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

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, November 12, 2020 2:35 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it was gouranga! when you drove over all the Hare Krishnas

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

xps would def play Bishop's Blade though

29 - Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo - 237 points / 5 Votes

― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, November 12, 2020 2:41 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I should've voted for this!

same here. i don't know how i didn't actually!

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?)

Star Control II is one of my favorite games ever but LOOOOOOLLLLL who here actually played it on 3D0?

only reason i didn't vote for it is because i didn't play it until... i wanna say xbox 360 arcade? i sure did feel like i missed out!

for some insane reason though i did own POCKET FIGHTER for the ps1, which is the... fighting game with puzzle fighter sprites? the video game equivalent of reading the movie novelization of jurassic park (something i also did in grade school)

xp i did bizarrely! as covered in noms thread. it was the definitive version until the recent freeware remake because unlike the text-only pc version it was surprisingly well-voiced. (i do prefer the PC slideshow cutscenes to the showily rendered stuff on the 3DO.)

I voted for puzzle fighter but to be honest i played it on dreamcast

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28 - Crash Bandicoot 2 - 238 points / 5 Votes

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

If a certain other poster voted (and I'm guessing he did!), I'm pretty certain a proper Darkstalkers game will show up later.

(neighborhood kids-- this was a two-year period that was the only time i ever lived on a street with kids my age-- would vote for star control 2's SUPER MELEE! more often than for mariokart tbh, high praise.)

(we didn't actually pay for this 3DO btw. need to stress this every time it comes up only because it's a 3DO. i am not a plutocrat.)

It's really weird to me, a gamer in 2020, to think of prestige AAA developer Naughty Dog as having a weird platforming marsupial in its back catalog.

if you think that's a weird game for naughty dog's back catalogue, i highly recommend looking up Way Of The Warrior

I kinda knew you someone would mention that! I remember at the time, reading whatever gaming mag at the time (Gamepro??), about how awesome WOW (I guess I should abbreviate that as WOTW) was, with a soundtrack by Rob Zombie!!!!!(WHO?????), but also I have memories of seeing it in action, though it must've been at an Electronics Boutique demo 3DO, and being entirely entranced by it.

That first GTA game I got nowhere in, probably finished like two missions, but spent hours on it!

we are not yet out of chihauhau picks

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27 - Sega Rally - 256 points / 5 Votes

are we out of chihauhau picks now? i'll never tell

good lord could i ahve spelled that more poorly

lol like i'd ever notice if you didn't bring it up

i personally prefer the daytona port, warts and all, but sega rally is ace

Game over, yeeeaaahhh!

is that what game over yeah is from?!

yep! the ic podcast ending jingle

haha i always wondered what it was from! but clearly didn't wonder hard enough to figure it out

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26 - Perfect Dark - 259 points / 6 Votes

i think i am actually gonna go all the way up to 21 tonight, and do only the top 20 tomorrow

okay i like this game a lot. i voted for it instead of goldeneye, even though the n64 could not actually run it. it was so fun and funny.

Great game!

it was goldeneye, but with the graphics turned up so it couldn't run, and freed of the bond license so it could give you a plucky roswell grey as a sidekick.

the office-block elevators in the first level are still in my dreams tbh. glass and steel. the night outside. v black mirror. haven't seen black mirror.

found this relevant old post of mine by searching "correctly destroyed observatory"

perfect dark's comparative obscurity is natural because a lot of goldeneye's stature is that of a successful tech demo-- you can make a successful multiplayer shooter on a one-stick console-- and perfect dark was a total mechanical retread coming out the same year as a wave of two-stick consoles (and a year before halo).

but quick list of things perfect dark has: a female protagonist; a sassy roswell grey; a lock-on submachine gun (real treasure in this degenerate hintergenre); a gun that shoots across levels and through walls (lol); some darkly lovely glass-and-chrome art design that puts you in a good cyberpunk headspace (i wish unatco or versalife, in deus ex, had the office block elevators perfect dark's evil corp flaunts as opening-level spectacle in appreciation of your expansion-pak dollar); a remote-controlled spy drone that causes enemies who sight it to exclaim "it's a spy!" while firing wildly; and a villain who at one point threatens a subordinate in words that caused my friend's dad, who like mine was a software engineer at an astronomical observatory, and who came thru the front door at just this moment, to laugh really caustically in a way that haunted me for years whenever i thought of adulthood: "so, the devices we gave you are working correctly? good. because WE believe that anything that does NOT work correctly SHOULD BE DESTROYED!!!"

I really wanted to like PD (I may have voted it all the same), but never could convince my GoldenEye friends to play multiplayer with me.

PD is a real fever stew of a videogame, especially with all the multiplayer options and the sniper rifle that sees thru walls

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25 - Gran Turismo 2 - 260 points / 5 Votes

(gt1 ad sorry!)

xxp-- by turning the entire architecture of the level into a superimposed psychedelic blur thru which you dreamily track yr twitching friends; meanwhile they have looked at your screen and are screaming FARSIGHT at each other

Ah GT2. Remember one of the CD's smelling of diesel?

or was it tyre rubber?

xps The psychedelia hightened further by the fact that the game is probably running at like 12 fps at that point

lol otm

Ah GT2. Remember one of the CD's smelling of diesel? or was it tyre rubber?

lol is this real? i ahve no memory of this

here comes one that i won't yell "too low" about bc i never got far in it, but i imagine there'll be a few "too low" calls in the thread

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24 - Final Fantasy IX - 260 points / 1 First-place vote / 6 Votes

"in 1999, as part of a rather bizarre marketing ploy, Sony released Gran Turismo 2 with a scratch and sniff disc. The original game came as a two-disc set, and it was claimed that the second disc in the set, a blue and white disc with extra game content, had a “real racing pit smell”"

btw I still have mine, I am in bed now but tomorrow I will grab it and tell you if it still smells

ok that was worded terribly

i look forward to it lol

Disc 2 of GT2 smelled like burning rubber yep xps

Other thing about that game I have vivid memory of is that Cardigans song on the soundtrack

Did I vote for IX? I don't remember, only that I though the dialogue was naff and it did best boi Vivi dirty.

whenever i read about this one i'm like, oh, can't wait to decide this is the best PSX final fantasy! but i think i literally fell asleep last time i tried it. it was very late.