The Twisted Metal series & T. Metal remake

[rlemmon]

Hi guys. I have been out of the playstation circle for a good for or five years. I recently bought a new ps 2 to get back to some of the games i missed playing. The first thing that came to mind was the twisted metal series.

 When the ps one was out twisted metal 2 was the game i played more than any other. I have great memories of zooming around the different arenas, blowing stuff up and killing everyone in sight. The really cool thing about these games for me was that they were really fast paced and strategic at the same time.

I always used to wait until my health was low then hide on upper areas such as rooftops or bridges and take out opponent's one hit at a time, then peel out when they started shooting back. The characters and there storys were always fun to watch to . I also picked up twisted metal head on (extra twisted edition) for my new ps2 and im having a great time with it. It feels like its closer to tm 2 than parts 3 and 4 were. I love that they included what was completed of Twisted Metal: Lost aka T.M. harbor city. There are only four levels but there alot of fun and its interesting to see what the game would have been if it had been completed.

 What do you guys think about the twisted metal series? To me parts 1,2 black and head-on are incredibly fun and i would say the series as a whole is severely underrated.
P.s. Have you guys seen the trailer for the new twisted metal?  Looks like ill have to get a ps3.

[Bootay]

I liked 1 and 2...3 was decent...4 was kind of a let down and then I stopped playing them. I always meant to go back and try Black and Head On...I did try one called Twisted Metal: Small Brawl and it ended up being Twisted Metal with RC cars...LOL

[Dartful Dodger]

I liked 1 and 3, after that it started focusing on a story. Driving around in cars blowing up other cars, that's all I want. Instead they have this complex storyline that doesn't make sense.

What's the point of having people fight to the death, if the same people keep appearing in each game to fight to the death?

Since nobody ever dies they should swap out Sweet Tooth's van for BA's van and call it Twisted A-Team.


I'm sick of the same/lame characters, I want a ModNation Combat game.

"Play, Create, Share, ...Destroy"

[SavannahLion]

Yeah Carmageddon starting sucking because they messed with the original formula and added "goals" to some of the maps. Whattya mean I can't run over people in this map?!?

[crashwg]

I liked TM back in the day.  I couldn't play it now because to me it's the kind of game that you sit down in your living room with a couple friends and have a blast.  Online play just doesn't do anything for me, you always end up playing against some 13y/o who does nothing but play that game and stomps you again and again.  Honestly, I can't stick to one game long enough to become good enough to hold my own on the interwebs.

[SavannahLion]

Online play just doesn't do anything for me, you always end up playing against some 13y/o who does nothing but play that game and stomps you again and again.  Honestly, I can't stick to one game long enough to become good enough to hold my own on the interwebs.

If they had online play when I was 13, I would've been that kid. I used to inhale games in a weekend. My friends and I used to compare notes on Monday to see which games we annihilated (oddly we didn't compare scores  ). Come Friday, we would either rent the games our friends annihilated last weekend, borrow them, or find new ones to destroy and repeat the process all over again. At the time, I think the only game that withstood the abuse was R-Type. Took me a week of solid playing to even consider finishing the final stages.

Now.... I'm lucky enough to finish a game in about six months. A game like R-Type, I'd grow bored with and move to the next. At 13, we used to mock the kids who did that. At three times that age, it's a respectful decision. Seriously, I have 2+1 kids and a fiance that demands an inordinate amount of my time not to mention all the ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- details being adult entails. The only online games I play are with those who have the same amount of time to play as I do. Namely other adults with kids. 

BTW, check your PMs and ignore that question about the flash drive. I completely forgot there was a USB port there.

[rlemmon]

I just finished palying through T.m. head on for the 4th time. Lots of fun. I hope the ps3 one is as good as #2.

[Howard_Casto]

I'm not a particular fan of sony consoles or sony games, but I've always had a soft spot for twisted metal.  Actually more specifically twisted metal 2 because every other version is crap. 

There's some odd phenomena regarding video games where the second game in a series is almost always the best.....  Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat II, ect....  Usually subesquent sequels are still pretty darn good, but in the twisted metal series it went downhill real fast. 

TM2 was frikkin prefect.  Every single car was interesting to look at, had an interesting driver, and was fun to drive.  The comic book cut-scenes were really good and gave just the correct amount of story with a creepshow style ending for each character.  The stages were also very fun, especially the ones with famous landmarks.  The controls were also just right, even though they were digital. 

And the sequels came out... and each one was wore than the last.  Calypso was what made twisted metal 2 fun story-wise and in subsequent sequels his role was never the same.  The characters in general took a major hit the cars becoming blander and blander with more and more generic characters.  The stages became downright generic compared to part 2.  The controls also seemed a bit off once they switched to analog which really doesn't make any sense.


I guess what I'm saying is you already played the good one... better just stick with it so as not to tarnish your memory of the series.

[Bootay]

Online play just doesn't do anything for me, you always end up playing against some 13y/o who does nothing but play that game and stomps you again and again.  Honestly, I can't stick to one game long enough to become good enough to hold my own on the interwebs.

If they had online play when I was 13, I would've been that kid. I used to inhale games in a weekend. My friends and I used to compare notes on Monday to see which games we annihilated (oddly we didn't compare scores  ). Come Friday, we would either rent the games our friends annihilated last weekend, borrow them, or find new ones to destroy and repeat the process all over again. At the time, I think the only game that withstood the abuse was R-Type. Took me a week of solid playing to even consider finishing the final stages.

Now.... I'm lucky enough to finish a game in about six months. A game like R-Type, I'd grow bored with and move to the next. At 13, we used to mock the kids who did that. At three times that age, it's a respectful decision. Seriously, I have 2+1 kids and a fiance that demands an inordinate amount of my time not to mention all the ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- details being adult entails. The only online games I play are with those who have the same amount of time to play as I do. Namely other adults with kids. 

BTW, check your PMs and ignore that question about the flash drive. I completely forgot there was a USB port there.

+1

I feel the same way. 2 kids+wife+job+business=absolutely no time for games. Especially current games that have 100s of hours of gameplay. I come from a time where you could beat a game in a day or a weekend. Now you literally need months. I don't have that kind of time. Don't get me wrong...I try and squeeze in time for games when I can, even if it means staying up till 3am on a weekday. But I have no time for online games or long epic rpgs anymore. And no game really holds my attention long enough for me to actually beat because by the time I have the time to get back to the game, I either don't remember what I was supposed to be doing, or I am just not into it anymore. That's why when I do have time I stick to the classics mainly...

[Dartful Dodger]

I wrote off the game off before watching the trailer.

It looks like it could be good.

Fighting on teams with kooky characters for leaders instead of fighting as kooky characters is actually a good twist to Twisted Metal.

I still won't be paying over 30 bucks for it, but I'll keep an eye out for it in the bargain bins.

[Bootay]

I would definitely play it...it looks like a game I can pick up and put down whenever I wanted without remembering want mission or quest I was supposed to be doing.