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.