Games

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Tue May 24, 2022 10:16 pm

I died

Post by **richschnauzer** » Thu May 26, 2022 7:26 pm

the Top Gun: Maverick update is out now for MSFS. I've always wanted to be Tom Cruise, so I'm going to give it a go.

Post by **richschnauzer** » Thu May 26, 2022 8:24 pm

you can't fly to Xenu though

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 03, 2022 5:35 pm

this is quite interesting

https://obscuritory.com/essay/incredibl ... k-wah-yeo/

you definitely never got boxes like that from codemasters

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Jun 03, 2022 7:27 pm

dng wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 5:35 pm this is quite interesting

https://obscuritory.com/essay/incredibl ... k-wah-yeo/

you definitely never got boxes like that from codemasters

*rubs hands* Goody goody!

I'm now off to read the anus off that article. Yo!

Post by **vom** » Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:15 pm

I've started playing Resident Evil 4 again and you can't stop me

Post by **dng** » Sat Jun 04, 2022 11:52 am

good man

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Jun 09, 2022 8:37 am

blombluss wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 7:27 pm
dng wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 5:35 pm this is quite interesting

https://obscuritory.com/essay/incredibl ... k-wah-yeo/

you definitely never got boxes like that from codemasters
*rubs hands* Goody goody!

I'm now off to read the anus off that article. Yo!

And a fascinatin' article it was, an' all! Hurrah!

Post by **vom** » Thu Jun 09, 2022 9:28 am

I enjoyed it too but I was too busy thinking about Resident Evil 4 to comment previously

Post by **vom** » Thu Jun 09, 2022 9:29 am

I've reached the bit with the horrible shuddering monsters where you have to use the infrared scope to kill them, it's too scary

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 09, 2022 11:39 am

have you tried letting them get really close

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 09, 2022 11:39 am

also is residenr evil 4 20 years old ye? i bet it almost is

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 09, 2022 11:40 am

i still think of it as basically new

Post by **vom** » Thu Jun 09, 2022 5:02 pm

not quite

2005 apparently

Post by **vom** » Thu Jun 09, 2022 5:03 pm

so you can't include it on your This Game Is 20 Years Old blog

Post by **The Robotic Anomaly** » Fri Jun 10, 2022 5:44 pm

I tried to buy Resident Evil 4 when it came out but they didn't have it so I got Killer 7 instead and don't regret that at all

Post by **vom** » Fri Jun 10, 2022 6:00 pm

I really liked Killer 7 too, although unlike Resident Evil 4 I don't ever feel the need to play it again

Post by **vom** » Fri Jun 10, 2022 6:00 pm

Killer 7 had better music though

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 10, 2022 8:33 pm

I never got past the first section of killer 7 for some reason (or maybe the second)

Post by **The Robotic Anomaly** » Fri Jun 10, 2022 8:41 pm

I nearly gave up on it on the first level, I absolutely hated it. Then I tried it one more time and bloody loved it.

Post by **vom** » Fri Jun 10, 2022 11:10 pm

I'd be up for playing it again now actually. Put it on Switch you cowards

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Sun Jun 12, 2022 11:46 pm

Those massive daft boxes of Hock Wah Yeo are so great. It's a shame we can't have them again due to lack of suitable "brick and mortar" shops, environment

Post by **dng** » Fri Jun 17, 2022 1:39 pm

for some reason i am playing final fantasy 12 again (although the ps4 remake this time rather than the ps2 original). anyway it's exactly the same game, except they fixed the worst aspect of it (the levelling/license system meant all the characters were basically the same so there was no point switching between your active ones and your idle ones in combat or at any point at all ever, really,but now you assign your characters various roles so they're all differentiated slightly into your standard rpg fighters/magicians/other sort of fighter/other sort of magician type roles).

its still absolutely tedious

Post by **vom** » Fri Jun 17, 2022 2:13 pm

I've still never really played a final fantasy

Post by **vom** » Fri Jun 17, 2022 2:15 pm

I finished replaying Resident Evil 4 the other day and it's still absolutely fucking brilliant, although the jetski bit at the end annoyed me slightly because it requires a totally different set of skills to the entire rest of the game and I always think that's a slightly irritating way to end a game.

I'm playing the extra stuff now, I'm not sure I ever did Separate Ways before because it wasn't on the Gamecube version, so I'm doing that first. I'm pretty sure I played Assignment Ada at some point but I don't really remember it. And I remember Mercenaries being good fun although I was never that good at it

Post by **endar** » Fri Jun 17, 2022 8:56 pm

Shredder's Revenge is pure joy

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:58 pm

A surprising crossover between the games thread and the weird old TV things:

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The game in question

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Sun Jun 19, 2022 10:03 pm

I never finished Resident Evil 4 on the GameCube because it all got too tense for me and I gave up. Then I tried to buy it on the Wii but ended up getting scammed or something and the game never turned up. So I have now bought it on the Switch and maybe I will play it all the way through this time. One day. Maybe.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Sun Jun 19, 2022 10:03 pm

endar wrote: Fri Jun 17, 2022 8:56 pm Shredder's Revenge is pure joy

This looks like fun. Why does it exist.

Post by **vom** » Sun Jun 19, 2022 10:22 pm

I finished Separate Ways and also played Assignment Ada this weekend. Separate Ways is such a fun idea, seeing the same plot through the eyes of a supporting character. It gets really good in the later chapters when it branches out more from the main story. Assignment Ada is not as clever but still quite fun. I'm going to play some Mercenaries but I felt a bit Resident Eviled out, so I've started playing Celeste instead

Post by **vom** » Sun Jun 19, 2022 10:23 pm

Shredder's Revenge does look lovely

Post by **endar** » Mon Jun 20, 2022 11:46 am

You can see the love they put into it. So many joyous moments

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:07 pm

I saw a miniature c64 in game the other day. £30

Post by **dng** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:07 pm

I almost bought it

Post by **vom** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 8:15 pm

Celeste

just finished the last level (although as usual these days there's a ton of bonus stuff)

what a lovely game. I couldn't play it without my entire body tensing up. I died 1743 times. A+

Post by **dng** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:12 pm

I finally finished final fantasy 12. the end of this consists of the two very worst dunegons i have ever played in any game ever, back to back, for about 20 hours

Post by **dng** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:12 pm

it reminded me of why i gave up and never finished it before, in 2006

Post by **dng** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:13 pm

at least this new version has the occasional autosave rather than having several hours between save points, and also lets you play things at three times speed if you want, as you run around and around and around for ever and ever and ever in increasingly terrible locations

Post by **vom** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:21 pm

at least that's the "final" one

that seems legally binding IMO

Post by **dng** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:23 pm

the first of these awful dungeons is a bit where you have to traverse a labyrinth (actually you also have to get to the labyrinth first, which involves running up and down sets of stairs in a zig zag for two hours), and the labyrinth is made up of about 50 identical hexagon screens with multiple exits/entrances, each filled with re-spawning monsters, and also they disable the map in this bit, and not only are there barriers between sections which involve you back tracking to find switches, and sometimes these switches are time based, so you have to sprint really fast to wherever the correct barrier is to get through it in time, or otherwise you'll havet o do it all over again, and there's also teleports between sections occasionally, which means you can't just run round the edges of the maze trying to find the correct paths, and also each room has a different name, but its a different entirely gibberish name that's almost exactly the same as all the other identical gibberish names the other identical hexagons have, and you don't even know why you're in this maze in the first place, and the story won't progress until you find the exact single hexagon you need to stand on to trigger the cutscene (and boss fight)

and then they follow that all up with a dungeon that does have a map, but which makes you run up 150 levels of a tower, fighting the same three monsters over and over again, forever, with occasional breaks for tedious boss fights, while switching off the use of items for half of it, and then introducing yet another incomprehensible teleport switch maze

your reard for this is four boss fights in a row. and then your reward for that is going to the final level of the game, which is two tedious levels of fighting infinitely spawning troops for a bit before you realise you just have to sprint past them all, and then another four boss fights in a row. THE END (well, once you've watched the 20 minute end movie and the unskippable credits and then rewatched the opening 20 minute unskippable movie at the start again because the only way to make a save file for new game plus apparently is there and then or never again)

Post by **dng** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:24 pm

and then it seems new game plus doesn't even let you start the new game with your old powers, it just makes you play the game again as normal, but this time for some reason you start at level 90 instead of level 1 on your power up tree (which means just one hit killing every enemy for the whole game, presumably)

Post by **dng** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:26 pm

vom wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:21 pm at least that's the "final" one

that seems legally binding IMO

yes

actually somehow this still wasn't as bad as absolutely all of final fantasy 15, or the very end of final fantasy 13 part 2, where it gives you a choice between getting revenge on you renemy and ending the world, or not taking revenge and letting him and the world live, and brilliantly both of those choices result in you killing your enemy and destroying the world so it ends on a cliffhangar to make you buy final fantasy 13 part 3 (i did not buy final fantasy 13 part 3)

Post by **dng** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:27 pm

(i quite liked final fantasy 13 part 1)

Post by **dng** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:30 pm

anyway, final fantasy 12 starts badly, ends terribly, but there's a sweet spot in the middle where its quite good for a bit. and i like the absurdly ornate spaceships they fly about in in the cutscenes

Post by **dng** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:32 pm

vom wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 8:15 pm Celeste

just finished the last level (although as usual these days there's a ton of bonus stuff)

what a lovely game. I couldn't play it without my entire body tensing up. I died 1743 times. A+

this is on my "i would quite like to play this one day" list. but the last time it was cheap on the ps4 i bought spelunky 2 instead

Post by **dng** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:32 pm

to my mild regret

Post by **vom** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:35 pm

I had it on my switch list thing for two years and then it finally went on sale a couple of weeks ago

It's very good, I'm not always a fan of the sadistically difficult platform genre but they seem to have gotten the frustrating / satisfying balance just right, and also the story is really lovely

Post by **vom** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:36 pm

I assume the bonus content will be so insanely difficult that I will throw my switch out of a window and into the sun

Post by **dng** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:36 pm

hooray