Under the Radar SNES/Genesis Games

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

Was "Weaponlord" on SNES/Genny any good? Always liked the Frank Frazetta-y-ness of it.

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SNES is the better version but having said that, it needed an arcade release to do it justice. Lots of advanced game concepts but the aesthetics couldn't keep up.

Being from Namco doesn't that make it some kind of ancient ancestor of Soul Blade?

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Originally Posted by Tain

Just got this in pretty great condition. Rented it as a kid, never came close to beating it. Turns out this game is rough!

It doesn't seem as good as Valken, though. I appreciate how much shit is going on on the average, and I might change my mind as I get further in, but as of right now Valken's player mech is much more fun to control, with the big well-animated sprite and the heavy dashing and the punching and the blocking and all. The stages seem less randomized (as in, there's actual enemy placement going on) as well. We'll see.

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I'm completely baffled that so many people have a problem with ASL1. In the 90s, I used to equip the HG Gun, hold the shot button down with tape, and go outside to eat while the character racked up kills and scored enough points to earn all the weapons.

Find a hill or incline that offers a cover while your health regenerates, and you can beat the game on one credit-- even on Hyper difficulty. It also helps to earn the extra shields.

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Originally Posted by Korly

Being from Namco doesn't that make it some kind of ancient ancestor of Soul Blade?

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It was developed by Visual Concepts with game system direction by James Goddard, originally from Capcom USA. Blame him for Dee Jay.

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Originally Posted by Korly

Being from Namco doesn't that make it some kind of ancient ancestor of Soul Blade?

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Originally Posted by Gamespy

Although Weaponlord wasn't a big success --Goddard's online portfolio attributes part of the failure to the rise of the PlayStation and the death of 16-bit-- both men believe that its sword-and-shield combat was a blueprint that Namco adopted effectively. Winstead, who's a big Soulcalibur IV fan, says that Namco told the Weaponlord team that it wouldn't be doing a sequel, "since the original Tekken team had split off to make a medieval 3D fighter with weapons." Goddard explains that the team had shown Namco their weapon and parry systems, which the publisher adapted. "There were some other similarities (Rock aka Bane)," he explains, "but overall they frankly did a much better job at making an epic, mass-market weapon fighter than we did. So our hats-off to that team and series!"

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http://www.gamespy.com/articles/954/954328p1.html

I wanted to like Weaponlord, but it really is mediocre.

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Originally Posted by kedawa

I remember Astal being a really beautiful game. It's like Rayman minus the french.

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Astal was so good it was almost too much for me. And that godly music..only the slightly slippery controls and mechanics fall short. And the American voice acting and box art. It's still one of my personal favorites of all time.

Astal was really slow with weird gameplay. It looked good but it definitely didn't feel like a great platformer. It was just ok.

Still waiting for my copy of Astal to get here from Ebay...and in the mean time I'm really going all out with these retro games. I pulled my old "toaster" style NES out of storage the other day, wanting to play some Duck Tales, and of course it didn't work...

So, I've been scouring Ebay for a replacement NES...and looking into some NES games. Maniac Mansion looks like it might be good to my motion sickness, but I've never played that one...Darkwing Duck is also on my watch list because the videos make it look like a Mega Man clone, and I loved the T.V. show as a kid.

What are the pros and cons of getting a Top Loading NES? Is it even safe to bid on any "toaster" style NES systems? Or, does that style of NES just keep crapping the bed? I'm trying to decide which style of system to go with, because the Top Loading NES systems seem to be hovering around $100..and that seems a bit steep to me, for an NES.

Don't get a top loader unless you plan on either AV modding it or playing in RF, since it does not have AV jacks like the toaster.