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[Shard]

 

[Ristamar]

Shard, you said CV:LoI and Primal,thus totally making your opinion useless

:lol

 

[VALIS]

 

[Finaika]

Agreed on the KOF series in general. Haven't tried Blood Will Tell though, I'm getting it this weekend actually.

Oh and I'll add Crimson Sea 2 for the PS2 to the list.

 

[Ghost]

 

[Do The Mario]

 

[Tsubaki]

Darn right.

Also, for Jp:

 

[johnjohnson]

Wait a sec... aren't both Baldur's Gate titles multi million sellers?

 

[Loompiah]

Terracon: excellent PSX game

 

[radios shipping overview]

Overlooked in the west; not at all overlooked in Asia.

These games have their devoted audience, but most people who haven't played them don't bother to give them the time of day. Which I suppose is understandable, given how daunting the series has been to newcomers traditionally, but the games are more accessible than ever now.

 

[SantaC]

ikaruga got tons of hype and sold exceptionally well for a 2d shooter. it's possibly the last game in the genre i'd call "overlooked."

agreed.

 

[radios shipping overview]

Wait a sec... aren't both Baldur's Gate titles multi million sellers?

Yeah, I'm not seeing how those are "overlooked."

 

[Pellham]

These games have their devoted audience, but most people who haven't played them don't bother to give them the time of day. Which I suppose is understandable, given how daunting the series has been to newcomers traditionally, but the games are more accessible than ever now.

I honestly haven't played a Koei war sim since the late 90s. I should really check their more recent games out, although I wish a Nobunaga's Ambition would come out here.

 

[jarrod]

[edit] image removed at webmaster's request - WK

Thread over.

 

[blahness]

i agree with Cobra Triangle... I still play that game


Typing of the Dead. Mucho fun when you have 2 Dreamcast keyboards!

 

[radios shipping overview]

I honestly haven't played a Koei war sim since the late 90s. I should really check their more recent games out, although I wish a Nobunaga's Ambition would come out here.

Yeah, they seem to have totally abandoned the series in the US. I wonder if it really sold that badly compared to the RTK games, and whether it would do better now thanks to Nobunaga's more widespread exposure (Onimusha, Kessen, Samurai Warriors, etc). Koei's current poll is on what game people would like to see come to the US, and Nobunaga's Ambition is in second place, after RTKX, which is coming here anyway. http://koei.com/community/poll/index.cfm

 

[mas9055]

Completely agree with you on Beyond Good and Evil, and Gladius (which I just picked up). Haven't played the others but I just might have to give them a try.

 

[VALIS]

Koei's current poll is on what game people would like to see come to the US, and Nobunaga's Ambition is in second place, after RTKX, which is coming here anyway. http://koei.com/community/poll/index.cfm

Go Uncharted Waters! C'mon, people. How many more games do we need in the Chinese dynasties setting? If you've never played Uncharted Waters on the SNES and Genesis, it was quite fun and original.

 

[Kiriku]

 

[radios shipping overview]

Go Uncharted Waters! C'mon, people. How many more games do we need in the Chinese dynasties setting? If you've never played Uncharted Waters on the SNES and Genesis, it was quite fun and original.

Uncharted Waters Online is coming here, apparently. It was in Koei's E3 lineup in a recent list IGN compiled. The SNES/Gen games seem to me like RPGs with trading elements - is that accurate? Are there random battles?

 

[GrimReaper]

 

[VALIS]

The SNES/Gen games seem to me like RPGs with trading elements - is that accurate? Are there random battles?

Yes and yes. You sail around to different ports to try and get a maximum profit for your goods, battle other ships and merchants along the way, gamble in the pubs by playing poker or blackjack, upgrade your ship, talk to townfolk, invest in businesses, or just become a pirate and raid other ships. Very deep but lighthearted as well. Mad fun.

 

[Musashi Wins!]

Shard, you said CV:LoI and Primal,thus totally making your opinion useless

Demon Stone is fuck awful as well.

 

[D2M15]

I really hope we will see something about the third Maximo game at E3.

I'd love to be wrong on this, but I was told last year by a Capcom Eurosoft rep that Capcom Digital/Studio 8 was closed down and Maximo 3 went with it - and so did that Bionic Commando rumour we all so wanted to believe, too.

Which just isn't right.

edit: but for a supposedly dead company they seem really keen to hire a 3D character artist (starting yesterday - good luck to him/her), so KEEP HOPE ALIVE

 

[Tain]

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000ZQ3EW.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg (Siren)

Sorry, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't play through this steaming pile.

 

[Spike]

And Psychonauts. The EB's around me got only 2 copies each. Walmart/TRU/Zellers doesn't even carry it. How the hell is it supposed to sell well?

 

[Ferd]

 

[BuckRobotron]

The MAXIMOs and the FATAL FRAME games always jump to the top of my list.

 

[AniHawk]

 

[Ironclad]

And Psychonauts. The EB's around me got only 2 copies each. Walmart/TRU/Zellers doesn't even carry it. How the hell is it supposed to sell well?

Toki Tori was exceptional! Man, I loved that game.

I agree that Psychonauts is awesome, but I think it needs a little bit more time. Although, it probably will be overlooked.

 

[VariableTerry]

^_^

 

[artful_dodger]

Fan Fav.

 

[Drek]

 

[MoxManiac]

+1 King's Field

 

[Ranger X]

+ 10 Klonoa Lunetia's Veil

 

[neopokekun]

Yes, excellent game. And also

Monster Max. Similar to Heed Over Heels, not so strange since they were both made by Jon Ritman & Bernie Drummond.

Come on Nintendo this game really needs a sequel and since each puzzle takes place both above and below ground the DS would be the perfect platform for it.

 

[pringles]

 

[etiolate]

Rygar and Blood Will Tell are overlooked. I-Ninja as well. I think BG&E gets enough love from the core gaiming audience that it isn't overlooked. And now that I think about it, the ULTIMATE MUSCLE games are 100x better than any of the WW* wrestling games I've played this gen.

 

[D-X]

 

[EviLore]

Seems to have sold pretty well (~300k in the US), but most reviewers didn't care for it (7.8 from IGN?) and I rarely see it mentioned compared to the number of plugs Ninja Gaiden gets. Picked it up this week for four dollars, travesty that it is because the game owns.

Nightshade is in the mail...

Rock it.

Gets some talk here at gaf, but not nearly enough.

 

[Benedict]

 

[order#66]

Metal Arms:Glitch in the System

 

[Ceb]

 

[ram]

man, it would be awesome, if there were a sequel with ace combat V visuals in the works.

 

[djtiesto]

 

[User 406]

BUY DROPSHIP

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

Love for Nightmare of Druaga? Any other impressions on this game? The mag reviews shit(shat?) all over it.

 

[radios shipping overview]

Love for Nightmare of Druaga? Any other impressions on this game? The mag reviews shit(shat?) all over it.

Reviews shat on NoD because of the kind of game it is - a roguelike, like Rogue, Nethack, ADOM, Azure Dreams, Torneko, etc - and because professional reviews always shit on roguelikes. As it is, it's a pretty, competent, very playable roguelike, but it has some stupid/busted weapons-upgrade systems that you don't really need to exploit anyway. Definitely worth the $10-$20 it goes for now.

 

[SolidSnakex]

 

[RevenantKioku]

Love for Nightmare of Druaga? Any other impressions on this game? The mag reviews shit(shat?) all over it.

If you still think nethack is fun (it is) Druaga is completely worth the $20 it costs now.
I love the game.
Here's something I wrote up here months ago.

Now bear with me, as I've never played a Fushigi no Dungeon before, but I have played nethack quite a bit and enjoyed it. Still can't get it running on my iBook though, well the command line one that is, its having some write protection issues, but that's another story.
I'm enjoying it. NoD has this really nostalgic feeling to it, and I never played those old arcade games either, it kinda brings me back to shit like Haunted House on Atari, or playing some text adventure game on the C64. I don't know why, but it really gives me that vibe, and I like that. Or like playing Hydlide on the NES, except the game doesn't suck.
But anyway, onto the game itself. Just talking with the characters in the town, what with inscribing items so you don't lose them when you die and you can only inscribe one at the beginning, taking on quests with level caps and restricted items/equipment, transferring skills amongst equipment, there's more to this game than I originally thought. Although load times are pretty annoying I'll say. Walking through the town you get hit with a few seconds if you switch zones. Traversing the actual dungeons at first felt a little slow, but once you get to more meatier, more enemy filled floors, it just begins to feel smoother. Something about the tiles always being at that slight angle bugs me as well, and I'm not sure why, but it is still obvious where you'll go when you press a direction. For those of you unfamiliar with the games, it works on turns. Each time you take a step, or attack, or pass a turn, then the enemies can move attack and what not. The game also lets you know by the color underneath an enemy whether it will attack before or after you. To piss off some people, I'm gonna draw a comparison to Unlimited Saga here, as you can pass turns to get HP back. Not exactly fair though, as after a certain number of turns pass you'll get some HP back even if you're not passing them. But too many turns go by and your field of vision narrows it seems. I'm gonna have to make some offerings to Ishtar apparently.
Anyway, there's a lot more to the game than my half-assed review notes, and I might have gotten some of it wrong. Personally, I'm enjoying the whole not knowing a damn thing about it other than it shares the name of a tower in Tales of Destiny that was based off an old Namco arcade game, and just plunging into a game with almost complete ignorance, and I'm pleasantly surprised.
And don't do the fucking bonus dungeons.
At least not for a long, long while.