1st August 2003, 7:32 PM
Quote:You basically admitted that I was right, and the only retort you could come up with was that TIE Fighter isn't like WC! THAT'S IT!!
You just happened to forget everything and didn't expect me to check previous posts. This is very, very pathetic and arguing with someone as inane as yourself is extremely tiresome. Just give it up already.
If you'd been paying attention earlier you'd have noticed that I did say that Wing Commander is the least simlike space sim I can think of. So unlike pretty much the rest of the genre you have a case with it. I said that... you ignored it, but I said it. :)
Now... how about this. What about the rest of those games I listed as space sims? Would you call the rest of the space sim genre 'action games'? That I'd definitely have an issue with... but Wing Commander, I admit, is about as close the genre gets to action games.
I'd say now Wing Commander is a cross between a hard space sim and an action space flying game (Rogue Squadron, Starfighter...), so it might belong in both genres. Earlier on, anyway. By the later games in the series (Prophecy), and Starlancer, its a true space sim and not an action game anymore.
Quote:You're absolutely nuts.
The three best racing games on N64 are Rush 2049, F-Zero X, and Wipeout 64. The order I'm not sure of, but the contents I am. Ever since the first ten minuites of playing Rush 2049 I knew it was in the company of the two games I'd been considering (since I got F-Zero) the best racers on the system... since then I have switched the order of those three sometimes (at one point I said Wipeout was better than F-Zero...), but they are, IMO, clearly the best three racing games on the system.
Number four? Probably Excitebike 64.
Feel free to disagree, but that's my opinion.
As for Rush 2049... I just love that game so much. The gameplay, the music (that game has great music! My favorite track is the first stunt song... from the first two stunt tracks. That song's great...), how its still so much fun to play on a weekly basis 2 1/2 years later...
Quote:I made the Gradius/WC comparison because you were having difficulties (to put it nicely) distinguishing Mario Kart from other racers. Battlezone is a very slow tank game where you shoot missiles at people. There are more similarities between Gradius and Wing Commander or Contra and Doom than there are with MK and Battlezone. For one thing MK's battle mode isn't even the main part of the game.
I'd call them tank shells, not missiles. :)
And I wasn't comparing Battlezone to the whole of Mario Kart, just battle mode! As I said!
Sure, the similarities are very, very thin... probably less than Gradius and Wing Commander. But there is SOMETHING.
Quote:you were having difficulties (to put it nicely) distinguishing Mario Kart from other racers.
That is how you interpreted it, but it really isn't true.
Quote:I was talking about those "3d" parts, dummy.
And so was I...
Quote:Well seeing as how the PSX came out after 1993 I think it's a pretty safe bet that Battle Wheels came out first.
Yeah, I thought so... wasn't the PSX '94 in Japan?
Quote:Yeah I have played it, actually. I can send you the files next time I'm on Direct Connect. It's not a 3D game, just barely more than the 3d parts in Contra.
The moron who runs the plinko hub banned me for no reason, but I'm still on the three other hubs I use sometimes.
Also, the Plinko hub is private now, so you've got to go to the plinko forum and PM/email the guy who runs it a username and password...