What Game/s are you Playing? Daily/whenever check :) 2016 (GAMEPLAY)

[Videogamerdaryll]

Genesis plug n play unit I never tried it...

Has 6 Games built in


Sonic and tails 2
The Ooze ...This is cool...playing this now..
Gain Ground
Columns
Ecco The Dolphin
Alex Kidd and the Enchanted Castle

[stlgamer75]

Keeping to the self imposed rules of my blog, I am sticking to my console of the month - Genesis. This week I'm playing Castlevania Bloodlines and next week I'll be firing up some Shinobi 3.

[otaku]

fixing up a dreamcast and gonna burn some games

forza 6 and old horizons getting ready for the new one

rock band 4 as always

doom xbx one

[otaku]

played rock band 4 xbx one
spikeout on original xbox with friends

[shadowman]

Been playing a ton of Pinball Arcade on the Vita. Its weird, I've never really enjoyed Pinball games (or pinball mini games in games) before but this game has really clicked with me. Maybe because it takes real tables? All I know is I really enjoy going after each challenge on each table and have managed to clear quite a few Wizard challenges now. Its one of the few games where I'll actually pick up DLC, since each DLC pack gives me more pinball tables to play on. I can see this being a regular fixture on my Vita for months to come.

I've also been playing through several more Capcom games, the latest two games being Mega Man 1 (NES) and F1 Dream (PC Engine/Arcade). I managed to finish Mega Man while only losing 1 life (a personal best of mine!) while managing to beat all the bosses with just the default buster weapon. I reckon I could have cleared the game without dying had I used the boss weaknesses for the final boss. Well, gotta leave something for my next playthrough.
On the other end of the fun spectrum, there is F1 Dream, a terrible top down racing game with awful controls and collision detection. I really can't stand either version - the arcade version is really glitchy (I've warped through the walls out of the race courses so many times that I wonder if this was ever play tested) and the PC Engine is not really any better (course design is actually worst). Avoid this one like the plague. Thankfully next up is 1943 Kai which I know can't be worse than this game!

[Videogamerdaryll]

Not Classic but FALLOUT 4 Xbox One..second time having a won't save error having to start over after hours & hours of gameplay -so frustrated that I'm just cheating in the game now starting over..

NES Marble Madness..

Midway Arcade Tabletop games..

[Tanooki]

^^You have one of those modern Midway cocktail arcade machines? Nice buy/find?

I don't post in here but rarely, but the fact I decided to buy back some of my old DS collection as it has been a decade now got me back to it. Less then a week ago I lucked into finding Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime locally, and for a good deal no less. I forgot how FUN this game is. Shame that S-E has no cajones to bring out the other 2 of the series. :( I've just unlocked the slime team for my tank and have all the HP ups I can get so far on my dude and the slime tank too. it's a great mix of lots of fun to do. A little bit DQ, a little bit like Zelda, and then your 1on1 goofy but serious damage dealing/taking tank damage with saboteurs. It's fun.

[celerystalker]

After a really tough day at work (we're going through a remodel, so as the experienced one I get to do all the fun shit), I've just been shot since I got home. I played with my son, had a nice dinner, then dozed off on my basement couch. Woke up around midnight and turned on the arcade cabinets to play a credit of Black Tiger.

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I don't suck at Black Tiger. :)

[bb_hood]

After a really tough day at work (we're going through a remodel, so as the experienced one I get to do all the fun shit), I've just been shot since I got home. I played with my son, had a nice dinner, then dozed off on my basement couch. Woke up around midnight and turned on the arcade cabinets to play a credit of Black Tiger.

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I don't suck at Black Tiger. :)

Pretty Impressive!

[celerystalker]

Thanks! It's not my best score, but a 1cc run is the norm on that one for me. I really love that game. It's tough but fair, and you don't have to memorize the levels to be able to beat it. Maybe my favorite Capcom game of all time.

[celerystalker]

After coming home from work and watching some old Popeye with my son, I cleaned up my basement from my recent water damage and rearranged my game shelving to better protect fragile cardboard. Once I finished, I watched a couple of Archer re-runs and played a credit of Magician Lord on AES. Not my best by a far sight, but I cleared three levels at least before losing my lives. That game has aged really well to me.

[RPG_Fanatic]

Dragon Quest VII for the 3DS

[Videogamerdaryll]

Popeye (Nintendo Entertainment System, 1986

I suck at this game on the Arcade Machine version...much better at it on the NES..

also playing Robocop NES

[Videogamerdaryll]

^^You have one of those modern Midway cocktail arcade machines? Nice buy/find?

I don't post in here but rarely, but the fact I decided to buy back some of my old DS collection as it has been a decade now got me back to it. Less then a week ago I lucked into finding Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime locally, and for a good deal no less. I forgot how FUN this game is. Shame that S-E has no cajones to bring out the other 2 of the series. :( I've just unlocked the slime team for my tank and have all the HP ups I can get so far on my dude and the slime tank too. it's a great mix of lots of fun to do. A little bit DQ, a little bit like Zelda, and then your 1on1 goofy but serious damage dealing/taking tank damage with saboteurs. It's fun.

I bought one of those Target specials...Midway Table Top Arcade Machines at a flea market..
For some reason I can't attach pictures..
It's Not as bad as it's so hated...it also has a switch to play other systems on it's internal TV..AV ports on back.
So I have a TV plug n Play also plugged into it..

https://youtu.be/FixXQNG7l4Y

[celerystalker]

Popeye (Nintendo Entertainment System, 1986

I suck at this game on the Arcade Machine version...much better at it on the NES..

also playing Robocop NES

The NES version is way easier, for sure. I play my arcade cabinet of it more, but the NES is pretty serviceable. It feels faster than the arcade, but less frantic.

[bb_hood]

I bought one of those Target specials...Midway Table Top Arcade Machines at a flea market..
For some reason I can't attach pictures..
It's Not as bad as it's so hated...it also has a switch to play other systems on it's internal TV..AV ports on back.
So I have a TV plug n Play also plugged into it..

https://youtu.be/FixXQNG7l4Y

I used to have 2 of the similar NeoGeo Cabs.. They are nice however I feel they just dont have enough games.
The ones I had did not have any AV ports on the back.

[Videogamerdaryll]

I used to have 2 of the similar NeoGeo Cabs.. They are nice however I feel they just dont have enough games.
The ones I had did not have any AV ports on the back.

Oh Yes I forget about those Neo cabinets,I wanted one so bad..
Did Target make them?

[bb_hood]

Oh Yes I forget about those Neo cabinets,I wanted one so bad..
Did Target make them?

I think they were sold at Costco, and maybe BJ's wholesale club.
Its the type of thing u pick up on CL when you can find them cheap. Like I said, they dont have a huge selection of games.
The neo cabinet had like 5 games I think? There were also 2 Taito cabinets, a large stand up machine and a smaller one. You could switch SD cards to make the Neo cabinet play the Taito games. The taito selection was ok. It had like 3 versions of space invaders (meh) and arkanoid... yeah and playing arkanoid on the machine is just not happening. Once you get good at arkanoid with the dial you just cant play it with the joystick. So they kinda are a mixed bag.

[celerystalker]

Repaired my broken American Laser Games light gun for 3DO and played some Space Pirates to test it out. I do love those corny-ass American Laser Games releases. Maybe play some Who Shot Johnny Rock and Drug Wars later. :)

[[-Sentinel-]]

Trying to finish Radiant Historia on DS and Tomb Raider for PS4.

[Videogamerdaryll]

I think they were sold at Costco, and maybe BJ's wholesale club.
Its the type of thing u pick up on CL when you can find them cheap. Like I said, they dont have a huge selection of games.
The neo cabinet had like 5 games I think? There were also 2 Taito cabinets, a large stand up machine and a smaller one. You could switch SD cards to make the Neo cabinet play the Taito games. The taito selection was ok. It had like 3 versions of space invaders (meh) and arkanoid... yeah and playing arkanoid on the machine is just not happening. Once you get good at arkanoid with the dial you just cant play it with the joystick. So they kinda are a mixed bag.

Thank you..
I would love to find any of those machines today...I get into my other hobbies,racing motorcycles.... and other hobbies such as Arcade machines get (blindfolded) ..then I find something get interested again..
This year I didn't plan on getting anything arcade,then I pick up a Street Fighter II CE,2 Computer Kinect Bar tops ..then the Midway which puts me back into looking..

My dad too: he just bought a Pac Man Arcade Classics machine and now he wants a table top or to build one..
He has Rolling Thunder on his machine and I SUCK at it...but on the NES I can do better.
Rolling Thunder (Nintendo Entertainment System, 1989)

[shadowman]

Been working through a few more Capcom games from my backlog:

Mega Man - ok, played this 100's of times before and this time I managed to beat the game with only losing 1 life to the final boss. Not too shabby, but now I gotta replay the game again to try and beat it without losing any lives at all!

F1 Dream (Arcade and PC Engine versions) - I don't like this game at all. Its controls are really cumbersome and the AI cheats and pushes you out the way screwing you over. Just a poor game all around, the PC engine port is no better, with worse track design and almost all the problems the arcade version suffered. Avoid.

1943 Kai (arcade and PC Engine) - loved this game. The arcade version was great, but its the PC Engine port I really connected with - its a great port with a slightly more kind difficulty curve and several brand new awesome levels to tackle after you finish the main game. Well worth tracking down.

Forgotten Worlds - Almost managed to 1cc the game, but the final boss got the better of me. Super fun to play, really nicely designed bosses. I'm looking forward to seeing how the console ports compare.

Ghouls n Ghosts (Saturn arcade port) - Another favourite of mine, and one that I really enjoyed replaying. My only issue with the difficulty was more down to enemies spawning on top of me, gives me no chance to evade so I took damage somewhat unfairly at times I felt, most evident on stage 4-B. Otherwise it was fairly straight forward, getting the super weapon and doing the entire thing a second time was straight forward, aiming up really helps to easily dispatch the Red Aremers. This is probably my favourite game in the series - with better levels and bosses than the original Ghosts n Goblins and shorter levels compared to Super GnG its pretty much exactly what I wanted from the series.

[otaku]

forza 6 and forza horizon and forza horizon 3 demo in anticipation of the new forza horizon 3 game

also played some dreamcast
Shenmue and grandia 2 briefly and powerstone with a friend

[otaku]

i remember those little tabletops i wanted one so bad back in the day!

[Mogarth]

Goemon's Great Adventure - N64
R-Type DX - GBC
Gradius V - PS2
Fire Emblem Sacred Stones - GBA (for monthly podcast)

Goemon is one that I have really wanted to try and it finally came in the mail yesterday!
R-type/Gradius to feed that shmup bug
Fire Emblem because I do a monthly podcast and that is this month's game

[Tron 2.0]

PS3
Metal Gear Solid 3,just one in the series that i want to complete finally.

Retro Freak
Splatterhouse Wanpaku Graffiti

Got a retro freak recently and giving it a run through for the famicom games i have.

[celerystalker]

Not much today. Played a credit of Centipede and a credit of Sunset Riders on the arcade cabinets. Not a great game of either, but Centipede is always a good time and Sunset Riders has such a catchy soundtrack. Maybe after my next tournament I'll get a couple of the guys to stick around for a fun four player run. So fun that way.

[The S]

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Picked these up at a place in Seattle called Pink Gorilla and have been playing them tonight. The Boxing game is meh but I'm not super disappointed in it. YYH Final is a good addition to my fighting game collection.

(You may choose to ignore the background if you like. My "thing" is to take photos of scores in front of random websites)

[stlgamer75]

I've moved onto playing games for my Sega CD and 32X and enjoying the hell out of Sega CD. Android Assault is my most recent purchase and it's a great game. I'm also playing Night Trap and Rise of the Dragon.

[shadowman]

I've been playing a lot of Slain over the last week. Its a indie game on the PS4 that has beautiful pixel graphics and gameplay sort of similar to the original Castlevania games (though this game has a heavy emphasis on countering enemies attacks). Its a tough, yet very fun game, I've almost finished it twice now, just trying to do some of the harder boss related trophies.

Retro wise I've been playing lots of Forgotten Worlds. I first played the Master System port, and bearing in mind the limitations of the system I think its great. The game control scheme is ok, at least they took into account the limitations of the controls when redesigning the power ups as they are different to the arcade versions - these new powerups have a much bigger focus on shooting both in front and behind at the same time, or a large radius which evens out the game difficulty nicely. Unfortunately the game is missing quite a few levels, but I did really enjoy what was in the game.

Next was the Mega Drive port. It looks the part and is silky smooth. I was happy to see a nice number of control options present and it has an extra level or two not in the Master System port. Its still missing a couple of stages though. Overall a really fun port, but the missing content hurts what is otherwise a great port.

Last comes the PC Engine version, which had the most annoying controls of the bunch - since if you don't have a 3 button pad you have to use the start button to rotate your shots in one direction with button II handling the rotation in the other direction. If you set the game to auto fire then the I button is basically useless unless you purchase one crap powerup. I'd have much preferred a button config option to have things laid out how I like. Really though, the controls and maybe the loading are my only complaints (load times are short, but the slight pause between levels and bosses felt like it slowed up the progress of the game probably more than it actually did). Thankfully the game is all here - all the enemies and levels seemed present with wonderful sprites (though not without flickering here and there) and a great CD soundtrack. Technically this is the best port - its all here and as long as you can get used to the controls you'll have no problems enjoying this ace shooter. The final boss is a bastard on anything above easy difficulty though!

[Videogamerdaryll]

World Grand Prix (Sega Master, 1986) ...I never played this before...


Shinobi (Sega Master, 1988) I like this version..

Shanghai (Sega Master, 1988) ..I had no idea what it was..

[The S]

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I had always wanted to get a Game Wizard as a lad when I saw them in catalogues. I finally found one for decent price. The games are pretty garbage but I'd likely have enjoyed them as a kid. On the lookout for more games as soon as I get paid next but it's tough finding any without buying a new console (each of the consoles was branded with a license and I only need the one).

[Videogamerdaryll]

Action Fighter (Sega Master, 1986)

Outrun
Rambo II

F 16 Fighter (card

[Videogamerdaryll]

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I had always wanted to get a Game Wizard as a lad when I saw them in catalogues. I finally found one for decent price. The games are pretty garbage but I'd likely have enjoyed them as a kid. On the lookout for more games as soon as I get paid next but it's tough finding any without buying a new console (each of the consoles was branded with a license and I only need the one).


That's cool...I love handhelds

[The S]

That's cool...I love handhelds

Then you're gonna love this too

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[shadowman]

Been playing through a nice load of Capcom related games over the last couple of weeks - Bionic Commando, Mega Man 2 (still my favourite game ever), LED Storm (under rated in my opinion) and I'm now onto Strider and its many ports - of which the Master System version seems too cut down for its own good (barely any enemies in the levels, and the first boss slows the game almost to a stop). No continues either, so it took about a half dozen tries to master each level before I could clear the entire game. The Mega Drive version though is great - very close to the arcade version and great fun - only issue I have with the arcade/MD version is the tail end of the final level - the final jump before reaching the boss gauntlet has an evily placed robot that knocks you off the narrow platform if you even get a bit too close to him... doesn't help that the MD port forces you to beat Solo rather than just run from him. Otherwise its a class act, pity US Gold had to release that hideous "sequel".

[Videogamerdaryll]

then you're gonna love this too

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5780/30630106385_611d1fddc6_b.jpg

awesome..

[Videogamerdaryll]

Captain Skyhawk (Nintendo

also
60-1 Table top Arcade Game..

[eskobar]

Crimson Gem Saga for PSP ... a very nice (so far) Korean RPG. I rarely use headphones on portable gaming and now that I bough a very cheap KOSS headphones on a flea market I cannot go back to the crappy speaker on portable consoles, it really shows how amazing detail a score has. :love:

[Aussie2B]

I went another long stretch without playing much of anything, but such is my life. Now I'm trying to get back into it. I picked up Corpse Party again (just barely missed Halloween), which I've been playing on my Vita, and I finally got past the point I was stuck on and made it to Chapter 3. Missed a couple bad ends in Chapter 2, and I have no idea where they'd be. Maybe I should try touching the boy ghost when I have the doll.

I've also been "playing" the kinetic novel Supipara on PC. Or rather, it's Chapter 1 of Supipara, but it's still a full, standalone story. It's kind of an interesting franchise because the developer planned it as having five chapters, but only two have been made. The US publisher set up a fund-raising project to use the profits from the localized versions of their games to fund the localization of the second chapter and the development of the later chapters, assuming they hit the desired figures. So far they haven't hit the goal for even the second's localization, but I'll be keeping an eye on it.

Other than those, I've just been dabbling in a bunch of recent Vita purchases. Also played a little bit of Skate or Die: Bad 'n Rad (is that a 90s title or what?) on my Game Boy Advance SP, which isn't working as well as it used to. Something is up with the power switch, and the battery doesn't seem to last long anymore (at least in terms of playing time; if left unplayed, the battery still retains a charge for a long time). The quirks aren't too bothersome, though, and I cleared the 1st, 2nd, and 4th stage in Skate or Die. It's weird how the game lets you start from any of the first four stages, and there's absolutely no need to play the first three. It's not like you have to clear all four to unlock the later stages, you just have to beat Stage 4 to unlock Stage 5 and so on. It's a pretty tough game, but it's fun and has variety to its stages.

[Aussie2B]

I'm still chipping away at Supipara on PC and Corpse Party on my Vita. I wish I knew how close I am to the end of Supipara, especially since it's supposedly a pretty short kinetic novel, but with no chapters or CG gallery or anything to judge by, it's hard to tell. Likewise, there's no way to really express where I'm at in it without posting story spoilers. Not that anything really dramatic is happening. It's decidedly slice of life.

I'm pretty early on in Chapter 4 (out of 5) in Corpse Party, and I think I'm *almost* caught up to where I last left off in the manga. I'm guessing Chapter 5 will be entirely new story to me, maybe even some of Chapter 4. I actually managed to get every ending in Chapter 3, but go figure, I missed one of the name tags on the corpses somehow. Don't know how that happened when it was always so easy to find all in each chapter before. I even got a corpse in Chapter 3 that I had to lay a loose board to reach. Oh well. Now I'm sure that I'm missing a victim's memoirs ending in Chapter 2, but I missed two bad endings in that chapter, so I still have no idea on the other, or on the ending I'm missing from Chapter 1. Either way, I'm just happy to be making steady progress.

[Aussie2B]

Since I finished Supipara, I took a step further back into my backlog of started-but-unfinished VNs and loaded up Ozmafia for PC. At least this one I made a good dent in, completing a number of the routes, but I still have more left. I imagine the last time I posted about it in this topic was where I left off, midway through a replay of the brothel route. So now I'm just skipping everything I already read, picking responses I passed on last time, and reading the bonus scenes that only unlock after a route is cleared the first time.

I'm still in Chapter 4 in the PSP version of Corpse Party. I'm controlling Satoshi and just found Seiko's phone. It's pretty interesting how frequently the perspective changes from one character to another in this chapter. I'm also noticing more and more differences from how the manga goes, though I'm inching closer and closer to being caught up with the manga anyway.

[shadowman]

Been spending some quality time with my Vita recently, mainly been playing the following games:

Downwell - addictive as heck action game where you are constantly falling - going ever deeper into a well and have to avoid obstacles, dodge/destroy enemies and power yourself up as you go. Today after trying on and off for months I finally managed to clear a whole level (aka 3 stages) without touching the ground once (which is way harder than it sounds). Ended up doing it on level 4 which has the fewest number of platforms, but tons of enemies! Now I've just got the last couple of hard mode levels left to clear for the platinum trophy. This game is well worth playing, its incredibly addictive and well designed, not to mention really fun!

Yomarwari - A pint sized survival horror game. You play as a young girl who has to explore her home town which has become infested with demons, ghosts and monsters. Each chapter has you tackle a different area of the town, usually each different area of the town has unique enemies, as well as one "boss" creature which is usually more of a puzzle - you have to figure out how to free them from the mortal coil so they can RIP. Its great - the atmosphere is suitably messed up, the monster design is allso suitably weird and the variety of areas and enemies you meet is substantial enough that you'll never feel as if the game gets repetitive. Then again its a really short game so it doesn't really last long enough to get repetitive! It has some decent side "missions" as well - basically hidden little missions which involve you carrying out missions to unlock different items, the reason why I enjoyed them is because they often included exclusive monsters you don't meet in the main game so there was a good reason to do the side content.

10 Second Ninja X - A fast paced action game which, as the name suggests gives you only 10 seconds to defeat all the enemies on screen. Clear them out extremely fast for the best ranks. Its another well designed and addictive game, with each level essentially being a puzzle of sorts in order to work out the best way of dispatching the enemies in the quickest and most efficient manor. Ended up finishing this one real quick as I couldn't put it down.

And lastly I've just started Hitman Go. It takes the game series Hitman, turns it into a boardgame, then turns the boardgame into a videogame. You have to move Agent 47 round each stage to the exit (or target) while avoiding or taking out the enemy pieces on each board. Its essentially a turn based puzzle game and its very well designed at that. I'm impressed that they managed to take the series and successfully transform it into a puzzle/boardgame hybrid and have it remain fun.

Retro/Capcom wise its been Strider month, with me playing through the different console ports of Strider. To condense my feelings on them: Arcade version (via PS2 collection) is excellent, remains as fun as it always has been. MD port is brilliant and seems really close to the arcade original bar a few little changes here and there and is my preferred console port. Master System version is only ok, suffers from slowdown (or just slow speeds in general) levels are bare with almost no enemies in them. The PC Engine port is disappointing. It retains the main levels and adds a new one (which isn't great), it runs slower and far less smooth than the MD port, doesn't look as good (especially on the new level) and has some frustrating changes in the final level.

I also worked through the NES version of Strider, which is completely different to the arcade game. Its got a few control/collision details but I like what they were going for (basically a metroidvania style game a couple of decades before Double Helix made their Strider game) and I generally had fun with it.

I also did a quick run on both the arcade and PC Engine version of Tenchi o Kurau (Dynasty Wars). I actually liked the PC Engine port more, felt slightly less hectic and more balanced difficulty wise, compared to the arcade version which felt overly difficult at points. I do wish we got CD quality audio all through out the PCE port though, as its only really used for a couple of intro/ending tracks... Still, the new voice work is nice.

Last is the arcade version of Willow. Its a side scrolling action game which should excite me, but I just couldn't enjoy it. You constantly feel under powered (your screwed if you don't buy the powerups from the shop in each level) and it just was no fun what so ever. Really the only enjoyment I had was against the end boss - both because it felt fairly well designed (at least compared to the rest of the game) and because I knew once I beat it I didn't have to continue playing this game! Thankfully the NES version of Willow is nothing like the arcade version, so fingers crossed it turned out better...

[Nophix]

Well, winter is officially here. So, GAME TIME!!!

Plus, we shipped the kids to Grandmas for the weekend.

I started out with a run through Megaman 3, worked on Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon a bit, and ended up grabbing my Vita and digging into Final Fantasy X HD. 16 hours later, and a couple recharges.... It's hitting an itch I've had for a while but couldn't find enough time to devote to.

[celerystalker]

Had some of my nieces and nephews over last light. We played:

Virtua Cop 2 on Saturn, which may be my favorite light gun game.

Contra on NES... my nephew recently got an NES and is learning the ropes. They loved it.

Mechanized Attack, Freedom Force, and Gumshoe on NES. Same nephew wanted to try more Zapper games.

Ninja Baseball Batman. Hooked up the pcb so the kids could play it in one of my cabinets. It really is fun.

All three of them played through Sunset Riders on my cabinet. They love that game.

I played some Windjammers while they were playing NES.

Pretty solid night. I swapped in my TMNT pcb into the Sunset Riders cabinet so they could play it with their dad when he picked them up this morning. I love that game.

[Aussie2B]

I made it up to Chapter 5 in Corpse Party on my Vita, and oof, was that cutscene at the end of Chapter 4 long. I missed one bad ending and one corpse in Chapter 4, again with no idea where. The bad endings seem to be listed in order on the ending list, and since I got two different bad endings at the pool, and I got the ones listed before those, I'm guessing the one I'm missing is near the end of Chapter 4. I tried letting the ghosts have their way with me, but the bad ending with the girl ghost seems to count as the same ending as with the boy ghost.

I read everything I could read in the brothel route in Ozmafia on PC short of triggering the ending I've yet to get, but doing that proved tricky, like usual. It's especially tough here because the route involves three different people. The ending I already got involves Dorian Gray, so that left me wondering who of the remaining two I had to please to get the other ending. First I tried focusing purely on Manboy, then purely on Alfani, and then I tried picking answers that'd make both of them happy. Turns out my last strategy was the correct one, but I was still falling short of triggering it on my own. I caved and glanced over a route walkthrough and saw that I was getting almost all of my responses right, but I changed just a couple and triggered the different ending. Now to just read through it and I'll probably tackle Caesar's route next.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012 (Sony PlayStation PS1

A friend picked it up for me at a flea market highly scratched,he had it polished and it works..

[Aussie2B]

I finished off the remainder of the brothel route in Ozmafia on PC. Boy, that route goes to dark, f'ed up places no matter what ending you get, haha. I did start Caesar's next, and I've already powered through all of it, both the initial playthrough and the replays to read everything else and get the other ending. After I got far in the first playthrough, I honestly was just trying to get through it quick, since I was finding the route pretty dull and predictable. I was hoping maybe the bonus scenes or other ending would provide something more interesting, but no such luck. This route is up there with Pashet's as one of the least satisfying of the game. But at least I can understand why Pashet's was a cop-out. This route has no excuse. I'm really frustrated that the route never once addressed how Caesar knew the protagonist, Fuka, or why he wanted to kill her. I mean, that's the very first plot point introduced the second you start the game. That this strange man wants to kill Fuka, who has total amnesia, has no familiarity with the town she's in or how she got there, and nobody else in town knows her either. They do really play up that Caesar is supposed to be the personification of a wolf, like the big, bad wolf in Little Red Riding Hood. So maybe we're expected to conclude that Caesar didn't actually know Fuka and just randomly decided at that moment when he first saw Fuka that he'd make her his prey, as big, bad wolves are supposed to hunt pretty young maidens or some such. I dunno. And I'll never know because the route doesn't explain or develop jack. He's just your stereotypical otome game tsundere, with no interesting backstory or anything. It's just a story similar to a farmer raising an animal for slaughter only to grow attached. Meanwhile, the route makes Fuka comes off as foolish to a nonsensical level. Even normally, she comes off as a bit of an airhead, but in a charming way, between her optimistic, carefree personality and the fact that her amnesia has her clueless about everything, but here this guy is constantly talking about how he intends to kill her, and regularly insults her on top of that, and yet she keeps visiting him on Sundays, which fall under a peace agreement, gets friendly with him and starts to care for him, barely acts afraid and never once asks "hey, uh, why do you want to kill me?" Urgh, okay, that's enough ranting about this route.

In Corpse Party on my Vita, I played through a couple of the extra chapters. I was surprised that later ones I unlocked were literally just cutscenes, when the first extra chapter was a lot longer and more involved. I started Chapter 5, but I've made virtually no progress. I saw that the first choice at the very beginning causes the course of events to branch off, so I'll have to explore both options.

[PizzaKat]

Xbox One: Gears of Wars 4, Quantum Break

PS4: Life is Strange, Overwatch, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3

SNES: Clock Tower

[WulfeLuer]

Hmm, Final Fantasy XII. Still chewing on the idea of Final Fantasy Legend II/SaGa 2 for the old brick.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Excellent,I love reading about what people are playing..

Playing :


Guevara - Guerilla War famicom on lcd game.

[FieryReign]

E.G.G. for Dreamcast. Not sure how long that will last. Losing interest in alot of games recently and have been bailing on most of them.

[Videogamerdaryll]

E.G.G. for Dreamcast. Not sure how long that will last. Losing interest in alot of games recently and have been bailing on most of them.



That is one game I've never tried...


...........
Playing today..

Tiger-Heli (Nintendo Entertainment System, 1987)

[FieryReign]

That is one game I've never tried...

It ain't bad, it's a zelda-like. Depressing and somber tone to it. Some of that old school "where the fuck do I go next" stuff in it.

[bb_hood]

Just beat Dr. Mario, level 20 on High/Fast speed.
Love Dr. Mario

[FieryReign]

It ain't bad, it's a zelda-like. Depressing and somber tone to it. Some of that old school "where the fuck do I go next" stuff in it.
Scratch that. Fuck this game. Difficulty just gets cheaply insane out of nowhere. Moving on.

[Aussie2B]

Got busy for a couple weeks there and didn't play anything, but now I'm back to the two games I was juggling before. In Ozmafia on PC, I only have one currently available route that I've yet to play through to the end (there's a secret route I've yet to unlock), so instead of starting that one (which is Kyrie's), I decided to go back to the very first route I did, Caramia's. I was just going through, picking the options I didn't go with the first time and reading the extra scenes, but when I got to the confession scene, I had Fuka say "I'm sorry..." instead of reciprocating. I figured the writing would still bring the scene around to the same point and continue on as I experienced before, except with "I'm sorry..." not helping in getting the better ending, of course, but instead, this dark, sad music came on, and I was like "oh shit, am I gonna get a bad end right here?" haha. That didn't happen either, but now I have no idea what's going on in the route. The story continued and now I'm getting nothing but text I've never read before, including dialogue options where I've never picked either choice. I still don't fully understand the route switch mechanic for the Oz routes, but I didn't think I was up to that portion yet anyway. I know I'm not on Axel's route, so could I have possibly been switched to Kyrie's? It doesn't really seem like it, and I hope that's not the case because I wanted to put his off for now. Maybe there's a route where you don't end up with anyone? Well, I'll just have to keep playing and see where this goes.

As for Corpse Party on my Vita, this games has really gotta chill out with the ridiculously long cutscenes with no opportunity to save and quit. The choice at the beginning of Chapter 5 didn't diverge as much as I thought, so I continued along. But I was only in control of the action for a short while before I got sucked into a cutscene sequence that switched the perspective from character to character for literally an hour and a half. I mean, yeah, you can skip through the text quickly if you want, and I know I'm not the fastest reader (one of the downsides of being a proofreader), but still. Now I'm at a part where I can freely change between characters, which is interesting, but I'll have to revisit my save before the long cutscene to try something I didn't do before.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Testing out some SMS games..

Black Belt (Sega Master SMS, 1986)

After Burner (Sega Master, 1988)


Rambo III (Sega Master, 1988)

[shadowman]

Been juggling several PS4 games over the Xmas period since I had a nice long stretch of time off to focus on my backlog. Spent half my time playing the excellent Yakuza 6. As with the rest of the series it keeps getting better the further I get in the game, some awesome fights take place in chapter 5 and the story is moving along nicely now. Can't wait to get back to it.

Finally finished Shantae Risky's Revenge. Its been half finished for so long so I finally sat down and finished it. Loved the final boss, ended up doing a second run on it at a much faster pace while purposely not collecting any of the heart upgrades. Only have the speed run related trophies to get now if I can be bothered.

Once again I replayed Shovel Knight. LOVE IT! Its pretty much the perfect spiritual successor to Mega Man. I love pretty much everything about it - from the aesthetics, the soundtrack and the perfect gameplay and awesome level design. Lots of excellent bosses to be defeated as well.

Another replay - this time its Hotline Miami. I had the urge to replay this (on my PS4 this time, I played it on my Vita last time). Still loved it. Amazing soundtrack, insanely addictive especially when going after all the A+ ranks and plenty of content to get stuck into (extra levels, alternate endings etc.) I need to replay the sequel now to see if I can finally beat hard mode and get all the A+ ranks.

Lastly I also played an indie game called "Not a Hero". It reminds me of Hotline Miami a lot, only that its a side scrolling action game and not top down. You are given 4 missions to clear on each level (one main challenge, 3 optional) and from there its up to you to shoot, stab and slide through levels. Its incredibly fast paced, some excellent level design and some satisfying action depending on the character you use. Gets a bit annoying on the last couple of levels when aiming for the best ranks but nothing too difficult.

[Muntic0re]

I often play old games like Tetris or Mario . I like such small games. They are funny and not boring. +very addictive

[Tron 2.0]

Wii-U
Shantae Half Genie Hero

Retro Freak
Panorama Cotton

I was playing some bloodborne for the old hunters dlc but i platinum it so now it's a completed game.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Nice..
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I've been playing Goonies on a lil NES game multigame handheld ,I need to find this game on a repro NES cart format or Famicom.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Last game of the year for me.

Neo Geo MVS World Heroes 2
......................
I will start a new thread for 2017

[Orion Pimpdaddy]

Just beat Shenmue for the first time ever today. It's a great game to play during the winter since a large portion of the game takes place during winter.

I've been popping in Thunder Force III on the Genesis. It's aged very well, and doesn't take that long to play. I can almost beat it; just have to memorize more patterns.

Also, I've been playing Killzone Shadow Fall for the PS4. The online multiplayer has a community of diehard, older gamers like me. When you get good at a FPS shooter, it's hard to quit.

[jammajup]

(ARCADE) - The Simpsons , SFII-World Warrior , Moon Alien , D&D Shadows Of Mysteria , Frenzy , UniWars S
(MEGADRIVE) - Gods , PGA II , Ball Jacks
(VIC-20) - Gorf
(ZX Spec) Jetpac
(Atari VCS) Kangaroo
(C64) Bounder , Wizball