Am I right in thinking the Bit.Trip games are endless?

I've put a good amount of time into the NES remix games, always boot them up from time to time for a quick half hour. Great games.

retroking1981 wrote:

Am I right in thinking the Bit.Trip games are endless?

I've put a good amount of time into the NES remix games, always boot them up from time to time for a quick half hour. Great games.

Runner has a clear ending and is by miles the best bit trip

I have Runner 2 on Wii U.  Fantastic game.

There are a couple of games you should cull from the list and try to forget about imo.  World of Goo is one of them, not because it's crap (it's not - would probably scrape the top half of a very strong Wii top ten for me), but I've watched you try to enjoy it twice and you don't.  Can't win 'em all, one man's [9] is another man's meh.  Also, Doom 64?  Cross it off and you'll probably enjoy the new one even more when you get round to it.

I'm a massive Doom fan and its the only one I've not done.

Pain in the arse of it is I can't get it working on my Raspberry Pi which I would be much more likely to play it on seeing as my N64 isn't set up.

Same goes for Excitebike although I'd be more inclined to pick that up on the VC, but Doom 64 will unfortunately never grace that.

Both franchises (Jak & Sly) move away from what you're keen on, so that seems sensible.

I've heard a lot of good things about it over the years.

A shame it released in the shadow of Turok and Goldeneye.

It's probably aged the best, hence it still being on my list. Bloody Raspberry Pi!

Boom, got Doom 64 up and running on the Pi, would have been quicker to set the N64 up but there you go.

Currently on the 5 level and loving it, yet to start Liberation Maiden but will have those two on the go for now. Will report back when I make some progress on the old pile.

davyK wrote:

Re Doom64 - I loved that game. It might be an idea to google some passwords and sample a couple of the later levels and then cross it off. There are a handful of hidden secret "fun" levels only accessible from a cheat menu. gamefaqs is your friend.

Stumbled across a secret exit playing this. After completeing a few more levels I googled it and found a level listing on the excellent Doom Wikia and found the following:

Levels
Doom 64 featured 32 original levels:

MAP01: Staging Area
MAP32: Hectic (super secret level)
MAP02: The Terraformer
MAP03: Main Engineering
MAP04: Holding Area
MAP29: Outpost Omega (secret level)
MAP05: Tech Center
MAP06: Alpha Quadrant
MAP07: Research Lab
MAP08: Final Outpost
MAP09: Even Simpler
MAP10: The Bleeding
MAP11: Terror Core
MAP12: Altar Of Pain
MAP30: The Lair (secret level)
MAP13: Dark Citadel
MAP14: Eye Of The Storm
MAP15: Dark Entries
MAP16: Blood Keep
MAP17: Watch Your Step
MAP18: Spawned Fear
MAP31: In The Void (secret level)
MAP19: The Spiral
MAP20: Breakdown
MAP21: Pitfalls
MAP22: Burnt Offerings
MAP23: Unholy Temple
MAP24: No Escape
MAP28: The Absolution

Fun levels:
MAP25: Cat And Mouse
MAP26: Hardcore
MAP27: Playground

The strikethroughs are the ones I've completed, so it seems I've missed two of them so far.

Upon further reading the unknown weapon I picked up in level 12 is the Unmaker. This can be upgraded three times by picking up the Demon Keys in the three main secret levels; 29, 30 & 31. Picking these up also disables the demon teleporters in the final level making it much easier.

The 'Fun Levels' (25, 26 & 27) are only accessible via the features menu after completing the 'Super Secret Level' (32).

Quite a bit to this then. Its excellent, I can see why it passed most by in 1997, most were burnt out on Doom by then and games like Goldeneye and Turok were pushing things forward, not to mention Quake on PC. Much like a good 16Bit game against a 32Bit one though, this has stood the test of time much better through its simplicity.

Bit gutted I'm halfway through and only have one secret level and only being able to upgrade the Unmaker the once.

Yep, it was a completely new game. 

Essentially its the real Doom 3, but then again I guess Final Doom is technically Doom 3. Making Doom 64 Doom 4, Doom 3 Doom 5 and Doom (2016) Doom 6.

Yeah, Doom 64 got a hell (sorry)of a treatment - genuinely I think it's the best doom out there for og boom

I'd have to put MDK2 in after I fell off a huge building near the end and flounced. 

Amusingly I just discovered this:

Doom 64 done.

Was bloody good. The original is on a pedestal but 64 might be the next best one for me.

II and Final always had that mission pack feel to them whereas this was a genuinely new game built from the ground up.

Got about half hour or so left of Liberation Maiden then I'll pick a couple more from my list.

Doom 64 survived the cull of 100 odd N64 games because it's just so damned good.

Slightly off topic, but this talk of Doom 64 has just reminded me of Gloom on the CD32. That was a thing.