General Arcade and Retro Chat - Insert Coin -

Steve SI wrote: »

RIP Leonard Nimoy :'0(

Whenever I think of Nimoy, that scene in STVI always comes to mind where he slaps the phaser out of Valeris' hand....such a subtle but powerful scene. RIP

eddhorse

LLAP. RIP.

Wow, sad news indeed.

I suppose Shatner will be all pissy because of the attention, probably bitch about Nimoy going first on purpose!
Too soon?

Nerdkiller1991

Jack burton

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Just watched that this second. Sad day indeed!

Tomo.Murphy

Any idea where I'd pick up a cheap/broken 001 SP? I'm thinking about doing the frontlight mod on the GBC I picked up. I've had a look on ebay, but the shipping alone is pretty steep. I might drop in to the shops in town and see if they have anything lying around.

Star Lord

Saw one of these in the wild yesterday, really nice looking unit!

http://www.arcade-game-sales.com/news/images/tekken-6-machines/175.jpg

WANT!!!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1578116861/toejam-and-earl-back-in-the-groove

Star Lord wrote: »

Saw one of these in the wild yesterday, really nice looking unit!

http://www.arcade-game-sales.com/news/images/tekken-6-machines/175.jpg

Nice alright. Though I must admit, modern arcade machines have lost most of the 'magic' for me. Under the skin, I know they're just pc's with big widescreen lcd monitors. For me, part of it is knowing there's a bespoke board in there hooked up to a big old crt.

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Star Lord wrote: »

Saw one of these in the wild yesterday, really nice looking unit!

http://www.arcade-game-sales.com/news/images/tekken-6-machines/175.jpg

Nice! Was that in the free state?

Star Lord

BrownFinger wrote: »

Nice! Was that in the free state?

Palmerstown Superdome.

Its the build of the unit I like more than the tech, it's a good looking machine. But yeah big LCD screen. They had another candy down near the back corner, I'm not familiar enough with them to know which it was, but was one of the SEGAs.
Had a blast of Time Crisis 3 too.

Nerdkiller1991

Star Lord wrote: »

Palmerstown Superdome.

Its the build of the unit I like more than the tech, it's a good looking machine. But yeah big LCD screen. They had another candy down near the back corner, I'm not familiar enough with them to know which it was, but was one of the SEGAs.
Had a blast of Time Crisis 3 too.

Or as Hulk Hogan might call it, the Palmerstown Silverdome.

What other cabinets do they have there? I might go if and when The Hateful Eight gets a 70mm print screening.

the groutch

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

the groutch wrote: »

WANT!!!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1578116861/toejam-and-earl-back-in-the-groove

Yeah, saw that the other week, looks the business.
The kick starter videos are suitably bonkers as the lead developer obviously is.
But he has a love for his creation and no love for those who interfered with his vision of alien hip hop stereotypes!
I quite liked the Xbox game though, it was a sight better than the first sequel and the gods awful Menacer game.

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the groutch wrote: »

WANT!!!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1578116861/toejam-and-earl-back-in-the-groove

I was a massive fan of the original,
Looks good but I dont do preorder anymore

TechnoFreek

Brother spotted this parked up while in China last week

the groutch

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I quite liked the Xbox game though, it was a sight better than the first sequel and the gods awful Menacer game.

With Ready Aim Tomatoes they did as good a job as they could have within the budget constraints that are obvious in the other 5 games on the cart.

DinoRex

Probably need to pull down the in game sound a bit in future, but here's a play through of Treasure Island Dizzy on the NES that I recorded the other day...

DinoRex

Part 2 up now. Playing on a Famicom so no save states... so every time I died I had to start over from the beginning again. It's very easy to die!

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

The Arkham games (Asylum, City & Origins)...what's the best console format to pick those up on? Are the Wii U versions of City & Origins significantly better than 360/PS3?

johnny_ultimate

Don't think there's any significant difference. You can probably skip the second two games though, first is by far the best

(although I haven't played Origins)

Myrddin wrote: »

The Arkham games (Asylum, City & Origins)...what's the best console format to pick those up on? Are the Wii U versions of City & Origins significantly better than 360/PS3?

PC versions are significantly better than any console version. Rocksteady really did some great work on those versions with lots of graphical niceties.

As for console like all unreal games 360 is the way to go. PS3 has some technical issues.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

PC versions are significantly better than any console version. Rocksteady really did some great work on those versions with lots of graphical niceties.

As for console like all unreal games 360 is the way to go. PS3 has some technical issues.

Cheers Retr0, that'll do nicely. I have Asylum & City on Steam I think, just looking to pick up console variants at some stage & was wondering which route to go. What of the Wii U variants?

Myrddin wrote: »

Cheers Retr0, that'll do nicely. I have Asylum & City on Steam I think, just looking to pick up console variants at some stage & was wondering which route to go. What of the Wii U variants?

Supposedly they're a bit shoddy, somewhere between PS3 and 360.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Supposedly they're a bit shoddy, somewhere between PS3 and 360.

Cheers dude, 360 it is

I have City on the WiiU and it seems fine, much the same as the PS3 version I already tried.
Origins arrived this morning from Amazon having cost less than a tenner posted, also for the WiiU.

Just a final question on these Arkham games, is it worth buying the GotY editions is buying pre-owned? As in, is the included DLC on-disc, or is it redeem codes does any know?

With the 360 and PS3 titles it seems to red dead code redemption the whole way baby!
On the WiiU however, the DLC is included, at least with my copy of Arkham City.
A new GOTY copy of Arkham Asylum would be cheap enough though, and pretty excellent stuff.
I really enjoyed it in the end, perhaps more than the sequel so far.
I found the non sandbox to be a better fit than the vast space available in AC, which just gets filled with GTA style fetch missions repeatedly.
The combat, as I've said before, feels a little detached.
Yes, Batman is a brute in a fight, beating the snot out of his assailants, but I never really felt like I was doing the thrashing, it felt a little like a QTE thing, press X now and watch Bats do something cool, now press Y and see another cool thing.
I'm not sure I'm explaining it right but it seemed to less of a factor in AC than in AA, though I still preferred the environment in AA to play in.

The combat in the Batman games is pretty dreadful but it's got so much variety that it never bogs it down and the stealth sections are fantastic. Still it annoys me when games base their whole game on that crappy combat system

In a world where Bayonetta 2 and Metal Gear Revengeance exist Batman combat can feck off.

johnny_ultimate

City to me was a massive step down in quality. The asylum felt like a coherent, natural setting (just let the lunatics run the place and you're away!). City felt far more contrived as a location - increased scale, yes, but lacking in the coherency of the original (you could tell it was more of a strain trying to conjure up believable stealth arenas). The combat also felt airier and less impactful than the more visceral brawls of the first. And the Catwoman stuff was totally superfluous, just these random sequences awkwardly interrupting the actual game every so often.

But City's biggest crime was the sheer amount of mindless busy work. Asylum put a lot of effort into making secrets and even collectibles fun and interesting to track down. With City there was just 100s of arbitrary trinkets scattered around the place, and worse they locked some of the game's best content behind increasingly ludicrous riddler trophy demands. It's just wasting the player's time and energy with non-content. They're a distraction even when you try to ignore them.

That said, I'm looking forward to Arkham Knight despite the let down of the last game (Origins Im not really counting). Look like they've really tried to make use out of the next-gen capabilities, and taken the time to build a more interesting game. Fingers crossed, and looks like the sort of game that will give my PC a good workout too

As an aside, playing Shadow of Mordor at the moment, which 'borrows' the Batman series' combat. Despite all the praise that's lavished upon it, I just don't get what everyone sees in it. A bland setting, derivative gameplay and far too much skill-free brawling. The whole Sauron's Army thing is novel enough, but hardly deserving the enthusiasm that the game has enjoyed. Does it click at some late point or Something???