The Beach in Videogames

Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2 sprung to my mind... not too bad of a game either. So did the Ape Escape games.

 

Greendog sega genesis
Cool spot
ecco all ver
jaws xbox
most outruns
farcry
crysis
most crash bandicoots
splash down (hell most water racing games)
motorstorm pacific drift
Sonic adventure

 

Oh yes, Jak and Daxter! I absolutely love that game.

 

Makes me think about the awesome beach in the resort town of Summers featured in Earthbound. Loved the relaxing feel and music. Gotta get me one of those magic tarts.

 

Have you played it?

If not, you really should try to play through Halo:CE. Everything from the music, to flying over the ocean, hopping out of the drop ship with your squad mates, and charging up the beach against a ton of Covenant forces. It's just awesome. I would play that one level over and over again.

And then I'd go further down the beach and use a ton of grenades to jump the Warthog. haha

However, I can guarantee it won't have the same impact on you today as it did on me when I played it for the first time in 2002.

 

I played it back then and I have it now.

I'm just picking a fight I guess, I never found anything about Halo amazing, I was a huge PC FPS fan before it came along.

 

Yeah, I never played many PC FPS's growing up. I've been a Mac user my ENTIRE life. I had a demo of Unreal Tournament once. It was just one map against bots and I played it a TON.

So, after playing nothing but Goldeneye for years, Halo rocked my world.

 

Grenade jumping in that warthog and grabbing that overshield at the same time is the only thing that made that level so good! I cant remember how many times I would just reload checkpoint after every launch. But the fact that its kinda a beach level... I dunno, that never wowed me or anything, but it was good a time anyhow.

 

Among my friends who played a lot of PC FPS games, none of them could understand why Halo was such a big deal. Myself included, really. Clearly a decent enough title but the attention and adulation it received were disproportionate to its merits.

 

i was a PC FPS gamer before I played Halo and even then I thought it was great...

 

If you've never played Half Life, you should.

Which reminds me, there're a couple beach scenes in Half Life 2.

 

The beach levels in Halo3 and Reach were well done too, but the start of the silent cartographer was epic, first time in a FPS that I saw so many enemies at the same time.

It was like the beginning of saving private ryan, and that movie was released what, just 3 years before CE?

Yeah and very detailed, but kinda depressing because everything is polluted, since the fucking combine were extracting resources from earth.

 

Kings of the Beach

 

This! I love the first Streets of Rage games. Shame I never really enjoyed 2 or 3