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

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.

rig

@Omnija , yeah trying to beat mame games, that were designed to eat quarters, on one coin is more difficult than beating a hard nes game. I am not sure if I am hardcore enough to envest the time to beat them on one coin. 4 coins sounds reasonable. If I could walk up to any arcade machine and beat it with one dollar I would feal like a rockstar.

Omnija

@rig sadly arcades don't cost a quarter anymore which would make you a super rockstar on 1 coin xD.

On a side note, my girlfriend and i beat snes - alladin thanks to 2 bottles of wine.

I've never really played Aladdin before , so her knowing more about a game then me was pretty surprising. I think we did pretty good at collecting the rubies for a first try together.

mediamogul

@rig

I don't think there is any other way to beat hard nes games.

You're most likely right, but I personally believe it's somewhat of a design flaw to omit organic skill from a game's balance completely. However, I was also being a little narrow minded by outright excluding memorization as a worthwhile game mechanic. 'Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!' was designed almost entirely around memorized actions and I don't believe it hurts the experience at all. I just personally don't like when memorization emerges as the only possible recourse to poor design choices made in other areas.

rig

@Omnija , funny you mentioned Aladin, this is one of the few games my wife expressed an interest in. I think the only way I am going to get her to play with me is if bate her with a Disney game.

rig

@mediamogul , yeah sometimes it feals like your playing Simon (rember that game with the lights?) or maybe an fmv game--just press the right button at the right time. But I think the best hard games still have some organic skill involved i.e. Double Dragon reuses a lot of enemies but gives you more of them as the game progresses. As far as design flaw, maybe. I rember playing these hard games as a child and being really frustrated. So if the intention was to mass produce games that anyone could play through then these "pick up and die" games are definettely flawed. But if the intention was to make a difficult games that could challange experinced gamers for days, or even years, then I would say they are not flawed.