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:Carrion - FAR from charming is this horror platformer with a twist, you play the monster. More pixelated art, but it works so well and it's a true delight to control your spaghetti and meatball blob, zipping around the levels and tearing humans apart as you try to escape the facility you're being tested in.
After keenly following this during development I was really disappointed with the final release. The novelty aspect soon wears off and the lack of interesting enemies or puzzles made it feel very repetitive very quickly.
One of those games like 'My Friend Pedro' that looks great in GIFs but offers little else.
So, I tried not doing that thing I mentioned where I interleave my experiences, and did a few smaller games in a row.
Silicon Zeroes is yet another programming game, this time with logical circuits. This was, by and large, a primer on machine architecture - it covers a not insignificant chunk of what you might find in an introductory machine architecture course at Uni. Rather impressive scope, really.
The Hex is... Pony Island 2. Kinda. Which is good.
Firewatch has the best voice acting in any game I've ever seen. The exploration of the relationship between Henry and Delilah is, undoubtedly, what the game is about, but it is very pretty, too. Not perfect, I'm not really a fan of some of the plot devices (some of it felt shoehorned in).
On my Wii...finally invested in a HDMI adapter so I could connect to my TV. Mainly for Yoga on WiiFit and various fun games. Still love this little console soldiering on since 2006!
New Super Mario Bros Wii is fun as is Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz (how many party games!!!). The other thing I recently tried was Tiger Woods Golf 09 All Stars. Picked it up for paltry 50p from CEX and I'm actually enjoying swinging the controller about although got quite engrossed and found muscles that hadn't been used for a while.
This is a great little machine. Managed to hack it last year and install the home brew channel then never did anymore with this. However the drive is playing up a bit (could be a disk perhaps) so want to attach a solid state drive and rip my games to that.
Amazing how cheap Wii setups are now for less than the price of just Ring Fit on the Switch you can get a Wii with a good selection of games, a balance board and Wii Fit.
The Wii makes awesome light relief after sessions on Last Of Us 2 on the PS4
A light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Steam/Xbox/PSN User Name: CypherQ Switch - 8177-9514-5116
I’ve recently upgraded an Amiga 1200 with a HxC floppy emulator and I’ve been in retro heaven! With a 32GB SD card I’ve managed to get every game I remember as a kid (and the ones I couldn’t afford) working. I’ve introduced my children to all my favorite games from my childhood and we’re hooked!
I’ve got a 1084s and a couple of Zipsticks hooked up to it as well as a 4GB CF card as a hard disk.
My two kids can’t get enough of Llamatron, Bubble Bobble, Zool, Cool Spot, Superfrog, Chaos Engine, Gods, Speedball 2, SWOS and Xenon 2 Megablast - just to name a few.
LancashireArrow wrote:I’ve recently upgraded an Amiga 1200 with a HxC floppy emulator and I’ve been in retro heaven! With a 32GB SD card I’ve managed to get every game I remember as a kid (and the ones I couldn’t afford) working. I’ve introduced my children to all my favorite games from my childhood and we’re hooked!
I’ve got a 1084s and a couple of Zipsticks hooked up to it as well as a 4GB CF card as a hard disk.
My two kids can’t get enough of Llamatron, Bubble Bobble, Zool, Cool Spot, Superfrog, Chaos Engine, Gods, Speedball 2, SWOS and Xenon 2 Megablast - just to name a few.
I recently upgraded a GBA SP with an IPS screen, a new shell in SNES colour scheme and an Ezflash Advance Omega IV flash cart. My son was very jealous and bought himself an original GBA which I've also wound up reshelling and putting an IPS screen in. It realy give these old consoles a new lease of life having a bright, colourful screen in them, and it's amazing to see the games how the designers originally intended them.
The SP was much easier to put the new screen in than the GBA, fwiw, if you ever consider doing one, but I do prefer the ergonomics of the original GBA.
I recently upgraded a GBA SP with an IPS screen, a new shell in SNES colour scheme and an Ezflash Advance Omega IV flash cart. My son was very jealous and bought himself an original GBA which I've also wound up reshelling and putting an IPS screen in. It realy give these old consoles a new lease of life having a bright, colourful screen in them, and it's amazing to see the games how the designers originally intended them.
The SP was much easier to put the new screen in than the GBA, fwiw, if you ever consider doing one, but I do prefer the ergonomics of the original GBA.
Where did you get the parts from? Got an old SP lying around here that could do with some TLC. Might be a fun project.
Because fucking marketing cunts would never call a spade anything other than a Deluxe Easi-Shift Earth Movement Solution.
NB, the SP only requires a single wire to be soldered and is much simpler than the GBA, that requires three wires and some soldering to pads on a flimsy ribbon cable (which I cocked up and lifted the pads on, so the GBA doesn't have any brightness control ).
MattyP wrote:The Wii makes awesome light relief after sessions on Last Of Us 2 on the PS4
I get that.
The Last of Us 2 is incredible and raises the bar in so many areas, but man is it grim. I'm loving it while not enjoying it if that makes sense.
Problem is I'm having so much fun on the Wii I don't want to go back to the Last Of Us 2. Just well finding it too depressing. Think I just need a break from killing things. Kind of putting me off any consoles in future. Everything mostly revolves around shooting things or violence and the graphics are getting ever more graphic. Gaming is what I play to escape the nasty stuff happening in the real world not sure if I want to play though it in my gaming anymore.
Quite sad really that a console I've had for 14 years has given me more in the past week than perhaps years of owning other console systems. Maybe just have to accept my tastes have changed and the new AAA is no longer for me.
A light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Steam/Xbox/PSN User Name: CypherQ Switch - 8177-9514-5116
Cant remember the last triple A title I even bought bar BOTW..... Havent played a 3D shooter ala Doom in forever.
I tend to agree with Marc Almond now at my age that I tend to mostly enjoy stuff I already know most of all...although the occasional gem slips through ala Unitlted Goose Game or Dead Cells.
I couldn't tell you how many times I have completed OOT or both Super Mario Galaxys or 1000 year door.
I've been playing a lot of Snowrunner lately. It's a great game for just chilling. Nothing really happens, you have some trucks, and a huge open world full of snow, ice, mud mountains, rivers and various other obstacles to explore. The majority of the missions are just get cargo x from point a to b, and it's up to you to work out how to get a massive big rig across the terrain. The game world is huge, I've put in countless hours and have only done about half the missions, and the graphics are absolutely beautiful. Well worth a punt.
Because fucking marketing cunts would never call a spade anything other than a Deluxe Easi-Shift Earth Movement Solution.
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