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Kid Chameleon getting whooped, these kids and their rogue-likes I’ll tell ya

Round 1: Fight



Because there is a limit to number of polls per thread, we will be breaking the first couple rounds into parts.  Voting ends Friday

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Mazin Saga.  We need more beat ‘em ups.

37 minutes ago, the_wizard_666 said:

Just curious, are these gonna get seeded randomly or in order of nomination?

random

2 hours ago, G-type said:

I think the brackets are full, unless Fox adds more..

Let's aim for 64.  Keep em coming

Quackshot

1 hour ago, avatar! said:

I heard it's much better. I gave my Diablo III cartridge away, can't see myself playing it again, honestly my character was overpowered and the gameplay was not exciting nor interesting for the most part, and the secrets were far and few between. Also, the plot was a bit wacky, and there were definitely plots holes despite the fantasy setting. If the developers had done a decent job they could have made the game far deeper and worth a second or even third, fourth, go-around. From what I've read, the developers were too busy insuring that they could monetize loot, such as their ill-fated auction house --

To be fair, they did dump the real money auction house by the time it hit consoles.  It was pretty easy to get into for some quick drop in/drop out multiplayer.  But yeah there are a host of other issues and a whack story, that make it not really worth replaying.

Let's go!

It's that time of year to pull out your brackets and put the best of the genny head to head



Rules:
-You can submit one game for nomination every 24 hours and it will be entered into the tournament.  After 24 hours you can submit another nomination.  We will continue until we have enough games to fill the brackets.

-Sega CD and 32x tiles are eligible.  Master System games however are not eligible
-Megadrive titles from other regions are eligible
-Homebrews are eligible

List of entries:
1. Road Rash II
2. Snatcher
3. Virtual Bart
4. Alien Soldier
5. Castlevania Bloodlines
6. Shining Force II
7.  Ristar
8.  NHL'94
9.  Grind Stormer
10.  Bio hazard battle
11.  Ghouls 'N Ghosts
12.  Streets of Rage II
13.  Gain Ground
14.  Shinobi 3
15.  NBA JAM TE
16.  Knuckles Chaotix
17.  Sonic 2
18.  Contra Hard Corps
19.  Moonwalker
20.  Wings of Wor
21.  Toejam and Earl
22.  Kid Chameleon
23.  Splatterhouse 2
24.  Elemental Master
25.  Thunder Force IV
26.  Sonic Spinball
27.  Strider
28.  Gunstar Heroes
29.  Zero Wing
30.  Comix Zone
31.  Quackshot
32.  Phantasy Star IV
33.  Ecco the Dolphin
34.  TMNT Hyperstone Heist
35.  Castle of Illusion
36.  Starflight
37.  Rocket Knight Adventures
38.  Areobiz Supersonic
39.  Altered Beast
40.  Tougi-Ou: King Colossus
41.  Alisia Dragoon
42.  Super Hang On
43.  Sonic and Knuckles
44.  Thunder Force III
45.  Revenge of Shinobi
46.  Herzog Zwei
47.  Green Dog
48.  Crusader of Centy
49.  Mazin Saga: Mutant Fighter
50.  M.U.S.H.A.
51.  Battle Mania Daiginjou
52. Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
53.  Sonic 1
54.  Xenon 2: Megablast
55.  Powerball
56.  Mega Turrican
57.  Columns
58. Greylancer
59.  Final Fight CD
60.  Aladdin
61.  Snow Bros
62.  Panic on Funkotron
63.  Monster World IV
64.  Night Trap

On 2/19/2024 at 2:57 PM, avatar! said:

Clearly, I'm playing "can't post in the right thread "

Did finish Diablo III -- Eternal Edition yesterday. It was... okay. I don't know, just seemed like a let-down after Diablo II, which was released nearly 25 years ago!

Diablo 4 is much more in line with the first two games

43

Pretty meaty 7 hour demo.  Progress carry on to full game.  Anyone check it out?

some bits are good, some bits are head scratchers, a real mixed bag

Another Kart Klone

It’s cool that you can race land, sea, and air.  But everything else about it feels really uninteresting from characters to weapons to tracks.

Adventure mode is a nice addition, but it is ruined with busy work filler like the silver coins challenge, which rehashes the same content just to pad things out.

I don’t think hockey games really have original bangers if you don’t count the “jock jams” to get you hyped.  I could be missing something, but there isn’t a moon theme or dr wily stage 1 for shredding ice.

Most of the ost is generic fanfare and ambient sounds

Sonic in Christmas Nights almost made up for not getting a proper Sonic game on  

Underated banger

Palworld

It was good, but Castle Crashers was a blast

23 hours ago, Sumez said:

Order of Ecclesia is the best of all worlds. It has the enemy skills of the Sorrow games, a big nonlinear castle similar to SOTN, but also linear stages and challenging enemies more akin to classic Castlevania, making it much less of a walkover. Anyone who thinks SOTN isn't great because its too easy should play that game! 

I played thru it just over a year ago.  It is a good title, but the level design takes a hit.  Instead of an interconnected world, it is broken down in about 20 or so bite size areas, most of which are very basic with little room for exploration.  Heck a couple of them are just a straight hallway.

The last third of the game is a rather meaty castle, which makes up for a lot of the early filler areas.

Aria and Dawn are fantastic.  Almost as good as SotN.  The ability to use enemy skills is a lot of fun to experiment with, makes you want to find them all.

Now to send it off to get it VGA graded