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Ogre Battle 64 is way better than Tactics Ogre, and completely different. I'm not sure I'd still play it in 2013 though.
Literally every single game on N64 has been surpassed in some way by a more recent game EXCEPT for the AKI wrestling games. Those are the lasting legacies of the N64.
Oh shit Diddy Kong Racing was also great. And Conker.
I will agree that the N64 has aged very, very poorly.
The original Paper Mario is still awesome.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1372089836
The most glaring omissions from the digitally available Genesis catalog, with the possible exception of Konami's games, are the Thunder Forces. This is my $5 attempt to compensate for that without adding more clutter.
For the record, that was the ebay photo. I'm no photographer, but I can get shit in focus at least.
It's odd that every other genre has evolved over the years but wrestling games have gone the exact opposite route, they've slowly gotten worse and worse. Was AKI just that good, or is the WWE simply that bad at picking developers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Korly
The WWE gamer is typically not a gamer with refined taste (I don't mean to be snobbish, but w/e). It's no different than the movie licensed games. Most are totally crap and yet people still eat em up
Outside of the Fire Pro games (which are as niche as a game can get) even Japan hasn't made a better wrestling game since the N64. It's like every publisher out there went out of their way to avoid AKI or AKI themselves didn't want to make them any more, which isn't likely since they tried to implement their wrestling system in as many games as they could (first 2 def jam games, ultimate muscle games, & the PSP Yakuza spinoffs).
On one hand, yeah, AKI was just that damn good. On the other hand, WWE has had pretty much ONE developer making their games on almost the exact same engine from the PSOne days since like, 1999. And the fact that they ship a game EVERY YEAR makes it even less likely that they'll ever improve. Doubly so because they continue to sell well. Think Madden.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timber
On a side note, WWE All-Stars was a pretty fun party game. More fighting game than wrestling game, but not really.
Not really. Every non-WWE wrestling game we've seen in the last 2 generations have been failures. And for the most part, they've all been dreadful. So it's not like wrestling fans will buy ANYTHING, but they'll buy Smackdown every year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
Me, I take a Madden stance on the Smackdown games and just buy them every other year (or less).
I did like All-Stars, but it was definitely more of a fighting game. I haven't played a WWE game since '11 but it seemed like every year they were removing small amounts of content, which seemed like they were gearing up for a DLC extravaganza to cash in on all those moves and appearance options that disappeared from the create-a-character. Or just sell old wrestlers outright and not give you the option to modify them.