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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: steve_uktv on May 24, 2005, 01:47:54 AM
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In my view best ever game on the amiga ..if it be A500,600 1200 whatever has to be SENSIBLE SOCCER!!!!
what u all reckon???
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Worms DC
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steve_uktv wrote:
In my view best ever game on the amiga ..if it be A500,600 1200 whatever has to be SENSIBLE SOCCER!!!!
what u all reckon???
Not if you're not a big soccer fan :-D
Some Amiga games certainly still stand up very well to modern games. Sure graphics and sounds may have aged. Playability is really the key in my opinion.
To me, the epitome of Amiga games were the pioneers: shooters like Hybris/Silkworm/Project X, platform shooters like Turrican/Alien Breed/Chaos Engine, strategy like Mega-lo-Mania/Populous 2, puzzles like Lemmings, sports like SWOS/Speedball 2, RPGs like Dungeon Master and pinball like Dreams/Fantasies. There are so many, it's hard to include all or indeed, pick a single title.
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Harlbro wrote:
There are so many, it's hard to include all or indeed, pick a single title.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing, its just not possible to pick a single title.
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adz wrote:
Harlbro wrote:
There are so many, it's hard to include all or indeed, pick a single title.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing, its just not possible to pick a single title.
this is the point where someone mentions Turrican II as the best Amiga game.... I won't because (shock 'N' horror) I've never played it!
For me I'd have to say Vital Light is a winner. Don't think enough people give it credit or have tried it in two player mode (EVIL!!!!!!). I think it really made my CD32 expreinece the best B4 I got my SX-1..
J-Golden
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I'd say best is 'Super Cars 2', or maybe 'Syndicate' if choosing from single player games.
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To me, the epitome of Amiga games were the pioneers: shooters like Hybris/Silkworm/Project X, platform shooters like Turrican/Alien Breed/Chaos Engine, strategy like Mega-lo-Mania/Populous 2, puzzles like Lemmings, sports like SWOS/Speedball 2, RPGs like Dungeon Master and pinball like Dreams/Fantasies. There are so many, it's hard to include all or indeed, pick a single title.
Actually I don't think there are that many AMiGA games which I still find as intriguing as they were once. Just like music produced during a particular period with a particular sound games tend to become dated aswell. I have one, rather not so hard to understand, prciniple of looking at games being dated or not...
Take the Playstation for example and Final Fantasy VII. FFVII is a game I really find dated since it is slow as hell, doesn't use the hardware in the machine as it could because they still didn't know how to do it... so, no matter how good the game is in theory, in practice it seems rather dated. FFXI doesn't, much because they then knew how to use the hardware and most of the graphical glitches found in FFVII were remowed, the game ran much faster and everything was way much more polished.
Talking AMiGA once again, I could mention that games I still think feels fresh are for example Turrican II, Super Stardust AGA, Super Frog, Lemmings II, Brian The Lion AGA, Slam Tilt AGA... they really used the machine's hardware to present solid titles whic ran smooth as silk. On the other hand we have titles like Speedball II, Chaos Engine, Banshee, Project X... which I on one hand consider being great games, but on the other hand think they are really lazy coded. Why on earth don't they run smooth? Speedball 2 got really jerky scrolling, Chaos Engine runs in some kind of, although smooth, 15-30 FPS scrolling which makes it seem quite blurish when running around... same goes for the monsters in Project X and the sideway scrolling in Banshee... I can't understand why on earth someone codes a game not to run as smooth as possible, like Super Frog, for example... it not like any of the latter titles mentioned are too "advanced" to run as smooth. I think many titles have lost their glory because of this... they have become dated.
And just one little question before I eat my breakfast... how on earth could Xenon II become so cherised in the press? I would give it like 1 out of 5 if I were to rate it. Repetative, not so impressive graphics, a lousy soundtrack by Bomb The Bass which one gets bored with after some 2 minutes or so, extremely jerky scrolling and sluggish control. Have I missed something here?
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really great games don't use much hardware like tetris, tanks, arkanoid. but those cant be called 'Amiga games'.
if you wanna see game using hw, load 'Syndicate' and use persuaderton on whole town
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I'd say Prince of Persia :love:
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What about the game, Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight, that gets so many bids on eBay that it often sells each time for well over 100 quid?
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The Bard's Tale
Worms DC
Stunt Car Racer
There's not just one, there are many.
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@orange
I heard the PC version of Syndicate used 256 color graphics instead of 64-color Extra HalfBrite mode. Does it still qualify as an Amiga game if it has a PC version?
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Cannon Fodder and many others had PC versions too, but Amiga version was much more popular, so I'd say they are Amiga games.
How many colors con(version) has is not important, IMO.
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There are just too many games, but the ones i remeber playing the most:
-Turrican I/II
-Bards tale Series
-EOB I/II
-The Settlers
-Elite II(and I)
-James Pond II(Robocod)
-Super Cars II
-Dune II
-Lotus II
-Hired Guns
And many others...
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Frontier: Elite II
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if I had to pick just one game???
it would be AB3D
I liked AB3D-II but it just wasnt as playable :-?
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Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back ...forever!!!
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I can't narrow it down any further than:
Alien Breed (all of them ;-) )
Breathless
Cannon Fodder
Syndicate
Moonstone
Another World
Flashback
Shadow of the Beast (bloody difficult, but I still like it)
UFO: Enemy Unknown
Probably a few others, but they're what I play the most (except Another World and Moonstone as mine are buggered).
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Well, I'd have to say my ultimate favorite, has to be TurboRaketti II. Obscure shareware two-player duel with Asteroids' style control and multiple weapons, in a big scrolling maze of obstacles. I don't know what it is, but when you learn to pilot those little triangles among the rocks at top speed, deliver a bomb to your enemy, and escape, you're addicted :) Look for it online. PAL only, I think. (TurbokRaketti I and GravAttack are interesting and similar, but just not the same.)
Runner-up: the original Lemmings in 2-player mode with 2 mice. An Amiga-only adventure in pure aggravation. I challenge any friendship to withstand a night of 2-mouse Lemmings.
I also enjoyed StarGlider 2 (the original "Descent"?), MindWalker, Shadow of the Beast, It Came From the Desert, Obliterator, Stunt Car Racer, and Sinbad.
And there's a ellipse-shaped PAL shareware game I really liked--great graphical style, shooting in from the rim towards little blobs that grew and grew. I think it was called Microbe or something similar.
And for some odd reason, I really liked New Stubb City, made with VR Construction Kit. I guess I was a sucker for any kind of 3D.
Special mention must be made of Space Spuds. My X-Specs 3D still work :)
I do remember Sensible Soccer, though--the only sports game I've ever gotten into I think!
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What am I thinking? It has been too long.
I forgot about Marble Madness, Archon, and Archon II: Adept. All favorites. I played many, many hours of Archon 2-player. A classic.
I also liked Tower Toppler (which has a nice modern shareware remake, nearly identical, available for Mac: "Toppler"--it's at MacGameFiles.com). I think that game would make me crazy now, though.
And some game... Blastaball maybe? With a choice of ships shooting BBs at a big ball in soccer-like scrolling arena.
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I reckon Chaos Engine-AGA 1200 version is pretty dam good,also Total Carnage+Cannon Fodder. 8-)
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After all these years, the only Amiga game that I fiarly regularly play (and in fact I have the Amiga version on my PDA) is Dungeon Master. There's something fiendishly addictive about the game. It's not nostalgia either, I think that it's a very playable game, full of strategy and tension.
Life decision? I sold my C64 and entire collection of games for the half-meg upgrade to play DM in 1989. Looking back though, I wish I hadn't!