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This one is easy for me. Beavis and Butthead has too many instances of "guess what the dev wanted you to do" for it to keep me engaged.
Ren & Stimpy is a stellar 2-Player cooperative platformer.
^ Agreed. Ren & Stimpy is a decent platformer, worth a look and shouldn't be too expensive. I've only played Beavis & Butthead briefly, but I couldn't figure out what to do.
Ren & Stimply is a fun coop platformer, but ultimately a bit shallow.
Beavis & Butt-head however offers more thinking action although like mrpj stated it can be difficult to figure out what to do.
Difficult to say which is better, since they aren't really the same genre.
(R&S is more of a coop platformer, while B&B is more of an adventure brawler)
To those wanting to play the B&B game I suggest you first watch the first season of B&B, because that's pretty much what the entire game is based on on,
And it might make some puzzles easier to solve when you remember what they did in the cartoon.
Going by my own B&B filled post I'd have to say I'd choose the Beavis & Butt-head game.
I'd say one thing about B&B, it was fing hard. Common foes could kill you in a couple of secs and you really do need an FAQ (or loads of time) to play through the game. R&S is straight forward platformer, with some cool gimmicks (co-op? tag team moves? bizarre enivornments?), but ultimatly it's easy and tad bit too short. Can't deceide which is best, though I find R&S more easier to get into - B&B is still good, but it takes willpower to push on with it.
b&b is pretty fun but can be a little frustrating as to figuring out what to do with certain items, beat it a long time ago and got into the GWAR concert as well as got back stage. R&S is a great co-op game thats a little too short.
Interesting, I didn't know it correlated with the TV series. The Jackal has made some good points about Ren & Stimpy, it's pretty easy and there aren't that many levels. I'd still recommend that people give it a try though; as others have said, it's very much designed for co-operative play and that's what sets it apart from other platformers. It's still good in single-player mode though.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoVamp
I remember spending the entire night playing B&B with a buddy back in the 5th or 6th grade (94/95). We didn't sleep that night, but we finally got into the Gwar concert by dawn or so. That was before the Internet was actually usable for things like FAQs, so we had to use our combined resources to figure the game out. I agree that if you were a fan of the show, it may have been easier to figure out some parts of the game. The mouse burger and french flies comes to mind. B&B was unlike any game that I had ever played before at the time. I think it was pretty daring of the developers to make that type of game. It really plays like an early 90s PC game. It's cool that you have freedom to go around and figure out puzzles and such, but the way that they include the platforming elements feels clunky. It's hard enough trying to figure out what the heck you're supposed to do, but then some mall cop comes along and starts beating you with a baton. It was still a cool game for its time, very unlike anything else that was on the Genesis back then.
As far as Ren & Stimpy goes, I always felt it was a fairly generic platformer. It was fun, and I loved it at the time, being a fan of the show. But there isn't really anything that sets it apart from other, better platformers. It does have the tag-team aspect which adds a little to the gameplay in parts. So I guess SoJ stole their Knuckles Chaotix tag-team concept from BlueSky huh?
No, there's a leaked pre-Sonic 2/CD alpha gameplay study ("Sonic Crackers") that already featured the Knuckles Chaotix concept.Quote:
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ALthough I find both cartoons crude in their material, I always enjoyed watching Ren and Stimpy. I was watching a Youtube video about the gme just the other day and it mimics the cartoon to the tee. Not a bad a game at all.
Yeah it had a buncha moments that were clearly inspired by the tv show, like the fat man chasing B&B after they steal his scooter,Quote:
Originally Posted by mrpj
the part where the fat chick chases you in the outside cinema, the whole couch fishing joke, the part where they put the rat in the deep fryer and the guy throws up,
Hell I'm pretty sure the part where they blow up the school's toilet was in a B&B toon somewhere, as was the part where they saw down Anderson's tree.
Btw did you know that originally you were supposed to earn money by collecting bottles and delivering them to a recycling area?
It was in EGM/Gamepro at the time, they showed screenshots and stuff, I wonder if Mike Judge complained? :D
Heh, mention of these games remind me of fond times playing my Genesis as a kid, and I'll tell you neither of them really are special. B&B is hard as hell and is very confusing to find all the ticket stubs and whatnot, while Ren and Stimpy is just...meh.
Oh, like you guys don't know which game I like better..... :p
The queer thing about this question is that Ren and Stimpy is the kind of cartoon Beavis and Butthead would've dreamt up. Well, that or Boogerman. Those three together would make a wonderful package to give some friend's young child for his first Genesis.
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I'm going to have to bow towards B&B here. R&S has that 2P advantage but given the material I think it a bit of a waste.
Should've made a B&B on Sega CD: could've included their music video watching routines.
I'm voting Beavis and Butthead. They're both fun games, but with Ren & Stimpy if you played it at least once before you can beat the whole thing in under 20 minutes. It's just wayyyy too short. The SNES games were a little longer.
Agreed. With all the other Genesis games getting Sega CD ports it's a shame B&B didn't. It could've made great use of the CD medium by including the music video clips as you stated, more and better speech amongst other things. One can dream.....Quote:
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Another B&B hidden gem IMO:
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Yes it's for PC. Yes, it's golf, but for whatever reason I was hooked on this game BITD.