I wonder which version of Dan Hibiki is the most effective, like if I wanted to play the game at a tournament or whatever. I seem to recall him being kind of okay in one of the million versions of Street Fighter IV?
Thanks for the tag but it doesnāt look like it has the same swag.
Iām definitely willing to give a shot though.
David Cage is a hack and his games are shit, but this is amazing.
It figures that what looks like the most fun Iād ever have with one of his games is an unintentional bug.
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Bit of a tangent post incoming.
For the last few weeks Iāve been finding myself playing Sonic Adventure 1&2 at least a little bit, pretty much every night. I donāt know what it is about these games, theyāre objectively just not that good, but I played SA2 when I was 7 and I still find myself playing it in my 20ās.
You can beat the whole game in like 2 hours, I think that actually makes it really easy to just pick up and enjoy. Itās such an over the top and overly dramatic game and I think that has made it a lot more endearing as time went on. Of course thereās the Chao Garden as well, which is really its own game and incentivizes you to replay the stages. The extra missions for each stage is a nice touch too.
I also learned about a mechanic I had no idea existed in the game for over 20 years. You can actually boost off of grind rails if you time a jump perfectly at the end of the rail. Gives you a whole animation and everything. Was really shocked to see something I hadnāt seen before.
I know half the people love this game to death, and the other half hates it, but it really did have some ambitious ideas for a game at the time, let alone a Sonic game. The execution of those ideas was just oftenā¦ Questionable, lol.
Segue into a possibly fun conversation: What are some games you guys know are bad/hated but still enjoy them yourself? Why are you willing to overlook those criticisms?
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RDR2 for 30 bucks nowā¦hmmā¦
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Well, some that are hated but I loveā¦ Sonic Heroes was the first that came to mind. It was more fun than most of the other 3d outings Sonic and friends have had, and it had some great musicā¦like that track āThis Machineā has been in my mp3 collection ever since the game was new.
Diablo 3ā most Diablo fans seem to actually hate it, and consider part 2 to be the best in the seriesā¦whatever; I continue to have fun, and itās my most played game of all time by a huge margin at this point. Really, thatās what it all comes down to for meāas long as I enjoy the game, I donāt care much that others think itās terrible. (sidenoteāIāve mentioned before that at least in my opinion, a lot of Diablo fans have some strange ideas on how an action-RPG should work.)
ā¦and of course a whole systemā> The PS VITA. Itās a goddamn shame so many people missed out on portable greatness. It still seems like a Twilight Zone kinda thing to me that the Vita did NOT absolutely crush 3DS. Yeah, I realize I am alone in that opinion. Imagine an alternate reality where itās still the 80s so itās the Master System vs. NESā¦but in that worldā¦ the Master System is CRUSHING Nintendo somehowā¦people actually make jokes about how lame that NES is and how itās nothing compared to the Master System ā¦or a reality where the Virtual Boy was a huge success, and became the preferred console for many years. Thatās how strange this shit is, imo.
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Someone posted something about that game Carrion so I thought to myself, āyeah, I should try that out.ā. I went to launch it, I downloaded it a while ago, and I found out the fuckinā game dont come out till today. And I cant play it till 5pm. hmhmhm I thought it was funny.
That game looks cool as shit. Let us know if itās any good.
I canāt really think of too many games that I enjoy but I know are hated other than some Sonic titles. Gotcha Force is probably the only game that I think got panned but I enjoyed the game the death when I played it. Brutal Legend I really enjoyed despite people not liking RTS in their action adventure.
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SA1&2 are games where I love 50% of it and hate 50% of it. Any time Iām not playing Sonic/Shadow, Iām pissed off lol.
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Itās funny you say that, because I agree that theyāre the worst parts of the game, but Iām really not sure if Iād take them out altogether lol. I guess the Tails/Eggman segments could go honestly. I get some genuine enjoyment out of the gem hunt levelsā¦ Most of the time at least.
outside of sonic games i have a hard time thinking of something bad that i really love. i can be entertained by shitty games in general but i already go in knowing their kinda shitty.
I spent a lot of time making the perfect Chao both evil and good. I also cannot believe I spent so much time trying to S rank everything in SA2.
What can I say exceptā¦ LIVE AND LEARN!
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āBadā games I enjoyedā¦
Shite PS2 graphics with a plastic filter over everything. Generic third-person shooter gameplay. Thing isā¦you could āhackā into peoples games and control enemy AI opponents. If you were good enough, you could straight up halt peoples progress in the campaign. I caused many, many salty ragequits by becoming the wall players couldnāt climb. I had fun with it, but thatās because the MP was its saving grace. Itās like 3 on Metacritic HAHA. Iād give it like a 7-7.5/10 myself, and thatās because of the hacking mechanic. MINDJACK
Steampunk world. Weird PS2-esque graphics. Third-person shooter gameplay and platforming stuck in the PS2 era and yetā¦I still kind of enjoyed it all. Itās like the perfect āBā game that you blast through over a weekend then kind of forget about. A 5-6/10 at best, a 30/100ish on Metacritic I think.
In this game you actually had to do the platforming yourself, it wasnāt like Uncharted or other games where itās automated and done for you. Itās also published by Codemasters and in my experience, 9/10 titles published by them range from pure shiiiiieeeet to just OK. Occasionally they publish decent titles thoughā¦the Overlord titles are supposed to be solid.
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Off hand I canāt think of any ābad gamesā that I still go back to and enjoy. Iād have to seriously think about it.
Mainly cause I donāt see the point in subjecting myself to that kind of thing. With movies? Sure. But not as something interactive like a video game.
Iād say your average person who played D2 before D3 either dislikes D3, or they donāt think itās as good as D2.
People who never played 2 but started with 3 seem to love it. I think ignorance is bliss when it comes to newer titles in series like these. People who have played Street Fighter before IV and V most likely donāt think much of those titles compared to older games in the series, and Iād bet people who started with newer SF titles really like them and either arenāt willing to go back to try out the older titles, or just donāt care and are having fun with the newer ones.
I still wait for the day you buy D2 for 20 bucks, followed by making a Necromancer and filling the screen with minions. You can literally get around a 100 minions at once. Skeletons, Skeleton mages, random monsters you can revive to fight for you, Golemsā¦not even PoE letās you get that many minions. 
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This game is fucking awesome if you can get past all the fucking jank, which it has in spades. Fucking awesome game tho. Shits all over Mass Effects āDecisions with real inpact.ā
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oh yeahā-Unreal Championship 2ā not necessarily in the ābadā categoryā¦ more of āI love it but no one else agrees with that opinion.ā
I love absolutely everything about itā¦this game is a classic to meā¦but very people ever gave a shit about it. The action was on fire, manā¦ fast-paced, off the wall shit like wall-jumping, flight and other super-powers, option for 3rd person view, guns with alternate firing modes, melee attacks and using melee to reflect shots back (*one of the most satisfying things ever to be in a shooter ā¦when you managed to melee-reflect a sniper-shotā¦ then that legendary announcer dude is like āHEADSHOTā¦REJECTED!!!ā I wonāt soon forget that 1 day I did that; I wish I had it recordedā¦ I was trying to melee another player and just accidentally reflected the sniper-shot right back at this other dude who was far off in the distance. This moment was delicious.
It saddens me that on the small chance of the Unreal franchise ever becoming popular againā¦we all know itās going to be ājust another shooterā kind of thing again, unlike the melee/shooter (+3rd person view option) mixture of greatness that UC2 was.
I remember making comparisons to other shooters at least on console at the time. The giant at the time of course was Haloā¦and to me, once youāve been hit with all this fast-paced, over-the-top action in your faceā¦ playing Halo was like sloooooow-motion, underwater bullshit in comparison.
editāannnnd UC2 had vampire characters with cool powersā¦so you know thatās automatically bonus points from me just on that.
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Unreal Tournament is about the only FPS I really got into other than GoldenEye on n64. Dunno what it is about those games, but I LOVED UT3. Sadly, that game didnāt seem to take off.
As for bad games I liked, Iād go with that Van Helsing PS2 game. It was meant to be a DMC ripoff and was based on the movie which had its moments. The game wasnāt great, but it was good enough lol.
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