DieHARD GamePOLL - Console Poll, vol. 3 - 5th Generation RESULTS

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71 - Heart of Darkness - 114 points / 2 Votes

A version for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer was announced,[4] but the game spent so long in development that by the time it was finished, the 3DO (which was not even launched until a year after development on the game began) was no longer commercially viable.

I had no idea Diablo was nommed; I would have voted for it, but I never played it on PS

never heard of Heart of Darkness before... looking at footage online i dig the overall aesthetic, i would have probably into this as a good 2D platformer for the PSX. something about the way the character moves does remind me worrisomely of Flashback/Blackthorne/etc. --- that Prince of Persia school of platforming where having a smooth, rotoscopey animation meant your sprite just felt sluggish and unresponsive. but no way to tell without playing it.

having a smooth, rotoscopey animation meant your sprite just felt sluggish and unresponsive

my secret is i feel this way about another world.

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70 - Tenchu: Stealth Assassins - 115 points / 3 Votes

DLH OTM (xp)

tenchu almost my ballot. but i really couldn't remember much about it. must have been a wild weekend rental

DLH, the quality varied extremely widely on those controllers, because I had one that was my go-to (I loved the tension in the analog) and I never used the regular N64 controller if I could help it.

I remember seeing Wrestlemania 2K in action for the first time and getting wracked by lols, the character creation was revelatory at the time, and the WWF license elevated the game even more.

Another World is totally one of those games for me too! though a beautiful piece of digital art, etc.

i was going to say "was this a European developer? they really went in for that," but then I looked it up and Heart of Darkness "was supervised by game developer Éric Chahi, known for Another World, this time with a team of artists and developers."

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69 - Metal Slug - 119 points / 3 Votes

(couldn't find a decent ad for the original metal slug so you get this much later one for the anthology)

i can't believe i haven't even posted 10 of these yet lol

I had one that was my go-to (I loved the tension in the analog)

oh i mean it definitely makes more sense and you could reach the d-pad if you needed it. and yeah, completely different feel in the stick.

three way tie coming up!

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66 - Virtua Fighter 2 - 126 points / 2 Votes

Ok I voted for Colony Wars, despite it being a nearly impossible game that I never came close to finishing. I loved the Wing Commander games (although I probably never finished any of those either) and I was kinda into how uncompromising this one was, and the laser fx looked cool.

It's definitely one of the most memorable games of the era for me, even if it was eventually unplayable. Still waiting for a current gen update of this genre that's actually fun (maybe developers decided that 360' space combat is just too much of a UI challenge?).

many xp

metal slug is one of the many saturn games that were never localised but still made my ballot due to hype nostalgia (also one of the many that required a RAM cart expansion)

i played the sequel in the arcade and it was as good as i'd imagined the original was when all i had to go for were magazine articles

i still think VF2 looks good to this day, back then it was mind blowing for a saturn game, especially coming after the letterboxed 15fps daytona port

Also the (worst) thing about Colony Wars is that you'd often have to do escort missions, and then you'd get distracted by actually engaging with enemy fighters, or just get disoriented and lost in space, and the ship you were escorting would get blown up.

I remember Virtua Fighter being a go-to arcade game for me, don't remember playing the home versions though.

Tenchu seems sick, wish I would have played it at the time.

that Prince of Persia school of platforming where having a smooth, rotoscopey animation meant your sprite just felt sluggish and unresponsive. but no way to tell without playing it.

I think/hope that there's a game coming up that gets the plusses without the minuses!

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66 - NiGHTS into Dreams - 126 points / 2 Votes

Now Tenchu looks uncannily like lo-fi Sekiro

xp

the VF2 port was probably the major reason the saturn was a success in japan and until the release of mario & sonic at the 2008 olympics was the only sega published title to break the million sales mark

nights is the best sonic team game by far

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66 - No One Can Stop Mr. Domino - 126 points / 2 Votes

the heck is that ?!

ste already exhibiting signs of the first stage of mr. domino addiction

whatever it is, someone seems to like it about as much as i do NiD

That is some primo late-90s aesthetic in the cover art

i have never heard of this game, but good copy!

xp lol yes it looks like a backstreet-boys-branded alternative soda.

lol I didn't see that blurb on the box

i never played mr domino and i don't think i ever even saw it in the wild but the weird name and ads definitely had me interested for a while.

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65 - F-Zero X - 130 points / 2 Votes

whatever it is, someone seems to like it about as much as i do NiD

hi!

Heck yeahhhhh. Until F-Zero X, I had no idea games could be THAT FAST

lol yes it looks like a backstreet-boys-branded alternative soda.

perfect

the "highway star" meets jean-luc ponty "mute city" song from f-zero x is one of the all-time video game bangers

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64 - Tomb Raider 2 - 131 points / 4 Votes

Sounds like Getaway on PS2

Yes! A quick look and the first mission seems to pretty accurately take me from near my first office in London to near my second! And ends next to the protagonists' flat in Lock Stock, which is a nice touch.

Ah, Venice

LOL @ "Starring Lara Croft." I kinda love that conceit

Imagine "God of War: Starring Kratos"

Enemy Zero: Starring Laura

She was the brand!

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63 - Die Hard Arcade - 132 points / 2 Votes

YESSSS

another saturn arcade port, a co-op brawler rebranded as a Die Hard game in the west for some reason (reason being money)

you can pick up pepper shakers from the ground and make the enemies sneeze

you can kick them in the bollocks for a free stun

they can also kick yours, usually right after begging for mercy while knocked down, then laugh at your character for being a sucker

also, thanks to the other voter who helped this make the cut, i only gave it 60 points as it's second tier, wasn't expecting it to place at all

(rubs eyes) Can't tell if that's a photo of Bruce Willis on the box or just an incredibly faithful illustration.