So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

CCCP^

Right, here's my perogative: clear Transformers, Rez, Red Star, Sonic Unleashed and Tomb Raider: Anniversary all for PS2 this week. I'm on the last level of Transformers, fairly far into Rez and Red Star. Sonic Unleashed shouldn't take too long, that just leaves Tomb Raider.

Need to finish Zombies At My Neighbors on the Super Nintendo, which I'm about mid-way through and get around to Advance Wars: Dual Strike for the DS. Then I can start on new stuff.

Picked up Bangai-O Spirits for the DS, interesting to see how a shooter looks for it, never played one on it before.

Retr0gamer

The last 5 or so levels of zombies are next to impossible. I played the crap out of that game and gave up at them.

Gummy Panda

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

So far it's the only IP to have no misfires, aside from the CDi second cousins that no one talks about.....

I dunno. I'm sitting on the fence with phantom hourglass. Not made about the stylus controls and the repetition of the Ocean King Temple.

o1s1n

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Not made about the stylus controls

:eek:

That and Ninja Gaiden DS are probably the best executed DS controls yet. The fluidity is amazing.

Gummy Panda wrote: »

and the repetition of the Ocean King Temple.

This is the biggest complaint I keep hearing again and again. Personally I found it a little annoying. Although not enough to make any really noticeably bad impact on the game.

Gummy Panda

o1s1n wrote: »

:eek:

That and Ninja Gaiden DS are probably the best executed DS controls yet. The fluidity is amazing.

They're good but does it have them because it needs them or does it have them to justify the touch gimmick of the DS?

I ask this about a lot of DS games after playing Dawn of Sorrow.

Retr0gamer

I found d-pad and button controls much more intuitive than the stylus controls used in both games. The stylus controls can get tiresome after a while and are far from perfect. They seem to be shoehorned in since traditional controls are much better. Stylus controls would be fine for stuff like boomerang throwing but let me control were link goes with a d-pad please.

o1s1n

You can use D pad controls in both those games? Hah! Didn't even notice myself. Didn't even consider needing to tbh.

I can't see a stylus working for something like dawn of sorrow? Or any side scrolling game for that matter that requires percision jumps.

Ninja Gaiden requires a lot of slashing movements which I think lends itself to stylus use. Can't say I had any issues other than my hand hurting after a while...something I find which happens after a lot of stylus heavy games.

Link with the stylus is brilliant though. I really think you'd be silly to use a D pad with that game at all. Again, I think it's down to the slashing with a sword. I found it a real joy anyway.

Link with a Wiimote and Nunchuck on the other hand....bah!

Retr0gamer

You can't use the d-pad with either game. Also annoying is that you have a big stylus holding hand hovering in front of the screen all the time. Not exactly lening itself to immersion.

CiDeRmAn

I really enjoyed Twilight Princess, with the Wiimote and Nunchuck, briliant fun.
I'm hoping the followup will have motion-plus compatibility, nice...

Hope the Transformers mentioned isn't the lousy movie adaptations and is instead the excellent pre-movie edition, it's awesome! Although a little easy!
I picked up the Directors Cut version of the PS2 game a year or two ago for pittance.

Retrogames are on the backburner right now, playing Scribblenauts on the DS and it's a work of genius!
I wrote matter and got a little molecule on-screen, I then wrote anti-matter and put the two together, the level reset!
Sweet.....

97i9y3941

Flimbos Quest!

CCCP^

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Hope the Transformers mentioned isn't the lousy movie adaptations and is instead the excellent pre-movie edition, it's awesome! Although a little easy!
I picked up the Directors Cut version of the PS2 game a year or two ago for pittance.

It's the pre-movie edition CiDeR. Very good game. Have gotten to the final level but just realised I need to go back through previous levels to find missing minicons in order to clear the last level, which is a huge task in itself. All the levels I previously cleared now seem much harder too. It's a deadly shooter, graphics are quite good. I especially liked the CGI cutscenes, they were great. I like when a game surprises you like that, your not thinking its going to be too good but it rocked

CiDeRmAn

Yup, a great game, and so much better than all the versions of the Movie license that came out later.
Odd that, isn't it.
Amazing that no one in Hasbro, the people who played the original PS2 edition didn't call the shots and ask why they were being insulted with games based on the two movies.
Better perhaps to just repackage the PS2 game, for the PSP at least, could have been the best one!

At least none of the Transformer games were as bad as the recent license GI Joe, I believe it's truely pitiful.

Gummy Panda

CCCP^ wrote: »

It's the pre-movie edition CiDeR. Very good game. Have gotten to the final level but just realised I need to go back through previous levels to find missing minicons in order to clear the last level, which is a huge task in itself. All the levels I previously cleared now seem much harder too. It's a deadly shooter, graphics are quite good. I especially liked the CGI cutscenes, they were great. I like when a game surprises you like that, your not thinking its going to be too good but it rocked

is this the one with the huge tidalwave in it?

CiDeRmAn

Yup, the weakest part of the game in my humble opinion, a nasty little war of attrition between you and a franly god-like decepticon, with you spending a good deal of your time hiding behind a shaggin' rock.
Very disappointing to be honest after the genius of the rest of the game.

Hmm, lashing through the jungle as Red Alert in car mode, sighting enemies over a cliff, hitting transform and landing in their midst to kick their ass, nice...

batari

Finally managed to get some Neo-Geo games on to my Dingoo, and my god how great is Metal Slug to play. Glorious killing of enemy soldiers, blowing up tanks etc etc., makes me wish it was 1992 and I had a bag full of 20p's

o1s1n

atariman wrote: »

akes me wish it was 1992 and I had a bag full of 20p's

Unfortunately if it was 1992, you'd have to wait another 4 years to play Metal Slug

It's my own favourite run and gun game. Really doesn't get any better. The animations are just the height of 2D.

Now, back to trying to 1 credit the damn thing..!

TheAlmightyZeus

I'm playing the game of posting on Boards at work without being seen.

batari

'96? Wow really thought it was older than that. And 1 credit??!! That i'd pay a bag of 20p's to see :pac:

invincibleirish

Playing Driver on PS1 a cracking game. A quick google tells me the sequels are fairly iffy and i shouldnt bother.

Also playing track and field on the DC, exactly what i expect it to be.

o1s1n

atariman wrote: »

And 1 credit??!! That i'd pay a bag of 20p's to see :pac:

Just takes a bit of practice! You need to focus on dodging the bullets rather than shooting the enemy. Sounds obvious but you'd be suprised how many people get caught up ripping through the enemy with a machine gun and get shot themselves.

It's easier to do in Metal Slug X. Actually it's fairly easy to get through the first three levels of Metal Slug X without taking a hit at all.

CiDeRmAn

Driver was awesome, we were invited to see a pre-release of the game and were all blown away by it, looking back it all feels a bit embarrassing!
But it laid down a template followed by GTAIII and at least it didn't suck as badly as Driver3 did!
Oh, and the game was totally spoiled by the next to impossible final mission.

CCCP^

Still going with Transformers, started Doom 64, played some Sonic Unleashed also.

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Driver was awesome, we were invited to see a pre-release of the game and were all blown away by it, looking back it all feels a bit embarrassing!
But it laid down a template followed by GTAIII and at least it didn't suck as badly as Driver3 did!
Oh, and the game was totally spoiled by the next to impossible final mission.

It was spoiled as well by a next to impossible opening training mission as well

valleyoftheunos

Driver was great, never did manage to complete the final mission though.

The only explanation for Driv3r was that it was released before it was finished, some parts of the game worked quite well and the environments were good, but it didn't hang together at all and other parts of the gameplay were completely broken.

NeoKubrick

Took up 1080 Avalanche again after two years of neglecting it, and it was surprisingly good. I immediately stopped playing the first time I picked it up, because I didn't give it a chance in the shadow of the original. It's such an adrenaline rush to play. The extreme mode was hard on the first completion, but, after and once you get the opportunity to unlock the rocket board, it's piss-easy unlocking the secret characters of all the boarders.

It doesn't quite have an addictive trick system as its predecessor: I don't like the combo system and the grinds are tacky. It's a better racer, though. And you can't beat going down Wit's Thicket with Kemen on the rocket.


Nintendo do know how to create great racing games.

CiDeRmAn

1080 Avalanche, a great game sadly lost to most as everyone else was playing the frankly brilliant Amped and Amped 2 on the Xbox...

But 1080 Snowboarding on the N64, now that was awesome!
No one else had even tried to do the sport that way, and building on the controls of Waverace 64 they produced a masterpiece.

Wonder if the Wii will get a new version?

Snesfan

Driver was an awesome game! loved it! me and my friends used always go to a residential corner in the first map where there was this small bridge with a crazy incline, write off as many cop cars as possible, line them up neatly and then try to jump over or onto them or something, the trick was trying to not get them to disappear when you went to do your massive run up to the ramp, great times.

PLaying street fighter 2 turbo at the moment, guile is a terrible character in this while he's effective in street figther 4 with pretty much the same moves,odd, Dhalsiam will always be crap though

Why don't they have that mode in sf4 where you each select a character and play till one person loses all his players can't think now but i think it was elimination, love that.

Sorry about the long badly written post, im very tired

steve_

1080 on the N64 gave me hours of enjoyment, i remember a 1080 being an absolute pain to pull off. And racing against the ice man.

hama33

playing Breath of Fire II on snes atm!

Snesfan

hama33 wrote: »

playing Breath of Fire II on snes atm!

Excellent choice, I will be firing it up myself tomorrow evening I think, either that or mystic quest, anybody got any views on which one I should play, im not pushed either way............

Retr0gamer

Yeah I do. Play Breath of Fire 2 because mystic quest is a big heap of arsehole that shouldn't be played by anyone with any taste in videogames because it's ****ing ****.

Snesfan

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Yeah I do. Play Breath of Fire 2 because mystic quest is a big heap of arsehole that shouldn't be played by anyone with any taste in videogames because it's ****ing ****.

Someones got an issue with mystic quest???? what happened? couldn't finish it?

Amalgam

Final Doom: Plutonia Experiment

I regret not buying the huge rectangular Doom box set from years back, along with the cheesy Doom medallion.. £15 Bargain.

trout

Amalgam wrote: »

... cheesy Doom medallion.. £15 Bargain.

*want*

Retr0gamer

Snesfan wrote: »

Someones got an issue with mystic quest???? what happened? couldn't finish it?

It's not that I couldn't finish it, it's that I couldn't be bothered. It's way too easy and it's just an overall crap game. Square completely got their market wrong their making a dumbed down RPG for the west.

CCCP^

Amped 2 for the Xbox.

Genius game. Anyone played this?

Tallon

Right, I'm gonna throw this out there, maybe it was mentioned before but it truely was one of the best Xbox games ever made.
Psychonauts... F_cking love that game, one of the most trippy games ever made and a great story too.

I don't have it anymore but would really love to track it down.

Anyone ever play it?

Tallon

hama33 wrote: »

playing Breath of Fire II on snes atm!

wow, Im really liking this game :d

trout

Tallon wrote: »

Right, I'm gonna throw this out there, maybe it was mentioned before but it truely was one of the best Xbox games ever made.
Psychonauts... F_cking love that game, one of the most trippy games ever made and a great story too.

I don't have it anymore but would really love to track it down.

Anyone ever play it?

I think it's on XBLM

/edit - http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024d4a07d2/

Amalgam

Didn't Psychonauts drag a publishing house to its demise?

It never sold well at the time it came out on the various consoles. A huge ad campaign that never really turned into sales. Pity. The fickle public don't always buy the 'better' game.

Tallon

trout wrote: »

I think it's on XBLM

/edit - http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024d4a07d2/

Don't have a 360... But ill track it down!
Cheers for the link

CCCP^

Tallon wrote: »

Right, I'm gonna throw this out there, maybe it was mentioned before but it truely was one of the best Xbox games ever made.
Psychonauts... F_cking love that game, one of the most trippy games ever made and a great story too.

I don't have it anymore but would really love to track it down.

Anyone ever play it?

Picked it up a dozen times in places but just wasn't pushed to play it not too cheap either on ebay, seems to be going for around 8-12 sterling, about 15 euros so

Tallon

CCCP^ wrote: »

Picked it up a dozen times in places but just wasn't pushed to play it not too cheap either on ebay, seems to be going for around 8-12 sterling, about 15 euros so

Yeah, thats the cheapest I could find it, ex P&P

If you can get a hold of it, play it.. You won't put it down

CiDeRmAn

Ahhh, just got Halo ODST, no retro gaming for the next week or two I reckon!
Although, a bit of Megadrive and Snes on the old PSP should do it!
Also, got very nice 2600 and Colecovision emus plus the "other" requisites the other day, now I can play Looping and Defender II to my hearts content, also on the PSP!

The only thing this little wunder-console can't do is run a good stable Mame, the one I got kept crashing the PSP, feck! And I have an old but still good, lets call it "rum" set for it too, bugger!

CCCP^

Tallon wrote: »

Yeah, thats the cheapest I could find it, ex P&P

If you can get a hold of it, play it.. You won't put it down

I got it today in gamestop, was that or odinsphere but went with psychonauts instead and have played about 20 minutes of it so far and genuinely liked it for the odd humour and quirkyness. It might look tastier on an xbox id imagine.

Tallon

CCCP^ wrote: »

I got it today in gamestop, was that or odinsphere but went with psychonauts instead and have played about 20 minutes of it so far and genuinely liked it for the odd humour and quirkyness. It might look tastier on an xbox id imagine.

thats on the PS2, yeah?
It's really addictive once you get into it, the first bit (ranch) can be annoying, but it gets very very creative

NeoKubrick

Gamestop had a deal for Psychonauts (PS2) and other games of €3 plus a trade-in to buy a few months ago. Enter for Matrix, which I got for nothing anyway, was put to some use, at last.

Even if the trading idea is shot down, shouldn't this forum at least have a stickied thread where we can all post good deals for retro, rare or soon-to-be-rare games or another thread where members can post what games they're looking out for and would appreciate a heads-up?

Tallon

Sure start a thread, if theres enough info and it takes off im sure it'll be stickied!

NeoKubrick

Tallon wrote: »

Sure start a thread, if theres enough info and it takes off im sure it'll be stickied!

It'd be best if a moderator starts it. Original post would have to be maintained. And I don't have any information that would justify making the thread. ;P

o1s1n

We just need to be more proactive in that trading thread over in the forums forum. It's a perfectly good idea.

Once they dissapear off the main page the chances of them being made go down and down. They just get forgotten about.