The "Currently Playing..." Topic

2010-08-11 03:37:07 pm

Quote from Quietus:

I have no idea. Well, I do. It's so that we 'don't realise' they've made 25 different versions of the same game. Sports games are the worst culprits for this, changing the naming round so you 'don't realise'. Yeah, we 'don't realise' in the same way that we 'don't realise' that £19.99 is the same price as £20. Eejits.

Either that or to release some shovelware and make an extra buck (or pound, in your case).

TheGreenManalishi

2010-08-11 03:46:44 pm

Quote from ryu:

Who needs SFIV if there is SFII?

Bit before my time, unfortunately.

Idkbutlike2

2010-08-11 04:03:35 pm

Quote from TheGreenManalishi:

Quote from ryu:

Who needs SFIV if there is SFII?

Bit before my time, unfortunately.

There's always GGPO for young'uns like you and I.

TheGreenManalishi

2010-08-11 04:11:34 pm

You mean the online arcade thing? How's that going to make SFII feel fresh and interesting to me?

Idkbutlike2

2010-08-11 04:30:16 pm

Who said anything about making it "fresh and interesting"?

TheGreenManalishi

2010-08-11 05:30:01 pm

I can play it, but I can't appreciate it properly.

TheGreenManalishi

2010-08-11 05:30:57 pm

because it isn't interesting to me

Idkbutlike2

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Idkbutlike2: 2010-08-11 05:48:56 pm

2010-08-11 05:48:44 pm

You don't have much taste in games older than the 5th gen, do you?

TheGreenManalishi

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TheGreenManalishi: 2010-08-11 06:14:16 pm

2010-08-11 06:13:52 pm

Coz I was born in '93, NES and SNES are simply too archaic by the standards of the stuff I was raised on. The first game I ever played was Xenon 2 on my dad's Atari ST, but the first games that were 'mine' were Pokemon Blues, Pokemon Stadium and Mario 64.

I'll tell you now that A Link to the Past is easily one of my favourite games ever, as are SMB3, Kirby's Adventure and Super Metroid. I just wasn't there, man, so my perceptions are a little different to those who were. I gove credit where credit is due, and I acknowledge Street Fighter II for essentially starting the fighting genre seriously.

TheGreenManalishi

2010-08-11 06:16:19 pm

Don't even bother with Sega, either. I never had a Sega console, so I've just never properly experienced stuff like the old Sonics and Ecco. I have a friend, however, who loves Ecco the Dolphin a bit too much.

Quietus

2010-08-11 06:19:12 pm

Super Secret Area - Dead Ahead!

Quote from TheGreenManalishi:

Don't even bother with Sega, either.

Streets of Rage 2. That is all.

Opium

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Opium: 2010-08-11 06:20:55 pm

2010-08-11 06:20:27 pm

I started playing when atari 2600 was popular, but at that time the best games were in the arcade. The console that moved serious gaming into the home was the NES. I consider the golden age of gaming to be the 16-bit era, personally.
I did have a sega genesis, but the only thing I ever played on it was sonic 1 and 2, and I didn't play them all that often.
The only fighting game that I ever really got into was Killer Instinct. I always selected Orchid as my fighter and my friend always picked Spinal. We probably fought each other 1000 times.

Toozin

2010-08-11 06:27:34 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

I remember I had a friend who loved Killer Instinct a lot, and I had never played it and barely played any other fighting game at the time. He challanged me to a match in the arcade and I picked Spinal. I kicked his ass and he got mad.

I felt kind of bad.

Idkbutlike2

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Idkbutlike2: 2010-08-11 08:17:20 pm

Idkbutlike2: 2010-08-11 08:17:12 pm

2010-08-11 08:15:45 pm

I guess I had a pretty warped childhood when it comes to gaming, since my dad is a software engineer and introduced me to PC gaming and the internet instead of console gaming like a normal person would. I grew up playing Quake, Doom, Age of Empires, and Civilization III aiwebs_013

I also got into emulation really early, and that's why I love the 4th gen so much.

Quietus

2010-08-11 08:24:38 pm

Super Secret Area - Dead Ahead!

Quote from Toozin:

I remember I had a friend who loved Killer Instinct a lot, and I had never played it and barely played any other fighting game at the time. He challanged me to a match in the arcade and I picked Spinal. I kicked his ass and he got mad.

I really tried to like that game, but just couldn't get into it for just this reason. You could practice for days, learning every move you could imagine, and it would be undone by the CPU's incessant combo breaking. Also, on higher difficulties, unless you played it to death, the CPU would annihilate you, and I found that button bashing would often work better than structured combat. Bizarre.

Opium

2010-08-12 12:00:25 am

There were some characters that I just could never win with, and some that I could break into ultra combos easily and almost never lose.
The game was definitely more fun playing against another person than against the CPU.

playerman1230

2010-08-12 12:05:52 pm

Hated by all

Especially painful if your controller looks like it's going to be on the verge of breaking. (Damn myself button mashing A in Star Fox 64 just to bust the shit out of the boss in Area 6. And I only have one good N64 controller left.)

And now, just getting through the Metroid Prime Trilogy (MP1 on Hypermode, just cleared Phendrana Artifacts, just have to get the Piece in the Elder Hall and onto the Mines) and restarting on Super Paper Mario (well, because Other M's coming out... ha ha.)

Poision Envy

2010-08-12 04:59:21 pm

Club 27 Goals

Quote from Opium:

We probably fought each other 9000 times.

Fixed.

Quote from playerman1230:

Especially painful if your controller looks like it's going to be on the verge of breaking. (Damn myself button mashing A in Star Fox 64 just to bust the shit out of the boss in Area 6. And I only have one good N64 controller left.)

Gamestop has used controllers for, like, everything dirt cheap.

Toozin

2010-08-12 05:22:35 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

Gamestop hasn't sold N64 consoles, games, or accessories for a number of years. Online is your best option if you don't have another local game retailer.

TheGreenManalishi

2010-08-12 05:44:11 pm

eBay. 'Nuff said.

Poision Envy

2010-08-12 06:17:16 pm

Club 27 Goals

I could have sworn they were still selling used PS2/xbox/gamecube and N64 controllers. Then again I've only been in gamestop once in the past like, 2 years or something.

Toozin

2010-08-12 06:19:14 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

PS2 and Gamecube controllers, yes. Xbox and N64 controllers, no.

DaveBatista

(user is banned)

2010-08-12 07:37:18 pm

Yoshi is back

Quote from TheGreenManalishi:

eBay. 'Nuff said.

Mhm. Ebay all the way, I have Star Fox but I never got smashing the A button. (or was that my Brother?)

Prime Hunter

2010-08-14 01:39:24 am

Started through my massive playthrough of the Metroid series in preparation for Other M in two weeks. Through Metroid and Zero Mission already, and will probably wait a day or two before I tackle Prime. (Playing them in chronological order as far as the storyline goes.) I'm not trying to break any records or blast my way through each game by using tons of speed tricks and sequence breaks. This is just a casual trek down memory lane so to speak in order to soak in the greatness that is Metroid. It's suprisingly refreshing to spice things up a bit by taking things slower than I normally do thanks to all of the tricks and such we've learned over the years. Gives me a greater appreciation for each title's strengths and what it contributes to the whole.

On a side note, I don't know if it's due to playing Super Mario Bros. Crossover in recent months (And Samus' performance there) or just me getting more comfortable with the original game over time, but besides the restarts with only 30 health I had a blast with the game, more than I usually do when playing it. (Heck, even the restarts weren't nearly as bad this time around.) It's as if every negative thought I've had against the game never existed. Somehow I have a feeling that I'll be rotating in the original Metroid more often than I have been as far as which games in the series I feel like playing at any given time.

Started through my massive playthrough of the Metroid series in preparation for Other M in two weeks. Through Metroid and Zero Mission already, and will probably wait a day or two before I tackle Prime. (Playing them in chronological order as far as the storyline goes.) I'm not trying to break any records or blast my way through each game by using tons of speed tricks and sequence breaks. This is just a casual trek down memory lane so to speak in order to soak in the greatness that is Metroid. It's suprisingly refreshing to spice things up a bit by taking things slower than I normally do thanks to all of the tricks and such we've learned over the years. Gives me a greater appreciation for each title's strengths and what it contributes to the whole.

On a side note, I don't know if it's due to playing Super Mario Bros. Crossover in recent months (And Samus' performance there) or just me getting more comfortable with the original game over time, but besides the restarts with only 30 health I had a blast with the game, more than I usually do when playing it. (Heck, even the restarts weren't nearly as bad this time around.) It's as if every negative thought I've had against the game never existed. Somehow I have a feeling that I'll be rotating in the original Metroid more often than I have been as far as which games in the series I feel like playing at any given time.

Opium

2010-08-14 02:07:33 am

Hmm ive never played them in timeline order before, just release order. I do a playthrough of the whole series everytime there is a new metroid game coming out, but this time I think I will do it the way you are doing it: timeline order.