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Post by mikemacdee on Apr 17, 2016 18:38:43 GMT -5
EDIT: I should be talking about article issues with the editor in email, not in the forums. I'm too used to collaborating on wikis I guess. Apologies.
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Post by zentradialert on Apr 17, 2016 23:29:28 GMT -5
You forgot to mention the absolutely terrible soundtrack. I'm not familiar with the show but I remember renting Family Dog back in the day and being absolutely appalled at how awful the music was, a quick Youtube shows I'm not remembering inaccurately. I guess it's subjective though. Now if they had gotten Danny Elfman to do the SNES soundtrack the way they did the TV show...that would have been great.
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Post by theflynn on Apr 20, 2016 12:44:10 GMT -5
The thing about Family Dog (the game): by the time it came out, the show had already been cancelled, so it wound up being a tie-in with nothing left to tie to. Based on what I've seen of it, it's fairly obvious they just shipped what was finished when the cancellation came down--it's three fairly short levels that end abruptly with no rhyme or reason. No advertising either, though either Nintendo Power or GamePro gave it a brief blip and mentioned it was terrible, something that didn't happen often in either of those rags.
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Post by TΛPETRVE on May 29, 2016 14:59:16 GMT -5
H.U.R.L. really is a special sort of awkward. Thankfully there's the magnificent Chex Quest to get your kids into the mood for first-person enemy disposal, before they inevitably get their hands on DOOM at the age of 8 or so . Speaking of which, has anyone ever heard of Skaphander? German FPS from 1995, which had you steer some sort of virtual hovercraft through a computer network to kill viruses and fulfil various tasks. Wasn't exactly a good game, but it did have some original ideas, as well as a pretty weird atmosphere (the first level takes place in a miscalibrated sound driver(!) - which takes the shape of a chapel, including creepy choir samples and organ music).
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Post by cambertian on Jun 1, 2016 20:04:17 GMT -5
Speaking of which, has anyone ever heard of Skaphander? German FPS from 1995, which had you steer some sort of virtual hovercraft through a computer network to kill viruses and fulfil various tasks. Wasn't exactly a good game, but it did have some original ideas, as well as a pretty weird atmosphere (the first level takes place in a miscalibrated sound driver(!) - which takes the shape of a chapel, including creepy choir samples and organ music). Sounds similar to Sir-Tech's Virus the Game... almost eerily so. I wouldn't be surprised if they're the same game, though I also wouldn't be surprised if they were completely different games made around the same time period (if that makes any sense.)
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Post by TΛPETRVE on Jun 7, 2016 20:43:56 GMT -5
They're two different games. Fondly enough, Skaphander was actually re-released in 1997 as "Virus Explosion" (but was still completely unrelated to the Sir-Tech game, besides the fact that it was only released in Germany).
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Post by toei on Jun 8, 2016 15:33:47 GMT -5
So now that Makai Hakkenden Shada was fan translated, a mistake becomes apparent in the article. It states that when you try to leave an area before completing all you tasks, someone appears and you instantly die. In fact the writer is referring to the NPC who appears on the bridge in the very beginning, and attacks you for about 28HP of damage as part of the story; if you're level 2 at full hp you survive and someone comes and heal you. This also means that same writer didn't play the game for more than 10 minutes, otherwise he would've realized this is a one-time story event. That's too bad, because it would have been interesting to see whether the rest of the game is as similar to Ys as the first area. My memories of Ys are pretty distant, but I don't think the dungeons and subsequent towns are ripped from Ys. It's not such a bad game, really. I just wish I could figure out how to beat that giant frog.
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Post by Discoalucard on Jun 8, 2016 18:30:47 GMT -5
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Post by Magma MK-II on Jun 17, 2016 11:43:43 GMT -5
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Post by Discoalucard on Jun 17, 2016 12:53:26 GMT -5
We re-categorized it. When we were first starting this column, I didn't really enforce the "kusoge" label very hard and so Blomby Car got put in there, not necessarily because it was bad but just because it had a goofy name. When we re-did the catalog, we moved this and a few others to the bottom as "not quite kusoge", games that were kinda weird and stupid but not necessarily bad. The preferred term for this is "bakage" nowadays.
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Post by elektrolurch on Jun 20, 2016 4:29:26 GMT -5
Thanks for the article about Quiver. And here I was, thinking I knew about all obscure DOS doom clones. Turns out, I simply do not. It came out in 1997? Geez, maybe that explains why I haven't heard of it-either to busy playing Quake or Descent 2, or waiting for Unreal and Half Life to come out. Quiver came really late to the party, which explains it obscurity. Oh, and is it just me or does the sound effect when you push a button sound very similar to the door opening sound in DOOM? Anyway, I personally would love to see more obscure DOS games covered here. I mean those are the ones that are very likely to be forgotten.
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Post by Discoalucard on Jun 20, 2016 9:20:32 GMT -5
Anyway, I personally would love to see more obscure DOS games covered here. I mean those are the ones that are very likely to be forgotten. Same here actually. I've got a ton of PC Gamer demo discs lying around, should be good fodder to figure out some interesting stuff to try out. Anything DOS is OK but anything for Win 95 might prove to be a problem compatibility-wise...
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Post by Maciej Miszczyk on Jun 20, 2016 13:05:27 GMT -5
I know you can run Windows 3.1 in DOSBox without too many problems. 95 was DOS-based too so it might be possible as well
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Post by jorpho on Jun 20, 2016 16:58:25 GMT -5
The only real advantage to running Windows 95 in DOSBox is that you might be able to persuade it to use the Voodoo emulation for games that require 3D acceleration (including DirectX or OpenGL). Otherwise, it's probably better to run Windows 95 in VMware Player, I think.
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Post by magic89 on Jun 20, 2016 17:20:07 GMT -5
I dont know did ever these series been sold world wide, but its total kusoge.
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