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Gaming => General Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: fluffymoochicken on April 01, 2010, 11:55:21 pm
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Now to discuss another one of my favorite developers...
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Creators of such classics as Pac-Man, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Galaga, Katamari Damacy, Pac-Man World 2, Lucky and Wild, Point Blank, Pole Position, Soul Calibur, Riiiiidge Racer, and so many more! ^___^
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Klonoa is awesome.
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Klonoa is awesome.
Hell yeah, he is! ^__^
You did manage to beat Klonoa 2, right? What did you think of its ending? ^^ (No spoilers though, please... just in case the others haven't played yet.)
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No, i haven't beat klonoa 2 yet =P
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No, i haven't beat klonoa 2 yet =P
OMG =O You better get right on that, mister!
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Klonoa 2 is one of my favorite PS2 games. Especially the snowboarding level.
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Yeah, the boarding levels were fun... @_@ Gosh, watching that video makes me wanna play it again.
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i'm addicted to Katamari nananaaa nananananaaa katamari damashi~
It's too weird the first time you play it, you're like "what? sorry...what??" :shock: and then you play again again and again and get addicted to the sound of the rolled animals and you have to find all the cousins and the gifts *_* i love it
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Klonoa Beach Volleyball is the best.
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....IDK, but seems to me that Namco left out the Ride Racer series. RR7 is cool, but no trophies are a major downer, let alone custom soudntracks :cry:.
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The company that makes a few good acid tripped games and publishes crappy anime games. Too bad 80% of their fanbase are retards.
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The original Soul Caliber is still one of the best games I've ever played, and as an overall package/game, probably the best fighter I've ever played.
The actual fighting system wasn't up to Sega/SNK/Capcom standards IMO, but it had the best content and best single-player modes of any fighting game ever made. The amount of things to do was just ridiculous.
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Yeah, I gotta admit, Soul Calibur blew me away back in 1999. I mean the graphics were gorgeous, and the gameplay was easy to pick up and have fun with... My friends and I would play it for hours.
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Yeah, I gotta admit, Soul Calibur blew me away back in 1999. I mean the graphics were gorgeous, and the gameplay was easy to pick up and have fun with... My friends and I would play it for hours.
Not to mention the Quest mode is the best single player mode I've seen in a fighting game. The story was surprisingly solid, the challenges were imaginitive and fun, and there was about a billion hours worth of gameplay in there.
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Getting to the point, I think they are one of the worst bigger companies out there. That is not to say that I do not love some of their games, I do. I think, especially starting around the early 90s they really really really were just some of the biggest and most obvious ripoffs of other companies though, almost all of their games were direct ripoffs of SEGA games especially... Burning Force, Time Crisis, Tekken, Ridge Racer, all poor mans SEGA games.
Something a lot of people do not know about me is that one of my favorite games ever is The Legend of Valkyrie on the PC-Engine. I know a lot of people like to just say it is a Zelda ripoff, but I just love the arcade-y action to it. I could play that game for days upon days... Really hope it comes to the Virtual Console.
Soul Calibur used to be one of my favorite franchises around, I had even eventually bought all releases of Soul Calibur II at one point! The first is the best (not Soul Blade, piece of shit!). About a year ago I put Soul Calibur back in my Dreamcast, and I seriously had played nothing else but that damn game for over a month, truly a classic!
I really love some of the old Splatterhouse games, even though they are hard as shit. The new one looks really really mixed and nothing like the classic ones, but I suppose the third Splatterhouse was nothing like the first two, and I think it really gets too much unjust hate because of that.
I know I will get a lot of flack for this, but I am a really big fan of Tekken 3 on the PlayStation. While all of the characters and music are not the best, the amount of extras (similar to Soul Calibur, I suppose) are really a hoot. The old doctor that could not stand, so he threw out farts to attack, the volleyball mode, the silly cutscenes... Just a really fun game to play with a few friends.
I used to like the Klonoa games a lot, but the series has really not improved on much. Then I realized all PlayStation platformers suck ass and I had been missing out on great Nintendo ones, and of course the even better SEGA ones! They are too easy and basic, Klonoa 2 was one of the easiest games I ever 100%'D.
I also really really like the Katamari Damacy series, but it really needs some innovation now I think, or should just die out. It ran it's course.
There are also some other games by them I like a lot. I really enjoyed the Pac-Man World series (even if everyone seems to hate them), I really loved the first Burning Force, The Outfoxies, a bunch I really liked back in the day too, alone with some new ones, like iDOLM@STER, but that took it's course as well.
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But all of Namco's rip-off games are actually really good games.
And I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the obvious....their awesome 80's arcade games like Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, Galaga, Bosconian, Pole Position, and a TON of other great arcade games.
Also, Ridge Racer series is awesome. Do not dis Ridge Racer. :evil:
And of course, I love games like Soul Calibur and the Time Crisis games. Also, I love Beautiful Katamari even though I haven't played much of it.
Namco is probably like my second favorite games company (behind SEGA of course) simply because there are tons of Namco games that I love.
I haven't even played a Klonoa game though.... :|
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Honestly the only Namco game I've ever thought was great was Soul Calibur everything else is a dirty knock off of better games, anime crap or just not that good.
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What is Pac Man a knock-off of? What anime is Pac Man based on? How is one of the most fun classic arcade games considered "not that good"?
I wanna know the answer to all three of these questions. ^__^
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What is Pac Man a knock-off of? What anime is Pac Man based on? How is one of the most fun classic arcade games considered "not that good"?
I wanna know the answer to all three of these questions. ^__^
Pac Man is a rip off of a pizza with a slice missing. It's based on the Anime Pac-Man:
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It's not that good because it is rather bad.
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A once great company.
I love TEKKEN, unlike many people here, its just pure fun, and the characters are awesome, same goes for Soul Calibur, Ridge Racer and Time Crisis were fun too. Never played Klonoa, but I heard good things about it.
But this generation they've been mediocre, Both Tekken and SC this gen were inferior to the ones before them.
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What is Pac Man a knock-off of? What anime is Pac Man based on? How is one of the most fun classic arcade games considered "not that good"?
I wanna know the answer to all three of these questions. ^__^
I was talking about present, not 1980.
A once great company.
I love TEKKEN, unlike many people here, its just pure fun, and the characters are awesome, same goes for Soul Calibur, Ridge Racer and Time Crisis were fun too. Never played Klonoa, but I heard good things about it.
But this generation they've been mediocre, Both Tekken and SC this gen were inferior to the ones before them.
Not to mention Time Crisis' latest entry did not spark any excitement for the genre. SEGA did good strides with their House of the Dead franchise and Time Crisis on PS3 was left forgotten.
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I don't really have a lot of Namco games (Klonoa, Soul Calibur, Soul Calibur II, Tekken 3, Tekken 5, Ridge Racer for PSP, Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari). I really enjoy the ones that I do have though. I played Time Crisis 4 in the arcade and thought it was good times.
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What is Pac Man a knock-off of? What anime is Pac Man based on? How is one of the most fun classic arcade games considered "not that good"?
I wanna know the answer to all three of these questions. ^__^
If theres one game thats overhyped crap these days its pac man.