There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest
So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition
Comments
-
-
-
-
Join Date:Posts: 51189
I find the more abstract and removed football games are from the actual sport the more fun it is. It's why sensible soccer and the old ISS Deluxe games are so much fun even for non gamers and why FIFA does everything in its power to be absolutely everything someone into videogames doesn't want with naff controls and rng bullshit.
0 -
-
Join Date:Posts: 51189
I think some sports game just lend themselves better to being fun sports games. Ice Hockey being one that had always been a huge amount of fun. Madden was great as well but they kind of FIFA'ed that up and ruined it. Basketball also tends to be one that works very well. The 2K NBA games play brilliantly despite 2K doing their outright best to ruin that series with monetisation.
0 -
-
-
Join Date:Posts: 51189
I've heard the reason rasslin fans love fire pro is not that it's a great fighting game but that it emulates the flow of a rasslin fight better than anything else, with the ebbs and flow of a fighters dominating and miraculous comebacks . They don't really play it to win.
0 -
Join Date:Posts: 51189
I think the issue with most sports games is that they've all become associated with one developer or brand that they are never going to change.
Konami tried their best with pro Evo but couldn't keep up with EAs popularity. 2K managed to wrestle the NBA game away from EA but their much better American football series was killed off by madden. Wrestling no longer has WcW games to compete. So you have a monopoly one these sports and the holders just could not be bothered to put much effort into making them good experiences (except 2K who seem to still care about making a fun basketball game that gets sabotaged by studio exec demands).
0 -
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
Master of the UniverseJoin Date:Posts: 34824
While you play arguably one of the greatest games of the 16 bit generation, I'm torturing myself with some of the worst the PCE CD has to offer.
Behold, perhaps the worst Golden Axe port of all time!
4 -
-
Join Date:Posts: 51189
There's some great ones.
Beetle adventure racing is a little game. I've a soft spot for the midway Rush series of games although I usually play the Dreamcast ones. Also Fzero X takes a big dump all over the wipeout series in terms of how well it plays. Excitebike 64 is fantastic and always have fun with waverace.
The PS1 definitely had a lot more games and in terms of realistic racing games was way ahead but the N64 had a decent selection of arcade racers with F-zero being an all timer. The sheer volume the ps1 had with R4 and wipeout etc can't really be topped.
1 -
-
-
Join Date:Posts: 51189
Tengai Makyou might be worth a look as it got a recent fan translation but Ive also heard it's a bit 8-bit rpg as well.
Also heard about a game you should try from retronauts. Think it's the double dragon game on PC engine but the new soundtrack is.... Well it needs to be experienced.
0 -
Advertisement
-
-
Join Date:Posts: 51189
I think there's some decent stuff on the PC engine and mega CD. The working design games are fun as long as you use the hacks that remove all the working design gameplay changes. I'm really fond of popular mail. The libraries have just enough good stuff on them to make them worth it.
Also robo aleste is peak Compile!
2 -
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
Join Date:Posts: 51189
I adore that game. I also love that it's a 80-120 hour build up to one of the best jokes in a videogame. The 3DS version just felt so good. I remember finding the PS2 version a little slow going, I didn't realise they sped it up.
1 -
-
-
Join Date:Posts: 51189
Finished two sort for retro games at the weekend. The system shock remake which was incredible. It's mostly just tightens up the original game to bring it up to modern standards but it looks great, the gunplay really feels good as well. There's a little too much back tracking and the game also expects you to figure out your objective by yourself which might be a bit old school for some people. It's an absolute delight though and there's really not enough immersive Sims.
I was a little disappointed by the final area of the game.
It the remake this is a cold sterile almost server room type area. In the original it's covered in a bio organic material radiating from shodan servers to signify how she is growing and becoming more creature than machine. It's incredibly creepy. The final battle is cyberspace is also disappointing. The original battle wasn't amazing but had a great premise where you battles SHODAN in cyberspace and try to take her down. All the whole she is hacking you and your controls and vision deteriorate as the battle goes on and if you fail your vision is just shodans face.
Apparently this final area and battle will be totally updated for the eventual console release.
I also finished Weapon Shop de Omasse so I've now beaten all the Guild games on 3DS. This one was a disparate mix of genres that don't quite work together but the charm of the whole thing pulls it through and I ended up really enjoying it. It's a game where you run a rpg weapon shop and Smith new weapons I'm a rhythm action game.
Since I've hacked my Vita Ive started a game I've wanted to play for a long time, Valkyria Chronicles 3. Quite nostalgic hearing the soundtrack to this one as I adore the first game. The fan translation of this on seems good although there are some text overflow issues and they haven't translated the newspapers which I enjoyed reading in all the other games.
0 -
Join Date:Posts: 51189
Really enjoying valkyria Chronicles 3. It's a lot more structured than VC2 which felt more like monster hunter but still retains all the content of that game. Also the game so far provides a challenge whereas I found VC2 way too easy as you end up over levelled quite quickly. Still early days though but the VC combat loop is as strong as ever with some fun new class types.
0 -
-
Join Date:Posts: 51189
Not played enough of 3 to comment.
VC2 is designed around handheld so your mileage may vary. It's structure is similar to monster hunter or crisis core with loads of little missions sprinkled on between the main campaign. It means you can get over levelled very quickly and maps are repeated a lot. I did really enjoy it and played it for 120 hours but I also played it every night while writing my PhD thesis to keep my sanity in check. (It's a very long game if you do all the optional stuff which the game pushes you to do).
Anyway the VC gameplay in 2 is still in tact and just as much fun with some really great new classes added to it.
One place where game utterly fails is the story which is total anime bullshit. One of the big main character story climaxes might be the dumbest thing I've seen in a videogame since illusion of Gaia's infamous pig scene, although it was so bad I was laughing through it.
So yes, I liked it but it's a game more suited to playing an hour or so a night as it can get repetitive.
1 -
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
Join Date:Posts: 51189
I think a lot of people can get good at a few games they grew up with. I'm pretty great at contra hard corp, Megaman 2 and rocket knight adventures but it's because I played them so much. Even then looking at speedrunners play them and they are on another level.
0 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
