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What’s your favorite game of all time?
I bet at least 90% of you out there said a game from the PC, n64, Sony playsation 1 or from a console with a higher performance such as the xbox.
But why? Have games got better since the darkages of the Sega master system.
In a way yes. The graphics and realism has grown dramatically and with the introduction of 3-D worlds it seems the depth that a game can go into now a days can almost trigger real emotions from the gamers.
Though really things we are saying about games (like final fantasy X and Halo) today are nearly exactly the same as we were saying about super Mario bros. (snes) or sonic the hedgehog (master system) some years back.
So its not the fact that the older games are rubbish, but the fact that you (the public) expect more.
This got me thinking. Why try and invent new games when you can revamp some old favorites from the golden age of gaming.
I know people have kinda started to do this. Sonic adventure (dreamcast) is a good one, Mario 64 (n64) and even pong.
However I’m not talking about sequels, just the original game with some more levels and perhaps some advanced gameplay with a dose of 3-D.
Here are some examples that I would like to be regenerated into brand spanking new (yet old) games:
Pugsy (megadrive)
I don’t think many of you would of heard of this game. Its about a small red alien who runs low on fuel in space and crash lands on a planet which consists of one massive island surrounded by sea.
While off looking for fuel the local natives (foxes) steal the ships power orb, the thing, which allows the thing to fly. On his return pugsy finds out what’s happened and sets off to get it back.
Now this is a great little game. It’s 2-d and is on a side angle view. All you have to do is basically get from the start of the level to the end, a door placed somewhere in the level. Though along the way there are obstacles and puzzles to solve and in some levels the doors are locked and you must find a key to unlock it. There are a range of items to find and a variety of weapons to kick the badguys buts from mugs of water to shotguns.
With the possibility of a 3-d environment and maybe some better graphics this game has real potential.
Rampart (master system)
This game you start to play and can’t put down.
You play as the red army fighting on different positions on you island against the blue army ship.
Each screen has 3 castles of different sizes.
First you pick one.
Then place as much cannons in as you can in the walls.
Try and blow up the on coming ships in the time limit. (They also fight back. They each fire cannon balls that destroy your castles walls)
You then have 30 seconds to try and fill in the walls in a Tetris type game. The computer gives you random shaped/sized pieces. If you push the A button the piece turns 90 degrees and if you push the B button bit of wall is bit where the piece was.
If you do not make a full circuit wall around your castle you lose a life and have to go onto another castle. But on the up hand if you complete your castle you can build a wall and conquer another castle (getting more points) or surround a area of grass with a wall and in the next stage fill it with loads more cannons.
I must admit that this game does need a touch up of graphics, as it’s a 2-d over birds eye view.
And if handled with care you can just tell this is going to be a classic.
Not just old games though could do with rejuvenation. Some playsation 1 games could do with a boast.
Here’s just one out of the bucket:
Final fantasy 7
It’s not that the graphics are bad in this game, quite the opposite infact. The backgrounds are stunning and the movie sequences are to die for. Everything about this game is amazing except one single thing.
One thing that stands out so much that after a while you forget about it.
Yes you’ve guessed it, the bockyness (is that really a word?) of the characters.
They’re arms start off as very thin sticks and then by the time you get to the hands they’ve grown 10 times the width. Also everyone’s heads are blocks, not rounded blocks, just blocks.
If the guys in Sony could fix this problem and maybe touch up on the battle graphics here and there, then realise it onto the ps2 you know its going to be a hit (again).
Well I have only touched on a few games today but there are so many more around and about i just don't have time to touch on all of them.
You never know, in a few years you might see fifa 95 on the gamecube.
thanx for reading
TT
I bet at least 90% of you out there said a game from the PC, n64, Sony playsation 1 or from a console with a higher performance such as the xbox.
But why? Have games got better since the darkages of the Sega master system.
In a way yes. The graphics and realism has grown dramatically and with the introduction of 3-D worlds it seems the depth that a game can go into now a days can almost trigger real emotions from the gamers.
Though really things we are saying about games (like final fantasy X and Halo) today are nearly exactly the same as we were saying about super Mario bros. (snes) or sonic the hedgehog (master system) some years back.
So its not the fact that the older games are rubbish, but the fact that you (the public) expect more.
This got me thinking. Why try and invent new games when you can revamp some old favorites from the golden age of gaming.
I know people have kinda started to do this. Sonic adventure (dreamcast) is a good one, Mario 64 (n64) and even pong.
However I’m not talking about sequels, just the original game with some more levels and perhaps some advanced gameplay with a dose of 3-D.
Here are some examples that I would like to be regenerated into brand spanking new (yet old) games:
Pugsy (megadrive)
I don’t think many of you would of heard of this game. Its about a small red alien who runs low on fuel in space and crash lands on a planet which consists of one massive island surrounded by sea.
While off looking for fuel the local natives (foxes) steal the ships power orb, the thing, which allows the thing to fly. On his return pugsy finds out what’s happened and sets off to get it back.
Now this is a great little game. It’s 2-d and is on a side angle view. All you have to do is basically get from the start of the level to the end, a door placed somewhere in the level. Though along the way there are obstacles and puzzles to solve and in some levels the doors are locked and you must find a key to unlock it. There are a range of items to find and a variety of weapons to kick the badguys buts from mugs of water to shotguns.
With the possibility of a 3-d environment and maybe some better graphics this game has real potential.
Rampart (master system)
This game you start to play and can’t put down.
You play as the red army fighting on different positions on you island against the blue army ship.
Each screen has 3 castles of different sizes.
First you pick one.
Then place as much cannons in as you can in the walls.
Try and blow up the on coming ships in the time limit. (They also fight back. They each fire cannon balls that destroy your castles walls)
You then have 30 seconds to try and fill in the walls in a Tetris type game. The computer gives you random shaped/sized pieces. If you push the A button the piece turns 90 degrees and if you push the B button bit of wall is bit where the piece was.
If you do not make a full circuit wall around your castle you lose a life and have to go onto another castle. But on the up hand if you complete your castle you can build a wall and conquer another castle (getting more points) or surround a area of grass with a wall and in the next stage fill it with loads more cannons.
I must admit that this game does need a touch up of graphics, as it’s a 2-d over birds eye view.
And if handled with care you can just tell this is going to be a classic.
Not just old games though could do with rejuvenation. Some playsation 1 games could do with a boast.
Here’s just one out of the bucket:
Final fantasy 7
It’s not that the graphics are bad in this game, quite the opposite infact. The backgrounds are stunning and the movie sequences are to die for. Everything about this game is amazing except one single thing.
One thing that stands out so much that after a while you forget about it.
Yes you’ve guessed it, the bockyness (is that really a word?) of the characters.
They’re arms start off as very thin sticks and then by the time you get to the hands they’ve grown 10 times the width. Also everyone’s heads are blocks, not rounded blocks, just blocks.
If the guys in Sony could fix this problem and maybe touch up on the battle graphics here and there, then realise it onto the ps2 you know its going to be a hit (again).
Well I have only touched on a few games today but there are so many more around and about i just don't have time to touch on all of them.
You never know, in a few years you might see fifa 95 on the gamecube.
thanx for reading
TT
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thanks all and thank you specail reserve.
well done on the GAD win, my fave game is Pac-man. admit it, you love it!
Yeah well done, i bet it was the funny name that done it ;)
Well done TT, nice GAD win ;-)
cookie monster wrote:
> I will take this opportunity to say that i think talkie toaster has one of the
> funniest names ive ever seen.
thank you very much
> I will take this opportunity to say that i think talkie toaster has one of the
> funniest names ive ever seen.
thank you very much
I will take this opportunity to say that i think talkie toaster has one of the funniest names ive ever seen.
Strafex wrote:
It collected dust while Sonic 1,2 and Chaos got all the playing
> time! :-D
getting all the crystals on sonic 2 is a real pain in the ass.
but getting back tails is worth it all in the end
It collected dust while Sonic 1,2 and Chaos got all the playing
> time! :-D
getting all the crystals on sonic 2 is a real pain in the ass.
but getting back tails is worth it all in the end
My favourite game has always been: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
No Zelda game even compares to that in my opinion!
No Zelda game even compares to that in my opinion!
Rampart wasn't so bad, but I guess I wasn't into real time strategy games when I had it...
It collected dust wile Sonic 1,2 and Chaos got all the playing time! :-D
It collected dust wile Sonic 1,2 and Chaos got all the playing time! :-D
Well, my fave game is NiGHTS! on the Saturn. It's just one of those games that I could play after a years absense, and still get the same buzz of phantasy and originality that I did when it first came out.
I think the reason most people would pick a "new" game is simply because most people play games casually. They play game because they enjoy them, and they LIKE the best graphics in games.
A minority of gamers see things more indepth- playing a wider range of games, and seeing game as art instead of entertainment. That's how I see them.
Sonic
I think the reason most people would pick a "new" game is simply because most people play games casually. They play game because they enjoy them, and they LIKE the best graphics in games.
A minority of gamers see things more indepth- playing a wider range of games, and seeing game as art instead of entertainment. That's how I see them.
Sonic
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