31st July 2003, 3:21 PM
Quote:Definitely.
Yeah.
Quote:Mr. "you're are hypocrite" is a hypocrite himself! Doom and Contra have far, far more differences than that, and you know it! Don't be THAT stupid...
Lets see. Perspective. Controls. Enemy type. Levels. Game style. Genre. More. They are very different! Yes, in both you shoot people. Sure. But in Doom you run around in 3d shooting enemies (which often take many hits to kill)... and then get keys to open doors. While in Contra you shoot usually 1-shot-kills enemies and deal with progressively harder jumping puzzles as a part of the game at least as important as the shooting. Thats just not in Doom.
Doom is not a 3D game. It's about as 3D as those "tennis court" areas in Contra. Doom is Contra but in a different perspective and no jumping. OooOOOooh! What amazing differences! And they have different enemies?? Holy crap, that makes them nothing alike!
Quote:I maintain that they have more differences than Outrun and Mario Kart.
That's because you are stupid. :shakeit:
Quote:Oh, and its not like its the first racing game where you drive in laps, either. Lots of racers had done THAT before, and plenty had done laps and some weapons... sure MK did more weapons than before, and powerslides, and used the technology for circuit-based 3d racing (often circuit-based games before had been topdown), so yes, it had some big changes. But most of them were totally new -- they were mostly improvements on what had come before.
That's complete crap. There may have been other "lap racers" in the past, but none like F-Zero and Mario Kart. The weapons and power-ups in Mario Kart were never done before, not even close. The powerslide was such a huge innovation that even the most sim-like of racing games today use it (Gran Turismo, for one). And then there's the battle mode which hadn't been done before and was a major addition to the genre (and actually, creating a whole new sub-genre). Where do you think the car combat genre came from?
Quote:Rush 2. 8.9 at your precious IGN. Sure does stink, huh?
http://ign64.ign.com/articles/153/153852p1.html
I haven't played Rush 1 on N64, so can't judge it, but Rush 2 is a great game. Lots of tracks, they are long, some nice cars... sure it doesn't match 2049 but it IS a great game.
As for Pod, YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED THE GAME!
That game got a high score from ign because there was nothing to compare it with on the N64. I have played POD, and it's really, really bad.