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(Retro) What have you been playing this week? Vol.2
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Originally posted by Protocol Penguin View PostFlippin’ loved Power Stone. Really surprised me as a new concept for fighting games. Amazing that (to my knowledge) there’s been nothing much like it since.
Brilliant game and still looks amazing to this day, the music score is fab and something else too.
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Going through the original xbox catalog of games i don't own or never played elsewhere, starting with Advent Rising which is quite good. I thought it was some rubbish 3rd person halo so never played it but is quite ambitious with massive sprawling levels, decent weapons and melee(only once you grind some levels in dodge and melee so i can warp around punching suckers) and some very fun psychic abilities all which come with way to level up each of them up. The story of aliens coming to wreck up a Human planet(not earth) is enjoyable though i wasn't a big fan of the main guy at the start of game as he's to much of an asshole but does go all doomguy later on when everything and everyone blows up or dies, the set pieces are something that wouldn't be out of place something like uncharted which made level set pieces its thing and so far the levels have pretty varied (i'm up to the attack on last badguy stronghold on the alien planet you escape to).
Not a game without it's problems, the framerate struggles with the amount of enemies it throws on the screen against the massive levels, and it's also quite easy to get lost in them as it was before a time of objective markers being a common thing (not even a map to go by). Definitely going to play through to the end.
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Spent today completely hammering my famicom mini in a marathon play session, i decided to upgrade the games library some more since i haven't done that from back when hackchi was first released, i stuck on the rockman games and then left it at that. Now that the retroarch core is available i decided to reflash it to the latest version so i could add the games that didn't originally have mapper support, now have gimmick working along with all the ganbare goemon games which i'm really happy about.
Spent all day playing a mix of various games...
Ganbare goemon gaiden
Gimmick
Abarenbou tengu (very odd side scrolling shooter where you play as a tengu head)
Hottaman no Chitei Tanken (digging game a bit like boulderdash but with a ton of items and enemies, pretty fun so far)
my fave hidden discovery of the day is Kiteretsu Daihyakka, a very surreal looking but really cool platformer based on one of fujiko f fujio's manga creations. It uses a gravity flipping mechanic to allow you to platform in various ways through the levels along with collecting gold to pay for creating new gadgets each time you find one of the invention encyclopedia blocks. If you complete the minigame it creates a useful gadget looking similar to the stuff seen in doraemon, loving the games artstyle.
seems there is a lot of famicom stuff hidden out there that i have no idea about, it's been fun finding some of it.
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Playing Operation Logic Bomb on the SNES Mini. Love how this game feels, it lets you lock position with the L & R triggers, too.
Only really dipped into it loads in the past but only for like ten mins or so at the time, gonna just play til my credits run out.
Also been playing that War Of The Gems game (like!) and The Addams Family. But the latter only like for two mins. Reminded me why I never owned it back in the day, ever in fact.
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Originally posted by Team Andromeda View PostI got the HD I cable for the OG XBox and Holly Cow, the games look amazing and it works like a charm. Beeing playing loads of Sega GT 2002 online and also loving Outrun 2006 and even a bit of the overlooked gem that is Spike out
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Originally posted by JazzFunk View PostPlaying Operation Logic Bomb on the SNES Mini. Love how this game feels, it lets you lock position with the L & R triggers, too.
Originally posted by Team Andromeda View PostI got the HD I cable for the OG XBox and Holly Cow, the games look amazing and it works like a charm. Beeing playing loads of Sega GT 2002 online and also loving Outrun 2006 and even a bit of the overlooked gem that is Spike out
I remember buying Spikeout really cheap in a sale back in the day and liking how it offered simple arcade thrills in the home. It's like something you'd get on the Dreamcast and journos would moan "it doesn't offer enough depth" missing the whole point that arcade games offer quite simple but fun action that keeps you coming back for more.Last edited by Leon Retro; 07-07-2018, 11:41.
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Originally posted by garrz32 View PostAny links for this, as am getting back into X-box in a big way
It works a treat
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Originally posted by Leon Retro View PostDoes it look better than just using Component? If the image is sharper - I will definitely buy one. It's a great option for people with a TV that doesn't have Component inputs.
I remember buying Spikeout really cheap in a sale back in the day and liking how it offered simple arcade thrills in the home. It's like something you'd get on the Dreamcast and journos would moan "it doesn't offer enough depth" missing the whole point that arcade games offer quite simple but fun action that keeps you coming back for more.
Spikeout is bloody ace fun, I miss the days of playing online in co-op with some amazingly sillked Japanese players but its still great fun with some brilliant music, ace sound effects and some great widescreen use. Its just a shame the visuals and textures mapping looks so basic and also like placeholders.
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Originally posted by Team Andromeda View PostYeah, it looks slightly better not by much though, I just got one so I could hook it up to my TV directly, rather than use the D-Ter on my Framemeister.
Originally posted by Team Andromeda View PostIts just a shame the visuals and textures mapping looks so basic and also like placeholders.
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I’ve mainly been on the PC Engine this past week or so... Soldier Blade, Final Soldier and Detana!! Twinbee It’s not quite as good as the Super Famicom game, but it’s still a fantastic, beautifully drawn cute ‘em up. I had a good go on the HuCard incarnation of Air Zonk earlier, because who doesn’t love some good old Japanese whackiness...
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