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It's funny, what can please the eye, and how much our expectations change over the years, isn't it?
I can still remember my reaction to seeing the first Megadrive screenshots in Mean Machines magazine (a fore-runner of NOM). I was stunned, amazed, I had to have that console! I had a Sega Master System at the time, so it was a natural progression.
Playing Ghouls and Ghosts for the first time was the first real Megadrive jaw-dropping experience though. Th bosses on each level were just stunning, as good as anything about in the arcades at the time, and this was very important back in the days of the Megadrive, arcade quality graphics.
But as the months went by, dropping my jaw to Ghostbusters, Strider and the like, something strange happened. Well, it seemed strange to me at the time. I read a review of a game on a lesser console, the NES, an had to have it. That game was Super Mario Bros 3, and it was fantastic. It looked alright, not as good as anything on my Megadrive, but the way it played was just stunning. Dozens of levels, all kinds of secrets, those funny suite Mario could dress in, this was a fabulous game.
And to be honest, since that day, though my jaw still drops at the graphics, it isn't the be all and end all anymore. I'd rather read about the concept of the game, and it's features than look at still screenshot, after still screenshot. Mind you, videos are a different matter. I've got hours of GAMECUBE videos on my PC. But it's the ones that have in-game footage that I watch the most, trying to see what play involves, trying to figure out what those coins could be used for. The intro screens or, dare I say it?, FMV look all very nice, but they don't let you know how a game plays, do they?
So back in the day that I returned to consoles with my Sega Master System it was the best looking games that counted, I needed my Megadrive, even though all of the games I had were pretty average platformers. I later discovered really fantastic games on the NES, which, if anything, was graphically inferior to the Master System. But Zelda, Manic Mansion and Mario won me over.
Yes I still bought Megadrive games, but not the pretty ones anymore, ones that sounded interesting, no matter what they looked like.
With the GAMECUBE games I know that Rogue Leader LOOKS awesome, but it's not amongst those games that's really got me excited.
Super Monkey Ball really does look nothing special, but I can certainly see the fun in it. The single player looks like fun, tilting the arena to move the monkey. It sounds simple at first, but it seems to have some of that 'Marble Madness' quality about it. Then there are the many sub games, they look fun. And racing in multiplayer looks fast paced, with plenty of poer ups. Top stuff.
Likewise Eternal Darkness looks all very pretty. Well, as pretty as zombies can look, but I want to know more about the sanity system, more about the magic, more about the differences between the playable characters. It looks great, yes, but it also sounds like a wonderful game.
The GAMECUBE may or may not have the prettiest games, I really don't mind either way, but, in my opinion, when I read about any games it's more often the GAMECUBE ones that make my jaw drop.
It's funny, what can please the eye, and how much our expectations change over the years, isn't it?
I can still remember my reaction to seeing the first Megadrive screenshots in Mean Machines magazine (a fore-runner of NOM). I was stunned, amazed, I had to have that console! I had a Sega Master System at the time, so it was a natural progression.
Playing Ghouls and Ghosts for the first time was the first real Megadrive jaw-dropping experience though. Th bosses on each level were just stunning, as good as anything about in the arcades at the time, and this was very important back in the days of the Megadrive, arcade quality graphics.
But as the months went by, dropping my jaw to Ghostbusters, Strider and the like, something strange happened. Well, it seemed strange to me at the time. I read a review of a game on a lesser console, the NES, an had to have it. That game was Super Mario Bros 3, and it was fantastic. It looked alright, not as good as anything on my Megadrive, but the way it played was just stunning. Dozens of levels, all kinds of secrets, those funny suite Mario could dress in, this was a fabulous game.
And to be honest, since that day, though my jaw still drops at the graphics, it isn't the be all and end all anymore. I'd rather read about the concept of the game, and it's features than look at still screenshot, after still screenshot. Mind you, videos are a different matter. I've got hours of GAMECUBE videos on my PC. But it's the ones that have in-game footage that I watch the most, trying to see what play involves, trying to figure out what those coins could be used for. The intro screens or, dare I say it?, FMV look all very nice, but they don't let you know how a game plays, do they?
So back in the day that I returned to consoles with my Sega Master System it was the best looking games that counted, I needed my Megadrive, even though all of the games I had were pretty average platformers. I later discovered really fantastic games on the NES, which, if anything, was graphically inferior to the Master System. But Zelda, Manic Mansion and Mario won me over.
Yes I still bought Megadrive games, but not the pretty ones anymore, ones that sounded interesting, no matter what they looked like.
With the GAMECUBE games I know that Rogue Leader LOOKS awesome, but it's not amongst those games that's really got me excited.
Super Monkey Ball really does look nothing special, but I can certainly see the fun in it. The single player looks like fun, tilting the arena to move the monkey. It sounds simple at first, but it seems to have some of that 'Marble Madness' quality about it. Then there are the many sub games, they look fun. And racing in multiplayer looks fast paced, with plenty of poer ups. Top stuff.
Likewise Eternal Darkness looks all very pretty. Well, as pretty as zombies can look, but I want to know more about the sanity system, more about the magic, more about the differences between the playable characters. It looks great, yes, but it also sounds like a wonderful game.
The GAMECUBE may or may not have the prettiest games, I really don't mind either way, but, in my opinion, when I read about any games it's more often the GAMECUBE ones that make my jaw drop.
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I was impressed with the Smash Brothers footage but mainly because I already knew how the good the Gameplay would be (owning the N64 original)
Monkey Ball looks interesting but it was the explanation of the four player that won me over.
Here's hoping that £200 gets you the Cube with this game!
Monkey Ball looks interesting but it was the explanation of the four player that won me over.
Here's hoping that £200 gets you the Cube with this game!
Slaveunit wrote:
> The Amiga was a tech breakthrough in the home computer business. The
> first home PC that could TRUELY multitask
Something which the PC still doesn't do!
> The Amiga was a tech breakthrough in the home computer business. The
> first home PC that could TRUELY multitask
Something which the PC still doesn't do!
Seifer wrote:
> I got this when I was about 6 or 7
Oh yeah - forgot you was a young 'un. Sorry!
> Anyway, it broke 2 years after we got it
What did you do to it? I still have my A500+ from 1990 and although it isn't used, it still works!
> I got this when I was about 6 or 7
Oh yeah - forgot you was a young 'un. Sorry!
> Anyway, it broke 2 years after we got it
What did you do to it? I still have my A500+ from 1990 and although it isn't used, it still works!
Wòókiee Møn§†€R wrote:
Seifer wrote:
My first console was an Amiga 1200
Exsqueeze me? The Amiga was far more than a console!
I got this when I was about 6 or 7, I only ever used it for gaming purposes and nothing else, true that it was not just a console, but I never used any other function for it than for playing games! Anyway, it broke 2 years after we got it, so I never experienced what other options this computer had!
Seifer wrote:
My first console was an Amiga 1200
Exsqueeze me? The Amiga was far more than a console!
I got this when I was about 6 or 7, I only ever used it for gaming purposes and nothing else, true that it was not just a console, but I never used any other function for it than for playing games! Anyway, it broke 2 years after we got it, so I never experienced what other options this computer had!
The Amiga was a tech breakthrough in the home computer business. The first home PC that could TRUELY multitask, and set new standards for even the PC.
Morethan a gamesmachine, though, ironically, it was killed by the games...
Morethan a gamesmachine, though, ironically, it was killed by the games...
Seifer wrote:
> My first console was an Amiga 1200
Exsqueeze me? The Amiga was far more than a console!
> My first console was an Amiga 1200
Exsqueeze me? The Amiga was far more than a console!
The small of a roast dinner makes me go oooooh!
Fireworks do as well....
Gameing.. uh..:
Super Monkey Ball
SFA
Mario Sun
Zelda.... well that made me laugh...
Game
Fireworks do as well....
Gameing.. uh..:
Super Monkey Ball
SFA
Mario Sun
Zelda.... well that made me laugh...
Game
Games (or screenshots) that made me go oooooh:
Adverts for Donkey Kong 64 on the television.
Prelaunch hype for Final Fantasy VII on the PSX.
Prelaunch hype for MGS on the PSX.
My first time playing with Lara Croft on the PSX.
The current ad campaign on tv for GT3 A-Spec on the PS2.
Firing up Unreal Tournament on the PC for the first time after installing a Voodoo 4 gfx card.
Halo streaming footage.
Scrap that, any XBox footage except for the 3 current commercials which have now been released for the console on Canadian tv, which look distinctly Cronenbergesque in direction and make me go uuuuugh.
Adverts for Donkey Kong 64 on the television.
Prelaunch hype for Final Fantasy VII on the PSX.
Prelaunch hype for MGS on the PSX.
My first time playing with Lara Croft on the PSX.
The current ad campaign on tv for GT3 A-Spec on the PS2.
Firing up Unreal Tournament on the PC for the first time after installing a Voodoo 4 gfx card.
Halo streaming footage.
Scrap that, any XBox footage except for the 3 current commercials which have now been released for the console on Canadian tv, which look distinctly Cronenbergesque in direction and make me go uuuuugh.
I must admit that I am looking forward to some of the games coming out on the GC, games like Rouge Squadron and Super Monkey Ball and even the cartoony look Zelda looks rather promising!
My first console was an Amiga 1200, I only ever had 3 games on it, 2 of them where 2D platformers, the graphics where about average for both of them, but to me back then they where the best I had ever seen!
But when you are a kid of 6 or 7 and you play on a game like that, you would think that any game that resembled the looks like that would be appealing.
I next got a Playstation, I didn't choose the PS, but I got it before I had heard anything about the N64, but when I got it, it was the console for me, it had got what I wanted gaming wise then and it grew from there into this huge gaming addiction that I have now!
I but games for what they are not what they look like, if they are good, get them in! If they look good, but play as well as Everton F.C then I wont get them! (And trust me, Everton are that bad!)
My first console was an Amiga 1200, I only ever had 3 games on it, 2 of them where 2D platformers, the graphics where about average for both of them, but to me back then they where the best I had ever seen!
But when you are a kid of 6 or 7 and you play on a game like that, you would think that any game that resembled the looks like that would be appealing.
I next got a Playstation, I didn't choose the PS, but I got it before I had heard anything about the N64, but when I got it, it was the console for me, it had got what I wanted gaming wise then and it grew from there into this huge gaming addiction that I have now!
I but games for what they are not what they look like, if they are good, get them in! If they look good, but play as well as Everton F.C then I wont get them! (And trust me, Everton are that bad!)
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