orthicviper

sternosaur, do you have steam ? You or anyone else wanting to join me can add me. My user id there is the same as the one here on retromags.com

The Yakuza series is great! And Vanquish is one of the best action games ever though it was developed by Platinum Games. Also Binary Domain is a pretty cool sci-fi action game. I don't blame Sega for being cowards if people aren't going to smarten up and buy more of these wonderful games from Sega. Shenmue will probably get enough coverage from video game websites and word-of-mouth mention to make it a topic of gamers around the time Shenmue 3 releases. Any decent marketer should be able to build anticipation around a game that at the time was the costliest game ever made and was one of Sega's last (I guess?) creations for it's doomed console.

Interestingly, I remember replaying Shinobi Shadow Dancer and Gradius 3 at the age of around 20 and being surprised at how I was doing better than when I played gradius 3 when I was 8 and Shinobi when I was about 11.

Maybe M$ just plans on placing the blame on Steam as Steam gets bugger and crashier from whatever M$ is scheming. Then M$ will offer up their own bug-free and higher-performance alternative!

I expect the Switch to sell about only twice as good as the Wii U and then maybe investors will sabotage future system sales by demanding even more nintendo games be developed for smart phones so people will lose motivation to buy the system. And I don't think enough people care about UHD blu ray player resolution to make it matter a lot for system sales of ps4 vs xbox one but i'd like to be proven wrong about that. And maybe I will get proven wrong since I am still surprised how big a deal people make about 4K resolution when there's other graphical improvements games could get instead which would make a bigger impact on the quality. I mean for a game like Myst you could really use 4K, but when you're racing cars or blowing things up on a 1st person shooter battlefield who is going to notice much regarding 1080p or 4K? Especially with all the 30 FPS console games out there then you're even less likely to notice 4K quality on top of most TV's having worse motion blurring than CRT's even when these modern TV's are doing a 240hz refresh rate.

I'll be gaming into my golden years too. Hopefully at that point I will be able to buy brain implants that will let me finally beat Gradius 3, as a gray-haired old man!

Good idea but it feels incomplete without planning to hire Monsanto or someone to do some genetic research on leeches and viruses and such.

People saying xbox one and ps4 are nearly equal in power is one of the biggest lies in the history of mankind. The PS4 is substantially more powerful than the xbone. And by substantially I mean a GPU that's about 50% better and a type of RAM (GDDR5) that's a lot faster. The only thing the xbone has going for it is a 10% better CPU and 32 MB of eSRAM but that eSRAM still doesn't match the GDDR5 RAM of ps4. This is why more multi-platform games can do 1080p on ps4 than the 720p box.

I didn't think of it that way, that they made C:SotN's levels designed from the beginning to properly suit the upside down variation but instead I just figured there were small changes on top of the reversal to make it work right. But your comment makes me want to play it again and see if it really is mostly or completely the same except just flipped upside down. Those RE games do have good levels. I didn't find the water temple annoying I thought it was fun but especially the one on Twilight Princess was fun for me.

because that means nintendo will be forced to release their games for the PC! A total winning situation for me...Then I wont need to buy extra controllers to play with anyone since I already have some for my PC. Though being nintendo they might try to make a new type of controller required to play their games on a PC. Now, am I the only one that thinks nintendo's best strategy would have been to give up their 'blue ocean' strategy of luring in casuals, and instead made a console more powerful than the ps4 pro and marketed their system as a hardcore gamer system?

Do you know any old gamers? I've always thought it was cool to see old folks playing video games. I remember being surprised when I played Ghost Recon Online how many people in there 50's and 60's were playing. I'd love one day to see some 70 year old playing a 1st person shooter and finding out it's his/her favorite hobby. It'd be especially nice if it was a woman who was a 70 year gamer (action-oriented stuff not solitaire or something), just for showing me the unexpected.

kind of overreacting there sunshine

You don't like 3D unless it is on a VR headset and then you think it is amazing. I really find that very interesting. If you like it in VR it would only make sense to me that you could still enjoy it a lot without VR. Now I have to wonder if all the 3D haters out there would find disabling stereoscopic 3d within VR to cause much negation of their enjoyment of the VR experience. I think you are right. It doesn't cease to amaze me how much people complain about needing glasses to use 3D yet don't mind putting contacts/headphones/sunglasses on and getting nasal piercings and all the other things they do. Maybe if you were to endure it long enough you could adapt to it eventually but I really don't know. It is something I would try if I had the same problem you do.

I think he left to get a 'safe space' from the SJW

True Lies SNES 1st level music Drakkhen SNES character creation music Streets of Rage 2 game gear soundtrack which i much prefer to even the great genesis version soundtrack Shinobi for game gear has a great soundtrack and i think this song is kind of emotionally impactful Twisted Metal Head On has my favorite TM soundtrack ever and one of my favorite gaming soundtracks period

i liked SoE more than secret of mana. The music is really awesome. Great job Jeremy Soule! The levels/worlds were fun and they had nice secrets to find.

i think the dumbest thing i ever did on a video game was when i was maybe 8 or 9 and on zelda LTTP I repeatedly assaulted a chicken with the sword and just didn't stop and then all the sudden i snapped out of this chicken-destroying trance i somehow descended into when i noticed i was being swarmed by angry chickens coming from all angles. And then I was like whoa they actually designed the game with this feature knowing that some idiot would just endlessly pound away at these chickens? I mean you have to hit the same chicken like 40 times without letting the screen scroll off him for this to even work. But that motivated me to explore the games possibilities further and in one of my chicken experiments, i discovered a glitch (feature?) where I could go to this one house in kakariko village and toss a chicken through a wall into the next room over. In yet another chicken experiment of mine i found one where you could sprinkle magic powder on it and it would turn into a woman. I still feel like this game has many more wonderful chicken mysteries but so far those are all i ever found. But if there's any guy out there who can find them i'm sure its me cuz i never get bored with those chickens...

nah man i remember playing that game using the name entry trick to reduce your stats, and not using the good items i'd find, and still found it too easy as i'd start leveling up but i made a bit of an effort to avoid attacking enemies so as not to level up. It was just too hard to make the game hard. :/ I heard Circle of the Moon on GBA was considered a bit too hard but I found the difficulty about perfect. I'm just around an average gamer's skill level I think I mean i can't beat gradius 3 or anything.

I still sometimes think about Duke Nuke'em 3D, Shadow Warrior and Blood and how good the level designs were in those games. These guys weren't just doing a job to get paid but you could play it and tell they really enjoyed their job and wanted to make their levels fun. And when I play the levels in Super Mario Galaxy 2 or Little Big Planet games I wonder if the kind of creativity I see there is possible without drugs! I think for SNES the best level design was in Super Metroid and The Legend of Zelda: LTTP which was just one big area leading to other areas that created a very fun world to explore. Maybe for Sega Genesis I'd give the best level design award to Shinobi 3 and Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Chemical Night Zone and the Casino levels were really cool.

Castlevania: SotN is over-rated! Way too easy game that made all the cool new armor, weapons and abilities you'd find no fun at all to use because you'd actually want to use weaker items so the game would be too easy instead of brain-dead easy.

Yes, yes indeed. I will join you. I wonder how many virtual quarters is fair for the typical emulated arcade game without being too cheesy?

i just now saw all these replies to this old post of mine! well getting this stuff set up is easy since the hardest part is just knowing the other player's ip address. Well are you still interested?

If you like it, give your thoughts or if you don't have much to say just simply say that you do like it so i can see how many of you care about it. I'm also interested in those of you who dislike it. I know a lot of people hate it because it doesn't work well for them with the effectiveness being low or getting headaches, but are there people who can experience a real sense of depth with it and get no headaches and STILL dislike it? I'd really like to know that. As for me I love it and it greatly contributes to my enjoyment of games and I will pay extra money to game that way or see 3d movies. The vast majority of 3d movies are terrible but when they actually film with a 3d camera set up then the effect is vastly better and awesome.

digital games are not inherently incompatible with preservation or ownership. We just need to make consumer demand for the right kind of end user license agreements that give us the digital rights we should have. Some people want the right to sell their digital goods but that is not something I fully agree with since I think anyone who plays and enjoys a game should make a financial contribution to those who put in hours into making a quality game. But we need to be eligible for refunds of digital goods and most certainly need guarantees that companies will make efforts to allow us to continue to use our digital goods regardless of if they go out of business. Digital games can have as much value as physical games but it just depends on the terms and conditions set forth. A company may go out of business but physical goods can get stolen and destroyed and take up space. I think over time things will get better digitally as with EA's attempt to compete with steam they started offering digital refunds, and soon Steam started to do the same. GOG has done away with anti-piracy (i mean anti-consumer) DRM. Allowing companies to have gotten away with not letting us refund physical or digital games for so long is pretty shameful for consumers but companies will only cornhole us as hard as we let them and most consumers love to take it hard. If people don't start demanding a little respect though there is a possibility of a very dark future with games as a service and being very expensive. Steam may do 75% off sales a lot but I think that was only to get a monopoly on digital gaming by enticing people into getting a large steam game library. Maybe these great gaming deals will continue forever though.