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[shuriken]

Playing fight night round 4. Doing the legacy mode with Erik Morales. Easily more nuanced and difficult than Champion or any of the previous games.

[Ninjinister]

So now there's a Battletoad in Killer Instinct... it's not a new game, but at least they're not ignoring the 'toads yet.

[Cure]

I'm into Viva Pinata, guys.

[Peanut]

Rare Replay is cool, but has some issues that bug the sh*t out of me and I have a problem with some of the games. I should preface this by saying I absolutely love the collection and it's easily the best deal in the history of compilations, but...

1) A lot of the Milestones for old games are ridiculous. Even if you were a master at the (awful) Ultimate era collection, you'd be spending hours of slogging to, as an example, refuel a ship in Jetpac 250 times, which is completely unreasonable. Expecting you to have the stomach to play trash for 20-30 minutes is bad enough, but expecting you to do it for hours and hours is barbaric.

2) Both Battletoads games are unfair garbage, but the NES Battletoads actually seems completely impossible to finish. I don't know if it's the accuracy of the controller or the emulation, but trying to beat Clinger Winger, even with abuse of the rewind feature to get the tightest turns possible, is downright IMPOSSIBLE.

3) The emulation on the N64 games (outside of the XBLA remakes of PD and BK1+2) kinda stinks. It's better than the original N64 games by a wide margin, but getting sub-30FPS in an N64 game on the X1 is pretty bad. If they couldn't get it to run 60 at least get it to lock at 30. Which brings me to my next point...

4) Outside of a few things (like the complete port of Grabbed by the Ghoulies) it seems like a bunch of this was pretty slapped together. The 360 games running via BC, in separate game files, without any connected content (achievements or unique Milestones) in Rare Replay feels like a rip-off.

5) Conker's Bad Fur Day being the only version of the game available is pretty sh*t. It's still a fun game as is, but they have a far superior Xbox remake of the game sitting there and they decide to only include the N64 version. I get that they probably did it because porting L&R would require some form of weird original XBL emulations work to be done, but I would have preferred L&R with all of the online functionality stripped out than just the N64 version by itself.

6) Milestones and Stamps keeping the most interesting extra material locked away is a crime. I'm dying to see some of the rare prototype videos, but it's all locked behind my ability to stomach awful ZX Spectrum trash for hours on end. The entire collection pre-N64 Rare is pretty heartless, unforgiving and, in most cases, downright bad, so forcing people to swallow those games in order to see all the special content in the game is a poor choice.

There's probably more, but that's enough blowing off steam. Gotta finish Conker for the 100th time!

Originally Posted by Ninjinister

So now there's a Battletoad in Killer Instinct... it's not a new game, but at least they're not ignoring the 'toads yet.

In the Rare Replay Making of Battletoads feature they imply heavily that they're working on it. With all the name dropping and cameos they've been getting this year I think it's a forgone conclusion that something is in the works.

[ProactiveMan]

Originally Posted by Peanut

2) Both Battletoads games are unfair garbage, but the NES Battletoads actually seems completely impossible to finish. I don't know if it's the accuracy of the controller or the emulation, but trying to beat Clinger Winger, even with abuse of the rewind feature to get the tightest turns possible, is downright IMPOSSIBLE.

That's interesting because people are carrying on about how they fixed the two-player issue with Clinger Winger. Didn't they do that in the 90s?

[CyberCubed]

Did they not include Killer Instinct 1 on SNES? Does anyone know why? I can't remember if any Nintendo character had a background cameo in that game.

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

That's interesting because people are carrying on about how they fixed the two-player issue with Clinger Winger. Didn't they do that in the 90s?

Pfft. 2-player Battletoads is maybe the least fun thing in all of games.

Also, the back half of Conker, from Spooky onwards, is a f*cking train wreck. The controls are completely and utterly broken on a level that makes an already unforgiving section of the game a test in patience. I kind of want to stop playing it, because it's so bad it's actively destroying my memories of the N64 version, while also souring the good feelings the Xbox version is deserving of. Either way, after nearly playing through the entire N64 version for the first time since release, I can say that the Xbox remake is superior, without question, even IF the controls for the shooting are fixed. People who think otherwise are wrong.

They need to do what they just did for Jet Force Gemini and patch in an alternate control scheme for the shooting IMMEDIATELY.

[GoldMutant]

Two words I have to say: Flea and market.

Literally, there's so many games from Atari to the current era of games, now if only I wasn't leaving to go back home this week. I do plan on purchasing an N64 to get better at collecting. Anyone know a good game to start out on? (I was thinking Smash Bros. because I played Super Mario 64 DS)

As for games currently played, Battletoads, nuff said.

[Mew]

I really want to get a NES, a CRT TV, and some games to go in my room.

[Powder]

Originally Posted by GoldMutant

Two words I have to say: Flea and market.

Literally, there's so many games from Atari to the current era of games, now if only I wasn't leaving to go back home this week. I do plan on purchasing an N64 to get better at collecting. Anyone know a good game to start out on? (I was thinking Smash Bros. because I played Super Mario 64 DS)

As for games currently played, Battletoads, nuff said.

My recommendations would be The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Starfox 64, Pokemon Snap!, & Mario Kart 64.

[GoldMutant]

Originally Posted by Powder

My recommendations would be The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Starfox 64, Pokemon Snap!, & Mario Kart 64.

I've actually played Kirby 64 before Powder. Kirby Dream Collection really helped as well as Virtual Console for Mario Party 2.

Thank you though for the advice.

[Cure]

The Turok games are pretty tight. 2 Especially.

[Peanut]

My advice is don't collect for N64.

[PangolinFeets]

Originally Posted by Peanut

They need to do what they just did for Jet Force Gemini and patch in an alternate control scheme for the shooting IMMEDIATELY.

It's great now. I'm having so much fun blasting through that old thing. JFG was one of the first games I saved up and bought with my own money. X3
Rare Replay is, by far, the best retro collection of games I've ever picked up. It's disappointing they couldn't include more of their big hits, but hey, you really can't beat that price point. Also, fantastic opening presentation. (Take note, Namco Museum.)


All these Rare games are getting me pumped for Yooka Laylee. I can't wait for my toybox kit. :3

[Turo602]

Finally got an Xbox One bundled with The Master Chief Collection along with Watch Dogs, Assassin's Creed IV, and Resident Evil: Revelations 2.

[CyberCubed]

I'm only buying 3 PS4 games for the rest of the year, Metal Gear Solid V, Fallout 4, and Star Wars Battlefront.

I'm trying to buy less games this generation than the PS3/360 gen, and with a lot of new franchises being disappointing this gen (like Watch Dogs, Destiny, and all Ubisoft games getting repetitive like Assassin's Creed and Far Cry), its probably easy to do.

I've actually been underwhelmed with this gen so far, and after Batman Arkham Knight I'm never hyping myself up for a big AAA game ever again. I was so hyped for that one too.

[Shiro Kame]

I'm playing Choice of Robots. It's a Steam game that instead of the usual sprites/animations thing, it's basically a multiple choice "novel" where your decisions determine the outcome. I recommend playing it.

Also, I've played a few games like Freedom Planet and Portal, both of which I'm working on playthroughs for.

[GoldMutant]

So, I decided against buying the N64, the guy charged nearly 60 dollars for it, ripoff artist.

I did snag some memory cards for my PS2 and a PS1 memory card, hopefully it works. Otherwise, I'm holding back on purchasing. Still playing that dreaded Battletoads!

[PangolinFeets]

If anyone wants to play Magicka 2 or Helldivers, add me. I'm home for at least one more day.
TheUnorthodox1 is my PS4 SN.

[Shiro Kame]

I downloaded the Naughty Dog Crash Bandicoot trilogy for PSP. I'm having trouble with the bazooka however in Warped. Even reassigning buttons doesn't help...