Mecca
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Post by Mecca on Apr 21, 2020 9:39:10 GMT -5
The Metal Gear Solid franchise is pretentious crap. Is that because of the hours and hours of cutscenes?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2020 9:40:08 GMT -5
Red Dead Redemption 2 is an extremely hard game to care the slightest bit about. It takes forever to get going, even once it does it's just a massive slog every step of the way for no particular reason beyond an ill-conceived belief that being realistic is more important than being fun, and even the story is extremely hard to get invested in because you know from the word go that anyone who wasn't in the first game either isn't important or dies. I basically just pushed myself to finish the main story and then stopped playing for a bit at the start of the epilogue and then never bothered returning to it, and given the massive amount of space it'd take to redownload it I doubt I'll ever play it again. Also why do they just straight up redo the Mexico arc of the first game twice? It was the worst part of the first game but for some reason they shamelessly recycle it first for the feuding gangs storyline (though credit where it's due, the climax of that story with the mansion is incredible) and then again with the basically completely pointless washed up on an island arc.I've never played the first one so I'm glad this was kept in tact in this one too. I would've probably never thought about playing the first one as years have passed if it was not the second installment. I liked the part. I liked at least on easier modes Red Ded Redemption 2 had the cool part that you could save pretty much any time and there was no need to bother collecting every item again (unlike Resident Evil 2, I just bought the extra guns pack)- I don't have patience nowadays to do that, usually when I'm playing Fallouts or such I just hit up couple extra codes on screen to have fun with it. I myself am having fun more with games if there's just way to use cheats right away. I've always loved old RPG's, so it's fun to get all the good stuff right away to make it lil' more interesting than the first runs at least.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2020 9:41:40 GMT -5
The Metal Gear Solid franchise is pretentious crap. Is that because of the hours and hours of cutscenes? I love cinematics in games, always loved games that had buttloads of cutscenes and story to follow. One of my favourite bits in games. I myself can't agree on that part.
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Post by dav on Apr 21, 2020 9:50:43 GMT -5
The PS2 was the best console, not only due to its own great library of games, but also the compatibility with the PS1's own stacked roster.
Street Fighter Alpha 3 is the best fighting game. Great fighting system, excellent music and a really varied roster.
Dan Hibiki is the best fighting game character.
Sakura is second.
Going back to Mortal Kombat as it was originally and it really wasn't that good of a game, especially compared to its contemporary competition.
FF9 is overrated. Has slow combat, annoying characters and the story doesn't really excite me. The Trance system is all kinds of bad as well.
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Post by badkarma on Apr 21, 2020 10:26:01 GMT -5
The PS2 was the best console, not only due to its own great library of games, but also the compatibility with the PS1's own stacked roster. Street Fighter Alpha 3 is the best fighting game. Great fighting system, excellent music and a really varied roster. Dan Hibiki is the best fighting game character. Well, if you really like SFA3, you should try it on a console that can actually handle it; cough,(Sega Saturn)cough, cough. PS1/PS2 versions of Capcom fighters, like SFA3, are missing a lot of frames of animation/data from the arcade. The PS1/PS2 could push polygons to the moon but they couldn't push a 2D stroller across the street.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Apr 21, 2020 10:44:23 GMT -5
The original Metroid is dated, clunky and almost impossible to play. If it wasn't for Zero Mission I would have never played through the whole thing.
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chazraps
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Post by chazraps on Apr 21, 2020 10:47:07 GMT -5
The PS4 God of War really needs more War.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Apr 21, 2020 12:12:50 GMT -5
The original Metroid is dated, clunky and almost impossible to play. If it wasn't for Zero Mission I would have never played through the whole thing. Take nostalgia out of it, and Zero Mission is absolutely the best way to experience the original Metroid. I still enjoy the original, but if you didn’t grow up on it I totally don’t blame someone for not caring for it. Especially compared to later entries
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Post by Lupin the Third on Apr 21, 2020 12:16:49 GMT -5
WWF Royal Rumble and WWF Monday Night Raw for Sega Genesis were much more fun to play than WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game.
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Post by H-Virus on Apr 21, 2020 12:17:23 GMT -5
Speaking of Metroid: I’ve always preferred the side-scrollers over the Prime series. Not sure how unpopular that is, but it’s my take.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Apr 21, 2020 12:29:00 GMT -5
WWF Royal Rumble and WWF Monday Night Raw for Sega Genesis were much more fun to play than WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game. That’s an unpopular opinion? I’d play Rumble or Raw any day before Mania Arcade. I love those two, still fun to play for a few minutes here and there.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Apr 21, 2020 12:35:44 GMT -5
Speaking of Metroid: I’ve always preferred the side-scrollers over the Prime series. Not sure how unpopular that is, but it’s my take. It's more of a "your mileage may varry" scenario than anything else. I also prefer the side scollers myself.
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Post by chrom on Apr 21, 2020 12:57:36 GMT -5
Sega's downfall could be seen as early as The Sega CD. The Dreamcast was little more than a last gasp of life.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Apr 21, 2020 13:04:31 GMT -5
Sega's downfall could be seen as early as The Sega CD. The Dreamcast was little more than a last gasp of life. Will always love Dreamcast just because of 2K Before it got popular like it did, I remember having every copy that came out each year and playing with the fake Michael Jordan since they didn't have his license lol
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Apr 21, 2020 13:35:09 GMT -5
Xbox seems largely redundant these days given there's no console exclusives and it's a weaker machine than the PS4.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Apr 21, 2020 13:39:38 GMT -5
Xbox seems largely redundant these days given there's no console exclusives and it's a weaker machine than the PS4. Well it doesn't help that PS4 exclusives knocked it out the park They stumbled with some early entries like Watch Dogs but titles like Spider Man and God of War really killed it
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Apr 21, 2020 14:53:46 GMT -5
The Metal Gear Solid franchise is pretentious crap. I think the biggest thing Death Stranding proved is that Kojima needs someone to slap him and tell him no.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Apr 21, 2020 16:17:25 GMT -5
WWF Royal Rumble and WWF Monday Night Raw for Sega Genesis were much more fun to play than WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game. That’s an unpopular opinion? I’d play Rumble or Raw any day before Mania Arcade. I love those two, still fun to play for a few minutes here and there. WWF Attitude was an awesome game. Not only did you get FOUR attires for each wrestler, it gave you stats at the end of your matches, such as: Match length, pinfall attempts, finishers used, and taunts used. It also had realistic bleeding. Work the arm? The arm bleeds. The leg? The leg bleeds. I had matches where my opponent looked like he got hit with shards of glass flying at 100mph.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Apr 21, 2020 16:33:52 GMT -5
That’s an unpopular opinion? I’d play Rumble or Raw any day before Mania Arcade. I love those two, still fun to play for a few minutes here and there. WWF Attitude was an awesome game. Not only did you get FOUR attires for each wrestler, it gave you stats at the end of your matches, such as: Match length, pinfall attempts, finishers used, and taunts used. It also had realistic bleeding. Work the arm? The arm bleeds. The leg? The leg bleeds. I had matches where my opponent looked like he got hit with shards of glass flying at 100mph. While obviously the AKI games are worlds better, I still have a soft spot for Attitude and ECW Hardcore Revolution. I played a tonne of those games, especially Attitude because I owned it way before I got any of the AKI games. Haven’t picked it up in year tho
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Apr 21, 2020 16:40:25 GMT -5
WWF Attitude was an awesome game. Not only did you get FOUR attires for each wrestler, it gave you stats at the end of your matches, such as: Match length, pinfall attempts, finishers used, and taunts used. It also had realistic bleeding. Work the arm? The arm bleeds. The leg? The leg bleeds. I had matches where my opponent looked like he got hit with shards of glass flying at 100mph. While obviously the AKI games are worlds better, I still have a soft spot for Attitude and ECW Hardcore Revolution. I played a tonne of those games, especially Attitude because I owned it way before I got any of the AKI games. Haven’t picked it up in year tho I played the hell out of Attitude. The core gameplay was not the best, but it wasn't terrible. And that endless career mode is something I think EVERY wrestling game should have. I got hours and hours out of that.
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