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Post by personman on Aug 23, 2024 12:44:42 GMT -5
I think I had more issue with how awkwardly paced the boss rematches were in mm1. That last little gauntlet before Wily gave me a hell of a time.
Though agreed, moving platforms you have to wait to get in range I hate in any platformer. I just seem to have constant bad luck with them getting out of sync and me needing to fight with them to reset by leaving the screen or what have you.
Yeah, the recent PCSX update has been fantastic. The graphical errors for Ace Combat 4 are gone, save state hotkeys actually work on my Steam Deck now and even upscaling has been performing well. Some titles still give me issues like Armored Core 3 only wanting to run in software mode but otherwise seems like the lions share of games are running great.
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Post by Snake on Aug 23, 2024 14:30:31 GMT -5
Eh, I don't think you can call this one a skill issue: I did just beat the game this morning, so I definitely have the skills (my post was more observational, I wasn't raging), and I wouldn't say that Mega Man is a particularly tough game outside of a couple of moments (probably the Yellow Devil is the toughest pattern to get down - you can't just cheese this fight like you can most of them either), but moments like the ones I mentioned date the game imo. ----- Klonoa 2 might be the best one. Oh, I definitely cheesed the shit out of the bloody Yellow Devil. One elec beam to that beady fuckin' eye, and just menu-damage-menu-damage-menu-damage until it bursts into its standing shadow silhouette of nothingness. Can't say I have surpassed my 8-year old self for that boss fight. Definitely loved Lunatea's Veil. Solid platformer, and the Klonoa language is too cute.
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Post by excelsior on Aug 24, 2024 0:34:13 GMT -5
Oh, I definitely cheesed the shit out of the bloody Yellow Devil. One elec beam to that beady fuckin' eye, and just menu-damage-menu-damage-menu-damage until it bursts into its standing shadow silhouette of nothingness. Can't say I have surpassed my 8-year old self for that boss fight. Definitely loved Lunatea's Veil. Solid platformer, and the Klonoa language is too cute. I didn't know that trick. I think I'd consider that cheating!
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Post by dsparil on Aug 24, 2024 9:18:12 GMT -5
So I saw the other day that Gothic 3 was going to get a Switch port. That reminded me that I still had II sitting around. Don't play the Switch port of it! It crashes after saving a decent amount of the time taking the save with it. I might give a try again sometime running the Windows version in WINE, but that'll have to wait.
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Post by lurker on Aug 26, 2024 11:21:15 GMT -5
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Post by retr0gamer on Aug 27, 2024 3:35:24 GMT -5
Poinie's Poin on the PS2. What the hell is going on in this game?
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Post by excelsior on Aug 27, 2024 4:04:54 GMT -5
Is it as weird as this game, which incidentally has the best cover on PS2?
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Post by retr0gamer on Aug 27, 2024 4:20:58 GMT -5
Ok that might be weirder.
There's just something so strange about poinie's Poin. It looks and feels like a mid tier PS1 platformer. The levels are tiny. The platformer is janky. There's no camera control with the right stick, it's just press L1 to center the camera behind the player. The camera gets stuck in scenery constantly. Also the weird use of pastel textures and a lot of untextured polygons makes it look like Ape Escape or Spyro yet its on the PS2.
Then you've got fact that it's a Japanese only game with an English localisation. There's a bit of Engrish in some of the text boxes but other than that it's a fantastic English localisation with some excellent voice acting. It's like it was set up for a western release.
And then there's the content. It's trying to be pretty weird but it feels like a kids game except some of the content is quite questionable. The language can be quite vulgar and everyone seems to be horny for one of the female characters. You do choose your age at the start of the game and I did read that saying you are under 18 removes the questionable stuff.
Also your companion sounds like Eric Cartman.
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Post by lurker on Aug 27, 2024 10:49:54 GMT -5
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Post by lurker on Aug 27, 2024 11:09:38 GMT -5
There's even something for Castlevania fans!
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Post by dsparil on Aug 27, 2024 12:28:23 GMT -5
Those two and the somewhat inexplicable STALKER collection were the highlights for me. I'm still a little surprised that Konami still hasn't (won't?) rerelease so many Castlevania games. Back when Anniversary collection was announced, I would have thought that at least all the 2D games would have seen rerelease by now.
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Post by excelsior on Aug 27, 2024 13:27:31 GMT -5
Those were pretty much the highlight, yes. I skipped the Indie bit, so perhaps I missed something. The newest Atelier game looks pretty good too.
I do wonder why the Direct was brought forward. I would have thought Nintendo would have one last push for their own titles for the last quarter of the calendar year, but I guess it makes some sense if there were no new announcements.
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Post by lurker on Aug 27, 2024 13:33:47 GMT -5
Those were pretty much the highlight, yes. I skipped the Indie bit, so perhaps I missed something. The newest Atelier game looks pretty good too. I do wonder why the Direct was brought forward. I would have thought Nintendo would have one last push for their own titles for the last quarter of the calendar year, but I guess it makes some sense if there were no new announcements. Because this Direct was a Partner Showcase. They may be saving stuff for a regular Direct.
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Post by dsparil on Aug 27, 2024 13:43:11 GMT -5
I doubt there'll be another regular Direct this year. The last one in June was already so packed I'm surprised there was even anything left for a Partner Showcase now.
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Post by personman on Aug 27, 2024 13:43:57 GMT -5
I have prefect saves on my 3DS of all three DS CVs and I of course immediately bought that thing. However, least I have the excuse of the Haunted Castle remake which is reminding me of the Rebirth Wiiware title (hell I need to play that too)
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