Everything to do with our favourite pastime! Reviews, recommendations, sells/swaps, problems etc. Whether they are on the latest consoles, arcade or retro classics. It's not the winning or losing, we came to play!
Misfit wrote:
Tried Ikaruga on the Xbox One, but the black borders annoyed me, just wanted to rotate my 50" TV!
Nearly broke my back (and the telly!) Back In The Day putting our 32" Sony CRT on it's side to play Ikaruga "properly" on the Dreamcast
Crazy!
We had the biggest widescreen crt you could get at the time, a lovely 36" Philips (rrp was £2.2k, think I paid £1.7k). When we finally gave it away I had to make sure that people had a large car and were prepared to come with 2 strong people to move it. There was no way I was going to try and do it, I remembered the pain of getting it in there. It weighed a huge amount.
WiteWulf wrote:fucking stupid EMP thing on level 5
One doesn't get past it (or at least I didn't). Let it hit you and the rest of the level is a dodge-en-up. It's not hard once you stop trying to resist.
you can but it is a bugger - figure of 8 and keep moving
you will need to max out the various cannons and missiles you have before you can as otherwise your ability to keep moving is somewhat limited. so come back to the level once you've been through it as a dodge-em-up.
got through most of it before getting the PS4Pro and running into user ID difficulties as my son has taken over my PSN ID so had to create a new one and of course save games are tied into ID so have started again from scratch (though no intention of doing that with Fallout 4 or Witcher 3!)
"England is funny, but sometimes she scares me"
Tony Wakeford
So, Sky Force Reloaded is on iOS. Not that much different to Anniversary really, at least the first couple of levels. Different levels, but all very much more of the same. Your 10 credits seem to take longer to renew though and the timers are silly. Bought the wing guns then had to wait 20 minutes to use them!
Tried it on the iPad (12.9" Pro). Wow! Really cool on that the size made up for lack of thumbstick, I even played a few games using the pencil rather than my finger. Worked well.
Doubt I'll buy the Switch version now, so threw a few quid at the devs to get the coin doubler and will probably pay to remove the ads, despite them not being annoying.
Misfit wrote:So, Sky Force Reloaded is on iOS. Not that much different to Anniversary really, at least the first couple of levels. Different levels, but all very much more of the same. Your 10 credits seem to take longer to renew though and the timers are silly. Bought the wing guns then had to wait 20 minutes to use them!
Tried it on the iPad (12.9" Pro). Wow! Really cool on that the size made up for lack of thumbstick, I even played a few games using the pencil rather than my finger. Worked well.
Doubt I'll buy the Switch version now, so threw a few quid at the devs to get the coin doubler and will probably pay to remove the ads, despite them not being annoying.
Picked it up on PS4 as enjoyed the anniversary Skyforce.
On balance it’s a bit more of a grind than the first, possibly a bit too much that it’s now becoming irritating. Managed to complete level 1 on insane and get as far as opening up level 07. It has that one more go feel being sucked out of it as it’s more like I’ll play this level on insane in order to generate more stars so I can upgrade the ship. Managed to get one of the other ships unlocked but difference isn’t all that.
Don’t regret paying it as got my arcade fix from it .
"England is funny, but sometimes she scares me"
Tony Wakeford
After finally getting my Saturn up and running* being enjoying Tempest 2K and Parodius!
Really loving the old games so working back through my Saturn collection. Some of these need resurrecting..... Although think the D-pad on the Saturn is great for fighters! Think the thing I enjoy is the no-nonsense accessibility to these games... put disk in switch on... have fun... no patching or distractions. Also the games you can pick up and play and drop great for times when you have an hour or so to spend.
Parodius and Tempest 2K are enjoyable as they always were... wish an update came out for both of these for the new consoles....
* Wouldn't boot any disks... cleaned the laser ended up pulling the CD cable that ran from the drive to the motherboard out and re-inserting it. All good again....
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MattyP wrote:After finally getting my Saturn up and running* being enjoying Tempest 2K and Parodius!
I'm not sure I even knew T2K was on the Saturn!
I assume it's not ported by Llamasoft. How does it compare to the Jag version?
"Saturn
The Saturn version, programmed by High Voltage Software,[4] is close to the original Jaguar version, except for the removal of the third type of bonus level. It uses most of the audio tracks from the Tempest 2000 soundtrack CD for gameplay. The speech samples were redone.[5]"
Great port IMHO (Interplay/Hi-Voltage software did it)... Music is mostly intact! Think they released it on the Playstation and the PC too! Obviously if you are a T2K purest the Jag version is the only one to have in an ideal world!
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MattyP wrote:Think they released it on the Playstation and the PC too!
Thanks. I'd pick it up, but it seems quite pricey on the Bay and I don't even know if my Saturn even works plus as the gun games won't work on a current TV I'm not sure I'll ever plug it in again...
I do have the PC version somewhere, although Dio's emulator is the real way to go if you want it on a PC and the PS1 version's name is mud in general...!
I stalled in Super Paper Mario - the refocusing away from (largely) turn-based combat to more traditional platform elements just doesn't work very well. It's good, but not great - and since Paper Mario 2 was great, well, then it needs to be more than just fine, you know?
Brothers was suprisingly dark, but nowhere near as dark as Inside. I had to take a breather with something lighter: Crosscells was a bit disappointing following the brilliance of Hexcells, but Lara Croft GO was surprisingly excellent. Based on essentially the same mechanics as Hitman GO, it is a very different game. Out of the three Squeenix GO games, this is definitely my favourite.
I played Verde Station and Gone Home, and especially the latter has an extremely compelling narrative structure. There's a main story, yes, but it manages to humanize all its characters, but doesn't rub your nose in feels. Well, it does for the main narrative, but that's part of the point. It's the background stories that are the most impressive - they're not drowned out, and each character is given some amount of space for expression. Very impressive.
Oh, and Scanner Sombre. A bit of a weird one - the concept is, of course, wonderful, but the exploration of it felt a bit underwhelming. Maybe unfair, since I don't have explicit suggestions on how one would explore the mechanic further, but the addition of extra mechanics (minor various bits of environmental puzzling) didn't feel like it.
Next... Brütal Legend, maybe? Or Hotline Miami 2? Or back to BioShock, even? (Tacoma would seem like the obvious followup, but I want to wait a bit before diving into that one.)
funkstar wrote:
Oh, and Scanner Sombre. A bit of a weird one - the concept is, of course, wonderful, but the exploration of it felt a bit underwhelming. Maybe unfair, since I don't have explicit suggestions on how one would explore the mechanic further, but the addition of extra mechanics (minor various bits of environmental puzzling) didn't feel like it.
I enjoyed this quite a bit. The mood alone carries it enough for me and the story it was telling was pretty decent.
Currently playing Destiny 2 on PC. Picked it up cheaply via Humble after enjoying the first one. Amazed by how well it runs! My 1060-equipped laptop has no issue delivering up to 120fps and OMG it's smooth as hell! All good fun, although I'm still not quite sure about how the idea of multiplayer Destiny works.
And then a mate and I are tackling Trackmania Turbo on PS4. What a bloody marvellous thing that is. Totally dumb as hell but requires genuine racing skill. Awesome stuff
Right at this very moment, me and the little 'un are playing 'Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations' on the trusty old Wii U. It's a Grim Fandango style adventure game, with short combat sections. It's fully voiced, which is awesome, and the graphics have a unique style to them, even if it's not 2d like the show and they're sort of amateurish a lot of the time. It's set up as a few different scenes, rather than one long adventure. It's pretty easy, too. There's no way to permanently fuck up, and the locations of the scenarios are fairly small, so there's not much backtracking or wandering around looking for what to do. I'd say it's much more for kids, casual players and fans of the show than for someone looking for the next epic point and click adventure.
It has the characters, the humour, the voices, and almost the weirdness you'd expect.
We're enjoying it well enough. It's a nice change of pace between mariokart, 3d world, and splatoon, all of which are also great to play with the kids.
Bought a couple games on the Switch store this week.
First Burly Men At Sea which is, apparently, in some publication's top games of the year. I can't imagine why as it's not actually a game. It's a clumsily scripted Flash animation that stops once every five minutes until you poke the screen.
Also Beekyr Reloaded who is a Gradius inspired horizontal shooter with insects instead of spaceships.
Anybody else tried this one? It's been out on Steam for a little while but nobody seems to have taken much notice.
I'm undecided. The intricate backgrounds make it hard to tell what's background and what's a deathly obstruction. It's also hard to pick out the tiny baddies. OTOH it plays quite nicely and Gradius was always more about memorising patterns than reactions.
I'm either playing Yoku's Island Express on the switch, which is one of the best I've played this year, or Assassins Creed Origins on the PS4. I was blessed with chicken pox a couple of weeks back and played through Ratchet & Clank from my deathbed. A fantastic game, but the characters are god-awful.
Picked up Letter Quest remastered on the switch on Thursday. Nice little word puzzle /RPG (damage is a function of the word you come up with based on the tiles you have).
fairly short (completed the quest and now mopping up the additional stars/ crystals, slightly different modes with speed run, tougher enemies and then elite where enemies have rules that affect damage they absorb)
it was half price on the Nintendo store and definitely a lovely little game , particularly fun if you like word games
"England is funny, but sometimes she scares me"
Tony Wakeford
Recenctly picked up Shadow of the Colossus (again!) on the PS4.
Still a great game and much improved on the PS4 (feels like a different game). Hope to finish it this time as the frame rate improvements have made it much more playable over the PS2 original.... Currently on the 7th Colossi!
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