Is this really the game that helped Sony win the Console Wars? A shitty fucking port of a shitty boring fighting game with rubber band ai that reads your inputs? Can Boomers explain, was it really that big of a deal?
>>12918806>the game that helped Sony win the Console WarsWhen has anyone made that claim? It was always seen as a flawed port and it sold less copies than Genesis and SNES versions.
You made this up so you can console war, could've at least used a more believable example you fucking dumb nigger.
>>12918806This thread will stay up for days while if you make a thread saying Capcom or Nintendo is overrated you get bannedSC this
>>12918817>>12918824>>12918829There's literally Youtube essays about this you fucking retard
>>12918817>>12918824Is this fucking bait? This was actually a big fucking deal to get a near arcade perfect port of a fighting game, it was like the first of it's kind
>>12918832>>12918835>youtube essaysHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Sony wonn! Watch my youtubebideo!
>>12918806No, nobody cared about MK3 on the Playstation. Sony won because 1) They store Sega of America's marketing handbook2) $2993) Edgier games for pre-teens who needed to feel cool4) cheaper games because discs5) Final Fantasy VII. Sony wanted to transform the gaming industry into something resembling Hollywood, and they would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for that meddling Wii.
>>12918806Genius deals like this is why PS1 became the juggernaught of the 90s. Sony would never have made it without Bernie Stolar
>>12918806yes this was the main game i wanted when i got the ps1 for middle school graduation in 1995
No one game sold people on the PS1 in 1995. Sony's launch window software was a bunch of crap. Sony won on marketing, pricing, brand recognition and vibes.
>>12918832>>12918835This
>>12918872Least buttmad tendie
>>12918987I collect long box PS1 games. They're almost all bad. Tekken and Ridge Racer were the only decent games of that launch window bunch and everybody already played better versions of both of those games when the Saturn hit. If anything, Battle Arena Tohshinden was the killer app for Sony, because me horny want boobies durr
>>12919003Destruction Derby, Wipeout, Air Combat, Doom, Loaded, Alien Trilogy, Descent, Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors, Rayman, Twisted Metal, Road Rash, Wing Commander III, The Need for Speed, Resident Evil...There are plenty of good longbox PS1 games. You correctly got outed as a tendie. Leave the false flag aside, it's embarrassing.
>>12918806I always find odd how stuff like this isn't talked anymore. I mean vidya years form 1994-1997 are barely discussed outside the same as ever was games. PC, Saturn and PSX had hundreds of games during those years.but yeas mortal kombat exclusive deal were odd around timefor examplemk2 only saturn version, no psxmk only psx version, no saturnumk3 only saturn version, no psx
Unrelated but whats with the 3rd game in a fighting game franchise always being the black sheep?
>>12919043Pre crash bandicoot psx days are almost completely forgotten its weird
>>12919013Got all those. All junk or stuff easily played on other consoles.
>>12919046Such as..?
>>12919048Resident Evil was the first good PS1 game that anybody gave a shit about.
>>12919053>I LOVE video games but I would NEVER EVER EVER enjoy anything that doesn't have a 90 minimum on metacriticLoathsome faggots like you is why this board is so shit and negative all the time.
>>12919046Tekken 3?
>>12918806You underestimate how big Mortal Kombat was at the time. It was at its peak popularity after MK2 and the movie was coming out at around that time (still the best video game based movie, to this day).It was important enough that Sony signed an exclusivity deal for the title, Sega later got around it by having Ultimate MK3 ported instead. You know what kind of games were important enough to sign exclusivity deals? The likes of Tomb Raider.>>12918817>It was always seen as a flawed port and it sold less copies than Genesis and SNES versions.It was seen as a fantastic port way ahead of anything else ever released up until then, and the reason it sold less was because the Playstation had a fraction of the install base of 16-bit consoles on account of just having launched.
>>12919125Stop being a whiny bitch. I didn't say I didn't enjoy any of those games (even if most of them are more enjoyable in a 'so bad they're good' way). The conversation was about what games sold people on the PS1 when it launched. And the answer is: none. Definitely not any of those. >>12919118This.
>>12919003The first Toshinden game was fantastic, it was pretty janky but it had 1-button special inputs to get around that, it had fantastic music, and it looked great for a 1994 title too.
>>12919013Shit, I remember most of those. Had so much fun with nearly all of them. Except Rayman. It looked great but it was boring and slow as shit. If you just wanted the smooth animation of individual body parts, Vectorman one-upped it in that area, and didn't control slow as molasses (and it was relatively colorful too, for a Genesis game anyway).>>12919118Resident Evil was so incredibly boring.
>>12919151>The conversation wasOP yes, but not your postIn >>12919003 you said>I collect long box PS1 games. They're almost all badThis is what I refuted. Trying to reframe your original post and move the goalposts means you lost and got raped.
>>12919165You're like the one person in the world willing to go to war of the PS1's shitty launch lineup lol.
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>>12919180I don't speak meme, zoomie.
>>12919186>I don't speak meme, zoomie.
>>12919163You just like all the shit games and hate all the good ones, huh?
>>12919043Why is this confusing. Share what you think should be talked about
>>12919192Before Resident Evil, the PS1 was basically the 3D0 with a few Japanese arcade ports sprinkled in.
>>12919212Stuff like these:DisruptorShellshockTempest X3Andretti RacingInternational Track & FieldTime CommandoBust-A-Move AgainVandal HeartsPaRappa the RapperStar Gladiator: Episode:I - Final CrusadeCommand & ConquerTobal No.1Rage RacerAlien TrilogyTrue PinballThe Adventures of LomaxSmash CourtOr maybe I am just too old for this forum.see for me people like these are aliens or from another world:>>12919118Back in my day magazines were full of videogames that we could never try outside those PC demos.
>>12919220>Back in my day magazines were full of videogames that we could never try outside those PC demosYou didn't have a Blockbuster Video near you? I probably rented every single PS1 game that came out in 1995 and 1996 from them.
>>12918824Sony literally published and paid millions to have this game, wtf are you even on about you fucking faggot
The hype for MK3 was huge. I swear EGM had MK3 on the cover of half of its issues in 1995. Too bad the game sucked.
>>12919232it was definitely disappointing. shitty roster and they didnt add linking jp or njk into combos until ultimate. a lot of the fatalities seemed unfinished and animalities were a mistake. they shouldve left those out and tightened up the others. umk3 was much more fun to play but still broken as fuck. id really like to know what they were thinking with kabal. every player instantly figured out he was the best character (excluding sub-zero infinites) and they did nothing to fix him in umk3 besides nerfing his saw blade which accomplished jack shit. its one thing to have broken characters that take some time to figure out they are broken, but this seems like a case of the devs just wanting a ridiculously op character
>>12918832Yes, yes (you) are.
>>12919214It was a Japan and Brit box.
>>12918806No? Nobody ever said MK helped Sony win anything, you could even play that on the n64.
>>12919283>they did nothing to fix him in umk3 besides nerfing his saw bladeThey gave him a large combo damage penalty so his punch punch uppercut to jumpkick, air fireball did not do 50% any longer. That's just going from what I remember playing the 16-bit ports though.
>>12918832Wow, some nobody on youtube said a thing, I guess that's just the way it is!
>>12919825just checked in mame and that does 43% in umk3 (starting from spinning opponent in midair midscreen)
Nah 32X already had MK2.Anyway the 16 bit ports of the MK games reigned supreme and honestly they were the better experience. My 10 year old ass wouldn't have liked the loading times, which I also hated when I got Trilogy on PS1.
>>12918806Mortal Kombat 3 was an impressive port for the time but it was also on Genesis and SNES and didn't really move sales for the console. I think Tekken, WipeOut, and Twisted Metal sold more consoles in the launch window, while Resident Evil 1 was the first blowout system seller in early 1996.>>12919163>>12919013Rayman was the game you'd rent for your kid brother or something, oblivious to how much its crushing difficulty would traumatize them.
>>12920468The first Tekken looked like ass and nobody really liked it until Tekken 2 and especially 3.Wipeout on the other hand was the systems killer app for a while.
>>12919093Street fighter 3, mk3,soul calibur 3, sf alpha 3
>>12922836Thank you for your list of 3rd entries fighting game series
>>12920468toshinden was talked about a lot by some of the first kids at school who had a ps
>>12918806>>12918832Sorry but that's just nonsense.The Playstation port of MK3 was viewed as a stinker because the game freezes for two seconds whenever Shang Tsung transforms.Everyone I knew stuck to the Genesis version.
>>12922836tekken 3
>>12920950Tekken 1 was just a cooler, edgier, faster Virtua Fighter which was exactly what fighting game fans were looking for at a time when the genre was starting to get a little stale in the 2D space.>>12922937Toshinden was mid even for the time. It was forgotten overnight the second Tekken came out.
Bernie Stolar Saved Sony
>>12923865>faster Virtua FighterIt's actually MUCH slower than it's contemporary competitor - VF2.
