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| telekill:
One of my favorite retro systems is the Genesis and by extension, the Sega CD. When you look at the Sega CD's library of games, there's a rather large percentage which are FMV (full motion video) movie games. Some of my favorites are Corpse Killer, Sewer Shark, Jurassic Park, and Dragon's Lair. Those were the fun ones. Then there were others that I hoped were good, but the controls were so poor that I couldn't even get 5 minutes into the story.... games like Supreme Warrior and Night Trap. FMV games or movie games generally had to have spot on to the millisecond timing on button presses and it made playing these unbearable. Dragon's Lair was almost on this list. If you look above at the FMV games I listed as good vs not good, you'll notice that developers had already figured out that the FMVs should probably not be during gameplay. Sewer Shark was able to get around it via giving the player a grace period to react. Later games that had FMVs had removed them from gameplay all together and instead put them in as side videos to watch as informational or to expand on the story. The first couple Need for Speed games did a great job doing action shoots on the super cars and giving information. I guess this topic came to mind as I just bought the PS4's 25th Anniversary edition of Corpse Killer on PSN. It was on sale for under $7... which is what I feel the game is probably worth. Great nostalgia. Horrible gameplay where it should basically be a light gun game but fun to revisit none-the-less. I would buy a remastered Sewer Shark for $7 as well. What are your feelings on FMV games of the 90's? Did you have any favorites? |
| oldgamerz:
Heavy Gear for PC WIN/95/98 was one of vary first PC video games I ever played that had real full motion video. But many people criticize the real life Amateur actors and actresses. In the story. But I've always enjoyed watching the many full motion videos of the story mode. The video clips ran directly off a game CD, similar to how a few PlayStation 1 games were at the time. Heavy Gear My detailed review of Heavy Gear 1 on the PC in Heavy Gear 1 is an underrated video game in my own opinion, it has 4 modes of gameplay 1: Story mode in which consistent of a 30 or more mission campaign. Tour Of Duty Campaign, and Multiplayer and Training to learn how to play. Heavy Gear 1 was a futuristic war simulator, (with mechs) it was also a 1st and 3rd person camera angle kind of game. The tour of duty modes could take you months and maybe even years to beat I once completed over 1500 missions and never beat the tour of duty mode. in my entire lifetime Probably because I used the in-game option cheats in which warn that they will hamper your progress, and it took me a long time to figure out what that meant. It means you will never fully progress in the game if you have invincibility and/or Unlimited ammo turned on. but even with the cheat options off. I still completed over 1000 missions without reaching the end, It still remains unclear to me this day, if the Tour of Duty mode ever ends, But after I did some searching on the CD-ROM disc of heavy gear I saw 2 extra cutscenes that were not included in the story mode so I guess that eventually if you don't cheat you can either lose or win the war in the Tour Of Duty Mode. Story mode is just a fixed Lienor single player Campaign. and Tour of Duty is a mode where you start off choosing either the good guy's or the bad guy's army, as a low ranking military officer and then, as you win missions your can unlock equipment and weapons to take further into the war with of you.. Also you can join and unlock other military units to join, some units will hamper you progress. As well. Meaning you need to choose a strategy in order to help win your side of the war. In tour of duty mode it's like being in the real military (sort of,) you pick the missions based on some kind of hidden strategy I never figured out, and if you succeed in your mission you get rewarded and sometimes promoted to a higher ranking officer, or punished for losing or dyeing in your chosen missions. If you die you don't lose the game but you are forced into a defense mission on your vary next mission, you can command other soldiers on the battlefield but if THEY die in the mission. and IF you Don't replay the mission they stay dead forever you get to move onto your next mission regardless. But if you don't replay the mission you won't ever have that soldier to help you in the war ever again. they stay dead. I never played another game like this one, you can also build your own mech from scratch, but they look nothing like Mech Warriors does, most of the Mechs in Heavy Gear are called Gears instead this game is really a meaty video game and it came out in 1997 originally for Windows 95/98/ME. This is NOT a normal game, it is as if the game was a real war taking place and your in it to survive and win and work you war up the military's chain of command. There is also Multiplayer but I never did that |
| kamikazekeeg:
I don't think there was any FMV games I liked growing up. Dragon's Lair is definitely one of the more well known ones, but I never liked it as far as being an actual game. |
| shawndude82:
There's a pretty good X-Files FMV game released for the PlayStation. They got the entire cast to do it, and it was pretty much treated as an episode of the show, though you don't get to play as Mulder or Scully. The controls weren't the best, especially during the shooting parts, but the story was interesting. |
| Cartagia:
--- Quote from: shawndude82 on June 01, 2021, 12:59:42 pm ---There's a pretty good X-Files FMV game released for the PlayStation. They got the entire cast to do it, and it was pretty much treated as an episode of the show, though you don't get to play as Mulder or Scully. The controls weren't the best, especially during the shooting parts, but the story was interesting. --- End quote --- I played it about 5-6 years ago. I thought it was generally a good time, but I agree about the controls, and had a little bit of trouble seeing some of the point and click targets thanks to the pixelation. I think it was on PC at some point as well. |
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