21st March 2016, 4:34 PM
Haven't gotten much in these last few weeks; I've been busy with several things, and that was a LOT of 3do games to get all at once. I still haven't tried them all, though I am working on it. It's a fun system, I like having it. It has good and bad points for sure, but it's definitely interesting and has some good games. But I'll say more about the 3DO another time... I will say, though, that I'd have played even more 3DO if I didn't have to finish this Genesis Game Opinion Summaries list, that takes up some time as well of course. I like the Genesis a lot though, so that's fine (been playing Viewpoint in the last few days, it's such a fantastic game!), it just takes time away from the new thing.
Anyway... stuff I got these last few weeks:
3DO
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Doom - $12, disc only - Yes, I got the infamously bad 3DO version of Doom. The framerate is terrible, but if you can get past that it actually plays pretty well, and the soundtrack is quite good (and 3DO exclusive). I wouldn't have gotten this online so soon, but I couldn't resist seeing it in person...
Microcosm - $8, disc only - Okay rail shooter from Psygnosis. This game plays a lot like Novastorm, but set inside a human body instead of in space. This game has password save, which is great (Novastorm has no saving on any platform), but the bosses are obnoxiously hard, even harder than anything in Novastorm. So yeah, a mixed bag here.
Flashback - $10, disc only - The maybe best version of this popular '90s platform-action game. I know this game is popular, but I've never bought it for any other systems because I've never loved this Prince of Persia-derived genre of platformers... but on the 3DO, a system which has over 300 games but somehow has only SIX platformers... yeah, I'll pick it up, there aren't exactly may options. Who knows, maybe it'll be fun, and at least if I'm going to have one version of this, it's the best one.
PSP
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LocoRoco - $4, complete - Pretty fun platformer-ish game where you rotate the stage with the shoulder buttons to roll your super-cute creatures around towards the goal, picking stuff up along the way. I'd played the demo of this game before, but not the full game, so I picked it up for sure when I saw it! They also had (and maybe still have?) Patapon, but that game looks like a rhythm game, pretty much my least favorite kind of thing, so I didn't get it.
Anyway... stuff I got these last few weeks:
3DO
--
Doom - $12, disc only - Yes, I got the infamously bad 3DO version of Doom. The framerate is terrible, but if you can get past that it actually plays pretty well, and the soundtrack is quite good (and 3DO exclusive). I wouldn't have gotten this online so soon, but I couldn't resist seeing it in person...
Microcosm - $8, disc only - Okay rail shooter from Psygnosis. This game plays a lot like Novastorm, but set inside a human body instead of in space. This game has password save, which is great (Novastorm has no saving on any platform), but the bosses are obnoxiously hard, even harder than anything in Novastorm. So yeah, a mixed bag here.
Flashback - $10, disc only - The maybe best version of this popular '90s platform-action game. I know this game is popular, but I've never bought it for any other systems because I've never loved this Prince of Persia-derived genre of platformers... but on the 3DO, a system which has over 300 games but somehow has only SIX platformers... yeah, I'll pick it up, there aren't exactly may options. Who knows, maybe it'll be fun, and at least if I'm going to have one version of this, it's the best one.
PSP
--
LocoRoco - $4, complete - Pretty fun platformer-ish game where you rotate the stage with the shoulder buttons to roll your super-cute creatures around towards the goal, picking stuff up along the way. I'd played the demo of this game before, but not the full game, so I picked it up for sure when I saw it! They also had (and maybe still have?) Patapon, but that game looks like a rhythm game, pretty much my least favorite kind of thing, so I didn't get it.