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@Tyree_Cooperhmmm that might be a compelling reason to consider geting into ps3. Admittedly, ps3 was the generation I skipped for the most part. I only got an xbox360 well after the fact and only for assassin's creed. Ended up donating it before I moved can't say I've looked back tbh. I'll take a look and see if hot pursuit is on anything I play regularly, thanks for the review!

Oh man that's just getting me even more excited to keep playing it. I actually bought a flight stick for the gamecube just for it. I'll be doing up a review one the flight stick since there isn't much info about it.

Can I just say? I love your cat already. She has a very "hooman, why must you do this" look about her.

I'm playing rogue squadrons 2 for the first time, I'm enjoying it and I actually went and got a thrustmaster flight stick for it. Beyond that, playing some melee and going to play Scooby Doo Night of 100 Frights. Very excited.

I didn't know Paradise was on the Switch too. I'm a huge fan of burnout revenge, does hotpursuit let you crash into the enemy cars and all that?

I'm enjoying some Danzig from Devils Backbone. Not the absolute best I've ever had, but very enjoy Baltic Porter.

Actually I'd say that's a little unreasonable. Let's take a look at racing games for a moment. On the ps2 we have my absolute favorite racer, burnout revenge. I enjoy it not because I can race and win but because I can crash get going again and go get revenge. It's a wonderful title. The burnout series would see one more release on the ps3/xbox360 (burnout paradise). Moving on to the ps4 the closest thing that was hyped to be similar to burnout was I believe The Crew and it was a disappointment when viewed with that lense. Does that mean I think all old games are better than new? No. I still love uncharted 4 and Assassin's Creed on the ps4 along with a bunch of switch titles. My reason for bringing this up is even in viewing a genre across ages things change there are some unique titles with a mechanic you love that just isn't present in other titles. Like @DefaultGen pointed out, the genres evolve and change but that doesn't make older games any less fun or less good just a different game. My opinion at any rate.

I would have to say you've made an excellent point with this. So long as you aren't making concessions based on the age of the game, then I'd fully agree having a mindset of the game and similar types of games is important. After all I'm not going to try to compare candy crush against DWM2 Tara's Adventure on the game color. The two are vastly different in all aspects, and arguably fun for vastly different reasons. (I'd argue candy crush isn't fun, but some people like it and I ain't gonna knock it for them)

Oh man seeing yars revenge brings back memories. Now I wanna collect gba. Ugggggggghhhhhh

Thanks! I ended up buying it so I'll do up a true blue review of the feel and all of that after I have some play time with it. Now I get to play the "do I play rogue squadrons 2 with a regular controller and have to retrain myself" or "do I wait until I have the controller?" game. Knowing how little patience I have, I'll probably end up playing more rogue squadrons 2 and retraining myself

I have to agree with you on that. I still remember and joke about that IGN review for the re-release of ruby and saphhire version of pokemon "7/10 TOO MUCH WATER". To this day, I still wish I knew what the actual fuck that reviewer was thinking when they wrote that.

Ahh gotcha, hopefully I didn't derail then. Personally having read your comment, I tend to agree with you. I think a game "aging well" simply means that years later I can pick it up and still enjoy playing it. I mean pong is a classic example, you're not gonna like 24 hour marathon pong, but if you and a friend run across a pong machine I'm sure you two could go for a round or three.

Was this in response to my post or someone else?

Not sure how retro people here would consider my games (gamecube,ps1,ps2 stuff), but the way I review the games to friends is I'll sit and play the game until I feel like I have a good handle on it. Once I have that, I'll discuss things that I like and dislike about the game. Primarily I'll focus on mechanics, story, and presentation. Now since I'm playing older stuff, I'll give a bit of a pass for things like bare geometry cause that's what you're working with for the time period. I tend to evaluate my focuses on how well things flow together, were the maps put together well? Do the mechanics work well and work well together? Does it present well? Case in point, Spyro games, you can tell it's an older game based on the "assets" in the maps like hills and walls and such, but they were still laid out well in a way that makes sense and can let you play without feeling like you're fighting the game and that's important. Compare that to the Scooby Mystery Mayhem game. Half the time in the first 2 chapters, I felt like I was fighting against bad map layouts and I'd take the same wrong door 3 times in a row because I had no map and the doors looked the exact same.

I'll admit, I'm starting to think I'll just have to get one myself and give it a try. From what I read of an ebay sold listing, it was primarily released in europe and not a lot of them were made. The listing also implies it's most common usecase is for Rogue Squadrons. I guess maybe I'm delving into the edgecase of an edgecase haha. Either way, worst comes to worst, I'll pick it up and turn this post into a full review of it. It'll be interesting since I've never used one before except at arcades and such.

Hi All! I was curious to see if anyone had experience using the Thrust Master Flight Stick controller for the Gamecube. I recently started playing Rogue Squadrons and want to see how I like using a flight stick. I know I definitely missed out on playing this but I never had a gamecube and never had a chance to play a game with a Flight Stick so figured why not give it a try. Just in case here's an image of the controller.

Can't say I know much or really anything but I too wish to not be dumb. So I'll post and follow the thread.

I can understand that feel. I'm a bit worried that I'll burn myself as well, but then again being able to display an impressive library I think will be a massive source of pride. I'm sure once your game room is set up at version 1 (cause we both know that's a Neverending project) you'll feel a bit different. You should definitely do a before during and after set of pictures. I'd love to see it! It'll give me ideas for my media room

I believe in you! Keep at it and you'll achieve your goal!

I'm pretty proud of this purchase. Managed to score a set of 4 (mostly (one was missing a manual, but that's fixed now)) cib star wars gamecube games. Shipping was a nightmare thanks to USPS, but the seller was awesome. Props to pixel_junkie on ebay!

Ahhh super nifty thank you both!

Still a little new, what system is this for?

I plan on continuing my playable gamecube set. Maybe once I finish that I'll start working on varients but I also want to branch out into ps2 stuff since that was my jam when I was younger. Luckily I still have most of the games I loved on ps2 so I'm in no rush.

Hahahahahahah I'm way too good at getting myself into expensive hobbies. First Stagelighting and now this. Maybe one day I'll learn my lesson... Oh dude, very nice, thank you! I figured a large part of it is definitely talking with fellow people and learning from them and sharing what I know.

I could reasonably see myself starting a snes set somewhere down the road given the sheer amount of amazing games on it, but I figured I'd start small and focused. Et everyone else, Pleasure to meet all of you! Not too much going on with me. I'm curious, for sets, how does everyone build up their list of games. Are there any sources that you use or recommend?