a strategy (?) jrpg with field battles with hundreds of sprites on screen. could use some modern QoL stuff but, like NiD, still a very unique game afaik
again, the sequel is jp-exclusive but a translation patch was recently completed
― chihuahuau, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
Hi guys I just got here!
Front Mission 3: played the demo disc, it looked great! I hear that the story is decent too.
Daytona USA: I played it once in the arcade and then the PS3 port. Really fun, and a great soundtrack.
Heart of Darkness: one of my votes. People interested in it should really try it. It isn't as sluggish as earlier cinematic platformers. It's pretty short too. It's probably most famous today for its detailed death animations.
Mr. Domino: I am the other voter for this. It's a quirky experiment with auto-running.
Einhander: solid shmup. Too bad the English version took out the level select so you have to start from the beginning every time.
― wasdnous (abanana), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link
oh man, Driver! Somehow I had forgotten all about this one, seeing the name in the noms list didn't ring any bell but now that I see the cover I remember playing the shit out of it, I should have voted for it
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MQfSeHK.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/26DpMev.jpg60 - Alundra - 143 points / 3 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
I gave up on Driver after reaching the night city part. It was great up until that point. Also that muvaf**king initial carpark training section.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/r9eg1LN.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/ksYo1dI.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/LbBsXsw.jpg59 - Tekken 2 - 143 points / 4 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:32 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Fto3JqA.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/KDjEnau.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/xz4Y7kJ.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/wnKICha.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/3tcVApi.jpg58 - Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee - 144 points / 3 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
I voted for Alundra - it's a very grim Zelda knockoff, sort of Link Awakening style open worlds and dungeons - so on the one hand it was my first exposure to you can go to a lot of places and you can see places you can't get to yet, but it's only plot-distributed items that are stopping you. On the other hand, the plot was extremely dark - you wash up on the island and have to enter the dreams of the villagers every night to get rid of their nightmares - but you can never do enough and every morning there's more dead villagers.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
I am the other voter for this.
Sounds like three people voted for it then
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:47 (three years ago) link
Hah, I voted for the two next as well!
Tekken 2 was an improvement over the dog-rough visuals of the first one, and also included more characters and more fighting styles, including a thinly disguised Supercop-era Jackie Chan. It also built a little on the story from the first game.
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!
This was Abe's Oddysee - a good call on the part of the ads to foreground the characters, who were all vivid and well-animated.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ljWzQnv.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/OK7KHgK.jpg57 - Turok: Dinosaur Hunter - 145 points / 3 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link
^^^ best use of draw distance limitations in a video game, also some absolutely fantastic, gruesomely prolonged death animations from enemies both human and dinosaur. the criterion of a sociopath, to be sure, but it has to be said.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter: Starring Turok
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
I was in love with the art in Abe's Oddysee, and the cool 3d scene links were brilliant.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
I am the other voter for this.Sounds like three people voted for it then― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, November 11, 2020 4:47 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, November 11, 2020 4:47 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
abanana, polyphonic... who is the mystery first voter?
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
Jordan, I think you mean Turok: Dinosaur Hunter: Staring Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
Turok had such an *otherworldly* feeling to it, and that is what has stuck with me most of all..
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link
yeah. excellent sound design too, think that’s a big part of the startling amount of atmosphere it manages.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link
(it was my highest-ranked fps.)
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/yaBvx1C.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/EnqGor0.jpg56 - Crash Bandicoot - 147 points / 3 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
whatever it is, someone seems to like it about as much as i do NiDhi!― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, November 11, 2020 3:28 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, November 11, 2020 3:28 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
mystery solved. the three voters were1. polyphonic2. abanana3. polyphonic
DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT I HAD TO GO THRU ALL OF THE BALLOTS AGAIN (and found that i didn't count one vote for one game, but thank god it would not have placed anyway)
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
Crash is Poochie, but the game itself is really good as regards you can make your way through most of it fairly easily, but 100% was incredibly difficult.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
sorry i thought chihuahuau was saying they voted for it
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/KVkJ8Id.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/p5ZXxOD.jpg55 - 1080º Snowboarding - 155 points / 3 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link
voted for this cuz i was a nintendo kid and this was our consolation for not getting tony hawk.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
I voted for it cuz it was rad
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
I like that "Ten Eighty" is written on the box in case somebody comes into Blockbuster asking for "One Thousand Eighty Snowboarding"
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link
One Thousand Eighty Snowboarding Starring Ten Eighty
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:15 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/HN4Pfvh.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/Y43WNF1.jpg54 - Twisted Metal 2 - 156 points / 3 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
nswf bukkake on the back of that 1080 box, yikes
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
three left today! one of which i will howl "too low" about for hours
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
i voted for OG twisted metal (although i've always heard 2 is better, i never played it), but put vigilante 8 above them both
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
One of my favorite Tim Rogers bits is where he describes the box art of Twisted Metal from memory
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
ha i’ve only played 2 so i voted for that with a sinking feeling cuz yeah a very vulnerable franchise to vote-splitting. don’t actually know which is the best iteration but an extremely durable concept, better if less murderously executed here than in carmageddon, and probably the second-funnest multiplayer experience i’ve had on ps1.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
what is the modern-day twisted metal-like game? cars morphed into soccar-players in Rocket League, but an update on the old car-weapon genre would be so much fun
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/RsCKzg3.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/8N0onxh.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/V21MrZy.jpg53 - Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus - 161 points / 3 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
never played this one, though i did vote for the first one (Oddysee)
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
they remade carmageddon semirecently; looked kinda shovelware. battle mode in various mariokarts has carried the torch i guess.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
doing some dubious "vote-splitting" math right now which i will post at the end, and from initial glance, the oddworld duology suffered most harshly from votesplitting -- had people who only voted for oddyssey voted for exxodus instead, and those who ranked oddysssey over exxodus had flipped their votes, this game would be 31st!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
also how many different ways can i spell that game's name wrong?
lol on top of the actual vote-splitting: i wanted to hunt down an oddysey before the poll but couldn’t decide which so didn’t. couldn’t remember which one a friend in middle school evangelized to me either. prob the first. looks great.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
an oddworld, i mean
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
starring abe
hello
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
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― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
They're all on Steam, along with Munch's Oddysee and Stranger's Wrath - separately or together for £9.99
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
*deep breath*
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/7K4vqg2.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/WVgSna5.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/pHFMLYt.jpg52 - Suikoden II - 162 points / 3 Votes
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