Did you see that Bio Stage (4, I think) with all the green goo and eyeballs and shit? That was INSANE. I don’t see how anyone can get through it w/o options or bits. :wow:
SNK bosses > Capcom bosses ANY day of the week. Rugal 95’ is still one of the hardest to beat (if you don’t use patterns or tricks).
The hardest Capcom boss ever is Magneto in X-Men: COTA.
Good shit. Thanks. :tup:
Hey can anyone let me know if Chronicals of Riddick on xbox is good? i got hooked up with a new copy of it for 25$, should i keep it or get something else?
Katamari Damacy
Monster Hunter
I’m stuck on Donkey Kong Country I finally passed the 2nd world since I was stuck on the mie cart stage.
Nostalgia time for me. Games I’m currently playing:
King of Dragons
Knights of the Round
Death & Return of Superman
Well as someone onace said “Over confidence is the greatest enemy.” Right now I’m taking a break in the middle of my Gradius V session, drinking some coffee with cream and sugar. I’ve been getting schooled in the early levels of the game on very easy, which hasn’t happend to me since I started playing the game. I just can’t believe it. I even died two or three times on that blasted spider boss. I feel like my ego has been bruised.
On F-Zero GP Legend I beat Jack Levin’s Story mode yesterday and I started on Zoda’s story. I almsot had level 4 of Zoda’s story beaten but I botched it up, TWICE!! You have to kill all 4 cars in a race before it ends. Two times I’ve had all the machines offed and then I get blown up by the mines on the track. :lame:
Yes, Chrons of Ridd is very good. Very movie-like, fun to play, and VERY good graphics. $25 is a STEAL for this game.
Go for it.
…I already know the answer is no, but Zoda wouldn’t happen to be StarTropics related would he? That would be badassacola. 
Viewtiful Joe.
Bullshit. I had the whole stage 4 DONE just awhile ago with all Rainbow Vs. I get to Gran Bruce, and beat him…didn’t get hit once…but he just died too fast…and I got an “A” for Vpoints! I was ready to punch thru the tv screen.
The part with the electric things, fish, black things AND Bianco Billys is fuckin HARD as hell. Sometimes I just get hit by NOTHING…I could be standing there, and no Billy has fired, nor is there any fish or electricity…and the game sometimes just DECIDES I got hit. For the first time…I sense real cheating from Viewtiful Joe! Ukemi potentially solves getting hit of course…but it’s really difficult to do considering the 4th stage practically becomes pitch black when you use Slow+Zoom to attempt a Ukemi. Plus, that part of the stage is a hill, which also throws judgement off on where exactly you’ll hit the ground.
heh, I never did resume my adventures in Adult mode with Alastor. That shit may even be more difficult than the damn Rainbow V Challenge. Alastor has serious problems with the whole Fire Leo fight. You’re at a huge disadvantage right off the bat simply because of how Alastor is. Yes, I actually have more faith in beating Rainbow V Challenge than beating Adult mode with Alastor.
awesome, i get 3 days off so looks like ima open this baby up and give it a whirl. :karate:
This whole weekend was the best weekend of gaming all this year. I just walked in the house from a convention called MAGFest (Mid Atlantic Gaming Festival), in Williamsburg, where tourism is a natural resource in Virginia. People brought in their games and just played to their heart’s desire for 3 straight days. Empire Arcadia, including TFGM, Justin Wong, Xecutioner was there as well. Here’s all what I played:
>Ninja Gaiden (NES)
>DDR Extreme (DDR that uses Eye Toy, it was funny as hell as me and 4 other guys were trying to prevent the ball from going off the screen and we could actually see ourselves.
>Gradius V
>3rd Strike
>GGXX #Reload
>Played Hyper SF2 with John “Flash” Gordon. He handed me my ass with Turbo Edition Ryu. He kept it old school though. Had the music set on CPS1, and used Turbo Edition characters.
>Tetris Attack (Import Gamecube)
>Magical Drop 2 (Neo Geo, via XBox)
>Amplitude (couldn’t get more involved in the game cuz there was a rotation of people)
>beat Rockman and Forte (Rockman’s game) in front of 5 people
>beat “Master of Weapon” on Mega Drive/Sega Genesis JP. If you’re not Japanese and easily get pissed off at shooters where too much enemies and gunfire engulf the screen and come at you too fast, might wanna stay away from Master of Weapon. If you thought Ikaruga was tough, wait til you try this. It’s insanely hard even on easy mode!
>Three Gradius fans rallied around me when they saw I had a real copy of Famicom Gradius 2. We were playing it non-stop. And they even invited me to stay in their hotel room for nothing, so I guess having Gradius 2 was a status stunt.
has anyone seen these in their shopping malls yet? I copped one of those legit Hong Kong bootleg systems with dozens of NES games built into them. One looks like a Nintendo 64 controller, the other controller looks like Capcom’s old PC Fighter 6 for computers, and a zapper which really looks like a ordinary handgun. The best parts about it is that it’s also a Famicom system, it’s got the cartridge pins, and it’s also uses batteries aside AC adapters so you can play on a mobile screen.
EDIT: I finally bought Megaman X: Command Mission. But I was really about to knock the fuck out of the bastard behind the counter at EB. This is the second time those bastards did this shit. He gave me the case that was on fuckin’ display instead of giving me a shrinkwrapped case. I told him I want a new copy. He insisted that it was new, but because people were in line behind me (the mall was closing at the time and people were making their last minute purchases), I let him slide with it and didnt want to risk making a fool of myself telling him off.
Glad you had fun at MAGfest. You seemed pretty stoked to do it.
You let that EB guy off easy, though. New shrinkwrapped copy, or no sale.
Also, I just got done playing over 3 hours of X-Men Legends. That game sucks me in every time. I say I’m going to shut it off and stop playing, but I kept going. Finally did about 10 minutes ago.
If Gen2000 doesn’t see this I’ll just send a PM…but damn what the hell is this shit?!
Viewtiful Fuckin Joe —okay, it’s actually “Episode 3” I’m on in my Rainbow V-Challenge. I just went thru the 2nd half with all Vs…I beat Gran Bruce = Rainbow V rank, so naturally I jumped up feeling all good about myself. Results screen = rv, V, rv, rv, rv, etc. <<<where the FUCK is that regular V coming from?! The game is just BLATANTLY FUCKING CHEATING at this point. Each segment was played just about perfect enough to warrant a rainbow V. Each damn time I was graded, I got Rainbow Fuckin V. And then the results screen just magically creates a REGULAR V to throw my shit off! What the hell is this crap?!
This is twice now…the first time I just chalked it up to bad short-term memory…I assumed I messed up for real on the 2nd segment, and just kept going to “practice” on the rest of the board and the Gran Bruce fight…and then it happens again in the same 2nd segment. If this is how the shit is going to be, I’ll just continue the rest of the challenge and then CHEAT my fucking Super Blue with an AR later on, as there is no way to win when a game simply DECIDES on a goddamn results screen you lose when you really didn’t.
Wow, Famicom, it sounds like you had an awesome time at that game festival. I wish stuff like that went on here in Ohio. And you actually have a Famicom copy of Gradius 2? I wondered why we never got that game. They need to release that sucker over here on a compilation disc or something. Speaking of Gradius, I finally got to play Gradius V with my father and my brother-in-law. We were all in my room just passing around the controller. Playing a 2 player game means less power-ups (if you’re nice about it, i.e., sharing) but playing with someone else covering your back is soooooo much fun. We even used the Konami code to power up our ships. I’m up to over 7 hours of gameplay and 9 continues.
I played some SFIII:3rd Strike today. First time I’ve played in weeks. I play Vs. against CPU Q. I’m Dudley and Q totally owns me. I can’t believe how bad I got schooled. :wow:
EDIT: ^Man, Million, you actually do all that stuff in VJ? Dude, I honestly don’t think I could handle it. My head would probably explode if I even attepted that stuff. :wow:
Some other memorable MAGFest moments came to mind.
>The Minibosses concert was awesome
>Cindy Morgan, one of the actresses in Caddyshack was there
>The Gradius fans that I stayed in the hotel room with, they introduced me to a couple other people who happens to be fans of Rygar for NES, they carry the cartridge with them all the time, and at any given moment, even when unorthodox, the man holds the cartridge up and we’re all chanting “RYGAR! RYGAR! RYGAR! RYGAR!” :lol: :lol:
>While watching people play DDR, we did something similiar to the Genei Jin reaction. Whenever a DDR scrub plays the beginner difficulty or a slow song on light difficulty, we’re all shouting the direction arrows in unison.
>Someone had some special DDR on his PC where playlists can be custom made, and the song “Ass & Titties” was in the lineup. Someone selected that song and was dancing on lightning fast arrows, I was on the floor laughing to fucking tears! The background was a picture of Vida Guerra!
Ah the power of cons. Not only you go to support your favorite stuff, but you also get to free your mind and … act stupid.
*disregard the previous ranting…I found out what was wrong.
Reggie --RV Challenge is not as rediculous as I thought it would be…I said it before…it’s mostly just a matter of getting as many V-points as quickly as possible.
heh, I just realized…on that last play-through…I did 4 Ukemis in that room with the electro things and Bianco Billys…haha…that was tight. I still can’t Ukemi if Gran Bruce throws me to the right from the left-most side of the room though…cuz Joe(*Blue in this case) hits that platform, and I have no idea on the Ukemi-timing there. I should be getting this stuff on tape to enjoy later. (*I still have old footage of my Survivals in Tekken 3, Soul Calibur, the final battle with Dark Falz in Dreamcast PSO, the endings of Twisted Metal 2, etc.)
Glad to hear you found out what the problem was.
As for this quote:
Are you getting the red VFX bottle during those tasks in Episode 3-2? You should basically have unlimited VFX most of the stage which means you can hold down Slow most of the time during the tasks. You get the first red bottle at the end of task 1 and more at the beginning of the other tasks leading up to Joker. It’s not any harder with Alastor than any other character, one of times where that statement is actually true.
“The server is too busy at the moment. Please Try again later.” Man, that has got be one of the most annoying things ever.
Anyway, I made it to stage 7-3 on Gradius V. Even om Very Easy it is SUPER HARD!!! There were like 40 enemies on the screen at once!!! If you don’t have some Multiples and Lasers, you’re dead. DEAD!!! Yesterday I started using the Konami Code. Forget trying to beat it the right way. I was getting hammered and I didn’t care about honor and all that other crap. They even brought back some of the speed parts of level 7 on Gradius III. I lost my last ship fighting some boss which I had to chase through the level. Stuff was blowing up and he was shooting lasers at me like mad. I had ONE more core to go but I got killed!!! :tdown:
Went back and fought the final boss of Spirit Engine again. It’s still a great game.