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Who Says 2D Gaming is Dead?

Posted by Zonk on from the it's-alive-i-tell-you-alive dept.

Retro Gaming with Racketboy has up a feature looking at the best modern 2D games out there, all on the PlayStation 2. He highlights the best of every genre, from the modern classic RPG/beat-em-up Odin Sphere to the timeless beauty that is the Metal Slug series. "Disgaea: Hour of Darkness & Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: Disgaea greatly resembles other strategy RPGs. Its isometric perspective, 3D battlefields, and nice-looking 2D characters are clearly reminiscent of most other games of this type, and on first impression, so is the game's turn-based combat system. However, you'll soon realize that this game actually plays very differently. The gameplay itself is, in a word, weird."

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  1. Me. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Next question?

  2. Back in my day games were all 1D by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

    and that's the way we liked it! Oh, the times we'd spend in between shifts in the poison mines, playing Dots on a Line...

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  3. How the hell can you... by r_jensen11 · · Score: 5, Funny

    play Lemmings while running 5 other things? I have a hard enough time running 5 things within Lemmings, let alone 5 things in addition to that game!

    1. Re:How the hell can you... by IgLou · · Score: 2, Funny

      Silly lemming! It's easy to do when you play to kill the lemmings!

      What? There's another goal to the game?

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  4. Descriptive by Boronx · · Score: 4, Funny

    The gameplay itself is, in a word, weird.

    That one word description is, in a word, non-descriptive.

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  5. Re:What about Maple Story? by samwh · · Score: 3, Funny

    49 million bots don't count.