The Best of Generation IV

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29 Aug 2005, 10:11 AM
Dyne

gta 3. the idea is cool and possibly groundbreaking. the delivery is complete ass tho.
29 Aug 2005, 10:37 AM
Bacon McShig

Action: Resident Evil 4; Runner-Up: Jet Grind Radio
Adventure: Metroid Prime; RU: Beyond Good & Evil
Fighting: SF3: Third Strike; RU: Soul Calibur
FPS: Halo; RU: Oddworld Stranger's Wrath
Horror: Silent Hill 2; RU: Fatal Frame
Platformer: Sly Cooper; RU: Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat
Racing: Burnout 3; RU: F-Zero GX
RPG: Shadow Hearts: Covenant; RU: Skies of Arcadia
Sports: SSX 3; RU: Virtua Tennis
Shooter: Mars Matrix; RU: Neo Contra
Non-genre: Crazy Taxi; RU: Katamari Damacy
29 Aug 2005, 12:28 PM
Timber

I think I've played less games this gen than any previous gen (especially RPGs). That's not saying I haven't played a lot of games lately, just not an absurd ammount like I did in previous eras.

Action: Ninja Giaden (Black should trump this though)
Adventure: Beyond Good & Evil (only played it on the PS2)
Fighting: Capcom vs. SNK 2
FPS: Halo 2
Horror: Resident Evil Remake (Haven't played 4 yet)
MMORPG: Haven't been able to get into this genre yet.
Platformer: Klonoa 2
Puzzle: Zoo Keeper (ds)
Racing: Not into the genre at all but I'll give it to Ridge Raver V
RPG: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox, the PC one had issues with my video card)
Shooter: Gradius V
Sports: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (dc)
Strategy: Civilization 3 (pc)
Rythem: Gitaroo Man
29 Aug 2005, 12:54 PM
Dyne

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xeno G

I think I've played less games this gen than any previous gen (especially RPGs). That's not saying I haven't played a lot of games lately, just not an absurd ammount like I did in previous eras.

age....it'll do it.
29 Aug 2005, 01:23 PM
MarkRyan

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Originally Posted by g0zen

LAWL! Spoken like a true elitist. The first games had terrible controls, especially for shooting, and the stories were incredibly stupid (especially the second one). The only saving grave was that you could use the trigger buttons to fart and burp whenever you wanted to. Shame that got old after, I dunno, five seconds?

I agree that the original games aren't great, but they're not technical messes like the current GTAs and they were first.
29 Aug 2005, 06:29 PM
sethsez

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Originally Posted by MarkRyan

I agree that the original games aren't great, but they're not technical messes like the current GTAs and they were first.

I'd rather have a game with good design and poor implementation than a game with terrible design and decent implementation.

Either way, though, I agree that the original GTAs don't get enough credit. Neither does Driver, for that matter.
29 Aug 2005, 06:36 PM
gamevet

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

I'd say there are three before 8-bit (NES/Master System/7800):

The first is the truly prehistoric stuff like Odyssey and Fairchild; things that we'd barely recognize as videogames & had you putting transparent overlays on your tv & other assorted wackiness.

Next is the 2600/Odyssey 2 gen, where you start to see reasonable facsimiles of arcade games, spaceships that look like spaceships, even some impressive effects by the end in things like Solaris.

And following that is the Intellivision/Colecovision/5200 gen - I'd probably toss Vectrex in there too. These systems were clearly designed to be a step up on the previous stuff.

Hmm? Wasn't the Atari 2600 an 8-bit console though? What seperated the consoles was the amount of RAM and the video processors.
29 Aug 2005, 06:47 PM
Frogacuda

I think single game non-microprocessor based systems like Pong, Oddessey, etc are the first gen, Atari and INTV are 2nd gen, NES/SMS/7800 are 3rd.

Stuff like Coleco, Vectrex, Jaguar, 3DO, etc don't really fit into a generation. They're halfway points and weren't popular enough to define a generation of systems.

There's generally something that defines a generation. 2nd gen was defined by interchangable games. 3rd gen was defined by smooth scrolling. Gen 4 by larger palettes, gen 5 by 3D, etc
29 Aug 2005, 07:36 PM
Giga Power

Nice thread...

Action: The Fall of Max Payne, Otogi: Myth of Demons, Breakdown
Adventure: Killer 7, Metroid Prime,
Fighting 2D: The King of Fighters 2001, Capcom VS SNK 2, Guilty Gear#Reload
Fighting 3D: Virtua Fighter 4 Evo, Dead or Alive Ultimate, Soul Caliber II
FPS: Halo 2, Timesplitters Future Perfect, Half Life 2 HM- DooM III
Horror: REmake, Silent Hill 4: The Room,
MMORPG: Don't play em.
Platformer: Psychonauts, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Viewtiful Joe
Puzzle: Meteos, Puyo Pop, Zuma
Racing: Project Gotham Racing 2, Gran Turismo 2, Burnout-motherfucking-3
RPG: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Shooter: Mars Matrix, Ikaruga, R-Type Final
3D Shooters: Panzer Dragoon Orta, P.N.0.3
Sports: Don't play em.
Strategy: Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders, Advance Wars DS, Fire Emblem Sacred Stones
Rythem: Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 2
Other: Crazy Taxi, Super Monkey Ball, Katamari Damacy

I'm not 100% satisfied with that as I had some trouble putting games into genres...but it'll do.
30 Aug 2005, 06:06 AM
arjue

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Fur Fighters

I remember seeing reviews for the DC version in Gamers republic and thinking that it looked rad. I came very close to buying the PS2 one off ebay less than a week ago. Is the ps2 port good?

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