Team Buddies on PS1. It was basically an RTS. You had your little dudes shaped like bullets and you went around collecting boxes that you stacked on your pad to create new buddies and weapons to fight the other team.
Weirdly my main memory of it, apart from that opening, is shooting hoops as the probably-more-problematic-than-I-remember black character. I remember basically nothing about the game except that my friend and I laughed a lot.
And then that bit where the Black character meets the even more problematically-stereotypical Wise Chinese Antique Dealer
And we haven’t even gotten to the necrophilia!
Wait what? I do not remember that.
It’s been a while, so forgive me if I don’t remember the exact specifics, but at a certain point
you (Lucas) could die (this may have been optional? So maybe this isn’t something you had to see?), and you are brought back as a zombie by an AI cult. And then you get a pretty graphic sex scene (for the era) very shortly after, with a very clearly zombified Lucas.
IIRC that scene had to be altered for the US release in order to not get an AO rating.
Weirdly my main memory of it, apart from that opening, is shooting hoops as the probably-more-problematic-than-I-remember black character. I remember basically nothing about the game except that my friend and I laughed a lot.
And then that bit where the Black character meets the even more problematically-stereotypical Wise Chinese Antique Dealer
And we haven’t even gotten to the necrophilia!
Wait what? I do not remember that.
It’s been a while, so forgive me if I don’t remember the exact specifics, but at a certain point
you (Lucas) could die (this may have been optional? So maybe this isn’t something you had to see?), and you are brought back as a zombie by an AI cult. And then you get a pretty graphic sex scene (for the era) very shortly after, with a very clearly zombified Lucas.
IIRC that scene had to be altered for the US release in order to not get an AO rating.
Either I never saw it or memory holed it super hard cause none of that rings a bell
Hmm wizardry 8 has an 85 on metacritic so I'm not gonna pick that... despite it being a weird game no one played.
The OG darksun PCRPG game maybe that? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1904600/Dark_Sun_Shattered_Lands/ ? I loved the shit out of that game and it's honestly way ahead of its time. Like baulder's gate 1 has way less going on in dialogue trees. BG2 is probably the better game but like... shattered lands came out in 1993 and there's so much going on with just the initial "escape from the coliseum" premise.
Metacritic says "Critic reviews are not available yet"... I'm sure they'll be some reviews soon.. we can just wait patiently.
Weirdly my main memory of it, apart from that opening, is shooting hoops as the probably-more-problematic-than-I-remember black character. I remember basically nothing about the game except that my friend and I laughed a lot.
And then that bit where the Black character meets the even more problematically-stereotypical Wise Chinese Antique Dealer
And we haven’t even gotten to the necrophilia!
Wait what? I do not remember that.
It’s been a while, so forgive me if I don’t remember the exact specifics, but at a certain point
you (Lucas) could die (this may have been optional? So maybe this isn’t something you had to see?), and you are brought back as a zombie by an AI cult. And then you get a pretty graphic sex scene (for the era) very shortly after, with a very clearly zombified Lucas.
IIRC that scene had to be altered for the US release in order to not get an AO rating.
whoa I always assumed that was just the way the story played out and was like "weird but ok, I've already come this far" about it.
I loved it, there were some fantastic ideas it pulled off, even at a low budget. It's not the prettiest game, but it makes up for an older engine with artistic style.
It's gameplay mechanics are inventive with regards to leveling and social interactions, with an Arkham Batman style combat system.
You play the part of a doctor in London post WW1 during the outbreak of spanish flu. Bitten by a vampire, you wake up to a city on fire in a pile of bodies. Once you come to your senses you can start to explore the city and resume your life.
The communities of the various regions of London have a web of relationships between them, and their residents and their various roles are already pushed to the breaking point by the aftereffects of war, disease and an unfolding vampire outbreak.
Talking to them can reveal clues for the usual hidden items you might find in a game, but also their routines, allowing you to potentially find them when they're isolated and take a sip. (Which rewards XP) You can drain them even further till dead, rewarding maximum experience but also further fraying the social order holding the city together. If too many (or just enough sufficiently important) people die then social order in an area can collapse completely as whatever remaining people either leave, die do to lack of support from dependents or are murdered by vampires no longer restrained by the vestiges of society.
Not all blood is equal either. The despotic landlord might be an easy moral choice, but you didn't follow a trail of social comments and clues that let you know they're an alchoholic, you'll drain them only to find that you took the risk for tainted unhealthy blood, or that a character's illness or background means they can't survive as many sips as most humans and they die in your clutches.
And that creates the main difficulty gauge in the game both in and out of combat. You can only gain XP from blood, and there is a finite supply in the game, restricted even further depending on how many people you're willing (or able) to feed upon. You can drain everyone in the city, making you exceptionally powerful and able to dominate, entrance or defeat any foe, but the entire city will fall apart and you'll constantly be running into vampires made stronger by their freedom to feed.
Team Buddies on PS1. It was basically an RTS. You had your little dudes shaped like bullets and you went around collecting boxes that you stacked on your pad to create new buddies and weapons to fight the other team.
If you average the review for Metal Gear Acid 1 and 2, they're 7/10 games. CCG mechanics in the MG world on the PSP. I played the crap out of these games and loved them. Removes the stress element for me that the usual espionage action of the other games has.
Dungeons and Dragons Tactics, also on PSP, is a 6/10 game that I played a lot. 3.5 edition mechanics in a turn-based tactical battle format. I played a run for every one of the included classes. The story was generic, but I was there for DnD3.5 in a portable container.
Might have to find my PSP and play them again, along with Jeanne d'Arc mentioned earlier.
You can tell Team Buddies 10/10 game because 2000s GameSpot rated it a 4.8 out of 10 and fills the review with dumb as shit comparisons to PC RTS games.
I loved it, there were some fantastic ideas it pulled off, even at a low budget. It's not the prettiest game, but it makes up for an older engine with artistic style.
It's gameplay mechanics are inventive with regards to leveling and social interactions, with an Arkham Batman style combat system.
You play the part of a doctor in London post WW1 during the outbreak of spanish flu. Bitten by a vampire, you wake up to a city on fire in a pile of bodies. Once you come to your senses you can start to explore the city and resume your life.
The communities of the various regions of London have a web of relationships between them, and their residents and their various roles are already pushed to the breaking point by the aftereffects of war, disease and an unfolding vampire outbreak.
Talking to them can reveal clues for the usual hidden items you might find in a game, but also their routines, allowing you to potentially find them when they're isolated and take a sip. (Which rewards XP) You can drain them even further till dead, rewarding maximum experience but also further fraying the social order holding the city together. If too many (or just enough sufficiently important) people die then social order in an area can collapse completely as whatever remaining people either leave, die do to lack of support from dependents or are murdered by vampires no longer restrained by the vestiges of society.
Not all blood is equal either. The despotic landlord might be an easy moral choice, but you didn't follow a trail of social comments and clues that let you know they're an alchoholic, you'll drain them only to find that you took the risk for tainted unhealthy blood, or that a character's illness or background means they can't survive as many sips as most humans and they die in your clutches.
And that creates the main difficulty gauge in the game both in and out of combat. You can only gain XP from blood, and there is a finite supply in the game, restricted even further depending on how many people you're willing (or able) to feed upon. You can drain everyone in the city, making you exceptionally powerful and able to dominate, entrance or defeat any foe, but the entire city will fall apart and you'll constantly be running into vampires made stronger by their freedom to feed.
I genuinely love Vampyr and thought it was both very ambitious while managing to channel a nostalgic early 2010s RPG vibe that was very endearing
I started it, got distracted, and then found myself amidst the lockdown of our own pandemic, at which point it felt particularly timely to take a second run at the game
Boy that was an interesting framework to approach it from, really emphasizing some of the theming unintentionally, giving me even more reasons to try and make an effort towards a good guy run
The Missing: JJ Macfield and the Island of Memories is a 7/10 game I absolutely adored
Undeniably clunky in both game mechanics and narrative, but still an absolutely beautiful game about queerness, love, and the mundane horrors of Persisting
Yeah, Brutal Legend is on my "give it another chance" list. I was so repelled by the game that released versus the game that was advertised that I think I only put a couple hours into it. I wanted a Metal-themed Zelda and they made a darkly comedic Guilty Gear 2: Overture. My expectations were not properly calibrated to give the game a real shot.
Yeah, Brutal Legend is on my "give it another chance" list. I was so repelled by the game that released versus the game that was advertised that I think I only put a couple hours into it. I wanted a Metal-themed Zelda and they made a darkly comedic Guilty Gear 2: Overture. My expectations were not properly calibrated to give the game a real shot.
If you want Heavy Metal Zelda, could I interest you in fellow 7/10 game, Darksiders?
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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Gangsters: Organized Crime is too old to have a Metacritic rating apparently, but I can assure you that it was actually quite mid despite my own absolute dedication to figuring out its secrets.
You would plan out a week with orders and then basically watch things play out. You had the ability to send limited orders during the actual action but it was clunky I think by design. You could opportunistically mow down some rival gangsters if you happened to see them out and had superior firepower, but beyond that you watched it on high speed and then read the paper at the end of the week.
Yeah, Brutal Legend is on my "give it another chance" list. I was so repelled by the game that released versus the game that was advertised that I think I only put a couple hours into it. I wanted a Metal-themed Zelda and they made a darkly comedic Guilty Gear 2: Overture. My expectations were not properly calibrated to give the game a real shot.
If you want Heavy Metal Zelda, could I interest you in fellow 7/10 game, Darksiders?
I quite enjoyed the first Darksiders! No Lemmy in it though and that's kinda what sold me on Brutal Legend (that and Jack Black).
Though Darksiders did have Mark Hamill and personal favorite Phil Lamarr.
Gangsters: Organized Crime is too old to have a Metacritic rating apparently, but I can assure you that it was actually quite mid despite my own absolute dedication to figuring out its secrets.
You would plan out a week with orders and then basically watch things play out. You had the ability to send limited orders during the actual action but it was clunky I think by design. You could opportunistically mow down some rival gangsters if you happened to see them out and had superior firepower, but beyond that you watched it on high speed and then read the paper at the end of the week.
THERE IT IS
IVE FINALLY FOUND YOU
Although the FBI was always busting down my door like day 7?
So you just reloaded and stuck a bunch of mooks with Tommy Guns in your hideout to ward them off?
There also seemed to be an exponential rise of cops each day, which didn't make much sense.
Fly around the 2D galaxy, strip mining planets, populating them, and then selling the ore back for all the money.
And then get in the planets good books by giving them the plague, and then curing it over its infected everyone in the quadrant.
It's a 2D sort of space dogfighting game, where you're trying to get money so as to battle your opponents with better shields and weapons and buy extra lives.
But most of the time you win by slowly getting all the planets to align with you, instead of your opponent, as the planets have their own shields and weapons.
You could play multiplayer on the same computer, or via lan.
Man. I was 50/50 on posting that video for a forth time, but it’s not my bit to ruin.
You’ll know when I make a youstube channel because I’ll be Let’s Playing throwing a ball for a dog or doing reviews of plants or criticising the political leanings of birds.
No no no, you’ve got to posit your bullshit like it’s facts.
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Trying to convince myself that some of the Godzilla and Evil Dead games were 7/10 but maybe I should be honest with myself and be a 4 or 5 outta 10 kinda guy.
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Team Buddies on PS1. It was basically an RTS. You had your little dudes shaped like bullets and you went around collecting boxes that you stacked on your pad to create new buddies and weapons to fight the other team.
IIRC that scene had to be altered for the US release in order to not get an AO rating.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
Either I never saw it or memory holed it super hard cause none of that rings a bell
The OG darksun PCRPG game maybe that? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1904600/Dark_Sun_Shattered_Lands/ ? I loved the shit out of that game and it's honestly way ahead of its time. Like baulder's gate 1 has way less going on in dialogue trees. BG2 is probably the better game but like... shattered lands came out in 1993 and there's so much going on with just the initial "escape from the coliseum" premise.
Metacritic says "Critic reviews are not available yet"... I'm sure they'll be some reviews soon.. we can just wait patiently.
whoa I always assumed that was just the way the story played out and was like "weird but ok, I've already come this far" about it.
how dare you imply it's only a 7/10
okay, it may actually be by unbiased standards, but i loved that game a lot as a kid.
Sigma star saga. It was a gba rpg where all the battles were a shmup (or a shmright I guess)
I loved it, there were some fantastic ideas it pulled off, even at a low budget. It's not the prettiest game, but it makes up for an older engine with artistic style.
It's gameplay mechanics are inventive with regards to leveling and social interactions, with an Arkham Batman style combat system.
You play the part of a doctor in London post WW1 during the outbreak of spanish flu. Bitten by a vampire, you wake up to a city on fire in a pile of bodies. Once you come to your senses you can start to explore the city and resume your life.
The communities of the various regions of London have a web of relationships between them, and their residents and their various roles are already pushed to the breaking point by the aftereffects of war, disease and an unfolding vampire outbreak.
Talking to them can reveal clues for the usual hidden items you might find in a game, but also their routines, allowing you to potentially find them when they're isolated and take a sip. (Which rewards XP) You can drain them even further till dead, rewarding maximum experience but also further fraying the social order holding the city together. If too many (or just enough sufficiently important) people die then social order in an area can collapse completely as whatever remaining people either leave, die do to lack of support from dependents or are murdered by vampires no longer restrained by the vestiges of society.
Not all blood is equal either. The despotic landlord might be an easy moral choice, but you didn't follow a trail of social comments and clues that let you know they're an alchoholic, you'll drain them only to find that you took the risk for tainted unhealthy blood, or that a character's illness or background means they can't survive as many sips as most humans and they die in your clutches.
And that creates the main difficulty gauge in the game both in and out of combat. You can only gain XP from blood, and there is a finite supply in the game, restricted even further depending on how many people you're willing (or able) to feed upon. You can drain everyone in the city, making you exceptionally powerful and able to dominate, entrance or defeat any foe, but the entire city will fall apart and you'll constantly be running into vampires made stronger by their freedom to feed.
Team Buddies is a 10/10 GOAT.
What is this 7 out of 10 bullshit?
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
Dungeons and Dragons Tactics, also on PSP, is a 6/10 game that I played a lot. 3.5 edition mechanics in a turn-based tactical battle format. I played a run for every one of the included classes. The story was generic, but I was there for DnD3.5 in a portable container.
Might have to find my PSP and play them again, along with Jeanne d'Arc mentioned earlier.
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I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
I genuinely love Vampyr and thought it was both very ambitious while managing to channel a nostalgic early 2010s RPG vibe that was very endearing
I started it, got distracted, and then found myself amidst the lockdown of our own pandemic, at which point it felt particularly timely to take a second run at the game
Boy that was an interesting framework to approach it from, really emphasizing some of the theming unintentionally, giving me even more reasons to try and make an effort towards a good guy run
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The Missing: JJ Macfield and the Island of Memories is a 7/10 game I absolutely adored
Undeniably clunky in both game mechanics and narrative, but still an absolutely beautiful game about queerness, love, and the mundane horrors of Persisting
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But the musical journey, the humour, the touching story and the echoes of Sacrifice in the RTS segments all have me loving that game.
Game totally ruled, though.
I mean in fairness they were probably right, but fuck them and fuck that.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
I was left cold overall by what Brutal Legend turned out to be. Finished it anyway, because fuck it why not? Not what I was looking for, though.
But, not going to lie, "DECAPITATIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOON" has a forever home in my head.
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If you want Heavy Metal Zelda, could I interest you in fellow 7/10 game, Darksiders?
You would plan out a week with orders and then basically watch things play out. You had the ability to send limited orders during the actual action but it was clunky I think by design. You could opportunistically mow down some rival gangsters if you happened to see them out and had superior firepower, but beyond that you watched it on high speed and then read the paper at the end of the week.
I don't want to agree with these posts because that would be mean, but I did get a chuckle out of it.
I quite enjoyed the first Darksiders! No Lemmy in it though and that's kinda what sold me on Brutal Legend (that and Jack Black).
Though Darksiders did have Mark Hamill and personal favorite Phil Lamarr.
THERE IT IS
IVE FINALLY FOUND YOU
Although the FBI was always busting down my door like day 7?
So you just reloaded and stuck a bunch of mooks with Tommy Guns in your hideout to ward them off?
There also seemed to be an exponential rise of cops each day, which didn't make much sense.
I should also drop Warpath '97 here:
http://www.synthetic-reality.com/warpath32.htm
Fly around the 2D galaxy, strip mining planets, populating them, and then selling the ore back for all the money.
And then get in the planets good books by giving them the plague, and then curing it over its infected everyone in the quadrant.
It's a 2D sort of space dogfighting game, where you're trying to get money so as to battle your opponents with better shields and weapons and buy extra lives.
But most of the time you win by slowly getting all the planets to align with you, instead of your opponent, as the planets have their own shields and weapons.
You could play multiplayer on the same computer, or via lan.
You’ll know when I make a youstube channel because I’ll be Let’s Playing throwing a ball for a dog or doing reviews of plants or criticising the political leanings of birds.
::insert thumbnail of my skeptical face and pointing at a big hosta with the block words “Overrated?”::
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