I’ve been working through all the games my parents never let me play as a kid using emulators. The idea for this post was inspired by blitz: the league. A dark and gritty American football arcade style game. It features steroids, corruption, and to the modern audience disgusting emphasis on dirty hits and injury. The injuries are emphasized through rewarding the player and mortal kombat style xrays.
It is not without humor (sending sex workers to the away team’s hotel before a game is a feature in the sequel iirc). The gameplay is fun enough and it’s really funny how mad the nfl got because despite the deep flaws it correctly pointed out the corruption.
Final score: “hey dude sniff this milk”/10.
Original Supreme Commander. Supreme Commander 2 better.
Does the second one hold up?
I last played in on my Xbox years ago actually but I played the first one more recently and it felt more awkward.
I’ve been stuck on the sack the qb tutorial for the last hour. The AI keeps stealing my tackle and if I move them pre snap the pass succeeds. I want to unlock the game mode :(
Sadly the second one (which sounds better in every way) emulates super poorly.
false opinion
forged alliance forever
I will have to agree. Supcom 2 was ok. But Forged Alliance was as good as it gets.
That game was awesome though and gave me one of my favorite multiplayer memories of 1v1ing with my brother and when I realized I didn't need my commander anymore I built a fleet of dummy transports and loaded him into one and flew them all straight into his production/power center shouting "OPERATION DUMBOOOO DROPPPPPPP" and when my commander transport got shot down the ensuing nuclear explosion destroyed so much and resulted in a very pleasing shout of "WHAT THE FUCKK???"
I don't even think I won the game but who cares, I won the battle
The marketing set itself up to fail, the streamlining to get an acceptable xbox 360 framerate removed the high unit counts that were the selling point of the Tech Demo Gaem that the first one was.