This weekend I played more Dragon’s Dogma 2 and watched the WWE PLE, Bad Blood. Enjoyed both.

robio said:

I'm playing Resident Evil Revelations 2. Pacing is a little wonky, but overall it's a damn good game.

So I completed Strider, arcade on the Capcom collection using invincibility.

It's honestly a mess and one of the strangest platformer stage design I've ever seen.

You will walk all the way to the right, then assuming that there is a platform below you to jump down to your death. There is no other visual indication of where to go so you jump down and end up falling to your death. This happens on multiple instances. Some surfaces can be clinged to, some can't.

Sometimes you will reach a dead end, only to eventually work out you have to destroy a large piece of scenery. The problem being that you may have gone up, down left and right in the level only to randomly attack something and have the rest of the level open up.

There are times you walk on the ceiling and the controls are reversed. It's like Mario Galaxy, if that game made no sense and controlled like a dog.

I think the most irritating aspect of the game is that some levels force you forward like a schmup level with unbeatable odds and again, it's not always clear where the game wants you to go, leading to excess deaths.

I didn't play anything this weekend as we had a wedding on Saturday and the required recovery time on Sunday.  The wedding was from my side of the family, people our age.  Was really looking forward to having a good party so those dancing lessons we've been taking could finally be put to the test.  Unfortunately their taste of music didn't leave much room for jiving or swinging or any other civilized form of dancing.  The DJ only started playing danceable songs around 2AM when we were about to go home and by what time any sane person had already long left.

Stay safe, Rob! Might be the perfect time to visit South of the Border.

travo said:

Stay safe, Rob! Might be the perfect time to visit South of the Border.

Archangel3371 said:

Hoping all you folks in the storm’s path down there stay safe.

Ravenprose said:

I love Strider's atmosphere and artwork.  It was one of my first Sega Genesis games I got after Sonic 1. It felt like a massive leap in tech from the 7800 and SMS games at the time.

gamingeek said:

aspro said:

Besides work I've been in so much back pain I've struggled to even plays video games this week.

Have you seen a doctor? Is it getting less painful over time?

There's a gel called Deep Relief, comes in a purple tube. It's pretty good, won a bunch of product awards.


Does it hurt in a specific area like a lump. Or is it more generalised like muscular pain?

When you hurt it was the onset of pain sudden like you tore something or cramped up?


If you lose control of your bladder or lose feeling around the waist/crotch area doctors recommend you go straight to Accident and Emergency.

No I don't have a doctor. It has gotten better, after getting worse. I'll look up that product.

The pain was specific to the activity I was doing, just a few hours job, but it was using my lower back muscle that balance you, which I usually have no call for using.