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    Horizon Zero Dawn

    in Sony PlayStation 4

    Posted

    I started this a couple days ago and wow, it is a dream game. TONS to do, amazingly gorgeous engine, action packed combat, perfect camera for a 3P game, solid soundtrack, great voice acting, interesting story, WICKED enemies, HUGE map! I have the Complete Edition and I'm in love.

    Mega SG from Analogue arrives April 2019 for $190

    in Sega Genesis

    Posted

    Should have bumped it, sweetheart. Or, you know.. used the thread that was sitting right at the top of the Genesis forum.

     

     

    Seems it's been locked ;)

     

    Still, as you pointed out there has been an ongoing thread about it since so still makes this thread redundant. :P

    Might as well lock this one up as well, no need for yet another thread about it imho. :roll:

     

    Apparently the words, "fairy and retard" triggered one of the mods.

     

    It's strange that y'all are white knighting for the other thread so hard. I didn't post in that girls thread, because I was afraid she would report me for saying words. I'm literally shaking.

    Diablo III

    in Modern Gaming Discussion

    Posted

     

    I love Torchlight to pieces, played the crap out of this on XBLA. Was very sad that TLII was PC only (have the demo, but I'm just a console gamer at heart).

    Good news is that Torchlight Frontiers (which appears to be the same team but under a new development name, since Runic is gone, they're now https://www.echtragames.com/

    ) is coming to the XbOne and PS4, too. Count me in :)

     

    That sounds badass.

    Diablo III

    in Modern Gaming Discussion

    Posted

    It's just a grinding game. Your supposed to play it over and over, level up again and again, and keep increasing the difficulty. It's actually really impressive once you get to into the Torment difficulties and you witness the sheer amount of stuff the game can throw at you on screen. The main addiction is the legendary items, as you increase the difficulty, the chance for legendary stuff increases. After you play through the main quest one time, it opens Adventure mode which is the meat of the game I think.

     

    Here's the main problem, and this has been a problem for a couple of years now. You can't play it online without putting your account at serious risk of being ruined. Play online and there's a high chance some guy with a hacked character and 10,000+ paragon points will join you and ruin your game. How does it ruin YOUR game? Easy, your low level, he's high level, so the game curves everything to you and you will level hundreds of paragon points within minutes, completely taking all the grinding fun away from you. Some people actually like that but not me, I consider it actually stealing game time from people.

     

    I think the game was really fun before the hacked weapons made their way into the fray and Blizzard did nothing to stop it, they even said they weren't going to police it at all. Before I quit playing I saw guys with 3 royal and/or legendary gems in each piece of gear (most gear slots allow 1 gem). I played legit and was able to get my Monk able to go Torment 9 by myself, but it takes along time. To me it was worth it to not cheat up to there, I had alot of fun. I was playing on Hardcore mode too. That really ups the risks and makes you play smarter.

     

    I get it now. I just finished the game on Normal and started Adventure mode on Torment I... Christ, it's insanely difficult. The base monsters in Act I take forever to kill. I'm a level 60 Crusader with mostly yellow and Legendary gear, so I don't know why the difficulty would ramp up so high. I imagine the gear attained in Torment difficulty and above, is way more powerful than what I acquired in Normal mode...?

     

    I almost beat Normal mode without dying a single time... Maltheal (however it's spelled) killed me once, and nothing else in the game even got me past half health.

     

    Funny y'all mentioned Torchlight: that's one of my favorite Hack n Slash games of all time. I've had soooo many characters on max difficulty/hardcore mode, and lost a lot of characters that way. It's the ultimate! Path of Exile and another similar looking game, on the PS4, look interesting, I look forward to opening them in the future.

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    Doom

    in Modern Gaming Discussion

    Posted

    So I booted up my Gaming PC over the weekend and had a blast with the Combination of:

     

    Doom 2 The Way ID Did

    Complex Doom

    PSX Midi Soundtrack

     

    Put in nearly 7 hours and made it to the 23rd level. A complete and total blast of FPS heaven.

     

    BTW: the two Doom 64 Mods I have that I couldn't remember are - Doom 64 Retribution and Brutal Doom 64, both are wicked fresh.

     

     

    I plan on putting together a simple slideshow of my Doom Collection, with screenshots, and posting it by next week on Youtube. I would love to see y'alls Collections, either in a video or with uploaded pics! :D

    Retroblox

    in Classic Console Discussion

    Posted

    It's a Retron 5, with some extremely expensive (and likely never to exist) accessories.

     

     

     

    Right now it's nothing. Anyone's guess is as good as the next.

     

     

    It was never, ever, going to be pure-FPGA like the Analogue NT.

     

    It was going to have an FPGA on-board to allow their software emulators to read from original cartridges in real time and supposedly provide better-than-pure-software emulation ... but that idea was officially dropped the day that the pre-orders started.

     

    As of right now, it seems (from their own descriptions) to be just a bunch of licensed software emulators running on a SFF PC-compatible motherboard, with a small FPGA that will be used to dump complete ROM images from cartridges before the emulation software starts (just like a Retrode 2).

     

    So ... not really any different from what you can put together yourself for cheaper, except for their pretty interface and the promise of the online store, if that ever launches, and if they can license the ROMs to sell on it (don't ever expect to see any of Nintendo's own titles).

     

     

     

    Yep, with the difficulties of Intel hardware design, I'm also someone that would expect them to just buy some small-form-factor SBC motherboard off-the-shelf.

     

    But I can't find any existing Intel SBC motherboards that match the specs that Polymega are describing, or could fit in their price range

     

    The LattePanda is the closest that I could find, but it is reported as being rather unstable, and it doesn't run the Intel processor that Playmaji want to use anyway. Another one is Axiomtek's CAPA500 SBC board ... but that board is over $400 by itself, without a processor!

     

    Anyway, Polymega posted new information on their FB page yesterday that suggests that they aren't buying an off-the-shelf board, and really are making a custom board ...

     

    attachicon.gifpolymega-2018-09-29.png

     

     

    Hold on folks ... let's read that post carefully ...

     

    Playmaji/Polymega just confirmed that the hardware shown at E3 (before Eric quit as CTO), was the ARM hardware that they've been showing for the last year.

     

    Playmaji/Polymega also just confirmed that they don't currently have working hardware boards that match the new Intel-based specs that people are pre-ordering, i.e. there is no working prototype of the shipping configuration!!!

     

    So ... what have they been using to take all of the Saturn videos???

     

    Thanks for the responses! I'm definitely not on board with it then. I was hoping it was going to be like the Analogue NT, but I figured that was asking too much for sub $300. Oh well..... :sleep:

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    DOOM Eternal

    in Modern Gaming Discussion

    Posted

    Doom stopped me, but it was by the asinine design of using the chainsaw to refill HP/ammo since they don't leave it around largely like in the past. I was in Hell and had these floating platforms to an open smaller arena where multiple Barons, cacodemons, and other crap continually spawn and I just kept getting wrecked running out of ammo. The fact it makes you have to go down there and commit suicide to refill your stuff instead of being more tactical about it was a huge turn off. I like the game, but hate that one aspect of it as it just seems not right at all forcing the boring childish glory kills repeatedly to keep propped up. I'd rather just grind things up, find ammo reserves around, and if I feel the want to rush in and go mad (like with a berserk box) I'd do that.

     

    Either way I keep it around as it's nice now and again, and the sequel looks a bit slower and more methodical like the original Quake PC which I really enjoyed. Not that it doesn't bring the crazy, but it appears to do that mainly in the various multiplayer modes where other humans can pop into a stage where you are, or deathmatch, etc the usual stuff.

     

     

    What's asinine is not bothering to learn how to play the game properly. Glory kills are fast, as is utilizing the chainsaw in specific moments. As the cool kids apparently say these days, "git gud."

     

    Tanooki has a point though. ID said the Glory Kills were optional and imo; that was a blatant lie considering how necessary it is, for ammo and health.

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    Diablo III

    in Modern Gaming Discussion

    Posted

    I recently opened this for the PS4, and while the first Act was quite entertaining, I have become bored to tears with it mid Act II. The graphics are sweet, sound is great, and the story is solid enough, albeit no where near as dark as the original game.

     

    I was really disappointed to see Blizzard behave so lazily with the engine, by not allowing rotation nor zooming in: which has been a normal feature for Hack n Slash games since the early '00s. The Skill Tree system has been revamped so that zero hard choices need be made, and the player can freely change skills, which is cool; but imo, it greatly cheapens the experience of building a character.

     

    I waited so long to play this game and was hoping to not be disappointed... I have the latest iteration, the one that includes all 7 classes and a slew of extra options, which is great value, considering I picked up my copy for $20 sealed. Sigh - I am disappointed though, as overall: it feels kind of cheap and slimmed down from what it used to be, even though it looks much flashier than Diablo, with its 3d engine, and flashy graphics. I'm also playing it on Normal, which I think was a mistake, because I am so overpowered that I haven't even died a single time... hell, I don't think I've hit half health more than a handful of times, as well as only needing a few potions.

     

    I wonder if StarCraft II is equally as disappointing for some. I'm still waiting for Blizzard to loosen the online requirement for Single Player, as I've been too lazy to look up a mod/hack to play it offline - I suppose there won't be a Console port of that one anytime soon.

     

     

    What are y'alls thoughts on the matter?

    What do you guys capture your gameplay footage on?

    in Classic Console Discussion

    Posted

    Back when I was still doing it for me the easiest way was recording composite or even RF direct to a stand alone DVD - Recorder. Using Re-writable DVD.

     

    I would then simply take the resulting DVD and import the .VOB files into my editing program.

     

    That would mean your tv would have to be able to output to the DVD recorder, correct?

     

    Is it possible to use a high quality video camera and set it up, to cover the screen 100%, and get a solid recording that way? Afterwards, simply import the resulting file into ones Editor of choice.

    Polymega Modular Retro Game System

    in Modern Gaming Discussion

    Posted

    Ah----name change threw me off. I did search for it in both classic and modern gaming but did not find a thread, and I suppose that is why. Well it has a new name, time for a new thread? Or change the name of the old?

     

    Also was torn between classic and modern gaming, but since it's a modern device that will have modern tech and interface I decided to go modern. Mods can do what they prefer RE this thread.

     

    I was wondering the same thing, as I was about to post about this a couple weeks ago, and hadn't had a chance to find a thread on the board about it. Thanks to your thread and someone else mentioning the other thread, now I see where everyone is talking about it.

     

    I just posted the following in the other thread, "So, is this thing like the Analogue NT, with zero lag and near perfect emulation of the original hardware? Is it FPGA based or is it simply a bunch of Emulators packed in a piece of hardware?"

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