Messiah is also another weird Shiny game. It was kind of buggy. It was back when some PC games were a little janky.
Die by the Sword was another weird little game.
Here is the Summoner Easter egg. https://youtu.be/h_lzgo7pmzk
Is this the first Machinima?
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I am looking for a more robust emulator frontend. It seems like LaunchBox is a good one. I want one where I can scrape for content like boxes and manuals.
Edit: It looks like Launchbox is exactly what I am looking for. It gathers all the content I want.
I mean, it's stupid that you can't change it. But.... it's likely down to some bad/poorly thought out database design from 1999 when it launched where it is the primary key for your account on the back end. But creepy? That's not the word I would choose.
I know it's not quite the same thing, since it was actually used, but I picked up a (second) Dreamcast when Gamestop was clearing them and N64s out for $20. Someone traded their DC in complete-in-box, so I took that one. The clerk there even went through the N64s to see if any of them had the expansion pack, and then popped that into the cleanest looking console. Total bro move.
I do like this game quite a bit, though paying coins for saves kinda rubs me the wrong way.
Old games play dramatically better (imo) with save states backhanding them whenever they try stuff like this. See also "please play massive amounts of content again because of our lives/ continues system". Nah, I don't think I will.
I do like this game quite a bit, though paying coins for saves kinda rubs me the wrong way.
Old games play dramatically better (imo) with save states backhanding them whenever they try stuff like this. See also "please play massive amounts of content again because of our lives/ continues system". Nah, I don't think I will.
I do like this game quite a bit, though paying coins for saves kinda rubs me the wrong way.
Old games play dramatically better (imo) with save states backhanding them whenever they try stuff like this. See also "please play massive amounts of content again because of our lives/ continues system". Nah, I don't think I will.
Me personally, I refuse to use save states except as suspend saves. I'm beating it as released, damnit!
I've beaten a bunch of the SNES Games on the Switch purposely without save states or rewind just to get a feel for what they were like at the time. Even limiting myself to starting from saves on games like Donkey Kong Country. But, I have played through Breath of Fire using rewind to just crit and dodge and avoid enemy encounters a few times now and it's pretty awesome.
LaunchBox is not finding manuals eventhough I told it to.
Also, it made game entries for all the tracks in my Playstation games. I guess it is not smart enough to just select the cue files.
LaunchBox is impressive when it works right.
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augustwhere you come from is goneRegistered Userregular
LaunchBox is not finding manuals eventhough I told it to.
Also, it made game entries for all the tracks in my Playstation games. I guess it is not smart enough to just select the cue files.
I forget exactly how but you can tell it to scrape for only the *.cue files before you start.
LaunchBox is not finding manuals eventhough I told it to.
Also, it made game entries for all the tracks in my Playstation games. I guess it is not smart enough to just select the cue files.
I forget exactly how but you can tell it to scrape for only the *.cue files before you start.
I will give it another shot tomorrow. It seems like something people would run into.
Parrapa the Rapper and Um Jammer Lammy are two games that require the software version of Duckstation and Beetle. They must have did something weird with the PlayStation hardware.
My attempt to get into Parappa the Rapper is a pretty good example of the "Seinfeld isn't funny" phenomenon. I didn't play it when it came out, but instead tried it after playing a bunch of games that it had helped pave the way for (Gitaroo-Man, Guitar Hero, Rock Band, etc.). Then by comparison to what came later, it felt too simple and basic to me.
Red Alert 3 is so damn good. All the actors knew exactly what they were signing up for and it's amazing.
My favorite piece of videogame cinema is still Premier Cherdenko ranting about how he'll be fleeing to "the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism... SPACE!". The line is so ridiculous that you can tell Tim Curry is fighting tooth and nail just to get it out without completely losing his shit. I can't help but laugh every time I see it.
We used to play PBEM and multiplayer games back in the 90s it was really fun.
Its basically a giant turn based 4x/grand strategy space game. The setting is sort of Dune inspired but more based on the Holy Roman Empire in Space. Playable factions are great houses - there’s a straight expy for Atreides and Harkonnen here, as well as an an Asian themed faction of churchy paladin types and an arabic themed faction of trader/sneaky types. Pretty standard.
But the interesting things are the non-player factions and political machinations. There is an independent church which can ban technology and can support you in turn for favors. They can also nuke research labs from orbit for possessing banned technology (but if you’re strong enough you can fight them, with all that entails). There’s a guild of merchants that buys and sells from you - but they run their own private military and aren’t big on the whole aristocracy thing, so every time you send them money they’re building up for a potential revolution. There’s a barely contained set of alien venom-likes that is attempting to invade and being held at a choke point. There’s another set of somewhat ominous aliens that only seem to be interested in buying detailed maps of the empire for their own inscrutable purposes.
Through all this your goal as a noble is to get elected emperor. To do so you need to get votes, which are determined by voting nobles (scepters) on the main imperial world. You can use machinations or brute force to capture opponent scepters. At the start though it’ll pretty much mean you have to get 3/5 of factions to support you to become regeant (a temporary emperor replacement). The trick is this, there are 3 offices that get benefits and the regeant can only occupy one: the imperial fleet (which is obviously ships), the imperial eye which is intelligence, and the stigmata garrison. The stigmata garison is responsible for defending the chokepoint against the symbiote enemies and keeping them contained. So the politics is obvious here, anyone will generally need the support of 2 other powers to be regent (unless they control a majority of votes and can vote themselves emperor directly). Those houses get tools that they can use for or against the regent. Want to take the stigmata garrison and siege your enemies while aliens are let loose upon the empire? Go ahead but maybe next time you don’t get elected or trusted with the position.
There are some downsides. There are balance issues but mods help a lot with that. The AI sucks and is 1997 AI, so multiplayer is recommended, but a multiplayer game is going to take forever (again there are mods that help, Emperor wars is a sort of “advanced start” mod people use a lot that starts everyone with a few developed planets. But get ready to spend 50 hours with four of your closest friends to get a game done.
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Sonic the Hedgehog is just blowing their minds with the blast processing. That is a classic photo.
I prefer DKC2--I think it's the better game overall but man was it brutal to beat as a kid. Absolutely brutal.
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Is this the first Machinima?
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This looks pre-rendered and also was made by Volition, so no. If this is machinima then every cgi cutscene us machinima.
That one girl ain't impressed, though.
(And shout outs to Yuzo Koshiro's setup off to the left)
Edit: It looks like Launchbox is exactly what I am looking for. It gathers all the content I want.
It is like they are holding your data hostage for some reason.
https://hard-drive.net/man-awake-at-2-a-m-worrying-if-window-for-gex-reboot-has-closed/
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I just today figured out the pun in "Diddy's Kong Quest".
Was fine 100%ing levels recently up until Web Woods.
For a level that is nothing but bottomless pit waiting for a single mistake, it is way too fucking long.
Old games play dramatically better (imo) with save states backhanding them whenever they try stuff like this. See also "please play massive amounts of content again because of our lives/ continues system". Nah, I don't think I will.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/t9nxIUhZCCw?start=590&end=598 (if it doesn't link, start at 9:50, end at 9:59)
Me personally, I refuse to use save states except as suspend saves. I'm beating it as released, damnit!
I've beaten a bunch of the SNES Games on the Switch purposely without save states or rewind just to get a feel for what they were like at the time. Even limiting myself to starting from saves on games like Donkey Kong Country. But, I have played through Breath of Fire using rewind to just crit and dodge and avoid enemy encounters a few times now and it's pretty awesome.
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Also, it made game entries for all the tracks in my Playstation games. I guess it is not smart enough to just select the cue files.
LaunchBox is impressive when it works right.
I forget exactly how but you can tell it to scrape for only the *.cue files before you start.
I will give it another shot tomorrow. It seems like something people would run into.
https://gamerant.com/ps1-console-exclusive-franchises-abandoned-forgotten-alundra-bushido-blade/
I always wanted to try Colony Wars after it got a zillion A+ review scores back in the day. Was it like Wing Commander or Freespace?
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I don’t really get the point of an expansion with a bunch of new units that can’t be used in skirmish or multi though.
My favorite piece of videogame cinema is still Premier Cherdenko ranting about how he'll be fleeing to "the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism... SPACE!". The line is so ridiculous that you can tell Tim Curry is fighting tooth and nail just to get it out without completely losing his shit. I can't help but laugh every time I see it.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-rally-point-the-25-year-patch-of-emperor-of-the-fading-suns-proved-me-wrong
We used to play PBEM and multiplayer games back in the 90s it was really fun.
Its basically a giant turn based 4x/grand strategy space game. The setting is sort of Dune inspired but more based on the Holy Roman Empire in Space. Playable factions are great houses - there’s a straight expy for Atreides and Harkonnen here, as well as an an Asian themed faction of churchy paladin types and an arabic themed faction of trader/sneaky types. Pretty standard.
But the interesting things are the non-player factions and political machinations. There is an independent church which can ban technology and can support you in turn for favors. They can also nuke research labs from orbit for possessing banned technology (but if you’re strong enough you can fight them, with all that entails). There’s a guild of merchants that buys and sells from you - but they run their own private military and aren’t big on the whole aristocracy thing, so every time you send them money they’re building up for a potential revolution. There’s a barely contained set of alien venom-likes that is attempting to invade and being held at a choke point. There’s another set of somewhat ominous aliens that only seem to be interested in buying detailed maps of the empire for their own inscrutable purposes.
Through all this your goal as a noble is to get elected emperor. To do so you need to get votes, which are determined by voting nobles (scepters) on the main imperial world. You can use machinations or brute force to capture opponent scepters. At the start though it’ll pretty much mean you have to get 3/5 of factions to support you to become regeant (a temporary emperor replacement). The trick is this, there are 3 offices that get benefits and the regeant can only occupy one: the imperial fleet (which is obviously ships), the imperial eye which is intelligence, and the stigmata garrison. The stigmata garison is responsible for defending the chokepoint against the symbiote enemies and keeping them contained. So the politics is obvious here, anyone will generally need the support of 2 other powers to be regent (unless they control a majority of votes and can vote themselves emperor directly). Those houses get tools that they can use for or against the regent. Want to take the stigmata garrison and siege your enemies while aliens are let loose upon the empire? Go ahead but maybe next time you don’t get elected or trusted with the position.
There are some downsides. There are balance issues but mods help a lot with that. The AI sucks and is 1997 AI, so multiplayer is recommended, but a multiplayer game is going to take forever (again there are mods that help, Emperor wars is a sort of “advanced start” mod people use a lot that starts everyone with a few developed planets. But get ready to spend 50 hours with four of your closest friends to get a game done.