Topic: Recent Retro/Misc Gaming Purchases? (Not PS4/PS5)

@JohnnyShoulder @KratosMD yeah you can buy them separately digitally

Bought Vita versions of The Nonary Games and Zero Time Dilemma in the PSN sale. I've wanted to play 999 for an extremely long time (the original DS version was never released in Europe) and more Japanese adventure games and visual novels generally. Plus it never hurts to give the Vita more attention.

It's such a beautiful handheld @RogerRoger. It deserves love!

Got paid so immediately got my head turned by the PS Store like a schmuck. Bought LA Noire, which I haven’t played yet and Dark Souls 2, which I played last year on PC and thought was pretty bad but want to give another chance. Anyway, there’s only 1 boss in the Soulsborne series I haven’t beaten yet and it’s in DS2 so out of stubbornness I’m gonna kill it.

I cant believe how cheap PS3 games are these days so picked up a few today for about £20 in total

@KratosMD yeah I've started collecting retro games again recently and never really thought about last gen stuff. Then when out today I looked at the PS3 games and was shocked at how cheap they are and for some truly outstanding games too. It'll definitely be a more regular occurrence for me now I've seen the prices, even better if you need to replace any cases there's a million copies of FIFA for 50p to choose from

@mookysam Never played the Zero Escape games before? You're in for a good time! ZTD is a bit of a mess (that I enjoyed anyway), but 999 and VLR are incredibly memorable. VLR, IMO, has the best puzzles in the series, and it's significantly meatier than the other two games.

Ordered Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD for Switch yesterday. I know it has a bit of a bad reputation because it's easier than previous entries (and the motion controls of the Wii version were finicky), but I figured the relative easiness of it would make it a perfect jumping on point for a newbie.

@RogerRoger @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Soul Reaver is awesome, the entire Legacy of Kain series is in fact, a real shame we haven't had a new entry in a while

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy REmake looks good now, but it was positively gorgeous back in the day. Probably the most visually appealing game from that generation. Those pre-rendered backdrops made it looks much nicer than it had any right to look.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Get on the Cube!!! I was weaned on Cube games from a very young age and it’s still my favourite console (although nostalgia plays a part ofc). I know it somewhat walks the plank but I made backups of my Cube games since the disks were getting a bit scratched so my Wii is a rectangular Cube now. PS2 has better graphics but Cube had better first party games imo.

@nessisonett The GameCube certainly has a strong claim to being Nintendo's finest home console (sorry SNES, I love you too). Amazing hardware for the time - particularly given the very low price point - with a damn fine library to boot. Obviously it lacks the diversity of the PS2's magnificent software catalogue but it does have Metroid Prime. So yeah, I love the Cube. Unfortunately my brother's ex-wife nicked my launch unit so my Wii now stands in for it.

@nessisonett Gamecube was more powerful than PS2 with the likes of Resident Evil 4 suffering visual downgrades when ported to the PS2

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy it seems strange by today's standards but back then there were constant huge jumps in graphical quality. I still remember the first time seeing the Dreamcast in stores and the gulf between that and the PS1, Saturn and N64 and that's probably the last time a new console has truly wowed me

@KratosMD Careful with Warhammer - it's a rabbit hole!!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy yeah they were

@mookysam i have 2 GameCubes, i love that little system (in case anyone is wondering i have 2 because in the UK the only way to get The Legend of Zelda collection was as a pack in with a console, yes i brought a second one just to get the Zelda collection)

@RogerRoger Vampire mythology is one of my favourites so the very fact that you got to play as a "Creature of the night" was what first drew me to the series and to my pleasant surprise i found a really fun game with a interesting lead and a intriguing lore and world

i just wish Square Enix would do something with the series because the last time we got to play as Kain and Raziel was as bonus skins in Lara Croft and the Temple of Light (fun fact one of the creators of the series was Amy Hennig of Uncharted Fame so that could explain why it's world was so well thought out)

@RogerRoger the main issue is that not long after the release of Defiance the actor who played The Elder God passed away, i think that's what caused the initial pause and then the Square Enix buy out put the nail in it i think, that kind of game didn't appeal to the Japanese market back then which was the market Square was concentrating on back then and while that's changed in the recent years the Legacy of Kain series just seems to be one of those that they own that fell on the back burner which is a shame

@RogerRoger @FullbringIchigo The problem that came with the Legacy of Kain series was basically too many cooks in the kitchen syndrom. after the original developers (Silicone Knights) went bankrupt Crystal Dynamics got the IP. Soul Reaver was an original game concept created by Amy Hennig that at the last minute Crystal Dynamics executives wanted the game as part of the Legacy of Kain universe as a spin off series. Thus the Soul Reaver series was born.

However another team at Crystal Dynamics lead by Glen Schofield (who later would go on to create the Dead Space series as well as find Sledgehammer Games and create several Call of Duty games) wanted to continue the story of Kain thus Blood Oman 2 was born.

To make matters worst after Blood Oman 2 Crystal Dynamics executives thought hey let's combine both games stories into a sort of reboot of the series and combined both teams to make Defiance. However due to low sales of Defiance and with Hennig leaving for Naughty Dog and Schofield leaving for EA Visceral Crystal Dynamics decided to end the franchise.

Crystal Dynamics have teased numerous times on different occasions on bringing back the series but nothing has become of it and since they are owned by Square, Square probably doesn't see it as a huge success. Although if they went the Tomb Raider route I feel it can be successful especially with how big vampires are nowadays.

@Genrou i actually really like Defiance, yeah it was less a puzzle solving exporathon and more Devil May Cry but it was still a decent game

@FullbringIchigo I never played that one. I played the hell out of the first Legacy of Kain: Blood Oman as it was one of the first PS one games my friend got with his new PS system. Played a bit of Soul Reaver as well but always liked Kain more.