SNES_Chalmers

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@Kienda it’s the Arsene Wenger / Arsenal effect. Evidence we are living in a simulation and sometimes the programmers get lazy

both Lunar games
Golden Sun games
WW HD
Shining Force 3 (all chapters)

I have strong feelings about this.

@River3636 shining force CD is tempting. Lunar games would seal the deal for me.

@larryisaman fully agree. I grew up in the 8- and 16 bit eras, then stepped away from gaming until 2017 when Botw compelled me to get a Switch. When the N64 games came out for NSO I was really excited to play OoT for the first time. But having skipped over the N64 era, I don’t have any fondness/nostalgia for the early 3D polygon aesthetics, and I’m finding it hard to get past that…I haven’t given up on OoT, but it hasn’t yet grabbed me like I thought it would…I’ll give it some more time.

@BloodNinja agreed- this website right here is the closest I come to any form of social media

@iLikeUrAttitude haha. Def will need something to soften the blow of me being “gone” for those 200 hrs…

I can already tell that this game is going to be terrible…

…for my marriage.

@Kiyata apologies- didn’t mean to imply anything! I don’t doubt you, and if you haven’t experienced lag issues with the collection then that’s great. At the same time I’m not the only one mentioning the lag issue with the classics collection— there’s like 4-5 other examples in these comments as well. I think we can both be right 😉

Ps I checked my software/hardware - both are the latest versions.

@Kiyata Interestong…I had just chalked it up to person-to-person variability…my wife doesn’t notice the lag (or any lag for that matter, like when we hook up our NES to a new TV…barf) and it makes me feel kinda crazy.
We have an OG switch and an OLED, and my experience is the same on both. Some others have the same complaint about the Genesis classics collection, so I do think it is a thing, for those that are irked by lag. I’m jealous…would love to be able to enjoy that collection. 🤷‍♂️

@Kiyata it does look strange to have so much overlap between the NSO genesis offerings and the Genesis classics collection. On paper, the latter is an amazing collection of games—but for folks sensitive to input lag (like me) the emulation is a huge disappointment. I haven’t clocked it but it feels like 0.5 seconds between pressing a button and Sonic jumping on screen. Whereas in the NSO version, the lag feels negligible. I have both, and I HATE the genesis classics version!! Wish I’d never bought it 😡

@SalvorHardin I didn’t know that about the emulator…the lag is truly atrocious in the Genesis/MD Classics Collection. I was so disappointed after buying it. Sonic 2 in that collection is the definition of “unplayable.” IMO it’s night and day compared to the NSO version.

I dig the look of this. Something to keep an eye on.

@Royalblues haven’t yet formed an opinion on flightless birds. Currently leaning slightly in the “pro” camp but it could still go either way. Like yeah, they’re cool from an evolution-type standpoint but I also get why some people think they’re smug and super into themselves.

@CharlieGirl loved those. His Witcher 3 and FFXV “reviews” were my faves, but many others were great too.

@OwenGamer22 In the genesis collection, IMO the lag is tolerable for like the RPGs, but really annoying for games like Sonic, which for me was just not enjoyable.

@CactusMan shining force 3 was great. I was very jealous of the JP market for getting the other 2 chapters…

Great article. I never played THUG but for me it was THPS 1 and 2, like the commenters above. I downloaded almost all those tracks onto my Napster machine.

@erikharrison if the auto save actually causes the game to stutter like that, it would be game-killing…Hopefully that pause is just part of this video production to highlight the auto save feature…

A Game Gear so small it can only be seen with an electron microscope

@Chowdaire Beat me to that joke. Curse you

Say Chowdah!

@Azuris thanks for the explanation. Glad there is something technical behind the visceral 🙂

@Munchlax I fall into this category (grew up playing Mario on NES) and yes, using a stick to play 2D platformers (whether they are old or current games) just feels alien to me. It could just be nostalgia but the dpad just feels more responsive to me.
Hence for Mario, I would prefer the original hardware but don’t have an old CRT tv, which IMO is needed to avoid the dreaded lag issue of older consoles w/ newer TVs. So next best thing for me is the NSO service, using a controller with a passable dpad which for me is the 8bitdo SF30 pro.

@CairiB In spite of the shameless botw cloning, I was still pretty intrigued by GI until I read that it is slated to be F2P. Barf.

Took me a good two minutes and a mini-stroke to make sense of that headline. In my defense it’s early (here) 😆

@Freddo Same...Looks like a cool game but when I heard it's slated to be F2P / gacha...no thanks

@OorWullie NA looks like it was made by the winner of a children’s art contest.

He is a loathsome offensive brute... yet I can’t look away.

I voted for it too.

@Pikman I hear you. I play games [I think] to escape real-world anxieties. Glad that some people enjoy games like this, but personally it sounds like it would give me a panic attack 🤣

@kurtasbestos what did you think of the Phantasy Star games? I have only ever played 3, back when it came out in the 90s. I played the s*** out of it back then, trying to play through every lineage, so it has a big nostalgia factor for me...but objectively I’ve heard it’s the weakest in the series. Just curious to hear someone’s take who has recently played all 3...I’ve been meaning to play 2 and 4 on the SEGA classics collection.

Oh man, Shining Force 2 was great. Sunk many hours into the original!

@PickledKong64 True, influenza does kill lots of people each year,. However, based on the epidemiological data available thus far, Covid cases would completely inundate our healthcare infrastructure, in the absence of preventive measures (closings, social distancing, etc). The relatively low # of confirmed cases here in US is just a reflection of the lack of testing thus far.

@Emob ha- you beat me to it 😂

Haven’t played this series before but I’m intrigued...the look of the battles reminds me of Dragon Force on Sega Saturn, which I used to love.

@Zeldafan79 agreed...Just waiting for the big names (AC, Trials of Mana, Xenoblade). I did recently jump into Ys VIII, as it was 50% off (digital) and I've been meaning to play that for a while.