Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed (PlayStation Vita)
V-Rally (PlayStation)
Joyriding.
Super Mario Bros. (Entertainment System)
Just a quick playthrough.
The Valley Rule (PC)
Just a quick playthrough.
Vector TD (PC)
Just a quick playthrough.
Vector TD 2 (PC)
Just a quick playthrough.
Grand Theft Auto (PC)
Just testing it out a little bit.
Grand Theft Auto 2 (PC)
Just testing it out a little bit.
Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (Xbox 360)
Still trying to replicate the glitch with the combining hubworlds, sadly to no success. I have completed some regular challenge in the game in the meantime though.
Senario Vs. Maxx (Plug&Play)
Just playing some of the games for fun, Smart Escape is still the best of the bunch.
Been playing some games at a friend's house, Ice Hockey, Double Dribble and Ice Climber on Entertainment System and some various games on his new Atari Flashback, a fishing game, a cowboy duel game (Outlaw), a tank game (Combat) and some other ones (American Football, Football ("Soccer"), and some top-down racing games).
I've also installed an Intellivision emulator (Bliss 2.04) and am trying out some of the games I own, since I don't own an actual Intellivision console to play them on this is as good as I can do at the moment.
BurgerTime! (Intellivision)
BurgerTime! is a really good arcade game and a lot of fun to play, the Intellivision version is great.
Pac-Man (Intellivision)
One of the top best older versions of Pac-Man for sure.
Frog Bog (Intellivision)
It's a lot more fun when you activate manual controls.
Popeye (Intellivision)
A fun arcade game, not the most impressive version but a good game regardless and still very enjoyable, I prefer it to some of the more technically impressive versions as some of the added animations, music and sound effects etc. in other versions aren't always that good and end up being kind of awkward, so at the end of the day this is still my favorite version.
Skiing (Intellivision)
A simple but enjoyable skiing game, I'd say it's one of the best due to it's simplicity, compared to for example Slalom on Entertainment System this is much better as that game is far too hard and has rather annoying controls in which you have to constantly hold up on the steering cross to go forward, which is absolute murder on your thumb, and when compared to more modern games like Alpine Skiing 2007 on PS2 for example it's also superior as that game is a bit too technical and advanced for it's own good, it looks fantastic for a PS2 game but it's just not very fun to play, Skiing on Intellivision is just a great and simple little game to pick up and play and for us who aren't into the sport of skiing that's really all you need, and it makes for a better experience than all the licenced and complicated stuff other skiing games have to offer, at least in my opinion.
Utopia (Intellivision)
Trying to learn how to play this properly, it's a really cool game once you learn it, like a versus sim game, you control one of two islands with each of the two controllers and you try to manage your island as good as you can for a set amount of turns, the one who has managed their island the best at the end, wins.
Centipede (Intellivision)
A good version, nothing spectacular but it does what it needs to do, if you know Centipede in general then you know the Intellivision version as well, it's just the same good old classic Centipede.
Stadium Mud Buggies (Intellivision)
A great isometric racing game with good control, good visuals, lots of content and great driving physics.
Monster Truck Rally (Entertainment System)
The spiritual successor to Stadium Mud Buggies, basically the same game with even more content and better visuals.
Been playing some more games at a friend's house, now on his Mega Drive Flashback; Golden Axe 1, 2 and 3, Eternal Champions, Bonanza Bros., Flicky and Mortal Kombat 1 and 2.
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
An underrated top-down racer with some really good driving physics making it a blast to powerslide through corners like a pro. Got some nice visuals too with the cars and roadside buildings having shadows and the game shows off some nice multi-directional scrolling for such an old title.
This game commonly gets a bad rep for having bad controls but it all boils down to learning the controls, and they aren't even hard to learn, I'm honestly astonished over how many seem to struggle with them, basically the control disc is like a steering wheel, using the 16-directional input as a means to determine how much you're turning in either direction, only it's even easier as you don't actually have to turn it, you can just press down where you want and the game will do it, it's of course easier to explain in real life with an actual controller or with visual aids but here's an attempt at doing so in text form anyway; for example, pressing up on the disc does nothing as that's where the steering wheel is neutral, pressing up and diagonally will only ever so slightly steer in those direction, which can be good for minor adjustments, pressing straight left or right will give you a moderate amount of turning while still not risking any spin-outs, and pressing the lower part of the disc while turning, as in lower diagonal-left and lower diagonal-right, will result in significantly tighter turning, this can cause spin-outs if you do it too much from left to right in quick succession, but if done correctly you'll powerslide through corners at high speeds and it'll feel like a modern racing game only with a top-down camera angle and retro visuals, and finally you can slide it over to the other side and basically do 180 degree handbrake like turns and even pull off proper 360s if you're good enough, it's a genuine analog control that simply wasn't a thing again at all until the later part of the 90s, so enormous amounts of kudos to this game for implementing such a control scheme this early on and of course an equal amount of Kudos to the Intellivision for having such an awesome controller for making it possible in the first place, most impressive, you also have brakes on the action buttons but they're rarely needed even on the harder tracks, only the two fastest cars truly need the use of braking, it automatically accelerates so you just have to focus on steering for the most part.
There is an older and much more rare version of the game that had another control scheme (the regular one was an option too but you had to input a code to access it) and I can kind of excuse anyone who's played that as it seems to have far harder to manage controls than the regular version, but my guess is that a majority of those who have trouble with the game has it due to them using emulation where they try and map the 16-directional control disc to a 4-directional steering cross on a modern controller or the arrow keys on a keyboard, effectively losing 12 steps of analog sensitivity in the process, it's literally the same thing as mapping a modern console's analog stick to WASD, you'll lose any and all analog sensitivity and some games simply won't play correctly if they require you to use that sensitivity, as is the case of Auto Racing, despite being an older game the system was WAY ahead of it's time and the analog disc circle pad was only one of many things it did that took competitors many years, sometimes close to a couple of decades to catch up to.
Bowling (Intellivision)
What can I say, it's bowling. You line your guy up, aim, throw the ball, give it some aftertouch, hope the physics give you a strike then repeat that until you've bowled a whole game and get the final score. You get to pick some options like ball size, isle slipperiness, right or left handed and how many players will compete, you move the guy left and right on the isle with the left action buttons and aim/shoot with the lower right action button, you can see each player's current score by pressing the corresponding number key during gameplay.
Atlantis (Intellivision)
A Missile Command clone with some cool special features like a shmup ability where you ge to send out a ship to shoot down the incoming enemies but it had an energy limit of 90 second, you need to land and recharge to use it more, it can also be destroyed while in action.
Sonic Generations (Xbox 360)
An awful game with virtually no positive, everything is bad, bad visuals, bad framerate, strange super low screen resolutions at times, tons of super simplistic "3D" models (as in a lot of basic sprite stuff you'd expect to see in old 32-bit generation games) bad, inaccurate and laggy controls, bad, inaccurate and glitchy physics, no camera control, camera glitches, long load times, horrible voice acting, garbage script, wildly unfitting voice actors, characters act inaccordingly to their personalities and feel completely rebooted and out of place, bad level design, bad audio design, almost complete lack of exploration 99% of the time, super excessive use of forced on-rail segments where you have little to no control (you can sometimes use boost to make them go by faster but that drains the boost bar), poor placement of hidden star pickups forcing repeat gameplay in the laziest of ways imaginable (literally in one stage you have three right next to each other directly after a jump you can't control with three ways to jump and no way to return and grab the other two, simply pick one jump one time you play through the level, then the second during a second playthrough and finally the third during a third playthrough, it's as forced and boring as it gets, no skill involved, just rinse and repeat thee times over, it's mindless, boring and repetitive, and it's by far the most commonly used design choice for every single thing in this game), speaking of the boost, you have a button that boosts you forward, killing enemies automatically and stuff, making the already ultra linear and on-rail designed gameplay even more linear and on-rails, it fills up with everything you do, even moving the analog stick during on-ail jumps gives you points that charge your boost meter so you can use it to skip even more gameplay, on top of that you also have lots of upgrades you can buy, from points you get for completing and replaying stages, that make the game even more automatic and easy to breeze through, it's like they went to every extreme to make the game as unplayable and skippable as possible because they weren't going to put anything good in there anyway so why make anyone suffer through it, literally the levels are quite big in size but take only a couple of minutes to get through, they feel a lot longer becuase it's just several minutes of watching sonic "go fast" without much if any interaction, so basically you can watch a playthrough on youtube and get a virtually identical experience, there's so little gameplay here it's almost not even warranted to call it a game, there are a few extra challenges you can play as well, like racing against another charcter to the end of a level with a timer, or collecting rings with a timer, or using invincibility to walk across spikes etc. to reach the end of a level while on a timer, and so on.
Sonic The Hedgehog (Xbox 360, the unlockable Mega Drive version available in Sonic Generations after purchasing the Mega Drive controller in the shop for 7777 points and using it on the Mega Drive console above Green Hill zone)
The one potentially good thing about this game was that it came with the original Mega Drive version of Sonic The Hedgehog, except ofcourse it's not the original version, it's a ported version with some glitches and omissions, first off it runs in a window, so it's not full screen, not even close, the level select code don't seem to work and there are tons of little glitches that the original definitely didn't have, finally the audio has been remade so it sounds different, same musical compositions and the same kind of sound effects but it all sounds different, not sure if I would count that as a negative or a neutral as it technically doesn't sound "worse", it's more a matter of if you want it to sound authentic or not, if you do then it's a clear negative, if you don't care then it's okay, I guess, on a final tiny positive note they did fix the insta-death if you touch spikes while temporarily invincible after having been hit by something and lost your rings, so I guess that's something, still, it's a lesser version of the original and it doesn't even slightly begin to make up for the shitty main Sonic Generations game.
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Monday, April 2, 2018
Game Purchases - April 2018
April 2nd:I made a trade with a friend today, my copy of Excite Bike for a copy of The Adventures of Bayou Billy and a copy of Slalom for Nintendo Entertainment System.
Entertainment System:
Slalom (cartridge only)
The Adventures of Bayou Billy (cartridge only)
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April 15th:
Not game related really but I haven't bought anything for a while now so anything of interest is worth posting at this point!
Magazine:
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic + polybag with Applejack in it
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April 18th:
Took two hour long walk to a nearby shopping center today and bought some neat stuff today.
Xbox 360 accessories:
Microsoft Xbox 360 controller mini-keyboard (used)
PlayStation 3 accessories:
Sony PlayStation 3 Bluray remote (used)
PlayStation 4:
Killzone Shadowfall (used)
Tearaway Unfolded (new)
Collectibles:
TOTAKU GameStop+ Exclusive WipEout Feisar FX350 ship figure (new)
Other:
3-pack Emoji Movie suprise chocolate eggs
3-pack My Little Pony Friendship is Magic suprise chocolate eggs
3-pack Transformers suprise chocolate eggs
Magazine:
Mickey Mouse + Lego Batman polybag set 30522 Batman in the Phantom Zone
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April 19th:
Some secondhand finds today.
PC:
Grand Theft Auto 2 (Xplosiv)
Need for Speed - Road Challenge
Street Tennis
TOCA 2 Touring Cars (Sold Out)
DVD:
Ace Ventura When Nature Calls (1995)
Below (2002)
Hercules in New York (1970)
The Passion (2009)
Other:
a bucket of assorted Lego Bionicle parts
..and a movie from a movie store.
DVD:
Norm of the North (2015)
Entertainment System:
Slalom (cartridge only)
The Adventures of Bayou Billy (cartridge only)
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April 15th:
Not game related really but I haven't bought anything for a while now so anything of interest is worth posting at this point!
Magazine:
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic + polybag with Applejack in it
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April 18th:
Took two hour long walk to a nearby shopping center today and bought some neat stuff today.
Xbox 360 accessories:
Microsoft Xbox 360 controller mini-keyboard (used)
PlayStation 3 accessories:
Sony PlayStation 3 Bluray remote (used)
PlayStation 4:
Killzone Shadowfall (used)
Tearaway Unfolded (new)
Collectibles:
TOTAKU GameStop+ Exclusive WipEout Feisar FX350 ship figure (new)
Other:
3-pack Emoji Movie suprise chocolate eggs
3-pack My Little Pony Friendship is Magic suprise chocolate eggs
3-pack Transformers suprise chocolate eggs
Magazine:
Mickey Mouse + Lego Batman polybag set 30522 Batman in the Phantom Zone
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April 19th:
Some secondhand finds today.
PC:
Grand Theft Auto 2 (Xplosiv)
Need for Speed - Road Challenge
Street Tennis
TOCA 2 Touring Cars (Sold Out)
DVD:
Ace Ventura When Nature Calls (1995)
Below (2002)
Hercules in New York (1970)
The Passion (2009)
Other:
a bucket of assorted Lego Bionicle parts
..and a movie from a movie store.
DVD:
Norm of the North (2015)
Sunday, April 1, 2018
Now Playing - April 2018
Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (Xbox 360)
This game is really getting on my nerves, problems with glitches, poor design and low quality are rearing their ugly heads too much, I may not car enough to get through this one 100% like I did multiple times in a row like I did with the two previous games. A clear step down in quality to say the least, I even enjoyed the downscaled 3DS version better as it was downscaled in good ways, it skips a lot of the problem and keeps the best stuff.
UPDATE 7 April: I beat the story mode at least, doing most of the side stuff as well but I'm not aiming for 100% of this, some side quests are just far too annoying.
UPDATE 15 April: After having unlocked a bunch of more stuff and completed most of the side quests that aren't flying or checkpoint racing I ran into one hell of a glitch where the hub worlds loaded combined, the one I was at and travelled from merged with the one I travelled to creating a whole new dimension, especially when I combined the lantern worlds with the batcave or the watchtower becuase they were not compatible with their gravity and coordinate alignment so I was running in the air and up and down walls etc, it was pure pandemonium, it actually took quite a long time before it froze from all this madness but sadly I haven't been able to recreate it again after that, it happened after I unlocked Giganta and tried to warp and switch characters, her size difference powers are most likely the catalyst but some other ingredient seems to be missing for it to happen again, I've tried with different characters, even both being Giganta, large and small combinations, but nothing has triggered it to happen again so far.
To be honest, this is the best thing this game has offered so far, in the midst of all the mediocrity it's offered this stood out and one hell of an experience, so I'd love to be able to recreate it again and learn how to trigger it manually, that'd be awesome.
Oh and also I've finally gone all the hub worlds and it's specifically the green lantern world Oa where you finally get to use all the vehicles you unlock in the game, it almost exclusively has land and air racing challenges, so it's not exactly a huge open world like Gotham was in Lego Batman 2 DC Superheroes, but it's at least something as the rest of the game virtually have no vehicles at all other than the select few side scrolling shooter levels.
Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens (PlayStation Vita)
One mission at a time, slow and steady wins the race...? Nah I'm done for now, time for something else to make my Vita fun again, hopefully.
Justice League Task Force (Mega Drive)
The music alone is worth starting up this game for.
Still one of the most criminally underrated fighting games of the 16-bit generation and one of the most polarizingly opposite of it's Super Nintendo counterpart as on Super Nintendo this game is extremely poor and I can only recommend avoiding it entirely, yeah it's sadly that bad, handled by another developer and the result was a wildly different version that fails to be as good as the Mega Drive game in every way, shape and form.
On Mega Drive this is a must play for fighting game, DC and Mega Drive fans.
The Adventures of Bayou Billy (Entertainment System)
I really like this game, despite the design changes for this version over how the original Japanese version, Mad City, was.
It's a really cool game, reminds me of Robin Hood Prince of Thieves as it also has multiple genres of gameplay baked into it, sadly this game is overly tedious due to the increased difficulty, but the gameplay that's there is still really good, with good controls, good visuals, great music and some nice technical impressive things like digitized voice samples and screen warping effects, not bad at all for an old Entertainment System game.
Slalom (Entertainment System)
Rare sure like making potentially great games that get hindered with far too high difficulty.
Ride! Next Generation Equitation (PC)
I wanted to try one of the first horse games I got for PC, it's technically a very well made game, even if it's not my genre at all and I suck at it, at least it's better than most other horse games as this at least manages to be a professional level game for those interested in this type of thing, it's not just another low quality horse tamagotchi sim where you waste most of your time playing awful minigames like washing the horse, feeding it and literally picking up horse shit, this focuses on obstacle courses and such, the competition and actual sport, so kudos for that at least, it also look rather good with some very nicely detailed horses, environments, special effects and animations, for a 2008 PC game in this specific genre it looks very good indeed.
Night Stalker (PC)
Just running around shooting some bats, robots and the occasional spider in this very competent fan made PC port of the Intellivision classic.
Cat Pöke (PC)
Just having some fun poking cat butts.
Cat Planet (PC)
Just flying around looking for some talkative little kitties.
The Adventures of Captain Comic (PC)
I got farther than I've ever done before, that was cool, I almost feel like there's a chance I could beat the game now, I've had it since I was a kid, it was one of the first PC games I ever played, so it would've been cool to beat this one at least once.
Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed (PlayStation Vita)
Already knew it was gonna look bad seeing as it's a port of the 3DS version rather than a port of the HD console version, sadly, but it's still okay I guess, it could've been amazing had they just had some ACTUAL all-stars to play as, but alas it's the most generic and common ones like Sonic, Tails, Amy and Knuckles, and a bunch of characters you never wanted and for several of them you probably never even heard or or knew where there as you probably played the better characters in the games these ones come from, like the one guy from Crazy Taxi nobody plays as, some secondary character from Jet Grind Radio Future/Jet Set Radio, a couple of monkeys from Samba de Amigo (I think, and yes they get two characters featured from that game, as if one uninteresting monkey you didn't know or want to play as wasn't enough, they gave us two, you know instead of something you'd like to play as becuase that would've been too much fun according to Sega, and we can't have fun in videogames, nope, we have to be disappointed and wishing we were playing a good game instead, that's the modern Sega way for some reason!) and fucking Alex Kidd etc., but almost none of the ones you know and love and would've actually wanted to play as are there, so yeah, thanks Sega for making it obvious why we should never buy your games when they're new and you can still make a profit from a sale, we never will, we promise.
Need for Speed Road Challenge (PC)
Not fully compatible with Windows 7 it seems, so I have to run it in software mode, it looks kinda like a low-end PSX game with an unusually choppy framerate.
V-Rally (PlayStation)
Just joyriding while winning some races.
Sega Rally Championship PC (PC)
Just joyriding for the fun of joyriding.
This game is really getting on my nerves, problems with glitches, poor design and low quality are rearing their ugly heads too much, I may not car enough to get through this one 100% like I did multiple times in a row like I did with the two previous games. A clear step down in quality to say the least, I even enjoyed the downscaled 3DS version better as it was downscaled in good ways, it skips a lot of the problem and keeps the best stuff.
UPDATE 7 April: I beat the story mode at least, doing most of the side stuff as well but I'm not aiming for 100% of this, some side quests are just far too annoying.
UPDATE 15 April: After having unlocked a bunch of more stuff and completed most of the side quests that aren't flying or checkpoint racing I ran into one hell of a glitch where the hub worlds loaded combined, the one I was at and travelled from merged with the one I travelled to creating a whole new dimension, especially when I combined the lantern worlds with the batcave or the watchtower becuase they were not compatible with their gravity and coordinate alignment so I was running in the air and up and down walls etc, it was pure pandemonium, it actually took quite a long time before it froze from all this madness but sadly I haven't been able to recreate it again after that, it happened after I unlocked Giganta and tried to warp and switch characters, her size difference powers are most likely the catalyst but some other ingredient seems to be missing for it to happen again, I've tried with different characters, even both being Giganta, large and small combinations, but nothing has triggered it to happen again so far.
To be honest, this is the best thing this game has offered so far, in the midst of all the mediocrity it's offered this stood out and one hell of an experience, so I'd love to be able to recreate it again and learn how to trigger it manually, that'd be awesome.
Oh and also I've finally gone all the hub worlds and it's specifically the green lantern world Oa where you finally get to use all the vehicles you unlock in the game, it almost exclusively has land and air racing challenges, so it's not exactly a huge open world like Gotham was in Lego Batman 2 DC Superheroes, but it's at least something as the rest of the game virtually have no vehicles at all other than the select few side scrolling shooter levels.
Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens (PlayStation Vita)
One mission at a time, slow and steady wins the race...? Nah I'm done for now, time for something else to make my Vita fun again, hopefully.
Justice League Task Force (Mega Drive)
The music alone is worth starting up this game for.
Still one of the most criminally underrated fighting games of the 16-bit generation and one of the most polarizingly opposite of it's Super Nintendo counterpart as on Super Nintendo this game is extremely poor and I can only recommend avoiding it entirely, yeah it's sadly that bad, handled by another developer and the result was a wildly different version that fails to be as good as the Mega Drive game in every way, shape and form.
On Mega Drive this is a must play for fighting game, DC and Mega Drive fans.
The Adventures of Bayou Billy (Entertainment System)
I really like this game, despite the design changes for this version over how the original Japanese version, Mad City, was.
It's a really cool game, reminds me of Robin Hood Prince of Thieves as it also has multiple genres of gameplay baked into it, sadly this game is overly tedious due to the increased difficulty, but the gameplay that's there is still really good, with good controls, good visuals, great music and some nice technical impressive things like digitized voice samples and screen warping effects, not bad at all for an old Entertainment System game.
Slalom (Entertainment System)
Rare sure like making potentially great games that get hindered with far too high difficulty.
Ride! Next Generation Equitation (PC)
I wanted to try one of the first horse games I got for PC, it's technically a very well made game, even if it's not my genre at all and I suck at it, at least it's better than most other horse games as this at least manages to be a professional level game for those interested in this type of thing, it's not just another low quality horse tamagotchi sim where you waste most of your time playing awful minigames like washing the horse, feeding it and literally picking up horse shit, this focuses on obstacle courses and such, the competition and actual sport, so kudos for that at least, it also look rather good with some very nicely detailed horses, environments, special effects and animations, for a 2008 PC game in this specific genre it looks very good indeed.
Night Stalker (PC)
Just running around shooting some bats, robots and the occasional spider in this very competent fan made PC port of the Intellivision classic.
Cat Pöke (PC)
Just having some fun poking cat butts.
Cat Planet (PC)
Just flying around looking for some talkative little kitties.
The Adventures of Captain Comic (PC)
I got farther than I've ever done before, that was cool, I almost feel like there's a chance I could beat the game now, I've had it since I was a kid, it was one of the first PC games I ever played, so it would've been cool to beat this one at least once.
Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed (PlayStation Vita)
Already knew it was gonna look bad seeing as it's a port of the 3DS version rather than a port of the HD console version, sadly, but it's still okay I guess, it could've been amazing had they just had some ACTUAL all-stars to play as, but alas it's the most generic and common ones like Sonic, Tails, Amy and Knuckles, and a bunch of characters you never wanted and for several of them you probably never even heard or or knew where there as you probably played the better characters in the games these ones come from, like the one guy from Crazy Taxi nobody plays as, some secondary character from Jet Grind Radio Future/Jet Set Radio, a couple of monkeys from Samba de Amigo (I think, and yes they get two characters featured from that game, as if one uninteresting monkey you didn't know or want to play as wasn't enough, they gave us two, you know instead of something you'd like to play as becuase that would've been too much fun according to Sega, and we can't have fun in videogames, nope, we have to be disappointed and wishing we were playing a good game instead, that's the modern Sega way for some reason!) and fucking Alex Kidd etc., but almost none of the ones you know and love and would've actually wanted to play as are there, so yeah, thanks Sega for making it obvious why we should never buy your games when they're new and you can still make a profit from a sale, we never will, we promise.
Need for Speed Road Challenge (PC)
Not fully compatible with Windows 7 it seems, so I have to run it in software mode, it looks kinda like a low-end PSX game with an unusually choppy framerate.
V-Rally (PlayStation)
Just joyriding while winning some races.
Sega Rally Championship PC (PC)
Just joyriding for the fun of joyriding.
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Game Purchases - Mars 2018
Mars 8th:
Some second-hand finds today..
PlayStation 2:
Sprint Car Challenge
DVD:
Open Season 2/Boog & Elliot 2
Rugrats in Paris Movie
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
CD:
Napalm Rave
Books:
Nemi Vol. 1
Nemo Vol. 2
Nemi Vol. 4
Nemi Vol. 10
Other:
Emoji Movie Jailbreak plush toy (McDonalds)
frog lady in bikini figurine
Super Mario Bros. bricks (McDonalds)
..and some movies from a movie store.
DVD:
Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You
Milo månvaktaren
Monster High Stora Skalliärrevet
Monster High Tystnad Tagning Vampyraction
Resident Evil Vendetta
Bluray:
Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You
The Lego Batman Movie
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Mars 13th:
Some secondhand finds today.
PC:
Gast (Gast The Greatest Little Ghost © 2001 Idol FX)
CD:
La Isla Mix
DVD:
Klara
Rugrats Go Wild
Monster House
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Season 2
Once upon a time in Mexico
Bluray:
Superhero Movie
Snow White and the woodsman
Lady Vengeance
Lego:
purple Slizer
yellow Slizer
Other:
broidery painting of lady with tentacles capturing a child, purple colors, very pixelart looking
wooden vase with art of a tribe woman on it
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Mars 15th:
Some interesting secondhand finds today; old PC programs!
PC:
eJay Dance 2+
Focus Essential 10000 Photos Vol. 2
Greenstreet Draw 4
GSP Pressworks 2.5
Serif 3DPlus 2
Serif DrawPlus 4
Serif PhotoPlus 6
Serif WebPlus 6
Ulead Cool 360
DVD:
The Kongress
CD:
System Of A Down Toxicity
Other:
König HC-SM10 electric slimming massager
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Mars 20th:
Some interesting secondhand finds today, a couple of obscure PC games and some good classic movies!
PC:
Batman Justice Unbalanced
Dr. Brain Action/Reaction
DVD:
Blackie The Pirate
Desperado (Special Edition)
Not Another Not Another Movie
The Darkling
The Lego Movie (still factory sealed)
Walking With Dinosaurs
Other:
a spanish family figure thing, I like the señorita mom
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Mars 20th:
Some nice second-hand finds today.
PC hardware:
Microsoft IntelliMouse TrackBall
DVD:
Disney's Snow White (1937) (Special Edition, 2x DVD)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Highlander (Collector's Edition)
The Swan Princess a Royal Family Tale (2013)
Tintin Castafiore's Jewels (1991)
War Heroes World War II (3x DVD: The Eagle has Landed (1976), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), The Unknown Soldier (1955))
Books:
Barbie sails to Hawaii (1999)
Other:
a new urn for the remains of my cat that passed away a few years ago
..and some movies from a movie store.
DVD:
Atomic Blonde (2017)
Kill Switch (2016)
Transformers The Last Knights (2017)
Valerian and the City of a thousand Planets (2017)
Bluray:
Wonder Woman (2017)
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Mars 25th:
Ordered some games today, sunday, they should arrive some day during the following week. (they arrived and I went to pick them up on the 28th) I know the Sonic games are all trash but they were having a sale and I've been wanting to get some modern Sonic games to test out and see just how bad exactly for years, and I got the PS2 version of Unleashed just a short while ago so now I have lots of garbage to compare and try out in their full versions, I've already played demos of most of them so I know they're bad, I just don't know to what extent they suck really, it'll be interesting to find out how deep the shit hole that is these games truly goes, also I had to give myself a treat for taking on this arduous task, so I got Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham as well so I'll at least get one good game out of all this relentless suffering I'm about to submit myself to.
PlayStation Vita:
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Xbox 360:
Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (Classics)
Sonic Unleashed (Classics)
Sonic Generations (Classics)
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing with Banjo-Kazooie (Classics)
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (Classics)
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Mars 30th:
Founds some movies in a movie store today.
DVD:
Alien Covenant (2017)
Day of the Dead Bloodline (2017)
Starship Troopers Traitors of Mars (2017)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Some second-hand finds today..
PlayStation 2:
Sprint Car Challenge
DVD:
Open Season 2/Boog & Elliot 2
Rugrats in Paris Movie
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
CD:
Napalm Rave
Books:
Nemi Vol. 1
Nemo Vol. 2
Nemi Vol. 4
Nemi Vol. 10
Other:
Emoji Movie Jailbreak plush toy (McDonalds)
frog lady in bikini figurine
Super Mario Bros. bricks (McDonalds)
..and some movies from a movie store.
DVD:
Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You
Milo månvaktaren
Monster High Stora Skalliärrevet
Monster High Tystnad Tagning Vampyraction
Resident Evil Vendetta
Bluray:
Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You
The Lego Batman Movie
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Mars 13th:
Some secondhand finds today.
PC:
Gast (Gast The Greatest Little Ghost © 2001 Idol FX)
CD:
La Isla Mix
DVD:
Klara
Rugrats Go Wild
Monster House
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Season 2
Once upon a time in Mexico
Bluray:
Superhero Movie
Snow White and the woodsman
Lady Vengeance
Lego:
purple Slizer
yellow Slizer
Other:
broidery painting of lady with tentacles capturing a child, purple colors, very pixelart looking
wooden vase with art of a tribe woman on it
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Mars 15th:
Some interesting secondhand finds today; old PC programs!
PC:
eJay Dance 2+
Focus Essential 10000 Photos Vol. 2
Greenstreet Draw 4
GSP Pressworks 2.5
Serif 3DPlus 2
Serif DrawPlus 4
Serif PhotoPlus 6
Serif WebPlus 6
Ulead Cool 360
DVD:
The Kongress
CD:
System Of A Down Toxicity
Other:
König HC-SM10 electric slimming massager
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Mars 20th:
Some interesting secondhand finds today, a couple of obscure PC games and some good classic movies!
PC:
Batman Justice Unbalanced
Dr. Brain Action/Reaction
DVD:
Blackie The Pirate
Desperado (Special Edition)
Not Another Not Another Movie
The Darkling
The Lego Movie (still factory sealed)
Walking With Dinosaurs
Other:
a spanish family figure thing, I like the señorita mom
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Mars 20th:
Some nice second-hand finds today.
PC hardware:
Microsoft IntelliMouse TrackBall
DVD:
Disney's Snow White (1937) (Special Edition, 2x DVD)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Highlander (Collector's Edition)
The Swan Princess a Royal Family Tale (2013)
Tintin Castafiore's Jewels (1991)
War Heroes World War II (3x DVD: The Eagle has Landed (1976), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), The Unknown Soldier (1955))
Books:
Barbie sails to Hawaii (1999)
Other:
a new urn for the remains of my cat that passed away a few years ago
..and some movies from a movie store.
DVD:
Atomic Blonde (2017)
Kill Switch (2016)
Transformers The Last Knights (2017)
Valerian and the City of a thousand Planets (2017)
Bluray:
Wonder Woman (2017)
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Mars 25th:
Ordered some games today, sunday, they should arrive some day during the following week. (they arrived and I went to pick them up on the 28th) I know the Sonic games are all trash but they were having a sale and I've been wanting to get some modern Sonic games to test out and see just how bad exactly for years, and I got the PS2 version of Unleashed just a short while ago so now I have lots of garbage to compare and try out in their full versions, I've already played demos of most of them so I know they're bad, I just don't know to what extent they suck really, it'll be interesting to find out how deep the shit hole that is these games truly goes, also I had to give myself a treat for taking on this arduous task, so I got Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham as well so I'll at least get one good game out of all this relentless suffering I'm about to submit myself to.
PlayStation Vita:
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Xbox 360:
Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (Classics)
Sonic Unleashed (Classics)
Sonic Generations (Classics)
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing with Banjo-Kazooie (Classics)
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (Classics)
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Mars 30th:
Founds some movies in a movie store today.
DVD:
Alien Covenant (2017)
Day of the Dead Bloodline (2017)
Starship Troopers Traitors of Mars (2017)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Now Playing - Mars 2018
Cyber Sled (PlayStation)
Aironauts (PlayStation)
A 3D jetpack flying action arcade game, you pick a character, do missions in arena style levels, face off against other characters as bosses and gain points to upgrade your character's stats. It's a good fun game, it plays well, looks good with nice dynamic lighting and has good music.
I played it the first time on a PlayStation Magazine demo disc back in 1999 and liked it, but there were other games I was more interested in so it had to wait, sadly it became somewhat rare and hard to find after that and it wasn't until recently that I finally got hold of a copy, now that I own it I'm glad I got it, it's a good game and I really like it, overall it's a very good game, I think it's a PAL exclusive which probably contribute a lot to the game having little to no coverage on for example YouTube or online game forums.
Roswell Conspiracies Aliens, Myths and Legends (PlayStation)
Finally getting on with playing the PlayStation version I got recently, after having enjoyed the Game Boy Color version last year it's nice to play and compare the two.
It's a good game on PSX as well and similar to the Game Boy Color version it has some good but sometimes very dark visuals, okay controls that can be a bit clunky at times making certain actions harder to pull off than they should be and an overall very high challenge with little to no forgiveness while also having parts that are so easy it's almost silly.
A mixed bag but still good overall.
Gast The Greatest Little Ghost (PC)
A game by Idol FX, the same developer that made IMP. Gast is a point and click adventure horror game meant for a younger audience, it's not great but it's not terrible either, some minor design issues with too much darkness and bad camera angles, I haven't played far enough to say much else.
Dr. Brain Action/Reaction (PC)
A first person physics puzzle action game from 1999 running on the Unreal Engine, it's actually pretty fun, I'm enjoying it so far.
Puyo Puyo 2 (played on 3DS as part of the SEGA 3D Classics Collection)
A rather bland puzzle game with some annoying problems, the biggest being it focuses on Vs. gameplay against the AI, which loves you rape you up thre ass constantly unless you get lucky, not a good formula for a puzzle game, sadly, and this game doesn't even do a good job with it, the Net Yaroze game Super Bub on PSX had the same idea but executed it about an infinite times better.
F1 World Championship (1993) (Mega Drive)
Always good to drive a few laps in a great racing game.
Columns (Mega Drive)
Another rather bland puzzle game, but at least it delivers something good, it's sadly too simplistic and shallow to last very long and the gameplay gets boring pretty quickly due to the lack of depth, it's genuinely fun in short bursts though.
Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (Xbox 360)
Finally get to play the full console version of this. After some time with it I can say it's mostly sadly a let down, it's worse than the original Lego Batman, Lego Batman 2 DC Superheroes and even the 3DS/Vita version of itself; Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham, because that version is less convoluted and doesn't have some of the negative aspects of this version.
It's structured similarly to the original Lego Batman, it lacks the free roaming open world gameplay of Lego Batman 2 DC Superheroes, which isn't a negative in itself, but how it does it is worse, instead of having easy to use and navigate hubworlds like the original game did, the hubworlds in Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham on Xbox 360 are full of stuff, all the sidequests and tons of environmental objects to destroy and such, so you spend a lot of time just grinding in the hubworlds for studs (the in-game currency of all modern Lego games), which is slower than in the other games because objects don't work in the same way as they did before, they stay longer on screen before they flash and disappear and while on screen they still count as physically there, hindering you from reaching studs that have landed behind and under them, so you have to wait around for pieces of destroyed objects to disappear before you can collect a lot of studs, the stud amount needed in general to reach the True Hero rank in the story missions are also higher, so there's more grinding for studs in the story missions as well, I myself have failed to reach True Hero in some missions both in the 3DS/Vita version and this console version of the game because of this, I've completed the 3DS/Vita version 100% but I could only do so after having unlocked the stud multiplier powerups you can find in the game, before that it was impossible in several missions to reach True Hero, and sadly the same thing seems to apply to this version.
I's glitchy as well, this is nothing new to the series as they all have glitches of some sorts, but you'd think after so many games using the same basic game engine they could've worked out most of the kinks had they just tried, but no, some of the issues the first game had like glitching through objects and the ground, AI wandering off and killing itself walking off edges into bottomless pits etc. is all still here, nothing has been fixed.
It's also not really that good looking, it's better looking that the first Lego Batman for sure, but Lego batman 2 DC Superheroes looks significantly more impressive and better overall with better use of lighting, better textures, better detail textures, better special effects and more custom animations. It's not a bad looking game, it's just a step down from the previous game for some reason.
The story and characters and also not that good this time around compared to the previous two games, it's genuinely become more of a Lego Justice League game than a Lego Batman game at this point and the lack of focus on what it calls itself is unfortunate, I'd love a Lego Justice League game, don't get me wrong, but I'd want it to be it's own thing, not leeching off of Batman and convoluting his game like this.
They've also remixed and added some other things, like there are almost no vehicles anymore, which sucks as I love vehicles in the Lego games, and the citizens you can find and save on the previous games have ALL been replaced with Adam West, which is kind of cool that the real Adam West is in a Lego batman game, but his implementation is just such a waste, and overused at the same time, very sad, they've also shoehorned in a couple of other completely malplaced c-list celebs, Kevin Smith (from Jay and Silent Bob "fame", if anyone still remembers that old obscure comedy movie, he played the role of Silent Bob, a character that never spoke, so yeah, him doing voice acting in this game is just... beyond words, and not in a good way) and one of the countless Letterman wannabe talk show hosts from the 90s, Conan O'Brien, stands around in all the hubworld areas "jokingly" explaining what every area does, except by doing it "jokingly" he provides no usable info, it's just unfunny jokes that completely fail to be entertaining, and I do my best not to trigger them as personally I can't stand his incredibly annoying voice.
So yeah, sadly it's a significantly lesser game than what the series has offered so far in almost every way, a lot worse in some ways, but sadly it has even more things that are problematic than I've listed above, like it doesn't seem to care about what canon it follows, so you have things taken from newer animated series for example, while also having things that happened in older series being the same canon in this game, all at the same time, some things being more troublesome to shoehorn in than others, for sure, like Batman and Wonder Woman, and Superman and Lois Lane are not couples in this anymore, instead Batman is antisocial/asocial toward everyone, no exceptions, and Superman and for some reason Wonder Woman are trying to be a couple except as a running gag it fails all the time, much like in one of the newest spinoff animated series that focused on comedy more than story and character development, so yeah, a total clusterfuck of Batman related things crammed into a Lego game with already questionable quality as it was.
Still, with all this being said, it's not the worst game I've played, it's just far below what it should've been, especially considering had they just left some things out and taken a similar approach that the 3DS/Vita version did it would've at least been a better game by default as at least the visuals are a little bit better than the portable versions thanks to the more powerful hardware in the Xbox 360.
Aironauts (PlayStation)
A 3D jetpack flying action arcade game, you pick a character, do missions in arena style levels, face off against other characters as bosses and gain points to upgrade your character's stats. It's a good fun game, it plays well, looks good with nice dynamic lighting and has good music.
I played it the first time on a PlayStation Magazine demo disc back in 1999 and liked it, but there were other games I was more interested in so it had to wait, sadly it became somewhat rare and hard to find after that and it wasn't until recently that I finally got hold of a copy, now that I own it I'm glad I got it, it's a good game and I really like it, overall it's a very good game, I think it's a PAL exclusive which probably contribute a lot to the game having little to no coverage on for example YouTube or online game forums.
Roswell Conspiracies Aliens, Myths and Legends (PlayStation)
Finally getting on with playing the PlayStation version I got recently, after having enjoyed the Game Boy Color version last year it's nice to play and compare the two.
It's a good game on PSX as well and similar to the Game Boy Color version it has some good but sometimes very dark visuals, okay controls that can be a bit clunky at times making certain actions harder to pull off than they should be and an overall very high challenge with little to no forgiveness while also having parts that are so easy it's almost silly.
A mixed bag but still good overall.
Gast The Greatest Little Ghost (PC)
A game by Idol FX, the same developer that made IMP. Gast is a point and click adventure horror game meant for a younger audience, it's not great but it's not terrible either, some minor design issues with too much darkness and bad camera angles, I haven't played far enough to say much else.
Dr. Brain Action/Reaction (PC)
A first person physics puzzle action game from 1999 running on the Unreal Engine, it's actually pretty fun, I'm enjoying it so far.
Puyo Puyo 2 (played on 3DS as part of the SEGA 3D Classics Collection)
A rather bland puzzle game with some annoying problems, the biggest being it focuses on Vs. gameplay against the AI, which loves you rape you up thre ass constantly unless you get lucky, not a good formula for a puzzle game, sadly, and this game doesn't even do a good job with it, the Net Yaroze game Super Bub on PSX had the same idea but executed it about an infinite times better.
F1 World Championship (1993) (Mega Drive)
Always good to drive a few laps in a great racing game.
Columns (Mega Drive)
Another rather bland puzzle game, but at least it delivers something good, it's sadly too simplistic and shallow to last very long and the gameplay gets boring pretty quickly due to the lack of depth, it's genuinely fun in short bursts though.
Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (Xbox 360)
Finally get to play the full console version of this. After some time with it I can say it's mostly sadly a let down, it's worse than the original Lego Batman, Lego Batman 2 DC Superheroes and even the 3DS/Vita version of itself; Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham, because that version is less convoluted and doesn't have some of the negative aspects of this version.
It's structured similarly to the original Lego Batman, it lacks the free roaming open world gameplay of Lego Batman 2 DC Superheroes, which isn't a negative in itself, but how it does it is worse, instead of having easy to use and navigate hubworlds like the original game did, the hubworlds in Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham on Xbox 360 are full of stuff, all the sidequests and tons of environmental objects to destroy and such, so you spend a lot of time just grinding in the hubworlds for studs (the in-game currency of all modern Lego games), which is slower than in the other games because objects don't work in the same way as they did before, they stay longer on screen before they flash and disappear and while on screen they still count as physically there, hindering you from reaching studs that have landed behind and under them, so you have to wait around for pieces of destroyed objects to disappear before you can collect a lot of studs, the stud amount needed in general to reach the True Hero rank in the story missions are also higher, so there's more grinding for studs in the story missions as well, I myself have failed to reach True Hero in some missions both in the 3DS/Vita version and this console version of the game because of this, I've completed the 3DS/Vita version 100% but I could only do so after having unlocked the stud multiplier powerups you can find in the game, before that it was impossible in several missions to reach True Hero, and sadly the same thing seems to apply to this version.
I's glitchy as well, this is nothing new to the series as they all have glitches of some sorts, but you'd think after so many games using the same basic game engine they could've worked out most of the kinks had they just tried, but no, some of the issues the first game had like glitching through objects and the ground, AI wandering off and killing itself walking off edges into bottomless pits etc. is all still here, nothing has been fixed.
It's also not really that good looking, it's better looking that the first Lego Batman for sure, but Lego batman 2 DC Superheroes looks significantly more impressive and better overall with better use of lighting, better textures, better detail textures, better special effects and more custom animations. It's not a bad looking game, it's just a step down from the previous game for some reason.
The story and characters and also not that good this time around compared to the previous two games, it's genuinely become more of a Lego Justice League game than a Lego Batman game at this point and the lack of focus on what it calls itself is unfortunate, I'd love a Lego Justice League game, don't get me wrong, but I'd want it to be it's own thing, not leeching off of Batman and convoluting his game like this.
They've also remixed and added some other things, like there are almost no vehicles anymore, which sucks as I love vehicles in the Lego games, and the citizens you can find and save on the previous games have ALL been replaced with Adam West, which is kind of cool that the real Adam West is in a Lego batman game, but his implementation is just such a waste, and overused at the same time, very sad, they've also shoehorned in a couple of other completely malplaced c-list celebs, Kevin Smith (from Jay and Silent Bob "fame", if anyone still remembers that old obscure comedy movie, he played the role of Silent Bob, a character that never spoke, so yeah, him doing voice acting in this game is just... beyond words, and not in a good way) and one of the countless Letterman wannabe talk show hosts from the 90s, Conan O'Brien, stands around in all the hubworld areas "jokingly" explaining what every area does, except by doing it "jokingly" he provides no usable info, it's just unfunny jokes that completely fail to be entertaining, and I do my best not to trigger them as personally I can't stand his incredibly annoying voice.
So yeah, sadly it's a significantly lesser game than what the series has offered so far in almost every way, a lot worse in some ways, but sadly it has even more things that are problematic than I've listed above, like it doesn't seem to care about what canon it follows, so you have things taken from newer animated series for example, while also having things that happened in older series being the same canon in this game, all at the same time, some things being more troublesome to shoehorn in than others, for sure, like Batman and Wonder Woman, and Superman and Lois Lane are not couples in this anymore, instead Batman is antisocial/asocial toward everyone, no exceptions, and Superman and for some reason Wonder Woman are trying to be a couple except as a running gag it fails all the time, much like in one of the newest spinoff animated series that focused on comedy more than story and character development, so yeah, a total clusterfuck of Batman related things crammed into a Lego game with already questionable quality as it was.
Still, with all this being said, it's not the worst game I've played, it's just far below what it should've been, especially considering had they just left some things out and taken a similar approach that the 3DS/Vita version did it would've at least been a better game by default as at least the visuals are a little bit better than the portable versions thanks to the more powerful hardware in the Xbox 360.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Game Purchases - Februari 2018
Februari 7th:
Ordered a new battery for my 3DS, hopefully it'll arrive some day next week.
3DS:
a replacement battery
Februari 11th:
Earned some points for the order I placed back in December (Quake III Arena on Dreamcast etc.) and spent them on another game today, it cost almost exactly the amount as the points I had earned from that other purchase so I got it for virtually nothing, which I can live with.
PlayStation 2:
Unreal Tournament
Februari 13th:
Unreal Tournament for PS2 arrived today and I found some other stuff at a second-hand store.
DVD:
Survival of the Dead
Books:
art books: Egyptian art, Roman art, Rumanian art and Rokoko art
Swedish to English incorrect translation humor book
Bad Girl's Guide humor book
Barbie gets Kidnapped
Comics:
Min Häst
Pokemon
Robot
Smurfs
Barbie as a Model
Diamond
Penny
Spiderman
Classic Tales Homer's Odyssey
Moviestar Planet
Smart
Toys:
2x Daphne Blake from Scooby-Doo McDonalds Happy Meal figures (unopened)
Other:
3x Chinese decorative plates, 1 from 1986 and 2 from 1987
Februari 14th:
the replacement battery for 3DS arrived today
Februari 15th:
some second-hand finds today
PC:
Jurassic Park Operation Genesis (Medallion Best Value edition)
Rayman 3-pack (Rayman, Rayman 2 The Great Escape and Rayman M)
Star Stable Spring Rider
Star Stable Summer Rider
Star Stable Autumn Rider
Star Stable Winter Rider
DVD:
Balto Wolf Quest
Disney Fables Vol. 2
Supa Strikas Season 3 DVD 13
CD:
Ambient Worlds - The Mountain Stream
Muzyka Mistrzów - Smetana - Dusza Czech (1997)
NRJ Dance Hits 5 (1998)
Oriental Nights - From the Mediterranean to the Orient (2003)
Comics:
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo
The Smurfs
Books:
Crazy Funnies
Only as funny as you make yourself
Magazine + Lego:
Mickey Mouse Magazine + Lego Nexo Knights 30378 Shrunken Headquarters
Februari 17th:
some minor second-hand finds today
PlayStation 3:
Skate 2
DVD:
Gladiator Cop
I Am Legend (2-disc special edition)
Hardware:
Xbox One Traptanium Portal
also some gifts from a friend in the form of a Commodore C64C microcomputer and a Commodore Amiga A500 microcomputer with some extra stuff and a whole bunch of diskettes and cassette tapes, sadly neither had video or audio cables
Hardware:
Commodore 64 C64C
+power adapter
+expansion pack
+mouse
+joystick
+cassette tape adapter
+user manual
Commodore Amiga A500
+power adapter
+mouse
and a whole bunch of diskettes and cassette tapes with unknown content
Februari 17th:
some second-hand finds today
PC:
Lemmings 3D
Sonic R (Xplosiv)
DVD:
The Barbie Diaries (Barbie Dagbok)
Barbie in a Mermaid Tale (Barbie i en Sjöjungfrusaga)
The Fairytaler Vol. 12 - H.C. Andersen - The Snow Queen (Sagoberättaren - H.C. Andersen - Snödrottningen)
The Reef 2 (Haja Läget 2)
Comics:
Acke
Min Häst
Kalle Anka
Pettson & Findus
Star Wars The Clone Wars
Vildhästar i Fara
Toys:
Lego Bionicle masks
McDonalds Batman figure (2016)
McDonalds Transformers Optimus Prime with sword (2016)
Transformers Construct Bots - Dinobot Warriors - Autobot Hound & Wide Load Dino (complete in box)
2x robot keychains (Youngtoys 2015)
and a couple of movies from a shop that rents and sells movies
DVD:
Impy's Wonderland (På Äventyr Med Dino)
Monster High - Friday Night Frights + Why do Ghouls Fall in Love (Monster High Dubbeläventyr - Fasansfulla Fredagskvällen + Är Det det Här Monster Kallar Kärlek)
Ordered a new battery for my 3DS, hopefully it'll arrive some day next week.
3DS:
a replacement battery
Februari 11th:
Earned some points for the order I placed back in December (Quake III Arena on Dreamcast etc.) and spent them on another game today, it cost almost exactly the amount as the points I had earned from that other purchase so I got it for virtually nothing, which I can live with.
PlayStation 2:
Unreal Tournament
Februari 13th:
Unreal Tournament for PS2 arrived today and I found some other stuff at a second-hand store.
DVD:
Survival of the Dead
Books:
art books: Egyptian art, Roman art, Rumanian art and Rokoko art
Swedish to English incorrect translation humor book
Bad Girl's Guide humor book
Barbie gets Kidnapped
Comics:
Min Häst
Pokemon
Robot
Smurfs
Barbie as a Model
Diamond
Penny
Spiderman
Classic Tales Homer's Odyssey
Moviestar Planet
Smart
Toys:
2x Daphne Blake from Scooby-Doo McDonalds Happy Meal figures (unopened)
Other:
3x Chinese decorative plates, 1 from 1986 and 2 from 1987
Februari 14th:
the replacement battery for 3DS arrived today
Februari 15th:
some second-hand finds today
PC:
Jurassic Park Operation Genesis (Medallion Best Value edition)
Rayman 3-pack (Rayman, Rayman 2 The Great Escape and Rayman M)
Star Stable Spring Rider
Star Stable Summer Rider
Star Stable Autumn Rider
Star Stable Winter Rider
DVD:
Balto Wolf Quest
Disney Fables Vol. 2
Supa Strikas Season 3 DVD 13
CD:
Ambient Worlds - The Mountain Stream
Muzyka Mistrzów - Smetana - Dusza Czech (1997)
NRJ Dance Hits 5 (1998)
Oriental Nights - From the Mediterranean to the Orient (2003)
Comics:
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo
The Smurfs
Books:
Crazy Funnies
Only as funny as you make yourself
Magazine + Lego:
Mickey Mouse Magazine + Lego Nexo Knights 30378 Shrunken Headquarters
Februari 17th:
some minor second-hand finds today
PlayStation 3:
Skate 2
DVD:
Gladiator Cop
I Am Legend (2-disc special edition)
Hardware:
Xbox One Traptanium Portal
also some gifts from a friend in the form of a Commodore C64C microcomputer and a Commodore Amiga A500 microcomputer with some extra stuff and a whole bunch of diskettes and cassette tapes, sadly neither had video or audio cables
Hardware:
Commodore 64 C64C
+power adapter
+expansion pack
+mouse
+joystick
+cassette tape adapter
+user manual
Commodore Amiga A500
+power adapter
+mouse
and a whole bunch of diskettes and cassette tapes with unknown content
Februari 17th:
some second-hand finds today
PC:
Lemmings 3D
Sonic R (Xplosiv)
DVD:
The Barbie Diaries (Barbie Dagbok)
Barbie in a Mermaid Tale (Barbie i en Sjöjungfrusaga)
The Fairytaler Vol. 12 - H.C. Andersen - The Snow Queen (Sagoberättaren - H.C. Andersen - Snödrottningen)
The Reef 2 (Haja Läget 2)
Comics:
Acke
Min Häst
Kalle Anka
Pettson & Findus
Star Wars The Clone Wars
Vildhästar i Fara
Toys:
Lego Bionicle masks
McDonalds Batman figure (2016)
McDonalds Transformers Optimus Prime with sword (2016)
Transformers Construct Bots - Dinobot Warriors - Autobot Hound & Wide Load Dino (complete in box)
2x robot keychains (Youngtoys 2015)
and a couple of movies from a shop that rents and sells movies
DVD:
Impy's Wonderland (På Äventyr Med Dino)
Monster High - Friday Night Frights + Why do Ghouls Fall in Love (Monster High Dubbeläventyr - Fasansfulla Fredagskvällen + Är Det det Här Monster Kallar Kärlek)
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Now Playing - Februari 2018
Disney's Kim Possible Global Gemini (DS, played on 3DS)
I got as far as I could, the game requires a B grade on all levelös to play the final level and the vehicle levels I all have the lowest grades on and all the matrix like levels I have the second lowest, I despise those levels and I won't be trying to get better grades in them, the game was not good enough to warrant such an arbitrary bullshit requirement to complete the game, I unlocked all the bonus stuff and found all the secrets so there's really only the end of the story left and I didn't give a flying shitsickle about the story in this game so fuck it, I'm done, it had a good game engine with good visuals and good gameplay in the regular levels, the regular levels were huge and had good gameplay design and were enjoyable to play through but the game still lied about being able to play as Rufus, you only get to use him as an item to unlock doors, you have no control over him at all, so yeah, it's an okay game but ultimately very disappointing and it should've been a lot better, the Kim Possible What's the Switch? game I have on PS2 is much better than this game in every way, the best part of this game was the visual quality, it looks very good for a DS title.
Lego Batman The Videogame (PlayStation 2)
Another great version of a great game. No complaints.
You can watch my playthrough on YouTube by clicking HERE.
Lego Batman The Videogame (DS, played on 3DS)
A different game with the same name, it's basically a simplified game made from the ground up specifically for the DS and it does offers unique content the other versions didn't have, it's nowhere near as advanced, varied or complex as the other versions but it's an okay compliment to own if you can find it cheap enough and already own a DS or 3DS.
Lego Batman The Videogame (PlayStation Portable)
Basically the console version, it lacks 2-player co-op and the visuals are a bit lower quality overall and the framerate can be a little choppy at times, but other than those minor things it's the entire full console game on the go, a very impressive port all things considered and the only way to play the full version of the game in a portable manner as the DS version was a different game entirely.
Unreal Tournament (PlayStation 2)
A very good port of the PC game, some content is missing, there aren't as many options to play around with and it can get a little choppy at times, but it definitely satisfies the urge to play some Unreal Tournament.
It's not as good as Unreal Championship or Unreal Championship 2 The Liandri Conflict on Xbox, or Unreal Tournament III on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 for that matter, but it's a good alternative and without an Xbox, an Xbox 360 or a PS3 on offer this is still a great game to have some fun with.
There's also a version for Dreamcast which is fairly similar, it's been too long ago since I played it to remember exact details, but it had some differences in content, with a slightly different set of levels, but overall both are very good with roughly the same pros and cons. I'll keep trying to hunt down a copy of the Dreamcast version as I sadly don't currently own one and would really like to play it again.
Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy (DS, played on 3DS)
Very glitchy and choppy but more advanced than Lego Batman on DS
Lego Star Wars III The Clone Wars (3DS)
A rather good game with some occasional severe framerate issues if you have the 3D effect turned on, sadly.
WORMS (Mega Drive)
Always fun to go a few matches in WORMS. Incoming!
Cyber Sled (PlayStation)
One of the best 1-on-1 arena versus games ever made, featuring sleek futuristic hovertanks and tight arcade style controls, one of my top favorite games of all-time.
4min33secs (PC)
A simple game where you try to be the only one playing for 4 minute and 33 seconds, it's literally just a timer and a connection to an online server that keeps track if anyone else logs on and plays at the same time as you,. if you manage to be the only person wo is connected for 4 minutes and 33 seconds you win, that's it.
Cat Planet (PC)
Haven't played this in a while, it's still fun to fly through once in a while.
Death Illustrated (PC)
A game I haven't played in years, it's based on the Quake or possibly Quake 2 engine and is arena after arena of enemies you have to kill ,it's fast paced, relatively hard and very gothic in the visual style, black and white visuals and a heavy metal soundtrack, it's got some nostalgia despite not being that old, it's just about 15 years old or so.
Base Conflict (PC)
A very old artillery game with some added strategy, you control a base and you can fire missiles and send tanks toward the enemy base, you have to build new ones if you run out, it's very good and it's a nostalgic game for me.
Megatron (PC)
A very old maze shooter with battlemechs, a Vulture and a Mad Cat from the Battletech universe to be specific, I have a lot of nostalgia for this one.
Lemmings 3D (PC)
An awful game, I never liked Lemmings in the first place and in 3D with awful controls and equally awful camera controls it's even worse than it was in 2D, complete shit.
I got as far as I could, the game requires a B grade on all levelös to play the final level and the vehicle levels I all have the lowest grades on and all the matrix like levels I have the second lowest, I despise those levels and I won't be trying to get better grades in them, the game was not good enough to warrant such an arbitrary bullshit requirement to complete the game, I unlocked all the bonus stuff and found all the secrets so there's really only the end of the story left and I didn't give a flying shitsickle about the story in this game so fuck it, I'm done, it had a good game engine with good visuals and good gameplay in the regular levels, the regular levels were huge and had good gameplay design and were enjoyable to play through but the game still lied about being able to play as Rufus, you only get to use him as an item to unlock doors, you have no control over him at all, so yeah, it's an okay game but ultimately very disappointing and it should've been a lot better, the Kim Possible What's the Switch? game I have on PS2 is much better than this game in every way, the best part of this game was the visual quality, it looks very good for a DS title.
Lego Batman The Videogame (PlayStation 2)
Another great version of a great game. No complaints.
You can watch my playthrough on YouTube by clicking HERE.
Lego Batman The Videogame (DS, played on 3DS)
A different game with the same name, it's basically a simplified game made from the ground up specifically for the DS and it does offers unique content the other versions didn't have, it's nowhere near as advanced, varied or complex as the other versions but it's an okay compliment to own if you can find it cheap enough and already own a DS or 3DS.
Lego Batman The Videogame (PlayStation Portable)
Basically the console version, it lacks 2-player co-op and the visuals are a bit lower quality overall and the framerate can be a little choppy at times, but other than those minor things it's the entire full console game on the go, a very impressive port all things considered and the only way to play the full version of the game in a portable manner as the DS version was a different game entirely.
Unreal Tournament (PlayStation 2)
A very good port of the PC game, some content is missing, there aren't as many options to play around with and it can get a little choppy at times, but it definitely satisfies the urge to play some Unreal Tournament.
It's not as good as Unreal Championship or Unreal Championship 2 The Liandri Conflict on Xbox, or Unreal Tournament III on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 for that matter, but it's a good alternative and without an Xbox, an Xbox 360 or a PS3 on offer this is still a great game to have some fun with.
There's also a version for Dreamcast which is fairly similar, it's been too long ago since I played it to remember exact details, but it had some differences in content, with a slightly different set of levels, but overall both are very good with roughly the same pros and cons. I'll keep trying to hunt down a copy of the Dreamcast version as I sadly don't currently own one and would really like to play it again.
Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy (DS, played on 3DS)
Very glitchy and choppy but more advanced than Lego Batman on DS
Lego Star Wars III The Clone Wars (3DS)
A rather good game with some occasional severe framerate issues if you have the 3D effect turned on, sadly.
WORMS (Mega Drive)
Always fun to go a few matches in WORMS. Incoming!
Cyber Sled (PlayStation)
One of the best 1-on-1 arena versus games ever made, featuring sleek futuristic hovertanks and tight arcade style controls, one of my top favorite games of all-time.
4min33secs (PC)
A simple game where you try to be the only one playing for 4 minute and 33 seconds, it's literally just a timer and a connection to an online server that keeps track if anyone else logs on and plays at the same time as you,. if you manage to be the only person wo is connected for 4 minutes and 33 seconds you win, that's it.
Cat Planet (PC)
Haven't played this in a while, it's still fun to fly through once in a while.
Death Illustrated (PC)
A game I haven't played in years, it's based on the Quake or possibly Quake 2 engine and is arena after arena of enemies you have to kill ,it's fast paced, relatively hard and very gothic in the visual style, black and white visuals and a heavy metal soundtrack, it's got some nostalgia despite not being that old, it's just about 15 years old or so.
Base Conflict (PC)
A very old artillery game with some added strategy, you control a base and you can fire missiles and send tanks toward the enemy base, you have to build new ones if you run out, it's very good and it's a nostalgic game for me.
Megatron (PC)
A very old maze shooter with battlemechs, a Vulture and a Mad Cat from the Battletech universe to be specific, I have a lot of nostalgia for this one.
Lemmings 3D (PC)
An awful game, I never liked Lemmings in the first place and in 3D with awful controls and equally awful camera controls it's even worse than it was in 2D, complete shit.
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