kerzain
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Yes it is! Congratulations.
Advance Wars was the first game I ever played on a portable gaming system. I didn’t own it, and I didn’t even own a GBA, but it was quite memorable in that it made me wish I could afford to immediately pick up both the GBA + Advance Wars cartridge back when they were the fresh new hotness.
I have such a strong memory of screwing with the game for a mere hour 20 years ago that I’ve often thought about trying to figure out a way to play it again today (I do actually think it’s on WiiU) just to see how it holds up… but I have too many other modern games vying for my attention. I’ve read a ton about this game in the ensuing years, and by all accounts this game was and is aces. I feel like I missed out not being able to properly play it more back then.
Since @Left_Empty is passing a turn I’ll toss the next game up shortly.
kerzain
5352
Excellent guess based on the the two eyes you had to work with, but incorrect.
If their experience was anything like mine, I know that many people on Qt3 must have been inundated with information about this game when it released.
CraigM
5353
I still have a working DS so recently revisited an old Advanced Wars game. It still holds up as a solid tactical game.
On mobile there is the Great Little War Game/ Great Big War Game series which hits many of the same notes and is a decent play. It’s not 1:1, and is hex height maps rather than square terrain, but the way troop types match up, move, and deploy will feel familiar.
Hah! Is that Auto Assault?
As the guy who wrote most of the Biomek content, I’m insulted that you started with the other two factions…
kerzain
5355
YES IT IS!!
For those unaware of the game, back during City of Heroes’ heyday NC Soft also published this short-lived MMO. I played the hell out of it during a late open beta and then picked up the game at release. It was around this time I started a job that kept me away from home for weeks at a time and I didn’t get to play the game nearly as much as I wanted to, and by the time my schedule opened up the servers had already been taken down.
When I mentioned that several Qt3ers should know of the game, that’s because NC Soft did a great job reminding me about it just about every day, and we have a ton of City of Heroes players who I would assume saw ads for the game as much as I did.
It’s been so long (maybe 12 years?) that I don’t remember the specific details of the story, but I know it involved a lot of driving and pew-pew-pewing. As for my choice of starting with the women, I thought the guy in the middle might be too recognizable to start with, but hey, I included his plated forehead in the second shot.
Oh, so you did! All is forgiven, then.
I came on to Auto Assault as a content designer in the last year of development and overhauled all the content in the Biomek zones and the big shared multi-faction zone.
There are a lot of technically impressive things in that game (a physics-driven MMO), and there’s some work in there that is worthy of real pride. But unfortunately I don’t think the world was ever properly designed to make players care about it, and that’s why it didn’t even make it to its first anniversary, if I remember right.
I do remember that the day after launch we got an email from the president of the studio telling us that pre-orders were really poor and that indicated that the game wasn’t going to be as successful as the studio needed. Can’t say I’ve witnessed that kind of transparency in a studio before or since!
Alright, let’s see what I can find.
Okay, best I can tell this one hasn’t been done before.
Yeah, that’s totally Crimson Skies. I miss that game. I really should play the Xbox reboot one of these days, even if it’s not as good as the original.
Indeed! I got my PC copy running in Windows 10 recently. Only played the first couple missions, but it was a blast from the past.
I’ve gotta take the pup in for a vet appointment tomorrow AM, but I’ll hit this up in the afternoon.
Okay, simple one, but I love the cover.
need for speed most wanted?
That was fast!
I really wanted to love this game, due in large part to Warren Spector’s involvement. I did like it, don’t get me wrong; but it never quite landed for me, and I never picked up the sequel. But I just love the box art.
