Shining Force!!
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Just off the top of my head:
EVO
Dungeon Keeper
Clash At Demonhead
Tribes
Majesty
X-Com with all the X-Comness intact.
Loom
Shining Force (with the old school designs)
Quest For Glory
Gabriel Knight
Jet Set Radio
Star Control
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Full Throttle
Shadowgate
ActRaiser with all the original ActRaiserness intact.
StarTropics
Out Of This World
D&D Arcade Game Series (though a Pathfinder game following that formula featuring the iconics would be fantastic)
And I would be down with a good Castlevania featuring Sonia Belmont in a heartbeat. Too bad the current guy in charge has a hate on for her. That's one reason I hope Hideo Kojima is shaking up his grip on the franchise.
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For those that hate FPS games, at least give Halflife and especially Halflife 2 a whirl before writing them off completely. :) (and connected to HL on account of being Valve FPS games, also give Portal and Team Fortress 2 a shot, especially Portal if usual FPS fare doesn't appeal to you)
(though I am tired of Space Marines Every Time All The Time as well....)
+1 to a remake of actraiser. Better graphics. Maybe make the brawling parts 3d? But most definitly expand on the being god/creating civilization part of it.
Also, River City Ransom
+1 to a remake of actraiser. Better graphics. Maybe make the brawling parts 3d? But most definitly expand on the being god/creating civilization part of it.
Also, River City Ransom
River City Ransom ftw... Oh and FF 3 would be pure awesomeness.
For those that hate FPS games, at least give Halflife and especially Halflife 2 a whirl before writing them off completely. :) (and connected to HL on account of being Valve FPS games, also give Portal and Team Fortress 2 a shot, especially Portal if usual FPS fare doesn't appeal to you)
(though I am tired of Space Marines Every Time All The Time as well....)
I have given plenty of FPS games "a whirl" mikaze, its just the absolute last thing i wished for when i wished for a new X-Com.
I have given plenty of FPS games "a whirl" mikaze, its just the absolute last thing i wished for when i wished for a new X-Com.For those that hate FPS games, at least give Halflife and especially Halflife 2 a whirl before writing them off completely. :) (and connected to HL on account of being Valve FPS games, also give Portal and Team Fortress 2 a shot, especially Portal if usual FPS fare doesn't appeal to you)
(though I am tired of Space Marines Every Time All The Time as well....)
+1.
I have given plenty of FPS games "a whirl" mikaze, its just the absolute last thing i wished for when i wished for a new X-Com.For those that hate FPS games, at least give Halflife and especially Halflife 2 a whirl before writing them off completely. :) (and connected to HL on account of being Valve FPS games, also give Portal and Team Fortress 2 a shot, especially Portal if usual FPS fare doesn't appeal to you)
(though I am tired of Space Marines Every Time All The Time as well....)
Not a complete disagreement, but more of a idea/hypothesis.
I'd like to see a larger-scale X-Com style game, done in a sort of multi-layered approach a la Microsoft's ambitious attempt at the idea, Allegiance. People who want to play RTS mode can basically set things in motion, while people who want to play FPS would play individual units, with the distribution such that any individual unit might be AI...or might be a player. Given the potential for stupidity inherent in any player, plus modifiers to the play experience based on environment and such, it would still provide a way for 'g&#%#%nit rookie it's right in front of you WHY ARE YOU MISSING' to happen.
It could work.
In theory.
I only play Timesplitters and Perfect Dark. Halo was boring, and I've never tried Call of Duty.
It's interesting- Call of Duty, at least the historical ones, are the only FPSs I could follow, aside from one or two REALLY good ones.
Just off the top of my head:
EVO
Dungeon Keeper
Clash At Demonhead
Tribes
Majesty
X-Com with all the X-Comness intact.
Loom
Shining Force (with the old school designs)
Quest For Glory
Gabriel Knight
Jet Set Radio
Star Control
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Full Throttle
Shadowgate
ActRaiser with all the original ActRaiserness intact.
StarTropics
Out Of This World
D&D Arcade Game Series (though a Pathfinder game following that formula featuring the iconics would be fantastic)
And I would be down with a good Castlevania featuring Sonia Belmont in a heartbeat. Too bad the current guy in charge has a hate on for her. That's one reason I hope Hideo Kojima is shaking up his grip on the franchise.
+1 for Star Tropics, Shining Force(CENTAUR!!!!) and Jet Set Radio. God, I loved those games. Did we bump Secret of Mana yet? And I believe +1 for Actraiser from my wife, who LOVES that game even now.
And 7th Saga. I would pay good money for the soundtrack alone.
American McGee's AliceThere's a sequel coming out quite soon here...
...check it out!
WOW!!! AWESOME!!!
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I disagree with River City Ransom, but only on the grounds that there is so little room for improvement. However, it's fun to think of what somebody might do with the property. I'd go with an MMORPG-style game with players creating greaser punk characters and forming gangs (as opposed to guilds) or choosing to go it alone. Quests would take the form of turf wars or performing jobs for (or against) NPC civilians like courier missions through gang territory or extortion of shop owners to acquire money.
Somebody mentioned Karnov awhile ago and that game, I think, would translate really well into an adventure game similar to Tomb Raider.
Other games worthy of an update:
Battletoads (various platforms) kicked so much a_s somebody needs to make another sequel.
Dr. Chaos (NES) would make a great survival horror game in the vein of Lovecraft's From Beyond.
A sequel to Strider, mixing elements from both the NES and arcade versions of the game, would make an awesome action/adventure game.
Battletoads (various platforms) kicked so much a_s somebody needs to make another sequel.
Only if they lower the difficulty. I wept so many times in frustration growing up with this game.
Dr. Chaos (NES) would make a great survival horror game in the vein of Lovecraft's From Beyond.
God...what a great game. You just brought back a lot of memories.
And fix the bug that prevented finishing co-op play.Battletoads (various platforms) kicked so much a_s somebody needs to make another sequel.Only if they lower the difficulty. I wept so many times in frustration growing up with this game.
I thought you were just supposed to kill your partner/commit suicide in-game?
I have given plenty of FPS games "a whirl" mikaze, its just the absolute last thing i wished for when i wished for a new X-Com.For those that hate FPS games, at least give Halflife and especially Halflife 2 a whirl before writing them off completely. :) (and connected to HL on account of being Valve FPS games, also give Portal and Team Fortress 2 a shot, especially Portal if usual FPS fare doesn't appeal to you)
(though I am tired of Space Marines Every Time All The Time as well....)
I wouldn't mind a X-COM that had a FPS option in addition to the stereotypical, historical turn-based play. Let those that want a non-turn-based-play use the FPS option.
What, like the 3.5 Monk? :)
I thought you were just supposed to kill your partner/commit suicide in-game?
Oh ha HA. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO funny. :-)
Hey, remember what my first D&D character was when you read that. ;)
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Conversely, Bubble Bobble could only be beaten if both players were alive at the end of the final stage. As long as you had at least one life remaining, you could get around this if you beat the game alone and then hit start on the player 2 controller right after you beat the giant wino at the end of the game.
American McGee's AliceThere's a sequel coming out quite soon here...
...check it out!
'Heard the rumors, but I hadn't checked to see if it had become a reality. The new developer looks a bit sketchy, but we'll see.
I'd love to play an updated version of The Thing from Vivendi.
This game came to Xbox and the PC way back in the Long-Long-Ago of 2002. It's still the second best and most engaging video game I've ever played (FO3 is first, of course). Sadly, the Xbox 360 is unable to play it :-(
Just ONE of the reasons I don't care for 360.
So many games to recall, so many games to resurrect... So I just mention a handful (not exactly in particular order):
All SSI Golden Box plus all three Eyes Of Beholder and Dungeon Hack; Master Of Magic; Black Crypt; Dungeon Master; all Realms Of Arkania; Torment; Arcanum; Fate Gates Of Dawn; Amberstar & Ambermoon; Yo Joe; First Samurai; Nicky Boom; Fantasy General; Robo.
OK, thas the tip of an iceberg made of games I would love to play again. More probably later (ah, good old times when the world was young and 8 colors were luxury).
Just ONE of the reasons I don't care for 360.I'd love to play an updated version of The Thing from Vivendi.
This game came to Xbox and the PC way back in the Long-Long-Ago of 2002. It's still the second best and most engaging video game I've ever played (FO3 is first, of course). Sadly, the Xbox 360 is unable to play it :-(
Oh? And what are the others, Mr. Freehold DM?
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I have given plenty of FPS games "a whirl" mikaze, its just the absolute last thing i wished for when i wished for a new X-Com.For those that hate FPS games, at least give Halflife and especially Halflife 2 a whirl before writing them off completely. :) (and connected to HL on account of being Valve FPS games, also give Portal and Team Fortress 2 a shot, especially Portal if usual FPS fare doesn't appeal to you)
(though I am tired of Space Marines Every Time All The Time as well....)
X-Com? Ah hell no. Wasn't talking about X-Com, just FPS games in general.
On X-Com, I would actually be genuinely interested if it had been named anything else, due to the setting. As it is, I'm stuck wondering "Why the hell did they call this X-Com?"
Everyone should play Portal. It's scientific fact.
It is written in the laws of both God and Man.
The second game can't come soon enough.
And thinking of Portal, and hence GLaDOS, reminded me of another game I'd dearly love to see revisited.
SYSTEM SHOCK 2. Still think SHODAN is one of the top three best videogame villains of all time, especially after the second game.
(and tangentally related to that, the Thief series)
Oh? And what are the others, Mr. Freehold DM?Just ONE of the reasons I don't care for 360.I'd love to play an updated version of The Thing from Vivendi.
This game came to Xbox and the PC way back in the Long-Long-Ago of 2002. It's still the second best and most engaging video game I've ever played (FO3 is first, of course). Sadly, the Xbox 360 is unable to play it :-(
Actually, my reasons for disliking the 360 are rapidly crumbling as it slowly takes over the gaming market. Still, I didn't care for the high price tag(which has lowered considerably), the overall fragility of the system itself(a few years ago something that broke as regularly as the 360 would have been laughed out of the market, I guess Microsoft can afford to put out crappy stuff that's insured, but several people I know had a hard time having the insurance policy be honored in the early days...), the heavy reliance on DLC(not really the 360's fault, but still, I'd like a game that's complete when I buy it, not a framework that I have to download to fix/complete), and the lack of backwards compatibility(already covered). But now that we've got the slimmer 360, many of my complaints have been addressed.
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Oh? And what are the others, Mr. Freehold DM?Just ONE of the reasons I don't care for 360.I'd love to play an updated version of The Thing from Vivendi.
This game came to Xbox and the PC way back in the Long-Long-Ago of 2002. It's still the second best and most engaging video game I've ever played (FO3 is first, of course). Sadly, the Xbox 360 is unable to play it :-(
The annoying habit the system has(had? hopefully.) of dying in flames is probably a big one. I love a lot of the system's library, but DAMN I have never felt the need to treat a console as delicately as the 360.
My original PSX might have to be played upside-down to run properly, but at least I know it isn't going to keel over on me.
No seriously, it has to be upside down.
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+1 to a remake of actraiser. Better graphics. Maybe make the brawling parts 3d? But most definitly expand on the being god/creating civilization part of it.
Also, River City Ransom
I'd pray whoever took on such a project took their cues from the first Actraiser rather than the second, where they dumped all the simulation gameplay. Still, the wings from the second game would be nice...
On River City Ransom, some updated sequels have been done for the Gameboy Advance I think. Didn't the Scott Pilgrim game use pretty much the same exact style of gameplay, or was it different?
+1 to a remake of actraiser. Better graphics. Maybe make the brawling parts 3d? But most definitly expand on the being god/creating civilization part of it.
Also, River City Ransom
I'd pray whoever took on such a project took their cues from the first Actraiser rather than the second, where they dumped all the simulation gameplay. Still, the wings from the second game would be nice...
On River City Ransom, some updated sequels have been done for the Gameboy Advance I think. Didn't the Scott Pilgrim game use pretty much the same exact style of gameplay, or was it different?
I have the GBA River City Ransom, and it is glorious, although AcroCircus works differently for some reason.
Scott Pilgrim was almost a 1 to 1 copy, save for some of the Scott Pilgrim comedy injected. Great game, and to a confessed hater like me, that's saying something.
Nice call on THE THING. That was a seriously good game, especially the ending which was almost as weirdly ambiguous as the film's.
DUNGEON KEEPER is getting a sort-of update in a new game coming out called DUNGEONS. It's to DUNGEON KEEPER what TORCHLIGHT was to DIABLO, and looks reasonable.
...how the hell have we gone this long without mentioning Rez?
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...how the hell have we gone this long without mentioning Rez?
I know it's childish, but I still giggle inside when I think about that controller.
teehee
I want to find a copy so I can play with my wife.
0:)
Unfortunately, chances are you'll have to buy it used.
:O
(In all seriousness, I actually would be a bit iffy on buying one used. I thought it was just a joke at first, but then the confessions started rolling in.)
Also, CoC: Dark Corners of the Earth, graphics could use a touch up and the voice overs definitely need work.I just remembered the hotel chase and my teeth automatically started to grind with rage.
Excellent atmosphere though.
One of three games I cannot play with my wife in the house.
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Also, CoC: Dark Corners of the Earth, graphics could use a touch up and the voice overs definitely need work.I just remembered the hotel chase and my teeth automatically started to grind with rage.
Excellent atmosphere though.
I even tried playing this again over the holidays, but still couldn't get past escaping the hotel.
I even tried playing this again over the holidays, but still couldn't get past escaping the hotel.Also, CoC: Dark Corners of the Earth, graphics could use a touch up and the voice overs definitely need work.I just remembered the hotel chase and my teeth automatically started to grind with rage.
Excellent atmosphere though.
You're kidding me. It's so easy! Of course I had to die a thousand times to do it. THis part of the game, moreso than any other I have encountered is more about timing than anything else. I would also argue that this part of the game is the HARDEST save for the bit towards the end.
MASTER BLASTER!!!!!!
I <3 Sophia the IIIrd
Since someone mentioned it, Xenosaga.
Xenosaga I was fun, but felt more like a movie than a game. I mean, there's a point where you fight a boss, save, see lots of cutscenes, then save again all without needing to touch the controller. There needed to be more action, less talk.
Xenosaga II gave us ES battles. But they were boring. And in regular battle you needed to combo your enemies to kill them in any reasonable amount of time. Enemies learn abilities far earlier than you and your damage doesn't rise nearly as fast as their hp. Double-teams were sometimes fun though (like Grand Rondo; KOS-MOS needed dance lessons, badly).
Xenosaga III was decent overall, but too little too late. Because the series was finished off after 3 games instead of the original 6, things got rushed.
Overall:
1) Fewer cutscenes. If I want to watch a movie, I'll watch a movie.
2) Decent combat. I liked fights in I and in III they were okay, but II gives me shivers.
3) ES combat. Use III's model, not II.
4) Characters. In terms of combat ability, MOMO was pretty weak. You didn't have enough EP to really utilize her superior Ether Attack stat and she didn't really want to be hitting people in I. In II, the weaknesses of enemies made her more useful, too bad she was fragile. Then we have Ziggy and KOS-MOS, a full-conversion cyborg and a battle android, neither of whom is really that much better than the other characters in battle. Some differentiation is nice, but more was necessary.