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@FlagshipOnionhead And some of the parts are, the same actually. But from my own meager efforts at composition, I know one good melody isn't impressive, it's finding integrity / continuity building progression from there that's impressive. And that's the thing for me with this OST, it really defi...

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That's just an odd judgment to make anyway, what contemporary composers would you match up to these acknowledged classical masters regardless of nationality? Japanese culture was extremely insular until just over a half century ago, and you're trying to compare their efforts in this g...

@jbetenbender That's a matter of taste, in many respects the PSX version of TR1 looks awful, one of the greatest 'showcases' of all the system's signature graphical glitches (seams, zig-zag textures). Though of course the Tomb Raider series was very closely associated with the Playstation brand, ...

It's just a skit, and I have respect for Henry Rollins... but as someone who actually knows where Rave/Trance styles came from, it's especially sad to see him of all people bash it in these terms.

The music was born out of expression, pure and simple. Thousands of amateurs using the cheap instrum...

@O7DOYLE7O Personally I think this game holds up better, it's just you both happened to be representing the two 'sides' of an argument that was always silly. I even remember either EGM of Gamefan comparing the games, which may have kick-started that silliness. Again the games and their respective...

The very definition of CLASSic, so many great little details for it's time. It wasn't until years later that I realized how this game seemed to effortlessly perform 3D far beyond anything else... custom display lists FTW!

The lower half of the view simply re-displays the same data from the top, m...

@v6mondy999 Could not disagree more, this music and this version are still my favorite Whittaker soundtrack ever. The few added waves (that distortion!), the extra channel and stereo, the raw oomph and resulting odd harmonic nuance truly bring it alive. Totally unique.

I'm sure I'm not the the first to say this but if Mark's never played Godzilla: Destroy all Monsters Melee... well then he really really NEEDS to.

It captures guys in rubber suits with explosions going on to perfection. Even the few cut scenes were great.

@nooblet911 Well hey I already regret saying anything... but you still missed my point. I never meant to suggest the Saturn version is technically superior to the arcade (though I do think it's adapted impeccably) just that it "holds up" better by virtue of, shall we say 'lower expectations'. Or ...

Wow I've been nostalgia surfing and had basically forgot about this game, until I actually saw a link. It's awesome to find out most of the these tracks are original for the OCEAN conversion. I can actually appreciate why I loved them a lot better now, at the time it was just an intuitive thing b...

No parallax, a lower framerate, and less color for the ST. I guess if you're an FM-synthesis purist the ST may be preferable, but other than that what else is there to know?

The thing that irritates me about this PC-ish "they're both good" thing is that Toki is one of the VERY few licensed games ...

Cool up thx! It's interesting I actually think the SGX suits the material best overall, though a couple arcade trax are unbeatable; and also for a couple of the MD ones the bass response edges it - though it's weak compared to MD's later great music anyway. I am actually partial to Tim Follin's r...

When I first saw this it was easily the most impressive demo! Conceptually it's actually kinda simple, all about exploiting the bitplanes, but the rotoscoping, great code and .presentation came together like nothing before. Must have watched it a hundred times...

@Bastiest So it's remarkable what was still pulled off, even as the second CPU didn't mean much for most games. I don't think it could compete with the PSX's raw geometry ability, or the true texture mapping, but Saturn had some qualitative advantages. Yet with a set number of channels to the dis...

@PsychOut1 That's some cool info, it makes it that much more impressive and I agree this is the most impressive ST.

I just found myself trying to explain in a different vid comment: I am in no way trying to criticize Yuzo Koshiro and what he did in the SoR games (even if some tracks verge on plag...

This is the only one of Wright's tracks that ever made as much of an impression on me as Whittaker's original Beast music. Really serene yet evocative.

Ugh don't even bother arguing what version is the "best", Amiga was the ORIGINAL, that's the one and only reason needed for why it really should have been the one used. Oh well, great vid series anyway.

@busterflex Hey as I was watching I remembered what I think you were asking about there. You only ever have a single 'shot' onscreen in this game, so the rate of fire is much faster at point blank range. Basically get right next to the enemies and you can do at least 5x the damage. It's kinda fun...

Oh dual-playfield mode, how do we both abuse and compensate for thy limited color temptations... let us count the ways!

This game has perhaps the most conceptually inspired approach to the dilemma, and artistically well executed, quite effective. Sort of an optical perception exploit.

Wish I'd a...

Unreal Engine .001! ^_^

I have to say, while I agree to a certain extent about that sector of the "Eurotrash" - lots of shallow games just trying to look awesome - I actually had somewhat the opposite reaction as Simbabbad after getting to play even the Japanese made console games. The cream of ...

In retrospect, this game may well trump Beast for best aural / visual combo on Amiga. Even though it didn't make quite the same impact on my memory. But unlike SotB it's also a pretty fun game; even if it's not classic gameplay judged by any hard-core shooter standards, the pure (almost obscene) ...

This game still looks GOOD, holds up better than most Japanese games from the 16 bit era. Not only that... but in retrospect it almost seems closer to the later bullet-hell standards in style and pacing than anything else before. Kind of interesting?

@Renegade466isback Yeah I can agree there, it's all 'techno' so a good fit for the FM synth anyway. But a lot of that sound was being originated on the Amiga, with a lot of sampling. Yet the demo music in particular first coalesced on the C64, which was also FM chip, and some of the competitivene...

OK I'll comment: they're all sick, they're all technically more impressive than (nearly) anything else on the machine, and this one's perhaps more 'classic' Jesper Kyd style... which maybe means it doesn't stand put as much?

For me it's near the top of the list though.

I'd just like to thank i8246i for restoring the balance, the hater crazy can still trump the fanatics!

The Dreamcast had features and characteristics PS2 could never match, like pro-scan support and anti-aliasing for every single (3D) game, and even generally superior texture handling and lighti...