What games are you playing this week? 2017-07-24

[obsidianspider]

[meleu]

@obsidianspider damn it!!! Plenty of things to do and the only thing I want to do is play Shovel Knight! I need help!

[lilbud]

@meleu What would you need help with? Playing Shovel Knight is always a good idea

[meleu]

@lilbud said in What games are you playing this week? 2017-07-24:

What would you need help with?

feeding, working, doing the dishes, buying groceries, playing with the kids and taking them to school, "entertaining" my wife... oops! hold on! thinking better, I think I can do that last one!

[lilbud]

@meleu awkward silence
cricket chrips

you realize I was joking, right?

[mediamogul]

@lilbud

you realize I was joking, right?

I hope so. Otherwise, the offer to "entertain" his wife was really inappropriate of you. ;)

[lilbud]

@mediamogul When he said he had so many things to do and he wanted to play Shovel Knight. I said that Shovel Knight was a better idea than doing work, and I agreed.

[meleu]

You guys should be playing Shovel Knight instead of trying to make/explain/understand (bad) jokes! 😅

[lilbud]

@meleu I'd be playing Shovel Knight but Steam is updating. So until then I will continue to make bad jokes.

If rappers were farmers, would they have the freshest beets?

[mediamogul]

@meleu

Ha! I got a good laugh at your list. I'm not sure your wife wouldn't appreciate it though. I'm sure she expects you to do the dishes.

[meleu]

@mediamogul I don't know what your polluted mind thought, but I was talking about watching to the last Game of Thrones episode with her. :)

[lilbud]

@meleu said in What games are you playing this week? 2017-07-24:

I don't know what your polluted mind thought

I THINK HE WAS SPEAKING OF THE FORBIDDEN DIDDLY

[backstander]

So...um...more awkward silence...

Last night I played Shenmue for the Dreamcast. With some screen artifacts and slow downs in the extremely long intro video, the game plays pretty will on my RPi3. I think I might have left on my d-pad mapped incorrectly which made it hard to turn left. I actually spent about 25 minutes playing (including the intro) without even leaving the house you start in. I was just opening draws, doors, looking behind paintings on the wall and underneath pots.

I also played a little The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D on my n3DSXL and some Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands to complete this week's Live Season Challenges.

[lilbud]

@meleu said in What games are you playing this week? 2017-07-24:

Shovel Knight

I'm playing now and, Jesus Christ, the last few stages are insanely difficult

[tonythetiger]

this week completed nuclear strike psx, best use of fmv for anything, for the videos in the STRIKE series. Dont believe me check out the intro for soviet strike.

I mean WOW.
More recently shenmue, never actually played it before jsut going onto 2nd level, and a lot of crazy taxi Gotta love the offspring. GOD I LOVE EMULATION!!!!

[obsidianspider]

You guys have such dirty minds, and after work today I'm just over here messing with my Pi-hole.

[lilbud]

@obsidianspider said in What games are you playing this week? 2017-07-24:

You guys have such dirty minds, and after work today I'm just over here messing with my Pi-hole.

[meleu]

My Shovel Knight review after playing two stages and wandering that first village:

I feel like it was made for me:

• NES feelings
• Medieval ambiance
• bounching like in DuckTales
• the playability is like in Mega Man
• the platform/scrolling is like in Mega Man
• the soundtrack is like in Mega Man (really awesome)
• break walls to find items like in Castlevania
• confront bosses like in Castlevania (but remember: with a Mega Man playability! Much better than the Castlevania's one)
• choose the stages like in Super Mario Bros 3
• small touches of RPG elements

Summing up: I'm loving it!

There's only one point for improvement: I would love to play this on a big TV screen using my NES30 controller.

Edit: I'm tempted to buy the PS3 version to play on my kid's console.

[lilbud]

Hey @meleu, you might want to get on the retropie IRC, someone says they have a way to get PSN style popups for cheevos

[meleu]

@lilbud they must be using the official RetroAchievements emulators (Windows). Not RetroArch.