Re: What are you playing?
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:41 am
aww but I was having fun arguing in circles!
It is when Super Mario World isn't included But mostly you are right - without sole ownership of the X-box, I would not have been able to enjoy The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind as much as I did.vampireshark wrote:plus, as it seems like you have all the NES versions, that's not too much of an issue.
For some personal advice, you will need to ride those bird things throughout the parts that don't have any ground. You use a bird a total of three times, I believe: one low-flying bird flying right at the very beginning, one higher-flying bird flying left after you use the potion, and one high-flying bird flying left once you get back to the start of the level. You will need to jump directly from the second bird to the third bird; if you miss your jump, you will need to start all over again. Once on the third bird, you will need to do some jumping to avoid the beezos flying in the opposite direction. After a while you will reach more land.The Super Mario Wiki wrote:World 6-2
Ride the Albatoss going right until reaching a platform that contains a magic potion, which will provide one coin and one mushroom. Then ride another Albatoss going to the left until the player reaches a third Albatoss that is above the second one and going back to the left. Ride that third Albatoss to the end of the screen. Birdo shoots fire only again.
Wow, that's an early cut-off. Anyways, I love Super Mario Sunshine and Galaxy, though the former of the two definitely has a very nasty sadistic streak in some areas. I've also gone through the New Super Mario Bros. for the DS, which is quite fun (but hard if you're trying for 100% completion), Yoshi's Island DS (shorter than the first one, but more than a bit harder to get the 100% score on each level), and most of Super Mario 3D Land, which is also good... and pretty hard, as well, to get perfect completion on.Mashmakhan wrote:My favourite Mario game would have to be a tie between Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World. Haven't played Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island or any of the games that came out after Super Mario 64 yet.
Yeah, World's awesome. But there is good out of everything and, from what I've heard, Elder Scrolls games probably qualify as that "good".Mashmakhan wrote:It is when Super Mario World isn't included :( But mostly you are right - without sole ownership of the X-box, I would not have been able to enjoy The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind as much as I did.vampireshark wrote:plus, as it seems like you have all the NES versions, that's not too much of an issue.
Adjusted for inflation, that's about 4 times more money in 2007 than in 1995. Four times less is hardly "barely anyone". Also, each person who does play them is likely to play a larger number of games now than before. The increase in number of games per player could easily be as big as the increase in number of games, which would mean it's only about twice as many players.Pthug wrote:barely anyone was playing them in 1995 either!
WTH...what was possibly too difficult about Super Mario World!? I finished the entire game lots of times without any real difficulty before this version came out! It was the first Mario game and one of the first ever console games that I completed! WTH, Nintendo??http://www.mariowiki.com/Super_Mario_Brothers_4#List_of_ChangesThe%20Super%20Mario%20Wiki wrote:List of Changes
- If the player manages to collect all five Yoshi Coins in every single level, all the Yoshi Coins will change into Peach Coins (after watching a cutscene where this happens). The player can also check out in which levels the Yoshi Coins have been collected or not, by simply pressing SELECT.
- Voices have been added to Mario, Luigi and all of the Bosses apart from the Reznors. Some of Mario and Luigi's voices were ripped from the first Mario Advance, while the others are new. Also, bosses yelp as Bowser does today when they are defeated.
- Players can have up to 999 lives and save the number of lives for the next time the player plays the game.
- Players now start out with the power up they last had.
- There are more Message Blocks throughout the game than the SNES version. They're now also headed with the phrase "Tourist Tips" on top of each one the player gets.
- When the player gets hurt with Cape or Fire power, the player won't become tiny and need to use the item in reserve (if any), but the player will become Super Mario/Luigi, and they will keep the reserve item.
- After completing all 96 goals in the game, most of the message blocks will be changed to congratulate the player on finding the secret world.
- The player can get the colored Yoshis in ? Blocks: a Blue Yoshi if the player is Cape Mario/Cape Luigi, a Red Yoshi if the player is Fire Mario/Fire Luigi and a Green Yoshi or Yellow Yoshi if the player is Small Mario/Small Luigi or Super Mario/Super Luigi. This only happens after the Mario Bros. have used the Yoshis in Star World.
- Luigi is an optional character for player 1 and he has some differences:
- Luigi jumps higher and farther than Mario.
- Luigi runs slower than Mario.
- When Luigi flies using the Cape, he doesn't fly as fast as Mario.
- When hurled, Fire Luigi's fireballs bounce higher than Fire Mario's.
- Unlike Mario, when Luigi rides Yoshi, he does not instantly swallow any enemy. Instead, Yoshi can spit them out and use them to attack other enemies. If Yoshi has an enemy in his mouth for about eight seconds, he will swallow it.
- If Luigi hits a Coin Block, all the coins will spill out of the block instead of collecting them one by one.
- The player can also save half-way through a level once the player has past the half-way gate and quit. When the player comes back to that level, the player will start from the half-way gate and it is not affected by playing another level after doing this process.
- The rescued Yoshi Egg dots are colored instead of being a dull gray-brown color.
- Princess Peach has a slightly different appearance. The color of her dress is lighter and she has bangs.
- Luigi is updated to resemble his current look: tall and skinny, while Mario and all the others are still the original sprites from the SNES game.
- The autumn changes will not occur until the player has found all 96 exits. Goombas and Pokeys now change. However, in the ending credits, although the alternate enemies are displayed if 96 exits have been cleared, their original names will always be displayed. The alternate forms are not given names in the credits in this version.
- Because there is only one run button on the GBA, it is impossible for Mario to turn around while flying with the cape, or release fireballs while holding an object.
- Instead of Yoshi having orange hands and arms, they were like the rest of the body's color (for example, a Blue Yoshi would have blue arms instead of green). This is due to the fact that later games featuring Yoshi was like that and it become a staple for Yoshi's coloring. The artwork for Super Mario World even featured it, so reasons in-game for the arms to be orange is unknown.
- Mario's Fire Flower suit has a lighter shade of red in the Game Boy Advance remake than in the original.
- In the seventh room of Bowser's Castle which features the Bowser Statues that spit out flames, the Game Boy Advance remake didn't have the first statue spitting out flames, thereby making the first part of the room much easier.
- In castle #3 Lemmy's Castle, a powerup found lying around in the last room is a feather in the advance game rather than a Super Mushroom.
Ah, I see. That makes more sense, seeing as you mentioned using warps. I take it you never had to deal with "Bob-omb Hell ([all of] level 5-3)" then?Foolster41 wrote:Oh, I actually skipped that part. I meant 7-2. I ran out of continues anyway and I have to start over.
I keep getting killed at the castle.
I never got to play SMW2: Yoshi's Island when it came out so my cut-off didn't start there. After Super Mario 64, though, I just lost track of what was coming out. I got Super Mario 64 relatively late and soon after the sixth generation of consoles came out we had to choose between the Gamecube and the X-box. Not surprisingly, our parents got us the X-box. So no Super Mario Sunshine or Super Mario Galaxy. Then my youngest sister gor a gamecube after I "bought" the X-box from her. So there was my cut-off. An eye-for-an-eye sort of deal but - as you say - it wasn't completely bad.vampireshark wrote:Wow, that's an early cut-off.Mashmakhan wrote:My favourite Mario game would have to be a tie between Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World. Haven't played Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island or any of the games that came out after Super Mario 64 yet.
I really want to play Super Mario Galaxy. Maybe I'll get myself a used Gamecube sometime and play it.vampireshark wrote:Anyways, I love Super Mario Sunshine and Galaxy, though the former of the two definitely has a very nasty sadistic streak in some areas.
I haven't played either of those yet and have only found out about New Super Mario Bros. wii recently. For some reason it didn't look that good on Youtube.vampireshark wrote:I've also gone through the New Super Mario Bros. for the DS, which is quite fun (but hard if you're trying for 100% completion), Yoshi's Island DS (shorter than the first one, but more than a bit harder to get the 100% score on each level), and most of Super Mario 3D Land, which is also good... and pretty hard, as well, to get perfect completion on.
I was playing SMB2 and SMB3 at the same time but now it is just SMB3. I was playing all four NES mario games for a while but SMB1 and SMB: Lost Levels have been completed. I can't play SMW because I don't have the SNES and I am sort of nervous about how much disk space the emulator version will take up on my portable flash drive(?). But I beat SMW dozens of times in my earlier years so no big loss there.Chuma wrote:Mashmakhan: Are you playing SMB2 and SMW at the same time? Impressive.
So that's what he does in his free timePthug wrote:sonic
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The magic is really cool is Skyrim, but I don't know about Fable. I haven't played Skyrim properly in a few days now; I'm gonna go join the empire in a few minutes.Gulliver wrote:Skyrim Skyrim Skyrim Skyrim Skyrim.
It's like Fable but bigger and more epic but not as funny and the magic is not as good and half the time I don't know what I'm meant to be doing.
I considered them. Are they good? Has anyone here played Wargame: European Escalation? Which one is better: R.U.S.E., Wargame or Total War?Lyra wrote:Does anybody play any Total War games around here?
~Lyra
Shogun 2 is the latest, but the best ones were Rome Total War And Medieval 2 Total War as you can mod them extensively.Torco wrote:I've played them extensively, but I haven't for a while now.
are there any new ones?
Congrats. Bet it took you a while to get past all of those spiny ball things, tho. The part where you need to jump up all of those platforms. What was your contributor count?Foolster41 wrote:Finally beat Super Mario 2.
I've played all of the Total War games except for Empire - I think I played both Medievals the most (since my uncle had them and I stole his CDs... and Rome, I guess). Lately I've been trying my hand at Shogun 2, which I personally think is better at keeping me invested in the game than the previous games. I'm really hoping to get Fall of the Samurai once a good sale pops up, so I can show the world how @#$%ing overrated katanas and samurai are.Lyra wrote:Does anybody play any Total War games around here?
~Lyra
A fellow Empire-lover! Damn those silly Stormcloaks!Mr. Z wrote: The magic is really cool is Skyrim, but I don't know about Fable. I haven't played Skyrim properly in a few days now; I'm gonna go join the empire in a few minutes.
What really got me mostly was the very ending part with the conveyor belt. I had a bit of trouble with the birdo with the key for some reason (probably because weakened by the electric spike guys). Also darn wart took a LOT of tries to kill.Mashmakhan wrote:Congrats. Bet it took you a while to get past all of those spiny ball things, tho. The part where you need to jump up all of those platforms. What was your contributor count?Foolster41 wrote:Finally beat Super Mario 2.
Cool! I'm working on a RPG too (a C-RPG) with a modern martial arts theme.vampireshark wrote:Bought Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie the other day. It's fun, but it has the same issues most DQ games have: some level grinding is required, for one, and that can be a bit tedious.
(Also have been working on my own RPG. That's going slowly.)
Me too.Gulliver wrote:Skyrim Skyrim Skyrim Skyrim Skyrim.
Oh yes. Then again I have a total crush on British English in general.Gulliver wrote:but American accents are a sure-fire way to ruin a medieval fantasy game for me
I'm sort of doing that too. Maybe not a whole game, I've mostly been playing around with rulesets.vampireshark wrote:Also have been working on my own RPG. That's going slowly.