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Fascinating game concepts that blow your mind
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Tenkai Star
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We use that in school as part of our studies =PDilli666 said:
Playing the whole game from a shoulder cam perspective (resident evil 4)
I always found the shoulder cam approach to be the best compromise (first person style aiming while allowing the player to execute third-person esque fight moves).
Now I know this perspective was available in games prior to RE4 (namely splinter cell), but RE4 used it throughout the game adding much cinematic flair. Gears of Wars also contributed with more dynamic camera movements.
I always found the shoulder cam approach to be the best compromise (first person style aiming while allowing the player to execute third-person esque fight moves).
Now I know this perspective was available in games prior to RE4 (namely splinter cell), but RE4 used it throughout the game adding much cinematic flair. Gears of Wars also contributed with more dynamic camera movements.
Melchiah
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ResidentDante
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Thumbs up! I want TDU2 now!SmokyDave said:
Tenkai Star
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Love that game. There is a DS game made by the same people.randomwab said:
I think its pretty good
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Hollow
Haven't played it yet.
Moundir&Tony>you
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katamari !
dollartaco
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Text entry in BG&E
Tenkai Star
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Obviously. Not obvious to mention even =PMoundir&Tony>you said:
BobsRevenge
I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
Prey was 1st. Game doesn't get enough recognition, and it actually does more with the portals it has.Letters said:
VGChampion
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I thought BioShock did an excellent job with their audio diaries. I was amazed when I could listen to story like that while playing. Since then a few other games have done the same. Some better, some worse. I think Batman is the best implementation with ODST being my least favorite.
Dead Space's HUD is also pretty amazing. I know they weren't the first to do the health "in-game" like that but with all the menus popping up from the visor the way they did was pretty much perfection. Same with Metroid, just not as much. But that probably blew me away more since that was many years ago.
Dead Space's HUD is also pretty amazing. I know they weren't the first to do the health "in-game" like that but with all the menus popping up from the visor the way they did was pretty much perfection. Same with Metroid, just not as much. But that probably blew me away more since that was many years ago.
SmokyDave said:
This is my favorite game this gen, but I don't know that the concept blows my mind. It's just fun as shit.
For me, I'd say time manipulation like Braid is neat, but MGS1 had the most "whoa, neat" moments for me:
The frequency on the back of the box
Wolves pissing on you in a box so you can get by without being attacked later
HIDEO
"Ah, so you like Castlevania?"
etc
Also, while I never played it, that thing I heard about the MGS3 boss where
you can play, save, come back in a week and some boss dies of old age due to the internal clock
D
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BobsRevenge said:
Agreed. I remember having my brain bent with Prey's portals before Portal released. Thought it was too awesome.
Puzzle Quest
I didn't know what to expect and at first I was like "ok, it's gonna be boring with all those long ass fights", and then, the mounts... the spells... the strategic combinations that can get you to litterally "one-shot" your opponent... I loved it.
Another World
First time I saw vector based animations and I was blown away. And on top of that the game was good.
Tomb Raider
First time playing in third person behind the character. Amazing.
I didn't know what to expect and at first I was like "ok, it's gonna be boring with all those long ass fights", and then, the mounts... the spells... the strategic combinations that can get you to litterally "one-shot" your opponent... I loved it.
Another World
First time I saw vector based animations and I was blown away. And on top of that the game was good.
Tomb Raider
First time playing in third person behind the character. Amazing.
Metal Gear Solid: You have to unplug controller 1 and put it into port 2 before Mantis can't read your mind. (I spent a good 15 minutes looking for "port 2" somewhere inside his boss room before the concept finally hit me.)
The Secret of Monkey Island: Another 4th wall moment. You get to a small tree stump in the woods that opens up as a trap door. "there's a huge labyrinth sprawling down there!" insert disk 255.... (The game would actually check your disk drive, and deliver the error message that it was the wrong disk.) It did this a few times before finally explaining "oh well, an adventure for another day"... I thought it was really clever.
Super Metroid: From that first dusty husk, to the end of the game. The husks more than anything were really creepy, that they fall away to dust when you touch them.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: there is this one excavation tent that you get to in the game, after having just been walking around out in the desert. When you first enter it, everything is pitch black, then over the course of some time, the room lightens up slowly and details are revealed, and it simulates the effect of your eye adjusting to low lighting.
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes: Rezbit!
Easily one of my most memorable enemies in a any game.
The Secret of Monkey Island: Another 4th wall moment. You get to a small tree stump in the woods that opens up as a trap door. "there's a huge labyrinth sprawling down there!" insert disk 255.... (The game would actually check your disk drive, and deliver the error message that it was the wrong disk.) It did this a few times before finally explaining "oh well, an adventure for another day"... I thought it was really clever.
Super Metroid: From that first dusty husk, to the end of the game. The husks more than anything were really creepy, that they fall away to dust when you touch them.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: there is this one excavation tent that you get to in the game, after having just been walking around out in the desert. When you first enter it, everything is pitch black, then over the course of some time, the room lightens up slowly and details are revealed, and it simulates the effect of your eye adjusting to low lighting.
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes: Rezbit!
The enemy in digital fortress that overtakes your suit, and makes your visor act erratically, until you do a manual reboot
TheRagnCajun
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Twisted Metal 2 blew me away -cars with guns blowing eachother up! Amazing! Such a fresh idea during a time when most other developers were busy making 3d versions of tried and true game concepts.
D
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TheRagnCajun said:
Well, they also did it in Twisted Metal 1, but I know what you're saying.
Metroid Prime 2 I think was the first time something on a gameplay level blew my mind. The level design was literally the best I'd seen in any game I'd played before. Now, before you tell me that Super Metroid is better, I missed the entire SNES-PlayStation era. I agree with that now, but at the time, I had never played the game. Anyway, playing Prime 2 I felt like I was really lost, exploring this vast expansive world. I would be in an area, and I would go everywhere and get everything my current abilities would allow, then move on to the next area. Typical adventure game fair. But there comes a point in the game where instead of going to a door and taking an elevator to get to the next area like normal, you actually go from one area of the game to another in a seamless transition. All of a sudden you have all these new abilities in this area and you go back and explore all over again, finding new places and new items. Exploring the world and the areas within it was just so fluid and fun. I'd never seen such comprehensive level design before, and I've rarely seen it since.
rohlfinator
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A lot of the player interaction allowed in Eve Online is really fascinating. I'll probably never play the game, but it's fun to read about. I wish more developers were creating MMOs in that vein rather than endlessly cloning WoW.
First time I played Ultima Online was really mind blowing. In the first hour I had bought a horse, got engaged in some cybersex in the woods outside of Britannia. Someone came by riding some kind of dinosaur but stopped and watched for a while, before he ultimately killed us both. Got resurrected by a priest, went to a graveyard and killed some zombies. Dressed myself in a bone armour from fallen skeletons. Someone trapped me inside of four walls and left me standing there for a long time. Got out, got killed.
Nothing has come close ever since.
Nothing has come close ever since.
Foliorum Viridum
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Good choice, sir. Love that game.Melchiah said:
Nearly the entirety of Portal and Braid apply for me. Genius games.
BobsRevenge said:
Ahhh stop right there! Narbacular Drop was the first to do it and they were the ones snatched up for the Portal team. I only played the Prey demo; did they ever actually let you create your own in/out portals? I'm curious how it "does more" with portals.
Also seconding SotC here. Crawling around a giant monstrosity and eventually taking it down while you're still on it was a game design concept I've had for years and was just waiting for someone to do it; so SotC ended up being a dream game for me. With so many games getting into parkour-like gameplay, I find it strange that none have bothered to copy the monster-climbing concepts. I would still buy a $60 PS3 remake if they'd make one. Even the small details of the music changing depending on what the colossus was doing and the song choices for each one really made that game brilliant to me. Speaking of music...
Rez. If you got good enough at the game, you could literally use it as a DJ interface. The sense of speed you would sometimes get (with the Dreamcast version, which was unfortunately not considered when Rez HD was made) was amazing and the game brought to life what I envisioned William Gibson's Neuromancer as. The music selection was perfect, the themes used were intense, and I have yet to play another game that so perfectly defines "playing to the music."
Finally, Knights in the Nightmare had some wicked concepts as far as using a touch screen goes. This is the kind of game that should define what kinds of games should be developed for the Nintendo DS and Wii, but sadly get looked over due to slight problems like poor story and missing multiplayer.
Gabriel Knight 3 google-like search system: search in a HUGE database all the info you need and follow hyperlinks to get all the details. The fact that you could search for every single detail, historic character, mythological reference and such to help in your investigation made it completely awesome.
Also, solving the map puzzle through a whole episode using the poem hints, the data you could get from the search system and a geo tool that had dozens of options to manipulate said map was completely overkill. Easily the best, most intelligent and most fascinating puzzle ever made on a videogame.
Also, solving the map puzzle through a whole episode using the poem hints, the data you could get from the search system and a geo tool that had dozens of options to manipulate said map was completely overkill. Easily the best, most intelligent and most fascinating puzzle ever made on a videogame.
dragonflys545
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God of War 2 first level!
That's exactly how i felt when i played it for the first time so good!
That's exactly how i felt when i played it for the first time so good!