>tiny viewport>low framerate>shitty annoying musicWhy is this game so fun and engaging? Like, it's legit good not because it's a FPS on the Genesis, but it's good despite being a FPS on the Genesis.
>>12493676Link up multiplayer is cool as fuck
I actually enjoyed it more than even SNES Doomat the time. Being able to magdump as fast as you want feels satisfying as fuck. It's not particularly deep or challenging, but it's fun if you just wanna zip around dark mazes listening to aliens scream as you incinerate them.
>>12493676Was officially ported to STEAM a few months ago, it's pretty tight.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1257930/Zero_Tolerance/
>>12493676>tiny viewportThat's fine, it's wide enough horizontally, which is what matters the most. Also they compensated by giving you a huge real time minimap with enemy detector. That's an absolute fucking luxury feature for a retro FPS game.>low framerateActually smoother than the brazilian Duke 3D on genesis or Wolf 3D on SNES.>Why is this game so fun and engaging?Good controls for a genesis game, great physics, great graphics and animations despite being limited to a tiny viewport, impressive enemy count, and just fun gameplay in general really. It's actually a huge improvement over Wolf 3D.
>>12493753yeah, the only thing I really wish it had as a kid was a better way to strafemade me jealous of the SNES' shoulder buttons, heh
>>12493676>>12493753With that said, I agree, the music is absolutely bad. Sadly that's the fate of every Accolade game. Killer gameplay, killer art, but lame as shit soundtrack. They should've borrowed some Ocean guy to do the soundtrack, they had the best musicians in the console gaming industry.
>>12493702>SNES DoomI am nostalgic for it because after playing Doom Shareware and Doom II in computer class with PC speaker beeps for sound, it was literally Doom at home with cool music and almost full Episode 2 and Episode 3. But on its own it's not very good. Shooting feels bad, psysics don't exist, framerate is too choppy, input delay is abysmal, enemies only have front facing sprites. Doom name basically carries it.Zero Tolerance is fine on its own.
>>12493712Fuck this lazy cadgrab. They had all the time in the world to finish the ZT Ungerground levels and put them into the original game, and then finish the Beyond ZT game for a proper release. But no, here's your ROM of the original game and two prototype ROMs.
>cadgrabcashgrab*
>>12493846Similar situation, except I had the 32X version, which has its own issues. I was just happy as a kid to have Doom in any form. I sometimes fire the console poets just to experience them for a few levels, but yeah, they're pretty much obsolete.
I wish there was a source port. Having to press two buttons to strafe is the shittiest control mechanism imaginable.
>>12493905Just map the combo to a separate input? Assuming you're emulating, of course.
>>12493712>11.99>for a fucking game rom
>>12494406Funny thing is that it was freeware for some time, offered on the main dev website, until someone decided to make $$$ from it
>>12493676this is literally the only good Doom-but-not-Doom that was available on 16 bit consoles.I remember also liking the SNES one where you shoot 3d Smiley Faces
>>12493870>>12494406Uh oh, the resellers are gettin upset!
>>12494485ZT goes for about that much loose, and not that much more complete, dipshit. Nobody here gives a fuck about the resell value of an old Genesis FPS. They're complaining about the digital release being a no frills pair of ROMs. They didn't even try to get the two player feature to work. Technopop also had the games up on their site for FREE for the better part of two decades, before Piko somehow got the rights to them.
>>12493687Was there an official cable sold for this or were you just expected to hobble together your own?
>>12494520They were offered for free from Technopop, if I remember right. You just paid shipping and handling. They're essentially just double-ended female controller sockets.
Fun game but you can snipe enemies safely from the distance when they're literally just a single pixel, which kinda defeats the point of the game. Fuck the later alien mazes in which there is basically no ammo whatsoever. I had to die and use a character with good melee.
>>12494563The third episode with the maze levels is the best though
>>12493676It's a solid shooter for the hardware. Yeah, small viewport and low framerate, but that's doing an FPS on a 16-bit console for you.Also, it has an excellent attention to detail, the devs really tried to think of all kinds of things to add little bits of novelty for the format. I always thought the rooftop snipers in the sky texture was a really brilliant little trick.>>12493702I really like that you can fire most weapons about as fast as you can tap the button.>>1249387432X Doom has the fart music, but the controls are pretty good IMO, and it has pretty good framerate.
>>12493676You can always go worse when designing a console FPS.
>>12496260This is just a bad port of a computer dungeon crawler game designed for mouse and keyboard.
>>12494508>2 player modeOh, right, that thing that next to nobody fucking did since it required two copies of the game and a link cable, you fucking dumb turbo-nigger? What a tragedy.
>>12496368And your point is? They took what was essentially freeware, bundled it with an emulator, then added nothing of value in the process. You're defending the right to pay for mediocrity. At least fucking believe in the bullshit you're saying if you're gonna post.
>>12496260Major System Shock vibes
>>12494485Zero Tolerance sold reasonably well but doesn't have a big lingering demand, so physical copies are not hard to find and don't cost much.This would have zero impact on its pricing and availability.>>12496406>the right to pay for mediocrityI think that in general, such things can be acceptable as a convenience if they're REALLY cheap. Basically what Nintendo's Virtual Consol used to be in the 2000s and 2010s.By that, I don't mean $10+ cheap, I mean like, $2.50 at most. It's a super old game and you put barely any work into it, but here it is and you can just play it.For $11, it should be feature complete and packed with content, like having working multiplayer, the sequel campaign should be finished, and they should throw in at least a short extra campaign as a bonus. Maybe also the beta player characters as an option.
>>12493676Will anyone ever port this motherfucker to doom or even ECwolf?
>>12496764ECWolf would probably be more suitable, but I forgot if it could do stuff like jumping, crouching, and sloped staircases.
>>12496884recently chasm made a wolfenstein TC
>>12496902That sounds fucking sick.
>>12497230https://www.moddb.com/games/chasm-the-rift/addons/riftenstein3d
