weirdo_from_space
@weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Serious Sam 2 was just updated after 20 years in celebration of its anniversary 1 day 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 4 days 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? 5 days 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) 1 week 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? 2 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? 2 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! 2 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 3 weeks ago:
There are PCem and 86Box.
- Comment on What's *your* favorite way to play old games? 1 month 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. 1 month 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) 3 months ago:
What’s it’s name?
- Comment on Kool-Aid Man (1983) for the Atari 2600 3 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. 4 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. 5 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. 5 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. 5 months ago:
This year the original SMB will be forty years old.
- Comment on Trine Was a Masterpiece. Why Doesn’t Anyone Remember? 5 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.
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 7 months ago:
I’ve been playing some Jazz Jackrabbit and Duke Nukem 1, they are both great. I think I prefer the design of DOS games to the design of console games.
- Comment on George Orwell’s 1984 as a ’90s PC game has to be seen to be believed 7 months ago:
It absolutely is not. Ocania is a socialist state gone wrong, what 1984 fears is a fully centralized, all powerful, all seeing state controlling each and every aspect of it’s citizens’ lives and hell bent on keeping them unintellegent and subservient so it could control them forever.
America doesn’t even have the spine to tell cryptobros to stop scamming people, or AI bros to cease mass copyright infringement, you cannot tell me those are the same state. America is a corporatocracy, it’s government is pitiful. Trump got where he is by telling people things they already wanted to hear. What brought America to this point is the two party system it so stubbornly refused to get rid of. If people had more of a choice other than the two of the most unpopular candidates in a long time, but one with a more firey performance, things could’ve been different.