weirdo_from_space
@weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Is the Atari Jaguar worth playing in 2025 !? 6 days ago:
There is just nothing to see in Jaguar’s library. The high quality emulator it finally got is more valuable for preservation than for actual gaming.
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 weeks ago:
Celeste is a good contender, Hades II as well.
- Comment on Serious Sam 2 was just updated after 20 years in celebration of its anniversary 3 weeks ago:
That doesn’t say much honestly. Three was a repurposed generic military shooter, four showed potential but fell short (maybe they fixed it since then).
- Comment on 15,000 Retro Gamers Voted And Chose The Best Retro Handheld Of All Time 3 weeks ago:
I think the number of games ported over from the 16 bit era gives that impression. GBA didn’t even get it’s own Mario game, they just released the All-Stars versions of classic games, which I get was super cool at the time but still.
But yes, GBA was a very capable machine. GBA could run Doom with a smooth framerate, SNES couldn’t. Not to mention the stuff like Driv3r, Asterix or even GTA Advance.
- Comment on What do we do when all the crts are gone? 4 weeks ago:
From what I hear an HDR OLED loaded up with Sony Megatron and CRT beam simulator can get very close.
- Comment on Introducing KRetro: a Libretro game emulator from KDE! (Alpha Release) 4 weeks ago:
They should copy the touch controls setup uf Magic Dosbox. Infact, every emulator with touch controls should do that.
- Comment on What Are Ya'll Playing? 5 weeks ago:
I can’t stop playing Enter the Gungeon, this is a cry for help. /hj
Also I decided to try Flashback again (Genesis version). This game always seemed really cool but I never progressed far on it since it’s so unlike anything else from the era.
- Comment on What Are Ya'll Playing? 5 weeks ago:
“Time Cannot Be Stopped” might be the greatest game over chant of all time.
- Comment on Finally got a Gensis (Megadrive) after years of wanting one! 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t grow up in that era, I assure you most Genesis games are timeless.
- Comment on Setting up a DOS/Win98 system for gaming 1 month ago:
There are PCem and 86Box.
- Comment on What's *your* favorite way to play old games? 2 months ago:
For me the ideal way to enjoy retro consoles would be a SBC with RetroPie connected to a HDR 4k OLED TV with raster scan emulation. As it stands though I have a 1080p IPS monitor with regular old RetroArch. It’s nice, but I hope one day I can afford the most baller setup.
- Comment on Games that weren't...but could have been. 2 months ago:
That probably wouldn’t have come out well. I remember hearing that they were rushing super hard to get the game out, to the point they’ve halved the amount of chapters in the game. GBA release resulted in a more complete game that visually aged better.
- Comment on The year is 2001. You find this game in a demo disk. Your evening is going to be great. 2 months ago:
I should get back to that, I only played a little of it but I remember enjoying it.
- Comment on I want to go back 2 months ago:
I was never there, I wish I could’ve been there 🙁
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 2 months ago:
I don’t know, I don’t own a VR headset. But I never heard anyone talk about it negatively. Apparently the gameplay is rather restricted since it’s supossed to be a beginner’s VR game but that’s about it.
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 2 months ago:
People really liked Half-Life Alyx so whoever is in the development team is still capable of making a game people love. Though, ultimately, whether a hypotetical release of Half-Life 3 could live up to the hype or not is irrelevant since no such game will ever be released.
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 2 months ago:
New ones are still being made. I can’t give specific examples since I don’t play Half-Life mods but I’m sure you can find some pretty cool stuff by looking around.
- Comment on So you want to start playing Castlevania games (a giant primer) 4 months ago:
What’s it’s name?
- Comment on Kool-Aid Man (1983) for the Atari 2600 4 months ago:
Thats because Yo Noid was a localisation thing, it was a very different game in Japan.
- Comment on GTA: Liberty City Stories for PSP running on my 2020 iPhone SE with 2x resolution and MSAA antialiasing. Yes, I took this photo with a potato. 5 months ago:
There are Retro City Rampage and Shakedown Hawaii on the indie side. They rely on 80s and 90s nostalgia quite heavily but at least RCR was really fun to play, I didn’t play the other one yet.
- Comment on How is nobody talking about the fact that The Simpsons Arcade Game got home ports to DOS and Commodore 64 but not NES, SNES or Genesis -- and didn't arrive on console until Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3? 5 months ago:
I know this is not a popular take, but in my opinion The Simpsons Arcade wasn’t a very good game. I believe it’s purely a novelty product, it falls short when compared to almost any other well known beat’em up from the era.
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 5 months ago:
That was a pretty cool video. It’s nice to know some people took (and still do) children’s entertainment seriously, and didn’t use it just as a rhetorical shield against the critisism of their work. Apart from delivering a good message, the games also seem extremely well made in general.
- Comment on Ecco the Dolphin Remasters and New Game Announced by Original Team | Retro Gaming News 24/7 5 months ago:
That’s it, I’m filtering all the posts with “remaster” on the title.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 6 months ago:
Actually I’m in my 20s myself. I just can’t see games like Call of Duty 4, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, GTA 4 and The Last of Us as retro when they are largely identical to what we would expect from a modern AAA title.
2007 was a long time ago, but not much has changed since then in mainstream big budget game development.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 6 months ago:
I honestly don’t agree with that at all. 360 and PS3 are old but their games aren’t very different compare to the big budget games of today. A few fads ended and others took their place, but that’s it. To me retro systems end with the Wii, mainly because Wii was just an overclocked Gamecube.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 6 months ago:
This year the original SMB will be forty years old.
- Comment on Trine Was a Masterpiece. Why Doesn’t Anyone Remember? 6 months ago:
I heard about Super Meat Boy quite a bit, it always popped up in must play indie games lists. I never heard of Trine before, so it’s definitely not the same.
- Comment on Stop Skeletons from Fighting got 16 Player Faceball working on Gameboy 6 months ago:
I was beginning to fear the channel ran it’s course, this looks amazing. I hope it’s a sign Uncle Derek hasn’t ran out of topics yet.
- Comment on Fallout and DOOM get combined in the Fallout: Vault 666 mod 7 months ago:
Doom is the best retro game commnunity.
- Comment on New Xbox 360 Recompilation Tool Will Give Lost Classics Another Chance To Shine | Time Extension 7 months ago:
Perfect Dark Remastered on PC is all I need.