There's a little game called Goldeneye perhaps you should try.Originally Posted by Sonicwolf
There's a little game called Goldeneye perhaps you should try.
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I seem to forget that game whenever I think about movie-based games. Perhaps because it is so good that it raises the bar well above the average one.
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It should be a 3 day temporary ban offense for linking to jedite1's videos :P
What's wrong with Jedite? He wasn't that bad.
In any case there was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure. It's still on my list of games to play but I haven't heard anything bad about it.
Goldeneye was overrated, it's not totally bad but it's nothing special. At the very least it aged horribly.
Ok, everyone forgot to mention The Lion King.
that game was frigging amazing on both systems.
I think it is hands down the BEST video game based off a movie, ever.
Hook for SNES gets an honorable mention.
also, Little Nemo for NES. That game is what we call untouchable.
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The Lion King was indeed really good for both systems.
And I had no idea that Little Nemo was a movie game; that would at least help explain why no sequel was ever made. Seriously underrated and one of my all-time favorites for the NES.
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I never knew Little Nemo the Dream Master was a movie either.
Well, I've never watched any of his videos, but on this one I can name a few things. His dialogue sucks, his voice sucks(although I won't say mine is any good, I'm extremely monotone,) and he sucks balls at Castlevania. The best part of that video was on Rondo of Blood when he was fighting the Wyvern. "This enemy is really easy, you just throw axes up at it." Then the axe he throws misses. The target is extremely large, it's above you, and he misses with an axe?What's wrong with Jedite? He wasn't that bad.
Seeing how bad he sucks at the easiest Castlevania games, I don't really feel like watching any of his other videos.
No. It's aged incredibly well. The story mode is also really good unlike most FPS games that have terrible storyline that shouldn't even be in the game.Goldeneye was overrated, it's not totally bad but it's nothing special. At the very least it aged horribly.
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Little Nemo was originally a comic, and then there were some theatre adaptations and whatnot, but then there was the cartoon that came out in 1989. Its an awesome movie. Go find it!
We all know the story mode in PC FPS games is there incase your internet goes down, lolNo. It's aged incredibly well. The story mode is also really good unlike most FPS games that have terrible storyline that shouldn't even be in the game.
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I never had a problem with Genesis, it had alot of great games and back in the day it was the only way to play Mortal Kombat 1 uncensored at home. I played Genesis and SNES about equally in the 16-bit era.
Maybe I'm not into FPS games that much, but I don't like it as much as Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem 3D, DOOM, etc. I still have it with my N64, but I haven't touched it in ages.
I tend to agree with this guy's article which lists a whole bunch of games that didn't hold up(a couple I disagree with though).
http://www.destructoid.com/ten-class...l-154409.phtml
I've watched the movie, and it's really nothing special.
Here it is in case anybody is curious;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69637mM5-vM
That article is terrible. Just because a game was popular doesn't mean it was better at the time. Altered Beast, for example, simply isn't a good game. It's not that it "hasn't aged well" -- it just ain't good.
That's exactly what the article says, that Altered Beast always sucked. I agree with that, and I'm not sure how you missed it unless you didn't actually read the article. I mostly liked the article because the NES Metal Gear was listed, I have no idea why it's still regarded highly on some sites.
I'll just quote what it said about Altered Beast.
Altered Beast is a curious one, because it's hard to say that it aged badly. In truth, it was never a good game, even back in the eighties, yet somehow it has managed to trick everyone and be regarded as a classic while inspiring a wave of undeserved nostalgia among retroheads. Quite how this crime against humanity got to be remembered so fondly is beyond me, but hopefully we can look back on it nowadays and objectively agree that it is total crap.
Everything about this game is bad. The slow, plodding, side-scrolling combat is dull at best and frustrating at worst. The bosses are a shambling mess of button mashing and spammed attacks, the digitized voice "acting" is a joke and the graphics look like someone smeared bacon over a child's drawing of ancient Greece. The big selling point, being able to turn into a mythical beast, is stupid. Playing as a werewolf or a dragon is even more boring than playing as a semi-naked corpse, since you just hit the attack button and watch the ludicrous assortment of enemies run into your kill zone.
The Arcade version of "Altered Beast" is better, but its still a primitive game that is overshadowed by much better "beat em ups".
But the Genesis version isn't just bad, its dull, and boring. And this is coming from someone who loves the Genesis.
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It is cool that the Genesis version actually keeps the 2 player simultaneous mode though, I wouldn't have expected it for such an early release... but yeah, it's dull. Not terrible really, but dull.
YES. It's Alien Syndrome flipped to the side perspective. Incredibly underrated. One of those games I love to play on a cold, rainy night. People that bash this title usually do so thinking "bashing movie-tie in game = easy Internet roflcopters", not knowing they done fucked up.
No one is going to even mention Riddick for the guy that's never played a good movie based game?
Not to derail or anything...
Edit: P.S. Altered Beast always sucked, just like Goldeneye. OH NO I DIDN'T! OH YES I DID!
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Stop it with the indirect trolling, please.
The graphics in Altered Beast were amazing. Yes, big sprites! The gothic atmosphere of that game was absolutely fresh in its day, as was the morphing-into-a-beast thing. I know because I used to shove Shakey's Pizza down my throat as fast as possible to gain more time in "the room". Yes, the gameplay was always simplistic, and that's why the downgrade to the Genesis didn't fare well, but saying that even the arcade game had no redeeming qualities at any point is dumb. It was obviously popular because it was fucking FUN. We should be thankful its success helped spawn a more elaborate beat-'em-up in Golden Axe. (although the bosses in AB were a lot cooler).
cmon, hindsight is 20-20
name a 1988 or 1989 two player beat em up on the NES
there isnt one
the sprites were large, the sound was loud and abrasive (in a good way) and altered beast was a great home port of a good arcade game
too many of these snot-nosed brats have zero perspective of history
No, that article is pretty terrible, from a lot of angles.
To be fair, you have to remember when the Genesis version of Altered Beast came out, it was truly amazing to see- much as nothing like Smurf Rescue had appeared on home video games before 1982.
Interesting stuff, here (COMPLETELY unbiased opinion, hehhehheh):
http://griswaldterrastone.deviantart.com/
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