i don’t know if it fulfils your criteria but Head Over Heels (on various 8-bit computers) was well received at the time. Wikipedia says the same people also made an isometric Batman game.
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Yeah, I was going to mention that Batman
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Miss the days when a superhero was just a vaguely recognizable image you could slap on to basically anything for absolutely no reason
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this is like a parody of 80 European games
Batman just toddling around to the beat
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soundtrack slaps though
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I mean this is all early Brit-PC games right.
- inexplicable/insanely goofy/unsettling mascot
- gameplay that seems weirdly simplistic at first, turns out to be broken to the point where half of the game is literally unplayable and nobody seems to have noticed
- absolutely batshit-insane soundtrack, which is maybe why nobody cares that you can’t get past the fourth level of Mr. Willy Goes to Hell
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the thing i keep thinking about re: 80s c64/amiga/etc. stuff is how you’d have some huge franchise e.g the batman 1989 movie tie in and the game would be developed by three teenagers living in a flat in bristol
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I just looked up the premise to this game and he’s supposed to be wandering around the batcave the whole time looking for parts because his car won’t start
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I played 3 versions of Batman before bed and they were all fucking nuts, it did not follow any kind of established video game logic, I was dying from touching stationary blocks with soft rounded edges and rolling off platforms that behaved like treadmills but didn’t not have any markings which was very odd since the game does have actual treadmills, also I couldn’t jump at all, think maybe I needed Bat-boots for that. Every single version started with the same screen showing the pieces of the Batmobile so I’m guessing that’s some iconic moment for British computing fans of a certain age, it was the first time I’ve felt like I was encountering a somewhat alien game in awhile, best piece of superhero media from the last 40 years probably
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That all sounds totally normal, tbh
Head over Heels is a little strange though:
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then what’s the point of Heels
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it’s rare that you get something that acts as simultaneous commentary on british views of heroism and the british automotive industry. feels almost as pathological as my final fantasy tactics script in hindsight
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The staircases are made out of dogs.
(I don’t know if that’s true, it’s just what Wikipedia says. As a child, I remember being bewildered by illustrations of Head wielding the doughnut hooter though, so I’m willing to believe it.)
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poetry
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coming in late to defend Diablo 3 (the only diablo I’ve ever enjoyed) because they actually designed it for controllers and you don’t have to do the inventory sorting game with the squares and shit, which sucks on a controller especially. it is LITERALLY the only action rpg that doesn’t control like shit off mouse and keyboard, so it’s the best diablo
I’ve realized I love that shit though when it is its own game
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yes 100% this, co-oping this on the 360 was a joy
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OH YEAH MULTIPLAYER FUCKIN ROCKED! NO SHARED LOOT
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I played through Diablo 1 recently in the devilutionx port, and it plays well on controller, which is great because I don’t want to click my mouse 10k times per minute but I also have basic standards, so diablo 2 and 3 are absolute poison to me
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Any cooking threads on SB2?