Starker on 27/8/2015 at 19:28
Quote Posted by henke
Action games, now that's a genre so broad it could contain just about anything, but what it DEFINITELY SHOULDN'T CONTAIN is Grow Home and Beyond Good & Evil, lovely though they are.
I can see how you might get Beyond Good & Evil in the action genre box, if you tried hard enough, even if you had to saw some of its limbs off and lots of bits would still be left dangling out. At least BGE has some crappy combat and stuff like races and minigames. Grow Home, though, is mind-boggling. If that's an action game then only in the sense that you perform actions in the game, in which case almost every game is an action game.
henke on 28/8/2015 at 13:16
Oh yes. It's been too long since I last played BG&E. Forgot there were fisticuffs in it. I just remembered the sneaky bits.
Renault on 28/8/2015 at 14:20
I suppose it's only a matter of time before we get the "Top Stealth Games" list. That should be fun.
Sulphur on 28/8/2015 at 17:57
MechWarrior 2 is a mech "simulator" and should technically have its own genre, but RPS is gonna RPS, especially when it's a John Walker list.
Yakoob on 29/8/2015 at 00:15
Quote Posted by faetal
ONICORRECT!
10 points.
Amazing game. Had awesome guns which I never ended up using because the HTH combat is so frickin great.
Thirding. I only played it ages ago but it actually was one of the more fun 3rd person battle systems.
Also, have you ever played Fighting Force? That one was fun too, especially COOP.
Shadowcat on 29/8/2015 at 11:16
Ah, "Oni". Hand-to-hand combat <em>was</em> fun but, based on the demo, it didn't have a whole lot more going for it?
I vaguely recall that the gameplay otherwise seemed to be mostly inane key card hunts which, while not uncommon for the day, seemed a poor fit in this case.
One of my enduring memories was the fuss they made over having hired actual architects to design the levels. Unfortunately the result was that the game (or the demo at least) featured the most <em>boring</em> levels ever seen in a game!
My overall impression was that they'd had lots of good intentions, but that very few of them had really worked out.
faetal on 29/8/2015 at 11:20
Quote Posted by Brethren
I suppose it's only a matter of time before we get the "Top Stealth Games" list. That should be fun.
We already did. You didn't see it?
WingedKagouti on 29/8/2015 at 11:36
Quote Posted by Shadowcat
I vaguely recall that the gameplay otherwise seemed to be mostly inane key card hunts which, while not uncommon for the day, seemed a poor fit in this case.
One of my enduring memories was the fuss they made over having hired actual architects to design the levels. Unfortunately the result was that the game (or the demo at least) featured the most <em>boring</em> levels ever seen in a game!
Oni did have some levels where you were card hunting, but most of the time it was fairly obvious where you had to go and the backtracking was as far as I remember it minimal (ie. if you were sent off to a side path, there'd usually be a shortcut back to the door).
The architecture meant that while several levels felt kinda dull visually, those same levels did also feel like atual buildings. But the game also had some levels which were fairly visually interesting (for the time) even with the architecture being "realistic". I can still understand why you'd think that the game would be dull if you only played the warehouse demo level. The combat was also fairly limited in the early levels, as they decided to tie the available moves to each individual level.
Zerker on 17/10/2015 at 11:22
Which somehow doesn't have Cave Story.
Or Daniel Remar's excellent games (Iji and Hero Core, among others).
Or anything by Locomalito (Hydorah, Maldita Castilla)
But I guess the free game category is somewhat large, so I'll cut them some slack.
Starker on 17/10/2015 at 13:28
Cave Story is free, but an enhanced version of the game is sold for money. That goes for a number of games on that list, such as Desktop Dungeons or Spelunky. At least they didn't put something like Assassin's Creed or Evolve in there, so it's a list of games that fit the description this time.
There are quite a few excellent games missing, though, whether it's remakes like Ur-Quan Masters, Return to Chaos, and Quest for Glory 2 or old games made available like BASS and the Spiderweb Exile series or completely original games like Heroine's Quest or one the numerous IF games like, say, Spider and Web to pick one completely randomly.
