Barn-Z wrote:NBA Live 2001: Wasn't much different to 96 graphics-wise on a ps1.
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One's full of ugly sprites, the other's got beautiful polygons! Anyway...
It's impossible for me to put down all the games I've ever owned. Most of my old systems are gone, like I gave my SNES to a girl, and upgraded my Game Boy to an Advance, etc. So I'm just going to put down the ones I can see without moving. Which leaves out so many classics, but nevertheless...
PSOne (I still call it PSX like Matthew, but I know Sony's going to get mad at me one day.)
NBA Live 96: It's the 16-bit games without a create player, but with higher-res sprites and polygonal arenas using EA's buzzwords. And you have to manually do points per game for a player. A below average title and the worst Live for a decade. 4.5/10
NBA Live 97: Replaced the sprites with ugly poorly shaded polygon models, added a create player and various other features. Takes forever to load. Barely improved gameplay wise. My favorite part of this game is the Digital Sportspage guys overfondness for this game, awarding it 97% and so forth. 4.5/10
NBA In The Zone 2: Best graphics of the 97 series of basketball games, arguably the best sound. Arcadey gameplay, barely any of the features you expect from a game. But create player had picture perfect recreations of Michael Jordan and other legends. 4.5/10
NBA ShootOut 97: Best gameplay of the 97 series, but graphics (aside from the animations...even if they all shot like Latrell) and sound were barely better than Live, and there were no features compared to Live. Another below average basketball game in a year where everyone was trying to catch up to each other's 96 games. (Live had to get polygons, In The Zone had to add 12 man teams and features, ShootOut had to overhaul it's gameplay so it worked.) 4.5/10
NBA Live 98: This game might have the best presentation of all the Live games, it looks and sounds just like a TBS broadcast from back in the day. Finally had entire mapped heads, the cyberfaces, even if Pippen's grin scares skewl children. The frontend is much overhauled and EA started to pull away with this one. Gameplay still sucked, even if playing with Tony Battie was realistic. 5/10
NBA ShootOut 98: Ugh. This game so does not age well, the animations wouldn't be topped until the PS2, but the gameplay is a horrid dunkfest mainly to show off the animations. My favorite part has to be the camera which randomly shows parts of the court where no players are. And the fact that the Celtics (who were coming off a 15 win season) had a tendancy to win 80% of the titles in season mode. 4.5/10
NBA Live 99: The penultimate version of the PSOne game as all the ones after this used the same engine slightly tweaked. Could play multiple seasons, the players had expressions, the gameplay was tweaked up. But that fuskin fatigue bug made it so you never played anyone but the top five guys (and the PC patch so didn't fix it as much as they claimed) and the menus were assugly. 5.5/10
NBA Live 2003: I got this because it was the last PSOne version and it was $10 at the time. It's essentially the ultimate version of the PSOne series as it's everything that's been in the game up until that point. The back of the box is great because it basically says "play basketball with this game! updated rosters for the new season! new menu music!" 5.5/10
NCAA March Madness 98: Took Live 97's gameplay, tweaked the hell out of it, added a season/tournament and a ton of college teams and college presentation. After you deal with the cameras and very very very long loading times, a underrated game. 6.5/10
NCAA March Madness 99: EA used the Live 98 engine for this one and broke the game. It played absolutely horribly, took even longer to load and dynasty was a mess. 4/10
NCAA March Madness 2000: EA learned from it's mistakes and built a completely new engine from the ground up for the series. One that surpasses Live's, the players aren't as detailed but they have so many animations, diving for loose balls such. Dynasty is brilliant, as my quest to turn Western Carolina into a powerhouse is a fond memory. Only problem is Dick Vitale. A pinnacle in basketball games for years to come. 7/10
NCAA March Madness 2001: Fixed all the problems of the last game, added a ton more animations and features. Featured Kenyon Martin, one of my All-Insane Team members. Basically the same base game as 2000 but better. 7.5/10
Twisted Metal: As Dave Jaffe said, this is like the garage band version of Twisted Metal. And today it so screams "first generation PlayStation game" as it has that look all the early games did. (Look at wipEout, WarHawk, Destruction Derby, etc.) Still above average. 6/10
Twisted Metal 2: The greatest PSOne game of all. Maybe. Probably. You could add nothing to this game, the game disc is literally full. While my greatest multiplayer battles came on a bootleg PC version installed in my A+ class, the PSOne version is far better and has a controller instead of a wrist bent in an unrealistic position. Even if it misses out on the 8 player battles of the PC we had. 10/10
Rogue Trip: From SingleTrac after they left Sony. Basically is the next technical extension of TM2, but nowhere near as good. Still the best non-TM2 vehicular combat game on the console. And you can whack people with a big weiner. 8.5/10
Twisted Metal III: Only game in the series to use roman numerals. Still a fun game but such a terrible let down in the face of 2 or Rogue Trip. 5.5/10
Twisted Metal 4: 989 had to make up for the last one, and gameplay/graphics wise this one did. It's got so many oddities to it's gameplay, but it brought the fun level up quite a bit. 6.5/10
Grand Theft Auto: Yeah, the graphics sucked. But I loved tooling around in the big cities. The US overlooked this game for a while, Europe loved it. First time Europe was right about something. 8/10
Colony Wars: Vengeance: I actually want the original more, but this one was the first Colony Wars game used I've seen in years in a store. Psygnosis perfected the PSOne space sim shooter. 8/10
Syphon Filter: Brilliant game. Action sequences in this game are unparalled, one of the first games to really get the action genre in third person. 9/10
Syphon Filter 2: Take the first game, make it better, add multiplayer. But also make it insanely hard compared to the first which turned off any new players. 8.5/10
Syphon Filter 3: Combined all the best aspects of the first two games. I'm really glad they finished the trilogy on the PSOne it just seemed right. 9/10
Driver: This game was maddeningly annoying at times and so many of the missions are luck based. But a huge technical leap on the PSOne and a very fun game. With one of the lamest stories ever. 7.5/10
Driver 2: So exceeded the PSOne's capablities, look at the pop-up and slowdown in this one. And the missions are ugh. But I'm a sucker for driving around massively rendered cities for no reason. 6.5/10
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater: A flat out amazing game, nobody saw this ones addicting gameplay coming. The Warehouse and Chicago are still two of the best Tony Hawk levels. 9/10.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2: Like Twisted Metal 2, the ultimate version of the game on the console and a game that lasts well beyond it's days. 9.5/10
Medal of Honor: The first game to really incoperate fantastic sound design into the game. The draw distance is about five feet but still a great expierence. Texture smoothing on PS2 makes this look quite a bit better too. 8.5/10
Spec Ops: Stealth Patrol: Came in a two pack for $10 with Ford Racing. Let's not speak of this. 1.5/10
The Italian Job: A very late PSOne release for $10. From Rockstar. It's basically a lower detailed version of the Driver series, so the pop-up and slowdown is at a minimum. Plus it features really bad British accents, long loading times and the menus scream "Austin Powers" but it's a fun game and cheap. 5.5/10
Crash Bandicoot: I loved the second but only have the first. A very good game, showed off some great graphics for it's day. It's still really good looking, if not as good looking as the later titles in the series. 8/10
Spyro The Dragon: Good to see Matthew likes this (I think?) as Spyro is one of my clutch games. I replay this so often. With texture smoothing on PS2 it looks even better. Easily dismissed as a kiddie game, but so much more, so deep. A true technical achievement. Alex Hastings is a freakin god. 9.5/10
Ten Pin Alley: Bowling! The PC version was good times, so when I saw this one for $5 I picked it up. I still can't figure out how to not throw a gutter ball on the PSOne version. 4.5/10
Hot Shots Golf: Amazing game, very overlooked. A game I can play with buddies and with my mom and have fun. Easy for people like them to understand, but also a game with great depth if you want to get into it. 9/10
MLB 99: A fantastic baseball game, it took until MVP2003 to make a more fun games for me. The Spring Training and everything was just a new thing at the time. The gameplay was perfect. 8/10
VR Baseball 99: Bought this because it was cheap. This game so interests me, it's like the developers wanted to produce the greatest baseball game of all time, but were seriously hampered by the power of the PSOne and their own skills. The season mode produces amazing statistics, and the stadiums are works of art. But the rest of the game is just so unpolished. It's still fun because of how easy you can crank out crazy stuff. 5.5/10
WWF War Zone: It was $10 and I desired to create wrestlers, sit through long load times (though not as long as Attitude! Good darko. That game is only playable on bleem.) and then button mash them to victory. 6/10
Madden NFL 99: EA saw Sony's polygons and raised them franchise mode. 7.5/10
Gran Turismo 2: Took everything great about the first game and kicked it up a notch. Texture smoothing on PS2 makes this one look better too. 8.5/10
Ford Racing: If GT2 is a five star restaurant, Ford Racing is like Ramen Noodles, but dammit if this game isn't strangely fun. Maybe it's the "HIGH RESOLUTION GRAPHICS!!!" on the back of the box. I don't know. I enjoy it more than I should. 4.5/10
Final Fantasy VII: The one Final Fantasy I seem to remember more than any of the others. Maybe because it was just so amazing when you first saw it. Still an epic and the only FF I bought for PSOne. 9.5/10
Soul Blade: The precursor to the Soul Calibur series. Wuved the arcade version and the home version is that with Edge Master Mode and some tweaks. Greatest intro movie to a game ever. I have the theme song on mp3. Would be the best fighter for the PSOne if not for... 9/10
Street Fighter Alpha 3: The ultimate PSOne fighter and maybe the greatest fighter of all time. Featured all the characters up to that point, amazingly tweaked gameplay, tons of modes and the brilliant World Tour mode. If only the PSOne D-Pad wouldn't wear the skin off your finger... 9.5/10
Dreamcast
NBA 2K: The graphics and presentation were amazing at the time, but the models are kinda doll-like. And the gameplay is arcadey, they were rushed to release this one and I think it shows. Especially when compared to the later games in the series. 6/10
NBA 2K1: Upgrades the graphics and gameplay, throws in franchise. The first step in showing how good this series wound up being. Though why can't I make a move out of posting up? Online and street added as well. 7/10
NBA 2K2: Allows me to make moves out of the post and intercept passes. Slight graphical and other tweaks. But analog menus begone! 7.5/10
Crazy Taxi: I love this game. Yeah, it's basically the same game over and over trying to get a higher score. But I've still played thousands of games of this. And that's on the first city not the second, which I haven't even really cracked. 8.5/10
Jet Grind Radio: Looks amazing, but the gameplay is aggravating to insane levels. Primarly because the control is pretty crappy. 6.5/10
Quake III: Arena: No. The Dreamcast version just accentuates all the problems I have with this game, and it's limited to four players per map. 6.5/10
NFL 2K: An evolutionary step in football games, even if it doesn't have franchise and it's player models are weird looking. 8/10
NFL 2K1: Takes the first one, fixes up the player models, adds a ton more animations and updates the gameplay. Throws in franchise and online play. I like this more than Madden 2001 for PS2. 9/10
Virtua Tennis: The second game is more polished but this one is great times, I love the world tour deal and playing through tournaments trying to win it all. 8.5/10
World Series Baseball 2K2: Looks great, can be entertaining at times, but like all the 2K games back then it's either too easy or too hard. 5/10
Soul Calibur: I'm not as into this as some people are but I can't deny it's a great game. 8.5/10
PS2
NBA Live 2002: Had to complete the series. It's basically 2001(PC) with depth of field added to the graphics. And some better post moves. 6/10
NBA 2K3: Took 2K2 updated the graphics, kept the solid gameplay for the most part. Added ESPN and deeper franchise. 7.5/10
ESPN NBA Basketball: Better graphics, improved more realistic gameplay fixing a lot of old quirks, IsoMotion, 24/7, more ESPN loving. 8.5/10
ESPN NBA 2K5: Take the last game, improve the graphics, add in a new franchise style, touch up all the gameplay aspects, produce the best basketball game until it's sequel. 9/10
Twisted Metal: Black: The ultimate Twisted Metal. While it's not as exciting as TM2 because it's a bit slower paced, brought the series back and did some impressive things with the PS2. 9/10
Devil May Cry: Took ass-kicking to a new level, and fantastic looking. 9/10
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3: Not as great as 2 for whatever reason, but more of the same Tony Hawk with next gen level graphics. 9/10
Dead to Rights: Graphics aren't anything special, and it's kinda redundant, but still a fun game with some cool aspects. 7/10
The Getaway: Looks great, an interactive movie really, but the gameplay is just terrible. 6/10
Splinter Cell: Doesn't look as good as XBox/PC, but still looks great for a PS2 title. Too much trial and error and piss you off sections. 7.5/10
True Crime: Streets of LA: A game that probably tries to do more than one thing adequately instead of focusing on making one thing amazing. But still a fairly solid engine and game, if not truly mindblowing great. 7/10
ICO: It only takes six hours to beat but one of the greatest gaming experiences available. The presentation is stunning, the puzzles brilliant in design, and the adventure one you'll never forget. 9/10
Maximo: A fun little throwback that's entertaining, but the lack of easy saving increases it's difficulty level. 6.5/10
God of War: The ultimate PS2 game. A true masterpiece in every way. 9.5/10
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec: Amazing graphical display, fewer cars than GT2 but a better game overall. 9/10
ESPN NFL 2K5: The greatest football game of all time. In a way, a fitting end to the greatest football series in history. 9/10
Virtua Fighter 4: I just traded this one in as I'd prefer Evolution to the original but it's still a great fighter. 8/10
Game Boy Advance
Advance Wars: The ultimate turn based strategy game not on a PC. So much game. 9/10
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising: Take the last game, make it better. The level where you have to sneak your forces through the forest then engage in battle at the end, one of the finest gaming moments in history. 9.5/10
Mario Kart: Super Circuit: The ultimate Mario Kart, mixes the best of the SNES and N64 games, features 20 new tracks and all 20 from the SNES game. Insane fun multiplayer. 10/10
Street Fighter Alpha 3: If this had world tour, I would call this the best handheld game of all time and be done with it. It doesn't, but it does have everything else from the console versions. 9/10
Super Puzzle Fighter II: Same game as on PSOne, but with new stuff to unlock. Pwn. Only Tetris Attack (or Puzzle League as it's known now) is a better puzzle game. 8/10
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance: Like SOTN only for on the go, two castles, three modes to play through, four different endings. Leveling up, all sorts of gear to use, magic techniques. A near perfect portable game. 9.5/10
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: Yeah, it's the same as SNES, which means it rocks and now I can play it on the go. (Which usually means in class.) And it comes with the first four swords. 9.5/10
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga: Perfect. Get this now. 10/10
PC
NBA Live 98: The PC version had a better interface along with giant sexy pictures of Joe Dumars. Also could be patched, and EA's patch sorta fixed the foul bug. 5/10
NBA Action 98: The first basketball game from Visual Concepts. As bad as it looks today, when you play it you can tell it was the ancestor of the 2K series. 5/10
NBA Live 99: See the PSOne description, then add in modability at a whole new level, a slight fix to the fatigue bug, and Kq talking about how he turned little black and white pictures into cyberfaces for players who don't even exist! 5.5/10
NBA Live 2000: Updated the graphics a tad, had the best licensed song soundtrack. Added franchise. Didn't mess with the gameplay of the last game. 6/10
NBA Inside Drive 2000: Took a different approach than EA, made a game that played great and had amazing depth in the invidiual games at expense to all the features. Best commentary for years until the series returned on XBox. 6/10
NBA Live 2001: Best interface of the series, the last good one really. Many good times to be had with this one, even if it did suffer from quirks. 6/10
NBA Live 2003: Freestyle is added, but it just becomes a freestyle and dunkfest. So many gameplay issues. 5.5/10
NBA Live 2004: Adds defense and sliders, slows the pace and smooths things out. 6.5/10
NBA Live 2005: Best Live ever, updates the graphics, throws in some all-star festivies, tightens the gameplay up. 7.5/10
NBA Live 06: Ugh, trashy. Graphics got worse, sound is still bad, gameplay got beat with a crappy stick. I guess dynasty is a wee better. 4/10
SimCity 2000: Loved this game so much, but it's been surpassed by the games that followed. 8.5/10
Sid Meier's Civilization II: Best game ever. 10/10
Sid Meier's Gettysburg!: It looks absolutely terrible on my new monitor at 1280x1024, but on my old PC RTS didn't get much more fun. 8/10
Theme Hospital: There's something about this game that is just insanely fun, even just the demo is hours of entertainment. 8.5/10
StarCraft: Maybe it's because I'm not Korean, I don't like this game as much as a lot of people. 6.5/10
Railroad Tycoon II: Haven't played this in forevah. I rememeber always doing really well but winding up failing in this one. 7/10
Alpha Centauri: Civ3 to me, really a better game than CivII but just not as much fun to me for some reason. 8.5/10
SimCity 3000: A huge leap from 2000, amazing game. 9/10 (Unlimited: 9/10...some fixes and tilesets, but same game)
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation: It's basically MOO with Star Trek graphics and a memory leak. 6/10
Homeworld: A lot of people love this one, I just get tired with moving ships all over for some reason. The battles were pretty sweet in the day though. 7/10
Age of Empires II: I can play this game for hours, or five minutes depending on if I've patched my install or not to stop that five minute ending bug. 8/10
The Sims: I'm sorry, I don't "get it" at all. The most fun I had was having my lesbians have people over than building walls around them until they died. And that got old after a week and a half. 4.5/10
Call To Power II: They had to drop the Civilization name which is good as it doesn't taint the series. 4.5/10
Civilization III: Big disappointment, feels more like Call to Power than Civ. 7.5/10
The Political Machine: Fun to fire up and play sometimes, a little easy, and quite limited in scope. But fun to kill a few minutes on. 5/10
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain: Also on PSOne with more loading, just a fun action/RPG. Too bad all the games that followed blew chunks. Could've been a great series. 7.5/10
Grand Theft Auto: Same as on PSOne with better graphics and modability. 8/10
Metal Gear Solid: I actually only own the PC version, though I've played the PSOne all the way through. PC is kewl in that you can get unlimited ammo to start making the game way easier and run it in a high resolution. And it's just a great game. Don't touch MGS2 on PC though. 9/10
Driver: Wow, was the PC version terrible. 4.5/10
American McGee's Alice: Fun action title, can get pretty wacked at times. 7/10
Grand Theft Auto III: Amazing game, unfortunately the city is more broken up and it's just not as polished as the later games. 9/10
Mafia: Better looking than GTA, better story, better out of car control. Unfortunately the whole driving at 45mph and other realistic things take away from some of the fun for me. 8.5/10
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: Does everything III does but better, has a much improved engine so a lesser computer can run it better than III on a better computer. Set in the 80s. Just a grand accomplishment of a game. 10/10
Freedom Fighters: A fun squad action title. Nice engine, stupid story. But I got it for $3. Well worth $4-5. 7/10
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: What needs to be said about this one. 10/10
Half-Life: What hasn't been said about this one. Though, like it's sequel, I'm more interested in it's mods than it. 8.5/10
Unreal Tournament: Morpheus is one of the best maps ever, this game was so great in it's day. Still is fun to throw down on sometimes. 8.5/10
Quake III Arena: Some people swear by this game, I hate the engine. 6.5/10
Counter-Strike: I'm not into this as much as some people because of the waiting. 7.5/10
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: The first big WWII shooter. Omaha Beach is easily one of the greatest levels in a video game ever. Multiplayer was fun for a while but now I find it lame. A Q3A game. 7.5/10 (Omaha Beach: 10/10)
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Another Q3A running game so it's got all those issues I don't like with the engine. 7/10
ROTW: Enemy Territory: Free multiplayer version, I don't like it because of the engine, a lot of people swear by the game though. 5.5/10
Battlefield 1942: Suffers from DICE's engine problems and how unstoppable the vehicles can be. EA also did a lot of tweaking to the game that made it even worse. 7.5/10
Day of Defeat: My fav, great weapon design, some fantastic map designs. Looks poor today but runs like butter. Hours of endless fun on the right servers. 8.5/10
Counter-Strike Source: Take the original, make it look prettier. 7.5/10
Day of Defeat Source: People thought it would be taking the original and making it look prettier, but they redid the game's design. In some ways it's better, in others worse. I enjoy it as much as the original and I'm not going back to the original. The new game is and will continue to be made more superior as time goes on. 9/10
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45: Not for everyone, almost hardcore realism level. No crosshair for example, ironsights required for aiming. A fine game though. Epic scenarios can unfold. I enjoy it a lot. 8/10
Madden NFL 98: Ugh. Terrible. The most fun is making this game break and the fact that EA supplies you with a giant page on how to install it properly because the normal method doesn't work. And the "V-Poly" and "Liquid AI" hype. 3/10
Triple Play 99: The stadiums were pretty back in the day, and the manager mode is kinda unique. But this is not a great baseball game at all. 6.5/10
Madden NFL 2000: Hey, at least it didn't crash like 98. 4.5/10
MVP Baseball 2003: Huge step forward in baseball games, looks great, plays just as good. Soundtrack = terrible. 8.5/10
NHL 98: The ultimate hockey game finally moves into the next gen properly, played so much of this until it's sequels came along... 8/10
NHL 2000: Better graphics and gameplay. Good times. 8.5/10
NHL 2002: Best sports game of all time for PC. Upgrades all around, crazy trading card feature. Love this one. 9.5/10
. Most Wanted is probably better though but twas a worthy self-Christmas Gift
but still well the player models were whacked and there was only a season mode but yeah twas okay.
so I'm trading this in too.
)....I used it extensively to play games, go on the Net & go on to the old NLSC etc....
