There’s nothing more satisfying that being able to gradually break something up, with different graphical layers of damage, without having to think about opponents getting in the way, like annoying mosquitoes.
So, Lemmy, any recommendations besides the bonus levels on Street Fighter II and Final Fight? Edit: Preferably not FPS.
I mean, there’s always the classic Rampage:
Thanks for reminding me, I loved that game! Perfect recommendation, although the enemies do impede the satisfaction of getting on with it. Maybe there’s a cheat to get rid of them.
Hardspace: Shipbreaker has you tearing old spaceships apart for salvage. A lot of it is sorting your space recyclables, but towards the end of story mode
Spoiler
You get to absolutely trash a wreck, recovering 0 salvage value, to show management what for.
Thanks for the rec!
This is the one I thought of. It’s much more calming than the others but just great.
Blast Corps for N64. IIRC, the whole point of the game was to use different heavy equipment to destroy stuff.
Now we’re talking, thanks!
There’s an old game called Carmageddon where you could wreck people and other cars pretty well without interrupting.
Always enjoyed a good Death Race type game.
I always wanted a true updated Autoduel/Carwars arena combat game with distructble vehicles and locations.
Pretty much all of the Lego games are about destroying everything to get parts to build more things.
I only played the first Lego Batman, but I don’t remember it. Would that count?
Lego Worlds is the best for lego destruction.
Thanks.
Check out Teardown
I’m watching a review now, thanks. Looks like a good recommendation, although I’m not a huge fan of FPS. Edit: yeah, this is great but the learning curve is a bit much for me. I just want to smash :D
Can’t believe I’m shilling for Nintendo for the second time in like a month but this seems to be a type of fantasy Donkey Kong: Bananza could fulfill? That whole game’s selling point was fully destructible environments.
That does look good, thanks!
The term you would want to search for is ‘destructible environments.’
- Worms games
- Split Second
- Destroy All Humans
- Red Faction:Guerilla
- Just Cause 2 (so much destruction)
- Shipbreaker is a more relaxed demolition game
- The Street fighter still is reminding me of Bloody Roar where you could kick enemies through walls to fight in another area
- BeamNG.Drive
- Wreckfest
- Control
- 7 Days to Die
- Dysmantle
Thanks, I’m working through reviews on these :)
Not super much destructible environment, but enough to satisfy most chaos gremlins, can be found in Goat Simulator.
Not retro, but Instruments of Destruction is made by one of the Red Faction devs. Also check out Abriss.
Both are machine building games with a focus on destruction. Instruments of Destruction does have a ton of prebuilt vehicles though if building isn’t your thing. The he campaign is also pretty easy to plow through to unlock the prebuilts.
Both look good, but I appreciate the mention of the prebuilt vehicles because building isn’t my thing. Great comment, thanks.
Punch a tree in Minecraft?
Valid, just maybe not as detailed as I’d like due to the blockiness.
Rampage (1986) comes to mind, but (minor) enemies are present and I don’t think it applies damage in layers.
Yes, already commented by iknewitwhenisawit, but it’s a great example that I’d forgotten. I doesn’t have the damage in layers, but it does have gradual and incremental damage which is great.
already commented by iknewitwhenisawit
I don’t see any such comment. I guess federation could be lagging.
Ah, I get you. I didn’t think of that. Thanks for the suggestion.
It’s only a few years old, but Teardown is all about demolishing neighborhoods.
Love the humour after this one too
dude, you even had the steel pipe and couldn’t finish that off? 😉
I think I did, with time left on the clock!
oh oh, yeah! that’s the car owner, I remember. well done 😄
Thanks, I think it’s a work of art even if the owner doesn’t appreciate it yet 😄
Demolition Inc? Scratched that sort of itch for me a while back, still available on Steam
That looks like fun, thanks :)
