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kirbysuperstar: Nov 11, 2012; Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

I think the 3DO has the best video quality of the Wing Commander 3 versions?

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Rubellavator: Aug 16, 2007

Need for Speed and the AD&D games have always looked interesting to me.

# ? May 9, 2024 10:58

Azubah: Jun 5, 2007

kirbysuperstar posted:

I think the 3DO has the best video quality of the Wing Commander 3 versions?

That requires playing WC3 though.

# ? May 9, 2024 10:59

njsykora: Jan 23, 2012; Robots confuse squirrels.

Yeah Road Rash and Wing Commander 3 were my first thoughts, Road Rash especially might actually be the best version of that game. There's a pretty good port of The Need for Speed as well if I remember right.

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Rubellavator: Aug 16, 2007

njsykora posted:

There's a pretty good port of The Need for Speed as well if I remember right.

The 3DO version is the original actually.

# ? May 9, 2024 11:03

SCheeseman: Apr 23, 2003

njsykora posted:

Yeah Road Rash and Wing Commander 3 were my first thoughts, Road Rash especially might actually be the best version of that game. There's a pretty good port of The Need for Speed as well if I remember right.

3DO Road Rash and Need for Speed were the originals and the rest were ports from those, but they're not the best versions of the games.

The best version of Need for Speed is unambiguously the Special Edition PC version, it has a ton of extra content and a high resolution mode. Road Rash is more complicated, the Windows version has a high res mode and runs at a flat 60 but with some visual compromises, the sky looks like poo poo and it runs at 256 colours only instead of 16 bit so there's some ugly posterization here and there, but the PS1 version is basically the same as the 3DO version but with a much better framerate. To be honest my pick for both would probably be the PC versions, driving games just feel better at a consistent framerate and while the visuals are a tradeoff, it's not like they're flat out worse.

EA really oughta look at remastering them at some point, 32bit Road Rash is still quite a lot of fun and there's never been a definitive version of it.

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Silhouette: Nov 16, 2002; SONIC BOOM!!!

Insert Twisted! the Game Show into the disc drive and glue it shut

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TheHoosier: Dec 30, 2004; The fuck, Graham?!

Star Control II and Gex

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After The War: Apr 12, 2005; to all of my Architects
let me be traitor

Echoing the AD&D games, since they were exclusives (although the second one had a lovely PC port, apparently?), and they're historically important as the last SSI D&D games.

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Random Stranger: Nov 27, 2009

After The War posted:

Echoing the AD&D games, since they were exclusives (although the second one had a lovely PC port, apparently?), and they're historically important as the last SSI D&D games.

Yeah, I've got Deathkeep, the second game, on PC. Though I have problems getting it to run with DOSbox.

# ? May 9, 2024 14:22