| GooseGaws said: @Garcian Smith: Good call on Blood Omen. And I forgot about Dino Crisis 2! That game is awesome! Do the Fear Effect games really hold up? I've occasionally thought about playing through them... Also, having played both versions, I think Twin Snakes on GC is the preferrable version of MGS. Call me a heretic if you wish. |
Actually, I'd go so far as to say that, along with Soul Reaver, the Fear Effect games have aged the best of any PS1 games. The flagrant use of pre-rendered FMV backgrounds makes them look amazing for the hardware that they're on, and the cel-shading serves to cover up the "shifty texture" problem.
Plus, the FE games have everything you could ever want in one neat little package. Zombies, gangsters, lesbians, guns, gore, ghosts, and more. And, surprisingly, it all (almost) makes sense.
I haven't played Twin Snakes yet myself, but I will as soon as I can get ahold of a copy. Why do MGS geeks hate the updated version, anyway?
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
