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Which Animes? The Timecop anime? I heard they got the real Timecop from the real Time Police to voice himself in that one. What about Rudiger and Hans' friendly Meth hour? I learned so much about addiction, self reliance and small engine repair. Great animes.

I'm playing Ratchet: Deadlocked. The writing is better than any other Ratchet game I've played, and while it's still shlocky and dumb I like it well enough. Taking the Clank portion of gameplay out of things actually makes for a really fun, genuinely difficult (unless you're playing on hard mode or lower, PUSSSSSSYSYSSUSYSYYY) game. Ratchet Deadlocked: It's pretty okay.

Try a fresh playthrough on the hardest difficulty, the one that you only unlock after clearing the game. It's fucking hard and requires some seriously efficient use of weapons to get anywhere.

I had to turn the difficulty down to take down the final boss, which was soul crushing given that I'd finished the rest of the game on that difficulty legit.

I started trying to level all of the weapons to lvl99 in challenge mode, but I gave up pretty quickly.

I own original copies of both of the games on N64 and yet never played though them. :fuzemb:

Funny enough I'm watching a Let's Play of Deadlocked. It looks okay but it looks really repetitive compared to the other Ratchet games. Also graphically, it looks terrible. But I should really play it myself before I can have a proper opinion on it, it's one of the only Ratchet games I've never played, along side Secret Agent Clank, Size Matters and Quest for Booty.

Currently on another run through of Dark Souls, this time as a SL1 Pyromancer. I seriously thought it was going to be tough as nails, but it wasn't, it was a breeze in fact. Until I got to the Capra Demon then shit went downhill. Shit went so far downhill that the hill had no more down, so I grabbed a shit load of dung pies and threw them over the wall at him like a retarded monkey.

He died and I didn't get the satisfaction I was looking for, but seriously, he's hard enough in that little cupboard of a garden without his diseased mutts getting their raggedy ass teeth in my hole.

Then why in gods name haven't you played them oh my god you're tearing me apart Crashpunk

I really need to buy another N64. I used to have the watermelon red one but i sold it -_-

So do I. My current one has problems displaying the image on the TV.

I know that feeling, I had the translucent orange one before it died on me. ;_;

And what a coincidence, I picked up a copy of A Hero’s Tail on the cheap today! I’ve been getting the itch to play through Year of the Dragon again, might follow it up with this.

Are the post-Year of the Dragon Spyro games really worth playing? I don't think I've ever heard praise about them, honestly. Always thought they looked kind of shit, too.

As far as I know everything except for Heroes Tail is garbage. I used to play these Spyro games for the GBA that had an isometric view and really bizarrely themed worlds. Like instead of a world implied to be Ireland it's just Leprechaun world and there are belted green hats everywhere. And I think the Ice World in one had clocks everywhere. They were simultaneously shitty and not reminiscent of spyro and but also kind of charming for how fun they could be. I think I might be the only person who played every single GBA spyro game to completion out of sheer boredom.

Was anyone else like, a GAME MASTA in your circle of friends? I was that kid for about two weeks in grade four. Kids would come up to me looking for strats, and cheats and supertips. Eventually they found Gamefaqs but that brief period where people would give me games just to beat them for them was pretty rad. Too bad I was fat and stupid because I didn't pay attention. Stay in school, kids.

I used to show off Cheat Code Central to my friends all the time. In fact I met a close friend of mine because he wanted Banjo-Kazooie cheat codes, and I just happened to be obsessed with the game at the time. So he'd call me at random periods after school looking for cheats for that game. He'd keep them in a notebook and bring them to school, asking for more cheats.

We were nerds, yeah.

Here’s the rundown:

• Enter the Dragonfly: Suffers from launch-title-rushjob syndrome; had potential but let down by unpolished graphics, slow loading times, inconsistent framerates and that wonderful case of “new developer trying to copy the work of the previous developer without any heart”.
• A Hero’s Tail: Throws out a few of the series’ conventions (levels separated by portals, gems as a finite resource) and makes some stylistic changes (more cartoony/wacky art and writing style, no Stewart Copeland soundtrack), but comes out as a pretty solid platformer if you don’t follow the “they changed it now it sucks” mindset. Not as great as classic Spyro but playable and fun.
• Legend of Spyro series: Utter garbage that reboots the entire series, throws celebrity voices in everywhere and tries to make a super-serious “epic” story in the vein of Lord of the Rings. Gameplay is completely different from previous titles and is a very linear, beat-em-up affair. Avoid like the plague.
• Skylanders: Not a Spyro game, just features Spyro’s bloated corpse sometimes.

Season of Fire and Season of Ice? Aw shit I forgot about those, I totally loved them. They were balls-hard because of the isometric view not really helping out with navigating platforms at all but they managed to be fun despite that. If you can find them going cheap they’re probably worth a shot.

I think they made a DS game or two as well? Never played those but I think one got a good reception, might need to track it down.

the Game of Thrones game is really bad. Like, hilariously bad. The gameplay is awful and the combat is the worst thing about it, the graphics are terrible and the voice acting is shit. My sister was like "Yeah, but this is more about the story than anything", well, if all a game has is story then it's a bad game, plus if I wanted story I'd go and watch the show or read the book, this is a game for god's sake. The only thing good about this game is the menu music.

So what you're saying is that they could be fun, but are better left for the big Spyro buffs? I think I'll stick to the original 3. Unless I find one used somewhere for like a dollar, but for now I really have no interest in playing 'em.

Also, Skylanders can fuck right off. I don't even think I've actually seen a game relating to that franchise, just little action figures littering the walls of every toy or games store I enter.

Yeah pretty much. A Hero’s Tail is probably only worth playing if you’re stuck for a Spyro fix and don’t wanna play the PS1 trilogy. The GBA games i think you’d have to be a big Spyro nut to bother. The rest are garbage.

e: It’s a good thing I had nothing planned today, now I’m gonna go play a whole buncha Spyro.

I think the second will always be my favourite, but I haven't played all that much of Year of the Dragon.

Agreed that Gateway to Glimmer/Ripto's Rage is the best, it just did everything right and the variety in both the puzzles and the worlds was brilliant.

Spyro 3 felt a little too gimmicky to me, I think it was the amount of stuff you had to do in vehicles and playing as other characters but seeing what colour your baby dragon was when you collected the egg was awesome.

Yeah, the different characters is what I found the most off-putting. A lot of them felt very tacked on.

I prefer Year of the Dragon for exactly those reasons. I like that it has more characters to play as and more variety to the minigames. Plus I just feel like the story has more stuff going for it than 2’s story.

To me the quality of the games improves through the trilogy, with 3 being the best and 2 being a close second.

I just didn't find many of the mini-games very engaging. The skateboarding was fun as hell, though.

Sgt Bird’s levels were fun, most of Sheila’s levels were good, Bentley’s stuff was fine*, Agent 9 was rad as all getout and Sparx was fun-to-okay.

Most of the Spyro-based minigames were either skateboarding, minibosses, some specific platforming/aerial courses, or were decent vehicle minigames. It made a nice break from the regular gameplay, which is fine because as good as the core platforming was there’s still a huge chunk of it, plus two prior games which were about 90% platforming.

It helps that almost none* of the Spyro 3 minigames are as infuriating as certain Spyro 2 minigames.


*WITH ONE EXCEPTION

No problems whatsoever. Also, I finished it.




Fucking fantastic.

http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Tro...14_3303940.jpg

Bentley. Boxing.

I love how the level that image is from is at war with the slime level, and you play both sides of it in seperate areas. Spyro's a dick.

I played some Season of Ice today, it is pretty jarring going from Rypto's Rage last week to this, but shitty GBA cash ins just charm my pants off.

Has anyone played Spyro Adventure for GBA? It was a RPG of sorts where you had to do quests to get different items, of course whilst collecting gem. I actually really enjoyed it. It also had a few mini-games from the characters from Spyro 3 including a stealth side scrolling platformer for Agent 9

Mount & Blade is basically Game of Thrones anyway. Raise an army, make alliances, roam about the countryside slaying bandits, utter bliss. Dynasty Warriors can occasionally be fun too. Was never a big fan of those GBA isometric games, impossible to jump gaps properly.

Fuck this so hard. I die in two hits (at 85 Nanotech) but I get so many bolts and my weapons level up so quick. There's this one challenge where you basically just play king of the hill at the end of a platform for 3 minutes, and using the holoshield, turret gun and the Magma Cannon I clog up the screen with so much firwpower it turns into a slow-motion cascade of bolts constantly.

Bought the standard, no-extras THQ Bundle (I already had the extra games), so I played a bit of those titles. Darksiders didn't seem to be my kind of game on first impressions, but I might give it another go later. RF:Armageddon... hm, had somewhat more fun in Guerrilla. Company of Heroes is good, there were some intense battles where quick thinking was required, so that was OK. I also tried Warhammer 30k: Dawn of War, but right after playing CoH, it kinda felt like the same thing (capture control points, gain resources, upgrade units, repeat) - maybe when I'm done with CoH, I'll be more interested.

I returned to Torchlight II as well, still a lot of fun. Running around as an Embermage and spamming magma spears and fire pillars at everything is quite entertaining. I also like the various secrets which are often barely noticeable (like a small, faintly glinting button on a dungeon wall).

And finally, Dungeons of Dredmor. I'm still working on beating the game on Going Rogue with Permadeath. I normally go for the No Time to Grind option at the start, which makes the dungeon levels smaller with the same amount of XP, but that also means less food, drinks and craftables to work with. This time, I went for full size levels, which is better for a crafting-oriented skill loadout, and you can hoard all the healing items in your Pocket Dimension for a rainy day.

The best Torchlight 2 secret I've found so far was in the Warewolf-infested town part way through Act 3. The axes in the corpses that you can click on to set their spirits free. I don't know how, but I just knew the torches near the end of the map related to those.

Speaking of which, how far into Robot Parts are you?

I have found my first Robot Part in the Brood Cave where you have to destroy that Encrusted Hulk, and there's a narrow passageway which is initially blocked by another Hulk. I really hope it is the very first I'm supposed to find, because I'm interested in where this whole robot business is going.

I'm fairly sure I found one in the Embermines, and I'm fairly sure that came before the horrible encrusted hulk fight.

It turns out that starting NG+ erases all of your progress on that quest. I assumed it would carry over :(

One of the things I love about the old Spyro games was their sense of humor. Subtle shit like this made it.

Alright that’s creepy, your last post made me dig up my old GBA games and I played Season of Ice last night.

I just feel so lost playing that game, the camera angle is the worst.

Just like the Crash Bandicoot GBA games, They felt like the PS1 games only dumbed down.

Perspective. Total mindfuck.

So, it's a 3d Fez.

3D Fez is Fez.

Yeah. So, it's Fez.