Console Shrine

[mmmbeans]

yea but you're comparing two genres:

1. which had hit it's highpoint at that time. avp wasn't the best arcade beatemup but you're comparing it the best because that was THE genre at the time.

2. a genre in it's infancy... doom, wolfenstein and avp suck when compared to the high point of their particular genre.

it's all relative. i enjoyed the game, dropped a ton of quarters into it. liked it more than the jaguar game.

takeaway: i could still play and enjoy the arcade version of avp... the jaguar game (or ANY 1st gen FPS) would make me want to gouge my eyes out.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

none of them are goldeneye or hl2 that's for sure. the jag avp was probably the first to offer multiple storylines in a fps campaign, and that was part of the allure, but playing as a predator was really fun, and so was the alien. the marine...eh.

playing guardian legend would probably be like pulling teeth now, doesn't make it any less of an amazing game

i'm the opposite. i couldn't force myself to sit down and play streets of rage now, or battletoads or double dragon. at least the jag avp offers a wide variety in gameplay that modern fps could learn a thing or three from

[Porn Shop Clerk]

jag avp = marine, several weapons, standard template of modern fps; alien, mostly melee with a spit attack i believe, could not heal, but could be reborn by infecting a marine and hatching when they died; predator, stealth with an honor system that unlocked or removed weaponry based on whether you were in stealth mode or visible when you made the kill. aliens could still smell you, and marines could see through the stealth if you weren't careful

modern fps = automatic rifle, grenade, knife

jag avp still one of the best fps despite its graphical limitations

this was 6 years before the pc version released, so lets compare super mario bros to super mario world next

or maybe we could compare link to the past to ocarina of time

[Ivan The Awesome]

Aw man, I miss my old game set up. Used to have a PS3, 360, N64, Dreamcast, SNES, NES, Genesis and a few hand helds. God I miss my old TV. =/