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actually we didn't know of the exploits of the opponents. we just played until we beat them, which took many tries which was a part of the fun.
Something I've learned playing Neo Geo games this week
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actually we didn't know of the exploits of the opponents. we just played until we beat them, which took many tries which was a part of the fun.
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There is a difference between games being difficult and games outright cheating to eat quarters.
Outside a few boss fights, I don't recall many Neo games outright cheating.
Certainly not the way MidWay sports games would cheat....
Outside a few boss fights, I don't recall many Neo games outright cheating.
Certainly not the way MidWay sports games would cheat....
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The ol' Midway rubber-band AI
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That's basically the idea, they are arcade games, so they are trying to get you to keep spending more quarters. So that means the AES is different from other consoles, the games for which don't have that imperative. But on the AES, you can change the difficulty setting to make it easier (but of course, they are still arcade games). Which makes most games beatable using the 4 (or more) credits you are given, or you can also switch to player 2's credits, once you have almost used up player 1's credits.
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Are you telling me that Muggsy Bogues couldn't get a game winning dunk from the opposite side of the court in real life?
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Muggsy could.
But Christian Laettner couldn't make a half-court 3 to save his life, but I'll be damned if that mother fucker couldn't make it rain in that game.
Exactly, that's all I was saying. I admit I've only played it for a few hours so am no expert, but my feelings so far is that the shots you hit aren't always consistent with either the power/direction, or environment. That's very different from a difficult opponent in a beat-em-up, it's the equivalent of pressing punch and getting a kick instead.
Anyway, I'm getting better and still enjoying it
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Exactly, that's all I was saying. I admit I've only played it for a few hours so am no expert, but my feelings so far is that the shots you hit aren't always consistent with either the power/direction, or environment. That's very different from a difficult opponent in a beat-em-up, it's the equivalent of pressing punch and getting a kick instead.
Anyway, I'm getting better and still enjoying it
Who are you playing as? If you play as the German with high accuracy and high putting, the issues you mention aren’t there.
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You accused the game of cheating without even feeling out the different stats of the players? haha
Seems reasonable to assume the character with the best putting stats would be able to putt
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What the OP was saying about Neo Geo carts being arcade games. I would like it one day if some homebrew developers make some more in-depth games for the system. The Neo Geo lacks the slightly deeper gameplay that many SNES and Megadrive games had.
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That's why you had a Mega Drive and SNES... SNK never catered to the weenie console market
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This is a foolish post on multiple levels
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And such is depth.
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Yeah, from the depth of my heart I can tell: an arcade game is as flat as a coin. It takes only one to learn, but many to master that only one should be enough. In that time a whole console generation may pass by unnoticed.
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You would expect that with an arcade game.
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Depth != Breadth
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If he was in todays NBA he could.
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Yes it’s true. This man has no dick.
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I agree. While people are right that arcade games can take many years to master, they are also throw-away by their nature. Considering the NG is such a technically capable console, it would have been great to see more RPGs etc.
So I've spent quite a few more hours on NTM this past week. The Shot Maker character does indeed seem better. I now have trophies for two of the courses. I still feel luck is an element of this game though, there are shots where I just feel like the game didn't want me to make it rather than being down to human error. I also still think the physics is completely wrong, proven by recently realising you can save your progress (pressing D on the score card screen) to effectively allow me to replay bad shots. There are some circumstances where it seems the game just wants you to lose, for example if there is a small area of fairway in between a bunker and a water hazard. Having used saves to take multiple attempts at the shot, avoiding either the bunker or water is nigh-on impossible even using combinations of height, hook etc. Also the physics for being in the rough is completely wrong, being a 'real' golfer myself being in mild rough off the fairway does not mean you can only hit a 50% (or less) strength shot. So I still think it has that 'arcade' unfair edge to it on some holes.
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Care to elaborate?