I know Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 is definitely a case of the critic reviews being old/biased - the Dreamcast version’s critic reviews are full of Sega and Dreamcast fansites and I think one of the reviews is from fucking GameSpot when the game came out, they gave it like a 95 because it has a high Fun Factor or whatever. The user score is probably because everyone knows the third Tony Hawk is the best one anyway.
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people are more inclined to user review if they have a bone to pick, which usually means they’re giving the game a 0
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I feel like I’m messing up by posting anything serious in this thread but complaining about frame rates in N64 games is anachronistic. Games would commonly chug in the prior generations at really busy moments, and we were all pretty accustomed to it. In fact it sometimes added dramatic effect!
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Upon research I think it actually has to do with a mysterious “test of time”. Where can we see the results of this test? Is it annual?
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yeah but in 2020 people find it hard to play an FPS at sub 20fps, and I think that plays into the relatively common opinion that goldeneye itself is an anachronistic curio rather than something of more firm merit
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finally something we all can agree on
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black bile bottle
Lock this thread imho
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There are definitely things to admire about DMC and a number of its flaws can be accepted in hindsight as a new type of action game taking form, and it was certainly smart enough to steer away from the pre-rendered backdrops of Onimusha (which didn’t work for me at the time nor does it still).
I also imagine its history as being a prototypical Resident Evil sequel carried over into these development decisions as some of the camera work was quite neat in places and for better or worse can be seen expressed in Code Veronica, although essentially the moments of Blind Corner Peekaboo Fuckery really doesn’t complement the experience outside the context of Survival Horror.
One of the things it did get right (despite being game-breakingly stupid) is the joy of mashing GUNS and the charging of fist combos. Love that shit.
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It controlled really, really well for 2001. As a 3D third-person action game, everything that came before controlled like Ocarina. The camera angles have their issues but as it turns out letting players not worry about controlling the camera does a lot for the flow of combat.
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Agreed! I was probably more of a Ninja Gaiden junkie around this time and that game was extremely hectic with its camera repositioning.
Hey, do I start with Sigma or Black?
Black is always in fashion. Also runs better and misses very little in content differences.
A part of me would insist on going straight to 2 but give it a shot…and now I realise this has finally been made backwards-compatible with the XBone. There goes my Saturday…
The "BIO"ggest “SHOCK” Ever: This Game Sucks!!!
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Ty! See, this thread’s good for something.
i reread the bioshock thread from the old board and i’m happy to say most of us were on the right side of history
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all the more remarkable that dreams is actually pretty great, do not sleep on dreams, full release next week
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Demon’s is the fastest, both structurally and kinesthetically, so if what turns you off of Dark is its ponderousness I’d give it a shot
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