"Eh, maybe I'll rent it later"-core

[Anonymous No.8546325]

itt: Eye-catching game covers that have been burned into your memory from seeing them all the time at Blockbuster or Family Video, despite the fact that you've still never even played them

Let other anons know what you were missing out on

[Anonymous No.8546345]

BloodRayne, and to a lesser extent, Area 51 are the epitome of this. "That looks cool!" Then you never act on it.

[Anonymous No.8546348]

>>8546325
I got blood rayne one. Its okay but it basically kinda sucks. Worth one play through tops. The secone one is much better.

[Anonymous No.8546350]

>>8546325
>God of War
bro...

[Anonymous No.8546356]

/notretro/ but I remember seeing this in the used game bin years ago. Just the case, no label, nothing on the spine. Just this and the 18 plus age rating. I quickly forgot about it, but It stuck with me for years. I desperately searched for it online, having to scower listings of every steelbook for the PS3 available. I thought it was some weird gory medical puzzle game given the cover and I thought it was like Trauma centre but on super steroids. Years later I played Dead Rising 2 and it hit me like a ton of bricks that this was the game. The cover said Zombrex the entire time. Funny stuff. As for retro, I remember seeing a copy of Nightmare Creatures, gathering dust amidst a pile of old unwanted games at a game store once, thought the cover looked cool and always wondered what it was like. Played it recently for the first time, it’s not bad

[Anonymous No.8546370]

>>8546325
i still have Area-51 from my childhood,have very good memory of it and remember finding the end of the game kinda hard,my save says i finished it in 2007,last time i played it.I should try it again sometime.

i bought bloodrayne 1 and 2 at a pawn shop recently since they were cheap and looked like they could be fun,i played the first one for about 45 minutes and it seems okay,nothing impressive tho,2 definitely looks better.

[Anonymous No.8546375]

>>8546325
2nd bloodrayne is soo damn fun, shame we never got a follow up, though I wish they'd move away from the apocalyptic stuff half way through the game and focus more on stuff like nightclubs and city streets at night, always felt like it could live in the same hitman contracts universe and VTMB for the majority of the game.
1 lacks variety, but at least it has a cool first level. also Rayne's in game model in 1 is more cute than sexy. The janky head movements in cutscenes adds to the cuteness.

[Anonymous No.8546393]

I've also never watched the show before. This caught my eye every time at Blockbuster as a kid and I still haven't played it.

[Anonymous No.8546395]

I wanted this but never got it. Instead I got this (cont.)

[Anonymous No.8546402]

>>8546395
cont.
You tell me if I won or lost

[Anonymous No.8546410]

[Anonymous No.8546413]

>>8546410
should've been third person

[Anonymous No.8546414]

Few games I always considered at my local video store but never bit on
>Tarzan for N64 (damn I would have loved that shit as a kid)
>DK64 (this one I really did rent but I didn't have an Expansion Pack)

[Anonymous No.8546441]

>>8546395
>>8546402
lost pretty hard.

[Anonymous No.8546465]

>>8546441
I honestly don't hate turok evolution. dinosaur games are so rare, I think I was just happy to play one for the first time

[Anonymous No.8546467]

This cover has been burned into my brain after seeing it so many times, still don't really know anything about the game

[Anonymous No.8546475]

>>8546465
fur fighters is fucking solid, you should give it a go if you haven't already. you can also try the turok 2 remaster for PC where they cut out the more maze-like parts of the levels.

[Anonymous No.8546476]

>>8546467
lol same
also this

[Anonymous No.8546480]

>>8546395
Damn I remember this one

[Anonymous No.8546481]

Hollywood Video always had this one in stock and I remember being a kid going over the cover thinking "wow this cover looks awful. That pink ball is obviously there for girls but it looks terrible" Then I'd rent Rampage World Tour or something.

>>8546395
Fur Fighters takes time to get used to but once you figure it out it becomes apparent it's got amazing level design. The PS2 version is unique.

>>8546402
very much an of-the-era shooter with its share of gimmick genre mix ups, the epitome of nothing special managing to disappoint both newcomers and especially fans of the old games.

[Anonymous No.8546483]

>>8546481
just gagging for some teenager to write 'TRIP' over 'reck'.

[Anonymous No.8546487]

>>8546483
Funny story, I opened up a copy of Final Zone on Genesis recently that was from an old rental store and behind the cartridge slot someone scribbled "this game sucks dick"

[Anonymous No.8546494]

>>8546487
it's now inevitable that somebody will post this, so here we go.

[Anonymous No.8546502]

>>8546481
I dunno, I thought it was pretty cool you had a bow. And you fly a pterodactyl with a mounted machinegun. I didn't love the game, but it's the biggest example of a game I had no issues with and then going online and finding out people hated it

Now I wanna play Fur Fighters though

[Anonymous No.8546506]

>>8546356
Good story, anon. Love Dead Rising, especially the first one

[Anonymous No.8546509]

>>8546494
How else would kids communicate in the days before the internet?

[Anonymous No.8546514]

>>8546502
>Now I wanna play Fur Fighters though
it's great. particularly the flea levels with William Tell in the background.

[Anonymous No.8546521]

Not a rental per se, but I would see this game all the goddamn time at flea markets. I don't even know what it's about, but the cover is utterly burned into my retinas.

[Anonymous No.8546536]

Saw this game cover for years on the shelves, it looked like the most generic shit ever, never bother to look at the back of it. It just reminded me of Headhunter's generic cover.
"DOA2 HARDCORE? wtf does that even mean!?"
Some time later I was watching a g4 show talking about the history of the game dead or alive fighting game, they talked about porting dead or alive 2 on the ps2 and being subtitled "Hardcore" and then they showed the abbreviated title of it, and that's when I remembered that generic as cover, this awesome game was sitting there the whole time and I never bothered to look at the back of the cd case. I finally tried it and became a doa fan instantly, got an xbox afterwards along with doa 3, doax, ninja gaiden and doa ultimate, god damn doa ultimate was so fucking good.
I remember being disappointed with doa4 when I made the jump to 360

[Anonymous No.8546560]

>>8546494
>her face when you trade it in

[Anonymous No.8546571]

>finally go to rent THAT game
>not in stock
every damn time

[Anonymous No.8546679]

I remember looking at this cover many times in stores

[Anonymous No.8546695]

>>8546325
Area 51 is surprisingly good, blood rayne is bad in a good way, and Dark Cloud was one of the comfiest rpgs I ever played in my youth.

[Anonymous No.8546718]

>>8546679
Owned it, was way better than it had any right to be. Can't remember if there was a snake, but giant lovecraftian horrors in space is pretty accurate.

[Anonymous No.8546773]

>>8546325
It's been a long time but I thought Gauntlet: Dark Legacy was the fucking bomb
I wouldn't play it alone, though

[Anonymous No.8547057]

>>8546393
You should it's good.

[Anonymous No.8547072]

>>8546413
All FPS' should have the option imo.

[Anonymous No.8547078]

>>8546509
>It was ME Barry..

[Anonymous No.8547081]

>>8546521
It's ok, arcade-y. I finished it and moved on to the sequel where I got stuck on the gasmask boxing bit.

[Anonymous No.8547206]

>>8546402
this was in every bargain bin back then

[Anonymous No.8547207]

>>8546410
i played the demo for this back in the day and though it was cool

[Anonymous No.8547213]

>>8546414
it seemed like every kid back in the late 90s/early 2000s had that tarzan game for n64 or ps1

[Anonymous No.8547235]

Gun
XIII
Metal Arms Glitch in the System
Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg
Area 51
Black
Advent Rising
Gunvalkyrie
Breakdown
Brute Force
Sin & Punishment
Goemon games
Gex games
Vexx
Dr. Muto
I-Ninja
Clive Barker's Jericho
Darkwatch
Darkvoid
Army of Two
Killswitch
Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter
Star Wars Bounty Hunter
Syphon Filter
Winback
Space Station Silicon Valley
Jet Force Gemini
Mischief Makers
Armed and Dangerous
Kingdoms of Amalur
Psi-Ops
Lost Planet
Mercenaries
Red Faction
Timeshift
The Saboteur
True Crime
The Getaway
Body Harvest
Hybrid Heaven
Chameleon Twist
Rocket Robot on Wheels
Vigilante 8
Army Men Sarge's Heroes
Croc
Toomba
Medieval
Okage
Tenchu
Klonoa
Oni
Destroy All Humans

[Anonymous No.8547319]

>>8546494
I have quake on n64 and game has bbv 2010 carved into the plastic. I have no idea how they did that or why.

[Anonymous No.8547324]

Dark Cloud is most certainly not a rental game.

[Anonymous No.8547327]

>>8546350
I don't know how God of War ended up being one of Sony's biggest IP. The PS2 games were so forgettable.

[Anonymous No.8547328]

>>8547327
it was pretty popular with my age group (nine to thirteen years old at time of release) thanks to the blood and guts and titties

[Anonymous No.8547329]

>>8547327
Their presentation values are really solid and the combat is mindless but satisfying. Also they have sex and violence in them.

[Anonymous No.8547356]

>>8547327
im gonna sound like a console crusader but most of the ps ips were just forgettable and bad. everytime i try to play sly cooper, god of war, ratchet and clank, jak and daxter, spyro, crash, etc theyre just bad

[Anonymous No.8547378]

>>8547324
Yea it is. Game sucks and is super overrated

[Anonymous No.8547381]

>>8547327
>>8547356
cringe

[Anonymous No.8547382]

>>8547381
grow up

[Anonymous No.8547548]

>>8547381
stop replying to bait

[Anonymous No.8547575]

>>8547327
The soundtrack is great, so much sony has been hiring the composer for a lot of their AAA shit, even japan was willing to work with him for bloodborne's OST.

[Anonymous No.8547585]

>>8547548
>i dont have bad taste, its le bait xd upboat

[Anonymous No.8547591]

>>8547575
so thats why bloodbourne is the blandest, most soullless fromsoft game

[Anonymous No.8547597]

Mega Man 2 due to box art only.

[Anonymous No.8547605]

>>8547591
Wow you're objectively wrong and a moron

[Anonymous No.8547609]

>>8547605
nope, you are though.

[Anonymous No.8547630]

>>8546325
Early G4TV really praised Metal Arms. On Judgement Day in particular they were extremely impressed with it, especially because it was the devs first game. I never ended up getting it, one of my bigger regrets that gen.

[Anonymous No.8547638]

>>8547630
my friend rented once when he came to stay over and we went to blockbuster (dad would let us each choose one game). i watched him play it and it seemed cool, he enjoyed it.

i tried emulating it recently and its fundamentally sound but it reaches a point where the necessary input effort outweighs the fun output. same thing happened to me with i-ninja and a lot of these 2nd rate games

[Anonymous No.8547642]

>>8546325
How is Metal Arms?

[Anonymous No.8547646]

>>8547638
Lol yes i-ninja was another one of those AA games that was particularly good, I had that one though.
Mid and low budget sixth gen games were their own feeling.

[Anonymous No.8547650]

>>8547642
see my post just above yours.
its fine and better than a lot of other 3rd rate trash. worthy of that hidden gem status. but its not great. everyone has different tastes but i dont think its good enough to hold ones attention til the end of the game

[Anonymous No.8547656]

>>8547213
not entirely sure why i never bothered renting it to be honest, i saw tarzan like six times in the theater and i actually forced myself to play the shitty gbc game because my dad got it for me

[Anonymous No.8547870]

>>8546773
yeah it's definitely the standout game in OP's pic

[Anonymous No.8548227]

[Anonymous No.8548328]

>>8546467
you missed out

[Anonymous No.8548345]

>>8547630
God I miss judgement day and early g4.

[Anonymous No.8548434]

>>8547378
barely anyone gives a fuck about dark cloud, how is it overrated? i had a lot of fun with it as a kid but i never knew anyone else who played it

[Anonymous No.8548481]

>>8548434
dark cloud is in everyone's rec list for ps2, what are you even talking about? it's always mentioned as a "hidden gem" even though it's a totally average game and everyone knows about it
>manage meters: the game
>go through the same generic randomly generated dungeons doing the same thing over and over
>go outside once in a while to a barren wasteland that you can fill out to make a generic village if you want (try not to fall asleep)

[Anonymous No.8548515]

>>8546773
Yeah, Gauntlet series are definitely not “rent it later” material. They were key games when hanging out with friends on late winter nights

[Anonymous No.8549097]

>>8547235
Bless them combination of perfect recall and autism

[Anonymous No.8549127]

>>8547235
>Gun
This was GTA in the Wild West before Red Dead Redemption was a thing. Unfortunately, it's very unfinished, with lots of obvious cut content.

[Anonymous No.8549186]

>>8546679
>This Game Pak may not he used with the Mattel or NES versions of the Nintendo Entertainment System
What are the Mattel and NES versions of the Nintendo Entertainment System?

[Anonymous No.8549206]

>>8549127
Way edgier than a Rockstar game too. Lots of racism, rape, and all around brutality without humor.

The main thing I disliked about it was le invincible final boss trope. Makes sense as a Fistful of Dollars reference but I always hate these kinds of fights. See also: the Syphon Filter games

[Anonymous No.8549713]

>>8549097
esl get out

[Anonymous No.8549715]

>>8549206
>racism
im sure it is and not just you being a schizo lib

[Anonymous No.8549716]

>>8549206
>The main thing I disliked about it was le invincible final boss trope. Makes sense as a Fistful of Dollars reference but I always hate these kinds of fights. See also: the Syphon Filter games
Yeah, I've played the whole game on the hardest setting and the final chapter was some trial and error bullshit.

[Anonymous No.8549787]

I do love Rockstar games, but this game looked so cheap / crappy. Never bothered renting it.

[Anonymous No.8549845]

>>8546402
complete garbage, you won
>>8546410
very cool game for the time, but not the best just good
>>8546521
eh it was ok if you loved crime action games like GTA or True Crime Streets of LA
>>8549787
This game was fun for about fifteen mins where you just ran around in a huge mob of people shooting and killing. It got old very quick.

pic related is a game I always noticed because of its weird cover but never wanted to risk renting it

[Anonymous No.8549859]

>>8549715
Its not a value judgement or anything, I thought characters casually dropped redskin and niggerbombs throughout. Plus isnt the in-game justification for being able to scalp enemies that the main character is half Cherokee or some shit so he's just kind of compelled to do it?

[Anonymous No.8549968]

>>8548227
is the game about only having 10k bullets, and if you run out of bullets before finishing the game you lose and have to restart from the beginning?

[Anonymous No.8550005]

>>8547327
?????
No

[Anonymous No.8550014]

>>8549127
Other games existed before gun that serve as a "before the good game came out"

>>8549206
>edgier
When rockstar kills KKK, those same MAGA idiots get assmad their buddies are being cucked in a video game and cry about it. You are delusional to think they are not doing out there stuff (that you call edgy)

[Anonymous No.8550018]

>>8547356
wrong. We don't care about you or your opinions. But to be clear, you are wrong.

[Anonymous No.8550019]

>>8546679
>>8546718
It was a port of a popular Konami arcade game that was more or less a spinoff of Gradius. At least it was popular in Japan and Europe. I get the impression that yanks never cared much for Konami's STGs.

[Anonymous No.8550024]

>>8547328
Youre too young to be here.

[Anonymous No.8550027]

>>8550019
I'm an American and a huge fan of just about every shooting game they made, but I admittedly didn't get into them until I started reading about retro games online. Never seen any cabinets for them in person before, but I would see used copies of Life Force and Gradius for NES at used game stores pretty often so they must've sold well enough

[Anonymous No.8550028]

>>8550024
Not really. I've always enjoyed retro games

[Anonymous No.8550040]

>>8550014
Yeah but I don't remember Gun having a sense of humor. Its like the difference between Postal and Hatred, with Gun being similar in tone to the latter

[Anonymous No.8550060]

>>8546325
I have owned and played all of these except for scaler because it looked gay. I beat five of them and Metal Arms is one of my favorites. Only retards refuse to play something because it isn't popular.

[Anonymous No.8550110]

>>8550018
>childish opinion
>childish reasoning
checks out

[Anonymous No.8550163]

What defines Blockbuster-core, anyway (aside from an eye-catching cover and always being available to rent)? For me it's
>6-7/10 reviews, not great but not total garbage
>Moderate amount of coverage in magazines, but no-one you know actually owns it
>90% either never got a sequel or were part of a series with lots of other 6-7/10s churned out in a short span of time (Army Men, Worms, Might & Magic, Gauntlet, Hunter the Reckoning, etc.)
I'd say GoW is too popular & has too high production values to be considered Blockbuster-core.

>>8548227
Great soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zAt-lPaVpg

[Anonymous No.8550195]

>>8547327
spoken like a fully paid up nintentard cultist.

[Anonymous No.8550201]

>>8550163
eh there are exceptions.

i never heard anyone talk about god of war until 3 came out

[Anonymous No.8550238]

I was still fairly young when this first hit shelves, and I remember every time I'd pass by this game it was quite literally hypnotic. I always had a morbid curiosity, even as a kid, and wanted to get my hands on things I shouldn't be seeing. But something about this cover at the time actually scared me so bad that I didn't even want to get near it or check the back of the box.

>>8546325
Blinx the Time Sweeper is great. Music is kick ass, and time bending mechanics for an action platformer is just a really fun idea. So is the idea for a vacuum weapon. Hard as fuck final boss though. Holy shit is it brutal. It's a gem for sure. A real shame that Blinx didn't become Microcock's mascot instead of Master Chief.

[Anonymous No.8550248]

>>8546467
i used to play the demo for this all the time back in the day and wanted it so bad but I could never find it at gamestop and I didn't order games online back then

[Anonymous No.8550396]

How about a game you literally would only have found at Blockbuster?

[Anonymous No.8550397]

>>8550238
>Blinx the Time Sweeper is great
someone actually typed this out and hit submit

[Anonymous No.8550451]

>>8546402
GameCube >>>> PS2

[Anonymous No.8550473]

>>8550396
holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii you're right
I can't believe this, you're right. The only time I saw the game box, and the only time I played it, was blockbuster rental!

[Anonymous No.8550494]

>>8547630
judgement was fucking awesome

[Anonymous No.8550519]

>>8550494
I liked Victor? Lance? I forgot his name. The one who's height started with 6' and not Tommy who was obviously 4'10

[Anonymous No.8550531]

With the PS1 covers started getting more and more unappealing for some reason, almost everything looked like generic trash.

[Anonymous No.8550560]

[Anonymous No.8550572]

>>8550195
>>8550005
>>8547381
I'm sorry for insulting your sacred cow of an IP, but God of War kinda sucked compared to Ninja Gaiden and Devil May Cry.

[Anonymous No.8550579]

[Anonymous No.8550727]

>>8549715
No racist ever said racism wasn't what it was called.

[Anonymous No.8550737]

>>8550531

Except in Europe apparently.

[Anonymous No.8550748]

>>8546325
You missed out on Dark Cloud. It was an awesome game until you got to the 100 level slog of a dungeon at the end

[Anonymous No.8550754]

>>8550060

[Anonymous No.8550763]

>>8546773
>tfw really liked it but my friends were all fags so to this day I’ve never played it with others

[Anonymous No.8550786]

>>8549845
Armed & Dangerous is an absolutely class game.
>>8550560
Also excellent.

[Anonymous No.8550872]

>>8546325
Always interested in this game at gamestop but never picked it up

[Anonymous No.8550927]

>>8546402
4 player splitscreen versus was tons of fun in this. the single player was shit however.

[Anonymous No.8551016]

>>8547356
You are right. However, there are still hundreds of good PS exclusives that were fucking amazing. Only the mainstream stuff sucked.

[Anonymous No.8551019]

>>8547591
Fuck, you have based opinions anon. Don't listen to the other morons.

[Anonymous No.8551040]

>>8550872
it's really good if you like peaceful games

[Anonymous No.8551112]

>>8547327
But the first one was the best one...

[Anonymous No.8551480]

>>8550572
All 3 of those series were good. Which one you like most is up to taste in a particular aesthetic.
Also lmao I just realized none of those games were on Gamecube. Nintendo had 0 choice

[Anonymous No.8551508]

>>8551480
the entire genre was missing from gamecube and even wii. I guess that's what made bayonetta 2 being on wii u pretty weird too, a decade had gone by and the first game dedicated nintendo fans were going to be playing in the genre was a sequel to a multiplatform take on 3d action after it had been established for 8 years

[Anonymous No.8551734]

>>8550727
racism doesnt exist. youve been duped

[Anonymous No.8551736]

>>8551016
sure i can agree with that. ive always had ps consoles and there are plenty of ps esclusive that are great. its just those flagship platformers that people talk about are just not very good

[Anonymous No.8551875]

>>8549787
>>8549845
I grabbed this one solely because I somehow convinced myself that this was going to be another GTA III. Played it for a couple of days and never went back to it.

[Anonymous No.8551885]

>>8546325
bloodrayne is good rest is shit

[Anonymous No.8552485]

>>8546325
>>8546521
Bloodrayne, God of War, and Dead to Rights ended up working on me because they got rented. Bought Dark Cloud but I can't remember why. Still really like that series to this day..
I totally agree on Blinx. I bought it just a few years ago after finally getting an Xbox and it is not at all the game I thought it was.

>>8546395
>>8546410
>>8547235
Fur Fighters and Darkwatch ended up getting bought. I remember getting Fur Fighters from KB Toys, but didn't keep it long. I don't know what I expected. I just bought Darkwatch a couple of months ago. I remember reading the Game Informer story a lot.

>>8547235
Bought Gun, Black, Dr. Muto, XIII, and Medievil was in heavy rotation as a kid. Gun feels like a false memory because it's so unfinished I only feel like I played half the game. Dr. Muto is really cool. Medievil is one of my favorite games but I would never recommend someone play it without specifically calling it, "greater than the sum of its parts."
Totally agree on Advent Rising, I-Ninja, Army of Two, and Psi-Ops, specifically.

[Anonymous No.8552962]

I rented this and thought it was fun but I didn't want to buy it

[Anonymous No.8552989]

>>8551885
Area-51 is fucking great.

[Anonymous No.8553054]

this and its sequel are the best kind of rental games. Short enough so you can blast your way through it on a weekend and feel like you accomplished beating it without any need to buy. Its still a unique experience everyone should try out at least once.

[Anonymous No.8553062]

>>8546325
I subscribed to Official PlayStation Magazine so I played demos of all those weird games

[Anonymous No.8553080]

>>8546325
I bought this game at the mall just because money was burning a hole in my pocket I guess. I went to the arcade and played House of the Dead with both guns and these two little black kids were watching me. When I was done shooting zombies my GameStop bag was missing so I never got to play this mediocre looking game

[Anonymous No.8553106]

>>8549186
Mattel initially distributed the NES across various European countries, Australia and NZ, so these consoles had "Mattel Version" on them. When Nintendo themselves took over distribution (c. 1990), they styled their consoles with "NES Version" on them to distinguish them. In European countries where Mattel did not distribute the NES, the consoles had "European Version' on them.

[Anonymous No.8553145]

>>8546467
I love that game, it has the feel of one of those shovelware games that was accidentally good. the huge battles are really fun to stomp through and the bosses and special enemies are a lot of fun to fight. The characters and dialogue are pretty corny too which is fun. It really walks the line between challenging and bullshit at parts though, especially later in the game. I would not play it on hard after beating it.

[Anonymous No.8553208]

>>8550019
>I get the impression that yanks never cared much for Konami's STG
We really liked those games but, for some stupid reason, the ports to the US were few and far between. Then half the time when games were ported there would be unnecessary gameplay changes. By the time we had easier access to them we didn't care because we were used to not having them, tech was improving in other genres, AND the whole genre had evolved into no-fun bullet hell.

[Anonymous No.8553217]

>>8553062
>demo disk has fighting game
>almost every character on there
Some of those demos were really generous, definitely helped convince me to buy a few of the games.

[Anonymous No.8553241]

>>8553080
You didn't miss much. I think this is one of the few PS2 games I dropped with no intention of ever coming back to it. Swery is a hack.

[Anonymous No.8553590]

>>8551734
I like being racist, You just don't wanna call it that.

[Anonymous No.8553593]

>>8551734
Now who's talking like a Nogger?

[Anonymous No.8553605]

>>8551734
So you are equal to a nigger?