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    Frontier released the Odysee expansion last week on PC, and console owners got an update at the same time, and it screwed the game up so bad I don't want to play it. Ranking up with the Fed or Empire is broken, completely. Meaning, you can't rank up at all, so doing missions is pointless. 

     

    Also, I can't do surface mining in the SRV for raw materials. I went to my normal spots for this, and although the geological activity is still there, you won't find any targets to mine. Just nothing. 

     

    Instancing is screwy also. I flew to a HGE target, and when I instanced into the zone, all of a sudden I was back at the Star! I'm done with this game unless they fix this buggy crap.

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    I didn't know about any deluxe edition until this thread. Doesn't matter, the standard edition is still really sweet and of great quality. I'd love to have that Poster Book now!

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    3 hours ago, Stephen said:

    So where do you class Fight For Life (in the fighter category), Checkered Flag (in the Racer category), Supercross 3D (Racer category), Club Drive (racer category).  I only tout these, as this is all the shit games we got for racing and fighting.  Mostly the same in other genres.  Same as the 32X, plenty of 16-bit ports which back in the day of "64-bits kicks your ass, do the math" ads, were totally counter-intuitive.

    Hey Stephen, I see what your asking, and I believe my initial response is because I misinterpreted the topic. I still like the Jag library overall, even with the stinkers, which I'm not forced to play. Maybe the Jag had a few titles that didn't perform quite as well as established Sega arcade hits programmed with the backing of Sega. But, when you put the best of what the Jag did, like T2000 and D2000, it leaves the 32X in the dust. Even if the 32X had some technically better games in specific genres, I don't get the feeling of being blown away by them. I only see a missed opportunity for the Jaguar, not a feeling of 'damn the Jaguar could never match this!'. 

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    50 minutes ago, jgkspsx said:

    The 32X got Virtua Racing Deluxe. The Jaguar got Power Drive Rally and Super Burnout. I don’t know that those two add up to Virtua Racing, and they would not have for 14 year old me, but at this point in my life they’re more my speed. Neither Power Drive Rally nor Super Burnout could have been done on 16 bit systems. I’d love to be proven wrong. If the 32X had gotten Outrunners then there would be no doubt. Alas, it didn’t, and all the other racing games are bad. Fun bad, but then Supercross 3D and Club Drive are fun bad for me too. Checkered Flag is not-fun bad, and the naked yearning to be Virtua Racing definitely gives the whole system a worse name than it deserves.

     

    The 32X solidly wallops the Jaguar on fighting games. There’s no arguing that, but also... who is playing fighting games anymore? They don’t show up often on the “what are you playing” boards.

     

    Both systems have plenty of exclusives for failed systems. I agree that the 32X has more impressive polygonal ones, but only by a hair and only if you exclude Skyhammer and Battlesphere, and the Jaguar has a far wider variety.

    Well, Power Drive Rally is on the Genesis, I think it's simply Power Drive there. The Jaguar version has significant upgrades in graphical detail, however. And, as a game play experience, I think Super Hang-On is a better game than Super Burnout, which I find far too vanilla. If they could have bolted on the career mode of SHO to SB, with the experience points and upgrading bikes with nitro boost, yeah that would have been sweet.

     

    Disagree with your opinion of the fighting games. So MKII is on 32X, ok that's the clear winner overall, but Jag has a better Primal Rage, and I have always enjoyed both Kasumi Ninja and Ultra Vortek. I've never understood the visceral hatred towards them as MK clones. Sure, Kasumi Ninja has some elements that make you wince, like the narrator voice, and the Scottish kilt fireball thing. But, just in gameplay I like it, I mean it does what Mortal Kombat does, it just doesn't control quite as well. If I had a real joystick for the Jaguar I could definitely put some serious time into all the Jag fighting games, except DD5. 

     

    Mortal Kombat is a great game, but it's always had a huge advantage over the clones, with people getting good at it in the arcades and being familiar with all the controls right off the bat. I think it's normal and natural to prefer familiarity. Street Fighter 2 shared this advantage as well.

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    I bought my original copy of Super Castlevania IV before I even had a SNES to play it on. I knew I had to have it, and I knew it was going to be awesome. So, I'm sitting on this sealed copy of SCIV, for how long I don't remember, but you talk about motivation to save the money for a SNES! 

     

    It didn't disappoint either, and it's still my favorite SNES game. That and Super Punch-Out!!, both these games I'm pretty good at.

     

     

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    Man, I've lost my touch, but a bit better today: 15,792

    I figured I'll snap a picture on my last ball instead of Game Over, unless I crack my Ball Busters board, which the minimum is over +65,000 IIRC. I'm not erasing my all time high scores from this cartridge.

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    6,752

    I probably won't post pics unless I get a real score. I forgot this game doesn't give you much of a chance to take a picture at Game Over, unless you crack the high score board, which I haven't managed since 2012 on this game. I'll figure something out. 

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