General Gaming thread

Stratavarious

strumjoughlamps said:

What is your 'retro' cut off point?

Something I was thinking about when I was creating groups on the Series X last week. I was playing Portal and my lad says 'proper retro' , I said it wasn't as it's a 360 game but of course to him it is.

It's like my day room with the retro gaming set up in has a strict no hdmi policy, if it hooks up via hdmi then it ain't allowed in the room.

I think I'm a little weird

I love VIDEOPAC 34, Satellite Attack from the ancient Philips G7000 and still got a bunch of MSX cartridges… Nemesis I, II & III.. yay!

My son has a working Spectrum and I will get out my BBC B and hit Planetoid occasionally… that and llamatron (Amiga) are still unmatched for total frenetic action.  

HDMI free

SNES Zelda Link to the Past gets an annual play and I played Gameboy Links Awakening every summer holiday until the Gameboy stopped working about 5 years ago.  The Switch update is AMAZING.. exact same feeling but fancier graphics.

PolarityMan

Anyone got any ideas  how to progress in that level in vampire survivor where you get all your weapons taken off you and chased by the angel looking thingies?  Is it one of those ones where you have to be lower level?

Also haven't managed a reaper takedown yet. 

TimmyO

re Retro - I'd rather play Pong or Breakout or Galaxian or Atari 2600 Centipede than NES/SNES/Megadrive era games I think. Early console (yes I know 2600 is a console...) stuff really suffers now - the older-than-that stuff had to rely on one simple mechanic that either worked or didn't. 

stickyfiddle

it's been a long time since I played any really old Pong/Breakout era stuff, but Pacman still holds up as one of the best games ever. 

But Super Bomberman, Mario World, Super Metroid and Zelda:ALTTP still 100% hold up as all-time classics, because they play great and have fantastic timeless art styles. A lot of other 16-bit era stuff looks shabby by comparison.

Sporky

PolarityMan said:

Anyone got any ideas  how to progress in that level in vampire survivor where you get all your weapons taken off you and chased by the angel looking thingies?  Is it one of those ones where you have to be lower level?

Also haven't managed a reaper takedown yet. 

Just keep going right and do your best to dodge. It's not easy but it's far from unpossible. 

PolarityMan

Sporky said:

PolarityMan said:

Anyone got any ideas  how to progress in that level in vampire survivor where you get all your weapons taken off you and chased by the angel looking thingies?  Is it one of those ones where you have to be lower level?

Also haven't managed a reaper takedown yet. 

Just keep going right and do your best to dodge. It's not easy but it's far from unpossible. 

A cool so there is an end and it doesnt just continue until you eventually die?

Sporky

There is an end. 

Schnozz

CharlieShaw said:

I’m completely obsessed with Anno 1800 now. What an amazing game! Discovering land and building cities has never been so rewarding. Only recommended if you have a lot of time to fill. 

Thank you - I would like to try that at some point

CavemanGrogg

I managed to finish Trial Rising on the Switch, it's a brilliant game for hand held mode, for playing 5 to 10 minutes here and there, to me despite the limitations of using the Switch triggers as the accelerator - though you can set up the right analogue control for this but it's not needed, it is by far the easiest of the Trials series of games.  It's still the best though in my opinion,especially the gold edition with all the DLC.

Started on Immortals Fenyx Rising, the game looks huge, very assassins creed like with the climbing, extremely funny dialogue, an RPG, but one that allows you to saved at any point during game play except during battles and boss fights, based on Greek mythology, and a mash up of it. Seriously brilliant game.

RedRabbit

Just watched an update for the Fallout: London mod.  It's been in development for years and there's no firm release date but they are aiming for this year.

At this point it's looking less like a mod and more like the next chapter in the Fallout series.  I'm probably more excited for this than I am for any other "full" release this year.

CharlieShaw

RedRabbit said:

Just watched an update for the Fallout: London mod.  It's been in development for years and there's no firm release date but they are aiming for this year.

At this point it's looking less like a mod and more like the next chapter in the Fallout series.  I'm probably more excited for this than I am for any other "full" release this year.

I hope they improve the building mechanics. I was disappointed in them in Fallout 4. I was disappointed in F4 generally though.

PolarityMan

CharlieShaw said:

RedRabbit said:

Just watched an update for the Fallout: London mod.  It's been in development for years and there's no firm release date but they are aiming for this year.

At this point it's looking less like a mod and more like the next chapter in the Fallout series.  I'm probably more excited for this than I am for any other "full" release this year.

I hope they improve the building mechanics. I was disappointed in them in Fallout 4. I was disappointed in F4 generally though.

Peaked at 2

ThePrettyDamned

PolarityMan said:

CharlieShaw said:

RedRabbit said:

Just watched an update for the Fallout: London mod.  It's been in development for years and there's no firm release date but they are aiming for this year.

At this point it's looking less like a mod and more like the next chapter in the Fallout series.  I'm probably more excited for this than I am for any other "full" release this year.

I hope they improve the building mechanics. I was disappointed in them in Fallout 4. I was disappointed in F4 generally though.

Peaked at 2

I can never pick whether I prefer 1 or 2.

New Vegas was the closest feeling to those, though. 

RedRabbit

CharlieShaw said:

RedRabbit said:

Just watched an update for the Fallout: London mod.  It's been in development for years and there's no firm release date but they are aiming for this year.

At this point it's looking less like a mod and more like the next chapter in the Fallout series.  I'm probably more excited for this than I am for any other "full" release this year.

I hope they improve the building mechanics. I was disappointed in them in Fallout 4. I was disappointed in F4 generally though.

Fallout 4 was my introduction to the series so I've got a bit of a soft spot for it.  However, I do appreciate that a lot of long time fans found the continued move away from the traditional RPG mechanics disappointing.

guitargeek62

FO3's still my favourite of the lot, even over NV. The story was just superb, and it was also my entry to the franchise so it'll hold a special place for that alone. It's in my top 10 games.

I really enjoyed most of the changes to the mechanics in FO4, but I'd rather not have had the settlement building aspects in there (or at least had them as optional) as that got repetitive very quickly imo. I've still not gotten to FO76, but will do at some point this year I'm sure.

PolarityMan

Yeah the settlement building didnt really gel with me either. The first person interface is jsut a bit crap for doing that kind of thing and if they were going to include it I'd have rather it was a top down or isometric minigame style. 

Sporky

I eventually got into the settlement building a bit. My base was a huge inverted pyramid. I lived at the top; it was a bit of a slog up there. 

Paul_C

Thanks to my daughter I play mostly on a Switch these days, though I still have an XBox360 and Xbox One S.

I'm playing Skyward Sword HD at the moment, having completed it a couple of times on the Wii.

RedRabbit

guitargeek62 said:

FO3's still my favourite of the lot, even over NV. The story was just superb, and it was also my entry to the franchise so it'll hold a special place for that alone. It's in my top 10 games.

I really enjoyed most of the changes to the mechanics in FO4, but I'd rather not have had the settlement building aspects in there (or at least had them as optional) as that got repetitive very quickly imo. I've still not gotten to FO76, but will do at some point this year I'm sure.

The settlement building is pretty much optional.  Even on my first play through I didn't build anywhere other than Sanctuary.  I always do a bit of farming as it's the easiest way to obtain adhesive for crafting but other than I just build a water pump and a clean bed to sleep/save in (I generally play in survival mode these days).

CavemanGrogg

Is anybody else a little disappointed with the loading times on the Switch, both for games on cartridge as well as for digital download games?