tag yrself i’m toxophily
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it’s me, hunger frog
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la parka is only in revenge, further solidifying its superiority
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Man, all three Rush games for the N64 were the bee’s knees (according to my 10 year old self). I loved the stunt modes in particular. Part of me was going to include one of them, but I haven’t played them recently enough to just pick one.
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In No Mercy’s defence, the career mode with the branching paths that alter your story progression if you lose a match (rather than making you retry) is pretty cool, as is competing in exhibition matches for title belts. The Smackdown Mall and CAW are upgrades and it’s the first time you can create a female character. Frame rate in 4 player and the truncated entrances are big negatives though. That said, Revenge is the only one I actually own and can play on my N64 right now so…
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I’m kind of feeling the Revenge momentum…
AKI Man!
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Before now the only wrestling game I wanted to try was the Fire Pro Wrestling game Suda51 was involved in writing the career mode for and maybe the GBA Fire Pro to quench my fetish for that platform but you folks motivated me to deeply question the poor decisions I made in life.
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i played a lot of no mercy as a kid, but was emulating vpw2 recently now that i know who that roster is. fun games.
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one of the dlcs for fire pro world is a sequel to the storyline from super fire pro premium, again written by suda51
Thanks, will check out
What is one to do if they’ve only played Bomberman '94 but they fully believe the conventional wisdom that Saturn Bomberman is better? Does voting for one or the other make me a good person or a bad person?
EDIT: And what are they to do if they’re so bad at Bomberman that they need to abuse save states to play it, but they love it anyway? Does that make me a human being or no better than a dumb animal?
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RHYTHM TENGOKU GBA - THE DRUM MINIGAME ITSELF DESERVES A NOMINATION
the DS one too actually the music in that one is always stuck in my head and it has the yelling minigame
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I’m realising there’s a lot of short one-off games I wouldn’t really nominate here but still had a pretty formative impact on my taste as a player.
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just nominate them. no gods, no masters
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In a perfect world the entire top 64 would be playable in a long weekend
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I guess I’m hesitant because I have love-hate relationships with them. Like The Stanley Parable is a game I really enjoy the style of but it makes so many creative missteps and some of the jokes miss opportunities to have a proper discussion of certain conventions that it feels weird for me to champion it. I played it pretty obsessively though and I liked poking for secrets within it.
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anodyne 2 that’s my only vote
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Half-Life – Will never get the sound effects out of my head. The ting ting tok pok of the crowbar. The HEV suit recharging at the charge station. The warbling noises the cute dog sized enemies make before they discharge static electricity. The explosions. The gunfire. The voice overs. And the music. The ambient music setting the mood. Other games that came out in the wake of Half-Life thought they could stick an unskippable tram ride sequence at the beginning of their game and be just as good (Gunman Chronicles lol) but none of them were Half-Life. Much like the mysterious Gman Half-Life exists beyond the ordinary 3d spacetime of videogaming reality. It at once precedes and encompasses that ordinary reality, encloses it and then expands the possibility space into the unknown and unknowable. And just when we think it’s gone for good it pops back in without warning to pluck videogames out of their comfort zone and thrust them onto the frontline of a war they didn’t even know was happening directing an army they didn’t even know they were leading. Sometimes I think maybe 27 year old physicist Gordon Freeman never actually left the test chamber. He just went in one day and got blipped away from his office complex while taking part in an experiment that used anomalous materials. His disappearance ultimately written off by scientists of questionable ethics. Apprehended by an ultraterrestrial, interdimensional entity and doomed for eternity to be an interloper between an infinite number of realities until he is relegated to the status of legend and myth, and then finally forgotten.
Quake – What a great name for such a great game. Much like it’s namesake Quake is not a game you see or hear at first it’s something you feel. There’s a rumble coming seemingly from nowhere and everywhere at once. You feel it in your guts. That rumble is Quake. Why don’t first person shooters still have grenade launchers that fire grenades that bounce off walls and floors with satisfyingly predictable arcs? Or guns that shoot lightning? Or hell just guns that fire nine inch nails? Wrath: Aeon of Ruin is carrying that torch that Quake lit so that’s something at least. And there are some awesome Quake total conversions and mega levels made by fans and modders. Quake is still rumbling away I guess.
Wolfenstein 3D – FWOOERSCH-CLUNK Achtung! POP POP Augh! Mein Leiben!
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I’m really hyped about all the Q1 love too. I always thought I was an oddball for preferring that. I guess it has aged the best.
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It’s on of my favorites. I like the other Quakes as well but the first one is just magical. One day maybe they will make another Quake in the gothic, medieval Lovecraftian horror style and it still won’t be as good as the original but we’ll probably to see some cool takes on the old monster designs.
And by then I still will not have played all the best community-made stuff.
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