/svidya/ - Strictly Vidya Games

Just finished Eternal Senia. I was actually pleasently surprised. The areas were cool and I really enjoyed the music. Too bad the translation was shit (but I guess it's to be expected, it was free).

Finally got around to playing Quake. Nice to get some speedy action after playing so many modern letdowns in a row. The nailguns are the most satisfying machine guns I've ever used in a video game.

Live-a-Live for the snes. While I feel gideonzhi's translation is kinda off sometimes (You're cruisin' for a bruisin' gramps!) I just beat the knight stage and was completely taken by surprise with the ending.

>>21247

I've been thinking about playing through that myself recently. How does it compare to Square's other SNES RPGs? I heard it was kind of shallow since you never get to hold onto your party members or something. Kind of defeats the point of character progression to me.

>>21249

You've got 7 characters, you need to complete their story to unlock the 8th (knight). All stories are played somewhat differently but none of them are long, perhaps that's what you meant by not holding onto your party members.

The level cap is low and you shouldn't take more than a couple of hours per story.

All stories are joined in the finale even though they span across different eras.

>>21250

2.0 according to this readme file I didn't delete. Looking closer at the patch history it does say "script fully rewritten and expanded" which is ominous to say the least.

I want to believe he didn't change anything because I'm nearly done with the game.

>>21251

Might be interesting to do a check of the scripts between, say, the first hour of the 1.0 and 2.0 versions to see a potential sample how much was changed. While fan translators can be decent about knowing how to keep their English script close to the Japanese one (rather than change and rewrite shit willy-nilly), some do wind up aiming for a more "localized" feel to them. Not sure what the case is there.

>>21252

It's probably the case given how much the readme praises 2.0 as the definitive version. I do recommend people to give it a try partly because I'm enjoying myself with the game and partly because I want to see some fresh OC about it.

Except mecha stage. Fuck mecha stage and its retarded story.

>>21254

I'd give it a try if I wasn't already bogged down with the backlog. Still, since I usually try to play one handheld and one console game at a time (that ay I at least make progress through stuff), I might try playing it on my PSP (when I finish Sands of Destruction) if it emulates well there.

>>21255

I tried using my PSP to emulate but it seemed to have trouble handling SMT1. Can I bug you for emulator names?

I was using picodrive and snes9xeuphoria

>>21256

Double checking what I'm using, it looks to be "Snes9xTYLmecm 0.4.2 Mod Rev.26".

Admittedly though, my experiences with SNES emulation on the PSP are rather limited; bit disappointing to want to play Breath of Fire II with the retranslation patch, only for the emulator to shit the bed in trying to boot it up (I'd guess it dislikes the opening the retranslation patch adds), and as far as I know, SNES emulation on the PSP is still a bit finicky depending on what a game needs.

These days I'd prefer to try to get stuff like that working on my modded Wii instead, but it's nice being able to play something old on the go and be able to take it to a friend's house and show them (which can help get them to branch out a bit in my experiences; part of why I'd like to see if it might work reasonably well on the PSP being that I want a friend to get more interested in playing fan-translated games we never got here, since at the moment he just sticks with what games the west saw for the most part, barring cases like Castlevania: Rondo of Blood).

>>21258

Is it bad that I've never played through the original Doom despite owning Doom II and Final Doom for 20 years now?

>>21258

Wad recommendations? Definitely check out all the TeamTNT stuff and Plutonia 2, for starters.

>>21258

Just did that myself, though I'll probably pirate it instead.

>>21258

>too lazy to pirate doom

>giving shekels to bethesda

a single google search and you already get a magnet link

>>21258

What is it about Doom that makes it so much better than other fps? Even something like Serious Sam is so much less fun.

>>21269

I think part of it is that Serious Sam puts too much emphasis on fighting large armies in open arenas and not enough on setting up interesting encounters taking advantage of the different enemy, weapon types, and terrain.

>>21272

I actually think that pretty much sums up my complaints about Serious Sam. The hordes of enemies aren't nearly as interesting to fight as the demons lurking around every corner in doom. The game never really (at least from what I played of it) sets up any meaningful traps or hides its secrets in an interesting way. I think it was a really good idea to hide some of the secrets at the end of passageways filled with lava or acid. It's enjoyable to take the risk to journey to the end to see if something good was there.

Juts got started on Gothic 2 (I'm barely 10 minutes in). Good to see that they fixed some of the glitches from the first game. Also, it's weird to have a different voice actor for the main character.

>>21276

Apparently once you get your Barter skill to 101% you can basically fleece people out of all their belongings by giving them a trade in your favor and then trading that shit back to them even more favorably… over and over until they have 1 bottle cap left. lol, what a broken stat.

I've been playing through the Suikoden series, halfway through 3 at present. It's okay, not nearly as good as 1 and 2.

I know to skip 4, not sure how 5 and Tierkreis will be.

>>21276

I honestly agree. I really like New Vegas because it has some cool stuff going on without being a confusing isometric RPG.

I find it really hard to enjoy isometric RPGs in general. They all suffer fro "where do i go syndrome" where that pile of junk is actually the water chip or some important thing, but is in no way labelled differently from other junk.

I am not a fan of "quest arrows" but I do like it when key objects are clearly defined so you don't miss them or throw them away.

>>21281

I've heard Suikoden 5's pretty decent aside from load times (and prices if you want an actual copy of it; shit was like $40 complete last I checked) or something, but to be fair, it's still a series I need to play, so maybe take that with a grain of salt.

>>21282

The worst part about the perspective in Fallout is how shit behind walls is constantly hidden from view and you have to move your character to every single corner just to be sure you don't miss something important.

>>21289

>. Very disappointing amount of meaty game content. I can't believe a game with money to hire a whole bunch of Hollywood talent for voice acting is so anemic in content at the end of the day.

these two things are probably connected.

Creating a party in Elminage Gothic. I'm a bit baffled as to how to make my party, since it's been 8 years since I last played any Wizardry games.

Im playing between Civ 4 and Darkest Hour

damn I love these old strat games

>>21294

>Darkest Hour

Any mods, or just vanilla?

>>21295

Changing between Kaiserreich and NWO2

>>21297

>Kaiserreich

Nice, that's pretty much been my go to mod since I saw it on /v/ like a year ago.

>NWO2

Haven't tried it. Is it any good?

>>21322

Fallout 2's world isn't really one where there's meant to be a lot of currency floating around. Usually you just trade your extra heavy stuff for ammo/meds, especially stimpaks. That said, Vault City, NCR, and especially San Francisco have a lot of money across their shops.

Probably the easiest place to get Mentats would be Renesco's in New Reno, if my memory is serving me right.

>>21351

Yeah I finally did find some mentats in the very southernmost areas. Renesco doesn't sell any, sadly.

The fact that stores don't carry around a lot of money to barter with triggers my 'tism like crazy because I feel the need to only sell weapons off to stores that sell them in the first place. Unfortunately, the majority of those stores don't carry dick for money. Thank goodness for this car trunk at least, my party members just aren't cutting it for pack mule purposes.

>>21354

while it was a breddy good VN, i cant enjoy playing it becuse the only time i ever really got into playing it was when i was about halway dead myself, and just thinking about the game brings back this miasma of nausea and general sickness and pain i was going through at the time.

Gotta say Fallout 2 is a major improvement from the first game in so many way. Still a ridiculous amount of bugs and glitches though, did Black Isle even playtest their games?

>>21359

Holy shit that was a stupid finale. All that high-tech weaponry to collect in the final areas like it was building up to something… when you can just walk through the whole area in power armor and nobody will attack you! Even if I did a low intelligence playthrough there wouldn't have been any more fighting there beside the final boss. I guess it turns out this game has the same stupid problem that the first game had which I described here

>>21289

What a damn waste of a side questing.

Just beat Kero Blaster's Omake mode. Had a good time but there's some bullshit and casual stuff in there.

>>21366

So is this one a full-on action game like Contra or does it have a lot of exploration like Cave Story again?

>>21367

It's very linear but it does have some degree of discovery through secrets. And there are three playthroughs you can do, the second having the most conventional secrets and the third having the most interesting ones.

I'm not sure I'd compare it to Contra as it has upgrades you can buy and is too forgiving, but of the two it has more in common with Contra as far as its gameplay (ignoring the weapon design).

I replayed Vanquish from start to finish yesterday, it was one of those totally awesome games that casualfags didn't give two shits about because there wasn't a massive campaign of spam pushing the game and the gameplay itself while not hard it does have a learning curve and demands attention, there's no one-button attacks with auto-aim, if you melee an enemy you have to lock on it first else you kick the air, same with the guns there's none of that cover+autoaim shit from other games of the time, even good ones like RDR

But again nobody gave a shit about that game, paid shills at blogs weren't paid that time so they gave it minimal coverage and as always didn't play it while just watching the trailers and complaining about how cheesy the script was, because they don't even know who Platinum games is.

Lately some LPs have been discovering the game so its finally getting some attention so here's hoping PG makes a sequel, this time with a PC version

>vid related: someone sucking at it

>>21380

I've always been interested in this game because I think third-person shooters are an underserved genre (especially without obsession with realism) but it's a shame it's on the 360.

>>21382

Yeah it never got a PC port, no PG game before Rising (which has a LOT in common with Vanquish) did, but theres also a PS3 version and its much better than the shitty port of Bayonetta

Anyway, get a used 360 and try it, you wont be disappointed

Just finished playing a barely translated japanese rom of Rhythm Heaven Megamix, definitely gonna pick it up when it comes out in english. I can understand why the international release dates are so far from the original, there's an absolute fuck ton of moon runes here to translate.

>>21380

Just a hint to anyone playing it, the shotgun is not the shotgun. That is, the gun that shoots the big ass short range energy ball is the shotgun because the shotgun itself has no fucking power whatsoever.

Myself I've been playing the Brigmore Witches dlc for Dishonored. Adds three levels two of which have multiple areas between them. I have to say I'm not getting why people thought the game was shit, possible undue comparison with Thief but Dishonored would bear a greater similarity to Deus Ex, since their is no preference between combat or stealth. The addon adds the ability to purchase favours around the map which is very good, adding to replayability and allowing you to do something with you money apart from sink it into ammunition (which you don't need if you're stealthing). Could have been more interesting with restricted money but casuals. Levels are well designed with at least a couple of different ways to get to your target. Love the corrupted bone charms, especially the one that reminds me of the worm mind implant in SS2. The art direction on the last level of Brigmore is Gorgeous. In one of the levels you find a note saying that two gangs are fighting in the prison where you are sent to break someone out. You can then lie to a cellmate and tell him you're here to kill her and he'll tell you exactly what cell she's in, breddy gud.

All in all this faggot rates it as solid-good. Far better than your Bioshocks but no Deus Ex, play it if you like these sort of games.