~ Hopes and Dreams ~
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Sonic CD is still fun for running through as fast as I can, but to this day I still have never got a good ending. It's easily the worst of the 16 bit Sonics though, and the physics are a hair off from the other games.
You are out of your mind!
CD>S&K and 3 Combined! Literally~!
Sonic CD is worse than Sonic 1 through Sonic and Knuckles because, like yeller said, it has terrible level design for a Sonic game.
It's really really bad. That Casino level is a joke played on the youth. The whole game is Sandopolis.
I don't know anything about Sonic 4, but it would have to try really hard to be worse than Sonic CD.
Teams of game-scientists working in shifts on the problem of making a worse game than Sonic CD. All smoking at their desks. Lots of troubled marriages due to the combination of long hours and the crippling depression of the task.
The NGPC Sonic game is maybe 3-to-4 times better.
The NGPC sonic game is the best one.
project codename: scratched CD
day 75
noon
bread for breakfast, toasted. water. unshaved face. haven't been home in two weeks. the job is impossible. we've tried copying the levels exactly, nothing works. we cannot make a worse game and still have the software function. we hear the Dreamcast team is making better progress.
i wonder if melanie still loves me.
itchy. tasty.
Seriously.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
Well they're all awful games, except the surprisingly enjoyable Sonic NGPC. How's that.
Jesus, Finch, how embarrassing. Stop.
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG SUCKS, ALL OF 'EM. YOU ONLY LIKED THEM BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT HIS ATTITUDE WAS COOL AND YOU LIKED JALEEL WHITE'S VOICE.
I've been playing a bit of Guild Wars 2 the past few days. I know it didn't quite pan out the way ANet promised but I still think this is a hell of a game. I'm just too terrible/poorly geared for WvW, unfortunately.
What server are you on?
Ehmry Bay
If you need someone to roll with, pm me a time and I'll play. WvW is fun but you can't roll alone at all. I dunno if my quild is still a force but we ruled Jade Quarry for a long time. Thanks in a big way to the Asians that played early with us.
Yup, I'm just getting re-acclimated to the game. It's not a bad time to jump back in considering all the content coming to it.
Rise of the Triad (2013)- After 15+ tries, I finally nailed Great Halls of Fire on E2L2. There are no enemies in that bit, but the platforming is actually tougher than the combat. You have to jump between pairs of spinning discs, over a lake of lava that kills you instantly if you miss. It felt good to get back to mowing down some Triad squads. I've also played some of the 1995 version with WinROTT and the original still holds up well- actually, some of these levels seem even larger than ROTT'13.
Lollipop Chainsaw - I've made a huge mistake.
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Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...7&d=1372914288
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Online playable collection of Nintendo game and watch: http://www.pica-pic.com/
Good memories of playing some of these. Wish I still had my Popeye mini cab :(
I would have also accepted 'Ghostbusters NES'. Never played Atari ET.Quote:
Originally Posted by Korly
Battle Circuit. Holy lord. Why does anyone care about Capcom beat 'em ups aside from this one again?
Because no ports/availability!
I looked at my GOG shelf and fired up Moto Racer GP. It's tough to look at these days (early 3D, draw distance stuff), but it plays great.
That should not be. That's my point.
This is better than D&D.
Explain Capcom's AVP.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I had never played AvP arcade until 3 or 4 weeks ago.
AvP had the license and was actually released in the US.
You're right, let me go fire up a legal copy.
How many games have become popular because of emulation? It seems as though almost all of them were already popular, which drove the desire to emulate them. I played a fair amount of AvP in high school due in roughly equal parts to the license and to it being a Capcom beat'em up. I had never heard of Battle Circuit until years later.
Every fan-translated import game, for one. MAME is like science, it doesn't discriminate, it just examines everything and hopes for results. Nobody's asking for half the games on MAME's new release lists, they just kind of happen because they had to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
AvP was fucking EVERYWHERE in arcades when it was released. You can still find the odd machine here and there. Battle Circuit didn't have the distribution.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
I only heard of it through emulation initially.
I played AvP in the arcades when it came out, but I can only remember seeing that one machine. It was awesome, seemed weird that I only saw it at one spot.
I only ever played it through emulation as well, despite having a couple large arcades before they were mythical beasts. 15 years ago it was accessible in limited supply, but I'll even bet real money that in a hypothetical world where both were equal releases that aesthetics and license still would've resulted in the same outcome.
Battle Circuit is pretty out there. In good ways for me, but I don't think the same for the public at large.
No, because that's the same thing. Policenauts was already very popular, so everyone wanted it translated for example.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I don't mean the actual people doing the emulation. I mean the people looking for ROMs after the fact. BUT, the order in which platforms got emulated was definitely influenced by popularity.Quote:
MAME is like science, it doesn't discriminate, it just examines everything and hopes for results. Nobody's asking for half the games on MAME's new release lists, they just kind of happen because they had to.
Policenauts was a huge one, but you can get any number of smaller 'woah somebody cared about that' games.
So what? You can get a Game.com emulator now. NOBODY cares, but you can play Resident Evil 2 if you really want to. Curiosity is a bigger motivation than popularity when it comes to ROM dumping, I suspect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1whfiMVm-Hg
Every single CPS2 game has been out there for years and years. Heck, since before computers could run them correctly. Quiz & Dragons awaits you. Finally.
Because it was a very popular platform...Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I don't know about popular, but Uforia and Mr. Gimmick would be completely unknown in the US if it wasn't for emulation and people with too much time on their hands. Earthbound especially (and Mother 1 by extension) SMT 1 and 2 (no one knew what the fuck they were before SMT3 and most people didn't until they figured out Persona 3 was related to Shin Meggommi Tenchi), Live A Live, and Sweet Home all got new audiences because of emulation.
That's true and one of many reasons I love the emulation scene. But, those games have the advantage of being on popular Nintendo systems. Good luck trying to get most gamers to branch out further than what systems they owned.
I have been playing Medal of Honor (2010). I had little interest in it but gave it a try in the practically free EA Humble Bundle. It's not bad.
I've spent the last week doing a lot of tweaking with my emulators.
Today I did my first fucking around with Wii games. Mario Galaxy 2 looks legit.
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Are we talking like Casio Loopy or just the rival system?
I actually played Monster World IV before i played any of the other games in the series because they were available in English legitimately (and it wasn't at the time) and i didn't want to play them through illegitimate means if i could play them otherwise. I was never a Genesis kid and didn't even have one until late late late.
You're right that i probably wouldn't actually look for PC88 games unless Hardcore Gaming 101 or Retronauts covered something fantastic that everyone missed that i really felt like i had to play, but if something looks like it appeals to me and isn't available in English through normal, reasonable means, i'll look into it. I am more likely to lean Super Famicom/Famicom, but i'm looking for the games that look appealing, not the system they're on.
That's cool. I was just speaking generally. I know you have played some systems you didn't grow up with. Playing stuff I didn't have access to back in the day like Amstrads and X68000s is generally more appealing to me for emulation than playing ones I did.
I refer you back to there being a Game.com emulator.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Started playing Heretic with GZDOOM. I was going to play ManDooM but I always think about the few parts with crushing ceilings and sinking floors (without warning). The enmies I can handle, but that part makes me think I would die there and be incredibly pissed off.
Dead Space 1! So far, the worst terror in space is the camera. Normal mode's too easy, and Hard mode is hard because of severely restricted ammo. Bogus!
Good tension kinda ruined by the bad perspective and busted mobility. Curb stomp everything. Dude's got some anger issues.
I never had a problem with the camera in dead space. Busted mobility? Are you talking about Resident Evil now?
I fail to see a huge difference between Dead Space and RE. Pretty sure RE IV was quite a bit better on that front.
I like how they make VERY SURE you're on the right page as far as 'shoot the limbs off' 'oh hey shoot the limbs off' 'oh god monsters limbs shoot them' 'i'm going to write in blood on the wall about shooting the limbs off DID YOU UNDERSTAND THE BIT ABOUT THE LIMBS' :lol:
Sorta wish they'd have done FMV for the little conversation windows instead of using game models. The people are equally as creepy as the monsters.
HAY CHOX!
Let's talk about what we are playing at this site.
I played a bit of the Cars campaign yesterday. It is alright. Lots of races and jumps and stunts. I am about to fire up my ps3 and play some more. Assuming my save isnt corrupted. If that happens I will either crack open the 360 version I bought to resell or wait until I can exchange ps3 version for wii u.
Seriously. Dead Space 1 is a damn good game, just a bit overlong. They emphasize the limb stuff in the beginning because it's unintuitive and different from every other action game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpy
Dead Space 2 is the best game though.
I'm glad I'm playing it a few years out. I'm not super hot on it so far, but I'm going to keep playing for a while to see if it gets better. Rough start, IMO.
I remember one of the things I liked about Dead Space is how much better it handled than RE up to that time. And that intro where we see the derelict Ishimura is still gorgeous.
Yeah, focusing on limbs instead of the main body to kill enemies was a slightly un-intuitive game mechanic. I don't blame them. The difference in damage between hacking off limbs and shooting enemies wherever is massive.
The only thing I didn't like about the game is that it overstays it's welcome, like Diff said. Oh, and I've never used a weapon but the cutter you start with. It's perfect for what needs to be done.
Use the limb cutter for pretty much everything. The other weapons are garbage.
I tried to play some more Retro City Rampage but it's not a good game, the humor is shit, and I was irritated when I found a cheat code not knowing it was a cheat code and it disabled saving which it didn't alert me to until after it did so, which wiped a bunch of progress I had done. Fuck this piece of shit game.
I plasma cutted my way through the entire trilogy. Awesome gun. Great trilogy (yeah I said it, all three are good)
Far Cry 3 - it's really good, besides some spotty gun play so far. Lots to do and I like the layout of the world and the crafting and all that. Good move to put in fast travel. Game looks very nice also.
Dead Rising 2 - I remember now why I didn't like it: time constraints. It's a sandbox game with zombies so it should be awesome, but DEADLINES keep me from just running around and killing things like I want to. And then I go out of my way to get to the person I need to escort back and that shithead dies a few feet from the safe room. Fucking hell man. At least I've never once paid for it (was a gift the first time around).
SFxT - Seems more balanced now. Really digging on Guile/Ryu as a team. Ryu isn't even needed most of the time, Guile is a beast.
UMvC3 - Missions and arcade mode. I still really hate the online in this game. I have 1 win and 10 losses, and I search ranked for people of my own level, and it pairs me against someone with 500+ wins. I don't think I even got to play that round, I was just juggled from start to finish. I haven't the patience.
Trials Evo - Because playing with a working controller is about a thousand times less frustrating.
Dishonored - Already beat Brigmore Witches in High Chaos, going to redo Knife of Dunwall to import that save for the Cleanest Hands and Silence is Golden run next. First time through the second mission took me about 2.5 hours, got that down to about 25 minutes the second time! BW is an exceptional DLC.
It really, really is quite bad. Referencing something old is no particular virtue in itself. Every medium but videogames seems to recognize this.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
"Hey, remember nostalgia? Wasn't it great? ...I have nothing else to add."
OUR PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE, YOU GUYS! IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE, TAKE THE CAKE IS A LIE ARE YOU A BAD ENOUGH DUDE TO FEEL ASLEEP A WINNER IS ALL YOUR BASE!
DO YOU GUYS REMEMBER THOSE! MAKE SURE YOU LAUGH LOUD ENOUGH TO LET EVERYONE KNOW YOU DO
I wish that wasn't an exact copy of Retro City's opening. I really do.
I also wish it didn't play like ass, but I guess we can't always get what we want.
Explain Family Guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
True. And Community to a lesser extent.
I guess reference humor is what tickles kids these days.
The most easily identifiable crap is what is going to appeal to the most amount of people. Making a game or movie that is funny because it successfully pulls off what made a certain era fondly looked upon is never going to do as well as someone just vomiting references all over. FC3: Blood Dragon and Retro City's WINK WINK WE'RE IN ON THE JOKE DID YOU GET IT WE MADE THAT KIND OF REFERENCE BECAUSE WE THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY DID YOU SEE WHAT WE DID THERE is going to end up doing better than, say, Oniken. I think Mega Man 9/10 are the only real exceptions to this that I can think of in games.
I get sad when I think about the evolution of successful comedy spoofs from Young Frankenstein to Epic Movie.
I don't think RCR was made to appeal to lots of people.
It seems like it was made by an obsessive person who has spent too long on the internet. Better than making hair dolls I guess.
I resemble that remark.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Dead Space came out around RE 5 and did just about everything better. For one, you can move AND shoot. That let many more cool battles happen. I always liked the buzzsaw gun. Shoot the blades for distance and then hold them in place for one on one and ammo conservation.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Couldn't say, I don't have any recent RE games to compare it to. On its own merits, it feels clunky. Maybe that gets better? Who knows.
Dead Space is about the least clunky entry in the history of survival horror as people define it. Every other game is plagued with dumb shit that makes the game 'real'. [chris rock]Yeah, real dumb.[/chris rock]
Video Games.
I think fighting the same two monsters over and over in the first 30 minutes combined with the lack of a 180-turn-around is kinda bumming me out. The over the shoulder camera feels like you're running sideways. Too many tutorials, freaky uncanny valley video popups, next to no ammo on hard mode... this is not the most fun I've ever had in a survival horror game, sorry.
Still, gonna get my fifty cents worth out of this! :D
Racing roundup:
Wipeout 2048 - Pretty great, I don't have any real complaints about this game. Still not my favorite racing series but it's certainly not for quality reasons.
Ridge Racer: Unbounded - I don't even know what's going on here. Lots of great ideas but it seems like their design philosophy was, "Inconsistency." Some walls can be broken, some can't. Some parts of walls that jut out can be broken, some can't. Slamming the front of a car into a wall at 150 mph will sometimes make you wreck, sometimes it won't. Sometimes even if plowing into a wall full frontal at high speed won't make you crash, you can just slow down and graze the wall with a headlight to make your car explode. The cars have Need For Speed weight but Ridge Racer physics, so I can't do sudden 90 degree turns on a dime but it's somehow really easy to oversteer and do a 180. Cars have lifebars that prevent natural takedowns like Burnout has, but activating boost is an automatic takedown. Sometimes.
It feels like a farmed-out Burnout but not even in a Dominator kind of way where it's glitchy as fuck but still has a good underlying base. Better luck next time.
Split/Second - This game is fun. I almost had my hopes dashed thanks to the sloppy-as-fuck port job which tossed me into the tutorial before an options menu, giving me the wrong resolution, aspect ratio, graphical level, and wasn't even lined up properly on the screen. So I quit the race to fix all of that and find out the tutorial is now just gone forever, and even though this was a console game there's no button displays anywhere so everything is still labelled as enter and tab and button 1 and such like it's still 1998. There's also no way to adjust options mid-race, and the post-race displays go on forever and trying to quit out of them inexplicably restarts the previous race.
Getting past all the horrible UI problems that were apparently farmed out to a group of people that have never worked with a video game before, the actual racing is enjoyable and the triggers and takedowns are pretty great. I think other people on TNL have complained about the rubberband AI getting ridiculous in later races so I'm not looking forward to that, but at least for now I'm having a good time.
I always wanted to try Split/Second, it looks like a really fun game. Alas, I still haven't played a racer more entertaining than Burnout: Revenge.
Burnout Revenge is better, but SS is still pretty cheap on Amazon.
At least Community's a good show (and has Alison Brie for eye candy). Retro City Rampage just sucks, at least from the demo I played. I can appreciate its nods to old games and familiar streets where I live but I can't bring myself to play anything for nostalgia. This is why I hate it when people sometimes think I like old games/movies/music for nostalgic reasons when it's pretty much the opposite: I like art when it's well made not because of when it was made.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
I've sunk 23 hours into EVE Online. I still have no idea what the fuck I'm doing.
Everyone should play Papers, Please.
Dead Rising 2. Case Zero sucked, so I never bothered with this one. Glad I didn't, because its a pretty sweet game for the price of free.
I used some of my ms reward points to buy a sweet set of ninja pajamas.
I've been playing Final fantasy 3 on the Ouya for the past week. it's pretty much the DS game with some slightly improved graphics, visually it reminds me of an upscaled PS1 game, and I'm fine with that.
I don't remember the DS version at all, other than remembering that I enjoyed it. I can't put my finger on it, but I'm really enjoying the game, it's very relaxing. I think it's a case of the right game at the right time for me.
I have like three ships and I just wander around lost.Quote:
Originally Posted by No One
I need to play more.
They keep making you cast mini on your entire party, so you then have to switch to spellcasters and level them up. I got sick of that shit by the third time.Quote:
Originally Posted by GohanX
That does look pretty awesome, if only Wii games were in HD :(Quote:
Originally Posted by OpaqueI've spent the last week doing a lot of tweaking with my emulators.
Today I did my first fucking around with Wii games. Mario Galaxy 2 looks legit.
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ActionButton.net is on point here, re: Dead Space....
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The very first Action Challenge in the game requires you — weaponless — to run from a stampeding alien. It chases you down a sloping hallway. An elevator stands, open, at the end of the hall. You run into the elevator, turn around, and press the button. The elevator doors slam shut. The alien jams his tentacles into the door. The doors open partway. The alien sticks his head in. The door slams on the alien’s head. The alien dies. You think: Whew! Close one!
Now let’s try running down the hall, jumping into the elevator, turning around, and not pressing the button. Just stand there, looking down the hall. The alien will literally run right up to the doors, stop, look at you, and then turn around. Come out of the elevator, and the enemy will turn around and chase you again
I don't even like Dead Space, but Christ is that website terrible. I don't think I've ever seen such transparent attempts to roast sacred cows for the sake up drumming up some bullshit controversy. It's the gaming equivalent of The Best Page in the Universe.
nooooooo no one, tim rogers is so good
He's the durian of new games journalism: he smells so bad but you can't resist him, his writing is pulpy and succulent, he is the king of fruits.
Metroid Fusion: 3 1/2 out of 4 stars.
Diablo II: 0 out of 4 stars.
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I don't want you to be mad at me, so I'll take your word for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
Oh no, a scripted event! Who cares. It's at the very beginning where you're learning the ropes. Get caught panicking in the hall and you die and come back to life to do it again. It's clear what to do when it happens so you do it and move on.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Diablo 2- I used to have a bootleg of the original Diablo and i sold it for $20 somehow in highschool. I feel guilty about it now. I was occasionally interested in Diablo 2 but not enough to actually play it.
0/ all the stars
Metroid Fusion- You find out Metroid is a girl if you're fast, but i've also never played it past a little bit. I like other metroids but i only beat Metroid II and the new one that's the first one?
3.5/4 stars
Wonderful 101- Score, score, score, score, score, score, score, score, score, score, score... Get rid of fucking score thing & just believe yourself !!
haha that website is a piece of shit
Mario Galaxy 2.5 stars hahahaha
Mario Galaxy is a 2.5 out of 4 game. I don't know what's the problem with that. It had some really awful garbage mucking it up, like that stupid spring, flying, Rosalina not serving any real purpose. It's actually a 1.5 out of 4. Maybe .5.
Anyway, Tim Rogers gonna Tim Rogers. I wish the people who understood that were still around.
He does say Wonder Boy is bad, but he makes up for everything by saying Monster World IV is one of the best games of all time, calls it "a summary of all that is joyful in the world."
That's credit for the whole site right there.
Wow, rude. I do wish g0zen and gravé still posted here, the old daysQuote:
Originally Posted by Finch
ActionButton is so good.
A lot of sacred cows are terrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by No One
It really is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
I am going to walk backwards through the whole game and test this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpy
ps: ahhhhahahahahahahahaha IT WORKS
I am still playing that game that Chucker only talks about on other boards. Spent 6 hours messing with the Pirates of the Caribbean set. Ship battles are simplistic yet fun. Got bored with the Cars set. Looking forward to finishing up Pirates and starting Lone Ranger. Due to PS3 issues, I haven't spent any time in toybox mode. I can live with the possibility of replaying levels, cant deal with rebuilding stuff.
I continue to hope that my daughter does not become interest in said game that shall not be mentioned by name.
I loved the first skylander, thought giants was merely mediocre.
I have zero affection for the pixar IP, but this is pretty fricking good.
Each "playset" (read disney property) has its own kind of gameplay. So it is not completely doing the same thing over and over again in different skins.
The main attraction is the toybox mode. It is a minecraft/ little big planet world building kit. I wont ever do anything exceptional with it; but I know that plenty of nerds will. Seeing what other loonies spend countless hours building kinda has me excited.
We've never played Skylanders either, in part because I think my daughter inherited some of my OCD with regards to collecting things. It's one thing to have all the Nickoledeon TMNT toys. It's quite another to go after 8 million Skylander/Infinity figures.
At this point, I would say skip skylanders. Activision.
The disney figures are much nicer sculpts and though they cost more on average ($13 per figure):
1)disney
2)walmart has the two 3 packs on sale for $15 each.
3)avalanche
The shitty part of the ocd thing will be the optional power discs. But again, TRU has a buy one get one for $1 this week. I initially bought 20 packs due to some misinformation. I opened two. Exchanged 8, and returned 10. I will use various forums to trade for what I need.
If it werent for the launch deals, I wouldnt have gone for it. But after getting everything I got for half of msrp, I am thoroughly digging it. And I have much more faith in disney maintaining quality vs activision.
The funny thing about Disney IP is that every single property/movie/whatever has their own staff of 'handlers' who have to approve everything done with that specific brand.
Of course they are, but there's a difference between making a legitimate case for that and unfairly trashing something for the sake of pissing people off and/or being "edgy". A lot of that website reads like Jaded Hipster Gamer: Internet Edition.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Define "unfairly."
I don't think Diablo 2 is a very good game either. Maybe not 0/4, but that's opinion.
Also they kind of make up score numbers for the fuck of it, read the article.
Diablo 2 is -5 out of 5 for me. But then again.... I don't care about Diablo.
Stay away from anything written by Samuel Kite. I say this because I care about each of you.
Diablo 3 is great for people who hate Diablo.
