AVGN: The 3DO

[Bang Bang Bart]

m.youtube.com/watch?v=YPoBMzAkZZM&feature=youtu.be

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The Nerd takes a look at the system that brought us Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties.

[CMWaters]

That Capcom Fight Pad is one of the weirdest controllers I've ever seen.

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May 14, 2021 16:59:11 GMT -5 CMWaters said:

That Capcom Fight Pad is one of the weirdest controllers I've ever seen.

It makes sense if you also play claw but I don't know many that did in the 90s.

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{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}The SEGA CD episode is one of my all time favs, so I'm glad he's at long last going to cover Corpse Killer next time.

[wildojinx]

Aww, I liked Battle Chess. I agree that it moved pretty slow (though I think that on the PC version at least, there was a way to skip the walking animations, but I could be wrong). Of course, I would have liked it better if it was more like Archon and let the battles be more interactive.

[Dragonfly]

May 14, 2021 16:59:11 GMT -5 CMWaters said:

That Capcom Fight Pad is one of the weirdest controllers I've ever seen.

My brother and I had them for the SNES. (They were like $5 at the EB.) Easily one of the best controllers I have ever used.

[Powerline]

My friend gifted me the FZ-10 model 3DO on my birthday a couple years ago (the one shown in the video with the clamshell disc door instead of the automated one). It's the only 3DO without a region-lock on it, so you can play imports. I don't think he knew when he gifted it to me that it's a pretty rare variant and goes for a few hundred bucks now.

I also got some of those rarer games he was showing off on the cheap. Hell, I spent $10 on Road Rash. Only version of Road Rash left that I'm even remotely interested in that I don't have now is the Sega CD version; plays like Road Rash 3, but includes the 3DO's soundtrack. There's some other weird ass games he didn't touch on, but has on other systems like the Jag or CD-I episodes.

It's odd he had so much trouble with the timing on the shooting games, specifically Mad Dog McCree. I know there's, like, a hundred versions of it, but I've seen people play it and shoot "too early" and it goes off fine. The clip looks janky because you killed them before they completed their scripted action (suddenly they go from just talking to dying but once the dying clip starts they were clearly in a stance, gun drawn), but it lets you by with it. Maybe they changed it to avoid that, or changed it later because people had issues like that. I dunno. I'll have to call my Mad Dog McCree expert, get him down here, let him take a look at it.

The 3DO to me just falls in line with the Jaguar and (though there's a sizeable quality gap) the Neo Geo where there are a handful of decent games, but some questionable design decisions (those controllers) and that price tag caged it from ever having a shot at taking any real piece of the console war pie. Though I do ponder if the 3DO did better than most of them (sans the NeoGeo). Maybe it's a midwest thing, but I have a MUCH easier time finding 3DO titles than I do Jaguar and DEFINITELY more than CD-I. There's a reason Sega/Nintendo tried to kneecap one another on lower price points and bundling games (or NOT bundling games to lower price, in the case of the Genesis Core package). New CD tech (3DO, CD-I), "64" bits (Jaguar), or having true-to-arcade spec games (Neo-Geo) was never going to be good enough at double/triple the price of what Sega/Nintendo were offering. And that speaks nothing of how far ahead those two were of everything else in regards to the game library (save possibly the Neo-Geo, which is known for having a damn good lineup for the most part).

[Non Banjoble Tokens]

This system is the reason I know about the original "Alone In The Dark" game. Which was a lot of fun to watch my brothers play every now and then.