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Post by personman on Apr 15, 2021 14:08:41 GMT -5
Huh, I remember playing through the Snes beatemup for Black Water with a friend and having a good time with it. Admitedly its a genre I barely know anything about so I guess I was easy to impress. Or maybe just carrying on with my friend carried me through it.
I do remember it going on for pretty long though. Still, I loved kicking people in the face with Ioz.
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Post by lurker on Apr 15, 2021 20:51:58 GMT -5
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Post by chronotigger65 on Apr 15, 2021 22:55:24 GMT -5
I read a article online where it said that the PS4 has a built in battery for saving games on the system and that it will one day die making the system unplayable. I don't have the system but have some systems that use a similar save set up for saving stuff. The systems are Wii, PS3 and Switch. I've been wondering if they to have a built in battery and when that battery dies can it be replaced? I wouldn't mind having to pay someone to fix any of the systems if this happens. It make me wonder why today's more modern consoles were designed that way and didn't continue with memory cards.
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Post by toei on Apr 16, 2021 3:37:32 GMT -5
spanky Yeah, I actually played that Superman game for a while. It really could have been decent, but the fundamental flaw of the punch having such short range just makes it so damn hard in a way that's inherently unfun, and it's very, very stingy with health restoratives. dsparil I remember reading an interview with a former Sunsoft guy who explained that their programmers didn't know how to work with 16-bit systems and that was the reasonwhy they did so much outsourcing in the 16-bit era. Basically, they get all this acclaim today because they got really deep into the NES and managed to do impressive things with it, but somehow they got so attached to it that they flubbed the transition to the 16-bit era completely. I like the Genesis Batman game, but it looks just a like a NES game with more colors, and it evens sounds like one of their NES releases. Unlike most major Japanese developers from that era, they made few arcade games after 1985 (which would have forced them to make use of more advanced tech), and the few they did make (up until maybe Astra Superstars or whatever) were either basic puzzle games or have a bad reputation (Tough Turf and Bay Route). Likewise, they only made a handful of PC Engine games when it was big in Japan, and these aren't impressive. Benkei Gaiden is a RPG that, again, looks just like a NES game; City Hunter looks decent, but doesn't play very well; PC Engine Batman is a goofy little top-down action game that feels like it should have cost 10$ at most. If we're talking about them as a developer, it took them a while to get on the SNES bandwagon, and it seems that they concentrated on trying to ride the wave of popularity that RPGs were experiencing at the time (Benkei Gaiden: Suna no Shou in 1992, Albert Odyssey and the crappy SNES port of Xak in '93, Albert Odyssey 2 in '94...), but none of them were brought overseas.
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Post by dsparil on Apr 16, 2021 5:08:32 GMT -5
I read a article online where it said that the PS4 has a built in battery for saving games on the system and that it will one day die making the system unplayable. I don't have the system but have some systems that use a similar save set up for saving stuff. The systems are Wii, PS3 and Switch. I've been wondering if they to have a built in battery and when that battery dies can it be replaced? I wouldn't mind having to pay someone to fix any of the systems if this happens. It make me wonder why today's more modern consoles were designed that way and didn't continue with memory cards. That isn't what's going on, but it's also worse than that. The problem is with the battery for the internal clock. It's pretty much always a standard watch battery you can pick up anywhere so it's easy to replace. The battery dies, gets replaced, the date and time get set and that's the end of the story except on the PS3 and PS4. On those systems, when the battery gets replaced, PSN gets checked for the date and time; it needs a Sony controlled source of the date and time for time limited stuff like PS+ monthly games. On a PS3 it only does this check the first time a downloaded game gets played, but on the PS4, it'll also do it for the first physical game. The issue is that if PSN goes down, the check can't be done. In the hazy future when Sony totally shuts down PSN or cuts off an older system's access, there's a possibility that PS3 downloads won't work and no PS4 games at all will work after the clock battery dies. I would assume that they would also release an update to remove that check if something like that were to happen though. They could have saved everyone the confusion by not forcing it when starting a game that isn't even time sensitive. I don't know about Xboxes, but no Nintendo system does this on such a wide ranging level. I don't think the Wii does anything like this at all, and to the best of my knowledge, the Switch only does this kind of time check right before running a pre-ordered download the first time.
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Post by retr0gamer on Apr 16, 2021 8:00:20 GMT -5
People keep saying sony will update to remove this check. Thats putting a lot of faith in a company like Sony that has consistently shown it gives no fucks about its customers and is under no obligation to expend resources to patch out a check.
More than likely Sony will see it as having the potential to possibly (even if there's no basis in reality) pose a risk to the security of the PSN network and just not do anything about it.
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Post by Snake on Apr 16, 2021 11:25:36 GMT -5
The Superman game for the Genesis is especially disappointing because at a glance the game looks like it might be a spiritual sequel to the NES Batman...but it's not good. It's hard to get into Superman game where you have to approach each confrontation verrrry carefully due to all the cheap hits. There are definitely worse Superman games though. The soundtrack is actually pretty great and a top 5 Genesis OST IMO.Like Kemco's Superman for NES. I actually found it to be amusing, in a early-cheesy-franchise-cash-in kind of way. It's so laughably bad. But I enjoyed the attempt.
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Post by lurker on Apr 16, 2021 15:31:05 GMT -5
The Superman Returns game seemed to come the closest to being a decent Superman game. It even had a health system that made a bit of sense.
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Post by spanky on Apr 16, 2021 15:43:32 GMT -5
The Superman Returns game seemed to come the closest to being a decent Superman game. It even had a health system that made a bit of sense. Is that the one where you don't have a health meter, but the city does? And if you let the city go to shit, then it's game over? I always thought that was a clever idea.
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Post by lurker on Apr 16, 2021 16:31:13 GMT -5
The Superman Returns game seemed to come the closest to being a decent Superman game. It even had a health system that made a bit of sense. Is that the one where you don't have a health meter, but the city does? And if you let the city go to shit, then it's game over? I always thought that was a clever idea. Yep, that's the one.
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Post by dsparil on Apr 18, 2021 8:38:29 GMT -5
Finished Emilia's story in SaGa Frontier Remastered, and the ability to flee any regular battle makes the game so much easier! I don't think I even managed to finished her's in the original. I definitely didn't get anywhere close to finishing all the characters anyway. You could quick save in the original (and in this one), but having to deal with all the PSX loading made it a chore. The whole thing with gold ingots was also changed to be easier and to have a lower starting credit requirement. Plus up to 3x speed modifiers make everything super zippy.
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Post by lurker on Apr 19, 2021 12:26:48 GMT -5
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Post by retr0gamer on Apr 19, 2021 15:35:08 GMT -5
I'm glad that it's happening but can't help thinking this is just a cynical move to make themselves look like the good guys and turn bad publicity into good despite the fact that by not closing the stores they've not changed anything.
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Post by Snake on Apr 19, 2021 19:01:59 GMT -5
Thank goodness! They may as well keep things on if they can keep running PSN for PS4 and PS5. My kingdom for a fully backwards and forwards compatible Playstation console.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2021 2:39:46 GMT -5
Sony already have a system that's compatible with everything that matters. It's called PS2.
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