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  3. Posted

    People with pirate copies of games destroy their DC's evntually because a lot of people don't know how to ... nevermind.  :ponder:

     

    This is 100% correct. I know quite a few people who have Dreamcasts, and the ONLY ones that have had problems with them are the ones who use CD-R's in it. For some reason the DC does NOT like CD-R discs, and in a way rightfully so. Pirated games are part of the reason why the Dreamcast "failed". However, homebrew games have to go somewhere too, and I don't think most people have the means of getting their own projects duped.

     

    The moral of the story? Don't put CD-Rs in your DC! :D

  5. Posted

    Man, what's the deal with people digging up ancient threads lately? :? :D

     

    I, of course, have to add a few of my favorites. Since I didn't have a disk drive during most of the time that I had my 130XE, I missed out on quite a few games during the day. However, I had plenty of cartridges for my 130XE, so naturally most of my favorites are cartridge games. Having said that, probably my favorite 8bit game back in the day was Defender. No matter how much I played it, I always had to go back for more. That was one of the first games that I was literally addicted to. A few more of my favorites:

     

    Alternate Reality:The City (never played The Dungeon much)

    Eastern Front

    Hardball

    Basketball (don't ask me why)

    Rescue on Fractalus

    Almost all of the Ultimas

    Qix

  6. Posted

    I can't believe the amount of hate for Pit-Fighter. I've had plenty of fun with it, despite the controls being crap, the sounds being crap, and the gameplay being highly mediocre. It's definitely in the bottom half of the Lynx's library, but definitely NOT in the worst 5. I can easily list 5 games that are worse than Pit-Fighter:

     

    Hard Drivin'

    Steel Talons

    Diry Harry (I despise that game!)

    Robo-Squash

    Tournament Cyberball

     

    There's probably a few others that I could rank under Pit-Fighter, too.

  8. Posted

    I didn't say anything about having a bias.

     

    I wasn't responding to your post, but the one before it. :D It kind of seems a bit far-fetched that the wrong build of FFL was sent for duping. But then again, Atari was pretty sloppy with quite a few things, so I guess it wouldn't have been too much of a stretch for them to have done that. I also think it's pretty obvious that the game (at least the one that Atari sold) is unfinished.

  10. Posted

    I never owned a C64 (I had an Atari 8bit instead), but I still have no shortage of love for it. Despite the fact that I and a friend of mine who owned a C64 would always argue about which system was better, I still enjoyed it quite a bit. I'd have to say my favorite game was Friday the 13th. I still play it (via emulation) to this day, along with Star Trek Evolution.

     

    As for the Tramiels, I think that they're unfairly hated by many in the Atari community. Many Atari fans act like Atari went vanished the moment that Jack got his hands on it, but nothing could be further from the truth. Atari actually did quite well for the second half of the 80's and a little into the 90's. Sure, they made some bad business decisions, especially at the end, but Atari most likely wouldn't have made it anywhere near as far as it did if it weren't for them.

  11. Posted

    This is certainly not the worst 3D fighter I've played. A few minutes with Criticom on the Saturn, and you'll run right back to FFL. That being said, it's not much of a game, perhaps a bit better than Kasumi Ninja, definitely better than Double Dragon V, but falling waaaaay behind as far as Ultra Vortek is concerned (which is really the only fighting game really worth playing on the Jag in the first place). I think that with most people, this is simply one of those games you're either going to love or hate, and usually it's due to bias, not so much the game itself.

     

    Obvious faults with the game have nothing to do with bias. I personally was looking forward to the game, and was let down quite a bit when I actually got the chance to play it. It was an unfinished game, and not worth the price of a brand new cartridge. It's sad, because the game actually had a lot of promise. It just didn't live up.

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    What details??? I don't see anything in those game that hasn't already been done on XBOX.

     

    And saying the hard drive isn't a big deal is pretty silly. So is the trivialization of lighting effects. Both are quite advanced features and make the games much more appealing.

     

    I haven't seen fur rendered quite so nicely in any Xbox game. :D But this is obviously where we disagree...good gameplay makes games more appealing to me, not good graphics masking a mediocre game.

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    As I stated in the rest of my post that you failed to quote, I am quite familiar with the GC and also with Metroid, I played it for about an hour and watched my nephew play it for about 5 hours. I 'm not he one who started the comparisons between them, I just went along with it, as far as graphics go, hands down, Halo is better...as far as gameplay goes, this is purely opinion, but I think Halo is much better. The comparisons don't have to be in the same genre when your just comparing one "killer App" against another...anyway, I'm not trying to put down the GC, I'm just stating facts; the XBOX is a MUCH more powerful system and it has the games to prove it! Here's a fact in favor of the GC; Roque Leader is Fantastic and the Xbox has nothing *genre wise* to compare to it; Star Wars:Starfighter is a PS2 port and it shows, it sucks compared to Rogue! But I promise that something will eventually come out on the Xbox that is better than Rogue, because the Xbox is powerful enough to make something better!

    To tell the truth, I'd rather play Iron Soldier 2 to either of those, AND T2K. :)

     

    Sorry to say it, but that's all fanboy speak, plain and simple. You're stating your opinions as if they are fact, and they are NOT. The XBox is NOT much more powerful than the GameCube. Is it more powerful? Yes, but not anywhere NEAR what the Xbox fanboys make it out to be. About the only things the Xbox has on the GameCube are the lighting effects and the hard drive (which still doesn't make games any better). Even then, I still haven't seen any Xbox games that can match some of the details seen in games like Rogue Leader and Star Fox.

     

    Regardless, this is a Jaguar forum, NOT a systems wars forum. I vote we end this thread now, before all of the fanboys start crying and go home. :D

  16. Posted

    Some people are so stuck on the Jag that they have to pull SOMETHING good out of even the worst Jag games. FFL is crap, plain and simple. However, it at least has a legitimate reason for being so....it's simply unfinished. Supercross 3D and a few other craptacular Jag games fall into that category too. If Atari had thrown more than two people at a game and given them a little more time to finish it, most of the shit titles would've been greatly improved. Atari had no one but themselves to blame for the crap titles that were released on the Jag.

  17. Posted

    I wanted to like Skies of Arcadia on the Dreamcast, but the too-frequent and too-random battles killed any sense of explorative wonder for me, and the story and characters were soaked in a bland, cutesy, Grandia-esque atmosphere.  Still, I'm interested in the GameCube version, as it seems to have corrected at least one of my major gripes with the original.

     

    You probably didn't play through it enough. The story doesn't stay quite so cutesy and bland, and the random battles can eventually be avoided (for the most part).

  22. Posted

    Thanks, Very Generous of you y'all ! (excuse my language; we are in Texas)  Your recommendation MacGurl have become my shopping list !

    Hopefully someday we will have an Atari gathering in Austin (Come on down friends elsewhere) and I can thank you for your recommended game list again. I will not borrow as I tend to not return things  :D  :D

    Thanks To Everyone Again and I will go preorder Zelda at EB if they let me !  :D

     

    I've been discussing an Atari gathering with various people for quite a while now. Perhaps it will become a reality soon! :D

     

    If EB doesn't let you preorder, you may want to try GameStop. That's where I have mine preordered. BTW, whereabouts in Austin are you located?

  23. Posted

    Anyway, just wait until HALO2 and Brute Force hit the market, they'll make Metroid Prime look like Doom on the 32X in comparison! :D

     

    One thing that interests me.....why do Xbox fans always compare currently shipping games for other platforms to games that have yet to be released on the Xbox? Would it perhaps indicate a dire lack of quality software on said console? :D

  25. Posted

    If you're referring to the game + box + overlays + etc, you're right. However, the cartridge itself appears to be quite common, as most of those auctions would indicate. This isn't a fluke, either; AvP is one of the most common carts to see up for sale on eBay. Also, wouldn't the fact that it was one of Atari's best-selling Jag games indicate that it's nowhere near being rare?

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