Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[Syaoran Li]

In my personal opinion, the PS2 is the greatest video game console of all time.

With a standard PS2 Slim, you can play any PS2 game, PS1 game, and almost any DVD with no need for an internet connection or any woke TOS shenanigans.

Maybe it's the nostalgia talking, since all my favorite childhood games were either PS1 or PS2 releases (with a handful of PC games from the early 2000's) but there's a reason why the PS2 to this day is still the best-selling console of all time.

 

[TFT-A9]

PS2 was probably the first console to make a serious, dedicated effort at being online. Before the PS2 there was XBand and that other thing that was pretty much exclusive to Japanese SNES owners. I legit forget if the PS1/Saturn/N64 even bothered with any sort of online connectivity - I want to say there was something for the Saturn but not sure. Final Fantasy XI was I think the first PS2 title to utilize the HDD/modem add-on.

 

[Syaoran Li]

PS2 was probably the first console to make a serious, dedicated effort at being online. Before the PS2 there was XBand and that other thing that was pretty much exclusive to Japanese SNES owners. I legit forget if the PS1/Saturn/N64 even bothered with any sort of online connectivity - I want to say there was something for the Saturn but not sure. Final Fantasy XI was I think the first PS2 title to utilize the HDD/modem add-on.

IIRC, technically you also had SegaNet for Dreamcast but that also just went nowhere.

Even then, PS2's dedicated efforts to go online were very small-time given the technology of the time and the overwhelming majority of games were meant for single-player or at most, offline multiplayer.

It wasn't until the Seventh Gen consoles that online multiplayer was the norm.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Phantasy Star Online for the Sega Dreamcast is still a great game after all these years it’s been in existence.

Sucks you can’t play online, though

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

In my personal opinion, the PS2 is the greatest video game console of all time.

With a standard PS2 Slim, you can play any PS2 game, PS1 game, and almost any DVD with no need for an internet connection or any woke TOS shenanigans.

Maybe it's the nostalgia talking, since all my favorite childhood games were either PS1 or PS2 releases (with a handful of PC games from the early 2000's) but there's a reason why the PS2 to this day is still the best-selling console of all time.

Wholeheartedly agree with one exception the ps2 slim is dogshit atleast the thicc model won't fuck my mint copy of gran turismo 4 albeit fat model from what I've read has issues surrounding the disc cogs breaking and the optical drive getting borked because of wear and tear although I think optical drives are cheap to get one mine is a slim model that fortunately works although I have the fat model in case the slim model dies out on me

 

[Gentleburd]

Everyone, what are your favorite underrated/lesser-known games?

Some of my faves are:
The Geneforge series
Viva Pinata
Impossible Creatures
Riviera: The Promised Land

I’m looking for some new games to play but everywhere I look I get the same stuff recommended to me. I need some variety.

 

[TFT-A9]

Everyone, what are your favorite underrated/lesser-known games?

Might be subjective measures but...

Raptor: Call of the Shadows
Darklands
Grim Dawn
Brogue
Inindo: Way of the Ninja
Chaos Overlords
Blaster Master

 

[Gentleburd]

Might be subjective measures but...

Raptor: Call of the Shadows
Darklands
Grim Dawn
Brogue
Inindo: Way of the Ninja
Chaos Overlords
Blaster Master

Oooooh Grim Dawn looks very Diablo-esque. I love games like that! Plus it’s made by the Titan Quest guys! I’ll definitely check that one out.
Hell yeah, first reply got me a new game to play.

 

[Water-T]

Everyone, what are your favorite underrated/lesser-known games?

Some of my faves are:
The Geneforge series
Viva Pinata
Impossible Creatures
Riviera: The Promised Land

I’m looking for some new games to play but everywhere I look I get the same stuff recommended to me. I need some variety.

Alpha Protocol
Syphon Filter
LA Noire

 

[Corn Flakes]

Raptor: Call of the Shadows

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Can you still run it these days? I remember trying to run it on DOSBox a few years ago and giving up because it just refused to load and crashed silently.

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

Not sure where to post this, so here is fine. Why do Square Enix games always have the most fucking retarded titles?
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
Dissidia 012 (pronounced Duodecim) Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius (I beat the first season of this game and I still don’t know what an Exvius is)
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (pronounced 358 days over 2)
Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep -a fragmentary passage-

 

[TVStactic]

Everyone, what are your favorite underrated/lesser-known games?

Some of my faves are:
The Geneforge series
Viva Pinata
Impossible Creatures
Riviera: The Promised Land

I’m looking for some new games to play but everywhere I look I get the same stuff recommended to me. I need some variety.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Fullspectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers
SWAT 4 + The Stetchkov Syndicate
NOLF + NOLF 2
Warhammer 40000 - Speesh Mareens Space Marine

these are the few i can remember, don't want to remember all the games i played even if i could. anything new i can update my post.

Oooooh Grim Dawn looks very Diablo-esque. I love games like that! Plus it’s made by the Titan Quest guys! I’ll definitely check that one out.
Hell yeah, first reply got me a new game to play.

there is Wolcen - Lords of Mayhem too, it's somewhat decent to play.

Not sure where to post this, so here is fine. Why do Square Enix games always have the most fucking retarded titles?
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
Dissidia 012 (pronounced Duodecim) Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius (I beat the first season of this game and I still don’t know what an Exvius is)
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (pronounced 358 days over 2)
Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep -a fragmentary passage-

ask a nippon kiwi, they'd probably know better.

 

[Bathroom Attendant]

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Can you still run it these days? I remember trying to run it on DOSBox a few years ago and giving up because it just refused to load and crashed silently.

You can get it on Steam and it works although it's called the "2015 edition" but from what I have played vs my memory is just the same thing but works on modern PCs

 

[Slap47]

Alpha Protocol
Syphon Filter
LA Noire

[Let's Play] Syphon Filter 2 Intro

COOL

www.youtube.com

That game had some great cutscenes.

 

[Gentleburd]

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Fullspectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers
SWAT 4 + The Stetchkov Syndicate
NOLF + NOLF 2
Warhammer 40000 - Speesh Mareens Space Marine

these are the few i can remember, don't want to remember all the games i played even if i could. anything new i can update my post.

there is Wolcen - Lords of Mayhem too, it's somewhat decent to play.

ask a nippon kiwi, they'd probably know better.

Kingdoms of Amalur! I love that game so much. It’s a blast to play.
I love games with lots of exploration and collectibles like KoA has. Sadly, the game is prone to annoying bugs. Though I’ve never let those stop me from enjoying a game. My hundreds of hours in Skyrim are proof of that, lol

 

[TFT-A9]

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Can you still run it these days? I remember trying to run it on DOSBox a few years ago and giving up because it just refused to load and crashed silently.

The GOG version runs fine with their version of DOSBox as far as I know. Been a little while since I loaded it up but don't think anything has changed.

 

[TVStactic]

Kingdoms of Amalur! I love that game so much. It’s a blast to play.
I love games with lots of exploration and collectibles like KoA has. Sadly, the game is prone to annoying bugs. Though I’ve never let those stop me from enjoying a game. My hundreds of hours in Skyrim are proof of that, lol

you were talking about underrated. the re-reckoning is not a good version at all, the bugs are mostly picking some quest items that won't go away in my saves but i don't mind.
also give it a check on Chocolate Satellite Regin, it's a pleb xcom-styled cyberpunky game. kinda interesting to play and the coop system is crazy funny. managed to play it with a bud via streaming my session to him. t'was really wild because he's kind of a weeb and his character had a goku hairdo. ha

[Let's Play] Syphon Filter 2 Intro

COOL

www.youtube.com

That game had some great cutscenes.

i, i, thought you were talkin about alpha protocol...

 

[Uncle June]

I guess that hot Dying Light 2 information Techland was supposed to drop this month was that the game was in development hell.

Lol.

 

[Poop A Loop]

I mean, that sounds like literally every startup or midsize software company where the CEO can't stop fucking with the people who know what they're doing and acting like a "visionary".

I'd bet every messed up project could eventually be traced back to an executive who couldn't stay in their lane and kept changing scope or direction based on a whim.

The best place to be in software is on a project that's like fifth in importance because you'll be given the necessary resources while not being subjected to the Eye of Sauron each week when an exec gets bored of the cocaine and had a dream where Elon Musk spoke from a burning bush.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Lord I've tried I've tried so hard to get into the original System Shock but I just can't. It's rightfully considered a landmark piece of software. But it's just a chore to play. The UI is so cluttered, the visuals are just plain ugly to look at, the music is grating, Cyberspace sequences straight up suck. Killing enemies isn't very fun at all.

I appreciate what Looking Glass managed to achieve, but I think they went on to do so much more with the Thief games and System Shock 2. I get why people still say it's worth playing the original System Shock and experiencing everything it has to offer. But it just doesn't click for me.