Arcade and Retro General Chat in Karkariko Village Tavern: Live Ocarina Music

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_3xrqjTyes

Star Lord

That looks brilliant!!!

Doge

Found another fan made remake, which is basically a female Mega Man.
Rokko Chan:

http://king-soukutu.com/flash/rokko.html

Nice soundtrack too.

CiDeRmAn

Sera wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_3xrqjTyes

Sweet mother of Glob, that looks amazing!
I wonder what it would look like on a cab???

o1s1n

Oh man, is there anything nicer than 8 bit graphics with super smooth animation like that? It's just screaming to be run on a CRT alright.

Augmerson

CosmicSmash

It could be worse, you could have one of these on your back.

CiDeRmAn

Monkeykube wrote: »

It could be worse, you could have one of these on your back.

There's good reasons no one see's Retr0 naked, or even stripped to the waist.
One reason is the restraining order
The other is the tribute to all things CDi he has on his abdomen, pity the poor Sera everyone, pity her

CiDeRmAn

Augmerson wrote: »

That epic tatt had promise, just sad it was done by a guy with tracing paper and a felt tip pen.
Perhaps some shading will save it... maybe....
Pity it wasn't a Snes or Megadrive pad though

CosmicSmash

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

There's good reasons no one see's Retr0 naked, or even stripped to the waist.

Some things are best left unseen;)

CosmicSmash

Back on topic, this looks pretty cool.

Doge

Augmerson wrote: »

Doge

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

That epic tatt had promise, just sad it was done by a guy with tracing paper and a felt tip pen.
Perhaps some shading will save it... maybe....
Pity it wasn't a Snes or Megadrive pad though

Jaysus it will take more than that to save it,

What's written in the text is awful too...

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

There's good reasons no one see's Retr0 naked

Not yet...

CiDeRmAn

Here's a question for those who know out there.
I am going to pick up the Rockman titles for the Famicom and it may take a while.
In the meantime there's a PS2 collection of the Megaman/Rockman titles and it looks like a good stop gap, anyone know if it's any good? Apparently they're straight conversions from the Rockman originals, as well a few extras.

Retr0gamer

They are decent but there's a few problems with them. First they reversed the buttons which is really annoying. Second some of the games have content cut which is inexcusable. The intros and endings to some games are gone. On the other hand it's the only time the two arcade mega an games have been released on a home console.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

There's good reasons no one see's Retr0 naked, or even stripped to the waist.
The other is the tribute to all things CDi he has on his abdomen, pity the poor Sera everyone, pity her

Anyone else playing south park?
I put a few hours into it last night.
Very funny and theres a lot going on in it!

nothing like this!


I remember the day the N64 one came out.Myself and a cousin were obsessed with the N64.He got his ma to drive us to game in the Square and he got it.
As soon as we booted it up it wiped the smile off our faces.
my god its such balls.

Retr0gamer

The sound of those turkeys will stay with me forever.

DinoRex

Hoping it's as good as 'Chef's Luv Shack' on the Dreamcast.

Sparks43

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/man-stabbed-with-legend-of-zelda-master-sword-in-serious-condition-9167520.html


:eek:

CiDeRmAn

Sparks43 wrote: »

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/man-stabbed-with-legend-of-zelda-master-sword-in-serious-condition-9167520.html


:eek:

So Ganon survives yet another encounter with Link, will he ever be defeated?

o1s1n

The man declined to mention whether he collected any rupees following the incident.

HAHAHAHA, I can't believe they actually put that in an article about someone being stabbed

DinoRex

Slightly more details here:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-man-stabbed-sword-legend-zelda-domestic-dispute-article-1.1710389

Optimus Prime

haha thats some news post

The ex-husband was taken to hospital following the altercation, but not before he, in true Zelda fashion, smashed a pot (a flower pot, over the head of Thompson).

Jack burton

urbanledge wrote: »

Anyone else playing south park?
I put a few hours into it last night.
Very funny and theres a lot going on in it!

nothing like this!


I remember the day the N64 one came out.Myself and a cousin were obsessed with the N64.He got his ma to drive us to game in the Square and he got it.
As soon as we booted it up it wiped the smile off our faces.
my god its such balls.

Thinking about picking it up when I go to town in a few hours.
I suppose the censoring we got over here isnt really worth my while getting a US copy?

MrVestek

In other news man goes on speeding rampage through the city in his Taxi for crazy tips and charges customer an extortionate fare at the end of their 0.2 mile journey.

Doge

"And he just walked right into the point. I don’t know if he thought it was a toy."

Me hole he did! Who the **** walks into a sword ffs?

DinoRex

Jack burton wrote: »

Thinking about picking it up when I go to town in a few hours.
I suppose the censoring we got over here isnt really worth my while getting a US copy?

The PC version is uncensored apparently. It's supposed to have less bugs as well.

Retr0gamer

There's a version of Raiden IV coming to PS3 in the US soon for all you smhuppets out there.

Retr0gamer

Also Marvelous USA seem to be on a roll bringing the perviest games to the US. Akiba's Trip 2 is coming out. It's a game about a guy battling vampires in Akihabara. However he must uncover vampires first.... by stripping girls and exposing them to the sun. Stay classy Japan

http://www.siliconera.com/2014/03/05/akibas-trip-undead-undressed-coming-north-america-summer/

johnny_ultimate

Managed to grab one of those 99c copies of Killzone Shadowfall that were incorrectly going on PSN last night, which is probably around 99c more than it's actually worth :pac:

I played the first level, which was as bland a tech demo as one would expect. Some of the attempts at drama were pretty ridiculous. It did make me wonder why more games these days don't just do away with story entirely and get to the point. I can't imagine there are many people out there playing the Killzone series for its narrative depths, generic lore or complex world building? Ah, for the time of barely connected levels and the 'story' summed up on the loading screen. At least some of the smaller PC shooters seem to be embracing the good old days more than the bloated AAA ones!

DinoRex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRXlM0EowwI

Retr0gamer

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I can't imagine there are many people out there playing the Killzone series for its narrative depths, generic lore or complex world building? Ah, for the time of barely connected levels and the 'story' summed up on the loading screen. At least some of the smaller PC shooters seem to be embracing the good old days more than the bloated AAA ones!

You'd be surprised unfortunately. There's a lot of people thinking that 'oh the helghast aren't that evil despite looking like space nazis's, it's the player that is evil' is the height of dramatic storytelling.

I want more videogame makers to make their stories the way Platinum games and Shinji Mikami do. They know they aren't great storywriters but they know that so they have lots of fun filling their games with pure cheese.

Then at the oposite end of the spectrum you have the likes of Kojima who is getting an over inflated ego because of all the fanboys that big up his horrendous writing. Unfortunately most writers in the videogame business are immature 20 something year old nerds which is why it's usually sci-fi schlock or A&D rip offs with plenty of gender and violence issues. It's rare that someone like Ken Levine (a writer by trade before moving to games) gets in a creative position in the industry.

It wasn't long ago when I was happy when the only story I had in an action game like Contra was exploding through the windscreen of a truck and being attacked by aliens I instinctively knew were terrible and needed to die. If it was Killzone I'd find out how we attacked their home planet first... then kill them anyway because I couldn't give two flying ****s.

Game Designers, if you can't write then don't bother.

o1s1n

There's bad writing which knows it's bad writing and then there's bad writing which as you said, is elevated and put on a pedestal by fans (giving the author an undeserved sense of artistic ability).

Unfortunately the latter is enough to have them continue writing their crap.

johnny_ultimate

I wouldn't necessarily say Mikami even rips the piss particularly well - I thought Vanquish was just 'dull generic' as opposed to 'hilariously generic'. As for Platinum, they can be delightfully cheesy when storytelling - some of the cutscenes in Bayonetta are hilarious - but they can be utterly leaden as well. Anarchy Reigns was a real chore in that regard, although they were trying to fit a narrative around the most absurd premise imaginable :pac:

I'm playing a lot of Bravely Default at the moment, and that's another game that could have done with massively paring down its storytelling, or at least improving it. It thankfully isn't as overwrought as some JRPGs (or indeed Japanese games generally - MGS or Yakuza etc...), but the story sequences are very often dull and lengthy - as one review pointed out, why say something in 1 sentence when you can say it in 50 :P. At least the characters are mostly charismatic.

I'll always support storytelling ambition in games, and there's been tonnes of positive advances in that regard over the last few years. But certainly there's something to be said for more games not deluding themselves and letting the game speak for itself. After all, a lot of these half-assed campaigns or stories require a ludicrous amount of resources that would be better spent elsewhere. I have quite a bit of admiration for the developers of Titanfall not adding a pointless single player mode simply to fulfill generic market criteria! Even if you have no interest in the game whatsoever, at least they're focusing on what they're good at.

DinoRex

April 25th is the date Dark Souls 2 will be coming out on PC... will probably have to double dip on this one (maybe triple if my collectors edition doesn't arrive in time for the 14th)

Retr0gamer

I saw Vanquish in a completely different light , I found it to be a complete piss take of the over the top generic western action games. It was like Mikami was making a statement to the developers of these games to have some fun with it. I'm not sure how you could think it was anything other than a total piss take, it was so over the top.

Info bombs of too much story can really kill the pace of a game or RPG. Square Enix are particularly awful for this so I'm not surprised to hear that about Bravely Default. I just hope it's not MGS4 levels! It's annoying that Atlus can tell such great stories in the Shin Megami Tensei series with such minimal scenes and dialogue yet it takes forever and a codex to tell absolute rot like the FFXIII storyline. SMT4 like Persona and Nocturne was an absolute joy due to the fast pace of the story and battle system and the dynamic between them.

A good example of how bad Square have gotten is the difference between Sword of Mana and Final Fantasy Adventure. Both are the same game with the same story but while the gameboy game gives you only the bare minimum story you need Sword of Mana explains everything right down to the characters questioning whether a character is truly evil or not... a character who is the main villain and called Dark Lord.

o1s1n

DinoRex wrote: »

April 25th is the date Dark Souls 2 will be coming out on PC... will probably have to double dip on this one (maybe triple if my collectors edition doesn't arrive in time for the 14th)

After the mess that was Dark Souls PC version (Still can't get it to boot on my computer) I'll be avoiding this.

360 version all the way. Cannot bloody wait for it!

johnny_ultimate

Is it wrong that this Lego video game trailer seems to be much more fun than any of The Hobbit films? They should have gotten Steven Soderbergh to direct the films :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Qp6rL_7qw

Nerdkiller1991

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Is it wrong that this Lego video game trailer seems to be much more fun than any of The Hobbit films? They should have gotten Steven Soderbergh to direct the films :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Qp6rL_7qw

Wasn't Guillermo del Toro all set to direct them at one point?

Hank Scorpio

anyone know what the pal version of sailor moon on the snes is worth?

OwaynOTT

nuxxx wrote: »

anyone know what the pal version of sailor moon on the snes is worth?

Boxed I think around €80
Cart around 30-40

Been a while since I looked at getting that game and those were completed sales at the time.
It's a French only exclusive, isn't it?

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

nuxxx wrote: »

anyone know what the pal version of sailor moon on the snes is worth?

everything Retr0 owns lol jkjk

Star Lord

As there's some fans of Japanese crazyness here, I thought you guys might be interested in... Babymetal...
It's Death Metal crossed with J-Pop... and... I kinda liked it!!!

http://www.dailydot.com/lol/babymetal-metal-japanese-pop/

Hank Scorpio

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Boxed I think around €80
Cart around 30-40

It's a French only exclusive, isn't it?

No idea, never heard of it before

Nerdkiller1991

Wow. Terrible.

MrVestek

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Wow. Terrible.

Good god... it sounds like this Sonic 1 Mod:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXe7qXeMrXI

Los Lobos

Play Kaboom! on your pc

Click the buckets to start

http://kaboom.eggborne.com/

CosmicSmash

I was talking to Myrddin earlier and was telling him about a cake that the wife of one of the lads in work made for my sons birthday. I was actually collecting a Gamecube from him at the time and just didn't call him to talk about cakes;) I just told her he loves Mario and she came up with this.