart from a decent SFII cab... then it got turned into an Internet Café... booo.

Atari Expo in the Square was good too before they started bringing in all that Dance Dance nonsense.

CiDeRmAn · 15-02-2013 08:35AM

Used to head there with a mate to play Outrun, tells you when that was, as far as I remember it was the cab that'd move as well.

o1s1n · 15-02-2013 11:29AM

Wow, have you all seen the video of the meteor that just came down over Russia?

Some of the most amazing footage I've seen of anything, ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxgCkygH0tA

MrVestek · 15-02-2013 11:33AM

Ok people move along just a spartan falling to earth... nothing to see here.

o1s1n · 15-02-2013 11:34AM

Imagine all those poor Russian feckers who lived through the cold war thinking the Americans had finally got and pressed the big red button :eek:

MrVestek · 15-02-2013 11:40AM

o1s1n wrote: »

Imagine all those poor Russian feckers who lived through the cold war thinking the Americans had finally got and pressed the big red button :eek:

"RED button". Hehe... I'm easily amused.

DinoRex · 15-02-2013 11:41AM

The fact that every Russian apparently has a dashboard camera is probably the best thing to ever happen to the internet.

I heard that the law is really wonky over there when you hit someone, so people fling themselves in front of cars all the time to get compensation, so everyone has cams to cover themselves.

Andrew76 · 15-02-2013 12:33PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Wow, have you all seen the video of the meteor that just came down over Russia?

Some of the most amazing footage I've seen of anything, ever.

Just imagine how cool it would have been to be Ciderman though, in his twenties and watching the mooning landings live on TV! Proper historic moment that. :cool:

My memory only goes as far back as the appearance of Halley's Comet in the 80's. Shoemaker-Levy and Hale-Bopp in the 90's were pretty cool events too.

o1s1n · 15-02-2013 12:41PM

Andrew76 wrote: »

Just imagine how cool it would have been to be Ciderman though, in his twenties and watching the mooning landings live on TV! Proper historic moment that. :cool:

My memory only goes as far back as the appearance of Halley's Comet in the 80's. Shoemaker-Levy and Hale-Bopp in the 90's were pretty cool events too.

I thought you were going to say 'imagine how cool it would have been to be Ciderman though, in his twenties and reading about Tonguska'

I was a bit young to remember Halley's Comet, but certainly remember Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Hale-Bopp. Hale-Bopp seemed like it was in the sky for ages too!

Another amazing visual spectacle I saw year ago was aurora borealis from my parents front porch in Bray. Actually it was more or less the same position in the sky as Hale-Bopp years before. My dad had heard it might be viewable so we went out to have a look. Certainly weren't expecting it to the levels which it appeared, was really amazing.

MrVestek · 15-02-2013 12:43PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Wow, have you all seen the video of the meteor that just came down over Russia?

Some of the most amazing footage I've seen of anything, ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxgCkygH0tA

krudler · 15-02-2013 12:47PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Wow, have you all seen the video of the meteor that just came down over Russia?

Some of the most amazing footage I've seen of anything, ever.

Meteor are taking their marketing in Russia seriously apparently.

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