Retro Gaming Thread

Umbrage · Post Post #28 (isolation #0) » Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:31 pm

Emulator-wise: I've been playing Super Mario 64 and The Elder Scrolls: Arena. Mario is fun, but I really suck with controllers. I've been trying to set up a SNES emulator, haven't figured it out yet though.

Oh! I almost forgot! Most of you have probably played this at some point, but those who haven't must!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml

Umbrage · Post Post #33 (isolation #1) » Sat Sep 01, 2012 4:24 pm

yeah, i've got zsnes installed, but it won't load any games

Umbrage · Post Post #37 (isolation #2) » Sun Sep 02, 2012 5:38 am

Whoop, tried it again and after some fiddling it's working now. Don't know what I did, but who cares, SUPER MARIO BROS!!!

Umbrage · Post Post #38 (isolation #3) » Sun Sep 02, 2012 10:24 am

kay the underwater level is BULLSHIT

Umbrage · Post Post #40 (isolation #4) » Sun Sep 02, 2012 11:42 am

oh god my eyes

Umbrage · Post Post #51 (isolation #5) » Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:51 am

DAGOTH-UR IS FUCKING HARD

I WANT TO FINISH ARENA SOOOO MUCH

I'VE NEVER FINISHED A TES GAME BEFORE

BUT

WRAITHS

AND HOMOCULI

AND VAMPIRES

I NEED TO FIND THIS FUCKING KEY AND IT'S SO HAAAAARD

I'M NEAR TEARS

IF I WAS PLAYING BADLY I COULD IMPROVE

BUT IT'S ALL RANDOM, I CAN'T CONTROL ANYTHIIIIING

Umbrage · Post Post #55 (isolation #6) » Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:16 pm

Bah. If you haven't experienced 5 casters shooting 5 fireballs a second at you from across a room full of pitfalls and lava YOU HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED ARENA.

Umbrage · Post Post #58 (isolation #7) » Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:33 pm

In post 56, CooLDoG wrote:Try being a fighter type. Much easier.

Fighters? lolnope

you NEED resist fire/shock and Heal at later levels, and it's incredibly difficult without Levitate.

so you're stuck bringing along a shitload of potions

and that still leaves you without Light, Open, and Passwall

so you need to seek out specific enchanted equipment if you don't want to have a hard time

good luck with that

and God help you if you run out of potions

or your equipment runs out of charge

and what do you get in return?

a few more AC points (which don't protect from magic) health (which allows you to survive another split second against casters) and weapon damage (have fun trying to get in range before you're roasted)

I started out as a Warrior, then switched to Bard when I installed the CD version

best thing that happened to me

Bard can cast all of the above spells at a decent level

OK weapon damage

P good armour

Critical hits

at low levels they're kind of weak but by the time you're in the teens you can spam heals all damn day, spit out enough crits to make melee a bore, and have enough spell points to cast pretty much anything you'll need.

as long as you're quick to cast resist fire/shock you're fine.

Umbrage · Post Post #59 (isolation #8) » Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:34 pm

I mean Arena's always going to be swingy. No matter how strong you are you WILL be cut down in seconds if you're caught off-guard.

Umbrage · Post Post #60 (isolation #9) » Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:35 pm

But casters are better able to adapt to problems

Umbrage · Post Post #61 (isolation #10) » Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:36 pm

fighters have a bigger safety margin but once you're screwed you are SCREWED.

it might take more time overall with a caster but it's less of a risk

Umbrage · Post Post #68 (isolation #11) » Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:56 am

*shrug* there's always the 'carry 150 pots' potion, but it feels like cheating.

For stealing, I'm pretty sure you're thinking Daggerfall. It's really tough to make stealing a viable source of income since you can't save in shops.

@ Om: Arena/Daggerfall are good if you haven't played them. Otherwise, just download an emulator, Google for some ROMs and try shit out. Explore things, there are a few games I can think of that are considered classics that I didn't like.

Umbrage · Post Post #82 (isolation #12) » Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:44 am

OOOH! I know I'm late to the party but THAT IS AN AWESOME SITE THANK YOU!

I'm gonna get pirates, and baldur's gate, and EVERYTHING THERE'S SO MUCH

Umbrage · Post Post #84 (isolation #13) » Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:59 am

AND THEY GIVE YOU FREE GAMES WHEN YOU SIGN UP.

I AM IN LOVE.

Umbrage · Post Post #92 (isolation #14) » Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:59 am

Alt-Tab? Isn't windowed/non-windowed Alt-Enter?

Umbrage · Post Post #106 (isolation #15) » Thu Dec 13, 2012 11:50 am

OH HEY THIS THREAD

Umbrage · Post Post #117 (isolation #16) » Sat Dec 15, 2012 9:48 am

randomly started playing super mario world again today and suddenly I'm great at it WTF HAPPENED?

Umbrage · Post Post #123 (isolation #17) » Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:04 am

In post 122, CooLDoG wrote:well, yes. The joke was for you to help out on the next move... But do you have any platformers that are for people who don't like platformers?

I bought Rayman from GOG. It's really tough, don't get me wrong, but it's tough because of good design, not bad design. It's usually extremely easy to figure out where to go, what you did wrong, etc. A nice break from games that depend on ambiguity for fake difficulty.