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Games beaten 2016

Post#1 » Sun Feb 07, 2016 11:20 pm

About time we have this...

31/01 MD Battle Mania: Daiginjou

Really neat shooter. Awesome graphics and both original and funny bosses. One of them has at some point in his transformation a banner with a bell attached to it hanging from his crotch. The banner says 'hit me' and you have to shoot the bell underneath. Only in Japan...

Only bad thing I can think about are the cheap deaths. Never lose track of the blonde chick -main character- you're playing with. It's a scrolling shooter, and if you don't keep up and get squashed between the border of the screen and the level you lose a credit and all the lives you had in it. At one point I had 24 lives and lost all of them at once because I was too focussed on the second girl and lost track of the main character...

Still, don't let that keep you from playing this gem. You'll learn how to avoid the squashy squashy over time...



05/02 GEN Captain America and the Avengers (co-op)

Both on our last life with very little energy left, but both still standing after we killed Red Skull. Took us 3 nightly sessions to get to this point, but ending it the way we did, it was worth it... ^^

At first I wasn't too fond of the game. Very simple controls, graphics nothing out of the ordinary, forgettable music. Yet, the more we played it, the more I got into it. Maybe just because we got better at it, or maybe it was the unintentionally funny stuff like 'Vision' sounding like 'Pigeon' in the Genesis conversion that got to me. I dunno...

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Re: Games beaten 2016

Post#2 » Mon Feb 08, 2016 12:21 am

1/4/16 Just Cause 2 [PC]

Pretty much one of Micheal Bay's wet dreams. It's basically GTA with a grappling hook. I mainly did the side missions which ate up tons of productive time and sleep. The game's actually story really disappointed me because the actual game can be beaten around 1 hour 15 minutes, but with how much havoc you would have to reek in this massive map (bigger that any GTA game I have ever played) I've clocked nearly 89 hours just for a blind completion run. I got this game almost a year ago and never beaten it until this year.
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Re: Games beaten 2016

Post#3 » Mon Feb 22, 2016 8:31 am

31/01 MD Battle Mania: Daiginjou

05/02 GEN Captain America and the Avengers (co-op)

21/02 GEN The Adventures of Batman and Robin

This one started out as a co-op game, but I ended up finishing it on my own because without proper training - read: hours of playing, cursing and getting better - the game is near impossible to finish. And since I'm the retro gamer with all the gear, and my friends just convenient 2-player victims hopping in, I didn't want to pain them with this experience... lol

The game is totally worth it though. Graphics are about the best I've ever seen on a Genesis game. It's clear from the start that this game was made by people related to the Amiga demo scene. Lots of neat graphical tricks and effects. Kyd Jesper also did a phenomenal job on the music. A dark and pumping techno soundtrack. If you like those dark industrial sounds you should definitely check this one out...


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Re: Games beaten 2016

Post#4 » Sat Feb 27, 2016 5:37 pm

31/01 MD Battle Mania: Daiginjou

05/02 GEN Captain America and the Avengers (co-op)

21/02 GEN The Adventures of Batman and Robin

23/02 GEN CAL .50

This was a welcome change of pace after The Adventures of Batman and Robin. Caliber .50 is a simple run-'n-gun arcade game conversion. It's a bit of a weird one though. There's no explanation whatsoever as to who you're actually fighting. The enemies look like suicide terrorist farmers - straw hat included - and safari explorers. And the bosses are no better. Giant skull throwing monkeys and a tractor, just to name a few. So I didn't try to make sense of it all. Just worked my way through the enemies, tried not to lose the big flamethrower, unloaded all my bombs and continues on the final boss, and called it a day...

The game did give the ball of my thumb a good workout with all this turning though... lol

Also, check out the neat music in the desert stage. Start the clip at 9:46 for a sample...


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Re: Games beaten 2016

Post#5 » Sat Mar 05, 2016 3:17 pm

31/01 MD Battle Mania: Daiginjou

05/02 GEN Captain America and the Avengers (co-op)

21/02 GEN The Adventures of Batman and Robin

23/02 GEN CAL .50

27/02 GEN Mercs

Finished this run-'n-gun granddaddy both on arcade and original mode with normal settings.

It's nice to see how much extra depth they put in the game with the added original mode. Lots of extra features that make you think more strategically with distributable points for extra health, extra defense, a life-bar upgrade, speed, and even a few hints. And since every soldier has his own weapon and specs, it's best to distribute them wisely. Only downside is the lack of a 2 or even 3-player mode. Probably would've slowed the game down too much. So yeah, I might revisit it on PS2 one day, since afaik that version does have a 3-player option...

Funny detail. The first level on original mode really looks like a 16-bit version of Far Cry... :P



04/03 GEN Castlevania: Bloodlines

Finished with John Morris on normal.

Growing up as a kid during the SEGA vs Nintendo era I had always been more of a Nintendo fan. So this one was still new for me. It's definitely not a bad game, but as far as 16-bit iterations go, I still prefer Castlevania IV. Nintendo has always had more of a classic(al) vibe where SEGA was the wild party animal, and in the case of Castlevania I find classic(al) just works better. Where Castlevania IV has IMO one of the best soundtracks in videogames, I found the music in Bloodlines quite forgettable. Same with the levels. While they are nice, the scenery just changes too fast making it harder to suck up the atmosphere. Bloodlines felt more like a whole bunch of mini levels tacked together than an atmospheric journey to the Prince of Evil's hideout. The final boss didn't help in that department either. Why on Earth did Dracula morph into Death before turning into a monster!? That just makes no sense...

At least I played the Genesis version, and not the censored Mega Drive one. The zombies in the first stage look much more sweetly disgusting, and the blood and crosses are still there adding to the already gimped atmosphere...

Lastly, the cheap deaths. Again, maybe it's just me being a bit too harsh, but the cheap deaths in Bloodlines annoyed me more than in any other Castlevania I've ever played...

So yeah, glad I played it, but I don't think I'll go for that second run on hard...

Here's a really nice very skilled playthrough with Eric Lecarde. After having played through the game myself I really enjoyed watching this one...

https://archive.org/details/CastlevaniaBloodlines_SS_Eric_Expert_3213

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Re: Games beaten 2016

Post#6 » Wed May 11, 2016 9:07 pm

31/01 MD Battle Mania: Daiginjou

05/02 GEN Captain America and the Avengers (co-op)

21/02 GEN The Adventures of Batman and Robin

23/02 GEN CAL .50

27/02 GEN Mercs

04/03 GEN Castlevania: Bloodlines

14/04 Saturn Die Hard Arcade

Finished in co-op using 19 credits.

Did a second run with another friend 3 weeks after, and again stranded on 19 credits.

Definitely need to replay Dynamite Cop and compare the two now. I can still remember Dynamite Cop being far too short though. IIRC it took us only half an hour to finish then. Really felt more like a glorified demo than a full game. But that might've been partly due to having unlimited continues and us taking advantage of them. Memory's a bit blurry. So yeah, definitely a good time to revisit that one... ^^

Oh yeah, funny detail. The music between the levels reminded me of Tay Zonday's Chocolate rain.

Some fast piano action right there... lol

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Re: Games beaten 2016

Post#7 » Fri Oct 28, 2016 11:46 am

31/01 MD Battle Mania: Daiginjou

05/02 GEN Captain America and the Avengers (co-op)

21/02 GEN The Adventures of Batman and Robin

23/02 GEN CAL .50

27/02 GEN Mercs

04/03 GEN Castlevania: Bloodlines

14/04 Saturn Die Hard Arcade

27/10 DC DUX 1.5

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Fixed two Dreamcasts for a local and had to test them with both CD and GD-based games to see how they held up. I never even tried DUX 1.5 after I bought it since I didn't like the original. But to my surprise once I did I was actually entertained by the revision. So much even so that I kept playing until I beat the game. I felt kinda dirty afterwards for liking it. Was it that I unfairly overcritisized the original back in the day, or did the revision really make that much of a difference?... So afterwards I popped in the original, and well, I still think it sucks. So it's safe to say the revision made things more fun for me. The game is much much easier, which might not appeal to die-hard shooter fans, but makes the game more bearable for casual gamers. The original just frustrated the fuck out of me. Another big difference is having auto-fire. No more constantly tapping that button. Special on a separate button. The ability to switch the secondary weapon's direction without having to collect the right power-up for it. It really did feel like a more polished and balanced game. In fact, I'd say it would've been better had the revision come out first, and the original after for the more die-hard shooter fans who want a more difficult -albeit more frustrating- version of the game...

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Re: Games beaten 2016

Post#8 » Sun Dec 11, 2016 10:38 am

31/01 MD Battle Mania: Daiginjou

05/02 GEN Captain America and the Avengers (co-op)

21/02 GEN The Adventures of Batman and Robin

23/02 GEN CAL .50

27/02 GEN Mercs

04/03 GEN Castlevania: Bloodlines

14/04 Saturn Die Hard Arcade

27/10 DC DUX 1.5

09/12 PC Far Cry

I built my first custom PC a while ago and figured this a good game to celebrate that occasion... ^^

The only two things I reused were the graphics card and HDD, so those I would still like to replace.

But even with a 6 years old graphics card I still managed to max out all the settings and get between 60 and +100 fps.

Really neat game, and definitely one that was worth the wait for me.

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Re: Games beaten 2016

Post#9 » Sun Dec 11, 2016 10:41 am

Fallout 4 is the only game ive played all the way through + DLC in 2016

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Re: Games beaten 2016

Post#10 » Sun Dec 11, 2016 10:45 am

HuntrRose wrote:Fallout 4 is the only game ive played all the way through + DLC in 2016

I'm sure even though it was just one game you invested more than enough time in it... :lol:

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