I played a lot of The Wild Thornberries GBA game. I never watched the movie, I didn’t really even like the show, but it had a coloring mini game that I liked. Think you unlocked more coloring pages by playing it so I did.
call of duty black ops on nintendo wii
Hey, Cool Spot wasn’t that bad. (yes, this was one of the DOS games I had)
The funny thing is that in Europe this game didn’t even have the 7-Up stuff in it.
Every mascot back then got a game it feels like
The entire Dynasty Warriors series and most of its spin offs like Samurai Warriors, Warriors Orochi, and the one where you play alongside a bunch of anime characters or whatever. They’ve never been good. All the games made with other IPs like Hyrule Warriors are significantly better. Even stuff like Kessen was better. I’ve stilled played all of them because they got me interested in Chinese history, media, and culture from a young age which influenced my entire life direction through uni and after. The soundtracks rock.
Hyrule Warriors was my gateway drug now I’m obsessed with this series. I do love seeing Chinese culture being represented too since when the US gets anything Asian it’s almost always Japanese in terms of games.
It kinda feels like they use the DW games as a testing ground for whatever new engine or graphics tech they’re working on, then when they have to work with someone else’s IP, they’re held to a higher quality standard and really bring things together. The Berserk game is pretty good, Hyrule Warriors is pretty good (though better on an emulator due to FPS issues), and so is the Fire Emblem one. I think Origins is getting closer to what the games were meant to be from the start when it comes to difficulty and enemy density making it feel like you’re actually wading through armies. I’ll never get tired of the series and I do hope they live up to the potential I think they’ve always had.
I have DW 4 Hyper on my pc I jump into from time to time for some mindless fun in the three kingdoms. I wonder how to describe the soundtrack, session rock? They just have one guy on an electric guitar just killing it.
Thrash metal with Chinese characteristics
The Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors “Empires” games were always a fun spin on the old Nobunaga’s Ambition grand strategy formula, albeit extremely surface-level
Sonic adventure 2. City escape is just so good and then its just a steady decline for the rest of the game.
You were doing something other than obsessing over Chaos?
Chao game is gacha coded, I’m never doing all that
Played through it so many times on my gamecube :)
The game really benefits from replaying the Sonic and Shadow levels and skipping everything else a zillion times as a kid.
Same for playing through only the daylight stages in Sonic Unleashed
Yeah every time I’ve tried to go back and play it I bounce off soon after City Escape
call of duty: finest hour, tbh i mainly like it because it was the first fps i played
objectively bad but one nice thing about it is the soviet campaign, in particular there’s a level where you get to play as a lady sniper in the red army
I played the shit outta Finest Hour as a kid. It’s really amazing how many anti Soviet tropes they pack into the first minute of the game
- not enough Mosins, pick up the gun of the man ahead of you when he dies
- human waves running into machinegun nests
- cowards who don’t participate in suicidal charges will be shot
- battle of stalingrad as Stalin’s vanity project
It’s just Enemy at the Gates! The sniper level was really cool though. The soundtrack for the first level too, with the soviet choir leitmotif…
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That’s actually really cool, modern COD would never
does call of duty 2 count as a bad game or? 'cause that is I think my second favorite of the WW2 CoD games aside from WaW. Though, to be fair, there wasn’t much to compare to after WaW than… WW2 (The CoD game) and Vanguard… at least on the campaign side.
never played it so i can’t say. finest hour was specifically because it feels like instead of designing a game for consoles/controller, they made a pc game and cut it down until you got something “playable” on 6th gen consoles. so what you get is something that’s pretty barebones yet “challenging” largely because movement and aiming is clunky, even compared to other console fps games. like i said, i never played cod2, but i do remember playing the demo on xbox 360, and i don’t recall it having the same problems.
CoD Soviet campaigns are extremely hit-or-miss. I don’t particularly like pure shooters anyway, the closest thing to that I willingly play is the Fallout games. But I’d definitely recommend picking up something more explicitly Soviet focused if you want a Great Patriotic War shooter. Or a Wolfenstein game, if all you’re really after is shooting a bunch of Nazis.
That weird Yoshi game were you had to tilt your GBA for things to move on screen
YOSHI TOPSY TURVY I also loved that lol. My friend had it and hated it so they just gave it to me.
taco bell gave out some games on floppy disk in the late 90s
I don’t know if it was Taco Bell, but I remember getting a lego racing game like this from somewhere. It was not a good game, but I still played it to 100% because it was my only PC game and that was really novel instead of my SNES and n64.
Lots of DOS games we had as either
floppies or magazine coverdisks. For example, The Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure was not dogshit but not an especially good platformer, but I still played it a lot because there weren’t many platformers on PC.River City Ransom on NES.
Have you tried the GBA remake?
Never had a chance. No GBA, never looked into an emulator.
It’s pretty good if you ever get a chance (I used an emulator)
Yugioh. Mucho texto the cardgame.
Heh, this reminds me of that PS2 “Dogs life” game where you play as a dog, it was not very good but they committed to the idea of being a dog alright I suppose.
David Braben of Elite fame was behind that.
Giants: Citizen Kabuto is kinda dogshit in a lot of ways but I really liked it having squad based shooter elements and base building strategy game stuff and I always like me a game where you get a jetpack
Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning. At no point is the plot actually interesting, the gameplay is quickly trivial if you side quest at all, but I love the daggers and twinblades esp combined with some magic so much.
Also the Fable games, esp Fable 2, but those I’d put a tier above dogshit. Cat-breath?
Edit: As a kid I had Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures on my SNES and I never really got it, certainly never beat it, but I’d put it out every now and then just because there was nothing like it. For those who don’t know (probably most of you) you don’t control Pac-Man, you control a slingshot which you use to shoot things in the environment, hopefully pointing Pac-Man in the right direction, but often making him suicidaly mad or outright “killing” him. You could also shoot Pac-Man. Its still one of only a handful of second-person games I know of.
KoA definitely had me for a bit, but eventually it started feeling like what it was: an MMO that was converted into a single player game. But yeah, it’s much better than it had any right to be considering its back story of being made by a studio headed by a former baseball player that somehow swindled the state of Rhode Island.
Think the biggest selling point was that R.A. Salvatore did the writing for it.
I really need to finish KoA: Reckoning one of these days.
Not sure I ever did lmao
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters. It’s the only game my dad ever sat down to play with me.
It wasn’t that he wasn’t around or didn’t spend time with me, it’s just that my parents were pretty anti-videogames to the extent that I had to buy all of them (consoles included) by saving up my lunch money, so playing them with me was a tacit approval of me having them. Goldeneye was too violent. GTA was right out. Even story-based games had to be shared evenly with siblings by time.
They wonder why I’m low-contact.
Me and my cousin used to play that game so much. I have such a soft spot for it.
It wasn’t even a good fighting game, but damn did it make the scale seem convincing without losing that man-in-a-kaiju-suit feel.
not exactly nostalgia, but i have a soft spot for lichdom: battlemage. absolute trash-boring enemies and levels put to shame by basically any other fps, but fiddling with the spellcrafting and every single “weapon” being a flashy exploding charge-up shot really tickles my brain in a certain way
