(Retro) What have you been playing this week?

[Wools]

I wanted something completely different so now I've moved on to survival horror Carrier on the Dreamcast.

That game lingered in my memory during the entire Dreamcast period as it was always on shelves!

After the Dreamcast was gasping it's least breaths in the UK, it was relegated to a tiny section in Electronics Boutique and Game, and every single store had copies of Carrier on the shelf!

[Colin]

Back up in Scotland for a few days, where I still have a PC-Engine briefcase setup and a a select few games. Spent the day today playing soldier blade, parodius & twinbee. My god I still love them so much. In fact, I don't think i'll ever love a game more than soldier blade.

[tokyochojin]

Plowing through Shenmue this week, just up to the part where Charlie trys to jump you. Trying to go for a complete save with all offline items, hard work mind, I'm **** at hang-on.Snow fell for the first time today too, magical.


Also been playing a fair bit of chu chu rocket with the mrs too. This game needs bringing to psn network etc asap!

[chocklo]

Playing through ff9 again on my psp go. I've pretty much exhausted all the other final fantasies (ff7 - all master materias built up for myself, not through kalm town, all ultimate weapons and limits including aeris) but for some reason, never completed the mognet central quest so i'm concentrating on that. Just at the village of dali for the first time being told about rare coffees. Have to say, completed it a fair few times now but can't remember it being this slow paced (and dare i say, boring).

[fallenangle]

That game lingered in my memory during the entire Dreamcast period as it was always on shelves!

After the Dreamcast was gasping it's least breaths in the UK, it was relegated to a tiny section in Electronics Boutique and Game, and every single store had copies of Carrier on the shelf!

That's the time I picked it up too, really cheap if I recall correctly, certainly under a fiver even though new. EB/GAME shelves and eventually bargain bins always seemed to have plenty of traded in copies of Alone in The Dark (IV?) too.

There's nothing badly wrong with Carrier that isn't wrong with most other survival horror games of its generation.

The control response is particularly slow but you learn to deal with that.
The dialogue is often atrocious making RE's "Nearly a Jill sandwich" and "Master of unlocking" seem Shakespearian in comparison. But otherwise it's all just very familiar, inoffensively average entertainment and as such you can understand why it didn't leap off the shelves even though a DC exclusive.

[Spooky Mulder]

Sinistar... utterly brilliant!

[Skull Commander]

Golden Axe: The Duel on the Sega Saturn is first up. Feels like a Neo Geo fighter and is pretty decent.

Mortal Kombat 2 (saturn) - shoddy conversion. Missing loads of sounds and speech and isn't as good as the Snes version.

Clockwork Knight (saturn) - Feels quite clunky, but has charm. I want to like it more than I do, but I'm going to stick with it. Also gave the second one a spin, and from the wee game I had it seems the same.

[CMcK]

I had a Saturn shooter fest this evening. Started with Garrega then moved on to Souky, Shienryu, Darius Gaiden and finished of with Blast Wind.
Souky was a a lot harder than I remembered it being and conversely Garrega was easier than I found it to be for sometime. Weird.

[nintastic]

I'm totally addicted to Mario Golf, Pokemon Puzzle League and Wave Race on the n64 at the min ,

ps I'm telling you all now, I must be the worlds best on Drake Lake, well at hitting every god damn pole sticking out the lake lol

[Skull Commander]

Mario Golf on the N64 stole a summer from me. I loved that game to bits. The gamecube version is also good, but the N64 one topped it.

[nintastic]

Mario Golf on the N64 stole a summer from me. I loved that game to bits. The gamecube version is also good, but the N64 one topped it.

Totally agree buddy, trying to beat Wario at the min, he keeps beating me by one hole ! arrrrrr !

Made me smile when I hit a pin from over 150 yards and a monkey fell out !

[Wools]

I've almost receded from my PlayStation binge of buying old games but I've moved onto Gran Turismo 2.

I've played every single GT and the numerous prologues and concepts whilst forgetting just how difficult modern Gran Turismo's have become.

Over the weekend, I was able to complete all of GT2's licence tests and a few hours here and their allowed me to finish over half the races. I've finally got my hands on some of the best cars in the game that I was only able to stare at when I was a nipper. I don't know if the licence tests put me off to the point I did not even enter the A class stuff or I just could not complete them. Either way, it's been an eye opener.

Remembering how good GT games are, even the PS1 entries, I've ordered GT4 again and have a wiped memory card to start again. I think as I'll be doing less gaming this summer with even less games released, I'll be investing some time into GT4 and seeing if it is as difficult as I remember...

[fallenangle]

I've never found the actual racing in GT(4), with the exception of the tedious rally and ice events, that hard.

Doing the licence tests to gold and the challenge tasks in GT4 are the really hard and most satisfying parts of the games IMHO. Sometimes you can fail by a few hundreths of a second to get gold and that, for me, is like a red rag to a bull. I inist on getting at least silver before moving on but I've never manange all gold licences in any GT although I've often spent stupid amounts of time trying.

Back on topic: having just 100% completed DC Carrier I was looking through my unplayed DC collection and realised I'd completely forgotten about MDK2. I don't normally play two consecutive games on the same platform but I just felt in the mood for something off-centre but shooty. So that's what I'm doing now.

Loved the PS original, loved PS2 Giants: CK and the later XBox close cousin Armed & Dangerous so I'm hoping to enjoy MDK2. What I didn't realise is that it wasn't made by Shiny or even its offspring: Planet Moon but by Bioware. I'm not sure if any of the original MDK team worked on it at all. That rather surprised me.

[S3M]

Been giving the old super scope awirl today and playing a spot of Kirby Dream Land 3 on SFC.

[Streets Of Rage]

I know the DS is current generation but its all I have out here in Vietnam, I'm counting my current playing as retro though as I'm making my way through Chrono Trigger, really enjoying it, the additional video sequences are excellent to watch, top stuff!!