Games where you where a true master
I think the only game I could say I was a true "master" was super soccer for SNES, I finished it in the hardest level with Belgium, the worst team... (I nearly bleed of my finger tips for that one :D!)
unfortunately, I tried it on emulation and nowadays I can hardly score a goal... (it made me feel like a overweight retired football player playing on a champions league final...)
so what where the games did you master? and was I the only one playing Super Soccer on SNES? (I only recently found out that they made more than one game... I've dreammed of a "part 2" back in the day... if only I had knew and was available in Portugal...)
unfortunately, I tried it on emulation and nowadays I can hardly score a goal... (it made me feel like a overweight retired football player playing on a champions league final...)
so what where the games did you master? and was I the only one playing Super Soccer on SNES? (I only recently found out that they made more than one game... I've dreammed of a "part 2" back in the day... if only I had knew and was available in Portugal...)
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Robocop - Soo piss easy I could play it with both arms tied behind my back, blindfolded, and not even being in the same room as the game.
Bruce Lee - even easier than Robocop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMhR6aTaPlk&feature=related
Mugsy, Wild Bunch and Turbo Esprit on the Speccy.
The GTA 3 trilogy on the PS2.
I was then later superb at the Madden games on the Megadrive, did help i played those tons !
thats how I was at snes bomberman.. used to annoy friends and they could never win....
then I went around to a friends place, and they made me look STUPID, they were that good.
v-rally 2 on the ps
virtua tennis 2 on dreamcast
A friend mouthed off about being good at ISS on n64.. well I let him carry on, and in front of him and my other friends I made him look silly :) . thing is, ISS I am rubbish at.
we did have 8 player fifa game here.. my team VS 4 of my friends friends... we made them look stupid... AND when we got on goal , one was pressing pause because they were puss's .. one on my side was a rugby player and well likes a ruck.. he got miffed with em.
the only woman I would have married (so far) was amazing at driver on the ps1 / tekkan / mario kart and all the Metal gear solid games.. yep , she was fit , brainy and a gamer.. I knew it was too good to be true , was a good year though.hehe
Sonic 1 on the Megadrive, although I'm not really sure if I was a true master, or just too much for Segas insanely easy difficulty levels of yesteryear?
Castle of Illusion on the Megadrive, from start to finish on the hardset setting on 1 life, same with the Master System version (Although I think that just had 1 difficulty after practice?) which even though I've said before I'm going to say it again, was graphically weaker and used push scrolling on the levels was much better game all around.
I somehow managed to complete Space Harrier II on the megadrive on 1 life when I was younger, if I load it up now I'm lucky if I can go ten feet without getting flattened?
Virtua Cop on the Saturn, always prefered this version as you could turn those big annoying green crosshairs off. I could get through the game pretty quickly maybe without getting hit sometimes.
Tenchu Stealth Assassins on PS1 Grandmaster on every level, still got the save for that :D
Tony Hawks 1 and 2 on PS1, I never did either games with every character cos' it got so boring going through them cos' I could do it all very easily. 2 Player I was so unbeatable my friends stopped playing against me and called me a cunt (special occasion :p).
I was pretty good at Super Mario World on the SNES as well.
Resident evil 1, 2, and 3 on PS1 oh so very easy, I'm still pretty wank at REmake on the Wii though, haven't picked up my last save in about 3 weeks now, not sure I can be bothered anymore?
Jet Set Radio on the Dreamcast, I was pretty damn good at that, it's one of my all time fave games. Haven't played it for years now though :(
Guardian Heroes on the Saturn, I could fly through this game with great ease, but I loved it so much I could play it over and over.
well the list goes on I'm sure but here's a few I can remember
My first time online properly was with Quake 3, which I thought I was pretty good at. I got slaughtered. When I got an Xbox with Live I imagined I would be trouncing every1 at Project Gotham Racing 2 as I managed to Gold that one. I was battered so often it was embarrassing.
I imagine had we got online with SMC or SF2, it would have been a similar story. As Homer Simpson once said, no matter how good you think you are at something there are always a billion other people better at it!!!
Take me on!!:razz:
im quite handy at pacman, rally x, chuckie egg tho
also mario kart on the snes / n64
goldeneye on the n64
Goldeneye & Perfect Dark - N64
Gauntlet 2 - Arcade
Battlefield 2, Timesplitters 2 and Timesplitters : Future Perfect- PS2
I definitely know I was good at Battlefield and TS:FP because I got very high up the online leaderboards in both of them, so I must have been doing something right! :D
Nowadays I pretty much suck at everything...even playing Perfect Dark online sees me being slaughtered mercilessly. I suppose I'm still a bit handy at GTA 4, Streetfighter 4 and the Halo games, but it seems I need to be in the right mood...
There's a reasonably large score by me over at Mysepccy, dunno if anybody has beaten it yet? Why don't you try? ;)
I'm sure I could take yer to school :p
Ooooh! And UFO (XCOM)
I was gonna say....it's definitely not Shadow of the Colossus :p
you forgot curse of sherwood :)
Shhhh! I'm "taking a break" from it for a while...
Ooooh! Yeah, that's another excellent one I'm good at ... even navigating the marsh-fires areas.
Terramex ... good at that one too (but it's not like it's brain chirurgy.)
When i was at college and had zero cash this was the only game i had for my PS1 i played it non stop for months on end and it got to the point where i could finish the whole game on maximum difficulty without even dying once including doing all the weapon challenges. I also beat anyone who challenged me on the 2 player death matches although that may have been due to the shoddy game controls.
Nowadays i am able to complete about 95% of the games i own but i can never be bothered to replay them apart from Oblivion and Fallout 3.
I also thought i was king of Fight Night Round 3 unitl i got near the end and the difficulty seemed to ramp up tenfold leading to me giving up on it.
COD - MW2 - im pretty good on the multiplayer, no where near the best on there, but if i had a decent broadband speed i would rule. as for the single player game, pierce brosnan would turn over in his grave watching my poor efforts. :smile:
oh and alex kid (the one built into the master system) - it was the only game i had for a long time on it, so i could complete it every time.
Hehe..yeah, I sold my original copy and tried to play through it all again on a newly purchased one last year, so I could muck about with 007 mode....Found it far too difficult to get past that stupid bit where you protect Natalya typing on a computer on 00Agent mode....will try to give it another bash, but it's all too yucky-looking to play much these days....
Used to play it linked between two PCs via null-modem cable back in the early 1990s, with me one and my mate on another. Racked the difficulty level up to Ace, and I'd trounce the lot of them including my mate. My best tracks were Brazil and Monaco. By far the greatest racing game/simulation ever made. beats the subsequent releases too in my opinion, just on the basis of its originality at the time.
I was a master at no Spectrum games with the possible exception of Target Renegade, which was bloody easy by any standards - even my sister could complete it.
I always thought I was great at GTA IV until I played it on Xbox Live. Oh, the humility!! :grin:
You won't find me disagreeing with ya there although I don't think I could go back to the original nowadays. I have number 4 installed on my lappy and it's still so far ahead of every other F1 game ever released it's untrue. I'm hopeful that the forthcoming Codemasters update is going to up the ante as they're arguably the best racing sim makers out there now.
Could play the game through non-stop, would stop and redo a level if I didn't complete it to my own satisfaction.
Practice made perfect. Actually, though, I could only do the first lot, the second lot I could never finish the level called Tricks and Traps couldn't get out the door at the end.
Alex Kid??? you sir have my respect!!!
I wasn't that good on Super Mario Kart, just regular (never finished that rainbow course on 150cc...), but I was a master on the 1st bownser castle (mushroom cup) on 50cc, I don't think I ever lost on that level...
I'm not sure what was my best time, but I remember looking at a "national" record at the time and my time was just a few slices away (I was always proud of that!).
Yes! Same here, definitely. Well, I played it only on the PC.
DOOM2 wasn't as interesting as it felt more like a bunch of hodgepodge of extra levels rather than levels specific to the storyline (aside from some of the city-like levels).
Was really good at Perfect Dark on N64 though. Me and my 3 mates pretty much played that every weekend for 4 years! The game records your stats for multi-player. I looked at them years later and much to my satisfaction mine were way higher than the other 3. They used to get annoyed with me though because I used to like to find a spot to camp. I would also look at the floor or wall on my screen while doing this so they didn't know where it was I was hiding. I was also great at charging towards an opponent guns blazing whilst somehow managing to avoid their bullets. Might be because I used to move as erratically as possible, slide left, slide right, jump like a loon etc
We also played the PC Engine versions of Bomberman for years (best versions). We mainly concentrated on Bomberman 94. We were all really good although I was probably second best on that one. My mate was a god at that game. He used to target me first because I was his biggest threat (bastard).
Oh well happy days. Might hook the N64 up to my projector later and see what it looks like on a huge screen...
Hello,
Sorry - I couldn't let this one slip past ;p The Codemasters games are a joke compared to the real sims out there - they look nice but simulation wise they are really poor. I don't really expect the new F1 game to be any better, but I'll reserve judgement until its out.
Anyway, if you want to play some REAL racing sims then first get yourself some decent equipment (at a minimum a decent steering wheel and pedal set, eg. a Logitech G27 [not cheap but well worth it]). Then check out some of these games:
Arguably the best sim by far at the moment is iRacing. Graphically its nothing special, but the physics is streets ahead of anything else. Real racing drivers use this sim for practice (mostly american, but even some F1 drivers use this, eg. Anthony Davidson). It isn't cheap - its a subscription service and you have to buy content extra (ie. cars and tracks) - but.. it is really good! All racing is done online althoug you can practice offline - it doesn't even bother trying to implement AI. Well worth signing up for a month just to try out if you have the equipment mentioned above. I warn you though: it is not really a game - its much more like a sport - you have a safety rating, crashing in races (or even qualifying) will reduce your safety rating and prevent you from gaining licences to compete in the higher series (or even demote you). Its mostly american oriented, but: the open wheel racing series (skip barber, formula star mazda and indy car) have some decent tracks. ALL tracks are laser scanned so they are extremely accurate (there are some videos on YouTube comparing the mazda to real life and the racing lines, braking points, etc.. - are all pretty much the same in the game as in reality!).
Second to iRacing there are RFactor (pretty old now but still decent), and the SimBin games (Race07, etc...) these are not as realistic as iRacing but still pretty good fun and with large communities.
NetKar Pro is a game from an independant company (pretty cheap) that has very realistic physics for open wheel racing (not as good as iRacing imo, but still very very good) - it doesn't have a very large community though unfortunately so its hard to find races.
Anyway - try some of these "games" (not really games imo) and you will see why I had to call you out on calling Codemasters "the best racing sim makers" - they may well be the "best arcade racing game makers", but they don't make sims.
I am far from a master at any of these sims - although I have won a few races in iRacing when I have time to practice ;)
Edit: oh and btw - I agree that F1GP was an awesome game. I actually work with someone who worked on one of the later versions of that game. Apparently Crammond was really paranoid that people would steal his code - he wouldn't even allow a network in their room ;)
Edit2: here is one of the comparison videos showing the formula mazda @ watkins glen in real life and in iRacing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H33RUflkvVU
Still am :)