this some weak trolling homes
-- jhøshea, Sunday, May 4, 2008 5:34 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
― Raw Patrick, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Has it been 10 years since Half Life? Daaaaaaaaamn. I remember playing Counter Strike at my first office job.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Half-Life cover character = nerdiest looking 'hero' ever?
― blueski, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Soccer is a horrible communist abomination.
-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:36 (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
Not getting into this argument, but American sports are based around the draft system, which seems to me to be the only currently existing example of full-scale Marxism in the Western world. Football, on the other hand, is straight-up capitalism: the team who has the richest Russian oil magnate/Italian media mogul/faceless Saudi investment group bankrolling it wins the most trophies.
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I have an anthology of MEGA reviews from like 1995, this UK sega mag reviewing every genesis game, and they give madden 93 and 94 the second highest scores of *anything* (Sonic 2 is top). And the whole review they're apologizing, saying look, they don't even know the rules of the stupid sport, but this is amazing.
Also Madden 2008 on PS2 with the insane league where you fight invisible icemen and then DEVILS IN HELL = late flowering.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Tin Pan Alley Tetrapaks 47 Upper Roarington Silly Nannies 6
― blueski, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Sports games that have wacky side-shit like that are the best. FIFA has never been better than when you could play IN THE 1930S, with the players all Brylcreamed up and with a sepia tiny camera shot.
xp
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Seriously whatever you think of american football, those early-mid nineties madden games have as pixel-perfect a sense of inertia as Sensible Soccer does.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Aren't Madden games more "tactical" than "smooth" though, presumably like EA Rugby?
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Surely a huge part of its success! You play as a rogue nerd whose nerdy place of employment suddenly becomes exciting and intense and YOU SAVE THE DAY!
re: #1, I still think Tetris has a huge shot at it, with SMB3, Civ, and the usual RPG suspects also being contenders.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
#1 Tetris, #2 Civ
― Raw Patrick, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
The later ones (which I love too) are totally tactical, yeah, these interlocked series of satisfying minature puzzles? Defence is way more boring in them though, as a cost.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Yea, you're right Dom, but not at the youth/school levels.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
usual RPG suspects also being contenders.
FF7 already eliminated not boding well
yeah i remember a lot of this sort of thing which only added to the WTFness
― DG, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, but I think FF3 and ChronoTrigger may have a broader base of support...
Question for Dom - did games tend to get on the charts through a few high-placed votes or a swell of lower rankings? Like, what was the lowest "highest position"?
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
"I haven't ever played Half-Life"
xxp
― robertwolf8080, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Also no way GTA:SA and HL2 won't be in Top 5
― robertwolf8080, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
#30: Resident Evil 4 (2005) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Re4boxart.jpg http://media.gameworldnetwork.com/news_shots/201009515745f4c49c3187a.jpg Developer:Capcom Production Studio 4 Publisher:Capcom Original format:Nintendo GameCube Highest position:#2 Jordan Cohen, KenC
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:50 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
I'll check this at a later point, but in general old school arcade games got a wide spread of low votes, but sports games got a few high placed ones. In general.
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
i did play it but only network multi-player
― blueski, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Ok, I'm going to complain about the rank of the original Legend of Zelda. Fuck this. This game is still fun. I played through it in 2006 when my girlfriend was at work and I wasn't feeling good in Boston.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
If Emlyn Hughes International Soccer and/or Microsoccer don't feature I'll seethe. And no Ultimate PTG yet...guys?
― Mister Craig, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
#29: We ♥ Katamari (2005) http://www.joystiq.com/media/2007/06/welovekatamari_realbox.jpg http://media.herald-dispatch.com/blog/games/uploaded_images/we-love-katamari-4-784168.jpg Developer:Namco Publisher:Namco Original format:PlayStation 2 Highest position:#3, emil.y
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh come on now, are those two games so different as to have required separate noms/votes?
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I wish KD and We <3 Katamari had been reduced to a single nom. Should be way higher than this.
― emil.y, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Dom Passantino, Sunday, May 4, 2008 1:37 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
ha i like this! someone write a paper stat. btw you left out salary caps and revenue sharing which make american sports even more communistic. (tho baseball doesnt have a salary cap)
― jhøshea, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I was going to say the same thing as Dom about UK football - particularly the 'false consciousness' that there is some meritocratic system in it. I don't know shit about that foreign football.
― emil.y, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
#28: Worms (1995) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/Worms-win-cover.jpg http://www.classicamiga.com/images/stories/jreviews/games/W/worms_4.png Developer:Team17 Publisher:Ocean Software Original format:Commodore Amiga Highest position:#5, robertwolf8080
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
why are sensible soccer etc condensed into one nom and these others split up?
― DG, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Arbitary decision to make sports games series and non-sports games not.
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
#27: Iron Man and X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal (1996)
http://www.vgmuseum.com/scans/saturn/saturn-02.jpg
― cankles, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Hotlinking is not allowed, dude.
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
When we do this again in a few decades, I vote for things can only be condensed if they are self-evidently the same game AND the same engine. So Katamari is one entry, but the various sports series or King's Quest or whatever aren't.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
when we do this again zelda and metriod should be in the top 10
― jhøshea, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:25 (sixteen years ago) link
When we do this again the top 20 should just be C64 games with digitized speech.
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Super Metroid and Link To The Past still have their shots. I would argue that both games are basically the NES games, but with better grahpics and a lot more depth.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck! ok does this work
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Iron_Man_and_X-O_Manowar_in_Heavy_Metal_Coverart.png
― cankles, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
when we do this again all of you ppl should just kill your damn selves - http://209.85.62.26/12257/100/emo/emot-smithicide.gif - and leave me in charge of the listing~
― cankles, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:30 (sixteen years ago) link
#27: Speedball II: Brutal Deluxe (1990) http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/961176889-00.jpg http://www.gamershell.com/static/screenshots/8810/182678_full.jpg Developer:Bitmap Brothers Publisher:Konami Original format:Commodore Amiga Highest position:#1, NateWools
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah, ffs:
http://www.insidetonic.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/s.png
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
haha buy speed.
What kind of game is this? I'm imagining you are managing some kind of team of "speedball" players? Futuristic arena sport? What do you do?
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Might be the first game I don't know at all
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Dom do you have these in an xls for doing plots of rank vs year etc
SB2 was good game apart from the megadrive version had some weird bugs
― DG, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
It's basically Rollerball: The Game. Endlessly captivating, probably the first game it was ever fun to play through an entire league season of. Lots of wacky power ups and opportunities for bank shots, bonus points for crippling opponents.
xxxxp
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
glad my nomination made it, didn't think it would
best Bitmap Bros game easily - they pretty much dined out on this as all their other games were meh at best. always intricate graphics and excellent music...but only with SB2 did they get the gameplay bang on imo (nb never played anything they did after Magic Pockets)
― blueski, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 4 May 2008 19:34 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
I don't, know. If you want to knock one up, feel free.
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
oh wait Chaos Engine was good too sorry xp
― blueski, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
In chronological order:
* Xenon (1988) * Speedball (1988) * Xenon II: Megablast (1989) * Cadaver * Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe (1990) * Gods (1991) * Magic Pockets * The Chaos Engine (1993) * The Chaos Engine 2 (1996) * Z (1996) * Speedball 2100 (2000) * Z: Steel Soldiers (2001) * Speedball Arena (cancelled) * World War II: Frontline Command
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link