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GeekNights Tuesday - Games only Scott Likes
Tonight on GeekNights, an echo of our previous Games only Rym Likes episode, Scott discuses the games that he alone likes (or else that he feels are surprisingly forgotten). Before that, "always on consoles" and why Adam Orth was so wrong, Luke Crane and Thor Olavsrud's announcement of Torchbearer, and the Castle of Illusion remake.
Scott's Games:
- King's Bounty
- Descent
- Shogo Mobile Armor Division (which used the Lithtech engine)
- MechWarrior 2
- Yoshi's Cookie
- Kung Fu Heroes
- Little Ninja Brothers
- Dig Dug 2
- Alfred Chicken
- Dr. Chaos
- Metal Marines
- Wario Land 2
- Mario Kart Super Circuit
- Conquest of the Crystal Palace
- Legacy of the Wizard
- Faxanadu
- Dynamite Headdy
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I never finished Ghost Bear's Legacy because I was so dedicated to doing the same there and it stopped me at some point. I still remember the 72nd Assault Trinary. Those are my boys.
And little ninja brothers! I so forgot about that.
And Kung fu Heroes. I owned that. Always tried to play it with my younger brother Jeff but he was terrible. I made it really really far at some point, but never beat it. I did beat bubble bobble at some point which served a similar purpose for me.
It's a good thing you clarified that Wayne Gretzky Hockey on N64 is good; otherwise, we would have to have words.
They are basically about.com now. They will let anybody write for them, pay them little to nothing up front with the promise of traffic-based incentives, and do little to no editing or screening of what gets posted. Some good writing can and does pop up on the site, but it's like a flower growing in a landfill.
There was a hilarious controversy a few months back where the writer you mentioned, Erik Kain, wrote a post about an old unreleased SNES game that had a Kickstarter project to finally produce it in cartridge form for $60. Kain wrote an awful post fully of errors about the game's history, and his thesis was that people are stupid for paying $60 for an SNES game that doesn't have good graphics like today's games, the publisher is idiotic for charging that much, and if people really want to play it, they should just pirate it. Oh, and here are the links to allow you to do so.
He got his ass called to the carpet by about every video game writer who actually knows how to do his job. Then he publicly stated he did not even understand the situation he wrote about. Finally, he updated his post to remove the links and added a plea to his readers for legal help in untangling the situation.
On a more positive note, Mario Kart Super Circuit is the shit. Not ashamed to say it was the first Mario Kart I actually owned, rather than just renting a ton or playing at friend's houses.
Kung Fu Heroes
Wario Land 2
Mario Kart Super Circuit
Dynamite Headdy
Games I have played that Scott and I both like.
strafe up/down/left/right
jet forward
afterburn forward
jet reverse
Pitch/yaw both directions
spin left, spin right
The best control scheme is to use a joystick with separate throttle like those made by Saitek.
When I was a kid I was stupid and used a keyboard-only scheme that did not work.
Now I know the optimal scheme for mouse/keyboard
Use the mouse for pitch/yaw. This is like mouselook
Use e for forward, d for reverse, s/f for strafe left/right. Just like an FPS with esdf instead of wasd.
Put spin/left/right on w/r
Put strafe up on the spacebar, like jump!
Put strafe down wherever you usually put crouch.
Put afterburner on your mouse or on a or q or something like that.
Another thing to watch out for is that in Descent you can cycle the primary and secondary weapons. That means if you set mousewheel to cycle primary, how do you cycle secondary? I use mousewheel up to cycle the primary weapon up and mousewheel down to cycle the secondary weapon up. It might take a few clicks to get all the way around to the weapon I want, since I can only cycle in one direction, but it's better than cycling one weapon on mouse and another on keyboard.
Obviously mouse1 = primary weapon, mouse2 = secondary.
There are also some other buttons you need like firing flares, etc. to watch out for.
EDIT: Oh, right. They then went on to make NOLF (and NOLF 2, the best spy game), then made FEAR (which was ok), Condemned ( :-/ ), and The Matrix Online (
Apparently nobody knows who owns the NOLF rights now. I has a sad.
They also Made GORKY 17, TRON 2.0, and the execrable COD-clone-with-a-licenced-paintjob Gotham City Imposters.
Well done.
If I made a list like this one, I gotta say I would add Kirby's Dream Course, which I feel is one of the more important under-cited-yet-great games out there.
Another thing - I don't know why these would be Games only Scott likes. These are arguably all A+ games. Maybe more apt would be Games only Scott remembers off-hand...?