Tizoc
Member
Nah no thanks, Sega1991's though is interesting because it relates to video game history IMO.
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Sonic the Hedgehog Community Thread |OT3 & Knuckles|
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Nah no thanks, Sega1991's though is interesting because it relates to video game history IMO.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I'm kinda guessing that although Pokecapn and co are doing an LP right now, no one really cares since they haven't done an LP in so long, thus the thread is super-barren in comparison to the FF13-2 and FSA LPs. Even when I tried to periodically update it with other people's LPs, the thread title hurt it, I guess.
Maybe I should just retire the thread.
Maybe I should just retire the thread.
Hot Coldman
Banned
looks more like a ride for Village
Schala: I'm watching the LP, but it's pretty slow so far. I don't really have a lot to say about it. :x
Schala: I'm watching the LP, but it's pretty slow so far. I don't really have a lot to say about it. :x
Shadow Hog
Member
I think rebooting the thread to more accurately reflect the catch-all LPing thread it's become would be the better move.
Probably, yeah. It seems to be more about Retsupurae and any LPs than specifically Pokecapn.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Wolfenstein was damn good. If you have any interest in shooting Nazis in the face, you can do a hell of a lot worse. Also, if you want to shoot Nazis in the face and be surrounded by surprisingly well-animated/well-written/nicely vocal-mocap performed supporting cast, this is pretty much the only game for your oddly specific taste, ya weirdo.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I was always thinking of just renaming the thread the "SA Video LP thread" instead, since that's basically what it is with some exceptions.
If anyone else has alternate titles, feel free to list them and I'll PM EmCee about it.
Aero, feel free to list LPs that you're following at the moment in the thread. Really.
(We have an election season here and I'm a polling clerk so I've been running around rescheduling stuff and also going to the gym. So, yeah, last thing on my mind, but the weekend's here).
If anyone else has alternate titles, feel free to list them and I'll PM EmCee about it.
Aero, feel free to list LPs that you're following at the moment in the thread. Really.
Yeah, we're doing Unleashed sometime in late June/July depending on scheduling. I've actually been busy all week so scheduling Unleashed has been the last thing on my mind.
(We have an election season here and I'm a polling clerk so I've been running around rescheduling stuff and also going to the gym. So, yeah, last thing on my mind, but the weekend's here).
So it's better than the other Wolfenstein game released on PS360, then?
Take care cuz the game doesn't change. Some of y'all thought I was exaggerating when I was playing it.
Shadow Hog
Member
The 2009 Wolfenstein was actually pretty great, from what I'd heard, just kind of under-the-radar.
And of course, it's no longer on Steam to verify for myself, because licensing!
Nocturnowl
Member
How can I focus on all those impressions with that 8/10 score staring me in the face at the bottom, it's all that matters!
Tizoc
Member
IIRC, it's in regards to how badly Wolfenstein 2009 performed that Acti won't go into an agreement unless it gets a lot out of it.
...but Wolfenstein 2009 is indeed great, loved killing Nazis in that game and the feel of the guns was superb. Also Plasma Gun.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
SovanJedi said that if you guys had any WIPs for the Recreate your Favourite Gaming Moments with MS Paint: The Glorious Return thread, you should go ahead and post them!
Second, I tried to revive the GAF reviews thread with poor results, haha. I shouldn't have bumped it so early in the morning, so I'm working on a Kirby Triple Deluxe review. People want more meaningful content on GAF instead of resolution wars? Well, here's an attempt at a solution.
Shitty attempt, but an attempt nonetheless.
Inferior product that should be ashamed of its existence. Either that, or the reviewer wants to stick it to the publisher by assigning it a bad score!
Second, I tried to revive the GAF reviews thread with poor results, haha. I shouldn't have bumped it so early in the morning, so I'm working on a Kirby Triple Deluxe review. People want more meaningful content on GAF instead of resolution wars? Well, here's an attempt at a solution.
Shitty attempt, but an attempt nonetheless.
8/10?
Inferior product that should be ashamed of its existence. Either that, or the reviewer wants to stick it to the publisher by assigning it a bad score!
I might do something from Adventure 2. The look of bewilderment when Knuckles watchin Sonic and Shadow transform.
Nocturnowl
Member
I only had more ideas but it is tempting to follow up on one.
Based upon what someone said earlier in this thread it could be fun to enforce a 10 minute timer on my doodle to ensure that trademark MS paint quality.
Back when this whole quality of gaming side kerfuffle popped up in the previous thread this angle was something of a likely naive solution in my mind and I had a bunch of thread ideas or posts to make. Now months later I haven't really backed myself up on this outside of one whole lttp thread, tomes are tough!
In fact I'm still sitting on some various bits and pieces, it's talk like this that's gonna get me to actually open the vault and dig some out, since you've tried to resurrect the gaf user reviews thread which is something I approve of I might throw in something myself that I never got around to posting earlier this year.
Professor Beef
Banned
It's like someone told each of them individually to start one second after each other.
Gah.
But I only rented Unleashed. Schala please.
I've been going through my backlog and I just played through both Gears of War 1 and 2, back to back.
God damn are these games mediocre as fuck. Awful character design, incredibly boring and generic story, weak voice acting (Bender as Marcus Fenix is pretty awesome though), terrible art direction (I know it's become a meme, but these games are seriously 90% grey), and worst of all, the games are just repetitive as fuck. Besides the obvious cover-based gunplay that consists of the great majority of each game, you find yourself... defending your robot buddy when he's trying to open a door, shooting enemies that spawn from a hole... and that's about the extent of them mixing up the gameplay.
Neither game really "ramps up". You shoot at the same exact enemies from the first 5 minutes in Gears 1 all the way to the finale of Gears 2. It's just this guy:
times a billion. from beginning to end. There is no difficulty curve, because the enemies don't get any harder. IT'S THE SAME GUY ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
It especially baffles me that the sequel changed literally fuck all. It's just more stages. Your movement is identical, the guns are all the same, the levels are indistinguishable from the first game, you don't have any new abilities, the HUD is the same... jeez. Just so damn samey.
How did these games get 90+ Metacritic scores? Were reviewers just blown away by the visuals at the time? Am I missing out by not playing the multiplayer (I don't buy that because I never really played much of the Halo multiplayer and I loved those games)? I feel like the single player in these games are everything that's wrong with today's (semi)annualized, AAA gun games.
I had more fun with Sonic 06.
God damn are these games mediocre as fuck. Awful character design, incredibly boring and generic story, weak voice acting (Bender as Marcus Fenix is pretty awesome though), terrible art direction (I know it's become a meme, but these games are seriously 90% grey), and worst of all, the games are just repetitive as fuck. Besides the obvious cover-based gunplay that consists of the great majority of each game, you find yourself... defending your robot buddy when he's trying to open a door, shooting enemies that spawn from a hole... and that's about the extent of them mixing up the gameplay.
Neither game really "ramps up". You shoot at the same exact enemies from the first 5 minutes in Gears 1 all the way to the finale of Gears 2. It's just this guy:
times a billion. from beginning to end. There is no difficulty curve, because the enemies don't get any harder. IT'S THE SAME GUY ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
It especially baffles me that the sequel changed literally fuck all. It's just more stages. Your movement is identical, the guns are all the same, the levels are indistinguishable from the first game, you don't have any new abilities, the HUD is the same... jeez. Just so damn samey.
How did these games get 90+ Metacritic scores? Were reviewers just blown away by the visuals at the time? Am I missing out by not playing the multiplayer (I don't buy that because I never really played much of the Halo multiplayer and I loved those games)? I feel like the single player in these games are everything that's wrong with today's (semi)annualized, AAA gun games.
I had more fun with Sonic 06.
Professor Beef
Banned
The Gears games were just stupid fun shootbangs. I loved Gears 1 and 2 for what they were. Not everything has to be a visual feast, sometimes you just wanna shoot shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yODLkaF8F-Y
edit: oh shit at the random VGO swipe dude not cool at all
edit: oh shit at the random VGO swipe dude not cool at all
I think that's why I'd call them mediocre and not total garbage, like a Sonic and the Secret Rings or Resident Evil 6. It was definitely good at... cover based shooting.
The chainsaw is great too. Real satisfying to connect with that thing.
Professor Beef
Banned
Exactly. Everything in the game is satisfying to do. Quick Reload makes you feel like a badass; chainsawing fools makes you feel like a badass; even the taunts Fenix and crew say are good. As a package, it works.
i put some time into crash 3 and it's the only one of the first three that holds up. ctr would be better if not for fi interrupting the player with needless exposition. it's not bad though.
eeeeeeverything about the crash series is pretty obnoxious. the 'suck it' motion after every level, crash's stupid face, everyone's stupid face, the way the music sucks, the way the levels generally suck, how naughty dog clearly hated what they were doing and looked down on their audience with contempt, and how it feeds my desire for vengeance that will be delivered tenfold.
eeeeeeverything about the crash series is pretty obnoxious. the 'suck it' motion after every level, crash's stupid face, everyone's stupid face, the way the music sucks, the way the levels generally suck, how naughty dog clearly hated what they were doing and looked down on their audience with contempt, and how it feeds my desire for vengeance that will be delivered tenfold.
Naw, I kid because I love, no harm intended. It's just funny to me that these clowns are styling themselves as a serious orchestra in the same vein when they're so very, very bad.
Hot Coldman
Banned
I'm trying to figure out ways to respond to this post without getting banned/having the police show up at my door.
It's not going well.
i can actually see where crash 3 was probably well received. it mixes up the action fairly well, the missions are defined, and there seems to be more replayability and some exploration in most levels. plus it uses an analog stick because thank god sony figured out how to make those in ninety-ninety eight.
it just reeks of 90s xtitude and not in a fun way like sonic the hedgehog. like i get the feeling naughty dog was more focused on making a game that was cool than making a game that was fun.
it just reeks of 90s xtitude and not in a fun way like sonic the hedgehog. like i get the feeling naughty dog was more focused on making a game that was cool than making a game that was fun.
I'm sorry, I can't take someone saying that Crash 3 is the only game in the trilogy that holds up well seriously when it's the game with those fucking water levels.
Shadow Hog
Member
I've only really played Crash 2 through to completion, and it was fine I thought. Spyro is better, mind, but it was solid enough for me.
Didn't 100% it, though, because that apparently requires a lot of teleporting to random levels from random other levels to special areas that you only get a few chances to attempt (something like falling down a pit taking you back to the level proper, where you can't backtrack to try again - I might be misremembering), and I don't have the patience to figure out this maze of teleports.
Didn't 100% it, though, because that apparently requires a lot of teleporting to random levels from random other levels to special areas that you only get a few chances to attempt (something like falling down a pit taking you back to the level proper, where you can't backtrack to try again - I might be misremembering), and I don't have the patience to figure out this maze of teleports.
I'm not sure what it is but I get an unpleasant "90s cool" vibe from a lot of Sony's big franchises like Crash, Ratchet, Jak and Sly. I think it's the combination of furry and "attitude", but I'm fine with Sonic. Possibly because I grew up with Sonic whereas most of those weren't around until I was older. It also likely helped that the first Sonic game I played where there was voice acting and cutscenes was Adventure 2 which prominently featured Knuckles rapping. Even a back then I thought that was hysterical and it made me never take the games seriously again.
I'm trying to figure out ways to respond to this post without getting banned/having the police show up at my door.
It's not going well.
Nah, but seriously, I don't get that vibe from Ratchet or Sly.
Well, VGO is also a little different from the other touring concert productions like PLAY, RePLAY, A Night in Fantasia, VGLive, SotG (RIP
) etc in that our focus isn't just doing shows worldwide (although we'd like to at some point) - we also have a recording/soundtrack arm too now. Eminence Orchestra also set themselves up for recording at one point but never got call-backs for subsequent gigs for whatever reason and Hiroaki Yura now is focusing on Project Phoenix.Right now although I'm not at liberty to share details, we're getting inquiries from a -lot- of Japanese devs and composers with a shit ton of gigs already lined up in the rest of the year. Hopefully E3 presence will let us breach into western soundtracks too, since LA seems to be pretty much panicking as far as union vs video game soundtrack recordings go, and all the gigs are either going to London Phil (with budget), Czech/Bulgaria (without budget) or Nashville (for patriotism).
Also I got myself a new T-shirt. :U
I had to refrain from putting something *really* cringeworthy on the back, like "sempai I can't help it, my tracks are rendering on their own"
edit: p.s. my position does make me sometimes feel guilty about poking fun at people who are obviously doing this just as a hobby or for fun, but eh, I've always been a dick online and as they say you can take the boy out of asshole but you can't take asshole out of the boy.
edit2: I just got a phone call that that's not how the saying goes.
Nocturnowl
Member
There we go, fixed for old Owl.
Professor Beef
Banned
I liked all of Crash 3. *shrug*
The underwater sections were weak, the motorcycle was pretty stiff, but those were ultimately not too bad, especially compared to the plane levels. Fuck that noise. But both 2 and 3 remain top-tier classic gaming to me, still fun to go back and run through today. CTR GOAT, etc. etc.
I can't say I dislike a crash game.
Except when naughty dog made that dumb one with lemings in it for the ps2. Called Jax or something. Then they made two cool games with fist of the madmax lemmings in it. Called jak 2 and 3. Don't know why they called the first game jak 2 but screw it i'm down . And then they made Indiana Jones games, and I was like Aww they aren't making the other two things anymroe.
I know i'm a few days late.
There is something about that car, ... Something good. Can't place it. This person must work their magic with a nicer vehicle.
Except when naughty dog made that dumb one with lemings in it for the ps2. Called Jax or something. Then they made two cool games with fist of the madmax lemmings in it. Called jak 2 and 3. Don't know why they called the first game jak 2 but screw it i'm down . And then they made Indiana Jones games, and I was like Aww they aren't making the other two things anymroe.
I know i'm a few days late.
There is something about that car, ... Something good. Can't place it. This person must work their magic with a nicer vehicle.
You probably like Bomberman: Act Zero too huh?
BlazeHedgehog
Member
I've been going through my backlog and I just played through both Gears of War 1 and 2, back to back.
God damn are these games mediocre as fuck. Awful character design, incredibly boring and generic story, weak voice acting (Bender as Marcus Fenix is pretty awesome though), terrible art direction (I know it's become a meme, but these games are seriously 90% grey), and worst of all, the games are just repetitive as fuck. Besides the obvious cover-based gunplay that consists of the great majority of each game, you find yourself... defending your robot buddy when he's trying to open a door, shooting enemies that spawn from a hole... and that's about the extent of them mixing up the gameplay.
Neither game really "ramps up". You shoot at the same exact enemies from the first 5 minutes in Gears 1 all the way to the finale of Gears 2. It's just this guy:
times a billion. from beginning to end. There is no difficulty curve, because the enemies don't get any harder. IT'S THE SAME GUY ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
It especially baffles me that the sequel changed literally fuck all. It's just more stages. Your movement is identical, the guns are all the same, the levels are indistinguishable from the first game, you don't have any new abilities, the HUD is the same... jeez. Just so damn samey.
How did these games get 90+ Metacritic scores? Were reviewers just blown away by the visuals at the time? Am I missing out by not playing the multiplayer (I don't buy that because I never really played much of the Halo multiplayer and I loved those games)? I feel like the single player in these games are everything that's wrong with today's (semi)annualized, AAA gun games.
I had more fun with Sonic 06.
You're being a bit extreme.
Gears of War are not revolutionary games, but like, your complaint about not enough enemy variety? Well, you're... kind of fighting against a species. So it's like playing any other shooter and being like "UGH ALL YOU DO IS FIGHT HUMANS"
So, like, yeah? All you do is fight the Locust. But there's like, 13 different classes of Locust drone, each one with different weapons and attack strategies.
Then there's 4 different classes of Theron Guards, which are smarter, faster, and usually change dynamics by acting as a commander for drone squads.
On top of that are Locust "Boomers", which are big ten foot tall assholes with heavy weaponry. Walking tanks, basically.
And then there's the Kantus, which can revive fallen soldiers.
If you want to get away from generic Locust soldiers, then there's the Berzerkers, Brumaks, Wretches, Corpsers, Hydras, Seeders, Bloodmounts, Tickers, Shriekers, the Serapede...
Like, I am not super crazy about Gears of War or anything (I bought the third one when it was on sale a couple months ago, haven't felt like starting it), but you're saying things that are straight up lies.
Professor Beef
Banned
Remember, NeoGAF Member Anth0ny loved Sonic 06.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Right, of course. ;p
Shadow Hog
Member
That actually kinda is a problem with some shooters, I'd imagine. The good ones mix it up more than that, but, well, I like more-varied bestiaries a la Doom.