A buddy of mine had this game. A few of us would go to his house and waste hours on the multiplayer. They had some kind of hacking weapon that allowed you to take over other robots...so much fun.
A buddy of mine had this game. A few of us would go to his house and waste hours on the multiplayer. They had some kind of hacking weapon that allowed you to take over other robots...so much fun.
I own this game and this literally all I remember about it, because it is fucking awesome.
I'd also nominate Resonance of Fate (which I still need to finish), which is the best JRPG I've played this gen and was totally ignored because it got dropped in to die right before FFXIII. It also has guns that look like this:
The best games, The Neverhood, Rescue: Embassy and Great Greed (kudos to the dudes who did, you guys have taste) have been mentioned, but what about Clash at Demonhead? People tend to know it now thnaks to Scott Pilgrim, but, man, what a ridiculous NES game.
My answer, despite it getting a really decent fan following when it finally came out among a hardcore set of players, is the fourth game in a despised anime/manga fighting series.
Naruto: GNT 4 is one of the best 3D fighters ever released. Balanced, smooth flowing creamy goodness. I don't like Naruto and I fucking love this game. My friends never even watch anime...and they love this game. It is easily the most played 3D fighter among a group that loves Soul Calibur.
My answer, despite it getting a really decent fan following when it finally came out among a hardcore set of players, is the fourth game in a despised anime/manga fighting series.
Naruto: GNT 4 is one of the best 3D fighters ever released. Balanced, smooth flowing creamy goodness. I don't like Naruto and I fucking love this game. My friends never even watch anime...and they love this game. It is easily the most played 3D fighter among a group that loves Soul Calibur.
Did you play Ultimate Ninja Storm 2?
Haven't gotten it myself, but it sure looks like the best possible Naruto game one could make. It even has a story mode that manages to crap all over the original source material.
looks like. Plays like shite like all other CC 2 fighting games. Naruto GNT 4 is balanced as hell (ignoring one certain character) and up until a few years ago still had tournament play.
Oh and the best part about Great Greed is the character names
You are out to save Princess Cupcake of the Greene Kingdom from Bio-Hazard Harry
Also, there's a girl named Microwave, and I've jokingly said to people that my first daughter's middle name will be Microwave in tribute, except they don't know that I'm not joking
You play the part of Richard, who has been accidentally sent to hell! Which in this case is an Ultima clone. Your best friend and girlfriend have also been sent to hell, and obviously you need to team up with them and...ESCAPE FROM HELL. But, until you find them, its not a bad idea to team up with some of the locals. Oh, hi Stalin! I see you brought your own nail gun! Want to join me? Ah, John Wilkes Booth, glad to have you on board!
I don't know anyone else that has played this game, but the casual way in which it presents `evil' historical figures is superb. My Christmas wish this year is for EA to revisit this property and remake it as a Dragon Age type RPG.
I always look to Trap Gunner when this topic comes up. It wasn't just an underrated game, but a woefully underappreciated game type. It had a roster of characters to pick from with strengths and weaknesses similar to a fighting game, but the gameplay was basically Deception, versus mode. You plant traps, search for your enemy's traps, and try to run their life bar down by either distracting them or assaulting them head on. It was a constant power struggle because there was the option to disarm an enemy's traps, but it left you vulnerable to them using their ranged weapon on you, which would cause an automatic trap trigger. It tended to make an already tense situation even more stressful, but in a good way.
I don't know how popular Dungeon Keeper was back in the day, and it might have gotten some more popularity since then thanks to Dungeons and places like GOG. In my mind, though, there's never been a true successor to the game, and it was a mistake even trying to bring it into 3d. The sprites and great sound effects of the first game gave it a singular charm and helped make it one of the funniest things I've ever played.
Picked up Haven on a whim one day, looked kinda neat.
Was a pretty awesome mix of traditional third person action adventure with driving/shooty bits and platforming, but no one I've ever asked about it has heard of it.
I feel like half my favourite games on the original xbox fit into this category.
Deathrow, the futuristic bloodsport game that was equal parts beat em up and sports game. It had a taunt button! That was almost exclusively horrible swearing!
Otogi 1 and 2 were my favourite action games on that system. More than Ninja Gaiden. Amazing style to those games.
Phantom Crash. The best mech game you never played with the best soundtrack you've never heard.
Phantom Dust for the original Xbox. Hands down the most under appreciated game I have ever played. Originally developed by Majesco till they went under then picked up by Microsoft and released at the bargain price of 30 or 40 dollars. People looked at it and assumed cheap price meant shitty game but holy hell were they wrong. I own 3 copies of the game because it sold so poorly that new copies were only 5 dollars and I wanted to make sure I always had a copy to play. I will also say that S.L.A.I which is the sequel to Phantom Crash is truly amazing and if you ever get the chance to play it you should.
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Third Person Shooter for the OXBox. Guns, Melee, and magic.
A game that, for reasons beyond me, got totally passed over despite having a very strong art and presentation style, a solid story and very fun gameplay. Kind of a stealth/action hybrid with disney-esque graphics and some of the most brutal stealth take downs and combo kills in a game.
I remember hearing about this game and just not quite wanting to buy/play it. Think their marketing just did not catch my interest, though it looks like it would have been fun. Also looks like Sony more or less reskinned the game to create God of War 1.
I made a game! Hotline Maui. Requires mouse and keyboard.
I feel like half my favourite games on the original xbox fit into this category.
Deathrow, the futuristic bloodsport game that was equal parts beat em up and sports game. It had a taunt button! That was almost exclusively horrible swearing!
Otogi 1 and 2 were my favourite action games on that system. More than Ninja Gaiden. Amazing style to those games.
Phantom Crash. The best mech game you never played with the best soundtrack you've never heard.
We actually had to retire deathrow from the lan parties because of how brutally competitive we'd get over it. We'd beat the fuck out of each other in game and be damn near ready to do the same in real life, then we'd throw in halo and let the rage flow through us.
My answer, despite it getting a really decent fan following when it finally came out among a hardcore set of players, is the fourth game in a despised anime/manga fighting series.
Naruto: GNT 4 is one of the best 3D fighters ever released. Balanced, smooth flowing creamy goodness. I don't like Naruto and I fucking love this game. My friends never even watch anime...and they love this game. It is easily the most played 3D fighter among a group that loves Soul Calibur.
Best thing is playing Hinata in a 4 player free for all. Everybody ignores you because they think the character is awful and then you just pick people off while they're busy fighting each other.
I remember renting this game for Genesis when I was still rather young. I had no fucking clue what was going on.
The three lives/three brothers mechanic was nifty though. I always ended getting a game over really quick in this game. I recall actually taking it back to the video store and trading it for a different rental. It was too unforgiving for my brazen playstyle at the time.
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Mark of Kri is a sick game
great thread.
has anyone mentioned PN03 for gamecube? I remember when it came out a lot of people on here were excited about it but that was many years ago. Fun shooter, pretty unique as far as I know
Betrayal at Krondor. The game was based in a fantasy world in a series of books by Raymond E. Feist. This was probably my favorite PC RPG back when I was in junior high.
Body Harvest was both amazing and terrible at the same time. Amazing game, disgraceful graphics, shoddy controls, very glitchy. Also really hard, though in part due to the controls.
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Betrayal at Krondor. The game was based in a fantasy world in a series of books by Raymond E. Feist. This was probably my favorite PC RPG back when I was in junior high.
Still one of the best written games of all time too.
You play the part of Richard, who has been accidentally sent to hell! Which in this case is an Ultima clone. Your best friend and girlfriend have also been sent to hell, and obviously you need to team up with them and...ESCAPE FROM HELL. But, until you find them, its not a bad idea to team up with some of the locals. Oh, hi Stalin! I see you brought your own nail gun! Want to join me? Ah, John Wilkes Booth, glad to have you on board!
I don't know anyone else that has played this game, but the casual way in which it presents `evil' historical figures is superb. My Christmas wish this year is for EA to revisit this property and remake it as a Dragon Age type RPG.
So many hours of my childhood. SO MANY. Also, in the same vein and similar time period:
I'm not going to claim this is 'the greatest game', but it's a game from my childhood that I absolutely adored. I've yet to find anyone else who knows about the game, so I imagine it counts.
Classic jRPG for the SNES that I clearly played at the right age, as the story isn't much more hard-hitting than an average pokemon game (unless I'm not remembering correctly), but it was really fun and inventive (ha!) because you were playing as a budding inventor who could build robots to do your battles for you. It's kind of like pokemon before pokemon in that you did absolutely none of the battling and instead threw your robot (who pops out of a capsule, somehow) onto the field to hack or shoot (depending on what you've equipped on it) whatever stood in your way to death. You had up to three robots and if one broke down, the next in your queue popped out unless there were no more, in which case your game was over.
Through the game, you end up having to put your inventing skills to the test by finding recipes for key items (as well as non-key items; scattered through the game were books that you could use to learn how to make new equips for your bots) that you'd end up having to use at least once for one puzzle or the like which was and still is pretty damn cool.
It was just a really fun, neat little RPG that I always think of when I think of SNES-era RPGs or just SNES games in general (basically I always think of Chrono Trigger, Link to the Past and this), which is why it bugs me that nobody else seems to have played it.
I never played it but I read about it in Nintendo Power and wanted to play it so fucking badly. However, for the longest time I was only allowed to buy one or two games a year and the few places that sold video games around here didn't always have a large selection so if I had ever seen it (which I don't think I ever had) I would have probably passed it up in favor of some other big name game like Chrono Trigger or Secret of Mana or Super Metroid or whatever.
I played the crap out of this one. Used to keep a piece of paper folded up with the game (tucked into the plastic dust cover) so I could keep track of what programs did what on the robots. It was a lot of fun at the time.
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I know people here like it, but I'm also certain a lot of NA folks will be missing out, or won't make the effort to soft-mod/import their Wii.
And that saddens me greatly, because it really deserves all the exposure it can get.
I never would have imagined a Wii game would provide every single thing I could ever want in a quality RPG.
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A buddy of mine had this game. A few of us would go to his house and waste hours on the multiplayer. They had some kind of hacking weapon that allowed you to take over other robots...so much fun.
I'd also nominate Resonance of Fate (which I still need to finish), which is the best JRPG I've played this gen and was totally ignored because it got dropped in to die right before FFXIII. It also has guns that look like this:
Another good one was magic of scheherazade
Oh, and looking over my NES collection, this guy
I'm sure you all know this one, but I rarely see it mentioned
Oh, and this thing. This is Zelda 2 done way more kickass than Zelda 2.
My answer, despite it getting a really decent fan following when it finally came out among a hardcore set of players, is the fourth game in a despised anime/manga fighting series.
Naruto: GNT 4 is one of the best 3D fighters ever released. Balanced, smooth flowing creamy goodness. I don't like Naruto and I fucking love this game. My friends never even watch anime...and they love this game. It is easily the most played 3D fighter among a group that loves Soul Calibur.
Awesome music, simple to learn but hard to master (later races kicked my ass when I was young), and fun fun fun!
Did you play Ultimate Ninja Storm 2?
Haven't gotten it myself, but it sure looks like the best possible Naruto game one could make. It even has a story mode that manages to crap all over the original source material.
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You are out to save Princess Cupcake of the Greene Kingdom from Bio-Hazard Harry
Also, there's a girl named Microwave, and I've jokingly said to people that my first daughter's middle name will be Microwave in tribute, except they don't know that I'm not joking
You play the part of Richard, who has been accidentally sent to hell! Which in this case is an Ultima clone. Your best friend and girlfriend have also been sent to hell, and obviously you need to team up with them and...ESCAPE FROM HELL. But, until you find them, its not a bad idea to team up with some of the locals. Oh, hi Stalin! I see you brought your own nail gun! Want to join me? Ah, John Wilkes Booth, glad to have you on board!
Here is a much better recap!
I don't know anyone else that has played this game, but the casual way in which it presents `evil' historical figures is superb. My Christmas wish this year is for EA to revisit this property and remake it as a Dragon Age type RPG.
I don't know how popular Dungeon Keeper was back in the day, and it might have gotten some more popularity since then thanks to Dungeons and places like GOG. In my mind, though, there's never been a true successor to the game, and it was a mistake even trying to bring it into 3d. The sprites and great sound effects of the first game gave it a singular charm and helped make it one of the funniest things I've ever played.
Ka-Chung!
Ka-Chung!
(Go to 3:13 or so to skip menus.)
It was a game about hats before TF2!
What's not to love about mounted motorcycle combat?
This 100 times. I have yet to play a more fun racing game than this. I still have my n64 in a box along with road rash 64.
God i wish they would make a new road rash game. With physics and modern graphics... 8->
If anyone watches acouple seconds of the above video watch 3:10.
Picked up Haven on a whim one day, looked kinda neat.
Was a pretty awesome mix of traditional third person action adventure with driving/shooty bits and platforming, but no one I've ever asked about it has heard of it.
Deathrow, the futuristic bloodsport game that was equal parts beat em up and sports game. It had a taunt button! That was almost exclusively horrible swearing!
Otogi 1 and 2 were my favourite action games on that system. More than Ninja Gaiden. Amazing style to those games.
Phantom Crash. The best mech game you never played with the best soundtrack you've never heard.
Convicts 4 lyfe!
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Third Person Shooter for the OXBox. Guns, Melee, and magic.
I'm just going to point out one thing about the road rash series thats about to blow your fucking mind.
That was Sugar Ray
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That Sugar Ray
Mind
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Speed Home California is off of the album "Lemonade and Brownies" and Mean Machine is off of the "Floored" album.
I remember hearing about this game and just not quite wanting to buy/play it. Think their marketing just did not catch my interest, though it looks like it would have been fun. Also looks like Sony more or less reskinned the game to create God of War 1.
Have you tried it with the Wii Remote? It's actually pretty good that way as well.
As for me, I'm going to say Maximo: Army of Zin.
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I remember my hands got so sore from getting the highest banana multipliers that I had to take breaks. Shit was hardcore.
Also, WarioWare: Do It Yourself. If Japan only, Fire Emblem: Fuuin no Tsurugi, before Fire Emblem became all the rage.
Yeah that was back when Sugar Ray was cool. Mark McGrath sold out and turned into a frostilocks for the fat top-40s-pop-music cash.
also, this whole post is gold-plated lime:
We actually had to retire deathrow from the lan parties because of how brutally competitive we'd get over it. We'd beat the fuck out of each other in game and be damn near ready to do the same in real life, then we'd throw in halo and let the rage flow through us.
Demons V robots V convicts in deathsport games you could win by beating the other team do death.
Also there was a dedicated swear button
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Harvest
The controls were fairly clunky but the atmosphere in this game was so damn good, the music was especially good at being unnerving.
Best thing is playing Hinata in a 4 player free for all. Everybody ignores you because they think the character is awful and then you just pick people off while they're busy fighting each other.
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I remember renting this game for Genesis when I was still rather young. I had no fucking clue what was going on.
The three lives/three brothers mechanic was nifty though. I always ended getting a game over really quick in this game. I recall actually taking it back to the video store and trading it for a different rental. It was too unforgiving for my brazen playstyle at the time.
great thread.
has anyone mentioned PN03 for gamecube? I remember when it came out a lot of people on here were excited about it but that was many years ago. Fun shooter, pretty unique as far as I know
Still one of the best written games of all time too.
So many hours of my childhood. SO MANY. Also, in the same vein and similar time period:
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I can't begin to explain how much I loved this stupid game.
I played the crap out of this one. Used to keep a piece of paper folded up with the game (tucked into the plastic dust cover) so I could keep track of what programs did what on the robots. It was a lot of fun at the time.
Another game that never seems to get the love it deserved: Tiny Tank: Up Your Arsenal. (Later renamed to just Tiny Tank)