The Hang: It's Officially Out

[Elmdor Rizer]

I didn't even see that post. What thread was this in?

I always get my ass handed to me in Contra games. I think it's 'cause I attempt to rush through them too fast, since it feels like that's what you're suppose to do, then I get tripped up and obliterated. I want to attempt a no-death run of one of the Castlevania games for the NES. Preferably 1 or 3, since I hated 2.

The one where I brag about stuff no one cares about. You're right though, rushing is very rarely the best strategy, and pretty much never in the first two games since you don't have those fancy bombs at that point. It's also more fun to rush when playing two players, which'll always lead to you both getting killed (enemies show up further to the left of the screen for some dumb reason, surprising the front person, and the guy at the back gets trapped by snipers and shit. And then I end up yelling at my mate that it's co-op, not no-op. I'm so clever).

I should actually play and beat a Castlevania game at some point, but I have a feeling they are longer than I want a NES game to be in order to master it. :/ Same for GaG... well, that and it sort of sucks.

[Nemkoon]

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[Drageuth]

The one where I brag about stuff no one cares about. You're right though, rushing is very rarely the best strategy, and pretty much never in the first two games since you don't have those fancy bombs and that point. It's also more fun to rush when playing two players, which'll always lead to you both getting killed (enemies show up further to the left of the screen for some dumb reason, surprising the front person, and the guy at the back gets trapped by snipers and shit. And then I end up yelling at my mate that it's co-op, not no-op. I'm so clever).

I should actually play and beat a Castlevania game at some point, but I have a feeling they are longer than I want a NES game to be in order to master it. :/ Same for GaG... well, that and it sort of sucks.

Ah. Totally missed that entire thread. Must have been one of those times I left EP open and my new posts list got fucked up.

I started to find that when I no-deathed Batman (NES). There were a lot of instances where if you continued to run without stopping towards enemies, they would always hit you. If you stopped for half a second once they showed up on screen and then started running again, you could get to them just as they finished their attack. Once I figured that out, the game became so much easier.

I want to no-death Castlevania, but the games are ridiculously hard. I haven't mastered the later levels yet, and keep getting destroyed by something silly, like Medusa Heads. Ghosts 'n' Goblins... yeah, we're just not going to talk about that game. I beat it, once, after basically brute forcing my way through the entire game, but I'm afraid to know how many times I died during that run. At least 200 times, and that's not even a joke.

Ninja Gaiden... I've never gotten the hang of. I never played them as a kid, so every time I attempt to now I get destroyed and discouraged, then go on to something that I enjoy playing, like Castlevania or Mega Man.

[Jazzmarazz]

OH MY GAWD STEVE WAS RIGHT POTATOES ARE WORTH DIEING IF YOU HAVE NONE

[Elmdor Rizer]

Ah. Totally missed that entire thread. Must have been one of those times I left EP open and my new posts list got fucked up.

I started to find that when I no-deathed Batman (NES). There were a lot of instances where if you continued to run without stopping towards enemies, they would always hit you. If you stopped for half a second once they showed up on screen and then started running again, you could get to them just as they finished their attack. Once I figured that out, the game became so much easier.

I want to no-death Castlevania, but the games are ridiculously hard. I haven't mastered the later levels yet, and keep getting destroyed by something silly, like Medusa Heads. Ghosts 'n' Goblins... yeah, we're just not going to talk about that game. I beat it, once, after basically brute forcing my way through the entire game, but I'm afraid to know how many times I died during that run. At least 200 times, and that's not even a joke.

Ninja Gaiden... I've never gotten the hang of. I never played them as a kid, so every time I attempt to now I get destroyed and discouraged, then go on to something that I enjoy playing, like Castlevania or Mega Man.

I've never really played Batman. I should do that, especially now that you've taught me the ancient no-death secret.

So. Sadistic. Programmers.

But Ninja Gaiden is so paced and wonderful! Well, except for the whole trial-and-error part, but that's been very much reduced in the third instalment, which even has proper hit detection! And the insanity of the birds is gone too... but come to think about it, the fact that birds don't hurt you x 3 the damage done by any other enemy is probably negated by the fact that almost every enemy gives you atleast 3 points of damage. Tecmo so silly.

[Drageuth]

Something tells me I'll have to start with the third game, then. They're actually on my list of games to buy, but they're getting quite expensive at the moment. 1 & 2 are pretty cheap, but 3 runs around $40 just for the cart.

[Elmdor Rizer]

If you want an easier start you should go with the SNES version of the third game. It's so much easier than the NES version it's rather ridiculous. Err, perhaps I should've put a more positive spin on that sentence...

[Iamerror]

I think I'll play the third Ninja Gaiden too.

[Beelzebub]

Something tells me I'll have to start with the third game, then. They're actually on my list of games to buy, but they're getting quite expensive at the moment. 1 & 2 are pretty cheap, but 3 runs around $40 just for the cart.

NJ3 is the only one I don't have for the NES.

I think I'll play the third Ninja Gaiden too.

Liking the sig Iamerror.

[Drageuth]

NJ3 is the only one I don't have for the NES.

If I didn't have such a hard-on for the boxes, I probably would have bought the trilogy by now. I've been keeping my eyes open for some more lots that have at least a couple of boxed games in them, but everything either has too many duplicates or is too expensive.

[Drageuth]

Okay. Now that J&D is done, gonna clean up my house a bit and perhaps go grab some food. And maybe buy a bookshelf.

[Jazzmarazz]

I heard the "romantic" part of vampire diaries on in the next room so I walked out there and RIIIIIIIIIIPPED a dirty deadlegion.

[Knightshade]

I heard the "romoantic" part of vampire diaries on in the next room so I walked out there and RIIIIIIIIIIPPED a dirty deadlegion.

[Chie]

sounds sexy

[Jazzmarazz]

So how your little brother Crosshatch?