It was a limitation of the PS1 hardware. Some later games had specific code to try to minimize it but the gpu simply didn’t keep track of the position of objects in 3D space and would often result in weird perspective glitches.
Started playing The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. I’m really enjoying it so far.
Put a few armor mods in Xenonauts and played it again for a little bit. Usually end a mission by having my guy with a riot shield beat an alien to death with it. Still hesitant to start up X-COM again because the mission I’m on in there right now is a night mission. In Xenonauts they give you flares to kind of make those less annoying but not in the original game.
I’ve been playing The Long War mod for XCOM: Enemy Within. This game is just… unfair.
10HP outsiders with health regeneration on the first downed UFO. Repair drones actually do decent damage. Thin Men have double to triple HP and their new poison attacks only take effect if you move or use a weapon (mixed blessing- you can avoid the damage by waiting it out for a couple turns, but that buys the aliens time to flank and finish you).
And MOTHERFUCKING FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES. TEN GODDAMN THIN MEN. TEN. Plus fucking THREE SEEKERS. And Sectoids that can use Mindfray on your units like Commanders. WHAT THE FUCK.
Everything takes fucking FOREVER to build, there’s never enough money or resources, all the nations keep asking for things that you often have no way of building. I thought vanilla EW on classic was pretty hard. But this? This is probably what small children felt like upon being invited to Michael Jackson’s Neverland.
It is very fun. I have 4 paintings. I played Pokemon Y (gym badge number 6) and Fire Emblem Awakening today, and will probably play league later.
Started a new game in GTAIV mostly to mess around with the settings to try to get it running well. Still can’t keep the framerate stable most of the time but it’s fairly good even downsampling from 2880x1800.
Also beat the first mission in Duke Nukem 3D.
Also am at that underwater escort mission part of MGS2. I’m playing on hard and the Vamp fight before getting Emma gave me some trouble. Took me a few times dying to figure out that you can shoot out the spotlights that make you cast a shadow so Vamp can pin you to the ground using it.
I wouldn’t mind playing the MGS games. Not exactly sure if it’s worth the trouble to get a pc version running correctly though. Any thoughts? You guys seem to have a lot of difficulty.
MGS2 emulates pretty well under PCSX 2 even upscaled. You’ll lose the PS2’s pressure-sensitive buttons which will make some aspects of play a hassle, but you can more or less play it. Honestly, you might be better served getting a PS2 and playing on it instead, or the HD Collection for PS3/360 (thought the ports have visual issues of their own due to the new widescreen aspect ratio and some post-processing effects not translating well).
Or you can always just get Persona 4 instead. That emulates near-flawlessly and you can upscale the fuck out of it with no problems.
I can help you with the PC versions of 1 and 2 if you want. I’m honestly having no issues with them after some work (mostly with 2, 1 worked fine without needing to do much of anything) besides the damn fmvs not playing that I can’t seem to solve, which doesn’t really affect much anyway. The HD collection versions are pretty good (though there’s not one of the first game, you get a download if you get the Legacy collection) and emulation works well enough as well. Playing the PS1/PS2 versions of the games would also be fine if you can track them down.
Edit: Also the PC version has a button specifically to get around needing pressure sensitive buttons.
It might be possible to get around this using a controller with MotioninJoy DS3 tool in PS2 mode + the pressure sensitive LilyPad+MotioninJoy plugin for PCSX2.
(unless there’s some emulation problem preventing the game from reading input pressure at all? I’d test it myself but don’t have MGS2.)
I played a bit of Hawken today. There are so few players on US West anymore, it’s sad. Plus absolutely nobody plays support classes so whenever the enemy team has someone playing tech they absolutely destroyed us.
I actually got full on typed thank-yous every round I played support. It must be rare for people to play Technician.
I have an old PS1 laying around somewhere. Never had a PS2 though. I do have a controller though, which might help control issues if that’ll work with the PC. Should I go PC version or go with an emulator? I guess that’s the main question.
I’m not sure what advantages either have. I think the PC versions of the games will probably run better but you’re more likely to have certain things work better (like the prerendered videos) on an emulator. Some things won’t work as well though. Playing them on their original console will give maximum workage, but less graphical fidelity and performance. Controls will be better for MGS2 at least on PC and PS2 unless you can figure out how to get pressure sensitivity working with an emulator.
Edit: I’m practicing some stuff with a 2D game engine called Love2D. Right now I’m trying to make a top down shooter (though I have no enemies yet). I’ve been able to find everything in tutorials so far except how to offset where the bullet comes from so it’s not in the center of the character. It sounds a lot easier than it actually is. My character is a little box with a part sticking out (like a tank turret) and I want the bullets to spawn right at the end of that turret thing but the math to do that is way too much for me. Cosines, sines, and tangents of things that don’t make any sense to me. Anytime I mess around with it I get shooting off to one side working fine but any other direction the bullet spawns on the very sides of the screen.
Aren’t emulators officially illegal? At least Nintendo did say so.
Emulators are legal, but the ROMs kinda seem to be in a legal grey area. Copyright law is so messed up I’m not clear what the official law is, but what I’ve heard is that if you own a physical copy of a game and back it up as a ROM yourself, then it’s completely legal for your personal use. Downloading a ROM of a game you own from the Internet is probably illegal since it involves the distribution of copyrighted material, and downloading a ROM of a game you don’t own is definitely illegal. However, I’ve never heard of anyone going to jail or even being fined over it. Despite the legal issues many people find it morally unobjectionable, but that can depend on a number of things and is another issue altogether.
Just played some more of “Crysis 3”, and have to say it is just a jaw-dropping experience. Am at the part where the buggy was introduced, and some later (makes me having a callback to the memories of “Half-Life 2”'s buggy fun).
EDIT: Played some “Crysis 2”, about half-way through the game (fourth walkthrough).
I’ve been playing the Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. I haven’t had this game for a week and I’m already getting close to finishing the game. I’ve been having a fun time playing this game.
Skyrim.
I probably spend at least as much time modding this game as I do actually playing it.
Gameplay is getting a bit repetitive but the story is interesting.
Wish I could get the high-resolution mode to work, sadly the game just minimises (and gets stuck that way) once I exit the menu with it enabled.
Kerbal Space Program, along with the Interstellar mod.
I got a nuclear reactor thermal rocket into orbit, but I couldn’t keep it hot enough to perform any useful maneuvers. That is not the problem I was expecting.