Elden Ring
Lab Work – Elden Ring with @RadBrad
Elden Ring… PS5 was a late add in 2023, since, we’ve added a few games… F1, NHL ’24, Grinch and Hogwarts… And, since @theRadBrad has the play-through, thought we should take a look at what kind of trouble we might get into before we gave it the ‘ole college’ try.
For those of you who don’t know the Dark Souls games, Elden Ring; Elden Ring is very difficult, for an old school game fan (not a gamer by any stretch). Streetfighter, Mechwarrior, Baseball (Nintendo) and Donkey Kong were of my era. I’d like to get into ‘Rust’ but not until I can spend more time on Elden Ring. So, for a game like Elden Ring, I’m very much someone on the periphery looking in. And it doesn’t get any tougher than Elden Ring, or the Dark Souls games. For context, it’s been quite awhile since owning a stand alone gaming console, most online. PS2? Dare I say? Was the last game console I owned outright. Since, we’ve used dedicated computers, emulators and such to stay informed; certainly not in the gaming world. So, as you might come to understand, it’s a tough area to restart. I’ll save the controller issues for a later post, the setup is just ‘a lot’. Just for the sake of the story, I’m starting to think it might be easier to fly a drone, FPV with googles, with the same setup; as I mentioned for me, it’s the character focus or lock-on mechanics I need to master.
Anyhow, @theRadBrad’s got this game locked in, check out some of his other videos… he’s been online for along time, 13 some odd years, for other games that you might be interested in, early content and full play-through’s
Street Fighter Returns
Street Fighter 6(XBox/PC)
Lab Work – Steam, XBox, VM Software, Street Fighter And More
It’s time… it’s time we embark on a new adventure, Street Fighter… Parallels (check), Windows 11 (check), Steam (check), Street Fighter… Street Fighter is up and running, first boot, and full go come Monday or Tuesday. It’s been some 20 years since my last go… Emulation and Steam are requirements today. Wayback when, I think it was Street Fighter – Capcom vs SNK; undergrad work. I think we are looking at Street Fighter 6… I’m sure it will be brilliant. We will run the game on Xbox/PC (Asus Mini or MacOS Parallels {Win11 or Linux distro}). Whatever runs better than the other or visa versa.
The point here, I’ll get to it. It’s been 20 plus years since I played my favorite game of all time, the first few were of the ‘all-time variety’, first as a button smasher, to novice, to skilled gamer… I don’t know that I would say gamer, but for purposes of the post, I was the closest thing to the ‘idea of a ST gamer’… perhaps more nostalgia than the least practical ‘legendary’ status.
Anyhow, I think we will tune up the Asus mini, and have a go over the next few days/weeks. We’ve got guitar, printer, ‘on the bench’ fixes and more coming soon… Why not add a college favorite to the mix. We can cover the Asus mini, MacOS Parallels (running Win11 and Linux) while we are at it as well.
NES Excitebike
Find @nintendoComplete Online, Starting With Excitebike
Lab Work – Excitebike
Huge Excitebike Fan, custom stages, max jumps; game before it’s time.
First, a slight gripe, bike tempurature control/problems (which is annoying, cause that’s now how bikes really work when you hammer down the throttle). After a few runs, you can pick up on timing and ramp pace, get a few wins under your belt.. Race cut scenes have aged, but are really good for aging game. A Fan? Get an official Excitebike t-shirt, only a couple of days to have it shipped and ‘in hand’.In comparison, this might be my favorite racing game, outside of MarioKart, FZero or maybe F1 ’22 (which again, in my mind outside the boundary of throwback games and nostalgia associated with early game consoles). Anyhow, this game is in my phantom top 3 I think, just cause of the action. I believe it was a head of it’s time, graphics weren’t all that complicated, screen moves right-to-left with obstacles, especially like the striped ramps and speed arrows…
More on the customization though, once you’ve played most of the game, you may want to try your hand at creating you’re own track/track obstacles. I remember building these tracks for days, xlarge ramps, little ramps, speed arrows and striped ramps to see how many jumps I could complete in one go. Don’t forget the ramps with the large extensions, like half of a bridge sans one side. Those things can wreak havoc on your game play, including the mega-berms. Honestly don’t recall what each of the obstacles are called, but it’s worth a watch, if you don’t have access to an online game console, ROM, emulator or Authentic NES
Follow along with @nintencoComplete has a go at Excitebike, excellent playthrough. I’ve covered this channel for awhile now, we will start mixing in Sega, Sony and other game consoles soon. One last item, check out the Design Mode around ~21min marker… Nostalgia.
I skipped the screenshots, check out @nintendoCompete work, it’s epic. You always catch old NES games and more on Retrogames.cz if you want to stay up on legacy games etc. There are others, today we will hightlight Retrogames.cz. Cheers.