Screenshot thread

[Darth Roxor]

art

 

[Ivan]

Fun fact: Because most walkthroughs for Monkey Island list the Three Trials in the order of "Swordfighter > Treasure Hunt > Idol Thievery", most players will miss out on an awesome scene.

Every time Guybrush steps on the bridge next to the SCUMM bar, the game checks to see if the Three Trials are complete. If they are, we see the cutscene where LeChuck's ship sails off with Elaine. However, if you do the Three Trials so that stealing the Idol comes first or second, an extra scene is played on the bridge where Elaine comes to rescue Guybrush from drowning. However, if the player stole the Idol last, the "Bridge Check > GoTo LeChuck" scene overrides this one.

Fortunately the scene can be seen below:



(I only personally discovered this two weeks ago.)

Saw this on my first playthrough (special edition), definitely a highlight. I actually prefer this version. I do wonder what it was like growing up when these games didn't have voice acting. Pretty neat that the special editions give you the option to play it as it was first released.

What I've been up to: (trying to avoid hints)

 

[Great Deceiver]

Man, please turn that filter off. It absolutely destroys the art.

 

[Citizen]

Man, please turn that filter off. It absolutely destroys the art.

This is not a filter. Thats how the enhanced edition of DotT looks like.

 

[Siveon]

Man, please turn that filter off. It absolutely destroys the art.

This is not a filter. Thats how the enhanced edition of DotT looks like.

I'm fairly certain you can turn it off either way.

 

[Swampy_Merkin]

Fail...none of my shit loaded.

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[Ivan]

Day of the Tentacle, original chunky style. Making good progress, Laverne unlocked!

homicidal Bernard

fuck cats

what's got me completely stumped is Ben Franklin and the fucking kite. I can see there's a pocket that I should be able to interact with but Hoagie just drops the damn thing.

 

[Darth Roxor]

 

[Citizen]

Turned out that flamethrowers are overpowered in auto-combat. Maybe the lack of siege equipment on the enemy side is the real reason?

JULIA REEEEEE

 

[octavius]

Are you using an Age of Wonders mod?
I don't recognize green orc unit.

 

[Citizen]

Are you using an Age of Wonders mod?
I don't recognize green orc unit.

No mods. Do you mean that one?

Just a "retreated" pictogram on top a battering ram unit.

 

[octavius]

Heh, no wonder I didn't recognize it: I never retreat.

 

[Dreed]

Balls of Steel, a 3D Realms pinball game from 97:

Still a better Duke game than Duke Nukem Forever

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

 

[Great Deceiver]

It's been around 10 years since my last playthrough. Looking forward to playing with the War of the Lions script.

 

[abnaxus]

 

[RK47]

Does this background actually change anything?

 

[HansDampf]

This must be from the new Plus patch. Afaik it only swaps models in the intro sequence and has no other effect in the game.

 

[nil]

"I'm an ex-cop. You?"
"I'm a homosexual."

 

[HansDampf]

Speaking of gay:

I was experimenting with the higan emulator and got hooked.

Starry Night

Spoiler

Some details about the shader I've used

What shader? If you hadn't noticed, then it did its job well.
While SNES games have always been displayed in a 4:3 ratio, the console's actual internal resolution has an aspect ratio of 8:7, meaning the image would get stretched. Some games were designed with this in mind, Yoshi's Island clearly wasn't (e.g. the moon isn't a circle). Still, 4:3 is the "correct" aspect ratio! Problem is, forcing aspect correction in higan (or any emulator) inevitably leads to rounding errors. It's not that noticeable in this game with so many complex shapes and few straight lines. But it can get ugly when the screen is scrolling at a constant pace. Look at Green Yoshi in this example.

His eyes should have the same width, but the right one appears thinner. Entire pixel columns are affected by this, it's everywhere. Usually this gets fixed by applying filters/shaders that smoothen the image, or add scanlines and whatnot, to emulate a low-res CRT screen. Higan offers another option, which I'm sure is old hat, but I haven't seen it in other emulators before: AANN ("anti-alias nearest neighbor").

It's magic! Suddenly every pixel looks the same size. How?

A closer inspection exposes the trick. Nifty.

I've also tried other shaders like the usual scanlines or even NTSC. They can look good on other games, but for this one AANN works best imo.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

I've finished C&C : Renegade on Commando difficulty. Some of the segments were brutal, when Nod commanders with rocket launchers were send reinforcements while trying to take some cover, because there is no surviving direct hit with the rocket. Later on the Black Hand snipers and tiberium shock troopers. Plus the resource drops from enemies are way lower and using pistol with infinite ammo is a must. The last mission is total madness, there are foes around every corner and on the top of that at the end we need to escort an unarmed civilian. The boss fight is badly designed though. After a short cut scene we are caught in a crossfire from Nod soldiers and the main boss. That isn't a big problem on lower difficulties of course. Still was very fun to see the series in full 3d as Havoc. The guy has really some good one liners and he would have another shot with the sequel, if only Electronic Arts didn't kill it.

Spoiler

 

[Darth Roxor]

Wait, is Renegade actually good or something? I was always under the impression that it was terrible.

 

[janior]

c&c fps? Wat

 

[warpig]