07 October 2019, 07:02 | #21 |
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I'm really okish with everygame you talked about.
Now my favorites are pinball series still greats to play today. chaos engine too. But some, i just feel them like really good amiga games, but i feel that some have aged less well, but they all still great games. |
07 October 2019, 10:18 | #22 |
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Chaos Engine - perfect gameplay and thumping soundtrack
Gods - great puzzles and loads of replayability Speedball 2 - flawless gem Rainbow Islands - impossible to improve Monkey Island - timeless characters and a great fun story Turrican 2 - action + platforming perfection with an amazing soundtrack Lemmings - highly original and still plays as well today I wouldn't change a thing about any of these games and can't think of any better modern examples. |
07 October 2019, 10:32 | #23 |
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Lemmings in my opinion has not been surpassed since the Amiga original. Mega lo Mania, Cannon Fodder and SWOS are also exemplary.
I see Chaos Engine given a few shouts here as well - I think that is a good call. I think it is the combination of the distinct music and graphics that makes such Amiga titles peerless. |
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07 October 2019, 11:22 | #25 |
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Slam Tilt still holds up really well, the lighting and polished graphics, and the cool animations in the LCD display. Plus great physics
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Maybe should give an hearing as I don't know this game.
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07 October 2019, 12:13 | #27 |
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What a load of rubbish! Civ1 AGA is still one of the best and most addictive Amiga games. In fact I've just got my six year old son into it and he absolutely loves it. When he's not playing Civ on WinUAE he's re-enacting what he did on the bedroom floor with his toys. lol. This is a kid who plays Minecraft and Roblox so it can't have aged that badly. Also Sensible World of Soccer and Deluxe Galaga are still personal favourites that I play often.
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07 October 2019, 14:44 | #29 |
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I think for a list like this you need to look at Amiga exclusive titles as many games like Monkey Island, Frontier, Dune 2 while absolute classics and on the Amiga are mere ports of their MS-DOS originals
But there remain several Amiga games that I'd still put into say a top 10 of any given genre. Roadkill - one of my favorite arcade top down racing games. Guardian - my absolute favorite open world 3d shooter. Worms - perhaps the king of its genre. Minskies - This is one of the best tetris / columns clones I've ever played. Its ridiculously addictive. Fightin Spirit - Yes I'd put this into my top 10 beat em up games of all time. It would probably be at number 10 but its by far the best on our Amigas. Ruff n Tumble - one of the most beautiful run n gun games ever. That's all I can think of for now. I suppose out of those the only genre defining game is Worms. It almost created its own genre! quick edit: after reading some of the posts above how could I forget about Cannon Fodder and Chaos Engine! Last edited by Glen M; 07 October 2019 at 14:51. |
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Frontier was originally on the Amiga (coded in 68k ASM by David Braben himself) and afterwards ported to the PC.
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I had assumed it was a DOS game first and foremost given the better graphical features. It is a ground breaking game either way though. What Doom is to Wolfenstien Frontier is to Elite and its the game that is still genre defining from which all other spacer sims are compared including Elite Dangerous. I'd love to see someone revisit Frontier on the Amiga to fix the mining system and to possibly expand on the ship controls to add lateral and vertical thrusters. |
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Lateral and vertical thrusters should be possible as the game (as far as I know anyway) does use newtonian physics in its engine. Turning engines off for example is similar to flight assist off in elite dangerous but the lack of lateral controls makes it mostly useless in frontier. |
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To add insult to injury, the Amiga version, while it has the best music (and the AGA version probably the best graphics), is a lousy PC port, probably further hampered by shared code with the ST. It manages to be slow even on an A4000. |
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07 October 2019, 23:56 | #36 |
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The Settlers; I must have spent years of my life playing it.
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Still preferring Kick Off 2 on my A500 over FIFA19 on my Xbox One X ;-)
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Actually 2 campaigns (both Federation and Imperials) And both campaigns end with some heavy crashing and battles with Thargoids. Not sure if that is possible to patch/update. |
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I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but: Colonization
It's superior to the pc version in sound/music alone and it's better than the extension they did with civ 4 or 5? |
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I'm going to say something quite silly here. True for me, but still silly. The following then is opinion, not fact
I do not like CIV 2. There. I've said it. I think CIV 1 is a much better, more fun and streamlined game. CIV 3 is slightly better, but I still don't like it as much as part 1. First part I liked better than CIV 1 for real was part 4. |
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