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Time to hunt.

Back in my day, arcade was king.

Wing Commander: Privateer

Oh, there was this other game a friend and I played once in the arcade, and I can't remember the name. It was a fantasy side scrolling fighting game (like Golden Axe, or King of Dragons). It might have been a Capcom game, but I'm not sure.

Anyway, the cool thing about it, was you could get powerups that transformed you into were-type creatures. One dude transformed into a werebear, and one of the others (I think) could turn into a minotaur, although I'm not sure about that. The werebear I'm sure of though, because that's the dude I played as. It's not Altered Beast though, it's something different.

Anyone know the game?

Hordini wrote:Oh, there was this other game a friend and I played once in the arcade, and I can't remember the name. It was a fantasy side scrolling fighting game (like Golden Axe, or King of Dragons). It might have been a Capcom game, but I'm not sure.

Anyway, the cool thing about it, was you could get powerups that transformed you into were-type creatures. One dude transformed into a werebear, and one of the others (I think) could turn into a minotaur, although I'm not sure about that. The werebear I'm sure of though, because that's the dude I played as. It's not Altered Beast though, it's something different.

Anyone know the game?

Altered Beast?

-J.

malfred wrote:X-com

QFT

Also:

Angband (Lagduf, you should totally check this out; Lagduf the Snaga is a named character in it).

The Bard's Tale (But not Bard's Tale II or III so much; I got tired of Herb summoning another Herb).

Tie Fighter

The Curse of Monkey Island -- How appropriate, you fight like a cow!

Grim Fandango -- Film noir murder mystery in the Mexican land of the dead? Yes please.

Alpha Centauri -- "Evil lurks in the datalinks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets that were evil. "

Rampage -- My fiancee wanted me to put this one up

Alpha Centauri - I still play this one at least once a year, SMACx please

how about...
Moon Base Commander

Original Diablo was fething awesome. Sure, you can't run, but the atmosphere is amazing.

@Belphegor: Did you get your name from Kohan II perchance?

Agreed on Diablo.

I like D2, but there is something about running around the desert and jungle that's just not the same.

But it's so fething hard. Once you reach the lava caves, everything starts smacking you down over and over and over.

That, and if you die, you have to reload your save. No respawning in town makes me sad.

What?

Respawning in town is horrible!

You have no equipment. How much damage does a paladin do with no equipment? 5? You can't kill anything, nor can you survive getting hit by anything. You die once, and you can guarantee that you're going to die another eight times trying to retrieve your damn corpse!

Then there's the fundamental problem with the suspension of disbelief; when you load from a saved point, it's like you never died. When you get resurrected after dying, but it's the 30th time you've died (yes, I have literally died that many times. God dammit Duriel...), it starts to become rather silly. I mean, can you imagine the priest resurrecting the necromancer 30 times? There's no penalty if you have no gold, and it's hard not to die with no armor.

I'll admit that Diablo has it's own problems there though. It was - Obsidian Lords, I'm pretty sure - one time. I went into the lava pits and BOOM there were like 10 guys on me, and each one is like a fething rhinoceros or something. I burn all the potions up in three seconds, die right after. I didn't even know what hit me.

Still not worse than Duriel though.

No one's worse than Duriel...

Heros of might and magic, I loved that game but i never spoke to anyone else who played it.

I used to play Heroes of Might and Magic.
My friends and myself used to play it hot seat during high school summers.
We had a rotating pool game for the players who were not taking their turn.

(I hate Duriel as well, Duriel cheats... and kicks pug puppies.... stupid grub-butt stupid head.)

*edit* - fixed typo

Duriel makes me sad. Melee characters get frozen, ranged get charged, and casters die in a couple of hits. No boss, in ANY game, is more annoying than Duriel.

Ah yes, paladin with a weapon that gains mana and an uber prayer aura. Potions lasted forever, mix that in with a follower from Lut Gholein with blessed aim and have a ball.

Prayer sucked balls. Fanatacism+zeal+life/mana steal is what makes a good paladin.

Total Annihilation? Actually a very cool rts. You started with a commander (a giant robot) and he would walk around and act as a builder. He also was a very nasty shooting machine himself. It was great because you could build bombers, ships, and lots of different vehicles. I think it was game of the year in 1999 or 2000.

Roze wrote:Heros of might and magic, I loved that game but i never spoke to anyone else who played it.

That game had about 10 sequals if I remember. Very good game though. I need to find a copy of it.

I second Rampage The little sprite of the naked woman covering herself as she walked off screen was pretty priceless

Aliens arcade game. It's way more awesome than it looks in the picture.

How does prayer suck? Use it to stay healthy while wounding a boss and then finish them off with vengeance or maybe some other amazing spell.

Hordini wrote:Time to hunt.

Back in my day, arcade was king.

SNES port was pitiful in comparison.

Wow, I didn't even know there was an SNES port of AvP.

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/image_viewer/boxshot.php?pid=563511&popup=1

Only up to two players and the graphics did not do the original justice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en&v=arFxuajzxOM&feature=related

Enjoy

I worked at a videogame store from 98-2000. I learned more about the older games than any human should be allowed to.