What Game/s are You Playing? Daily / Whenever Check :) (GAMEPLAY)

[YoshiM]

"Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D" has been occupying my time lately. I got up to the Shadow Temple and didn't feel like back tracking to come back as kid Link to solve the place. Not that it'd be a slog thanks to the ocarina but I think I had my fill of this for a while.

I worked on my TV "island" in the basement (a school-issue wide metal bookshelf with a short file cabinet, a pair of square post cut offs with my 13" CRT TV on top) and have decided to use my "modern retro" systems. I have my AVS set up along with my 7800+. I have a Best Buy brand HDMI-to-RCA converter that does a decent job at getting these systems to work on my circa 2006 TV. Games I played last night were "Asteroids Deluxe" and "Bounty Bob Strikes Back".

I had a great time with "Asteroids Deluxe", more than I thought I did. The first time I played it was with one of my twin step-daughters. It was.....ok.....though I could feel her general disinterest in this type of game but she played with me anyway. This time I played solo and found it to be a better experience. I think I nabbed 20K points, which I wanna say is good for this first-timer on Intermediate.

"Bounty Bob" took a bit for me to "get". If I played this back in the day prior to playing "Super Mario Bros", I might have had an easier time with it. As Yoda said, I had to "unlearn what I had learned". I could not diagonal jump from a run, which found me sailing across the screen only to flatten like a pixelated pancake a couple floors down. I also couldn't just willy-nilly jump over a mutant. It seems pixel perfect for collision as I tried avoiding said mutant and clipped my foot on its head. Pancake city again. Once it clicked that the "treats" that make you invulnerable positioned in the proper order for a good claim run (at least so far), I got better. I also wanted to get better as it was a lot of fun once I got the rhythm.

On a non-game note, found out my NES might be having some video issues. In SMB the blues were really blue, like "color of modern Mario's overalls" blue. It was a neat effect but as I only play this every couple years or so on my 3DS, I didn't think about it too much. When I hooked up the AVS for testing with the "normal" palette the sky was light blue. I held up the SMB section in the "Nintendo Player's Guide" and sho nuff....that's the blue it's supposed be. So now I'll be playing with the AVS and I'll store my NES for now.

[JSoup]

I never post in these threads because I just never play anything other than WoW these days. But I randomly got a reply e-mail for RFGeneration's 'what are you playing' thread after four years, so. Gonna copy and past what I said.

Most of my game time goes to WoW these days, but I have been fiddling with:

Sun Wukong vs Robot - Got it on the PSN for Stars points (hahaha....) and it's....not amazing. It looks good and sounds great, but it's really focused on forcing the player to brute force things. Feels like the dev was trying to do a bullethell-Souls-like mix in a Metroidvania and just couldn't pull it off.

One Man's Trash - Picked it up on a whim. A take on that Digging A Hole game centered around a parody of that cryptobro who lost a thumbdrive with craploads of bitcoin in it. It's...interesting. Dig for junk, sell junk, buy upgrades that let you dig deeper and sell more junk. I don't know that it's amazing, but I ended up sinking six hours into it without realizing.

Tower Wizard - I'm starting to warm back up to idle games, now that titles with actual ends in mind are being made. This is short, maybe 7 hours to complete on the high end (I did it in 5 1/2), but really good. Another game were I sunk much more time into it than intended in one sitting.