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Deleted User wrote: »Final Fantasy 7 Snowboarding mini game!!!
Oh god, that's an example of a bad snow boarding game! Although I doubt it was meant to be good.
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Retr0gamer wrote: »Don't even start me on that, was only doing that at the weekend. And it was only the intro part to it when you have to get out of the prison. Big old load of arse!
FF7 is such an underrated game!0 -
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Mal-Adjusted wrote: »It was different and i really enjoyed it. the only thing is that in the type of game Quantic Dream make, you need really strong characters and story. I loved the bleakness of Fahrenheit (and Heavy Rain), but i feel that the plot sort of went too OTT in the last third,bringing in rogue A.I's, ressurection, eternal winter covering the world and a Deus Ex Machina child. It also had uncomfortable sex scenes.
David Cage really just needs to hire a writer because he can't write, he's just terrible at it. All the awful journalists that say hte stories he writes are great need to stop fueling his ego so that he will come to that conclusion.
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super_furry wrote: »Azure Dreams on the Playstation sticks out fondly in my mind. Haven't played it since it was originally released so it may not hold up now but it was a really fun roguelike RPG with town building elements and some actually funny dating simulator elements. Must get around to playing it again one day.
Oh it holds up alright. Fantastic game.
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I'd like to add Suikoden 2. It had the misfortune of being a 2D RPG released along side Final Fantasy VIII. It had no hope of doing well and sold like absolute crap. It's one of the best RPGs ever made and still looks gorgeous, the 2D art is beautiful and the amount of care and attention that went into the animations is phenomenal. There's zero battle loading time and battles are over in seconds. And then there's the story. Lots of political backstabbing during a war that shows that in war there are no winners. It puts to shame the likes of Game of Thrones.
Oh and Luca Blight, one of gamings all time great villians.
It's finally up on PSN and really you have no excuse not to get it and play it considering it can go for upwards of 250 euro on ebay.
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moonlighting wrote: »giants citizen kabuto. I was blown away by this game back in the day. class grafixs and a funny storyline, but nobody i knew played it and it didnt seem to get mush press.
Great game as long as you avoid the console versions. Nothing like a story about a bunch of drunken space marines on their way to Planet Ibiza. 0 -
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Poor Planet Moon Studios. Giants: Citizen Kabuto was fantastic and they followed it up with the equally fun as hell Armed and Dangerous. Unfortunately poor sales of both titles and little traction with publishers led to them getting stuck with poor PSP and Wii work until they finally dissolved back in 2011.
SiN was an older game that I always loved that felt was totally unappreciated on release. There are a number of reasons of course, the primary one being the fact it was released alongside Half Life which blew pretty much everything else out of the water at the time. The bugs it shipped with were also pretty severe and it led to an early campaign to stop publishers from releasing unfinished games which needed huge patches to fix. It's initial patch, for instance, was over 30MB which was deemed completely unacceptable at the time. How things have changed. :pac:0 -
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Deleted User wrote: »You are no longer allowed to put down people for using hyperboles when describing modern games after this statement :P
It's not really hyperbole though. It's way better. It's heavily based on Outlaws of the Marsh (even more so than the first game) one of the classics of Chinese literature and puts to shame the likes of Game of Thrones when it comes to scope and themes. Trust me, just play the fame. It's just full of intrigue, backstabbing, back room politics and complex characters (and Game of Thrones isn't that great anyway when it comes to epics :P )
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SiN was an older game that I always loved that felt was totally unappreciated on release. There are a number of reasons of course, the primary one being the fact it was released alongside Half Life which blew pretty much everything else out of the water at the time. The bugs it shipped with were also pretty severe and it led to an early campaign to stop publishers from releasing unfinished games which needed huge patches to fix. It's initial patch, for instance, was over 30MB which was deemed completely unacceptable at the time. How things have changed. :pac:
Play it now and you'll see why it's not considered that great anymore. I loved it on release but really a few weeks later Half Life left it looking extremely dated (it did that to pretty much every 3D FPS before it and quite a few afterwards in fairnes). It's really not a classic, more a remnant of FPS games before Half Life came along.
It does kind of play like Duke Nukem 3D in a 3D engine but not as good as that game either.
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I was tempted to do so before SiN Episodes came out but that was such a let down I decided to avoid it in case it just compounded the disappointment.Retr0gamer wrote: »Play it now and you'll see why it's not considered that great anymore. I loved it on release but really a few weeks later Half Life left it looking extremely dated (it did that to pretty much every 3D FPS before it and quite a few afterwards in fairnes). It's really not a classic, more a remnant of FPS games before Half Life came along.
It does kind of play like Duke Nukem 3D in a 3D engine but not as good as that game either.
I don't really doubt it hasn't aged well although I'd wager it still has one of the most satisfying weapon equip animations for its sniper rifle.
I was a sucker for those middling to nearly classic FPS games back in the late 90s and early 2000s. Blood II, Shogo, Kingpin, Requiem, Kiss: Psycho Circus et al, not a single modern military sim amongst them.0 -
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Anyone ever play Soleil (or Crusader of Centy per accordance with wiki) on the megadrive? I'm only after reminding myself of it and how amazing it was, the story was brilliant! Don't think I have met another soul that has played it unfortunately
Freedom Fighters on the ps1 was also great, countless hours spent on the MP with friends.0 -
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Soleil is a great little zelda clone. Had a cameo of Sonic in it as well
Freedom Fighters is an excellent game as well. I was so disappointed with Kane and Lynch, it promised to be a next gen freedom fighters. What I got was freedom fighters but ****.
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Deleted User wrote: »What was that RPG game on the mega-drive that the character had Streets of Rage moves. Story of Thor?
Yep story of thor. Decent game but felt a bit rushed. The Saturn sequel was great as well.
Everyone should try Alundra as super_furry said. Great game by a great company
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shadowcomplex wrote: »prince of Persia on the snes was class
Hardly under rated being one of the most influential games ever and one of the biggest games of its time. It's a strong contender for the game ported to more systems than any other.
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sniper_samurai wrote: »Yeah transparencies were easily the Saturns weak point, but on the other hand the Saturn versions of the 2d fighters like Street Fighter Alpha absolutely destroyed the PlayStation versions in performance, plus it had the best pad ever designed for 1v1 fighters.
The saturn could actually do transparencies pretty easily it was just lazy coders that didn't bother coding them. On the PS1 it was very easy to do and the hardware had a video processor that was built to do transparency effects. On saturn you had to code them from scratch using assembly since there was no API.
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Deleted User wrote: »There is a difference between lazy coding and manufacturers making it hard. Coders are always going to have to prioritise their work based on highest returns.
Saturn was a great machine all being said though
True but if you weren't coding in assembly then you'd have awful framerate problems even on PS1. Most good developers never used the API's. It's telling that on most of the saturns best games by the best developers that they would have true transparencies. The saturn did have a transparency mode much like the super nintendo did for 2D games o it's even more baffling when you see 2D games using dithered transparencies.
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