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Post by bonesnapdeez on Jan 19, 2018 19:40:36 GMT -5
Oh man The Lost Levels..... All-Stars is the only way to play it for real. I have the FDS original (it's still a very cheap game) and it's just absurd. Insane difficulty with the worst joke of a "save" system ever. No.
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Post by Ex on Jan 20, 2018 12:54:15 GMT -5
Yay Bone is still alive.
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I did some retro gamin' last night. Here's what I played and stuff.
Lately I've been looking to hack/mods of my favorite classic games. Just to try and get some fresh experiences out of my old favorites. So last night I tried out the F-Zero Starcrackers hack of F-Zero. It remixes all the tracks and stuff. Well, the first two stages were good. But the third stage had a jump off the bat that neither myself, nor any of the AI racers, could manage to leap over. Welp. That was that. Then I played some BS F-Zero 2, and had some fun with it. I'll likely finish it eventually, as that was an official F-Zero release I've not yet beaten.
After that I tried out Alien 3 on SNES. I'd heard good things about this game. Those things were wrong. Terrible game design. I'll save everyone a long winded rant, and just say I did not enjoy Alien 3 on SNES.
Lastly I gave Cyborg 009 on SFC a go (courtesy of AGTP's English fan translation). At first I was having fun with Cyborg 009. You pick from a variety of cyborgs (with unique powers), and then go through side-scrolling shooty shoot missions, fighting bosses and stuff. Plays like a very simple Mega Man I guess. Anyway I had a decent time with the first stage. The second stage went to hell quickly. One part of the second stage involved exploring a labyrinthine submarine's innards. This stage consisted of going through tons of doors, trying to figure out the correct path forward. Well of course everything looks the same, and you have no map. After about twenty minutes of frustratingly getting lost and going in circles, I decided that Cyborg 009 had absorbed all of my life it was ever going to get. And I deleted it. This was almost a decent licensed platformer, but alas, terrible level design ruined it.
SO! No winners last night. But sometimes it be like that yo. Better luck next night.
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Post by anayo on Jan 20, 2018 13:04:49 GMT -5
Ooh, mods of retro games are so neat. There was some buzz in the headlines lately about a Mario 64 hack where someone imported some stages from Banjo Kazooie, complete with Banjo's OST. There was also a ridiculous 007 Goldeneye hack where all the characters are replaced with big, toony Mario characters. But I was most intrigued by a full conversion mod of 007 Goldeneye which recreates an entire single player campaign for "Goldfinger" starring Sean Connery. If I ever find a bargain on an N64 everdrive I'm going to try all of these.
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Post by Xeogred on Jan 20, 2018 19:51:47 GMT -5
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Post by Xeogred on Jan 20, 2018 21:32:36 GMT -5
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Post by Ex on Jan 20, 2018 22:00:27 GMT -5
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Post by Xeogred on Jan 20, 2018 22:07:22 GMT -5
No warning could have prepared me for that madness. I hated that music back then and never needed a reminder of it. After dabbling into Obscure enough to see it's a bad Silent Hill knockoff with a Scream scenario, I loaded up Burnout 3 Takedown and heard that... I immediately took the disc out. Not even going to play it. That vile music annihilated me. Hit up Dead or Alive 1 which has amazing music! Phew! Barely saved. The Konami/TMNT-isms in the music is hilarious too. I hear some stuff that sounds almost too much like some Capcom games as well haha. Then I jump into Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate... and the intro is promising enough... queue Aerosmith. WERE THE EARLY 2000'S THE WORST ERA? PROBABLY
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Post by Ex on Jan 20, 2018 22:14:04 GMT -5
WERE THE EARLY 2000'S THE WORST ERA? From a pop culture perspective, quite possibly. The early 2000s was when I gave up listening to FM radio and mainstream television.
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Post by Xeogred on Jan 20, 2018 22:49:30 GMT -5
Obscure came in handy! I switched out its better conditioned case for another game I like more that had a worse case. Man, DOA2 and DOA3 still look amazing! But... Here is my world has completely shattered though... I loaded up Ninja Gaiden Black and couldn't "Load Game". I SWEAR I played this back in the day... but now I seriously don't know if I did or not. All my other Xbox saves are still intact. My brain is melting at the fact that the Black edition, I believe, has the Hurricane Pack DLC content. Which was originally only accessible via XBL on the original game. This mode replaces all enemies (remember the easy white ninjas? They're the infamous black ones now, right in the very first stage! And the rest of the enemies were brand new enemies, it was so insane I couldn't even beat it). So I loaded up my original copy of Ninja Gaiden and have maxed out 10 saves on this (from 2001!), beaten on Normal, Hard, Very Hard, successive plays on some files... and it does have a link to the Ninja Master Tournament mode but without XBL, it's not accessible here. But... Ninja Gaiden Black has it!?! I thought this content was lost in the virtual space of the internet after XBL shutdown. I had no clue. Yet I remember playing Ninja Gaiden with the Lunar Staff and other changes that are supposedly not in the original. Maybe some patch added things into the original game? I'm freaking confused. I know for a fact I hate the PS3 version* and always told others the Black edition on Xbox was the best. Maybe I somehow only played it at a friends... Talk about confused. But I think Black is going to have to go into the backlog now and be something I play again, along with the 360 version of Ninja Gaiden 2 sometime. Holy crap... had no clue. Strange revelations. I loaded up a Ninja Gaiden save and have some crazy sci-fi armor and a lightsaber, haha. I can't believe how good these Team Ninja games still look! But yeah, if anyone is still reading, I played Ninja Gaiden enough to tell you it's one of the best action games of all time. I always liked Onimusha (2-3) a lot and got into Devil May Cry later and love 1, 3, 4, but Ninja Gaiden Xbox still might be the king in my book. It's incredible. (* PS3 version sucks because of worse framerate, more loading screens, screen tearing, and the additional Rachael segments are horrendous).
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Post by Xeogred on Jan 21, 2018 12:22:48 GMT -5
Continuing the Xbox backlog today:
- Spikeout Battlestreet = not bad nor great. Another hilarious product of its time with the aesthetics (think Def Jam Vendetta) and music though, yikes. Seems like it'd be fun with friends. - Mech Assault 2 = it's great. A little dated control wise but this is a keeper. - Otogi 2 = I got a fair bit into the first game but didn't love it, not sure if I ever played this one. But I don't think I can get into it, even compared to games of its era via Onimusha or Ninja Gaiden Xbox, Otogi is just WAY too floaty for me. Don't like the controls or feel of things at all. Seems really cool story/atmosphere wise, but playing it isn't fun.
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