General gaming discussion

Hurrache

The Nal wrote: »

First game I ever loved

**** yeah! Myself and a school mate had many hilarious sessions playing that! The fact Bruce could give the sumo guy an oul slap for no other reason than just because always cracked me up. Having two players co-op was our key to finishing it.

SeantheMan

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Ah here I'd say way more of us here had a Nes than those who didn't. Emergency poll request.

According to the poll...you were wrong ! :P

J. Marston

Anyone played the Metro games? Metro Redux is €7 on PSN. Is it any good?

wotzgoingon

J. Marston wrote: »

Anyone played the Metro games? Metro Redux is €7 on PSN. Is it any good?

I actually have that on Xbox but never got around to playing it. I did play 2033 standard edition on PC and found it good but really hard for some reason in places.

Canis Lupus

This is huge news. Billy Mitchell has had all his records removed from Twin Galaxies for cheating. If you've no idea what I'm talking about you should totally watch the documentary King of Kong. It's hilariously nerdy.

https://www.pedestrian.tv/gaming/billy-mitchell-records-wiped/

SeantheMan

Canis Lupus wrote: »

This is huge news. Billy Mitchell has had all his records removed from Twin Galaxies for cheating. If you've no idea what I'm talking about you should totally watch the documentary King of Kong. It's hilariously nerdy.

https://www.pedestrian.tv/gaming/billy-mitchell-records-wiped/

No way !!! Hahaha. (he always looked a bit paedo/serial killer to me tbh)
Between him and the guy who runs Twin Galaxies (Walter Day)....that was their life. Those records and maintaining.
Hilariously nerdy and sad at time....like when you seen the guys watching countless hours of VHS tapes to verify the records...

I seen Walter pop up on some documentary recently....and at the end he was talking about his life with Yoga or something

Ahhh....it was from Man-vs-Snake, on Netflix. Another SAD story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL6Qdem_kKg

Canis Lupus

I saw that one as well. Very interesting but at the same time... yeah, a bit depressing to say the least. Eddie in Pixels did a nice parody (never official but it's pretty much him)

Zero-Cool

SeantheMan wrote: »

According to the poll...you were wrong ! :P

Well lousy on ye lads, ye missed out the awesomeness of the Power Glove. The Wizard was such a cool film :pac:

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

kunst nugget

J. Marston wrote: »

Anyone played the Metro games? Metro Redux is €7 on PSN. Is it any good?

Played the two of them and think they're great. Well with a punt at that price. Looking forward to the new one as well.

gimli2112

J. Marston wrote: »

Anyone played the Metro games? Metro Redux is €7 on PSN. Is it any good?

Played a good bit of them on and off but never completed them. Both solid shooters. Never fully understood the bullet economy mechanic, there's a way you can use stronger ammo against enemies but it's also in game currency so I never did it. Not a great deal of variety in the guns either, I thought but you can upgrade them. Will get around to finishing them at some point.

Zero-Cool

Anyone buy a game off Smyths lately for home delivery? Just seeing what are the chances of receiving it launch day or even earlier.

dudeeile

J. Marston wrote: »

Anyone played the Metro games? Metro Redux is €7 on PSN. Is it any good?

Great story, solid gameplay and looks good. I played 2033 last year and just finished Last Light this year and both are excellent games. Regarding the bullet economics gimli mentioned, I was the same and maintained the higher damage bullet for buying upgrades and stuff.

Complete bargin at €7.

ERG89

J. Marston wrote: »

Anyone played the Metro games? Metro Redux is €7 on PSN. Is it any good?

Both I think have pretty generous demo's. Problem is they are one of them demo's where you have to download the whole game rather than a slice of it.

CastorTroy

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Well lousy on ye lads, ye missed out the awesomeness of the Power Glove. The Wizard was such a cool film :pac:

Best video game ad ever. Who wouldn't want Mario 3 after that

J Mysterio

Canis Lupus wrote: »

This is huge news. Billy Mitchell has had all his records removed from Twin Galaxies for cheating. If you've no idea what I'm talking about you should totally watch the documentary King of Kong. It's hilariously nerdy.

https://www.pedestrian.tv/gaming/billy-mitchell-records-wiped/

Seems maybe harsh? That guy might top himself or go postal from this. Was he actually cheating? I thought he set his records in that arcade they went to?

The Nal

J Mysterio wrote: »

Seems maybe harsh? That guy might top himself or go postal from this. Was he actually cheating? I thought he set his records in that arcade they went to?

Nah they can do it at home. Filming themselves. But the point is that you can mod an emulator easy enough.

K.O.Kiki

J Mysterio wrote: »

Seems maybe harsh? That guy might top himself or go postal from this. Was he actually cheating? I thought he set his records in that arcade they went to?

It's like being caught doping at the Olympics; they can retroactively make all your scores ineligible.

Penn

J Mysterio wrote: »

Seems maybe harsh? That guy might top himself or go postal from this. Was he actually cheating? I thought he set his records in that arcade they went to?

I think even when the documentary was filmed there was suspicion about one of the tapes he sent in, but he was Billy Mitchell and had friends in Twin Galaxies, so it was just taken in good faith. It took someone properly analysing his video frame by frame and comparing it to an emulator rather than an Arcade machine to show it was ineligible.

Good enough for the prick anyway. He'll not top himself or go postal, but he'll probably try mount a legal challenge to it or something. Then again I'd say he likely knows there's too much evidence against him. He'll likely just b*tch and moan about it, say it's a conspiracy, fake news etc.

johnny_ultimate

Spy Party (finally) released on Steam and into early access after very many years in development.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7WHgrFgJCA

Picked it up before the price increase and played my first few games over the last day or so. It's ****ing immense. Really proves 'think outside of the box' approach to multiplayer design. Terrific tension as the clock winds down, or a complete thrill when you spot a game-changing 'tell' or pull off a tricky objective.

Great stuff: probably going to be in Early Access for several years, but while it's still being knocked into final shape it's fully and brilliantly playable at the moment.

Skerries

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Spy Party (finally) released on Steam and into early access after very many years in development.

I have been following this for years and was in the beta and then bought it 5 years ago but thought it had disappeared into vapour
So an email went out the other day to say that we should be getting a Steam key so will wait for that to come through before trying it again

Billy86

That looks incredible! Is it two-player, or can more play as party guests etc? That could be immense fun in groups, and long story but the girlfriend's family would love it.

Mr Crispy

Spy Party!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3LE15AyT5g

Adrestia

Currently back playing Horde on Gears Of War 4 after a stint of playing just platform games. Really want to give Doom a proper good go sometime soon too though. Alien skull cracking beauty.

Canis Lupus

I'd forgotten all about that spy party. Was really intrigued about it then heard nothing ever since. Might go take a look. How is lag in game? Would it be a giveaway for a spy to rubberband all over the place? Is the sniper shot required to be accurate? I live in Australia so I dunno what the playerbase for this would be like so if ping is important I might need to give it a miss.

I'm not sure if anyone knows this but the below is a free map for Half Life 2 on Steam.

Played it last night, I could have swore this was made by valve.

Best piece of custom mapping I have played in years

Look this up: Half-Life 2: DownFall

Zero-Cool

https://twitter.com/SEGA/status/984974525245747200?s=19

ERG89

I'm a novice to Shenmue but when I look at the retrospectives of I always wonder does it hold up when Yakuza has been doing a similar kind of amusing lifestyle sim, brawler formula in the last decade.

Greyfox

Great news, Shenmue wasnt perfect but at the time there was absolutely nothing else like it available, good to get another chance to play it

J. Marston

Really liking Metro so far.

Also, I really like when games add pointless but very cool little details like this; When you're wearing the gas-mask, if it gets wet, you can wipe the mask clear with L1 but if you're hurt and have the blood on the screen effect and then wipe it, you'll smear blood across the mask for a second or two.

J. Marston

J. Marston wrote: »

Really liking Metro so far.

Also, I really like when games add pointless but very cool little details like this; When you're wearing the gas-mask, if it gets wet, you can wipe the mask clear with L1 but if you're hurt and have the blood on the screen effect and then wipe it, you'll smear blood across the mask for a second or two.

Books are well worth a look too , read the first one well after I'd finished the game and really enjoyed it.