What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

  On 5/26/2019 at 1:41 PM, bitchroast said:

i bought Lego Indiana Jones on Wii specifically because someone released an exploit where you put a downloaded file on an SD card, play Lego Indiana Jones on disc, go up to a fountain and press B or something .. and then the wii for whatever reason reads the files off the SD card, reboots itself and installs custom firmware onto the console,... installs the Homebrew Channel. used to be my way of playing old roms on TV

 this was a while ago, btw! back when websites were selling modded NES and SNES controllers with gamecube adapters on the end specifically for plugging into the Wii. 

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Oh man that reminds me of me hacking my Wii for hours on end so I can install games on an external hard disk.. Only for my little sister to fuck up the whole thing a few months later with menu shanaenigans while I wasn't home

buying the 2nd hand disc from the store felt funny. like i was buying a porno magazine or something really shady, and wondering "does the store clerk know???

  On 5/26/2019 at 1:41 PM, bitchroast said:

i bought Lego Indiana Jones on Wii specifically because someone released an exploit where you put a downloaded file on an SD card, play Lego Indiana Jones on disc, go up to a fountain and press B or something .. and then the wii for whatever reason reads the files off the SD card, reboots itself and installs custom firmware onto the console,... installs the Homebrew Channel. used to be my way of playing old roms on TV

this was a while ago, btw! back when websites were selling modded NES and SNES controllers with gamecube adapters on the end specifically for plugging into the Wii. 

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That's pretty cool, I don't think I had played it since I last had it on PS2. Never had the knowledge to tinker with wii and xbox 360 stuff either but knew of a few friends who had done it.

  On 5/26/2019 at 1:55 PM, milkface said:

That's pretty cool, I don't think I had played it since I last had it on PS2. Never had the knowledge to tinker with wii and xbox 360 stuff either but knew of a few friends who had done it.

getting the thing to play actual gamecube and wii roms was a more involved process. i tried doing it for the gamecube side of things but managed to completely bork it up and resulted in trying to boot gamecube games just having the wii shut itself down. i was only wanting to try Mario Kart Arcade GP roms, I swear !!! 

Apparently Romero's new Sigil map pack for the original Doom is a letdown from what I've heard. At this point I'm just gonna fart around some more on my latest Fallout 4 playthrough until Ion Maiden gets finished. And then I can dive into No Man's Sky Beyond later this summer.

No Rage 2 though, since my PC won't even run it. But I was able to get it refunded. Looks like the reviews are largely mixed anyway.

Quake II RTX is being released 6th June as a 3 level demo, that will work for the whole game if you own it

https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/27/nvidia-is-giving-away-the-quake-ii-ray-tracing-demo-on-june-6t/

So I just played the 1958 version of pong 

Well yesterday anyway.

  On 5/26/2019 at 1:55 PM, milkface said:

That's pretty cool, I don't think I had played it since I last had it on PS2. Never had the knowledge to tinker with wii and xbox 360 stuff either but knew of a few friends who had done it.

the gamestop employee totally gave me a "haha. i know why you buyin' lego indiana jones." it was $20 used i had 7 days to return it so i took it back as soon as i hacked my wii. ended up hacking my sisters wii for her and her kids too.

Konami has revealed their lineup for the rumoured (and now-confirmed) Contra Anniversary Collection:

Just found out Void Bastards is available on Steam tomorrow, at least in my region. What a pleasant surprise

Working from home on a video project today and there were a lot of renders to wait for so whenever I had 15 or 20 minutes I'd play Batman (NES) and I must have spent an hour and a half on that last level but I still can't quite beat the Joker. I don't know how I pulled it off in middle school.

I think maybe I have to kneel when I'm punching him but I need a long break before I play through it again.

The first 5 levels really aren't that bad at all but 6 is pretty brutal.

To everyone - if you had to recommend a single game that you think every gamer must play, what is it?

super mario bros

Pokémon Company gave a preview of their upcoming Direct, a new app called Pokémon Home will integrate Bank, as well as Go and Let's Go games to trade with one another.

https://gonintendo.com/stories/336345-the-pokemon-company-unveils-new-games-mobile-apps-and-hardware

  On 5/29/2019 at 7:09 AM, Brisbot said:

To everyone - if you had to recommend a single game that you think every gamer must play, what is it?

Shadow of the Colossus

(my fav game ever would probably be Mega Man 2, tho)

Shadow of the Colossus is a good pick. 

  On 5/29/2019 at 6:56 AM, TubularCorporation said:

Working from home on a video project today and there were a lot of renders to wait for so whenever I had 15 or 20 minutes I'd play Batman (NES) and I must have spent an hour and a half on that last level but I still can't quite beat the Joker. I don't know how I pulled it off in middle school.

 

I think maybe I have to kneel when I'm punching him but I need a long break before I play through it again.

 

The first 5 levels really aren't that bad at all but 6 is pretty brutal.

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Sunsoft (makers of Batman on the NES) were such great game creators... they literally created some of my favourite games of all time:

Blaster Master
Fantasy Zone (yeah, Sega created it but their Mega Drive port of it is so good)
Cotton

And many more...

  On 5/29/2019 at 7:09 AM, Brisbot said:

To everyone - if you had to recommend a single game that you think every gamer must play, what is it?

Gosh, that's a hard one - there are so many!

I guess if I had to pick one that had a big impact on me, it would probably be Strider (arcade) - that part where you run down the snowy mountainside with the explosives going off and the music builds... amazing. Go to 3:51 in the video if the timecode in the URL doesn't work.

  On 5/29/2019 at 2:27 PM, jaderpansen said:

Shadow of the Colossus

(my fav game ever would probably be Mega Man 2, tho)

I remember buying Mega Man 2 the day it came out, rushing home, and sitting there until I beat it - the whole experience was pure magic. I'd love to see a remake of it (actually all the original MM games) in the same style as Mega Man 11 was, which is a great game in it's own right.

I guess another way to ask it is asking what game you'd bring with you to a desert island. Assuming you could play it. Though I suppose that's a slightly different question as you'd probably want to bring some crazy huge RPG.

  On 5/29/2019 at 4:22 PM, Joyrex said:

I guess if I had to pick one that had a big impact on me, it would probably be Strider (arcade) - that part where you run down the snowy mountainside with the explosives going off and the music builds... amazing. Go to 3:51 in the video if the timecode in the URL doesn't work

Oh yeah Strider is great. Way before my time but thankfully I have an uncle to showed me all those goodies. 

  On 5/29/2019 at 4:16 PM, Lada Laika said:

Shadow of the Colossus is a good pick. 

If only I could erase the experience of playing the game to play it again. 

  On 5/29/2019 at 6:58 PM, Brisbot said:

  On 5/29/2019 at 4:16 PM, Lada Laika said:

Shadow of the Colossus is a good pick. 

If only I could erase the experience of playing the game to play it again. 

I never played it originally, and have always wanted to, but for some reason I never seem to find increased interest in doing so... sounds like one of those games you play once and never again (which is not a bad thing in some cases).

  On 5/29/2019 at 7:06 PM, Joyrex said:

I never played it originally, and have always wanted to, but for some reason I never seem to find increased interest in doing so... sounds like one of those games you play once and never again (which is not a bad thing in some cases).

Oh no it has high replay value. But it's not the the type you usually go thru twice in a short time period, unless you're playing a higher difficulty. It's a game you pull out every 2-5 years and play through it.

It is as the other peeps say, definitely a must play. I honestly suggest you go buy it like right now. If you have a PS3, you can get the original version but better looking than the ps2 version. And somewhat recently the whole game was  remade from scratch to update it more for ps4, and plays like the original, with better controlling and graphics. Though imho there's a charm to the original due to the hazy graphics. The ps3 version would be cheaper as well.

You should look up both versions. It isn't a long game so you have no excuse.

  On 5/29/2019 at 7:10 PM, Brisbot said:

Oh no it has high replay value. But it's not the the type you usually go thru twice in a short time period, unless you're playing a higher difficulty. It's a game you pull out every 2-5 years and play through it.

 It is as the other peeps say, definitely a must play. I honestly suggest you go buy it like right now. If you have a PS3, you can get the original version. And somewhat recently the whole game was basically made from scratch to update it more for ps4, but plays like the original, with better controlling and graphics. Though imho there's a charm to the original due to the hazy graphics.

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Yeah I watched some streams of the remake and it looked gorgeous, but I missed that hazy quality from the original - made the whole realm feel more cloaked in mystery.

  On 5/29/2019 at 7:11 PM, Lada Laika said:

Yeah I watched some streams of the remake and it looked gorgeous, but I missed that hazy quality from the original - made the whole realm feel more cloaked in mystery.

More like cloaked the limited draw distance

  On 5/29/2019 at 7:11 PM, Lada Laika said:

Yeah I watched some streams of the remake and it looked gorgeous, but I missed that hazy quality from the original - made the whole realm feel more cloaked in mystery.

If anything it's worth it to play the ps3 version first, then get the remake a few years down the road when you go to play it again.

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More like cloaked the limited draw distance 

It works in the game due to the 'feeling' of the colossus and game in general. It's hard to explain.

  On 5/29/2019 at 7:13 PM, Joyrex said:

More like cloaked the limited draw distance

Oh totally. I first played it on the PS2.

Apparently we are going to get some more Death Stranding news soon - something they said about it leads me to think the "stranding" is not Engrish, but an action of some sort, related to dying or death...