Old games you were amaze by that had features that's not prevalent now

[The Devil's Advocate]

Don't know if these considered features

But playing Madden 92'

The ambulance on the field

And

In game playoff highlights

Had me like

2k had a full espn breakdown with all the highlights from around the league

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

2K do it and I think Madden still do it

nah they don't

what he means is you saw them physically get out of their seats and leave

 

[Black Andy Dwyer]

A subtle one, but 2K no longer having players wear regular street clothes during blacktop mode. Them wearing their NBA uniforms is and takes away from the actual street ball feel.

 

[Leasy]

Back when Activision actually gave a damn

They actually went under and their downhill started when they made Saints Row a damn joke.

So if that happens then that just means 2k can only make games? That's weak.. we need competition .. 2 games a year, make them actually work

Man EA and NFL never letting up that license ruin a generation of football gaming travesty. NFL is garbage anyway with their one license bullshyt.

Local multi-player

Damn shame and to this day don't understand the reasoning behind this.

Shenmue, replaying it again im sitting here bored out if my mind. Having to do a bunch of errands for neighbors and shyt while having a 10 o clock curfew with no fighting. Yakuza>>>>>> this

Blasphemy

More on Star Wars Galaxies (MMORPG)

Since the entire planet was traversable each planet had things called "POI's" or "Places of Interest" like for example you could ride your speeder bike from mos eisley to luke's home on tattooine, or go to Jabba the hutts palace on tattooine and you could see Boba Fett inside or go to the tuskan fort. To Travel from planet to planet you literally had to buy a ticket and wait at the starport for the ship to arrive. In the beginning of the game it was a 10minute wait so people would sort-of gather at the starport waiting on the shuttle. It was a very social game.

go to yavin 4 and go to the dark jedi enclave

or if you are fully leveled and are buffed by a doctor travel to dathomir and visit the nightsister caves, the very place that birthed Darth Maul

There were like 32 professions, and every single character had 250 skill points. Skills gradually became more expensive as you leveled up in a certain profession. The outcome of this type of system was that you could have have a wide variety of skills and abilities based on how you distributed these skill points. For example, you could be a Teras Kasi Master (hand to hand combat) and a Doctor at the same time (good healing ability/buffs/etc) but you have to give up other skills obviously to obtain this build since you only have 250 skill points. There were so many different builds and possibilities. There were professions where you couldn't even compete in combat, for example you could be a Dancer or a Musician. These professions literally just sit in a cantina all day playing or /dancing and if a player grouped with these dancers/musicians and "watched" or "listened" to them for 10 minutes you would receive a mind pool buff. Some people played this game just going Doctor/Musician/Dancer to buff people and socialize in cantinas. The galaxy felt like it was alive. The war between Rebels and Imperials was fukking real, shyt got PERSONAL in this video game, the community was incredible. If you were Imperial/Rebel and you flagged yourself for PvP any rebel who has also flagged themselves for PvP could attack you at any time, and it took an hour for you to disable /pvp once you enabled it. You could also declare war on entire guilds and anyone in that guild was attackable at ALL times, there were tons of guild wars it was amazing. People became well known for their PvP ability, the combat system was such that a skilled player could literally repel/kill/escape from 6-10 combatants. Combat was more of a chess match. Rebels outnumbered Imperials 10 to 1 on my server and 5-6 of us imperials could take out a group of 20 rebels (no joke) because our teamwork and ability were superior.

this is an example of the combat, as you can see abilities are being spammed constantly (top right in the video you can see his abilities being queued up as he is spamming; people would make a macro to instantly clear their combat queue in case they needed to queue up a different ability immediately), there are three health pools, Health (red), Action(green), and Mind (blue). If any singular one of these pools reaches 0 you are incapacitated. An enemy player has to run up and "deathblow" you (basically double click on the body) before you are killed. There are "states" that you can apply to people such as Blindness, Dizzy, Stun and something else. If you Dizzy a player and then use a knock down/posture down ability they will fall on the ground and just have a random chance at "standing" up if they spam stand, or they can clear the state if they're a doctor or a jedi using heal states, and you can use these abilities while knocked down and dizzied on the ground. So the idea was to get these statuses applied to knock your enemy down and then try to burst damage them to death. A lot of the animations for the melee attacks were really fukking cool. The game was extremely innovative.

Can't believe I never heard of this game.

That dead riding video is a perfect summary of what has happened to games.


Somebody should make one for Bethesda games.


We keep losing the personality and quirks of games for graphics and now AAA gaming is just one big stew of the same shyt

Which is why PC is refreshing you see some titles that just bring a relief from typical AAA shyt

remember in l2k5 you could do defensive assignments on the fly for each db/lb
shyt was lit
idk if madden hast theirs as detailed

Those defensive assignments were the truth for online play. Safety overtop at all times for Moss or putting your dB on a TE all game.

 

[Zero]

gta san andreas

you could lift weights, you had to eat or your health would go down and actually had to go in restaurant, you could gamble in casino, gamble on horse races, go to the lot physically and buy a new whip...

All that money GTA making and they can't do any of this anymore

 

[Supercoolmayo]

modern gaming is wack

 

[Zero]

Thread had alot of potential but ruin by the Madden posts. Surely you guys play games besides 2K, Madden and Call of Duty?

:loldenzel2:

 

[Zero]

I was never a Dead Rising fan but this video is embarrassing

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

everything wwf no mercy related

 

[firemanBk]

Damn shame and to this day don't understand the reasoning behind this.

Very easy to understand. Taking out local multi-player forces players to buy multiple copies and systems to play with their friends. Online multi-player is great and all but nothing tops talking shyt to your friends when you bust their ass in Halo, 2K, Mario Kart, etc. right as they're sitting next to you.
Nintendo is still the king of local multi-player but that's more cause their online is a damn joke compare to XBL and PSN

 

[TransJenner]

All that money GTA making and they can't do any of this anymore

They probably took it out so they could re introduce it

 

[OmegaK2099]

Im not saying shenmue is a bad game im just saying it didn't age well, play it again tell me you dont get bored living that sim life

 

[FeloniousMonk]

Don't know if these considered features

But playing Madden 92'

The ambulance on the field

Ambulance running players over was the best..

 

[Sypress]

Smackdown here comes the pain had 8 players in the ring at the same time, later games scaled it down to 6

 

[Methodical]

at this thread. What a great thread. It's fukking true and made me so angry. It's more likey that they get lazy and said, "F*ck it"