Personally, I'm partial to tennis or golf. Underserved niches compared to football or basketball nowadays
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Personally, I'm partial to tennis or golf. Underserved niches compared to football or basketball nowadays
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Beach Spikers is my favorite Game Cube game.
>blocks your path
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For my broskis who care the 2024 edition of the NHL 94 genesis romhack is out. Tfw bolts getting worse every year (in real life). I love nhl 94 like you wouldn’t believe though. Also hoping they do a 2024 version of that tecmo bowl hack when it comes out.
I really need to get into some golf kino besides neo turf masters and mayrio golf, I just don’t know much about it IRL or in retro vidya besides those.
Nowhere near as retro as the stuff you're into but I've always been partial to the PS2-era Tiger Wolf games. On a similar note I'm also a fan of the EA Big era - NBA street etc.
ISS Deluxe is the best
Windjammers on Neo Geo and Deathrow on Xbox.
NBA Jam
California Games
Decathlete/Athlete Kings
Winter Heat
There is this great japan only arcade volleyball for SNES called Inazuma Serve Da that nobody talks about but my friends were playing a lot on emulators when I got my first PC back in 2003. NBA Jam vibes. Hyper Volleyball is good too. And there is the freeware open source /vr/ classic still being updated Blobby Volley for PC
I had a lot of fun playing as Anna Kournikova in Top Spin Tennis for XBOX
I'm having more fun with World Cup Italia '90 on Master System than I've had with any major, and modern, soccer/football video game in the past few years. It scratches my simulation itch, while also scratching my arcade one, it's balanced. It's fun to patiently build up play from the back, so a lot like simulation fans prefer, but it's also got 8 players on each side and no fouls, so very arcade too, my main issue is that the only viable way to score is passing sideways in front of the GK for a shot into an open net, or else it'll be saved by the GK 99% of the time, but playing it is still so fun!
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Are ANY of these good? I keep hearing that the portable Mario Golf game with RPG elements is cool but the rest seem so skippable
They’re great party games, but you can skip them if you’re just playing alone.
ISS 64. Best sport game of its gen.
Character creation in that was superb for it's time IIRC.
Wayne Gretzky's 3d hockey is the Goldeneye of sports
Facts
PS2 era Tiger Woods golf games were superb
I'll never get the hate sports video games suffer within this medium, especially ones that go for a more simulation side of things. It's so common to hear how sports video games are garbage played by people that don't even like video games, or to hear how only arcade ones are good and that it's bad when any of them goes for realism... I mean, a sport is just a game, like a board game or card game, it's something you play and have fun with, and since the dawn of video games, having other games be turned into video games is standard... just look at card games, they're a huge deal now.
Also, the medium literally started with adapting sports, Tennis For Two and Pong being perfect to exemplify that, we even got Pong consoles with different variations based on different... sports. It would have a soccer/football variation, hockey, etc... as someone that loves video games and has always been a nerd, but also loves sports, even if that sounds odd, I love this genre quite a lot still.
I agree, but I do miss the days when EA had real competition from Sega’s sports division.
I feel the same, EA has a monopoly on pretty much everything now, so they have no real reason to try anymore, it's quite grim. I wish Konami hadn't killed Winning Eleven, anons...
I agree, especially in the 90's there was a lot of shovelware, though that goes for a lot of genres, like platformers, for example. I know many here criticize them just for not being very good, but I see many people who genuinely have a hate for all sports video games and that's what I was commenting on. I think the issue now is the opposite of the 90's, where there was a ton of shovelware, now most sports have 1 or 2 titles at best, so competition isn't really there so there's no reason to change improve fundamentals, EA FC/FIFA being the best example for me here.
Most of them just aren't very fun. When they find a fun formula it's not like people hate it just because it's a sport, nobody hates Tony Hawk and SSX, those are sports games you know.
Problem with most sports games is they haven't moved beyond beyond their basic formulas, and those weren't that fun in the first place. Tennis, footy, hockey, basketball, golf, none of the formulas for those games are all that fun.
Unironically it’s beta males, the kind of r*ddit gays who think “sportsball” jokes were ever funny, usually coastal tech workers who only go to games when their work requires them to, tailgating an utterly foreign concept
You can just say "nerds". Nerds don't do sports, yes, that has been true since the dawn of time.
I don’t use that term because a lot of nerds enjoy sports, do you think normalgays are the ones writing giant aggregator websites weighing 100 expert opinions for a PPR fantasy league? Those are definitely nerds, you can be a sports nerd
This. I'm really into sports and I'm a huge fricking nerd. I don't mind people disliking sports, it's fine and it doesn't make them beta males to me, but I do despise the people that act as if hating sports makes them more intelligent, when a lot of times it's just because they associate sports with those bullies from highschool that beat them up while dating their crush, it just feels petty sometimes...
>when a lot of times it's just because they associate sports with those bullies from highschool that beat them up while dating their crush, it just feels petty sometimes...
I was actually thinking about this earlier today, I was pining for an IRL sports club for nerds at the time. My people
This isn't necessarily true. As you mentioned, sports have often been the gateway drug for the broader market to enter. Pong, Famicom Sports, Wii Sports, etc. I don't see a distaste for sports, more so a natural predisposition to the makers and direction they've chosen. EA or whoever runs 2K doesn't have the best artistic vision in mind, it's solely a product that even the most uninformed rube can see through. The arcade-style games weren't objectively better, but at least they served a different purpose than anything like the FIFA Ultimate Team shit. If it was Sega still promoting the NFL 2K series or Konami with a decent Winning Eleven game, I don't think the dislike would be strong. Hell, those games reviewed great, even among hardcore enthusiasts.
>tldr. We hate EA: Not sport games.
Modern Sega would make it MTX filled trash, it would not be arcade kino and we all know this. Sega and Konami are hard into pachislot and general scumbag shit it would be ultimate team on roids
I see, I do agree with you, the current market full of monopolies and no change since all that really matter is Ultimate Team cards and packs that are a gateway into gambling for kids... it pisses me off. It's also a shame that EA made SO MUCH money from this disgrace that all other developers went for it too, since share holders are the ones who really control things sadly.
Winning Eleven is dead and we now have eFootball, because of EA's FIFA Ultimate Team, what a pain, seriously... eFootball literally has no offline modes to play, no World Cup, it's that bad.
I'm sorry to hear, anon. If it makes you feel any better, Ganker if full of sports nerds just like us.
Nice game actually used to play it against my brother who was also a weeb
And yeah it's /vr/, it's from 2002
Is this a flash game?
Need more weeb sports games
No just a PC game. Indie as they would call it today
Is there any reason to play Original Virtua Tennis as opposed to Virtua Tennis 2? Also are there notable version differences