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- August 19th, 2024, 7:31 pm
- Forum: Volume 13
- Topic: 642: Perfect Dark Zero
- Replies: 7
- Views: 27749
Re: 642: Perfect Dark Zero
Perfect Dark is a bit of a masterpiece that still holds own today, and Zero is a bit of a mess that is dated to play today. At the time, though, I remember thinking games couldn't look better, and some of the ideas around it actually show a bit of forward thinking in the FPS space, but it would ...
- April 21st, 2024, 6:50 pm
- Forum: Volume 13
- Topic: 639: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
- Replies: 4
- Views: 24221
Re: 639: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
I reckon this is one of the best comic book video games ever made. It takes the team aspect of the comic (and, by extension, the film) and turn it into a genuinely impressive action game, that surprises with heart and nuance not entirely expected but certainly earned. Graphically impressive and one ...
- February 1st, 2024, 11:47 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Sonic 3 & Knuckles
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7762
Re: 637: Sonic 3 & Knuckles
There are very few games in my life that have been as important to me as Sonic 3 and, later, Sonic & Knuckles. Being a Mega Drive kid in the early 1990s was a feast, but being all in on Sonic is hard to describe to those who aren't old enough. He just was cool, and whilst that's hard to fully grasp ...
- February 1st, 2024, 11:37 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Untitled Goose Game
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11077
Re: 630: Untitled Goose Game
Odd one this because whilst I don't really like Untitled Goose Game, because it just isn't my kind of game, everyone else in my family adored it. The kids love causing chaos in the town and it has racked up nearly 50 hours of playtime on our preferred platform, the Switch, on account of it being the ...
- January 31st, 2024, 12:52 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Vampire Survivors
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12891
Re: 636: Vampire Survivors
Vampire Survivors is game that boils down the bare essentials of what makes games work, in my brain, and then concentrates it up like a bottle of Robinson's squash. The gentle "what am I doing" curve that moves up towards "ah, I get it" to the final "oh, right, now I get it!" it is pure perfection ...
- January 11th, 2024, 4:38 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Hi-Fi Rush
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5057
Re: 603: Hi-Fi Rush
Look, cards on the table, I'm a lapsed drummer, and in theory rhythm games should be my bread and butter, but from Elite Beat Agents to the dance off in Pikuniku, I'm dreadful at them. And I put that down to those games being about matching the melody, not the beat. Enter Hifi Rush, a game that hit ...
- September 11th, 2023, 10:35 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Norco
- Replies: 6
- Views: 38860
Re: 596: Norco
Norco is the most vibe filled video game I've played in a long time. For context, I didn't play that many point and click adventure games in the 1990s, but caught up on some of the best in recent years, and Norco is the distillation of the genre and felt like it smartly played with the tropes and ...
- July 26th, 2023, 2:33 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Halo Infinite
- Replies: 11
- Views: 30241
Re: 593: Halo Infinite
This has to be a review in two parts: The multiplayer is just Halo gameplay perfected. I don't engage with the online competitive stuff and I'm too old to understand Battle Passes, but with four of my mates and loads of bots the games have been a mixture of hilarious, infuriating, and very very fun ...
- July 26th, 2023, 2:15 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Sonic CD
- Replies: 8
- Views: 33952
Re: 584: Sonic CD
Easily the worst Sonic game from the classic era. I can't quite put my finder on exactly why there is something no quite right with it, but to me it felt like a strange game to finally getting to play. It feels, at it's worst, a bad ROM hack. That being said, of course, it was the holy grail of the ...
- October 28th, 2022, 12:14 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: A Short Hike
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5393
Re: 550: A Short Hike
A Short Hike is a game that I found to be a really enjoyable time with no taxing elements, and exactly the kind of comfort food game that I have returned to several times, just to wander amongst the gorgeous national park map, full of nooks and crannies and secrets that just organically fill out the ...
- September 2nd, 2022, 9:36 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Game suggestions for the podcast
- Replies: 2136
- Views: 1675512
Re: Game suggestions for the podcast
Immortality.
It's a perfect CnR podcast game.
It's a perfect CnR podcast game.
- May 27th, 2022, 10:25 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7914
Re: 541: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic 2 might be the second game in the series, but it was the last of the Mega Drive games I played, and that has undoubtedly coloured my opinion on it. After the transcendental introduction to gaming that Sonic 1 was, I got Sonic Spinball next, then Sonic 3, then Sonic & Knuckles, and then Sonic ...
- May 27th, 2022, 10:10 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Psychonauts 2
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4929
Re: 528: Psychonauts 2
This should have been a slam dunk - a 3D platformer with inspired design and story is like catnip to me, but this just didn't land at all. In all fairness, I've never played the first game in the series, but I found the controls to be obtuse and difficult to get to grips with, and borderline ...
- January 27th, 2021, 2:11 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Sonic the Hedgehog
- Replies: 29
- Views: 19485
Re: 473 - Sonic the Hedgehog
For me, gaming begins with Sonic the Hedgehog. I remember seeing the Mega Drive I hooked up to a tiny telly in my Uncle's bedroom in my Grandparent's flat, and watching a cool cartoon that... wait, suddenly you could move the character around yourself? I was transfixed. I distinctly remember, with ...
- September 10th, 2019, 7:37 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discourse
- Topic: The "Introduce yourself" thread
- Replies: 767
- Views: 806158
Re: The "Introduce yourself" thread
Trouble is I struggle to get round to looking for new stuff, generally falling back on The Orb or GYBE, so this is great. Do you post a track list anywhere? Sadly, the terms of my license that I have means I'm technically not allowed to. If you listen on Mixcloud, it'll come up most of the time ...
- September 9th, 2019, 4:04 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discourse
- Topic: The "Introduce yourself" thread
- Replies: 767
- Views: 806158
Re: The "Introduce yourself" thread
Hey everyone, long time listener, lurker for a year, and final poster. What did it? The Dreamcast special, and Donkey Kong Country, both I said I would start talking about. I'm from Glasgow, and I'm a bit of a lapsed gamer. Was obsessed with my Mega Drive, then Dreamcast, and then... fell away. Came ...
- September 9th, 2019, 3:53 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Donkey Kong Country trilogy
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8838
Re: 389: Donkey Kong Country trilogy
As a kid that never had a SNES, the lands of Super Mario and Starwing always seemed great, but I had Sonic, so who cared really. But Donkey Kong Country was different. I found it to be one of the best things I'd ever seen, and then one of the best games I'd ever played, and at every high-school ...