A thread for general video game discussion - new releases, memories, general thoughts....
I've started this because I felt like I was hijacking the "Absolutely Pointless Thread" and giving it a point, which just shouldn't be!
Even if this dies in the backside at the end of this particular convo, I'm good with that, but I do enjoy a good vidya chat. I've got nearly 40 years experience playing and carry with me all the memories (active or buried somewhere in my mental wreckage) and dangerously flawed opinions that come with that.
Wait, there was a Hulk Hogan version of Streets of Rage?Cuchculan
I liked the SoR series. In fact, pretty much all those old side scrolling beat 'em ups were fun.... I'm thinking the old Simpsons and Ninja Turtles arcade games, Final Fight, Golden Axe, Double Dragon.... They were really good for local multiplayer, back in the days before they tried to push everything online, which I've never been a fan of.
I played the original GTA once back when you could actually download the game free on the Rockstar website (this was about a decade ago, I think). Didn't really click with and I don't remember what happened to it, tbh. Might have been lost to a laptop that died?
I liked a few of the Assassin's Creed games. My partner has most of them... maybe missing one or two? I really enjoyed Odyssey, though I have to say, rather than capturing a feeling like the Odyssey, it felt more like playing a movie of Xena, Warrior Princess or the 70s Wonder Woman. It was fun, very pretty and well enough written to keep you involved. I liked 2 quite a lot as well. I only played that fairly recently and it held up really well. Black Flag was fun for the pirate bits, but I feel almost like it would've been a better game if they didn't have the Assassin stuff it. Would've made a good pirate game, I think.
I think part of the reason I was more into sports games growing up was that you DIDN'T have to just kill stuff constantly. They tried to target the platform games towards girls, but I was never that much a fan of platformers. Found them very frustrating for the most part. Particularly when you got to the PS generation with the early attempts at 3D, depth perception was not great... that was something they fixed up majorly by the time PS2 came around. In all, it was my brother who was actually really good at them!
I do remember playing a wrestling game back then that I enjoyed. I think it was "Here Comes the Pain". It had that fellow with no neck on the cover, the one who tried out for the Minnesota Vikings.... Brock Lesnar, I think.... anyway I hired that one out on a whim and was surprised at how enjoyable it was! Older wrestling games that I'd played were a bit dull, but that one was actually really good. I say this as someone who has never been into pro-wrestling..... my only contact with it has come via various boys + men who've drifted through my life.
I think the only jewel type game I remember playing was Columns. One night, I maxed out the score so it was all nines (or was it the level, I can't remember). It was insane. I'd never had a run like it. I had to pause it to go to the bathroom, have dinner, etc.... I don't remember how long I was going for. I think in the end I actually just let the game beat me because I was on such an run that I felt like I was never going to lose. By then end, I just wanted to go to bed.
Yes, I remember that period well. Soooooo many of the licenced games were half-baked, shovelware garbage with a cool property slapped on them. There were definitely exceptions, but some of them were so bad (ALF on the Master System comes to mind, as well as the market-crashingly bad, ET on Atari) it beggared belief. One exception to that was generally Disney games, especially in the Mega Drive/Genesis era. They actually made platformers I liked, which showed how good the games were!
Star Wars and Star Trek.... Not much of a fan of either. I LOVE the idea of sci-fi, but I never really liked them. Maybe I still resent Star Wars because my brother was obsessed with it and watched it to the point where I wanted to stuff his Chewbacca plushie down his throat.
There was a Star Wars strategy game that I liked on PC, I think it was called Rebellion. That was the first big strategy game I ever played. Liked that one despite it being Star Wars themed. don't recall enjoying any Star Trek games though.... I actually didn't mind Stargate on MD. I wasn't really that into the movie or series at the time, but the game was pretty cool. I ended up quite enjoying the series when my current g/f showed me some of it a few years ago.... It was cool. Finally, a sci-fi series I liked! I mean, I didn't even like the locally-made Farscape and one of my exs actually worked on that show!
As far sci-fi games, I don't think anything eclipses the Mass Effect series for me, at least the original trilogy.
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