I haven't been online during the last days. Mega Man Legacy Collection has received a rewind feature on Xbox One FINALLY. This was a feature only present on Switch until now. @subpopz Time for me to try these "impossible" NES games that I have never played.
@subpopz Mega Man 1 of course! It's the controls and physics what I find challenging but I will be able to beat it now. I also played the Mega Man 11 demo and I liked it. What are your favourite Mega Man games?
@Delibheel Indeed. Wave Race Blue Storm is a game that I still play every now and then. Too bad that they have never made a new game in this series on the Wii or Wii U, or even an HD reboot. They just went from strength to strength with that IP, but apparently, it just didn't sell enough for the series to return in this day and age, much like with F-Zero and 1080 Snowboarding, two other fan favorites with great controls and physics.
@ReaderRagfish True, and the physics were off as well. Wave Race 64 was king, back then.
Oh, and being tempted to go somewhere tropical? That's what summer holidays are for...
@ReaderRagfish For me it was exactly the other way around: I really liked SSX (and all of its sequels), but those games were REALLY over the top, whereas 1080 stayed more true to the actual experience of snowboarding, even though that did also have some over the top levels, but not as much as SSX, and of course, in real snowboarding, there's no 'turbo gauge' or gaining speed by doing tricks.
Don't get me wrong: it's definitely fun to play, but in my opinion, the more pure experience is the better one.
That is also what I liked about Wave Race. And like with Wave Race, the elements physics and feel in 1080 was, and in some ways still is, second to none. I own a lot of snowboarding games, including all the SSX games, the Shaun White games, Amped and so on, but I still prefer 1080, and although it'll probably never happen, but if they would ever make a new game in that series (and Wave Race AND F-Zero), then I'm going to be jumping for joy, like a little kid on Christmas Eve...
@ReaderRagfish Hm, that's not how I felt. I always likened the spinning the control stick to flailing your arms to stay balanced, so it made perfect sense to me, even though it was somewhat of an odd and/or annoying inclusion. Then again; simply pressing a button to get up again also isn't really very representative of the real thing...
And that meter in 1080 was more of an adrenaline bar to me, also more close to reality, but most of these actions were probably also a bit limited due to them having to work with the available controls. We didn't have motion controls yet, back then. Probably for the better, though, otherwise it would have been a decidedly lesser snowboard game....
And of course, 1080 was never about being an over the top game, even though they did a couple of levels in each game that were more out there, but still no wonder that SSX did over the top better.
But regardless, both series are fun to play, but for those looking for a more true experience, they'd probably need to steer clear from any of the SSX games, save perhaps for the last one on previous gen consoles, which was a better mix of arcade and realism, in my opinion.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
Panzer Dragoon Orta is half price in the current sale fyi!
@BlueOcean Oh that's cool.....such a shame that's not in the MegaMan X collection, though it does have rookie mode.
@ThanosReXXX Oh it had great water physics, but the real test is the transparency, occlusion, and specularity! Sheesh, everyone knows that!
"How's the water" is up there next to "does it run Crysis?"
Yeah Nintendo's really gone in that Apple-like direction of "We'll tell you what you should like right now. The official game to like for this month is: abcxyz" Though I suppose that fits the Japanese way very well where everybody does the same thing, the same way, at the same time, as a norm.
We agree more times than not. We have our points of disagreement, and we're both stubborn, but >50% of the time we agree
I agree. I think the fundamentals of the world changed too significantly. Yes it's "faster" and "the internet" but the underpinnings entirely changed. The economic underpinnings, the definitions of normal, family, purpose in life, etc. They essentially are foreign invaders that grew up in an entirely different civilization and culture than the one(s) the older generations grew up with. The very fact that an overwhelming majority of them grew up raised by a mixture of for-profit daycare companies and government institutions rather than attentive parents, while parents both dedicate their lives to The Company has engineered them to have specific ways of thinking directed toward specific socially engineered outcomes. That happens to a point every generation that things were different, but it's at a gradual pace until this time, and never in the past was the underpinning of family itself replaced with institutions before. The ugly reality is it's a generation that would have more in common with 1950's children in the USSR than any of us, but with the ugly bent of internet generated narcissism atop it.
Though at times I still wonder if there's even more than that to it. In either case we, and our values seem more and more to be deemed obsolete and irrelevant, so I suppose we'll either be cared for as pets, or simply executed as useless eaters at some point. Better get that backlog in before it's too late!
@rjejr should be grumpy enough to join in. He's still struggling to make sense of the world in a post-FF PS exclusivity world.
@ThanosReXXX Oops sorry, meant to reply to you just above for my daily dose of acidity.
My world has come full circle. 30 years ago me and my droogies were dressing up like Alex and Georgie Boy for a little of the old moloko plus and ultraviolence, now I'm a drunkie in an alley. Well actually I never leave my house for fear of becoming a drunkie in an a alley. Videogames used to be my escape, but now even they fail to cheer me up. I'm gonna skip this discussion then, whatever it is, I don't even own an Xbox.
Someday we'll find it
The rainbow connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me
@ReaderRagfish You don't enter Thanos' XBox conversations and not buy an XBox 1. it's not possible. It's not allowed. He'll get to you eventually. There's no escape. You'll get an XBox 1. Even if you have to win one from Oprah.
I also love 1080° and Wave Race, specifically Wave Race Blue Storm and 1080° Snowboarding that I still play. Blue Storm was my first GameCube game and it's one of the best GameCube games. It was a launch game in here.
@NEStalgia Capcom took their time to update it buy it's finally here. What is Rookie Mode? I grabbed Panzer Dragoon Orta as soon as I saw the sale (on Tuesday) but wasn't around to comment. You guys can get the deal from now through Monday.
@DarthNocturnal Do you want to play Sea of Thieves with me? Who else plays?
@BlueOcean rookie mode is basically just "very easy mode". Id rather have rewind, personally since you can try it the way it's meant to be and just retry when you fail. I love that about Forza.
@ReaderRagfish oh heck no, a ALMOST got that chewing image burned out of my mind and now its back!
Did any of you own a Saturn? Only asking because when talking snowboarding the Saturn had a game I LOVED called Steep Slope Sliders (yep, absolutely terrible name) and you’ve given me all lovely nostalgia reminiscing!
Reviews for it are surprisingly not terrible with that review even preferring it to Cool Boarders 2 which was pretty loved at the time?
Apparently the devs made a follow up on PS later which also had a terrible name - Trick’N Snowboarder - which google suggests was terrible.
Forgot to add, extremely jealous of you Wave Racers; I wasn’t buying my own games in those days, I asked for Wave Race for xmas but my ‘rents got me the (quite terrible) N64 F1 game instead, knowing that i’m a fan.
As well as no jetski fun, I also had to deal with a smug **** of a brother who got the infinitely better F1 game for his playstation.
@PikPi Glad you're entertained. That's what we're here for, after all...
@NEStalgia The person who'll be able to turn me into a pet or put me down isn't born yet, and seeing as I'm anything but a meek person, I'll probably drag them to hell with me...
So, we're now going from one trope to another. The Crysis meme has become an internet phenomenon all of its own, not even specifically related to computers or consoles anymore. Welcome to the absurdity of the internet...
And of course I was only semi-serious when I mentioned us agreeing. Probably forgot to put in a smiley somewhere. But the other points I made are dead serious.
I hate this era of people all taking themselves WAY too seriously, either labeling themselves as all-important individuals, or as the next best thing after sliced bread, while most of them are clueless, semi-sociopathic narcissists, with a weird, upside down tendency for political correctness and/or being a SJW, except predominantly towards their own good instead of actually towards other people.
And don't even get me started on the uber-sensitivity of everyone and their mother nowadays. Next thing you know, even looking at somebody the "wrong" way, according to the current social rules club, and it'll land you a ticket or in prison...
It's the age of individualism. Not me too, but me, me, me. It's sad, really, but I'll get through it, because I'm no follower or knee-bender, and you can't fool the one doing the fooling. Remember: sales & marketing...
I know all the tricks, and then some.
@rjejr Not to worry, my friend. We just dragged you in here to invite you to do some millennial bashing, other than that, you don't need to dive into any of our previous comments...
@Delibheel So, how's the Xbox One treating you and your brother? Enjoying it?
@ReaderRagfish You should try Black, no really: trust me.
Xbox One will probably go on sale again in a couple of days.
It's calling you, it is...
Just listen to it, gently whispering in your ear:
"Reader.... "
"Reader.... "
"Get your wallet out... "
"Come out and play..... "
@BrainOfGrimlock Never owned a Saturn, unfortunately. The only Sega console I own, is a Sega Dreamcast, and I'm a very happy and proud owner. The Saturn is still on the list, though, so I might have to look into that snowboard game you mentioned. Cool Boarders 2 wasn't all that great in my opinion.
I think they got a bit closer to 1080's feel with Cool Boarders 2001, the last entry in the series on the original PlayStation, but they were still a ways off. By the way: if you still have a Wii or a Wii U lying around, you don't need to feel jealous of us "Wave Racers" anymore, since you'll either be able to play that game natively on the Wii, or if you're Wii isn't GameCube compatible, you'd be able to softmod it and play it in that way, and the same goes for the Wii U.
@DarthNocturnal You think, or you know? We'd need proof before we'd believe you, obviously...
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