Well, we got through character creation, started, somehow screwed up the multiplayer connection after talking to the second NPC we encountered, lost everything, and now are at character creation again.
Fun game so far. :P
"Let's take a look at the scores! The girls are at the square root of Pi, while the boys are still at a crudely drawn picture of a duck. Clearly, it's anybody's game!"
Is disc rot an increasingly widespread problem in retro collecting? I've had several of my PS3 games go bad as a result.
Early PS3 games are going to be 18 years old now, but Blu-ray hasn't seemed especially susceptible to disc rot yet from what I've heard - certainly far less than HD-DVD which now seems to have a major problem with it, so perhaps it's just as well the format war went the way it did.
Is disc rot an increasingly widespread problem in retro collecting? I've had several of my PS3 games go bad as a result.
Early PS3 games are going to be 18 years old now, but Blu-ray hasn't seemed especially susceptible to disc rot yet from what I've heard - certainly far less than HD-DVD which now seems to have a major problem with it, so perhaps it's just as well the format war went the way it did.
I've never had any of my games have disc rot that I'm aware of, and I have some 30 year old playstation CD's. I wonder if how it's stored has an effect? Also holy shit, the playstation came out almost 30 year's ago.
Is disc rot an increasingly widespread problem in retro collecting? I've had several of my PS3 games go bad as a result.
Early PS3 games are going to be 18 years old now, but Blu-ray hasn't seemed especially susceptible to disc rot yet from what I've heard - certainly far less than HD-DVD which now seems to have a major problem with it, so perhaps it's just as well the format war went the way it did.
I've never had any of my games have disc rot that I'm aware of, and I have some 30 year old playstation CD's. I wonder if how it's stored has an effect? Also holy shit, the playstation came out almost 30 year's ago.
I'm playing FF6 Pixel Remaster. I'm looking at Gau as he just joined my party. So he leaps, leaves the party, and then learns the shit you fight between when you leap and when you meet him again? That seems like a tedious thing to do. Is it worth to really focus on him?
Fun fact: the David game could only end if Goliath died on-screen. Like all sprites, he could be culled from play by scrolling him offscreen, so if you bullseyed him with a stone far enough to the right and ran back to the left, he'd spawn back in again when you returned. You could kill Goliath as many times as you wanted! Which, for Young Kupi, was quite often.
My favorite musical instrument is the air-raid siren.
This is an incredible Christmas* miracle about a guy (Shankmods) finding the mythical world's largest CRT (43", over 400 pounds) in a Japanese restaurant that was weeks from being demolished. Through a lot of contacts and a ton of help from a random viewer living in Japan (that turns out to be the director of Bayonetta origins), he managed to fenangle the big boy over to the US and get the now-one-of-a-kind unit restored by several experts, with the guidance of a physical service manual that's never been scanned. Just some insane good fortune and irresponsible spending that saved this relic from the dust heap that makes a great story.
It's actually a 480p native TV (Enhance Definition?) so ideal for Gamecube and the like, but older systems can still be enjoyed with scandoublers. As he points out, four-player split screen is kind of amazing, its basically like each player has their own 21" monitor.
*Actually seems to have all happened sometime last year but the video went up two days ago.
You really only need a couple Rages to get the most out of Gau.
Stray Cat and Guard Leader are enough to get you through the whole first half of the game. After that, it’s fun to experiment and find rages that absorb specific damage types or inflict weird statuses that work on Bosses.
I always love it when NES developers shot for the moon in game design even if it didn't really work due to the limitations of the console or because they were the first pioneers figuring things out. It was an experimental era that I don't think was really replicated until indie PC development really got going in the mid 2000s.
As a kid, I knew a kid that had that game. He had a birthday party, and for reasons lost to time (how did I have the money? Or why did my parents come up with the money, I don't think I knew the kid that well) I got him Yo Noid as a present. I guess technically that improved the average quality of his game library.
Been playing a little Hyper Duel, scouting out a 1CC route. Attractive and intuitive horizontal shmup by the guys behind the Thunder Force series. What a year 1993 was for STGs.
I dunno I really wanted to like 5, but it felt like it was trying really hard to be something it's not. Like the story was super dumb, the characters were awful, and the gameplay was stupid easy to the point of being mind numbingly boring. I just couldn't get myself to like it, even though the graphics and music were great, and it was a return to form in many other ways. It just felt like it was meant to be a kids 1st rpg, who knew nothing. Which, to someone who's 1st RPG was FF4 (snes) was just... insulting. To each their own, I guess.
I love retro snes era rpgs. Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest. I really should try other non snes rpgs, although I did play Phantasy Star IV (as part of the Sega Mega Drive Collection), and liked it, and next year I'm getting the Suikoden 1 and 2 collection on the Switch.
If you want an obscure recommendation, Tougiou King Colossus for the Genesis/Mega Drive was a fun discovery for me a few years ago. It's a Japan-only action RPG, sorta like Zelda/Ys. Even got a fan translation.
The Gothic games are on my list to play...I recall they were somewhat contemporary with Morrowind? I never tried them back in the day.
Gothic 2 is a gem. Graphically, it doesn't look like much now, but it had novel touches back in the day like daily cycles for NPCs in towns (wake up, go to work, go to a bar and smoke at a hookah, go to bed), lots of hidden nooks and crannies with treasures littering the landscape, and giant ba-GAWKing chicken monsters in the wild.
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Fun game so far. :P
Early PS3 games are going to be 18 years old now, but Blu-ray hasn't seemed especially susceptible to disc rot yet from what I've heard - certainly far less than HD-DVD which now seems to have a major problem with it, so perhaps it's just as well the format war went the way it did.
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I've never had any of my games have disc rot that I'm aware of, and I have some 30 year old playstation CD's. I wonder if how it's stored has an effect? Also holy shit, the playstation came out almost 30 year's ago.
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Yes!
I've played a little Haunting, but mostly read the review over and over in the one issue of Sega Zone I got for Christmas one year.
The previous issue has kids in my class talking about "General Cha-ooce / General Choice"...
Fun fact: the David game could only end if Goliath died on-screen. Like all sprites, he could be culled from play by scrolling him offscreen, so if you bullseyed him with a stone far enough to the right and ran back to the left, he'd spawn back in again when you returned. You could kill Goliath as many times as you wanted! Which, for Young Kupi, was quite often.
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It's actually a 480p native TV (Enhance Definition?) so ideal for Gamecube and the like, but older systems can still be enjoyed with scandoublers. As he points out, four-player split screen is kind of amazing, its basically like each player has their own 21" monitor.
*Actually seems to have all happened sometime last year but the video went up two days ago.
You really only need a couple Rages to get the most out of Gau.
Stray Cat and Guard Leader are enough to get you through the whole first half of the game. After that, it’s fun to experiment and find rages that absorb specific damage types or inflict weird statuses that work on Bosses.
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They didn't mangle the sequel that much.
I think Little Nemo edges it out though because it's colorful and fantastical while Willow is mostly drab and brown caves.
I always love it when NES developers shot for the moon in game design even if it didn't really work due to the limitations of the console or because they were the first pioneers figuring things out. It was an experimental era that I don't think was really replicated until indie PC development really got going in the mid 2000s.
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Apparently, this game is a goodie.
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Good job! But you forgot baby Moses!
As a kid, I knew a kid that had that game. He had a birthday party, and for reasons lost to time (how did I have the money? Or why did my parents come up with the money, I don't think I knew the kid that well) I got him Yo Noid as a present. I guess technically that improved the average quality of his game library.
Sunsoft had some amazing talent as well!
The Gothic games are on my list to play...I recall they were somewhat contemporary with Morrowind? I never tried them back in the day.
Supposedly Suikoden 1 & 2 hd remake is coming out in March! For 5 you're shit out of luck, but to be honest that was my least favorite one.
Huh. Suikoden 5 is my favorite and it's not particularly close.
One of these days I will absolutely get around to that copy of Planetfall my Dad picked up when it came out.
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If you want an obscure recommendation, Tougiou King Colossus for the Genesis/Mega Drive was a fun discovery for me a few years ago. It's a Japan-only action RPG, sorta like Zelda/Ys. Even got a fan translation.
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Gothic 2 is a gem. Graphically, it doesn't look like much now, but it had novel touches back in the day like daily cycles for NPCs in towns (wake up, go to work, go to a bar and smoke at a hookah, go to bed), lots of hidden nooks and crannies with treasures littering the landscape, and giant ba-GAWKing chicken monsters in the wild.
Oo, I do recommend that, I finally got around to it recently myself. There's dinosaurs you can ride that shoot lasers.