Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN JUNE 2024

candycanearter07 wrote:

Dang. The only "hd pixel art" game I can think of would be like
Octopath Traveller.

I mean HD Pixel in a way similar to The Iconoclasts. It's more detailed
that the usual low res pixel, scales perfectly and looks good at 1080p,
and the level of detail can't be appreciated in a small screen like the
Deck's 7 inches.

- Chip'n Dale Rescue Rangers (NES, PS4 Disney Afternoon
Collection): One of those games that I had been wanting to beat for
some time. Biggest difficulty comes from the lack of an instruction
booklet. I was struggling with the final stages until I downloaded
a scan and fount there's a mechanic I did not know about.

 Huh, why did you want to beat it?

It's one of the Capcom Disney licensed classic games and the one I never
had. I played Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, Snes Aladdin... This
is the one that got away. I just never found the time to sit and play.

- Quake Remastered (PC, Base game) The freebie you would receive if
you already owned Quake on Steam. It's KEX engine rather than ID
tech, but it plays nicely and you don't need to have the CD inside
to hear the music. I spend 2 days playing non stop untill In
finished the 4 episodes of the original retail release. Scourge of
Armaggon in July

 Neat! I've never beaten Quake.

Playing vanilla Quake may be a bit painful, specially with the enemies
moving as if it was a slideshow (animation interpolation came with GL
Quake). Although there are great source ports, the remaster is a great
version if you want to play it without complications, go online fast or
need accesibility options.
BTW, Quake in normal difficulty could be considered easy with modern
controls. It's like they toned it down a bit for cursor controls. Except
for the dreaded tar babies in the later episodes, it's  a well balanced
game.

- Kirby and The Forgotten Land (Switch)

Wait, really? Even Star Allies had a day one patch, I think..

Yep. This game only has local play, though. I guess with Star Allies it
would make more sense.

Other games that I played a bit, but dropped or postponed: - God of
War Ragnarok (PS5)

 Maybe the game is cuurrrsseseedddd

Either that, or Sony hates me for all those pirated PSX games in the
nineties

-Classics: I got one of those fake Nintendo NES consoles, the
horrible nes on a chip type that is missing the triangle sound
channel. Sitll had a blast with it playing Blue Shadow (Shadow of
the Ninja, but at that time there was a problem with the brits and
the word "ninja"), Darkwing Duck, Adventure Island 3... I need to
play a few of those in the Mesen core.

  Why?

Why what? Using a famiclone is way of reliving the real experience many
people had as kids with very cheap parents (I'm a sucker for era
accurate gameplay but some times I take it too far), and I never had the
experience of multicarts with very weird unexpected hacks to dodge the
copyright. Still laughting at that version of Super Mario Bros with
Alice Cooper instead of Mario.
If you mean why I am using Mesen to emulate, it's the most accurate Nes
core at the moment.