/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.3103445]

Are there any FMV games that are actually good?

[Anonymous No.3103450]

I liked Mad Dog Mccree and Who Shot Johnny Rock back in the day a lot, but those need one of those lightguns

[Anonymous No.3103451]

thought that was AVGN

try time gal and road avenger

[Anonymous No.3103459]

Ripper is also pretty good. Has Christopher Walken in it

[Anonymous No.3103475]

>>3103445
Renovation/Telenet's animated stuff like Cobra Command, Road Avenger, ect.

[Anonymous No.3103478]

Gabriel Knight 2 is the best FMV adventure game.

[Anonymous No.3103483]

Night Trap is good.

[Anonymous No.3103490]

I had Double Switch when I was a kid. I remember enjoying the story.. the gameplay was just like Night Trap though

[Anonymous No.3103491]

Rebel Assault 1&2
Creature Shock

[Anonymous No.3103494]

>>3103475

fellow game sack fan?

[fmvfag No.3105951]

Johnny neumonic

[Anonymous No.3105993]

Wing Commander 3 & 4

[Anonymous No.3106325]

Burn Cycle

[Maria Walter No.3106642]

Phantasmagoria 1 and 2 are quite good. The Tex Murphy games are also great.

[Tomas Hensley No.3106645]

Silpheed's backgrounds consist entirely of FMVs, apparently.

It's impressive as shit if it's true, because they certainly aren't the usual Sega CD quality FMVs.

[Benny Perez No.3106649]

>>3106645

I believe it's FMVs that look like actual polygon graphics and have collision detection in the game so you have to actually evade shit that appears there.
The only actual graphics in the game are your ship and the enemies which are actually all pretty small sprites with little detail, but yeah the backgrounds make it look impressive, fun game, and great music.

[Ken Reilly No.3106667]

Spycraft, without a doubt

[Ed Preston No.3106718]

Oregon Trail 3rd Edition
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[Effie Juarez No.3106772]

Toonstruck and Harvester

[Grace Browning No.3107192]

>>3103445
RIP Cory Haim

[Dorthy Miranda No.3107565]

For semi-FMV (characters, etc) dungeon crawling awesomeness (great writing as well), check out Interplay's Stonekeep. Really fun stuff.

For Adventure game FMV, the Tex Murphy series' Under a Killing Moon title is really good.

[Ellen Mack No.3107575]

Shit yeah, heaps.

Braindead 13
Tex Murphy Overseer
The Act
Ripper
Noctropolis
The 7th Guest
...to name but just a few.

[Robbie Allen No.3107767]

>>3103445
I liked phantasmagoria as a kid. The ending portions freaked me the fuck out.

But I couldn't stand Gabriel Knight 2, which sucks, because both 2 and 3 are terrible- compared to Gabriel Knight 1...

[Guadalupe Nixon No.3107878]

>>3103459
All the current ,isos floating around out there fucked up one of the discs so every game crashes at the same spot.

[Bertha Harvey No.3107894]

>>3106649

I'm not sure but I think Star Blade also works the same way, with FMV as background appearing to be polygon graphics

[Nora Zimmerman No.3107908]

The Harvester
Phantasmagoria
Tesla Effect
Bad Mojo

and some of some nostalgic ones for me:
Return to Zork
Zork Nemesis
Zork Grand Inquisitor

[Marco Griffin No.3107910]

I really like Road Avenger.

[Edward Shepherd No.3107923]

I'm assuming no one has posted these because they're obvious:

Dragon's lair 1 & 2
Space Ace.

[Anonymous No.3108770]

Lunacy / Torico for the Saturn is probably the best FMV game I've ever played. It has a really cool art style and unique story, I highly recommend it. System Sacom also made anothe FMV game for the Saturn called Mansion of Hidden Souls which was pretty enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.3112678]

>>3103445
SHOOT THE TUBES DOGMEAT!

[Anonymous No.3114531]

It's not full FMV, but MODE is pretty great.

[Anonymous No.3114536]

>>3103445

OP, this is objectively the best FMV game ever created. At least story-wise.

[Anonymous No.3116258]

>>3103445
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties

[Anonymous No.3116285]

>>3103445
I like Double Switch. Fun story with memorable cast. I still have yet to finish it though I have made it late into the game.

[Anonymous No.3116301]

>>3116285
I had sega cd as a kid and I owned that game back in the day. I agree about memorable cast. Was very interesting seeing Debby Harry and R Lee Emery in it. I remember finishing it, but it was over 20 years ago and can't remember how I did it. I was fascinated with those FMV games back then

[Anonymous No.3116309]

>>3103478
This. It's still not great but it's decent at least. Phantasmagoria has its moments as well.

[Anonymous No.3116369]

Does Realms of the Haunting count?

[Anonymous No.3116391]

>>3103478
Considering the acting, I'm inclined to agree.
That said it wasn't the best Gabriel Knight game.

The voice acting alone in Gabriel Knight 1 was fucking brilliant. Based Tim Curry hamming it up, Mark Hamill as your best friend, the wife from King of Queens and her cute fucking voice as your secretary, that gigantic motherfucker voiced by goddamned Worf, and especially the Voodoo narrator all blew GK2 out of the water.

The atmosphere was also unbeatable; a pixel art wet dream at times.

GK2 was a great game, but it simply didn't hold a candle to GK1. The remake sounds dismal, too. I'm very hesitant in trying it out.

[Anonymous No.3116396]

>>3106718
I didn't even know they made a third one.
Oregon Trail 2 was my fucking jam. Hell, I still play it with my younger sister.

[Anonymous No.3116421]

>>3107923
Is the sequel any good?
I'm working on playing Dragon's Lair 1 right now.

[Anonymous No.3116475]

>>3116391
>the Voodoo narrator

I missed her the most. Wouldn't have made sense in Germany, but still.

[Anonymous No.3118559]

>>3112678
Hilarious game although the gameplay is bullshit

[Anonymous No.3118573]

>>3103459
It was fucking awful, but it was awful in the best possible way.

I love how every suspect acted like a fucking sociopath to throw you off.

[Anonymous No.3118735]

>>3112678
THE DANG THING BIT ME!

[Anonymous No.3119602]

>>3103445
Of course there are.

[Anonymous No.3119696]

>>3119602
SEAMLESS

[Anonymous No.3119710]

I love FMV no matter how shitty it is. I'm into B-movies so it's very hard to dislike anything that has that 80s/90s cheese going on. Something about the smooth colors and the film quality really gives me these comfy vibes

Just look at these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=474508CsyY8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUUUtZ55OE0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUvdCXL5cl4

Does anyone know what film these are filmed on? Especially the Thunder in Paradise has that sweet and smooth 90s TV show feeling. I would love to be able to film that quality, in HD of course, but with that same smoothness. I could make my own movie.
The games themselves are probably shit and I would hate to be the kid who got these for christmas, but as something to play/watch while getting drunk they're 10/10 entertainment.

[Anonymous No.3119731]

Tex Murphy series and Betrayal at Krondor are amazing.
Toonstruck is pretty good.
Realms of the Haunting is alright.

[Anonymous No.3119828]

>>3119696
now i want a 5th element fmv game with gary oldman and rob schneider.

[Anonymous No.3119892]

>>3118573
Also had no real ending. Like at all. And the endings are randomized, and at that, none give you closure.

It's a goddamn mess.

But Walken kicks ass with his bad acting.

[Anonymous No.3119896]

>>3103445
Well, I mean not /vr/ but Her Story is pretty great.

[Anonymous No.3120149]

>>3103483
Although Night Trap is legendary for its corny acting and plot, I like it.
Primarily because the story runs simultaneously in different parts of the house. While you're trying to trap 'monsters' in the bedroom you might be missing a conversation that's happening in the kitchen...

Capturing all the guys is easy but in doing so you miss a lot of the content and that gives it a sense of autonomy. Someone's coming into the living room, they're angry, why? Because they've just had an argument in another part of the house while you were in a third location setting off traps.

I must've played through it about half a dozen times, deliberately missing captures to I could absorb each person's story. Seeing that we're mostly used to characters who stand around for eternity until you interact with them their independence here is a breath of fresh air.

[Anonymous No.3120296]

Road Avenger is great stuff.

Ones that are interesting are Tomcat Alley and Surgical Strike, although they can be quite frustrating, especially Surgical Strike.

>>3119710
>Wirehead
>Fox Hunt

Awesome choices, anon. Still a shame that there was no enhanced release of the former, and I still want Capcom to acknowledge the latter.

As for Thunder in Paradise, the reason why it looks like a 90s show it's because it's based off of an actual show that was on around that time. IIRC the game itself is based off of one of the episodes, but with additional game-only footage.

[Anonymous No.3120342]

>>3106718
I got Amazon Trail as a kid in a cereal box. I don't know how many times I died of scurvy.

[Anonymous No.3122139]

>>3120149
Yeah I had Night Trap as a kid and I enjoyed fucking things up on purpose to see what happened, or trying to catch dialogue or scenes without trapping the "monsters" and just trying to play it in different ways.

I think it was ahead of its time when it came out, there wasn't really a game, on a console at least, that was like it.

I don't know if I'd play it now, on the fence whether to bother playing it again but it was very interesting back in the early 90s

[Anonymous No.3122157]

>>3120149
While it isn't an FMV game (though it was rotoscoped), The Last Express is a game with a timed script - characters will interact and converse with each other regardless if the player is present to hear them, and especially inattentive players will find their game come to an abrupt end without knowing how or why.

[Anonymous No.3123854]

>>3114531
Hear about their Kickstarter?

[Anonymous No.3124541]

Not that great as a game, but it blew me away when I got my Sound Blaster + CD-ROM kit with this included. Full voice? Even actors on the VGA monitor?

[Anonymous No.3124549]

>>3116369

It's got more video that most feature films, so fuck yeah it does.

Fantastic game.