This person should have been shot at birth, or at least needs a few years of A Clockwork Orange style reconditioning.Indigo_Dingo post=9.71773.743317 said:
The thread of forgotten games
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Way of the Samurai, and to a lesser extent, it's sequel. I absolutely loved how these games let you experience the common occurrences of a day in the life of a badass near mythical warrior. Sure the graphics were meh, but the storytelling was pretty awesome. Best of all, the games were pretty short, representing only a few days of in game time, centered around significant events... the idea being that you'd go back and re-play it a totally different way to get to all the various ending depending on who you sided with and how well you did.
You just don't see non-linear games taken to that extent lately.
You just don't see non-linear games taken to that extent lately.
Picked up The Suffering today and I'm suprised that game didn't cause more of a stir all round when it came out. Seems like the sort of game the media are crying out for to prove how games a evil.
Great game, mind.
Great game, mind.
I played those games a ton as a kid, I could never understand why anyone would play those "crappy games" like Doom and Duke Nukem, I mean, THREE AXES of movement at all times! Three is better than two! Not to mention that Metroid-esque claustrophobia.Drednought1 post=9.71773.738473 said:
Freedom Fighters for the PS2, GC, Xbox, and PC. The game takes place in an alternate early-2000s where the Soviet Union is still around and invades the US. You play as Chris, a member of an underground American resistance fighting the Red Army in New York. It was a squad-based tactical shooter with really smart AI (At the time anyway, you must understand that the game came out in 2004) and was highly praised by critics...but it was a commercial flop, last I heard. They were talking about a sequel, but they apparently canned it in favor of working on Kane & Lynch.
The Darkness for the 360 and PS3. I know, I'm sure most of you have at least heard of it, and it did fairly well, but the game was mostly forgotten after the 2007 holiday season was in full swing, and games like Halo 3 started coming out. While the actual shooting in The Darkness was underwhelming, the Darkness powers were fun, and the story was perhaps the second best in any shooter of 2007 (Beaten only by Bioshock) in terms of writing, characters, and dialog. Oh, and the voice acting was phenomenal.
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division for the PC. An anime inspired shooter featuring combat on foot and in giant mecha along the lines of Gundam. It was also pretty well-written, with good characters, even if the voice acting was a tad lacking. It had a HUGE variety of weapons, pretty good AI and graphics (Again, for the time, this game came out in 1998, so it is very archaic by today's standards). However, it was completely overshadowed by another excellent shooter with a strong story. Maybe you guys have heard of it. It is called "Half-Life." Yep, Shogo had the misfortune of coming out about two months apart from Half-Life.
Act of War (Both the first game, Direct Action, and the expansion, High Treason) for the PC. This was an RTS series based on a book by Dale Brown, a techno-thriller author similar to Tom Clancy, but with a bit more sci-fi. It was about a terrorist group named the Consortium launching attacks on oil facilities, and the efforts of the US military and a fictional group named Task Force Talon to stop them. Featured three factions (The Consortium, Task Force Talon, and the US Armed Forces) and had some truly unique features, like POWs and how they handled superweapons and aircraft. It also had great graphics for an RTS game in 2005, and featured FMV cutscenes that actually weren't that bad. I blame marketing for its failure. Atari didn't market the game very well at all. There was only a tiny handful of trailers that made it look pretty damn generic, and they didn't run too many ads for it. It may have been highly rated by critics, but that doesn't mean much when no one knows about the game.
The Darkness for the 360 and PS3. I know, I'm sure most of you have at least heard of it, and it did fairly well, but the game was mostly forgotten after the 2007 holiday season was in full swing, and games like Halo 3 started coming out. While the actual shooting in The Darkness was underwhelming, the Darkness powers were fun, and the story was perhaps the second best in any shooter of 2007 (Beaten only by Bioshock) in terms of writing, characters, and dialog. Oh, and the voice acting was phenomenal.
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division for the PC. An anime inspired shooter featuring combat on foot and in giant mecha along the lines of Gundam. It was also pretty well-written, with good characters, even if the voice acting was a tad lacking. It had a HUGE variety of weapons, pretty good AI and graphics (Again, for the time, this game came out in 1998, so it is very archaic by today's standards). However, it was completely overshadowed by another excellent shooter with a strong story. Maybe you guys have heard of it. It is called "Half-Life." Yep, Shogo had the misfortune of coming out about two months apart from Half-Life.
Act of War (Both the first game, Direct Action, and the expansion, High Treason) for the PC. This was an RTS series based on a book by Dale Brown, a techno-thriller author similar to Tom Clancy, but with a bit more sci-fi. It was about a terrorist group named the Consortium launching attacks on oil facilities, and the efforts of the US military and a fictional group named Task Force Talon to stop them. Featured three factions (The Consortium, Task Force Talon, and the US Armed Forces) and had some truly unique features, like POWs and how they handled superweapons and aircraft. It also had great graphics for an RTS game in 2005, and featured FMV cutscenes that actually weren't that bad. I blame marketing for its failure. Atari didn't market the game very well at all. There was only a tiny handful of trailers that made it look pretty damn generic, and they didn't run too many ads for it. It may have been highly rated by critics, but that doesn't mean much when no one knows about the game.
The Close Combat series of RTT (real-time tactical) games. I loved the mechanics of that series... that you had to take unit quality and morale into account, unless you wanted a green and frightened unit to tell you to piss off and then go hide when you order them to charge!
Also, much more recent, I'll second the recommendation for Stubbs the Zombie. Literally turning the zombie game genre on its head... and there's nothing more awesome than seeing your zombie army tear into the living at yourforceful shove in the right direction command.
edited to add: Oh, and an old-old favourite, Carriers at War. Navy strategy in the Pacific during WW2; the graphics were laughably primitive, but waiting for those recon planes to get back and tell you where the enemy fleet was never got less nerve-wracking.
-- Steve
Also, much more recent, I'll second the recommendation for Stubbs the Zombie. Literally turning the zombie game genre on its head... and there's nothing more awesome than seeing your zombie army tear into the living at your
edited to add: Oh, and an old-old favourite, Carriers at War. Navy strategy in the Pacific during WW2; the graphics were laughably primitive, but waiting for those recon planes to get back and tell you where the enemy fleet was never got less nerve-wracking.
-- Steve
Whos heard of "Grabbed by the Ghoulies"?
It's a game that starts out like every other teen horror game:boy and girl are walking along,it starts raining,they go into a haunted mansion,girl gets kidnapped.That's where the similarites end.Now boy(I can't remember his name)Has to fight legions of monsters including:Zombies(I think),skeletons,chairs,pictures,table,monsters that look like his girlfriend,pirates,etc.
It's a game that starts out like every other teen horror game:boy and girl are walking along,it starts raining,they go into a haunted mansion,girl gets kidnapped.That's where the similarites end.Now boy(I can't remember his name)Has to fight legions of monsters including:Zombies(I think),skeletons,chairs,pictures,table,monsters that look like his girlfriend,pirates,etc.
How about Microsoft Movie Maker? McZee? Anyone?
That was probably the first encounter I had with computer games that were totally self-created.
That was probably the first encounter I had with computer games that were totally self-created.
Tropico 1 and 2, Monkey Island, Loom, Sam and Max hit the road, Broken Sword 1 and 2, Heroes of Might and Magic 2, Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim, Victoria: An empire under the sun, Z(ed), Lords of the realm 1-3, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (Only decent steampunk game ever.), Thief 1-2, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Life and Death 1-2, Constructor and Street Wars (Also known as Mob rule), Serf City, Caesar 2 and 3, Zeus: Master of Olympus, Afterlife, Tone Rebellion and Floor 13.
...I miss most of them. Sigh.
...I miss most of them. Sigh.