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

o1s1n

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

Pfft, I regret nothing! Except ordering 4 cocktails at a time last night because it was 2 for a fiver.

'Grown up' Atavan will most definitely cringe when he reads back through these posts :pac:

Atavan-Halen

o1s1n wrote: »

'Grown up' Atavan will most definitely cringe when he reads back through these posts :pac:

There is no grown up me :P

MrVestek

In fairness I kinda want to know where this place was with the two cocktails for a fiver. I bet they were weak as feck though.

I do love the odd cocktail.

DinoRex

It has to be the Vintage Cocktail Club for me. Pricey, but you're paying for quality.

o1s1n

DinoRex wrote: »

It has to be the Vintage Cocktail Club for me. Pricey, but you're paying for quality.

Tempted to go in there and order a Sex on the Beach /trollface

I'd love to try it out but when I drink cocktails I tend to buy a lot of them so it's probably a bad idea.

I'd probably end up like this :pac:

DinoRex

The Liquor Rooms are really nice as well, and it's a good deal easier to get in to.

Steve X2

The VCC is nice, new cocktail menu is decent but they do overcharge for what you get. The cocktails are nice, but it's the food that is really good and not advertised enough.

Edit:
The only downside to the VCC is that you can get a large percentage of douchebags in there. But the more cocktails you drink the less you care

CiDeRmAn

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

There is no grown up me :P

Atavan now


Atavan later....

DinoRex

Started playing the Flashback remake last night.

Not quite as terrible as I expected. Gameplaywise it's a reasonable update on the original games controls. Wish ducking was a bit easier though.

The original is one of my all time favourite games. Really frustrating how much hand holding the remake does. There also seems to be an unnecessary love interest thrown in now to rescue because saving the planet from alien invasion isn't motivation enough apparently.

CiDeRmAn

I was in HMV and CEX today, on one of my rare ventures into town, not a thing of interest

Still, on a brighter note my young fella made a start on Dragon Quest 8, plagued the first 40mins and really enjoyed it, here's to the next 50 hours!

Atavan-Halen

Apologies for the drunken posts and sorry if I caused offence to anyone.

I'll refrain from posting drunk in future!

o1s1n

The only person you offend with your drunken posts are future, respectable Atavan.

The rest of us find it hilarious

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Still, on a brighter note my young fella made a start on Dragon Quest 8, plagued the first 40mins and really enjoyed it, here's to the next 50 hours!

It's an amazing game other than the dhoulmagus fight halfway through. Grinding 5 levels to get past him was the only time I needed to grind in that game.

Sparks43

Programming can go and suck my Rockfords

Stupid bloody java

Retr0gamer

Sparks43 wrote: »

Programming can go and suck my Rockfords

Stupid bloody java

Java sucks. Code with Lua. It's super easy scripting but can control C languages underneath so it's super nippy :P Just remember that tables aren't arrays and so stupid things if you don't deep copy values from them.

Doge

STARFOX running on a Sega Mega Drive, I sh*t you not!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQaY3-FNOuM

Obviously its not the full game, you cant shoot as well as other limitations but it's very impressive!

Here it is running on an overclocked mega drive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNGWykZ0ju0

CiDeRmAn

Yeah that was posted here a while ago, looks impressive.
One would wonder what Nintendo could have done with MD hardware, if they had made games for it, in some weird parallel dimension.

Welcome home Atavan, thought you had ****ed off to Jamma+ for a while there.

richymcdermott

Close to the next evolution of pokemon with x and y I sat back reflecting my first time playing a pokemon game with red version back in 99 I believe . My cousin father bought me a copy when they went on holidays as surprised as I was and when I first popped it in my gameboy being 9 years old at the time I was blown away.

The lot of us lived on the same street and still do and both of us and our friends were mad into the tv show when it was on anime aswell as collecting the mega boxes from smyths for the cards and trading off cards to other people.

Pokemon was like crack cocaine and I am not surprised at all that its just as big now as before. Ive played them all bar the ds ones that came out since I was late to the party , only one I got was Soul Silver and still waiting for the right time to get black and white.

Nintendo bringing out the Origins Anime few days ago I have yet to watch but That is just oozing with Nostalgia when I get around to watch it later today perhaps. Screw Ash, Red is the true pokemon master :pac:

DinoRex

I'm enjoying Windwaker HD.

Not sure if it's easier somehow or if I'm just having an easier time as I played 10 years ago, I just remember certain sections giving me a lot of trouble all those years ago that seem to be a cake walk now.

Some of the horrible Skyward Sword controls have sneaked in unfortunately. Luckily you can turn off the gyroscope controls in first person. The camera pretty much always faces the wrong way when you pop into first person mode though, just like in Skyward Sword, I should get the first person view of the direction that Link is facing in, not the direction the camera is facing in. Made the 2nd boss very frustrating as you have to be very fast with the boomerang.

deathrider

Is there a way of simply disgarding magic in FFVIII? I've been hogging magic left right and center, not realising that I had a limited number of storage slots.

Nerdkiller1991

MrVestek

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

I'll refrain from posting drunk in future!

I don't believe you somehow...

Jack burton

I didnt realise that the new Mortal Kombat legacy videos had started. Going to give them a watch now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydfGuagKcYM

deathrider

Jack burton wrote: »

I didnt realise that the new Mortal Kombat legacy videos had started. Going to give them a watch now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydfGuagKcYM

I've been re-watching the first season lately to get me in the mood for the second one. Honestly, I couldn't really remember what happened, since season 1 came out so long ago. I thought it was cool that they posted all of the new ones up on the same day though.

Nerdkiller1991

Seasons? Since when have we started talking in American now? Are you just gonna leave the "u" out of colour now and say "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less"?

CiDeRmAn

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Seasons? Since when have we started talking in American now? Are you just gonna leave the "u" out of colour now and say "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less"?

Now now,
Lets not make things personal.
If Atavan can post something so garbled that it has no vowels I'm sure we can build a bridge and get over the use of words like "season" instead of "series".
Move along

deathrider

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Seasons? Since when have we started talking in American now? Are you just gonna leave the "u" out of colour now and say "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less"?

My apoligies. From now on I'll refer to them as Serieseseseseseseseseses.

o1s1n

Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Serieseseseseses.

Dr Bob

Sparks43 wrote: »

Programming can go and suck my Rockfords

Stupid bloody java

Python's a slightly more gentle language to pick up if you have an option, it borrows a lot of syntax from Java as well..

Retr0gamer

deathrider wrote: »

Is there a way of simply disgarding magic in FFVIII? I've been hogging magic left right and center, not realising that I had a limited number of storage slots.

You can always draw more magic but using magic and summons is the wrong way to play ffviii. Just draw a tonne of magic and junction it to your stats and you'll breeze through the game. Also prioritise learning the stat percentage skills gf's have and you'll get stat +1 skills which will make you an absolute monster.

CiDeRmAn

My 360, Wii and PS3 collections have been given their marching orders from the living room!
Now I have to find space for their prodigious number in the games room.
Easier said than done I think.
I might have to build in some new shelving, thanks to the pitched roof this may be a challenge.
Bugger!

Nerdkiller1991

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Amazing Spiderman was a terrible movie and its sequel isn't looking to be much better.

http://badassdigest.com/2012/07/06/film-crit-hulk-smash-the-amazing-spider-man-has-99-problems-but-an-uncle-be/

CiDeRmAn

They've already got the writers working on the 3rd one, the release date fixed as well!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2250912/

Nerdkiller1991

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

They've already got the writers working on the 3rd one, the release date fixed as well!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2250912/

Well, if there's one thing positive I have to say about the second one, it's this...at least it's being shot on film. Even if it is at the expense of a native 3D presentation that the first movie had. But that's beside the point. My expectations remain low, and judging from what I've heard so far, I can only expect worse.

Retr0gamer

Back playing Ninja Gaiden 2 on the 360, forgot how much fun it is. Takes a while ot get used to since you can't rely on defense like you could in the first game,you have to be really aggressive.

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Back playing Ninja Gaiden 2 on the 360, forgot how much fun it is. Takes a while ot get used to since you can't rely on defense like you could in the first game,you have to be really aggressive.

Where is the series better, the 360 or ps3?

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Where is the series better, the 360 or ps3?

It's unfortunately not an easy one to answer. Both have exclusive sections, graphically both excel in different areas and in terms of gameplay they are quite different. If you found the first game too hard then go for the PS3 version. There's less enemies on screen at one time. Some people prefer that since NG2 can get frustrating.

Myrddin

EnterNow is Enter no longer. I guess the beers no show law will have to be changed to the Rule of Myrddin...

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's unfortunately not an easy one to answer. Both have exclusive sections, graphically both excel in different areas and in terms of gameplay they are quite different. If you found the first game too hard then go for the PS3 version. There's less enemies on screen at one time. Some people prefer that since NG2 can get frustrating.

I may have them on both formats, must dig them out.
Once I've cleared everything else.
So that'll be sometime in 2060 or so.
Bugger

o1s1n

Myrddin wrote: »

EnterNow is Enter no longer. I guess the beers no show law will have to be changed to the Rule of Myrddin...

And the banhammer doth become Excalibur!

Star Lord

Myrddin wrote: »

EnterNow is Enter no longer. I guess the beers no show law will have to be changed to the Rule of Myrddin...

Retr0gamer

Myrddin? Can't you pick something that you can actually pronounce? :P

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Myrddin? Can't you pick something that you can actually pronounce? :P

Oh I can pronounce it just fine, as for anyone else, it's their problem :P

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

SitS

Sparks43

Myrddin wrote: »

Oh I can pronounce it just fine, as for anyone else, it's their problem :P

So that's you out of the F1 comp so.

Can't combine scores of 2 usernames

Myrddin

Sparks43 wrote: »

So that's you out of the F1 comp so.

Can't combine scores of 2 usernames

Get the feck I'm the same user Btw you'd a dreadful outing this race, what gives??

Sparks43

Myrddin wrote: »

Get the feck I'm the same user Btw you'd a dreadful outing this race, what gives??

Had to happen eventually took a few chances to try and extend the lead.

Still up for grabs with only 15 between us
Lotus done me in though not crashing into each other:p

Myrddin

Sparks43 wrote: »

Had to happen eventually took a few chances to try and extend the lead.

Still up for grabs with only 15 between us
Lotus done me in though not crashing into each other:p

Yeah it's very close at the top, bloody thing is more exciting that half the recent races :P

Atavan-Halen

I can't pronounce that new name, but it looks like Martin. So I'm going to call you Martin. :P

CiDeRmAn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8avuWiW-WM