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So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition
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Right need to get this off my chest.
found Crash Bandicoot 2 to be a perfectly cromulent platformer. I thought it was far from a masterpiece PS1 fanboys made it out to be but decent enough.
Well I got to the last few stages last night and I can safely say **** anyone that says this is a great game. It just got mean and obnoxious and to make matters worse if you are going for secrets it manages to break everyone of it's own rules.
Also if I ever meet whoever designed the green nitro crates I will physically assault them. Whoever thought it was a good idea to have the hop off the ground at random thus running the no death run you needed to get 100% crates in the level can burn in hell.
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So what do you do after coming from Crash 2 traumatised?
Jump into Crash 3...
Not sure why I did but I've stuck with it. It's still got the flaws of the uninteresting level tile sets and boring enemies but it's so far a lot better and fairer game. Over the halfway point already. We will see if it ends up breaking me in the later stages.
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I'm finding Crash 3 good, but the racing stages are really poor. Also the new abilities you get after each boss feel like you are breaking the game. I'm over the halfway mark now. I really don't get the requirements for unlocking the 5 'secret' areas. It's all just based on getting the time trial ankhs but the bottom tier sapphire ankh is valid for the unlock and seems to be doled out as a participation trophy so all you are doing is playing all the levels twice.
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Speaking of old PC games I started playing Deus Ex Invisible War.
Pain in the arse to get running, the game has conflicts with near everything in Windows which means it hangs on loading into the game from the menu.
Anyone interested in playing, my work around is to open task manager, open the game, let it hang loading then ctrl alt del and sign out. The sign out will end all tasks in the background but task manager will hold up the sign out enough so you can cancel it. The game will work on the next boot.
Anyway Invisible War was the game that gave us consolised games, games that are ham strung by being made for console. There's a lot of concessions made here that negatively affect the game compared to the original. The levels are tiny and there's a huge amount of streamlining such as having universal ammo. Some of it though is for the better. You've to make harsh choices in your biomods which is very interesting and it's nice that keycodes are entered automatically.
The biggest issue with the game is that it's constantly compared to the first game. While it doesn't live up to it taken on its own terms it's a really great immersive sim. There's plenty of deus ex style choices and multiple ways to approach challenges and the quests seem really fun. Once you get out of the pretty lame tutorial section it becomes a lot of fun.
The graphics have aged a lot but it has that stencil shadow look that was pioneered by Doom 3 which I still think is very effective and a damn sight better than the more accurate real time shadows that render in massive macro blocks we had to put up with until recently.
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If you are using a switch for anything other than indie and nintendo games you are doing it wrong.
The analogy doesn't really work either, the Switch is just underpowered.
On the other hand the C64 had fancy graphical hardware that let it push sprites and do scrolling which is why the game looked better. The Spectrum on the other hand had a much beefier CPU but bugger all graphical hardware. I meant it couldn't do sprites and had to brute force that stuff. But it meant 3D and processor intensive games ran better and most games ran smoothly despite the jank. I think the Megadrive and SNES are a better comparison.
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Before the vanilla update on boards, there was a pacman emoticon. :pac: is how you would get him to appear.
We lost him in the recent update.
Swear to god, aside from all the numerous other issues with Vanilla, that was the one that almost pushed me over the edge!
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It's an excellent. They took on all the criticism of the gba FF games and went all out on the DS port. It's pretty much a perfect ports, even the music sounds spot on. There's a few rows of pixels missing due to the resolution but it's not noticable really.
They also added in a new dungeon which was meant to be in the final release, the music track was left on the snes cartridge. It's nice to have but it's kind of a slog unfortunately.
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I'm really enjoying Deus Ex Invisibile War. Once you forget that it's a sequel to arguably the best game ever made and start taking it for it's own game there's a lot here to enjoy. I've one big issue though which is related to the game's console roots. I've finished the first major area of the game and with the Biomods I have I'm quite powerful and usually have an excess of multitools and bio energy to perform all tasks. I remember the original Deus Ex had a much steeper upgrade path where you were always on the verge of having an ability that would make your current situation much more comfortable (Etrian Odyssey also pulls this balance off nicely). The only big trade off I've had to make was to sacrifice my cloaking ability for hacking but hacking is just way more fun and the stealth is too janky in this game to make non lethal viable on a first playthrough.
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I see that Star Fox just turned 30. The latest thing to make me feel old.
In work sometimes I talk games with my team and often they haven’t played games because they hadn’t been born yet!
Anyway, I’ll put on Star Fox at lunch today!!
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