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Got my color Retrofighter controllers in: I was more excited about the purple (have become fond of Atomic Purple for my N64 controller, GBC and even custom joycon shells), however its a little more "frosted" than I hoped compared to the more translucent atomic purple color of the original controller. Was between orange and green for my second controller and am glad I picked the green.
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I went with the green to go with my gray one, should be showing up tomorrow. Nothing will ever top the old Extreme Green for me. Played through Guardian Heroes on the Saturn with a friend of mine yesterday. It's a really solid beat-em-up with a cool special move system.
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Mine arrived today but I haven’t had a chance to open them. Have their been any problems I should keep an eye out for?
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Agrias120 posted:Mine arrived today but I haven’t had a chance to open them. Have their been any problems I should keep an eye out for? I heard the D-pads are kind of bad on the initial run. Like, they were a little too sensitive so you could hit down when pressing right. Don’t know if they ever changed them.
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GutBomb posted:I heard the D-pads are kind of bad on the initial run. Like, they were a little too sensitive so you could hit down when pressing right. Don’t know if they ever changed them. I haven't run into any issues with my new green one playing The New Tetris (I think that and Dr. Mario are the only N64 games I have that actually use the d-pad). I don't remember if I had any issues with my gray one either though, that was also a kickstarter edition.
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Replying to posts from a few pages ago because I can and the subject interested me:Phantasium posted:OG Tomb Raider is fantastic.  Random Stranger posted:When the first Tomb Raider came out I thought, "Wow, someone moved Prince of Persia to 3D." Then they actually moved Prince of Persia to 3D and we don't talk about that game.  : Prince of Persia 3D is weirdly kind of fun to me. It scratches the same itch that the first Tomb Raider did for slow-paced methodical platforming where getting cocky and not thinking through your movements carefully would result in a quick death. I even thought the graphics were pretty decent for a late-90s PC game.But at the same time, I can't deny that despite liking it, it really is a pretty bad game. The combat, in particular, is absolute garbage that I only look past because the game has quicksave/quickload keys within a short distance of the keys I use to normally play the game, so I can save-scum difficult encounters. There's this whole weird system involving feinting and blocking specific directions and you can use different kinds of weapons but honestly I couldn't figure any of it out barring the blocking-specific-directions thing (and that attacking certain directions is consistently slower but stronger than others, but so much slower that it's often better to spam the quick-but-weak direction instead). There's also way too much animation put into basic things like drawing your weapon - you'll do it super slowly then do some sort of weird action pose before you can actually throw an attack, while your opponent has already had theirs drawn, run up to you and started hacking away at your flesh. I don't know how much of this comes from the original Prince of Persia, which I confessedly never put much time into (I did nab the SNES version on the Wii VC last year at least) but what little time I did put into it revealed I hate the combat there about as much (but the animations were much more no-nonsense). That said, I'm willing to assume it's way, way worse in 3D, since people at least tolerate the combat in the original games. Also I will never beat the final boss because the time limit is invisible to me and despite ostensibly having about two minutes to finish that stage, I always seem to run out of it way sooner than that. I do know some moving platforms in earlier stages (like the floating ruins) were glitching out when I used dgVoodoo2, where they'd move oddly slowly and the Prince would refuse to properly climb onto them (forcing me to temporarily disable the wrapper so I could get past the problem spot), so it could be another symptom of whatever underlying issue with dgVoodoo2 and this game is causing those issues - but when the alternative is a sub-60 FPS framerate on an i7-7700K and a GTX1080 that refuses to run above 1024x768 and also causes all sounds in the level to play at full volume regardless of distance from the camera, I don't think I'd play it vanilla regardless. Besides, the combat is garbage, so I probably couldn't beat the final boss before the time limit was hit even if it were performing normally. In spite of all this, I still have a somewhat positive view of the thing. I don't know what it is; I just have fond memories of the ridiculously-tall library, the excessively-green docks, or even some of the more maligned stages like the weird-as-hell dirigible that you spend 2-3 levels climbing. Guilty pleasure, I guess. al-azad posted:You were fortunate to not have this curse visited upon you but now the ark is open. I still need to get into Last Revelation. I got the PC version off of GOG, the PS1 version off of PSN and the DC version this past MAGfest, but haven't really sat down much with any of them. I've heard it's something of a return-to-form closer to the spirit of the first game, while keeping many of the new moves and other niceties from the sequels - Lara in a desolate tomb filled with wildlife, traps and puzzles, and less mafiosi with pistols every ten seconds. (To be clear, I liked what I played of Tomb Raider 2, but man, they really ramped up the combat, and while Tomb Raider combat's a far sight better than PoP3D's ever will be, it's still not the strong suit of the series for me.)
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FireMrshlBill posted:I was more excited about the purple (have become fond of Atomic Purple for my N64 controller, GBC and even custom joycon shells), however its a little more "frosted" than I hoped compared to the more translucent atomic purple color of the original controller. Was between orange and green for my second controller and am glad I picked the green. I got my set in today. I was trying to match my original Smash player color set (Blue, Red, Yellow, Green), but there was no Yellow (or Extreme Green) so I got the Orange one instead. They all look great, and the blue one even matches my Blue/White N64. I just need to decide what to do with my original 2 gray ones. I'll probably hang onto them in case I decide to give my nephew an N64 somewhere down the line.
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GutBomb posted:I heard the D-pads are kind of bad on the initial run. Like, they were a little too sensitive so you could hit down when pressing right. Don’t know if they ever changed them. The only thing I heard about was a problem with the analog stick making contact with the L button if it was pressed and you were trying to go diagonally left and up. They offered either a replacement or just the parts you needed to fix the problem, I went with the parts and fixed it pretty easily, they sent a completely different shell and some other buttons. Granted I haven't exactly played a lot of N64 games since that controller came out so I barely noticed anything to begin with, or since. Shadow Hog posted:(To be clear, I liked what I played of Tomb Raider 2, but man, they really ramped up the combat, and while Tomb Raider combat's a far sight better than PoP3D's ever will be, it's still not the strong suit of the series for me.) Having finished 2 now, the Temple of Xian is an incredibly good level, and it's largely due to being a giant tomb with absolutely no gun wielding assholes. And then a level later they introduce dudes that throw knives at you that you actually physically can dodge and I'm just wondering why they're being introduced in the last real level because I wouldn't have hated fighting guys all the time if their projectiles just didn't instantly hit me the second we have an unblocked line between us.
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Phantasium posted:The only thing I heard about was a problem with the analog stick making contact with the L button if it was pressed and you were trying to go diagonally left and up. With the original controller, I did notice the stick's range doesn't quite match a new Nintendo one in the controller test ROM, it's pretty close but has a bit more distance on the right side. I don't think it makes any real difference, and it's a lot closer than using one of the replacement GC-style sticks on an original controller. I haven't tried the Mario Party games with them, that seems to be where the stick issues become a problem.
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Kid Fenris posted:Hi Score Girl is awful, but it works as a stealth mockery of its subject because every character who enjoys video games is a boring and terrible person look at this scorchingly hot take and how bad it is  e : also I strongly recommend anyone who enjoyed the show read the manga, there's a lot more of it than where the show leaves off.
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Phantasium posted:Having finished 2 now, the Temple of Xian is an incredibly good level, and it's largely due to being a giant tomb with absolutely no gun wielding assholes. Tomb Raider 2 (and further) disappointed me severely by focusing so heavily on shooty shoot the gun mans. Really takes you out of the whole "exploring an untouched tomb to find things" headspace. But if you want a classic but updated TR experience, Tomb Raider Anniversary is really the way to go, bugs and all. I love that fuckin' remake so much! e : sorry for double post meant that to be an edit OH WELL
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I played through Anniversary right after I finally finished the original, because I played through both back in the day and didn't finish them then. So I cheated and made it so I started with the director's commentary and was enjoying it until I got to a commentary crystal that said something like "our focus for Egypt was on traps" and I'm like, what do you mean, you're remaking the game. And then I found out what they meant, they added a bunch of garbage trap sections between the major areas in the Egypt levels and I thought they were so bad and finicky that I quit playing then and there and haven't gone back. Which sucks, because I was really enjoying it up until that point.
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I can't say I really had a problem with just about anything they added, the controls felt so much easier. The big negative in Anniversary were the QTEs - and I actually like QTEs - they weren't particularly difficult, just kinda dumb and pointless.  I really enjoyed the grappling rope tho. also Shadow of the Tomb Raider was absolutely the best of the rebooted series so far for me - they finally gave me more/better tombs and puzzles and less shooty shoot, I was so happy! Also I should load that up and check out the additional tomb DLC so far... hmm... distracted by RE2HD... hmmm... Caitlin fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Jan 29, 2019 |
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Everytime I'd jump onto a pole there would be a delay, and the squash traps were so specific that with that delay you'd get squashed, and heaven help you if she didn't jump onto it just right and had to push an extra button to correct it (which was never fast enough).
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Caitlin posted:look at this scorchingly hot take and how bad it is Where can I find the manga? Is it available in english?
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BisterdDave posted:Where can I find the manga? Is it available in english? Eh, I don't think it's gotten an official release yet but it's definitely been translated up to chapter 52 (which just got released recently). https://www.mangareader.net/high-score-girl That being said it (was) a licensing nightmare that had the police raiding Square-Enix offices at the behest of SNK, but they settled and are able to reprint now. I think that negatively impacted it's chances at English official releases, but it could still happen. For now, here you go 
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Yeah, like I've said previously, I'm well surprised that the anime adaptation retained so much. There's all these references to SF2, but also the also-rans of the era (World Fighters) and the various consoles+games. I expected them to use generic stand ins to avoid all that.
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I read a few chapters of that, and was a bit confused by what seemed to be versus matches played via networked cabs? In 1991?
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Ofecks posted:I read a few chapters of that, and was a bit confused by what seemed to be versus matches played via networked cabs? In 1991?
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Ofecks posted:I read a few chapters of that, and was a bit confused by what seemed to be versus matches played via networked cabs? In 1991? They aren’t networked. They are literally just one cabinet with 2 screens (showing the same thing) and 2 control panels meant for versus games. They were a pretty common variant of the candy cab during the fighting game craze.
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Ofecks posted:I read a few chapters of that, and was a bit confused by what seemed to be versus matches played via networked cabs? In 1991? You've already got your answer from a better nerd than I, but Virtua Racing cabs were networked in 1992, including "broadcast monitors" featuring Virt McPolygon, quadrilateral sportscaster.
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Ofecks posted:I read a few chapters of that, and was a bit confused by what seemed to be versus matches played via networked cabs? In 1991? Super Street Fighter 2 could do four-player tournament mode with networked single-player cabinets in Japan in its initial release back in 1992. That’s where the points for First Attack, etc. came from, points were used as a tiebreaker in tournaments.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:You've already got your answer from a better nerd than I, but Virtua Racing cabs were networked in 1992, including "broadcast monitors" featuring Virt McPolygon, quadrilateral sportscaster. I thought I was pretty up on my 90's game trivia, but I'd never heard of that  .
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FilthyImp posted:Yeah, like I've said previously, I'm well surprised that the anime adaptation retained so much. There's all these references to SF2, but also the also-rans of the era (World Fighters) and the various consoles+games. I expected them to use generic stand ins to avoid all that. Using real video games for cheap "Hey, remember THIS?" bait is the only thing Hi Score Girl does competently, so it's no surprise to me that the show integrates as many actual titles as possible.
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I can't stand the protagonist, seriously. I just skip to the videogames parts. Also the ending song is neat.
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Negrostrike posted:I can't stand the protagonist, seriously. 
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What's this thread's cutoff date on "retro?" It dawned on me that my old rule of "ten years" would mean that the Wii has been retro for a minute, and I cannot cope.
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Two gens ago seems about right to be. I don't know how we take into account over locked Xbox/PlayStation though. Half a gen?
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falz posted:Two gens ago seems about right to be. I don't know how we take into account over locked Xbox/PlayStation though. Half a gen? Which is still the Wii.  There's no official thread rule and pretty much everyone defines it slightly differently. I remember in previous threads there was lots of hesitation over the edge cases and we're moving into that with the 360 and PS3 where it's hard to say that Perfect Dark Zero is not retro (wow, the early line up for the 360 is terrible) but also kind of difficult to say Dark Souls 2 is. Basically, go with what you feel is appropriate and don't worry too much about the details.
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I'd say PS2/Xbox/GC/DC era is retro. PS3/X360/Wii onwards still feels recent to me.
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Xbox 360 games that came out during the blade dashboard era: retro Xbox 360 games that came out during the new Xbox experience era: not retro jk it doesn't matter just post about fun games you like to play
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The Wii is retro by just about any definition; It's two generations behind the current console in its line, and as of a few hours ago was fully retired with the death of the Wii Shop Channel.
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I had 200 Wii Shop points that I couldn't spend. There are apparently a few 100 point dlc items but I don't own the games.
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RZA Encryption posted:Xbox 360 games that came out during the blade dashboard era: retro Actually didn't the original 360 model not have an HDMI port? No HDMI = retro. This tracks for me. Anyway, I'm playing a bunch of Wii games again since I modded my Wii U. It feels really weird to revisit these controls. Such a weird time for Nintendo games. Galaxy is still fantastic, and I STILL get a kick out of doing a long jump on a small planet and literally going into orbit around it. Also I'm bummed because I dug up my old rock band instruments but I can't download or buy any new songs. 
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Stan Taylor posted:Also I'm bummed because I dug up my old rock band instruments but I can't download or buy any new songs. Buy Rock Band 4 and whatever the follow-up to the console you have is, and if that's an Xbox One get the instrument adapter.
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univbee posted:Buy Rock Band 4 and whatever the follow-up to the console you have is, and if that's an Xbox One get the instrument adapter. I have them on the Wii...
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Stan Taylor posted:I have them on the Wii... Oh wow, didn't realize Rock Band was on there too. So much for that, then, unless you start all over on PS4 or XB1.
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univbee posted:Oh wow, didn't realize Rock Band was on there too. So much for that, then, unless you start all over on PS4 or XB1. Hell, even Rock Band 3 came out on Wii
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