Club409 - Game on

scott

Total posts: 1076

4/19/2017 8:44 PM

ooh. that's a time sink i don't need right now. played the hell out of that back in the day and lost almost a year to SC2. the campaign is awesome. let's hope i can avoid getting sucked into online matches.

scott

Total posts: 1076

4/24/2017 7:49 PM

against my better judgement i played FFXV partly out of curiosity and partly due to the mostly positive reviews. i've never had a game leave me feeling so angry and empty. you can tell the game suffered from development hell, constantly changing focus and compromising the original vision. this game had so much potential and squandered it. the story is incoherent and you feel no emotional connection to the characters. most of the interesting plot points happen off screen and the game never bothers to fill you in on the details.

i photoshopped this to express my disappointment

http://imgur.com/A6RibNr

Drew

Total posts: 5121

6/12/2017 11:29 AM

I mean I don't necessarily want to be phasing out video games but it just seems to be happening. Nothing at e3 so far has me more than marginally interested in playing. Bioware announced their Destiny clone and it's easy to see why Mass Effect: Andromeda suffered because of all the effort they've presumably put in to Anthem (the Destiny clone). The gameplay reveal just looked boring. I guess there's still some old games I've been meaning to replay.

scott

Total posts: 1076

6/12/2017 8:35 PM

I've taken the delayed/retro gamer path. I picked up a PSP with 4 games for $100. Been replaying FF Tactics; a brutally difficult game, but great storytelling, the artwork holds up, and they've added animated cut scenes to the re-release.

Drew

Total posts: 5121

6/27/2017 11:39 AM

SNES classic available in September for $80, missing chrono trigger but has these:

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 II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
Super Castlevania IV
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

And again they're going with useless cord length for the controllers, like 5 feet, so there's gotta be extension cords and possible modding to add roms for me to be a buyer, guess we'll see

scott

Total posts: 1076

6/30/2017 11:54 AM

It's a novelty, but they really should just have their entire library available in an eshop to download a play. I understand there may be licensing issues, but how hard could it be to work those out? Maybe it's a fight over which platforms they would be available on? Until they give customers a legitimate option, I say go with a RetroPie or mod an old Nintendo DS.

Drew

Total posts: 5121

7/3/2017 11:33 AM

i'm going to ask for a raspberry pi and some accessories for my birthday *fingers crossed* *quitting my job to play retro games*

Drew

Total posts: 5121

7/5/2017 9:39 AM

in celebration of my decision to do retropie enjoy this classic:

acelxix

Total posts: 2400

6/21/2018 10:41 PM

(Updated 6/21/2018 10:42 PM)

fyi, Steam has their summer sale going on right now, and TTS is on sale for $4.09...obviously a sign that we need to get our game on!

Drew

Total posts: 5121

6/24/2018 12:06 AM

I bought two copies last time TTS was mentioned, maybe we can set up a post jv bedtime session, don't even think I launched it yet, arif are you back from the 'desh yet?