Gaia Gensouki | 1,075 Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 I tried beating Mad Max, but died twice at the final boss, which is extremely frustrating since you have to do the previous two levels over again which easily takes 15 or 20 minutes just for another try. It's also unfair that the boss has something like 80 hit points, whereas the player character only has 16 and limited ammo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NESfiend | 1,515 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 @scaryicewe are due for a progress update vs other years. With the insane 2 man race for first, I would think progress has been pretty good. Cant remember anyone hanging with nerdy this long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Alien 3 is done. I don't think our team progress is actually all that impressive, since the participation has been pretty soft from everyone but Gaia and myself. And as far as a ferocious 2-person competition for the championship goes, I've got a ways to go before we can compare this to @Doctornickvs. @BeaIankin 2015. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nesmaster14 | 436 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Just finished Metroid! This game's been on my backlog for so long, nice to finally beat it. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,024 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 I'm working on Adventure Island. Should have it beat tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NESfiend | 1,515 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Fist of the north star is done. I go back and forth a lot trying to decide if its a good game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 587 Posted February 13, 2023 Author Share Posted February 13, 2023 Bad Dudes done: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 587 Posted February 13, 2023 Author Share Posted February 13, 2023 10 hours ago, NESfiend said: @scaryicewe are due for a progress update vs other years. With the insane 2 man race for first, I would think progress has been pretty good. Cant remember anyone hanging with nerdy this long We were 8th/12 years to reach 400: 400 games beaten 2021 15-Jan 2015 16-Jan 2016 19-Jan 2014 26-Jan 2017 27-Jan 2018 30-Jan 2020 30-Jan 2023 06-Feb 2022 08-Feb 2013 17-Feb 2019 14-Apr 2012 26-Apr Doing slightly better the last week, so we may fare better on the next milestone: 450 games beaten 2021 19-Jan 2015 21-Jan 2016 31-Jan 2017 07-Feb 2020 14-Feb 2014 16-Feb 2022 05-Mar 2018 10-Mar 2013 02-May 2019 19-May 2012 07-Jun ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,075 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Finally done with Mad Max. I should remind myself of never playing this game again. That final boss … Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,024 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 (edited) Okay I'm now on 8-4 in Adventure Island. 8-2 and 8-3 not quite as bad as I remember although still really, really hard. EDIT: Never mind. There was some sort of power reset and my tv and game system flicked off right during the last level. I don't know what caused it or why it happened other than God hates me. Edited February 13, 2023 by mbd39 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,024 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 There was like a buzzing sound and suddenly the picture on my TV went black. But it's working fine now. I wonder if this was because I left my NES on all last night. Maybe the power thingy inside is wearing out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,024 Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 Adventure Island is done. Happily no issues this time. What an insanely challenging but fun game. I still prefer it to AI2. 8-2 is still the hardest stage by far if you happen to lose your weapon and you probably will. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,088 Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 1 hour ago, mbd39 said: Adventure Island is done. Happily no issues this time. What an insanely challenging but fun game. I still prefer it to AI2. 8-2 is still the hardest stage by far if you happen to lose your weapon and you probably will. One of the best games on the NES for sure. Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 587 Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share Posted February 14, 2023 12 hours ago, mbd39 said: Adventure Island is done. Happily no issues this time. What an insanely challenging but fun game. I still prefer it to AI2. Glad you didn't let the reset stop you. I've been playing The Lone Ranger, about 75% of the way through now. This will be my first new completion this year (that is to say, all the others I've beaten before). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 1 hour ago, scaryice said: Glad you didn't let the reset stop you. I've been playing The Lone Ranger, about 75% of the way through now. This will be my first new completion this year (that is to say, all the others I've beaten before). Lone Ranger has a steep learning curve, but I found it very satisfying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 (edited) Wolverine is done. I'm also going to start Wrecking Crew, but it'll probably take me several days to finish it. Edited February 15, 2023 by nerdynebraskan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 587 Posted February 15, 2023 Author Share Posted February 15, 2023 Lone Ranger is finished! It's definitely brutal at parts, but it only took me two tries to beat the last boss. Thank god the game lets you skip half of the last area after dying. Like everyone else has said over the years in these threads, the game is quite fun and underrated, if you can get past the lack of checkpoints. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,075 Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 Abadox is done. This game has a really cool space horror theme going for it. However, the actual gameplay is rather unremarkable, imho. It also suffers from the Gradius syndrome where it's very difficult to get back on track once you've died. The unlimited continues made it bearable, but without them it would have been quite an awful grind. As for Mother aka Earthbound Beginning, it'S progressing really slowly. The other day I've returned from that strange world and made my way to some sort of school. I might do a longer write-up once I'm finished, but currently I'm not enjoying this game too much either in terms of gameplay. That's why I've been progressing so slowly. (That and because I've been quite busy lately.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 RBI Baseball is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 587 Posted February 16, 2023 Author Share Posted February 16, 2023 8 hours ago, Gaia Gensouki said: Abadox is done. This game has a really cool space horror theme going for it. However, the actual gameplay is rather unremarkable, imho. It also suffers from the Gradius syndrome where it's very difficult to get back on track once you've died. The unlimited continues made it bearable, but without them it would have been quite an awful grind. As for Mother aka Earthbound Beginning, it'S progressing really slowly. The other day I've returned from that strange world and made my way to some sort of school. I might do a longer write-up once I'm finished, but currently I'm not enjoying this game too much either in terms of gameplay. That's why I've been progressing so slowly. (That and because I've been quite busy lately.) Abadox seems kind of annoying based on the little I've played. Like, the hitboxes just seem a bit off. I enjoy Mother 1 because it's more open world than the other games in the series. And of course, the excellent soundtrack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryice | 587 Posted February 16, 2023 Author Share Posted February 16, 2023 Robocop 3 finished. Beautiful faces as always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 @Gaia Gensouki I'm sorry you aren't enjoying Earthbound Beginnings more. Magicant is actually one of my favorite places in the game, but for reasons that may not be obvious the first time you go through there. The graphics and gameplay obviously pale in comparison to the SNES sequel, but I found the original to have a far more coherent and moving story. @scaryice That RoboCop 3 end screen is something else! It's so detailed and faithful to the movie, but they forgot to draw RoboCop's jetpack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,075 Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 @nerdynebraskan@scaryiceI'm not even sure if it's really the fault of the game itself. I've been playing so many NES games recently that I feel as if I might be less receptive to them, especially entirely new games. So if I had started it some other time I might have had a more positive outlook. As for the game itself, the atmosphere and story moments are actually really cool and at times left me dumbfounded or laughing, because it was so unexpected or silly. In that way it somehow feels unusually fresh for a NES game and more akin to a modern indie game. The music is also fine, if not great at times and the graphics are still solid for a NES game, imho. Where the game falters every now and then is the actual gameplay or rather combat. The difficulty curve is pretty uneven. Some fights are really easy, whereas others suddenly become extremely difficult where I don't even know what to do other than to run away or grind some more levels and hope for the best. For example, some enemies get power-ups during battles, which means that they can now completely wreck me. Or an enemy in magicant can lower your stats which makes them near impossible to kill. Since I don't know how to reverse this I frequently had to just run away. Then there's also the issue with the critical hits that seem to ignore armor. So one moment enemies might only deal 1 or 2 damage and the next moment they unleash critical hits that deal about 50 damage. So it feels a bit whack at times in terms of difficulty. Luckily, the game is at least generous when it comes to game overs, so that I can restart with minimal losses. But still, it was a bit rough at times. I'll try it again on the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Clash at Demonhead is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdynebraskan | 356 Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 Paperboy 2 is done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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