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    It seems that a lot of Microsoft UI lately is geared toward touch screen or *shudder* the Kinect. I think this means big blocks that can be easily pressed instead of smaller icons or lists which might be easier to navigate with mouse or controller. I think this has contributed to the jumbled interface and confusing layout. I have a computer with Windows 10 and its UI gives me fits sometimes. I need to look into seeing if there's a way to change it to look like 2000 or XP or NT or just about anything else...

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    Some racing for me this week...

     

    XBox One

    Forza 6 - 117 min (Just finished up the Porsche Motorsport Next thing... or whatever... still have all the Showcases to do. I'll get to the eventually...)

     

    Edit: Ooops... forgot this one...

     

    PSP

    Lunar Silver Star Harmony - 206 min (Still playing a little bit before bed... not every night, but a few. Main thing I need to do is play often enough to remember where I'm supposed to go or what I'm supposed to do next. Took me a bit of wandering around to figure it out last time I picked it up. lol)

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    I have a N64 for one game. Mario 64. Dont really have much nostalgia for the system other than that game. Wasnt super into Ocarina or Majora or any of the other big games. I havent had it hooked up in a couple years, but I keep it around just in case.

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    Ive played a lot of Hot Shots Open Tee on the PSP lately. Its a fun little golf game with plenty of features and fast play. The fact that its portable doesnt hurt.

     

    Ive also played quite a bit of PGA Tour 97 for the Saturn. Its not the greatest, with lots of load times, but its not bad. Predictable swing mechanic and fair gameplay.

     

    Recently got a Tiger Woods game for my XBox. Think its maybe 2005? Really different swing mechanic in that you use the analog stick and pull down for the back swing and then push forward for the swing. A bit like the Golden Tee arcade with the track ball in case youve ever played that. Makes it a bit more difficult to gauge your power but with practice, it does work.

     

    In another thread I mentioned playing one of the Links games on my brother in laws computer. Not sure exactly which one, but this would have been around 2000 or so Id guess. Before then, I remember being able to rent computer games at a place in Dallas somewhere. They copy protection was one of those where you have to identify a hole from a list in the manual. They were printed on dark paper to make it hard to photocopy. Those were the days.

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    Didn't Ape Escape need the analog controls? I mean, that's an oversight in itself for the PSClassic, but since it doesn't have that, Ape Escape is kind of silly to be considering...

     

    Tomb Raider, I agree with...

     

    Wipeout, may have had issues with licensing... music, iirc, and Red Bull... That game was the first place I heard of Red Bull. It was pretty prominent in the loading screens...

     

    Crash Bandicoot, nah... just had the NSane Trilogy...

     

    Ridge Racer, never played Type 4, so either one would be fine probably... ooo... or maybe Rage Racer... I remember liking that one a lot...

     

    Spyro, nah, got the rerelease trilogy thing coming out...

     

    I'd rather keep Abe's Oddysee than Legacy of Kain or Silent Hill...

     

    Gran Turismo, too many licenses... people seem to be completely ignoring this... music and cars... people are already complaining about the cost, this would just make it higher...

     

    PaRappa I played and didn't like... people are also concerned with lag... dunno... I'd rather have GTA...

     

    Cool Boarders I have zero interest in, but Tony Hawk has too many licenses, too... more licenses, higher cost, less profit at current price point... ("But Sony's got billions!" Yeah, and they didn't get those billions by losing money or breaking even.)

     

    Intelligent Qube I wasn't a fan of... never played Vib Ribbon, but I wonder if it would be sensitive to lag in inputs, too being a rhythm type game... probably wouldn't care for it either... give me a shmup like G Darius or the Gradius that the Japanese version got...

     

     

    My thing is, although I'm not that thrilled with the list of games that did make it on the system, I can see very good reasons why the ones everyone wants on there aren't on there. But it doesn't matter. People want what they want and this was never going to please everyone... but it seems it doesn't please anyone either. lol

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  17. Posted

    A decent lineup. As I suspected and kept saying, I didn't think the Spyro or Crash games would be on there... they both just got remasters or whatever. A couple I didn't think about being on there were Intelligent Qube and Grand Theft Auto. IQ is kinda expensive these days, too, I think. I remember renting it back in the day, but it didn't wow me. Don't know that I've ever seen that Revelations: Persona game, but all the rest are pretty familiar.

     

    One of those things I still won't seek out, but wouldn't refuse if someone gave it to me. :grin:

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  18. Posted

    Only a couple games this week... both new ones...

     

    2600

    Draconian - 90 min (This time is approximate... thought I had started my timer but when I quit playing it was saying all zeroes. Oh well. Loving the game. I've been concentrating on the first quadrant. Reading through the others, there's five quadrants to pick from with different maps of bases in each. The first quadrant are the Midway Arcade levels, second quadrant are the Namco Arcade Levels (which I'm more familiar with), the third is from the Draconian contributors, the fourth is from AtariAge members (!!!), and the fifth, yes, a fifth QUADrant, is randomly generated. Still amazed at what they can make this old machine do.)

     

    Playstation
    Legend of Dragoon     - 351 min (Mostly enjoying the game so far. Story seems okay, characters seem okay, music is okay... not really enjoying the whole timing aspect of battle. There are different moves you can do where you have to time button presses to continue the attack and essentially string together swings to get a more powerful attack. Thing is, I suck at it... some I am able to do, but some I never seem to pull off. And if you don't pull it off, the default attack damage is crap. Not a huge deal at the moment because the enemies don't seem to have very high HP, but I'm imagining later in the game, the timing attack things will be more and more necessary as the enemies get stronger. Thing is, for all the praise this game seems to get, it's not blowing me away. Did I go in with too high of expectations? Dunno.)

     

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    There is a stupid voiceover narrative during the gameplay ...

     

    This reminded me of another shmup I have... Silpheed The Lost Planet for Playstation 2... no cutscenes, but there is some kind of voice over that I can barely make out and don't really pay attention to anyway because I'm trying to play the game. lol

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    The Raiden series is probably my favorite shmup series... or it is at least my best represented. I've got Raiden for the Jag and TurboGrafx, Raiden Trad for the SNES, and Raiden Fighters Aces for the XBox 360 on physical as well as Raiden IV for the 360 on digital. I've looked at Raiden V on XBox One, I think, but it looks pretty similar to Raiden IV, so I've been hesitant to get it. Seems the newer Raiden games just don't grab me as much as the older ones... not sure why. What differences, good or bad, are there between IV and V besides the extraneous stuff on the sides?

     

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