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Post by megamixer on Sept 17, 2022 21:02:28 GMT
...only to find that they were naff, or you just didn't get on with them for whatever reason, and the disappointment was substantial.
The game that inspired me to make this thread was Capcom's Red Earth a.k.a Warzard, a 2D fighting game for the CPS-3 arcade hardware. It was one of those rare and exotic late 90's fighters that didn't get ported to anything at all. I somehow missed playing it on MAME and have never seen an arcade cab for it in the flesh.
So when it was finally given a home port as part of Capcom Fighting Collection, I was dead excited. Sadly...I don't enjoy it!
Red Earth isn't a "normal" fighting game as I expected. It's a weird boss rush set-up with levelling up and unlocking new moves, although I found it easier to just spam the same special and super move over and over. I don't know; the sprites look amazing (as you'd expect from late 90's Capcom) but the gameplay is just uninteresting, and it just feels like an exercise in credit-feeding against a slew of cheap (but not the worst/hardest ever seen I have to stress) bosses.
Don't think I'll be bothering with Red Earth again. Maybe I would have given it more chance if I hadn't waited so long and built the game up in my head as some mystical, unported fighting game that HAD to be amazing. Sadly I'll never know.
I'll now leave the floor open for your similar experiences...
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Post by kerr9000 on Sept 17, 2022 22:17:32 GMT
Not quiet as bad but Golden Axe 3.... I knew we hadn't got it and Japan had and back then you didnt come across fakes so much and I never saw anyone import it either... Not sure how I first played it, either it was this counterfeit fake cart I grabbed of it off a car boot around the time of the PS2 for about £3 or it was one of those sega compilation collections but I was very underwhelmed sure its not the worst game ever but its just such a step back from the second one.
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Post by megamixer on Sept 18, 2022 16:47:57 GMT
Not quiet as bad but Golden Axe 3.... I knew we hadn't got it and Japan had and back then you didnt come across fakes so much and I never saw anyone import it either... Not sure how I first played it, either it was this counterfeit fake cart I grabbed of it off a car boot around the time of the PS2 for about £3 or it was one of those sega compilation collections but I was very underwhelmed sure its not the worst game ever but its just such a step back from the second one. Funnily enough, GA3 is actually one of my favourites in the whole series. I used to own a Japanese import copy and then it was, of course, included in the first Sega Mega Drive Collection for PS2/PSP (first official Western release).
Just really like the branching paths, music, and the much larger array of special moves that you can pull off with various d-pad motions (kind of like a 2D fighting game). It's also the only one that I have legitimately completed, although it becomes bastard hard at the end just like the others.
The big grievance with Golden Axe for me is that they ported The Duel to Saturn but never bothered with Revenge of Death Adder, which is the greatest of them all.
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Post by kerr9000 on Sept 18, 2022 18:19:38 GMT
Not quiet as bad but Golden Axe 3.... I knew we hadn't got it and Japan had and back then you didnt come across fakes so much and I never saw anyone import it either... Not sure how I first played it, either it was this counterfeit fake cart I grabbed of it off a car boot around the time of the PS2 for about £3 or it was one of those sega compilation collections but I was very underwhelmed sure its not the worst game ever but its just such a step back from the second one. Funnily enough, GA3 is actually one of my favourites in the whole series. I used to own a Japanese import copy and then it was, of course, included in the first Sega Mega Drive Collection for PS2/PSP (first official Western release).
Just really like the branching paths, music, and the much larger array of special moves that you can pull off with various d-pad motions (kind of like a 2D fighting game). It's also the only one that I have legitimately completed, although it becomes bastard hard at the end just like the others.
The big grievance with Golden Axe for me is that they ported The Duel to Saturn but never bothered with Revenge of Death Adder, which is the greatest of them all.
I would have even loved a compromised port of Revenge of Death Adder on something like the Megadrive or Mega CD , we had games that were a lot more compromised than this would have had to be. |
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Post by learnedrobb on Sept 18, 2022 19:16:09 GMT
Halo.
Didn't have an OG Xbox at the time, and my PC wasn't quite good enough to run it.
Eventually played it a few years later. It was just so very "meh".
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Post by mrjenzie on Sept 19, 2022 21:42:16 GMT
hard drivin' and super soccer on the zx spectrum
sure the 3d graphics and speed were always gonna be tough to reproduce, and it wasn't, and that's why i took it back and got something else (i think)
it was supposed to be a match day killer, instead it was THE biggest pile of shite, thank god i also bought the great escape too ... otherwise it would have been a wasted day!
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Post by dbloke on Sept 25, 2022 9:14:39 GMT
Shining force 3 parts 2 and 3
They wernt fully translated till a few years ago.
So my 20ish year quest ended.
I was relived, sad and a little bit down.
The words "Farewell the Shining force" at the end didnt help
It had a "To be continued" bit after the ending credits
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Post by megamixer on Sept 25, 2022 11:26:56 GMT
Halo. Didn't have an OG Xbox at the time, and my PC wasn't quite good enough to run it. Eventually played it a few years later. It was just so very "meh". I had a similar. Played it on the OG Xbox years after the hype and, to be fair, I DID really enjoy it. Loved the opening theme, loved the big outdoor areas (and seeing the arc of the halo curving into the sky...), and the "intelligent" enemies etc.
But the game became a chore once the Flood arrived; trudging through that terrible copy-paste Library area with non-dynamic blobby enemies just exploding against you. Boring and frustrating. I don't think I ever enjoyed the game as much as those opening hours even after getting past that part.
Halo 2 was even worse: it gained legendary status but I found myself plodding through it out of obligation since I'd completed the first one so felt that I must also finish 2.
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Post by oldtimer on Sept 26, 2022 12:18:47 GMT
Sonic CD On the Sega MegaCD.
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Post by whazeboo on Jan 28, 2023 9:44:53 GMT
Well, this was a long time ago in my Amiga days: Turrican (1990) and Turrican 2 (1991) were and are my favourites and I was eagerly awaiting the third entry in the series. In 1993 there were rumours the Amiga would receive a third entry. A friend of mine who had contacts in the German Amiga scene somehow managed to get a beta-release of Turrican 3. Of course the game wasn't perfect (levels appeared in random order, getting stuck in walls, heavy flickering in boss fights), but already for me it was a bit of a disappointment: linear level-layout, a grappling hook instead of a beamer and washed-out colours. Above all, it was very easy to finish in one go on 'normal'-difficulty. The final retail-release wasn't that much different. For me, this third entry was lacking the soul the earlier games had.
However, after all those years I played Mega Turrican (MegaDrive version of Turrican 3, part of the Turrican Anthology-compilation) on my PS4 and... the game was very good! The difficulty-level had gone up a notch or two, bosses behaved more intelligently and the graphics were much more colourful. Probably my taste for gaming has changed throughout the years, but I nowadays regard the third entry as much a classic as the previous games.
Just don't get me started on Super Turrican 2 for the SNES...
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Its just some interesting potential opportunities for AI and automation to help and free humans in the future, rather than enslave us. We need General Zod to implement it.