So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

The five saints was the puzzle that had me stumped, although if i got past that before I would've just got stuck on that bloody repeating room

Stoner

I'm playing warriors at the moment.

It keeps calling me to come out to play.

I love it.

Amalgam

Brutal Doom. Great if you want to let a bit of steam off.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YoADewX12E

Just munching my way through Doom 2 with the Brutal additions.

Runs well on a bog standard quad Atom 'netbook', though the dynamic '3D' fluids do slow things down, switch that off and you're fine.

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https://zdoom.org/index
http://doomgod.com/wads/iwads/

o1s1n

Had a good bash of Pop'N Twinbee Rainbow Bell Adventures on the Snes last night. One of those carts I've had for years but never really played more than five minutes. Whenever I'm leafing through carts I always assume it's a shmup.

Between that and Rocket Knight Adventures, someone at Konami in the early 90s must have really loved The Rocketeer.

o1s1n

Also had a good 30 minute go of Kuon - really great game. If anyone is looking to pick up a cheaper copy, I can confirm that the German version has full English. (And the Japanese subtitled vocal track too, which is much better than the English one)

accensi0n

Completed Snow Brothers on the NES. Had a few goes at it over the last few weeks but died in the last section each time. Fun game but don't think I'll play it again soon unless in 2 player mode which seems like it would be much better, especially for the final boss.
There's 5 sections, made up of 10 levels each, with a boss on the last level of each section and a bonus round between sections where you play a fruit machine to try and win extra lives (Which I NEVER bloody got).

o1s1n

Just had a builder in about knocking a wall and fitting a new kitchen. Tempted to ask if he'll build up a little cabinet for my Time Crisis pedestal

Jack burton

o1s1n wrote: »

Also had a good 30 minute go of Kuon - really great game. If anyone is looking to pick up a cheaper copy, I can confirm that the German version has full English. (And the Japanese subtitled vocal track too, which is much better than the English one)

I want to pick it up soon myself

o1s1n

I just played another 30 minutes and almost had about three heart attacks from jump scares. Me nerves!

wheresmahbombs

Played through the first 3 cups in 50cc of my first Mario Kart game, Double Dash.

Have to get used to the game's handling as it seems to differ from what I've been used to in MK8.

CiDeRmAn

Fecking "I'm Daisy" ruined it for me, I blame Retr0 and Dinorex, because I can't remember which one was swapping her out all the time.

Retr0gamer

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CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Hi I'm Daisy!
Hi I'm Daisy!
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:pac::pac::pac:

Mr.Saturn

God help you if Daisy is your designated, rubber-banding rival throughout Double Dash's All Cup mode.

wheresmahbombs

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

God help you if Daisy is your designated, rubber-banding rival throughout Double Dash's All Cup mode.

I've come 1st in a perfect 100cc Mushroom Cup as the Koopa Troopas, and I'm glad to inform you that she came last .

Burzum

Playing Super Strike Gunner for the SNES at the minute. It's not bad but its not great either.

Mr.Saturn

wheresmahbombs wrote: »

I've come 1st in a perfect 100cc Mushroom Cup as the Koopa Troopas, and I'm glad to inform you that she came last .

No small feat. Actually went back to Double Dash not too long having played like 9 billion hours of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (conservative estimate) and was surprised as to how merciless the Double Dash AI is.

Like, for example, I recall a few years back I was finishing up the All Cup on 150cc and only needed to finish 3rd to win it out on points. All was going fine until exactly the last stretch of the last lap of Rainbow Road and then everyone, and not a syllable of exaggeration, every god damn bit of AI decided I had to go. To say I was hockeyed out of it is underselling it.

Retr0gamer

The final cup of Double Dash did my head in. The AI is an awful cheating swine in that game. It drove me up the wall.

At least It made me so good at Rainbow Road in that game that I embarrassed everyone at the beers when we played it and I finished at least 10 minutes before everyone else.

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The final cup of Double Dash did my head in. The AI is an awful cheating swine in that game. It drove me up the wall.

At least It made me so good at Rainbow Road in that game that I embarrassed everyone at the beers when we played it and I finished at least 10 minutes before everyone else.

That was awesome, the Beers and projectors, not the fecking Rainbow Road!

Doge

That was a disaster, half of us didn't know which car we were controlling at the start! A practice lap would have helped!

Retr0gamer

Doge wrote: »

That was a disaster, half of us didn't know which car we were controlling at the start! A practice lap would have helped!

Excuses...

Doge

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Excuses...

Not hard to beat 7 others when they dont even know which car they're controlling on screen!

Its not a petty excuse like blaming a poor Ghost and Goblins run on a controller! :pac:

o1s1n

Doge wrote: »

Its not a petty excuse like blaming a poor Ghost and Goblins run on a controller! :pac:

Is he still at that? Last time it was dodgy emulation on Ciderdudes cab

CiDeRmAn

o1s1n wrote: »

Is he still at that? Last time it was dodgy emulation on Ciderdudes cab

Ha!
A dodgy arcade stick Megadrive thingy, he was right of course, brutal emulation but it was a lousy controller.
But then, he used that excuse so often!
Plus, he can't twerk!

Retr0gamer

Doge wrote: »

Not hard to beat 7 others when they dont even know which car they're controlling on screen!

Its not a petty excuse like blaming a poor Ghost and Goblins run on a controller! :pac:

There's beating 7 others.

Then there's finishing the race, walking down stairs, having a long chat then wandering back upstairs and wondering why nobody else has finished :pac:

I played GnG again in an arcade recently and I've near totally lost my knack for that game.... still blame the controller!

Inviere

Retr0gamer wrote: »

There's beating 7 others.

Only beating 7 others? Pfft, noob

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

There's beating 7 others.

Then there's finishing the race, walking down stairs, having a long chat then wandering back upstairs and wondering why nobody else has finished :pac:

I played GnG again in an arcade recently and I've near totally lost my knack for that game.... still blame the controller!

I thought we were playing outside?

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I thought we were playing outside?

Haha! Where did he go?

Do you have a basement under your front lawn populated with gnomes?

CiDeRmAn

o1s1n wrote: »

Haha! Where did he go?

Do you have a basement under your front lawn populated with gnomes?

Sshhhh....
That's where the command centre is...

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I thought we were playing outside?

The Rainbow Road massacre occurred in the games room.

This place is full of rainbow road massacre deniers.

Dr Bob

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The Rainbow Road massacre occurred in the games room.

This place is full of rainbow road massacre deniers.

shudder..I hope to NEVER see Rainbow Road again for the rest of my life...it was that bad!

Retr0gamer

So on a bit of a videogaming lul at the moment, nothing really excites me so taking a break for a while and catching up on TV shows.

Was back in my parents today and with only a 360 to entertain me I went on the store and saw Ninja Gaiden Black. Bought it and gave it a quick go and my god I'd forgotten how utterly amazing the game is. The combat mechanics married with the level design and just the how satisfying everything is to do (other than controlling the camera), it's a true masterpiece.

It got me thinking. Those types of mechanics and painstakingly designed levels just are not present in modern Triple A games. You only get it in the best indie games and the odd game like Dark Souls/Bloodborne. Its no wonder modern big budget games weren't exciting me. Nothing can hold a candle to excitement you get from the likes of Ninja Gaiden, something I felt was a lot more common during that era of gaming.

I've been meaning to play Shenmue for a few years now so yesterday i decided enough was enough, its time to have a blast off of it and it was... a bit crap.

I see what they were trying to do with the game and I commend them for it but imo they failed entirely. The time system is infuriating, with no ability to speed it up so while i'm waiting for someone to appear at around "7ish" I have to kill time by playing with the toy capsule machine or going for a game of Space Harrier.
Thats fine for a while but when I can't find your man im looking for I go home, in to bed and start it all again the next day, waiting an age playing the capsule machine again:mad: The pacing here is shockingly bad.
Also, the combat is boring and the QTE pointless.
I know ive probably not even scratched the surface of the game and personally I love a slow burner but Shenmue has done nothing to entice me to fire it up again today

Shapey Fiend

Shenmue is terrible for all the reasons you mentioned. Plus the story and voice acting are horrendous. The only part I enjoyed was playing good games at the arcade and maybe the novelty of the capsule toys. Wait till you get to the infuriation that is forklift racing. I'm a Sega fanboy, although admittedly not a huge adventure game fan, and I couldn't really find much enjoyment from it and gave up just before the end feeling quite perplexed as to why it's considered a work of genius.

o1s1n

Philistines!

Shenmue is great, the problem is it's 20 years old. Most of the key components in it which were groundbreaking at the time have been surpassed many times over in subsequent games and are things we just take for granted now - So the original concepts come off looking a tad archaic.

Still holds it own IMO, played through it 3 - 4 years ago and really enjoyed it.

I agree it was groundbreaking for it's time but when you force the player to be at a certain place at a particular time to progress the story but give them precious little to occupy their time while waiting, then thats just bad game design.
At no point in gaming history would end users have said that sounded like a good idea

o1s1n

See it's just not a traditional 'game' in that respect so I don't think it deserves to be treated as such. It's meant to be a virtual life simulator. You get bored in real life. Go to the arcade and play Space Harrier for a while to kill some time. Enjoy the weather (!). Listen to some tunes on the walkman. It's a bizarre concept and hasn't aged particularly well as I was saying, but if you try and get your mind into that kind of sphere of thinking you can really see what the devs were going for.

Not to say I wasn't frustrated at those parts, I was. But that's life :pac:

Retr0gamer

Anyone know where I can find some sailors?

Inviere

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Anyone know where I can find some sailors?

...that picture in 3, 2, 1....

CiDeRmAn

Did the Yakuza series take over from Shenmue in anyway?
I own the DC games but I've never played them.

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Did the Yakuza series take over from Shenmue in anyway?
I own the DC games but I've never played them.

They're pretty much the spiritual sequels.

They're also good

CiDeRmAn

But do they have sailors?

No, but there's a boat in one of the games. It's kinda the same

o1s1n

If they don't have endlessly looking at a Timex while wandering around trying to try to activate some vague QTE then I've no interest.

The ability to illuminate the Timex is a nice touch I will admit

o1s1n

I have just discovered that Timex made an official Shenmue watch and released it in Japan. It is apparently extremely rare.

I must have one.

Doing another Marathon of the Half-Life series.
I cannot get past the third level of Half Life Decay on the PS2 :P (the only Half-Life campaign I haven't completed)

I'm going to try it on the Steam version - I think there is a mod now.

Inviere

Waiting on Black Mesa to to finished before I begin my own Half Life marathon

Shapey Fiend

I wasn't very impressed by Black Mesa however no true completionist should miss Hunt Down The Freeman.