What are you playing?

[Fragems]

Started playing some Sims 3 and BF4 again. Both are pretty addictive .

[prfsnl_gmr]

I just started Wario Land 3 for GBC. I'm having fun so far but I was admittedly expecting a straight forward platformer, not a "Metroidvania" game. I guess that comes as part of the surprise when you don't research a title before playing it.

Wario Land 3 is an amazing game. Wario Land 4 went in a different direction; so, there is still nothing else out there quite like it.

[alienjesus]

I just started Wario Land 3 for GBC. I'm having fun so far but I was admittedly expecting a straight forward platformer, not a "Metroidvania" game. I guess that comes as part of the surprise when you don't research a title before playing it.

Wario Land 3 is an amazing game. Wario Land 4 went in a different direction; so, there is still nothing else out there quite like it.

Of the Wario Land games that were less conventional platformers (2, 3, 4) this one is my favourite. I hated 2 and thought 4 was OK.

I adore VB and Shake Dimension though. I still need to pick up the first game.

What are people's thoughts on Wario World and Master of Disguise. I hear mixed things about the former and basically nothing good (and frankly, almost nothing) about the latter.


In fact, Master of Disguise seems to be one of those Nintendo platformers in a major IP that's just been basically ignored by most, alongside Yoshi's Universal Gravitation, Kirby Mouse Attack, Super Princess Peach and basically any DK game post-DK64 and pre-DKCR. Admittedly, there's probably a reason for some of those, but it's still odd to see.

I actually feel like the DS years and to a lesser extent the late GBA years are really forgotten in terms of Nintendo IPs.

[prfsnl_gmr]

In fact, Master of Disguise seems to be one of those Nintendo platformers in a major IP that's just been basically ignored by most, alongside Yoshi's Universal Gravitation, Kirby Mouse Attack, Super Princess Peach and basically any DK game post-DK64 and pre-DKCR. Admittedly, there's probably a reason for some of those, but it's still odd to see.

With a few exceptions - and excepting HAL Labs, of course - Nintendo farmed out the development of those titles to companies like Artoon, Suzak(?), and TOSE. Although all of them turned out OK games, none of them really compare to the games Nintendo developed in-house.

[alienjesus]

In fact, Master of Disguise seems to be one of those Nintendo platformers in a major IP that's just been basically ignored by most, alongside Yoshi's Universal Gravitation, Kirby Mouse Attack, Super Princess Peach and basically any DK game post-DK64 and pre-DKCR. Admittedly, there's probably a reason for some of those, but it's still odd to see.

With a few exceptions - and excepting HAL Labs, of course - Nintendo farmed out the development of those titles to companies like Artoon, Suzak(?), and TOSE. Although all of them turned out OK games, none of them really compare to the games Nintendo developed in-house.

I really liked bith Mouse Attack and Super Princess Peach.

Artoon are pretty terrible though.

[noiseredux]

thanks to Fast (and actually Stark since he's the one who gave it to me) I'm completely obsessed w/ The Talisman Digital Edition now. Played it every night for the past week. Planning to buy expansions. It's crazy good. Had I played it several months earlier, it would have easily ended up on my Top 10 games of 2014 list.

[Exhuminator]

You might like this too:

http://www.gog.com/game/witcher_adventure_game

[BogusMeatFactory]

You might like this too:

http://www.gog.com/game/witcher_adventure_game

Which can be tried before you buy by playing it on Tabletop Simulator wink wink!

I'd like to say that I have also bought far too many board games because of Tabletop Simulator, including Ticket to Ride, Mice & Mystics and Betrayal at the House on the Hill. Curse you Tabletop Simulator!!!!!!

[Westane]

I just started the first Casltevania and am stuck on Death. Not stuck so much as I got to him once, died quickly, then went to bed. After a couple nights I can make it to Level 4 without dying so that's progress to me. Hoping to have it beat soon.

Also still playing Dragon Warrior Monsters and I gotta say... not feeling it. There's no story, the monsters aren't compelling, and the battles are pretty dull. Pokemon it is not...

[Key-Glyph]

Playing a bit of Bloody Wolf on the TurboGrafx-16...

I am obsessed with the ending dialog and credits music to this game. How is the gameplay?

I've been playing Lethal Enforcers on the Genesis and I'm considering packing it away. I think I unfortunately have several things working against me, including:

-- this is my first lightgun game since Duck Hunt;
-- I'm playing on a 12" CRT;
-- the CRT is resting on the floor.

So basically we've got a combination of noob skills, a proportionately smaller shooting area that messes with precision and accuracy, and an unstable vantage point (I stretch out on the floor and lean on my elbows, so if I shift around even the tiniest bit, my calibration can get thrown off). I also have detection issues with one side of the screen, meaning that I occasionally can't hit enemies that hang out on the left edge. The game thinks I'm trying to reload instead, the result being that I get slowly shot to death by the same goon. Unfortunate.

Does anybody have any tips that might help me out? I can't change my setup, so I suppose I'm looking more for gameplay tips. Also, are lightgun games usually this hard? Or am I just bad? I can handle the truth.