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R Type III is my favourite shooter on the system, though to be fair, I’ve never played Space Megaforce or Parodius.

There is still some slowdown, but its very minor and only happens occasionally.  It’s about 1000 times better then Super R-Type in that regard.  The game also has some great graphical effects (Mode 7, etc.)

What I like the best about the game is the way it balances crushing difficulty with overall fairness and playability.  The game is HARD, but there are unlimited continues and you always continue from your last checkpoint.  Each checkpoint lets you get powered up pretty quickly too, so the game is tough but fair and keeps you coming back for more.

I’ll save the rest for my full review!

Playing through Bassin’s Black Bass for a very special review right now. Other than that, not too much playing going on from me. A lot of reading and working lol.

Haven’t had a lot of time myself for gaming these days, so I tend to play games that offer short, quick bursts of fun instead of games with long, continuous quests.

With that in mind, the games I’ve been dabbling into are:

SNES

• Phalanx (starting to grow on me!)
• Wario’s Woods
• R-Type III
• Contra 3

Genesis

• Bio-Hazard Battle
• Quackshot

Dreamcast

• Chu Chu Rocket
• Street Fighter Alpha 3

PS3

• 3D Dot Game Heroes

I know the list above seems like a lot, but it encompasses what I’ve been playing over the last several weeks.

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I still find it hard to believe that a narrative can be so divorced from probability when it comes to Ghost. I know its a shooter, but son of a bitch, If you are going to make South America the bad guy, at least crack a fucking book on the continent to see how to do it i.e NOT a united federation. Read about the regional conflicts such as The War Of The Triple Alliance (To The bitter End is one of the finest military studies I have ever had the pleasure of reading, and does a fantastic job of illustrating why a “federation” like Ghost envisions is a practical impossibility.) Also there’s a fucking jungle that covers over half of the continent, with quite a bit of the rest being rocky coastline. Makes it hard to envision a world power scenario lol.

Lazy-ass storytelling at it’s finest. Not that I think that there should be much story in a game, mind you, but if you’re going to do it, at least be competent at it. My brain should not rebel at the stupidity of what they are proposing…

I would say that not many would appreciate it, as your typical customer does not appreciate the historical accuracy of a work like Moby Dick, either. But the fact is that you can do just as much damage by undershooting expectations as you can by spending too much research. COD does not need to be an accurate accounting of true future possibilities, that is not what I am asking. Just don’t be stupid. 

Customers are not stupid, and while stupidity can fly under the radar, when you experience a stupid story even people who don’t know their South American history will have a feeling like “something’s off, Something doesn’t feel right about this scenario.”

Thats the bullshit alarm going off in your head, and whether it’s Twain or Miyamoto writing the story, that’s bad. It is why writing has been bad all across the board as of late, not just games.