Rocket Knight

[Yoshi]

Buy it on Steam. Fuck XBLA. We need to support Steam releases of games like this.

It's been forever since I have played the older games, and I have only played one level so far. I'll post more when I get further in.

[Diff-chan]

Steam can lick my ass.

[Yoshi]

That's great. I can play my Steam games from 2003ish still. When MS pulls the plug on the 360, those games are likely toast. In most cases, you're paying more for less with the consoles. I saved 20% on this game and got a more flexible version, for example.

[Geen]

Regardless of platform, it's nice to hear you're enjoying it, Yoshi. Going to give the 360 version a go in a few.

[Geen]

Just played through, I'm assuming, the majority of this game in one sitting. Although it's been more than 15 years since I played the original on Genesis, this feels like the game I remember and is a lot of fun. The length seems to be about the same as the average Genesis game as well, but I do like that it has Par times for each of the stages and most of the achievements are tailored to give the game more replay rather than throwing you a biscuit for playing normally.

[NeoZeedeater]

I really like this so far. And it made me discover a use for 2.5D... finally! When they do 2.5D on the PC, it then works with 3D Vision, which makes an ultra-parallax effect come to life. As long as there is a PC version, I would now support 2.5D for the first time ever.

Cool although I still don't get why these 3d glasses for modern PCs are so damn expensive. I bought Segascope glasses in the '80s for $50 I think. Today's ones are improved but aren't they still pretty much the same type of technology? It seems odd to me.

[Yoshi]

I do believe they are similar, but I suspect there has to be more to them, since they even require special 120Hz monitors or DLP HDTVs.

[Cheebs]

I do believe they are similar, but I suspect there has to be more to them, since they even require special 120Hz monitors or DLP HDTVs.

If I were to take a guess, I'd say that it only needs 120 Hz to keep the frame rate up. If it is the same shutter deal as the Master System, you need two complete screen draws to make one frame of animation. So 60 fps would only be possible on a 120 Hz monitor.

I guess that means the Master System 3D was locked to 30 FPS...






And typing "frames per second" has thrown my brain into a tangle of a tangent concerning the word "per". Help me out so I can think normally again.

"Per" means "divided by", right? Frames per second = (frames/seconds)
Miles per hour = (miles/hour)
etc.

"cent" means 1/100 of something, right? There are 100 cents in a dollar. There are 100 centimeters in a meter. etc.


So the word "percent" is all fucked up. It should either be "perhundred" or just plain "cent".
How is there any logic in phrasing it as "percent"?

As the word is written, 80 percent should be 80/(1/100) = 8000
But it is not. 80 percent is 0.80 = 80/100 = 80 per hundred.


Mind assplode.

[Yoshi]

cent can be 1/100 like in the un-American system, but it can also be 100, like century.

[Cheebs]

Every dictionary teh internets can show me says that cent derived from a Latin word that means "hundred", but none of the current meanings indicate anything other than 1/100.

So somebody fucked up a Latin adaptation hundreds of years ago. Did the centipede/century faction screw up or did the cent (coin, musical interval) faction screw up? I don't know.

But until I do, "percent" will not sit well with me. Especially since all modern definitions of "cent" are a form of 1/100.