General gaming discussion

[Dark Soldier]

Heh yeah that last point is very true. My most memorable moment so far has been (there's a power spoiler in here if you want to avoid it):

I found a door blocked off, with tiny little gaps in the blockage. I couldn't break through it, so I dropped an apple on the ground, used morph, turned into an apple and rolled through the gap

Its a minor thing but it worked, made me smile like a dick.

[ItalAussie]

When I get a computer that can run games, I'm going to go back through DS's suggestions and do them all, one-by-one.

[phonics]

Having now played Prey, it's craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap. How they've managed to make a shooter that controls worse than Bioshock is almost impressive. The space you're in is cool if you're into it but frankly I'm a bit bored of 'you wake up on a space station with no memory and every one is dead'.

The intro is probably one of the best things a video-game has produced but after that it's absolute toilet that takes all the worst parts of Bioshock and refuses to modernize them, they even used the same fucking awful font for the art deco stuff. Some enemy variety would be nice too rather than 2 forms of shapeless entities for hours on end.

[Boydy]

When I get a computer that can run games...

I swear you've been saying this for years now.

[Dark Soldier]

Prey finished, absolutely loved it despite it dipping a bit towards the end. BUY IT.

[Dark Soldier]

Review:

I absolutely fucking loved it for around four fifths of the game. There's a few hours towards the end that drag a little as the sense of discovery and exploration kinda ends and you're tasked with a lot of back/forward through areas, but the story is strong enough that I didn't hate those sections.

It is, all told, a complete mash up of around five to six games, Bioshock, System Shock, Dishonored, Deus Ex, Metroidvanias etc. Takes all the best bits, although the combat will be shite for some because until you upgrade some shit its deliberately sluggish, as is movement speed, to keep the game tense within the mimic gimmick. There's plenty scope to build your guy/gyal however you want with skill trees and all that typical jazz.

The recycling mechanic really fits the game, allowing you to pick up junk by the ton, whap it all in a machine which transforms it all into materials from which you can create ammo/health and a multitude of other cool shit. You don't have to do all this, if you're the kinda heartless, non-OCD bus riding wanker, but you'll be doing yourself, and me, a disservice.

The star of the entire show is the ship. Beautifully built, interconnected, full of areas you want to hack into/find a way into/do some super crazy awesome shit to get in/do it the obvious way and find a keycard like a fanny. The game, as a whole, is at its absolute best when you're exploring, very similar to the recent Deus Ex efforts. You've got ya hacking mini-games, emails to read, notes to pick up, multiple strands of plot to stitch together.

Essentially if you like games, like plot, like story, like exploring, like skill trees, like SUPER AWESOME RUN SPEED AND JUMPS (skill tree power) which makes the combat a lot more fun, aren't a nutter, aren't gonna shout SHIT THIS SHIT FOR CUNTS MATE within five hours and you like to smile, buy it. If not, don't chat to me fam.

Due to Breath of the Wild being potential GOAT, this sits very easily in my second favourite new game experience of the year.

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[ItalAussie]

I swear you've been saying this for years now.

I swear I've been planning it for years now.

[Kikó]

I've been playing Just Cause 3 and I can't decide whether it's repetitive nonsense or the best game ever. The scenery is great and just flying and parachuting everywhere is brilliant. Although it is all a little bit samey, it's good brainless fun.

[Dark Soldier]

Its a shit game blessed with fantastic mechanics and a fun world.

[Kikó]

Yeah I think that's about right. It's nothing on GTA but it's bloody gormless and great for that reason.

[Boydy]

I swear I've been planning it for years now.

Yeah but you were a skint student back then. Aren't you in a decent job now? Treat yo'self.

[Ian]

Kikó You got the jetpack DLC? :drool:

[ItalAussie]

Yeah but you were a skint student back then. Aren't you in a decent job now? Treat yo'self.

Most of my disposable "fun money" has been going to travel lately. That's the downside about living in Australia - you're a long way from anywhere.

[Dark Soldier]

Just buy a PS4 mate, the majority of stuff worth playing is on there unless you want proper strategy games or mobas.

[Kikó]

Kikó You got the jetpack DLC? :drool:

I haven't but is it as good as it sounds :drool:

[Ian]

I haven't but is it as good as it sounds :drool:

It's pretty fucking swish once you get the hang of it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fractured but Whole finally has a new release date, hopefully third time is a charm and it's actually released this time.

[Ian]

Didn't Stick of Truth get a few delays too? I'll wait if it turns out as good as that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Three of them IIRC.

[Ian]

I love that because of the openness of games like Prey you can have "scripted" moments that the game can't totally take into account where you might be.

I just got my first Nightmare appear....... when I was perched on Alex Yu's balcony and it couldn't properly get at me so I just Q-Beam'd it to death.

[Dark Soldier]

Cheaty git

[Ian]

It did somewhat take the drama out of what would otherwise have been a shit-my-pants affair given the size of the thing.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Went and traded a mountain of crap for Injustice 2 with the Ultimate pack today.

Even they wouldn't take No Man's Sky.

[Shindig]

The Surge shown up today. £26 couresy of all the clubpoints I've been saving.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Combos in tutorial, argh.

I wish they'd show more input.

[Shindig]

I'm trying to remember how the first handled it. I mostly mashed my way through that. I never got the meter gamble gimmick either.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm trying to remember how the first handled it. I mostly mashed my way through that. I never got the meter gamble gimmick either.

I get it, sort of.

But then I don't see the point of showing how many bars each person has.

They've got 1, oh I'll use 2 of my 4. I win.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Really liking it thus far.

I've only played with characters through story thus far so haven't tried everyone.

Initial thoughts are that I don't get on with Firestorm or Cyborg (they seem a bit too clunky for me) but love Catwoman and Blue Beetle, Green Arrow isn't too bad either.

[Shindig]

I didn't like Cyborg in the first one. He's a lump. I remember Aquaman having some decent range.

[Dark Soldier]

Red Dead 2 delayed until Spring 2018, but looks stunning. No surprises.


Red Dead Redemption 2 is now set to launch Spring 2018 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

This outlaw epic set across the vast and unforgiving American heartland will be the first Rockstar game created from the ground up for the latest generation of console hardware, and some extra time is necessary to ensure that we can deliver the best experience possible for our fans.

We are very sorry for any disappointment this delay causes, but we are firm believers in delivering a game only when it is ready. We are really excited to bring you more details about the game this summer. In the meantime, please enjoy this selection of new screenshots from the world of Red Dead Redemption 2.

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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I didn't like Cyborg in the first one. He's a lump. I remember Aquaman having some decent range.

I just tried the Multiverse mode, which is a brilliant idea, with Aquaman and he might be my new favourite.

I'm not able to chain combos as well as Catwoman (who seems to just fly around the screen) but his damage and range are brilliant.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Oh and those Red Dead pictures are amazing.

It's going to be such a good game.

[Ian]

Cheaty git

I got my second one at a fortuitous moment too.

Was in the recording studio bit in that tiny room. A thermal phantom thing came for me but I mindjacked it so it did some damage to the nightmare for me. Q-Beam did the rest. Two for two against the massive bastards and barely a scratch taken. :cool:

[Shindig]

First boss down in The Surge. He was easy, I was just way underleveled. Doesn't do a good job of explaining any actual systems, even though there's tutorial prompts everywhere. Basically, you should always be cutting gear off.

[wullie]

Whenever Rockstar announce an initial release I add half a year on top by default now, it's always the way. If they want to hint at GTA6 by way of apology though I'll be alright with it.

[Cheddar]

Looks so good that Red Dead Redemption 2. I only ever played a bit of the first one, looks like I need to go play it.

[Disco]

Just do what I do and play everything six months after it comes out when it works properly, has most of the expansions available, and you don't have to rely on marketing bullshit and rushed reviews to know if it's actually any good.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Joined a guild on Injustice 2 and started doing some Guild Multiverse.

Was going well until I came up against Dr Fate on hard or very hard. He absolutely twatted the fuck out of anyone I threw at him including Darkseid and Aquaman.

I need to learn to block more.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The only thing I don't like is the special moves.

They have no range, can be blocked and do little damage. Much better to meter burn combos for extra damage, it makes the special moves absolutely useless.

[Shindig]

Played some Quiplash for the first time. With the right people, that game's alright.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's the worst of the Jackbox game for me.

I play with my nephews who are way too young to actually add anything decent.

My favourite is still Fibbage, I was seething when they removed it from the third party pack.

[Ian]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/05/26/far-cry-5-trailer-details/

Far Cry 5 is about uber-Christians or cultists or whatever in Montana? A part of Montana they've somehow isolated from the rest of the country? O-.....kay.

I can set bears on people though, so I'm 100% in.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Entire campaign can be played in co-op?

Sweet baby Jesus.

[Disco]

Can I grenade people from a gyrocopter again?

[Raoul Duke]

FC5 reminds me a bit of that scene in Kingsman where it all kicks off in the church. I'm bang up for opening a can of whoop-ass on a load of jesus-freaks though.

[Shindig]

Just played through The Town of Light. It is quite bleak. First game I've played with an opening disclaimer about mental health.

[Mike]

Got in the new Everybody's Golf closed beta thing. It's pretty good. Made my guy look like me too, like really like me!

As with all golf games, I can't putt.

[Dark Soldier]

I'll be balls deep in that on release, even if it does have the shitty three click swing.

[Bernanke]

Got a spare Undertale-key from Humble Bundle if anyone wants it.

[Mike]

I'll be balls deep in that on release, even if it does have the shitty three click swing.

I am useless. I was chuffed with myself here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VcPdY9BX8

[Baz]

I am useless. I was chuffed with myself here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VcPdY9BX8HAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMFG :roflol: HAHAH THAT LIKENESS IS OFF THE SCALE. :lol:

[Mike]

Dark hair and glasses? I guess it looks a little like me. I do own, and was wearing, that exact outfit when I made me too.
https://i.imgur.com/4k8Kv1B.jpg

[Boydy]

Have you got that terrible goatee too?

[Mike]

I do not. I sometimes don't shave and that's the only facial hair I get. :D

[phonics]

NBA Playgrounds or whatever the name of that NBA Jam rip-off is weird. The shot release is way, way too early and it has the physics of NBA Street but without the collision or the soundtrack.

Got Iverson in my first pack though so 9/10.

https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/18766501_10158832190755381_875964146845034052_o.jp g?oh=73be5e307257d0548a066012295a47ed&oe=59A6DE88

:drool:

[Shindig]

I enjoyed it, even though there's no way to easily change your team. And online is ranked only.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Also, let it be known that the last 3 fights in a 4* or higher Multiverse on Injustice 2 are hard as fuck.

I had to fight Flash, Deadshot and Black Adam (he's almost impossible to beat at the best of times) as the final 3 and it was a real struggle. Their defence was solid and their attack was mental.

I believe that I lost a total of 24 times between those 3 earlier. I'd be donning it, they'd then chain 2 combos and I was fucked.

[Shindig]

This will cheer you up, Mahow.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF8GmN3nPTM

Gear is great / terrible, it seems.

My weekend's gone from trying to concentrate on the backlog to actually getting a review done before release. It's over 100 now.

[Baz]

Wanna watch some highlights from Mike and I playing PLAYERUNKOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XLQbZvvnfk

[Shindig]

Broke my headlights on a wet night-time stage on DiRT 4. Everybody should do that. You can navigate from the reflection of the wet pavement. SERIOUSLY.

[Ian]

Finished Prey. Great game. But...

That ending is a proper wet fart. I also saw it coming (or knew it was some sort of "It's all a dream!" toss ) from when I tried the escape pod halfway through and Alex says something about "this isn't the one" and to start again.

The choices are fine, right up until the point when you realise that none of it matters. Unless you've been a psycho and killed everybody I suppose?

It's a shame because I'm an absolute sucker for a load of exposition by diaries and stuff and people chirrupping in my ear through a game, but then it turns out the whole thing has been done presumably to just to set up some sequel. Bleh.

It was cool to look at my hands in the post-credits scene and get confirmation of what was happening but still.

Dunno what's next. Maybe Kentucky Route Zero or Owlboy.

EDIT: Did the first episode of KZR. It's a bit odd.

[Ian]

And I now had a crack at Owlboy. Bloomin' lovely, so it is.

Also it gave me one of those badge things that normally you flog for about 9p but this was is apparently going for 50p!

[Mike]

Wanna watch some highlights from Mike and I playing PLAYERUNKOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XLQbZvvnfk

Bossed it.

[Ian]

So I've been watching the Game Grumps series for Paper Mario 2 and decided I wanted to see if I had any of my copies of Thousand Year Door or Super Paper Mario. So far as I can tell I do not... but I have, after finally getting my Wii set up again, discovered I have 1500 Wii points in my account, which is like finding a tenner that I can only spend in a really specific way. Fortunately this specific way is on old games. :drool:

Got some Mega Drive or N64 options I'm sizing up.

[Boydy]

I bought Starbound on Steam earlier. It's like a sci-fi Terraria. Seems good so far but I keep dying as I can't find any food on the planet I'm on.

[P_3]

So I've been watching the Game Grumps series for Paper Mario 2 and decided I wanted to see if I had any of my copies of Thousand Year Door or Super Paper Mario. So far as I can tell I do not... but I have, after finally getting my Wii set up again, discovered I have 1500 Wii points in my account, which is like finding a tenner that I can only spend in a really specific way. Fortunately this specific way is on old games. :drool:

Got some Mega Drive or N64 options I'm sizing up.
If you want any advice on N64 ones let me know.

[Disco]

By any sensible measure a tenner should get you about 100 games of that era, this being Nintendo I doubt that's the case.

Yoshi's Island sir, that'll be £12.95

[Shindig]

And then they'll remove it from the service. Cheers, lads.

[Raoul Duke]

Can you buy N64 games on the Switch?

[Ian]

By any sensible measure a tenner should get you about 100 games of that era, this being Nintendo I doubt that's the case.

Yoshi's Island sir, that'll be £12.95

Yeah, I think the Mega Drive stuff is about £3 and £6 for N64, which is a ripoff. But then on Steam the very first Call of Duty is still over a tenner so who bloody knows.

I might buy Eternal Champions just to see if I can finally beat the final boss 24 years (for fuck's sake) later.

[Disco]

I don't know if the plan changed but they were originally going to dribble out one retro game a month, via their online subscription service, which you could play for that month only.

[Raoul Duke]

:D why are Nintendo so retarded

[Disco]

Quite. Given the prevalence and ease of emulation you'd think they'd realise that letting subs have easy, cheap access to an enormous catalogue of brilliant games to play on their new portable console would be a huge selling point.

[John]

Imagine battling away against a game for a month only to have it whipped away before you could finish it. The console would go through the front window.

I found my old GameCube fairly recently actually. What were they thinking with those little discs?

[Shindig]

They're no longer doing that. $20 a month gets you access to all of the library ... whatever that library winds up being.

[P_3]

Dusted off Banjo Kazooie. I could play this forever.

[Ian]

Two episodes in and I've no idea if I'm meant to have a better idea of what's going on in Kentucky Route Zero than I currently do. It's weird.

Owlboy is wonderful, however.

[Dark Soldier]

E3 EA WAS SHIT MICROSOFT TONIGHT let's...fucking...DO THIS

[Mike]

Watching it via GiantBomb, just like I do every year :)

[Dark Soldier]

Xbox One X get in wide colour gamut gigaflopz megahertz terrabytes i'm so erect right now

[Dark Soldier]

New Metro game holy shit yes

[Raoul Duke]

I think I'll upgrade to XB1X at Xmas. Mainly just to play Fallout 4 in 4K, but yeah.

[Pleb]

Have Microsoft and/or Sony realised that they need to double pump exclusive titles to get $$$?

[Dark Soldier]

Best Microsoft conference in years, fair play to them.

[Shindig]

I feel like I've got enough out of Metro. Anthem looks like Bioware's crack at Destiny because that's a thing people want? I'm more intrigued to see if Sony show some Shenmue, God of War, Death Stranding or if From's logo turns up anywhere.

Maybe the FF VII remake which doomed IO Interactive, as well.

[Bernanke]

Watching it via GiantBomb, just like I do every year :)

Easy Allies > GiantBomb. Excitement and enthusiasm > snarkiness.


Best Microsoft conference in years, fair play to them.

Yep, it was really, really good. Clearly influenced by Sonys last year, games on games on games with way less talking compared to previous MS. Breezed through the specs in like 5 minutes.


I feel like I've got enough out of Metro. Anthem looks like Bioware's crack at Destiny because that's a thing people want? I'm more intrigued to see if Sony show some Shenmue, God of War, Death Stranding or if From's logo turns up anywhere.

Maybe the FF VII remake which doomed IO Interactive, as well.

Shenmue and Death Stranding are confirmed to not be shown.

Expecting lots of Spiderman, GoW, new Sucker Punch.

[Ian]

Asscreed: Origins is unlikely to do anything drastically different but I do rather like the look of the setting.

[Bernanke]

Asscreed: Origins is unlikely to do anything drastically different but I do rather like the look of the setting.

Combat looks completely overhauled, and they suddenly have RPG elements. That's monumental shifts for a series like AC.

[Shindig]

Nah, the bread and butter stealth looks a little safe. Eagle vision being an actual eagle is interesting. Certainly eliminates the need for a mini-map if you just tag as you go.

[Bernanke]

I mean, of course it's safe, it's Ubis biggest franchise that they need to sell tons of. It's going to be focus tested to hell and back, but I'd still say that this looks to be the biggest shift in gameplay mechanics that the series has ever seen between games.

[Ian]

Combat looks completely overhauled, and they suddenly have RPG elements. That's monumental shifts for a series like AC.

I've not seen enough of the combat to know, what have they changed?

And what are the "RPG elements"? Because the game has had points to put skills into since, what, one of the Ezio ones?

[Bernanke]

I've not seen enough of the combat to know, what have they changed?

And what are the "RPG elements"? Because the game has had points to put skills into since, what, one of the Ezio ones?

Did you watch the demo from MS conference?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU-VwpLpUPg

You no longer have the "only one enemy attacks at once" thing, and it looks more Dark Soulsy (but like a shit version of it). You also have a loot system that looks about or more extensive than the one that's in Horizon Zero Dawn.

There was also an article about the game in Game Informer with this info:


All new info: • Started working on game before unity • Brand new fighting system • New A.I. • No minimap but a elder scrolls type compass at top • No more sprinting button, speed depends on analog stick • Crouching is back • Story is being kept a secret • Eagle vision is a subtle pulse that highlights objects not enemies • Takes place during the ascent and reign of cleopatra • You can climb everything in the game • Large and small cities with many landmarks including Memphis and Alexandria • The controllable eagle leak was true • NPC's have a day/night cycle and includes time for them to eat, sleep, work, and "answer the call of nature" • Attack buttons are the right shoulder and trigger • A.I. does not take turns to attack • New combat system is more hit-box driven • As you fight, an adrenaline gauge fills up, and when both attack buttons are pressed powerful attacks are unleashed • Left shoulder button is lock on • There are treasures to find in the depths of the water (sunken ships, long-forgotten ruins) • Stat element of customization is removed • New gear system where players can improve specific parts of your gear by crafting materials • Leveling system that has a level cap of 40 • Bayek is not the only playable character in the game but that character is a secret • There are legendary items to loot in the game • You can add blocked arrows to your inventory • You can no longer one hit enemies that are more powerful than you with your hidden blade • Buttons for free-running up and down are removed • Puzzles are back but more challenging and less switches • Much more in depth ability graph with 3 paths (Seer, Warrior, Hunter) • There are gladiator battles in arenas"

[Ian]

Nah, I'd only seen a brief clip of it. The combat's needed an overhaul for ages so hopefully all that works out.

[phonics]

I feel like I've got enough out of Metro. Anthem looks like Bioware's crack at Destiny because that's a thing people want? I'm more intrigued to see if Sony show some Shenmue, God of War, Death Stranding or if From's logo turns up anywhere.

Maybe the FF VII remake which doomed IO Interactive, as well.

Shenmue, Death Stranding and FFVII have all been confirmed that they won't be there.

'A Way Out' looks like the most interesting game to come out in years but will be crap.

Meanwhile there's a GOAT-contender game out on Early Access. It's fantastic. Watch one playthrough to get the gist and then give it a bang. It's incredible.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHa-MGgxfqg

[Disco]

People actually watch E3? Huh.

[phonics]

I listen to other people watching it like a podcast/Mystery Science Theatre thing and then check out any trailers that pique my interest.

[Disco]

Let's see how close I can get.

Battlefield will be going to the Eastern Front.
EA will be ripping off whatever did well last year (do they have a team shooter a la Overwatch yet?)
One or both of MS/Sony will announce a new iteration of their console with added NUMBERS
Umpteen other publishers will outline their focus tested, generic as fuck AAA skinner boxes none of which will have anything interesting to say or bear much resemblance to what is eventually released
You will not be able to trust anything Randy Pitchford says

[Bernanke]

Yes
Sort of. Anthem is basically Destiny, but that success is older than last year and Bioware has been developing it for a while.
Yes
Probably
That's permanent. Not really impressive calling that one.

[phonics]

You will not be able to trust anything Randy Pitchford says

http://i.imgur.com/PqRK7U8.png

[Dark Soldier]

People actually watch E3? Huh.

Its the best damn time of the year.

[bruhnaldo]

So i bought Tekken 7, beat it, and now feel like I never want to play it again.

I did this same shit with Mortal Kombat, let my nostalgia rob me blind.

[John]

Are games bonkers expensive over there? My mate paid eighty quid for FIFA on the PSN so he could get it on release night without having to go and queue at midnight, and it feels like those prices must be based on something.

[Disco]

Its the best damn time of the year.

Better than when the games are actually released? :harold:


Are games bonkers expensive over there? My mate paid eighty quid for FIFA on the PSN so he could get it on release night without having to go and queue at midnight, and it feels like those prices must be based on something.

They're based on how much money they can wring out of credulous wankers.

[Shindig]

Digital day one stuff is usually £50. £60-£80 for some deluxe editions. There'll be some currency or packs thrown in with that price tag. I like the E3 hype. I like the dumb press conferences in front of partisan workforces and the poorly-considered celebrity tie-ins. It's all theatre.

[Disco]

I can see the attraction of it as car crash tv but apart from that it's all so uninspiring. Several days worth of the kind of stuff that people who excel at marketing (ie cunts) have dreamt up to try and sell you the next HeroManShoot.

Ooh, another Assassins Creed I bet that'll be a radical departure from the last six. Next up is FIFA 8billion, I hear they've made the grass a nanometer longer and Wayne Rooney now has seven ways to shin the ball to an opposing player rather than just the paltry six we had last year.

[Shindig]

They can't all be E3 1995.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExaAYIKsDBI

[Disco]

Imagine being the kind of brainless dickhead that whoops and cheers at a smug prick like him.

[Dark Soldier]

Better than when the games are actually released? :harold:

Fuck actually playing games.

[Disco]

In other news, I discovered Touching the Skyrim over the weekend and while it starts of with stuff anyone who has played the game will probably have seen before it turns into fucking gold by about episode three.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaDrN74SfdT6Z-jpVvGNEqaMdXHTLDdnI

[Ian]

In other news, I discovered Touching the Skyrim over the weekend and while it starts of with stuff anyone who has played the game will probably have seen before it turns into fucking gold by about episode three.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaDrN74SfdT6Z-jpVvGNEqaMdXHTLDdnI

I'll be giving that a bash. I'm currently enjoying Many a True Nerd's Prey playthrough and Game Grumps' series of Paper Mario 2 videos.

[Mike]

Its the best damn time of the year.

Heck Yes! I got up an hour early to watch the Bethesda one from through the night. I'll do the same for the Sony one in the morning.:cool2:

[Danny]

Are games bonkers expensive over there? My mate paid eighty quid for FIFA on the PSN so he could get it on release night without having to go and queue at midnight, and it feels like those prices must be based on something.

$60 is the standard release price unless you are buying bonus content

[Shindig]

That was a very sweary Beyond Good and Evil 2 reveal.

[Dark Soldier]

The first was shit so meh.

[Pleb]

The new Ass-Creed graphics/gameplay are just :drool:

[Dark Soldier]

It looks genuinely terrible but I've hated every second I've spent with any ass creed games (aka ten hours on 2).

[Ian]

The first was shit so meh.

Pfft.

[Dark Soldier]

I'd have enjoyed it if the controls weren't so utterly shambolic.

[Shindig]

I know nothing besides it being a Zelda clone with photography. I own it but have never played it.

[Ian]

Hold the fuck on, it's a prequel now? Where are Jade and Pey'j, damn it?

[Pleb]

Shadow of the Collossus on the PS4? :|

[Shindig]

Okay, I'm still alright with God of War. Spiderman doing Batman looks like a good idea. Monster Hunter on the PS4 might get me into that series. Aside from that, not much getting my heart racing.

[Ian]

That Spider-Man game looks fun. Hopefully it's not an exclusive that remains an exclusive forever.

[Shindig]

Sony Pictures.

[phonics]

That Spider-Man game looks fun. Hopefully it's not an exclusive that remains an exclusive forever.

It's was part of the sweetener that allowed Marvel to get Spiderman back from Sony for The Avengers made by a Sony first-party studio. It's an exclusive.

[Ian]

Ah, bugger. The sly dogs.

[Dark Soldier]

Days Gone, Shadow of the Colossus (always wanted to play it but framerate and fucked camera on PS2 ended that), GOD OF FUCKING WAR YES MATE, Spidermans, and Monster Hunter are definites.

Oh, and this bad boy:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fplknFEZERQ

[phonics]

Days Gone can get tae fuck if I'm honest. I'm so tired of zombies. Not even sure if I could get hyped for a new Left 4 Dead.

[Dark Soldier]

I solve that problem by not playing any games with zombies in.

Apart from The Last of Us and that was FUCKING SHITE.

[phonics]

I'm just sick of them in pop culture generally, not even sure I could be bothered with a zombie movie when they used to be my go-to genre.

[wullie]

Days Gone looks like someone made a Walking Dead game but couldn't get the licence, it's up top of my list still.

[Shindig]

We'll be sick of pirates in about six months.

[Dark Soldier]

NINTENDO SAVES E3!!

Kirby yay woo applause

[Dark Soldier]

oh shit metroid prime 4 i need a switch

[Dark Soldier]

http://abload.de/img/adasdadstduzy.png

I AM COVERED IN JIZZ holy fuck

[Shindig]

And then Mario happened. Mario is a hat. A demonic hat.

[Dark Soldier]

https://gifyu.com/images/vinceprime.gif

I am dead, done, my life is complete

[Ian]

Days Gone can get tae fuck if I'm honest. I'm so tired of zombies. Not even sure if I could get hyped for a new Left 4 Dead.

I'd still be all over L4D3. Though not if it was us trying to do versus again. The worst Third Hard moment to date.

Or maybe tied with me and Cord getting bumraped by Francois Hollande at Rocket League.


oh shit metroid prime 4 i need a switch

Fuck. :(

[Disco]

I'm conceptually interested in BG&E2, the guy running the project should know what he's doing with the IP but that trailer is one of the most cringeworthy things I've ever watched. I'll buy it if I can kill that shit monkey.

[Dark Soldier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqPT9hyPANs

[Pleb]

Nintendo is baiting me to buy a Switch :moop:

[Mike]

Snap

[Pleb]

Oh my fuck the first three original Sonic games are getting remastered without the homing attack system :drool: :hail:

[Ian]

I'm conceptually interested in BG&E2, the guy running the project should know what he's doing with the IP but that trailer is one of the most cringeworthy things I've ever watched. I'll buy it if I can kill that shit monkey.

The tone is so massively at odds with the original that it's astonishing to me that Michael Ancel is in charge.

[Dark Soldier]

Finished Resi 7. Its fucking daft, has some very high points, sags at times. The opening two hours is the strongest in the entire series.

A solid 8/10.

[Ian]

Better than the corridor-dogs? :eek:

Or nicking money off crows in 4?

I don't know that I care enough to play 7 but I may try and find a good let's play of it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's been a while since an Injustice 2 post:

I've just discovered the guild co-op battles:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA5O8FwtbAo

The problem is that the guys I've been playing with in my guild (well 3 of the 4) are fucking woeful. I spent about an hour fighting Dr Fate with the one decent guy and someone shit. First guy would do a decent amount of damage, I'd do a bit more and we'd leave the other guy with not much HP left to take off. But no matter how little was left (the lowest I left the boss with was about 900 health and they start on 12k), he'd always find a way to fuck it up. We won 2 in about 10 attempts, both times when we made it so the last guy did nothing.

With the other lot the first, who had a higher profile level than me, would do fuck all. He'd hang back, try to stay alive for a bit and hit super moves, problem was that he sucked at evading and blocking attacks. I'd then come in and wipe the boss. 2 out of 2 with me not letting the third guy attack at all in the second.

http://i.imgur.com/SSgVAlQ.jpg

I'm not even that good, just jump around and hit 3/4 combos that you know of and done. It's not fucking hard.

[Dark Soldier]

Better than the corridor-dogs? :eek:

Or nicking money off crows in 4?

I don't know that I care enough to play 7 but I may try and find a good let's play of it.

Yeah as it feels like fresh, proper horror in a videogame. No weird shot, not mentalness, just a creepy as hell fucked up family and a weird, falling apart house. Almost Texas Chainsaw Massacre the game.

Then a certain point happens, which I'll spoiler:

You go through a crawl space and some weird ass black goo monsters arrive. There's still moments of the family later but it goes full on out ya nut batshit Resi territory after the goo monsters

[Ian]

Horror games don't do much for me (partly because I'm a bit of a cupcake) but I was liking what I saw of the promo material and reviews, etc. Nice that they did a proper departure from the previous stuff.

[Dark Soldier]

Honestly its not that scary. I can handle them fine (bar PT fuck PT), but it just has the usual ridiculous jump scares which you can telegraph coming anyway (music going ominous, it going dark etc).

[Ian]

That's partly what annoys me. I see them coming and still fucking jump.

Doom 3 was a fucking bitch for that.

"Oh. Look. A cupboard. I wonder what could possibly happen the moment I walk past it?"
*jumps anyway*
*hates self*

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

F.E.A.R was the worst for me.

Stunned that I didn't shit myself.

I'd only play it with my cousin next to me (who didn't even want to touch the controller) in the middle of the day.

[Dark Soldier]

I still stand by F.E.A.R being one of the top three SP FPS games of all time. Fucking incredible.

I'll admit the ladder scare got me. There's one in 2 as well where you go down some random alley, pick an item (gun or health can't remember) up, turn around and something is all of a sudden there. Another that got my heart rate going.

[Shindig]

F.E.A.R. was great. The AI would knock over shelving for cover and then climb under it. Because it could do that.

[Ian]

The ladder scare in FEAR was a belter.

Man-Bat in Arkham Knight got me a peach as well. :face:

[wullie]

When the spiders appeared to chase you in Uncharted I genuinely had to put the game on the shelf for months until I mustered up the bravery to get through that bit.

[John]

Honestly its not that scary. I can handle them fine (bar PT fuck PT), but it just has the usual ridiculous jump scares which you can telegraph coming anyway (music going ominous, it going dark etc).

It's a shame the Silent Hill game PT was supposed to preview never materialised. That was supremely bizarre, scary stuff.


I still stand by F.E.A.R being one of the top three SP FPS games of all time. Fucking incredible.

I'll admit the ladder scare got me. There's one in 2 as well where you go down some random alley, pick an item (gun or health can't remember) up, turn around and something is all of a sudden there. Another that got my heart rate going.

I think I played through F.E.A.R about four or five times back in the day and the ladder scare got me every time. There were just enough of those awkward little catwalk to ladder parts that I could never remember exactly which one had that little bitch scampering at me, so I was on edge every time and still shat my pants when she finally turned up. Only got me at the bottom the first time though. :uhoh:


When the spiders appeared to chase you in Uncharted I genuinely had to put the game on the shelf for months until I mustered up the bravery to get through that bit.

I've been playing Uncharted 4 lately and with three chapters to go there's been nothing like that level of departure from the norm. It's probably the most repetitive thing I've ever played, and I'm only pushing through because it looks so good.

[wullie]

I think this was the third one, in the basement of a castle or something like that. They come back later in a dream sequence but I was over it by then. The fourth one is the most realistic, at least in sense of the enemies you encounter rather than the whole wise-cracking acrobat murderer thing.

[Shindig]

https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule

SGDQ is two weeks away.

[Disco]

I wonder if they'll clue in the announcer for the Banjo Kazooie run this time around.

[Shindig]

Whenever I watch an 'awkward moments' compilation I always wonder if I'm actually going to see a cry for help.

[Dark Soldier]

Tried 4 hours of XCom 2 after never playing an Xcom, or this style of game before. Just cleared 21gig off my hard drive.

I'm sure its a wonderful game within the genre but all it did was piss me off. My own soldiers missing a guy from one or two feet fucking repeatedly, another deciding that rather than go round a gate which would've taken two extra steps, he'll kick the fucking thing open and alert the enemy. AI barely missing any of their shots while my guys are fully incompetent.

I'm all for challenge but not when seemingly so much is down to the luck of your guys deciding to actually fucking do something.

[John]

Uncharted 4 has committed the cardinal sin of introducing a completely new, one off game mechanic for a final boss battle. What a load of extremely pretty shit that was.

[Dark Soldier]

Exactly my thoughts. Like all Naughty Dog games, I can appreciate the graphics and the world building, even their stories to some extent, but the actual gameplay they implement into them is absolute arse.

[Disco]

Tried 4 hours of XCom 2 after never playing an Xcom, or this style of game before. Just cleared 21gig off my hard drive.

I'm sure its a wonderful game within the genre but all it did was piss me off. My own soldiers missing a guy from one or two feet fucking repeatedly, another deciding that rather than go round a gate which would've taken two extra steps, he'll kick the fucking thing open and alert the enemy. AI barely missing any of their shots while my guys are fully incompetent.

I'm all for challenge but not when seemingly so much is down to the luck of your guys deciding to actually fucking do something.

I didn't like how enemies spawn, it basically means turtling is only really viable strategy. The original did it much more sensibly.

[Mike]

Parts of my new build have arrived. Still waiting for some.

[Dark Soldier]

I didn't like how enemies spawn, it basically means turtling is only really viable strategy. The original did it much more sensibly.

You have 8 turns to hack the objective. Okay, so I've gotta push quick, so I do. Five turns left, and I'm getting close, so I push a guy (I'm still in concealment) on a double turn move, only to see the fog of war lift and three enemies all within six tiles of me. My other guys are too far back for me to do one movement turn and open fire, and the guy I've pushed on is gonna get fucking raped by the insane AI accuracy.

Top, top fun.

[Ian]

I was admittedly playing it a number of years after release but I got about a third of the way through the first Uncharted and just couldn't summon the will to carry on.

Meanwhile I've been cracking on with KZR (where I still don't have a fucking clue what's going on) and Owlboy (which is completely splendid.)

[Dark Soldier]

The thing that had me raging about The Last of Us was it was a game that pushed boundaries on the PS3 with the tech, the story, the way it unfolded, and they tacked on 10 year old gunplay, stock videogame tropes (here grab that dumper/ladder so we can climb this conveniently placed wall) and boring ass stealth sections. Walking into an area and seeing a ton of waist high walls I wonder if there'll be a fight here hhmm. I'd have loved it if it'd been a walking sim, I ended up hating it so so much.

[John]

I played about an hour of the original Uncharted and hadn't touched the series since then, so the problems I'm moaning about might be old news to anyone who's played the whole lot.

The Last of Us varied the gameplay just enough that the story really shone through and kept me going for the duration. Uncharted 4 is literally the same thing the whole time with the exception of three puzzle sections, two of which are either a version of or involve heavy use of the same gameplay mechanics the rest of the game uses, and that jeep bit from all the adverts. Then it suddenly introduces a new mechanic for the final boss, which consequently could come from a completely different game and feel precisely as relevant.

[Ian]

https://dr-whoop.itch.io/tracks

A Brio video game!

[wullie]

I love both Last of Us and Uncharted (bar 3 which was a dip in form) but I'm the same when you turn a corner and see the conveniently placed cover positions. It's the same kind of dread I'd get on games where you know you're getting near a boss battle.

[Disco]

Every rpg in existence does a similar thing.

Hmm, giant bronze statues in the bad guys lair? I'm sure we won't be fighting them.

[Ian]

In the case of the FPS it's the conveniently-placed MASSIVE AMMO STASH.

Of course I've always been frugal with the cool weapons anyway and usually don't bother in said boss fight too.

What does cool weapons have that strafing around scenery doesn't?

[Shindig]

"Hmmm... this fog wall looks like a boss area. I haven't even found the shortcut."

Although I was one of the silly sods who thought the PAL key in Metal Gear Solid might actually work.

[Yevrah]

So I had a go at Playstation VR tonight. Fuck me.

[Dark Soldier]

Its fucking amazing innit. Just a shame there's fuck all of worth on it bar Resi 7, the experiences are fantastic but they're all short one offs.

[Yevrah]

I was very impressed.

You can see we're in the early stages of it and that if it takes off it'll improve a lot, but the following ranged from really appealing to blowing me away.

Tried a Bu-Ray through it and it's like having your own private cinema right in front of you.

Played the demo disk stuff, which included a shooting range thing and a deep dive in a cage. The former inspires thoughts of how they could quite easily make a 24 game and the latter feels like you're there so much that I'd actually pay money to experience things like virtual holidays - I mean looking at things like Machu Picchu rather than drinking beer and violating local customs. When the football season ticket stuff takes off it's going to be totes amaze.

But the best thing was Resident Evil 7, which was so good it's hard to describe. The feeling you have when the menu screen appears and morphs into a room that you're in is unlike anything I've ever experienced before and it only got better when a bloke with an axe started chopping at me - I was flinching, holding my arms up to protect myself. The works.

The headset itself is a bit cumbersome and as I said above you can easily see where it could improve, but it's so good out of the box that if the games follow suit (I understand Skyrim's just been announced) then it'd be enough to make me buy a PS4 and VR without even thinking twice tomorrow.

Very very impressed.

[wullie]

Driving games are where the appeal would be for me. Anything that suits a first person view really, but a proper F1 VR game would be very tempting.

[phonics]

I've played Project Cars in VR, it's okay but the lack of feedback stops it feeling anything more than a toy.

[John]

I think the Skyrim announcement said it was being completely rebuilt from the ground up too, rather than the presumably standard retrofit, so it really ought to be paradigm altering stuff.

[Disco]

None of the software available matters, if VR is to grow out of the niche interest then the hardware needs to be a lot more practical and accessible.

[phonics]

I think the Skyrim announcement said it was being completely rebuilt from the ground up too, rather than the presumably standard retrofit, so it really ought to be paradigm altering stuff.

It'll be crap like the rest of the AAA stuff has been.

[Shindig]

10 bosses away from the Bloodborne platinum. It's a bit much but I'm only one trophy away from it. On the plus side, I've become better at parrying.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

So who is excited about pong in 4k?

[Ian]

Just hit a sudden series of pain-in-the-dick boss fights in Owlboy there. Luckily they've bossed it with the checkpointing so failure isn't TOO irritating.

[Shindig]

Roadblocked by a dog on fire. I can put the damage in but, if he lands two straight hits on me, I'm toast.

http://www.hardcoregamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/watch-dog-old-lords.jpg

[ItalAussie]

Standard daily work commute in Australia.

[Disco]

I bought Dragon Age 3 yesterday, I'll be interested to see if the criticism is as overblown as it was for the previous game.

[phonics]

I just found it a bit dull really. Felt like playing an MMO.

[Dark Soldier]

Roadblocked by a dog on fire. I can put the damage in but, if he lands two straight hits on me, I'm toast.

http://www.hardcoregamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/watch-dog-old-lords.jpg

That's a small health bar you're rocking, you absolute masochist.

[phonics]

That's a small health bar you're rocking, you absolute masochist.

Git gud.

[Shindig]

1. Not my character.
2. It's the penultimate chalice dungeon which has a gimmick.


Permanently lowers players hit points by 50% while inside the dungeon
The amounts of physical damage received and heal will be decreased along with the decreased max health, but elemental damage will do normal damage (making keeper of the old lords in layer 1 surprisingly tough, being able to 1 shot players).

On my character my stamina bar is larger than my health. The first boss was piss. I could just parry him and regain any lost health.

[Disco]

In other news, I discovered Touching the Skyrim over the weekend and while it starts of with stuff anyone who has played the game will probably have seen before it turns into fucking gold by about episode three.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaDrN74SfdT6Z-jpVvGNEqaMdXHTLDdnI

If anyone took this recommendation and enjoyed it then you should check out another series on the same channel made by the same guys, Car Boys. It's essentially two guys crashing cars and stuff in BeamNG but it gets really good at the end and actually really beautifully made and edited when you realise what they're doing.

[Shindig]

Cracked it, lads. :cool:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHKTrjWpbSg

[Ian]

If anyone took this recommendation and enjoyed it then you should check out another series on the same channel made by the same guys, Car Boys. It's essentially two guys crashing cars and stuff in BeamNG but it gets really good at the end and actually really beautifully made and edited when you realise what they're doing.

I'm gonna give this a go. I've been watching a lot of Game Grumps recently upon a recommendation from a guy at work. Their Mario Maker series is way more entertaining than watching them repeatedly fail a super-hard level many times in a row really should be.

[Shindig]

I like Doodle Doods but the constant need for them to draw genitals on cartoon characters is starting to grate.

[Ian]

Bloody loving Ronin. It blatantly rips off the excellent Gunpoint, but makes it turn-based and more about action than stealth. It's like Gunpoint knocked up Hotline Miami and then made it turn-based.

Only thing I wish is Devolver put a thing in so that it recorded the fights and then let you play them back at full speed without the turns.

[Disco]

Ronin does a lot of things right, it's super satisfying when you roll into a room with a plan and slice everyone to bits. I felt the skill progression was a bit stingy, some of the levels have objectives that I didn't see how I was going to complete so I really had to pick upgrades vry carefully.

[Ian]

It's probably just a case of me getting used to things but the level I did just there I'm not sure how I was supposed to do it without setting off the alarm.

A lot of fun though. When you sword-ballet your way through a crowded room it's very satisfying, as you say.

Did you play Gunpoint as well, Disco?

[ItalAussie]

Oh, I really liked both Ronin and Gunpoint. There were a couple of levels in Ronin that I couldn't pull off perfectly, but it was always very satisfying when you did. It's one of the few objective-based games where I simply wrote some off as impossible. I have a feeling you need to power up certain directions of the skill tree in order to achieve some of them.

I would say that Gunpoint was the slightly better game though. It's a nice study on how a very similar mechanic can produce two totally different gameplay styles with only subtle differences in implementation and emphasis.

[phonics]

He just sold his millionth copy of Gunpoint. Bastard.

[Shindig]

Bloodborne's platinum is over. Pity the chalice dungeons are so samey because the two big defiled fights are awesome. The last dungeon was a stroll with the final boss effectively being Fool's Idol from Demon's Souls.

[Ian]

Owlboy is a terrific game but has a slightly rubbish ending.

Sigh.

Oh well, I've got Ronin on the go as discussed, Kentucky Route Zero I'll do the next episode at some point and I've also started Wolfenstein: The New Order.

[Ian]

It always amuses me when I'm playing a game that feels broadly similar (in my case, Wolfenstein: TNO is also an FPS after Prey) to one you've not long finished and it somewhat throws you. I keep looking about it's (lovely) levels looking for more alternate routes than the game has.

I am enjoying it though. I'm liking the stealth way more than I thought. That and dual-wielding auto-shotguns.

The restarting guns-wise every mission is a pain in the hole but I guess there is at least some logic to it in the case of the first post-resistance-base mission I'm doing.

[Boydy]

Oh, gonna have to get Ronin now. I absolutely loved Gunpoint.

Anyone played Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons?

[Ian]

I think I mentioned a Hotline Miami vibe for Ronin, and I'm definitely getting that as I get to the harder levels. Not because the gameplay is similar, just because there's a sort of puzzle element to it when you get into the tricky fights.

In Hotline Miami the solution to the "puzzle" would be "smash the door into that guard, steal his gun, shoot the dog, through the gun at the first guard who bursts into the room and then rush the next one-" etc. in this it's "Right, if I leap at those two through the glass then the others will start shooting before I land and miss, letting me take out the robocop-looking bastard and then jump again as the other bastards take aim and fire my ninja rope at the ceiling to avoid the gunfire and-"

Of course it then goes wrong and you try and work out if you took the wrong plan of attack or if you just got unlucky with the gunfire aims or whatever.

It's ace.



Anyone played Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons?

I haven't but RPS loved it. the developers are now working on some sort of split-screen co-op prison break thing which sounds interesting.

[Boydy]

I hated Hotline Miami.

[Disco]

Tricking one of those ninja bastards into jumping out of a window is the holy grail of Ronin, so satisfying.

[Ian]

It's pretty great. Got one to fall to his death, silly twat.


I hated Hotline Miami.

As I said, it's not like Hotline Miami. Just that I often feel like I'm trying to find a solution to the action sequences. As compared to just hitting / shooting walking health bars.

[ItalAussie]

In retrospect, I think Gunpoint is the better game taken as a whole, but Ronin is more fun to pick up and play a random level in a twenty minute session.

[Boydy]

It's pretty great. Got one to fall to his death, silly twat.



As I said, it's not like Hotline Miami. Just that I often feel like I'm trying to find a solution to the action sequences. As compared to just hitting / shooting walking health bars.

I know, I just wanted to put it out there that I hate Hotline Miami. My reactions just weren't quick enough for it. Nor was I ever accurate enough. It was just stupidly hard.

[Ian]

Oh, I see. I liked it once I got into the rhythm of it. I don't know that my reactions are that hot for a game like that either, it's more that you could start to game the layouts because you could see who was where in advance.

[wullie]

I'm the exact same as Boydy with Hotline Miami. Got so annoyed with it I didn't really bother persevering in case it all started to click.

[phonics]

I loved Hotline Miami, shame about the sequel. It felt like a rhythm game that instead of pressing buttons on a plastic keytar you smash someones nut in. Loved it. Avoid guns at all costs.

[Ian]

Yeah, the first gun you get in HM you're excited and then realise they're not the answer.

I heard the second one was a let-down but I got it in the Steam sale anyway.

[phonics]

It's crap, the maps are too big so you end up getting shot by someone you can't see constantly. Means you have to take things room by room rather than lookng at the situation and thinking 'You're getting battered, then it's your turn, then I'm going to chuck your gun at your mate and batter him etc.'

[Patje]

I like to use guns, just with a lot of strafing and such.
I'm now at a level in the hospital which DOES annoy me.

[Mike]

Pre-ordered this bad boy:
http://images.eurogamer.net/2017/articles/1/9/0/9/9/2/1/nintendo-confirms-snes-mini-149849357188.jpg


Two controllers will be included in the box, but you'll need an AC adaptor to use its USB plug.

For Star Fox 2, never released before anywhere, you'll need to complete the first level of the original Star Fox to unlock the game.

The full list of games included with the SNES mini in Europe lies below:

Contra III: The Alien Wars
Donkey Kong Country
EarthBound
Final Fantasy III
F-ZERO
Kirby Super Star
Kirby's Dream Course
The Legend of Zelda™: A Link to the Past
Mega Man X
Secret of Mana
Star Fox
Star Fox 2
Street Fighter 2 Turbo: Hyper Fighting
Super Castlevania 4
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Super Mario World
Super Metroid
Super Punch-Out!!
Yoshi's Island

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I probably will too.

I want the NES one more but fuck Nintendo only making about 12 of them.

Might do this for the NES though:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/NES-Inspired-Raspberry-Case-Fits/dp/B01M4OOY4U/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1498512508&sr=8-7&keywords=nes

I'd fuck up the Pi more than likely though.

[Raoul Duke]

I'll be balls deep in an N64 if they make one. How they haven't figured out this is a license to print money I do not know.

[Disco]

Welcome to Nintendo, it wouldn't do to be too successful..

[ItalAussie]

Contra III: The Alien Wars
Donkey Kong Country
EarthBound
Final Fantasy III
F-ZERO
Kirby Super Star
Kirby's Dream Course
The Legend of Zelda™: A Link to the Past
Mega Man X
Secret of Mana
Star Fox
Star Fox 2
Street Fighter 2 Turbo: Hyper Fighting
Super Castlevania 4
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Super Mario World
Super Metroid
Super Punch-Out!!
Yoshi's IslandThat is one hell of a list of games. They didn't leave anything on the table, did they?

EDIT: Maybe Donkey Kong Country 2, if we're being particularly demanding.

EDIT II: Ah, they left off Chrono Trigger as well. Bastards.

[Shindig]

Super Mario Allstars.

[wullie]

All that's missing is ISS Deluxe and ropey Mario Kart knock-off Street Racer and that's my childhood revisited. I keep dropping subtle hints about someone getting me this for Christmas but with the NES being hard to get hold of I don't fancy my chances unless I buy my own Christmas present.

[phonics]

Wonder if they'll make the controller cables more than 7 centimetres long this time. Loved feeling the sensation of my retinas burning, sitting 3 inches from a 50 inch TV.

[Ian]

ISS Deluxe

Doing a back-heel chip to score a goal with your own goalkeeper. :drool:

And then one time when I fucked it up my own goalie catching the goal kick on the halfway line. :D

[wullie]

Balls to Christmas, I found that Smyths have them available to collect only and for some reason £10 cheaper than everywhere else. I'm waiting for an email where they cancel it or bum me on the price now

[wullie]

Doing a back-heel chip to score a goal with your own goalkeeper. :drool:

And then one time when I fucked it up my own goalie catching the goal kick on the halfway line. :D

I still remember the one long-range goal I scored as it was almost impossible to do, and there was a glorious goal where my centre back waltzed from the back through the entire Brazil side to coolly finish. It went down in legend as the Matthaus goal amongst the five of us who'd regularly play each other (even though I was Italy), which was made all the better by the fact 90% of my goals were tap-ins after a goalkeeper parry. I loved that game.

[Ian]

I dunno that I ever scored a long-range one but I did like the absurd backheel chips. I assume my team were wearing some sort of boot with a unique design at the back if even my fucking goalie could do it.

[Bernanke]

Okay, Hollow Knight is seriously amazing.

[phonics]

Really? Felt like just another one of those to me.

[Ian]

Really? Felt like just another one of those to me.

This is what Walker said on RPS and the comments section was ready to have at him with pitchforks.

[phonics]

I completed 3 levels and still hadn't found an air-dash or anything which is what makes these games fun so gave up. Ori wins.

[wullie]

Wonder if they'll make the controller cables more than 7 centimetres long this time. Loved feeling the sensation of my retinas burning, sitting 3 inches from a 50 inch TV.

UPDATE 11.05am: Good news, cable fans. Nintendo has confirmed that the SNES mini's controller cable is five feet long, up from the NES mini's too-short three feet.

I quite often use the PS4 controller while plugged in so if the same length as that cable I'm happy with that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I believe the PS4 one is 5 foot too.

[Disco]

Wonder if they'll make the controller cables more than 7 centimetres long this time. Loved feeling the sensation of my retinas burning, sitting 3 inches from a 50 inch TV.

For the longest time I thought this was some kind of Nintendo meme until I actually had a go with one.

[Dark Soldier]

The Golf Club 2 is OUT!!!

(On PC and in Murica on console, 30th for us consolers over here)

Pirated it to try it, looks like ass on my laptop but initial feeling is its much, much improved. New tempo swing is way more realistic.

[Shindig]

We've got a code. I'm utilising 'first come, first served' law of reviewing to the fullest.

EDIT: Oh, God. Hearing the caddy's voice is liking hearing a friend you haven't seen in years. :) Looks better but it's still very Unity.

[Pleb]

My copy of Crash Bandicoot is already in the post :sherlock:

[phonics]

Can't wait for everyone to realise those games were always shit.

[Shindig]

Dark Soldier What were the load times like on Golf Club? I remember the first game being nice and slick but I haven't been back to it in ages. GC2 feels a little heavy on the loading. Unless there's just bother with the PS4 version.

[Dark Soldier]

Dark Soldier What were the load times like on Golf Club? I remember the first game being nice and slick but I haven't been back to it in ages. GC2 feels a little heavy on the loading. Unless there's just bother with the PS4 version.


Depended on the course. Official courses were deliberately quick (so not much heavy planting etc), one custom course I played which was brilliant took nearly 10 minutes. The game is a bit of a mess currently, the servers are fucked going off what others have reported.

[Shindig]

Ah. It did seem like the original game was doing a lot of server-side stuff. Maybe the launch has knocked them. The tutorial was nice and it turns out I'm still gloriously bad at this. I need to know what the career mode is. Looks like a season thing you can knock together, rather than a rags to riches golfer thing.

[Dark Soldier]

Yeah its an improved version of the first's, which was added to that via DLC. Societies is the huge draw, join one, weekly tournaments, in game cash prizes etc. I'll report back Saturday with impressions as I'll be hammering it Friday evening.

[Ian]

The last level of Ronin is FUCKING HARD.

[Disco]

I was waiting for you to get to that :D

It's proper bullshit, I never managed to get through it unscathed.

[Ian]

I've managed to clear out two or three rooms of dudes without taking a hit but keeping your limit break points between rooms / floors is an absolute ballache.

I reckon the key will be saving the first guy in the last room until last so if you have taken a hit you may still be able to make it to the bike. I'll probably keep dipping into it but I can't envision a reality in which I get through the whole thing without getting hit at all.

[Disco]

I only ever concentrated on staying alive, bugger the limit break thing. It was the lack of checkpoints that did for me, the first few rooms weren't exactly simple to clear so I'd get a bit further, take a hit while working out how to finish a room then have to do the entire thing again. It's one slight redeeming factor is that it's not too hard to finish it once you've taken a hit.

[Ian]

Did you ever get through to the bike while still dying? Is that a thing? Does it have a third ending or is it basically dead or totally untouched?

The lack of checkpoints is the killer though I see why they did it / the damage mechanic for the last level. If I ever manage to finish it I'll feel like a goddamn sexual tyrannosaur.