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Team Fail said:
I've heard a lot about Chrono Trigger, so that'd be one game I want to get. At this point, I have only 5-ish games for my SNES - FFV and VI, Super Mario World, and Super Mario All-Stars, but I also have a Super Gameboy, which makes playing Pokemon games really fun.
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If you have a chance to buy these games for SNES, do it:

Super Mario RPG
A Link to the Past
Beavis and Butthead
Donkey Kong Country 1-3
 
...Beavis and Butthead? Really?


I've been playing a lot of old arcade and Famicom games recently. Anyone familiar with any from growing up? Any memories?
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjLtEqY8jKw
Remaster of He's a Pirate from KH HD2.5. Anyone who remembers the original will instantly tell how improved this is from the original, which was almost as bad as RSE with the trumpets. I can't justify a PS3 just for HD remakes of KH, but I can't go without the games if they're that improved. Maybe a PS4 eventually, but I doubt they'll ever go that far. God damn it I'm torn.
 
I have one of those Sega Genesis emulation devices that reads ROMs off an SD card in storage. It was prone to freezing, but the weirder thing was how it emulated the audio, haha. Everything was like a tone higher than it should be, which made for an interesting play through of Sonic the Hedgehog. The funny thing is it was licensed through Sega. I need a real Genesis. It was like 20 bucks though and I got it for Christmas so no complaints here, lol!
 
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I bought the Sega Megadrive Collection for ps3 not too long ago. It was actually quite hard to find a copy, surprisingly. Were those games that big back in the day? A pity I wasn't familiar with any of them. In fact, the only 'retro' games I remember playing was Puzzle Bobble. It was so much fun!
 
Gilver said:
I bought the Sega Megadrive Collection for ps3 not too long ago. It was actually quite hard to find a copy, surprisingly. Were those games that big back in the day? A pity I wasn't familiar with any of them. In fact, the only 'retro' games I remember playing was Puzzle Bobble. It was so much fun!
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Yeah, the Megadrive/Genesis is held by many to be one of the best consoles ever made, and was the source of one of the biggest console wars that ever happened. You should try Fatal Labyrinth, should be on that collection you bought.
 
I see. Thanks for telling me that, and I shall check that game out. :)

I remember I saw this picture on Tumblr once about the console wars back in the day. It had pictures of the PS1, Dreamcast, Project X and N64. One of the rebloggers posted some hilarious remarks about it, which went something along the lines of;

PS1: How long does it have?
-Eternity and forever
Project X: Is it for real?
-As real as ghosts

Dreamcast: Can it be stopped?
-Dead in its tracks
Nintendo 64: Can it survive
It could survive the quarter-quell annual hunger games armed with nothing but a mildly rotten cantaloupe and a set of assembly instructions for an IKEA desk
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Compared to back then, the console wars of today look like schoolyard disputes.
 
Am I the only person that enjoy so-called "mobile" games...on a laptop...with a keyboard and a mouse?

(Take Asphalt: Overdrive for example. Touchscreen = swipe to steer; laptop = arrow keys to steer. Things like that. The latter feels more...right.)
 
Necrum said:
Is the current Humble Bundle worth it?
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Personally the bundle doesn't interest me. Last bundle with Prison Architect and Papers, Please was worth the $10, so I got that one. But Surgeon Simulator is the only thing that piqued my interest and not enough to pay $11.
 
Klippy said:
Personally the bundle doesn't interest me. Last bundle with Prison Architect and Papers, Please was worth the $10, so I got that one. But Surgeon Simulator is the only thing that piqued my interest and not enough to pay $11.
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Yeah last bundle was awesome, I wanted Race the Sun >.< I had no monies to use though. Going to give like 10 cents for the Mobile Bundle, Doodle God and Doodle Devil sound interesting and I mean I don't even have to give much, lol. Hopefully the next main bundle is Halloween themed. Maybe we can get 5NAF.
 
Necrum said:
Yeah last bundle was awesome, I wanted Race the Sun >.< I had no monies to use though. Going to give like 10 cents for the Mobile Bundle, Doodle God and Doodle Devil sound interesting and I mean I don't even have to give much, lol.
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Oh, now don't do that. When you give that little, HB loses money. At least give a dollar.

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On another note, I bought Shadow of Mordor the other day ($30 here for those interested (Steam), and yes, it's region free and in English). It was well worth the price I paid. Pretty much Batman mixed with AssCreed, but unique enough to stand on its own. The Nemesis system is easily the game's greatest feature. The idea of creating unscripted relationships between a player and their enemy is truly brilliant, and I really want to see more games do something like this. Open-World games are often restricted by that lack of organic content. In the Sims (which they said was one of their inspirations for this), everything that happens is sort of based on this. Sims will interact with others, think about others, and even live out their average lives based on their relationships and encounters with those characters. It makes a game that has no story or basis feel personal. The relationship isn't scripted and, as a result, every surprise feels less synthetic.

With Open World games, though, you run into the problem that, when the story's over, the clock starts ticking. You feel less inclined to play the game because you've fulfilled one of those things that either drove you or, despite not acknowledging it you kept on the backburner, so even though there are other things you can do, you feel less inclined to do them. There may be people in the games that you know, but they won't really remember you, they'll just respond as their relationship dictates. This is why the Nemesis system is brilliant and needs to catch on.

To make an already long post even longer, let me recount the battle I had with my rival, Nurag. Nurag was an average captain with little prestige and renown. One day, I waltzed in with my Caragor, a vicious mount (and wild animal) that can be encountered in the game, named Agro (after the horse from Shadow of the Colossus). He was my first mount, and little did I know, one of Nurag's strengths was Monster Slaying. I stormed his stronghold and fought side by side with Agro. Nurag killed Agro rather quickly, growing in power as a result. I, barely believing my eyes, went after him in a blind rage, only to have been killed by him. I quickly went after him again and again, him often calling me out for having been beaten by him, and would often either day or run with my tail between my legs. After a while, he became cold and demeaning, going so far as to strike me down and walk away rather than dealing the final blow, deeming me unworthy of death at his hand because I'd proven in the past that I was so little of a match for him. At that point, I wasn't even his rival, but my story, my goal in the game, was to kill him. After each encounter, and even when I didn't go after him, his power would rise, and he became one of the strongest generals. I'd created my own endgame boss.

It's that type of unrestricted, unscripted storytelling, and with an enemy no less, that makes a game feel more personal. He wasn't just calling out my character, he was calling me out. I previously mentioned in that discussion about Elder Scrolls that I wanted ES to be more personal, saying that it puts more emphasis on action rather than choice and character development as a fighter and a protagonist rather than a person in a world living a life, but this game, which is almost devoid of life aspects, manages to put emphasis on action and the former character development rather while still creating a personal experience. If a system like this were extended to other things, such as more mutual and friendly relationships with characters, mercantilism, life aspects, so an and so forth, or even just other characters in a game- creating a world that is truly shifting and developing in a way that feels realistic and makes the aspects feel more 3-dimensional, I could see the Open-World genre evolving into something that is more vibrant and alive.

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Oh, and thanks for the birthday wish!
 
Evil Stud Muffin said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjLtEqY8jKw
Remaster of He's a Pirate from KH HD2.5. Anyone who remembers the original will instantly tell how improved this is from the original, which was almost as bad as RSE with the trumpets. I can't justify a PS3 just for HD remakes of KH, but I can't go without the games if they're that improved. Maybe a PS4 eventually, but I doubt they'll ever go that far. God damn it I'm torn.
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Oh, that's interesting. Did they redo all of the music in these games?

I really want to play these games. Have for ages. I was stupidly single platform Nintendo fanboy in the PS2 days so they passed me by. Last gen I went 360 over PS3 (it was the better option at time of purchase). And while there are a number of titles I'd get on PS3 to justify a purchase (almost entirely PS2 HD remakes tbh), I just cannot bring myself to do it so late in the game when the PS4 is already out and when the price of a PS3 is still stupidly expensive. I got my Wii U for less than the PS3 goes for @__@
 
I still think there will be a good deal on a PS3 on Black Friday or your Canadian equivalent. I think they had one with The Last of Us and Arkham Origins (both of which were fairly new at the time) for $199 last year, so I'd expect something at least similar.

I've thought about upgrading to a slim or super slim, but I really hate the way they cheaped out on the design of the super slim. My 80GB fat PS3 is still working just fine though, fingers crossed.
 
TRIFORCE89 said:
Oh, that's interesting. Did they redo all of the music in these games?

I really want to play these games. Have for ages. I was stupidly single platform Nintendo fanboy in the PS2 days so they passed me by. Last gen I went 360 over PS3 (it was the better option at time of purchase). And while there are a number of titles I'd get on PS3 to justify a purchase (almost entirely PS2 HD remakes tbh), I just cannot bring myself to do it so late in the game when the PS4 is already out and when the price of a PS3 is still stupidly expensive. I got my Wii U for less than the PS3 goes for @__@
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Iirc they worked with the Boston VGO for the soundtrack, so yeah every track was redone. As for the price, the PS3 is at 250 and the Wii U is at 330, so its not too bad. But I've played most PS2 games, which doesn't justify it for renasters, and I've beaten mostmost major last gen games on PC. A Ps4 is ideal for me, but the,damn remasters aren't on it.
 
Oh my god you guys, Thomas was Alone is actually good! It's one of the games in the Humble Bundle, and you don't even have to give the average for it. It's basically a puzzle platformer where you move differing sized blocks. The blocks each have personalities though and it's so adorable!

EDIT: It froze on me a couple times now, but idk if it's because the game is buggy or if my computer just sucks.
 
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Evil Stud Muffin said:
Iirc they worked with the Boston VGO for the soundtrack, so yeah every track was redone. As for the price, the PS3 is at 250 and the Wii U is at 330, so its not too bad. But I've played most PS2 games, which doesn't justify it for renasters, and I've beaten mostmost major last gen games on PC. A Ps4 is ideal for me, but the,damn remasters aren't on it.
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I got my Wii U, deluxe bundle and new, for $120 :P

I am great at deal hunting. But I just cannot crack this PS3 nut. The price of the PlayStation TV is what the PS3 should be. If there was somewhat of playing PS3 games on the PS4, I'd just buy that.
 
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