Best & worst ACDs

[spenoza]

I definitely think Art of Fighting is a match for Sapphire. It's just as technically impressive and could clearly only be done with the ACD.

[Michael Helgeson]

I am pretty much impressed with all the Neo ports except FF2. It was a good port but not as good as the other 3. I'm very pleased with Strider. I like it alot more then the Mega Drive version. Sapphire is a great game and all,but if you take out the special rendered fx/sprites the actual game itself barely competes with Spriggan in alot of areas. Spriggan is still the better shooter.

[ceti alpha]

The stone creature/boss in Sapphire is so frackin' cool. The Arcade Card was really starting to make PCE games look like PS1/Dreamcast games.

[guyjin]

The stone creature/boss in Sapphire is so frackin' cool. The Arcade Card was really starting to make PCE games look like PS1/Dreamcast games.

They're called golems. Read some fantasy! 

[ceti alpha]

They're called golems. Read some fantasy!  Mad

haha. Negatron. Fantasy makes me noxious. I almost threw up with boredom watching The Lord of the Rings...though the cartoon version was pretty cool - mainly because of Ralph Bakshi's sweet animation. Seriously though, I could never get into fantasy. Science fiction? Yup. But fantasy, not so much.

[guyjin]

Lord of the rings is kinda boring, actually. Trying to read the first one puts me to sleep. But the movies are good.

Have you ever read any Shadowrun novels? that world is a weird mix of fantasy and scifi which I really like.

[spenoza]

Ceti, I agree. For reading, good sci fi trounces any and all fantasy contenders (pretenders?). Still, some fantasy is worth a look. Like Zelazny's Amber series. Of course, Zelazny was a sci-fi author, so it's natural he'd kick the pants off the fantasy genre at its own game.

But WOW am I off-topic...

Uhhh, uhhh.... ACD, yeah! Were there many (any) RPGs that could put the ACD to work?

[runinruder]

Uhhh, uhhh.... ACD, yeah! Were there many (any) RPGs that could put the ACD to work?

The aforementioned Madou Monogatari, though it's a first-person dungeon crawler (starring the characters you probably know from Puyo Puyo) rather than a traditional-style RPG. 

[guyjin]

The aforementioned Madou Monogatari, though it's a first-person dungeon crawler (starring the characters you probably know from Puyo Puyo) rather than a traditional-style RPG. 

GAH, I hate dungeon crawlers. So boring.

[turbofan1]

Wasn't Brandish kinda A scd/acd type game?.I heard Strider wasn't very good.There was only one stage that had multi plane scrolling.

[termis]

I heard Strider wasn't very good.There was only one stage that had multi plane scrolling.

Graphics are crummy, but the audio blows away any version of Strider out there.

[Joe Redifer]

Eh, I dunno.  Technically the music is better, of course.  Strider's voice when he swings his sword sounds really compressed and bad.  Many of the characters talk to you during the stage and they don't sound so hot, either (besides, that just wastes time).  The sounds are different from those in the arcade, for example the amazon bitches screams sound completely different (and muffled).

[Tatsujin]

but the audio blows away any version of Strider out there.

no way!! i like the MD or Arcade original audio way better! it's really well composed and fits the best to the game / each scene.

[SuperDeadite]

Brandish can use the ACD, but I think it only makes the game scroll a bit smoother.  As for Madou Monogatari, I wouldn't
call it a "dungeon crawler."  It is first person, but the emphasis is more on puzzle solving.  The puzzles take you all over
the tower.  You can build your own walls and floors in real time.  It plays a lot more like an adventure game then anything
else in my opinion.  Great game, but the language barrier might be too scary for some.

[spenoza]

How would the ACD make a game scroll more smoothly? All it has is some additional memory.