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At 5/24/12 04:59 PM, Dean wrote: Thanks man. Yea, if I do find anything cool there probably will be a video. Sort of hoping that I do get lucky and find some decent stuff, otherwise it really is going to be a while before I can start buying stuff at eBay prices again. I'll probably try to keep my eye out at the car boot sale for stuff that I might be able to make profit on if I were to resell it. Kind of an assholeish thing to do, but ever since I got back into collecting I've spent way more than I ever anticipated so if I can make a quick buck via eBay without selling parts of my collection, I'm all for it.

I completely understand, I haven't been able to buy a game in months due to lack of money. It sucks, but it also forces me to give some games that I've passed over the attention they deserve, so I guess it's not all that bad.

But yea, nice to hear you're enjoying my videos. Makes them seem more worthwhile. I had a small burst of subscribers and I'm up to 18 now which is pretty cool.

That's good to hear, man. Keep up the good work.

At 5/24/12 08:05 AM, Sense-Offender wrote: Have you played Shinobi 3? I used to play that over and over (I never beat it then) when I was like 4 years old. I've beaten it since then. Luckily, it's on the Sega Genesis Collection for PS2.

Honestly, I think the controls are much smoother than in Revenge of Shinobi. I just didn't care much for that game back in the day. Maybe I'd think differently now.

Also, Shinobi for PS2 was freaking infuriating.

Yep, played and completed. It's technically better than Revenge (you can run, wall jump, sub bosses etc) but I don't care. Where else can you see Rambo, The Terminator, Batman, Spiderman and Godzilla in the same game?

At 5/26/12 05:38 AM, Dean wrote:

So they charged me Ã'£2.50 when the stamp itself has Ã'£1.10 on it and the packaging consists of some kind of plastic bag. No form of padding. Given how easily PS1 cases crack, that's pretty bad

That is pretty bad dude, I have PS1 games myself, most barely work because there was almost no lids on any of them when i first got them.

At 5/27/12 06:49 AM, Dean wrote: Also the cart boot sale was a success. Spotted a guy selling some Sega Saturn games which caught my attention and then when I got talking I noticed he had loads of Sega stuff. Turns out he's actually a Sega collector selling off some of his doubles. I picked up a model 1 MegaDrive from him with 12 (well, technically 14) games 10 of which were boxed. Came with all the cables and he even gave me two controllers. All that for Ã'£18 which is a pretty sweet deal. I'd have had to pay a fair bit more than that if I were to buy it from eBay.

Awesome, nice to hear that most of those games were boxed. I love the packaging on those games, it's just perfect. I have all of my boxed Genesis games (excluding doubles, of course) sitting proudly on a shelf in my room.

Can't wait to see what you picked up in more detail.

For the past week I have continued to play Terraria; at the 400 hour mark now. Going through the original Deus Ex again on realistic. And I have been playing some of SCP: Containment Breach; which if any of you'se watch PEWDIEPIE on Youtube, will know exactly what game I am on about.

At 5/31/12 09:59 AM, Dean wrote: Was Metroid Prime like this for everyone, or do I just suck at it? Like I say, I literally have no clue what my objectives are or what I'm meant to be doing.

Yeah, that's kind of what the series is famous for. You get dropped off on a strange alien planet with a vague idea of your mission and you've got to find out where to go. The first Prime is easier to get lost in than the next two games in that trilogy, and I do recall going around in circles at points and being confused as to where to go next, but I don't recall reaching for a walk through. It's like they were so busy making sure the game play felt like Metroid in a first person perspective that they didn't quite get the level design right where you feel lost, but you're always being pushed on the right track without even knowing it.

I kind of liked it anyways, but of course, I beat Metroid on NES where you have to draw your own map if you hope to beat it.

Prime definitely deserves its chance. I could have dropped the game after reaching Tallon IV but I knew there was more to the game so I had to progress. Prime 2 is my personal favourite for the Metroid series but I still love the first Prime game a lot. Despite thinking these two games are quite possibly the best Nintendo has ever made, I've yet to go through Metroid Prime 3 and I got that game back in 2007.

At 5/31/12 04:02 PM, Dean wrote: Things like having to look at the back of the game case to get someone's radio frequency and the boss battle where I had to change controller ports so that he couldn't read my mind. I had no idea there was a PS1 game this creative.

Yeah, the first MGS was really unique and innovative with that kind of stuff. Unfortunately, you won't see much more of that in the later games up until MGS4, which is a bit of a shame. They're all really great games though, glad to hear you're enjoying the series so far.

At 5/31/12 04:02 PM, Dean wrote: Well, I'll definitely give Metroid Prime another chance at some point. Right now I was just after something more linear and straight forward though so I've gone with Metal Gear Solid for now.

Understood. That does give me a note to give Soul Reaver another chance. Wanted to play that game for years but when I picked it up, I was like "Eh." Maybe the combat system hasn't aged that well so I'm not quite adapting to it.

At 5/31/12 09:59 AM, Dean wrote: Was Metroid Prime like this for everyone, or do I just suck at it? Like I say, I literally have no clue what my objectives are or what I'm meant to be doing.

It was like that for me in the beginning (well with Echoes actually, because I played that one first), but here's a protip:
Always keep an eye on your map. See what doors you haven't been through yet and see if they're accessible for you now. This is your best indication on where you need to go to next. Also, the game itself will give hints quite often on what chamber you need to reach.

Anyway, give the game another chance. In the beginning it's a bit confusing, but you'll get better at the game.

At 5/31/12 01:30 PM, Bahamut wrote: Prime definitely deserves its chance. I could have dropped the game after reaching Tallon IV but I knew there was more to the game so I had to progress. Prime 2 is my personal favourite for the Metroid series but I still love the first Prime game a lot. Despite thinking these two games are quite possibly the best Nintendo has ever made, I've yet to go through Metroid Prime 3 and I got that game back in 2007.

I got the Prime trilogy a while back (for a sixth of the price used) and I finally beat Prime for the first time. The story for Echoes is better than Prime, but I like the game play more. I've always hated dark worlds, and it seemed just like a way to make less areas in Echoes. Also, I hate the fact that you need ammo for the L/D guns, I never use them because I feel like I'll run out.

I did get Corruption back in 2009, but couldn't beat a part and gave up. I got to the point before the final area now, and I can definitely say Corruption has the best story, powers, and whatnot, but the load times a terrible. 1 and 2 never gave me any trouble when I wanted to run away from a fight, but in Corruption, I'd wait sometimes 30 seconds for a door to open, costing me health.

So I have put a stop to trying to defeat all the hardmode bosses in Terraria at the moment.
Instead I am playing Afraid of Monsters, which is a half life 1 mod. It is one of the scariest games I have played as of late.
Besides that, I just recently finished off Nightmare House 2, which is a mod for Half Life 2: Episode 2, and that was shit scary as well.
And I am still going at finishing off Deus Ex on Realistic again.

God I love the original Deus Ex, I wish more modern games would look back to Deus Ex, this game did almost everything perfect.

E3 bombed this year so you were lucky to have missed out on it. Doesn't look like Nintendo are going to try hard with the WiiU or 3DS at this point.

Snoop Dogg is in Tekken Tag 2...

What. The. Hell...

In other news it's a great time to be a Plus member, yesterdays update was RIDICULOUS.

And no Kevin Butler either, but at least The Last Of Us and AC3 look awesome.

Well, that's just taken the sheen of an otherwise promising looking weekend I've got in and found that I've been banned from Lord of the Rings Online until the year 2039.

Rest assured, it's only because my account has been otherwise compromised (hacked)

I have raised a ticket and am awaiting an answer... expecting one about Wednesday... I've changed my password and still can't even access the forums...

So I decided to try out that Backloggery site.

Pretty nifty, if you ask me. It'll be useful to keep track of my (fairly humble) collection of games in the future.

At 6/8/12 09:26 PM, Dean wrote: Funny you should bring that up. I'm in the process of writing a piece of software that is kind of similar to Backloggery only it runs offline. It's more intended for collectors, seeing as it gives you the option to list whether you have the game, manual and box as well as whether or not you've completed the game. It was intended for my use only, but if it turns out to be any good I'll possibly make it publicly available. Written in Java so it should be simple enough to run.

Ah, that's really cool. I was pretty disappointed when I realized there was no section to see if the games on my list were boxed or not, it was actually one of the main reasons that I wanted to use something like Backloggery. I may keep searching around for something better to use, one that fits my needs a bit better.

Well, good luck with your project; let me know how it turns out.

At 6/7/12 12:50 PM, Bahamut wrote: E3 bombed this year so you were lucky to have missed out on it. Doesn't look like Nintendo are going to try hard with the WiiU or 3DS at this point.

WiiU looks like Wii all over again complete with an Ubisoft game that's presented in a sneaky way that makes it look like the kind of quality exclusive third-party content that a Nintendo console sorely needs, but I can guarantee it's going to depress anyone who's excited for it. There were way too many games on show that are going to be year-old ports by the time they launch with the console which makes it feel more like a late entry console in this generation rather than being a next gen console.

Not to knock Nintendo completely. It looks like a solid system. They're just doing a really shitty job of building excitement for it. The days of name recognition alone being all a Nintendo console needed are over.

Sony and Microsoft were pretty boring too, but this late in the generation that's to be expected. There aren't many rabbits they can pull out of their hats anymore with.

I hate it when I go trophy hunting for one game and only realise at the very end that there are higher difficulty completion trophies. For something like Just Cause 2, you'd think they'd let go with such trophies due to the time consuming tasks just to get 75%. Nevermind, the game was still a lot of fun, even though the agency campaign goes through extremely fast once you've done everything else. Next game I'm covering on the PS3 is SSX and as a fan of the sixth generation games, I'm having fun with this game but on the other hand, damn those bottomless pits! They wouldn't be so bad if there was respawning in this game and that's one thing this game needed.