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Post by beefbrainmchitfist on Oct 10, 2004 10:59:46 GMT -5
No retro gaming here, except tetris attack, if you can call that retro. Since I've been sick the last three days, I went back to playing ChronoCross, except yesterday when I had to schlep UncleJager around since his car got sick, too. That's what I get for coughing in it. Then I went to work for an 8 hour shift that I don't remember in the least. Sort of like the empty street I started walking across and then there was a white truck that was slamming on its brakes to avoid me although I was pretty sure the street was empty - a one way street with no outlets... I;ve been that out of it lately.... Sounds about how I used to be when I played Diablo II
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Post by T. Miller on Oct 12, 2004 12:47:04 GMT -5
Has anyone else here played ChronoCross?
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Post by beefbrainmchitfist on Oct 12, 2004 19:35:17 GMT -5
Unfortunately I've yet to venture to the Chrono side of Squaresoft
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Post by Alan Fuckin' Alda on Oct 15, 2004 9:28:46 GMT -5
Has anyone else here played ChronoCross? I started playing it one time. Then I stopped when I found out about all the different endings; it just didn't fit my completest nature to have to play it that many times.
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Post by Alan Fuckin' Alda on Oct 15, 2004 9:45:47 GMT -5
Are there any Virtual Boy fans here? (probably a long shot...) I'm creating a pac-man game for it, and I'll have a demo and a website ready soon, if anyones interested.
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Post by T. Miller on Oct 18, 2004 22:48:35 GMT -5
I started playing it one time. Then I stopped when I found out about all the different endings; it just didn't fit my completest nature to have to play it that many times. I'm going trhough now to get to New Game+... then once I've restarted with the better stats and equipment, etc, I'll go through again (much more quickly than the first time), but leaving a trail of save points behind me before the key events leading me to the differemt endings. Then I can just pick up from the points and get the endings without having to start over each time. did I explain that okay? I train of thought keeps derailing.
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Post by beefbrainmchitfist on Oct 24, 2004 21:37:25 GMT -5
I was over at my friend Sop McGravy's house yesterday (no that's not his real name but close enough for the likes of you:p) while he was bouncing back and forth between different rom's on his box and he tried his hand once again, at what is to my understanding, the first Castlevania game, Haunted Castle. After about five seconds you can see why this game was released, once again to what I understand, only in arcades; With it's ridiculous level of difficulty and one life to live you'd be feeding that machine quarters until you broke the bank, discerned the singular pattern in which to navigate Simon or you got kicked out of the arcade because you broke the thing with a baseball bat. Gawd bless emulators huh?
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Post by T. Miller on Oct 25, 2004 22:44:12 GMT -5
what wonderful retro goodness....
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Post by T. Miller on Nov 13, 2004 7:43:07 GMT -5
Yesterday was brought to me by Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. I know there's at least 1 or 2 other Oddworld games out there, but was it well-received enough that all 5 planned releases were actually made? The story's supposed to be a quintet of games...
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Post by beefbrainmchitfist on Nov 29, 2004 22:58:46 GMT -5
Right now I'm gonna give a big Amen to one of the greatest of all Castlevania games, Dracula X. You play as Richter Belmont, a true badass, and it's basically Draculas Castle appears, like it does every 100 years (or some crap like that) and ol' bat'ead comes and steals your girlfriend. Oh no! what ever shall a fourth generation vampire killing Belmont do? Swing like da rest a dem
<insert whip sound>
So with Vampire Killer in hand yet again you set out over chalenging terrain complete with your favorite Castlevania thugs to include Axe Knight, Boneheads, the standard zombie, and fleamen to name a few. The music iin Dracula X is definitely on par with Symphony of the Night which if youve ever had the pleasure of playing you know that's saying a lot. I've found it to be one of the rarer of the Castlevania games, and just about anywhere that I find em they tend to be rather pricy if ya know what I mean. But for the Castlevania freak, such as yours truly, it's woorth the monetary units. I love the little cartridge, I love it gooooood..
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Post by T. Miller on Jan 18, 2005 10:03:03 GMT -5
Update!
I beat ChronoCross last week... to get the good ending is absurdly easy. You have to actually try to get the bad ending and the lesser "good" endings.. With New Game+, you get some perks to speed things up a bit so that when I go for the other endings, it will go a whole lot faster (you get an item that lets you fast forward the game ;D plus all your old stuff (mostly) )
Currently, working on Sonic Adventures on dreamcast (anyone else still ahve one?) though I need a vmu... also started Final Fantasy off of the FF Origins disk. Uber Retro Goodness...
What's everyone else up to these days?
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Post by Alan Fuckin' Alda on Jan 18, 2005 11:49:33 GMT -5
I haven't been playing many retro games lately... I'm working on Syphon Filter 4 and just got finished with Metal Gear 3. I'm thinking of going through MG1 + 2 (the originals on MSX) since I got an emulator working for my Mac. I feel asleep!
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Post by T. Miller on Jan 19, 2005 20:01:52 GMT -5
I was at the game store the other day, picking up some schtuff for the DC (2 rumble pack thingies + memory card = a whopping $5 ) When I saw Oddworld: Stranger..... must have it.... why must it be on XBox??? I love Oddworld games, and this one looks uber nice, but Spooks don't have no stinkin' Xboxes!!
side note: isn't it great when you get a memory card with stuff still on it?? The one I bought ($2!) Had not only a save file for the game I am currently working on, but a file for the sequel, and files for 2 or 3 other games I hope to aquire. I'm still playing my game fair and square, but knowing I have the completed files and the extras at hand... life is grand... ;D
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Post by Alan Fuckin' Alda on Jan 24, 2005 9:30:26 GMT -5
xbox sucks
sorry, I just had to say it.
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Post by UncleJager on Jan 24, 2005 17:25:42 GMT -5
I played 'retro' games all my life, till '94 I didn't own a single video/pc game. I had a commodore 64 that had pirated games that ran off common audio tape through an answering machine. After '94 I got Wolfenstein 3D and DoomI+II. I think that it was only this year that I got a game that was still considered brand spanking new and top of its line. I love playing first person shooters, right now I'm playing the first Call of Duty. It's been the funnest game I played since Soldier of Fortune II. I think up till now this is the most (enjoyably) realistic game I've played in a long time. I know there are more true to life shooters out there, but some are too realistic, I want entertainment not a ethentic life experiance. Anyways, I've played games before that work on team basis but all of those had such bad team AI that I found them to be a pain not help. This game has no such problems, also I praise the enemy AI. Good game, I await playing the Expension Pack, and the PS2 version!
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