You're forgetting Ninja Gaiden/Ninja Gaiden Black/2 a series that would probably become my favorite game on last-gen 360.
Of course now, the series is no longer exclusive to the xbox and furthermore it has slipped from greatness in general.
Really? I suppose if all you played was Madden and Halo and crappy movie license titles starring Shrek and Scooby Doo!
Diversity sucked absolute @%#& on original Xbox.
PS2 pretty much dominated that generation.
Ah well there is Conker Reloaded on original Xbox. Honestly without Halo most would have forgotten Xbox in a year.
You're forgetting Ninja Gaiden/Ninja Gaiden Black/2 a series that would probably become my favorite game on last-gen 360.
Of course now, the series is no longer exclusive to the xbox and furthermore it has slipped from greatness in general.
Me too. I have gone the other way with retro-gaming (I have dumped every cart I have owned outside of N64 and the 2600), but that flash cart has my attention.
True, but I would argue that the SNES add-on chips were more fully utilized than the 32X ever was during their lifetimes. Especially if we look at the audio chip in the 32X- almost every 32x game used the YM2612 instead. Funny thing is that Sega had a Super FX killer. Ah what could have been:
http://www.sega-16.com/2006/03/segas-svp-chip-the-road-not-taken/
Though widely regarded as a failure I thought the Sega CD was pretty awesome.
Working Designs, Sonic CD, Shining Force, etc. And though crappy in hindsight, Sewer Shark and Night Trap were pretty cool at the time. Ground Zero Texas though takes the cake as the best FMV game on the system IMO.
Though widely regarded as a failure I thought the Sega CD was pretty awesome.
Yeah but 32x had an RGB overlay and expanded the graphics abilities greatly.
SNES enhancement chips are forever limited to the 256x224 8 bpp color index mode of the SNES mode 7 internal framebuffer that all final results must eventually be copied to over the 8 bit "B" bus in order to show on screen.
Not very many memorable 32x games, unfortunately. There were some gems, but sales were limited because they could only be purchased by a small sub-set of Sega Genesis owners.
Even worse, Sega CD 32X games lol. Like $800 in hardware and 3 power bricks to run ... what 3 games?
That was a VERY exciting time to be a gamer. I've not had the same sense of "ZOMG NEXT GEN THIS IS THE FUTURE" vibe as I did seeing the Turbo Grafx and Sega CD addons with games with cut scenes and seeing ads and review pics with that sleek black deck with a shiny silver disc and fake laser graphic, etc. There was something more foreign and alien and exotic about it back then.
PS1 was close but the whole CD wave of the future thing was old news by then.
Combine with waiting weeks for the next EGM hoping for more SNES CD rumors and specs and everything else... yeah 90s was an EPIC time for video game evolution.
Now days it's more of the same only higher resolution and we know what to expect, it's all so vanilla and predictable now.
I suppose it's like how I imagine it was more exciting to be alive during the rapid advancements and discoveries of the 40s and 50s when nuclear power was going to solve everything and we'd have moon rockets and flying cars and xray vision and ray guns and wrist watch communicators... nothing that exciting these days, we know what's possible and what isn't now and everything is so predictable, incremental, and boring.
Nah it's not boring...there is just too much info now. Every day there's the latest news, rumors, quotes, hands on demos, impressions, and all manner of screenshots of games and hardware. IGN, Gamespot, Kotaku, Eurogamer etc etc. information overload ruined the fun of getting the latest magazine and noticing an article about some new stuff you never heard of. You could only imagine what it would bring. These days you know months ahead of time about what's coming and a week before release you have people who already finished the game or give all the details about the latest stuff.
Tomonobu Itagaki isn't involved at Tecmo any longer. He was probably the one most responsible for Ninja Gaiden being what it was then. He had a falling out with Tecmo in 2008 just before Ninja Gaiden 2 released and left the company, suing them for withholding bonuses and other pay. He and some former Team Ninja developers had been working on a game called Devil's Third which was announced 3 years ago at E3 in 2010 but since then I have heard nothing except "the WiiU should handle the game well". It doesn't look promising anyway as they are trying to push it to mobile gaming as well. Supposed to be a 3rd person shooter/action game from Valhalla studios, his new company name. He is a guy though that I can say is too hardcore for his own good. I remember well when he entered during the MS keynote in 2010 when the Kinect was revealed, looked around a bit wearing some strange robe and his signature dark sunglasses, then promptly left. It almost appeared as if he was silently mocking the casual nature of MS' direction there. He makes games that are simply difficult to play. He even tad to apologize for Dead or Alive 4 being hard. That said, when you water down Ninja Gaiden...it is no longer Ninja Gaiden.
You're forgetting Ninja Gaiden/Ninja Gaiden Black/2 a series that would probably become my favorite game on last-gen 360.
Of course now, the series is no longer exclusive to the xbox and furthermore it has slipped from greatness in general.
True there is that as well but also the technology curve at the time was in fact very steep and things were moving rapidly into uncharted territory with FMV and 3D in it's infancy and going from 2-4-8-16 megabits to 5000 megabits suddenly and from 16-64-256 colors to suddenly 16.7 million colors. It was rather hectic and exciting.
Everything now just feels so established and predictable and evolutionary now rather than revolutionary, information overload or not.
We still to this day "only" use 16.7 million colors for example Something first touted by the likes of PS1 and 3DO. And even if you said tomorrow we'd go to 1 billion colors it would just seem like overkill for no reason and doesn't have the same wow factor as going from 256 colors to 16.7 million suddenly after two decades.
My fondest memories are of going to Toys R Us back in the day when they had two isles filled top to bottom with cards that had the box art on one side, and some info on the back. I could browse that wall for hours reading every bit of info and staring at the awesome 80s and early 90s artwork. Then I could go around to the glass case and see all the latest gadgets and game systems drooling over the latest stuff. I remember seeing a Neo Geo for the first time there. When I found out that it was a home arcade machine I had to have one. $600 for the console and $200 for a game didn't matter to me...I had to have it. Never did get it until years later when I bought one used lol. They also had working interactives for almost every system. I played Bonk's Adventure on Turbo Grafix 16, played Gex on 3DO, Super Metroid on SNES before I knew what I was missing. I still remember them not having a Sega CD in stock except the one in the glass case...my dad talked the manager into selling it at a 10% discount because it was opened.
ahh...memory lane...
Even worse, Sega CD 32X games lol. Like $800 in hardware and 3 power bricks to run ... what 3 games?
That was a VERY exciting time to be a gamer. I've not had the same sense of "ZOMG NEXT GEN THIS IS THE FUTURE" vibe as I did seeing the Turbo Grafx and Sega CD addons with games with cut scenes and seeing ads and review pics with that sleek black deck with a shiny silver disc and fake laser graphic, etc. There was something more foreign and alien and exotic about it back then.
PS1 was close but the whole CD wave of the future thing was old news by then.
Combine with waiting weeks for the next EGM hoping for more SNES CD rumors and specs and everything else... yeah 90s was an EPIC time for video game evolution.
Now days it's more of the same only higher resolution and we know what to expect, it's all so vanilla and predictable now with all this safe established branding and stable technology curve. Case in point PS1... PS2... PS3... PS4... any bets on what the "next PlayStation" will be called? Bah. There's just so little magic and excitement anymore.
Turbo Graphics. PlayStation. Genesis. 3DO. Jaguar. Saturn. 3DFx Voodoo. Riva TNT. etc. Not PlayStation 15 and Geforce 940509484 and all these sequel names. It was just... different.
I suppose it's like how I imagine it was more exciting to be alive during the rapid advancements and discoveries of the 40s and 50s when nuclear power was going to solve everything and we'd have moon rockets and flying cars and xray vision and ray guns and wrist watch communicators... nothing that exciting these days, we know what's possible and what isn't now and everything is so predictable, incremental, and boring.
I love old consoles as much as everyone else does but umm Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, not much imagination there at all either.
Oh well. There's always ebay, but just seeing that all in person at once was just overload. I regret that my future children will not be able to experience it. The walls of my game room will have to suffice.
I love old consoles as much as everyone else does but umm Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, not much imagination there at all either.
That is why retrogaming stores rule.
That is why retrogaming stores rule.
Everything64 was terrible, but Super Everything was probably worse. Well maybe not, 64 almost seemed more forced. Chronotrigger64 makes me shudder.
I love old consoles as much as everyone else does but umm Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, not much imagination there at all either.
It wasn't "Nintendo," it was "Nintendo Entertainment System" or "NES." It wasn't "Super Nintendo," it was "Super NES." It was supposed to be "Nintendo Ultra 64" until they ran into trademark issues in some countries making it "Nintendo 64" or "N64." Not much better, but not as bad as you imply.