The problem is, 'good' dos platformers are always going to be the same old ApogeEpic laundry list everyone and their dog are already familiar with. (even in the bbs days since they shove their way to the top of the filelist starting their archives with 1 you couldn't view a games list without them showing up.)XanderK9 wrote:Speaking of which, there's a few free games at 3D Realms' website you could try.
Multiplayer is a shortlived flailing sideshow. Single player is the meat and soul of Punch-Out. It's a puzzle game about pattern recognition and timing!DoomRater wrote:But I'll wait to pick it up until I'm with people I can actually play against. Single player isn't going to take me that much time and it's like practice anyway.
Look into the sequel, Fire Hawk: Thexder The Second Contact. Sierra composed a whole soundtrack for it that plays on Roland MT-32 hardware and sounds pretty cool. Just ignore Thexder 95. It's quite awful.Kinsie wrote:I asked another forum about future DOS platformers to tackle, and they suggested Thexder. Oooof, that PC speaker soundtrack.
Not from what I'm seeing! Not only are there one hit knockdowns and one hit KOs in multiplayer, but getting practice in at single player is only going to prepare me for the timings I'll need in head to head.Kinsie wrote:Multiplayer is a shortlived flailing sideshow. Single player is the meat and soul of Punch-Out. It's a puzzle game about pattern recognition and timing!DoomRater wrote:But I'll wait to pick it up until I'm with people I can actually play against. Single player isn't going to take me that much time and it's like practice anyway.
Very yes. One of those rare things that makes me audibly swear and quickly close the page. Fortunately the few friends of mine that were interested in it have since moved on, since my friends tend to not be idiots.Project Dark Fox wrote:I am so burned out on this Five Nights At Freddy's nonsense, [...] that it is enough for me to go strangle someone to death.
Love the concept. Hate the raving popularity.NeuralStunner wrote:Very yes. One of those rare things that makes me audibly swear and quickly close the page. Fortunately the few friends of mine that were interested in it have since moved on, since my friends tend to not be idiots.
Still haven't decided whether obnoxious things are more likely to become popular, or popular things are more likely to become obnoxious. I suspect it might be a bit of both.
Come to think about it, there may also be Zeliard if you haven't heard of it already.Kinsie wrote:I asked another forum about future DOS platformers to tackle, and they suggested Thexder. Oooof, that PC speaker soundtrack.
I don't even like the concept or the genre, so that only makes it worse for me.Project Dark Fox wrote:Love the concept. Hate the raving popularity.
Spoiler: Eroge in spoiler because I'm not sure how NSFW rules apply to textThat was some fun.
You haven't played Portrait of Ruin right? DOS was pretty decent, not that good but still decent, what i like is the classic metroidvania exploration of the castle which i found good unlike the other DS castlevanias, but still Order of Ecclesia is my favoriteMav3rick wrote:...is probably IMO the worst of the serie...
This is like saying that you're getting Unreal Tournament for the plot.DoomRater wrote:Not from what I'm seeing! Not only are there one hit knockdowns and one hit KOs in multiplayer, but getting practice in at single player is only going to prepare me for the timings I'll need in head to head.
I have a couple of the other Sierrra/Game Arts collabs (Zeliard and Silpheed) and that's why the audio was such a shock - those games have lovely MT32-enhanced MIDI, Thexder... doesn't.XanderK9 wrote:Come to think about it, there may also be Zeliard if you haven't heard of it already.
