Quick Look: NES Remix 2

Kirby's Adventure is the best game on that list.

Sometimes you just gotta what? I don't understand what you're trying to do.

This is basically the definition of shovelware...

I wonder if playing better on the gamepad has to do with display lag? The gamepad is known for its extremely low latency (1 frame, i.e. 16ms) and the CRTs those old games used to run on had no display latency either.

Brad had an obsessive amount of game-blaming here, but on games like Kirby it seemed mostly like his fault. I don't know how he could have not played at least one Kirby game.

The remixes seem okay, but not nearly interesting enough to make me want to play though NES Remix to see them.

I'm glad someone said it.

I have a old HDTV with some slight input lag; I tried to play Super Mario World on it, and it was impossible (it was also the game that helped me realize it had input lag). If their setup has even the slightest bit of lag, I don't blame Brad for having trouble at all. Those old Nintendo platformers demand pixel perfect precision.

Even more so than than the last one, I think I'm with Jeff that this is lame. Still uphold that 9-Volt's levels in WarioWare are everything this is not.

It also does highlight how these games require an overt effort to mitigate the input lag inherent to modern game setups today. It actually took more tinkering than I expected to get both Yoshi's Island and Super Mario World to run as they need to on an emulator even on a monitor and wired controller.

Schadenfreude!

It seems this one gets more into the ROM-hack territory but I wish they took it even further and got all the way into SMB Crossover land type shit.

NES Remix: the Girl Talk of gaming.

I still don't get this, the remixes aren't interesting, the challenges are neat I guess, but with garbage platforming for 2014, it seems more like a masochists challenge more than anything

If you didn't play it at the time then it's totally understandable. SMB controls kinda like garbage and is almost impossible to go back to after playing something like SMB3.

@cthomer5000: Can't blame brad for being luke warm on golden age nintendo, he was probably 20 when all this stuff came out.

If their setup actually has a shit ton of latency then I feel for Brad.

It's literally painful to watch Brad play these classic NES games. I think maybe they should have waited for Jeff to come back from wherever he is and just have him do it. Brad, I love ya man, your dota content is great, but yeah...."Brad is bad at video games".

I really want a snes remix and gameboy/gameboy color remix next

Brad not liking Warios Woods and Kirby made me extra salty.

Brad: "How do you do that?"
Vinny: "You video game"

I was thinking exactly how Vinny was. There's no better answer.

Brad is making me rage so hard. He's a lovable dude, but he's not great at these games.

I think we need a "Brad's Dreamland" Kirby play series to accompany Vinnyvania. It might be a nice break for Brad to go from the super hard games in Breaking Brad to Kirby games. He just needs to grow that Kirby knowledge!

Brad is so terrible at games.

He's not a bad guy and I enjoy him on the Bombcast, but man, all these Brad QLs are killing me.

Brad seems way too wound up about video games. Maybe he should switch to reviewing quilting or something in a quiet room where the nice men in white coats will take care of him.

Brad, you're not very good at metroid

Watching this really made me want to play Zelda II again.

Ice Hockey is dearly underrepresented on Giant Bomb Dot Com.

Brad. Brad. Brad. Its okay. Calm down Brad.

Honestly, I'm just snarking for the sake of being an asshole. It's probably for the best if you pay it no mind.

Did they not make an effort to correct for input lag here? Because if not then I could see why Brad's having so much trouble, since playing on anything but the gamepad would be a trial in frustration.

I have to disagree pretty strongly about it controlling like garbage or being hard to go back to, but I did play it back when it was still new, so that could have something to do with it.

At any rate, I was just trolling. Attacking someone's creed for something like that is way too easy a joke to pass up. There's plenty of timeless classic games that I never finished too. I'm utterly hopeless with anything related to Zelda, Metal Gear, or any first person shooter ever made.

I went back to play through SMB when I was a kid (mid 90s) and I played through it with ease, so it isn't just a thing for NES kids. It was on a Game Boy Color, but I did beat it. I almost fell out of my chair when I heard Brad hadn't played through it, it seems insane to me. It's like a film student not watching Casablanca.

SMB lacks the air control of later Mario games and the traction is weird too. Not being able to head backwards is bunk as well.

@joshua1prince19212: Is it really "literally painful"? Like, does it literally hurt you?

Anyways, played the first NES Remix and it was just boring. The concept has potential, but Nintendo did nothing of interest with it. This dosn't look any better at all. Why make something like this if you're gonna keep it so safe and fucking boring? Who is this for?

@mlarrabee: Girl Talk is much better than this.

Literally what I was about to type. I was super interested to hear his take on it.

This seems so dull. I just want SMB with the equivalent of the secret song levels' effects from Rayman Legends

I think i'm done with Brad quick looks.

You know it's time to move on when internet videos actually make you a little frustrated.

Needs Bubble Bobble.

@zabant: Just watch Hitman GO and you'll feel better.

The game selection here makes this way more enjoyable that the first one.

P.S.: Brad's bad at games. BUT, the Game Pad's D-Pad IS very touchy. Those problems he experienced dropping pills in Dr. Mario are similar to the problems I've had climbing vines in Mario 2.

That would be a problem if you were trying to play later Mario games with SMB1's physics, but the levels are all built with those limitations in mind. But really, I just don't know what to tell you. I still find SMB to be very playable and very enjoyable to this day, and I just don't know how to relate to anyone who doesn't.

There's a very good chance that I'll refuse to budge on this and then escalate it to an argument, so let's just call it a disagreement and move on.

Okay, I was grinning like an idiot at that snowtime Mario level.

If this trend keeps up, NES Remix 4 will be completely out of its goddamn mind, and I'll probably have to buy a Wii U.

(EDIT: Halfway through the video Brad switches to the gamepad screen, and realizes their TV capture setup is laggy as balls. After this, they stop having control issues. (In case you didn't watch the video you're commenting on. (Which would be dumb.)))

Brad be all like "Brad"

I will fist fight people especially you bradley over Kirby being good. That game is and was awesome.

Jesus, can someone edit this video removing all the Kirby segments and mentions? That was painful.

Hardest. Quick. Look. Ever. To. Watch. From. Start. To. Finish.

*Induces grand mal seizure*

I was a Kirby Pro back in the day, so watching this was super aggravating.. Just fall with the parasol!

Fuck yeah Kirby's Adventure!

I dunno... still looks like a cool concept executed terribly to me

Same, I always find it fun to go back to. First played it around 1990, and it's felt solid to me ever since.