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I've never really played Sega Rally Championship. I rented it once back in the day, but I've never much been into rally games, and I really only got this because it was cheap. It takes a bit to get used to it, but this game is GREAT! Plus, I get to wreck SSJN's car.
Also played some Virtual On. While the Saturn version is better than the DC one with the stock pad, it still feels like it's crippled by the lack of twin sticks. Anyone have a set laying around? I see them for sale on Japanese stores for like 10 bucks, but naturally it would cost $50 to ship.
If you're going to go for twin sticks why not just go for the DC version.
If I get Saturn sticks I can use them on the Dreamcast with a converter I already have.
Yes, but even through a convertor, your Saturn sticks don't have 100% compatibility with VO:OT
Restarted Batman Arkham City. I loved it at first and got 31% done and don't recall what made me stop (maybe those stupid AR missions), but I'm going to try to eventually 100% this one, I think. Maybe. It's a pretty fun game.
Halfway through C to C as well, and almost done with all the characters in arcade mode on hardest. Fuerte sucked for that. Doing 2 to 3 of each a day, hopefully have it done by vacation time.
And Defense Grid Awakening is pretty slick, but I guess I'm not understanding the way to get the highest scores per level. I've done each mission so far without losing a power core, built up lots of towers n shit, and for many I'm still like 300 points behind gold. Josh seems to have the high score for EVERYTHING. Josh, what am I doing wrong?
Finished the second case of Phoenix Wright and it is so good. I barely even understand why since the writing is painfully stupid and the characters are all god-awful without a hint of logic to be found anywhere in the script, but the character expressions when finding a lie and slamming down proof is just THE BEST. Seeing Edgeworth all prim and smug and then he's just like WHAAAAAAAAT WHERE DID YOU GET THAT makes me smile so hard I cannot help but love it.
Don't know if you're playing on DS, but actually yelling out "OBJECTION!" adds to the satisfaction quite a bit.
iOS because that first taste was free. Though I should probably hit up my local shop to see if there's some used DS copies so I can push on in glorious 33% resolution before I buy the trilogy on my phone.
One of us, one of us.
no what. the characters are the best, PAL.
More than you can afford, PAL.
It didn't look like something I would like! Then 999 came out and was horrific trash and someone (maybe you) compared everything I hated about that game to PW and it further killed my desire to ever play it.
Except where 999 has a group of shitty characters ruining a good concept with horrible anime writing, PW takes a real thing and never pretends to have any clue what it's talking about and tries as hard as it can to make it dumber, while spearheading it with awesome characters.
999 is close to the greatest thing ever.
999 was pretty good! Mech is a bad person.
I'm glad you like Ace Attorney, though. Now you have like 6 new games to play through!
Defiance - So it's a third-person online-only Borderlands with a more realistic graphical style and, uh, actually that's about it. It's all loot hunting for weapons, there's no wearable gear to upgrade but cosmetic items to unlock, there's the same list of challenges for badass ranks, there's weapon vending machines with timed special guns, I think the inventory is the exact same number of slots, you spec into special abilities that are pretty much the exact same ones from BL2 with a similar list of passives, etc. They do have the Rift/GW2 kind of special events that crop up for a limited time, but the one I took part in was more expansive than what I've seen in the previous two listed and led up to a huge world boss that was actually pretty awesome. It's a much better game than I was expecting, but I also had pretty low expectations.
I also think it's funny that they treat vehicles the same way other MMOs do, with the character whistling and a four-wheeler just appearing out of thin air.
Skyrim - Aside from using the wrong D3D dll for ENB which prevented me from starting the game at first, I've been amazed at how well it runs when I just vomited like 20 mods onto it without caring much about compatibility. It looks absolutely amazing and having realistic lighting set up so that at night I often can't see more than ten feet in front of me even with a lantern strapped to my belt really helps sell the mood. I actually jumped a little when I was stumbling my way through the dark and a saber cat just appeared out of nowhere while I was running through some bushes and killed me. I'm also using a mod that improves the dragon AI a lot and gives them new abilities, and apparently also turns them into assholes as the very first story one you fight picked me up with my his mouth, killed me, and then lit my corpse on fire. What a dick.
IIRC, the only real problem is that the start button doesn't do what its supposed to in VO:OT, instead of activating your special, it does nothing. Not a huge deal, but still bothersome when you want to go no-armor Raiden, hyper Fei-Yen, start your 13 second countdown with Specineff, shoot off your atomic bomb as Grys-Vok, and one or two other things I'm forgetting at the moment.
I spent a few hours playing some older stuff yesterday:
Blades of Steel
Streets of Rage 3
Kirby's Adventure
The Goonies II
Adventure Island
I've been playing the few N64 games I can, since I have neither an expansion pack nor a memory card. When those arrive, I can really get into Rogue Squadron, Tony Hawk and Top Gear Rally.
I've mostly been playing retro stuff, and my PS3 is mostly used to watch Netflix and YouTube.
Tony Hawk is way better on the Dreamcast.
I think I ended up completing just about all the side stuff in Yakuza, despite not really looking out for it. I'm stuck on some mysterious assassin who seems designed to exploit everything wrong with the combat system. He rolls to get out of the way of combos, which is a pain because Kazuma turns like a truck. He runs far away (and faster than Kazuma can move), which typically leaves him offscreen. Then he throws grenades that knock down Kazuma. And you can't reset the camera while Kazuma is down, for some godforsaken reason. He has a spinning kick that trips Kazuma and seemingly can't be blocked or countered, nullifying those elements of the combat. I think I'm going to leave this asshole undefeated - it's just not fun to fight something like this.
I installed the 0.18 version of Brutal Doom.
It is one of the greatest things I have ever played.
I've been wanting to try that.
I'm still playing the Saturn, and I've made peace with the way Daytona Circuit Edition controls. I read that it's not even using the Daytona engine, but instead a modified Sega Rally engine, so instead of trying to play it like Daytona I began to treat it like a totally new game that just happens to have a few Daytona tracks in it. I tried every car, settled on the default Hornet, and got used to it. I'm digging the game now, but 1st place in the original "Expert" track and the second new track are still kicking my ass. I'm getting pretty good at Sega Rally too, but I still can't do better than 4th place. I really love these old arcade racers, they may only have a few tracks but you can play for 20 hours straight and you still haven't mastered them. Modern racers may have 50 tracks but none of them have the thought put into them as these old games do.
Also, I'm really playing Soukyugurentai now. Reading faqs and threads on shmups and everything to really learn the game. It's really, really good, and I suck at it still.
But...pc.
When I get either a Vga to HDMI adapter or a video card with HDMI out I'll give it a whirl.
This part from the FAQ cracks me up the most:It's fucking Doom but with so much blood and bullet casings it will still cripple some people's systems.Quote:
5) My Framerate is geting bellow the 30fps.
A: Unfortunately, all I can tell you is to get a better computer. Doom can be a 20 year old game, but if you want to play Brutal Doom always at 60fps, you will require at least a dual core, 2gb of RAM, and 256mb gpu. Let's say, if your computer can't run Battlefield 3 or Skyrim in minimum settings above 45fps, you are going to have a bad time to play Brutal Doom in levels with lots of enemies.
As last resort, you can use the Janitor Addon, which reduces the time that blood and ammo cases stays in the ground. This addon will greatly improve your performance if you are playing it in a Pentium 4 or a computer with DDR2 or lower ram.
There's also some auto-aim settings, I kind of want to test it with a controller to play on the couch.
Well then, my shitty pc can't play it at least until I put a real video card in.
All I'm hearing are excuses.
Doom RPG is perfectly fun if you still have a Nokia phone.
Armored Warriors (Capcom CPS-II)
One of Capcom's harder beat'em ups. It gets vicious from stage 5 onward.
The Chain Spark weapon has grown on me, especially in its charged form. Trapping a Gaits or Tortus in the corner with a huge electric ball as they get up from a knockdown is sick fun, especially when it's one of those annoying light saber bastards. Getting attacked while charging will jar the ball loose- but if it homes in on the enemy that landed the hit and takes them out, there's that feeling of revenge.
Then the Turbo Jet allows raining fire blasts upon the enemies from above- and someone on YouTube proves the TJ to be lethal when used properly, abusing "death from above" to help get a 1CC. Shield Arm also is good, and about the only thing I'll give CS up for. Rad, that giant tank in stage 3, is starting to become easy. The side-dash attack is almost impossible for it to punish and makes for an easy cheap win. OTOH, stage 5's boss Helion is more like Hellion.
Cyber-Lip (NG)
Cleared it in three credits just now. The 1CC should come fairly soon.
Blade Symphony - An indie beta that has some serious potential to be a good sword-fighting game, provided the developers ever figure out how to implement weight and physics. I'm getting a tiny bit better as I play and learn mid-combo style switching, but the super-floaty jumps and movement and the way it completely falls apart as soon as any lag occurs means there's still a long way to go. Still, it's early and has potential.
VVVVVV - This is neat! Why did I not play this before? I have no answer.
Gunpoint - This game is pretty great so far but I fear it will be over too quickly. Hacking guns to turn off the lights and tossing people out of buildings is perfect.
Black Ops 2 was cool until there got to be this strategy top down crap
I think I'll just play Doom or the Build engine games. All these new games are sort of dragging me down. No secrets to find and they have dumb shit.
I know I have said that before, but I think I need a break for a bit.
Played some Alien vs Predator in the arcade today. Believe it or not, I've never played it! It was rad as fuck.
Wonder Boy: Monster Lair the localized arcade game on XBLA's SVC: Monster World Collection with one hand and Wonder Boy in Monster Land on SMS with the other.
This is the happiest day of my life.
edit: just made this post more awesome
Monster Lair is better than MWIV.
Yeah. Yeah, I said it.
VVVVVV got some press when it came out and has been around a few years and has also been ported to the 3DS; it's by the same guy who did Super Hexagon.
As for stuff like Blade Symphony, Kenshi, Kairo, etc. I do a lot of poking around Steam's Greenlight and also occasionally check an indie blog.
I played a little Kenshi yesterday but got jumped by a group of sand ninjas when I left town and was on my way to help someone else who was being attacked. I didn't stand a chance against the three of them and bled to death pretty fast, which I expected since I didn't have the money to hire any help. Still have no idea if that person I was going to check up on was friendly or not.
Yeah only reason I know about VVVVVV is because it's a Terry Cavanagh game and I wanted to check out some of his other stuff after enjoying Super Hexagon.
That's pretty backwards.
I was playing Star Trek, but I got tired of setting phasers to 'fucking buggy' all the time
The Last of Us, doing a survivor run. This game crashes a lot and there are so many bugs everywhere, but I still like it a lot.
Did anyone try the multiplayer, which still requires an online pass even though the worst company ever doesn't even do that anymore?
Started playing Happy Wars again about a week or two back, its vastly improved from what it was as far as matchmaking and items are concerned. Trying to level up to rank 20 so I can unlock some of the better loot missions and the berzerker class without having to pay money.
Just got all the mine craft bonus items too, so that's always fun running around with a mage that has a creeper mask and bat staff throwing fireballs and shit, or a cleric whacking the shit out of some crates with a pickaxe to build a battering ram.
Ninja Spirit. This game is THE SHIT.
The ending just made me mark out.
Post Steam sale update:
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed (PC) - My daughter and I have been tag-teaming this, but we've pretty much reached the point where she can't contribute much else. Somehow she did manage to beat a couple Battle Races on Expert though. I wish there was a larger percentage of pure racing events. The boost/ring/drift/etc. bullshit doesn't do it for me. It feels like a chore I have to do to get back to actually racing. That doesn't change what a monumental achievement this game is though. I only wish it skewed more toward the SMS and Genesis and less toward the Saturn and especially Dreamcast. I'll take any Panzer Dragoon I can get, but you can keep Space Channel 5, Samba de Amigo, and the like.
Scribblenauts Unlimited (PC) - I just hit 40 out of 50 stars in this one. I had previously played the iOS version, but having the keyboard available to more quickly type everything out makes everything so much less painful. I can't imagine playing these on a console. It's a clever concept, and I'm actually getting more interested in the upcoming DC Universe crossover.
The Secret World (PC) - I've done about a half dozen quests in Eqypt (the second major area) now. The story remains compelling, but I wish I knew people playing. Doing all of the missions solo certainly makes everything go slower, but at least the quest structure is 1,000x better designed than something like FFXIV, and its never ending fetch and kill X quests. I just did one where I had to decrypt binary and hexagonal transmissions, and I mean literally in real life decrypt. The investigation missions are really amazing.
Plus I get trading cards from all three of these now!
I kind of wish I went in on TSW. Regarding ASR, I like the traffic events.
DmC - This game is really fun, looks great, and has lots of replayability. I think the most obvious sign of "western involvement" is the way the game eases you into all the tools, which I actually like. It's a really cool game and deserved better. I know I talked a lot of junk about NT before release and I was wrong wrong wrong.
Trine 2 - I haven't decided if this is the prettiest or gaudiest game I ever played. Maybe both. It's a fun relaxing game with nice puzzles and terrible combat. Shouldn't be that hard to get through.
I have Vergil's Downfall, yea.
I don't think I'd be happy if every game looked like Trine 2, but I love its super-saturated post-processing-heavy look.
Forge - I don't even recall when I got this, probably in an indie bundle. It's a team-based PVP game that plays like a highly advanced version of WoW, and is better than I was expecting. Comparing it to WoW probably turns some people off right away, but the classes and abilities are incredibly similar even though it's a much faster game and is designed with more action combat controls. The community seems pretty small which is a shame, as I can see myself really getting into this.
Gravity Rush - My super-slow playthrough of this amazing game continues and I have almost no complaints about it so far. I could bitch about how the challenges are annoying things I don't like playing, but they're also easily ignored so it doesn't even matter. Kat is so adorable.
Thomas Was Alone - This is neat! The game itself is a collection of rather lame puzzles but the presentation is excellent and totally saves it.
The Void - I reinstalled this and played more than 20 minutes this time, and it's definitely one of the most unique and interesting games I've ever played. I'm excited to make more progress and hopefully figure out just what the hell is going on.
Strike Suit Zero - Plowed through like 5-6 missions. It feels a lot like a sequel to Project Sylpheed which is all good to me, but I wish there was a better target cycling system. It gets the job done but sometimes a vessel I was protecting has lost half its life before I even realized there were torpedoes being launched that I was supposed to be shooting down, mostly because I kept targeting fighter craft instead. Not really a big deal anyway.
edit: I also played the free cases of that Layton Bros. game Finch pointed out. It's okay. Feels almost like a knock-off Phoenix Wright with the clue hunting, Take Thating, and Objectioning, except the clue hunting is a lot better while the latter two are kind of lame. It doesn't give me that same level of happiness of catching someone in a lie and thus feels more like the cases end with a whimper instead of a bang.
Kat's the best.
I remember being interested in Miasmata. I forgot about it during the sale, though, and $14.99 now seems crazy high. I'll have to add it to the Wishlist and nab it on the next go-round.
I'm pretty sure I looked during the sale and I don't think it was discounted. I could be wrong, but I've been waiting on it to dip down for a while now.
I get so mad when mean people on GAF say bad things about Gravity Rush =[
It's so good. That game makes me so happy.
I finished Act 1 of Kentucky Route Zero. A lot like The Walking Dead, there is no game here but I am compelled. Trippy game
After finishing Act 2 of Kentucky Route Zero, things make less sense. This game is a giant troll. Act Five will be like "Psych, we got you"
Playing Earthbound for the first time (so far I don't get the hype), Lost Odyssey (again), Muramasa: Rebirth, and No More Heroes (on PS3 this time).
We sprouted an f-chan. Someone get the spray.
LOL
Gah, I keep putting off buying the Rebirth LE...
I have every other Vita LE release >_>
Buy it before your collection is incomplete!
I missed out on essentially all of last year. So, on something of a whim, I picked up Sleeping Dogs on the cheap, which I will start tonight. I assume it's at least decent.
It is, surprisingly so.
HKR2L - good presentation, tough gameplay, brilliant physics system wherein grenades implode within gravity
BNJKW - I don't know why I bought this - probably because it's by rare meaning the company that made goldeneye
HL2 - best game of all time
LoZ:OoT - going through this one yet again to soak in the apoplectic agony of the water temple, the soaring mythical grandeur of fields hyrulian, and generally just know that im playing the best game of all time, every time, all the time, forever and in eternity a soaring piece of mythical grandeur, you can kill chickens, there are skulltula's to collect, who thought this up o ya God did aka Miyamoto-san, God bless, amen
HBDIOD - Too mainstream for my tastes, a little redundant, but passable as a 2D run and gun developed by former measures of the treasure squadron
SotN - I hate to say this but I feel like this is Metroidvania, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, all put together in a well-developed frame that begs for replayablity - do u know the castle flips? If not, you're a dunce.
SotN is, quite possibly, my most-played game ever. It's either than or the original Metal Gear Solid on PSX. I can proudly say that I can fully complete Symphony (all secrets/map coverage) straight off of memory now. About the only thing I haven't done with that game yet is beat it as Richter. I'll get around to doing that someday.
Richter is OP as fuck. It's pretty easy and fun to run through the game as him; I'd recommend it.
I'm playing Quest mode in World Court Tennis lolol
Blazing Star (NG) Windina- 15059700 Boss4
Got 2 yumechans this time. Rank is good in this one. The 2nd one was taken during the stage 1 boss (this is risky, because spawning a lot of P's will cause flicker and may make a bullet invisible). 10M of the score came from stage 3 alone with most of that from leeching the boss. It went on for a few seconds after the boss timer ran out- you don't always "fail it" right when the boss time is up. I couldn't care less if this boss times out, especially after loading up on 81560 point gems. Its first form is good for that with all the red homing discs it spams at high rank, and then x128 bonuses from taking clumps of them out with charge shot since they're easy to herd.
Ninja Spirit (arcade)
A good game with a crucial flaw. Once you get to stage 7, the free-fall scene is extremely annoying. When you're 2/3 down the screen and have zero time to react, that's cheap- taking Irem's signature memorization too far. Thankfully this tedious bit is broken in the TG-16 version thanks to a safe spot on the far left.
I spent an hour tooling around with the Project X Zone demo(s). It's the worst goddamn game I've ever played.
Then I took the pleasure bus to pleasure town by way of putting Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance into my Nintendo Gamecube.
Protip: the knight with the red hair can complete the whole first half of the game by herself. Don't let her.
These games are always trying to bait me into abusing super powerful pre-promoted starting units. It's borderline hateful.
Near the end of the game I had her hanging in the back guarding the wagon and she was whining to the wagon driver about how she always gets left behind. That's what you get, experience stealing whore.
Been also playing:
Singularity (360) - FPS's are a dime a dozen but this just had a weird allure to it that I had to check out, it's also pretty darn cheap new on ebay/Amazon too which helps. It's atmospheric and while the comparisons to Bioshock are fairly apt in certain areas it still feels like it's own shooter/story. I'm kind of early into so I haven't gotten the time warping device yet but so far I've been having quite a bit of fun with it.
DmC (360) - Been wanting to play this for the longest time so I broke down and bought it for around $30, if they release some sort of special edition with all the DLC then fuck it but I've been having a real blast with it. Graphics are gorgeous, the story so far retells Dante/Virgil's past differently and obviously in a different style but it's still well done and this Dante still has a lot of character within the game. Combat isn't really as frequent as the previous DmC's and I have some small issues with the mechanics (no lock on, moves using the same buttons, etc) but overall it's definitely up there with Metal Gear Rising, hell it may even beat it.
Fable III - I like the game's aesthetics and it has a lot of charm to it but for some reason I just can't commit to playing it for hours at a time. Sometimes I fall asleep while playing it which is probably has more do with me playing it late after playing a bunch of shooters and hack & slash games but it just hasn't grabbed me fully yet.
Forza Horizon - Still loving this game, looks great and the single player season stuff has kept me busy for a good long while now.
I just finished playing through Link to the Past tonight. This is still the best Zelda game, but I've played it so many times over the years that I still remember where 90% of everything is so the exploration factor is gone.The whole faerie/bottle thing breaks the difficulty, so I was basically on autopilot the whole game.
Starting to play Shadow Warrior. I don't like save/load stuff and it really bites you in the ass in this game (at least I am saving at the start of every level, although I wish these new Steam ports would do that for you--including letting you specify your starting health/ammo/weapons, but that is more of a pipe dream). The later Build games were incredibly tough.
Not sure if you're into arbitrary difficulty, but back in the day nintendo power had these crappy trading cards with challenges for games. The LTTP challenge was basically a minimal runthrough, main things being no bottles, level 2 sword, green armor, 12 hearts. It was actually a bit tricky with the final ganon killing you in 3 hits. LTTP is also my favorite zelda, so I took any excuse to play the game again.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine: Uncaged Edition: The Movie: The Game - Played through the first couple levels and it's exactly as billed: Fun, repetitive, gory, great combos and movement, and lame bosses. It goes back and forth over this line where it can't seem to decide if it wants to be movie-serious or comic-book silly, where it starts off feeling a lot like the X-Men movies and then suddenly GIANT ROCK MONSTER and no one says a damn thing like this is most normal thing to occur in the middle in the jungle. The leveling up and double-jump are also weirdly videogame-y considering how much they seem to be going for a feel closer to the "real" side, but whatever, I'm over thinking it. It's good times.
Sonic CD - You know what game doesn't hold up for shit? Sonic CD. Woof.
That's a crazy picture of Sonic CD.
Seriously though, that level design? THAT is held up as an ideal for this series? Damn dude. I'm sorry to hear that.
The level design polarizes people on the game but I love the exploratory nature of it. It's less accessible than other Sonics but I don't consider that a bad thing. Wacky Workbench pisses me off, though.
The whole game is a mess. You can explore all you want, but you really don't get anything for your trouble. i.e. "Wow that certainly is a bumper I never saw before".
The whole ordeal seems kind of half-hearted. The worst things about the first two Sonic games are fully represented.
The past/present/future mechanic is neat for seeing different tile-sets, but maaaaan it should be in a better game.
What a weird game people have fetishized!
Seems iffy. If the flow of the game felt better, I could see going after the 'good' ending. As is... nah.
Welcome to the jyoung/Compass club.
Explain what's good about that level design. Big sprawling mess.
Not in the same league as Drill Dozer or Donkey Kong Jungle Beat by any stretch of the imagination.
Historical importance =/= any good in 2013.
can someone please fix the drill dozer tag. It's just sad now.