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Road Avenger for Sega CD. It's a Dragon's Lair type game.

This is a lot of fun, were any of the other games like this fun?
Which should I play next, Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, some less known sega cd game?

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I got to Airman with a fire flower. I still lost. :(
That Airman, he is one tough man to beat, if you don't cheat.

God I love this hack.

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Snatcher has about as much gameplay as a MGS4 mission briefing; It is blatantly a take on Blade Runner.
I like it. :)

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Just started Super Metroid, these are some nice graphics.

Tion, I think your avatar made me do it.

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My shitty bass sits in a closet. It was still a way better purchase then Guitar Hero would have been.

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Soldier of Fortune Payback

Umm, I shot down the Moor's helicopter. Guys this isn't a great game, but other games could learn a thing or two here. Why don't more games have Soldier of Fortune style dismemberment? Also the sprinting is nicely implemented. The Moor's helicopter was a good boss fight.
Most sections of the game seems pretty dull though.

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10,000 bullets is really good.

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Ninja Gaiden 3: Ancient Ship of Doom
Act 6
Still no ancient ship.

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Yes, but it's enjoyable as such.

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With Snatcher I liked the music, the graphics, the Kojima-ism.


A lot of adventure games have humorously inappropriate optional dialogue.
Did you have to ask her to see the heart-shaped birthmark or was it optional? I'm actually asking you, I can't remember.

I like Blade Runner a lot, so that's a factor too.

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Sin & Punishment

Oh man, fun shit.
oh, and all the cutscenes can be skipped. It feels like Treasure made an arcade game, and skipped the arcade release.

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Mighty Jill Off

:)

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new demo for Mushroom Kingdom Fusion

Mario in a megaman suit is awesome.

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Rambo (arcade)

Kinda dull. The cut-scenes are bits of Rambo III. It's a light gun shooter, you shoot dudes. The dudes mostly stay pretty still.
Main trick seems to be not to hold the trigger, use short bursts.

There's a little gauge and when it fills you can be invincible for a short time.

It says fast or quick or something if you shoot them right as they show up.

i didn't play far though, maybe it gets better.

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Future Cop LAPD
I come back to this from time to time. It's sort of the spiritual successor to to the Jungle/Desert Strike games. Same Prospective, but an odd transforming close to the ground vehicle replaces the helicopter.
The campaign mode isn't all that good, but the secondary mode, called precinct assault is ridiculously addictive.
In the Single Player mode of Precinct Assault the designers gave the AI bot different vehicles from the player, he gets vehicles that can fly, and his voice actors has lines based on the old arcade game Sinister.
Thankfully Precinct Assault is available right away, without any unlocking.

Wade Hixton's Counter Punch
I don't have a wii, but that new punchout trailer got me excited, so I've been playing this, and Mike Tyson's punchout. Graphics are really strong, and I like the game better then Super Punchout, but Mike Tyson's Punchout is still my favorite so far.

Mike Tyson's Punch-out!!
Hell, it's practically an official rom hack, some executive went to a Tyson fight and told the punchout team to put Tyson in the game for the american release. The cart art is great too, it was a rare opportunity that they got to use a photograph instead of a drawing or painting.

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Finished cave story, normal ending.

The first ending was actually very cool for a bad ending, I got it a few days ago, then picked the game up again and got to the normal ending.

The boss gauntlet at the end was very different from the game as a whole. Flying around with the machine gun and booster 0.8 was a lot of fun. The entire games plot was enjoyable, and I had a good time being very late to this party.

[p.s: not planning to try for the extra ending any time soon]

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The second episode of cursor 10
http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2009/02/cursor10_2s.html

and dess's newgrounds game
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/505307

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Resident Evil 5, I find the campaign mode is a huge improvement over the one in RE4, it actually feels like a Resident Evil again. The sack beat-down scene at the beginning was great.
Still, I want it to be over so I can play Mercenaries.

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It's ok. I liked it better then Ninja Gaiden, or Devil May Cry, but I didn't like those two games.

Not sure if that helps any.

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Went back to the first Gears of War. God the campaign/story mode is so fucking good.
Gears 2 really slipped in that area.

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Bullshit!
I made it through spooky AI videoscreen land. I finished the fucking fish boss event, then I finally got to have some fun, before they threw me into a shitty clone of panzer dragoon. Gears 2 campaign is just a fucking engine demo Epic made in the hopes that even more developers will license the engine.

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Played through the first level of Shell Shock 2: Blood Trails

Apocalypse Now and Zombies.

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Wing Commander Secret Ops
Secret Ops is a stand alone game, but it was more or less the mission pack for Wing Commander Prophecy.

Anyways, I just found a mod that makes me like this game more then I used to. It replaces all the music with the music from Wing Commander IV. This makes a huge difference in the feel of the game. I had no idea that music played such a deciding factor in how much I like a game.
[If anyone else still plays Wing Commander games, you can download the mod here]

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Hidden and Dangerous Deluxe (freeware)
This game is fast becoming one of my favorite games.

I was stuck on a mission and I finally passed it. The mission tasks you to steal an enemy boat. The difficulty is if you alert the Germans, a random enemy soldier will take off in the boat you are trying to steal.

I originally tried to go solo. I'd get civilian clothes from a clothes line, run past all the Germans, and then they'd blow up the boat when I tried to steal it. Ok, that didn't work so I tried bringing a team of four. When cover is blown, they take out their guns and start firing, so now I've got cover fire when I try to steal the boat.
Not good enough, the Germans still blow up the boat. There are just too many squads in range of the boat.

Several attempts later, I learn the German soldiers don't notice explosive charges until they detonate. So I set up an explosive charge next to the furthest squad in range of the boat, and set the timer for the max 1:30. Then I run to the boat quickly setting a charge near each enemy squad along the way, synchronizing the charges as best I can. Then getting all my squad on the boat, just as the charges start to explode. Cover is blown, the remaining Germans get in a firefight with my team while I bring the boat away from the harbor.

Mission Success.

I love it when a plan comes together.

P.S: One casualty.

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I'm sick so I got out my original Nintendo.
After several attempts I got passed the 5th Air Fortress, haven't tried the 6th yet.

Later I might try to finish the game.

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more Hidden and Dangerous Deluxe

Holy shit, this game gets even better. After a pretty fun mission where I mostly lobbed grenades at trenched enemies, so I could use their trenches to avoid a mine field, the game sets up a mission where you start off with a headstart on 40 nazi soldiers chasing you to an airstrip. My team of four ran for the hanger, where my ai buddy with the machinegun watched the back door while the other two ai joined me in sniping off the oncoming soldiers as fast as we could. Sniping the driver of a motorcycle was awesome.
We held the line and escaped in the allied plane once it showed up. 35 enemies dead, 1 of my team dead. Not sure where the other 5 Germans went, they were probably trying to flank around behind the hanger as my team ran for the plane.

The game had been mostly focused on outdoor environments, I assumed it was due to engine requirements. The third campaign starts off with a mission where you need to blow up some archive rooms in a rather elaborate mansion, taking emphasis away from sniper rifles and putting it toward machineguns for a nice change of pace.

I've just now noticed that the pool of recruits seems to be carried over into each campaign, making me a little worried I'll have some pretty shitty guys for the last missions.Now I'm even more concerned about casualty count then I was due to only getting 8 guys per campaign.

P.S: You can reattempt any prior mission any time to attempt to get dudes back for future campaigns, if you have to.

luvcraft, did you try this yet? it can be daunting at first, if you have any questions send them my way.
Quick tips:
-move the mouse while holding z to zoom sniper rifles.
-If you see something you want but your character is already carrying too much, you can hold enter to drop equipment.
-The second mission, pretty much only seems to work if you bring at least one guy up through the first ladder, otherwise the Germans get wise and have guards at the top of all the sewer grates.

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Dialogue has it's own volume in the sound options, I turned down to off and skip the cutscenes.

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Dialogue has it's own volume in the sound options, I turned down to off and skip the cut-scenes.

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I really expected to like Arkham Asylum, it starts strong. The designers made some smart choices. Good engine, good character designs, but it starts to go downhill rather quickly. The Unreal Engine graphics and the character design choices are nullified, because you'll spend most of your time in Detective Mode (x-ray vision) where all the colors are fucked up and everyone is a skeleton. Somehow even with with a largely linear level design and Detective mode basically painting important things with words or symbols saying THIS IS IMPORTANT you'll still manage to get lost. You can turn Detective mode off, but this means pixel hunting and being even more lost.

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Hidden & Dangerous
I'm about half-way through now I think.

I'm at a mission that starts with your guys in German uniforms in a German complex, but goes to shit because your guys can't pass through a checkpoint. The goal being to steal one of their armored cars and drive away. I took out all the German gun tower guys (which is pretty tricky) before the game sets up an ambush, and I had to machinegun my way out of being surrounded, at this point I only had one of my four guys left, but I reached the armored car. I ran over some German soldiers with it and drove out of the base. I was driving along the road feeling pretty accomplished and expecting the mission successful screen to pop up any second, when I came to a bridge, just as I thought, 'is that a tank on that bridge' the tank fired and the mission failure screen popped up.

This game is awesome.

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Playing single-player Battlezone II
Battlezone II was the first game Pandemic Studios released.

In short, it's not as good as Battlezone (1998), but I am enjoying it.
It's a good game, it just has a really hard act to follow.

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Wow. It seems the first game is freeware now
http://battlezone1.freeforums.org/

I just downloaded it and played the first mission. It's the full Battlezone (1998) plus the expansion. *joy*

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The Saboteur is Pandemic Studios last game. Hopefully they go out with a bang.

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