This week on Slightly Something Else, Yahtzee and Marty discuss spiritual sequels and whether they’ve ever really been better than the original.
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Well Bioshock was a spirtual successor to System Shock….
The indie market is better at "Spiritual Sequels".
Pacer is the successor to the Wipeout series. It wasn't great though. Hard to surpass wipeout.
Also The Golf Club took the place of the PGA Tour golf series of games for a few years. Not a bad effort.
Would you count Titanfall? Cause it was basically the MW2 team wanting to make a new shooter after leaving CoD
Perfect examples.
Castlevania/Bloodstained
Devil May Cry/Bayonetta
Golden Eye/Perfect Dark
System Shock/Bioshock
Wasteland/Fallout
Theme Hospital/Two Point Hospital
Xenosaga/Xenoblade
PERFECT DARK MENTIONED
Dang Yahtz, I know it's supposed to be in good pessimistic fun, but the super chat about that guy's dad passing was rough.
I've lost both of my parents, and especially when it was still fresh, I definitely would feel shitty if I paid my favorite content creator to thank him for helping me through a difficult time just to get shit on by him.
stalagtite and stalagmite are easy to differentiate in french because stalagtite is like "tombe": to fall, and stalagmite is like "monte": to rise.
Stalagmites might poke you in the butt since they come up from the ground
great britain is called as such to differentiate it from britain (bretagne), located in france, similarly to how new york and new jersey in the u.s. come from york and jersey in the british isles.
Too busy kissing girls eh Marty?
I thought Bloodstained was pretty darn good. Maybe not better than Symphony or Aria, but certainly better than some of Iga's other work.
I reckon that Judas game is gonna be class
As soon as I saw the video's title my first thought was "Yes, Stardew Valley pretty much killed Harvest Moon"
is Timesplitters better than Goldeneye? Yes. Better than Perfect Dark? Less certain
Never thought I'd hear Yahtzee talk about Internet Historian
Bloodstained: Iga's team also put a warp point right by the damned shop, which automatically makes it 70% better than SoTN, where level design is concerened.
Imo nothing has really surpassed Freespace in terms of space combat games. Even fantastic ones like Everspace 2 completely fail to capture the scale of the fights in those 20+ year old games.
And with the Knossos launcher its playable with updated graphics and a bunch of different campaigns/games.
They even used that engine to make the best Battlestar Galactica game (Disapora : Shattered Armistice).
Considering DA:O was closer to Neverwinter Nights 2 than it ever could be to BG…
You're the rats I'd like shack up with to survive
An idea for an episode, Marty reviews/talks about all 12 games Yahtzee made in one year. Marty can tell Yahtzee what he liked/didn't like. Also, Marty can ask questions about Yahtzee choices and his limitations
stalacTITE like TIGHTs on a line. they hang
Unironically, I think Yahtzee's view of HL1 > Opposing Force > (Maybe Blue Shift, but not necessary) > HL2 > Episodes > Black Mesa is probably the best way to get through the series.