Tanooki | 4,943 Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 Well playable is an overly thrown around catch all. I would argue what people called playable was also trying to validate their purchase. The opportune word most likely would be, tolerable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NostalgicMachine | 244 Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 Doom 64 Maniac Mansion (NES) Battletoads/Double Dragon (NES) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,423 Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 Drakkhen, this game is kind of cool. I used to play it with my friend as a kid and just crack up when we walked into lakes and our party exploded. As an adult who can take 2 minutes to figure out how a game works, it's pretty chill with fast progression, a map that shows POIs of the entire game, and easy auto-battles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,563 Editorials Team · Posted December 21, 2023 Author Share Posted December 21, 2023 4 hours ago, DefaultGen said: Drakkhen, this game is kind of cool. I used to play it with my friend as a kid and just crack up when we walked into lakes and our party exploded. As an adult who can take 2 minutes to figure out how a game works, it's pretty chill with fast progression, a map that shows POIs of the entire game, and easy auto-battles. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_wizard_666 | 1,325 Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 Working on WWF Wrestlemania 2000 (N64) and Unchared Waters (GEN) at the moment. WWF has me a couple weeks after Survivor Series with all the belts and a record around 40-2. UW I'm at the third rank and already have more money than I know what to do with, so right now I'm just trying to build fame as quick as possible to trigger the princess rescue and check this version off my list. Both games are great, though I can't recommend playing WM2000 over No Mercy. It isn't a bad game, don't get me wrong, but the later game is infinitely better overall. As for UW, it's probably my favourite port overall. While there's more variety with the sequel, I kinda dig the charm of the original game, though I would rather just play to boost my bank account than to actively try and beat it. Maybe I'm weird, but I kinda dig trade sims. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PII | 1,892 Posted December 27, 2023 Share Posted December 27, 2023 Cliffhanger on Sega CD again. Just had my first No-Death on the initial Snowboard Run. Was doing well until I ran into some atypical bad luck on the Level 3 Kung Fu Boss who really isn't too difficult. Something about the controls in this game... that can lead to the hands being just a hair sluggish or ill timed at hitting the desired inputs or something.... ....that leads to an ass-whupping. Then the whole thing decided to freeze up on me. (sigh.) Super rare that that happens.. I think it's happened like once before and I don't even remember for sure what game I was playing... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NostalgicMachine | 244 Posted December 27, 2023 Share Posted December 27, 2023 Doom 64, because I love the level Cat & Mouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,423 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Wizardry is hilarious. I have an evil wizard (SAURON) who accidentally turned good by random chance because I simply choose not to fight a friendly group of monsters. You can't put good and evil characters in the same party, so he left my party. I have to grind up a new good party with the sole purpose of hunting friendly mobs of turn SAURON evil again. And people say this game doesn't have a story. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avatar! | 1,823 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 38 minutes ago, DefaultGen said: Wizardry is hilarious. I have an evil wizard (SAURON) who accidentally turned good by random chance because I simply choose not to fight a friendly group of monsters. You can't put good and evil characters in the same party, so he left my party. I have to grind up a new good party with the sole purpose of hunting friendly mobs of turn SAURON evil again. And people say this game doesn't have a story. I LOVE Wizardry! Which game are you playing and on which system?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,423 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 (edited) 1 hour ago, avatar! said: I LOVE Wizardry! Which game are you playing and on which system?? I'm on NES. I started on SFC which looks like maybe the best version, but I felt pity for the NES completions thread and switched to NES. It seems like a pretty great version though, just the original with type-in stuff changed to menus. And yeah, I'm having a lot of fun. Certainly a lot more fun that all the times I tried to play it as a stupid kid. I can't imagine walking into this game and it being your first dungeon crawler. But as an adult who understand the genre more and is willing to figure out confusing maps, I'm in. I've read bad things about unfair difficulty and instant kills later on so I'm hoping to persevere. Edited January 2 by DefaultGen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avatar! | 1,823 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 17 minutes ago, DefaultGen said: I'm on NES. I started on SFC which looks like maybe the best version, but I felt pity for the NES completions thread and switched to NES. It seems like a pretty great version though, just the original with type-in stuff changed to menus. And yeah, I'm having a lot of fun. Certainly a lot more fun that all the times I tried to play it as a stupid kid. I can't imagine walking into this game and it being your first dungeon crawler. But as an adult who understand the genre more and is willing to figure out confusing maps, I'm in. I've read bad things about unfair difficulty and instant kills later on so I'm hoping to persevere. The computer games are arguably the most classic games, and sadly most of those are not available on any console -- at least not in English That said, in my opinion the best Wizardry console game that has an English release is this -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTone | 987 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Ring fit adventure. Never completed it, so I reset the adventure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NostalgicMachine | 244 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Super Metroid Maniac Mansion (NES) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrmrbcax | 63 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 About 1/3 of the way through Hybrid Heaven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,423 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 On 1/2/2024 at 8:08 PM, avatar! said: I LOVE Wizardry! Which game are you playing and on which system?? The Ring of Death killed my mage before I ever realized what happened Oh cruel game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NostalgicMachine | 244 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 Super Dodgeball (NES) Friday the 13th (NES) Snoopy's Magic Show (GB) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey | 7 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 I just got my hands on Phantasy Star 0 (DS) and starting up a second playthrough of Star Ocean Second R (ps5) Between the pair and a returning and further developing addiction to Cyberpunk I fear the backlog may not move at all for yet another season of gaming. What an awesome problem to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDIRunner | 2,756 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 After 100%ing Mario Wonder, it got me on a kick of going back and playing through some of the older Mario games. I've mentioned a few of these already, but my completed games since Mario Wonder are: Super Mario Bros. 3 (completed all levels including ones that could be skipped) Super Mario Bros. 2 (no warps) Super Mario World (100%) Super Mario Land 2 (100%) I also completed another playthrough of Super Metroid and finished in 2 hours and 25 minutes with 85% items. I can easily beat the game in under 3 hours and I can complete the game with 100% items, but I've never been able to do both in the same playthrough. I'm wondering if I can go back to my last save and find the last 15% items in under 35 minutes. Might be tough. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintegageo | 582 Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Tales of Arise atm. I tried Persona 5 but I just am not into the life sim aspect. Might do Mario Golf 64 once done, or finish Afterimage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,423 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 I'm playing Might and Magic on NES. This would be such a cool open world RPG if it wasn't such a pain in the ass. There's so much instant death and so many sluggish battles with no rewards (20 enemy random battles, wtf). There's a lot of old-school obscure BS and quests to figure out, but the awful combat makes it so not worth it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avatar! | 1,823 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 22 hours ago, DefaultGen said: I'm playing Might and Magic on NES. This would be such a cool open world RPG if it wasn't such a pain in the ass. There's so much instant death and so many sluggish battles with no rewards (20 enemy random battles, wtf). There's a lot of old-school obscure BS and quests to figure out, but the awful combat makes it so not worth it. Yeah, random battles are the bane of old skool games. I remember playing Shining in the Darkness on the Genesis -- fabulous dungeon crawler -- apart from the random encounters. I remember at one point I made far into one of the higher level areas, and all of a sudden I had a random encounter, enemies went first, they cast some bullshite spell that instantly wiped out my part -- GAME OVER -- WTF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,423 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 1 hour ago, avatar! said: Yeah, random battles are the bane of old skool games. I remember playing Shining in the Darkness on the Genesis -- fabulous dungeon crawler -- apart from the random encounters. I remember at one point I made far into one of the higher level areas, and all of a sudden I had a random encounter, enemies went first, they cast some bullshite spell that instantly wiped out my part -- GAME OVER -- WTF I don't remember having a big problem with Shining in the Darkness. It might be because your goal is pretty straightforward like in Wizardry: Go down. When I'm in a huge open world all around without a clue where to go, I just don't want to be bothered by nuisance encounters while I'm just figuring out what to even do, but if I am they better best fast! It also throws bigger encounters at you when level up, so it's punishing me for getting stronger! I still have my SITD maps I was so meticulous back then, even drawing pools of water with a blue sharpie. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,121 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Super Mario RPG on Switch. Playing on Breezy mode though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,812 Administrator · Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Fruit Shinobi on the NES. >_> 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT | 97 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Slay the Spire 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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