Games You Played Today The Nonbiri Express '09 (Galaxie ((500×2)−1)) 9小時9人9ゲーム LOOK I MADE IT LONGER: The Power of One

[shnozlak]

@Tegiminis

Red Alert 2 feels and plays like a mature, well-scoped game at the height of its creator’s prowess.

I need to try this again. I LOVE original Red Alert and obviously the cut scenes are amazing. I got it recently and my take away was that it was really half baked. I kept getting into situations where I was doing a lot of repetition and the SFX were really getting on my nerves. The Asian faction also felt really wax-on, wax-off. I really want it to be good but what I think I really want is to just play Red Alert again.

EDIT: THIS IS RED ALERT 3 IM THINKING OF

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I had a lovely wild, link-cant-follow-directions, log adventure in Tears Of the Kingdom. I posted about it with pictures in here:

Zelda: Cries of the Commonwealth

On a rumor of trouble I came to this little tropical town and found it taken over by pirates. I managed to dispatch them all taking no hits as one hit would kill me at 4 hearts. It was a lot of fun to use ALL the tools Id gathered to that point. I beat the boss by freezing him and pushing him off the boat. Hah! Turns out they need 15 logs to rebuild, so I had the idea of gathering them all at once from somewhere up the coast and boating them back to the village. There is not much forest alo…

[isfet]

spent the weekend cleaning up and playing with my Virtual Boy

i think i’ve said it before, but i’ve had this guy since i was a kid - in a year where a young person could have made the mistake of choosing the 32x or the Virtual Boy, i opted for the Nintendo path (look…i really thought they were on to something…)

i remember the adults in my life all being intrigued by it, but not necessarily enamored with it after play. i played it because i had it, and i think it does have some fun games. i guess abandoning it was the right move for Nintendo, financially, but i do believe it’s a really underrated console (is it a console? it’s not a handheld. gaming device?).

anyway, about 5 or 6 years ago, i took the Virtual Boy out of hiding and had it on full display in my living room in my last apartment. it was usually most used at parties - the combination of a gleeful atmosphere and a few drinks or smokes makes everyone want to give the Virtual Boy a shot.

then the lockdown happened, i stopped having folks over, and then i moved. i didn’t have a party again until this last summer, and so the Virtual Boy sat, atop one of my dressers, waiting for me to finally get around to turning his power on again.

and sat, he did, for what i guess is 3 years, now, quietly collecting dust, feeling his controller batteries gradually corrode; yearning.

meanwhile, i had a silent, building anxiety: oh shit, i need to check the VB’s batteries; i need to see if it still turns on. what if it doesn’t turn on again? oh shit. oh fuck.

so this past weekend, with some free time, i finally checked on it, and after opening the battery pack, the worst - all that spicy battery dust emptied out. i put in new batteries, but nothing. could i save it?

i did.

but not before impulse buying an AC-adapter-connected battery pack for the VB to avoid this scenario in the future.

but anyway. after a thorough cleaning, Virtual Boy is back to his usual business.

i will probably eventually need to do the ribbon replacement or whatever to correct some visual corruption/line issues that i can see maybe starting to form, but that one seems pretty easy to fix (there are folks online who do it, and also apparently you can just put the board in the oven to fix the soldering?)

i played through my whole collection, which at the moment, consists of (game thoughts, included):

Mario Clash
this game is really good, tbh. it’s the real sequel to the original Mario Bros., and it’s a fun way to kill time. i mean, i guess it depends on how much you enjoy Mario Bros., but i do, and adding a z-axis that involves chucking shells at enemies feels like a fun improvement.

Wario Land
this is maybe the best game on the VB - i’m not sure, because i haven’t played all of them (yet), but i think it’s my favorite Wario Land game. it’s more of an iteration on Wario Land 1, but i like how cavernous everything feels. i think a lot of what is lost when emulating the VB or watching playthroughs on Youtube is the depth that the games have and the feeling evoked by sticking your head inside of one. i genuinely enjoyed the same 3D effect on the 3DS, but even there, it’s not as encompassing because it’s a little screen. also, never read the comments on a YT playthrough of a VB game unless you want to see the same exact jokes about the color red and the supposed (but false) eye strain it causes

V-Tetris
well…it’s Tetris. i think 3D Tetris is probably a better or more-interesting game, but i don’t have it. looks nice, though, and enjoyable if you liked GB Tetris.

Teleroboxer
i want to like Teleroboxer more than i do, but the game is so fucking hard. it really could have used some kind of tutorial, but tutorials were not a thing in 1996, and so Teleroboxer doesn’t have one. this time i played it, though, i think…i think i’m breaking through, finally? i maybe understand how to play it better? we’ll see.

edit: OOPS i forgot Mario Tennis
this game came with the VB, but i guess you could also buy it separately, somehow? did they make VBs that didn’t have this game as a pack in? i never saw them. anyway, this version of Mario Tennis is probably my favorite. very peaceful, very pure. it’s a definite improvement on the previous versions, and predates the N64 relaunch of the idea of Mario playing or observing tennis. lots of fun little details, although the black skies make you feel like the Mushroom Kingdom has no atmosphere. seems treacherous.

[Chevluh]

@shnozlak

The Asian faction also felt really wax-on, wax-off

That’s Red Alert 3, mind you

[Tegiminis]

@shnozlak

The Asian faction also felt really wax-on, wax-off.

Yeah Red Alert 3 is uhhhhh not good lol. With the possible exception of Tim Curry in the cutscenes. Not looking forward to that part of my replay.

[shnozlak]

Yall are right I am thinking about #3

Well good news for me: Ive something to check out

[Chevluh]

I think the US president’s pretty good, too (although obviously not quite on Curry’s level) and leaving aside the character herself Yuriko is one of the best puns ever.

[Tegiminis]

unfortunately, while i do love JK Simmons, he cannot approach the perfection of Ray Wise

[u_u]

now imagining Whiplash with Ray Wise instead of JK Simmons, which would be possibly the most terrifying movie (n)ever made

[Rudie]

@isfet

the color red and the supposed (but false) eye strain it causes

Different strokes, but I definitely couldn’t take the virtual boy for more than a few minutes without getting sick.

[eska]

played Roundabout the other day because it’s been sitting in my PS+ library for maybe years and a friend mentioned it a little while ago. love how much use it makes of goofy FMV and i feel like they do get somewhere with the different challenges you can attempt that aren’t part of the main game, but making it like a mini-open world situation means that they don’t really have space for any of the super precise movement of high-level Kurukuru Kururin

[isfet]

i meant more the rumors that the VB degrades eyesight. have definitely heard the motion sickness thing happening, though

[Mikey]

Yeah my mom took one look at the Virtual Boy and said “That’ll ruin your eyes, no way”

[Polygonzo]

@isfet

favorite Wario Land game

same. I emulated it with mednafen tho and played with 3D glasses and it ruled. some of those scenes like the opening or that boss that hops back and forth across the lake have lodged themselves into the part of my brain where like memorable moments from dreams go

[isfet]

@Polygonzo

the opening

YES

Wario living my dream life, there

[smbhax]

Sonic the Hedgehog - in Sonic Origins (PC/Steam)

This was great! What a fun game! = D Probably a lot easier than the original what with the smoother engine, wide view, addition of spin dash (even in 4:3 “Classic Mode,” which only omits Mania’s Drop Dash), ability to choose different characters (still not tempted to try the other characters, even hammerin’ Amy whom I hadn’t played before) and infinite lives.

Marble Zone is so Altered Beast!

Labyrinth Zone underwater distortion effect is really nice.

Going to play the Genesis games in release order (1, 2, CD, 3) rather than the “story” order (1, CD, 2, 3) in which Origins arranges them. : P

The keyboard mappings are kind of a nightmare (WASD and LI…?? default, can’t map arrows to game movement, only menu movement, can’t map Enter to Start or ESC to Cancel…); fortunately, the DS4 seems to be set up just fine.

The huge Museum section has full scans of all region manuals of the Genesis games; dang the Japanese ones are snazzy.

You can replay and leaderboard time attack any stage you’ve completed, with any character; the leaderboards only show the top 100 times. : P I’ve read that level select codes work too, haven’t tried those.

Beating Sonic 1 unlocked the ability to play it in flipped “Mirror Mode.” There’s also a Boss Rush mode available by default for all the Genesis games.

According to Wikipedia–and it definitely feels this way, too–the 12 Sonic Game Gear games added in the “Plus” DLC are emulated, rather than remastered in Christian Whitehead’s “Retro Engine” as the Genesis games are. The 12 are listed in release order except, for some reason, Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine, which is placed at the end of the list, instead of where it should be in release order: 4th, between Sonic Chaos and Sonic Drift (the Japanese version of Mean Bean Machine, Puyo Puyo, would have been 3rd).

Okay so Doctor Eggman | Sonic Wiki Zone | Fandom “Doctor Eggman” was the antagonist’s original Japanese name, changed to “Doctor Ivo Robotnik” for the Western localization of Sonic the Hedgehog by Sega USA without Sega of Japan’s consent. Later the names were combined, with Robotnik being the “true” last name, and “Eggman” the nickname: “Doctor Ivo ‘Eggman’ Robotnik”–although “Robotnik” is apparently still little-used in Japan so that was probably just a sop by Sega of Japan to Sonic’s apparently much larger Western audience. ; D

Music in several of the Sonic 1 zones spurred copyright claims on YouTube–one from Sony Brazil! = P

[Gate88]

a couple segments from today. the rubix cube themed one was really cute.

tower of hell

[RT-55J]

@Polygonzo

playing Metroid Dread and nothing is grabbing me but I wanna at least get far enough to where it opens up a little (?) and understand its place in the series a bit… going from Metroid NES to this is like going from eating a medium rare steak with a swiss army knife to blendered hamburger meat through a straw idk

Metroid Dread is Game of the Year 2008 (**½)

Metroid Dread is a romhack on metroidconstruction with an average rating of 4.1 orbs out of 5 (***)

Metroid Dread is a machine made to mangle hands (****)

(willing to elaborate on any one of these given enough time)

[Myspace_Mavis]

idk where else to put this got auto-recommended a video titled “Aiden Pearce being a great character for 6 minutes straight” and cant believe that exists, they truly made the iconic cap

[Grandpa]

It’s funny how publicly reviled that character was, and that when he does pop up in Watchdogs 2 (you gotta bust him out of a cell in an enemy base, in a game that has pretty good characters!!), they can’t help themselves. The characters gush about how they can’t believe they’re meeting the Iconic An Ubisoft Original, Aidan Pierce.

(The main thing I remember about him from what little I played of Watch Dogs 1 is how grossly voyeuristic and cynical his whole thing was. Like hacking into computers outside of houses to see a webcam of someone slumped over at their computer as their recording of a suicide note played, or getting penalized for stopped a guy from murdering a woman because the game only rewards you for stopping the criminal after the act has been done, so you just gotta stand there and watch it happen and then hack their phone or something to distract them. Game sucks! They did a lot better with everyone in Watchdogs 2, then threw out all that goodwill with whatever it was they tried to do with Legion. Oh well!)

Edit: dang sorry for going on a Watchdogs tangent…just really liked that second game, apart from it very unceremoniously killing off a character for shock value.

[Tegiminis]

Legion was really good though! Ambitiously weird game, particularly if you play it in permadeath mode (the way it was meant to be played, imo).