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BTails

Member
Get back to the office from Spin Class, and find out an employee resigned less than a week before he was supposed to host a bunch of events. Strong possibility of me flying to BC next week... Can I go home and play retro games / drink beer yet???
 

Fularu

Banned
I never found a use for Instagram...

But now that I have a Vizio D55u-D1, an OSSC and I hope a supergun soon, I'll have to take part into the retro goodness pictures galore like everyone here :p
 
Retro GAF how are you spending your Friday night? Wife is working late so it's beer and gaming on the back deck for me!
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Danny Dudekisser

I paid good money for this Dynex!
It was hard to put down COD and madden for GBC. The GBC doesn't even have snoop dog or ice cube voice packs

I know, man, seriously. Like, what was even the marketing budget for GBC games? If those games were any good, they would have spent way more money securing my generation's mindshare.
 
So I just finished FF7 on the Playstation I just bought. Sephiroth hit Cloud and his health became 7777. Needless to say, I didn't get to enjoy One Winged Angel.
 

Yes Boss!

Member
Retro GAF how are you spending your Friday night? Wife is working late so it's beer and gaming on the back deck for me!

Drinking, after a pretty busy work week that is spilling over into the weekend as I have employees heading to Louisiana earlier then planned so coordinating charter flights. Ugh.

Playing Last Resort on my Nintendo. My game this week. Heading to San Francisco and OC and SB on Sunday so prepping my handhelds...Switch and 3DS.
 

televator

Member
Retro GAF how are you spending your Friday night? Wife is working late so it's beer and gaming on the back deck for me!

Working overtime in my new position. Getting money. Money to feed my need for retro goodies. WonderMega, Nt Mini, GCVideo... I will have these things soon.

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IrishNinja

Member
Retro GAF how are you spending your Friday night? Wife is working late so it's beer and gaming on the back deck for me!

playing Wonder Boy: Dragon's Trap on switch...y'all should be in on this, it's fantastic

broke af but tons of stuff on everdrives to explore. just finished 140 hours of persona 5 (...) this week, i have Nier: automata & RE7 on deck but i need some classic shit in between, literally can't do more than a couple modern games without diving into something archaic in between. sure, yakuza kiwami is due out in a few months, but i gotta finish rise of the dragon first.

ps uncharacteristically drunk, love y'all
 

Danny Dudekisser

I paid good money for this Dynex!
playing Wonder Boy: Dragon's Trap on switch...y'all should be in on this, it's fantastic

broke af but tons of stuff on everdrives to explore. just finished 140 hours of persona 5 (...) this week, i have Nier: automata & RE7 on deck but i need some classic shit in between, literally can't do more than a couple modern games without diving into something archaic in between. sure, yakuza kiwami is due out in a few months, but i gotta finish rise of the dragon first.

ps uncharacteristically drunk, love y'all

Yeah, I was fucking depressed after I finished Persona 5. Such a good fucking game. Felt empty without it :(

Anyway, I do need to get Wonder Boy -- glad it gets your seal of approval. I was waiting for the PC release on the 8th, but I dunno... kinda torn between that and the Switch version. I'll get both eventually. Well, I guess if the game comes out on PC and has issues, as PC ports still so often seem to, I'll just get it on Switch for now and call it good.
 

IrishNinja

Member
Yeah, I was fucking depressed after I finished Persona 5. Such a good fucking game. Felt empty without it :(

Anyway, I do need to get Wonder Boy -- glad it gets your seal of approval. I was waiting for the PC release on the 8th, but I dunno... kinda torn between that and the Switch version. I'll get both eventually. Well, I guess if the game comes out on PC and has issues, as PC ports still so often seem to, I'll just get it on Switch for now and call it good.

i mean, get it where you can - game's not very demanding, you're likely gonna get a solid entry anywhere

having tried it on FM synth recently, the ability to switch up both video & audio on the fly is so, so dope. what's cooler is you can see where the newer arranged OST works with what's originally there & just builds, only a few areas so far did something beyond that.

the game literally gives you new abilities as you go & tells you nowhere to go next, you just have to look at your new character & piece it together. i love it.
 

BTails

Member
playing Wonder Boy: Dragon's Trap on switch...y'all should be in on this, it's fantastic

broke af but tons of stuff on everdrives to explore. just finished 140 hours of persona 5 (...) this week, i have Nier: automata & RE7 on deck but i need some classic shit in between, literally can't do more than a couple modern games without diving into something archaic in between. sure, yakuza kiwami is due out in a few months, but i gotta finish rise of the dragon first.

ps uncharacteristically drunk, love y'all

Irish, you're gonna love RE7. It's awesome.
 
We still doing Wii U stuff here?

Been playing Tokyo Mirage Sessions. The battle system is so cool but I'm not that into the whole like idol shit. At least they have the best "use of the gamepad as a 2nd screen" I've ever seen -- you get LINE messages from your friends on there as like a quest log. It's so novel every time it goes buzz buzz.

Also almost done Star Ocean 2. I'm taking my sweet time with it cause, while I like a lot of things about it, the battle system is a pile of garbage and if I play for more than 2 hours at a time it really starts to get to me.
 
We still doing Wii U stuff here?

Also almost done Star Ocean 2. I'm taking my sweet time with it cause, while I like a lot of things about it, the battle system is a pile of garbage and if I play for more than 2 hours at a time it really starts to get to me.
love the Wii U =)

funny i just ordered SO 2 off ebay the other day.
 
it's alive!!!!

never heard of this game, looks interesting =)

This is one of Kamitani's/Vanillaware's first games, right?

I've been eagerly awaiting any info surrounding 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim since this TGS trailer from 2 years ago.

Muramasa: The Demon Blade is probably in my top ten games. I'd love to give Princess Crown a go, but I heard it's half princess sim and without English option, I think I'd be SOL.
 
I'd love to play it but I wouldn't feel right reading a website with a translation the whole time. I think there's a translation project but that's not finished yet?

Is there an english patch for this game?

Fun game wish I knew what was going on

No idea. I can read enough Japanese that I only need to reference the internet occasionally.

it's alive!!!!

never heard of this game, looks interesting =)

The game looks fantastic. The battle system is interesting. When you get into a random encounter you are placed into a 1-on-1 fighting game style match. I'm getting the hang of it but I think a few iterations on it could have been great.

I guess Odin Sphere is very similar. I haven't played it yet so I don't know.
 

Laws00

Member
No idea. I can read enough Japanese that I only need to reference the internet occasionally.



The game looks fantastic. The battle system is interesting. When you get into a random encounter you are placed into a 1-on-1 fighting game style match. I'm getting the hang of it but I think a few iterations on it could have been great.

I guess Odin Sphere is very similar. I haven't played it yet so I don't know.

You've never played Odins Spear?

Have you played Muramasa the demons blade? Dragons crown?
GrimGrimoire?
Grand Knights History?
 
This is one of Kamitani's/Vanillaware's first games, right?

I've been eagerly awaiting any info surrounding 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim since this TGS trailer from 2 years ago.

Muramasa: The Demon Blade is probably in my top ten games. I'd love to give Princess Crown a go, but I heard it's half princess sim and without English option, I think I'd be SOL.
i need to check out Muramasa
You've never played Odins Spear?

Have you played Muramasa the demons blade? Dragons crown?
GrimGrimoire?
Grand Knights History?
i've seen a copy of GrimGrimoire on Ps2 at my local retro store.
Muramasa is top quality. Need to get the other vanillaware Vita games.
i need to check this out since multiple people are talking about it.
 
Vita version for sure. Wouldn't be surprised if it gets another release sometime relatively soon, though, tbh. Moreover, if you can, play it on an oled Vita. I don't own one, but the colours are to die for with that screen. Absolutely amazing.
 

Danny Dudekisser

I paid good money for this Dynex!
I'm sorry, but fuck that entire series.

Star Ocean 2 is such a fuckin' bait and switch piece of shit. It starts off all futuristic, and then is like "jk, here's some generic-ass fantasy world." The AI is shit, the story is boooorrrriiiing, the battles are annoying... to quote the poet, Fred Durst, "everything is fucked, everybody sucks."
 
I'm sorry, but fuck that entire series.

Star Ocean 2 is such a fuckin' bait and switch piece of shit. It starts off all futuristic, and then is like "jk, here's some generic-ass fantasy world." The AI is shit, the story is boooorrrriiiing, the battles are annoying... to quote the poet, Fred Durst, "everything is fucked, everybody sucks."


I don't really know why
But I want to justify
Ripping someone's head off!

I laughed at your start ocean review
 

Laws00

Member
i need to check out Muramasa

i've seen a copy of GrimGrimoire on Ps2 at my local retro store.

i need to check this out since multiple people are talking about it.

Hope it's about 20 bucks cause they had a rerelease of PS2 games few years back. I had bought that along with Odins Spear.

Also got Disgaea: Hour of Darkness red label
 
I'm sorry, but fuck that entire series.

Star Ocean 2 is such a fuckin' bait and switch piece of shit. It starts off all futuristic, and then is like "jk, here's some generic-ass fantasy world." The AI is shit, the story is boooorrrriiiing, the battles are annoying... to quote the poet, Fred Durst, "everything is fucked, everybody sucks."

I've only played one on the PS3. I bought it hoping it would satisfy my Phantasy Star cravings but got bored out of my mind quickly.
 
I'm sorry, but fuck that entire series.

Star Ocean 2 is such a fuckin' bait and switch piece of shit. It starts off all futuristic, and then is like "jk, here's some generic-ass fantasy world." The AI is shit, the story is boooorrrriiiing, the battles are annoying... to quote the poet, Fred Durst, "everything is fucked, everybody sucks."

Star Ocean 1 was "set in generic fantasy world." People had the same complaint about 3. Like the whole series is just "what would happen if someone from star trek violated the prime directive?"
 

Fularu

Banned
People complaining about what's going on in Star Ocean puzzles me.

It's clear from the start it's going to be your typical high fantasy jRPG. At the very least by the third game you really have no excuses :p
 
People complaining about what's going on in Star Ocean puzzles me.

It's clear from the start it's going to be your typical high fantasy jRPG. At the very least by the third game you really have no excuses :p
IDK, they always seemed to try to present themselves as sci-fi initially. I get the distaste.

Also they're not great games.
 
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