Gaming & New Releases

[Lucas88]

Vice City Story I haven't played. Street of Rage looks interesting. Will try it in the future.

Streets of Rage Remake v5.2 (download)

https://sorr.forumotion.net/t838-new-st ... d-and-info

This is the most recent version of the game, I believe.

[Natural_Born_Cynic]

Vice City Story I haven't played. Street of Rage looks interesting. Will try it in the future.

Streets of Rage Remake v5.2 (download)

https://sorr.forumotion.net/t838-new-st ... d-and-info

This is the most recent version of the game, I believe.

Thanks! Will try.

[Lucas88]

@Lucas88 absolutely! We will give it a go next time I'm available. Though if I'm being honest I think I'd prefer the original content.

As great as the original games were, Streets of Rage Remake is actually a massively improved version of the game.

Not only does SORR combine all three original games into one but also the player characters (six originally but more can be unlocked) have more abilities, new enemies and sometimes even new sub-bosses have been inserted into the game in order to make it harder, there is a lot of new unlockable content, and there are new weapons too. Mania mode is especially awesome because it's so challenging while the maximum difficulty for the original games was merely "hardest" (Mania is one degree harder).

Moreover, there are dozens of fan-made spinoffs that can be downloaded for SORR. They often take levels from other games such as Double Dragon and Golden Axe and populate them with SOR enemies and features. Others are completely original.

I have SORR downloaded and set up now. We can play it on my laptop this week if you like!

[Natural_Born_Cynic]

@Lucas88 absolutely! We will give it a go next time I'm available. Though if I'm being honest I think I'd prefer the original content.

@Natural_Born_Cynic
@WanderingProtagonist

Did any of you guys play Golden Axe? The controls are a lot clunkier than Streets of Rage, but it's an awesome game. Even though the gameplay and mechanics make it somewhat difficult. I really enjoyed Golden Axe 1 and 2, but I don't have much memory of Golden Axe 3. Probably for the same reason I wasn't keen on Streets of Rage 3...

I played a game last night on my Sega collection for ps4 which was about a Knight in a kingdom. Some evil Lord turns up and kidnaps the princess and the king gives you 200 gold to go buy some gear and go find his daughter. I could only afford to buy a cloth shirt and a dagger. Kind of hilarious that the king is surrounded by knights with massive Swords and steel armour and he loves his daughter that much he sends one guy out to save her with a measly 200 gold I got f***ed up by the first enemies I came across in the labyrinth. Turned it off after that. I think it was called Sword of Vermillion. But not 100%

Yep. Golden Axe is awesome, a classic. I played the dwarf guy and the female warrior.

[Corey_Bee]

Gaming is all woke faggotry brainwashing now.

Microsoft Partners with GLAAD to Boost LGBT Representation in Xbox Video Games

"Tech giant Microsoft has announced a long-term partnership with woke advocacy group GLAAD, aiming to increase the representation of LGBT characters in its first-party Xbox games."

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/06/ ... deo-games/

They even changed the Prince of Persia to be black with dreadlocks now.

[Corey_Bee]

@Pixel--Dude and @Lucas88, are the GTA Trilogy remasters as good as the originals or did they f**k those up too? I heard they censored out a confederate flag out of the new versions because Rockstar is woke now too but are they good otherwise? I'm sick of gaming now but want to replay some old games but I'm afraid they f***ed those up when they remastered them. I'm sick of all of this woke shit and censorship. I miss when America had the best entertainment. It all sucks dick now.

[Lucas88]

@Pixel--Dude and @Lucas88, are the GTA Trilogy remasters as good as the originals or did they f**k those up too? I heard they censored out a confederate flag out of the new versions because Rockstar is woke now too but are they good otherwise? I'm sick of gaming now but want to replay some old games but I'm afraid they f***ed those up when they remastered them. I'm sick of all of this woke shit and censorship. I miss when America had the best entertainment. It all sucks dick now.

Rockstar did indeed censor out some confederate flags in the GTA Definitive Edition. If I remember correctly, in Vice City they changed the confederate flag logo on Phil Cassidy's shirt to a skull and then in San Andreas they substituted the confederate flag in the old war veteran's house for a US flag. Apparently because those images are associated with racism and offend modern sensitivities.





However, apart from the removal of the confederate flags, hardly anything else in the games has been changed. There is still all of the old-school non-PC humor and the games' atmosphere and overall tone are still pretty much identical to the time of their original release. There are still all of the jokes about gays, trannies, liberals, feminists and whatnot. But there are also jokes about conservatives, religious nutjobs, white trash rednecks, right-wing extremists, etc. The games were never supposed to be political. They're simply parodies of the time and place in which they are set. I don't know why people are getting upset over them.

As for the gameplay, it's pretty good with the updated graphics and modern control scheme. Many people complained about the Definitive Edition because they thought that the graphics weren't good enough, but they are objectively far better than those of the original games. I still have GTA 3 and Vice City for PS2. The graphics are horrible, the controls clunky and the games difficult to play. The DE fixes these things and makes the games much more playable by modern standards. That's why I was always a fan of the DE despite all of the hostility towards it from the online gaming community.

If you want to relive those GTA classics with updated graphics and a modern control scheme, I really recommend the DE. You can probably find it for relatively cheap these days.

[WilliamSmith]

Does anyone remember the old retro games? The likes of which you find in arcades and stuff? When it comes to gaming do you guys prefer the older retro games or more modern games?

I've been playing Streets of Rage today with @Lucas88 an old Sega classic where you walk the streets and beat the f**k out of random thugs for no reason with knives, bats and fists.



This is a playthrough on the hardest difficulty (me and Lucas played on this difficulty) but on this difficulty they don't take a single hit. Obviously me and Lucas got hammered by these assholes, but the nostalgia overridden any frustration we felt from losing the game lol

@Pixel--Dude
@Lucas88
LOL, I used to have Streets of Rage 1 and 2 and the Golden Axe games (#1-3) on Sega Genesis in the 1990s, so I played all these as a youth and eventually won them all (though without any particular "achievement" like someone who plays the same game so much they can win without being hit once?!?!).
The YM2612 soundtracks were fun.
I'd say Golden Axe 1 and 2 were my favorites because of the Conan the Barbarian vibe + (just as, or more importantly) Tyris Flare's big ass (though it is a tiny one compared with what I am spoiled with now, LOL).

[Natural_Born_Cynic]

Does anyone remember the old retro games? The likes of which you find in arcades and stuff? When it comes to gaming do you guys prefer the older retro games or more modern games?

I've been playing Streets of Rage today with @Lucas88 an old Sega classic where you walk the streets and beat the f**k out of random thugs for no reason with knives, bats and fists.



This is a playthrough on the hardest difficulty (me and Lucas played on this difficulty) but on this difficulty they don't take a single hit. Obviously me and Lucas got hammered by these assholes, but the nostalgia overridden any frustration we felt from losing the game lol

@Pixel--Dude
@Lucas88
LOL, I used to have Streets of Rage 1 and 2 and the Golden Axe games (#1-3) on Sega Genesis in the 1990s, so I played all these as a youth and eventually won them all (though without any particular "achievement" like someone who plays the same game so much they can win without being hit once?!?!).
The YM2612 soundtracks were fun.
I'd say Golden Axe 1 and 2 were my favorites because of the Conan the Barbarian vibe + (just as, or more importantly) Tyris Flare's big ass (though it is a tiny one compared with what I am spoiled with now, LOL).

I still love these games today, I think they're much better than modern games despite modern games having much more advanced graphics and mechanics. I have PS4 with the Sega Mega Collection so I can play some of these classics.

@WilliamSmith
@Lucas88

If you guys have PS4 and Sega Mega Collection we could play some of the classics like Streets of Rage and Golden Axe together.

If anyone has PS4 and wants to add my username send me a private message and I'll add you.

You said it. Most modern games look completely dogsh*t with it's ugly, grey, plastic, shiny looking graphics.
They have sacrificed gameplay over graphics to attract more dimwitted and casual players. I still play older games rather than new ones.

[Natural_Born_Cynic]

Does anyone remember the old retro games? The likes of which you find in arcades and stuff? When it comes to gaming do you guys prefer the older retro games or more modern games?

I've been playing Streets of Rage today with @Lucas88 an old Sega classic where you walk the streets and beat the f**k out of random thugs for no reason with knives, bats and fists.



This is a playthrough on the hardest difficulty (me and Lucas played on this difficulty) but on this difficulty they don't take a single hit. Obviously me and Lucas got hammered by these assholes, but the nostalgia overridden any frustration we felt from losing the game lol

@Pixel--Dude
@Lucas88
LOL, I used to have Streets of Rage 1 and 2 and the Golden Axe games (#1-3) on Sega Genesis in the 1990s, so I played all these as a youth and eventually won them all (though without any particular "achievement" like someone who plays the same game so much they can win without being hit once?!?!).
The YM2612 soundtracks were fun.
I'd say Golden Axe 1 and 2 were my favorites because of the Conan the Barbarian vibe + (just as, or more importantly) Tyris Flare's big ass (though it is a tiny one compared with what I am spoiled with now, LOL).

I still love these games today, I think they're much better than modern games despite modern games having much more advanced graphics and mechanics. I have PS4 with the Sega Mega Collection so I can play some of these classics.

@WilliamSmith
@Lucas88

If you guys have PS4 and Sega Mega Collection we could play some of the classics like Streets of Rage and Golden Axe together.

If anyone has PS4 and wants to add my username send me a private message and I'll add you.

You said it. Most modern games look completely dogsh*t with it's ugly, grey, plastic, shiny looking graphics.
They have sacrificed gameplay over graphics to attract more dimwitted and casual players. I still play older games rather than new ones.

I don't know what it is about the older classics. Whether it's the nostalgia or the simplicity, but I've found games like Golden Axe and Streets of Rage have way more replayability than modern games.

True that. Modern games looks so soulless, ugly, grey, drab, so boring, dreadful than their predecessors. Such a shame that the only technical advancement is the graphics instead of gameplay and storytelling.

[WilliamSmith]

@Pixel--Dude
@Natural_Born_Cynic

I have enough money right now that I've decided that my prior dabbling in programming is going to bear fruit and I'm actually going to make some retrogames.
I can only work on it as a side project because I have two other businesses I need to deal with for main income sources, but I am going to do it since I'm not strapped for cash anymore.
Of course, I can't say what they are if any of them are actually on a platform where you can sell stuff, or else the jews will obviously close all my accounts, but maybe I can make some HA themed "asset flips" of my primary programming frameworks just for our oddball "community" here, LOL. Maybe a Winston Mario-1 styled platformer and an fschmidt retro pixel JRPG about Arkianism?

So a question to you two and anyone else who likes retro games:
What are your favorite retrogames of all time? (I'm thinking anywhere from an 80s to early-mid 90s timeframe, but post whatever you want.) Who knows, I have made a few dozen frameworks of different genres (platformers, rpgs, topdown and sidescrolling shooters, etc), maybe I'll make something following your favorites?

[Lucas88]

I have enough money right now that I've decided that my prior dabbling in programming is going to bear fruit and I'm actually going to make some retrogames.
I can only work on it as a side project because I have two other businesses I need to deal with for main income sources, but I am going to do it since I'm not strapped for cash anymore.
Of course, I can't say what they are if any of them are actually on a platform where you can sell stuff, or else the jews will obviously close all my accounts, but maybe I can make some HA themed "asset flips" of my primary programming frameworks just for our oddball "community" here, LOL. Maybe a Winston Mario-1 styled platformer and an fschmidt retro pixel JRPG about Arkianism?

So a question to you two and anyone else who likes retro games:
What are your favorite retrogames of all time? (I'm thinking anywhere from an 80s to early-mid 90s timeframe, but post whatever you want.) Who knows, I have made a few dozen frameworks of different genres (platformers, rpgs, topdown and sidescrolling shooters, etc), maybe I'll make something following your favorites?

Lol! I've already thought of an @fschmidt-themed game: Arkian Assault.

In Arkian Assault, our protagonist fschmidt himself must purchase weapons and shoot up schools, college campuses, churches, nightclubs, etc. in order to rid the world of "modern scum" in a GTA-like sandbox world. The game would feature a "star system" like in the GTA games and more powerful units of law enforcement from ordinary beat cops through swat teams and finally the military spawn as fschmidt commits more crimes and the number of stars increases. The objective of each mission is for fschmidt to gun down as many "modern scum" as possible in the specified location and then escape the murder scene while avoiding getting busted or killed by law enforcement. Weapons that our protagonist can acquire include handguns, uzis, assault rifles, shotguns, machetes, grenades, C4 explosives, and even rocket launchers! LMAO!

Arkian Assault would be a hilarious game. Make it, William!

My favorite retro game is Streets of Rage. I loved the macho beat 'em' up theme with an early 90s vibe. The gameplay featured awesome combos, a pretty neat grappling system and various melee weapons.

[WilliamSmith]

Lol! I've already thought of an @fschmidt-themed game: Arkian Assault.

In Arkian Assault, our protagonist fschmidt himself must purchase weapons and shoot up schools, college campuses, churches, nightclubs, etc. in order to rid the world of "modern scum" in a GTA-like sandbox world. The game would feature a "star system" like in the GTA games and more powerful units of law enforcement from ordinary beat cops through swat teams and finally the military spawn as fschmidt commits more crimes and the number of stars increases. The objective of each mission is for fschmidt to gun down as many "modern scum" as possible in the specified location and then escape the murder scene while avoiding getting busted or killed by law enforcement. Weapons that our protagonist can acquire include handguns, uzis, assault rifles, shotguns, machetes, grenades, C4 explosives, and even rocket launchers! LMAO!

Arkian Assault would be a hilarious game. Make it, William!

@Lucas88
Hmmm, we'll have to consider these concepts... That's more involved than what I'd had in mind, but we'll keep threshing out the ideas.

@fschmidt's Arkian ideas do have intellectual merit in many ways, even though I don't agree with a number of his foundational premises (not that I disagree with all of them) and some of his conclusions he drew from those premises.

But I'm not really sure that'd be his cup of tea to actually have the theme be him trying to arm himself to wipe out most of the human population with a big arsenal of weapons though:
My impression was that he more wanted to create the equivalent of what he considered genetically sound "phyles" (intentional ethnicity I think he called it) and that his fixation on saying 99% of everyone else on the planet were "complete morons who deserved to be executed" was more something that he thought would follow as a consequence of their own crushing stupidity and intellectual and moral inferiority vs the "globalist elite" who would do the dirty work for him (as opposed to him wanting to actually get in on the action and do the actual "exterminating" himself using a big arsenal of guns)... We'll see what he thinks.

I could definitely make a big bullet-fest that was not Arkian themed, but only want to do 2d (not going 3d like the GTA games), but for Arkianism I had only briefly conceived of a tiny retropixel JRPG where an annoyed looking fschmidt 8bit "mega-chibi" would walk about talking to various individuals all over the world (this is Happier Abroad, after all) and get triggered by their responses, resulting in some concluding retort about how everyone including them is "a complete moron who deserves to be executed," or saying things to me like he did recently: "....there are 8 billion more who think like you. Every time I am on the internet, my conviction that 99% of humanity should be exterminated grows stronger."

But of course, the main objective of the Arkian mini-RPG I had in mind could be to actually acquire adequate converts to build Arkian phyles, leaving the possibility of a happy ending in the works....

[Lucas88]

@WilliamSmith

In Arkian Assault there could also be specialized objective-based missions in addition to the regular massacres which make up the bulk of the gameplay.

In one such specialized objective-based mission, a group of right-wing activists are lobbying to ban the promotion of transgenderism in schools in fschmidt's state. Because fschmidt wants transgenderism to be promoted to future "modern scum" so that fewer of them reproduce, the protagonist is given the mission to abduct and intimidate a number of the activists so that they desist out of fear for their own safety and the pro-LGBT liberals come out on top.

In another mission, fschmidt must assassinate the Republican political candidate so that a Democrat can win the election and continue to force the globohomo agenda on modern scum Americans.

In one particularly pivotal mission, fschmidt turns on his own rabbi and blows up the synagogue with explosives after realizing that his rabbi doesn't hate modern scum enough and is indeed modern scum himself. It is from this moment that our Arkian hero decides to form his own Arkian movement and a new story arc begins.

The game should feature about 80 missions and involve fschmidt murdering modern scum for various different bosses until he realizes that none of them are extreme enough in their hatred for modern scum and decides to kill them all and go his own way.

[WilliamSmith]

As for Winston's theoretic Mario 1 styled platformer:

I was thinking @Winston could go to different locations cruising for chicks and then making his usual interesting highly opinionated philosophical comments about the local social dynamics and the women, as well as the obvious Mario gameplay dynamics of running around an 8bit environment modelled after various real world locations like Taiwan, the Phillipines, Russia and Eastern Europe, etc.
Not exactly sure who the enemies would be... Any ideas?
The R/Hapas crowd certainly hates Winston, as do some SJWs bitching on the net about him in various articles... What other enemies? The jews delisted Happier Abroad from jewgle and other jew-occupied search engines, but not sure if Winston would want smallhats to be on the enemies list.

As for the Winston/Mario player character scoring with chicks in an 8bit environment:
Did anyone place the Ganbare Goemon game on the SNES (I think the US title was "Legend of the Mystical Ninja," ROFLMAO) that had the "bonus babes" where you just walk into cute Japanese girls in kimonos on the street and collect them to add to your score? (P.S. don't worry any Asian lurkers, Goemon was also a Asian guy like you, not white!)
But that'd be a pretty easy way to do the PUA side of Winston's journey using simple collision detection...