It's Critter Time!

Sonic CD and Chaotix are two of the best classic Sonic games, if not the best classic Sonic games period. They are both excellent tests of skill for people more familiar with classic Sonic gameplay and they both bring lots of unique ideas to the table in every department. I'm convinced that most ...

A Series S for most games (mouse&keyboard for first person games), and a Haute leverless for fighting games, because I can't play those with a stick to save my life.

EdenCoven wrote: Sun Aug 24, 2025 4:49 pm I think Ghouls n Ghosts might be my pick. I think that's the stuff.

Wow, that's some masochism right there!

A few months ago we updated my partner's PC, and I decided to turn the old one into a living room games PC. We have Steam Link set up (just using the app on our Android TV), but between the input delay, propensity to crash Steam and having controller issues when the streaming PC's Steam runs under ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8vFYFSlybA

Ahh Prehistorik! Sometimes I wonder if I fever dreamed this into existence because it's just so unspoken about, but I remember this so clearly from my childhood - one of the few games we had on floppy discs but with the actual big box (most of my ...

Daikatana is much improved when you disable your "friends" so they stop getting stuck on terrain, killing you with explosive weapons or dying.

Well, and once you get out of Episode 1, that game really puts its worst foot forward.

Hi there! I've been competing in FGC Events for the last couple years, I usually go to Frosty Faustings, Combo Breaker and Midwest Mixfest. My main games are Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising & Tekken 8 but I love to dabble in pretty much everything. (I also got 4th place and got to be on stream at ...

Some love for old Titus platformers. I loved both Prehistorik games, but probably spent the most time playing Titus the Fox, just because it's so dang hard .

The first Prehistorik game is fairly simplistic, you just move left to right and need to collect enough food by the end of the level to ...

I stand corrected, those both look neat!

While not metroidvanias, 2d-platformers-but-fighting-games have been tried before!

To, err, not great results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWsgKQ9P-ww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5WRnak8j5A

Which isn't to say it can't work, I've just not seen it done well (for example, while the Smash ...

SCALER , like no one I ever met knows about it and I really wish that it had more attention on it. Scaler was awesome. I should get it again and play it

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/93/Scaler.jpg/250px-Scaler.jpg


This one's on my list of "obscure 2000s platformers to ...

Oh, both Hexen games are great. They have their issues*, but I think they're vastly better than Heretic (which I always found dull).
I've never played Heretic 2, but it does look dope.

* 1/128th of the puzzle has been solved!

I was just reminded of Noctis, the original No Man's Sky from ~2001. There is a huge generated galaxy of stars and planets, and you can send your weird ship to land on any of them, and even exit to do a walkabout. Even navigation is weird, you're interacting with your ship's own interface, rather ...

Boy howdy I'd love to talk about how bullshit Blood's hitscanners are. You round a corner and they immediately lock on and begin gunning you down. Trying to hit them around a corner with dynamite kind of helps but sometimes you're just that low on dynamite and need to save it for bigger crowds of ...

The itch to learn fighting games has returned

DAMN YOU SOCIAL ANXIETY WHY WON’T YOU LET ME PLAY ONLINE WITH RANDOS?!
I've been having a really good time on the Discord server scratchingway was talking about! Real nice folk who were happy to whoop my butt and didn't complain about any of the ...

The two Crusader games have banger soundtracks. ratatatatatata

Here's one that's cheating a little bit, but! The original System Shock had a very eclectic soundtrack, between its General MIDI abstractness and weird, techno electronica bops, it creates a pretty unique soundscape.

Anyway, sometime ...

Reminder that EVO has started! Search for How to watch Evo 2025 and find the Twitch stream times for your faves!

[edit] Or if you're a sicko, you can watch them all at the same time!

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Which is another Tim Follins OST! You can really tell he cut his teeth on Amiga's tracker, all his tracks are these layered compositions that build on themselves, and they usually change several times through the song.

This is the fighting game thread, everyone here has faves that they know intellectually aren't perfect, but still love them regardless. For all my objections about MK's animations, it's still a joy to watch top rank players duke it out!

Not gotten around to the videos yet, but I was discussing this with Jennifer a while ago, I hadn't seen MK for a long time and after tuning into a tournament ('cause Sonic Fox), boy, the animations look rough .
They look like they purposefully tried to model them after the clunky motion captures of ...

I will shamefully admit that 90% of my time with Star Control 2 was playing its head-to-head multiplayer against my sister. I didn't even realise it had a single player portion until later!

Thank you, joined!

Also, Tekken is a serious game.

Man, that sounds delightful . foxkawaii

If you want I can send you an invite. Even though the server was an outgrowth of another community, there's a ton of people in there now who have no real ties to it. So it's not uncommon for someone to get an invite and be like... "what the hell is RTVS ...

After a life spent avoiding them, I played Tekken 8 almost daily from May of last year to May or so of this year. I played some ranked but mostly I ended up playing in lobbies in a FGC Discord (the RTVS FightZone) that sprung up around a LGBTQ-friendly community.

And I got kinda lucky with the ...

With Armor King teased I've been itching to try something new in Tekken, so I've started labbing the bears (Panda specifically). Cute, silly big bear that beats you up, what's not to love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO1vA4TKH8k

And man, trying to learn combos on a new character really puts in ...