General Gaming Thread

[OctoberRaven]

Someone showed me this.

When you see it:

[apsham]

That's nothing. There's 90 dollar DLC for that game to make the clothing see through.

[OctoberRaven]

3 hours ago, apsham said:

That's nothing. There's 90 dollar DLC for that game to make the clothing see through.

Not sure if you saw the "when you see it" bit.

[apsham]

Yeah, it was mistakenly rated 'E for Everyone' as well - but only on the back.

[OctoberRaven]

Still a hilarious oversight, seeing as right next to it is "SEXUAL CONTENT".

[TheWho87]

Some details on the mini Sega consoless, it seems they are just re-releasing the old Blaze/AtGames 80 game machines for £49.99 each for the console and handheld unit. Both have the same list of games (see spoiler). From reviews of older versions the main criticism was they they don't replicate the sound chip very well, on top of that the console version can be picky on which cartridges it can play, of the two I'd suggest the handheld as it has the option to add ROMs via an SD card.

Spoiler

1. Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
2. Alien Storm
3. Altered Beast
4. Arrow Flash
5. Bonanza Bros.
6. Chakan: The Forever Man
7. Columns
8. Columns III
9. ComixZone
10. Crack Down
11. DecapAttack
12. Dr. Robotnik'sMean Bean Machine
13. ESWAT: City Under Siege
14. Eternal Champions
15. Fatal Labyrinth
16. Flicky
17. Gain Ground
18. Golden Axe
19. Golden Axe II
20. Golden Axe III
21. Jewel Master
22. Kid Chameleon
23. Phantasy Star 2
24. Phantasy Star 3
25. Ristar
26. Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi
27. Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
28. Sonic & Knuckles
29. Sonic Spinball
30. Sonic the Hedgehog
31. Sonic the Hedgehog II
32. Sonic 3D Blast
33. Sword of Varmilion
34. The Ooze
35. Vectorman
36. VectormanII
37. Mortal Kombat I
38. Mortal Kombat II
39. Mortal Kombat III
40. Adventure in the Park
41. Cross the road
42. Jack's Pea
43. Jewel Magic
44. Curling 2010
45. Plumbing Contest
46. Wall-Breaking
47. Bubble Master
48. Break a Fireline
49. Mahjong Solitaire
50. Warehouse Keeper
51. Chess
52. Memory
53. Snake
54. Air Hockey
55. Spider
56. Naval Power
57. Mr. Balls
58. Cannon
59. Fight or Lose
60. Bottle Taps Race
61. Bomber
62. Checker
63. Hexagonos
64. Whack-A-Wolf
65. Mirror Mirror
66. Panic Lift
67. Black Sheep
68. Flash Memory
69. Brain Switch
70. Mega Brain Switch
71. Hidden Agenda
72. Dominant Amber
73. Hide and Seek
74. Jura Formula
75. Lost World Sudoku
76. Meatloaf Rotation
77. Mya Master Mind
78. Skeleton Scale
79. T-Rex Memory Match
80. Yawning Triceratops

Here is a review of the older handheld unit

 

[Cactus Drags]

Eternal Champions? Fuck yes, that was badass. Cracking theme tune too:

 

 

[Colly]

I have no fond memories of either Mr Balls or Meatloaf Rotation.

[thatshortguy]

Augh.  No Man's Sky has a Day 1 patch that revamps the whole damn thing.  Again with the good news/bad news/meh news/good news cycle.  Just get to midnight tonight so I can figure out for myself if I wasted $20!  

[Benji]

Yikes, combine that with the fact reviews for this are embargoed until 4AM tomorrow morning and several places apparently didn't even receive copies until today despite being intended to receive them Friday, they really must not have been as confident as they'd hoped in that original release. Here's to hoping this patch fixes whatever issues they had.

[Just Joe]

1 hour ago, Benji said:

Yikes, combine that with the fact reviews for this are embargoed until 4AM tomorrow morning and several places apparently didn't even receive copies until today despite being intended to receive them Friday, they really must not have been as confident as they'd hoped in that original release. Here's to hoping this patch fixes whatever issues they had.

This is all standard fare in the games industry these days sadly.

[apsham]

Yeah - there are a few cases where the embargo really means nothing, I don't think that's a great indicator anymore to be honest.

But at the same time - I think the developers in this case know how much people have hyped it in in their heads versus what is possible in a video game. Endless worlds is something that the human mind can run absolutely wild with that.. at least in this day and age.. a video game will not be able to deliver on. Minecraft procedurally generates, other games like Starbound have a huge amount of choices that lay out before you - but before long everything eventually rolls over to at least 'kind of' looking or feeling the same.

[Benji]

I really hope it delivers and I've just been a horrid pessimist this whole time, I've just been burned too many times by things like this to believe the hype. I blame Peter Molyneux.

[RPS]

I think the problem with No Man's Sky is the hype train. I have never felt misled by anything HelloGames has stated- it is a space exploration game with elements of crafting, combat and trading. I can't really think of anything they promised to be in the game that wasn't. They've always been pretty up front about it. From the splices I've seen on Polygon and Kotaku, it is the game that I have been interested in playing. The idea of upgrading my space ship, going to desolate planets, mining resources, hopping into my spaceship and hoping to stumble upon a more populated world. That is what I want from No Man's Sky and all indications show that is what we will get. 

Full disclosure though - I am the type of guy who boots up Skyrim or Fallout 3 and just goes out wandering and exploring and doesn't touch the main game. 

[thatshortguy]

1 hour ago, RPS said:

I think the problem with No Man's Sky is the hype train. I have never felt misled by anything HelloGames has stated- it is a space exploration game with elements of crafting, combat and trading. I can't really think of anything they promised to be in the game that wasn't. They've always been pretty up front about it. From the splices I've seen on Polygon and Kotaku, it is the game that I have been interested in playing. The idea of upgrading my space ship, going to desolate planets, mining resources, hopping into my spaceship and hoping to stumble upon a more populated world. That is what I want from No Man's Sky and all indications show that is what we will get. 

Full disclosure though - I am the type of guy who boots up Skyrim or Fallout 3 and just goes out wandering and exploring and doesn't touch the main game. 

Same here.  I'm hoping for a game where I can go, putz around separate of every other living human and do cool space shit.  If I can do that, it's all good.  Potentially naming things "Gravy" is just that.

[probablyoliver]

I'm excited and cautiously optimistic about No Man's Sky because I know it's not going to be what some people have built it up to be. The embargo means nothing, Bloodborne had an embargo that lifted the day before release and that was one of, if not the best game of this generation.

No Man's Sky will be phenomenal as long as you let it be, and reading through the day one patch notes doesn't worry me, it excites me.

[Benji]

30 minutes ago, Nidr said:

Bloodborne had an embargo that lifted the day before release and that was one of, if not the best game of this generation.

See this is the kind of talk that makes me not believe hype

[TKz]

1 hour ago, Benji said:

See this is the kind of talk that makes me not believe hype

Eh, I went into Bloodborne knowing that hype and not caring about Dark Souls and it delivered on every front. I think you need to remove yourself from the hype entirely in cases like these. Helped that I played it like a year after release when the hype wasn't quite as in your face.

I'd probably agree that Bloodborne is my game of the generation thus far.

[OctoberRaven]

Everything I saw of Bloodborne made me think it was lame as fuck tbh.

[DFF]

I watched IGN as they live streamed a 2 hour No Man's Sky playthrough last night. It looks decent/good, though I admit I only watched about 15 mins. I believe both IGN and Kotaku have said they liked the early impressions of the game.