d0s posted:

spice orange

Seat Safety Switch posted:

I've always wished someone from Rare would dish on where that one went off the rails.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

d0s posted:

good rare games:

RC pro am
Blast corps
Whatever SNES DKC game you remember fondly
???

Star Man posted:

Random question: who actually liked Dragon's Lair? Was it just the spectacle of the game being a fully animated cartoon that you "played" or did people just loving dread playing?

Gaz2k21 posted:

There was a third game like this that I had on PC it was called Warehouse 13 or something similar I don't remember much about it other than the box it came in was a stupid shape and every time it came to make a choice in the game you just hit every key until it made the right sound.

Kid Fenris posted:

I, too, think this.

http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/367/retro-scan-special-edition-keith-courage-in-alpha-zones-comic

Keith Courage is OK for a level or two but then it's just the same thing over and over. Those gun-head dudes aren't as neat when you see them in every stage. And don't get me started on the money-grinding.

Breadallelogram posted:

I liked the tiny open world areas in Sonic Adventure because it always seemed like there was some mysterious poo poo hidden somewhere that I wasn't figuring out. Like you can steal a chao egg from that store in the city. There's a huge empty forest for some reason.

Mak0rz posted:

So many people I know hate the blue sphere levels in Sonic but I actually like them more than the half-pipes, though not by much.

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

So how does it play? I tried it mainly with San Francisco Rush, for a couple of reasons:

1) This is my all time favorite N64 game, I've spent hundreds of hours with it and am very familiar with it
2) This is the game I notice bad joysticks on the most. Once you lose fine directional control, Rush plays noticeably worse, and the game really relies on small movements to keep the cars settled

Here is a video of me trying to demonstrate how tiny movements are easily possible with the Superpad 64 Plus on Rush. I dont know if it completely conveys it, but those small steering inputs that I'm using to just change lanes are pretty tough to do accurately on Nintendo controllers. Not impossible, but not THIS easy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DU0-3urZW8

Overall, highly recommended!!

Nephzinho posted:

Did anyone besides for me love Quest 64?

Allen Wren posted:

I'm gonna say Square's worst games are FF8 (in the "ambitiously bad" category) and Ehrgeiz (in the "what were they thinking" category)

Star Man posted:

I'm trying to think of any really bad games that I owned that I or my parents spent money on.

Cyberia and Mega Man X7 are the only ones that really come to mind.

Cyberia is more or less completely forgotten and is a pre-rendered 3D adventure game in a cyberpunk setting. I only had it because it came with our first computer, and IBM Aptiva in 1995. But because it was published by Interplay, it also came with a shareware version of Descent. But I love the poo poo out Cyberia enough that the first LP I ever did was of that game and one of the two random goons I got to commentate on it by coincidence lived not far away from me and we're close friends now. So I got something out of it.

Mega Man X7 might be the worst video game I have ever spent my own money on and yet I don't have the same level of vitriol for it that it rightfully deserves. Axl sucks and the controls suck. The optimal way to play it is to unlock X as fast as you can and use him to clear out the stage and Zero to beat bosses because he doesn't need weapon energy to use them. Soundtrack's okay, at least. Somehow I can tolerate this game even though it's really bad to play, but one could argue that X6 is even worse.

Allen Wren posted:

sure, "hilarious"

totally "hilarious" that I wasted an entire summer playing through it without really grasping what I was supposed to do such that the random encounters only got worse, happening more and more often...not knowing I had to draw spells from bosses (because you stock up on poo poo BEFORE you fight a boss, why would I spend rounds not buffing/debuffing, dealing damage or healing myself?) and basically winning fights by summoning GFs and breaking my thumb rapid-firing on the boost ability --- and then finding myself having saved my game on lunatic pandora right before the final fujin/raijin fight, which I could not beat, nor could I go back and grind up.

like sixty-plus hours in a summer where my mother would only let me play for like a half hour at a time before yelling at me to do some kind of a chore or just to go outside

Random Stranger posted:

Well, I think history shows you don't have to have decent acting or story to do well in ticket sales. You do have to be understandable, though. If people leave the theater saying, "What the gently caress was that?" that's a bad sign.

Sir Tonk posted:

The movie looked amazing them it came out, but they really shouldn't have called it final fantasy. Up to that point, all the FF games had been very not sci-fi affairs.

GreatGreen posted:

So I've been getting into Mega Man recently and had a question about the X series. How come X2 and X3 for SNES sell for $100+ each, but you can get the X collection on PS2 which has X1 - 4 for the cost of any regular old game?

Is it just that people want the authentic SNES experience or is there something wrong with the PS2 collection, gameplay-wise or something?

FireMrshlBill posted:

Can't you just remove the tabs on your SNES and play SFC games?

Breadallelogram posted:

I also made this purchase because I've never owned a SNES and the SFC was less expensive.

Turbinosamente posted:

The SNES market is why I have 11 games for it and 6 are SFC games, with almost none of the flagship titles for it (no Marios, Metroid, Megamans, Final Fantasy etc). I wouldn't have the system at all if I didn't stumble into one for $24 in a thrift store. I also don't bother looking at the SNES games in a game shop anymore.