(Retro) What have you been playing this week? Vol.2

[randombs]

TC2 in the arcades... man, that clackety gun recoil sound is etched into my brain.

[egparadigm]

First time with a Time Crisis game, it does seem pretty nifty!

[wakka]

Time Crisis 2 is the GOAT of light gun games. So good. And never bettered.

[egparadigm]

I’ve been playing FF7 for several weeks now. My goodness, this game is long. In fairness I’m (crazily!?) following the AbsolutSteve FAQ, which takes the “perfect game” approach. I have skipped some of the suggestions (like walking a precise path so as to collapse in the glacier in such a way that you get a duplicated item.) What’s surprised me is how much fun it can be to follow a guide. I did this also with Tomb Raiders 1 and 2 recently. I always used To think of this as cheating and a route to disappointment. Maybe that’s cause I started gaming as a child with point n clicks — follow a guide to puzzles and there’s not much to see besides story and humour.

I have also fired up Virtua Cop 1 and 2 and Time Crisis 2 after getting a CRT. Virtua Cop is so much slower with a light gun - it seemed frantic with a controller, but that’s probably more to do with dragging the cursor across screen than the pace of the game!

[CMcK]

Still got a soft spot for this. First played as a PC demo IIRC, never got past the first couple stages. Played it again very briefly when I got my Saturn down from the loft back in January.

Maybe it was the PC version I had and that’s why it felt so off.