3DO - Hated, Loved, Feared?

[Joe Redifer]

No way!  I have ZERO Virtual Console games for my Wii.

I will admit that the 3DO had the best versions of Road Rash and Return Fire.

[Michael Helgeson]

We don't have any VC games either Kits. We own the real systems and games already.

Yep Road Rash on 3DO was the best Road Rash easily.

Return Fire looks great and is fun as hell too.

[Kitsunexus]

DEADULUS ENCOUNTER, FTW!!!

Also, D.

[Michael Helgeson]

Yea,D is a classic,either the normal cut or Dir cut on 3DO,or the Sat version which is also basically the Dir cut if I remember right. The Ps1 version sucks. Video quality was not as sharp,wasn't the Dir cut,and if I remember right was spread across 3 disc for some retarded reasons. I remember Warp publicly denouncing the PS1 after that version also.

[Kitsunexus]

Yea,D is a classic,either the normal cut or Dir cut on 3DO,or the Sat version which is also basically the Dir cut if I remember right. The Ps1 version sucks. Video quality was not as sharp,wasn't the Dir cut,and if I remember right was spread across 3 disc for some retarded reasons. I remember Warp publicly denouncing the PS1 after that version also.

Also, the 3D0 director's cut version had the awesome theme to D2 (the one before the Dreamcast version, slated for the M2) as a hidden CD audio track.

[Michael Helgeson]

You will like this Kits:
http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=5937022&publicUserId=5669500

It mentions how they dissed Sony after D was made for Ps1. Kenji Eno (the head of Warp) did it at a press conference.

You have to realize, this guy was the proto-Itagaki. Not many people would show up to a press conference held for them by Sony to announce their future working relationship, only to use said conference as a podium to announce that you would be working exclusively with Sega, a promise he kept through games like Enemy Zero for Saturn, Real Sound for Dreamcast, and ultimately, D2 for Dreamcast. The original D was like Myst meets Dracula, with chicks, featuring prerendered backgrounds and a first-person perspective. It was one of the original titles for 3DO ironically. The sequel was fully polygonal and 3D like never before. It also wasn't very good. I still admired the man greatly though, as he is one of the industry's true mavericks. Ico's Fumito Ueda was once at WARP as well.

Should also be noted Kenji hung out alot with one or two of the Sega Rally crew and did alot of drugs together on vacations. I remember reading a interview with the Sega Rally crew long ago and them admitting to that.

[Kitsunexus]

Kenji Eno isn't the proto-Itagaki, he could kick Itagaki's ass anytime, anywhere. Just name a time, place, and arrange for one of the Team Ninja guys to ride in the ambulance for him.

Am I bitter? No. Ninja Gaiden for Xbox just sucks.


And Kenji Eno just RULES. 

[Michael Helgeson]

Kenji Eno isn't the proto-Itagaki, he could kick Itagaki's ass anytime, anywhere. Just name a time, place, and arrange for one of the Team Ninja guys to ride in the ambulance for him.

Am I bitter? No. Ninja Gaiden for Xbox just sucks.


And Kenji Eno just RULES. 

Kenji's new company is supposedly making a new game,for the Wii only.

[Joe Redifer]

Should also be noted Kenji hung out alot with one or two of the Sega Rally crew and did alot of drugs together on vacations. I remember reading a interview with the Sega Rally crew long ago and them admitting to that.

I guess that explains why all subsequent Sega Rallys were severely lacking compared to the original.

Ninja Gaiden for Xbox just sucks.

Agreed.

[Michael Helgeson]

Yea,you know Sega Rally 2 was not all that hot. The first was easily the best as far as fun factor goes.

[Joe Redifer]

Sega Rally Revo (developed in the UK) isn't too terribly bad, but the control could use work and it's just too hard.  Sega Rally 2005 was ASS (Jap PS2 only) but the cool thing is that is came with the arcade version of Sega Rally 1.  It had to, otherwise nobody would have bought it.

[SignOfZeta]

Yea,you know Sega Rally 2 was not all that hot. The first was easily the best as far as fun factor goes.

Sega Rally 2 on Dreamcast is seriously flawed. The arcade versions is really f*cking good though.

[SignOfZeta]

The only reason you guys like the Wii is because you can play Turbo games on it.

There. I said it.  Now can Wii stop discussing this shit console and talk about the 3D0, a much better investment?

I like the Wii quite a bit, and I seriously doubt I'd ever buy much in the way of Turbo games for VC simply because most of them are more expensive that actual PCE retail releases. I'd probably buy one just to see how the emulation works, or maybe for a really scarce title like Magical Chase.

I'm pretty sure I already have every US release I'd ever want anyway.

I want a Wii, eventually, for; Gundam SCAD Hammers, Dekotora, Mario Galaxy, Animal Crossing, Mario Party, Wii Sports. Also, its quite likely that the Wii will end up being a system for shooters about on par with 360. There is a Milestone three pack coming out with Radialgy, Crows, and Chaos Field on it, Skikigami no Shiro 3 is already out. I'm extremely interested in the as yet announced, but virtually guaranteed Super Robot Wars game I'm sure they'll make for it.

Overall, the 360 is the best system out there overall, but I don't buy Microsoft anything because I don't feel they should be expanding their business. This is a moral/ethical decision. It doesn't matter how good the system is. I just don't suck the dick that slaps me.

I'd like to mention how f*cking stupid I think it is for people to bitch about the Wiimote. "Its just waving a stick around" and all that idiocy. Would you consider playing Halo from beginning to end, "just pushing buttons"? Of course not. Don't be a such prat.

[Keranu]

The only reason you guys like the Wii is because you can play Turbo games on it.

There. I said it.  Now can Wii stop discussing this shit console and talk about the 3D0, a much better investment?

The only VC game I downloaded was Bomberman '93, and that was mostly just for the novelty of it. I think it's really cool that a new age console allows you to download Turbo games, but I just don't have a reason to buy any VC games.

[Michael Helgeson]

Well pretty much the VC TG16 support is useless for most of us,we have the stuff already. But for others,its prob a great bonus,esp if they don't mess with computer emulation.