Laughable Amiga Titles.

[B00tDisk]

Hillsfar.  I hope the ghost of Gary Gygax haunts the coders at SSI forever for that piece of shit.

There was a flight sim that was based on the idea around the Nellis AFB Red Flag competitions but, being a flight sim, you could actually shoot down your opponents.  The enemy "AI" involved just banking right as hard as possible (thus they'd fly in a circle) any time you were near.

Speaking of those, F29 Retaliator.  Beautiful game!  High poly count!  Ran well on unexpanded machines!  Hitboxes...ehh...yeah about that.  Nothing like flying 500m away from a terrain feature only to smack into it because the bounding box around the polygon for that feature was the size of fucking Nebraska.

[B00tDisk]

So I am not the only one to crash into thin air then. :rofl:

No.  It's part of why the game's performance was so high with such a relatively high poly count.  It's easy to pull off when the game just says "Okay those are there for decorations, I don't have to worry about calculations for physics or interactions - the big invisible rectangle they're sitting in, that one I need to make 'solid' (even though it's transparent)."

If you think about it, it sadly makes perfect sense.

[B00tDisk]

I think we can all agree that shitty PC ports - particularly games that should have taken advantage of certain things the Amiga had (speech, mouse input, etc.) were pretty much the worst of the worst.  There were even cases where Amiga features were coded WRONG!  Wing Commander CD32, for example, had a bug that used the Akiko chip incorrectly and actually made the game slower.

EDIT: also, pretty much Sierra's output for the Amiga.  Fucking four, eight and sixteen color games on a machine that could do 64 without missing a beat.

THANKS, ASSHOLES.

[B00tDisk]

Couldn't agree more! Throughout its history, the Amiga was seriously gypped that way. Between horseshit AtariST ports and clunky looking IBM DOS ports - what in the F#CK were they thinking?

I've never played Wing Commander on the CD32, but I can just imagine how clunky and slow that translation is.  :angry:

I think it speaks volumes to the whole conversion theory that Wing Commander for the Amiga...

A: Ran in 16 colors in menu/on-ship areas
B: ACTUALLY HAD the menu for selecting the Secret Missions disk - it functioned, if you click on it, it waits for you to insert the (nonexistent, never created) Secret Missions disk
C: Actually works and runs well on 030 machines.  Try it on an 030 equipped AGA machine, it's lovely.  For that matter, if you can get the CD32 version it runs in 256 colors.

Pisses me off it does.

[B00tDisk]

Come on.. it wasn't THAT bad

Y...yes it was.  It was goddamn awful.