MK's A-Z of Gaming - The Bear and Badger

Moot_Geeza

Yes.

ChopperByrne

UFO: Enemy Unknown

One of my most played games. Perfect introduction to strategy games.

Unreal Tournament gets an honourable mention for office LAN games.

Bollockoff

regmcfly

U has been my favourite for other people's answers so far coz of actual variety.

Yossarian

Good call, Bollo.

Yes, I'll take Uplink too.

davyK

http://www.davykelly.com/collection/index21.html

Under Defeat for me. Great old school STG with modern graphics.

UN Squadron and Unirally are good shouts.

Yossarian

I'm quite looking forward to Sega owning tomorrow.

optimark_prime

I'm sure the Nintendo lovers will be nominating some obscure Virtual Boy games to belittle Sega's achievements

Roujin

UFO: Enemy Unknown or gtfo.

I highly urge everyone who enjoyed the remake to play the original (not any of the sequels they are terrible), it's like the remake, except it doesn't treat you like an idiot, it's like the Dark Souls of turn based squad tactics strategy goodness, mixed in with that epic mid 90's take on the near future.

Seriously, the game had so much crammed into it that still isn't a thing in most modern takes on the genre. Everything was destructible, fire and smoke spread over time, with the corresponding effects to accuracy if you were shooting into/out of or through it. Your guys would even pass out if they went in without the correct gear, the amount of time taken to pass out being dependent on the individual guy's stamina. That's just scratching the surface!

Stuff like blowing a hole in the roof of a UFO and firing gas into the control room to try and capture high ranking aliens alive so you could interrogate them for information if you could't be bothered to fight your way through the UFO like normal.

Completely variable squad sizes, base layouts that actually were the layout of the base you created if aliens ever attacked a base directly, the randomly generated maps, randomly generated (to a degree) soldier names and appearances, I could go on and on and on and on.

It came on 3 1.44mb floppy discs and it remains imho the greatest game of it's kind, how did they get it all to fit in there. 21 YEARS AGO! IT MAKES MY HEAD ASPLODE EVERY TIME I THINK ABOUT IT.

Visionary. Seriously. If you never played it, it's like 99p on all the usual sites.

equinox_code

It's one of my favourite games ever, but not very accessible if you've already played the more recent and streamlined remake; a bit like if you tried playing Morrowind after Skyrim. That said, i thoroughly enjoyed playing it from start to finish again while at uni.

I have memories of suffering a complete squad wipeout without a single troop setting foot outside of the Skyranger. Hard indeed.

Roujin

Turn one alien blaster launcher shot as your guys cluster round the landing gear for cover while disembarking, I know them feels bro.

regmcfly

optimark_prime wrote:

I'm sure the Nintendo lovers will be nominating some obscure Virtual Boy games to belittle Sega's achievements

Viewtiful Joe on GC says hi from first place.

optimark_prime

regmcfly wrote:

optimark_prime wrote:

I'm sure the Nintendo lovers will be nominating some obscure Virtual Boy games to belittle Sega's achievements

Viewtiful Joe on GC says hi from first place.

Lol...

equinox_code

Or a couple of unknown things on overwatch. One shot fired, one person killed, another sent into a panic and killing two further teammates. He himself is then killed on the following alien turn. All troops, pilots and Skyranger lost without having even having seen the terrain.

Yossarian

regmcfly wrote:

optimark_prime wrote:

I'm sure the Nintendo lovers will be nominating some obscure Virtual Boy games to belittle Sega's achievements

Viewtiful Joe on GC says hi from first place.

I think it'll be game, set and match to Sega, myself.

regmcfly

Yossarian wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

optimark_prime wrote:

I'm sure the Nintendo lovers will be nominating some obscure Virtual Boy games to belittle Sega's achievements

Viewtiful Joe on GC says hi from first place.

I think it'll be game, set and match to Sega, myself.

I c wot u do.

regmcfly

Probably some asshole vagrants will fall in here spouting yarns.

Roujin

equinox_code wrote:

Or a couple of unknown things on overwatch. One shot fired, one person killed, another sent into a panic and killing two further teammates. He himself is then killed on the following alien turn. All troops, pilots and Skyranger lost without having even having seen the terrain.

I'd forgotten all about troop morale! Man, this game had so many emergent little bits and pieces that could happen during missions.

Best game.

optimark_prime

Yossarian wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

optimark_prime wrote:

I'm sure the Nintendo lovers will be nominating some obscure Virtual Boy games to belittle Sega's achievements

Viewtiful Joe on GC says hi from first place.

I think it'll be game, set and match to Sega, myself.

They're definitely in with a fighting chance!

regmcfly

Oho

Yossarian

It's on.

hylian_elf

regmcfly wrote:

Probably some asshole vagrants will fall in here spouting yarns.

Funny you should mention the word vagrant cos there is one other game apart from Viewtiful Joe that is worthy of top spot. I yearn for a HD remake. Love Matsuno games.

Yossarian

hylian_elf wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

Probably some asshole vagrants will fall in here spouting yarns.

Funny you should mention the word vagrant cos there is one other game apart from Viewtiful Joe that is worthy of top spot. I yearn for a HD remake. Love Matsuno games.

You are mistaken.

ChopperByrne

Roujin wrote:

UFO: Enemy Unknown or gtfo. I highly urge everyone who enjoyed the remake to play the original (not any of the sequels they are terrible), it's like the remake, except it doesn't treat you like an idiot, it's like the Dark Souls of turn based squad tactics strategy goodness, mixed in with that epic mid 90's take on the near future. Seriously, the game had so much crammed into it that still isn't a thing in most modern takes on the genre. Everything was destructible, fire and smoke spread over time, with the corresponding effects to accuracy if you were shooting into/out of or through it. Your guys would even pass out if they went in without the correct gear, the amount of time taken to pass out being dependent on the individual guy's stamina. That's just scratching the surface! Stuff like blowing a hole in the roof of a UFO and firing gas into the control room to try and capture high ranking aliens alive so you could interrogate them for information if you could't be bothered to fight your way through the UFO like normal. Completely variable squad sizes, base layouts that actually were the layout of the base you created if aliens ever attacked a base directly, the randomly generated maps, randomly generated (to a degree) soldier names and appearances, I could go on and on and on and on. It came on 3 1.44mb floppy discs and it remains imho the greatest game of it's kind, how did they get it all to fit in there. 21 YEARS AGO! IT MAKES MY HEAD ASPLODE EVERY TIME I THINK ABOUT IT. Visionary. Seriously. If you never played it, it's like 99p on all the usual sites.

X-COM: Terror from the Deep was awesome.

People complained about the difficulty bug in Enemy Unknown (after the first battle it reset to the easiest setting), so they just went all out.

Tech Trees that could be locked out if you didn't research in the correct order, harder enemies, FLYING FUCKING CHRYSALIDS!, two stage terror missions, two stage alien bases, alien activity sites that only stay temporarily, dark missions regardless of time of day because the crash site was too deep.

Game is awesome.

hylian_elf

VT is awesome indeed. I just have a hard on for Vagrant Story.

Yossarian

You're still confused.

monkey

It's still UN Squadron day today.

Vanquish day is tomorrow.

Moot_Geeza

Gonna give Virtual Hydlide a quick bash tonight to see if I was too harsh on it.

JonB

regmcfly wrote:

Probably some asshole vagrants will fall in here spouting yarns.

It's the vandals you should watch out for.

optimark_prime

Valkyria Chronicles
Virtua Fighter (2)
Virtua Tennis series
Virtua Cop (2)
Virtual On
Virtua Racing
Vanquish
Viewtiful Joe.

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