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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Dec 3, 2018 21:33:32 GMT -5
NES: DuckTales 2, Mega Man 6, Kirby's Adventure, Wario's Woods. Adventure Island IV seems pretty cool too but I haven't played that far into it yet. There are also a couple of late Kunio-Kun sports games which seem solid.
SMS: Legend of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, though it is technically an earlier GG game. Before that it's probably Road Rash.
MD: Maybe International Superstar Soccer Deluxe or Pocahontas though there is also a cool unlicensed SRPG from the same year that I'd like to play translated. There are quite a few great or near great games from 1995 such as Alien Soldier, Micro Machines '96, Ristar, EWJ2, Comix Zone, Phantom 2040, Batman & Robin, NHL '96, Scooby-Doo Mystery and Light Crusader. Shadowrun for MCD (1996) also seems promising.
SNES: Maybe Sutte Hakkun, haven't played the Fire Emblem game yet. One great game from a couple years earlier that is a bit overlooked is Front Mission: Gun Hazard.
PC DOS: Theme Hospital, Dungeon Keeper or Blood maybe?
MSX: Eggbert, which was turned into Toki Tori for GBC later on if I have my facts right.
PCE CD: Puyo Puyo 2
GB: Wario Land 2? I haven't played Beatmania, River King 2 and a few other later ones though.
GG: Royal Stone, Sylvan Tale, Kishin Douji Zenki, Shining Force Gaiden: FC.
Saturn: Dungeons & Dragons Collection, Street Fighter Alpha 3
PS1: Black/Matrix 00 or Dragon Quest Monsters 1+2?
N64: Bomberman 64 (Japan), Tony Hawk 2, maybe Doubutsu no Mori/Animal Crossing?
GBA: Mother 3, Rhythm Tengoku, Yggdra Union
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Post by jorpho on Dec 3, 2018 21:54:40 GMT -5
PC DOS: Theme Hospital, Dungeon Keeper or Blood maybe? One thing that comes up most frequently along the lines of late, demanding DOS games is Battlespire, but apparently it's not that great. |
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Post by Bumpyroad on Dec 4, 2018 0:04:41 GMT -5
I thought "personal choice" is a keyword here. Wouldn't it alway just be the best game on the system then? And was there really nothing after Bayonetta 2 that you liked on Wii U? The last best one out of the few. I don't play certain genres at all, does not interest me. |
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Post by dsparil on Dec 4, 2018 9:22:53 GMT -5
PC DOS: Theme Hospital, Dungeon Keeper or Blood maybe? One thing that comes up most frequently along the lines of late, demanding DOS games is Battlespire, but apparently it's not that great. Battlespire is okay. It's just not what people wanted/expected when it was released. Redguard was later (Oct. 31, 1998) and is also a DOS game, but uses a Windows installer so it's less obviously a DOS game; the GOG releases uses DOSBox so it definitely is. NIRA: Intense Import Drag Racing (Summer '99!) uses the same engine as Battlespire and Redguard, and I'm almost entirely certain that it's also for DOS with a Windows installer. It wasn't necessary reviewed well although (drag racing isn't exactly the most interesting thing in the world), but I remember PC Gamer liking it quite a bit. So either that or Redguard are likely to be the last "great" DOS games. Definitely Redguard if you're going with a stricter definition of "great" as it's an under appreciated classic and my favorite ES game having played all of them aside from Online at this point. |
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Post by ZenithianHero on Dec 4, 2018 17:17:48 GMT -5
Talking North America only
N64: Conker's Bad Fur Day at 2001. Wow. Pushed the hardware to the limits and is one of those games you just don't see made like this anymore.
Dr. Mario 64 came out 2001, the last Nintendo game in West I think.
Gamecube: 2006 was a good year, with Wii launching and all. Twilight Princess, Baten Kaitos Origins, Sonic Riders 1, Odama.
Wii: The sad life of Rodea. In 2015 it finally came out but as a bonus to the Wii U "remaster" that wasn't great. Try both out to experience an interesting piece of niche history for Yuji Naka.
And who can forget the localization trinity Last Story, Xenoblade and Pandora's Tower.
PS1: Inuyasha: Feudal Fairy Tale came out 2002/2003 and is a fun fighting game if you love the anime. Made by Dimps too.
Cleopatra Fortune came out late on PSX in 2003 and is a great puzzle game by Taito.
PS2: Sakura Wars: So Long My Love localized in 2010 was worth the wait for me. Too bad it apparently flopped.
Devil Summoner 2 is probably the latest game without a localization gap worth playing at 2008/9.
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Post by kingmike on Dec 5, 2018 15:16:34 GMT -5
There's still Yo-Kai Watch 3 in the US a few days after EO Nexus but it's out in a few days in Europe. Also, "great" isn't the same as "classic". I think of great as being recommendable but not necessary an all time classic. The Yokai Watch games had a very delayed localization. The three mainline games were released in 2013, 2014 and 2016 in Japan. The localizations were released 2015 and 2016 and the third is scheduled for early 2019. (I know they took a year to localize the third version of YW2, which is longer than Level-5 spent making the game.  It was originally released only five months after first two.)
Also, Pokemon Yellow was not a GBC game originally. The GBC support was added for the western release, and I believe amounted to programming the game to use the SGB palettes when run on GBC.
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Post by kingmike on Dec 5, 2018 15:23:32 GMT -5
Dr. Mario 64 came out 2001, the last Nintendo game in West I think. That or Mario Party 3. Supposedly the multi-language PAL version of Paper Mario was released in 2002 which seems to make it a rare game (as opposed to the merely uncommon US version). Thus Nintendo's final localization effort for the N64. (whether the half-localized Wii VC release of Sin & Punishment counts is debatable. Supposedly Nintendo themselves went the texture-replacement route some fan N64 ROM hacks have done.)
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Post by magic89 on Dec 5, 2018 19:21:21 GMT -5
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Post by phediuk on Dec 5, 2018 19:27:56 GMT -5
At least one correction to make here: the last Game Gear game released in North America (or anywhere) was Super Battletank, published in 2001 by Majesco during the period when they were distributing the Game Gear.
It was made in 1994 and mothballed for several years.
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Post by kingmike on Dec 5, 2018 19:53:31 GMT -5
If Class of Heroes 2 counts (since physical was LE only), so does Summon Night 5, for which the physical LE eventually shipped April 2016 (on game list, I entered April 11, 2016 as the date, presumably when I received mine).
Also, a 2008 Dreamcast game? Surely that is an unlicensed aftermarket game. Which means we need to count aftermarket NES, SNES and Genesis games that are still being made.
But apparently the article itself came from Wikipedia which explains the errors. (and Wikipeida deleted the source?)
Yes, Super Battletank: the issue is probably that it was made and reviewed in 1994, and among other ports of the game on other consoles, I guess not many people noticed it went unreleased, until the reissue.
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Post by toei on Dec 6, 2018 7:12:04 GMT -5
Genesis - Phantasy Star IV maybe? I know some people will go to bat for Sonic 3D Blast or Vectorman but...no thanks. Phantasy Star 4 wasn't released that late in the Genesis' life. December '93 in Japan, 1994 in North America. Alien Soldier, Beyond Oasis, Comix Zone, Road Rash 3 and others were all released after. Not to mention critically-acclaimed games I don't care about, like Earthworm Jim 2. |
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Post by dsparil on Dec 6, 2018 7:50:52 GMT -5
There's still Yo-Kai Watch 3 in the US a few days after EO Nexus but it's out in a few days in Europe. Also, "great" isn't the same as "classic". I think of great as being recommendable but not necessary an all time classic. The Yokai Watch games had a very delayed localization. The three mainline games were released in 2013, 2014 and 2016 in Japan. The localizations were released 2015 and 2016 and the third is scheduled for early 2019. (I know they took a year to localize the third version of YW2, which is longer than Level-5 spent making the game. It was originally released only five months after first two.)
Also, Pokemon Yellow was not a GBC game originally. The GBC support was added for the western release, and I believe amounted to programming the game to use the SGB palettes when run on GBC.
The GBC automatically uses the SGB palettes if available so no special programming is needed. There are some tiny enhancements like Pikachu only has red cheeks on GBC, but it isn't a whole lot. |
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Post by kingmike on Dec 6, 2018 11:32:42 GMT -5
The GBC hardware does NOT automatically support SGB palettes, that is a game-specific function of Pokemon Yellow. Let me just go pop in the first SGB-enhanced non-GBC game I find in my collection. That is, Wario Land II (the original monochrome release):
Using an emulator with BIOS ROMs booted into GBC mode (left) and SGB mode (right).
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Post by dsparil on Dec 6, 2018 12:37:19 GMT -5
That's a piece of misinformation I picked up then.
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Post by starscream on Dec 6, 2018 18:04:01 GMT -5
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It was originally released only five months after first two.)
