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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

DooM plays really well with the xbox controller! It's quite awesome. I wish there was SOME kind of graphic enhancement option, though.

Then again, it could have been as bad as the Marathon ehanced graphics which are just awful. Seriously, what? Thankfully the original graphics still look nice. I wish I could leave the hi-res textures on, though. Anyway, this also plays great on the xbox, after fooling aroudn with the settings for a bit. I've been owning people in deathmatchm, yay. Also, survival mode is a great addition.

space giraffe is pretty pimp, as the kids say.

anything digital eclipse are responsible for is dissapointing, mainly because their demos always last for like five seconds.

crystal quest was fucked up in every possible way.

mad tracks isn't terribly good.

well, etc, etc. what other games should i check out? most of the other games seem pretty medicore so far.

although i must admit this cloning clyde game is kinda cool. gives me a lost vikings vibe.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

I really enjoy Catan, but the end game can be a bit of a squeeze as the computer tends to get some really great rolls and cards. Catan and Pac-Man C.E. have accounted for more playing time than most other titles I've come across this year, combined.
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silentmatt · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:26 am Post subject:

Super C has hit the Wii virtual console.... It has been years upon years since I played that one. What is the verdict? Does it stand-up to the original?
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Mr Mustache · . Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Posts: 167 Location: Queens

I believe it's the arcade version, which I don't really care for...don't know if it's a good port.

Oops, I thought we were talking xbox. I really like Super C for the nes. Granted I haven't played as much of it as Contra. But it seems a bit smoother, has some nice top down segments, and opens really well.
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silentmatt · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:55 am Post subject:

Nope, looks like it is the original NES version.

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silentmatt · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject:

Speaking of Worms....

Open Warfare 2 (for PSP and, I believe, DS) is now out. I am playing a copy on my PSP and... it is really good! They fixed almost everything that I disliked about the first one, made the interface sensible, made the worms themselves customizable, added both ad hoc (like before) AND infrastructure modes, supplied a custom level editor, puzzle mode (which is actually really fun and sometimes tricky), 6 single player campaigns.... they really went all out for this game.

So good.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

hey i thought TMNT was on live arcade where did it go

Anyway, I'm trying to get the vidmaster achievement on my own, but after reading about how the game scores and saves, I don't think it's going to happen! Freeverse sure cocked up a few things, but some of it is Microsofts fault. Losers.

Some of these levels sure are painful on Total Carnage! I look forward to when the game calms down after Durandal is dealt with.

All in all, a very solid port apart from some problems here and there, mostly to do with the console. My friend is number #4 on the deathmatch leaderboard! Too bad the scoring and stuff for this game is so messed up.

I also played through DooM, being not too far off from Alfred Packers score which I was pretty happy about since I was just playing it as I usually do, not for score. Maybe I'll attempt to beat him one day, but probably not. If it was DooM 2, on the other hand...

I'd really love to see that on Live Arcade. The whole time I was playing doom, I was wishing it was the second game which is better in virtually every way IN MY OPINION. I barely play the original DooM because of it.

Also, why are these ancient arcade ports like 40 megs? Madness!

One more thing! What has this Wing Commander game got to do with Wing Commander! The game looks interesting as a stand-alone title, but it's hard to tell by the demo! Seriously, I'd buy way more if the demos were more generous. Right now I don't buy some of them in sheer spite out of not letting me play more than two minutes.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:11 pm Post subject:

there's a content pack available for bomberman. it features two new maps, neither of which is the everybody-starts-at-full-power map. and there doesn't seem to be any effort to address any of the numerous bugs and shortcomings of the game.

come on, hudson america. this is like the only thing you have to do, besides make youtube videos. get it together.
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Joe · . Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 179

This week on XBLA we have AHAHAHAHAHA Fatal Fury Special.

nice job on the selection there, SNK. on the bright side, it looks like SNK Playmore ported it themselves, instead of some third party, and it appears to be a halfway decent port of a terrible, boring game. Here's hoping for Garou, or KoF98, or something someone might actually want to play online!

JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

What's so bad about Fatal Fury Special?

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject:

it's not sensible soccer ;__;
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JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

Ooohhh.

Good answer!

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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

The (un)official word on Sensible Soccer is now "before the end of the year (we think)".

Bastards.

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject:

was anything released on live arcade today? where's my sensible soccer? where's my every extend? when are they finally going to reset the space giraffe boards so i can play without fear of my high score being erased?
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Sonic 2 came out!

And patches have to go through the MS approvial process just like games. So they're probably stuck bouncing back and forth with MS.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

After how Sonic treated you, I don't think I'll be giving Sonic 2 a whirl. The Genesis Collection version is good enough, until I finally hook my Genesis back up (I'm coming for you, baby!). I still can't get enough of Sonic 2's bonus stages. They blew my mind when I was younger and I enjoyed them almost as much when I was going through the Genesis Collection.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Yeah, I just use my Wii and the Sonic Mega Collection for all my sonic needs.

Or, I pull out my Genesis (but that's not hooked up and won't be until much later this year).
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Lestrade · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:17 am Post subject:

Yeeeeaaaah! PC Engine CD and Duo games comin' to Wii starting next month!

I had a dream that I was trying to buy a PC Engine last night. Am I a nerd!?

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:19 am Post subject:

only nerds buy pc-engines? ;__;
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Lestrade · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:17 am Post subject:

In their dreams, they do. Then they find out what they're looking at isn't a PC Engine, but a rare PC Engine/NES hybrid, and according to the dream sticker price, it cost something like $2378.

I've had many dreams over the past few years about trying to buy a PCE Duo. It's really sad. Then when I was in Akiba this year I totally held one in my hands and couldn't buy it, because it was around $230, and I just couldn't justify it.

I think I have mental issues.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I use to have these dreams where I would go to the store and buy a Casset/CD hybrid Walkman and then take it onto the bus and listen to my cassets and CDs.

Nothing else really happen in the dreams, and nothing was bizarre about it. When I woke up the next morning (the first time I had the dream) I was honestly a little confused about why I didn't have the damn thing.

I also use to have dreams that I was Mega Man's brother and we would get all the way to Dr. Wily and when he would give his "Bwahahaha" talk I would kill MM and join Dr. Wily to take over the world.

Yeah. We kind of looked like the MM from the cover of MM2.
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

Lestrade · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:32 am Post subject:

Wow, that's terrific. We should have a page in Issue #9 in which that exact story is set in 32-point Helvetica for no reason whatsoever.

My first Duo dream found me in a bazaar in the desert. I was so excited to find a Duo, yet something distracted me (Common Sense, probably) and I ran towards a tree line, and then everything faded to white and I woke up.

ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

I had this dream when I was younger that involved me being in a small room in an older house going towards a treasure chest. Inside were tons and tons of games, the main one I remember being Aliens vs Predator for the Game Boy. Waking up sucked. I went from a feeling of joy to being shocked I didn't really have a copy of Aliens vs Predator. I should go buy it off ebay so I can put it next to my bed before I go to sleep next week.
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Lestrade · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:01 am Post subject:

Yesterday I went to that local vintage game shop I mentioned before on an official TGQ mission. I couldn't find anything I wanted to buy there, and upon returning home I decided to join my wife in her cleaning frenzy.

This meant that I eventually cleaned, re-wired and re-organized my little entertainment area. It was lookin' so purty, I wanted to play something on it. Frustrated with my inability to find a classic game at the shop, I headed to the Wii Shop Channel (what treachery!).

I ended up overdosing on ninjas; I got Ninja Spirit and Shinobi III. Man, I forgot how I love Shinobi III; it's one of those utterly perfect games. It's meticulously constructed, and its sounds and visuals are just in a league of their own. I blazed through about half of it in a sitting.

Ninja Spirit is awesome as well; I think I just love the game's looks. I ended up with double shadows and was murdalizing everything in site for a while; man, does the game get hard if you die mid-game and don't have your shadows anymore! It's almost better to just start from the beginning and maintain your momentum.

Hey: if Donkey Kong Country can come out for VC, can't Killer Instinct? Give me hope, people.

silentmatt · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:45 pm Post subject:

PSN was updated already... They added the Skate demo (which people seem to really want, considering how much bitching was going on about it prior) as well as some other crap that is already on Live.

The "main attraction", I guess, is the 'interactive screensaver' that is the new Loco Roco game. It costs around $8 Canadian and, on a whim, I decided to buy it. It is in the queue of things to download (right after the Skate demo) so, I'll probably report back later tonight, after class.

PS: OK, I officially hate the fact the Live is getting Ikaruga. That is so bloody amazing that it hurts. I am jealous (although, I can/do just play the [S]original[/S] version on the Wii, but still).
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GcDiaz · . Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 35 Location: Clinton, MA

Dude! What about Metal Gear!?

Ugh, as much as I want to play the game, I can't bring myself to spend $500 for the console. I just hope and pray that by the time I decide to take the plunge there are still some 60gb units stashed away somewhere.
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Lestrade · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject:

Did anything come out for Wii VC today?

EDIT: Oh, nevermind. Streets of Rage 3 (Genesis), Legend of Hero Tonma (TG-16) and Kirby's Avalanche (NES) came out today.

Lestrade · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:58 am Post subject:

Hey, two previously Japan-only (well, almost) games are out today. But you'll be paying out the nose for Sin & Punishment! I will probably get both of these (the other is SMB: Lost Levels) soon enough!

SJ · . Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 61 Location: swamp

Does anyone know if Super Mario Bros 2 is the original version instead of the enhanced Super Mario All-Stars version? Nintendo gets much respect from me if this SMB2 is an English translation of the original disk version.

silentmatt · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:05 am Post subject:

So, Sin & Punishment (alongside The Lost Levels) was released today, to celebrate Nintendo's new "Import Games" category.

I've heard S&P referenced a few times... Worth purchasing?
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Lestrade · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:05 am Post subject:

Yo yo yo I just said this, dawg!

I think SMB2 is the original, not the All-Stars version.

silentmatt · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:12 am Post subject:

Haha, yeah.. Sorry Lestrade, I totally missed your post. Is Sin and Punishment really that expensive? I probably will buy it at some point.

Lost Levels I played through enough times on All-Stars (although I realize this is a different version.. but really, could that much have been changed?) that I probably don't need to play through it again.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

What are the prices on these? I may honestly boot up my Wii just to support these (also I've really needed to play S&P since I saw it played at Wes' house).
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silentmatt · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:17 pm Post subject:

elvis.shrugged · . Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 108 Location: Stratford, CT

I've been waiting six years to play Sin and Punishment.

I just downloaded it. It is glorious!

SuperWes · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject:

I will be buying, playing, and maybe even making love to both of these. Sin and Punishment is in my top 10 games of all time and is easily my favorite Treasure game. If you have a Wii and you don't download it and you hate yourself. If you don't have a Wii and you don't buy one for Sin and Punishment you hate yourself.

-Wes
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

I'm so sold on a Wii right now.
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject:

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

So, after spending more than a half hour updating and getting my wii wifi to work, I finally got onto the store and downloaded: Sin & Punishment and SMB2(j). Then I ended up with 800points left over so I... got Super Metroid. Yes, yes, I know, I've complained about it more than anything, but I had the points just sitting there (and I probably owe the game a second chance).

Sin&Punishment's release is odd because it's that game that's been spouted off at every point from people/sources which are known for starting faulty rumors as coming to the US Wii. So I just never thought it would happen right? Well, I guess wrong. With this and SMB2(j) I bought them mostly on principal just because I like patting Nintendo on the back for not forgetting people like me.

S&P is just as good as I remembered it being from my 15 minutes with it. Which is pretty good honestly. The controls are awful though! Well, they're juts exceptionally original I guess. They work better than I expected, but I still really don't like those analogue sticks on the wii classic controller. I should probably just pull out my Hori controller for games that don't require the analogue stick.

Also, I just found out that Ghouls 'n Ghosts (Genny) came out on the VC. This is possibly my favorite version of the old games.

Also, more Carcassone content coming out today. I wonder what it will be...
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:10 pm Post subject:

oo.

we have not carcassonned in a while.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

wait you gotta pay for the expansions? what am i, made of money

is tetris live any good?
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