Gaming

[AtTheGates]

I'm pretty sucky too unless I use Chun Li. I prefer Fatal Fury/KoF though for 2D beat em ups. SF2 though is timeless though. I even have 2 6 button MegaDrive arcade sticks for Super Street Fighter 2 marathons! Although we play Fatal Fury 2, Samurai Shodown, and Streets of Rage 3 too! :D

[RelentlessOblivion]

I was always a bit more of a Mortal Kombat guy. Got pretty good at that by the start of the 2000's. More modern console fighters I go for DOA as I used to be pretty ace with most of the characters. Bit of Marvel vs Capcom every now and then as well.

[AtTheGates]

I've never liked Mortal Kombat. I always found it very awkward and stilted to play. I'm not a fan of the way the old games looked either. DoA is great if underrated for a fighter. Most people don't get past the tits. Not a fan of MvC either tbh.

[RelentlessOblivion]

MK: Deception was the peak of that franchise imo. Best graphics, a somewhat engaging story mode, and some cool mini-games to go with the blood and gore. I personally don't like Soul Calibur that much. Of the two main Namco fighters I'd say Tekken is vastly superior.

[AtTheGates]

I remember playing MK Deadly Alliance when it came out on a fiend's PS2. It was ok

[RelentlessOblivion]

Deception was an improvement but they lost their way at the end. Armageddon was nothing special.

[jfk36]

Just downloaded hearth fire, good fun but the battlenet servers are useless.

[AtTheGates]

Just downloaded hearth fire, good fun but the battlenet servers are useless.

They still suck? I gave up playing WarCraft III because of Battle.NET...

[RelentlessOblivion]

Never been much for PC gaming. With a decent connection I've found that Xbox Live will outperform the Playstation Network every day of the week.

[AtTheGates]

I play PC stuff now and then. RTS stuff like Dawn of War and Total War: Medieval. I play them through once every few years.

Oh and the Crysis games.

[RelentlessOblivion]

I struggle to see well enough to actually play video games at all these days. Can't see the full tv screen anymore you see. It's unfortunate but that's the nature of my vision impairment.

[AtTheGates]

Oh man. People don't realise how lucky they are until something they take for granted is gone.

May I ask what the issue with your sight is? Is it a stable or worsening condition?

[RelentlessOblivion]

The condition I have is called Retinitis Pigmentosa. It's a condition which causes the retina to degenerate over time. As this happens peripheral vision is lost resulting in tunnel vision. Eventually the condition causes complete blindness. Additionally because the retina is degenerated adjusting from light to dark and vice versa takes much longer and all RP sufferers experience "night blindness" basically if it's very dark or at night we can't see a bloody thing.

 

Right now there's nothing that can be done to stop or reverse the condition but I'm hopeful medical science will come up with something by 2030.

[AtTheGates]

Finally got around to playing Skyrim through fully. I started a new save and completed the main story in like 35 hours. I was disappointed with the story though. Oblivion is a way better game.

[RelentlessOblivion]

I will admit the story was not particularly engaging in Skyrim but overall I enjoyed the game, what little of it I played anyway. Truth be told it was the first Elder Scrolls game I had played. I'm tempted to pick up both Morrowind and Oblivion for my PC but doubt I will follow through on it.

[H34VYM3T4LD4V3]

I got a limited edition Forza Motorsport 6 Xbox One for Christmas, easily my favourite game, yesterday I did a 3 hour endurance race at Sebring in the rain, and while being a drag it was worth it as I got 1.040.000 xp leveling me up 26 times and I got 13 million from prize spins including a Mercedes 300SLR!

[jfk36]

I highly recommend Brutal Legend, I just bought it in the sales on Steam. It's like Spinal Tap meets Lord of the Rings.

[H34VYM3T4LD4V3]

I have that, I completed it! 100% xD loved it so much.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Quickly learning N64 emulators really don't work. Too complex a control setup for anything but turn based games to work.

[AtTheGates]

I've only used an N64 emulator once, and it worked fine for Conker's Bad Fur Day. I was playing with the keyboard though. If I want to play anything emulated I use my hacked Wii. You can use it for all sorts of things when it's been modded. I have emulators on therea filemanager, a program that lets you play Wii ISOs installed on USB that you've downloaded or that it rips from games inserted in the Wii. A media player/server that plays DVDs and a crapload of other video formats.

I type the rest later POS Crapatalk is glitching out again.

[RelentlessOblivion]

I think it's just that I'm not normally a pc gamer so adjusting to the command prompts takes more time then I have the patience for. For a little bit of childhood nostalgia I do run a couple of GameBoy emulators to play a bit of Pokemon now and then.

[kjtheguitarist]

I'm playing S.O.S. on SNES these days.

I love it, beat many times, but it's still hard as sxxt, so many glitches in this game.

Here's a image that I've found on Google. It says a lot.

[AtTheGates]

Haven't played a SNES properly since about 2001 when I got one to play Final Fantasy 6 on. I'm more of a MegaDrive person though.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Finally found a DS emulator I can work with so Pokemon Diamond is getting a look in. Right now my team is Gastrodon, Monferno, Luxray, and Staraptor having just beaten the fourth gym.

[Athame]

Have you guys ever heard about The Binding of Isaac ? Game is frickiing insane, I can't stop playing, very very addicting, it has some crazy themes on it, such as Biblical references, Satanic references, Metal references etc. You can give your soul to Satan in exchange for better items or you can find an Angel room and mess with the Angel Just to see the fun in fighting him! You can download for free on PC using torrents but if you play on consoles, you have to pay for it. I recommend this game for everyone even if you are a casual gamer, you can download for free on PC via torrents and if you're going to give a try, I would recommend BOI rebirth or afterbirth, since it has more items and more bosses.