Zezti
Player Valuation: £70m
Nope.
Every honest review I've seen says there's a very good game underneath the bugs.
But my god there are a lot of them
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Every honest review I've seen says there's a very good game underneath the bugs.
But my god there are a lot of them
Layne's Top Six? Games Of All Time
Gone for one from each stage of my gaming life.
Fantasy World Dizzy(CPC 464): At the age of 10 in 1990 when i got this I wasn't sure how games would get better besides improving graphics with better computers. I loved having puzzles to solve and a game that felt huge. The main thing I think about when I remember this game is the lack of saving. If I ran out of time or die too much it was a full do-over. Kids these days don't know how lucky they are.
Tomb Raider(PSX): This was 1996 so this game blew me away. The ability to rotate the camera to look around and the freedom to run and climb wherever you could was astounding. These days the game would be ruined by being able to just pop online and solve puzzles but this game had some awesome puzzles that took a while to solve, the cistern being my favourite one.
Championship Manager 01/02(PC): I don't want to calculate the hours sunk in to this game. My favourite management game was and is great. Can you take Walter Smith's bankrupt Everton back from the brink with great business deals or just throw a bunch of contracts around and get Kenright gone to be replaced by an actual Chairman. Interface was easy to learn, players would decide to be bells after showing form, and the board might just decide they don't like your best player and want him gone. Good times.
GTA San Andreas(PS2): GTA 3 was amazing but for me San Andreas raised the bar so much. It did something I thought impossible in the PS2 days and made a game that was so complete and huge on a single disk. It let you ride cars, boats, motorbikes, and bicycles. It even let you swim and jump over walls and fences, which might not seem like much but added a lot to the immersion in the game.
Rockband 2(PS3): Fantastic fun. Came with the ability to buy the first one and import all the songs from that and to purchase more songs from their database online. Guitars feel solid, drums are good once you buy cushion pads for them and the mic was a decent quality logitech one. PS3 sat in a cupboard for years until the boys were old enough and now we rock out as a four piece.
Dragon Age: Inquisition(PS4): Found this game way too late (by about 5 years). I've sunk soooo many hours in to it and I'm not even close to being done with everything from the vanilla game and there's three expansions. Create you guy, choose who you want as friends/allies as you go and try to boff someone as you see fit. Biggest shock in this game was the gratuitous boob that appeared during sexy time with Cassandra. So many quests, so much content, not for everyone but well worth the 70 hours it's had from me so far.
Gone for one from each stage of my gaming life.
Fantasy World Dizzy(CPC 464): At the age of 10 in 1990 when i got this I wasn't sure how games would get better besides improving graphics with better computers. I loved having puzzles to solve and a game that felt huge. The main thing I think about when I remember this game is the lack of saving. If I ran out of time or die too much it was a full do-over. Kids these days don't know how lucky they are.
Tomb Raider(PSX): This was 1996 so this game blew me away. The ability to rotate the camera to look around and the freedom to run and climb wherever you could was astounding. These days the game would be ruined by being able to just pop online and solve puzzles but this game had some awesome puzzles that took a while to solve, the cistern being my favourite one.
Championship Manager 01/02(PC): I don't want to calculate the hours sunk in to this game. My favourite management game was and is great. Can you take Walter Smith's bankrupt Everton back from the brink with great business deals or just throw a bunch of contracts around and get Kenright gone to be replaced by an actual Chairman. Interface was easy to learn, players would decide to be bells after showing form, and the board might just decide they don't like your best player and want him gone. Good times.
GTA San Andreas(PS2): GTA 3 was amazing but for me San Andreas raised the bar so much. It did something I thought impossible in the PS2 days and made a game that was so complete and huge on a single disk. It let you ride cars, boats, motorbikes, and bicycles. It even let you swim and jump over walls and fences, which might not seem like much but added a lot to the immersion in the game.
Rockband 2(PS3): Fantastic fun. Came with the ability to buy the first one and import all the songs from that and to purchase more songs from their database online. Guitars feel solid, drums are good once you buy cushion pads for them and the mic was a decent quality logitech one. PS3 sat in a cupboard for years until the boys were old enough and now we rock out as a four piece.
Dragon Age: Inquisition(PS4): Found this game way too late (by about 5 years). I've sunk soooo many hours in to it and I'm not even close to being done with everything from the vanilla game and there's three expansions. Create you guy, choose who you want as friends/allies as you go and try to boff someone as you see fit. Biggest shock in this game was the gratuitous boob that appeared during sexy time with Cassandra. So many quests, so much content, not for everyone but well worth the 70 hours it's had from me so far.
Some crackers there! I'd have to pick Vice City over San Andreas though, just seems to have left a bigger impression on me. The music maybe?
Dragon age is absolutely my kind of game. Finished them all and loved them all. Hundreds of hours of great RPG action.
Im currently loving Ni No Kuni. Its done with Studio Ghibli. Decent combat system and well written
Tempted with Octopath also. Love the graphics and enjoyed the playable demo
He has some great lines
Dont find many games that make me laugh but this and Golf Story have raised many a chuckle
Just not seeing where the good game is. I've requested a refund so not a problem.
Death
I'll take down dat coal powered MG, I tel u Hwat
Cyper, it has a lot of problems or more so it has a lot missing a it has a lot of open world qualities a ps2 open world game has. Horrible constant glitches aside even if it was running 120 frames at 4K with no bugs the world is very very Ps2. Sterile and none interactive npcs are disgraceful even if it was a ps3 game it would be a disgrace. Great story and stuff but Jesus it is dispointing. These lads brang the witcher 3 out 6 years ago for god sake. How can that be?
Rook
Player Valuation: £80m
anytime you see AAA game, and "we're gonna crunch and get it out by christmas" just expect that you'll be a QA tester if you buy it when released.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
It's rapidly becoming my least favorite in a long time.
Blueclouds
Player Valuation: £35m
My best games.
FF7
Wow, just a kid and this turned me into a gamer for life. Instantly fell in love with the ps.
Bioshock
The first 30 mins I was sold and what a game, the graphics were impressive in the time. The story was ace and the shooting was fab. Loved it.
RE 4
Favourite Resident Evil game, this was magnificent and no sole zombie game came close for me. Perfect game.
L4D
Favourite coop game. Played this for hours with my brother and friends. Its was just pure fun. Use to spend ages getting ready for the horde mode to last 20 seconds and dying and we round try and try and try again. Never found a better game since this and would love a next gen game remastered.
FF7
Wow, just a kid and this turned me into a gamer for life. Instantly fell in love with the ps.
Bioshock
The first 30 mins I was sold and what a game, the graphics were impressive in the time. The story was ace and the shooting was fab. Loved it.
RE 4
Favourite Resident Evil game, this was magnificent and no sole zombie game came close for me. Perfect game.
L4D
Favourite coop game. Played this for hours with my brother and friends. Its was just pure fun. Use to spend ages getting ready for the horde mode to last 20 seconds and dying and we round try and try and try again. Never found a better game since this and would love a next gen game remastered.
Death
I'll take down dat coal powered MG, I tel u Hwat
It started become just the same game for me after fifa99 I tolerated it all the way up to 2011 and just sick of it. Spending 1000+ on the same rectangle and very slow graphical and other changes just can’t be doing with it anymore. Getting it since the early 90s
Not really a top five of all time but notable mentions from my formative gaming years and taking in the different formats of cassette, 3 1⁄2-inch Floppy Disc and the early years of Hard Drives. Unreliable memories of the precise model details of the format I played them on so some guesswork.
The Great Escape - ZX Spectrum 48k/48K+ (1986)
Best Film License ever and felt so vast and detailed despite being within the confines of a POW camp.
Knight Tyme - ZX Spectrum 128K!! (1986)
Some budget games were a bit crap. This was better than most full price games and made full use of that 128K beast it ran on.
The Secret Of Monkey Island - Amiga 500 (1990)
Lucasfilms made some great adventure games including the Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade which was great. Loved Monkey Island though, ignore the special editions and remakes of later years. This was sensational.
Wings - Amiga 500 (1990)
Not sure there was any other game maker like Cinemaware. Beautiful highly stylized games which absolutely reeked of the period and style of their setting while still being good fun. See also It Came From The Desert.
Championship Manager 93 - Amiga 600 (1993)
Not the ultimate version but where it began for me, real players, real leagues and impossibly detailed. Dread to think how many hours went into playing it.
Also the game series that eventually prompted me to get my first housebrick sized external hard drive....a ton of solid, clunky metal and I think it held less than 40MB. Absolute game changer though.
I could do numerous lists for each computer and then more lists of five for 8, 16 and 32 bit consoles. And then another for early handhelds such as GameBoy and Sega GameGear. Wish I'd kept them all in a dusty loft somewhere!
The Great Escape - ZX Spectrum 48k/48K+ (1986)
Best Film License ever and felt so vast and detailed despite being within the confines of a POW camp.
Knight Tyme - ZX Spectrum 128K!! (1986)
Some budget games were a bit crap. This was better than most full price games and made full use of that 128K beast it ran on.
The Secret Of Monkey Island - Amiga 500 (1990)
Lucasfilms made some great adventure games including the Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade which was great. Loved Monkey Island though, ignore the special editions and remakes of later years. This was sensational.
Wings - Amiga 500 (1990)
Not sure there was any other game maker like Cinemaware. Beautiful highly stylized games which absolutely reeked of the period and style of their setting while still being good fun. See also It Came From The Desert.
Championship Manager 93 - Amiga 600 (1993)
Not the ultimate version but where it began for me, real players, real leagues and impossibly detailed. Dread to think how many hours went into playing it.
Also the game series that eventually prompted me to get my first housebrick sized external hard drive....a ton of solid, clunky metal and I think it held less than 40MB. Absolute game changer though.
I could do numerous lists for each computer and then more lists of five for 8, 16 and 32 bit consoles. And then another for early handhelds such as GameBoy and Sega GameGear. Wish I'd kept them all in a dusty loft somewhere!
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