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If nothing else (and there's a bunch of else mind you, Black is great) you gotta respect a game that chooses Paint it Black as its theme and makes it work outside of just being there for recognition.
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Psychotic Weasel posted:Twisted Metal was one of the first PS1 games I owned back when I was a teen and I loved it to death - this series, along with Jet Moto (ironically by 989 Studios), Vigilante 8 and Wipe Out were a blast to play but Black seems to be missing some of the... charm, I guess you could say? It just doesn't seem the same though that could be 15+ years of rose coloured glasses talking as it's been a very, very long time since I played any of them. Never did play any of the later ones in the series that came out for the PS2 onward as I never owned one but it's a shame to hear they turned into shovelwear. Black seems to be a pretty deliberate choice in tone after Twisted Metal 3 and 4 went a bit more light-hearted and cartoony in aesthetic. I also wouldn't be surprised if that choice was deliberately spiteful because, although I only have interviews to go on, David Jaffe seems like the kind of person to do that. I never played Head-On but while I wouldn't describe the PS3 Twisted Metal as shovelware it was a multiplayer focused game (with some single player) which, while certainly a part of past Twisted Metals, wasn't really what people liked from it before advent of console multiplayer. It's not bad but there was just wasn't enough to grab onto beyond that.
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Apr 16, 2016 05:20
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I've always liked how (most) of the endings for the good characters never turn out well. I think my favourite is Outlaw in 1 and then Outlaw in 2, even though that ends somewhat well in 2, just for the ridiculousness of it.
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Apr 20, 2016 05:59
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I want to say that Outlaw's special is one of the more powerful in the game, but only if you manage to combine the minigun with the missiles at close range. Taken individually they're not amazing but if you manage to freeze someone or ram them to a near standstill you can do a ton of damage. Edit: And I just noticed that there's a scar over the "terrorist's" eye, same as Calypso. Oh, you card Calypso. Kibayasu fucked around with this message at 07:39 on May 19, 2016 |
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May 19, 2016 07:31
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I really enjoyed the ridiculous wackiness of the character resolutions in TM4 - they strike just the right amount of funny-dumb.
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May 19, 2016 23:56
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I remember playing Twisted Metal 4, and it is likely a game I could appreciate and enjoy a lot more now but not when I was a 14 year old edgelord who needed to have everything BE REAL.
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Aug 26, 2016 00:17
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Fiendly posted:Always glad to hear it, feedback having been pretty scarce for this LP. Anyway, penultimate episode. Unfortunately I think that's a symptom of Twisted Metal itself, where if you're playing it a lot can change between the characters but watching can be a bit same-y since there's only really the cutscenes and the individual special attacks that change. I don't think Twisted Metal not following its own stories isn't too much of an issue though. I'm not sure we would have gotten Black if it did!
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Oct 17, 2016 02:21
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It was nice to re-experience Black. Perhaps the other thing it surprisingly managed to do well was take "Paint it Black" and actually make it work as a theme song and not just as a marketing tool.
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