Thread: All time favorite video games

Originally Posted by bigss75

Ok I though platforms were like PS2 XBOX any game you dont play on the computer

ohhhh, no. yeah, some of the terms change pretty frequently

1. Madden
2. Fifa soccer

Just finished up F.E.A.R. i would say it was one of my favorate shooters. Very creepy.

Platformers are also known as sidescrollers.

Originally Posted by BillsFan4life

Just finished up F.E.A.R. i would say it was one of my favorate shooters. Very creepy.

FEAR was an awesome game. I think it kicks Hlaf Life's ass all over the place.

Originally Posted by CowPimp

Platformers are also known as sidescrollers.

Eh, most if not all sidescrollers are platformers, but, theres platformers that arent sidescrollers, a la all mario games from the 64 onwards (excluding the paper mario series. which was incredibly bitchin)

Originally Posted by FishOrCutBait

Eh, most if not all sidescrollers are platformers, but, theres platformers that arent sidescrollers, a la all mario games from the 64 onwards (excluding the paper mario series. which was incredibly bitchin)

Oh, good point. They are basically just games in a 3rd person view where you control a single character.

Originally Posted by CowPimp

Oh, good point. They are basically just games in a 3rd person view where you control a single character.

which the majority of gameplay involves jumping, and collecting. I.e, Prince of Persia, Mario... A hybrid run-and-gun platformer is Ratchet and Clank, or Jak and Daxter.

Originally Posted by CowPimp

Oh, good point. They are basically just games in a 3rd person view where you control a single character.

you are right in connecting the two, however. almost all sidescrollers ARE platformers, or have very platformer based aspects.

A GREAT fighter/hack and slash/platformer: God of War.

Agh there was this one game for the SNES. I can't remember what it was called. You were this scientist kid and you got shrunk in a lab experiment and had to go throughout the house as a mini person and get through house hold appliances.

Originally Posted by fufu

Agh there was this one game for the SNES. I can't remember what it was called. You were this scientist kid and you got shrunk in a lab experiment and had to go throughout the house as a mini person and get through house hold appliances.

I think I remember that game, forget the name though

Well I just got the SuperScope to work on my snes emulator. Pity I got it to work at 1am, I was up until 3am playing BattleClash and Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge.

Throughout that time, I had to find a working Metal Combat, so I went ahead and downloaded a Sega Master System Emulator with roms.

Now I remember my brother had this before I got my Nintendo, but apparently the Sega Master System was alive and kicking HARD around the time Mortal Kombat 3 came out. Now, I didnt know this son of a bitch was still out during big titles like the Mortal Kombat series or the Street Fighter 2 series, but the sega master system seemed to be a real good system. NES couldnt had made the graphics look this good. I remember reading about how good the SMS was in an electronic monthly magazine recently and up until now, I was a little doubtful on its power. But really, I dont know how it lost its fight to NES. I guess those were the days Nintendo had fun games. And to think Sega was all about Alex Kidd and Wonder Boy games.

In any case, I was trying to get this shooting game (liek duck hunt for nes) for the sms to work called gangster town. God dammit, I cant get it to work thus far.

My nes emulator was giving me trouble too.

Anyone ever play Mech Warrior: III? That game was really cool, you could go pretty in depth with customizing your machine and battle plan.

It was almost like Rainbow Six, but with huge machine suits.

Originally Posted by fufu

Anyone ever play Mech Warrior: III? That game was really cool, you could go pretty in depth with customizing your machine and battle plan.

It was almost like Rainbow Six, but with huge machine suits.

I still own it. I have virtual pc running a win 95 setup gaming setup with Mechwarrior II Mercs, Mecahwarrior II 31st Combat, Mechwarrior II GhosttBear Clan, and Mechwarrior III.
I liked Mechwarrior III the least of them all, because activision sold the game rights to Micropose who royaly fucked the game up compared to how cool the three Mechwarrior II games were.

Mechwarrior II was all about how good of an aim you were with pulser lasers and your ability to dodge weapon fire. Mechwarrior III was all about how you configured your mech which sucked.

"Hey look at me, I have a 100 ton Atlas with enough PPC's to play your mech up in one shot!"

The Mechwarrior IV series was even worse. You basicly had to choose a Daishi or you would lose. The daishi had 2 4 slot omni racks which you could bascily just overload with PPC's and snipe anything from a mile away. The game was so fucking broken. What do you expect when you sell the rights to Microsoft?