Looking for game suggestions for titles I might like
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 3:55 am
Well, this is a fairly open ended question, but I'm about to try and narrow the focus a bit.
Even though I'm interested in getting a 3DO, I have to say that I'm not really a big fan of FMV centric games (at least, where FMV is part of the core gameplay). Rather I enjoy sprite based games (fighters, side scrollers, etc) and games with early polygon graphics or pre-rendered 3d as sprites (3d driving games, flight sims, starfox-like shooters, etc)
I guess my interests are mostly in action/arcade type games that give some instant enjoyment and are easy to play for 20 or 30 minutes at a time, rather than strategy or rpg games that involve grinding, leveling up, or trying to build something slowly from virtually nothing. This seems to take out well regarded 3DO games like Theme Park, Wing Commander, and Star Control II.
I'm also not really into doom and doom clones these days either, so that takes out another small chunk of the library. - Doom, Wolf3d, Po'ed, D&D games, etc
Not really into team sports games at all either, so that eliminates football games and the like.
It seems to me that out of the ~200 titles on the 3DO, there are actually only a moderate amount of titles that might fit into the category of games I want to play these days. And of these, maybe a smaller amount that are objectively fun to play for a non-collector. At the end of the day, I'm calling on your expert knowledge to help me think of titles to look at, and titles i may have overlooked.
Here are some titles that fit my metrics that I think seem worthwhile for me to check out. I've read reviews and watched youtube videos of most of them in action. A few of them I enjoyed on the PC at the time. Most of them seem to be Crystal Dynamics titles
-Crash n Burn
-Flashback (never played this on any system, but I love the old Prince of Persia games and Blackthorne, and this seems to be very much like those)
-Out of this World
-Offworld Interceptor
-Road Rash
-Need for Speed
-Gex
-Total Eclipse
-Star Fighter
-SSF2T
-Samurai Shodown
-Soccer Kid
-Lemmings
(I think this list alone is enough of a reason for me to splurge on a 3DO, although looking at it, Crash n Burn might be the only true exclusive, nearly all of these titles were available on other systems of the time )
Titles that could fit into my metrics, but look a little dubious from my research:
-Captain Quazar (just not really into the character and graphic style)
-Quarantine (looks difficult to play, and like it might be a doom clone masquerading as a car based game)
-Tokio Autobahn (interesting 3d graphics, but doesn't look like the cars control well)
-VR Stalker (flight sims can be neat, but this game just looks very plain in terms of the featureless ground and sky. Are there any other good flightsims besides perhaps Star Fighter?)
-Way of the Warrior (this is really a product of its time as an MK clone, but it looks like a really bad one, along the lines of Kasumi Ninja, which I used to own and found no enjoyment with)
Even though I'm interested in getting a 3DO, I have to say that I'm not really a big fan of FMV centric games (at least, where FMV is part of the core gameplay). Rather I enjoy sprite based games (fighters, side scrollers, etc) and games with early polygon graphics or pre-rendered 3d as sprites (3d driving games, flight sims, starfox-like shooters, etc)
I guess my interests are mostly in action/arcade type games that give some instant enjoyment and are easy to play for 20 or 30 minutes at a time, rather than strategy or rpg games that involve grinding, leveling up, or trying to build something slowly from virtually nothing. This seems to take out well regarded 3DO games like Theme Park, Wing Commander, and Star Control II.
I'm also not really into doom and doom clones these days either, so that takes out another small chunk of the library. - Doom, Wolf3d, Po'ed, D&D games, etc
Not really into team sports games at all either, so that eliminates football games and the like.
It seems to me that out of the ~200 titles on the 3DO, there are actually only a moderate amount of titles that might fit into the category of games I want to play these days. And of these, maybe a smaller amount that are objectively fun to play for a non-collector. At the end of the day, I'm calling on your expert knowledge to help me think of titles to look at, and titles i may have overlooked.
Here are some titles that fit my metrics that I think seem worthwhile for me to check out. I've read reviews and watched youtube videos of most of them in action. A few of them I enjoyed on the PC at the time. Most of them seem to be Crystal Dynamics titles
-Crash n Burn
-Flashback (never played this on any system, but I love the old Prince of Persia games and Blackthorne, and this seems to be very much like those)
-Out of this World
-Offworld Interceptor
-Road Rash
-Need for Speed
-Gex
-Total Eclipse
-Star Fighter
-SSF2T
-Samurai Shodown
-Soccer Kid
-Lemmings
(I think this list alone is enough of a reason for me to splurge on a 3DO, although looking at it, Crash n Burn might be the only true exclusive, nearly all of these titles were available on other systems of the time )
Titles that could fit into my metrics, but look a little dubious from my research:
-Captain Quazar (just not really into the character and graphic style)
-Quarantine (looks difficult to play, and like it might be a doom clone masquerading as a car based game)
-Tokio Autobahn (interesting 3d graphics, but doesn't look like the cars control well)
-VR Stalker (flight sims can be neat, but this game just looks very plain in terms of the featureless ground and sky. Are there any other good flightsims besides perhaps Star Fighter?)
-Way of the Warrior (this is really a product of its time as an MK clone, but it looks like a really bad one, along the lines of Kasumi Ninja, which I used to own and found no enjoyment with)