Author Topic: Top 25 Video Games Lists! v. CableX's "Worse Than My Top25 VG Music" (pg. 62) (Read 236263 times)

Accelerando · « **Reply #2030 on:** February 13, 2016, 05:39:01 PM »

Just catching up on your list Jingle. Love the inclusion of Assassins Creed II. For me, II and Brotherhood IS Assassin's Creed. When I think of those games, those are the two that pop into my head.

AND HOLY HELL I FORGOT ABOUT THAT DAMN TERMINATOR 2 ARCADE GAME

Lucien · « **Reply #2031 on:** February 14, 2016, 12:03:45 AM »

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Sacul · « **Reply #2032 on:** February 14, 2016, 12:08:40 AM »

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Fluffy Lothario · « **Reply #2033 on:** February 14, 2016, 01:17:22 AM »

Haven't followed this thread, but I just scrolled through a good chunk of it and barely a single game that is one of my favourites is on anyone's list.

Plenty I've thought to myself it'd be fun to play at some point though. Assassin's Creed II, Halflife I / II, The Last of Us, Portal...

I live in a time warp though. There are a handful of games from the late 90s / early 00s that are still pretty much all I play. I'm about the laziest person ever when it comes to checking out new games. I mean, I'm currently playing the first Age of Empires for the 1000th time.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #2034 on:** February 14, 2016, 04:53:41 AM »

14. The Force Unleashed / PS3

Wow, the promise of this game. The cinematic trailers were something special, and the game engine that gave the physics/mechanics of The Force were amazing. A very nice story – in which you actually start the game as Darth Vader, and pretty powerful. In a raid on Kashyyk, Vader captures a child strong with the force, and raises/trains him as his apprentice. Ultimately, Vader betrays him, and the game is spent hunting down Vader/Palpatine, with two different outcomes depending on your choice… either ending in death, or a Vader-like destruction at the hands of the Emperor (which had a nice expansion pack in that scenario).

This game had beautiful backdrops and landscapes, traveling to Kashyyk, Bespin, Felucia among others, and finishing up on the Death Star. It gave you the ability to use the force in ways like never before, with massive force pushes, lightning (which can be used as a shield) – I loved lifting storm stroopers up, then hurling my lightsaber right thru their chest. You could also put-together some badass combos. There was dis-memberment, beheading, destruction of objects, Rancors, aerial manoeuvres, great costumes… a brilliant 3rd person game, all set to a Star Wars theme.

The sequel built upon all of this fantastically … except for the fact it was probably the shortest game I’ve ever played. Eight levels (maybe 9… I can’t remember), and I finished it in a weekend. SOOOOOOO incredibly disappointing.

Podaar · « **Reply #2035 on:** February 14, 2016, 08:40:01 AM »

I remember being incredibly intrigued by the trailers for this game. I liked the idea of arcade style gaming in the Star Wars universe.

And then I promptly forgot about it until seeing it on your list! It's only $20.00 on Steam...I may need to give it a go.

black_biff_stadler · « **Reply #2036 on:** February 14, 2016, 08:42:51 AM »

Shadows of the Empire on N64 is the only Star Wars game I've owned or played for any real length of time. This looks and sounds like an excellent installment though. I think there were like three made for the SNES and I really wanna get to those eventually too.

Lucien · « **Reply #2037 on:** February 14, 2016, 07:16:41 PM »

Eh, it was okay

Lynxo · « **Reply #2038 on:** February 15, 2016, 03:04:17 AM »

I got that game recently for PS3, I've been meaning to try it out.

HarlequinForest · « **Reply #2039 on:** February 15, 2016, 04:03:01 AM »

edit: whoops thought this was the main video game thread for a min.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #2040 on:** February 16, 2016, 07:36:12 AM »

13. Forbidden Forest / Commodore 64

Time to alienate Rich and anyone under the age of 40 yet again. Actually, this is probably one of the more obscure C64 games.

Not a lot to this one – you’re a an archer roaming through a forest looking for all sorts of demons and monsters to kil. It’s a bi-directional side-scrolling game with four different difficulty levels - Innocent, Trooper, Daredevil and Crazy which determine the number and speed of the monsters.

Five or six levels that included spiders (falling blobs really – it was centipede revisited), dragons, banshee/skeletons, a big-ass serpent, and the final boss “Demogorgon”. This was one of the first games to use blood, and also had a day/night-time setting. Death was accompanied by your enemies descending upon you to mange on your corpse. Once you cleared a level, the archer did a dumb-ass little dance, and the jingle to go along with it is stuck in my head to this day.

This one required about 30 minutes – with a lot of patience necessary, as you had to hit most enemies in a certain spot - arrows would go right thru the skeletons, and the banshee had to be hit in a certain spot in the hood. The final boss was tough, as the demon was only visible during lightning strikes – it took a lot of guessing, and usually dumb luck to hit that fucker in the spot that would kill him.

Most games ended with this mofo coming down and gobbling you up:

Gameplay for a giggle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j86veyiIcS8. DAT MIDI MUSIC!!!!

BlobVanDam · « **Reply #2041 on:** February 16, 2016, 07:44:56 AM »

Scrolling backgrounds, day/night cycle, multi channel music, AW SHIT YEAH.

Nope, sorry.

Bolsters · « **Reply #2042 on:** February 16, 2016, 07:45:25 AM »

Never heard of it, but it looks interesting. It's rather impressive graphically for a C64 game.

Kwyjibo · « **Reply #2043 on:** February 16, 2016, 08:21:01 AM »

Oh man, I remember that one. Fun little game with a creepy atmosphere and for that time pretty violent.

Sir GuitarCozmo · « **Reply #2044 on:** February 16, 2016, 09:21:44 AM »

I had a f*ckton of C-64 games and I never saw this one before. Wow.

King Postwhore · « **Reply #2045 on:** February 16, 2016, 11:09:01 AM »

The C in C-64 stands for Canada since I've never seen it before.

Prog Snob · « **Reply #2046 on:** February 16, 2016, 03:36:17 PM »

I've never played that but it looks fucking fun.

Ben_Jamin · « **Reply #2047 on:** February 16, 2016, 06:11:09 PM »

When the banshee dies, it sounds creepy. Itd scare me if played that in the dark

Kwyjibo · « **Reply #2048 on:** February 17, 2016, 01:36:22 AM »

Just watched the video and listened tot he music again. Ah, the memories

This game needs a serious remake and then Uwe Boll could make a cheap and terrible movie out of it.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #2049 on:** February 18, 2016, 07:52:44 AM »

12. Crysis II / PS3

This is my preferred 1st person shooter franchise. Never tried CoD (believing that it’s more geared to multi-player), and Battlefield is fun (but pretty quick). This franchise is fan-fucking-tastic. The first one was kinda short, so this sequel scratched me right where I itched, with a much bigger playground. Although not exactly open world, it was another game whose main quest was plenty big on its own, with the odd hidden gem here and there to explore.

In 2023, an alien infestation has taken over New York, which becomes the playground for this game. You’re a Marine with a Nanosuit (which gives abilities such as cloaking, speed, different vision modes, and armor), tasked to destroy the Ceph (aliens) while avoiding the private military, because they think you have been infected by the alien virus – which the suit partially has been … but it’s really absorbing some alien tissue to give you additional abilities. It’s a fairly typical shooter game, with varying weapons, targets, missions, allies, enemies etc… The short of the story line is that you have to make your way through a destroyed NYC, navigating the ‘urban jungle’ on ground, or through buildings. The final mission is to destroy the alien spire before a nuclear bomb is dropped on Manhattan. There’s a shit ton of death and destruction along the way – Grand Central Station in ruins, collapse of high-rise buildings, Central Park being pulled out of the ground, which gives for some pretty intense cutscenes.

Crysis 3 provided some enhancements (namely stealth weaponry – a bow), but didn’t give me the same sense of expansiveness that the sophomore edition did.

Podaar · « **Reply #2050 on:** February 18, 2016, 08:03:16 AM »

Yes, yes! *Ace Ventura pelvic thrust*

Now, we've hit the big time! I loved this game (even though I never finished it) and it's predecessor (which I completed multiple times). Both had their pluses but this one is better for one reason and one reason only.

Kicking cars into your enemies! That's right kids, go screaming toward the alien scum in speed mode, veer off toward a trashed car, switch to strength mode and kick that fucker into their grill. Muuuuuahahahahaha.

Seriously though, great game and the heavy armor mode was very visceral. Somehow the transferred the feeling of being heavy and tough to the screen really well.

Great choice.

cramx3 · « **Reply #2051 on:** February 18, 2016, 09:40:28 AM »

Solid FPS game. The second Crysis is actually the only one of the series I played. I enjoyed one play through but never came back to it.

ASacrificedSon · « **Reply #2052 on:** February 18, 2016, 10:49:46 AM »

Looks pretty interesting.

Bolsters · « **Reply #2053 on:** February 18, 2016, 05:39:49 PM »

The Crysis games have been on my radar for a while, but as I'm not the biggest FPS fan they are perpetually on the back burner.

wolfking · « **Reply #2054 on:** February 18, 2016, 06:03:10 PM »

Don't know why I haven't followed any of this thread yet. Don't know many of Chad's games. I was a sega baby.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #2055 on:** February 18, 2016, 06:59:43 PM »

Quote from: Bolsters on February 18, 2016, 05:39:49 PM

The Crysis games have been on my radar for a while, but as I'm not the biggest FPS fan they are perpetually on the back burner.

I was like that too for the longest time. I think Crysis 1 (I rented it) was the first FPS game I ever took a go at. Loved it.

cramx3 · « **Reply #2056 on:** February 18, 2016, 09:21:58 PM »

Can your PC handle it?

ReaperKK · « **Reply #2057 on:** February 21, 2016, 06:30:40 AM »

Crysis used to be thing thing I benchmarked my new PC builds but I did enjoy them as FPS games, not my favorite but they certainly weren't bad.

TheSilentHam · « **Reply #2058 on:** February 21, 2016, 01:06:22 PM »

So late to the party, but huge overlap in gaming experience, Chad, going back to Mattel football. I had that white model, and remember being jealous of those with the green version, which including passing. I just got caught up, and am basking in nostalgia. After the C64, I have remained hidden away in the PC gaming world for decades. I did have the WII to play with the kids, but just bought a PS4 a couple of months ago. Looking forward to the rest!

jingle.boy · « **Reply #2059 on:** February 23, 2016, 07:39:42 AM »

Sorry for the pause here folks... rough weekend, and I'm now traveling for business. If I get a chance, I'll try to fire one off when I have some hotel room down-time. If not, Friday we'll get back at this.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #2060 on:** March 02, 2016, 11:19:26 AM »

And we're back... Thanks for waiting patiently - dog issues, work trip, and then me getting sick as shit put a crimp into this.

11. Raid on Bungeling Bay / Commodore 64

Probably the most interesting thing about this game is – and I didn’t know this until researching for this thread - that this was the first game designed by Will Wright – who is the mastermind behind the Sims franchise, designing the very first Sim City and The Sims.

RoBB was a top-view 3rd person helicopter game, where you are roaming around the playing field (Bungeling Bay) searching for six factories scattered across islands (building WMDs no doubt!) and bombing them to destruction. The helicopter had two attacked (because that’s our joysticks only had 1 button back then) – machine gun for air-to-air combat, and if you held the trigger for 2 seconds, you dropped a bomb. Your helicopter was launched (and repaired) from a roaming aircraft carrier, where you could also reload your bombs (I think you could only hold 10 at a time, and it took 6 to destroy a factory). There was a scale-out map available PIP to chart where you were, but finding that last factory was always a bitch. Destroying the first factory alerted the “Bungeling Empire” to your presence, and you then had to fend off escalating counterattacks by gun turrets, fighter jets, and guided missiles. Plus, the Empire was also building a battleship that would go out and destroy your aircraft carrier, so you had to be mindful of the progress on that as well.

On the above shot, the blue "L" shaped thing is the factory you have to destroy; the 'sword' thing is the gun turret defending it, and the white-ish thing along the river is you, the helicopter. Below is the battleship that slowly builds throughout the game.

Interestingly, as a pre-cursor to Sim City, Wright designed the factories would grow and develop new technologies to use against the player, and if you left them too long, you were completely overwhelmed by the enemy forces.

ReaperKK · « **Reply #2061 on:** March 02, 2016, 11:25:14 AM »

Glad your back! Hope you and your dog are better!

Another game I haven't played but love the write up

Podaar · « **Reply #2062 on:** March 02, 2016, 11:28:38 AM »

Welcome back, Chad.

Yeah, yet another game that our experience doesn't overlap. It does sound like great fun though.

Hey, ReaperKK, you may wish to read this: https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=38548.msg2111910#msg2111910

ariich · « **Reply #2063 on:** March 02, 2016, 12:53:54 PM »

Your epic return does not disappoint, Chad.

I've never heard of it.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #2064 on:** March 02, 2016, 01:01:09 PM »

Not to worry chaps... my Top 10 only has one C64 game - everything else is either pretty modern, or a complete classic everyone knows.

News: Video of online chat between fans and members of Dream Theater: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx8cLlXnHpA&feature=youtu.be (*no chickens were harmed during the filming of this chat)

Author Topic: Top 25 Video Games Lists! v. CableX's "Worse Than My Top25 VG Music" (pg. 62) (Read 236263 times)