https://i.imgur.com/PnoE7lc.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/dWyfQLc.jpg36 - Tekken 3 - 197 points / 4 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link
TEKKEN 3 was a tough last minute cut from my ballot (especially in favor of stuff like BLAST CORPS which i barely played), but i will always fondly remember my time spent playing that game.
https://i.imgur.com/cIxXsCS.jpg
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
the combination of a standard issue ripped wrestler man template with the photorealistic head of a surprised jaguar
what is King
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
i feel like i remember reading the backstory for king and he was just like, a lucha libre dude with a mask, and they made no reference to the fact that it was like literally a jaguar's head that could move
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:36 (three years ago) link
i could be misremembering though!
https://i.imgur.com/Us2eY5V.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/Rfi7Kou.jpg35 - Wipeout 3 aka Wip3out - 200 points / 1 First-place vote / 4 Votes
(once again i have opted for the wrong game's ad due to how iconic it was, this ad caused a lot of controversy!!)
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
apologies if at some point i forget to post for several minutes at a time, i am going down a 90s game mag rabbit hole
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
I was a high voter for Tekken 3 and SF Alpha, both of which I've been playing a bunch the last few weeks.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:45 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1H6JZVU.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/UuOxz1q.png34 - Vib Ribbon - 207 points / 6 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
i think this is the first game i ever saw on a chipped PS1. i wonder how much a working chipped ps1 would run me these days!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MwKfOpU.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/OaCGQ0f.jpg33 - Star Control II - 216 points / 1 First-place vote / 3 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link
TOO LOW
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 12 November 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link
fgti to thread! :)
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
i am sorry, captain. if i told you more, you would look where you could not look before. and while looking, you can and will be seen. you do not want to be seen. the androsynth went looking, and something saw them.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
what a coincidence, captain. i had itchy pods this morning, and now here you are.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
i have never reallllly kept up with the competitive fighting-game scene but am i correct in remembering that this game was kind of not really held up to the same degree as SF2, SF3, SF4 etc.? why was that? was it grossly unbalanced or something? i absolutely remember loving it, maybe more than any other fighter, but that was largely due to the art and animation and the fact that i could beat the computer sometimes
IIRC this was correct? One of the newer characters was completely unbeatable in the hands of someone who knew what they were doing but I can't remember who it was (probably Ryu/Ken)
― DJP, Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2fp124f.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/mhp1gmB.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/VYdPGYR.jpg32 - Resident Evil (incl. Director's Cut) - 218 points / 6 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link
^voted for this very fucking difficult game
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
it barely made the end of my list and i have very dim memories of it, but i definitely rented it a couple of times and DEFINITELY didn't beat it for that reason
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
I never beat it, either. But damn this game is a vibe
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link
too high
never was a fan of the original RE or code veronica
i get that's part of the experience but the fixed camera angles and dodgy aiming really grated
i'm on a straight corridor, i can hear the enemy, i even have enough ammo to kill it but i need to wait until it's actually on screen to shoot it because despite my character being able to see where it is the player can't due to the camera angle of the pre-rendered scenery
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:15 (three years ago) link
i think the furthest i ever actually got in it was the gamecube remake? much stronger memories of my parents going out of town and me inviting several of my nerd friends over to marathon it on my buddy kevin's gamecube all night. i was an extremely cool teen
xp i actually liked these set-camera REs more than i ever liked RE4 and beyond!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
wait, is RE supposed to be really difficult? because let me tell you, i suck at playing video games where twitch reflexes or execution skill are important but i beat both re1 and cv and while they weren't easy they didn't feel notably hard either
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
i didn't mind the camera limitation (especially because it created some really cinematic (for ps1) shots). my problem with it had to do with the very basic and essential mechanic of trying to do headshots. wait until they get within an inch of you, aim high. sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. it was frustrating, but since ammo was so limited, you had to try
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:20 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/GH5txdX.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/PtgV9iC.jpg31 - Bushido Blade - 235 points / 5 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
for me they were also difficult because i'm terrible at the genre of games where you have to find the mystery key #4 and bring it to the outhouse to get the purple jewel, which lets you rotate the waterwheel in the sewers, opening the
xp
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
were you playing chris? i played jill because that's easy mode according to the manual, never did chris because i just didn't like the game enough and found it too stressful for the wrong reasons
KM otm re aiming frustration
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
bushido blade! came in at #40 on my ballot. anyone ever try it with multiplayer? i only played against the AI, and something always seemed a bit off. but i could imagine it being a blast with a friend
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
xp definitely almost always as jill in RE1 - doesn't she get a free key or knife or something? i forget
my terrible non-secret is that i suck at almost all games. i think it would take me 4 months to beat resident evil 1 without using a guide
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
that's called value for money
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
i liked the puzzle and exploration elements, exhumed/powerslave is one of my generation and all time faves
CV was especially annoying because it was a dreamcast game, it used realtime 3d for the levels but still insisted on the fixed camera. infuriating
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
I can confirm Bushido Blade is fun w/ a friend, the only way I ever played it
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
most of my bushido blade time was multi at first, until i eventually borrowed one of them (bushido blade 2 iirc, this game was a minor victim of vote-split). i can't remember if it was this one or BB2, but in story mode you had to fight someone with a gun and it was one of the most controller-smashingly cheap battles ever
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CNaTG6J.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/xKdFX6x.jpg29 - Grand Theft Auto - 237 points / 5 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
i still go arcade standards, which is that a quarter gets you maybe 2 minutes with a game. that's $7.50 per hour. so if a $60 game can hold my attention for more than 8 hours, it's already getting into the realm of profitable enjoyment for me
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
i voted for GTA. very different from III and on, of course, but if you haven't tried it but have any fondness at all for NES Micro Machines, check it out!
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
i originally played this one on my friend's pc but later rented the london one for PS1. a hell of a lot of fun but man in my memory this was so much more psychotic/antisocial/sicko-brain than any of the 3D iterations were later on. bonuses for killing an entire religious group? what was that bonus called? all i can think is "gonzaga" but that can't be right. i only learned that was a university years later when i was working as a video game tester (lol) on an ncaa basketball game (lol lol) and i was like "did they really name that bonus after a college" (lol no they did not)
oh was it GOURANGA? GOURAGA?
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
Love GTA but only ever played it on PC so didn't feel I could vote for it here
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
BUST-A-GROOVE was a one-weekend rental with a buddy when I was staying over at his place, we just rocked it. I’m pretty sure it’s the most basic rhythm game imaginable, you just have to follow the moves at the exact right times, nothing else to it – but the soundtrack was fun enough that I ended up downloading MP3s and burning a CD of it. The hamburger guy’s “very very very very very very good!” song cracked us up at the time.
Very similar situation here, except that my friend straight up bought it, we definitely had a blast playing it. It was my first rhythm game, and even though I was adamantly anti-dance (shades of Footloose I guess), the character designs and music drew me in. Kitty-N in retrospect probably explains certain elements of my contemporary aesthetics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcLox-o5GKU
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/y5myfDk.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/tNAeYZV.jpg29 - Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo - 237 points / 5 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link
Bishops Blade should be top 10, fucking beautiful game and incredible in a PvP setting
― DJP, Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
Fuck you, phone: BUSHIDO
i think that's the last actual tie (there's one more tie-on-points, but such ties are broken by total #1 votes and number of votes in that order)
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, November 12, 2020 2:41 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I should've voted for this! my brother and I played it a bunch on an emulator in the 00s. he always kicked my ass at it but it was so damn good
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, November 12, 2020 2:35 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
it was gouranga! when you drove over all the Hare Krishnas
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
29 - Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo - 237 points / 5 Votes
bottom of my ballot because i never played this but i am sold on the conceit of fighting characters pulling out special and supers based on your performance on the puzzle game
kinda hoping this isn't the single appearance of darkstalkers in this thread but it probably is. also probably the last of my picks to place unless mischief makers somehow pulls through like it deserves
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
xps would def play Bishop's Blade though
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
I should've voted for this!
same here. i don't know how i didn't actually!
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
lol @ puzzle games just developed an attitude
only played gta1 (on PC) a handful of times at (cooler, i guess) friends' houses, but yah it was immediately fully formed and i'd play it now over whichever of the 3D gtas i'd pull out of a hat and say i prefer (bully?)
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link