(Retro) What have you been playing this week?

[Pikate]

Instagram is cool and popular? Personally I'm just a Hipster so I like old Bicycles and 80s music and apps that ruin photos but I guarantee more people look at Instagram pictures taken randomly by 14 year olds going about their day than your pictures on Flickr you drove 200 miles to take with your ?2,000 SLR setup. (not having a go at you or saying that is you haha just saying that effort/talent doesn't equal reward in the iOS age?).

[MrSands]

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (on Xbox Live but by dictionary definition that is Retro?)

I originally downloaded the free trial on Xbox Live while I waited for SSF4:AE to come through the post having never tried the franchise but having spent some time with both games now I actually think 3rd Strike is the better game? The characters are better in 3rd Strike, the Arenas are more interesting, better designed and more grown-up. I'd really love Street Fighter 5 to embrace this style as opposed to the more action-movie-ish SSF4 (which seems to be a continuation of SSF2?).

Agree agree agree agree!

[JSR]

Personally I'm just a Hipster so I like old Bicycles and 80s music and apps that ruin photos but I guarantee more people look at Instagram pictures taken randomly by 14 year olds going about their day than your pictures on Flickr you drove 200 miles to take with your ?2,000 SLR setup.

Yeah, I'm nauseatingly aware of this. Tried to make that evident in my post, but must've gotten lost in sarcasm.

[Mayhem]

Yeah, I got a boyfriend and we started doing "cool" things like going to gigs and taking trips to London and using Instagram so gaming went out the window for me but before Christmas we broke up and I got an X360 so now I'm back to playing platform games (Rayman Origins instead of Mario now though) until 3AM, showering every other day and finding bits of "Prawn Cocktail Pom-Bear Snack" in my hair <3

Sorry to hear that. If it means anything, welcome back to the fold

I was just suggesting trying out the previous NES games (citing the best two in the series) to see if the new ones were up your street, to use a phrase. No point buying a game and then finding you don't like that type of game, when you can check out similar ones for free beforehand. I certainly enjoyed both Megaman 9 and 10, but then again, I like slightly sadistic games that make you swear, and the Megaman platform franchise in general.

[Pikate]

Sorry to hear that. If it means anything, welcome back to the fold

I was just suggesting trying out the previous NES games (citing the best two in the series) to see if the new ones were up your street, to use a phrase. No point buying a game and then finding you don't like that type of game, when you can check out similar ones for free beforehand. I certainly enjoyed both Megaman 9 and 10, but then again, I like slightly sadistic games that make you swear, and the Megaman platform franchise in general.

Haha no problem, he was kind of a douchebag, stopped me seeing friends and didn't like me playing Video Games etc so good riddance.

It was sound advice, I would download an emulator and find Mega Man 2 as you say but Xbox Live has free trials of every game (or at least that I've seen) and it's just so easy to play 9 or 10 on there. Plus I do like a challenge and I love 8-Bit aesthetics so I'm sure I will get into it (probably Mega Man 9) as soon as I finish some of the other stuff in my pile.

Edit: Played the trial, it's beautiful but jesus coming from modern games nothing can prepare you for how hard it is! There's no real penalty for dying in the last platformers I played (Braid, Limbo, Rayman Origins) but I've been dumped to the title screen 5 times already just trying to get to "Concrete Man"

[Decider-VT]

Mega Man 2 is the best intro to the series, speaking from completely biased childhood experience. I think that 10 has an easy mode with platforms that fill in the gaps so you die less, if you want to get accustomed to the series.

[Guts]

Haha no problem, he was kind of a douchebag, stopped me seeing friends and didn't like me playing Video Games etc so good riddance.

That's not a "kind of douchebag", that's... What's the word I'm looking for... Oh yes, "total wanker".

[dataDave]

Finally beat Sonic the Hedgehog 2!

Why does nobody talk up the difficulty of this game!?

Because it has none.

[acidbearboy]

If you have a Gamecube you could try the Megaman Collection.

[nakamura]

Final Fantasy VI. Deep into the magictek fortress now and just defeated Ifrit and Shiva.

[Guts]

I love the Magitek factory song. Bam, clang, bam, bam, clang.

[losersclub]

Final Fantasy VI. Deep into the magictek fortress now and just defeated Ifrit and Shiva.

Awesome, awesome game!!

[losersclub]

Finished off the first Suikoden, thought it was great, a bit ashamed that i'd never played this or it's sequel before now (going to have to stump up the cash for Suikoden 2 now though)


Now playing Zelda Oracle Of Seasons for the very first time, i haven't played this or Ages before but managed to snag cart only copies of both along with the guide for a very decent price the other week.

I love 2d Zelda so i'm excited to finally play through both

[nakamura]

Suikoden has absolutely amazing music. Fantastic game. The Oracle games are both magnificent. Have and finished both and will replay for sure.

[losersclub]

Yeah the soundtrack was fantastic, i really enjoyed the story as well. Plenty of drama but minus the OTT cheesy melodrama you often get in JRPGs