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So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

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    #8192
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,094 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Always a good sign when your game has to come bundled with a stand for comfort reasons :pac:

    I never found the game quite as bad I don’t think, but definitely would be amazing to get a dual stick Switch version. Their incorporation of the difficulty multiplier gauge was a stroke of genius - don’t recall if Smash Bros preceded it or borrowed it, but definitely one of the great ideas for a high-score game.


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    #8193
    bmorrissey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭bmorrissey


    Picked up Midway Arcade Treasures 2 for the PS2 today, put a lot hours into this years back as it was the only way for us to play MK2, MK3, NARC and the likes. Also reading through the booklet at lunch made me realize how much i miss booklets with games.


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    #8194
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,528 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I was an apologist for Starfox Zero back upon release but the control systems are terrible, spoiling the game.
    Nintendo seemed to be forcing dual screen gameplay on people, along with idiosyncratic controls, and it just took a potentially great update to the franchise and made it unplayable.
    I wasn't a fan of Kirby on the WiiU either, they took it all and made you have to give all your attention to the tablet, meaning you lost all those lovely HD visuals.

    I had hoped for a Starfox Zero port to the Switch, ditching the nonsense controls, but no sign, a pity then.


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    #8195
    eddhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    Finally made some progress on my Demon's Souls 2010 game save,
    Got by the crappy section after Adjudicator aka 4-2 and killed Old Hero boss and Storm King. Getting to the bosses is always harder than the bosses themselves.

    Got by Valley of Defilement swamp area, beat Dirty Colossus boss, NPC Garl Vinland and Maiden Astraea :)

    And now on Maneater boss at end of Tower of Latria.


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    #8196
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,801 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Maneater gave me the most trouble in that game.
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    #8197
    eddhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Maneater gave me the most trouble in that game.

    Yes I've heard bad things, looking forward to the remaster and what they change or fix, any thoughts on that @Retr0gamer?

    EDIT : Maneater second try and Old Monk first try, must be overpowered now :) great.
    Onto last level.


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    #8198
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,801 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Well when bluepoint remade shadow of the colossus they changed the graphics but not the gameplay. The might do the same for demons souls but I think that game could do with some tweaks to bring it to the level of the more modern from games.

    I'm not happy I'll need to buy a ps5 to play it.
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    #8199
    DaveyDave
    Registered Users Posts: 6,182 ✭✭✭DaveyDave


    Played a bit of Streets of Rage 4 the other day. I wasn't a fan of the visual style when I first saw the trailer but after playing it I like it. Retro soundtrack, of course. Hoping to sit down to play it a bit more now.


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    #8200
    Retr0gamer
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    DaveyDave wrote: »
    Played a bit of Streets of Rage 4 the other day. I wasn't a fan of the visual style when I first saw the trailer but after playing it I like it. Retro soundtrack, of course. Hoping to sit down to play it a bit more now.

    The added a lot of post processing to the game that really makes the visuals shine. The original reveal was lacking the post processing so it was very jarring.
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    #8201
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,410 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Streets of Rage 4 really is a lot of fun. I played a bit of an online game for the first time the other night with some random person, was actually a lot of fun.

    Interesting how, even when you can't speak or communicate with another player, the universal gamer code of allowing the person with the lower health to go for the chicken/apples still comes through :D

    Playing through some Megadrive and Mastersystem games this evening. Thought I'd give Bart Versus the Space Mutants a go, I absolutely hated it when it came out and haven't played it since.

    God was I right on the money, it's a pile of sh1te!


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    #8202
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,410 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Any of you guys give Spiritfarer a go yet? Played about ten hours over the weekend, absolutely fantastic and not to be missed. My favourite new game in a long time.

    It's a Journey/Ico emotional experience type of a game which I've a feeling will lead to many a lumpy throat and stiff upper lip.


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    #8203
    CiDeRmAn
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    Any of you guys give Spiritfarer a go yet? Played about ten hours over the weekend, absolutely fantastic and not to be missed. My favourite new game in a long time.

    It's a Journey/Ico emotional experience type of a game which I've a feeling will lead to many a lumpy throat and stiff upper lip.

    Unfortunately I got sucked into No Man's Sky this weekend.
    Every seven months or so, with a new update, I reinstall and typically lose an hour before getting bored of trying to find sodium and antimatter, then turn it off.

    This time I lost two days, and found the sodium and antimatter...

    Seems there is a stronger mission structure though I suspect it is a thinly veiled tutorial... I don't mind, I know I'm incompetent and am comfortable with this fact! (I'm a public servant, comes with the territory!)


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    #8204
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,410 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I still haven't played that actually, the reviews really put me off. Part of me still wants to give it a go though purely for the visuals, they look gorgeous.


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    #8205
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,801 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    o1s1n wrote: »
    I still haven't played that actually, the reviews really put me off. Part of me still wants to give it a go though purely for the visuals, they look gorgeous.

    It's a totally different game now and also, unlike when I bought it at launch, runs at more than 2 fps on a top of the range PC. It's turned from a bare bones skinner box simulator not worth your time or money into something far more interesting and worthwhile.
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    #8206
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,528 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I've played it on and mostly off since launch on the PS4, and it went from kind of interesting but aimless to something much more like a very colourful Elite.
    Once you have established yourself you can pretty much choose your own adventure, so to speak, with plenty of content and an infinite variety of places to visit.

    Upon starting it again, after a break of some seven months, I was delighted to find my old save point now adjacent to a collosal crashed freighter, something straight out of a Chris Foss book cover painting.

    And, when they are less crashed and more flying, you can own one of those things!


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    #8207
    Colonel Panic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    I've been playing a LOT of Mario lately. I just hit 120 stars in Super Mario Galaxy on the Switch re-release. It's still so damn good!

    Not good enough to play through again as Luigi to get that final star. That can wait!


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    #8208
    accensi0n
    Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭accensi0n


    Playing Castlevania on NES. Will probably play Dracula's Curse after. Getting the halloween theme going. Also reading Frankenstein in the office book club. :pac:


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    #8209
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,801 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Finished Dynamite Headdy last night. I used to own the game. I could beat the last boss.... if I used the level select code.

    If I played through the 2-3 hours it takes to beat the game, no matter how many lives and continues I had I couldn't beat him.

    So I said **** it and played the japanese version last night as it reduces the health on a few of the more insane bosses.

    It really is an amazing game, really shows off that the megadrive could do when pushed. So much invention in it as well with ever level having a different mechanic.
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    #8210
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,801 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Blasting through some older games.

    Finished suzuki bakahatsu.... Look it up. It's insane.

    Also started gunners heaven. Released at the playstations launch in europe as rapid reload. It never got a US release because of Bernie Stollar being against 2D games. It's basically a poor man's gunstar heroes but a very good attempt at it. Well worth a play and looks gorgeous. Got savaged by the UK press for being old looking.

    And then Desert Strike. Still a great game and a rare example of a great western console game from the 16 bit era. Uo to the third level of 4. Died during the bus escort mission at the end as I'd not enough lives and it was balls hard.
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    #8211
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,410 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Just finished Spiritfarer on the Switch. Don't think I've come across such an impactful game in a long time.

    Has some annoying niggles late in the game (having to craft items to craft items to craft items) but the storylines really make it worth sticking with. Such a unique experience.


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    #8212
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,801 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Desert Strike finished. Really great game I have to say. Nothing much else like in on the Megadrive with it's open world and mission based structure. Also the game that prepared me for resident evil with it's tank controls.

    Some surprises in the credits. Rob Hubbard on the music and Amy Hennig on art.
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    #8213
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,410 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I never really noticed that Desert Strike used tank controls until recently enough. Always assumed Resident Evil was the first until I had an 'oh yeah!' moment with Desert Strike.

    Haven't finished it since I was a kid, usually get a little bored about half way through these days. Still, great game. One of the best box artworks of the 16 bit generation in my opinion.


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    #8214
    CiDeRmAn
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    The tank controls make sense in the Strike series because you are, after all, piloting a helicopter, so you are going have the rotate, jink, forwards backwards and altitude in a different fashion to a fixed wing aircraft...
    It all felt awkward intially, but after a year or two I was flying like a pro!


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    #8215
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,801 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Was confusing as a young fella but I got used to it after a day. 'Tank' controls are actually what all 3D third person and first games use. It's just it gets fiddly in fix perspective games or isometric games. However they are the best to use if the perspective changes as if you don't use it the orientation will change every time the camera changes. It works once you get your head around it.
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    #8216
    The Nal
    Registered Users Posts: 12,445 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Flashback. Played loads of it as a kid but having just finished it on the Switch I didnt do 15% of it back in the day


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    #8217
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,801 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Started Clock Tower.

    Died miserably an hour into it.

    Going to stick with it. Really liking it. Really impressed with the stereo sound, it's incredible with headphones.
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    #8218
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users Posts: 4,973 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    Internet went out for a few hours yesterday so was looking for something to do, I ended up Finishing Alien 3 again(last time was in 1993) on the Megadrive, It is actually a good game and the music was excellent.


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    #8219
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,528 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    It's ten years old but not sure it's quite retro, I popped Split Second for the 360 into the Xbox One and it's still a cracking game.
    It belies the very gradual improvements in visuals over the last decade or so, when this looks like it could have been released yesterday.
    Gameplay is great fun too, pity it died a death at the hands of the public.


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    #8220
    Colonel Panic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    Yeah, it and Pure were two of the best racing games of the generation.


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    #8221
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users Posts: 4,973 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    It's ten years old but not sure it's quite retro, I popped Split Second for the 360 into the Xbox One and it's still a cracking game.
    It belies the very gradual improvements in visuals over the last decade or so, when this looks like it could have been released yesterday.
    Gameplay is great fun too, pity it died a death at the hands of the public.

    Shocking it is 10 years old already, yeah it was a great arcade style racer which even though I am a car guy I much prefer to the gran Turismos of this world.


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