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Fist 2 on the C64 - tried a scrolling arcade adventure with fighting. Interesting and could have been great, but did not click
Thrust is one of my all time fave games, but Thrust 2 was another that did not click, was also worse by having joystick controls PC wise, change from Mean Streets / Martian Memorandum to Under a Killing Moon - WOW factor! Amiga wise, Mighty Bombjack was a shift, from single screen to more larger levels - and the better for it |
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Well speaking of Flashback... Flashback and Fade to Black. I had a hard time trying to like Fade to Black. I'm still trying to this day
Toejam & Earl is another example; a topdown exploration game into a platformer. This was a good decision IMO, if they had made another game like the original it'd have strongly had the more of the same syndrome. |
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LOL, just like you - I really tried to like and ply Fade to Black. Sadly, game experience is very bad and I rather finish Flashback one more time then loose more time on F2B.
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I'm trying figure out why I find the first one enjoyable. The graphics were adequate. I think it is the combination of an alright plot that is tied closely to the tabletop universe that's quasi-canon. The RPG portions weren't grinding either, so it was fairly easy to advance progress. The concept of both upgrading the humans and mechs were neat too. |
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On the Spectrum, Chase HQ being followed by by SCI was a bit of a surprise, (in the same way that stepping in a pile of leaves and hearing a squelch is a surprise...)
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Arnie 2
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i drew a map of this at the time, but it was VERY difficult due the strange link between zones; infact the result is unreadable now also a lot of backtrack, if you want complete it; i fell asleep a couple of times playing it, due the slow gameplay and the soporific sountrack... re-watching the longplay on the tube, i fell asleep again ... but i love it at the same time Quote:
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thank you, i don't know this game, not even his prequel Last edited by kremiso; 11 May 2021 at 17:03. |
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The worst change of all IMO:
Banjo Kazooie... Nuts & Bolts. They turned one of the best platformer franchises I have ever played it into something of an undefined genre that does weird things with cars. |
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I really dislike how the Turrican series took a turn for the linear later on
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I enjoyed Danger Mouse in the Black Forest Chateau quite a lot. It's a nice multiple-choice adventure with graphics that looked exactly like the cartoon. The sequels were sub-par arcade games. Very disappointing.
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12 May 2021, 13:06 | #33 |
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Player Manager - superb
Player Manager 2 - wot! |
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lol, there was also a ProTracker version that i liked more than the latest ones...
just the gfx --- After Shadow of the beast 1, me and my friends were waiting about how it would have been the 'goat man' (we called with this name the main character ) in the following chapters... tremendously disappointed to see the like 'prehistorik man' and even more with the anonymous man with the hat |
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I watched part of that a little while back. The PC speaker is horrible! Gaming Jay liked the sequel, so that got me thinking about it again before this thread started and led to my question. I also found out recently that the C64 version of Inception has 2 more mechs -- Spider and Javelin -- https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Battle...%27s_Inception . It would be somewhat interesting to see what the 2 mechs are like. |
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found myself another match, on Amiga
Alien Bash - Alien Bash 2 , two PD games the first has some Alien Breed influences, the second A LOT of Chaos Engine ones, almost a clone gg, the second Last edited by kremiso; 14 May 2021 at 11:45. |
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