Turbo games you should like that you don't. My example (Forgotten Worlds)

[Keith Courage]

I was wondering for others what games you don't like for the Turbo where most other people sings its praises.

For example. Forgotten Worlds

I don't know why but I just can't get into this game. So many talk about it like it's one of Capcoms best but it just doesn't do anything for me and I don't know why. It looks amazing, sounds amazing, but I get absolutely nothing out of it. Maybe it's because I didn't own this one on the Turbo growing up. I do like Side Arms though so it's not the style of shooter.

[seieienbu]

I respect a lot about the game, but I can't play Alien Crush to save my life.  The art, music, the overall mood are fantastic.  But every time I try to play it I think "Why not just play Devil Crush?" and move on.  I think that Devil Crush is just so superior in every way that I just can't enjoy playing Alien Crush.

[gex]

Legendary Axe II comes to mind, although I haven't played it in a few years. Maybe i'll check it out again soon and have a new experience. Just remember the backgrounds all being dungey, and didn't hold well compared to the 1st game.

[esteban]

I wrote a long post, fell asleep, and now it’s gone.

Goddammit.

Anyway, I think Sidearms and Section Z are better games than Forgotten Worlds because the awkward controls (even with a three button controller) will never seem as satisfying to me to play as the immediacy of the controls in Sidearms/Section Z.

However, I have a complaint about Sidearms, too, and it’s a vestige of Capcom’s silly power up system from 1942—I hate cycling through weapons. I just find it annoying. Now, this doesn’t stop me from playing 194X or Sidearms...but the problem is *not* the cycling itself, it’s just that there are too many steps in the cycle and it is annoying to worry about ONE ERRANT SHOT forcing you to start the cycle over.

Konami is guilty of this in the Twin Bee series (Stinger!)... those goddamn bells are so annoying.

So Detana! Twin Bee is a game I should like A LOT (since I loved Stinger for NES, despite the damn bells)... but, for PCE, I just find myself grabbing another HuCARD instead of sticking with Twin Bee.

So, I really like Sidearms (BOTH the HuCARD *and* the CD are must-haves, as far as I am concerned)...

DETANA! TB: But I am indifferent to Detana! Twin Bee even though I love Stinger (I really love that stupid game, I find it quite charming).


And now...

I could care less for fighting games...so... I guess that doesn’t count for this thread...


PARANOIA: BUT I SHOULD LIKE PARANOIA for TG-16, since it is a shootemup and has “Naxat” attached to it..but, damn, this game has never really impressed me.

I love the “surreal” concepts and aesthetics they were going for (moreso in some stages rather than others), but as a shootemup it is mediocre...it’s OK, but I just had much higher expectations about it (back in the day) and I guess I never got past that initial disappointment.

KAZE KIRI: Expectations vs Reality have ruined another game for me ...I want to like Kaze Kiri, but it just didn’t click with me. And I am very forgiving (I like Vigilante, after all). So I sold the silly game years ago. But, I wish I still had it to give it another chance. So is this another instance of “sour grapes”?

I may be unfairly dissing Kaze Kiri, but too bad.

[GoldenWheels]

Legendary Axe II comes to mind, although I haven't played it in a few years. Maybe i'll check it out again soon and have a new experience. Just remember the backgrounds all being dungey, and didn't hold well compared to the 1st game.

I'd likely choose this one too. Dark graphics, removes the cool mechanic of the first one, and is balls hard/cheap near the end. If only it was more like the first.

[turboswimbz]

I really don't enjoy Gate of Thunder...

I don't know why, I love other shooters like it, but after I die once or twice, I just move on, it never holds me. 

I mean it's got great music, graphics and I know many people love it, I just can't get into it.

[EmperorIng]

KAZE KIRI: Expectations vs Reality have ruined another game for me ...I want to like Kaze Kiri, but it just didn’t click with me. And I am very forgiving (I like Vigilante, after all). So I sold the silly game years ago. But, I wish I still had it to give it another chance. So is this an insatiable if “sour grapes”?

Don't even need to give it another chance. Vigilante has more variety than Kaze Kiri, and is 1/3rd as long as the game. You can play Vigilante three times and pretend you are playing a more action-packed Kaze Kiri.

[deubeul]

I really don't enjoy Gate of Thunder...

I don't know why, I love other shooters like it, but after I die once or twice, I just move on, it never holds me. 

I mean it's got great music, graphics and I know many people love it, I just can't get into it.

Dis you try hard or devil modes?

[gex]

I really don't enjoy Gate of Thunder...

I don't know why, I love other shooters like it, but after I die once or twice, I just move on, it never holds me. 

I mean it's got great music, graphics and I know many people love it, I just can't get into it.

Feel the same. I always just thought I sucked at gates, but it seems other people feel the same way. Really dislike it in shooters where you die from touching the walls. Probably why I never gave Aero Blasters much of a chance.

[turboswimbz]

I really don't enjoy Gate of Thunder...

I don't know why, I love other shooters like it, but after I die once or twice, I just move on, it never holds me. 

I mean it's got great music, graphics and I know many people love it, I just can't get into it.

Dis you try hard or devil modes?

General just on easy.  I suck at this game which doesn't help and yeah like it's mentioned touching the walls gets to me.  I just never stick with it.   I get to level 3 but that's about it. Aeroblasters is another game now that's mentioned too that I struggle to really get into.  I like to pop em in every now and then though.

[nodtveidt]

The Legendary Axe. People go on and on about how great it is but I did not play this back in the day so I'm not nostalgic about it. I did not play it until many years later, and immediately saw it for the terribly-flawed mediocre game it really is.

[Medic_wheat]

Magica Chase.

I played and own the PCE version.


It’s an okay game. However I found it not very challenging and I SUCK at shooters.

So for my to say it felt easy I can only imagine what people who are vastly more capable at shooters must think.

Also it’s short. And not oh I picked the easy version and the game stopped is way asking me to play again but oh it’s over?

R-Type I&II felt more challangjng and meatier to game content. And it was one of the first few games to come out I believe.

[lukester]

The Legendary Axe. People go on and on about how great it is but I did not play this back in the day so I'm not nostalgic about it. I did not play it until many years later, and immediately saw it for the terribly-flawed mediocre game it really is.

If the legendary axe is mediocre, then castlevania on nes is terrible.

I love the axe and knowing when to use it. The full power strike is incredible. CRACK!!!


I’m not big on military madness. If there was an enemy turn skip feature, those hardass later levels wouldn’t be as frustrating and long.

Dynastic hero is a lame port. The soundtrack is terrible and the lack of parallax really hurts the graphics. No new content to balance out the bad.

Darius plus is a classic but super Darius 2 is messy. That lack of resolution increases the difficulty tenfold. They compensate with a large amount of lives and an optional weapon keep mode. Just a mess

Never liked dragon spirit or ordyne

[lukester]

May shock some that games I really like are bravoman, wonder momo and altered beast

Samurai ghost is a classic, but I hate the first one.

Kaze kiri is a massive waste of potential. Represents what I hate about some of the games on the pc engine cd add-on. Substitute style for substance

[turboswimbz]

May shock some that games I really like are bravoman, wonder momo and altered beast

Samurai ghost is a classic, but I hate the first one.

Kaze kiri is a massive waste of potential. Represents what I hate about some of the games on the pc engine cd add-on. Substitute style for substance

Bravoman and Altered give me headaches,

But you are just wrong about wonder momo
that game is downright charming