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Retr0gamer

I'd say no. It's got game breaking bugs and doesn't control right.

CiDeRmAn

An N64 and a copy of Mario 64 is the only way to go.
I found the extra characters and splitting the game between them to be needless, they could have easily ported the original game across, pity.
A 3D remaster onto the 3DS would be cool though.

Sparks43

richymcdermott wrote: »

is super mario 64 on the ds worth picking up ? , I want to give it a proper go

Not great but still better then any Sonic game.

deathrider

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I wasn't mad about the first Dead Space either. There's some people that say it's much better than any of the Resident Evil games. I'd be more inclined to say that after 4 Resident Evil slipped up so badly that it managed to let a poor imitator get a lot more praise than it deserved.

It wasn't a bad game and it was mechanically sound it's just that after the first few sections you had seen all the game had to offer. I got some enjoyment out of it and I have to say the sound design was aboslutely phenomenal but if Silent Hill was still being handled by Team Silent and Shinji Mikami gave us another Resident Evil I wouldn't have given it a second look. It was a huge rip off of Resident Evil 4 and although it allowed strafing and moving while shooting Resi 4 was built around it's control scheme and provided far more interesting and dynamic combat with its enemies than Dead Space could hope to achieve.

I thought the original Dead Space was fantastic. It wasn't so much the jump scares that got me, but the sheer atmosphere of the entire game. It was thick with this horribly uncomfortable feeling from start to finish. When I played through it, I thought it was the easily the scariest game I'd played since Silent Hill II. Your character's lack of personality, the fact that everything happened in real time so that you were always under pressure while looking through your inventory, in crushing lonelyness. Just a great game all in all, I reckon.

MrVestek

Sparks43 wrote: »

Not great but still better then any Sonic game.

So how did you like Sonic '06? :P

murphyebass

deathrider wrote: »

I thought the original Dead Space was fantastic. It wasn't so much the jump scares that got me, but the sheer atmosphere of the entire game. It was thick with this horribly uncomfortable feeling from start to finish. When I played through it, I thought it was the easily the scariest game I'd played since Silent Hill II. Your character's lack of personality, the fact that everything happened in real time so that you were always under pressure while looking through your inventory, in crushing lonelyness. Just a great game all in all, I reckon.

I'm yet to play dead space. Its on my long backlog.

Personally I think condemned on 360 is a fantastic modern day survival horror game. Loved it start to finish. Play in a dark room with the curtains open. I was looking over my shoulder at times.

Yet to play the sequel but it was slated for introducing guns with lots of ammo.

The first one was great cause you were always looking for another tool to kill your next enemy. There was always that fear.

deathrider

murphyebass wrote: »

I'm yet to play dead space. Its on my long backlog.

Personally I think condemned on 360 is a fantastic modern day survival horror game. Loved it start to finish. Play in a dark room with the curtains open. I was looking over my shoulder at times.

Yet to play the sequel but it was slated for introducing guns with lots of ammo.

The first one was great cause you were always looking for another tool to kill your next enemy. There was always that fear.

I never really got into Condemned myself. I really wanted to love it, as the idea was great, but it just didn't do it for me.

CiDeRmAn

Ah yes, Condemned, I really liked that game, still looks pretty good too.
Fear 2 was good too, although Retr0 had little good to say about it.
None can hold a candle to Silent Hill 2 though.
Rule of Rose is fairly creepy too.

And in the future, horror seems to belong with the indie developers, Slendermen haunting dreams, though the new Alien game looks nice, but then so did Colonial Marines!

murphyebass

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Ah yes, Condemned, I really liked that game, still looks pretty good too.
Fear 2 was good too, although Retr0 had little good to say about it.
None can hold a candle to Silent Hill 2 though.
Rule of Rose is fairly creepy too.

And in the future, horror seems to belong with the indie developers, Slendermen haunting dreams, though the new Alien game looks nice, but then so did Colonial Marines!

Never played Fear or Fear 2 but tried Fear 3 recently. Terrible stuff. Completely boring.

Atavan-Halen

CiDeRmAn

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

Master Emeralds may contain anabolic steroids, please read the instructions carefully.

murphyebass

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

I think everyone's missing the real issue here. His shoes now pink clash with his red body. Tut tut sega.

Augmerson

Doctors hate him.

Ah sure anyway playing Super Mario Sunshine like an addict recently. Beautiful game. Much colours, such gameplay. Wow.

Atavan-Halen

Augmerson wrote: »

Ah sure anyway playing Super Mario Sunshine like an addict recently. Beautiful game. Much colours, such gameplay. Wow.

It's been a long time since I played Sunshine. Must go back to it as I did really enjoy it, although I think I lent out my memory card with my save on it ages ago.

CiDeRmAn

Sunshine is lovely, and I love the water/paint effects. That game was so far ahead of anything on the PS2 or Xbox, heck even on the PS3 and 360, and yet it's the weakest of the 3d Mario games.
Nintendo FTW!

murphyebass

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Sunshine is lovely, and I love the water/paint effects. That game was so far ahead of anything on the PS2 or Xbox, heck even on the PS3 and 360, and yet it's the weakest of the 3d Mario games.
Nintendo FTW!

Nintendo FTW indeed.

I was genuinely blown away by the graphics in Super Mario 3D World recently.

Some of the lighting and water effects are just stunning. And I thought bowser look great in NSMB Wii U but seeing him in 3D was a wow moment for me anyway.

Mario in HD = happy eyes.

Retr0gamer

Well Sauron has struck again in a big way this time. I come home from a week of working and she has moved the majority of my games and consoles up into the attic. I need my own place

deathrider

murphyebass wrote: »

Never played Fear or Fear 2 but tried Fear 3 recently. Terrible stuff. Completely boring.

Fear 2 was the only one I played. Just seemed like another generic shooter top me. Most of it was spent gunning down military and SWAT heads. I could do that in any game really.

Retr0gamer

deathrider wrote: »

Fear 2 was the only one I played. Just seemed like another generic shooter top me. Most of it was spent gunning down military and SWAT heads. I could do that in any game really.

Yeah that was my problem with it and although that was the sae deal with the first game I enjoyed the combat a hell of a lot more. That and the scares weren't all cheap jump scares.

the groutch

anyone get that Rise & Fall of Sega book? is it any good?

The Last Bandit

the groutch wrote: »

anyone get that Rise & Fall of Sega book? is it any good?

Its an excellent read. Starts off a bit slow with the very early history of the company then takes off and a great insight into their downfall.

'Commodore: Company on the edge' is another very good read.

richymcdermott

http://kotaku.com/persona-4s-train-station-is-real-and-its-closing-1513048570

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSUwjBA4YwU

the persona 4 train station at the start of the game is closing down in japan

Retr0gamer

So more of me being late to the party here. I've started playing Batman Arkham City and giving it a proper go. While I thought Arkham Asylum was a pretty good game I thought people gave it too much credit due to Batman mania at the time for what it was and the combat was awful (not including the exceptional stealth sections). It certainly isn't the classic people make it out to be. So I didn't have much hopes for Arkham City especially when I heard people say they prefer Asylum to City. I've not really got much interest in the comics either, I much prefer the 90's animated series.

Well I have to say the people that prefer Asylum over City are muppets, City is a much better game. Getting around the City is heaps of fun and Batman controls great. The open world I was most worried about. It could have been like the Elder Scrolls, large expanses of nothing. Thankfully they kept the world small so they could pack it with detail and personality. Also there's lots to do there and the side missions are a lot of fun. Even the thankless task of collecting **** for achievements is made more interesting with some nice puzzles. They also keep a great pace and variety to the gameplay.

The combat system however is still absolute button mashing poison but at least it's not frustrating and annoying. Boss battles aren't great either but at least they are better than the first games. Have to say I'm hugely impressed by the game and very pleasantly surprised.

DinoRex

Overall the levels are a bit more inventive. Some of the boss battles are very good too. Especially Mr. Freeze.

Origins isn't too bad either once you get over the initial disappointment that it's the pretty much the exact same map as Arkham City makes a much bigger use of Batman being a detective and doing investigations on crime scenes.

Retr0gamer

I got Origins from my brother for my birthday which is why I thought it was time to give it a go. PC version is gorgeous looking, they really go crazy with the particle physics

murphyebass

Retr0gamer wrote: »

So more of me being late to the party here. I've started playing Batman Arkham City and giving it a proper go. While I thought Arkham Asylum was a pretty good game I thought people gave it too much credit due to Batman mania at the time for what it was and the combat was awful (not including the exceptional stealth sections). It certainly isn't the classic people make it out to be. So I didn't have much hopes for Arkham City especially when I heard people say they prefer Asylum to City. I've not really got much interest in the comics either, I much prefer the 90's animated series.

Well I have to say the people that prefer Asylum over City are muppets, City is a much better game. Getting around the City is heaps of fun and Batman controls great. The open world I was most worried about. It could have been like the Elder Scrolls, large expanses of nothing. Thankfully they kept the world small so they could pack it with detail and personality. Also there's lots to do there and the side missions are a lot of fun. Even the thankless task of collecting **** for achievements is made more interesting with some nice puzzles. They also keep a great pace and variety to the gameplay.

The combat system however is still absolute button mashing poison but at least it's not frustrating and annoying. Boss battles aren't great either but at least they are better than the first games. Have to say I'm hugely impressed by the game and very pleasantly surprised.

Gas tou should give your thoughts now on this one. I bought it today on the Wii U as it was goin for 12euro for the armoured edition.

I liked Asylum but thought it was a bit overhyped. Don't get me wrong I thought it good but not as good as most people made it out to be so hopefully I'll be agreeing with your synopsis.

CiDeRmAn

My glob, that's two games Retr0 has liked recently, two mainstream games as well! Dishonored and Batman AC!
Who are you, some stranger who has obtained Retr0s login through nefarious means??
What have you done with him?
We need proof of life before we consider a ransom!
Think of Sera before you cut off his jewels with a sharpened disk 2 of Legend of Dragoon!

Myrddin

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

My glob, that's two games Retr0 has liked recently, two mainstream games as well!

Give it another few weeks, they'll have aged terribly by then

CiDeRmAn

Yeah, but he has liked them, despite there being no Japanese schoolgirl arousing guns, llama dating or tentacle porn in there at all, I just don't know him anymore!

Retr0gamer

Well I wouldn't call Dishonored mainstream. It's pretty much Arkane Studios finally getting an actual budget so they could make the game they wanted and by some miracle managed to craft an interesting game world, give the player oodles of choice and be pretty much the spiritual successor to Thief/Deus Ex. There's nothing else really like it since the 90's PC gaming scene.

I was genuinely surprised by Batman, murphyebass sums up my opinion on the first game but City is just a spectactular improvement.

CiDeRmAn

Ah yes, Looking Glass, gods amongst men.

DinoRex

I think a big part of the hype is that no one actually expected there to be a good Batman game. They did a great job with the license though, everything is very well realised in it.

I believe the next DC animated movie is going to be set in the same universe.

Retr0gamer

I kind of had faith in them for the first game. I thought the Urban Chaos game they did was an absolute blast on the PS2 so they showed they could make a fun game. It really did come out of no where although Batman games have a good track record of being pretty great. I guess the PS1/2 era wasn't kind to the franchise.

richymcdermott

I normally do not like making fun of peoples favourite games since its subjective and there is no right or wrong when it comes to choice.......or so I thought till ign journalist are doing their top games list

I can see why people cant take their opinions to heart , their list are atrocious


Greg Miller:

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2014/02/10/greg-millers-top-10-games-of-all-time


Colin Moriarty:

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2014/02/07/colin-moriartys-top-25-games-of-all-time


I am afraid to see other ign list

johnny_ultimate

I did not care for Arkham City, and I really enjoyed Asylum. I'd put it up there with Assassins Creed and Infamous as a game that mistakes 'loads of stuff!' for actual content. The Riddler trophies and other collectibles were a complete waste of the player's time, and most ridiculously they actually locked the game's best puzzles behind increasingly arbitrary, meaningless collectible demands. 'Collect 200 trophies to unlock the next Challenge!'. Yeah, **** off, Rocksteady, with your mind-numbing busywork. Gliding around the city was a heap of fun, that's for sure, but limited by bland boss, enemy and level design. Even the solid but unremarkable combat felt looser and less visceral than first time around. The Catwoman stuff was absolutely pointless. I imagine if I went back to Asylum I might not look at it quite as favourably as I originally did, but City I definitely file under the 'bigger, not better' camp of sequels - I just loved how tightly designed the asylum was in the first game, and the gothic city I didn't find as memorable. It's too mechanically sound to be a 'bad' game, and there's good stuff hidden behind the grinding, but I found it really underwhelming overall. I really hope the next Batman game is something completely different.

eddhorse

Anyone got any links to places where they got a SNES Everdrive or PowerPak?
Any recommendations?

I did a search but there's numerous old threads.

Thanks,
Ed

Retr0gamer

Stone Age gamer makes them.

The Last Bandit

Has anyone on here actually made any retrobrite stuff ? Where did you buy the materials ?

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Stone Age gamer makes them.

A guy called krikzz actually makes them, here's his website.

http://krikzz.com/

Stone age gamer are one of his distributors, there are many more though if they're ever sold out

http://krikzz.com/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=7

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Has anyone on here actually made any retrobrite stuff ? Where did you buy the materials ?

I believe Steve_SI is your man

Retr0gamer

Nice, I never knew that!

Steve X2

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Has anyone on here actually made any retrobrite stuff ? Where did you buy the materials ?

Get you're Peroxide and glycerine from a pharmacy(finding the oldest looking chemist shop you can seems to help, and don’t wear a tracksuit when going in, in fact never wear a tracksuit unless at the gym or track :0)). They say you can get the peroxide from a hair dressers as well, which makes sense, but I've not tried.

Nourish or Holland and Barrett health shops have the Xanthan Gum. I use Vanish (called oxi power or something like that) instead of the recommended "Oxy" as I don’t think it’s for sale in Ireland. The Vanish goes in just before you apply the gel to whatever you are working on and then it goes under the UV lamp(Got the UV from Amazon).

That’s the basic mix, but I've tried a few different variants with good success depending on what was getting cleaned up.

Myrddin

Does the result be nice & even all over the console Steve? Or can it turn out patchy?

Steve X2

Myrddin wrote: »

Does the result be nice & even all over the console Steve? Or can it turn out patchy?

So far it's been nice an uniform for me. But I guess if you don't mix up the gel properly or the plastic you are cleaning has some imperfections it might turn out a bit patchy.

Retr0gamer

Was just looking at the release list for this month on Eurogamer. New Inazuma Eleven game is out of February. Not a chance of that getting a North American release. Looks like I might have to invest in a European 3DS soon

Retr0gamer

FFXIII-3 sounds like it's surprisingly great from this review:

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/lightning-returns-ps3-review-the-future-of-final-fantasy-no-but-definitely-an-intriguingly-weird-present

krudler

random retro related question, anyone remember a Megadrive game where you were a robot running around levels that were slowly filling with either lava or toxic stuff? It's one of those games that I vaguely remember renting years ago and can't for the life of me think of the name of it

Myrddin

krudler wrote: »

random retro related question, anyone remember a Megadrive game where you were a robot running around levels that were slowly filling with either lava or toxic stuff? It's one of those games that I vaguely remember renting years ago and can't for the life of me think of the name of it

B.O.B.?

Retr0gamer

krudler wrote: »

random retro related question, anyone remember a Megadrive game where you were a robot running around levels that were slowly filling with either lava or toxic stuff? It's one of those games that I vaguely remember renting years ago and can't for the life of me think of the name of it

Fatal Rewind.

CosmicSmash

Steve SI wrote: »

and don’t wear a tracksuit when going in, in fact never wear a tracksuit unless at the gym or track :0)).

No white socks either, unless you're playing tennis.

Atavan-Halen

Went to see limp bizkit tonifht as part if my New Years resolution to see more bands.

Holy mother of divine jaysus go see them if you have the chance.