What games are you playing this week? 2017-07-03

[obsidianspider]

Another random off-topic thing:

If anyone in Europe comes across any of these Game Boy Advance candy containers, I'd like to buy a few, but not at the crazy high prices I'm seeing them for on eBay.

[meleu]

@obsidianspider 's retirement is going to be funded by "Tiny RetroGaming Builds" ;)

[obsidianspider]

@meleu I'll be surrounded by half-started projects. :)

[meleu]

@obsidianspider going back on topic: have you discovered what we are supposed to do on Super Tank stage 2?

[obsidianspider]

@meleu I kept dying in stage 1. That game is so bad. I'll give it another try today and see what I find.

[buddyscott]

@obsidianspider whoever is selling those is making a killing. bought for $1 and selling for $30!

[obsidianspider]

@buddyscott They're 16 years old, but still. Sheesh.

[spruce_m00se]

its an excelent investment , almost as good as LEGO ?

[obsidianspider]

@spruce_m00se Probably less deadly if you step on one.

I watched this week's James and Mike Monday where they tried out Haunted Castle and I decided to try it myself. Holy crap is this game hard.

[celly]

@obsidianspider that game is brutally hard. I too watched that vid and tried it. Throw my controller after a few tries. No thanks.

[mediamogul]

@celly, @obsidianspider

You two have probably already seen, but Mike has since beaten the game. If you watch him play some of the more difficult games, he basically breaks every single movement down to a memory exercise of exactly where to stand, jump or strike at any moment. This is most obvious in his playthrough of 'Dragon's Lair' for the NES. That mechanical, memory-based approach to gaming takes a lot of the fun away for me personally, but as a result I'm not likely to ever beat as many difficult games as he has either.

[mediamogul]

On the subject of Castlevania, the entire first season of the new animated series was released today on Netflix.

[obsidianspider]

@mediamogul yeah, memorizing a game isn't fun to me, but to each their own I guess.

I hope the Castlevania Netflix series has at least one person who says "What a horrible night to have a curse."

[kisu2012]

@Brigane said in What games are you playing this week? 2017-07-03:

@kisu2012

What settings are you using?
Is it running smooth for you?
I have very slow in-game movements on my Pi 2

I am using an overclocked Pi3 in ES. It doesn't run amazing, but it's fully playable.

[lilbud]

Well I started to play Ori and the Blind Forest (PC)

And, oh boy, the waterworks

[meleu]

@cyperghost said in New Idea/Help Needed - es_systems.cfg Selector:

How are your achivements in Terranigma?

I'm going to start the Tower 4.

I'm still getting used to that complex menu system inside the box :-)

I still don't know what to do with those magirocks.

About cheevos, this game has one hundred achievements(!!!), then I suppose I won't "master" this (get all cheevos).

List of achievements:
http://retroachievements.org/Game/242

[cyperghost]

@meleu said in What games are you playing this week? 2017-07-03:

@cyperghost said in New Idea/Help Needed - es_systems.cfg Selector:

I'm going to start the Tower 4.

In Tower 5 is your first boss battle :)

I'm still getting used to that complex menu system inside the box :-)

That's really a good system for that time on a small console. Such iventory systems were used also in Diablo and Co. Hey! We are talking about a cartridge system.

I still don't know what to do with those magirocks.

You can sell them and get power rings to use magic speels

About cheevos, this game has one hundred achievements(!!!), then I suppose I won't "master" this (get all cheevos).

That's a kind of own personality. I'm not addicted to get all but for 20 years a cartridge costs much money and you played the games 3-4-5 times through just to collect all achivments :)

[rig]

@Sano, yeah, this is something I have been thinking about-- how to beat mame games? Should I beat all games on one coin? 4 coins? I have found that infinite contiues gets old real quick and you mentally check out. What I try to do is practice on one coin and use save states on each level and don't progress to the next level until I can beat the level three times in a row without dying. I also play the game legit with no save states at least once per sitting. That being said, I have been playing Willow arcade for at least a month now and sort of gave up on beating it in one coin. Lately I have been playing it caual and can beat it in about 5 coins

[rig]

@mediamogul , I don't think there is any other way to beat hard nes games, you have to comit everything to memory. I have beaten most the hard ones(the gaidens, ghosts n goblins, battletoads etc). But once you have the game memorized it's a lot of fun to go back and play them. Battletoads, for example still requeires a lot of timing, endurance and skill on top of the memorization. The Game is still really rewarding to beat even for the nth time.

[Omnija]

@rig and that's the reason we can remember a ridiculous amount of peoples phone numbers. Kids today can barely remember 2.
As for mame/arcade games, i'm sort of the same way about having 3 or 4 coins and after those are done ... so is that game.