Are you sure people actually like NES Metroid much? I understand that people are keen on discksucking the series no matter what, but when it comes down to actual games I only ever hear about Super Metroid and the GBA ones (and the Prime games too I guess). In any case Zero Mission (remake of NES Metroid) is leaps and bounds better than the original, you should give that a whirl if you still care.
Half-Life was always stiff in a way that I can't explain. All FPSs don't handle the same way, like with LithTech there's something a bit odd about how their mouselook behaves.
Don't try to play Metroid 1 now, it's clunky as fuck. Metroid 2 is better but is clunky in another way. Both were great for their time but they haven't aged well.
I don't know who the fuck liked Silent Hill Downpour, that game was always shit.
It's always had a bizarre amount of fans and got mostly positive reviews. Never understood how.
NES metroid was aight, not the best, definitely not the worst nes game. I liked majora's mask better than oot. I got it when it was released. I liked the creepy uncanny nightmarish vibe it had. But, I probably would have appreciated it less had it come out before OOT. MM was good pretty much because OOT exists. It's like a weird trippy fucked up dream version of oot. At least that's how I always took it as.
Probably voidburger and her knuckle dragging crew from the "grate debate"
Incredibly late reply here but THANK FUCK someone else agrees that that machine is a massive pile of wank.Pinball counts right?
Twilight Zone.
It's almost never outside the top 5 on IPDB, but I can't stand it. Why? Because despite its really nice art and actually Rod Serling's voice, it plays horribly. No flow. Pat Lawlor (for it was he), who had just come off the awesomeness and unprecedented mega-sales of Addams Family, was given an unlimited budget to produce this, and it shows. There's a secondary playfield with magnets instead of flippers, a working clock, a working gumball machine, a special mode which swallows the normal steel ball and serves you a much bouncier and lighter ceramic ball just to fuck with your targeting, loads of self-indulgent mechanical crap, but the problem is, there's just so much crap all over the playfield that you make a shot, something happens, then the ball is stopped dead and served back to you a bit later. And again. And again. Addams Family and Earthshaker had brilliant flow, and his later effort Red & Ted's Road Show likewise. This, however, doesn't.
Compare and contrast Star Trek TNG from the same year, which has just as in-depth a rulesheet and cool shit, but far superior flow to it.
I wouldnt exactly shit on SH2 for that, they pulled off a story so masterfully done, it makes people want more
Doom Eternal is way better. 2016 felt like it was still trying to find its footing, but Eternal was on a whole other level. While I still prefer Classic Doom as well as all the community made WADS (like the above mentioned), Doom Eternal I feel did a stellar job at doing its own thing gameplay wise. Nothing in that game felt overpowered, every weapon and upgrade had some form of purpose. There was a sense of rhythm and flow to fights that can take time to get used to, but when it clicks, it clicks.
