Metal Reviews

I want to pick up Conker's Bad Fur Day for the N64 in a couple months. But I'm trying to decide between that and its remake Conker: Live And ReLoaded for the X-Box. The original Bad Fur Day is supposedly better, and I heard Live and ReLoaded has some bugs/glitches when running it on the X-Box 360. But is all this necessarily true?

I'm officially a geek. Downloaded a SNES emulator and Mario All-Stars the other day and have been playing Mario Bros 3 ever since. It's an annoying bastard of a game, but is so addictive. Emboldened by my success there, also grabbed an N64 one and Goldeneye, which I thought was ridiculously easy until I realised I kept putting it on the Easy setting. Duh, that's what happens when you don't play games for a couple of years then start again.

N64heads: Quake 2 or Quake 64? And are there any other recc's for games to check out (apart from Ocarina Of Time and Mariokart 64) that I missed last time because my parents wouldn't get me a console?

Super Mario 64 is absolutely amazing, but it probably sucks on an emulator. i can't imagine playing that on a keyboard.

Excitebike 64 is a fun little motocross game.

Personally, I'd go with the PC versions of those two games. Though, unless you have a computer with an operating system older than Windows XP (and an old video card - many games from the late-90's are not compatible with more recent cards), your chances of being able to run them may be fairly slim. So, in that case, Quake 2 for N64 is probably the better of the two games.

Anyway, as Azrael pointed out, Excitebike 64's a very good game. But I also recommend Perfect Dark, Conker's Bad Fur Day, The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask (play Ocarina of Time first, though), the Banjo-Kazooie series, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Star Wars Episode 1: Battle For Naboo, Turok 2, 1080 Snowboarding. Fuck, there were a lot of great games on the N64. Much more than a lot of people give it credit for.

You could probably find an actual system on Ebay or Half.com for about $30. I'd suggest buying one since a lot of N64 games really don't play very well on a keyboard.

Yes, I loved Q2 but I doubt my system would play the PC version... As for buying one, it's a possibility, but this is just for fun. It's amazing how easily available the ROMs for the games are, though.

Hard to believe it was already more than ten years ago that Quake 2 was the hottest piece of technology in all of gaming.

Speaking of games like Doom and Quake, even eleven years after being published, this is still one of the funniest video game ads ever:

Hahahaha that's capital !!!

Okay I need your help!

can tell me any good games to play in LAN with my brother.

P.S. Don't say Counter-Strike I hate that game

So, N64 updates:

Mario 64 - Awesome, if frustrating at times. Got 7 stars so far...
Doom 64 - Woo, forgot how good Doom was. Shotgun!
Goldeneye - Stuck on the level with all the statues, where the heck are you supposed to go?

Waiting to play Paper Mario, Ocarina Of Time, and Perfect Dark. Might try and get through Goldeneye before I go for PD, since it's the same engine.

Incidentally, I hear tales of a PS emulator. I hope not, for I will never get any work done ever again... the Final Fantasies, Parasite Eve 2, Syphon Filter, Tenchu... etc

Yeah, theres a bunch out there. Some are a little dodgy with some games though, i had to download a couple of different ones to get all the games running.

They're pretty big files too.

I'm still planning to one day seek out a dreamcast emulator

My friend is all about the emulators. He has an emulator for pretty much any sytem that ever came out.

N64
PS1
GameBoy
GameBoy Colour
GBA
SNES
NES
Sega Genesis
etc.
etc..
etc...

I think it's sad.

Actually, if you still have Doom 2, you should download the Doom 64 Total Conversion for it. It's an enhanced version of Doom 64.

Since i am in a retro mood lately, i decided to break out the first Alundra game and FFVIII. What do y'all think about these games? Alundra is so fucking good, Alundra 2 however is not...i wish they would have stuck to the 2D graphics, the 3D graphics on PS pretty much looks like shit 9/10 times.

I love the Alundra series, even 2 (which did have shitty graphics, but was fun). I remember 1 was insanely hard on the puzzles at times. Then again it was like 8 years ago I last played it. FFVIII however is a huge piece of ass and the worst rpg Ive ever played.

I so want to play Alundra sometime. I remember sporadically hearing about it a couple times, but I didn't take an interest until I read your post and, consequentially, read reviews for the game. Particularly, being a fan of Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete (which is also by Working Designs), I'd like to pick up the original Alundra sometime soon.

Question: I've heard you only play as one character throughout the entire game. Is this true? If so, is it still a turn-based RPG or is it more an action-RPG like Zelda?

Both Alundra games play like an action-rpg Zelda type. The 2nd one also has some really fun sidescrolling sections in the dungeons. I would love to get my hands on actual copies of those games.. I almost had the first one at a rental store but when I went back to buy it (It was up for rent not for sale at the time) they had sold off all of their ps1 games to make room for newer systems. I was pissed.

PS- Lunar is also great.

w00t.. only 7 days to GTA IV... can't wait to kill some ppl in it .. killing ppl is great fun... it is the best thing ever!!!




if you're interested you can read a review here (scanned from a magazine):

http://cid-3085454822782b0d.skydrive.li ... spx/Public

I'm getting the 360 version because...well...achivements dude..i admit it, i'm a total achivement whore but also for the exclusive DLC that the 360 version is getting

I'm about 23 hours into Suikoden 5 and it is really a return to the first 2 classic games in the series.

Also started Super Mario Sunshine today. My gf bought a gamecube for 30 bucks the other day and so far we have collected: Super Monkey Ball, Super Smash Bros: Melee, Zelda: The Wind Waker, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, and Mario Sunshine.

Not a big fan of games like Monkey Ball and Smash Brothers, I find the funness level lasts for like 20 minutes when I play em and then I need to move on. Paper Mario and Mario Sunshine are amazing so far though, despite Mario Sunshine's horrendous camera that has actually given me a headache just now. And I have yet to play the Zelda game, though I did play a demo version of it back when it came out and I remember not being very impressed, but I think I will give it a chance anyhow, cant really tell the total quality of a game from a demo.

Mario Sunshine is fun but ultimately very annoying and dissapointing. I always beat all Mario games 100% but this one I just finished the main story (which is about 50%) and quit there. Smash Bros Melee single player isn't all that great (basically, just use it to get all characters and stages) but its drunken multiplayer can't be beat. As for Wind Waker... I'm not too sure if its the best zelda game to start with. Its a good game, but by far the weakest of the 3D Zeldas- the sailing will get very annoying after a few hours, its way too easy, and has pretty bad dungeon design (plus a horrid fetch quest at the end). Even if you don't like it, give Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask or Twilight Princess a try.