So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

Retr0gamer

Started Ys Oath in Felghana recently and it's just so much fun. Falcom really are the kings of action RPGs. It just feels so much fun to beat up enemies and zip around the screen.

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Started Ys Oath in Felghana recently and it's just so much fun. Falcom really are the kings of action RPGs. It just feels so much fun to beat up enemies and zip around the screen.

Sounds like SoR again

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Sounds like SoR again

Did you just admit that Streets of Rage is fun?

DaveyDave

I've been meaning to play Streets or Rage 2 the last while, need to clean the cart though it wasn't working last time.

Need to get back a Alien Trilogy too. Got to the third world very quickly, game is shorter then I remembered. Just got a new battery for the Saturn so I don't have to keep taking pictures of the passwords :P

accensi0n

accensi0n wrote: »

Still plugging away at battletoads on the NES.

Have made it to level 7 - Volkmire's Inferno

The turbo tunnel has become super easy, can get through it without dying once. Find level 5 - Surf City more frustrating.

After the first go of the snakes level I thought I'd get through it handy enough but then spent ages on it.

Have made it to the final level of battletoads, havn't made it to the final boss yet.
The first few times I tried the level 'clinger winger' where you have to stay ahead of a chasing orb, I thought that's as far as I'll get, it seemed impossible. From what I've heard it is genuinely impossible on hdtv screens because of the input lag. Finally managed to beat it and now find it handy enough which is surprising.
Fairly confident I'll beat the game by the end of the month, and then burn it and never play it again.

Amalgam

Quake 3 Arena.. on a fanless Atom netbook that gets 90FPS rock solid. I just installed it to see does it behave itself on: A netbook, Windows 10. Yes, is the answer.

Followed this: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=165867114 to get a proper widescreen resolution and Bob's your uncle..

Installed on a whim after having a few Quake Legends videos suggested to me on YouTube.

Close to 18 years now, since I'd log onto a server at Salford (UK) City College, where there was a lowly server tucked away in a rather dusty room, playing nothing but Q3CTF1 - "Dueling Keeps".. My AMD K6-III+ 450 could hardly keep up.

Salford City College ran, and still do, a course on games design/computer and video games. Always a busy and friendly server.

Burzum

Cant sleep so I thought it would be a good idea to finally start Secret of Mana on the snes.

DaveyDave

Amalgam wrote: »

Quake 3 Arena.. on a fanless Atom netbook that gets 90FPS rock solid. I just installed it to see does it behave itself on: A netbook, Windows 10. Yes, is the answer.

Followed this: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=165867114 to get a proper widescreen resolution and Bob's your uncle..

Installed on a whim after having a few Quake Legends videos suggested to me on YouTube.

Close to 18 years now, since I'd log onto a server at Salford (UK) City College, where there was a lowly server tucked away in a rather dusty room, playing nothing but Q3CTF1 - "Dueling Keeps".. My AMD K6-III+ 450 could hardly keep up.

Salford City College ran, and still do, a course on games design/computer and video games. Always a busy and friendly server.

One thing I love about PC games is some of them are easily modded to support higher resolutions and modern computers and a lot of the time the graphics are decent enough and look pretty decent with the higher resolution.

I think Silent Hill 2 was just editing a settings.ini file or something and it looks pretty good. I think one of the games needed an FOV fix for it but it was pretty straight forward.

wheresmahbombs

Started playing the first Ratchet and Clank.

Spent last night playing this with a couple of friends, great laugh, might make a panel up for it

o1s1n

Only after discovering now that Resident Evil 2 had a Dreamcast release.

Anyone ever play it? Does it offer much over the PS1 version?

Retr0gamer

It's pretty much the same game but has a good few extras like galleries and model viewers. Probably the most complete version of the game.

Also looks great over VGA and I prefer the controls but that's a personal preference, I think the DC and GC versions are the same.

Retr0gamer

Deleted User wrote: »

Also looks great over VGA and I prefer the controls but that's a personal preference, I think the DC and GC versions are the same.

GC PAL version in 50 Hz and I think it also features Vaseline-o-vision (tm). Dreamcast PAL version might also be 50Hz game.

DaveyDave

Finished a 2 player run of Streets of Rage 2 the other day and still getting through THPS2. Might play Bully on PS4, not sure what to play at the moment though so mainly watching some TV.

accensi0n

Beat Battletoads on the NES. :eek:

No warps, did use a continue on the dark queen though so lost the max score that I had going. There's a hell of a lot to the game after the turbo tunnel, just takes a lot of time and patience to play your way through.


End screens:

Retr0gamer

Congrats

accensi0n

Been playing Mega Man 2 on the NES. Don't think I ever beat it as a kid, used a lot of continues but beat it there.

Some end screens:

Retr0gamer

Beat it on hard now! Normal was added for the American release and is too easy and removes some interesting enemy behaviours. It's much better on hard.

o1s1n

Started Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door yesterday. Been sitting there on a shelf for ages - didn't know too much about it or that it was an RPG till I fired it up

I don't know how I haven't played this sooner. The sense of humour and charm to it has a real Itoi/Earthbound feel to it.

o1s1n

Anyone ever have trouble playing through Shenmue 2 and getting the 'data read error' when loading? (I'm using a legit disc)

You can be playing for an hour or two, decide to save it and then get the error when the hotel with the save section is loading up (losing all of your progress). It's incredibly frustrating

Retr0gamer

Since God of War is not doing anything for me I decided to play some videogame comfort food and started the PC version of FF8. Having a lot of fun with it even if I'm finding the card game too addictive and spending more time on it than the actual game. The story is still utter nonsense but I just love how broken the battle system is and how much fun it is to destroy the games systems.

Shapey Fiend

Kim Justice did a very extensive video on ff8 last year.

Not really retro but I've just started Nier Automata. Hoping it works as a decent intro to Platinum Games other 3D fighters which I find a bit baffling. Played thru Dark Souls since last trying Bayonetta so that'll probably help too.

In last month I've pretty much beaten Mario 3d land, Mario Maker and New Super Mario bros 1 & 2 a couple of times except that the young fella likes making me replay random levels half the time instead of the next one.

Retr0gamer

Revengeance I'd probably the best starting point. Nier is a bit low budget so combat gets repetitive and doesn't have the nuance their better games gave.

accensi0n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Beat it on hard now! Normal was added for the American release and is too easy and removes some interesting enemy behaviours. It's much better on hard.

Completed it there on Difficult. Definitely better. Couple of the more noticeable differences were the end boss taking a lot more hits and the shell fish things on bubble man don't die when you hit them, their shells pop off and they run around like mad.

Shapey Fiend

I bought Revengeance in a sale a few years back and didn't get on with it but I'll try again next. I've been trying to get into these dodging based combat systems since Viewtiful Joe came out and I'm getting there at last just doesn't come to me that naturally.

Nier has a few rough edges due to budget but they're smart about it. I like how they're trying to use the limited areas and enemy types in different ways. The movement is undeniably satisfying which is kind of a novelty in an rpg.

Infernum

I recently went on a Steam rampage and bought pretty much every old school Doom and Doom add-on available on the Steam store. Same with Wolfenstein 3D (and Spear of Destiny), Quake and Quake II. Also got the complete pack of Commander Keen titles, Blake Stone: Planet Strike, a collection of Heretic/Hexen titles.


Right now I've been trying to play my way through some of the Commander Keen titles.

Retr0gamer

I bought them all on steam and am quite annoyed that they run really poorly with lots of issues. Ended up using fan mods to get them working.

accensi0n

Been playing Duck Tales on the NES. It's a game that tends to show up on lists of easy NES games but I actually found it a bit more difficult than people make out. Fun game, lots of areas to explore and extra items to find that are not a requirement for completing the levels.


Some end screens:

wheresmahbombs

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I bought them all on steam and am quite annoyed that they run really poorly with lots of issues. Ended up using fan mods to get them working.

Old PC games in a nutshell - they may require some fine tuning to facilitate optimal performance.

Retr0gamer

On the last stage of legend of zelda. It's an absolute nightmare.

Inviere

Retr0gamer wrote: »

On the last stage of legend of zelda. It's an absolute nightmare.

Played through it on the 3DS VC a few years back. An obscurely difficult pig of a game at times.

Kylo Ren

accensi0n wrote: »

Been playing Duck Tales on the NES. It's a game that tends to show up on lists of easy NES games but I actually found it a bit more difficult than people make out. Fun game, lots of areas to explore and extra items to find that are not a requirement for completing the levels.

Just completed it the other night too! Weird.

I agree. It's not as easy as some people go on about it but it's certainly easy when compared to a lot of the NES library. Fantastic game and loved how you could complete a level and miss certain paths and even bosses. You can see how much Shovel Knight took from it.

I'm onto Ninja Gaiden at the moment. Music is so good. Seeing a cut scene on an NES game is brilliant.

The Last Bandit

Playing through some of the old Lucasarts point & clicks using Scummvm on my tablet at the moment, really enjoying them even though I've to dip into a FAQ on occasion - currently on 'Indy and the Last Crusade'.

Inviere

Resident Evil REmake on Steam...first time playthrough of the game!

Inviere

Inviere wrote: »

Resident Evil REmake on Steam...first time playthrough of the game!

Bleugh, not sure I can tolerate finite saving & inventory management at my age

o1s1n

Inviere wrote: »

Resident Evil REmake on Steam...first time playthrough of the game!

Haha yeah, running out of typewriter ribbons always stressed me the feck out!

Couple of hours into the original Luigi's Mansion now. I played through the 3DS sequel when it came out but never actually played the original.

It's such a polished game, hard to think it's nearly 17 years old!

Inviere

o1s1n wrote: »

Haha yeah, running out of typewriter ribbons always stressed me the feck out!

Typewriter ribbons and the inability to 'drop' items (meaning you've to backtrack significantly to free up inventory slots). Nah, I caved. City Skylines for the moment it is! Total time sink though.

Couple of hours into the original Luigi's Mansion now. I played through the 3DS sequel when it came out but never actually played the original.

It's such a polished game, hard to think it's nearly 17 years old!

^^ really must do the same myself at some stage, always meant to give the game a proper go.

Retr0gamer

I find there's way more ink ribbons than you need in Resi and if you plan your route you shouldn't have much need of backtracking. Planning your route to the next item box is part of the fun.

That strategy and management is sorely missing from every other Resi game.

Inviere

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I find there's way more ink ribbons than you need in Resi and if you plan your route you shouldn't have much need of backtracking. Planning your route to the next item box is part of the fun.

That strategy and management is sorely missing from every other Resi game.

Planning your route is perfectly fine on subsequent playthroughs, but when you've not got a clue about the mansion, & its all new to you, it's a slightly tiresome mechanic. I could live with it though. The big killer for me was the rigid inventory system. Not being able to 'drop' items is just painful. That being said, I was enjoying the game up until my inventory became an issue.

Retr0gamer

Inviere wrote: »

Planning your route is perfectly fine on subsequent playthroughs, but when you've not got a clue about the mansion, & its all new to you, it's a slightly tiresome mechanic. I could live with it though. The big killer for me was the rigid inventory system. Not being able to 'drop' items is just painful. That being said, I was enjoying the game up until my inventory became an issue.

Play as Jill first. She is the easy mode. She gets two more inventory slots than Chris. Chris with the 6 slots is very limited for a first playthrough.

Would be a shame to miss out on Resi 1 and REmake. They're amazing games and unlike any other survival horror game or Resident Evil.

Inviere

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Play as Jill first. She is the easy mode. She gets two more inventory slots than Chris. Chris with the 6 slots is very limited for a first playthrough.

Would be a shame to miss out on Resi 1 and REmake. They're amazing games and unlike any other survival horror game or Resident Evil.

I was playing as Jill I was progressing, albeit early on, and found myself with a full inventory within the first two hours or so. Even combining herbs, reloading the gun to remove clips, etc, it got full. Backtracking to a chest to offload items was the deal breaker for me. Maybe I'll go back to it another time, now that I know what I'm dealing with.

Retr0gamer

Been playing a lot of FF8 lately but I'm nowhere in the story. Once you know how to play the game it's incredibly easy to break and I'm having too much fun with that. Also triple triad is probably the best card mini game ever and is taking up a lot of time as well

o1s1n

Inviere wrote: »

I was playing as Jill I was progressing, albeit early on, and found myself with a full inventory within the first two hours or so. Even combining herbs, reloading the gun to remove clips, etc, it got full. Backtracking to a chest to offload items was the deal breaker for me. Maybe I'll go back to it another time, now that I know what I'm dealing with.

You need to unload more of those surplus clips into Zombies!

Inviere

o1s1n wrote: »

You need to unload more of those surplus clips into Zombies!

Off hand that I can remember, I had a Survival Knife, an Armour Plaque thing, a Handgun, a clip, a combined green herb, a book of some description, a jewel, and a typewriter ribbon - full inventory. Reached the shotgun hanging on the wall & couldn't take it :rolleyes:

o1s1n

Inviere wrote: »

Off hand that I can remember, I had a Survival Knife, an Armour Plaque thing, a Handgun, a clip, a combined green herb, a book of some description, a jewel, and a typewriter ribbon - full inventory. Reached the shotgun hanging on the wall & couldn't take it :rolleyes:

Sure who needs a shotgun for taking out zombies when you have ribbons and jewels!

The Last Bandit

o1s1n wrote: »

Sure who needs a shotgun for taking out zombies when you have ribbons and jewels!

Sounds more like 'My Little Pony'...

Retr0gamer

Inviere wrote: »

Off hand that I can remember, I had a Survival Knife, an Armour Plaque thing, a Handgun, a clip, a combined green herb, a book of some description, a jewel, and a typewriter ribbon - full inventory. Reached the shotgun hanging on the wall & couldn't take it :rolleyes:

Get rid of the survival knife, it's useless unless you are doing a knife run. The plaque should be stored away unless you picked it up. Also don't bother carrying typewriter ribbons. There's always a ribbon at each typewriter and in the majority or cases the typewriters are beside storage boxes.

Inviere

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Get rid of the survival knife, it's useless unless you are doing a knife run. The plaque should be stored away unless you picked it up. Also don't bother carrying typewriter ribbons. There's always a ribbon at each typewriter and in the majority or cases the typewriters are beside storage boxes.

Now he tells me....:D

Retr0gamer

Well hope it helps when you finally go back to the classic Resi games. Would be a shame to miss out on the experience.

BTW both Resi 1 and REmake are both quite different experiences so worth playing both. REmake brilliant remixes the first game so it's different enough that it doesn't supercede the original, meaning there's more Resi goodness for everyone!