Amiga game publisher showdown: Team 17 vs Bitmap Brothers

[runequester]

So a showdown... Bitmap Brothers (Gods, Chaos Engine, Speedball etc) and their entire library of amiga games vs Team 17 (Alien Breed, Project X, Assassin etc) and their entire library. Who wins?
 
Who was the most badass amiga game developer ?
 
Best looking games, best sounding games, most consistently great, single best title, single worst title, annoying habits etc etc etc
 
 
Lets talk it up and think of fond memories

[runequester]

Both were mediocre technically and Xenon 2 looked like it was written in STOS and converted to AMOS :roflmao:
 
Gremlin was more like it...
 
Shadow Fighter, Lotus II, Pegasus, Kid Chaos.....see?

we'll get to the rest of them I figured I'd do pairings of developers as we go along. So patience young grasshopper :afro:

[runequester]

Two amazingly badass devs, but for me its Team 17 at the top. I like just about every Team 17 game but my fave titles are Alien Breed (first one made biggest impact on me), Project X (not the sissy SE version) and Superfrog on the ECS machines. Super Stardust and Worms : Directors Cut on AGA.
 
Generally all Team 17 games were really smooth, looked and sounded awesome and had charm. When Zool was the semi official Icon for the Amiga I was all WTF? Superfrog blew Zool away!
 
Super Stardust made my jaw drop when I first saw it and still to this day it holds up well. So that one is best looking for me
 
Worms is timeless, and even now, I prefer the old Miggy version over any of the newer ones. This one is the laster.
 
Best title must be Alien Breed, for me personally as it was at the time a big step up and really showed the gap between ST and Amiga.
 
Of all the T17 games I think Quak wasn't that hot.
 
Annoying habbits... hmmm... dual packing all their cool OCS/ECS games on CD32 and instantly making them look cheap.
 
But saying all that, The bitmaps were awesome too. Speedball 2 and Chaos Engine were my faves

 
Quak I believe was an amateur game someone submitted to them, and they finished it as a budget release. Its very fun in two-player, single player is a bit limited.
 
The original Alien Breed to me captures a lot of what amiga games were about: Good graphics, thick atmosphere straight out of Aliens, the eerie and killer main menu music, lots of speech during the game, intense two player action.
 
Biggest flaw is that apparently Team 17 didn't believe in hard drives. Almost none of their titles are HD installable :madashell:
 
Not as bad as Psygnosis that apparently didn't believe in external floppies either but 4 disk games not being HD installable was not okay by 92.

[runequester]

Speedball 2 is one of my fave competition games on the miggy, for sure
 
I had completely forgotten about Ruff N Tumble. That's a killer game.
 
Harsh on Superfrog though man, I loved that game
Not a Body Blows fan at all. Didn't seem to be as fully fledged as Mortal Kombat or similar at the time.

[runequester]

It's not that I disliked Superfrog, it was ok, I was just expecting a better game after all the hype around it in it's day. Was a case of more style than substance for me. Plus I didnt like the way Superfrog himself controlled. Was nice and responsive, etc. but it just felt wrong to me. Was no inertia or physics involed, everything reacted instantly, which always bothered me a bit.
To each his own though

Ahh, I guess I missed most of the hype
 
Danish magazines did give it good reviews though.
 
Im partial to it as well, as its a game my 3 year old enjoys watching without too much violence and mayhem

[runequester]

Body Blows came out While I was working at an Amiga Store so we had an open copy playing on the floor.  It had it's charms and my fellow tech friend and I will still throw out random quotes from it now and then...:lol:
 
"I'm sorry about that."
 
"No problem!"
 
and my fav.
 
"Nin-JA!!!!!!"
 
as for who is a better publisher... it's an even tie for me.  No no, I'm not trying to cop out, I just can't decide between Chaos Engine/Speed ball/Xenon and Alien Breed/Walker/Assasin.

Walker was Psygnosis I think.

Assassin was great. A better Strider clone than the miserable amiga version of Strider

The special edition slaughtered the game though.