I remember bloody Roar. me and my brother had fun with that series. His fav was Bakryu the Mole. Mine was Shina The Leopard. But as fun as it was it had it’s flaws. Some just stupid. Like no fucking command list. Lik we dead as had to figure out special moves on our own by doing random shit until something happened. Ten try to remember exactly what buttons or motions we did and write it down. We created a bootleg game guide for Bloody Roar 2 for our friends lol. And the beast transformaions while cool, could’ve been implemented better. Game kinda just felt like a race to get beast transformation then wreck shop. And fucking cheap ass ring outs from people doing transformation near the edge of the stage.
Road Rash 1-3, RR3 was the first game I played for over 8 hours in one sitting, my grandma was pissed that I didn’t care about carving pumpkins with my sister and was hooked on the game when my parents were on a day trip. I tried playing Road Rash on ps1 last year and it didn’t have the charm like the original first 3. Jail break looked like shit, and Road Redemption completely missed the mark by going more of GTA Lost and Damned than the core mechanics of how Super Hang on plays. Just give me either an HD remake with actual instruments covering the classic songs, or one that follows to the T of the first 3.
Besides that, turn base RPGs. As I’m getting older and COD pretty much giving me arthritis, I want another game that has excellent story, character development, flashy summons, and something that doesn’t incorporate having to death grip the controller to do commands. I just want to sit back, farm for xp and suck it all in(that’s what she said). yeah, action rpgs are cool and was a nice change when JRPGs was mostly turn base, but it would be nice to have them back.
I’m confused. Are we supposed to be talking about games which haven’t aged well, or games that are underrated?
Platformers and.racing games are genres that I don’t touch anymore
Super Mario 64 and top gear on the snes were the last games I beat of each genre.
Jesus! it’s been along time.
Remember when Virtua Fighter was relevant, guys? Virtua Fighter 2 was like the highest-selling Saturn game and you could find its arcade machines fairly easily. Nowadays the franchise is pretty much dead. Is there even gonna be a 6th installment of the series?
Ye, platforming’s golden age is long gone. Platforming games were the shit back in 1995-2001. I miss those days.
I’m pretty sure it is “games that had their heyday, are still around, but aren’t nearly as good or popular” Maybe the word “vibrant” is better.
I mean, mvc2 was like, THE SHIT, back in the day. People still play it…but nobody really cares.
I imagine everyone has a story along the lines of "When I was younger I had tons of time to play x, and it was awesome, now sequel to X is out, and it is alright, but I don’t have time to play it"
or… “game series x used to be awesome, but then they started changing the formula and now it is too easy, too bland, too repetitive, and it has lost what made it special”
Old school arcade multiplayer arcade games like xmen tmnt and gauntlet…we have to have some way to replicate the imperative and almost scary feeling of running out of quarters and having to dash to the change machine before the continue counter runs out
Too many memories with
Then end of my life with
And then came Diablo 3 and you realized that it sucks.
Probably the biggest let down of my gaming life.
Sir, you are missing out.
No game managed to make me rage like Everquest. The losing EXP on death was fucking bullshit and the cause of many rage filled days and nights.
You just spent 4 hours grinding? You get caught off guard or some asshole leashed a mob towards you? You die once and lose all of that work. And then on top of that you have to go retrieve your corpse while surrounded by mobs, which just puts you at risk of dying again and losing even more exp! And god forbid you die in the ocean, because it makes retrieving your gear nearly impossible.
Golden age of gaming ended for me when I got a job. Ill never be able to wake up in summer, turn on my xbox, and spend like 18 hours playing video games for 3 months ever again. Those were the good times.
Also Left 4 Dead. Multiplayer is dead there
Am playing this game atm lol, 1.12 though cause steam selling it for 2 bucks. Game is brutally hard I cant take out the SAM site next to Dressan its pissing me off.
back when super street fighter 4 was going to be the fina… er ultra street fighter 4 will be the final relea… sorry yun too strong, ultra 2012 will be the final build… oh fuck it we want you guys to keep buying this game so we wont stop tweaking.
Attack at night and use throwing knives until the enemy spots you.
Throwing knives and melee knives give you a decent chance for an instant kill if you can get into range.
I miss socom 1 and 2. 1 was my first online game. Made lots of cool Internet buddies and everyone had a mic. I joined a clan and stayed with them for a while then I eventually joined another that I’m still in.
2005-2006 era Runescape, when Mahatma, Elvemage, and Kids Ranqe pretty much owned the wild. Good times.
For me it would be:
Herzog zwei (first introduction to RTS games, perhaps the first RTS game ever or just on console. To much good to be said but the graphics and control are archaic compared to what is available now
Warcraft 3 tft (playing Orc dying to night elf, playing Orc dying to humans, playing Orc dying to undead… Awesome game despite all the dying)
Counter strike 1.5 (awping with the deagle and quick scoping didn’t get much funner, broken but who cares as long as there was a big boom and people died, legendary in house 16 on 16 lan in a packed pc house with everyone lan hacking and mad shit talk was the greatest thing ever)
Halo 1 (AI interaction was top notch in that game as was basically everything, successive halos never reached this pinnacle for me)
Soul calibur 2 (great game till 2g glitch became widespread, subsequent versions made parry and 8wr worse and worse with every iteration which were the series biggest selling points to me. Classic ball drop by namco.
Snes super tennis (matt FTW, bottom court was op, top court was low tier, top spin would eventually come and make this and all other tennis games obsolete, but at a much more complicated style of gameplay)
Psychonauts (just a ridiculously good game)
Timesplitters
Quake 3 for dreamcast (loved the control and the online was good)
Twisted metal 1 (I don’t know if it’s become a bad game, but jeez, this game was sooooo good. Then future instalments just dropped the fucking ball… Like badly)
Vigilante 8 (knockoff twisted metal that still gave me my fix after subsequent twisted metals lost their way)
Many platformers in general that I just forget. Idk what it is but I haven’t played a platformer that has really captured the nostalgia of old. It’s probably just that I’m old and have grown out of the genre even though I still have a soft spot for it.
There are more but that’s good for now.
VF6 has been heavily hinted at, so most likely yes.
For me it’s Soul Calibur 2. First foray into the competitive scene, and since Tekken 4 was ass a ton of players migrated to SC2. Was all downhill from there, fault of the game itself or otherwise. SC3 was a lot of fun despite the glitches, and the arcade version was even better but never saw a wide release. SC4 was fucking trash. SC5 was a good, solid fighting game but unfinished and not very much like older SC games, so nobody cared. Then Namco came out and explicitly stated that they felt Soul Calibur’s audience was only interested in single player content and released garbage Lost Souls.
SC2 wasn’t a perfect game, but it’s a lot better than what fans of the series have now. I’ll probably wind up skipping a 6th installment.