/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10809496]

Post OG Xbox games that aren't talked about much. After playing a ton of OXM demo discs as a preteen, I can say a lot of games flew under the radar

[Anonymous No.10809539]

>>10809496
Been playing this one lately, great arcade racing game with a fun story mode and fantastic soundtrack

[Anonymous No.10809550]

>>10809496
I did play this one extensively but it was kinda dull.

[Anonymous No.10809551]

phantom crash and both mechassault games

[Anonymous No.10809748]

>>10809496
For overlooked games just look at Bloodwake! Pretty much twisted metal with boats! Was published by Microsoft themselves but didn't even bother to make it backwards compatible! Even Blinx got the BC treatment and he gets mocked a lot more

[Anonymous No.10809995]

>>10809496
Literally a handful of people played this. I'm grateful it happened though as a Saturn fan. The original Panzer Dragoon game can be unlocked too

[Anonymous No.10810001]

>the only goldsrc game with hdr
what a weird flex

[Anonymous No.10810002]

>>10809995
Ah yiss such a hidden gem! I recommend pic related also for another obscure xbox game

[Anonymous No.10810013]

>>10809995
>The original Panzer Dragoon game can be unlocked too
emulated or actually ported?

[Anonymous No.10810053]

>>10810013
most likely emulated but it ran fine

[Anonymous No.10810079]

>>10809551
All great games. It's too bad Phantom Crash didn't have online play like the MA games. Would have been awesome. Very soulful game. It has a sequel on ps2 called S.L.A.I. that I still need to play.

[Anonymous No.10810097]

>>10809551
>>10810079
Phantom Crash had a strong influence on my childhood. I suspect it had the same effect on others here. No one else I've ever met in life seems to have even heard of it.

[Anonymous No.10810110]

Crimson Skies I know is not really a hidden gem but I really love the setting and the gameplay. Wish they had done more games into the next generations.

[Anonymous No.10810123]

>>10809748
Microsoft honestly half-assed a lot of their Back-compat games as expected, they use MUH LOICENSES as an excuse but I don't believe em. Still no MechAssault 1 & 2 on Series consoles. Sure, one of the richest companies in the world can't get their own games on their new system, fuck right off Phil.

[Anonymous No.10810126]

>>10810013
>>10810053
Its a port of the PC version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GQTv4jdUdo&t=925s

[Anonymous No.10810131]

[Anonymous No.10810132]

[Anonymous No.10810134]

>>10810110
That was the pack-in game when I got one of those Xbox Live box sets with a free year of live and a headset. Fond memories

[Anonymous No.10810138]

The sequel to Wreckless Yakuza Missions
Japan-only but mostly in english. It's a technically very impressive open world mission-based driving game that runs at a high resolution as well.
Tiny game size too at only a few hundred megabytes.

[Anonymous No.10810241]

Maximum Chase on the XBOX by Genki, it has movie scenes with real actors which is always fun on this era, has shooting, has high speed driving, it's quite the unique experience

[Anonymous No.10810807]

>>10809496
Air force Delta Konami's take on Namco's ace combat. It's a decent game and has a prequel on Dreamcast

[Anonymous No.10810882]

>>10809551
Mech assault is notorious for being how you hack the Xbox and jailbreak it by injecting code via a corrupted saved game. I think ma2 lone Wolf

[Anonymous No.10810959]

Brute Force was a great couch co-op game

[Chud Anon No.10811008]

>>10810123
It really is a licensing issue, it’s not about paying off one company, who even holds the license for mechassult is up for debate with several companies claiming it.

For the record, Mech Assault is the top franchise Phil Spencer said he wants to revive.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/phil-spencer-says-hed-love-to-revisit-mechassault/

>>10810882
I thought that was Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

[Anonymous No.10811031]

>>10810110
Wasn't that on PS2 as well?

[Anonymous No.10811035]

>>10809496
Fuck you, I liked it

[Anonymous No.10811069]

>>10810131
Is Gun Valkyrie related to Bullet Witch?

[Anonymous No.10811410]

>>10811031
No, only on xbox, but there is a previous game on Windows

[Anonymous No.10811412]

>>10811069
Gun Valkyrie was made by Smilebit, same niggas from Jet Set Radio

[Anonymous No.10811440]

Kinda cool how many interesting sort of one-off exclusive games (outside of Halo) the OG Xbox had as someone who only had a PS2 that gen. Neat.

[Anonymous No.10811454]

>>10811440
I find the og xbox and early 360 to very exciting machines, microsoft was greenlitting anything to try to get a hit game and that gave us lots of unique games, some good, some bad, but pretty cool anyway

[Anonymous No.10811462]

>Look up Steel Battalion videos on Youtube
>Some guy made a goddamn fully functioning cockpit
absolute mad lad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpS1SVeBQ1M

[Anonymous No.10811471]

3D action-adventure lolige, Tenerezza. One of those weird Japanese-exclusive Xbox games from those tiny handful of years when Xbox was actually trying to court a Japanese audience.

[Anonymous No.10811568]

>>10810138
Wow, you are right, the text, menus, cutscenes, even voices are all in english. That's awesome

[Anonymous No.10811702]

should i give it a try?

[Anonymous No.10811735]

>>10809551
>>10809995
>>10810131
>>10810132
Would you zoom zooms try again? Any Xbox owner played these or knows about them.

[Anonymous No.10811740]

>>10811735
Plus all of those are playable on series X and sold digitally so hardly overlooked at all

[Anonymous No.10811749]

>>10811740
The sega stuffs atleast, i guess Spikeouts would fit the category of this thread more

[Anonymous No.10812043]

>>10811702
Absolutely a great time to sit down with a couch full of mates and have a good laugh at its over the top references. The minigames are heavily skill based and can get super competitive, and the main sets/levels have a scripted sequence to happen as the director barking orders and weaving his vision of the film for you to act in, so your main combat to kill each other the most over the scene brings most of the variation. Finally there's the main campaign and challenges, which all reuse the levels and minigames but throw more enemies or give tight restrictions like not getting hit or not jumping which give the game most of its single player legs.

Fuck I love Kung Fu Chaos. I'm going to replay it now.

[Anonymous No.10812340]

For real niggas

[Anonymous No.10812639]

I've always liked this series but never knew there was an Xbox-exclusive game back in the day. I like the visuals and the characters are pretty cute.

[Anonymous No.10812716]

I'll loved this game as a kid, but I never finished it.

[Anonymous No.10812725]

Carve is an exclusive jet ski racing game by Argonaut. I always recommend this one to fans of Wave Race, the focus on tricks to build up a boost makes for a fun and risky playing dynamic beyond the usual buoy weaving. It's a late Xbox release and is clearly built around the power of the console so the visuals have a really high end look with lots of colorful shader effects and detailed environments and effects that feel distinctly Xbox.

>>10812340
Most fun I ever had on XBL

[Anonymous No.10812747]

BREAKDOWN
absolute kino

[Anonymous No.10812757]

>>10809496
This game sucks my dog's burrito

[Anonymous No.10813354]

>>10810013
You wouldn't know either way.

[Anonymous No.10813401]

this saga, people always talk about the Namco ones.

[Anonymous No.10813403]

you now remember tunning fever from 2002-2006

[Anonymous No.10813406]

same, people always bring back our pal Colin McRae and the official WRC ones

[Anonymous No.10813407]

[Anonymous No.10813409]

[Anonymous No.10813410]

6th gen plattaformers in general

[Anonymous No.10813412]

[Anonymous No.10813413]

always at blinx's shadow

[Anonymous No.10813414]

non FIFA and non PES football games in general.

[Anonymous No.10813416]

>>10809496
Prey
Whacked!
Blinx: the Time Sweeper
Much's Odyssey
Blood Wake
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger

[Anonymous No.10813417]

[Anonymous No.10813419]

2D re-release in 6th gen tend to be forgotten.

[Anonymous No.10813420]

[Anonymous No.10813424]

people always forget that xbox has a bloody roar entry.

[Anonymous No.10813426]

xbox first party sports/racing games and 2K sports games are always a bit forgotten.

[Anonymous No.10813475]

>>10813419
Is that really the cover? Looks like a porn parody

[Anonymous No.10813485]

>>10813475
is the japanese one., but it seems real or maybe is japanese booklet.

[Anonymous No.10813513]

>>10809496
The Hunter: The Reckoning games are pretty solid Gauntlet clones.

[Anonymous No.10813531]

>>10809496
Haven't seen anyone talk about this game, the premise sounds interesting. A lot of Xbox exclusives have this grotesque cartoon look for some reason.

[Anonymous No.10814007]

>>10813531
Ugly bros, this is our game

[Anonymous No.10814697]

>>10809539
This game bretty good

[Anonymous No.10815051]

This is not a good game but the cover is funny

[Anonymous No.10815172]

>>10813407
cursed walmart tekken

[Anonymous No.10815186]

brute force walked so that gears of war could run

[Anonymous No.10815223]

>>10813413
finally beat this game last month after first having played it over 15 years ago and never finishing the last level. awesome game

[Anonymous No.10815230]

here’s a few;
call of cthulhu dark corners of the earth
odd world munchs odyssey
enclave
obscure
xbox was such a great system to grow up with

[Anonymous No.10815447]

nobody cared about this revival

[Anonymous No.10815448]

[Anonymous No.10815450]

overlooked by kotor saga, morrowind and fable

[Anonymous No.10815451]

just talked in gamelists

[Anonymous No.10815452]

the OTHER tolkien game

[Anonymous No.10815456]

[Anonymous No.10815457]

>>10815230
good post but I feel stranger is more overlooked than munch

[Anonymous No.10815469]

>>10815451
This is one of those games where I swear the devs chose to use a threshold for button presses that isn't anywhere near 1 on a scale of 0-255, if you follow. Tetris Worlds does the same thing. Maybe it's just my controller, idk.

[Anonymous No.10815498]

I wanna play Hunter: The Gathering co op with my bros. how hard would it be to get that going with emulators online?

[Anonymous No.10815503]

>>10815498
Hunter: The Reckoning* and here's the right pic lol. sorry I'm drunk

[Anonymous No.10815510]

>>10813413
Honestly I never played Blinx, but I played Voodoo Vince quite a bit back in the day. One of my absolute favorite game soundtracks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Z5irCts8M

[Anonymous No.10815542]

>>10815451
are you one of the 3 fans of Ghoulies?

[Anonymous No.10815558]

>>10809995
Its not 360 compatable, i remember finding a copy and then having to trade some stuff to get an xbox. But now ive got bith on saturn and this game and i even got the remaster.

[Anonymous No.10815581]

>>10815558
>Its not 360 compatable
Yes it is, also
VIVA PIÑATA FILLED WITH FUN!! VIVA PIÑAAAAATAAAA

[Anonymous No.10815610]

>>10815558
>>10815581

[Anonymous No.10815613]

>>10815451
Honestly all this game needed was unlockable moves to make the combat more exciting.

[Anonymous No.10815628]

>>10813414
That was literally fifa with a euro tournament skin. They did the same with world cup games too for years until there was so much bad press they quietly stopped it. I think pro evo got the rights for one tournament and just included it as free DLC and made them look even worse which was great.

[Anonymous No.10815630]

>>10815451
God this was such trash, what the fuck happened to rare from the n64 to then, what a dramatic change

[Anonymous No.10815708]

>>10815610
This game freeze at the 3rd level on Xbox360.

[Anonymous No.10815793]

>>10815186
kek, cutscenes are the best part of the game. gameplay is fun too, def a blast to play with a buddy high

[Anonymous No.10815795]

>>10815503
great fucking game. pretty sure this inspired l4d.

[Anonymous No.10815905]

Is the Buffy game good?

[Anonymous No.10815925]

>>10815905
Yes actually, made by the guys who also made that really solid indiana jones game of the era.

[Anonymous No.10816003]

Not an exclusive but it does play best on Xbox, plus I never, ever get to talk about PSI OPS THE MINDGATE CONSPIRACY because people can't handle the slightly complicated controls that change based on context.

[Anonymous No.10816010]

>>10816003
Both versions are very solid but this is one that's a lil better on Xbox especially the framerate. I wonder why it skipped GC, I think the console had problems with physics driven games.

[Anonymous No.10816013]

>>10816003
>the slightly complicated controls that change based on context.
How so?

[Anonymous No.10816058]

>>10816010
It's not because of that, Gamecube could handle physics engines just fine, third-parties just didn't want to compete with Nintendo's own lineup on the console. They had evidence to back that up too, since very few non-Nintendo games could manage even 800,000 units sold (a big number back then).

>>10816013
It's very annoying having jump and the main context-sensitive activator on the same button, and if you're using the sniper rifle you need to be dedicated to it what with out that shit was laid out.

[Anonymous No.10816068]

>>10816058
This is a job for the dualshock 2

[Anonymous No.10816130]

>>10816003
For me it's the dumb minigames

[Anonymous No.10816516]

>>10813531
It was really good from what I remember.

[Anonymous No.10817630]

>>10809551
I loved the first mech assault. Wasn't a fan of Lone wolf

[Anonymous No.10817634]

>>10815510
Funny you mentioned blinx as it also had some great, unique music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bRANXnW_88

[Anonymous No.10817638]

>>10815457
The problem with Stranger is the gameplay is far more enjoyable if you stop trying catch any bounties alive.

[Anonymous No.10818321]

>>10815905
doesn't this game also got a sequel?

[Anonymous No.10818331]

>>10813410
>>10813412
>>10813413
How did 3D platformers go from beloved system sellers to just lame as fuck in one generation?

[Anonymous No.10818552]

>>10816003
Would spend hours in the practice room

[Anonymous No.10818557]

>>10818331
You're right, come to think of it I haven't heard of many x360/PS3 platformers. Psychonauts seemed to be the last good original one

[Chud Anon No.10818608]

Not a hidden gem; but I only hear positive things about the Xbox Riddick games

[Anonymous No.10818818]

>>10818608
That game is so kino. Might as well go with the PC version if you're not emulating

[Anonymous No.10818871]

>>10811008
splinter cell (first one)
mechassault
and I think one of the James Bond games are the ones you could use to easily softmod it with a hacked save

[Anonymous No.10820169]

>>10809496
Fable?

[Anonymous No.10821152]

tao feng and 3d king of fighter game.

[Anonymous No.10821164]

>>10820169
lol

[Anonymous No.10821257]

>>10813531
Mostly remember this game due to every publication and its marketing never shutting up about it being $30 instead of $50 at release.

[Anonymous No.10821260]

>>10816003
This one is kinda interesting because it completely overshadowed Second Sight when it came out only for the inverse to happen these days.

[Anonymous No.10822332]

loved the two timelines twist in parallel lines

[Anonymous No.10822335]

no studio would take this risk. woke/esg censorship.

[Anonymous No.10822432]

>>10822335
That's on gamecube as well, lad. Any idea which port is better?

[Anonymous No.10822434]

>>10822332
I've heard it's at least better than Driv3R but is it anywhere near as good as San Andreas/Vice City?

[Anonymous No.10822825]

>>10821152
>3d king of fighter game.
Maximum Impact? They were released on PS2 too.

[Anonymous No.10822837]

[Anonymous No.10822872]

I remember this being pushed quite hard in the official Xbox magazines and playing a demo of it which I remember enjoying enough. Then after it launched I never heard about it ever again.
Granted I only really paid attention to it at all because I was a horny kid and the girl on the cover gave me a hard on.
>>10815905
I actually finished this back in the day so it can't have been that bad. I'll have to revisit it sometimes even if just for nostalgia's sake.

[Anonymous No.10822882]

>>10813407
This game is cool and underrated. I think it and pic-related only flopped because the Xbox was oversaturated with 3D fighters in its first year and they were all overshadowed by DOA3.

>>10815905
This game is also shockingly good. One of the better games based on a TV series from that era.

[Anonymous No.10822907]

>>10818331
The demographic for 3D platformers shifted in the 2000's when kids were getting their hands on games like Halo and GTA and publishers tried to capitalize on that by upping the edginess drastically. A few were actually successful (Jak 2 and 3, Ratchet & Clank, and the Ty sequels to some degree) but most were critical or commercial flops (Shadow the EDGEhog, Vexx, etc.)

[Anonymous No.10822912]

>>10815708
There's a patch that fixes that I think but only for modded consoles.

[Anonymous No.10822914]

>>10822434
Its still the best driver game by far

[Anonymous No.10822998]

>>10822882
>they were all overshadowed by DOA3.
this. Dead or alive series, soul calibur and mortal kombat series did that to less known fighters.

[Anonymous No.10823173]

>>10822434
temper your expectations, it's a smaller game, but you'll going to like it if you prefer driving more than roaming around shooting.

[Anonymous No.10823323]

>>10822882
>I think it and pic-related only flopped because the Xbox was oversaturated with 3D fighters in its first year
They were fucking dogshit don't be that contrarian.

[Anonymous No.10823360]

>>10822882

[Chud Anon No.10823419]

>>10822872
>booba

Sold.

[Anonymous No.10823460]

>>10823360
Kek

[Anonymous No.10823463]

>>10823323
Tao Feng is a bit more debatable but Kakuto Chokin is fine if a bit unremarkable. You can tell it's just another cousin of Tekken like Tobal but not as memorable because the visuals lean more into tech than art style.

[Anonymous No.10823551]

Im unironically bitter sour grapes bc I don’t have an Xbox and crt and emulating is still total ass, I keep praying a stenzek or byuu level furry sperg takes over xemu and it never happens

[Anonymous No.10823678]

not even yu-gi-oh fans talk about this game much

[Anonymous No.10823690]

>>10823360
Based

[Anonymous No.10823951]

>>10809496
warpath and pariah were ok games

[Anonymous No.10824041]

>>10811735
Mindbroken by Zoomers

[Anonymous No.10824129]

>>10815451
I'm probably one of the few people who really enjoy this game, always end up playing it around Halloween

[Anonymous No.10824180]

>>10813417
No

[Anonymous No.10824250]

>>10822335
You're a fucking idiot if you sincerely believe this.

[Anonymous No.10824261]

>>10809496
>Guys, any ideas for the box art?
>Let's just have a jewish guy with a receding hairline holding a gun and some chick looking at him with disgust
>Bingo.

[Anonymous No.10824659]

>>10809496
Never see anyone mention it. Pretty fun.

[Anonymous No.10824676]

>>10823463
I believe the original Tekken guy had a hand in Kakuto Chojin. There was some controversy with some muslim chant in one of the songs in the game, pulled it from shelves.

[Anonymous No.10824742]

>>10809496
Pariah was like Unreal 2, just alright. I remember the graphics looking amazing for the time. The grenade launcher was good, too.

[Anonymous No.10824830]

OG XBOX exclusives seems to be the final frontier of /vr/ both in terms of accessibility and tip-toeing the threshold of what is considered retro

[Anonymous No.10824959]

>>10822872
I bought this and still haven't played it. It always seems to come up in Xbox threads, though. Further proof of the power of pretty waifus.

[Anonymous No.10824984]

>>10822872
>>10824959
I never played this game however I did beat off a ton to its ads in EGM when I was 13.

[Anonymous No.10825257]

The Kingdom Under Fire games on Xbox are pure kino.

[Anonymous No.10825595]

>>10823678
I tend to forget how big was yu gi oh back then in early 2000s.