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u/MTRichardson01
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Excited to try out the most recommended game on my last post.
After my last post, which inluded Twisted Metal 2, 3, and 4 in it. Most people recommend this to me and I have finally tracked down a copy of it to try for the first time ever.
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u/Grouchy-Total550 9d ago
What happened to all the vehicle battle games?
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u/MTRichardson01 9d ago
No clue but I wish they would come back.
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u/Grouchy-Total550 9d ago
I know, they were all the rage on the playstation. You'd think there would be at least one around now.
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u/justlovehumans 9d ago
I really enjoyed twisted metal black. I'd be all over a modern version. Crossout is probably amazing if you're able to put the money or time in
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u/ascii42 9d ago
I guess Destruction AllStars is basically it in the current generation.
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u/Souleater2847 9d ago
Yea…that’s like recommending Squirrel Girl to someone who looking for something closer to Spawn.
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u/Spider-Mike23 9d ago
Last standout ones I remember (that were decent.) were cel shaded and flat out 2 (maybe, not sure if it counts as battle or demolition derby.) on ps2. Seen cel shaded on the psn store and it’s 2.99 on sale atm, thinking of grabbing it to try with kids since been a long time haha.
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u/ChanThe4th 9d ago
Judging by the recent posts and media push behind games of this genre, I'm guessing someone big has something brewing
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u/spiritofgonzo1 9d ago
I’m pretty sure there’s going to be a show adaptation of twisted metal so that’s probably it
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u/Spider-Mike23 9d ago
Yea they released a teaser of it a few weeks back. Didn’t show much really, and think synopsis was a guy trying to deliver a package and gets caught up in the event taking place where he’s gotta deliver said package or something? Idk I’m waiting hear how show does first. Don’t why they’d do a mundane like story to do twisted metal and not get into just the event taking place for wishes and show each combatants backstory or such.
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u/ChanThe4th 9d ago
Speed freaks is a 40k twisted metal knockoff coming out, announced yesterday. Looks like the finance companies that own the gaming companies decided to let us play some old genres.
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u/Malikai0976 9d ago edited 9d ago
Check out Speed Freeks on steam. It's an upcoming one, but they're doing an alpha test this weekend and you request access on their steam store page. I was granted access immediately. Sounds like twisted metal with warhammer 40k orcs.
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u/mechanicalcanibal 9d ago
There's a game called crossout that's pretty fun. Deff not the feel of old car combat games tho
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u/Dramatic_Bite_1168 9d ago
It is indeed fun, and even the customization part is fun. But it becomes a drag in that crafting process where you need 16 tier I materials to craft 8 tier II materials to craft 4 Tier III materials to craft 2 Tier IV materials to craft one Tier V material... That's where that online shopping aspect + microtransaction stuff rears its ugly head, making a cool and fun game become a deliberate insurmountable bore in order to drain your wallet.
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u/DamnImAwesome 9d ago
You just confirmed my assumptions about that game
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u/Dramatic_Bite_1168 9d ago
Which is a bloody shame tbh because the game is actually fun to play, buuuuut.... becomes a bore because execs decided to stop you from having fun so their wallets can get weighty.
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u/Soccertaz89 9d ago
I have played that game for almost 700 hours over the years and never spent a dime on it. You can totally make builds and compete in pvp battles, you just have to stay at a lower “power score” which is essentially level, for a while. Still loads of fun, especially if you used to mess with vigilante 8 or twisted metal back in the day.
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u/TnekKralc 9d ago
basically twisted metal over saturated the market until people were bored and nobody has found a good way too bring them back for this generation. Having a boat load of types of fighting cars is also hard to balance for competitive online play. I'm hoping with the twisted metal show being created that it will drive enough interest for a reboot. Axel is still the best option
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u/Phlanix 9d ago
they were fun, but between xtreme g, twisted metal, vigilante 8, mario kart, Re-volt there are ton of other ones on ps and ps2 too
rumble racing doesn't use guns they use abilities.
the genre was very over played and lacked sales after the mid to late 2000s.
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u/Neutronova 9d ago
I own this. decent game, really good soundtrack... Pro tip, unlock the flying saucer
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u/MTRichardson01 9d ago
Will have to look into that.
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u/Dramatic_Bite_1168 9d ago
Try Vigilante 8 2nd Offense too if you feel particularly fancy.
The level design in that series was always something else. In 2nd Offense there is a stage in Cape Canaveral, where you are to send a rocket, and during the burn tests (idk how its called), a small portion of the map is affected by the rockets burn, if you happen to pass in fron of it, or send an enemy towards it, it will get blasted with rocket fire and will take burn damage.
These games were masterpieces.
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u/DamnImAwesome 9d ago
Unpopular opinion: Vigilante 8 was better than twisted metal
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u/Dramatic_Bite_1168 9d ago
I have to agree there with you.
I mean, I loved Twisted Metal to bits but damn.... Vigilante 8 was something else.
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u/underwear11 9d ago
There are a bunch of enviro things you could do in those games. You could flip the switch at the Hoover damn to send electricity down the water. Or you could do something (can't remember what) to make an astroid crash at the crater.
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u/Dramatic_Bite_1168 9d ago
Break a somewhat of an observation tower, I don't remember the name of the building but it was in front of a Donut Shop, on somewhat of a slope, where a police vehicle was parked. You destroyed that building and then there would be an asteroid falling in a crater with a giant ant inside, you could either break the asteroid or wait for it to "hatch".
It was in the Arizona map on Vigilante 8 2nd Offense.
I really did play these games a lot.
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u/Welshhoppo 9d ago
If you were able to launch the rocket, you could then enter one of the side doors and get launched into space with a rocket pack and collect items as you parachuted back down.
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u/ascii42 9d ago
Vigilante 8 2nd Offense is also worth playing.
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u/Whoretron8000 9d ago
That fucking Ant map....
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u/joshuamenko 8d ago
I swear I spent more time fucking with the map mechanics than actually playing the game how it was intended lmao
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u/Rated_Oni 9d ago
The theme just started in my head just reading that, the soundtrack in these games were always the best!
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u/Torneco 9d ago
Also, you can put the first game while playing one stage to unlock the stagens from the first game to play on the second.
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u/underwear11 9d ago
Once the level loads, you can also replace the game cd with a music cd and listen to it while you are playing.
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u/maricahaseyum 9d ago
Thank you for mentioning this. I was trying to remember the name of this game but couldn’t remember
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u/xxmarc0 9d ago
Swarm!!!!
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u/el_neeeenyo 9d ago
BassQuake!!!
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u/warwithcanada 9d ago
As a huge twisted metal fan I was amazed at the time of how the damage seemed so realistic.
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u/MTRichardson01 9d ago
Twisted Metal were the omes I grew up with.
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u/JozzyV1 9d ago
They’re making a new one to coincide with the new TV show
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u/bolivar-shagnasty 9d ago
After a level starts, you can take the disc out and put in your own CD to play your own music. Then when you finish a level, you have to put the game disc back in.
It’s cumbersome, but it was cool as shit in 1998.
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u/DamnImAwesome 9d ago
Wtf I probably played hundreds of hours of these games as a kid and never knew that. I could have been jamming limp bizkit :(
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u/rumpleforeskin83 9d ago
You could also put most of those old discs into a CD player and listen to the soundtrack.
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u/Kill3rT0fu Android 9d ago
Look up and memorize the weapon combos
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u/ArcHammer16 9d ago
The crater-maker is seared in my mind from probably 25 years ago: down, down, up, machinegun
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u/chrisinajar 9d ago
This game is great, but my god 2nd offense is incredibly fun and incredibly stylish. Probably my most played of that genre.
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u/Wendigo79 9d ago
I dont think i had enough money at the time buy I rented this and played the demo for hours, I always thought it was superior to twisted metal.
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u/MTRichardson01 9d ago
I still believe that Twisted Metal 2 will always be my favorite. Primarily because it was the one game that I played the most growing up.
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u/NotYourDadsMemes 9d ago
Played this game religiously on N64 when I was a kid. I still hear the menu music echoing faintly in the depths of my mind.
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u/goofycaca 9d ago
Rogue Trip is one of the few games that made me want to find the soundtrack (Mighty Mighty Bosstones).
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u/KoalaKarity 9d ago
Childhood, literally. First game that taught me that crazy, epic things can happen in a game... Was about to get obliterated by the Bin truck or the yellow truck, and my friend with the astronaut's car made a big jump, used his special move while in the air (with the mechanical claws at the front), and landed a big hit on the side of the truck (while still in the air and landing), taking the truck away from my face... I was like "woooow" 🤩
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u/KoalaKarity 9d ago
Wait, I saw 2nd Offense in the comments, maybe my memory comes from that game..!
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u/Nymus_XVI 9d ago
Absolutely loved it back in the day! Used to play that and another part of the Vigilante Franchise for hundreds of hours on the Nintendo 64 back in the day.
Have fun!
p.s. is there anything like those sort of games in the present day? I think there was something like a remake of some Vigilante game back in the Xbox 360 era if I remember correctly? But overall I could not really think of something like it in the present day. "Crossout" might be the closest I could think of.
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u/Galaxicana 9d ago
"Bass Quake!!!"
Absolutely loved this game as a kid! Unlocked everything.
Be sure to try the first person perspective! I always loved seeing the interiors of the cars and the hands turning the wheel.
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u/wevegotheadsonsticks 9d ago
Love this game. Loved trying to find all the level secrets and what not!
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u/universalcrush 9d ago
Omg I loved this game growing up me and my friends would all play it at my house after school.
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u/Successful_Rip300 9d ago
All in one moment this post brought back so many memories lol now know what game ima get now lol
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u/DrOctoRex 9d ago
Such an awesome game. Also used to listen to the music a lot too. The menu music is perfection.
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u/Judas_Kyss 9d ago
My favorite thing was playing survival as the ufo and hiding in the hoover dam lake, then ramming the absolute shit out of tiny cars that drive by then shooting them with my death ray as they fall from the sky
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u/skrillaguerilla 9d ago
Great game. Idk how many hours I spent playing this with my brother as kids.
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u/xAcePhoenix 9d ago
I never played the Playstation version. I think it has FMVs in it compared to the Nintendo version which had pictures instead. Very fun. Twisted Metal but Disco/Mad Max flavoured.
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u/gperez13 9d ago
Ooh ahh ooh ahh 🕺🏽
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u/TheWrecklessFlamingo 9d ago
hahaha i still remember the sound of that special like it was yesterday.
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u/Slamdance 9d ago
What's cool is once you load a level, you can take the game out and put in your own CD to listen to your own tunes!
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u/yamilonewolf 9d ago
friend tried to convince me there were 7 prequels to that game i called bs lol
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u/EldritchMe 9d ago
I would pay to revive the feeling of playing vigilante 8, than playing vigilante 8 II for the first time.
Jesus christ, the first game was amazing, and the second is just a masterpiece.
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u/durntaur 9d ago
That game is fire! They had it on N64 also and in the dorms it was in rotation with Goldeneye.
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u/deadstar2112 9d ago
Shit was a blatant rip off of twisted metal
Now I was a fan of Rumble Racing that game was the business
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u/Cattleist 9d ago
Dude I played the shit out of this game on the n64.. and I don't even know if I liked it. Lmao
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u/Always-Awake-m25 9d ago
Just As long as you don’t play it on n64 cause the controls were so bad 😂
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u/AnalBumCovers 9d ago
You get enhanced versions of your weapons by tapping the dpad in 3-button combinations. No one will tell you this and you have to look them up. They're all on the vigilante 8 wiki under the "combos" section of each weapon
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u/ichii3d 9d ago
Make sure you learn all the button combinations for the alternative fire options, things get wild! I burned so many hours playing this game with friends.
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u/MTRichardson01 9d ago
Will have to look into them. Just got my ass kicked in vegas trying to protect the chapel.
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u/larsmcbaneborg 9d ago
Dude seeing this post made me remember one of my favourites.
rouge trip on ps1, I can’t tell you how many hours I probably put into that game as a child 😂
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u/uncletoucan Android 9d ago
Try motor mayhem if you try out ps2 games. One of my all time favorites along with this game.
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u/CollateralSandwich 9d ago
This is still one of the most hype tracks from a game that I can recall. I want to take on the world listening to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQc7sNwYz6s&list=PL8E83F8C239D665DA&index=10
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u/Baman2113 9d ago
I’ll never forget how blown my mind was when my buddy who owned this started a game, straight took the disc out without the game stopping, put in a cd to listen to music, and just kept playing with his own tunes playing. No idea why it worked, but it’s a permanent memory engrained in my brain at this point.
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u/Ph4zed_out 9d ago
Omg! I loved this game, so many hours played with friends. Was just thinking about this the other day. Hope you enjoy playing this…now I’m going to have to play it again
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u/libbyposts 9d ago
Okay now this brought on some serious nostalgia! I was lucky enough to able to play it on nintendo 64 and PlayStation most people don’t know about it on nintendo 64 though. You definitely won’t be disappointed!
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u/NeverFence 9d ago
Holy shit. I completely forgot about this game. IDK how it stands up now, and I can barely remember anything specific about it to be honest lmao.
But I remember loving this game and sinking many hours into it as a 15(?) year old
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u/Fraggy_Muffin 8d ago
They release vigilante 8 remake on the Xbox arcade. Not sure if it’s still available
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u/Augmented_Artist 8d ago
Played the Nintendo version and years later I worked on the xbox live arcade version. Fav car combat series.
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u/Omgbbqkittens 8d ago
... omg. This is it. This is the game I remember playing with my brother way back when, but haven't found the name of since.
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u/bondbat007 8d ago
Holy shit this game is a DEEP cut for me. Seeing it just while scrolling Reddit sent me through a loop
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u/penny2129 8d ago
Love this game! My brother and I played it so much when we were kids… we need a remake!
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u/Ben_Kenobi_ 9d ago
Played this game so much as a kid. Still tell my self "You ready to roll the dice, bro!" To get myself ready to do something.