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Post by orochigeese on Mar 28, 2009 3:16:13 GMT -5
Wait..huh? You bought a hairstyle? Is that DLC? Other then Proto Man, I didn't really even look at the other DLC. I didn't know you could buy a haircut - how much did you spend on that? That sucks you lost it too - that's real money you spent, right!? F'n DLC  |
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Post by motosada on Mar 28, 2009 3:38:35 GMT -5
No, no no no no. It was in the Store. 20 Screws buys you a "hairstyle guide", which basically removes Mega's helmet. What's weird is, for 20 Screws, you can buy the helmet back... but... you have it put back on when you die anyway, so... the hell?
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Post by orochigeese on Mar 28, 2009 5:46:59 GMT -5
Ohhhh ok, it was one of those weird items I never messed with.
So in this case, would it be apt to say you've been screwed?
*Rim shot*
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Post by gbomber on Mar 28, 2009 12:19:05 GMT -5
mega man games have always been retardedly hard. I found this out when I discovered emulators and got all the games I'd played as a kid.
it's disturbing to not be able to get through a single level on mega man 1 through x3 without dying a shitload of times. I seem to remember being a mega man ninja as a youth.
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Post by motosada on Mar 28, 2009 15:10:42 GMT -5
That was hilariously bad as always, Geese.  But, those items are pretty fun. I'm curious to see what the Roll icon gets ya, especially since it costs 200 fucking screws. |
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Post by orochigeese on Mar 28, 2009 16:52:00 GMT -5
LOL  I actually have the maximum amount of screws one can get (I'm an item whore) and so I should check out the stuff I can buy. You know, I never ended up beating the game just cause you need a good few hours to play the final stage and there are no real continues (you can continue if you lose but not if you shut the game off) and I just didn't get around to doing it. It's just a question of having enough health containers and so that's why i built up my screw account. I kinda do want to beat it, i heard it was a nice ending |
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Post by Joe Snack Road on Mar 28, 2009 20:00:21 GMT -5
mega man games have always been retardedly hard. I found this out when I discovered emulators and got all the games I'd played as a kid. it's disturbing to not be able to get through a single level on mega man 1 through x3 without dying a shitload of times. I seem to remember being a mega man ninja as a youth. I've gotta agree with this phenomenon - these games were like, EASY MODE back in the day. I beat Mega Man 3 on three lives... Now, I'm lucky if I can get to the boss of the easiest stages in one continue.  |
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Post by motosada on Mar 28, 2009 20:55:30 GMT -5
GEESE! You can buy more lifes! Go do it!!1
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Post by orochigeese on Mar 29, 2009 0:41:25 GMT -5
Yeah you can buy more lives as well as energy tanks. I'd have to go fully stocked but, as I said, I have 999 screws Ended up playing Mario Kart for a lot of tonight so fun was had so far I'll see if I have energy to storm Wily's Castle  |
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Post by gbomber on Mar 30, 2009 18:46:33 GMT -5
I've gotta agree with this phenomenon - these games were like, EASY MODE back in the day. I beat Mega Man 3 on three lives... Now, I'm lucky if I can get to the boss of the easiest stages in one continue. after I had a spat with a previous roommate, I... er, 'adopted' her modded xbox. it has a nes emulator with about 1000 games, a snes emulator with a few hundred games, and a genesis emulator with a few hundred games. needless to say, I have Mega Man 1-7 and Mega Man X1-X3. I am consistently amazed and baffled by the fact that I can't beat one boss without dying a few dozen times. hell, the only reason I'm getting through any of the games is due to the wonders of "savestates" - a wonderful technology, that. hell, I can't even beat bomberman without help. isn't that sad? I mean, not new age 3D explosions and crazy bomb-jumping puzzles. I'm talking a screen with grey brick boxes and grey solid blocks. I can't do it. hell, my username COMES from bomberman. if you open up super bomberman 2, there's an option in battle mode labelled 'G-Bomber'. and I can't even get through the first few levels anymore. what is that shit? I'm glad I'm not the only one who's succumbed to the syndrome of sucking at games I had mastered. it's absolutely retarded. I feel embarrassed as a gamer to go back to, say, Super Mario World and not be able to find every level. downloading walkthroughs to figure out how to get to the secret levels is downright pitiful when I've beaten the game 100% as a child. as a kid, how the fuck did I figure out that to get to Soda Springs, I had to beat the bridge level by having a Cape and a Yoshi and floating UNDER the normal level goal and then ditching Yoshi a split second after, flying up, so that I could make it to the secret goal? I mean, I did. and it astounds me that all of the solutions I found in the days of 14.4K modem - and no real walkthrough sites to speak of - are completely lost to me. of course, I could just blame it on gaming becoming ma.instream and companies 'dumbing down' all games in general. I mean, go and start up a game of Mega Man without the manual handy. there's two buttons and it's still complex. all you do is pick a level and you're suddenly being attacked from land, sea and sky by robotic deathmongers set on your destruction. now, go find any modern game, pop it in, and start the first level. what's that, you'll find? fucking tutorials. "use the left thumbstick to move, and the right thumbstick to move the camera." oh, wait, you've gotten to a ledge, here comes the obligatory, "Press X to jump/climb this ledge." I dunno. maybe it just that I've been stuck playing all these old games because I've been selling all my newer-gen games in the last few months. but I feel like a fucking retard when it comes to classic gaming, and yet there was a time when friends, parents, and acquaintances were ASTOUNDED by the shit I pulled off in the days before thumbsticks. hell, I can't even get all the Chaos Emeralds in Sonic 2 anymore WITH SAVE STATES, and I used to pull that off before the last stage and blaze through Robotnik with uber gold Super Sonic. anyone else feel dumb compared to older games? I'll be honest, my girlfriend/fiance thing(thanks hon) is sitting here staring in disbelief at the fact that I'm ranting about sucking at old games. and laughing at me, too. so, hell, aside from joe and I, anyone else admit to epic fail in trying to play oldskool games? I'd like to know. |
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Post by Smacked Ass on Mar 30, 2009 19:42:28 GMT -5
Yeah, older games fuck me over BIG TIME (then again, so do newer ones...)! I think the biggest part of that is this whole adulthood thing that gets in the way. Jobs, rent/mortgage payments, woomans, and just the whole shiteroo changes your focus. Yeah, I'm still nostalgic about old games, and feel like a pathetic failure when I can't last five seconds in a game I used to totally dominate in, but to be honest, I don't care as much any more. Also, when I was a kid, I didn't have a backlog of games, I had two or three games that I played the SHIT out of, because I didn't have a job when I was in elementary school, and my mom was spending money to put a roof over my head and food in my belly instead of buying me games. So yeah, between not having to give a shit about anything else, and likely only having a few games to play, even though shit was WAY harder to play back in the day, we got good at it because we had time, only a few options, and no distractions!
EDITO:
another nostalgia piece to add to classics that now own your ass,
Super Punch Out now on virtual console!
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Post by motosada on Mar 30, 2009 21:42:00 GMT -5
Man, I don't even try to fuck around with old school stuff anymore. But unlike some of you guys, I sucked at those games back then, too. I just never had anything around long enough to get good at stuff like Mega Man or even Mario.
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Post by gbomber on Mar 31, 2009 17:11:19 GMT -5
another nostalgia piece to add to classics that now own your ass, Super Punch Out now on virtual console! on the flip side, Super Punch Out is a game that I sucked at as a kid and now I'm the bombass waffles at it. if I lose a single fight before I get to the special circuit, I'm probably tired or otherwise disabled. for the most part, I can lay waste to three quarters of the roster. hell, most of the time I get the early TKO with the dizzy combos... though, last time I played, I didn't remember a single dizzy combo. of course, special circuit turns me on my ass, ma.inly due to the Bruiser brothers being completely overpowered. Quarlow isn't a walk in the park either, but I wouldn't assume anyone allowed to box with a shortstaff/cane would be. I also occasionally have problems with Dragon Chan and Super Macho Man. Dragon Chan's one of the most untraditional fighters and it takes a few rounds just to get his patterns down, much less trying to play through him. Super Macho has his damn double KO Punch attack. Kagero is also a piece of shit, because being knocked down by a damn hairslap is nigh unforgivable. Punch Out(classic) is a lot more simplistic and tends to be easier to play imo. usually the window for getting KO Punch stars is a lot easier then you'd think and you can land three straight counters - getting three straight stars - in a row. just like SPO!, Punch Out gets retarded hard in the last circuit, NEVER MIND the whole Mike Tyson fight. if you haven't gotten that far, Tyson spends half of the first round - a minute and a half - launching instant KO uppercuts at you, rapid fire. it's fucking rediculous to even stay in the fight that long your first go round, let alone knock him down before he's done with that. good times, tho. |
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Post by Smacked Ass on Mar 31, 2009 19:44:29 GMT -5
So super G, how the hell do you beat that Bruce Lee cocksucker? I couldn't get past him and almost stomped my GCN into a plastic coaster playing fight night that had SPO on it as a bonus. Seriously, if you can tell me how to beat him, I'm half-assed considering throwing away a bit more money on picking the game up on VC.
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Post by gbomber on Apr 1, 2009 14:16:10 GMT -5
Dragon Chan is pretty easy ONCE YOU KNOW HIS SHIT. he's a special move whore, and if you can't avoid or counter them, you'll get knocked silly. what's shit is that you can't knock him out of any of his specials, either, with one split-second chance exception.
ma.inly, the thing that'll throw you off during normal fighting is that he's hard to counter and his 'tells' are odd - instead of a shimmer or blink or something dumb, he'll sidestep some and then punch. the good thing is that most of his arsenal of punches is blockable - the body shots by not pressing anything, and the jabs by holding up. the good thing is that most of his punches are counterable by punches to the same side he's stepping to... it'll take a little practice, but once you get it down, he should barely be able to swing at you. he doesn't throw any crazy hooks or badass uppercuts, either, so again, you should be fine.
after a knockdown(I believe) he starts whoring his special moves. the first one that really will fuck you up is the Flying Dragon Kick of DEATH. You'll recognize this one because he'll do some dancing, and then jump to either side of the ring, perched on the turnbuckle. He'll come flying off, land on the opposite turnbuckle, and launch off with a supermegakick that will drop you on impact - you can duck to avoid it. It's the hardest part of the fight at first because he keeps fucking using it, you can't stop him from using it - as he's perched on the turnbuckle while winding up - and the timing is iffy. by that, I mean it's a random amount of time before he'll come off the ropes. sometimes it's like a quick bounce, sometimes he 'charges' up a bit. the ma.in concept here is when he's started flying towards you the second time, DUCK - and hold it for a second, and you'll likely be fine. back to punching him in the face.
the other two moves are easier to counter, because they're both telegraphed. at points, his corner man will give instructions in japanese. the first one you'll need to look for is the triple kick. you'll know it's this one because one of the symbols in the textbox is a japanese '3' - which is three lines over each other - think an equal sign with another line.
if you see that, Chan will start his triple kicks. basically, he'll drop to either side, hop, and jumping roundhouse kick you. he does this three times. all you have to do to avoid it is dodge to the side opposite the one he's on. repeat twice, and you're fine. he'll go back into his normal patterns afterwards.
last move is the other thing the cornerman will yell. it's basically the text without the "three" symbol. that's Dragon Chan's healing move. he'll pause, shimmer, and after a small pause, stop shimmering and gain back some health. there's pretty much nothing you can do about it - unless you can time a KO punch to the body right as he stops shimmering, which will knock him down.
just keep hitting him, dodge his special moves, and you'll be fine.
if you download SPO! and beat Dragon Chan, I'll be there for you when Mr. Sandman puts you to sleep. =P
... is it sad that I wrote that up from memory? I checked a FAQ after to make sure I hadn't missed a special move and I hadn't. =/
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