I've never understood the redesign for Mr. Slam in Twisted Metal 3. How is he supposed to latch onto cars and slam them into the ground when they switched him to a skid loader?

GrindhouseCinema wrote on 05/16/09 at 06:12:36:



By the way, that was TM4 Slamm. He wasn't even in TM3

True. But that applies to pretty much anything related to Twisted Metal. At least in part two you can look at Mr. Slam and go "well that makes since"

The redesign was just ... stupid. It looks better suited to flip cars over than actually slam them repetitively into the ground.

like Scold, I played 4 for only a lil bit. honestly, I dont remember shit from it aside from Calypso being a playable character in a nuke-primed firetruck.. which is a fucking NO-NO!! Calypso is NOT a playable person, end of story.. altho the firetruck was a good idea for a car. I dont remember this Meter Maid person I saw mentioned at all..

the only good thing about 3 was the Rob Zombie soundtrack.. altho that got old after a while with the same few songs playing repeatedly. I did like the X-Mas remix of 'More Human Than Human'.. or at least I think it was 'More Human Than Human'.. I dont remember

I think a lot of the younger crowd that didn't really know better played a lot of TM3/4. I played TM3 for a while even though the physics were bad but I was 8 years old and a video game was a video game.

Now we're grown up and realize, "Ok, that's why those games didn't feel right" TM4 more so than TM3.

Both games had some good/great ideas but they just weren't implemented right. TMB even took some ideas from TM3/4. Hence, Auto Lob = Satellite.

I like your open-mindedness Arch, but I just cant see Calypso being someone that we can control. he's the main man behind the scenes, and it feels like it should always be that way. IIRC, wasnt Needles the big man in TM4 while Calypso was a contestant? even at a somewhat younger age, I could look at that and see the blatant "poser-ism" of throwing Sweet Tooth at the top of the shitpile, simply 'cause he's the marketable one. it just went to show that 989 was all about the cash and didnt give 2 shits about how the games turned out..

"guys, how can we make this Twisted Metal thing make money for us?"

"we can make that clown guy the main boss, since everyone seems to love him anyway."

"brilliant.. just drive and shoot.. fuck the rest. we'll make millions!!"

I will admit, I bought 3 the day Toys 'R Us got it and played the shit out of it.. I didnt like it nearly as much as 1 and 2, but I still played it 'cause I played the first 2 into the ground. when 4 came around, I rented it for a week.. never bought it or rented it again, so what lil memory I have of that game is from the first week it was released, but I did like the Firetruck and liked the kid's bedroom stage..

Kilrgrn wrote on 05/25/09 at 11:03:07:


15 million people also play the even shittier Runescape online.  Is your point that people like to play shitty games all about time spent and not skill?  If so, then you have a valid point.  Thanks for the correction

If I was afraid of climbing a steep learning curve I wouldn't spend 100 hours playing Warhawk either, I'd just boot up WoW or Runescape and grind myself over and over until I have better gear than everyone else.  You're absolutely right.

11 million people also have genital herpes.