Super Mario 3D All-Stars - The Chris Pratt Collection

[Mr Do 71]

2 minutes ago, wretcherd said:

 

A confession: I used to hold the N64 stick with 2 fingers similar to this

 

[deKay]

1 hour ago, Talvalin said:

 

 

You'll have to forgive my incompetence based on the fact that I've never played the game before, let alone completed it multiple times. 

 

But how is this possible.

[deKay]

28 minutes ago, Popo said:

The DS version was perfectly portable. 

 

There is no DS version.

[Fierce Poodle]

[McCoy]

1 minute ago, Fierce Poodle said:

 

There is no DS version. 

[Fierce Poodle]

[Broker]

The DS version is great aside from not having analogue control. 

[deKay]

6 minutes ago, Fierce Poodle said:

 

Pirate rom hack mate.

[deKay]

1 minute ago, Broker said:

The DS version is great aside from not having analogue control. 

 

And being utter shit.

[Fierce Poodle]

There are times when a good hard wank just fits the bill though.

 

Edit: that makes no sense now the previous post has been removed.

[Popo]

[Rain Birds]

Hmm, Sunshine’s frame rate seems to take a hit when docked, as opposed to Galaxy which is flawless at twice the FPS. Hopefully that will get ironed out. The controls also feel much clunkier than I remember them being on the GameCube.

[Monkeyspill]

What happens in Mario 64 if you run out of lives? I’m almost out having done a Dave Perry about five times in a row.

[thesnwmn]

4 minutes ago, Monkeyspill said:

What happens in Mario 64 if you run out of lives? I’m almost out having done a Dave Perry about five times in a row.

 
You spawn outside the castle with 4 lives. No lost progress.

[Lyrical Donut]

8 minutes ago, Monkeyspill said:

What happens in Mario 64 if you run out of lives? I’m almost out having done a Dave Perry about five times in a row.

Your save file gets deleted.

 

 

Spoiler

Not really! You'll just get booted back to the title screen and put back at the castle grounds when you select your save file.

 

Also, pull down on the left stick to slow yourself down if you're having trouble with navigating tight corners during the slidey bits.

[DarhkFox]

Got 82 stars I'll finish it tomorrow. 

 

The camera seems inverted to me though?

[Dudley]

7 hours ago, Stanley said:

Then there was Quake which came out the same year and pretty much invented the controls for movement and looking that we would come to use ever more. 
 

1996 

 

 

If you mean mouselook I have bad news, Quake doesn't have it.

 

You use the mouse to turn and the WASD to strafe sure but you can't mouselook up and down in the original release.  It actually has as much mouse control as I remember Doom having.

 

I only discovered this when I replayed it last year.  Of course all the many, many sourceports fix this.

[Paulando]

1 hour ago, Monkeyspill said:

What happens in Mario 64 if you run out of lives?

You get sent to Nintendo hell and can only play the watermelon level in Super Mario Sunshine.

[Stanley]

10 minutes ago, Dudley said:

 

 

If you mean mouselook I have bad news, Quake doesn't have it.

 

You use the mouse to turn and the WASD to strafe sure but you can't mouselook up and down in the original release.  It actually has as much mouse control as I remember Doom having.

 

I only discovered this when I replayed it last year.  Of course all the many, many sourceports fix this.

Yeah you could enable though. 

[R0b]

Luigi's Mansion was just a third party hoovering game that Nintendo slapped Luigi on. 

[R0b]

2 hours ago, Rain Birds said:

Hmm, Sunshine’s frame rate seems to take a hit when docked, as opposed to Galaxy which is flawless at twice the FPS. Hopefully that will get ironed out. The controls also feel much clunkier than I remember them being on the GameCube.

I know Sunshine pretty well. I think something's going on, maybe that the Switch stick is just very different from the Gamecube stick. I'm imprecisely twitching all over the place and flopping off slim walkways. 

[kensei]

Nevermind 64, Sunshine needed the full remaster. It’s just filled with jank. And fuck me, if even early void levels aren’t absolutely rock hard just for the crack.

 

Mario 64 early star: Stomp a post near a chain chomp

Galaxy Early star: collect some star pieces off a bee

Sunshine early shine: Beat a course with loads of narrow sections without Fludd over an instadeath pit. Oh and the platforms are spinning.

 

WTAF, Nintendo.

 

[Meatball]

Stupid squid cunt!

 

 

No control and straight into the wall

[Rain Birds]

38 minutes ago, kensei said:

Nevermind 64, Sunshine needed the full remaster. It’s just filled with jank. And fuck me, if even early void levels aren’t absolutely rock hard just for the crack.

 

Mario 64 early star: Stomp a post near a chain chomp

Galaxy Early star: collect some star pieces off a bee

Sunshine early shine: Beat a course with loads of narrow sections without Fludd over an instadeath pit. Oh and the platforms are spinning.

 

WTAF, Nintendo.

 

At least it has the best / most humiliating version of the Mario death music, because you’re bound to hear it a lot on those levels.

[tnman]

After giving it a go this evening I really don't remember Sunshine being as janky as it is. It's spoiling my memories of it.

[PyramidFace]

It's noticeable that the pre-release Sunshine defence force is completely AWOL now 3D All Stars is actually out. It's just not a good game at all. Fortunately this re-release seems to have strangled any depraved nostalgia for it at birth.

 

64 though. Last time I played it was 15 years ago. 30 stars in and still an amazing game.

[scoobysi]

I’m enjoying Sunshine, sorry .

[DeciderVT]

64 feels so small now. It's like returning to your childhood bedroom and realising you've outgrown it, despite cherished memories.

 

I'm enjoying all of the odd little touches in it that point toward it being Nintendo's first time around with a 3D platformer. That block in the pyramid over there? Stick a creepy, unmoving face on it and dress it up like a mummy, because we can.

[Kevvy Metal]

38 minutes ago, PyramidFace said:

It's noticeable that the pre-release Sunshine defence force is completely AWOL now 3D All Stars is actually out. It's just not a good game at all. Fortunately this re-release seems to have strangled any depraved nostalgia for it at birth.

 

64 though. Last time I played it was 15 years ago. 30 stars in and still an amazing game.

Sunshine is a very good game. 

[CS2x]

On 19/09/2020 at 22:53, Ketchup said:

Yeah this was a big deal on the edge forums. There was one or two pictures that showed what looked like two frames over lapping which people latched onto. It wasn’t motion blur but it was something that looked off at the time. Ultimately it probably was just a badly taken screenshot.
 

This screenshot I believe.

 

Ah yes, it was the Edge forums! Thank you for the reminder. (Also really interesting to read of the 3D technology Nintendo was apparently exploring at the the time.)

 

What does it do to people’s heads here to reconnect with these games now? Most seem to be having a good time here, but to me it’s kind of bittersweet being reminded of a different era, and games seem to do that more potently than anything else. Sunshine seems to play especially weirdly with the nostalgia settings of the brain.