Battle Arena ToshindenCool Boarders 2Destruction DerbyFinal Fantasy VIIGrand Theft AutoIntelligent QubeJumping Flash!Metal Gear SolidMr. DrillerOddworld: Abe's OddyseeRaymanResident Evil (Director's Cut)Revelations: PersonaRidge Racer Type 4Super Puzzle Fighter II TurboSyphon FilterTekken 3Tom Clancy's Rainbow SixTwisted MetalWild ArmsI’ve played most of these and at one time or another considered most of them to be amazing (when I was a kid). But yeah, weird list. Battle Arena Toshinden is straight up NOT FUN these days. It feels incredibly slow, and I can’t imagine anyone playing it when Tekken 3 is an option. Speaking of demo disk, both Intelligence Qube and Jumping Flash were on the demo disk that came with the original production run of the PlayStation (lol iPhone auto-capitalize). IQ seemed to be a fun puzzle game, but Jumping Flash seemed like a novelty un-fun game, even back then. Twisted metal 1 instead of 2? It’s embarrassing but I might have played cool boarders 2 more than any over game on there! (And at the same time was sad that I wasn’t playing SSX)
― Karl Malone, Monday, 29 October 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
still waiting for someone to give snowboarding games a proper revival
― ciderpress, Monday, 29 October 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
ciderpress did you ever play Snowboard Kids for N64
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 29 October 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
yeah both of them, they were pretty fun
― ciderpress, Monday, 29 October 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
just looked them up and apparently they made a 3rd one on DS many years later, who knew
― ciderpress, Monday, 29 October 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
Maybe this is a UK-centric view but a playstation without a wipeout or a tomb raider is barely a playstation at all.
― JimD, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
That's a pretty representative lineup, maybe that's what they were going for.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
all these new messages i thought a conversation had broken out about how amazing two point hospital is but alas just talking about ps1 games
― Mordy, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
HahaI’m planning on checking out Two Point soon, especially because I read they recently added a sandbox mode?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
do i have to play one point hospital first to understand what's going on
― ciderpress, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
"have you played five point hospital?" sounds like something the schoolyard bully says just before he beats you up for looking at his fist
― Karl Malone, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
I played that for ten hours or so and got dispirited at yet another open world game with massive numbers of chores to do. It looked nice and played well though! And I'm playing the new God of War and enjoying that, but it definitely seems a bit more on-rails.
I'm only 4-5 hours in, so potentially my enthusiasm could still get ground into dust (and I totally get the impatience with open world games, I thought I was done with it), but I think its lore is carrying me along so far.
GOW is fun, though the "game of the generation" talk is unduly IMO hyperbolic.
― Is Guardians of the Galaxy worse than it used to be? (Leee), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
Two Point Hospital definitely on my bundle waitlist
― Nhex, Monday, 29 October 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
ON IPAD ?
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 29 October 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
man that would be sweet but afaik it's just on pc/mac
― Mordy, Monday, 29 October 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
ghost in the shell is amazing and apparently used the jumping flash "engine" lolagreed that wipeout and tomb raider are the canonical classic games
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 October 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
Only just realised Gran Turismo is missing! And Symphony of the Night. And Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. I mean these aren’t obscure personal favourites (like Ape Escape or Incredible Crisis), they’re core mass appeal titles.
I guess it’s probably down to things like music licensing but pff.
No Bishi Bashi!
― JimD, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link
no vib ribbon no credibility
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 06:16 (five years ago) link
And theyve just rereleased SOTN on the PS4 so letting it go as part of this package would be eating into more lucrative sales
― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 09:07 (five years ago) link
yeah same with crash and spyro i assume
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
the original GTA is awesome, btw
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
also, seeing Twisted Metal on that list reminds me that someone needs to make a good modern car battle game. i spent many a hour with TM and Vigilante 8 - doing it online on a modern console would be a blast
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 21:01 (five years ago) link
I've been mentioning Subnautica here since early access in 2016, its lodged between Dark Souls Remastered and XCOM 2 in the top 10 of PC Gamer's greatest PC games you can play in 2018.
I'm on my fourth playthrough. Just smelling the seaweed, building a nice observation dome, murdering bonesharks with tiger plant beds.
― They Bunged Him in My Growler (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
you're eventually going to sell me on it lol
― Mordy, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
atm i have to finish rdr2 + two point hospital tho so it might be some time till i can get to it. it is on my wishlist.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
can i ask a question here, seeing as this is the only lively thread on ILG (maybe it's not)?
i've been re-playing Half Life Episode 2 and am looking for something else in a similar vein (FPS, dark). would i enjoy the STALKER games? and do they work on Win10 (it's 2007 vintage game, only lists supported OS up to Vista)
Supported OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP(Service Pack 2) / Microsoft® Windows® 2000 SP4Supported OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP/Vista (SP1)
thanks in advance
― koogs, Thursday, 1 November 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
(i think yes, with some noodling: https://steamcommunity.com/app/4500/discussions/0/530649887206982398/ )
it also means booting into windows to play it...
― koogs, Thursday, 1 November 2018 12:33 (five years ago) link
Metro 2033 games are closer, I think. Stalker was a little more open ended it seemed to me, like Fallout or Far Cry in miniature. It kind of reminded me of a multiplayer online game without any other players. Maybe that feeling changes after the first few hours, but I stopped playing because I couldn’t get into it. Definitely not that same cinematic feel that half-life 2 has
― Dan I., Thursday, 1 November 2018 12:55 (five years ago) link
they were giving out metro 2033 for free on steam the other day idk if thats still going
― ciderpress, Thursday, 1 November 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
the first stalker was only 3 quid when i looked so i figured i'd risk it.
> Stalker was a little more open ended it seemed to me, like Fallout or Far Cry
like what what? 8) i don't play a lot of games, too much of a time sink, but i was off ill for 3 weeks following an operation and remembered i had the orange box. currently finding the end of episode 2 impossible...
will look into metro 2033 as well, thanks.
― koogs, Thursday, 1 November 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
metro 2033 video looks good. the 2013-ness means it'll be harder on the laptop though. but linux support = good.
yeah if youve got an old / non gaming pc it might not be what yr looking for
― ciderpress, Thursday, 1 November 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
the laptop's pretty recent (2017, i5, nvidia 950), but it is a laptop. 2010 games look lovely with everything turned up high, you can almost smell the putrefaction.
― koogs, Thursday, 1 November 2018 14:28 (five years ago) link
fallout new vegas? or 3 for that matter
― thomasintrouble, Thursday, 1 November 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
My fave old movie-like FPS is probably F.E.A.R. Came out in 2005 so your i5/950 will eat it up. It shares with HL2 the narrative woven into the gameplay and fun bad guy AI. Wiki says its an FPS/horror game but I remember it being more creepy than horrific, tho if you can play in a darkened room with headphones then all the better. There's def bits that gave me the creeps (tho I was smoking a lot of weed at the time, ymmv). £9 on Steam.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Thursday, 1 November 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
koogs - have you played bioshock?
― thomasintrouble, Thursday, 1 November 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
koogs, make sure you play portal in the orange box
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 1 November 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
Into The Breach. From the team that made Faster Than Light. Simple and nicely made turned based fighting game that I get way too addicted to.
― calzino, Thursday, 1 November 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
forza horizon 4, everyday
― Steve Reich, 'Ass-Clapping Music' (haitch), Thursday, 1 November 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
same tbh
― ciderpress, Thursday, 1 November 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
yeah, the orange box got played at the time, and second portal got played (twice, back to back) a couple of years ago when i was unemployed (along with that st:voyager game (creeping around borg ship) and tron 2.0 (pretty)).
bioshock is actually in my steam library, must've been on sale one year, but i don't think i got that far into it. same is true of fez, psychonauts, a couple of others.
will look into FEAR. (and Dead Space too, i hear good things). thanks.
the problem now is the bandwidth to download the things. and time.
― koogs, Friday, 2 November 2018 12:41 (five years ago) link
oh yeah, dead space is also great. more creepy creepy than shooty shooty but atmospheric as all out. make sure you install the control fix tho, I found the controls very sluggish without it. https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/840-dead-space-mouse-fix/
I've got bored of Far Cry 5 after about 10 hrs. Maybe the most amazing "graphics" I've played, and the actual moment-to-moment gameplay is ok I guess, but it's very samey and doesn't seem to go anywhere, it's like eating a bag of doritos.
I've started Dishonoured now, maybe an hour in? Cool so far! everything looks so blocky and flat after FC5 but I'm already having more fun sneaking about the city than I ever did shotgunning photorealistic bears.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Friday, 2 November 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
FC5 is boring af. i did the first area and half of the faith area and at that point with the morphing animals and shit was so stupid i couldn't continue. i did like the stunt man challenges tho.
u know what game is actually gorgeous graphics tho? rdr2.
― Mordy, Friday, 2 November 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link
come anticipate RDR2 PC port with me
― closed beta (NotEnough), Friday, 2 November 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
RDR2.xls
― ||||||||, Friday, 2 November 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
That PS1 Classic list.... they chose Puzzle Fighter over the PS1 SF Alpha 3? The basic platformer Rayman 1 over the 3D Rayman 2? Twisted Metal over its first sequel (both of which I'm guessing are unplayable now due to their low framerates)? No Crash, Spyro, Wipeout, Tomb Raider, PaRappa? I give them credit for including the first Persona, which wasn't popular at the time but people will probably want to play after P4 and P5.
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 3 November 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
persona 1 is a quite bad game and nothing like 4 or 5 - they didn't land on what people know as the persona formula with the VN/life-sim stuff until 3
― ciderpress, Saturday, 3 November 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
was probably just chosen due to name recognition
― ciderpress, Saturday, 3 November 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
they fixed the game to decent in a PSP rerelease later on but i assume this thing is just loading the original PSX isos so yeah thats not a game people are gonna be happy with i dont think
― ciderpress, Saturday, 3 November 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
The basic platformer Rayman 1 over the 3D Rayman 2?
gotta disagree here, although part of it may be my distaste for 3D precision platformers. 2D precision i can handle, 3D precision jumping drives me insane. and regardless, 2D Rayman has better style, better animation, and aesthetically it holds up better today.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 3 November 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link