Thread 718617339

ITT: Flawed but interesting games you wouldnt mind seeing a remake of

>>718617339 (OP)
OOF

Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi
Has all the makings of a great game it just needs consistent hit detection.

Needed to have more uses of posession mechanic

I wonder if you can make a good hitman-like game using possession mechanic. Like that one level in beyond two souls.

There's a lot of obscure 90s/early 2000s games that have very interesting and outlandish stories and ideas
Sometimes the idea is good but the execution is just terrible

Where are all the TPS/RTS games with modular vehicle upgrades and meat buildings?

>>718617339 (OP)
Didn't Tommy Wiseau make the soundtrack to this game?

>>718618498
Yeah an adventure game using the mechanic with light combat would be better instead of being a shitty platformer where it's central gimmick isn't actually that important except for shooting guns or opening a door.

>>718617471
fpbp

>>718618703
Possession, probably not, but I think a Hitman type of game where the central gimmick is, like, shapeshifting or something and focused around hits, heists and information gathering would be pretty cool.

>>718620353
Yes. A much better track record for him than his filmmaking career

>>718620215
Hybrid games were largely a thing simply because gameplay standards didn't exist yet or were still forming. They were an actual product of its time, and basically went extinct after early 00s.

>>718617339 (OP)
Omikron The Nomad Soul. Incredibly ambitious and clearly held back by the tech of the time. I still have no idea how some literally who french faggot managed to get David Bowie to make the soundtrack for the game.

Also Silent Hill 4 if Konami are gonna shit out UE5 remakes it's the only game I wouldn't mind because the core concept of being trapped in an apartment is incredibly interesting and it doesn't matter if they ruin a bunch of shit from the original since it's not that important and the game needed more dev time with parts of it needing to be redone from scratch anyway.

>>718621745
Bowie was interested in tech, saw the game and thought it was neat. He didn't make the soundtrack though, he just let them use songs from an album he was already working on so long as he could be in the game.

Omikron is so disappointing because like Messiah it's built around a gameplay concept that actually has no real affect on the actual gameplay because there's never multiple ways to do things that can depend on which body you're in. It only comes up at predetermied points where the story forces you to switch.

>>718620535
>Yeah an adventure game using the mechanic with light combat
That's essentially Omikron. Fits the thread too, because it's interesting and the premise, lore and universe is cool but the game fucking sucks.
>>718621745
beat me to it

>>718617471
Based

>>718621745
You know it will be given to those Polaks from Goober, and they clearly are no match for the task.

>>718622402
The problem I have with Omikron is like I said here >>718622150 where the body swapping is the game's central gimmick yet there's one area in the entire game where it's used in the way you'd think (using Bowie's wife to sweet talk info out of a guy which saves you like 5 whole minutes of gameplay). Other than that, there's never a point in switching characters beyond when the story forces you to because being a theif or journalist or whatever has no bearing on anything that happens, never changes dialogue, etc. So it's underbaked and you have to contend with awful FPS sections and even worse Virtua Fighter sections.

Actually, you're actively punished for engaging with the game's central mechanic and selling point because switching characters means you lose all of your stats and money. It desperately needs a remake by an actual competent developer that focuses exclusively on the good stuff, cuts the bad shit and makes the fucking core mechanic worth using.

>>718623397
wasn't there another game with the body swap mechanic called Geist?

>>718623397
The different characters have different stats, taking the body of a big guy will help you with the fighting segments and IIRC you can go to some characters apartments. But yeah in the grand scheme of things the game never asks you to pick a certain archetype to go to certain places or reacts to who you're playing as. Still I think it's neat and I did enjoy the mechanic and I liked how you can find an NPC and if you like their body you can play as them, even if it's mostly aesthetic.

>>718623180
Yeah, knowing Goober they're gonna completely miss the point again and make you fight monkeys for 20hrs instead of focusing on the apartment. And there's no way the peeping mechanic stays in because it's heckin' problematic to spy on girls without their consent

>>718617339 (OP)

Destrega:
A free moving fighting game that has a very fun core, but is rather barren in terms of content and could honestly do with something akin to Soul Calibur 2/3's long single player campaign modes or something else to further flesh out the game. Other than that, the combat is simple but great, the characters look cool (the guys look badass, the chicks look hot) and it's very easy to pick up and play, but there's not much to master that you can't in about an hour. A remake should just make the combat deeper and add more content.

It's a real shame that there's not going to be more of it. It's such a great game with minor but noticable flaws that could've been ironed out in a PS2/PS3 entry. It's up there with Soul Calibur 2/3 as one of my favorite fighting games: specifically the type that are easy to pickup and play for a complete noob and probably make for good fun at parties.

>>718624778
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e6AlKSzWOY
I spent so many hours playing this demo like you woulnd't believe. Never managed to get my family to buy me this game because I kept getting more interested in others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huHbTH2U1HU

Way way ahead of its time.

>>718617339 (OP)
>more remakes
Kill yourself

>>718624778
>free moving
There are some games that mix shmup and fightan. Not exactly the same, but might be to your liking.

>>718625106
yeah yeah yeah

>>718624981
Yeah, that's how I found about Destrega too lol. I remember when I got irt I played it and only it for like a week straight with friends and by myself. The game is a fucking blast.

>>718625302
I'm interested. What games are like that?

>>718617339 (OP)
I remember this being weirdly shilled by magazines and whatnot

never tried it

>>718625857
https://store.steampowered.com/app/390730/Sora/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/574160/Senko_no_Ronde_2/
Well, I only know about two, but I imagine there are more if you look into it.

>>718617339 (OP)
>>718625909
Shiny was such an indrecrible developer. Then it all went to shit in 2003. They then merged with another company to create Double Helix, but their games were all crap.

>>718625106
People here are asking for a new take on games that are flawed but have an interesting concept or idea. Think something like Zero Mission. Modern remake slop is taking a game that is already good but very popular and making it worse. It's extremely cynical and entirely devoid of purpose.

>>718625107
My fucking nigga
>bought it from a gamebin in my local supermarket because Syphon Filter 3 was out of stock
>"ok,cover look cool + anime"
>wtf is bomberman lmao
>first hour and got a blast for how good the game actually was
True fucking PS1 hidden gem

>>718626068
>weirdly shilled
I think Interplay was starting having problems already by then. Besides, Shiny wasn't literally who studio either.

>>718626153
Looks like they went to shit in 97.

>>718626916
MDK and Wild 9 werer amazing

>>718626153
Man I wish they did more with Wild 9. Loved that game but definitely needed some polishing and there was so much about the world buried in manuals.

>>718626916
t. plebe

>>718626916
enter the matrix was really fun to play, and if you were a matrix nerd, niobe and ghost stories complemented the matrix reloaded story.

Also Populous: The Beginning

>>718627056
>Rated PG: Please the Gods.

>>718627159
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0x4Kw_y4fg

>>718617339 (OP)
Conceptually such a cool game with nothing else quite like it out there. It does pull its central hook off well, but boy does it have its rough edges as a game.

>>718617339 (OP)
>>718618498
>>718620535
ENTER

>>718626068
David Perry and Shiny had a lot of good will in the '90s thanks to Earthworm Jim and MDK and I would guess also had good relations with magazines and stuff. Just that by the time Messiah came out they were spreading themselves too thin.

>>718627130
Unless you had a PC lol, the port was some real shit.

>>718627341
Again, neat concept but nothing interesting is done with it because you're railroaded into who you need to be which amounts to "take over this person/animal/thing to open a door". Games using concepts like possession, swapping, shapeshifting, disguises, etc. as a core mechanic need to be like the recent Hitman games: they give you a big open area, you have goals you need to hit and thanks to your abilities you have a ton of ways to go about doing it.

>>718627685
it needs to be railroaded because it would either greatly over complicate the game or be a recipe for soft locking.
You got to keep it simple.

>>718617339 (OP)
Messiah is Kino. Buggy af tho

it will never happen

>>718626124
First one isn't quite what I'm looking for but the Senko no Ronde game looks quite close to the type of game I'm looking for. I'll probably try it out when it's on sale. Thanks anon.

>>718627928
That's why I said do it like Hitman. Everything is a level and every level is essentially a giant playground with puzzles that have multiple ways to figure out the answers.

>>718628176
That would take a lot more effort and resources, to do given Hitman is a lot more simple in what the objective is.

>>718617339 (OP)
bump

PLEASE make a modern Bloodrayne oh please oh please oh PLEEASE.

The frantic pickup and drop guns mechanic, the blood drinking mechanic, it's such a fun game that is sort of undone by it's 2005 small team jank. If it just had a couple months more polish this game could be a massive gem.

Would kill for a remake that doesn't just make the game into a DMC or Bayonetta ripoff like the sequel tried to do.

Personally I still love it, but it's undeniably jank. Please also keep in the big boobs cheat code.

>>718617339 (OP)
I'm shocked Atari hasn't bought Interplay, hell they're bringing back fucking Bubsy, I can see them bringing back Jim

>>718627056
Sacrifice best game.

>>718630851
Rayne's game was on fucking Gamecube?

I think if you remake these games they'll lose something that made them special. Even tho most of what you posted is pure unfiltered trash

>>718631294
gamecube and n64 were the push for more mature games

>>718630953
Who even owns what? Interplay put most of their IPs up for sale back in 2016 but I can't actually find any info on what was sold, who owns what, or anything else. I guess Interplay isn't actually dead somehow but did their catalogue have no takers?

>>718630851
Any Bloodrayne sequel, remake or reboot needs to lean into that 2000s skankcore aesthetic and '90s/2000s bad girl action style. Don't run from it and make Rayne some Le Stronk Womyn, just make her what amounts to a stripper/Suicide Girl fighting I mean it probably won't be good but still, that's its identity.

>>718632183
I guess it's safe to say that whatever is on Steam is what Interplay's corpse still owns, console games aside.

>>718632318
Dude I want to play a Bloodrayne game in 2026 and feel like it was developed in a 2005 Hot Topic. I would be so fucking happy.

>>718630851
We are never getting a proper BR sequel. It's over. Has been for a long time.

>>718632318
No matter how hard I try, I simply can't imagine a game with skank as the main character flying these days.

>>718633115
I really thought we'd get a little something something when the series had it's moment with all those remasters a few years ago. Like why would they hire Laura Bailey to come in and do voice lines for the platformer game if she wasn't also doing some stuff for a potential sequel. But I think she just came in to be nice because Rayne was her first role.

>>718617471
I opened this thread for this post and i wasnt disappointed

>>718633774
What was the last game with that bad girl skank aesthetic? MK9?

>>718632183
Earthworm Jim (as I've said before) and MDK are some series that Interplay owns. Hell Clayfighters is another one

>>718634668
I don't know, this shit maybe?

>>718634891
Darwin gooned.

>>718634668
>>718634891
Thinking about it, BloodRayne might have been the only decent one from a small pile of trash we've got in the 00s.

>>718635406
Games of this era that relied heavily on sex-appeal in their marketing were mostly trash. Now it's the opposite, the worst games are completely anti-sex and downright repulsive on purpose. Good game always had some semblance of balance.

>>718634891
>>718635406
You can hear the shitty 2000s industrial/metal/alt-rock soundtrack as every other sentence in the game is a double entendre about their looks/sexiness.

>>718636220
I really fucking miss the shitty 2000s industrial/metal/alt-rock soundtracks.

>>718630851
Both Bloodraynes were quite fun.

>>718620353
I did naht hit her. I did naaaht. Oh himark!

>>718626153
wtf I didn't know one company made all these.
I played the Earthworm Jims, MDK, R/C Stunt Copter, and Path of Neo.
Holy kino.

>>718627341
>Get told by a tranny that possessing women in this game as a kid made him realize he was trans.
At least no one can say he got groomed into it.
Not sure if that's better or worse.

>>718617471
maximum based

>>718625909
Under rated game. Shiny made a lot of bangers before just dying.

>>718640240
I used to nut only to possession stuff as a kid. I’m not trans but I can understand why that tranny is based on what they nut to

>>718636570
>Both Bloodraynes were quite fun.
Remember how she forgot how to jump in her old age because devs wanted platforming I guess? My teenage self hated that.

>>718641095
It's a shame. I would've preferred they stuck more to evolving the gameplay of the original. Making it a more conventional beat-em-up sucked.

The insane vertical leap actually made for some really fun vertical level design.

>>718617339 (OP)
Black and White
The Lucasarts Armed and Dangerous, keep the plot and voice acting, just bump up the graphics and smooth out the gameplay a bit

>>718617339 (OP)
More open version of it would be great. More freedom to do things with possession and other Bob abilities. And explore more of this setting. Some sanbox maybe (but not ubislop style sanbox)

>>718640240
You need to stop letting culture war shit live in your head rent free.

Urban Assault

farcry 2

>>718617339 (OP)
I once stuck the CD for this game into my brother's DVD player, and could see some MP3 files that I decided to play.
The speakers said something like
>THOU SHALT LOVE JESUS
My mother decided that the game is satanic and forbade me from playing it.

>>718617339 (OP)
I only remember that game for sucking so hard the game magazine I read talked about how you could spend thirty bucks on five games that they rated good, or on that.

>>718625909
It just needed better RTS controls. I really wanted to like the game, but I just couldn't enjoy it because of how awkward and janky the controls were. I wish it just had an RTS mode like Dragon Commander or something.

>>718643271
Armed and Dangerous had that perfect British absurdist humor too. Tossing sheep as insurgent weaponry, the Land Shark Gun-absolute peak nonsense. Genuinely felt like the devs had zero notes from marketing and just ran wild with ideas. A remake that just polishes controls and keeps the irreverence intact would be pure gold. Black & White too, but only if they make the creature AI less of a masochist toddler.

Half the time the "flawed but interesting" games are interesting because of their "flaws". Like it's kind of shit but in an compelling way, which the remake then almost always removes

>>718627159
It boggling why this and the Movies aren't sold anywhere. What kind of rights fuckery hellhole are these games in?

Honestly I really like the comicbook artstyle reminiscing of Hellboy. Shame the game is completely awful.

I wish the combat was less tedious.

>>718617339 (OP)
FNAF Security Breach. Finding out about what was changed and scrapped pissed me off.

>>718625909
they would butcher it.

>>718631283
sacrifice rocks!

>>718649067
There's nothing good about this game. It doesn't even have a good story to save it. It's just a TPS that could've just ripped off Max Payne 1 and 2, but didn't for some reason and gave it an absolutely abysmal control scheme.

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is extremely close to being a 10/10 game.
Just add a couple of instances in non-nightmare sections where you can get attacked/chased so that the player is never completely sure when an area is safe.

>>718648483
The fucking leper village with all the people losing arms and legs in every single cutscene

>>718618387
Maybe

>>718617339 (OP)
Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat.

Add some hotkeys and the left / right click controls and it'd be brilliant. Also make it possible to reinforce units after each mission.

>>718618941
Giants Citizen Kabuto
Armed and Dangerous
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath

>>718620353
>>718620870
??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_(video_game)

>>718617339 (OP)
Clive Barker's Pro Sk...I mean Undying

I might be the only person to ever play this game it seems.

>>718626153
Wait, Double Helix was Shiny? Damn, didn't think the situation could get any sadder
>make nothing but shovelware for years
>get your shit together and start releasing good games like Strider and Killer Instinct
>Cue Amazon buyout, and they are never heard from again

>>718652884
>Add some hotkeys and the left / right click controls and it'd be brilliant. Also make it possible to reinforce units after each mission.
Like the sequel?

>>718655375
>looks like rpg
>everywhere I check this game is called rts
What is this game?

>>718617471
Someone working on Roblox played this game and said "that's it, that's the perfect death sound"

and he was right

>>718617339 (OP)
babyshitter thread died for this

>>718656741
Similar to Sacrifice: it's RPG in the sense that you control a wizard and you win experience and level up his stats then gather reagents to turn spells, and a third of all spells are summoning and you control the creatures you summon, however unlike Sacrifice the gameplay is top-down perspective so more pure RTS.

It also has a cool system in which to learn new spells you mix reagents with "slots" on your grimoire, each reagent can have a different spell depending on whether you insert into a Chaos, Neutral or Law slow, so that means a lot of decisions that'll make your wizard play completely different.

Plot is also cool, you travel across magical realms that are first not-druidic England, not-Ancient Greece and not-Arcturian England.

Sequel was terrible. IP is dead.

>>718626068
Yeah, PC mags in the 90s were hailing Messiah as the next big game and we're all going to love it, then talk about it died down immediately on release.

>>718656942
Sounds cool. Shame about the sequel.

>>718630851
>Modern Bloodrayne
The whole appeal of the game is controlling a sexy redhead vampire in WW2 fighting cartoonish wacky Nazis who are using occult stuff and their own BDSM psycho chicks against you.
Modern Bloodrayne would have her being ugly, having no tits, no sexually suggestive feeding moves, no blonde Nazi dominatrix villains with massive tits, and no fun allowed.

>>718617339 (OP)
For me, its Primitive wars. Sure it plays like bootleg Broodwar RTS, but the demons vs primitive humans vs angel elves vs sentient dinos, is so cool that it justifies an actual reboot. As other anons mentioned, Sacrifice is a good candidate for a remaster/reboot but they need to expand with the strategies as well, because it devolves into a deathball showdown

>>718645815
>Game tells you to love Jesus
>Retard parents think this is the work of Satan
This is just as dumb as the retards in the 90s thinking Doom is a devil worshipper game.
Because sure, killing demons and fucking up hells shit is absolutely what a satanist would want.

>>718657262
Isn't Messiah's final boss God, which is kind of a cunt?

>>718657140
I've heard the game is a bitch to run on modern system.

>>718657326
No, the final boss is Satan, and God abandons the world for being too sinful. Which is completely against Christianity's message, sure, but it's not you fighting him.

>>718657350
Yeah, it kinda is. I think you have a better chance of running it on linux via proton, than on actual modern windows

>>718617339 (OP)
Literally Spore: the thread.

>>718620215
Fucking love this one. As a dumb kid I used cheats and only played one vehicle myself, years later when I replayed it I played it more like RTS mostly commanding several vehicles and it felt like a different game.
Too bad Carrier Comand: Gaea mission turned out to be a dud, felt like it was going to be similar.

>>718627056
>>718631283
Absolute legendary game. I remember there was a guy remaking this game from the ground up in Unity. Does anyone know if it's still active?

>>718648818
I'd love a new The Movies like game, one where the scenes, actors and actions actually matter.
It wouldn't be *that* hard to do. Give actions and scenes some tags, like "protagonist kisses girl", "villain dies", "calm scene", "antagonist is robot", etc. Props, backgrounds, etc. also have tags. Then have those tags decide how the film is received by audience and the press.
If it's a 1950s comedy and it has the tag "violent death" or "big dramatic argument", then it might not score that well. A horror film needs something spooky to happen, a wild west needs something thematic, etc.
Actors could gain tags based on their personal lives. If an actress is seen as a sex-symbol you might want her posing in risque clothes. If an actor is unpopular you might not want to put him in the heroic lead - but a villain role, where he loses, could be good.
And you could always try to break the trend. Make a comedy with a sad ending, make a wild west with monsters, etc.
Script writers could enhance certain tags based on their skills or add new ones to a scene, so the argument scene could be played as something funny, sad, violent, etc. New tech creates new tags. The popularity of tags change over time or suddenly because of real life events.
This would make the player actually think about the scenes they create and there would need to be some reason behind it. I liked The Movies, but after a while I just didn't care about the scenes I set up. It didn't matter, the success of the film was calculated elsewhere. It was a fun toy for many people but didn't have much to do with actual gameplay.

>>718657350
>>718657719
You can try using DXKV. Download from hit and drop the .dll where the game's .exe is.

>>718658670
>from hit
*from github

>>718658670
>>718657350
>>718657719
https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper

Or try this.

>>718658615
Mmm, anon, they already done it. It's called "Hollywood beasts" or something. It's on steam. But it's more like "this is police" but about Hollywood.

>>718658950
Hollywood Animal.
Yes, I'm aware of that game, have had it in my wishlist for ages. I kinda liked This is the Police, so I was interested in this one too.
But based on the reviews it sounds a bit limited, not really about doing what you want, more about navigating the dirtier parts of Hollywood. Which could be fun, but it isn't what I was after.
I'll wait until it's out of EA and then see what the reviews say.

>>718634891
>>718635406
>You can hear the shitty 2000s industrial/metal/alt-rock soundtrack as every other sentence in the game is a double entendre about their looks/sexiness.

>>718659238
>I really fucking miss the shitty 2000s industrial/metal/alt-rock soundtracks.

>>718617471
kek

>>718650410
I think the embarrassing thing about it is that they planned for it to be a huge multimedia franchise before the first game was even released. When has that EVER worked?

>>718618387
If it wasn't for the time limit, it would be a 10/10 for me.

you will never play a more frustrating and more difficult stealth game
it deserves to be remade as a proving ground for stealth fans

>>718659238
>>718659358
kek. gottem

>>718625107
That final boss was impossible.

Still think this is infinitely more interesting and enjoyable than the cinematic slop Rockstar has been putting out since.

An actual sandbox world with cool shit to find, constant upgrades and new mechanics being unlocked, tons of minigames, varied missions...

Still pisses me off we'll never get a remake or sequel because oh no, not the virtual children, not the virtual bullying!!

>>718617339 (OP)
Iirc they advertised with some procedural tech that would adapt to new and better cards with the idea that the game would adjust its settings and look better with future cards.

>>718649067
Damn, I just spent a while yesterday trying to ask ChatGPT what the name of this game was, because I remember the demo on Xbox. Couldn't get an answer and then based anon randomly drops it here.

>>718655375
>>718656942
I still have my old disk in my room, wish there was a way to play on modern systems but you get soft locked because of the scrolls giving information hard crash the game.
The claymation art style was great.
Never knew it had a sequel, but hearing that it was shit makes the fact no one remembers it make a little more sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f1Dqzc5o9A

>>718617339 (OP)
Weird esoteric story about war with China, artificial demons, fighting the US president and his robots and the EU turning into the Fourth Reich.

>>718659863
If you did get a sequel, it would be about a tranny fighting heckin transphobes with his diverse squad or some other modern day bullshit. A real monkey's paw deal.

>>718659813
From the thumbnail I thought it's some star wars game.

>>718617339 (OP)
Short MP deathmatch rounds. It's the kind of game you boot up when you want something to fill in the time.

>>718660575
>you get soft locked because of the scrolls giving information hard crash the game.
I remember that from the last time I played it 5 or 6 years ago.
If I remember correctly that didn't really soft lock as you could move around every scroll and not pick it up. The only important thing you'd miss was a reagent that required you to read scrolls with no other way to go through but the game was completable.

>>718648385
>but I just couldn't enjoy it because of how awkward and janky the controls were.
Same, I was looking into modding in some sort of control scheme for a while but it doesn't seem to be possible without the source code. It's such a shame since the game just drips sovl narratively and aesthetically.

>>718617339 (OP)
Really weird one but I kinda like the idea

It's a good game but the animal mixing could be a little more in-depth, and the actual RTS elements generally stuck to the basic early 2000s style without standing out too much. My go-to Crocolobs kicked ass nonetheless.

>>718630851
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2osPzmSV1s&t=2718s

>>718656514
Yes, except updating SOTHR with DO interface.

>>718631294
Yes, I remember my Nintendo mag mentioning her bouncing tits for nearly half the review.

>>718633774
>flying
What are they gonna do? Tweet about it? Just do it.

>>718617471
>It's a based Joey Kuras sound effect

>>718636220
>Her BARK is worse than her BITE
*Mudvayne playing at a shrill volume*

The concept was solid, the technology just wasn't there yet.

You could do a lot more with this concept than was possible on 2001 hardware in 2005

>>718617339 (OP)
Project Nortubel

>>718643271
>Black & White 3 never because Lionhead is fucking dead
>The Movies 2 never because Lionhead is fucking dead

>>718653663
Great game.

>>718655375
For me, Blood & Magic.
Needs a modern release if not remaster, it was very unstable on DOSbox when I last replayed it, and the gameplay moves VERY slowly. Even a 50% increase in speed of animations would make it a less sluggish without throwing out the balance.

>>718631283
>game that supposedly has been around forever just phased in from an alternate timeline

>>718617339 (OP)
You know, I've never played it. But its poster always reminded me about pirate versions of some playstation games, where cartoon devil fucked cartoon angel in intro.

>>718658615
I think I was the only person who played the simulation parts more than just making movie clips. I did do the latter but far less than running my movie studio, I enjoyed the changing times and evolving sets/tech.

>>718663193
That portrait.

>>718663374
Kek, what game is this?

>>718658454
Not sure about unity remake but there is a playable recreation called SacEngine. It doesn't have all spells yet, you have to change 90% of the controls, framerate is dogshit and it will earrape you everytime you cast anything. But it has playable multiplayer with more players than original. You need to join some gay discord to find players.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdsOvzwY5WM

>>718663562
That's not a game, that's crack logo. I've seen it in multiple games, one of them was Hogs of War.

>>718662589
Jesus Christ

Never watched the series but I remember enjoying this game

I'm NOT talking about the soulless "sequel" that we got, I want more of THIS game. It's charming as fuck, had great world-building and characters, and the gameplay was actually fun

>>718617339 (OP)
Midwinter.
It was constrained by the technology of the time.

Toobin'
A remake could turn this unusual game into something truly amazing.

>>718663193
Your BASAL GOLEM....has been killed
Your WRAITH....is ready
Enemy WYRM...has been killed
SNAPPING TURTLE...has been killed
Your GRYPHON...is ready

>>718663665
Hogs of War, I remember that one. Had Rik Mayall as the narrator.

>>718660625
it will never get a remake, too controversial for modern cucked Fatlus
and i think this is the only game where you can fight a street shitting poo (that pajeet at the TV station)

I think racing tanks is a pretty fun prospect. This one only had basic model deformation for the "running over/through" aspect, imagining it with full physics sounds like a laugh.

I was going to post this, not because I think it's flawed but because I want a remake.
Then as I'm googling images, it turns out a remaster was released this year.
I wonder if anybody else played this even.

>>718664480
holy sameface, that has to be AI

>>718664607
kill yourself

Used to love this as a kid, never found any similar game.
Open world game where you'd recruit people with different skills, buy tools, case places and then plan robberies, then use the profits to get better people, better tools and heist bigger places.

>>718664480
Used to play this with my brother. Fun time.

>>718664607
Early 2000s anime art was all like that.

Lode Runner must return.

>>718643710
One of my all time favorite games. The hybrid shooter/RTS model where you can jump into any unit at any time was mindblowing as kid.

>>718664710
I played it with a friend on the same keyboard, he was always better because I only got to play at his house and we didn't have a PC at home.
Things will never be as good as then.

I've never played the game but always loved he idea. You play as Stuntman and have to recreate stunts for movies.

only real ones know

>>718665312
Best game.

>>718665110
>I've never played the game
You should. It's a great game.

>>718662131
>>718625909
Did anyone ever tried to do a game like this ever again? Or a game like Giant:citizen laburo?

>>718665450
Never got the occasion but I guess it's finally time to boot up some ps2 emulator.

>>718665110
>>718665450
It also had one sequel, and both were spun off from the Driver games.

>>718665110
One of the most overlooked games ever made. Probably took me over an hour just to beat the first stunt as a kid but the concept was cool enough to keep my ADD ass invested.

>>718650536
My nigga. I still play some missions in SP once in a while. I don't even know if I wanted anything to be improved, just revive multiplayer

>>718620215
Kino af
>>718621356
>Command & Conquer: Renegade

>>718665592
I am working on a mix between Sacrifice and Populous at the moment. It's going to be a hybrid rts/tps, with the destruction and deformation from populous, and the necromancy and aesthetics from sacrifice (low poly, warm colors).

Currently got the terrain deformation and single unit selection done, and about to have multi unit selection done. It's a slow process because I'm wage slaving on the side, but expect a demo to be out around Q1 2026. (I also post minor updates on /vg/ from time to time).

>>718665592
Brutal Legend from what I've heard. Also kinda Overlord series.

Speaking of rts games with tps elements. Anyone remember Rise & Fall Civilizations At War? It's a game from Empire Earth devs. The publisher fuck them over with this game.

>>718667198
Sorry, wrong screenshot.

>>718665110
There was a DOS game with a similar idea called Stunt Island, but it was planes instead of cars. Probably too janky and ugly for most people to even consider trying nowaday, so it could actually use a remake.

>>718666090
I'd love another RTS where you're a unit on the battlefield.

>>718667198
>>718667291
But this also pretty cool although somewhat generic rts. It's called Rising Kingdoms.

>>718662589
hot

>>718626153
Path of Neo was fun, I liked how at the end the Wachowskis came on screen to go 'our movie ending sucks for a game, so here you go' and you fight Mega-Smith. It's ridiculous but fun.

>>718667516
It was basically scifi Battlefield before there was a Battlefield.

>>718618703
Styx.

>>718659238
>>718659358
stop making fun of snarky internet clowns with shitty opinions. it's not cool

you fell for it
i'm gonna rip off these games and just slap a big titty anime girl on it and cash out

>>718670615
I still don't get how we haven't gotten a half-decent tps/cover shooter with animu tiddies. Just take GFL and slap some actual gameplay on it, Goddammit.

Playing through it I felt they could've done a lot more with it, especially the day/night stuff, I was expecting that I'd have to get clever about windows I broke because daylight helped clear rooms but broken windows (I thought would) mean easier access for monsters
Also not a remake since I'm not sure it's remotely possible to get right but I want a new Forbidden Siren game

>>718670615
You fell for it, that's exactly what I wanted you to do all along.

>>718621356
Some of those hybrids totally worked and deserved further iteration. Dungeon Siege 2 was a great arpg with some rts elements as you control a party of five. Would love to see an arpg dev revisit this idea instead of cloning diablo again

>>718617339 (OP)
I wouldn't wish a remake upon any game

>>718670797
>Just take GFL and slap some actual gameplay on it
Isn't that already a thing?

>>718617339 (OP)
Coropata

>>718670615
Except you're too lazy and incompetent to do that even in the age of AI slop.

i could never get messiah running. gog version, an iso rip, portable thinstallation version, none of it worked. it would crash in the first room, when i possessed the first guy, every time. tried it only several computers, over several years before giving up.

same shit happens to my phone. every phone i own, over time, the gps/map feature slowly starts to think im facing 90 degrees to the left. no fucking clue. am i literally magnetic or something

>>718673929
>gps/map feature slowly starts to think im facing 90 degrees to the left
Maybe your phones work like Jack Sparrow's compass and point you to the thing you actually want.

>>718643347
Sorry that that's literally my only memory relevant to the game since I never played it.

>>718653610
lol you fucking retard

>>718659920
Kind of funny because it was notoriously unstable even on XP.

>>718660625
I like this (well, Maken X, I never played Shao) because of the absolutely grim atmosphere. Like someone really liked the first half of SMT1 and decided to make an entire game with that same vibe of everything going to shit.

always wanted to see another instalment or remake of this. remember loving this as a kid but the controls were kinda jank and the collectathon bullshit was fucking gay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVMfOVsxMgk

i have always firmly believed that a sequel or remake of this would be the best fucking shit ever made.

>>718676472
I will never not seethe that nobody tried to copy the magic system of this game.
Legitimately the coolest system I've ever seen in any game.

Not even just the drawing runes in real-time/order to cast spells, which feels WIZARD as fuck, but also the way spells are constructed. Like to make a fireball, you'd need three runes, 'Create' 'Fire' 'Projectile', whilst drawing 'Create' 'Fire' 'Area' conjures a fire wall.

It's so fucking cool and magical. Imagine what a modern developer could do with that system.

>>718617339 (OP)
>Flawed but interesting games.
This is the great irony of remakes and remasters. Games that had potential to be incredible but were fucked up due to bad interference, lack of time and budget, or from a few unwise design decisions, or were simply overshadowed by gigantic franchises that released around the same time, are THE games that should be the prime candidates for being remade for a second chance. But because of how the markets work, 'flawed gems' are the last games to ever be chosen for this.

>>718617471
>literally the only thing the game is known for because it's so shit otherwise
>it's only known for the sound because roblox used it until they were sued by the irrelevant and pathetic old man who made it

>>718677202
>playing arx fatalis
>learn that effects stack
>learn haste spell
>precast three haste spells
>cast one haste spell in real time and then release the precasted ones
>4x haste
>walk across the entire city of Arx in less than a second

Only game that makes you feel like an actual mage

>>718617471
Based and, dare I say? Redpilled!

>>718677202
i know it pisses me off greatly and its definitely not ever happening now that arkane turned to shit complete shit after prey. a new attempt at the system without the jank would be absolutely peak. i would even, if there was no other choice, to accept a half life alyx style VR experience with the magic system in this. could be insanely cool. still would want a regular pc game though.

Less puzzles and refine the gunplay a bit more.

>>718658615
Fuck that. Give me 3D Movie Maker 2. Being able to actually make movies and transcend limitations of the medium was nothing short of amazing.

a man can only dream...

>>718630851
Your wish is granted, but it's a Monkey's Paw. They go harder into the slop diet Arkham combat from 2 and not the fast hack and slash of the first.

>>718664273
It was a great game.

>>718667516
Good news anon: there was a game built on that same premise, free to play and free to own, and could run on any computer because it was a multiplayer doom mod: All Out War 2.
Bad news: it's been dead for a decade

Cool FPS with vehicular combat.The MP was fire.

>>718677540
Last time I was at round 1 I watched a guy tard rage at DDR while his titcow asian gf tried and failed to console him. What an interesting world we live in.

Magic Carpet. Preferably without the framerate-dependent game speed, less crashes, less memory corruption, and less fucking wyverns.

>>718677943
This game did it better.

>>718617471
BRING HIM BACK
BRING HIM BACK
BRING HIM BACK

>>718617339 (OP)
Dark Messiah

>>718679829
Dishonored was basically just a modern Dark Messiah, just slightly more stealth focused, but nothing's stopping you from playing it as a pure action game.

>>718635406
Psychotoxic is one weird game. Not worth playing either.

>>718664273
It also had actual ching chong chinaman voices which was hilarious. Plus the russian pigs all sound drunk.

>>718679281
Try this: https://github.com/thobbsinteractive/magic-carpet-2-hd

>>718635406
>that brief period in the 2000s where every character had a visible thong on

we MUST go back

>>718635406
There was Heavy Metal FAKK 2. Which was pretty coomer-pilled, but sucked ass as a game.

>want to discuss old vidya
>go to /vr/
>every thread is about shitty emulator tech, filters, or hardware
>the few threads that aren't are always about the same old fucking games like duke nukem, doom, zelda, etc
>come to /v/
>people actually discussing old games, and niche ones at that

I fucking hate /vr/ so much. Nobody gives a shit about your CRT filters or your PS2 modding holy shit. I just wanna talk about games.

>>718679446
DINOSAUR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZnKmqs7qL8

>>718617339 (OP)
Anachronox and Alpha Protocol.
Both needs remastering/remakes and sequels.
Not sure if there's any developer I'd trust to do it though.

>>718680961
An anachronox remake would be sick.
Tbh the game just needs the combat to not be a huge slog/clunk.

And maybe slightly less walking from npc to npc.

>>718681064
I think it still plays perfectly fine, but I'm a fat old man in my 40s so for the sake of the younger generation, yes. It's such a cool game, with a really cool world and great characters and story. It deserved better.

>>718680490
Huh, good to know someone's working on fixing it but apparently it doesn't support MC1 yet. MC2 might've been prettier but it was also short and piss easy in comparison and I liked the huge battles between wizards in 1 more than the objective-based design of 2.
But I'll keep an eye on it, thanks.

>>718662721
>>718663883
Man. This and Giants along with anything made by Shiny is one hell of a thing that just waits to have all the gameplay taken and polished further with the addition of using new tech.

All I want is a spiritual successor to Evolva with even more mutation shenanigans and DNA assimilation, but with the tech that would make you feel like evolution and mutation are your bitches while having a much longer single-player and a genuine story (because lets face it, the story in Evolva was barebones though they could've expanded on that).

>>718666325
That sounds pretty cool, what type of setting are you creating for the game and story?

>>718663642
> last video 1 year ago
Is the project alive?

>>718685221
Yeah. You need to join their discord tho. Their main guy keeps forgeting to update their github page so it's outdated. https://github.com/tg-2/sacengine

>>718662721
Came here to post this

>>718679281
There is a game heavily inspired by Magic Carpet called The I of the Dragon. It's slavjank however, just so you know.

>>718685619
>join their discord
No thanks

>>718679651
Uncle Phil, it was just a

>>718686710
Shut up, Will.

Anyone here remember Dominant Species

>>718680961
>Former team members often mention that if I ever got the intellectual property back and was going to make Anachronox 2, just tell them when and where. We have, as we say, 'The Love.'" Hall remarked in 2010, "If I don't do the game in the next 10 years, I'll just write up the rest of the story and put it on my website for closure, how about that?".
Tom Hall is a bald lying faggot.

>>718686613
Understandable. Also, it does not support campaign/skirmish.

speaking of hybrid games, here's an RTS with puzzle solving. you can equip gruntz with many different tools that let you fight others or traverse levels.

>>718678560
They did make a sequel to this, and it was utter shit.

>>718680872
Fucking tell me about it. /vr/ had incredible potential when it started, but it's been one of the worst hobby boards on this site for the past decade.

>>718686247
I think I got that for free on GOG but haven't played it. Maybe I should.

Trap Gunner is a fantastic mix of MGS1 and Bomberman with a really cool story, gritty atmosphere, and extremely deep tactical mechanics. Unfortunately, it's also a game that's built around 1-on-1 local multiplayer duels with probably the single most complex gameplay on the PS1. Good luck getting your dumbass friend to sit through the 40 minutes of non-interactive video tutorials before he can understand how triggering remote-controlled landmines works.

A modern remake with full multiplayer online where autists can battle other autists would be magnificent.

>>718683652
To be honest lore has been on the back burner for a bit, I was so focused on getting the main systems going. I know I want to have each faction be represented by a deity, and the spells and buildings should reflect that deity's realm and alignment. I'm currently looking at the Sumerians and their pantheon; some of the carvings depicts some pretty cool lore that could be adapted.

>>718648385
Was good enough for the time it was built in. A toggle strategic mode would just turn your sorcerer into the ACU from SupComm; I like that your primary means of interacting with the game and giving orders was via direct control of the sorcerer. There is room for improvement though, but I don't know what it would look like

>>718688847
ackshually
Specforce was a prequel, and was a lower budget expansion pack. There were plans for an actual sequel with a budget, and you can see posters for it in Dead Island. It's just perpetually "on hold" like Hellraid and whatever the fuck Warhound is. In reality, they're all dead just like all the racing games they used to make. Shame. It had potential with more polish.
Supposedly they're reviving Call of Juarez after completing the Beast, but it'll probably be just as unrelated to Call of Juarez as Gunslinger was, and the rumor I got this bit from also claimed they were dropping their in-house engine for UE5 for it.

>>718620215
I dunno about meat buildings but Warzone 2100 has been free on Steam for years now
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1241950/Warzone_2100/

A remaster with smoother controls and performance would be great

>>718691054
you can achieve most of that with a basic remap, goes for Goldeneye and PD as well

>>718680872
You simply were lucky enough to catch a thread that managed to attract enough old farts to gain traction. It's not common and happens only once in a blue moon, /v/ is still 99% ragebait and twitter screenshots at any given time (well, okay, probably less during the EU hours).

>>718617339 (OP)
FH was a cool turn based strategy, just gimme one with modern graphics, new units, buildings and maps.

Let's try it again.

>>718617339 (OP)
The Void. Eurojanky as hell, but so, so pretty.

>>718693398
Team17 tried 4 (four) times and it sucked every single time. Get over it already, third dimension has no place in Worms.

>>718679651
They literally just did.

>>718690678
Can you take control of specific units in this one? Looks like it's more of a real RTS like Earth 2150 with custom units

>>718694360
RTS controls but you do have commander units that can control their own squads, instead of an entire group you can just control that one guy and it'll direct them instead

>>718655816
>Wait, Double Helix was Shiny?
They all were Foundation 9.

Just started playing this earlier and the UI/presentation in this game is pure, undistilled sovl.

Hard as balls, though.
No tutorial, no nothing. Third mission already took me like an hour to complete.

>>718693861
I thought Worms 4 was a very fun game.

>>718696485
Have you played Aquanox 1? It's great, a lot better than the second game in my opinion. There's also Schleichfahrt/Archimedean Dynasty, but it's kinda hard to play nowadays.
Great story too, but the author died.

>>718617339 (OP)
The flawed but interesting games are the ones that deserve remakes more than any other titles, to take another crack at its gameplay mechanics.

>>718696673
Nope, I jumped straight into 2 on a random whim. Good to know though, I'll have more to play when I finish this one.

Great game with a fun unique story but flawed combat.

>>718697031
Nice, have fun. The two games' stories aren't connected, so you don't miss out on anything.

God, I wish we had more underwater dogfight games like this, and the sound design is just perfect.

>>718617471
What a nice post anon, I bet your mom is really proud

>>718648818
split between Microsoft and EA and nobody gives enough of a shit to sort them out to sell the old games, let alone make new ones

Impossible Creatures
Ace of Spades
Original War
Puzzle Pirates
Majesty

>>718698419
Oh yeah Pirates of the Caribbean aka Sea Dogs 2

Surprised no one's posting about Deception.
I remember an ex of mine getting really autistic about making a "spiritual sucessor" to this game.

>Come up with a fun scoring system
>Have some real good N64 soundfont songs (especially Joker's)
>Chunky single-player content

>Proceed to come up with the worst roster conceived
This and its spiritual sucessor Toy Fighter are wasted potential incarnate.

>>718663193
Literally first time ive ever seen anyone else post this game here.
Excellent taste.

Also it took me many different versions of the game to find one that work perfectly.
Audio issues, stutter etc
Just keep trying.

>>718688541
I loved the demo as a kid. Never got to play the full game tho.

>>718698640
I'd just want another game like it. I don't think there's something special about the games to want a remaster.

>>718698640
what was wrong with deception iv?

>>718617339 (OP)
>PC Gay award
you know this is gonna be SHIT

>>718650536
Games like this, black and white, messiah, sacrifice, the sims, came from an era where devs shaped the games after the weirdest ideas they can think about in the dev room.
I also want to contribute with this one.

RTS where you design your faction has potential

>>718671091
i loved the warrior ability to instagib an enemy

>>718696485
>and the UI/presentation in this game is pure, undistilled sovl.
Do yourself a favor and never look up the new game, Aquanox: Deep Descent.
Words cannot express how soulless it is, they threw out 3 games worth of worldbuilding and lore just to appease the "wider audience" and looks like an amateur's first unreal engine game when it comes to UI.

>>718691887
Good game.
Peak comfy.
Shame that the second one both good ideas with the new units, and horrible ideas with the lack of basebuilding.

>>718697071
You are now aware this is also a movie, where much of the footage is directly from the prerendered cutscenes. Or vice-versa.
It's not very good.

>play the game
>eventually reach the outside
>hookers everywhere
This game doesnt mix well with hormonal teenagers

>>718703556
Sadly the TPS genre was completely taken over by 'cuhrayzee' combo simulators like Bayonetta and DMC, or more recently by soulslike slop.

>>718625909
>>718617339 (OP)
>>718631283
>>718627056
>>718628086
>Eceleb faggots pretending to be diehard fans of a literally who game no one cared about thread #295295

>>718665312
>>718665421
This game had some weird audio problem that would appear that sounded like high pitched ringing, like the ones they would supposedly play to run off teens from shopping malls. It would always go away when closing the game

>>718705192
>I only play whatever current slop marketers and e-celebs tell me to to, and anyone who doesn't must be a poser!
don't you have a gacha thread you should be posting in, something about horses this month, I think.

>>718704469
There's always an odd one out like Sifu

>>718617339 (OP)
i've been so jaded by modernity that i genuinely dont remember almost old games i genuinely enjoyed back in the day
I remember that there were many, i remember that i fucking loved them, but i dont remember what they were.

I have been absolutely slopbroken...

>>718705684
>almost
*almost all old games

>>718705367
Says the one trapped in Trandalore gaym dungeon

>>718706012
>tranny headcannon projection
go back to /pol/

>>718705304
I played this game all the way from 2005 to now and never experienced the issue you are describing. Did it happen in singleplayer?

>>718701239
>>718698419
>>718662568
Much love for the Creatures they call Impossible

>>718707128
It happened in both modes, but it'd happen most often in multiplayer. Made it really irritating to play, but I wouldn't discount it was my speakers back then doing something funky

>>718700951
holy fuck Shogo was good. god i miss that era.

>>718662782
A wise choice

>>718709305
I wish it could have all planned missions

>>718617339 (OP)
ZombiU

If they remade this, 99% of Illbleed fans would be able to play the game for the first time.

>>718709903
but... they did

>>718617339 (OP)
Basically Deadspace, expect on Commodore 64 and in real time. I think the Mooncrash expansion of nuPrey might be the closest modern comparison.

>>718710404
Yeah but where's Zombi 2?

>>718709903
>>718710404
Fun fact: this is actually the longest running game series Ubisoft has

>>718710404
>there's still a very easy to accidentally do bug that completely softlocks your game and forces you to make a new save
do it again

>>718649864
playing it right now. god the combat is so slow

>Played this game on a demo disk in 1995
>Really enjoyed it
>It was one of those "buy low, sell high" trading type games with a lot of extra mechanics
>Randomly found it on Steam a few months ago
My favorite part about the demo was that it would gradually introduce new mechanics and you could stop adding new mechanics whenever you wanted to. You could stop right after you got something profitable like taking passengers and you wouldn't have to deal with something that ate into your profits like taxes or paying the crew.

>>718617339 (OP)
among the things I liked, the laser pizza cutters, that fighting takes place on 3 layers, I wish it came back

flying dragon for n64. good ost and rpg mechanics in a fighter was neat. the lag and feedback on the n64 made it difficult to play. the controls werent great. reminded me a lot of jet force gemini to where I really tried to like it but the artificial difficulty of a button not responding in time killed it for me. made certain bosses like metal shoyru unbeatable for me.

>>718710404
a downgrade on all fronts

>>718705684
So play new ones.
The great thing about a lot of these older games is even the ones who kinda suck have something going for them.
It's insanely easy to find some amazing older games nowadays.

I never played God Hand as a kid, tried it randomly as an adult and it's legitimately one of the most fun games I've ever played.

>>718706012
you're speaking in too many buzzwords and memes, sorry i don't understand you
if anything, reinforces my point, go back to whatever containment thread you came from

>>718617471
gg, everybody go home

>>718710404
That's a port.

>>718710636
Holy fuck.

>>718704469
That's because character action games have game design that has conducive depth for the players to manage.
Third Person Shooters have tried creating intricate systems, and those that have complex mechanics with a variety of sub systems like Bulletstorm or RE6, failed in the market.

Shooters are forever doomed to be simplistic point and click sims because that's what the lowest common denominator wants.

>>718617339 (OP)
Startopia

There's a ton to like about this game, except actually playing it.

I remember hunting games were pretty popular growing up (might just be because I grew up in the south and everyone had hunting games) but I remember this being really cool. Hunting game all about Dinosaurs.

>>718710447
Old hand drawn cover art is so much better than what we have now.

>>718717321
>hunting games were pretty popular
They never were, they simply had its audience. That being said, this game was already remade.

>>718617339 (OP)
hexen

>>718717184
hell even a finished version might have been worth playing, it was at least a year away from being finished when it was released

>>718686785
Uncle Phil…

>>718716384
Just saw someone on youtubes do a full playthrough of the main quest I fear for his well being D:

I'm interested in seeing what the lead dev would have added instead of the stamine bar. And having a more varied combat system would be nice as well.

>>718720906
>timed levels
Wtf were they thinking

>>718723909
>oh god oh fuck the game is 20 minutes long and we are releasing next week oh god oh fuck

>>718617339 (OP)
Would be cool

>Publications at the time (especially PC Gamer) acted like this was one of the best games ever
>Never played it
>Don't even know what the gameplay looks like
>Haven't heard of it since the 90s

>>718677540
ITGMania is what you're looking for, Have fun!
https://www.itgmania.com/

Ahead of its time. I even got the soundtrack from the composer via email.

>>718700951
SHOGO was so fucking cool
RIP lith studios :(

With the popularity of job simulators I think it's a good time to bring this game back. The concept of being a trucker in a wacky world with crazy shit happening all around for some reason hasn't been done since.

>>718665960
first game I played with visible booba

Such a great concept for a game.

Playing this now would take years to complete.

>>718621745
I feel like Omikron really loses a lot of the intriguing shit as soon as you lose Kale because you're no longer stuck in someone else's body trying to keep your cover and not fuck up their life, you're kind of just bouncing wherever the game tells you instead of actually investigating stuff.

Fighters Destiny

This game's system mechanics are kind of genius, but the presentation is THE most generic a post-SF2 fighting game ever was, the sequel isn't very good, and nothing has ever truly copied it. Dojo Masters came out last year and is the closest but it's only conceptually similar. Somebody PLEASE steal this game's point system and put it in a better game.

>>718620215
>>718621356
>>718666090
>>718667516
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1494420/Silica/

>>718690057
>UE5
Genuinely day ruining news, what the fuck, I hope this industry dies and myabandonware and internet archive is the only way we can get games moving forward

>>718705684
I went through the archived theisozone sometime last year and I honestly went had a ratatouille critic moment while perusing through the site, I then made a shortlist of what I wanted and just started there. I'm playing Outlaws rn with Dead Man's Hand next, I specifically remember these games cuz I wanted to play RDR in 2011 but my mom's netbook was all I got and these games ran on it perfectly, honestly once I got better PCs and the novelty of modern graphics wore off I haven't really been enjoying games as much as I did back then, I might honestly just make a smaller, portable PC with windows 7 and just make it completely offline and play whatever else I can grab from that era

>>718724494
i actually played it
>imagine me
>entering an electronic store with my father at age ~8
>telling him i want NFS with guns
>start looking
>end up buying it
>delivered what I wanted
>should've become a gamer reviewer cause i can smell good games

>>718726637
Micosoft just kinda sits and shits on all the FASA stuff they got dirt cheap. I dont know who even has the table top rights for this, maybe Topps? but they license a lot of that out.

>>718699987
>what was wrong with deception iv?
Just the fact I didn't know Deception IV was a thing before I googled for a rom of III online last week. Who the hell thought the PSVita was a good idea for it?

>>718726882
My nigga.
Also, a different game that I think has a genius fighting game system is Garouden: Fist or Twist. There's something very engaging about both players having to "share" the same health bar like a tug-of-war and your supers changing depending on how much your opponent beat your ass

>>718617471
I only came to the thread to see this post.

>>718630851
it mainly just needed better environments

>>718726882
You played Toy Fighter anon?
That's where the team went after FD.

Bullet Witch please

>>718706012
>I didn't play a game so that means no one did >:)
grow as a person.

>>718624778
they were playing this in some mystery game tournament
looked cool but too bad i'll never be able to play it against someone

>>718676360
>first person hack n slash
Huh? That sounds awesome why haven't I ever heard of it? Is it that bad?
If it's not how do I emulate it?

>>718667516
Play 突撃!!ファミコンウォーズ

>>718617339 (OP)
the last of us

>>718726882
>point system
I don't know anything about your game but you should play Toy Fighter because that immediately comes to mind and Toy Fighter is fucking awesome.

>>718701239
if it was actually design your own everyone would just find the broken meta shit and abuse it. otherwise the design part has limited variables that are easy to minmax so the dev hard balances around that. the concept is a dead end.

>>718617339 (OP)

Alpha Centauri

>>718617339 (OP)
unironically fighting demons in the dark using nothing but your muzzle flash as light is heart pounding shit. Just needs a visual update and some varied enemies instead of 30000 imps shotgun spread should be tightened but only by a bit to make 1 hit shots land more frequenetly but still require super close range. Yes i defend the shotgun not being able to hit from 5 feet away get close if you want all that damage pussy youre doomguy youre not suppose to be scared of demons

>>718720414
SILENCE

>>718726637
>>718729029
It's crazy how Microsoft has so many game IPs witht he potential to do something experimental and great yet they only manage to crank out the most trite and shitty gamesd on a yearly basis. No wonmder the Xbox brand is crashing and burning.

>>718697550
>nobody got the Tommy Tallarico reference
Based post anyway anon

>>718736962
I don't think it's bad but it's a little awkward. I wouldn't say it's really a hack and slash either, it's more an FPS but with melee. You lock onto enemies and can strafe around them, there's a leap over them you can do to come down with another attack, certain projectiles like rockets you can smack back at enemies. Also each character you can use has different skills that I think got rebalanced a bit in Shao (which is a third person remake). Like there's one character who's a young girl so she's slow and weak but she's afflicted with a virus that turns her skin to stone so she's a tank and invincible to projectiles. Stuff like that. It's kind of middling but I think it's worth playing.

Like I said, if you've played SMT1 and like that first half of the game just before the nukes fly where the whole world is a giant shitpile about to be pushed over a cliff, you'll like the atmosphere of Maken. It's the same sort of thing where the villain organization is basically pushing the the US and China into nuclear war by cotrolling both countries, there's a plague ravaging Europe, the EU have become Nazis, the big religious figure is a leading people in a suicide cult, etc. I like the game a lot if only for that. Also Meguro's music is really good and fits it, it's way different than his Persona stuff; much gloomier. He redid/remixed the music for Maken Shao and it's way inferior to the original X versions. Too poppy and closer to what he'd be doing once he took over the Persona series with P3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVXFCtzqFrM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu49EsYC9EM

>>718737965
It would probably have been better received as its own game and not Doom 3.

>>718740084
>redid/remixed the music for Maken Shao and it's way inferior to the original X versions
This is the deciding factor for me. X it is.
How do I emulate Dreamcast? It's the only console I never emulated before.

>>718740232
Never mind.
This shit just works. I'm insanely impressed. No obnoxious setup whatsoever.
God damn.

neat games in this thread

Metal Fatigue

>>718724736
Fuck, I remember playing that as a small child. For the longest time I didn't know if it was a game that actually existed or a weird dream my 5 yo brain made up.

>>718705192
>Shiny is now an eceleb dev
oh my fuck indeed, zoomerino

>>718726637
I'm sure some indie developer Made a spiritual succesor of this game or at least with a similar vibe

>>718744897
Yeah, it's in rpg maker and is about depression.

>>718744385
No one gave a shit about sacrifice, metal fatigue, alpha centaury, messiah, darkspore or ghost master back in the day and no one would have given a shit now if not for your holy cows suddenly implanting you with ideas any of these games were good.
Cope all you want, zoomoid. They still wont become your friends no matter how many of their videos you parrot.

Lots of words from a clueless zoomer.
Do yourself a favour and vroom vroom out of here.

>illiterate zoomoid is scared of words
how shocking!

>>718627597
The Matrix is in Canada?

>>718620215
Dust Front RTS
Is a too be released game where you fight flesh monsters

>>718662589
I will now play your game.

>>718710636
is there even a future for that series?
I hear ZombiU was ok

>>718667516
Maybe you'd like Foxhole
You're a single soldier in this game. Everything from fighting, gathering resources, building items and weapons, and logisticsis being done by players

>>718660575
>wish there was a way to play on modern systems but you get soft locked because of the scrolls giving information hard crash the game.
I know I am a day late, but you can fix it yourself by going into game's folder and fixing the sound list file.

>>718694360
Battlezone and Uprising series did that.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/301650/Battlezone_98_Redux/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/465360/Uprising_Join_or_Die/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/514050/Uprising_2_Lead_and_Destroy/
No meat buildings, sadly.

>>718745063
I don't understand your combative attitude towards someone liking games you don't.
Some of those titles were heralded by the press and the few that played them.
Out of all those games Alpha Centauri is the least niche with just about every Civ oldhead owning a copy.
Sacrifice was kind of a commercial flop and I got the bigbox from a bargain bin in like 05 and was pleasantly surprised.

I'd say the Settlers and Knights and Merchants games were and are interesting, but I've never liked them or how they play.
Same goes for Majesty. I'd rather have a board game type 4x, RTS or a pure bulding game.

>>718661679
I played way too much of this single player

>>718664607
zoom

>>718748054
this pic always get me.

>>718747397
I thought I would never find this game. Loved playing it as a kid. Especial the tracks on the roofs.

>>718617471
Nice

ENTER!
>life sim
>mech building
>arena combat
>stealth
>dating sim
>dungeon crawler
>stock market simulator
>real estate manager
>rhythm game
>flight sim
>dynamic open world
Nothing you played in your life even comes close to this.

>>718745063
You're talking like this is some grand conspiracy or psyop when in reality it's just people being made aware of decent games by youtube, and then liking them.

>>718728031
Some of the most fun I had playing games was running mass effect on my mom's laptop at like 15 FPS.

Thief games

>>718745036
Proto-DMC

>>718667516
Hope you are following the development of this then
https://youtu.be/vj3t_uYlkHA?si=r5H1n8bJoCCKbko-

One of the funnest games I've ever played in my life that is more unstable than your BPD-ridden ex. Remaking it might be hard due to actual lost technology involved in this, but I wish there was at least a second run through the code to make it less prone to sudden unexplainable game-breaking bugs.

>>718747046
Same. Want to experience how it would feel like with actual players for once.

>>718749896
Looks like russian Jagged Alliance.

>>718744897
The Brew Barons?

>>718750336
that's basically what it is but fully 3d and instead of turns every action is run on a timer
hard to get into because it doesn't explain anything at all

>>718691518
The Rare collection edition has remapped controllers.

>>718658615
this game sucked because it had a bug at release where workers just stopped coming after a while.
>but just le patch it!!1
you think I was intelligent enough to do that back in the game? And that I didn't just have a pirated copy that i played on a computer without internet?

>>718735273
Isn't that just a ripoff of bayonetta

>>718749015
Why would anyone remake this? So they can be called fascists/racist on twitter?

>>718658615
The game was translated in italian, but if you wanted to play the expansion you had to play in english.
It would be great to see it remade, thought it would be a huge undertaking.

>>718679651
GET THOSE BOYS OUTTA THERE
OR I'M GONNA SIT DOWN

>>718745063
>No one gave a shit
The fact that you didn't know about people who enjoyed Sacrifice and Messiah back in the day (like myself) before watching whatever eceleb you're talking about doesn't mean nobody knew or cared about these games, brainrotten zoomer faggot

>>718753165
>Bullet Witch: 2006
>Bayonetta: 2009

>>718617471
i dont fucking get it

>>718658615
I liked making starts out of people standing in line to janitorial work.

>>718749834
Does firestorm finally have 1 guy be the commander that builds the base and gives orders to players from top down? Last time i checked they couldn't get past some UE limitations so they made battlefield with RenX shitty gunplay and no base gimick. RenX had such a cool concept but i burned out on it. Aimbot snipers that would delete your head across the map made 80% of the map inaccessible for anyone other that SBH. Origial game didn't even have snipers. Also if you lose a building in first 5 minutes you might as well leave.

>>718676472
I'm just not into big dungeons, make a oblivion/skyrim like with similar gameplay and i'd be all over that shit, or a dishoneredlike if you want to keep some of those more immersim elements

>>718748054
Kek

Honestly i'd love a game that just downright clones this. Including the dogshit controls.

Yes i know brigador exists. I want to play the actual guy.

>>718749013
Sounds like the game is putting to many eggs in one basket if you're asking me.

>>718761875
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn-W_GmcK28

>>718749013
SHAME THE SEQUEL GOT CANNED
AND I DON'T MEAN THE PSP GAME

>>718625005
I remember playing this game 24 years ago, you just brought back memories I had forgotten.

>>718758093
I dunno, I am just waiting, I don't even want to enter a closed beta or anything, I'll play it when they feel like is ready to be open tested at worst.
>>718761875
I tried this game twice (EA gave it for free) and my god those controls, I thought it might be just me, told a friend, he tried the game, yep.

>>718761875
>the game centers on The Captain, a special ops officer and supersoldier, who defects from the tyrannical world government, the World Economic Consortium (WEC)
He got tired of eating ze bugz and living in ze pod?

A thread on /v/ about /vr/ lasted over two days and is nearly at 500 posts.

Can we just fucking nuke /vr/? Nobody ever talks about retro vidya there.

>>718626916
>>718626994
RC stunt copter was great and enter the matrix was decent but only as a companion to the movies

>>718620215
>hostile waters
based

NFS High Stakes.
Specifically, the PC version's pursuit mode where you play as a cop. You have a team of 5 cop cars at your disposal, you can see their positions on the minimap, you can call others to act as wingmen or set up roadblocks or spike strips, you can jump into other cars and let AI take over the previous one and so on. There's nothing quite like it, usually playing as a cop means just you alone vs. racers, or at best you can magically summon some assistance down the road.

>>718756880
The Stop Killing Games guy reviewed the game and it ended up with Roblox getting sued.

>>718745063
>no one gave a shit about Alpha Centari
That is bluntly fucking wrong and if you knew anything about these games you'd know that.

>>718727369
Yeah, I'm not intrinsically against UE5 in general, but I'm definitely against every developer, even holdouts that have used their very capable inhouse engines for decades, bailing to UE5.
It doesn't bother me too much, because I already experienced this back in the day with devs doing the same shit with UE3, but it disappoints me. I just hope it's a shitty rumor.

Techland already hid every game of theirs older than Gunslinger from their official portfolio website, and that's despite them buying out the rights of the entire Call of Juarez franchise from the original publishers, so who knows what they're about anymore.

>>718767215
What does Messiah have to do with that?

>>718749015
ah the ps2 era, 2000-2009, was a odd time, still magical and better than anything post 2010.

>>718621745
Silent Hill 4 is fine as is, it doesn't need "fixed" and a remake would just be UE slop with worse art direction.

>>718771216
The "Oof" death sound from roblox was actually stolen from Messiah end cutscene.

>>718749015
This always confuses me because when I hear Urban Chaos I think of the PS1 game where you play as the negress cop.

>>718771991
>Silent Hill 4 is fine as is
>entire second half of the game is an escort quest through areas you've already played
>bullshit enemies like ghosts that are just tiresome, not scary
>numerous enemies have their tension ruined by incredibly silly sound effects like a stock jaguar sound and burping
The first half of the game is really good and the apartment has a lot of atmosphere, but it falls apart after that.

>>718772301
All of the other three games had tons of asset reuse and you just showed your ass of not playing them. SH1's final area is cut and paste and SH3 just uses 2's Silent Hill and hospital
Other two points are regurgitated reddit opinions
Low IQ/filtered takes, you deserve your shitty UE5 remake.

>>718749015
I only played a demo at a friends' house, actually good game, riot squad control simulator would NOT be made today.

>>718773276
>tons of asset reuse
Is that what my sentence said, anon? "Asset resuse"? Or did it say "an escort quest through areas you've already played"?

>>718767017
Sometimes I wonder how older pre-Underground NFS games played. For me and probably many other Underground was the first contact with the series. It and the following games sometime make me forget that NFS didn't started as a series primarily about illegal nightly street races of tuning cars.

>>718773276
So you think an enemy belching as a hit sound is amazing and terrifying?

>>718773764
And the first three games had you play through sections you already played through the Otherworld sections you absolute fucking retard. Dont reply to me if youre just going to vomit out dumb shit.

>>718774114
Why are you ignoring the elephant? It's right there in the corner.

>>718772236
It's like modern remake that fell into time wormhole.

>>718774190
If youre still whining about the escort quest did you have a tantrum when you had to escort Maria in SH2? God forbid a horror game be somewhat challenging

>>718774369
Did I have to escort her for almost the entire second half of the game? Backwards through the first half?

>>718773276
>umm akshully burping and stock jaguar sounds are amazing sound design!

>>718774432
Not even that hard to escort her. Shes more useful than a lot of escort characters of the era but I'll accept your concession you suck balls which is why you plead for some Bloober garbage.

>>718774569
>>718774369
>>718774114
>>718773276
Why are you so mad? Half of every post is just spluttering and spitting. It's tryhard.

>mass reply out of nowhere
Yeah I'm the mad one

>>718774569
>you must escort a character who has to not take damage or you're locked into the bad endings
>also she runs up to every enemy to put herself in harm's way
How fun and enjoyable.

>>718627159
fun fact, the head of DeepMind (Google's Ai Division) who was knighted by the King of England worked on this games Ai

>>718774907
I love this kind of weird trivia.
Like how the Greek Government hired Valve’s head of finances to fix their economy or how Bryan Cranston was the first english VA for Street Fighter’s Fei Long