/vr/ - Retro Games

My favourite weird license. It's not even a bad game and you'd never know it was licensed unless you were told.
It's based on an action figure set

What makes it worse is that Redd*t decided to love it when the gameplay couldn't be any flatter

>>9527835
started playing it a couple of weeks ago and found it pretty, but didn't get far and stopped playing, what's wrong with it before I investing more time on it.
Does it get worse gameplay wise or is it just a poor adaptation of the book?

>>9527847
oh god, biggest rent regret ever, I thought it would be a fun action game with sexy girls, I saw Konami on the title so i figured it would be good, but the controls...my god the controls. I don't even remember how bad it played because i blocked it out of my mind, but I remember my utter disgust towards the controls, even as a dumb kid with no taste I knew this was unredeemable dogshit, like not even the cgi cutscenes were worth the rent. I've never rejected a game so fast in my life. Maybe disc 2 was better? fuck no, just as bad!
I still regret renting that, I could've just rented doa2 again.

Years later I found out it was also a poor adaptation of the action figures apparently. How do you fuck up this bad? imagine being a fan of this toy line, you finally get an adaptation, and this is what you have to play with? ugh. I feel sorry for those fans.
The only reason I remember this game after all these years is because of just how bad it was, it's probably not even that bad, it just left a really, really bad taste in my mouth, more than Red Ninja, how did you manage to do that. Why did I rent this...
I think I first heard of it on Toonami, my memory is a bit fuzzy on that but if that was the case, fuck you, Tom, I liked the fat Tom better.

>>9527882
Still seething about the lack of bottomless pits.

>>9527847
I played the demo for this a lot, for some reason.

>>9527957
?

>>9527885
I have no idea what P is on about, he Hobbit is a pretty cool game. The only part that sucks is the stealth part at the end of level 2 where you need to sneak around the trolls, but that's such a minor part of the game.

It follows the book fairly closely, the only major departure is an extended Laketown sequence that's mostly just to introduce Bard as a character to the player.

>>9529406

>>9527835
Tolkien games have always been full of really bad entries. Only a few Tolkien games have ever really pulled it off.

This abomination was especially bad though, wtf were they thinking.

>>9527835
Basically all 90s Simpsons games were weird as fuck, but this one takes the cake for me. They basically reskinned a random existing game, and since the subject matter and setting were completely inappropriate they just decided to use a basically minor character as the titular main character and stretch the notion and vague implications of a "fun house" to shrug off the nonsense.

The irony is that it is still hands down the BEST western-developed game carrying the Simpsons license released during the 90s.

>>9527835
I am umironically think that Hobbit is much better than Ocarina

>>9527835
>Lord of the Rings-adjacent video game in 2003
Not that baffling really

>>9529683
It's a very bad pseudo-port/remake of a computer game that was actually quite good. Give that a try some time.

>>9531039
eh? I thought Interplay just got the license and made a new game, I didn't know it was a port. but at the same time the game's basic design was really bad, all the dungeons looked samey, and the AI for your companions was really bad and they got themselves permakilled easily, and there was a bug, where weapons that got to a certain strength actually rolled over so like the best weapons in the game actually LOWERED your strength stat, if your base strength + weapon strength went over 100 it rolled over back to 0. So you basically couldn't use Anduril, because it's strength was 96.

It was just a horrible mess.

>>9527882
Fuck you that's a good game.

>>9527882
>muh Reddit

>>9531146
The original is by Interplay as well. The SNES game is just very badly handled.

Check out the original here:
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/j-r-r-tolkien-s-the-lord-of-the-rings-vol-i-xy

>>9531162
Go back.

>>9531236
nigga I'm not doing DOS box games they're a pain, always end up fucking up resolutions of all my other shit

>>9529325
There was a Hobbit interactive-fiction back in the 1980s, as well.
It was... er. Some people will defend it. I won't

>>9531267
It was very innovative, with npcs that lived their own lives and acted independently of your actions.
Unfortunately "lived their own lives" could mean "walk into the forest and drown themselves in a river, making it impossible for the player to finish the game since you needed them for something", so it's mostly remembered as a needlessly frustrating game. There's a reason this innovation didn't catch on.

Really makes me wonder what the fuck they were thinking with this one.

>>9529683
I love the title theme of this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=366MGt6zBRA

one of the most obscure pce hucards out there

it's a generic movie license slapped onto the best ever home version of Solomon's Key. it beats the shit out of the nes and master system ports

>>9531554
the main theme may have been the best part of the game.
cause the rest was just bad

>>9527885

I watched a review of it recently because of Nintendo Power threads and it seemed like it was a genuinely good game that you should probably play if you're interested in it, which apparently you are

>>9531543
I don't know what it is about racing licensed games that make them extra weird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwFu2ElK_Es

>>9531267
>You see Dead Gandalf

>>9531003
is it contrarian anymore when you echo an extremely common contrarian opinion?

>>9531243
You're the one who seems to know a lot about what redditors like. Maybe you should fuck off back there.

>>9531543
Tell me about it (except this one is also a weird faux bowling game)

>>9531543
>>9532415
ah post 2001 psx games, truly an age of wonder.

>>9532415
to be honest a flintstones bowling game makes sense since bowling was fred's main hobby in the show

>>9532024
Yeah, it's a good game that follows the book fairly closely (more so than the later movies). No idea what OP is on about.

Obvious one, but a decent enough game.

>>9532313
You think? I saw 100500 ocarina threads, but nobody discuss Hobbit

>>9532415
hated this game, I tested out if you can beat it without touching the controller and it somehow worked, it was on 1 track, though

>>9529325
>>9532024
thx i'll keep playing then

>>9529683
This one's really good if you don't mind a text parser

>>9527835
I fucking love this game.

>>9532545
What's "baffling" about it?

>>9527835
What’s baffling about this? It follows the book pretty directly. Great game, too.

>>9532706
Look up some gameplay.

>>9532504
I'd assume it's precisely the mix of fidelity to the source material in terms of content with an arguably misguided "gamified" visual style.

I totally get how some people may actually like it, but fresh off the visual solemnity and elegance of the LotR feature films, getting a Bilbo-if-he-Mario adaptation of The Hobbit (actually acknowledged as such by the developers themselves) was an understandable shock for others. The developers' rationale (about this particular piece of the source material being more "lighthearted") was solid enough when considered in the vacuum, but given the commercial point of the project was piggybacking on the mainstream popularity gained by the films, this was hardly the most appropriate approach.

>>9532729
Games and animation is better then movies. Real people are shit

>>9532729
Nah
Anyone who read the Hobbit before the films came out would disagree with you. The attempt to bring the Hobbit in line with Jackson’s darker films is misguided as fuck, as evidence by the three absolute shitshows we got in the past decade.

What’s more iirc Sierra didn’t have the rights to adapt Jackson’s films, EA did. They bought the rights to adapt the book from someone who obtained them perviously, and thus had to distance themselves from the Jackson films for legal reasons regardless.

>>9532729
True, if you expect Peter Jackson it's probably disappointing. But I think it captured the atmosphere and the feel of the book quite well. Some segments, especially Smaug's lair was exactly how I imagined it when I read the book. The Mirkwood level was also great.
Good synchro, good soundtrack. It's a love letter to the book.
Fully recommend this game to other bookfags.

>>9532758
If anything I assume the blowback against the Hobbit game came after the Jackson Hobbit movies when all the zoomzooms thought they were what the Hobbit SHOULD be like.

>>9529771
They edited the cover artwork for the Super Famicom version of this so ALL characters are looking straight at YOU for some reason; it's oddly unsettling.

>>9531146
There's also a sequel. Volume 2 on DOS.

>>9532761
>Good soundtrack
Hell yeah

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zHvOPjAfyng

>>9532784
I looked it up later anyway, it is in fact him. So he was associated with the series even before voicing Master Eraqus.

>>9532415
Flintstones is like a mini-Peanuts in that the license is slapped on everything. A bowling game is nothing compared to being one of the most recognizable chewable vitamin brands.

>>9532756
I mean let's not go crazy here, the LotR trilogy is a masterpiece. But regardless, Sierra didn't have the rights to use that license and I don't think it's wrong to use a different style for the game.
The real question is, does it play well?

>>9532758
That's an entirely different issue, that was making the Hobbit more like LotR. Jackson totally could've done a true to the original Hobbit movie, he just chose not to. You can totally make The Hobbit's story work with LotR's visuals, we know that because the parts of the first movie that are trying to be The Hobbit instead of something else are actually good.

>>9533001
>does it play well?
Yes. It's nothing groundbreaking of course but a very fun little action-adventure, especially for Tolkien fans.
It's a bit like Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, but more linear and with less puzzles.

>>9529771
> The irony is that it is still hands down the BEST western-developed game carrying the Simpsons license released during the 90s

Itchy and scratchy would like to have a word with you

>>9532626
Is this >>9531495

Darkened Skye
Watch this and see how long it takes you to realize what its based on:
https://youtu.be/nygXewffIG8
It's Skittles. It's a Skittles tie-in game.

>>9534304
I remember seeing this cover art and being intrigued. I would never in a million fucking years have guessed what it was actually about lmao. It’s almost too crazy to be true.

>>9534304
What’s extra wild is that it’s not—Skittles didn’t approach them, the director approached Skittles because they thought it would be funny

>>9533001
> we know that because the parts of the first movie that are trying to be The Hobbit instead of something else are actually good.
You mean the lighthearted bits that fall in like just fine with this game’s tone?

>>9532024
>>9532504
>>9527835
>>9529325
>>9531003
Is the Hobbit game a good game thas is still worth playing? I have never played it but seen the constant praise. However when I skip through Youtube longplay videos to get an impression it looks like a mediocre platformer from the mid 2000s that does have the ambience of the book. I would have enjoyed that as a kid back then for sure but nowadays?...
In what way?

>>9535707
I like it. It has great atmosphere and solid level design. Not sure I'd call it a platformer, though, it's closer to Zelda, though it does have a jump button.

>>9531543
>>9532030
>have a license to make a game about racing
>make a platformer

>>9534304
the funniest thing about this is because of trademarks and shit, they exclusively call them "Skittles" even as a singular

>>9532545
Presentation is 10/10. Gameplay is an insult

>>9527885
There's nothing wrong with it, it's hands down the most accurate adaptation of the Hobbit to date, and a really fun game to boot. Keep playing, and enjoy yourself. Also music is absolutely amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLHDW3LL-3E

>>9535707
>I would have enjoyed that as a kid back then for sure but nowadays?
You sound like a soulless normalfag that thinks video games have actually improved since then, and think people only like old games because of nostalgia. You're a faggot, wrong, and don't belong on /vr/ much less this site.

That Eastenders game on the ZX Spectrum.

>>9529406
geez how tall was Minogue again? She looks like she's tiny there.

>they actually bothered to rerelease the nes three stooges game on the ps1
>in 2002

>>9535707
Its awesome zeldoid adventure, I completed it 4 times

>>9536382
Actually an Amiga game, released in a ton of other platforms just like other Amiga anti-classics, like James Pond and Soccer Kid.

My gripe is that Bilbo's design sucks and the whole game looks plastic, like many other western games in that gen that tried to be cartoonish but used this undefined art style.

Wish we got something like this, in the vein of Wind Waker...

>>9536901
... or this, if aiming for realism.

>Game based on the biggest Heavy Metal band in Japan at the time
>Doesn't include their music, just obnoxious 20 second loops
>Is based on a Metal band yet is somehow a dull pseudo puzzle platformer

Shit should've included their music (MSX version does) and been something like a beat em up or hack and slash action platformer like Castlevania or whatever.