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    Between Fallout4, Uncharted 4, No Man Skies, and the inevitable FFVII thingy, this holiday I may finally upgrade to a PS4. Was anything besides Destiny:The Taken King playable on a PS3 at E3 this year? Disney Infinity 3.0 (Star Wars) was, and so was Lego Dimensions, but what about titles that do require you to buy more toys?

     

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    The Saturn is attractive for the titles that were Saturn exclusives. I still have my 1st Gen PS1 (even though it has to be upside down to play) so the comments about lasers is important. The 3DO is more of a niche in my collection. The titles that I'm looking at are not... generally considered killer apps. I'm a WIng Commander fan, so Super Wing Commander is one of the leaders. Most of the other 3DO titles were ported to PS1. Road Rash, for example. (Which is another title I'm eyeing, but the PS1 port is what, $5? I don't need a whole new console for that.)

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    I'm looking back a couple of generations and have toyed with the idea of adding a console or two to the collection. I've always thought the 3DO was a sexy machine, but lately I've had a desire to add a Saturn too. I was PSX in that gen, but now think a Saturn might be calling my name, so it can find a comfy home next to my Genesis/32X/Sega CD rig. And then there's the Dreamcast...

     

    Each console has it's own killer app or two that look attractive.

     

    My real question for the gang is how is this hardware holding up? I've heard rumors of motherboard battery issues, etc. What should I be looking for, or avoiding, when you are searching for a 3DO or a Saturn? I think the Dreamcast may have to wait.

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    To the first thing: yes it is. To the second thing: I wasn't laughing after I followed the game's development since it was going to be a PlayStation 2 game, tracked every development and update, and paid full-price on launch day. To the third thing: that $5 would be better spent on lunch at McDonald's; at least you can flush the turd afterward.

     

    If nothing else, it's the 2600 Pac-Man of our time. At face value, yeah, maybe it's an okay game, and some people like it. But for people like me it was almost impossibly disappointing.

     

    The one thing I appreciate about ACM were the references to Alien 3, which as everyone knows I regard as an underrated (if flawed) and worthy part of the series. But the whole deal with Hicks still being alive and they just cremated some guy, and then Hicks gets to Fiorina just in time to watch Ripley kill herself...no. Just...no. If I were Michael Biehn I'd be embarrassed too. And at least when Hicks was dead he didn't have to get dragged through crap like this.

     

    Making "Wey-Yu" a thing aggravates me as much as anything else in the game. It's "Weyland-Yutani" or "The Company." Nobody in ANY of the movies called it "Wey-Yu." It drives me crazy that they got cute with it for the generation that abbreviates words and mashes them together. It sounds like a celebrity couple.

    I agree about the "Wey-Yu" thing. It made me feel icky just typing it.

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    Colonial Marines isn't THAT bad. It's kind of humorously bad though! I just laugh at some of the glitches and stuff, but it's still a tolerable game. I guess it helps that I got it for $5 during a Steam sale...

    It does have it's moments. The "Stasis Interupted" DLC is... better. The end of that IS laughably bad though. It sounds like Michael Biehn is embarrassed by it at that point, by the way his line readings are. The focusing on Wey-Yu mercs as a primary bad guy, and some weird story beat ideas, coupled with an occasionally really glitchy engine is what brings it down.

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    They would probably have added rotation on the Klingon vessels displayed at the bottom of the screen. In the standard cart version, the Klingon ships are always displayed facing you at an angle, even when they are moving away from the Enterprise (and it does look rather silly). And if I remember correctly, only one ship could be displayed on the viewscreen at a time, even if more than one ship (or starbase) was in visual range. That's the kind of thing they could have fixed somehow in the Super Game version, given the 24K of available RAM in the ADAM.

    Exactly. The rotation sprites would have kicked the Coleco STSOS version into being the BEST port of the era. The port is the best (IMHO) Gameplay wise, but added voice and rotations.... One can only dream.

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    Never noticed anything funky that way on Primal Rage (or any of the other fighters), but Wizard Of Wor OTOH! Such a shame they screwed that up. :mad:

    Maybe my reaction time is getting worse as I get older. I'm getting thumped in "Destiny" most of the time too... But (in my purely unscientific. non-frames per second counting opinion) it seams that when I play Rage on my 32X it's just WAAAAAAY slower than on the PS2 Williams Greatest Hits disc. Pit Fighter also seams unplayable because it is so fast. I used to be GREAT at Stun Runner in the arcade, and the port of that (the reason I bought the 3rd disc) feels like it is running on speed. I haven't compared them on MAME, but the Digital Eclipse ports just feel off to me. Nostalgia vs. 46 year old reaction time may be the culprit though.

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    Isn't Mario Bros. a relatively recent, CV homebrew release -with 3 or 4 variants produced? Isn't it still fairly easy to acquire at a reasonable price??

    I have been looking for awhile, and haven't seen one in the wild, ever. I only see it on eBay, and at a price point that I will NEVER bite at. Part of the point of the thread, (which others have also noted) is that by inflating the cost to this point, others make the fair market value inflated. So any BIN or start prices start to cross the $200 mark. For a homebrew cart. I just can't do it. If Rellik can make that on ANY cart, I'd be amazed. If a buyer is that nuts to pay that price, bonus for him. We are not talking about the super rare "Stadium Events" for NES. And even then I find the last auction for that beyond ridiculous. The eBay page just seems out of pace and out of touch with the CV scene and the Homebrew scene. I just find it damaging to the community in general.

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    ...and in the meanwhile, make the general public think that these games are worth much more than they really are. The consequences then hurts us all.

    This is what drives me nuts. I'm a moderate collector and pick up loose carts when I have the spare money and dabble in the occasional Homebrew (Golden Chalice for the win!). Would I love a copy of Mario Bros. for my CV? You bet I would. I totally agree that all this does is inflate the costs of other eBay vendors and even some brick and mortar vendors who use it as a reference. Yuck,

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    Good ole' Rellik111. :lolblue:

     

    If he had raised the price $4,000 from his starting price of $10,000 instead of reducing it, I would have been all over it... but seeing as he reduced the price, the game most not be that good and therefore not worth buying. :ponder:

    Does he actually sell anything at those prices? Do people actually bite? Is anyone that dumb?

  22. Posted

    I'm running a PS3 & a Wii U. Multiplayer is the issue. If you are playing with other folks online, you need to be playing the same version or your borked. I have cancelled many PS3 updates and played the installed versions before. My Wii U is still kind of new and I haven't seen too many updates come down the pike. Saying that, installing my Wii U and the first round of games did take like 2 1/2 hours between OS updates and game updates. It's annoying yes. But less annoying when they pull the servers for those same games.

     

    Remember, you didn't buy a copy of "Destiny." You are only renting the IP. When Bungie & Activision kill those servers, game is dead since there is no local option at all.

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  23. Posted

    After having A:I since launch, my thoughts on it boil down to this:

     

    I love the environment. Sevastapol "feels" just so right. Playing cat & mouse with the Alien is intense and generally feels right too (except when the AI bugs out or relies too heavily on scripted behaviors).

     

    There are a bunch of moments that are so over the top creepy and evocative of the first "Alien" film that I love that aspect of the game.

     

    HOWEVER: I never want to throw this game in when I just want to play, goof around, or blow off steam. Loading A:I is much like getting ready to be abused. The frustration level coupled with difficulty and tension makes this title difficult to "keep coming back to" in the long run.

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  24. Posted

    I'm a little surprised for the love for the Williams/Midways Greatest Hits for the PS2 on here. Many of the ports on that seemed to be running WAY too fast. Primal Rage being one of them. I find the fighting games on that compilation almost unplayable.

     

    Released at the same time as the 32X version of Primal Rage was T-Mek. One of the only home ports of the game and it's half-way decent too (IMHO.)

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