Just talk about whatever game you're playin, want to play, want to buy, what you just bought - whatever.

Just a nice, lazy places to spout random crap about games.

I just got the platinum trophy on maybe the second-worst football game I ever played. It's called Super Arcade Soccer 2021, and I got it for about £2 in a PSN sale. Everything about it is shit, but at least it was entertainingly shit. Here's some funny things I found:

• Player stats seem to have a huge effect on shooting accuracy, but not pass or lob accuracy. The best way to score is to use high-powered passes instead of the shoot button.
• There is no point aiming penalties for this reason, the best way is to aim straight ahead and press shoot, the game will decide which direction you're shooting
• Goalkeepers seem to either have lighting-quick responses, or have been lobotomised, when reacting to each individual shot in the game.
• You can often chip it from halfway up the pitch and the GK will watch it bounce past him into the net
• Goalkeepers seem to have a thing that causes other players to fall when they come close. I think this is for when they dive at an attacker's feet and save the ball, but it means you can run up the whole pitch with your GK and opponents will fall over when they try to tackle you
• GKs don't have tackle animations, but it still plays the sfx when you press the button
• Like many football games, there is a radar view at the bottom showing player positions. There are no walls around the pitch, so you can run forever away from play, and watch the radar marker run across the screen. I got my player markers up on the scoreboard at the top of the screen.
• Usually in football games, just like real life, a game is abandoned if too many players are sent off. Not this game. I am currently soft-locked, because I got all 10 outfield players sent off, and when the other team scored, the goalie is taking kick-off, but he has no one to kick it to, so now they're just standing there with time paused.

I like to play Jet De Go nowadays. It's fun to have a civilian airplane game that focuses more on the feeling of flying than on making sure you spend 20 minutes going through checklists before you're allowed to move the plane. The physics are so simplified it can actually be disorienting when you're used to flying games (even Ace Combat), and you don't have to remember too many buttons since most functions are just outsourced to hitting triangle, so it's a fairly simple game. The gameplay of Jet De Go 2 is odd, though: it's basically an arcade game, but a large part of your time playing it is spent flying basically straight and level without doing anything for 100 mile segments because you're in control of the whole flight (unlike the first game which fast forwards automatically until you need to make a course adjustment), so you wind up having quite a busy arcade game during takeoff and landing, followed by 30+ minutes of not doing very much. It's like if Ace Combat made you fly the plane across the map to get to the combat zone before you were allowed to battle. That doesn't bother me personally, but it's an odd design decision to put so much waiting in an arcade title. Maybe you're just supposed to enjoy the super low-resolution satellite photo scenery of Japan passing by - though that doesn't help much if you're doing a long overwater flight to Okinawa...
Anyway, as a bonus the games are a neat time capsule of Japan Airlines in the years that they were released (2000, 2002, and 2005) and the soundtrack is good.

So Touhou EsOD runs at like 3000 fps on my machine and I'm trying to my hardest to beat the game without installing the patch for shits and giggles so far I've made it as far 36% through with pretty abysmal high scores.

im so lonely https://www.twitch.tv/yunzhi9

I just bought Viva Football off ebay but accidentally got the unusable PC version instead of the PS1 one >_<

I’ve been trying to relive my teen years by recreating 9/11 in FSX but I always get the flight path wrong and I can’t go on YouTube anymore to see how to do it

>>217 After I 100%'d GTA San Andreas I used to do 9/11s on the skyscrapers in downtown Los Santos. You could also lead police jets to crash into them

Every platformer should have the ability to backflip.

This game looks really fun! I want it! https://youtu.be/fZRDu2noW-U?t=5622

Is there an English patch for the Serial Experiments Lain PS1 game?

I bought 3 games in the PSN sale yesterday for 10 bucks!

• King Of Fighters '98 (I never played any of these before)
• Cyber Pool (this is a quite addictive pool-based puzzle game. It's fun, but the worst thing about it is how slow it is. Other pool and snooker games I played had a "speed up time" button so you don't have to wait for the balls to settle)
• Two Point Hospital (I always wanted to play Theme Hospital back in the day, so I'm looking forward to trying this)

Two Point Hospital is quite addictive! The diseases are funny ^_^

I just realized you can go into the hospital in GTA IV and shoot the patients.

I wish there was a brothel management game where you can traffic and manage girls and shotas to high paying clients and dispose of troublemakers in dirty creeks

>>225
I doubt you'll find that last part but check these out
https://vndb.org/g3593

I think the wee battery in my PS2 has died, so it can no longer save the date and time. I've been playing some new games I picked up and the save files say 1999

I'm trying to play REmake and I love it but Jill's jiggly boob physics keep distracting me from the horror

I was just thinking about a little game phenomenon I realised I haven't seen for a long time. In old games that let you adjust the screen position, I would often see a screen that says LOADING... and then the screen would shift a few pixels when it loaded my screen adjustment setting 👆👉

been playing alot of higurashi lately. good story, in the middle of chapter 3 at the moment. cant wait to see how the story unfolds in the Answer arcs

>>231 glad you are enjoying it - it's one of my favs. wish I could read it for the first time again

I bought 6 games for less than £20 yesterday!

• In the PSN sale I got Worms (PS1 Emulation) (it was free!) and Worms World Party (£2 or something). I had them both on PS1 but it was fun revisiting them. These emulated version let you rewind time so I was owning the computer with perfect shots :P
• I also got Kandagawa Jet Girls, I watched the anime a while ago. So far it is quite fun, and the menus are nice.
• In CEX I found This Is Football 2003 and Super Bust-A-Move 2 for PS2. Not played them yet. You can find quite interesting stuff sometimes at CEX, but every one I've ever been in has been staffed by the most awkward nerds in the world, I don't know why it's always such a painful experience.
• I got Soul Calibur VI in Cash Converters for £7. I was waiting at the counter for maybe 6 seconds, the girl was tidying stuff away, when her supervisor was like hey! Serve this guy! And she was all apologetic but I really didn't care, she was clearly busy and I'd only just got there. She was looking at it while ringing it up and said hmmm looks pretty cool, looks like Tekken or something! And I said yeah a guy at my work was talking about it the other day, and then it was here, it must be fate or something :) and she was like huhh yeah that seems to be happening a lot recently! Very strange! And she had such a pretty smile, it's burnt into my mind, maybe I'll go back and buy something else!

I spent $10 yesterday for a used copy of Resident Evil Directors Cut edition for the PS1. I found it in a thrift store. Practically a steal. The disk and box aren’t in great condition but it runs fine so far.

>>234 ah how I love that basement music.

>>235
How did they manage to fuck that up? Also they promised an uncensored intro but didn't deliver because of a production error?! Begs the question, of all versions of Resident Evil, which was the best release? My bet's on the DS version because it made the knife usable and added some extra enemies.

>>236
The soundtrack of the director's cut sucked cause the composer was just bad at his job, he also pretended to be deaf to avoid any criticism.
Also
The best version of resident evil is the gamecube remake, the steam remaster would have been the best if they didn't lose the original renders of the backgrounds they had to use the compressed gamecube ones.

I fucking love Ultraman Fighting Evolution 3.

been playing atlyss recently
finally able to play as big booty fur creature (chubby)
(・∀・)

Finished the higurashi question arcs!!! Gonna start playing the answer arcs pretty soon.

Also bought valkyria chronicles a few days ago.
5 bucks well spent, that game is incredible, probably in the top 5 of
The strategy rpgs in all time. Plus the girls are cute in it.

Got addicted to Elona again.
Working my way through the main quest in Custom-GX with a Pianist. Just today, I finally grinded out enough small medals to replace my pet little girl with a catsister.

I'd like to try out the Omake Overhaul mod, but it can't upscale the window like Custom-GX which is annoying, and there's also some kind of locale issue on newer versions of Windows that results in JP text randomly not being displayed. You're even more screwed if you don't know any Japanese, because while someone made a translated version of it back in 2017, all the links for it are long dead.

Funny thing, while looking at Japanese wiki comments I saw people bemoaning that Custom is the most popular mod lineage outside Japan (apparently they feel that the mod creator disrespected Noa), unable to comprehend why it wasn't Omake. Maybe translate it for starters?

I got Juiced 2 on PS2 just because you can get my car in it :3 It's kind fun, only cost me £3

Yesterday I was in CEX and got a PS2 game I'd never heard of, called “Whirl Tour”. Looking at the back cover, it looks like a scooter extreme sports game, but with enemies to hit? I finished Razor Freestyle Scooter back in the day so that's why I was interested. It was £2! I'm about to play it now.

A funny thing about Razor Frestyle Scooter was you could unlock UFC fighter Tito Ortiz as a playable character. I didn't know who that was at the time.

I'm tired of people making new games as if Sonic Adventure 2 Battle doesn't already exist.

Some furry on Youtube did a pistol only run of STALKER: CoS where he absolutely refused to get in their faces to make the most out of his low accuracy, so I didn't feel bad for him when it stopped functioning all together. How the fuck do you struggle on Agroprom? There's ample cover all throughout the map, just let the NPCs cover you sprint to the closest cover low-crawl and go for headshots; don't hide like a faggot in the back and fight at the medium range mercs want you to.
I appreciate how tight the movement in CoS feels for lack of a better word. Just that simple difference in the crouches makes you feel like you're hugging cover for dear life, popping out hoping to get a second's opportunity to move. Little things like that.

Me and my friends were talking about a game but couldn't remember what it was. It's a game like GTA or Driver where you drive around a city, but instead of getting out of the car and running around, you change car by sort of possessing them, like a spectral orb flies to the new car. I'm going to play The Getaway on PS2 for the first time today, I can't think of other possibilities. Can you?

>>247
...Are you sure that wasn't Driver?
Specifically, Driver: San Francisco, the one where Tanner goes into a coma after a car crash and becomes able to possess people.

I don't think I'll ever be mature enough not to laugh a little when I see the title "36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples".

>>248 I only played the first 3 Driver games and it wasn't them, but I never played the San Fransisco one. Looking at it now, it looks like the camera goes up to a bird's-eye view when you leave the car then comes back down to the ground. The one I can picture in my head, when you possess another car it just travels along the road directly to the other car. This Driver one looks fun though, I bid for it on ebay, thanks!

I tried the Getaway but the controls were too bad to really enjoy it. You can't control the camera! So if you run into a building and a guy starts shooting from behind, you have to run in a circle to get the camera to see who's shooting you. It was kinda cool driving around London. The one thing I remembered about this game when it came out was the real-life businesses and vehicles in it, like Royal Mail and Parcel Link vans driving round. I stole a double-decker bus and went on a rampage in first-person view, and felt like I was in the Spice Girls movie.

>>240 did you play the answer arcs??

>>241 I've been trying really hard to avoid starting Elin as I'll revert back to my 2010s self when I was sinking all my free time into playing Elona+

Wow, Driver San Francisco is one of the best games I've ever played! I really enjoyed that!

I've been playing Ridge Racer 7. It came out in 2006 but I'm mesmerised by how beautiful it looks

I'm most of the way through Dark Souls 3. It's pretty fun, and I've had a good time with it, but it does seem to have an awful lot of reliance on "Remember this thing from DS1? Well it's here too!". It's neat the first few times, but I'd rather it had the courage to try its own stuff a little more. I will say the secret areas are really cool, I really enjoyed the spooky evil version of the tutorial area.

I've been playing Soulcalibur VI, it's really fun! But, I've always been a Tekken fan and I struggle with other fighting games. I'm playing through the tutorials and story mode and learning all the techniques and stuff to play properly, but then a couple of my gal pals came round to play and they absolutely pwned me by button mashing!

I can't see the flaws in my own aim anymore, or even how I approach team battles. I watch my demos over the next day and it's just white noise.
How am I too retarded to play Heavy

Tears of the Kingdom is two steps forwards, two steps back.

Hypnospace outlaw
It's a game about old internet
It's pretty damn good

>>258
Oh yeah, the sequel, Dreamsettler, is coming soon btw