Greatest game of alllll time

PolkThug

tecmo04 wrote:

p.s. forza is waaaayyyy better than gt4

Caution: Forza has turned me into a virtual ricer. :eek:

I was noticing that they did a good job with the high-pitched turbo whine sound. It actually sounds real and not like the typical over-exagerrated sound.

Mike682

Thinking about some old school arcade games:
Gauntlet, Rolling Thunder, Shinobi, After Burner.....man, got any quarters???

Mike682

This is an awesome site if you want to go back in time:

http://www.klov.com/


They have a huge list and pics of almost every arcade game ever made.

tecmo04

great website mike!

landry_p2000

Rival Schools-PSone

Street Fighter Ex Alpha-PSone

Street Fighter II Turbo-Super Nintendo

CastleVania-NES

Super Mario Bros.-NES

River Raid-Atari 2600

These are just a few of my all time favorites. The list goes on, but these are at the top of my list. :cool:

drummer81

legendary wings on NES
mortal kombat on sega
NBA jam on SNES
gran turismo 1&2 on PS1
grand theft auto for PS2
Halo 1&2 and forza for xbox

the all time classic, Galaga
best cell phone game, Jamdat bowling

Mike682

that's right...I forgot about Galaga. I used to play that game for hours. Now I have Galaga on one of those joystick game compilation things that you can hook right into the video jack

landry_p2000

Yeah me too. I have it on Xbox on one of those compilation video games, as well as centipede and milipede. I think one is called "Atari Anthology", and the other is "Namco Museum". I play the crap out of these games.

Schris22

A lot of the ones I loved have already been named...

Except

Tenchu the samurai assassin game on PS1...i haven't played any others..

and my favorite....

Harvest Moon on SNES

Harvest moon 64 wasn't bad either

Comand and Conquer Red alert...took up some PC time

so did HL and Counter Strike...


Chris

PolkThug

Yep the original C&C was the best in its genre. Many imitators would follow.

Jstas

tecmo04 wrote:

p.s. forza is waaaayyyy better than gt4

That's your opinion. Personally I didn't find Forza all that appealing and since I absolutly despise ricers and every fiber of thier being it really didn't appeal to me. Also, gameplay and the physics didn't seem to be very realistic. That's one thing that GT haters dislike the most is that the cars do not perform as well as people think they should. The dynamics of GT are really, quite close to reality it's just that there is more at stake on a road in a real car so people aren't willing to push a vehicle as hard as they would in a video game.

neomagus00

Jstas wrote:

That's your opinion. Personally I didn't find Forza all that appealing and since I absolutly despise ricers and every fiber of thier being it really didn't appeal to me. Also, gameplay and the physics didn't seem to be very realistic. That's one thing that GT haters dislike the most is that the cars do not perform as well as people think they should. The dynamics of GT are really, quite close to reality it's just that there is more at stake on a road in a real car so people aren't willing to push a vehicle as hard as they would in a video game.

hear, hear... forza is a much better quick-start game, it's easy to play, but i find that GT is much more entertaining if you're into the ultra-realistic style... forza does have damage, though, which adds a new dimension...

tecmo04

although u may despise ricers to say that is the majority of the game is far from the truth. there are tons of domestics, a nd exotics... just having the ability to mod the body/decals (which i rarly do becasuse it is soooo time consuming) is gunious. combining midnight club with gt4, i cant think of the words to describe my emotions (maybe a tear to two say it best) and then they added damage, i think i need new underpants. gt4 is a fantastic game, dont get me wrong, i was more than addicted to gt3 and 4 is great but ive been converted to microsoft. yay bill gates (j/k), steve jobs is way cooler

landry_p2000

I like Midnight Club 3 as far as racers go. I was on Need for Speed UG 2, but it became boring to me. Forza, I have never played, but GT3 and 4 I have. I didn't care for it that much, probably becuase I don't care for PS2. :rolleyes: I am speaking from experience, mostly bad. My memory cards have lost memory after I was 85% into completing a game, controller not lasting more than a few months, and the list goes on and on. Just my 2 cents.

jdhdiggs

Didn't age really well, but the biggest GPA killer of my college days was Diablo (Original, not the crappy **** follow-up)

Jstas

tecmo04 wrote:

although u may despise ricers to say that is the majority of the game is far from the truth. there are tons of domestics, a nd exotics... just having the ability to mod the body/decals (which i rarly do becasuse it is soooo time consuming) is gunious. combining midnight club with gt4, i cant think of the words to describe my emotions (maybe a tear to two say it best) and then they added damage, i think i need new underpants. gt4 is a fantastic game, dont get me wrong, i was more than addicted to gt3 and 4 is great but ive been converted to microsoft. yay bill gates (j/k), steve jobs is way cooler

It's not just stickers a wings that bugs me about Forza. I don't like the premis behind the game and there are parts that seem to make it look like the game supports street racing and that is something I disagree with completely. The game has a different look and feel to it and it makes it too "game-ish" for me to take it seriously as a "driving simulator" game. GT created the "driving simulator" genre and there are many imitators out there, not all have bettered the concept. Also, another peeve I have with Forza is the "attitude" behind it, for lack of a better word. I can't really explain what I mean easily. Look at GT. It's very benign in the gameplay and you are racing the clock and yourself just as much as the competition in the race. In Forza, in the limited time I had to play with it, it seemed that the emphasis was on the car more so than the river and developing the skill to win the races like in GT. Sure, you can go to a Sunday Cup in GT with an Aston Martin DB9 and stomp the competition but to with the races initially, you can't just build a fast car and go blasting around the track. You need to develop skills to get there. Forza didn't give me the feeling like I would have that kind of a challenge and as long as I could find a loophole in teh economy of the game, I'd have everything I needed to build the badest car around. As long as I could steer and keep the throttle button mashed as long as possible, I'd win. To me, that's not fun, that's a time-waster game for when you are bored and looking for something to do. Then again, that's me and what I like and Forza didn't strike me as a must have. Doesn't mean Forza is bad. It just means that in my opinion, it's not for me. I'd rather have GT and I have GT, GT2, GT3 and GT4. I've beaten them all except for 4 and I am having a blast trying to do it now!

As far as GT goes, the only drawback I can seriously fault it for is the lack of damage to the vehicles. They will run out of fuel, tires wear down and oil needs to be changed but there is no collision damage and that is a drag sometimes.

michael_w

Hey jstats what % were you able to get to in GT2? I could never get the full 100 even though I did everything avaiable. Maybe something secret?

I think im at 99.08%.

edit: ahh I forgot... still need to get gold on all the license tests.

Jstas

michael_w wrote:

Hey jstats what % were you able to get to in GT2? I could never get the full 100 even though I did everything avaiable. Maybe something secret?

I think im at 99.08%.

edit: ahh I forgot... still need to get gold on all the license tests.

GT2 was supposed to have a Drag Racing section that they never finished. They didn't update the game totals to not include them so you will never really reach 100% completion because of it.

michael_w

Argh... wish I knew that a long time ago so that I would give up and stop pulling my hair out looking for the finishing touches Thanks for the info.

DynamiteD

Phantasy Star - Sega Master System
Military Madness - Turbografx 16
Civilization 2,3 - Computer
World of Warcraft - Computer
Super Mario World - SNES
Super Mario 64 - Nintendo 64
Zelda 1,2 - NES
Zelda "A Link to the Past" - SNES
Warcraft 2 - Computer
Diablo 1, 2 - Computer
Advance Wars - Gameboy Advance
Metal of Honor "Allied Assualt" - Computer
Halo 1,2 - XBox
Goldeneye - N64
NCAA Football 200x - XBox

That's it for now.

PolkThug

Just spent 3 hours playing Forza, I'm trying to win that damn Mustang Boss 429...

tecmo04

forza woohooo!!

note: not trying to start a fight with u jstas, just a friendly discusion...

neomagus00

no, that's just jstas, you get used to it .

drummer81

if i want to play an arcade style racing game, the need for speed series fits the bill. however, for a real fix on the need to drive a car like it was a car and not a cartoon spaceship, gt and forza would be the one to do it. i also think that forza is more of a racer's game alowing damage to effect the outcome of the race were as gt is more of a driver's game focusing on the phisics of driving a real car with out the downside of wrecking it. there is a difference.

tecmo04

+1^ :cool:

rskarvan

I can't believe that nobody mentioned "Frogger".

mantis

Street Fighter II for the Super NES.

Defender for the Atari 2600

River Raid for the Atari 2600

Shadows of the Empire for the Nintendo 64

Goldeneye for the Nintendo 64

Parisite eve for the Playstation

Grand Tursimo for the Playstation

Resident evil for the Playstation 2

Mechassault for the Xbox

Pablo

Super Mario - N64 - I can't think of anything since (or before) that I have put that many hours into. It really did get the ball rolling on the whole "3d" gaming thing.

But from the past - Astiroids, Centipide & Tempest were my favorites. I also enjoyed Q-bert, but that may be because it was the only one I really mastered (the arcade folks would get pissed I would play for over an hour and only spend a quarter).

McLoki

I like the games that changed the way games are played.....

Mechwarrior (own versions 1-4)
Wolfenstein 3-d (then the entire Doom series - don't forget Duke Nukem)
Warcraft (and the command and conquer series)
Diablo (was just a blast to play)

Michael

Pines

"Contra" for nes made a spot on my list.