RGT Nostalgia Society #1 - Parasite Eve

[RetroDrew]

Funny enough I just played through this game on a flight last weekend. After hearing about how awesome it was for many years I was sort of let down by it. That said, I will say the game looks phenominal, I love the character designs, the story is interesting, the intro scene and rat scene STILL look amazing all these years later, but I find it kind of falls apart in the combat. I love that it's a real time action RPG, very unique, but sometimes play fields feel too narrow to actually avoid attacks, and EXP could be earned a little faster to help bolster Ada in the early game when health and resources are limited.

I REAALLY hope Square gives us a remake one of these days cause I would love to see them take another crack at this series.

 

[NeonKnights]

I liked this game and played it on my PS1 Classic last year. I got to the police station and past the park area before I realized the M16 I had invested everything into was nearly useless in the boss fight due to it's low rate of fire. I had to reload a save right after the opera house and start from scratch. I did this a few times before giving up on this game entirely to replay Silent Hill (on next fear) and RE; Survivor. I guess I'll give this game another chance sometime but I'll leave it for now. I guess I needed to read a strategy guide or a walkthrough or do way more grinding or something, but I make it a point not to do that when playing a game for the first time. For now though I like RE: Survivor more.

 

[diapered]

Auto-medicine is a fantastic tool. Heavily recommend making sure you keep that around.

Woohoo! Found even better armor with the ability!

Good to know I'm not crazy wanting to keep these around to tool later. Haven't used any tools yet. Also just dumping all BP into AT and using rifle. Working fine so far ^_^

 

[DanCalibur]

Tackled the first 20 floors of the Chrysler Building yesterday after beating the T-Rex. Ex Game goes really fast with the engraved weapon

 

[diapered]

Got my first grenade launcher and damn! Putting enemies to sleep is a pretty good deal on top of that O_o

 

[moonbits]

I REAALLY hope Square gives us a remake one of these days cause I would love to see them take another crack at this series.

Seems like a good contender for a remake with more emphasis on horror.

 

[diapered]

Damn these fuckers move fast and hit hard. And tranquilize doesn't seem to work on them

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Are you fucking kidding me?! How am I supposed to dodge here O_o

I just used this and spammed

The game penalizes the damage you do if you use with weapons with high Rate of Fire, and you are also wasting more ammo.

High rate of fire seems to work on spiders though. I kept getting torn up using grenade launcher here >_<

 

[diapered]

 

[moonbits]

Just press x and shoot, nothing to worry about.

 

[diapered]

Just press x and shoot, nothing to worry about.

Very true. The pterodactyls just look intimidating. Fighting them is refreshing because the bats in the fucking sewer were a nightmare and drove me nuts

Fighting pterodactyls just reminded me of that classic macro, and I thought it was funny

I picked this handgun up and it tears everything apart so far. Just wrecked the crab boss.

 

[dem6n dem6n]

Glad to see you're at the end, Dia! I enjoy seeing your updates.

One thing I'd like to stress to everyone is that we are running super close to the start of July, and we need a new game soon! If you have any ideas of what we should be playing through in July, PLEASE let us know in the other thread, here: https://retrogametalk.com/threads/rgt-nostaliga-society-2-nominations.10848/

 

[DanCalibur]

Very true. The pterodactyls just look intimidating. Fighting them is refreshing because the bats in the fucking sewer were a nightmare and drove me nuts

Fighting pterodactyls just reminded me of that classic macro, and I thought it was funny

I picked this handgun up and it tears everything apart so far. Just wrecked the crab boss.
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Noice, don't forget to get the MP5PDW in the museum before going for Eve, that will make the EX Game a breeze

 

[fmsynthetic]

Funny enough I just played through this game on a flight last weekend. After hearing about how awesome it was for many years I was sort of let down by it. That said, I will say the game looks phenominal, I love the character designs, the story is interesting, the intro scene and rat scene STILL look amazing all these years later, but I find it kind of falls apart in the combat. I love that it's a real time action RPG, very unique, but sometimes play fields feel too narrow to actually avoid attacks, and EXP could be earned a little faster to help bolster Ada in the early game when health and resources are limited.

I REAALLY hope Square gives us a remake one of these days cause I would love to see them take another crack at this series.

If you want to play this game with good combat play a little game called Vagrant Story

 

[diapered]

Noice, don't forget to get the MP5PDW in the museum before going for Eve, that will make the EX Game a breeze

Yea, took a break from the museum to go kill the crab which kicked my ass before going to the museum: found that handgun in museum then felt more confident. Hopefully I can make the last push tonight to finish ^_^ Is EX post game? I don't think I will do that, I think I will just be done >_> I'll watch out for that weapon.

 

[moonbits]

Hopefully I can make the last push tonight to finish ^_^

Spoiler

Time to Dino Crisis

 

[TruxtonTatsujin TruxtonTatsujin]

Got side-tracked by some other things but came back tonight to finish up disc 2.
First thing I did was go to the warehouse and defeat the giant enemy crab and get the rocket launcher. It doesn't seem that great, I ended up using it's ammo to kill the T-Rex, but then after that the game doesn't give you anymore. Also I almost got bodied by this random pipe spitting out steam when trying to pick up the tool, why does it lock you in place?

Then I made this absolute monstrosity. Bad status effects on the worst weapon type, I didn't know Poison and Tranq seem pretty good but heat and ice are absolutely detrimental. That and the grenade launcher shoots so slow.

Luckily none of that mattered, because that Liberation skill is busted. Completed generated the last few bosses. Look at the damage!

I ended up carrying over the M9-3 handgun, being able to act twice per turn seemed pretty good, and the armour I chose had anti stiffness and auto use heal items. I ended up combining my machine guns like a fool! So I couldn't carry any of those over. Running out of ammo in the sewers traumatized me so I just got rid of them.
I want to play the EX game, but I probably won't do it right away. I found the game pretty easy so a more challenging mode sounds appealing. That plus I gotta see the TRUE end.

 

[DanCalibur]

It's done! Took me ages but it's finally mastered

 

[diapered]

Spoiler

Time to Dino Crisis

I ended up using it's ammo to kill the T-Rex

I just shot at the T-rex till it died with the dual action handgun.

auto use heal items

FUCKING YES! How do you beat this game without auto potion!? I think all other armor is useless...

because that Liberation skill is busted

Very true. No way I could have beaten this game without it. Liberation then just blasted away with rockets (good thing I saved them) I was sad cause stocked all my upgrades, then used them all on the handgun I guess handgun was good for the first phase...

I want to play the EX game, but I probably won't do it right away.

I'm not going to do it at all. I saw the credits, therefore I beat the game, imo. I'm done :P

 

[fmsynthetic]

you're making me want to replay this for the manyieth time but I usually wait until Halloween.

Are you going to do the Chrysler Building? I have finished it and I would not recommend

 

[diapered]

I couldn't help myself >_< I couldn't find a serif font close to ingame text , but terminus looks ok to me and I use it for general video game text.

 

[moonbits]

I died in that section by mistake. You could imagine my frustration having to do those 3 boss fights again just to play the most embarrassing chase sequence known to man.

 

[diapered]

I died in that section by mistake. You could imagine my frustration having to do those 3 boss fights again just to play the most embarrassing chase sequence known to man.

My feelings exactly. The ending chase with instant game over was bullshit. I think the resident evil games have a similar thing? But it was just dumb, imo.

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

My feelings exactly. The ending chase with instant game over was bullshit. I think the resident evil games have a similar thing? But it was just dumb, imo.

I'm pretty sure in Resi the time limits are laughably generous compared with what you get in Parasite Eve

 

[χKai]

I gave up ages ago and deleted my ISO, just don't have the time to concentrate on a long RPG these days.

 

[moonbits]

I gave up ages ago and deleted my ISO, just don't have the time to concentrate on a long RPG these days.

It's 6-7 hours dude.