Going to be a weekend of modern gaming for me!

Red Dead Redemption (original) and NFS Most Wanted (2005)

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Madden NFL 2003 (2002 EA Sports) - Nintendo Gamecube - Sports (Football)

"Hold Ⓐ button to walk of injury."

!Doom 64
My pick this weekend is Doom 64 (the remastered version via Proton, rather than the N64 original), which I've been looking forward to getting started on for a while.

In its day, a lot of people overlooked it because they mistook it for a Nintendo 64 port of the first Doom, but it's not that at all - it's its own unique game that's technically the "true" Doom 3. There's a remastered version available these days which gives options to adjust the far-too-dark lighting, and has various modern quality-of-life niceties, and that's the one that I'm playing.

Doom 64 sees Doomguy facing off against the Mother Demon, which has resurrected all of the forces that had already been slain in the earlier games. Of course, the only way to deal with it is to go back and do more of the same, so that's what you have to do.

!Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
I also played the fan-translation of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (PC Engine Super CD-ROM²) for Halloween, which was good fun.

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Major League Baseball 2K6 (2006 2K Sports) – Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Baseball)

What's up with the quiz?

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World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 Final Evolution (2003 Konami) Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Soccer)

This one seems to upscale nicely!

Now for my bad joke of the week……
Never argue with left handed people...... They are not right........
*ba dum.... tssssh…...*

Hahaha!

NFS Most Wanted (2005)

Judging by your posts in the piracy thread...... I somehow think YOU are Most Wanted.......

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Madden NFL 2003 (2002 EA Sports) - Nintendo Gamecube - Sports (Football)

"Hold Ⓐ button to walk of injury."

And if that fails you can just buy a "healing potion" which cures any and all injuries instantly for just 99c........

!Doom 64
My pick this weekend is Doom 64 (the remastered version via Proton, rather than the N64 original), which I've been looking forward to getting started on for a while.

But is it 64 times better than the original Doom???..... Do the math!......

Doom 64 sees Doomguy facing off against the Mother Demon, which has resurrected all of the forces that had already been slain in the earlier games. Of course, the only way to deal with it is to go back and do more of the same, so that's what you have to do.

Ok...... Lets carry on from last week....... Can you do a six degrees on Kevin Bacon from Doom 64 to Bomberman??.........

!Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
I also played the fan-translation of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (PC Engine Super CD-ROM²) for Halloween, which was good fun.

Its a really good Castlevania game one of my favourites........

What's up with the quiz?

Lots of sports games during this time period had quizes in them........ They quite often gave you tokens or points or something if you answered them correctly....... And they would be used to unlock content such as historic teams, uniforms, stadiums and even cheats such as the Big Head cheat I showed last week......

The quiz has long since died out thanks to DLC and Card Pack microtransactions........

This one seems to upscale nicely!

Ive honestly NOT seen a GameCube game that hasnt upscaled really nicely...... Dolphin does a fantastic job upscaling thats for sure........ And the art style of the GC and also the PS2 lends itself to upscaling really well.......

Hahaha!

I had a feeling you would really like that one......

But is it 64 times better than the original Doom???..... Do the math!......

It has coloured sector lights. And the levels don't feel as visually random as in Doom 2. I would place it between Doom and Doom 2.

And don't forget the many tricks that they used to make the flat levels feel like they are multi-layered. That must have required a lot of fiddling to get right. All those automatically raised or lowered bridges…

NFS Most Wanted (2005)

Judging by your posts in the piracy thread...... I somehow think YOU are Most Wanted.......

I don't know what you are talking about. I am just an innocent law abiding civilian, honest.

Meanwhile, I made a couple of screenshots:

Read Dead Redemption
!Fail cow.
!Drunk 0
!Drunk 1

Need For Speed: Most Wanted
!Serious Speed 1
!Serious Speed 2
!Serious Speed 3
!Serious Speed 4

!Fail cow.

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But is it 64 times better than the original Doom???..... Do the math!......

Oh man, that ad-campaign was awful, hahaha!

Ok...... Lets carry on from last week....... Can you do a six degrees on Kevin Bacon from Doom 64 to Bomberman??.........

I can!

Doom 64 was developed by Midway. In the 1980s, Midway held the US distribution rights for Namco's Pac-Man arcade games. A Japan-only mobile game crossover, Pac-Man X Bomberman, was released in 2010. So, Doom 64 can indeed be connected to Bomberman.

Its a really good Castlevania game one of my favourites........

It's not quite in my top three Castlevanias, but it's close and I can see why it's so well-liked.

Lots of sports games during this time period had quizes in them........ They quite often gave you tokens or points or something if you answered them correctly....... And they would be used to unlock content such as historic teams, uniforms, stadiums and even cheats such as the Big Head cheat I showed last week......

The quiz has long since died out thanks to DLC and Card Pack microtransactions........

Wow... I never knew that these things existed at all!

I can!

Let's play invent the craziest connections:

Spoiler, click me

Doom 64 was developed by Midway. Midway is an atoll in the Pacific. It was the place of a battle of World War II that was caused by the attack on Pearl Harbour, where some stuff was bombed.

Read Dead Redemption

Good. You should be punished for killing a cow.

Halloween is over, kind of odd to have a whole holiday dedicated to Scary Spice, but who am I to judge these things... Anyhoo, what I played this week:

Prim
The long awaited Kickstarter from 2012 where the protagonist is the mortal daughter of Death. The premise is inspired by a similar character from the Discworld books but the story itself is original.

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The game answers a certain question about Cerberus...

Old fashioned point and click adventure. Grab every little thing, talk to everyone and everything. You have a trusty little sidekick in the form of a detachable eyeball (with spider legs) and there's some mini-games and card collecting going on.

Sadly not enough of a challenge for the seasoned adventurer, which in turn makes the game a bit on the short side. On the plus side the ending seems to hint at a sequel?


Camp Sunshine
Classic teen slasher - psychotic killer on the loose. Avoid the killer. Solve mini games to uncover the mystery and break the curse. Sleep in blood soaked beds to save your progress!

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Not really my cup of tea. It does have good reviews so I guess my opinion is in the minority.

Read Dead Redemption

Good. You should be punished for killing a cow.

The cow was not doing as instructed and therefore, had to be shot with my gun.

I really had no choice.