Always on rotation
It's no secret that I don't give a mad fuck about current gen. I mean shit, why is it that the only games I'm looking forward to are all on the ds? (Mainly Ecclesia, FF IV, Suiko VI) The only non ds games that I care about are all fighting games. (KOf XII, Capcom vs Tatsuoko, SFIV, SCIV, VF5) I'm of the camp that believes that a game market crash well happen sometime in the near future. http://www.cracked.com/article_15732_life-after-video-game-crash.html http://toadscastle.net/article-seventhgen.html The toadcastle editorial accurately describes my mindset about gaming. These guys are basically saying the same shit that I said in the Diablo 3 thread. forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=1122&start=22" target="_blank">http://killer7.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=1122&start=22 I remember reading a comment that brought up how most games felt different back then. Alisa Dragoon, & El Viento were basically the same genre, but the play mechanics were different enough to feel like a brand new experience. I like how they even mentioned that the writing in games were far more superior back then. Mainly because game stories weren't nearly as pretentious as they are now. Note to game designer fuck faces: Hire some fucking writers for once if you actually want to take on some complex issues in games. Anybody worth their salt can easily see through the shallowness of a game plot that tries too hard. I'm a bit more optimistic. I believe that gaming can still stay afloat if we reverted back to more quality content. (good level design, immense challenge factour, etc.) Could you imagine how huge a game like Symphony of the night would be if it were made on a current gen system? (It's too bad that we care more about how realistic mothafucking water looks in a game. If I wanted to see real water I'd turn on the mothafucking waterhose.) Rather than just trying to wow everybody with their piece of shit games that try hard to be movies. Course that's just a pipe dream. Most gamers of today aren't really into playing video games. My logic is that gaming is eventually going to bankrupt itself by continuously trying to one up each other with the most overpriced junk. Which imo is suicide, because gaming doesn't have an audience that's as large nor as faithful as the audience for movies & books. There's plenty of reasons for that. The main reason is that there are too many systems out there, but not all of them play the same games. A newbie gamer will have a hard time trying to distinguish a ps2, from a ps3, to a 360 & what not. Non gamers are used to universal mediums such as dvd players that play every single fucking movie. _____________ t(T 0T)t Ah fuck I went severely off topic with my first post. All I wanted to do is ask what games do you play on an almost daily basis? Most of my games come from the 8bit to mid 32 bit era. Here's the 16bit to 32 bit games I play at least once a month. Actraiser Kirby Superstar Super Turrican II Uncharted Waters 2 Pocky & Rocky Pocky & Rocky 2 Einhander Shining force CD Bushido Blade II Tobal 2 Romance of the three kingdoms IV-XI Final Fantasy Tactics Suikoden 2 & 5 Lords of Thunder Phantasy Star Iv Guwange Super Double Dragon Combat Tribes Crystal Beans Dungeon Explorer II Demolition Man (SNES) Wild Gun Seiken Densetsu III Saga Frontier SF Alpha 3 KOF 95 - 98 Samurai Showdown II Rival Schools Sengoku Blade COntra Hardcorps Grandia Langrisser II Revenge of SHinobi Shinobi III Eye of the Beholder (Sega cd) Streets of rage II & III Rolling thunder II & III Shock Troopers 1 & 2 Not a complete list. There was an assload of games that I used to play at vegas casinos when I was a kid, but I can't be arsed to remember what they were. (Most of them were Neogeo SNK games, and capcom beat em ups I think.) This has nothing to do with nostalgia. Hell I just played half of them last night before I went to bed. (Pocky & Rocky is still one of the best cute em ups ever made.) What keeps me going back to these games is that they're actually addicting to play. Most last gen & current gen games were a chore imo, becuase I had to constantly skip through all the cutscene just to play a subpar level that has the same gameplay that all modern games seem to have these days. (Get a gun, shoot some fuckfaces in the ass, get the the god gun that kills everything, Own the hell out of the game, because todays games have zero challenge.) PC games Arcanum Fallout 1 & 2 Temple of elemental evil Might & Magic III World of Xeen Eye of the Beholder Last gen/Current gen (Only games that use current gen tech will be included here. So games like Rtype final don't count, because they're purposely trying to be old school.) Urban Reign Shinobi/Kunoichi Deus Ex Dynasty/Samurai/Warriors Orochi Hitman 2/Hitman Contracts/Hitman Blood Money Kingdom under Fire Heroes Shadow of Rome Romancing Saga Minstrel Song Sega ages Dynamite Deka Sega Ages Dragon Force Siren 2 Freedom FIghters Most of these game have old school like play mechanics. Whereas games such as Kingdom under fire & Hitman happen to be the rare few quality titles that I can think of that could only be made with current gen. If you're wondering why the warriors games are up there. It's because they have the oldschool feel in the sense that you can just pick & play the game without being bombarded with an endless onslaught of cutscenes. I can't think of many last gen/current gen games that I actually played more than once. They're all boring as hell after one play through imo. Current gen seems to release the same damn game over & over again,but they pepper it off with a new gimmick, and shinier gfx. Hell whenever current gen does bring back an oldie from the grave. What they usually do is water down everything that made the classics great in order to appease current gen gamers who hate to lose or think when playing video games. The last gen games I play most happen to be all those compilation games. (Sega genesis Collection, Street fighter anniversary, street fighter alpha anthology, Fatal Fury battle archive vol. 2, capcom collection 1 & 2) The games that I play almost everyday are No. 1: Romance of the three Kingdoms/ Nobunaga's Ambition No. 2: Hitman No 3: The Warriors franchise (Dynasty,Samurai, Orochi, etc.) The first two are very open ended, and can be played any way you want. To top it off they also have some pretty interesting writing. (For all those story assholes out there.) The 3rd choice is only there because it's some of the most fun co op play I ever had was with the warriors games. You just don't get any more visceral than an infinite onslaught in Warriors Orochi on chaos mode. (That's the mode were everybody can kill you in one hit.) I swear get yourself a copy of DW4, DW4 XL, get a friend to join you, and play Guan Yu's Siege of Fan castle. Let everybody from Guan Yu's army defect. Sooner or later you, your body guards,Guan Yu, & Guan yu's son will be the only ones left to defend against an attack from three opposing forces. (Wei, Wu, & the Shu mutiny) That shit right there is some straight up good old arcade style beat em up shit.
It's no secret that I don't give a mad fuck about current gen. I mean shit, why is it that the only games I'm looking forward to are all on the ds? (Mainly Ecclesia, FF IV, Suiko VI) The only non ds games that I care about are all fighting games. (KOf XII, Capcom vs Tatsuoko, SFIV, SCIV, VF5) I'm of the camp that believes that a game market crash well happen sometime in the near future. http://www.cracked.com/article_15732_life-after-video-game-crash.html http://toadscastle.net/article-seventhgen.html The toadcastle editorial accurately describes my mindset about gaming. These guys are basically saying the same shit that I said in the Diablo 3 thread. forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=1122&start=22" target="_blank">http://killer7.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=1122&start=22 I remember reading a comment that brought up how most games felt different back then. Alisa Dragoon, & El Viento were basically the same genre, but the play mechanics were different enough to feel like a brand new experience. I like how they even mentioned that the writing in games were far more superior back then. Mainly because game stories weren't nearly as pretentious as they are now. Note to game designer fuck faces: Hire some fucking writers for once if you actually want to take on some complex issues in games. Anybody worth their salt can easily see through the shallowness of a game plot that tries too hard. I'm a bit more optimistic. I believe that gaming can still stay afloat if we reverted back to more quality content. (good level design, immense challenge factour, etc.) Could you imagine how huge a game like Symphony of the night would be if it were made on a current gen system? (It's too bad that we care more about how realistic mothafucking water looks in a game. If I wanted to see real water I'd turn on the mothafucking waterhose.) Rather than just trying to wow everybody with their piece of shit games that try hard to be movies. Course that's just a pipe dream. Most gamers of today aren't really into playing video games. My logic is that gaming is eventually going to bankrupt itself by continuously trying to one up each other with the most overpriced junk. Which imo is suicide, because gaming doesn't have an audience that's as large nor as faithful as the audience for movies & books. There's plenty of reasons for that. The main reason is that there are too many systems out there, but not all of them play the same games. A newbie gamer will have a hard time trying to distinguish a ps2, from a ps3, to a 360 & what not. Non gamers are used to universal mediums such as dvd players that play every single fucking movie. _____________ t(T 0T)t Ah fuck I went severely off topic with my first post. All I wanted to do is ask what games do you play on an almost daily basis? Most of my games come from the 8bit to mid 32 bit era. Here's the 16bit to 32 bit games I play at least once a month. Actraiser Kirby Superstar Super Turrican II Uncharted Waters 2 Pocky & Rocky Pocky & Rocky 2 Einhander Shining force CD Bushido Blade II Tobal 2 Romance of the three kingdoms IV-XI Final Fantasy Tactics Suikoden 2 & 5 Lords of Thunder Phantasy Star Iv Guwange Super Double Dragon Combat Tribes Crystal Beans Dungeon Explorer II Demolition Man (SNES) Wild Gun Seiken Densetsu III Saga Frontier SF Alpha 3 KOF 95 - 98 Samurai Showdown II Rival Schools Sengoku Blade COntra Hardcorps Grandia Langrisser II Revenge of SHinobi Shinobi III Eye of the Beholder (Sega cd) Streets of rage II & III Rolling thunder II & III Shock Troopers 1 & 2 Not a complete list. There was an assload of games that I used to play at vegas casinos when I was a kid, but I can't be arsed to remember what they were. (Most of them were Neogeo SNK games, and capcom beat em ups I think.) This has nothing to do with nostalgia. Hell I just played half of them last night before I went to bed. (Pocky & Rocky is still one of the best cute em ups ever made.) What keeps me going back to these games is that they're actually addicting to play. Most last gen & current gen games were a chore imo, becuase I had to constantly skip through all the cutscene just to play a subpar level that has the same gameplay that all modern games seem to have these days. (Get a gun, shoot some fuckfaces in the ass, get the the god gun that kills everything, Own the hell out of the game, because todays games have zero challenge.) PC games Arcanum Fallout 1 & 2 Temple of elemental evil Might & Magic III World of Xeen Eye of the Beholder Last gen/Current gen (Only games that use current gen tech will be included here. So games like Rtype final don't count, because they're purposely trying to be old school.) Urban Reign Shinobi/Kunoichi Deus Ex Dynasty/Samurai/Warriors Orochi Hitman 2/Hitman Contracts/Hitman Blood Money Kingdom under Fire Heroes Shadow of Rome Romancing Saga Minstrel Song Sega ages Dynamite Deka Sega Ages Dragon Force Siren 2 Freedom FIghters Most of these game have old school like play mechanics. Whereas games such as Kingdom under fire & Hitman happen to be the rare few quality titles that I can think of that could only be made with current gen. If you're wondering why the warriors games are up there. It's because they have the oldschool feel in the sense that you can just pick & play the game without being bombarded with an endless onslaught of cutscenes. I can't think of many last gen/current gen games that I actually played more than once. They're all boring as hell after one play through imo. Current gen seems to release the same damn game over & over again,but they pepper it off with a new gimmick, and shinier gfx. Hell whenever current gen does bring back an oldie from the grave. What they usually do is water down everything that made the classics great in order to appease current gen gamers who hate to lose or think when playing video games. The last gen games I play most happen to be all those compilation games. (Sega genesis Collection, Street fighter anniversary, street fighter alpha anthology, Fatal Fury battle archive vol. 2, capcom collection 1 & 2) The games that I play almost everyday are No. 1: Romance of the three Kingdoms/ Nobunaga's Ambition No. 2: Hitman No 3: The Warriors franchise (Dynasty,Samurai, Orochi, etc.) The first two are very open ended, and can be played any way you want. To top it off they also have some pretty interesting writing. (For all those story assholes out there.) The 3rd choice is only there because it's some of the most fun co op play I ever had was with the warriors games. You just don't get any more visceral than an infinite onslaught in Warriors Orochi on chaos mode. (That's the mode were everybody can kill you in one hit.) I swear get yourself a copy of DW4, DW4 XL, get a friend to join you, and play Guan Yu's Siege of Fan castle. Let everybody from Guan Yu's army defect. Sooner or later you, your body guards,Guan Yu, & Guan yu's son will be the only ones left to defend against an attack from three opposing forces. (Wei, Wu, & the Shu mutiny) That shit right there is some straight up good old arcade style beat em up shit.
Then again that may not be saying much, because I don't give a fuck about shu. I'm all about the Wei kingdom.
Although Shu did get the best de clones. (Ma Chao & Yue Ying)
Wei got shat on, who the fuck uses Cao Pi, and I hate on Zhang He, because I hate the way he looks.
Sites for reference. English sites aren't up yet.
DW6 (PS2)
Don't be fooled by the pink. This is a game that everybody needs in their life.
The following are old ass games that I still own & recommend.
(It's actually SFII Turbo in that box, but that's because I used to own every snes version of SF save for the original SFII.)
That port sucked, but I was a hardcore Samurai showdown fan back in the day.
I even own the rpg.
It's actually two games in one.
I only beat the Amakusa story so far. The Mikazuki game is too damn long.
Megaten back when it used to be punk. My favorite SMT IF timeline megaten. (The if timeline are Megaten games based off of the setting of SMT if.)
Many people consider Soul Hackers to be the best megaten game. Normally this would be the part where I'd disagree...
Thankfully Soul Hackers actually is one of the best Megaten titles ever made. (The PS2 Megaten bullshit is nothing like SH.)
The only one that even comes close to SH is SMT Nocturne.
What many people don't realize is that part of the reason why I'm so infuriated at the Devil Summoner Kuzunoha Raido games is because that pos is supposed to be part of the same series as this godly gem you see here.
(SH is godly in Jrpg terms, because it plays like a watered down SMT, and is heavily plot focused like the Persona games.
In Western rpg terms SH would merely be considered tolerable. Such as the likes of the original Persona games, Romancing saga, & Earthbound series.)
I even own the strategy guide for this shit.
Persona 2 Eternal Punishment, my second favorite SMT IF timeline Megaten. (EP is my 5th favorite megaten overall. Preceded by Persona Be Your True Mind, SMT nocturne, Devil Summoner II Soul Hackers, & Majin Tensei II)
Many fans claim that Innocent Sin is better, but I believe the people who say that are usually people who never actually played Innocent Sin.
Yes, IS has the better plot, but EP had the better gameplay, more characters and more branching paths to take.
I'd rather go for the game that has more content, that & Maya Amano was drop dead sexy in EP.
Plus the Japanese version came with the Sumaru Tv disc. (We only got the anime trailer & the cut up review in the American release.)
This disc gives you access to all the information that you need to know for the original Persona trilogies plot. (Be Your true mind, Innocent Sin, & Eternal Punishment. Persona 3 is actually the 4rth game and it has almost nothing to do with the original persona games.)
People diss me all the time, because I'm always labeling Maken Shao as a megaten. All I have to say is that it looks like a megaten, sounds (Fuck Shoji Meguro, this is what a real Megaten ost is supposed to sound like.) like a megaten, and even feels like a megaten.
If everybody else in the world gets to label Persona 3 & 4, & Devil SUmmoner 3 & 4 as megaten.
Then I reserve the right to classify Maken Shao as a megaten, because it looks, & feels more like a megaten game than the current megatens ever did.
The last great megaten ever made.
(Which is coincidentally Cozy Okada's last megaten game.)
This is the original version of SMT Nocturne. (The one without Dante from Devil May Cry.)
I feel that the Yakuza games are overrated as hell, but I'm posting them here anyway, because of how classy the JP covers look.
I still can never understand how people compare the fighting engine to Streets of rage. SOR's battle system was more similar to the Dynasty, Samurai, Orochi Warriors games, imo.
(Sor & Warriors have the same control scheme. One button for attacking, one button for jumping, one button for super moves.)
Yakuza 2 is coming out in America next month. I want to buy it just to support the Yakuza franchise, but at the same time I don't want to waste money on a game that I played over two years ago.
Yak is good, but not that good. It's just the only decent game that Sega has been making in a long while.
Speaking of Sega they made the best damn games of all time. Many people quit gaming once dreamcast died, and I can see why.
Look at how shallow the gaming industry is these days.
(I can't blame them. Game developers need to justify the huge ass budgets so they try to appeal to as wide an audience as possible.)
THE RPG, & THE STRATEGY GAME
Diehard arcade
No More Heroes, What?
Kenka Bancho has everything that NMH has & more.
Yes that's right you even get shitty side quests jobs in Kenka Bancho, but at least you're not forced to slaver through the mini game bullshit.
You can even customize your hero to look & dress exactly like Kunio kun from the river city ransom games.
Best of all you even get to recruit two fellow juvenile delinquents to fight along side you. (You get at least 13 characters to choose from. ALthough I only use two. The bald drop out, and the fucka with big bushy eye brows.
Kengo 2, This game is said to be the successor to Bushido Blade. (The combat is nowhere near as good as BB. However the training & development of your warrior makes up for it.)
I didn't like this game at first, but it's pretty cool once you realize that it's like a simulation/fighting game hybrid.
Taiko Risshiden. This is what true rpg gaming is about mothafuckas.
Rpging isn't about progressing through linear stories that pretend to be movies.
Rpgs are all about vast open worlds that react to your every action.
Choices that constantly affect the consequences of your character's every move.
In one game I was fired from the job, because I couldn't understand what the hell I was supposed to do, but it didn't matter I ran into a girl that was getting jumped by bamdits.
I saved her & then she married me.
I then went around the entire country of Japan just mugging everybody I saw so I could sustain somewhat livable conditions for my wife.
I wanted to join the various ninja clans that offered me protection, but I didn't want to risk having them hunt me down in case I failed one of their tasks. (Due to not being able to rad wtf is going on in this game. Even some Japanese natives have problems trying to read Koei strategy/rpg games, because of the advanced kanji that's used in the game.)
My game finally ended when I tried to jump a samurai. Only to see him one hit kill my guy when he threw a big ass fireball at me.
(I'm not making this up. He really did throw a fire ball at me. Which is funny, because Taiko Risshiden is a mostly realistic game.)
Note: Your supposed to try to unify Japan in this game, but this is just one example of how open ended Taiko Risshiden series are.
You can make a living as a pirate, a gambler, a dancer.
These games are very similar to Uncharted Waters. Which is no surprise, because he also created the Taiko series.
Speaking of rpgs, here's a more traditionally Jrpg one.
This one is good though. It's the true sequel to Tales of Destiny. Aptly titled Tales of Destiny II.
TOD II is actually one of the weaker entries in the tales games (Melee fighters are severely nerfed in this game. Magic users are too overpowered.), but hey at least it's better than that Devil Summoner Kuzunoha Raido trash.
My favorite survival horror game, mainly because it's the only one that actually scared me.
It's even scary to play in the day time.
Heavy Metal Thunder
This game sucks, but it looks like some overrated shit (Contact) that Suda 51 would make, and then everyone would call him a genius for it.
I bought it, because I'm an Aikawa Nanase fan.
She was hot in that pic, too bad my scanner made it all blurry.
Speaking of Suda, these are the Suda 51 games that makes me want to label him a visionary.
The plots for these games are too fucking amazing to have been wasted on a video game.
Video games aren't taken seriously as a story telling medium, no matter how good the plots are. Mainly because most games with good plots tend to get ignored by the masses. (Vampire Bloodlines, Persona 2 EP, etc.)
The games that do get lauded for story are usually just pretentious bullshit like Final Fantasy VII, Assassin's Creed.
See more Silver Case/FSR.Moonlight Syndrome/Killer7 plot discussion at this thread.
Then this Asterix beat em up came to my knowledge a few days ago, and is kinda good, it remind me of those Mickey mouse magical adventure games for snes.