karokoenig Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Baldur's Gate 548 I am now in chapter 5 (of 7). You are proceeding fast in this game. Sure, there's some considerable playtime accumulated already, but I would have been no further than chapter 3 or so at that point. However, I tended to lose myself exploring EVERY map, even on overland travel, and doing every stupid sidequest. I think I sank way over 300 hours into playing through this game back in the days. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 cvga: I believe NES M.U.L.E is too pretty and thus not as fun. There might be gameplay differences too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 The first half of Syphon Filter was pretty reasonable difficulty wise (aside from the boss with the flamethrower, who took a ridiculous number of hits to take down) but later in the game when most of the enemies start wearing flak jackets was when the frustration really set in for us. The enemies' body armor is way more durable than your own, so while you will die from 2 close range shotgun blasts it takes like 5 or 6 of them to kill an enemy; and since they start swarming you 2 or 3 at a time through the last half of the game that leaves headshots as your only option for dealing with them. That was the really frustrating part. Having 2 or 3 enemies constantly rushing into the rooms and swarming you, and your only practical option for taking them out is to use L1 to zoom into the first-person targeting mode and try to shoot them all in the head before they kill you. It might have not been so bad if I had used a Dual Shock Analog Controller and had analog input for the targeting, but using the sluggish and imprecise digital control of the D-pad (or arcade stick in my wife's case) for the job was really difficult sometimes. There were many occasions that we had to try the same parts over and over again two dozen times or more until we eventually got lucky and made it to the next checkpoint. Still, in spite of the targeting troubles and difficulty complaints Syphon Filter was a pretty awesome game. The story and voice acting were way more elaborate and well done than you'd generally expect from an original PlayStation game. Since it was released only 5 months after Konami's phenomenally successful Metal Gear Solid it seems pretty clear that Syphon Filter was Sony's attempt to get their own development studio 989 in on the stealth military action and claim a piece of the pie for themselves, and the result was a pretty darn good game that was a lot more grounded in reality and akin to a Tom Clancy novel than Konami's offering. I'll definitely be looking forward to playing Syphon Filter 2 at some point to see where the story goes, and hoping that they managed to tighten up the digital controls or tone down the difficulty a little for the sequel. It has been a long time, but now that you mention it, I do seem to remember having to use the sniper rifle in some silly situations. That could have just as well been some other game (or multiple games) back then. Or maybe I figured out some genius way to kill those guys . . . I guess we'll never know. It does sound frustrating though. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted February 22, 2017 Author Share Posted February 22, 2017 Times coming tomorrow (Wednesday)! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Hey tracking team, I just wanted to mention that an ineligible game I played A LOT of last year is now on sale in the Xbox (One) store. Hand of Fate is now only $6.60. Could be cheaper on Steam maybe. I really liked it and it does have a sort of retro/card game feel to it. Check it out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 I need an Xbox emulator for my Amiga before I can download the game. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted February 23, 2017 Author Share Posted February 23, 2017 Here's the summary for Week 7, running from February 13 - 19. We logged 8,665 minutes of eligible play, playing 71 games on a total of 17 systems. Top 10: 1. Lawnmower Man, The (SNES) - 2500 2. Syphon Filter (PlayStation) - 956 3. Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation) - 825 4. Diablo (PlayStation) - 776 5. Baldur's Gate (PC (Windows 95/98)) - 548 6. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 401 7. Jr. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 368 8. Flappy (NES/Famicom) - 231 9. Donkey Kong (ColecoVision) - 190 10. Baseball Stars (NES/Famicom) - 180 Pre-NES top 10: 1. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 401 2. Jr. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 368 3. Donkey Kong (ColecoVision) - 190 4. Gold Runner (CoCo 1 & 2) - 85 5. Tutankham (prototype) (Atari 8-bit) - 76 6. Asteroids (Atari 2600) - 75 7. Dragonfire (CoCo 1 & 2) - 70 8. Donkey Kong (Arcade) - 65 9. Frogger II: Threedeep! (Atari 5200) - 50 9. Super Cobra (Atari 8-bit) - 50 9. Jumpman (C64) - 50 9. Centipede (CoCo 1 & 2) - 50 Top 10 systems: 1. PlayStation (2734) 2. SNES (2632) 3. Atari 2600 (1100) 4. PC (Windows 95/98) (548) 5. NES/Famicom (427) 6. CoCo 1 & 2 (385) 7. ColecoVision (206) 8. Atari 8-bit (188) 9. Arcade (127) 10. C64 (90) This year has been full of record-setting weeks, and Week 7 is another one of 'em, reaching #9 on the all-time list. Leading the charge is Lawnmower Man for the SNES, but its huge 2500-minute time isn't quite enough to hold off the PlayStation, which just gets the edge for the top platform title. And speaking of the PlayStation, our #3 game Final Fantasy VII had been sitting at 990 minutes for quite some time, but this week's additional 825 minutes send it flying past the 1000-minute mark, giving it membership number #259 to that well-known club. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Atari 2600 Asteroids: 18 min Galaxian: 15 min Gyruss: 10 min PC (DOS) Silent Hunter: 64 min More of the same. Silent Hunter and 2600 HSC. At least this week it WAS more of the same, and not close to detection limit... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Atari 8-bit: Super Cobra - 96 min. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 ONLY ATARI 2600 Asteroids - 65 minutes Bowling - 10 minutes Centipede - 36 minutes Galaxian - 100 minutes Gyruss - 54 minutes Oink! - 42 minutes Pac-Man - 3 minutes Yars' Revenge - 85 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Atari 2600 Kaboom! - 219 minutes Galaxian - 20 minutes Asteroids - 79 minutes Kaboom! High score of the week: 159,786 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted February 27, 2017 Author Share Posted February 27, 2017 My times for the week: NES: Flappy - 229 min. SNES: David Crane's Amazing Tennis - 3 min. Drakkhen - 394 min. Beat Drakkhen -- for the third or fourth time: something I seldom do with an RPG! -- and Flappy, for the first time. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 (edited) TO ADD - Atari 2600 Asteroids - 25 minutes Galaxian - 48 minutes Edited February 27, 2017 by oyamafamily 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 (edited) Not too much playtime this week... but here's my totals... 2600 Asteroids - 11 min (I went into the 2600 HSC and looked up Asteroids and played by the restrictions they had in place... I died much more quickly than I did before... ) NES Castlevania - 25 minutes (One day I will make it to the Reaper with the holy water. This time I just kept resetting it if I died. Furthest I got was Frank and the hunchback.) Gauntlet (emulated) - 16 minutes (I never really had much fun with Gauntlet unless there were other people playing with me.) Mega Man II (emulated) - 18 minutes (I've never really been that good at Mega Man games. I never owned any of them. I have Mega Man X, but have never spent much time with it. I beat the Air boss and was working on getting through the water stage when I had to stop and go do something else. Haven't tried any since.) Playstation Final Fantasy VII (emulated) - 516 minutes (I'm just past Rocket Town and working on doing the Wutai island stuff. I haven't played since early in the week and surprisingly didn't play this weekend. Will try to work on it more this coming week, but this will be my first full week at new job, so... we'll see...) Sports Car GT - 7 min (Damn this game is terrible. Was just playing it to test out a joystick. I don't know if the difficulty in handling was from the game or the joystick, but the joystick worked fine in menus, so I guess it works.) Edit: The Asteroids HSC that I looked up was the one from quite a while back. I saw several others here with Asteroids times so I wondered if it was back on. And it is! I'll do what I can in the next few days to get a new score with the new restrictions. (The old restrictions were Left Difficulty A, game 16.) Edited February 27, 2017 by Eltigro 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 5200- Kaboom!- 4hrs 22min 2600- via xbox compilation Millipede- 15min Gamecube- Super Bubble Pop- 40min (this game was also ported to original PSX, so it might count) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Not too much gaming this week, as I'm busy packing for my big move, but I did get a little in. Atari 2600 Atlantis - 5min Carrot Kingdom - 20min Kaboom - 5min SeaQuest - 5min Total - 35min PS1 Apocalypse - 45min Medal of Honor - 50min Total - 95min Overall Total - 130min (2.17hrs) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 A2600 Asteroids 25 (Game 12) Windows 95/98 Baldur's Gate 270 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Here are my times for the past week (February 20th through 26th)... Arcade: Donkey Kong - 38 min. Mario Bros. - 35 min. T.N.K III - 123 min. Commodore 64: Mario Bros. (Ocean) - 3 min. Mario Bros. (Atarisoft) - 130 min. in 3 sessions I started off the week by playing some more Donkey Kong in its original form until I managed to see all four screens. Then I played Mario Bros. on the Commodore 64, quickly abandoning the Ocean version because it's so bad (worst of all is the player control). The Atarisoft version is better, but actually harder than the arcade original as I found out when I replayed that one. Finally I discovered a new game, T.N.K III which is a predecessor to Ikari Warriors made in 1985. In it you control a tank and try to get through the enemy lines and various scrolling scenery. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 No picture or story today since I'm having a really medically rubbish day, but here's a quick and dirty list of my household's play times for the week and hopefully I'll be feeling up to taking the usual weekly picture and writing about this week's games tomorrow. Ineligible --------------- Doom II (Game Boy Advance) - 28 minutes Metroid Prime (GameCube) - 425 minutes Atari 2600 ---------------- Asteroids - 92 minutes Galaxian - 79 minutes Gyruss - 72 minutes New Pac-Man (8k Version) - 24 minutes Space Rocks - 15 minutes Game Boy Color -------------------------- Ms. Pac-Man: Special Color Edition - 30 minutes Pac-Man: Special Color Edition - 29 minutes NES ------- Castlevania (played on Classic NES Series: Castlevania for Game Boy Advance) - 15 minutes Xevious (played on Classic NES Series: Xevious for Game Boy Advance) - 12 minutes PlayStation ------------------ Diablo - 510 minutes Quake II - 497 minutes Sega Genesis (Emulated on Wii) --------------------------------------------------- Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure - 58 minutes Raiden Trad - 9 minutes Total Video Game Play Time This Week --------------------------------------------------------------- 1,895 minutes (31 hours 35 minutes) [1,442 minutes eligible] Individual System Play Times This Week ----------------------------------------------------------------- PlayStation: 1,007 minutes GameCube: 425 minutes Atari 2600: 282 minutes Sega Genesis: 67 minutes Game Boy Color: 59 minutes Game Boy Advance: 28 minutes NES: 27 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 Cool! Anyone else before I tally the stats? BurritoBeans? BTW zylon, to answer your question, we don't count the GameCube times unless they're emulating another system (it's not emulating the PlayStation, is it?). You're still welcome to post them, of course. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Cool! Anyone else before I tally the stats? If you want to add another 38 minutes to my 2600 Asteroids total... that's how long I played last night after seeing that it was on the HSC again. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 Here's the summary for Week 8, running from February 20 - 26. We logged 4719 minutes of eligible play, playing 41 games on a total of 12 systems. Top 10: 1. Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation) - 516 2. Diablo (PlayStation) - 510 3. Quake II (PlayStation) - 497 4. Drakkhen (SNES) - 394 5. Asteroids (Atari 2600) - 353 6. Baldur's Gate (PC (Windows 95/98)) - 270 7. Galaxian (Atari 2600) - 262 7. Kaboom (Atari 5200) - 262 9. Flappy (NES/Famicom) - 229 10. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 224 Pre-NES top 10: 1. Asteroids (Atari 2600) - 353 2. Galaxian (Atari 2600) - 262 2. Kaboom (Atari 5200) - 262 4. Kaboom (Atari 2600) - 224 5. Gyruss (Atari 2600) - 136 6. Mario Bros. (Atarisoft) (C64) - 130 7. Super Cobra (Atari 8-bit) - 96 8. Yars' Revenge (Atari 2600) - 85 9. Oink! (Atari 2600) - 42 10. Donkey Kong (Arcade) - 38 Top 10 systems: 1. PlayStation (1625) 2. Atari 2600 (1235) 3. SNES (397) 4. NES/Famicom (315) 5. PC (Windows 95/98) (270) 6. Atari 5200 (262) 7. Arcade (196) 8. C64 (133) 9. Atari 8-bit (96) 10. Genesis (67) Final Fantasy VII for PlayStation just beats out Diablo for the #1 spot; Kaboom passes Kaboom and ties Galaxian, but ultimately loses to Asteroids on the pre-NES charts; and Diablo and Drakkhen earn spots #260 and #261 in the 1000-minute club (with 1286 and 1036 minutes, respectively). And that's Week 8! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 A2600 Asteroids 25 (Game 12) I was in the HSC mindset when I read this one and thought, "Man, game 12 must be tough if he only got a score of 25!" Then the rest of my brain kicked in... lol 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Cool! Anyone else before I tally the stats? BurritoBeans? BTW zylon, to answer your question, we don't count the GameCube times unless they're emulating another system (it's not emulating the PlayStation, is it?). You're still welcome to post them, of course. Nope. I don't believe it is emulating anything. It just happens to be a game from the end of the PSX/Saturn generation that was also ported to the next Xbox/PS2/GC systems that followed. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Tonight's gaming... NES: Baseball Stars - 52 minutes Commodore 64: Jumpman - 35 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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