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Post by JDarkside on Aug 23, 2022 5:14:26 GMT -5
Playing through The Great Ace Attorney 2 and I'm happy to say they realized the jury stuff was really annoying in the first game and did something about it. I've only encountered two or three moments of having to argue with the jury after three cases, and said juries were actually using their brains for once instead of being obnoxiously stupid. Two cases left, though, so we'll see how long that lasts.
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Post by lurker on Aug 23, 2022 15:14:06 GMT -5
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Post by jorpho on Aug 24, 2022 0:30:35 GMT -5
Ooh, Panzer Dragoon Remake is 90% off at the moment. (IsThereAnyDeal suggests it was actually slightly cheaper on GamersGate about a week ago.) Of course you know as soon as I buy it that it's going to be given away for free, or wind up as the $1 special in the next Humble Bundle. The recent news about the Sega Mini 2 got me Googling Crusader of Centy, and I wound up reading this very thoughtful series of articles on Resetera. Probably nothing you haven't seen before, but "Mama Robotnik's" style is refreshingly compelling. www.resetera.com/threads/when-sega-took-on-zelda-they-really-went-for-the-jugular.111554/Also as long as I'm here, this would probably be a good time for a reminder that www.groupees.com/ is teetering on the brink of death and you should probably double-check your purchases if you ever bought anything there.
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Post by excelsior on Aug 24, 2022 3:17:44 GMT -5
I've been struggling to invest in Tales of Symphonia. I've only put 7 hours in in just over a week which is very little for me. I'm not going to drop it just yet but I've pushed it to one side and decided to start playing Digital Devil Saga. This is much more what I had in my for a simplistic RPG because the story and setting are immediately interesting and the stripped down SMT combat system is still really enjoyable. The gameplay seems to very much focus on the grind, true to the SMT series dungeon crawler routes, with demons not being obtainable but we do have Mantra which works like a skill grid but you need to grind the Mantra one by one after purchase in order to learn new combat skills from them and then move buy another one in turn. Visually it's very basic but there is a influence to the architecture which gives it a unique look and this theme is also present in the terminology. Most of the time does seem to be spent in dungeons but I do like the story when it pops up so far. I remember enjoying these, mostly due to their presentation. I enjoyed their thread on all the different Sega Zeldas.
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Post by retr0gamer on Aug 24, 2022 5:05:09 GMT -5
Beat guardian legend. What an awesome game and it's insane how many sprites compile had the NES push.
I'm really surprised that everyone in the retro gaming group in Ireland hadn't heard of the game at all. I thought it was pretty well known in NES circles, although the NES wasn't really popular in Ireland.
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Post by Snake on Aug 24, 2022 11:39:45 GMT -5
Beat guardian legend. What an awesome game and it's insane how many sprites compile had the NES push. I'm really surprised that everyone in the retro gaming group in Ireland hadn't heard of the game at all. I thought it was pretty well known in NES circles, although the NES wasn't really popular in Ireland. Now this is a game that could use a sequel or an update! Compile threw in so many sprites, that the game slow motions quite a bit during bullet heavy parts. We need more games that are part overhead Zelda, part scrolling jet shooter.
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Post by lurker on Aug 24, 2022 14:55:43 GMT -5
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Post by retr0gamer on Aug 24, 2022 18:37:42 GMT -5
Been playing a lot of the Quake rerelease on and off lately. I've beaten the main campaign and the two older expansion packs which are fine but feel like fan mods.
However Machinegames made two new expansion backs for Quake. The first, dimension of the past is really good, a high quality expansion with levels that could have been in the original game.
The last expansion however, Dimension of the Machine, is absolutely spectacular. The level design is insanely good and the Quake engine is pushed to its absolute limits. I'd highly recommend it to anyone that wants a good FPS game.
They've also been updating the game with curated fan made campaigns which are all excellent from what I sampled.
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Post by excelsior on Aug 24, 2022 22:28:58 GMT -5
I can't believe it took over 20 years for someone to do a faithful follow up to No Mercy. Definitely looking forward to some of the mods for this.
The new Necrodancer spin off looks great. Love the Punch Out throwbacks in particular.
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Post by personman on Aug 26, 2022 12:30:31 GMT -5
Have to say, for a joke game sort of deal this is looking pretty cool lol
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Post by lurker on Aug 27, 2022 1:17:39 GMT -5
The closest thing to a modern Talespin game...
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Aug 27, 2022 13:18:05 GMT -5
I haven't posted that much lately because I haven't been home much, but I have been playing some games in the meanwhile, so here's a little summary of what I've been up to: -Kirby's Dream Buffet. Pretty fun online multiplayer-focused spin-off. Thankfully it's easy to find opponents online. Very much a party game, in the sense that it's very easy for upsets to happen. Fun enough to boot up once in a while, and it's cute as hell. -Went to an arcade for the first time in my life. They had a lot of non-video games as well, but we mostly played games of the video variety. I think the oldest one was the Terminator 2 lightgun game (which was kinda fun if very repetitive). I was hoping they had at least a small corner with some golden era classics, but the closest to that I found was a 20th anniversary Galaga/Ms. Pac-Man machine (still kinda cool to play Galaga in an arcade). They did have some bootleg Raspberry Pi or whatever machines with some old stuff like Donkey Kong on it, but what's the point of that. There were a decent amount of fighting games. One of the SFIIs and Guilty Gear X were both cool to try. SFIV was a bit pointless honestly. I really hate playing anything more complex than Galaga or something with an arcade stick, so I had to stick to Ryu and Ky to be safe, but that went alright. Personally I found Sega Rally 2 and Daytona USA 2 the most fun. I hadn't played either before. My sibling was mostly hyped about running into H2Overdrive and F-Zero AX, the latter of which had a broken L button unfortunately. I was also surprised by the amount of random, more or less modern, Japanese imports they had, like a Taiko game, and some random-ass Namco lightgun games which from what I can tell all had stereoscopic 3D and similar gameplay (we played one where you have to kill like a billion aggressive sea creatures). On the non-video side of things, I was really surprised to see a skee-ball machine. I've never seen one outside of American movies and tv-shows so I never even thought of the possibility that they'd exist over here too. Probably the single thing I did best at, though. -Splatoon 3 Splatfest World Premiere: This is going on right now, and if you know me you're probably not surprised I've been playing this all day. There's a good amount of content this time around, including two new weapons and all new specials. The specials are kind of a mixed bag, but there are some cool ones. The two new weapons absolutely blow IMO. I see barely anyone using them, so I'm probably not alone on that. Tricolor battles are really weird. The team that did the best in the first half (those Scissors scumbags) gets 4 players to defend the middle, while 2 players of the other two teams (Rock and those Paper bastards) try to get to the middle to grab something called the Ultra Signal. It's very satisfying to be the player securing the Ultra Signal, but if you're stuck with a bad teammate (which has happened a lot so far) it's kind of difficult to get anywhere since if they die, you're instantly all alone. I've just been making attempts at the signal even if things don't look to hopeful just because it's nearly impossible to find a good opening if you're outnumbered 6 to 2. Also, I'm a bit confused it you're supposed to kill the other 2-player team or what. If they win, you win, and vice versa, but you can splat each other, so it seems like you're meant to also try and beat them. -Lastly, it's been increasingly difficult to not buy a Lego Super Mario blind bag everytime I order something online or go into town. They're only 4-6 bucks, but before you know if you've spent 40 bucks on galoombas and whatnot. - excelsior. I've been wondering about the MK8DX DLC as well. I thought Tour was pretty much mainly made by Nintendo, which makes sense if they're using it as a basis for MK8 content. I'd imagine since it's relatively low effort work and the soundtracks are definitely in the same style, it's being developed/ported in-house.
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Post by dsparil on Aug 27, 2022 16:21:48 GMT -5
It's hard to run into old arcade games at this point. I get the impression that a lot of the ones that stuck around for a while especially in places like restaurants were bought new and then kept around until they broke. Outside of a place that specializes in old arcade games, I don't think I've seen a working one anywhere since maybe 2015 and I have no idea how that one survived for so long. I remember seeing them fairly often scattered about into the mid-90s but they start tapering off after that. My hometown arcade has a new-ish Pac-Man that's played for tickets and you definitely can tell who played that a whole lot when they were younger.
There are companies that specialize in bringing over grey market imports into Europe and the US so it isn't surprising to see random imports. DDR got a second lease on life that way since there were so many unused "cabinets" sitting around in warehouses. I mentioned this in the PCE thread, but one of the shooter developers, Manjyudo, ended up as a company that exported cabinets to Europe.
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Aug 27, 2022 16:37:30 GMT -5
Yeah I wasn't really expecting much on that front, but there was a bit of a mention of them online so having nothing from the 80's at all was kind of disappointing. I mean, they technically did, but bootlegs and 20th anniversary reissues don't count. Then again, I've never been to any arcade so I didn't know what to expect at all. And it was kind of a cheap arcade after all. They had a pretty good selection honestly, but then they also had stuff like a Switch with Mario Kart 8 connected to a beamer (which 90% of the 3 hours I was there was hogged by two people playing Mute City and Big Blue over and over and over).
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Post by lurker on Aug 27, 2022 17:51:56 GMT -5
I haven't posted that much lately because I haven't been home much, but I have been playing some games in the meanwhile, so here's a little summary of what I've been up to: -Kirby's Dream Buffet. Pretty fun online multiplayer-focused spin-off. Thankfully it's easy to find opponents online. Very much a party game, in the sense that it's very easy for upsets to happen. Fun enough to boot up once in a while, and it's cute as hell. -Went to an arcade for the first time in my life. They had a lot of non-video games as well, but we mostly played games of the video variety. I think the oldest one was the Terminator 2 lightgun game (which was kinda fun if very repetitive). I was hoping they had at least a small corner with some golden era classics, but the closest to that I found was a 20th anniversary Galaga/Ms. Pac-Man machine (still kinda cool to play Galaga in an arcade). They did have some bootleg Raspberry Pi or whatever machines with some old stuff like Donkey Kong on it, but what's the point of that. There were a decent amount of fighting games. One of the SFIIs and Guilty Gear X were both cool to try. SFIV was a bit pointless honestly. I really hate playing anything more complex than Galaga or something with an arcade stick, so I had to stick to Ryu and Ky to be safe, but that went alright. Personally I found Sega Rally 2 and Daytona USA 2 the most fun. I hadn't played either before. My sibling was mostly hyped about running into H2Overdrive and F-Zero AX, the latter of which had a broken L button unfortunately. I was also surprised by the amount of random, more or less modern, Japanese imports they had, like a Taiko game, and some random-ass Namco lightgun games which from what I can tell all had stereoscopic 3D and similar gameplay (we played one where you have to kill like a billion aggressive sea creatures). On the non-video side of things, I was really surprised to see a skee-ball machine. I've never seen one outside of American movies and tv-shows so I never even thought of the possibility that they'd exist over here too. Probably the single thing I did best at, though. -Splatoon 3 Splatfest World Premiere: This is going on right now, and if you know me you're probably not surprised I've been playing this all day. There's a good amount of content this time around, including two new weapons and all new specials. The specials are kind of a mixed bag, but there are some cool ones. The two new weapons absolutely blow IMO. I see barely anyone using them, so I'm probably not alone on that. Tricolor battles are really weird. The team that did the best in the first half (those Scissors scumbags) gets 4 players to defend the middle, while 2 players of the other two teams (Rock and those Paper bastards) try to get to the middle to grab something called the Ultra Signal. It's very satisfying to be the player securing the Ultra Signal, but if you're stuck with a bad teammate (which has happened a lot so far) it's kind of difficult to get anywhere since if they die, you're instantly all alone. I've just been making attempts at the signal even if things don't look to hopeful just because it's nearly impossible to find a good opening if you're outnumbered 6 to 2. Also, I'm a bit confused it you're supposed to kill the other 2-player team or what. If they win, you win, and vice versa, but you can splat each other, so it seems like you're meant to also try and beat them. -Lastly, it's been increasingly difficult to not buy a Lego Super Mario blind bag everytime I order something online or go into town. They're only 4-6 bucks, but before you know if you've spent 40 bucks on galoombas and whatnot. - excelsior . I've been wondering about the MK8DX DLC as well. I thought Tour was pretty much mainly made by Nintendo, which makes sense if they're using it as a basis for MK8 content. I'd imagine since it's relatively low effort work and the soundtracks are definitely in the same style, it's being developed/ported in-house. The remixed music for the DLC seems to be made by the same band that does the music for the main game at least. The remastered graphics for the second wave seem better than the previous one, which is nice.
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