25b885 No.16368451
Hey /v/ what games were way better then they had any right to be? Sheep raider was a surprisingly good game that still holds up now so do the THQ SpongeBop games.
e05a52 No.16368527
Thought Metal Slug 7 was gonna be garbage from the day I learned that it was going to be the first Metal Slug game that doesn't start with an arcade release. Arcades are an essential atmosphere for promoting solid action design. It turned out to be one of the best games in the whole series.
3d8cd7 No.16368540
Huh, so that game was called Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf in Europe.
Also, the Looney Tunes knockoff of Mario Kart was great.
fccc84 No.16368544
It's a licensed game for a license that was dead in the water from the start. The anime made to sell these toys is so boring nobody subtitled the later episodes.
Despite this it's a fun monster collection game with an interesting combonation of FF's ATB and Bravely Default's Brave/Default system (Or MS Saga's energy system), interesting designs (a hot rod that transforms into a delinquent with a giant pompadour), good humor and some cute girls.
beb097 No.16368673
>Movie licensed open sandbox game
>Feels like 80% of the world is literally copy-pasted
>Camera is wonky as shit
>The Jaws theme gets overused to hell and back
>After 3 playthroughs I still have no idea how to use the limb targeting system
>Still a blast to play
367792 No.16368826
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>>16368527
Are you a nu-SNK employee? You always shill this piece of shit every chance you get, and you always get told how wrong you are.
>generic soundtrack when the first 4 games were known for their stellar OST, vid related
>no new enemies, only a re-skinned morden army
>all the bosses are machines
>branching paths are all military/underground bases
>entire game is piss easy until you get to the final boss, who will mercilessly slap your shit if you aim for the no continues achievements
Friendly reminder.
X=3>Advance>1>2>5>6>4>7>XX
b64de1 No.16368829
25b885 No.16368890
Now that it hits me the King Kong 2005 game was actually really fun.
fb01cf No.16368911
>really strange character designs
>ugly graphics when even comparing it to early ps2 titles
>extremely simplistic gameplay
>the game is essentially a city builder where you control a character
>in order to build new buildings you have to gain the friendship with the townsfolk so they tell you who they know
>the simplistic gameplay where you plan cities and make friends to grow the city ends up being very addictive and fun
One of the few original copies of a game I have kept around since I was a kid.
3aac93 No.16369069
Bloodstained Curse of the Moon
numerous licensed GBA games like Lilo & Stitch, Ecks v Sever
numerous licensed pre-iPhone phone games, mostly by Gameloft
Einhander because Square was the last company anyone expected to release a shmup let alone a good one, and they never will again
d81e43 No.16369115
>>16369105
Too much "Chase X Character and destroy their car" shit to qualify
6c7ea4 No.16369221
>>16368826
No I'm an actual Metal Slug fan. I.e., I play the games seriously instead of merely ogling their aesthetic appeal.
>you always get told how wrong you are.
Typically with pretty bad arguments. Looks like we've got some here.
>generic soundtrack when the first 4 games were known for their stellar OST, vid related
There's a few really good tracks but fair point I guess. Takushi fuckin Hiyamuta was an amazing composer and the industry lost something special when he disappeared after SNK went bankrupt. Toshikazu Tanaka is a pretty good composer in his own way and I have to admit his 7 score isn't quite as good as 4 and 5. Way better than Manabu Namiki's sleep-inducing tracks for Metal Slug 6 though.
>no new enemies, only a re-skinned morden army
There's several actually, but eh. I think this is kind of a weak argument, Castlevania does the same thing all the time. In fact most Contra games feature many enemies with functionally the same behavior in each installment. What matters is how you use the enemies you have.
>all the bosses are machines
Whoa, you mean like most Metal Slug games? 7 has a fantastic assortment of bosses and this is hard to deny. It arguably has one of if not the best overall set of bosses in the whole series in terms of variety and fairness; only the first Metal Slug really competes with it.
>branching paths are all military/underground bases
A couple branching paths are only added in XX and they don't really do much for it. I think having some sort of solid overall set of levels should be paramount before caring about path branch replayability, and frankly some of the branching paths in 3 and 4 were rather questionable.
>it's easy
Its difficulty is about in line with most other entries in the series. Advance is the only game in the series I'd say is perhaps a bit too easy. 7 rests comfortably in between the first game and 3 like most of the others.
Now here's a sober ranking from someone who has actually one-life cleared every single one of these games with a monster score:
1=7>X>3>6>5>4
3 is an immensely overrated Metal Slug that is far too long for its own good and has some rather lame bosses compared to the previous two games.
bfe5f5 No.16369979
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>>16368544
what is chika doing in a 3ds game?
b1cffb No.16370419
>>16368673
>>16368911
>>16368544
It's always interesting to find new titles to the pile, just when you thought you've seen them all, more come up.
>>16368451
Patrician tastes, from the humor to the magnificent art direction that to this day I have no idea how they could pull off on the psx's limited resources to the porno music and the references. Someone cared about this game.
Lemme give you my own then. On the outside, looks like your dime a dozen sportsball game #267754 roster update shit. Except it's the first sportsball game for the Wii, on a control scheme that Konami never worked on, so instead of making a 1:1 port with downgraded graphics, they retought the entire game to be this sort of sportsball RTS with elements taking inspiration from arcades, card games, RPGs and some more. You can play as your Miis. You can build a spaceship to fight against star players and a time machine to play with stars from the past. You can become some sort of strategic virtuoso with a baton. It's fucking incredible. All other sportsball sims of later years are shit though.
3d0618 No.16370443
not sure if this game is obscure or just shit since i've never seen /v/ mention it but I thought it was pretty cool when I played it as a kid. It feels like the old school isometric fallouts without the turn based combat and with more gore.
4ce92a No.16370526
>>16369115
Nah, you're a fag.
ebb9e6 No.16370561
There's a lot of classics that on paper should never have been good.
>Literally Wolfenstein 2
>License was swept away from underneath them by an insecure Romero and then ignored until 2008 by retarded id Software
>Never made a shooter before only published them
>"Whatever let's just use English VAs and change the windmills to triangles"
>"Oh yeah and the final boss can be our faces as mostly inanimate sprites that link together to form some weird snake because why not"
>Improves upon the Wolf3D engines in many ways, adding flying and floating platforms, which added a fair bit of dimension to the levels
>Has actually good looking gib effects, something we don't get again until Duke3D and Hexen
>Doesn't mindlessly ape the standard set by Doom, doesn't even have a shotgun in the arsenal
>Proves that you can have a good classic FPS that only allows you to carry a few weapons at a time
7abae6 No.16370578
>>16370526
He's right though, in not a single portion of the game you indulge in combat, you only get to kill some bees and maybe the zombies at the last level but after that is unnecessary, unless you want to have a laugh
ccb0ca No.16370581
An obscure snes/genesis game based on a pretty shitty fantasy movie that time has basically forgot. It has a lot of issues, like iffy controls and collision, but it makes up for it with stellar visuals, great music, and fluid animation. It's a mediocre game, but it definitely exceeds one's expectations going into it. SNES version is definitely the better of the two.
ebb9e6 No.16370587
>>16370581
I tried to play this game but would get stuck at some bridge or something pretty early on into the game. It seemed a bit cryptic. Probably something I needed to read in the enclosed instruction book.
ebb9e6 No.16370710
>>16370561
Just realized I forgot about RTCW
I still think it's dumb that they just sat on the license for that long
beb097 No.16370739
>>16370613
This one is great too
8429e8 No.16370768
Looney Tunes games are always pretty good for licensed games.
1d261b No.16370774
>>16370768
fuck I was about to post that.
I fucking love Duck Dodgers.
9d7373 No.16371246
>>16370768
This was pretty great too
694dd1 No.16371266
>>16368527
Seriously? I honestly thought 7 (along with 4 obviously) was the worst in the series. Every stage was an ugly brown mess.
a409ac No.16371280
>>16370443
I've seen it posted before in the webm threads occasionally.
15f090 No.16371308
15f090 No.16371322
>>16370561
It was always a good game, especially when it first came out, it was one of the best shooters for several reasons and stood out from the crowd.
Weapons were interesting, it was full of humour and personality, you could choose your character with different height even and other details, christmas time brought hats on their head. Enemies pretending to be dead then jumping back up to surprise you. Digitised characters that looked like people - compare it to wolf 1 or even doom.
No game back then was perfect, but some stood out for having a lot of never-done-before stuff.
All my friends liked it too. The only thing that was 'wrong' about it was there being no angles in the walls, but in other ways it was well above the competition.
6cee29 No.16371344
>>16370810
The DS version was somehow phenomenal.
0a9a29 No.16371407
this is probably the most underrated game i've ever had the joy of playing. It has humorous dialogue, fun minigames, a 10/10 soundtrack and a lot of it's own charm. What I liked most about the sims was that Will Wright had a special funny touch to his games and this was one of them.
>>16368673
I played this. it gave me massive motion induced headaches and was probably the worst of collectathons i'd ever seen, where if I recall there were a good dozen or so of things and you had to get hundreds of each. it was insanity, who in their right mind would actually make this? Probably the worst game i've ever played, but the killing was fun.
0a9a29 No.16371411
>>16371407
forgot the image
f497c1 No.16371440
Is saying Garfield Kart belongs in the top 50 percentile of kart racers a praise for Garfield Kart or an indictment of the genre itself?
54fcc9 No.16371450
>>16371440
If it's the former, then the latter.
17bc04 No.16371490
>>16371440
Garfield Kart is pretty fun, not the best in a million years, but from a fucking Garfield game it's way too good.
cb71cf No.16371538
>>16369221
>>16368826
I've only played a couple of Metal Slug games, so I don't have a decent opinion on the matter, so instead I'll ask a question
Why do you consider 7 better than XX? I thought XX was just a port of 7 with more content
6cf7bd No.16371657
When I was a wee lad somebody gave my Mom a bunch of PS1 games they didn't want anymore… Thank you whoever you are or were.
32b7fd No.16371663
>>16369221
I see a lot of backpedaling and dodging. While this is fine as a gameplay tactic in Metal Slug, it makes for a poor defense of the NuSlug games.
f497c1 No.16371668
>>16371657
Off all the things to post in a thread like this you chose a PS1 era Squaresoft game, really?
6cf7bd No.16371705
>>16371668
You're goddamn right I did - Front Mission 3 wasn't some faggoty JRPG shit, it was giant robots. Who was expecting that?
f497c1 No.16371708
>>16371705
People who know what Front Mission is? Maybe people who looked at the packaging?
ebb9e6 No.16371710
>>16371322
Yeah but from a game industry perspective, the odds were kind of stacked against it. Especially in light of the monster that was id Soft. Apogee's dev studio, while a good studio especially at the time, had zero experience with shooters and specialized in side scrolling action platformers at the time.
f124a4 No.16371750
its a dmc rip off but its still quite fun. it has this melee + gun dynamic not seen in other games as its usually just a gun or just melee, you can combo different guns and melee to do various attacks or to easily defeat a specifc enemy type, its rather short and the sidekick is rather annoying at times but ash's one liners and the comedic cutscenes with the necronomicon more than makes up for it
Freedom fighters is one of the best "america gets invaded" games of all time, interesting gameplay that blends squad tactics with terrorism, allowing you to use multiple methods to complete your objective or completing levels in any order, making you chose between taking out a helicopter pad so it doesnt appear in the other two levels or taking out a barracks, decreasing the amount of soldiers in the other levels.
And despite being "yet another doom clone" the PSX version of exhumed is a pretty good game, a metroidvania featuring a wide variety of levels, enemies and weapons combined with resource management, exploration and hidden paths that lead to either a doll with a developers face or a computer part, the whole computer.
bf061c No.16371764
>>16369105
This game is great, right up until you actually try to 100% it. Then the janky controls and physics makes you want to stab someone.
Terminator on Sega CD was a movie license game, yet managed to be one of the best games on the system. Run n gun style gameplay, rocking soundtrack, marred only by lame boss fights and a shitty final level.
Captain Skyhawk on NES is a unique vert scrolling shoot em up with first person Top-Gun-style segments between levels. Made by Rare before Battletoads, published by Milton Bradley, it really didn't sell well or get much attention. Which is a shame, since it used 3-Dish levels where your flying height was adjustable and important.
Skullmonkeys on PSX is one of the last 2D platformer AAA games alongside Rayman. While Rayman is already throwing at full strength by the second world, Skullmonkeys has a far kinder difficulty curve, but still reaches the same level of difficulty as Rayman by the end. By the time you reach Sno, the game is expecting you to have your shit together. By the time you reach YNT levels, it's on. Then when you reach Shards, the game stops holding back. Here's a video of the final level, so you can see just how hard it can get. Sorry bout the person playing, everything else was people speedrunning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdOPy2J2tiw
1d261b No.16371924
1d261b No.16371927
>>16371924
>>16371892
Fuck yeah that game is my shit
522bb9 No.16371945
>should've been a shitty crashgrab
>actually is an amazing Musou with lots of fanservice and a huge cast
To this day I am still surprised.
8754e7 No.16371977
>>16371538
They changed a lot of the item placement in XX that broke up the stage flow. They also added DLC cancer, but that can be avoided at least.
>>16371266
Do you have an issue with 7 besides it's graphics though? Comparing it to 4 is quite a strong claim. 4 is full of cheap, blatantly unfair, and tedious level design. It's an infuriating game to single-credit clear.
367792 No.16371989
I got the first game as a birthday present from my niece so i felt obligated to play it, i was fully expecting a mediocre game but i got a surprisingly fun TPS instead, so when the second game came out i bought it on release date and enjoyed it immensely despite being a stranger to the franchise i only watched the G1 cartoon as a kid, i have to admit FoC is easier (regenerating shields, broken weapon upgrades, vehicle mode packs a lot more punch and is easier to use, megatron's in particular renders every single weapon but the upgraded riot cannon useless) and a lot more scripted than WfC, but they really stepped it the fuck up in every other aspect. Jetfire's assault on a massive space station that ends up being trypticon, and the subsequent fight as he plummets to cybertron after you break his transformation gear, the combaticon and grimlock levels in particular were a fucking blast to play, don't sleep on these games and make sure you play them on hard mode.
>>16371764
>This game is great, right up until you actually try to 100% it. Then the janky controls and physics makes you want to stab someone.
Hit and run is probably the easiest GTA-like game to 100%, what the fuck are you talking about?
>6 chapters, 7 story missions per chapter, and if you fail a mission more than 10 or so times the game lets you skip it and it'll count towards 100% completion
>6-8 easily found collectibles
>20 surveillance cameras scattered all over the tiny map
>3 races per chapter which can be trivialized once you learn that the car made for homer and the hoverbike are the best vehicles in the game
>7 vehicles per chapter, 3 of which you have to buy, 3 you have to earn and the other you start out with
>3 outfits
I could probably fully complete this game in a single afternoon.
4a1fb7 No.16372051
I initially thought that making a 3D platformer with Pac-Man as the protagonist was a terrible idea
Boy I was so fucking wrong
45acdf No.16372236
>>16370768
This one was great too.
f497c1 No.16372254
>>16372247
>the guys who made Test Drive and Star Control did this
c7334f No.16372283
It's hard to believe that a game made as a commercial for plane models would be so fucking fun and comfy. It's just pure arcady fun in very pleasant and warm-feeling environments with an amazing artstyle and God-tier sound design that motivates you to explore, break shit the world is suprisingly interactive, you can flip fucking switches, break most of the stuff in the game and so on and so forth and find new power ups.
Top fucking comfy, although I admit I'm a bit nostalgic for that game.
c7334f No.16372292
Actually, now when I think about it, are there any actually good games made by awful fucking developers?
45acdf No.16372398
>>16372292
well, both deus ex and daikatana were made by ion storm. one was a warren specter's team and the other was romaro's, though
d72416 No.16372534
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>>16372292
The Strider Reboot from Double Helix. Probably because they only served as codemonkeys whilst someone from the original directed it.
caaf41 No.16372628
I remember the Wolverine game especially was really fucking fun. Lots of gore IIRC
1771eb No.16372639
>>16372628
>normally hate capeshit
>try these out
>it's like Diablo, except I can play as whichever fuckin heroes I want and can completely ignore the ones I hate
>spend the entire game buffing Gambit's card throw skill, thereby breaking the game and causing my cards to explode with thermonuclear force
10/10 would play again
cee230 No.16372676
MC Kids for NES. I expected nothing from the game and was surprised to find a really good 1-2 player game.
31148e No.16372920
>>16372292
Data East made maybe two or three good games in their long history.
f497c1 No.16372933
>>16372639
There really needs to be more Diablo style games with more than like 5 playable characters.
bf061c No.16373090
>>16372292
Human Entertainment, well known for endless sports titles and the first two Clock Tower games, developed Kabuki: Quantum Fighter, one of the better platformers on the NES not made by Capcom, Konami, or Nintendo.
Cinemaware, a company known for an endless stream of trash on the Amiga, got started on the very popular game Defender of the Crown.
44a04a No.16373221
>>16371977
>"They also added DLC cancer,"
The only DLC I know for the game is Leona as a playable character, though.
b01969 No.16373854
>>16372534
I was wondering how that turned out the way it did.
d81e43 No.16379843
>>16372051
I vaguely remember playing this and loving it ages ago
604bb3 No.16379869
>>16368540
>loonie tunes cart game
shit I forgot about that one, that was a classic
019a0b No.16379986
>>16371892
Everything about that game felt just right. Donald temper tantrums, the villains from Duck Tales and the music were amazing.
>>16371945
If you liked that, and you like Kamen Rider, you should play Battride War Genesis. Only bad thing is how badly optimized it is for PS4, but
>A really great selection of riders, at least 2 riders of each show if not more
>Most riders have their original actor as a voice actor
>The story is actually kind of good
>Ghost doesn't suck, for once
f497c1 No.16380015
>>16371945
>>16379986
For whatever reason DW clones tend to be the better adaptations of any given series. I guess it's hard to fuck up "here's a bunch of fanservice and thousand dudes to kill".
3076ad No.16380040
>>16372639
I think most agree that capeshit is indeed shit, but its potential for vidya fun is yet to be reached. The amount of things that could be done with super heroes and most developers barely scratch the surface.
f497c1 No.16380055
>>16380040
The same could be said of anything really but super hero games rarely even hit the okay mark, which is baffling. It says a lot about someone's talent as a game maker that they can't hit random on a Marvel wiki and have shit tons of ideas for something from whatever pops up.
019a0b No.16380114
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>>16379986
Just watch the intro.
>>16380015
Well, consider most shounens are power trips, in one piece for example you have a dude fucking hundreds of guys with a single punch, and that reflects perfectly in musous.
I have complains, though, same as everyone else, it's nice that it's a power trip, but it should be a bit more complex. I always thought it would be nice to have more complext gameplay, something at least trying to be DMC, having the generals of the opposite faction being more challenging, and having the whole "war" thingy being more important.
f497c1 No.16380187
>>16380114
Even in Hyrule Warriors where you wouldn't expect something like that it feels more faithful to the series than pretty much any official game in over a decade. It's just not afraid to be a game and nothing but.
416149 No.16380994
>>16369105
ohh yeah! glorious
028080 No.16381043
Throw in the failures of many projects who were about to quit and tell them to make a game as a hail mary pass.
5f04c0 No.16381164
>1st
We've gotten the rights to use NASCAR and we're going to make an arcade/kart racer featuring hidden cars and legends in Dodge Daytona's that you have to unlock separately. Surprisingly fun. Had a spiritual successor in Rumble Racer on the PS2 that's even more slept on.
>2nd
We're going to rip off Tokyo Xtreme Racer Games which are hit or miss even when done by the original devs, and we're going to have the BEST FUCKING CUSTOMIZATION (I've yet to encounter a game that let change the Air valve stems to LED so it makes a light circle on the rim while driving)
And it was a movie tie in which is always amazing when they're playable.
b57937 No.16381225
>>16381164
Man, all this post makes me want to do is play Most Wanted or some other NFS that had car customization. I'm also genuinely surprised to see a fan of NASCAR on 8/v/
40e023 No.16381396
>initally looks like an RPG maker used for a sidescroller or something, two man dev and a composer
>Actually looks pretty gorgeous despite having what seems to be 3D models
>Four(4) characters that all play differently and can be built in insane ways and have different interactions with others that expand the lore and story
>Two of these characters have some of the best 2d hand to hand combat short of a fighting game, with one focusing on sick long combos and aerial attacks, and the other having stances for hand to hand attacks that you can switch on the fly, combined with two optional weapons that completely change how you play the character and an entire optional dungeon to give you a souped up version of your original weapon for subsequent playthroughs
>your dash is actually an honest to god skill cancel, with all that entails
>Actually a difficult game, even on normal mode which is kind of the one time bosses are lenient since they don't spawn allies that cause status effects on you
>stupidly good music that's both great on it's own merits and has that excellent design choice where the main theme keeps showing up in just about every other track, villages, boss fights, dungeon themes, etc.
To the anon who had recommended this, thank you a lot.
b1cffb No.16383990
>some fucking Doom mod is somehow a better 3D Sonic games than 90% of modern Sonic games
>probably the first ever platformer to have netplay
>tons of different modes that build upon the original concept, i.e. other than the adventure mode you can play time attack, ctf matches, coop, races etc.
>years after its release it keeps getting updated sporadically with huge improvements (slopes, kart racing etc.)
>wads mean that it can get customized and tailored to your own tastes
>music completely done from scratch, has its own aesthetic that doesn't clash with the established Sonic expectations
>stable as fuck, toasters from 2000 can still run it just fine
I love this game. It's such a niche project but it's filled with so much love and care, it can't be beaten.
f497c1 No.16384008
>>16383990
I like how you could straight up play the best games this series has to offer on a Windows 98 machine running period appropriate hardware.
0a0987 No.16384053
weird concept for a game but it's really fun and hard as shit, i enjoyed fucking around in the sandbox mode or whatever it was called
emulates like complete shit sadly
132a84 No.16384178
I dunno' why, but chucking spears at Dinosaurs was strangely satisfying.
0a0987 No.16384201
>>16384178
i hated the kong sections, so tedious, good game despite that
25b885 No.16384847
>>16384178
I still don't understand why this game has so much subtle stuff like people calling out for you for leaving the group or shooting a rock would cause all the wildlife to freak out, but it added to the game.
f9ddf2 No.16384961
>>16368451
>>16370613
>>16370739
>>16370768
>>16371246
>>16372236
You motherfuckers are speaking my language right now. Saw an anon talk Buster Busts loose as having one of the best train levels ever, emulated it, and it was hype as shit.
Taz Wanted is a top-tier one from my earlier platforming days.
>>16369105
I'd also contest that Road Rage surpassed my expectations for a straight Crazy Taxi ripoff.
>>16372051
First videogame I ever played. Music is comfy.
As far as an original contribution, I'll offer these two.
>Board game tycoon
>Rappers monkeying out
>Actually decent
b1cffb No.16385448
>>16372051
There's some levels I despise, like the whole clown world, but the game overall was fantastic, the introductory pirate level has some patrician music and it just feels right to play. The physics of Pacman are so satisfying. By the by did you know they made a 1:1 port on the GBA?
>>16381043
I guess that counts, too, but then again the industry is littered with titles like this. An inverse of this would be nu-Fire Emblem, where the creators were unhappy with the series and made its last title except filling it with waifus.
>>16384008
You said it, fella.
>>16384847
When stuff like that is added in, I'd imagine it's because the devs were told to just make the mandatory movie-to-game adaptation, had time to spare and just tried out things they wanted to add in their own non-licensed vidya.
>>16384961
Ever tried this one? Had no right to have such high quality sprites, yet it does. Fantastic even in glitches.
>Taz Wanted
>you fight Tweety as the final boss
I fucking hated that bird, I don't get how can people like it.
How's Monopoly Tycoon like?
5dfb3d No.16385468
>>16372051
Got Pac-man world 2 in a cereal box for PC, ended up playing through the whole thing. I should try out the 1st one.
d05563 No.16385476
>>16385462
there's a down under variant of that game with holdens instead of beetles
b74b7d No.16385482
>>16372051
I played the whole damn game and enjoyed it.
Breakout was a comfy game.
5aff53 No.16385490
>>16385487
Fug, misclicked, 2 was good as well (though I guess more of the same by and large). Did anyone else notice that among the speech gibberish you'd randomly hear (and very distinctly) "I'm gonna catch you by the tummy!".
b74b7d No.16385505
>>16384053
I rented it for a week and played the shit out of it. One of the best forgotten games I've played. The last movie was hard as shit but it felt so damn good when you finally got it. The stunt track maker was pretty fun too.
75c9c9 No.16385618
>>16368451
Literally my all-time favorite. I loved this game so much that I beat it without a memory card.
6238d5 No.16385876
>>16372051
I THINK I got that game as a gift. I enjoyed it but ended up breaking my progression.
>Got a key
>was supposed to use it to get to the next level
>was able to use it to go to the level after it
>that level gave me the boss key
>beat boss
>kept going
>going to challenge final level/boss
>unable to because "clear all levels first"
>unable to unlock that stage because I can't get a key
that sucked.
>The Desolate Hope
A free game with some slight uncanny valley gives way to a combination RPG metroid game with some of the most delicious mechanical designs I've ever seen.
>McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure
A colorful platformer that shouldn't be as fine tuned or enjoyable as it is.
351c3f No.16385950
At first sight, the game might look like a generic RTS Warcraft clone, but the game is actually very good, deep and unique. It was very popular in Europe, specially Spain for some reason, and it's probably Bulgary's biggest achievement when it comes to videogames.
It got many reprints and special editions, had netplay with a good ammount of players and big maps, has a good ammount of mods and it gets played to this day. Definitely worth checking out.
c53c8a No.16386039
>>16368911
Metropolismania was my fucking shit when I was growing up. When all of the friends you made in the city line up and wish you farewell when you finish the city always got me.
5f04c0 No.16386128
>>16381225
NFS Carbon (which was the one that followed Most Wanted) had excellent customization thanks to the Autosculpt feature. But most seem not to remember it. Actually everything after MW seems to be memory holed. Prostreet is actually my favourite NFS game.
Not actually a fan of NASCAR, I just happen to know of NASCAR Rumble.
>>16384053
It also got a sequel called Stuntman:Ignition
f497c1 No.16386134
>>16385876
That McDonalds game was by the same people as Gunstar Heroes.
019a0b No.16386153
>>16385950
Yeah, I still have Tzar and it's a pain to get it to play at 1080p, but overall, it's a great game and I played it back in the game. The arabs were overpowered with the genies, though.
351c3f No.16386159
>>16386153
>not min-maxing wood obtainment to get a fuckton of catapults/balistas
Anyways, mods fix it I suppose. There's even terrain type mods, so you can spice up the game.
bf4a23 No.16386166
Libre gaming isn't supposed to be this good.
0a0987 No.16386181
>>16386128
>It also got a sequel called Stuntman:Ignition
yeah i seen that but i literally can't remember if i played it, any decent?
>NFS Carbon (which was the one that followed Most Wanted) had excellent customization thanks to the Autosculpt feature. But most seem not to remember it.
yeah the customisation was great in that game, great soundtrack too (gary numan)
5f04c0 No.16386210
>>16386181
I rented it and had fun. Haven't played it recently and never played the first so couldn't compare them. Probably more of the same but I don't remember struggling to much with Ignition.
a61052 No.16387250
>>16371411
>>16371407
I really liked that game too anon, even if it was just Sims 3 with a high quality coat of paint.
b1cffb No.16387399
>>16385487
To be quite honest I wouldn't say these games fit in the "way better than they should be category", or rather all Lego games are by default better than they have any right to be so it cancels itself out.
>>16386166
I keep seeing Tuxkart being shilled all over the place but I just don't get why. It looks so bootleg and gaudy that it really doesn't make me wanna play it. No one even talks about the mechanics, either.
I'd like to make a special mention for all of MDickie's shitty games and their overarching universe (tl;dr US govt launches a mission to travel back in time but the people who get there are corrupt and decide to just take over the past, fail miserably despite the technological advancements, some of them construct an obelisk in the middle of a deserted island and a bunch of other unrelated shit), but damn if they're not a blast to play. Rather I'd say they have no right being this funny.
bf4a23 No.16389180
>>16387399
>No one even talks about the mechanics, either.
There's not a lot to talk about because it's basically just Mario Kart. With less bullshit rubberbanding.
cc8401 No.16389215
>>16368451
As far as licensed games of well known movies go this one is surprisingly good.
6b9798 No.16389227
>shitty RPG maker porn game
>start off with generic fantasy nonsense and obnoxious job system
>the game incorporates a system similar to SMT except you get to fuck the monsters
>start getting interested
>half the artwork for the monsters is basically unfappable
>full of RPG maker jank
>halfway through the game goes off the deep end
>parallel universes are thrown in along with time travel
>hop into tartarus BABYBABYBABY to find it's a futuristic laboratory
>tfw start finding machine guns, rocket launchers, and laser cannons
>tfw fighting hordes of literal semen demons with my crew of thots decked out like space marines and a mechanical pope with a gatling gun for a dick
also includes artwork by alexi, which makes it an instant ten
0a0987 No.16390034
>>16389215
christ, the amount of times i'd ree for going over the limit regarding the intimidation to shop keepers and shit
great game, the second gets a bad rep (and rightfully so) but it wasn't too bad either
bc2ee9 No.16390077
>>16389227
Is the translation complete? I've been waiting for ages now.
e6c8fc No.16390103
>>16389227
Is Yao in the game?
6b9798 No.16390204
>>16390077
Mostly. Some combat dialogue is untranslated and most all of the present dialogue is incomplete but i've only run into maybe two instances of important shit being untranslated. Dargoth and co. are busy translating everything else, hopefully they'll be done before too much longer. Part 3 isn't out yet but i imagine that'll get translated some time in 2020. It's not quite as legendary as the dude that translated MGQ part 1 in a fucking afternoon, but dargoth isn't slouching.
583894 No.16390212
>>16372628
>Avatar
This game was actually a blast, but only when playing as the human faction.
d3093c No.16397568
>>16389215
That game was fucking fun. Intimidating shop keepers was really fucking hard for psychological reasons though.
>almost going over the bar
>try just a bit more
>go over
>kill the guy out of rage
>have to wait a fucking week to try again
ed34cb No.16397623
Alice in Wonderland (((Disney version))) the movie game. I don't know why and I don't know how but this game is great (the fact that it was made by frogs, masters of the surreal, probably helped). If you like American McGee's Alice games, you should try this too. Also, this shit is so obscure I barely found any screenshots of it.
cc681b No.16397732
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>>16371274
hell ya borther
856b6b No.16397765
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>>16368673
it was certainly fun to watch
751f91 No.16397803
>>16397765
fuck off nigger
8ef91c No.16399721
>>16369069
>mostly by Gameloft
Hell no, their "games" were a press-5-to-win movies but in 2d.
Replay them on emulator and you will see it.
68dd08 No.16399790
>>16399721
Block breaker had nice music though
2a1581 No.16400115
>>16385950
>There was more to Tzar than the burden of the crown.
Holy flip I didnt even know that.
63198a No.16400162
>>16381396
my nigga
i bought it because i saw some pics and liked the art style but was convinced that was some passable game at best.
it was a nice surprise
63198a No.16400170
>>16385876
>mcdonalds
i love that gamme as a kid but it was because i was actually playing a beta of the game which the health bar was actually hamburgers instead of jewels
f9ddf2 No.16400214
>>16389215
I've never understood why licensed games get so much, yet you could fill an entire thread with examples of good ones.
>>16397732
>>16371274
So here's another one, dammit. A big contender, in fact, because conceptually the game is "Corporate is cool, kids!" but it's actually pretty fun.
>>16385448
Fowl Play looks comfy as shit.
Taz Wanted has a wack ending that doesn't make all that much sense, but Tweety as a villain isn't too bad.
>>16397623
Visually, that gives me Cat in The Hat vibes. Which was fucking weird and janky, but still more solid than it had right to be.
1a8556 No.16400266
This cheap diablo clone did the job way past my expectations. The graphics aged terribly, partially due because they were not very good to begin with.
f497c1 No.16400651
>>16400266
I'm pretty sure this game was actually more popular than Diablo in many places, at least until 2 came out.
09862a No.16400675
>>16400214
>in fact, because conceptually the game is "Corporate is cool, kids!"
It even had a fucking Mcdonald's promotion in it.
856b6b No.16400687
>>16400675
>>16400214
>Activision
>Disney
>McDonald's
absolutely unholy
1a8556 No.16400805
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>>16400651
Well, I recall this being on the PS1, and Diablo 1 on the PS1 was rare as hell in my area, which was a big city. I only ever saw one copy to this day. Perhaps that is why it sold much more. I think the PC versions were the opposite for sales. God knows I payed an ungodly sum to buy a computer just to play Diablo.
34421b No.16400809
>>16370561
This ROTT has a proper source port yet?
>>16370739
This was truly one of the best PS1 games I played, loved to play it with a friend.
>>16370768
>>16371246
>>16384961
Don't forget pic related.
>>16371892
Also second pic related.
34421b No.16400813
>>16400809
Fuck, meant to say "does ROTT has".
8ceaa4 No.16400827
>>16400170
>I only liked this game because the health bar was made out of hamburgers
What an odd thing to say
34421b No.16400935
>>16368451
Almost forgot about this one.
f497c1 No.16400944
>>16400805
Really it was more heavily advertised everywhere considering Take Two published it.
4c09f7 No.16400965
>>16400809
they should make a sequel where taz and duck dodgers conduct panty raids on the martian queens royal panty vaults
0a9a29 No.16400981
>>16387250
are you talking about the other version? the DS version was a completely different animal.
0ace44 No.16401220
>>16400965
>yfw martian queen is not even canon
eeb091 No.16402034
I've heard good things about Sneak King. CN anyone confirm?
1cf4e4 No.16402060
>>16402034
Sneak King was the worst one but it was only 5 dollars with a burger king meal. I'd grab a physical copy of each one now. I predict they're gonna go way up in price soon
3aac93 No.16402114
>>16399721
spoonfeed me what emulator to use
a2dbfa No.16402329
>>16370443
I think I still have my cd for it. The gore and gibs gained by gunning grunts is very cool. The sprites are nice and detailed. If you die in a mission the character you're using is perma dead.
No way to aim properly and no healing inbetween levels fukkin sucks hard. A cool experience though
4c09f7 No.16402411
>>16401220
huh? that is a heartbreaking shame. it never even occured to me that looney tunes could have "canon".
23e5a4 No.16402510
>>16380015
Too bad the Berserk Musou was fucking garbage. And by that, I mean that as someone who fucking loves playing Musou games. i straight up regretting the purchase.
870a5b No.16402527
f497c1 No.16402696
>>16402510
It's still best Berserk game.
93cbce No.16402712
http://www.please use archive.is/view/feature/131762/postmortem_thief_the_dark_project.php
The game almost didn't happen.
1c74fb No.16402730
>>16402712
>>16402715
Next, let's directly link to Kotaku and Polygon. And let's all subscribe to Waypoint. Don't forget to check out AnimeFeminist for all your anime news!
0a0987 No.16402769
>>16402510
what'd you hate about it? i only played for a few missions and enjoyed it somewhat (combat) but something felt off
012d48 No.16402775
>>16402730
If mark wasn't a retard url's wouldn't automatically be hotlinked and it wouldn't matter and retards like you wouldn't exist.
019a0b No.16402778
>>16402769
>>16402696
It's not nearly as good as other musous in terms of content or fanservice. I give you that Pirate Warriors needed 3 entries to get good, but the Berserk one lacks too many characters, is too short, and it doesn't feel as good as it should.
f6ff91 No.16402909
>indie trash
>pixelshit
And still, it's the most fun top down 2D hack and slash ever made.
At least it has a terrible memory leak problem, which somewhat confirms that indie devs are retards.
ade54a No.16403302
>>16368673
It controls like a shark turd
beb097 No.16403312
>>16403302
The funniest shark turd that ever was
23e5a4 No.16403831
>>16402769
The issue is that almost every single mission in the game is simply "Walk from point A to B killing enemies, win level." You're basically going down a linear corridor while plot dialogue plays, then you go into the next cutscene. There's none of the fun of having to support your army, because you're usually the only single person on the entire fucking map. Aside from the final Golden Age mission and the very last mission of the game, the only fun mission in the game are actually complete filler that they made up to pad out the game that have nothing to do with the plot.
Also, they took inspiration from Hyrule Warriors and tried to add legitimate boss fights into the game like they did with King Dodongo and shti like that, but they didn't have previous gameplay to base the fights off of. So instead, you have a handful of levels that's just you trapped in a room with one obscenely powerful character with vague looking attacks and no obvious chances to hit. It was one of the few times in my life I cranked the difficulty down because trying to beat a level on higher difficulty wouldn't have even felt rewarding, it would have just been me eventually getting lucky.
e0ef1a No.16404030
Oh man modern gaming fucking sucks
b3e7a5 No.16404302
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>>16372920
It's too bad we never got an official release of Data East's magnum opus, "Tattoo Assassins".
7e4263 No.16404630
7e4263 No.16404682
>>16404302
Oh shit I'm always liked these MK ripoffs
8fc8ed No.16404872
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>>16389227
>unlock superhero
>make the entire party human, give them all the superhero job
>I'm playing a super sentai rpg about punching the shit out of semen demons now
That fucking game is just so fun.
Also, half-minute hero (the first one) is way better than it has any right to be. The soundtrack is amazing too. The second one wasn't as good. Too bad the pc port has ugly as sin graphics that also delete extra modes when enabled and replace the super secret level in the campaign with gay extra levels instead. Fuck you devs, the god of justice level was actually cool.
b3e7a5 No.16405168
>>16404686
>The title of the game is "Fatality"
Jesus, they weren't even trying for any originality. Talk about shameless.
8df578 No.16405603
>>16386039
>When all of the friends you made in the city line up and wish you farewell when you finish the city always got me
Fuck I completely forgot about that, really gave me the feels too. I never played the sequel but I've heard it's good also.
This is another game that is too good for what it is.
>Urbz Sims in the City: GBA/DS version
>take the sim formula
>give you direct control of your sim instead of pointing and clicking everywhere
>put in a story line and social links
>start out in the slums and the way you gain access to other areas is to become friends with other sims
>dialog with other sims consists of a really simple dialog choosing system
>the jobs you do to earn cash are now minigames that are a decent amount of fun
Really underestimated title, the console version of it is completely different though and doesn't have a lot of the defining features of the portable games. The console version is an O.K. sim game but isn't nearly as good as the portable ones though. I've only played the GBA version but I've heard the DS version has a decent amount of more features than the gba one.
b1cffb No.16406381
>>16402909
Wasn't the main dev on death's throes all throughout development or was he pandering for pity bucks?
>>16404030
Surprised no one talked about Mischief Makers
>>16404872
I never really liked the gimmick, it's probably because I don't like Tolkien Fantasy based RPGs to truly appreciate it
Also, do fan made games count? sequel never ever
3aac93 No.16406396
>>16404630
thanks
>>16406381
what's going on with the sequel to this, another kikestarter scam?
8664b8 No.16406414
>>16404872
>spoiler
set the graphics mode to classic to unlock the rest of the game
also, I rather liked the sequel. The ending of Yushia's chapter was fucking intense. Its only real flaw compared to the original is that everyone's play mode is Hero30
2d00e5 No.16406437
The technology that went into this fucking game was so goddam ahead of its time. I remember Whoville used to lag a bit because of the amazing insane open world exploration.
>blueprints
>fuckloads of mini games
>challenging later stages
>secrets
>BLUEPRINTS
0a0987 No.16406592
>>16403831
yeah you summed it up pretty well i'd say, especially regarding the linearity in near enough all missions
c4a2eb No.16407378
>>16406381
>Surprised no one talked about Mischief Makers
Why do anyone need? It's a good game by the masters of games.
706713 No.16407469
>>16407378
In fact it's a mediocre game made by the most overrated developer of all time.
706713 No.16407474
>>16404872
Shame they ruined all the PC ports with assfucking DRM.
9ea0e0 No.16407514
I didn't expect these games to be as good as they were.
f35136 No.16407520
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>>16407474
>>16406414
Yeah I just played the PSP version, not only does it come with no DRM, it also still has the another goddess level, which I still like way more than whatever the fuck they added instead.
God the soundtrack is so fucking good
63198a No.16407658
this game has no right to be as fun as it is
7e4263 No.16411343
>>16407469
>most overrated
did you mean Valve
377024 No.16411371
>>16406396
seems like it. last update was in fall of 2017
b8d5e5 No.16411401
Fun as hell and excellent co-op.
352bd3 No.16412118
>>16411343
>did you mean Valve
Nah people are a fair bit more woke on Valve. About half of Treasure's overall game output has been balls and their fanboys think they can do no wrong.
b01969 No.16412237
>>16389227
The job system is cancer at first because getting off the ground is really slow. Even later on, it gets way too grindy when you consider that you may need to master three or four jobs to get the one you want on a character, at least a few of those jobs you need to go through are ones that the character is just bad at, and it takes quite a bit of job exp to get there. Then you may want to grab completely unrelated jobs just to grab abilities or skills from them that you can use in your final destination job. The races are just unbalanced as shit. Apoptosis have good stats, status immunities out the ass in the upgraded version, and because their nature is that of a mix of some monster or human and apparently pure chaos, they always have more than one race to pull from.
>>16381396
I did dislike the status effects at first. Most of them are about getting better at the game; and they punish you hard for fucking up. The one I never quite dropped the dislike of was freezing because there are entire stages with that status effect on it, and the bonus dungeon in particular can be a pain due to that.
7e7580 No.16412471
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Strife is a better game with more depth than most of the "open world" garbage they make these days.
And someone explain to me why Ristar isn't one of Sega's flagship franchises? It's the best platformer they've ever made. Pic unrelated.
>>16400214
>I've never understood why licensed games get so much, yet you could fill an entire thread with examples of good ones.
There was a time, particularly during the NES/SNES/Genesis days, when there were ungodly amounts of licensed games and most of them were completely awful. A large chunk of them were made by the same companies as well, and they were either broken as shit or complete snorefests. This led to licensed vidya getting a really bad rep until games like Goldeneye 64 or that one Spider Man game on the Dreamcast came out.
92482c No.16414422
>>16368451
this game looked really good for a ps1 game.