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Bit Blot => Games => Topic started by: Alec on February 01, 2007, 04:52:17 pm
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What was a game that had a profound effect on you? Maybe it was one of the first times you ever got hooked on a game, or maybe it even made you think about your life in a different way. Maybe you just had a really good time playing it! I'm curious what you find meaningful in the games you remember most fondly.
Final Fantasy 6
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For me, Final Fantasy 6 was the first game to totally blow me away.
The opening sequence (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCIeKJozz9c&eurl=).... Snow falling, the lone figures march towards a faint light in the distance. And the music. It drew me into the world, the characters and the emotion.
From then on I was invested in helping Terra through her journey. Intense and desperate bosses were fought, secrets were uncovered. The world broke, characters changed and grew up. The Party continued to expand.
I was battling Umaro at the Opera House. The only remaining member of my party was Locke, and he was down to no health. If he died, I'd have to replay the entire segment over again. I resigned myself, and hit "Fight". Out of nowhere, Locke fires some giant green beam and BLAM. Umaro is defeated. At the time, I thought it must have been scripted! I didn't realize that FF6 actually had limit breaks.
I also remember drawing out battle strategies for the tactical battle against Kefka during class, debating various points of the game with friends and day dreaming about what the airship interior would look like from one of the character's perspective.
The ending (http://youtube.com/watch?v=xld0vsX9ynM) sequence (http://youtube.com/watch?v=MMLuSt6RciU)features brilliant music by Uematsu that ties all the themes together and a scene for each character, shown how they've developed over the course of the game. It was bittersweet... one of the most satisfying game endings, but it also signaled the end of the game world. There would be no more adventures, no more mysteries to unravel. You can only play a game for the first time once.
And at the very end, the Prelude starts playing, as snow starts falling towards the screen... looping endlessly until you decide to turn off the console...
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When Zelda 3 came around, wow! That first sequence when you're wandering around in the rain, trying to follow Zelda's voice, was a pretty mind-blowing experience for me. The atmosphere was incredibly tense for me. Plus I was such a huge Zelda 1 fan... it was everything I could hope for in a sequel. I can't imagine that any game will ever have that kind of impact on me again.
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Phantasy Star II - Wonderful RPG for the Sega Genesis. Along with having great presentation, it also contained one of the saddest events in videogame history: the death of Nei to Neifirst. An impossible fight for a companion that was there with you from the beginning. *Sniff* :'(
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Street Fighter II - My friend's dad would make us say Buddhist mantras 1,000 for a single quarter to play this game, and we'd fucking do it just because we were so obsessed! Seriously, it was all we talked about for like 3 years. Until this game came along:
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Doom II, natch! I won't say much about this one. I was approaching my teens when this came out and, what can I say, I dug the great graphics and extreme violence.
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Castlevania: SOTN - Pure 2D bliss. The game that was like a ray of light breaking through the storm clouds for me.
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Ecco the Dolphin is my most loved gaming franchise. I loved all apects about it. The music. The gameplay. The story.
It was beautiful in it's own right. And up to this point there is no game that has duplicated it's uniqueness.
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Chrono trigger is a loved rpg for many. And the bad part about it is that SquareEnix dosn't know it. Chrono trigger was a definiement for rpgs for me. The first rpg I ever played.
I consider this bigger than final fantasy.
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Super Metroid & the metroid series before the 3d age. I didn't know anything about the metroid franchise before Super metroid came out. I'm glad the game quickly eduacated me on what I missed out on before SM. Sadly the series is dead to me now since going 3d. In my mind Nintendo lost what made super metroid & the metroid franchise what it was when the creator Gumpei Yokoi passed away.
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I played nothing but doom1&2 for 3 years so I can relate to that one. I miss having an attention span.
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I'll probably never have this much fun playing a game ever again. It oozed with character and it was really fun to explore. I wish I could start all over without knowing a thing about it.
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The double dragon formula married to rpg bean counting and exploration had me hooked.
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The levels felt insanely huge and it was fun running around digging for secrets instead of just rushing through the levels like in the original super mario.
I would drive that boot to work if it were possible.
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I didn't really care much for any other megman games but this one was really fun. Really cute art direction and freedom to explore at your own pace was great.
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That is a hilarious pic! ;D
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Hey guys and girl-e. I'm a kind of new around here. But man, this forum is growing. This seems like it's going to be fun. I thought I'd start by doing one for this area. This post just brought back a ton of mems.
But Dang it! You guys took my precious games! I loved you Zelda. Super Mario. You too Nobuo. And my sweet, sweet Flipper.
I'll just move on over to my Sega Genesis for now.
I've always been the type who would always devour VG mags and make sure that I only got the creamiest of the crop of games. That was my long/short term goal when i was a wee pup. I tried to stay away from the stinkies, but every now and then I ripped cartridges from my black box and poured lighter fluid on them, by accident.
Anyway. On to the Goods.
Gunstar Heroes.
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I should stop here but.....i can't.
Remember those games that you played in the summertime when school was out, and it was melting hot outside and you couldn't play b-ball? This was one of them. This is the first game that I ever played for an entire day switching back and forth between friends, and beating it. Seriously. I woke up, played, Capn' Crunched, played, Saminch, played, Din Din, played, played, played, played, beat, more breakfast, sleep. It was hard, fun, and extremely satisfying at the same time. I'll never forget it. EVER.
The flow of the game from level to level, even though it was a shooter, was a treasure that only TREASURE could dream up. ****sorry****
The story line was nutts. It had Giant dice rolling semi-mini games. But the boss battles.
:o
(http://www.sega.com/games/title/gunstar/ss/ss_gunstar_12.jpg)
(new gba vers is a pretty neat revamp)
Le sigh. Le purrrrrr.
The boss battles in this game were some of the most intense, and rewarding, battles that I had ever played. Never in my short life-span had I seen a boss that transformed 3 times, Optimususes Primeous style, before it freakin' died. And a giant running robotic dog. What in the schmoly holy. I was scarred for life. There is so much more about this game (graphics tricks wise) that was considered a top notch feat back THEN, but i'm gonna stop. Trust me when i tell you the screen shots do the game no justice.
So that's one for now b/c my stomach just said my name. If you guys don't have an emula.........uh, i mean, SEGA Genesis, uh yeah, get one now and do yourself a favor and play the heck out of this game! It might be a shooter, but it's FUN. And sometimes we all need to just have a little pointless fun.
I'll dig up some more later. (these froggies are neat)
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So, all mine are from a pretty standard library of NES/SNES/GENESIS, but these are the ones that really take ME back...
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1. CABAL: My favorite NES game ever. The silly heel-clicking dance when you've killed them all, the crazy rolling, the gut-renching CHUNK-CHUNK-CHUNK sound when you bite the big one. I LOVE THIS GAME
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2. FLASHBACK: Philip K. Dick meets Earthworm Jim-- sucha a moody, COOL platform game. The pace at which the story unfolds is unbeatable.
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3. SECRET OF MANA: This game made my love RPGs all over again. So MANY secrets... So MUCH mana!
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4. DUDE. DID YOU CHECK THE TOILETS. ON. THE. RIGHT?
5. Couldn't find a screenshot but, EMPIRE 1: World Builders, EMPIRE 2: Insterllar Sharks, were my main jams (on the Apple IIgs) for like 4 years straight. USE LASGUN. KICK DEAD. RUN CUSTOMS.
as for right now....
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6. Current Obsession #1[/img]
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2. FLASHBACK: Philip K. Dick meets Earthworm Jim-- sucha a moody, COOL platform game. The pace at which the story unfolds is unbeatable.
Damn, that was one hardass game! I could never get far in that, or the game that inspired it, Out of this World.
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Gunstar Heroes.
(http://www.racketboy.com/retro/gunstar-cover.jpg)
I should stop here but.....i can't.
Remember those games that you played in the summertime when school was out, and it was melting hot outside and you couldn't play b-ball? This was one of them. This is the first game that I ever played for an entire day switching back and forth between friends, and beating it. Seriously. I woke up, played, Capn' Crunched, played, Saminch, played, Din Din, played, played, played, played, beat, more breakfast, sleep. It was hard, fun, and extremely satisfying at the same time. I'll never forget it. EVER.
The flow of the game from level to level, even though it was a shooter, was a treasure that only TREASURE could dream up. ****sorry****
The story line was nutts. It had Giant dice rolling semi-mini games. But the boss battles.
This thread is giving me a warm fuzzy feeling about simpler times. I remember blowing through Gunstar Heroes in a single day with my brother because we rented it. My favorite level was the space shooter level with the optimus prime, crab, handgun boss.
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This thread is giving me a warm fuzzy feeling about simpler times. I remember blowing through Gunstar Heroes in a single day with my brother because we rented it. My favorite level was the space shooter level with the optimus prime, crab, handgun boss.
That level was Awesome. Stop, no more! the memories are too powerful!
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Hey you guys are good man. Derek, believe it or not I just played Another world/Out of this world 2 years ago. Amazing work by one person, too. Pure Genius!
This game was actually the first game I played that made me know that games most definitely are ART.
box snippet
(http://www.anotherworld.fr/anotherworld_uk/images/another_world/fond_accueil_4.jpg)
Streets of Rage 1
Remember this? Double Dragon on Steroids? And the soundtrack.....for part 1......whoa, my. I used to actually plug my radio into the machine and record the music from the game. What a dweeb! 8)
(http://www.juegomania.org/Streets+of+Rage+2+(Europa)/fotos/genesis/0/704_c/Caratula+Streets+of+Rage+2+(Europa).jpg)
Part one was still the best one. EVER.
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Bio-hazard Battle
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I should really stop posting, but this game is a must play.
This is one of those "full-package" side scrolling shooters on par with the R-Type series.
And once again this is one of those games that I was happy i bought. This is one of those rare games that had the superb sprite animation(lots of secondary sprite anim going on), excellent pacing, unbelievable bosses, scenery, and the soundtrack...... What you hear in the youTube video below is not even a taste of the entire games soundtrack. Each track some how fits your location in the world perfectly. Unlike the frenzied pace of Gunstar Heros, this one has more of a flow to it. Everything that happens in the game is seamlessly timed.
I think the story line could have been a little bit deeper, but hey what can you expect from a story about a bio-mechanical group of ships fighting on a planet infested with multi-winged-floating-things and mechanical swarms of giant wasps. But an overall great game(not a one day-r though)
And guess who's getting this one too. Wiiiiiiii! I need a Wii so, so bad.
Here's the YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT-Pn8H3wj4
and the screenshot
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I really like Rygar. ^-^
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Here's the full box art from Out of this World/Another World. Courtesy of 4cr (http://www.4colorrebellion.com/). O0
Speaking of box art, check out this box art from another one of my favorite games growing up:
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That is a TERRIBLE painting! But the game was amazing. I had a Genesis before I got a Super NES, so my introduction to the 16-bit era came in the form of Strider and Ghouls and Ghosts. And ALTERED STATES... I mean, ALTERED BEAST. And really odd games, like:
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Fighter Masters! This was a really strange fighting game, and I have to say, I really enjoyed it. It was recommended to me by a good friend of mine in elementary school. That guy was a pathological liar, and when he described this game to me, I totally thought he was pulling a fast one on me. It was absolutely ridiculous. You could have a robot fighting a guy with an elephant's head... or a crab man lifting some fat freak with 100 nipples into the air and then bodyslamming him. Mind you, this could be taking place on the damn MOON. :o
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I really like Rygar. ^-^
Did you ever get the chance to play the newer one on ps2? It looked pretty good, but I'm not sure.
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i forgot to mention:
SMASH TV! fuck yes, what an absolute delight. It was like a weird dystopian, philip k. dicki meets the running man nightmare. I LOVED YOU, SMASH TV
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WELCOME TO THE PLEASUREDOME
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This thread makes me happy like a maniac. I'm going to have to mostly just second things here since everybody's posted great stuff.
Secret of Mana was huge for me. The whole Seiken Densetsu series has been, in fact. One of the first games I ever truly loved and I still play the games from the series regularly. In fact, I'm going through Legend of Mana again right now on my PSP thanks to magically delicious evolutions in the community of late. Oddly enough, I'm also going through the Ecco games again. I have to agree with Krissy, those are still some of the most amazing games I've ever played. And HARD AS HELL. Man. Without an emulator I still get slaughtered regularly playing those. It's emotionally draining. But I've still never played anything else even remotely like them, and they're so much fun and so beautiful. Doom was huge for me too, of course, and Quake.
Here's one that I lived on:
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Descent, baby! Descent 2 I didn't get into quite as much, though I did play a pretty good bit of that online via Kali.
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Descent 3 had some great stuff in it too, especially MP. SP was a bit more of a mixed bag, but I still loved it.
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And can't forget the Panzer Dragoon series!
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(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/xbox/panzerdragoonorta/p_screen087.jpg)
I never got to play Saga. =( Been looking for a copy for years and years now, but I'll be damned if I can afford that kind of cash.
SYSTEM SHOCK! I can't believe nobody's mentioned this one!
And System Shock 2, of course.
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I can't wait for BioShock. Going out of my head waiting for that one.
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System Shock was the most delicious game that no one ever played ever! I shall look into this Bioshock.
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Man, lately I've only been able to play games in the last couple hours before bed so it excludes anything that tries to make you pee your pants. I haw system shock but I don't want to be all nerves when i lay down. ???
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Discworld/Discworld 2 were great and really funny. Excellent voice acting too.
I loved Sam and Max although it always made my computer crash.
I used to love Excitabike on my NES (mainly for the cool theme song) and Ducktails (also mainly for the cool songs).
Modern games, well I liked Final Fantasy 8 as it was the only FF game I could be bothered to complete. I liked playing Halo with my housemates as well. Other than that i don't get nearly enough time to play games. :(
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You know what I used to love?
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Rescue On Fractalus! For my dad's Atari 800XL :P
Definitely one of the most scary games ever for me. Also, I used to play Alternate Reality (also for 800XL, I believe) which actually gave me nightmares. You gotta remember, I was young ;P
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Modern games, well I liked Final Fantasy 8 as it was the only FF game I could be bothered to complete.
Great to see FF8 getting some love... :D
I've heard Discworld is entertaining, still haven't played that yet. :(
System Shock 2 was too scary for me. LoL. ;D
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I totally love(d) Little Big Adventure I & II. They rock! And I got them working under dosbox two weeks ago. :)
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How come no one has mentioned any of the monkey island's yet? Or might be that someone has, and i have missed it.
Guybrush Threepwood must be the most original character in gaming history.
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He totally is!
But...which one? ;)
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I would say the middle one is him :P The other two are just...err... backups?
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Definitely good somebody mentioned those. Those were great. Grim Fandango and Sam and Max also for the adventure front.
And how the bloody hell could I forget the Elder Scrolls games (http://www.elderscrolls.com)? I've wasted more hours of my life on those than any other gaming franchise in the history of the universe. It's absolutely insane. At least 1,000 hours between them all. Talk about bang for your buck.
Arena was the first. Not my favorite, but damn fun at the time.
Daggerfall destroyed my life for several months.
Morrowind ate me for breakfast. I spent probably 500+ hours with that game and, to be perfectly honest, there's still an absolute ton of crap that I haven't done. Like... beat either of the expansion packs.
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Oblivion is still currently consuming all my free time.
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(http://www.elderscrolls.com/images/art/ob_pc/obliv03B.jpg)
And I'm sure the Shivering Isles expansion for Oblivion will swallow my soul as well.
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Gaghhh, I thought that woodland shot in oblivion was a photograph! :o
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Yep, oblivion is pretty darn deceiving when you got everything maxed out. With a little modding, you can even have unlimited draw distance... which practically requires a super computer to run tho :D
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WoW is a current fave. I'm a fan of the Chrono series, Mortal Kombat 3 was a great one, Starcraft was fantastic (especially a lot of the DBZ mods found on Battle.net), and FFX, to name a few.
(If you're a WoW player, I'm on Uther, Horde. Brokehorn is the name, Tauren Warrior, Blacksmith/Miner. I'm only lvl 50, but I'm working on it. :P ^-^)
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When I get hooked on a single game, I get hooked on a WHOLE SERIES..
Here's one:
Castlevania: Symphony of the night had me liking Castlevania totally. I went and found other vampire filled medias and crossed their information to make a super vampire database in my head. This game was awesome, and I liked the curly haired Richter. Everyone mocks him for being girly.
Another game:
Megaman X5 was my first Megaman game ever. I became a Hardcore Megamanophile and went and cracked the code on the series chronologically. I even know where the misfit games fit in. Dude, it's awesome.
And yet another thing:
This is only recently, and I got Guilty Gear: Dust Strikers. Yes, I know it's a cheesy DS game but, it was still good, and this was the worst in the series? I GOT TO GET MORE. Too bad I don't have a ps2 *rattles mug*
The final SERIES I'm gonna go on is:
Metroid. I started with super Smash bros. I went and looked Samus up because she just kicked my ass every time I went against her when she was a CPU. I decided to check the pawn shop, and I found Metroid II: Return of Samus. I still maintain that game as the best in the series.
The last game I can remember at this second would be:
MISCHIEF MAKERS! This was awesome in a cartridge. Sure it looked like shit but it was fun, I got to say, nothing is more satisfying then taking your enemy, who might be about, say, 50 times larger than you and throw him at a WALL. That SHAKE SHAKE! Line is awesome. I have yet to beat it. If I beat it, Marina turns human and depending on the age I put in the beginning, I get different pictures and stuff.
Oh, and F-Zero GX was good too.
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Quick note: Mobygames doesn't allow hotlinking. ;)
Lovin' this thread, though.
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Legend of Zelda series
Baten Kaitos series
Tales of Series
Final Fantasy series
Sword of Mana series
Golden Sun series
Fire Emblem series
Time Crisis series
Super Mario Brothers series
Mario Kart series
Super Smash Brothers series
Golden Axe (the original)
Soul Calibur series
My list could go on, but I'll try to narrow down the whole game library for everyone to understand what I do and don't like:
-If it has sword play and/or magic I like it.
-If it's a racing game, I like it
-If it's a fighting game, I like it
-If it's an RPG, there's a good chance I like it
-If it's a first person shooter, I don't like it (Metroid and Time Crisis seem to be my only two exceptions)
-If it's online, I don't like it (just because I don't want to pay a monthly fee...of course, if it's free like the Wii then I'm fine).
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Quick note: Mobygames doesn't allow hotlinking. ;)
Lovin' this thread, though.
Blast!
And I think I didn't mention Metroid. Did somebody else mention it before my post? If not, I should kill myself from the shame of not mentioning it.
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Quick note: Mobygames doesn't allow hotlinking. ;)
Lovin' this thread, though.
Blast!
And I think I didn't mention Metroid. Did somebody else mention it before my post? If not, I should kill myself from the shame of not mentioning it.
There's always Imagevenue or something for that stuff.
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I recently rediscovered Silent storm. A WW2 TTBRPG (Tactical Turn Based RolePlaying Game).
The game simulates physics extraordinarily well. A bullet can pass through concrete, and still hit the target. You can destroy wooden structures, such as watch towers, with a well placed shot in a key structural point.
Every limb and the torso can be targeted, with varying effects on a succesful shot. A hit in the right hand can make your enemy drop his weapon, badly damaged legs will reduce AP (action points required to do everything), and scrapes in various parts of the head can cause blindness or deafness. Clear hits to the head are instant kills.
Even the buildings are fully destructible. A couple of TNT charges in the right position's and you can blast an Axis HQ to the ground.
(http://www.gamershell.com/screenshots/3972/61320_full.jpg)
Then there's the downside of the game. The panzerkleins, which are basically mech suits. While wearing one, the character is almost immune to every weapon, except a couple of rocket launchers and other panzerklein weaponry.
(http://www.rps.net/QS/SCREENSHOTS/S3/panzerklein.jpg)
You can grab a demo at http://www.mofunzone.com/download_games/silent_storm.shtml (http://www.mofunzone.com/download_games/silent_storm.shtml) if youre interested.
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Diablo 1 & 2
click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click
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I guess loved isn't an accurate word, I'm still playing. :o
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Diablo 1 & 2
click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click
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I guess loved isn't an accurate word, I'm still playing. :o
So, in a word it's more like the video game version of crack?
I found this one game recently, where's the goal is basically eat to get bigger, don't get eaten. S'called Fl0w.
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Flow is quite something. Hope somehow PC users get the extra work they've put in the PS3 version.
And yeah, the Diablo games are awesome. Played the living daylights out of the first one in various stages, then played a lot of MP with the second with my friends. Even sort of dated a girl I met on Battle.net. :o Damn. That's kind of weird.
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Golden Axe (the original)
Yes! That one totally rocked!
I'm missing Full Throttle in the list, the old Sam & Max. I liked Bodycount a lot (the old fps shooter). As for really old games that I've played for a long time, that would be Elite, Curse of Monkey Island, Duckhunt (yeah, I'm serious, I had a NES with lightgun :) ) , Little Big Adventure, Big Red Racing (awesome) and the Slipstream games (those fly-racing games with ultra cool looking aircraft :) ).
Oww I've forgot games likes The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour, pretty sweet too.
A game that was pretty awesome and very violent was Phantasmagoria 2 , a bit scary back then though, since I wasn't that old,
Cheers
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Golden Axe (the original)
Yes! That one totally rocked!
I'm missing Full Throttle in the list, the old Sam & Max. I liked Bodycount a lot (the old fps shooter). As for really old games that I've played for a long time, that would be Elite, Curse of Monkey Island, Duckhunt (yeah, I'm serious, I had a NES with lightgun :) ) , Little Big Adventure, Big Red Racing (awesome) and the Slipstream games (those fly-racing games with ultra cool looking aircraft :) ).
Oww I've forgot games likes The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour, pretty sweet too.
A game that was pretty awesome and very violent was Phantasmagoria 2 , a bit scary back then though, since I wasn't that old,
Cheers
Gotta love those point and clicks. Full Throttle was absolutely awesome :D
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Yeah, totally! If they ever make a Full Throttle 2 and not cancel it halfway, then damn I'd really really like to play it .. 8)
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1) Needs no explanation, other than "FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE!"
(http://www.mussmyhair.com/entries/Games/marathon.gif)
2) Tetris. Greatest game ever. Period.
(http://www.twingalaxies.com/images/generalinfo/articlePic_2005_2_2_706_Tetris_%5BNes_License%5D_Title.png)
3) Sonic the Hedgehog. One of the first games I ever played. I like the whole series, but Sonic the Hedgehog was, and still is, my favorite.
(http://www.re-retro.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/01/Sonic1_title.gif)
4) Star Ocean II. By far the best RPG that I have played. I have found that the battle system holds up a lot better than those in Squares games, and every time I play through, I learn something new.
(http://www.legendra.com/rpg/covers/play/star_ocean_ii.jpg)
Those are the four games that I played the most as a child. I also really enjoyed the Ecco series for the Genesis, and Ambrosia's earlier games, including the original Escape Velocity (can you tell that I have been a Mac person for a very long time?). More recently, I have had a lot of fun with the Metal Gear Solid series, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and several of the early Square RPGs (FF and Crono Trigger, specifically). I didn't have a Nintendo as a kid, so I didn't get to play those until I was in college, and learned about emulators.
In the last couple of years, I found Rez and Shadow of the Colossus. Both are works of art, but for different reasons. Rez is perhaps the only game that I have enjoyed that focuses on music. Most of the music based game seem to be about mashing buttons in time to the music, which doesn't really suit me. Rez, on the other hand, has visuals and gameplay that go with the music, but do not depend entirely upon it. Shadow of the Colossus, on the other hand, is just stunning. The visuals are amazing, and the sense of isolation and loneliness are incredibly well done.
Finally, Darwinia. That is perhaps my favorite game. You should all play it.
(http://www.darwinia.co.uk/screenshots/t_image5.jpg) (http://www.darwinia.co.uk/screenshots/image5.jpg)
xander
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Shadow of the Colossus should definitely be on the list, and on the same side of the coin, Ico. I hope if you played one you played the other.
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Shadow of the Colossus should definitely be on the list, and on the same side of the coin, Ico. I hope if you played one you played the other.
Ico is bloody amazing. I can't believe that I forgot to mention it.
xander
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(http://www.euskalnet.net/manzano/caretas/baldurs_gate.jpg)
I don't think this one has been mentioned before.
What a game, in every respect. At the time this came out, I was into Dungeons & Dragons, the game where you roleplay a character in a group with books and lots of stats...but it's all in your head(except for the books). Seeing Baldur's Gate for the first time was a jaw dropping experience for me, as for the first time I could actually see with my eyes what I had seen in my head all that time. When I first played the game, well, I had never played anything so immersive before, it was amazing I'm telling you! The music, the different outcomes to different actions...and then finding out how the game played by adopting another play style, like making an evil character, or a thief, or a wizard or all of those combined!
Never have I started up and played through a game so many times, and I think I have never enjoyed a game so much as this.
Other games I enjoyed thoroughly: Legend of Zelda: A link to the past and Link's awakening, Metroid Prime, Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat and Secret of Mana.
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As some of you propably know, stalker has been released after 5 years of development. It will be available in europe tomorrow.
NOTHING is going to stop me from buying a copy. I havent even played the game yet, but i still know, that it will be one of my favorite games of all time.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R has been worth the waiting as far as I can tell (only have been playing it for about 5 hours), graphics are most definately NOT outdated (don't trust the 'big' magazines, it's BS), no annoying bugs and a great gameplay and atmosphere!
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I'm so sick of hearing that things are "out of date" in the mainstream press. I mean, come on. Classic games are still great. I've been playing Castlevania: SotN, and just got to the inverted castle. That game has wonderful graphics. Looking good isn't just about whether you're using the latest tricks or not.
sigh
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I'm so sick of hearing that things are "out of date" in the mainstream press. I mean, come on. Classic games are still great. I've been playing Castlevania: SotN, and just got to the inverted castle. That game has wonderful graphics. Looking good isn't just about whether you're using the latest tricks or not.
sigh
I completely agree. Graphics are nice, and technology has come a long way, but, at the end of the day, if a pretty game has no depth (characters suck), challenge, a crappy story, etc., what's the point? Legend of Zelda OoT and Chrono Trigger are a couple of games that I always feel able to return to no matter what game has come out and what current gen systems can do. I should go hook up my Genesis now. Viva la old school.
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OoT is retro now? I remember anticipating its release for years... :'(
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Heh, I think the whole world does. Do you remember where you were on the day of its release? Cos I do. And I've never even owned an N64.
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OoT is retro now? I remember anticipating its release for years... :'(
Well, I might be jumping the gun, but it feels like ages since it's come out! Think about it. Pong was 1970s, NES was 1980s. That's one generation. In almost the same amount of time, we've gone through one extra generation. It might just be me. /shrug
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OoT is not retro, it only came out last year.
:P
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I won't bother talking about any of the well known games I like. Instead, I'll introduce you to this little SNES gem I just love, that not many people have heard of. I don't think it's been mentioned here. If it has, sorry. :P
E.V.O. - Search for Eden
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Evo_search_eden_box.jpg)(http://www.consoleclassix.com/info_img/EVO_Search_For_Eden_SNES_ScreenShot1.jpg)
This game, published by Enix in 1993, has got to be one of the finest action/RPGs hybrids I've come across. The story of the game is as follows: After creating the planets, the Sun chose Gaia to harbor life. One of the many life forms to appear on the planet should prove it's worth by, after millions of years of evolution, becoming the greatest life form on Earth. That creature would then be granted entrance to the Garden of Eden, together with Gaia. The player would take the role of one of Gaia's creatures, with the ultimate role being to reach Eden.
You start the game as a fish, and trough the game you would climb the evolutionary ladder by becoming an anfibian, a reptile, a bird, a mammal and ultimately being able to trasform into a human. By fighting other animals in a plataform-style world, you would recieve Evolution Points, wich you could spend in upgrading certain parts of your body, creating your own unique creature, that fitted your style of playing. You could make a fast, agile little mammal, or a big, slow and monstruosly strong dinossaur. You could also find crystals that transformed you into special, hideously strong creatures, as a dragon or an eel, for a small ammount of time. You could register any animal you became into a kind of journal, and then use special crystals to become any of them again temporarily.
(http://www.consoleclassix.com/info_img/EVO_Search_For_Eden_SNES_ScreenShot2.jpg)(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Exploring_An_Asteroid_In_EVO.jpg)
The music in this game was made by K?ichi Sugiyama of Dragon Quest fame. It included incredible songs, as well as some ordinary ones. The graphics are very nice, with elaborate backgrounds and many different sprites for all the creatures you could become. The enemies were equally well designed, fitting well with the rest of the game. The bosses were specially good. Although it had some slowdowns, the game would run just fine most of the time.
The replay value of the game is very high: because of the massive combinations of upgrades you could do, it's very hard to find two people that played the game with the exact same animals. You could play the game again with a completely different evolutional approach, making entirely different creatures and having the most diverse experiences possible. Playing the game another time is never quite the same.
(http://www.flyingomelette.com/reviews/snes/screens/evobront.gif)(http://www.flyingomelette.com/reviews/snes/screens/evohenge.gif)
The downside to the game was it's repetitive gameplay: to collect enough points to buy the most expensive evolutionary upgrades, you had to go trough many battles that were largely the same, as there wasn't many means of attacking. Other than that, the gameplay was sometimes very brutal, with bosses that did massive damage and moved incredibly quickly, annihilating the player's creature, even if it was very evolved. This frustrating aspect of the game made many gamers develop ways of exploring the evolution engine to continuosly refill their HP during said battles, making them more manageable.
In my opinion though, the good part of the game far surpasses the bad one. The joy of seeing your little digital avatar evolving from a little fish all the way to a giant shark-like animal, with giant teeth, a plated skin and a spiraled horn on it's head more then made up for the large quantity of fights necessary to do so. I recommend this game for any plataform/RPG lover with enough patience out there. For those who can withstand all the fighting, there's a great game behind it.
PS: Sorry for the long post. :P I usually get carried by what I'm writing and it gets huge. Also, I hope my english was good enough. If you see any errors please correct me. ;)
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My serious gaming really started with FF6/3 and Zelda 3 this was when I was like anywhere from 8-10 years old renting SNES games, man that was cool, but more currently I am absolutely in love with both ICO and Shadow of the Colossus, I've beat Shadow of the Colossus all the necessary times to get everything and I could totally beat it 4 or so more times
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Oh and I've beat EVO it rocked, definately one of my favorite games, and I forgot to mention FALLOUT, 1 and 2, not so much the console one cuz' it sucked ass, tactics rocked too.
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Def Jam Vendetta - Fight For NY gripped me like no other brawler before or since. The character creation and development is as deep and flexible as I've seen in a fighting game whilst still being totally intuitive and natural. The engine is solid, responsive, rewarding to patient players who learn the system and offhandedly cruel to button-mashers. And the fights themselves are so brutal that I'll believe somebody died recording the sound effects. I'd buy an XBox just to play this again.
Metroid Fusion fixes a lot of broken things from Super, mostly on the control front, and delivers a faster, slicker, more organic-feeling game than any other in the series. Lacks the immersive atmosphere and sprawling game world of Super, but it's much more tightly structured and plotted, and, for my money, delivers a more satisfying plot-advancement hit. I will always love Super Metroid, but it'd be criminal to overlook such a brilliantly crafted game.
Armoured Warriors is a sidescrolling arcade fighting game, similar to SoR, except you are piloting a twelve-storey mech. You battle other twelve-storey mechs, tearing off their arms, legs, and weapon systems, and bolting them onto your own chassis, stomping squishy hu-man soldiers into red mist and generally having a right old time. It's absolutely priceless. And my god, it's just beautiful to look at.
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Just "fought" The Sorrow in MGS3: Snake eater. Must have been THE most disturbing encounter in my gaming history.
He basically shows you everyone you have killed in the game as ghosts, and since i had done most of my kills by slitting throats, it was not a pretty sight.
And the screams did not help the situation either...
"Aaaah! My neck! My neck!" "Oh my god, I think my head is going to fall off!" "So much blood... is it coming from my neck?!?"
Overall, it was a pretty horrible experience.
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Hot damn...
Gotta play that game. :)
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Just "fought" The Sorrow in MGS3: Snake eater. Must have been THE most disturbing encounter in my gaming history.
He basically shows you everyone you have killed in the game as ghosts, and since i had done most of my kills by slitting throats, it was not a pretty sight.
And the screams did not help the situation either...
"Aaaah! My neck! My neck!" "Oh my god, I think my head is going to fall off!" "So much blood... is it coming from my neck?!?"
Overall, it was a pretty horrible experience.
Indeed. The Sorrow is a disturbing boss. And it took me forever to figure out the trick... stupid Metal Gear Solid games with their stupid meta-game tricks! Bah! (stupid controller switching...)
xander
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Hot damn...
Gotta play that game. :)
You should.
It's MGS at it's best with a good story and wacky bosses.
Not to mention the hilarious codec conversations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbuiG-R7nxM
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A discussion down the pub the other night reminded me of one of the only RTS games I've ever managed to really get into - Total Annihilation. Having spent years grappling with the likes of Z, the C&C series and so on, I remember what a breath of fresh air this game seemed like. No tedious resource harvesting - just plonk down your collectors and forget about them! Build- and order-queues! The D-Gun! And, lest we forget, the Core Contingency addon's introduction of the Krogoth - a hundred-foot universal weapons platform of a mech, capable of taking out entire armies all by its massive self and willing to take six nuclear missiles to the face before keeling over. The staggering array of carefully-balanced units, the gorgeous animation, and that soundtrack...I gotta find my install CD, I know it's around here somewhere.
(The other RTSs I've ever really liked are the Dungeon Keeper games. I miss Bullfrog terribly.)
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(The other RTSs I've ever really liked are the Dungeon Keeper games. I miss Bullfrog terribly.)
You are not alone. Populous and Dungeon keepr have a place in my heart.
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I cannot believe Molyneaux's new team managed to fuck up Black & White so thoroughly. He's meant to be good at this stuff!
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You mean B&W in general, or just the first or second one?
I find the original B&W rather enjoyable.
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I thought the first one was a great idea, but involved far too much micromanagement to actually allow you to spend much time training your creature...who was thick as pigshit anyway and would not stop setting fire to things once it learnt Lightning. The second one had improved creature AI but even more horrible micromanagement bullshit to deal with. I never bothered finishing it; I beat the first game in about two afternoons, once I'd worked out that all you need to do for Instant Win is have your monster collect crops while you focus on lobbing fireballs into enemy villages to get their populations down (conversion rapidly follows). I find both games completely intolerable now, which makes me sad, because I really wanted to love them.
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I thought the first one was a great idea, but involved far too much micromanagement to actually allow you to spend much time training your creature...who was thick as pigshit anyway and would not stop setting fire to things once it learnt Lightning. The second one had improved creature AI but even more horrible micromanagement bullshit to deal with. I never bothered finishing it; I beat the first game in about two afternoons, once I'd worked out that all you need to do for Instant Win is have your monster collect crops while you focus on lobbing fireballs into enemy villages to get their populations down (conversion rapidly follows). I find both games completely intolerable now, which makes me sad, because I really wanted to love them.
Sadly that seems to be the case. I got my creatures lightning rampage on hold, tho i had to beat him up pretty badly to achieve it.
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So I probably mentioned Castlevania: Symphony of the Night earlier, but I have been playing it quite a bit in the last couple of days. I had forgotten what a good game it is. \ o /
xander
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[heresy] Never played SotN. [/heresy]
I will get round to it someday...
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Chrome plated rodent, do you change your avatar every day?
If so, WHY?
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He just has a bunch of different avatars and a new one shows up every time you reload the page.
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Hmm, really? That's cool. I'd ask how, but i like my non-three-dimensional cube and would rather stick with it.
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Hmm, really? That's cool. I'd ask how, but i like my non-three-dimensional cube and would rather stick with it.
He has a php script that does it. In his avatar line, he has something like "http://shineygerbil.is.cool.com/prettypicture.gif". However, on his domain, he has set up .htaccess to redirect prettypicture.gif to a php script which randomly chooses an image out of a library of images on his server. There is a discussion of the method somewhere on the IV forums, but I am too lazy to dig it up at the moment.
xander
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Hmm, cool. I will be looking into that, if not for use anytime soon.
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After a rather untoward and shameful period of effing and blinding at DOSBox, I finally got to play me some C-Dogs for the first time in years today, and it's still brilliant. I'm a huge sucker for intuitive level editors.
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I found my both Escape from monkey island discs, and am going to play it as soon as it is installed. I will have a reunion with murray! <3
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There is a discussion of the method (http://forums.introversion.co.uk/introversion/viewtopic.php?p=417#417)somewhere on the IV forums, but I am too lazy to dig it up at the moment.
xander
Voila. Unfortunately if you've got free webspace with your ISP, most prevent you from editing .htaccess - or just ignore it when you do.
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Meanwhile, hi KingAl! o/
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Greetings, KingAl.
Yeah, the thing with .htaccess is a bitch. I can't do a thing with it where I am. Need to find a new host...
xander
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Well, it's starting to look like it would be easier to merge this forums with the IV ones :)
Hi, KingAl!
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Well, it's starting to look like it would be easier to merge this forums with the IV ones :)
Hi, KingAl!
I was just thinking how many IV transplants there are here. There are also a fair number of ASW transplants, however, so you will have to fight it out with them for control of the board. ;)
xander
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*Draws sword* Bring it on, IV goers!
:p
Having realized that i haven't posted in here yet, I'm obligated to mention Avernum. (www.avernum.com) Turn based Swords 'n Sorcery RPG. Old School (Read, pixly, but still cool) graphics, and amazing story. In the second one, anyway. Story goes downhill in the 3rd, and in 4 they switched engines, and thus no more old graphics. Which i think sucks, because i liked them. Oh well, though.
Also, Starcraft.
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I popped over because I though Aquaria was being released in June - but evidently not [Insert frowning Thwomp here]
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I popped over because I though Aquaria was being released in June - but evidently not [Insert frowning Thwomp here]
Bit-Blot and Chris have much in common -- I believe that they both enjoy the sound of deadlines whooshing by. ;)
xander
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I popped over because I though Aquaria was being released in June - but evidently not [Insert frowning Thwomp here]
Bit-Blot and Chris have much in common -- I believe that they both enjoy the sound of deadlines whooshing by. ;)
xander
That joke will be a lot funnier to us later on, xander! :'(
;)
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Yesterday, i bought Overlord. The game is an instant classic! I mean, how many games have you seen where you get to order some minions around to loot, pillage and kill, backed up with some black humor?
It's like pikmin gone bad >:D
And to top it off, you can look like this! (http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w209/Kyton88/Overlord2.jpg?t=1184081628)
(That text in the picture is the jester minion praising me, not something i wrote :D )
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I popped over because I though Aquaria was being released in June - but evidently not [Insert frowning Thwomp here]
Bit-Blot and Chris have much in common -- I believe that they both enjoy the sound of deadlines whooshing by. ;)
xander
That joke will be a lot funnier to us later on, xander! :'(
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Indeed. But it is meant as a compliment. I adore IV -- I think they do great work. I think that Aquaria is going to be great, so the passing of deadlines is only one of many similarities.
xander
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I recently got Overlord as well, and I have to agree. There's are some niggles, but mostly it's just plain fun. Ultimate game to cure a bad day at work.
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Yesterday, i bought Overlord. The game is an instant classic! I mean, how many games have you seen where you get to order some minions around to loot, pillage and kill, backed up with some black humor?
It's like pikmin gone bad >:D
And to top it off, you can look like this! (http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w209/Kyton88/Overlord2.jpg?t=1184081628)
(That text in the picture is the jester minion praising me, not something i wrote :D )
Ooh, awesome! I thought that one had potential and now you guys are really making me want to get it...
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Two games that are awesome are Target Earth for the Sega Genesis,
and Dangerous Dave 2. Well Dangerous Dave 1 kicks some serious ass too.
Dave1 is a very primal game experience for me. Some of Romero's serious passion and
curiosity seem to leak through when you play it. Things like climbing on trees
and the Jetpack are just ultra-cool.
(http://imgred.com/http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/dave.gif)
Original Dave
In Dangerous Dave 2 in the Haunted Mansion you play a wily hick, who pulls
up to a haunted mansion in a pickup truck and decides to go have some fun
with the zombies and ghouls within. Its got one of the coolest game mechanics
ever in that when you stop blasting zombies dave loads shells into his shotgun
automatically.
(http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/2074/dave2cbq2.jpg) (http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/959/dave2byv1.jpg)
You have to be careful though because its pretty easy to run out of ammo when
you are in a tight situation. you're usually screwed if this happens.
(http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/1245/dave2abo5.jpg) (http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/1092/dave2dui4.jpg)
The Dave games are challenging too. I've never gotten to the end of either.
Target Earth compared to some of the games that came out at the same time was
like seeing Metallica for the first time after thinking that there was only
lawrence welk. It was _intense_. It has a great plot. excellent classic-era pixel art, and the
gameplay is challenging. Oh and the music kicks ass too.
(http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/6164/targetearth5hr6.gif) (http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2412/targetearth2is3.gif)
(http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/174/targetearth1ld8.gif) (http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/146/targetearth4os8.gif)
(http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/8563/targetearth3vk5.gif) (http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/2323/targetearth6pt0.gif)
Its not quite as much a classic as a Castlevania or 2D Metroid game. Its too
short for one thing. But it stands up to the greats, IMO, in every other way.
and you do get to fly in space, which is friggen awesome!
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One game i think that went by largely unnoticed is Nox.
Westwood released this fun arcadey-rpg in 2000,and it somehow just didn't get much publicity.
(http://www.bluedragon.it/images/NOX/NOX1.JPG)
(http://www.bluedragon.it/images/NOX/NOX10.JPG)
sadly Westwood Online is no longer operational, so the thriving multiplayer community has to resort to using hamachi in order to play.
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I recently found a Mac version of Fallout. Sometimes being unemployed is awesome. Fallout is pretty goddamn good times, guys.
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Awww yeahhhh found me a copy of Fallout 2 as well! The probability of me shitting my pants with glee is rapidly approaching 1.
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Fallout's do indeed pwn. I always create a character with bloody mess and kamikaze.
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Bloody Mess is fun, but makes searching bodies a pain in the arse. Three days of messing around led me to rediscover my old Magic Numbers for rinsing through the first game with minimal hassle, if not necessarily at top speed:
Traits: Gifted
Tagged: Small Guns, Energy Weapons, Speech
Perks: Action Boy (2 ranks lets you fire the Turbo Plasma Rifle three times in one turn), Fast Learner (useful for counteracting the skill deficit inflicted by Gifted)
S 6-7 (S7 is enough to use any weapon in the game but isn't really necessary until it's time to play with the Turbo Plasma Rifle, by which time I've already got the Power Armour and thus boosted myself to S9; once the chip's been recovered, I usually get the Brotherhood op to get myself up to 10)
P 8
E 4-5 (there're more than enough Stimpaks in the game to make a high starting HP unnecessary)
C 4 (it's really not necessary to go any higher than this with this character, especially with Speech tagged)
I 9 (so so so important)
A 9 (a lot of people advise against odd-numbered Agility values because they don't improve your AP, but it's worth it for the AC until you can get the Brotherhood op)
L 6-7
This isn't the character I'd use for a speedrun, but as an all-round arsekicker it's a tough combo to top. Once you've availed yourself of some Hardened Power Armour and the Turbo Plasma Rifle, you're pretty much laughing - assuming you've been sensible about skill points. For me, that basically means not putting any into First Aid or Doctor (you can learn First Aid from books if you really want this worthless ability, but as I said, there's a veritable embarrassment of Stimpaks around), Thrown or Unarmed (thrown weapons in Fallout are useless, and you're better off using melee weapons than your fists - especially as you can get the Super Sledgehammer reasonably early), being conservative with Sneak and Lockpick (generally I can fight anything I can't sneak past with a skill of about 35%, which is only necessary to nick all the doctor's gear from his shelf in Shady Sands; I get by with a Lockpick skill in the mid-50s and dynamite any other troublesome doors) and ploughing the hell out of my tagged skills (Small Guns is usually about 110%+ when I get the Plasma Rifle; Energy Weapons tends to end up at about 120-130% by the end of the game).
I'm not terribly far into the sequel yet - which, unlike the first game, I didn't play to death years ago - but I'm getting the feeling that this setup isn't going to be quite as unstoppable as I'm used to,
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I think my latest character had:
Traits: Kamikaze, Jinxed
Tagged: Throwing, Traps, Outdoorsman
Perks: Quick pockets, Heave Ho!
S 6
P 8
E 6
C 4
I 6
A 7
L 5
My weapons of choice are any kind of explosives.
Kamikaze gives me the extra sequence needed to eliminate one foe before the combat even starts , and my other trait (bloody mess or Jinxed) is there just for the fun of it.
Tho i have to admit that having grenades explode in my backpack because of Jinxed is not fun, but i guess inflicting critical failures on your foes more than pays for that downside.
Quick pockets lets me grab more grenades from my backpack at a lowered cost, and heave ho! allows me to throw them farther.
The only thing that could stop me were enclave soldiers and brotherhood paladins, since their armors absorbed most of the explosion damage.
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You took Jinxed with Luck 5?! Are you a crazy person? Because that is the behaviour of a crazy person! No offence but that is about the most wretchedly inefficient use of SPECIAL I've seen on a game-beating character. Kamikaze? That only applies for the first round of combat, and what about your AC? Explosives?? Seriously? Lunacy!
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That's what everyone said :D
And i have to admit, Jinxed became a pain in the arse after awhile.
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I'll start by letting you guys know my latest favorite adventure game: Indigo Prophecy. Why? Well for starters, it ROCKS! And for the fact that it revolutionized the adventure genre and gave it new life. Can't wait for the creators next game, Heavy Rain. Has anyone here played their first game, Omikron: The Nomad Soul? I was wondering if that's any good.
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I'll start by letting you guys know my latest favorite adventure game: Indigo Prophecy. Why? Well for starters, it ROCKS! And for the fact that it revolutionized the adventure genre and gave it new life. Can't wait for the creators next game, Heavy Rain. Has anyone here played their first game, Omikron: The Nomad Soul? I was wondering if that's any good.
Omikron the Nomad Soul was really cool. The atmosphere, the soundtrack, the world (and back then it's graphics) and such are really cool. I loved it, I really hope they will make a sequel one day. It's a game I would put in a similar category as Outcast ... the -desperately needing a sequel- category. ;D
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Anyone ever try out the John DeFoe quadrilogy of games made with AGS engine? A good, short adventure romp that's free.
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Ahhh this thread is awesome...
My entries and I don't think some of them have been mentioned:
First up and for me prolly the greatest RPG I've had the good fortune to play:
Wizardry 7 : Crusaders of the Dark Savant
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Amazing!
Final Fantasy VI was the one game ALWAYS wanted to play but never had the chance too. The whole Mecha thing was just amazing to me.
Fallout is GREAT.
Morrowind and Oblivion are both great. (I prefer Morrowind becuase of a more diverse theme. I really just love both of the games huge open worlds, I hate instanced environments, and map cut scenes.)
Chrono Trigger was amazing.
Castlevania SOTN is still being played at home. I think it is probably one of the nicest and most polished 2d games I've ever played.
As for games getting old or dated.
A good game never dies. Just like a song.
You have marketing to blame for your brianwashing on the matter.
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Those rats are pretty funny! "Oom pah pah! We are the rat men, doing our rat dance in our rat pants. Lali hey!" ;D
But I have to admit, I've never really gotten into 3d dungeon crawlers! I think the closest I came was Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lands_of_Lore:_The_Throne_of_Chaos), which was pretty sweet! Featuring the voice of Jean-Luc Picard!
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Still never managed to finish it, though. The dungeons in those games always end up looking the same after a while.
Now I want to play it again and beat it. :'(
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:D I'm a bit late but... NO ONE MENTIONED CAVE STORY YET?!
Seriously, a free platformer that took 5 years to make by one Japanese guy and it is the best free indie game EVER (It tops Eternal Daughter sorry Derek, and that's saying something 'cos ED was great).
This game makes me want to cry just thinking about how I will never not-know the story now. You simply MUST try it, I can guarentee you'll be hooked.
http://www.miraigamer.net/cavestory/
The fan-made image that headers the above link (this picture only really shows the characters and the graphics style):
(http://www.miraigamer.net/cavestory/siteimages/cave.gif)
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That game is pretty cool. as in very cool. as in almost on par with zelda cool (but not quite).
Is it possible to get it in English?
edit: nm, found it
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I think Derek or Alec actually mentioned this game (Cave Story) in an interview by the GDC/IGF guys.
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There's a lot of goodies in here that I've loved as well... FFVI will always be right at the top of my list as best video game ever. I think. That game hit me like a ton of bricks in junior high, and even though I've just now gotten around to beating it like 10 years later, I have always and will always love the beauty that that game bleeds. Music, art, story, characters. Everything is fantastic.
And I know that a LOT of people will probably disagree on this one, but Soul Reaver II is in my list of top games as well.
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No storyline has ever blown me away as much as this game's. I love the whole Legacy of Kain Series, but this is my absolute favorite story section. The gameplay is mediocre, but I don't care.
Shadow of the Colossus was brilliant. As stated before, the sense of loneliness and purpose was so strong, and so well implemented. I love puzzle bosses, so a WHOLE GAME of puzzle bosses is that much better!
I'm surprised this hasn't showed up yet either, but I absolutely loved Okami!!
(http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u141/illithid235/okami-scrn0.jpg)
Now I just have to decide whether or not I'm going to pick it up for Wii... I imagine the system conversion will be oh so sweet.
I need to play Fallout, desperately. I need to play Ico, as well. Oh, if I could only freeze time.. there's so much art to consume in this world!!
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I love the Legacy of Kain series! Even when they aren't very good. (Blood Omen 2) Soul Reaver II had a lot of memorable moments in it, and the graphics were very nice.
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Well, nice to meet another fan. And yeah.. Blood Omen 2 sure were dark days.
And that's a series I was really sad to see fade into the night. But oh well, we had some good times.
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Defiance was pretty redeeming. I've played through Blood Omen 2 twice, and I enjoy the atmosphere in part. The major problems I have with it are the linearity (would have been cool if it was a bit more open... as it is its just one straight path to the end), the character models (fairly ugly) but mainly Kain didn't really get to act like Kain until the end. He was being lead around and told what to do for 90% which didn't feel right. In the original Blood Omen, the world felt more connected and Kain was just a total bad ass. :)
Blood Omen 2 is weird because it has a lot of things in common with a game that didn't make it out (http://thelostworlds.net/BO2/Chakan_and_Sirens.html). It was also made with a racing game engine, which might explain why the cut scenes aren't scripted as nicely as the other games.
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Well damn... that's certainly a fascinating bit of video game lore.
And.. based on a racing game engine? I'm only semi computer literate, and know nothing about programming, so I have no idea how the racing engine affects gameplay... to me it just sounds weird. Gameplay wasn't bad, though, I certainly enjoyed having puzzle bosses again. I guess the racing engine didn't do too much harm.
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I'm just confused as to why they didn't use the Soul Reaver engine. Maybe 'cause the racing game was cross-platform already or something.
Btw thelostworlds.net is a super awesome site! Lots of info about the original Soul Reaver ending and hidden unused content in the games. (there's like unused voice files on the original SR disc)
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Gahh!!! Seriously??? I love the voice acting! Michael Bell totally rocks my world! I need to look into that!
But I do remember, from before Soul Reaver came out, all the stuff they were planning on doing, Phase at Will, vampire worshipper boss, full set of elemental reavers, stuff like that.
I'm kinda glad they didn't end it there, though. The twist at the end of SRII just blows my mind.
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Yeah, that was the best part of SRII for me. And some of the 3D remakes of old Blood Omen areas. :)
Yeah, I love the voice acting from the Legacy of Kain series! Its a huge part of what makes them so great. All the voice session outtakes in SRII were great too. :)
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HAHA, oh yes. Good stuff.
"Seems like a lot of talking for a video game..."
"I come back after 20 minutes, and here's my granddaughter, WAY beyond where I was...I think they must have a chip implanted in their brains..."
Speaking of voice acting outtakes, did you guys get to keep any of the outtakes from Jenna's sessions? I'm sure they'd be fun.
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We have a couple things lying around, but mostly she only sent us the final stuff. :)
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Hmm, I think I'll mention a couple that are a bit lesser known. Both old SNES games. The first is a bit more widely known - it only saw an english release in the PAL territories though. Terranigma - the third game in the series consisting of Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia. It's one of the best looking SNES games and can be described as epic. You start off in an subterranean area and your first goals are to restore the continents to the surface world - Eurasia, the Americas, Africa, Australia, etc. Afterwards, you go to the surface and get to restore life - plants, birds, animals, eventually humans. You can even help develop civilization a bit - helping to foster trade and tourism between the cities, helping out in the invention of the camera and the hamburger, and the towns will grow larger. Sort of typical action-rpg fare - kill enemies. collect gold, gain levels. Plenty of secrets abound as well, and there's a few little twists in the plot as well. Easily one of the better games that the US never got to see. Screenshots await here: http://www.fantasyanime.com/legacy/terran_shots2.htm (http://www.fantasyanime.com/legacy/terran_shots2.htm)
Another, a bit lesser known is called Dragon View. The overworld is a first person viewpoint, with clouds of mist representing enemies, although the overworld is a bit clunky, it still works fairly well. Now, inside the towns and dungeons, and after an encounter with an enemy on the overworld, it's a side-scroller, with back and forward movement too, like a lot of beat-em-up games. You gain levels as you kill things, and find powerups to raise your max health and magic power. There's a number of secrets and side-areas on the overworld map to find, such as teleportation stars, hidden caverns with energy to power up your weapons or armor, or other useful treasures. The story is more-or-less standard fare, although I thought the text was written well. Graphics are quite nice. Here's a little video that shows the first couple minutes, though it doesn't show the world map. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vl0M1pEPAA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vl0M1pEPAA)
Over the years though, this game remains one of my favorites. It's just fun to play through. I remember renting it a few times, then bought it eventually when the store was selling off their older games for real cheap. It's too bad it never really became well-known. I miss games like these nowadays. The most recent games that I thought really captured that feel are Falcom's Ys games. Ark of Napishtim and especially Oath in Felghana are just amazing.
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Wow... I actually have played all of those SNES games that you mention. That makes me feel all special and esoteric. You've now made me want to pick up Terranigma again.
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That's ok, I made myself want to play both those games again. :P
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I started playing games at a very young age on an old macintosh performer, those games were: Shuffle Puck, Alien Invasion, and Oregon Trail.
These games were just little arcade type games but kept me pretty happy untill I met...
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SrarWars: Empire Strikes Back
Mr. GameBoy! Yes I had the old gray gameboy and one of my favorite games was an old SrarWars: Empire Strikes Back game, of coure mine was in Black and yellow (old game boy remeber?).
I stuck with the gameboy for a long time and then picked up:
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Mario vs. Donkey Kong
This was the first game I played that had fun, non-aracade, game play. I played this thing untill I was like 9 years old and started when I was maybe 4-5. I never actulay beat the game because it was soooo long but I got almost to the end before my gameboy was broken...
Though the two best games I ever played on my GameBoy was (with no surprise):
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Super Mario World 2: Six Golden Coins
Wow, how fun was this game? Secret levels, mini games, BOSS FIGHTS! How could they go wrong? This game showed me alot of what was needed for a good game.
Oh who could forget:
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Pokemon Red/Blue
Probally the most plot heavy game I woned at the time. Though the plot isn't exactly genius it did have alot of basic (good) design to it (one that gamefrak has used for years). Also picked up some tips from this game on what a game should be.
Now right about this time my GameBoy was broken... I was forced to play outside and watch T.V. However right around this time my dad bought a Macintosh G4 Tower! And at the same time bought:
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MYST
Hmm, what's there to say? This game had the best plot, graphics, and puzzles I had ever seen to that point. Good memories.
Bring me the blue pages!!!
Luckily a couple christmases later and I wind up with a Playstation 1! and with (for some reason) the first RPG I ever bought and the first game. I had no idea what it was at the time I bought it but it's defanitly one of the best games I have ever played:
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Final Fantasy VII
Ha, need I say more? This game had it all and most importantly, it was fun. This game taught me what everygame must have at all times, fun. Many RPG's these days (including FF12 which I'm currently playing) don't have fun all the way though or for the better part of the game. FF7 is probally my favorite RPG of all time.
After my dad had bought a newer computer he gave the old one to me (us, I have siblings :) ). Then that's when I stimbled apon another best all tiem game:
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Ferazel's Wand (screan shot taken from Jack's World, my level set ^-^)
Ooo, loads of memories with this one. Not only did this game have good replay value, was a great game too, but it came with an EDITOR! I first didn't use the editor but a couple years ago (unfortunatly the fan base is dead) I started to and with have half-way finished my level-set, "Jack's World". Though now with Aquaria coming out I don't know if I'll ever finish it!
Right around my birth (long ago) I got this game:
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Final Fantasy Tactics
Whoa! This is the most plot heavy game EVER! Most of the time I can only barely follow it. I only beat the game this year (it was in storage), good ending, great gameplay, very challenging. I love this game it was funny at times, serious at times, and mind boggling frustrating at times.
Oh yes my favorite Indie Game (for now :) ):
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Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari)
Sooo fun! Good weapons, good bosses, very good plot, and best replay value I've ever seen! This game will always be in my computer heart. :-*
This is where I looked back at all the games I've played and said to my self, "My favorite type must be 2D scrollers!". I think 2D scrollers are the best, you can do anything with them! Sure you can do anything with everything else but the simplicity of scrollers forces creators to be creative bringing about great results. Mario, Ferazel, Cave Story, and soon to be Aquaria, all creative in their own sense, all great.
These games I've mentioned have changed me as a person, thanks. :)
Most of these images were taken from wikipedia, a great website.
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Indeed, cave story is amazing. One of my favorite games would have to be an arcade game: Galaga. You can get it for mame. It's crazy fun.
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Nice to see other Soul Reaver fans. I've been a huge fan of the series but totally crapped out and never played Defiance, even though I have a copy laying around somewhere. I'd totally forgotten about it.
Also, for those interested, it seems that Cave Story has a PSP source port! I've got a homebrew capable PSP and have played it extensively, and it's really good stuff and only had a couple tiny bugs that didn't get in the way at all (plus it may have been updated... was a few months ago I downloaded it). I think I heard something about a DS port as well, which interests me now that I finally have a DS and an R4 flashcart.
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Tried not to read anything in the thread first, so as not to have other's choices floating through my head.
-- Dig Dug -- Pump it little man pump it! This game was great and I really don't know why, but I can remember it clearly. I'd stay inside for hours just pumping the monsters full of air and making them pop. Somtimes I'd torture them and pump em up, but not all the way, this way they'd be stuck there trying to blow the air out as I carried out my devious plans to bring the dirt down on them all.
-- Phantasy Star IV -- this is a tough system to choose one great game from but seriously, this is the best jay ar pee gee I have ever played to date. It's more expanisve than anything I've played before or after, and the tale told still holds up well today (I just finished playing it again, though I may be a bit biased in that assesment).
-- Super Metroid -- without question, the best action/adventure/platformer in the world.
-- Symphony of the Night -- the 2nd best action/adventure/platformer but with rpg elements so I guess it's the best action/adventure/platformer/rpg in the world :p
-- Ridge Racer Type 4 -- this game had an insane amount of cars, cool designs that you'd never see on the road and concept car creators probably picked for the game. Great GREAT sound track. My favorite car racing game ever
-- Wipeout XL -- my favorite future craft racing game ever, another great soundtrack, but cleverly designed tracks and a nice challenging AI make it worthwhile unlike the rest of hte Wipeout series.
-- Ico / Shadow of the Colossus -- The visual style of these two games is so surprisingly good it could be called art, especially so for Ico with it's often times amazing camera angles and arenas. The games are equally as artistic in their design, very little spoken about the world and characters, everything I learned I had learned through intuition. Carefully guided intuition of course, crafted masterfully by the designers. Both are a one of a kind experience independent of oen another, and together they show just how much talent Team Ico has.
-- F-Zero GX -- Sega and Nintendo making a racing game together was bound to be amazing. The speed on this one still blows me away, and everything is so smooth, it may not be the fastest ever hovercraft racing game (I can think of a couple more that are insanely fast) but none can match the liquid smooth animation of this in motion.
Now for some PC games...
-- Stonekeep -- a real dungeon romp, but in real-time. Not many games are dungeon delvers and real-time. The story was fantastic too for taking place in one extensive underground labyrinth with mostly repeating tiles. It moved kind of like turnbased games do, up back, turn left or right, but attacking was realtime and enemies could move whether you were or not. A wonderful wonderful RPG with a very intuitive leveling system that was probably before it's time.
-- Terra Nova -- a great science fiction game, similar to Mech Warrior, but more along the lines of the power armor defined in Starship Troopers. Loved it. Great weapons and thrilling battles. One of the many reasons I am sad that Looking Glass no longer is around.
-- Fallout / Fallout 2-- Love em both equally, probably my first 'mature' videogames. Such a wonderful combat system, equally a wonderful dialog system, this game actually had choices that impacted the world...few RPG's today can say the same. I'm scared that Bethesda won't be able to pull off the magic that made these two so great with Fallout 3.
-- Planescape: Torment -- one of the most diverse and creative PC RPG's I've had the joy of playing. Such a brilliantly crafted story, and characters were equally as interesting as they were varied. Really would like to play an updated version or a sequel, but will probably never happen
-- Descent / Freespace series -- both have little in common besides some famiiar faces in the developers/publishers booth, but both are undisputited. There hasn't been a great space sim shooter since this game came out, and even before it, the best were X-Wing/TIE fighter. Freespace smoked em, and Descent brought true 3D movement like no other game before and after it. I still remember the LAN gaming sessions in my high-schools AutoCAD lab. yeah I was and still am a geek, shoulda been out chasing girls, but instead playing games with the rest of the geeks :( :p.
If I go into handhelds I'll take even more space so I'll leave this at that. Of course there are many other games I loved throughout the years, but I tried to limit myself to just one or two per generation in the consoles and only a handful of my most respected titles for PC games. I can't really say anything too recent as I haven't had enough time to really digest their experience and know if I really will be playing them years and years later. (yeah I still play each and every one of these games; if they're not installed right now the disc is right next to my computer/entertainment system to do so at any time).
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The original Grand Theft Auto definitely has a special place in my heart haha. Star Wars: Dark Forces is also a classic for me. I couldn't list all the games I've loved, gaming is my life. :)
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Nice to see other Soul Reaver fans. I've been a huge fan of the series but totally crapped out and never played Defiance, even though I have a copy laying around somewhere. I'd totally forgotten about it.
Yeah, it's an excellent series! Defiance is worth playing through! It has some of the best level design I've ever encountered in games up to now. Together with Prince of Persia Sands of Time (and more or less the two sequels too) definitely worth playing.
I liked Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain too, by the way, although it's not as good as Defiance or Soul Reaver II for sure.
I forgot to add Interstate '82 to my list of all-time favorite games... dang, how could I forget about that one.
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The games I loved most were
- Zanzarah
- Commander Keen
- Indy Jones and the fate of Atlantis
- Monkey Island I
for different reasons.
Zanzarah had the most immersive effect to me; it 's one of the few unique games that I totally loved - that made be feel - be - in this world.
You can still find information on it on www.zanzarah.de , although it might have become difficult to get this game at all. Nowadays.
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I still have Zanzarah but I cant get it to run on modern OS :(
Hi Alrik, long time no see ;)
Irony, I used cat as my avatar on the Larian forums, I use a Fish here.
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I'm a big fan of RPG's and strategy games as they give me the most bang for my buck:
Baldurs Gate 2
Planescape Torment
Fallout 2
Ultima 7 parts 1 and 2
Ultima Underworld 2
Arx Fatalis
The Quest For Glory series
The Monkey Island series
Day of the Tentacle
The Dig
Robin Hood: Conquests of the Longbow
Indigo Prophecy (aka Farenheit)
The Longest Journey
Dreamfall
System Shock 1 and 2
Deus Ex 1 and 2
Master of Magic
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic
Galactic Civilization II
Civilization IV
Elder Scrolls Oblivion
Elder Scrolls adventures: Redguard
Nethack
Space Rangers 2
Star Control 2
Final Fantasy 6,7,9 and 12
(12 ditching the endless random battles is the best thing to happen to FF since the move to 3D in 7)
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
Terranigma
Dark Cloud 2
Silent Storm
Jagged Alliance 2
Might and Magic (Xeen, can't remember what number that was)
Ummm, that's all for now ;)
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Hmm, a lotta games mentioned here I myself have loved to death, but I can't shake the feeling that I grew up in an alternate universe than most people here, lol. ^_^;;
I've played and loved Castlevania: SotN, but didn't play it until this summer. I dig Metroid, but the first ones I ever played were Fusion and Prime. Anyway, here's some games that haven't been mentioned that made my list.
Okage and Earthbound:
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Ok, seriously guys... How many pages and nobody's mentioned Earthbound at least once? (I'm used to no one knowing Okage, but... C'mon!) Earthbound, if you didn't know, is a little off-beat RPG about a mute boy named Ness on a quest to collect random bits of music around the world to stop an ancient evil alien thing (and a really annoying fatass bully named Pokey) from acting like jerks and releasing untold evil horrors and stuff upon the Earth. Okage on the other hand, is about a quiet shy boy named Ari who's shadow is possesed by the great evil king Stan. Stan, possesing Ari's shadow, decides that Ari is to be his slave and embarks on a quest to destroy several evil kings and take over the world.
Both games are off-beat RPGs, but even moreso, they're RPGs that don't take place in sci-fi anime land -or- fantasy anime land -or- Lord of the Rings rip-off fantasy land -or- star wars rip-off land. Now, that isn't to say I don't like RPGs that are set in fantasy or sci-fi worlds; in fact, NWN, KoToR, Fallout 2, the Tales Series, and Chrono Trigger are among my favorites, Chrono Trigger being the first RPG I ever played. But with Earthbound and Okage the creators said, "Y'know what, let's make an RPG that takes place in a contemporary fantasy setting." How many RPGs actually do that? (The Persona series and Shadow Hearts 3 do, but those just aren't as charming and fun in my mind.)
To me, these games are the only RPGs that were truly unique and didn't feel like something I've seen before. It takes guts to do something different in the gaming industry. Specifically when it comes to RPGs, of whom usually do nothing more than come up with hopelessly complex and pointless battle systems with long and boring special attacks.
Kudos also goes to Skies of Arcadia and Jade Empire for deciding not to do another LotR/Final Fantasy/Star Trek style game.
That said, if you value charming characters, witty dialogue, unique art styles, funky but damn catchy music, and just about everything you could ask from an RPG aside from extremely old-school style combat and vanilla dungeons then go out and play Earthbound or Okage. If you like all of that but want an interesting combat system then pick up Mother 3.
Megaman 2
(http://www.broeswillems.nl/php/images/NES-MegaMan-2.JPG)
I don't think Megaman 2 has been included on this list either... Bizzare! The first game that really got me into "games." Before then it was nothing but edutainment games on my Dad's Apple IIe. You played a robot dude with a robot laser arm shooting other robot dudes because... Well, because Dr. Light says so and Dr. Wily is a squirrely b**** with a floating castle made of blood... Robot blood... I guess... Somehow it hurts you. Also robot bubbles are strong against him...
Don't ask...
Gameboy Camera
(http://drx.a-blast.org/~drx/projects/gameboy/howto/gbcamguide/take.gif)
Nobody ever talks about the Gameboy camera anymore, when it was so fun, so innovative, and the first signs that Nintendo probably has their employees snort a line of coke during lunch breaks. If you've never had the opportunity to just play around with one for an afternoon, then you've missed out on one of the most fun and unique gaming experiences ever to be created.
Guitar Hero
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/guitar_hero.jpg)
I'm a huge fan of rythm games, and I happen to own or have played all of them (yes, that include Bust-a-Groove and that DS guitar game you play with the stylus.) Guitar Hero happens to be the only game in my life I continually return to. And not just the updated games that come out every year, but the old ones (I only own GH1 and 2, and I still play both 8 times a week at least.) It's like DDR, but you don't look like a schizophrenic with parkinson's disease. It has catchy songs that everyone knows, and it has that simple air-guitar feeling of melting faces... That and it can get you chicks.
Seriously, I've impressed at least three women from playing Guitar Hero alone...
... Although, that can be taken as a negative comment about the people I hang out with...
So, I guess if you want to attract really easy women impressed by your skill at wailing on a Fischer-Price style plastic guitar, then play Guitar Hero until your knuckles bleed.
Lunar Silver Star Story
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The one and only game to make me cry... That's all.
Psychonauts
(http://www.yahooka.com/forum/attachments/multimedia-technology/26963d1141606953-psychonauts-psychonauts.jpg)
If you've played it, let's just stare each other in the eye and nod in a shared, secret occult brotherhood style understanding. If you haven't go buy it already before the rest of us in the Tim Schafer cult steal you away late at night and do terrible things to you in an abandoned church basement!!
While you're at it pick up Grim Fandango too.
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How could I forget the KotOR games, best thing to happen in Star Wars themed games in years (Well, leggo star wars is pretty cool too)
Psychonauts was brilliant.
I've seen Okage around but didn't really know anything about it. I might pick it up.
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How could I forget the KotOR games, best thing to happen in Star Wars themed games in years (Well, leggo star wars is pretty cool too)
Psychonauts was brilliant.
I've seen Okage around but didn't really know anything about it. I might pick it up.
Be warned, the dungeons and combat system are EXTREMELY bland for an RPG. The spells, animations and music in combat is top notch, but for some reason the rest of combat is Final Fantasy 1 era stuff. Also all the dungeons use exactly the same graphics except for the final dungeon.
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Earthbound! Seriously, one of my favorite games ever. It's such a classic game, marred by an idiotic marketing campaign. ('This game stinks!' was the tagline.) I'm still pissed at Nintendo for not bringing over Mother 3 (Note for the uninformed - Earthbound is known as Mother 2 in Japan). Currently waiting for the fan-translation patch, follow the progress at http://mother3.fobby.net (http://mother3.fobby.net) The translator, besides being a total Earthbound maniac (along with the rest of the fellows at Starmen.net) is also a professional translator - he does it for a living (various anime and such), so you know it is in good hands. If you've ever played Bahamut Lagoon, he did the translation for that as well.
Okage - I own and beat the game. Has a good style and a decent story, very Tim Burton-esque graphics. Overall, I just found it a bit boring. I didn't feel there was much incentive to exploring either. Still, it wasn't bad, and I got it cheap. It was a fun diversion. Earthbound is the better of the two in my opinion though.
Lunar. Ahh, I love Lunar. Many people complain, because they felt Working Designs took too many liberties with the translation. (i.e. some of the pop-culture jokes given to random NPCs, who probably said the same thing as another NPC in town) Some think the voice acting is cheesy, but I like it. I really like the 'Boat Song' (aka Wind's Nocturne). Such a shame that Working Designs went out of business. =/ Have you played Lunar 2 at all? Even though it is 1000 years after the first game, I thought it was just as good and it still manages to have a couple returning characters (nope, not gonna spoil it.)
Mandrake42 - for Might and Magic - Xeen was the combination of the fourth and fifth games. The fourth was Clouds of Xeen, I believe, and the fifth was Darkside of Xeen, and combined they made World of Xeen, where you could travel (mostly) freely between the two games, with some extra content available if you had both. I was sorely disappointed with the Might and Magic games I've played past V. I just didn't like them nearly as much.
Hmm, I remembered a few other games that should be in here. For newer stuff, there's the Ys games. Out of the recent offerings, for PC, Ys: Oath in Felghana (a remake of Ys III, formerly on SNES if you remember that) is probably the best, although it is currently available only in japanese, there is an english patch in the works. (and a leaked beta version, but I shall not help with that) The remake successfully turned the game that was most peoples least favorite in the series and turned it into most peoples favorite. It's classic gaming at its best. Definitely a lot like an old-school action RPG, it's a fast paced hack'n'slash with a pretty good story and some great bosses. Oh, and the music is awesome. A lot of which are pretty challenging, especially on the higher difficulty settings, where besides getting stronger, they get a few new tricks up their sleeves too. I'm currently playing through it again on the 'Nightmare' difficulty, and phew, it's rough. And I thought Hard was tough. It's great that a semi-big name developer (Nihon Falcom) is still making great games like this, even if they don't see an english release. Also to look into for the recent offerings - Ys VI: Ark of Napishtim is available on the PS2 and PSP (ports courtesy of Konami (even if they did replace the sprites with polygons on the PS2 version.) And they added a *little* bit of new content and voice acting. Ys VI is what really got me back into the Ys games, although it isn't as good as the other two, which are PC only and japanese only. The most recent game is Ys Origin, which I believe takes place 700 years prior to the rest of the series and has three playable characters. The language barrier isn't a big deal with the games, it's mostly action and there's very few spots you could get stuck not knowing what to do. Easily resolved as there are guides for both games. Oh, also if playing japanese versions, you need to change windows region settings to japanese, or use AppLocale. Here's a trailer video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u_A6Ffpg-8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u_A6Ffpg-8) And that'll be all for my rambling about that.
There's an OLD pc game, I really enjoyed. An indie game, still being sold today, but I believe the game is uncrippled anyway. First exposure was one of those old CDs loaded with tons of DOS games. Much better than those discs sold today with lots of crap on them. It was called Excelsior (full title, Excelsior - Phase One: Lysandia) Very old-school style RPG, you create a character, pick stats and alignment, then you can pick a class (options based on what stats you have). It's definitely not for everyone, as the graphics are rather primative, but it was still fun, IMO. A few years back, the creator released a windows version of the game, still shareware. Also fixes a few bugs and adds a map (though IIRC, it's not entirely accurate, I believe two of the towns are swapped). There's some pretty tricky puzzles in the dungeons, I remember that for sure. Give it a shot, it's actually pretty decent. There used to be a fan site up and about for the game, and I used to chat with the owner of the site a lot and was a mod on her forums even (slow as they were.) It went down though, and as far as I know, it never went back up. And holy crap, I actually found a video for the game on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x69_TvbyMdk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x69_TvbyMdk) It doesn't quite do it justice, sound is nonexistant for part of the video, and the rest of it, the sound is a bit messed up I believe. No music in the game though. Official site for the game and download here: http://www.nwlink.com/~dberke/ex1.htm (http://www.nwlink.com/~dberke/ex1.htm) They even made a sequel, better graphics, but in my opinion, it wasn't as good as the original. The second one I believe imposes a level-limit which registering disables. It's still possible to beat though, if you are *really* good and abuse the hell out of invisibility potions. Oh, there's no manual included with the first game, iirc, but there was with the original DOS game. If you are interested in the game, I recommend you track the DOS version down for the manual, it explains the races and spells and stuff. Hmm, it seems to run really badly on this computer - it crashes if I try to go fullscreen, and it animates absurdly fast. It might be better to play the DOS version with Dosbox. Just gotta watch for a situation that makes it impossible to complete - namely, do NOT do a certain thing with the rock and balloon until you know what you are doing with it.
Meh, that's all I can think of to say now, so I'm done.
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One Must Fall 2097.
An amazingly addictive fighting game for the PC and one of the very last and only really good fighting games exclusive to the PC.
Robots beating the crap out of each other are awesome.
Plok.
One of the toughest and quirkiest platformers I've ever played. The music is unbelievable.
Impossible Creatures.
Real Time Strategy is always more fun when you are able to customize your army. Your units are 'creatures' that you create by combining two different animals into a new being, choosing between certain body parts and abilities attached to them.
With Impossible Creatures, that feature is really the core of the game.
A absolutely hilarious setting, a great B-Movie plot about an evil capitalist trying to take over the world and provoking a war, great sense of style, countless possibilities for unit creation, and its just plain fun to experiment with different abilities and perfercting your army (especially against a human opponent.)
The game also features tongue-in-cheek voice acting, a great sense of humour and an absolutely appropriate soundtrack comprised of jazz, swing and more.
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OMF! Never thought I'd run into another fan of that in a hundred years. I used to play the living crap out of that back in the day, but I never did try the 3D remake that came out a while ago. Did you, Battlerager?
Also, Psychonauts is one of my favorite games of all time. I really have to reinstall that. It's been a while since I've played it.
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OMF! Never thought I'd run into another fan of that in a hundred years. I used to play the living crap out of that back in the day, but I never did try the 3D remake that came out a while ago. Did you, Battlerager?
Also, Psychonauts is one of my favorite games of all time. I really have to reinstall that. It's been a while since I've played it.
YES! I played that one. Its okay, kinda so-so. Quite unique though as it tries to be a fighting game with a 3rd person camera view...
I even recorded the main theme once. That song is so kickass. The whole soundtrack basically rules.
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@ Zaratus: The World of Xeen game was the last M & M game that really gripped me, I played the later ones but at the time they were released there were just so many better RPG's out there that Id been kind of spoiled. Besides they kinda lost their whacky humour and silly, almost cute, monsters.
The Heroes of Might and Magic games were good though.
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Yeah, M&M 6+ just didnt' have the same feel. Especially when they went and moved to 360 degree movement. It just lost something after that... I played through VI, but was getting rather bored with it. Never bothered getting very far in VII, never tried the rest. I remember there's a fan-made Might and Magic game made with the Xeen engine - New World Computing granted them the use of the engine to make it. It was called Swords of Xeen, it would never run on my computer for some reason, even though the other games did. I ought to try it on Dosbox sometime.
Heroes of Might and Magic - I remember playing the demo of the second game quite a lot, had a lot of fun with it. So, I ended up buying the fourth game when it was coming out. And it ended up being rather disappointing - it just seemed... slower and not as fun. I dunno.
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Oh man, its a shame you bought IV, it was the true low point of the series. Number one set up the basic premise, 2 improved upon it, 3 was the peak of the series with the best unit selection and strategic options..................IV basically tried a bunch od new things, most of which didn't work.
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Yeah... I was thinking about looking around for it, I remember seeing quite a few years back, a collection that combined the first three Heroes of Might and Magic games into one package. And I think one expansion. Though that might be a little TOO much gaming goodness right there, considering I'd probably never manage to get through all three.
I'm pretty sure I spend more time on that demo of HoMM2 than I did some full games.
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YES! I played that one. Its okay, kinda so-so. Quite unique though as it tries to be a fighting game with a 3rd person camera view...
I even recorded the main theme once. That song is so kickass. The whole soundtrack basically rules.
I really have to A - find a copy of the original, and B - find the new one just to try it.
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YES! I played that one. Its okay, kinda so-so. Quite unique though as it tries to be a fighting game with a 3rd person camera view...
I even recorded the main theme once. That song is so kickass. The whole soundtrack basically rules.
I really have to A - find a copy of the original, and B - find the new one just to try it.
Also, get the new one in order to hear an updated version of the main theme ;)
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The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay was freakin' amazing. Amazing voice acting and dialogue, a plot and game challenges that keep you guessing, great graphics, the whole thing just sucks you in. I replayed it three times.
(http://www2.fileplanet.com/images/150000/151513ss_sm2.jpg)
Worms Armageddon! WOOOO! I've never had so much fun, or laughed so hard, as playing this game on hotseat with friends.
(http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/5/145855/wormsarm_screen002.jpg)
Dr. Mario tournaments with same friends were also intense.
(http://img.gamespot.com/gamespot/images/2004/reviews/920380_20041102_embed003.jpg)
Homeworld 1 and 2. These games had me on edge the entire time, the game was so dramatic, moody and epic you always felt like you were just on the brink of complete destruction.
(http://www.macupdate.com/images/screens/homeworld2.gif)
Dune II got me (and the rest of the world) started on RTS games.
(http://www.allegro.cc/depot/screenshots/2691_large.jpg)
X-Com: Ufo Defense.
(http://www.fragtopia.com/articles/ufo-am/xcom-screenie.gif)
Jagged Alliance 2: Deadly Games. So much turn-based fun, and so much character (and characters...)
(http://games.t-station.sk/photos/clanky/publicistika/3855/Jagged_Alliance_2_02.jpg)
Ah yes, TEH GOLDENEYE. Mmmmmmm, mmmm good.
(http://www.gaming-age.com/reviews/archive/old_reviews/n64/goldeneye/1.jpg)
I'm a sucker for film noir. And Max Payne 2.
(http://www.pantherproducts.co.uk/Games%20Zone/Images/max%202%20big.jpg)
Ok, I could keep tossing them out, but I'll cut myself off right there before I get carried away ::)
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Escape from Butchers Bay is the only game I can think of where the inclusion of a Hollywood celebrity in development actually helped the game ;)
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Escape from Butchers Bay is the only game I can think of where the inclusion of a Hollywood celebrity in development actually helped the game ;)
This game actually got me to sincerely enjoy Vin Diesel. The dude with the club is voiced by Xzibit. I can probably count the number of movie-franchise games that weren't pure marketing tripe one hand.
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Escape from Butchers Bay is the only game I can think of where the inclusion of a Hollywood celebrity in development actually helped the game ;)
This game actually got me to sincerely enjoy Vin Diesel. The dude with the club is voiced by Xzibit. I can probably count the number of movie-franchise games that weren't pure marketing tripe one hand.
Ooh, I can add a decent one, if you don't mind old NES games - Willow! Actually a pretty decent action-RPG. Doesn't follow the plot of the movie very close at all, but it's still fun, and I enjoyed it a LOT when I was younger. The various caverns are complete mazes however. Seriously, make a map.
And while I'm talking about NES games, play Magic of Scheherazade. Mixes Zelda-like gameplay with RPG-gameplay - seriously, two different battle modes. Typically you wander around stabbing things with your sword, but randomly when moving to a new screen, you'll get into RPG combat - you can pick two other companions (Out of 11 party members in total by the end) to help in those battles. Certain enemy groups are weak to certain combinations of party members, who get a powerful group attack they can perform. Throw in a dash of time travel, five chapters, kidnapped princesses, and you have a classic. Note, it's generally best to fight normally as a Fighter, except switch to a Magician right before a chapter boss (not always necessary, but makes it much easier, and it is a necessity for the fourth chapter boss, I forget exactly what Saint does, I think it's weak all around but immune to damage floors or something like that.)
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baldur's gate 2, despite its weak main plot and completely broken magic system, is my favorite game of all time
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Hi everyone! This is my first post here... and...
ZOMG HALO.
I think a LOT of people sort of dislike this game out of spite. Any time something gets too popular, some people who aren't active fans of it start hating it out of principle (See: Titanic and Independence Day)
I'm speaking specifically about the first Halo game, not 2 and 3 (though both were really good, in my opinion).
Halo did a lot of things that a lot people don't give it credit for. The story for that game wasn't terribly gripping, but it was a perfect method for moving everything along. The setting was awesome, though. I remember just stopping at a cliff to look at the ring for a while and marveling over how cool it was.
(http://images.onlinegamesinn.com/HALO%20Combat%20Evolved3.jpg)
Then all the other things they did right... introducing grenades in the way they did, the 2 weapons only system, integrating vehicle combat and control the way they did and the shield recharging system (allowing you to duck for cover until they recharged, which totally changed the way an FPS was played)... The enemy AI was the best for any FPS ever made at the time too (and it stayed that way for a good, long while too)... every weapon had its own strength and weaknesses.
Maybe I sound like a ranting fanboy right now, but aside from just being a really good game, it changed how First Person Shooters would be designed forever and was the most fun I've ever had with a video game.
However, despite this, I don't think it'll ever take my #1 favorite game's spot..
Secret of Mana
SoM was one of the first games I -really- got into. The graphics were really bright and pretty and the story, though it was tragically distorted because of the lack of variable width font, was awesome if you could get past the dialog.
I don't know that any one part of this game stands out as better than every other game (except for, perhaps, the soundtrack, my favorite of all time... but that's a harder thing to judge than something like graphics or gameplay), but this was the first time I really felt part of a video game. I remember what it felt like to FINALLY get to the Imperial towns for the first time, or what it was like to see the bigger story events unfold near the end of the game.
(http://www.nexgam.de/img/articles/835/Secret-of-Mana-2.jpg)
Ahh, that felt good to finally rant about these games again!
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Zamzara
(http://www.lemon64.com/games/screenshots/full/zamzara_02.gif)
This was one of the most great and fantastic games on C64. As for the year 1988 it was really a sensational title - Great graphics, wonderful character animation, neat gameplay and sound plus wonderful music from Jeroen Tel had put me into a stance of total absence for many days after I got this for my birthday. This game had an unique atmosphere and was darn hard to finish, but for some reason it didn't repeled from playing again and again. In my opinion this game really showed what's important in side-scrolling platformers. I played it few months ago, when I found my C'64 hidden somewhere deep in the wardrobe. And after I played it I could say that in reality, nothing's changed since those years. And after so many years the ending tune still plays in my mind...
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I just dug out an old Jagged Alliance 2 install disc, and it is a really good game! It's a pity I suck so badly at it, really.
I am firmly in the "Halo is an extravagantly average game" camp, but this is not the place for that argument.
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Ah... My earliest gaming memories were with Mario and Duckhunt (They were on a single cartridge!) for the NES and Discworld on PC. I can't find it's CD though... :'( Thanks to the Discworld games, I forever ascociate the wizzard [sic] Rincewind with Eric Idle whenever I read a Rincewind novel.
Halo was an extravagantly average game, but it had atangiable storyline which is rare in shooters.
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I find your lack of Mischief Makers and NiGHTS disturbing.
NiGHTS
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Mischief Makers
(http://ui19.gamefaqs.com/690/gfs_27944_2_3.jpg)
I personally hope that Bit-Blot makes a game similar to Mischief Makers... where you can beat the entire game using only your robo-maid FISTS OF FURY!
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games that need no introduction: Lego Starwars ( 1&2), Dungeon Siege ( played every flavour put out on pc ), Marvel Ultimate Alliance ( Thing is *always* in my crew ), Civilzation 4 ( I like the first part of the game the most it seems, discovering the continents, who's your neighbour, lend my som suga ), Spyro ( played around 4 or 5? )
games that may need introduction?
Neverhood: one of my fav puzzle logic games, completly made out of klay, Spielberg had a thumb in it, and the best game soundtrack ever ( yesh even better than Aquaria ) also, it's sequel on ps Skullmonkies, but I havn't finished it yet!
(http://www.planete-aventure.net/shot/neverhood9.jpg)
Zork: love all text adventures put out by Infocom and Scott Adams. I've played a few of the graphical Zorks as well and they are definitly fun as well.
also like most Arkanoid clones, match 3 games, platformers ( from Keen to Klonoa! ), and the occasional solid rpg ( U6, FF7, Chocobo Dungeon )
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Two of my favorite games are Ys 1 and 2 from Falcom Japan. They are action RPG.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjOg1bJpsj8
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man, the Ys series! I've seen some hawt videos of them on youtube but none of them seem to have reached my green and pleasant land :( There seem to be a whole lot of amazing-looking games that never seemed to leave japan for some stupid reason...
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man, the Ys series! I've seen some hawt videos of them on youtube but none of them seem to have reached my green and pleasant land :( There seem to be a whole lot of amazing-looking games that never seemed to leave japan for some stupid reason...
You could get the Japanese version of Ys 1 and 2 and download the english patch.
You could also get Ys the oath of felghana and also download the english patch.
You could play the Ys the ark of Napishtim (english version) on PS2 or PSP.
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Ah...Ys...classic game
no one mentioned Age of Empires (I liked II the best) here..hmmm idk if u guys ever heard of it.
It was a good game (classic too :P)
You could also play online battles with it =D (on PC...)
Age of Empires I
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Age of Empires II
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Age of Empires III (looks more realistic...)
(http://www.dignews.com/admin/screenshoot/age_of_empires_3_06.jpg)
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Beyond Good & Evil:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/amour/bge1.jpg)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/amour/bge2.jpg)
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The Odd World games; Munch's Odyssey was an AWESOME addition :
(http://www.gameland.ru/post/14007/ODD6.JPG)
Skullmonkeys:
(http://www.neverhood.se/oldeskull/pics/moss2.jpg)(http://www.neverhood.se/oldeskull/pics/flare.jpg)
I laughed uncontrollably every time the little bonus room tune played.
(inkblob mentioned this one, kudos man.)
Earthworm Jim:
(http://gamecheats.eu/images/earth-worm-jim.jpg)
'Creatures' (pre-Spore era): ^-^
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TMNT: Turtles In Time.
(http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1091224246-00.jpg)
Silent Hill 3:
(http://i.testfreaks.com/images/products/600x400/148/silent-hill-3.245652.jpg)(http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/story/silenthill_17_resize.jpg)
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Odd world is great, and I had Earthworm Jim for a while but I couldn't handle it :( I don't know the others but Skullmonkeys looks interesting so I think that I will do a search for it later on :D Thank you for adding your own selection Holly :D
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Reading through this thread was fun! It kept me in suspense, and I almost cheered when Deus Ex, NiGHTS, and OMF 2097 were finally mentioned! ;D :o Unfortunately, it's driven me to a long response, so just read the bolded stuff if you want. :)
So yeah, the original Deus Ex is without a doubt my favorite video game of all time. I thoroughly enjoyed the second one, but the first is just way above anything else I've ever played. I love every part of it; the story, the dialog, the characters, the music, the graphics, ... even the rediculously forgetfull AI that could only turn in one direction! I've memorized the intro dialog and have lost count of the times I've played through it. My last runthrough about half a year ago, I was still finding new areas and new branches of dialog and was still getting scared silly by those (http://www.deusexgaming.com/images/deusex/info/DXNonHumanChars/Karkian.jpg) karkians (http://www.planetdeusex.com/images/image.asp?/dx2/files/art/DX2_karkian1.jpg)! And the bunker level (post-nuke) in particular gave me several "whoa" moments. Good times. Can't wait for the third one.
The list of other FPSes I've enjoyed would be huge, but the most memorable are the original Unreal and Rise of the Triad. My favorite moment in Unreal was when you come out of the ship in the beginning and are greeted (http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2159/unyt4.jpg) by a huge, lush (for back then), outdoor environment. After being cooped up in the likes of Doom and Quake for so long, at this, my jaw decided to go walk around the house for a while. ROTT was cool and inventive in so many ways and weird and funny (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Imfree.jpg) in many more. (Yes, the game really shows that picture and message if that error is encountered.) There's a great article on its weirdness here (http://rott.classicgaming.gamespy.com/hell/) if you have a good chunk of time to waste.
Then, for anyone who doesn't know about the original NiGHTS, you flew around in 3D environments (constrained by various paths through it) collecting orbs and fighting enemies and bosses. However, you could also run out of flying time or choose not to fly at all and instead go walking around the world with complete freedom. Even though that wasn't the point of the game, there were things to interact with in the world that were only accessible while walking. You could also breed some of the world's critters and cross-breed them with the enemies, but I never got into that. Mostly, it was just inexplicably fun to play.
Of the racing games mentioned, I remember being impressed by the demo of Slipstream 5000, but I never got the whole game. I do have Ballistics and Hydro Thunder, however, and they were loads of fun. Ballistics wasn't a particularly long or deep game, even as racers go, but its unlimited speed was sooooo much fun. I always look for Hydro Thunder when I go to an arcade, but the N64 version was great fun, too. It had some really imaginative environments, and racing on the water just felt completely different from other games in the genre.
I still play One Must Fall 2097 in Dos Box when I'm in the mood for some good mindless action. And one of its cheat codes makes nuts and bolts and scraps of metal fly all over the place when you hit eachother. ;D Which reminds me: ROTT has a similar code that would create "Ludicrous Gibs!" every time you hit someone with a missile. Full Throttle was another great game, but I wish its puzzles were more forgettable so I could solve them again. Regardless, it's worth playing again and again just to hear the main character talk. O0 Then there's Morrowind. Ah, the hours I've wasted spent completely immersed in that world. Then I found a mod that hugely improved the atmospheric sounds and became even more immersed. I've not had much chance to play Oblivion, but what I have played of it seems even better in some ways. Super Metroid has been mentioned a billion times so far, so I'll just name it as one of my favorites.
I'll finish off with some RPGs. I've never played any Final Fantasy games, so my Square experience points come mainly from Chrono Cross and Mario RPG. Mario RPG was just plain fun, and its hidden Final Fantasy boss stole the music from FF4, so I might have to get that DS cart one of these days. Chrono Trigger was fun, too, and I did play it before Cross, but I think Cross's music won me over. It just made everything. Not that it wasn't a fun game besides that, but I love me some good video game music. ^-^ *cough*Aquaria*cough* Radical Dreamers (translated from the Japan-only SNES satellite game) was also awesome (especially when played at night), and its music and relative lack of visuals let my imagination go to work, almost as if I was reading a book...with music to increase the atmosphere.
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While there are many games I've played and really liked, I'll just mention a few of the ones that I really got hooked on and fell in love with.
First of all, I wasn't allowed to own any gaming consoles when I was little, so most of the console games hereI've only played in the last 2-3 years. However, I did play PC games, and several still stick in my mind.
(http://www.abandonia.com/files/games/119/Kings%20Quest%206%20-%20Heir%20Today,%20Gone%20Tomorrow_3.jpg)
King's Quest VI: I can't believe I don't see this one mentioned anywhere else on this thread. KQV was the first King's Quest game I'd ever played (a wonderful game that made PC users want to buy a CD-ROM drive for their computer), but the sixth in the King's Quest series totally blew me away. The graphics were gorgeous IMO, the voice acting was vastly improved from the last title, the plot was really involving and the puzzles were really tricky at times. It was the first game I'd ever played that had alternate endings, and it was so satisfying when you finally defeated the evil Vizier. The journey to the land of the dead still chills me to this day.
Also, I blame how much of a packrat I am on point-and-click adventure games. How do they manage to carry that much stuff without looking like that old woman in Labyrinth?
The Legend of Zelda: the Ocarina of Time: Needs no introduction or image. I first played this at a friend's house when it was brand new, but I only got to beat it a few years ago, when I bought an N64 second-hand. I've played through it several times since, and I even made a Link costume and learned to play the ocarina because of this game.
(http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/virtual_pc_guy/WindowsLiveWriter/SimAntunderVirtualPC_1509/simant3_2.png)
SimAnt: Some people love this game; some people hate it. I love it. You basically lead your colony of black ants to wipe out the colony of red ants, and drive the humans out of the housewhile you're at it. whether you were leading a foraging patrol to kill an antlion or the spider, building walls of stones to keep enemies out (or blocking off the enemy tunnels), or getting zapped in an electrical outlet, there's always lots of fun to be had. You could even play as the ant-devouring spider if you wanted. the experimental mode was pretty fun, too, and between my fascination with insects as a kid and this game, I learned a lot more about ants than most people do. What I think this game could have used, though, was the capacity to go P2P against someone on another computer; I imagine it could get pretty interesting that way.
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Chip's Challenge: Lots of people have played this game before, and don't even remember. My family was totally hooked, and we eventually beat the game (except for fucking lvl 149). tons of replay value, and one of the best action/puzzle games out there.
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Another World/Out of This World: Very cool Prince of Persia-style platformer which definitely answers the question of whether video games can be a form of art. It's been discussed before here, so I won't do any more ranting about it.
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Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure Anyone else remember those floppy discs you could get for 2$ that had a couple game demos? Weell, I do, and I still have fond memories of several games I got to try out that way Trugg, Crystal Caves, and Nyet III still stand out for me). However, Cosmo wa the one I wound up getting the full version for. You're a cute little alien dude looking for his parents on a very strange planet. Your basic platformer with totally insane music , jumping on enemies and blowing them up. The main character has suction cups for hands (clings onto walls) , which is a little unique. I found it pretty hard, but I eventually beat all three parts to the game, and proceeded to look for secrets using godmode (first time I ever did that in any game). You can find the shareware version online pretty easily, but you'll need DOSbox to run it.
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The Incredible Machine One of the best puzzle games I've ever played. you get basic objectives, such as "pop the balloon" , you're given all kinds of crazy tools and you have to figure out how to build a maching to complete the objective. It's easy at first, but I've yet to beat the hardest levels. There's a level builder as well, which is lots of fun to mess around with. If you ever see a copy of this game, BUY IT. Do whatever it takes to make it run on your computer, because it's worth it. I played the 3.0 version, which is made for Wiindows 95 and Mac.
Myst: It's already been mentioned in this thread. I just had to mention that I absolutely loved it. I even read one of the novels based on the series, and it was actually really good.
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Super Metroid: One of the greatest games of all time. I played it for the first time less than a year ago on an emulator and decided to shell out the 50$ to buy it second-hand (the cartridge was in beautiful condition, so I can't complain about the price) So far I've lost count of the number of times I've beaten it, but I've yet to beat it under the 3-hour mark.
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Mario Kart Wii Surprised to see a newer game on my list? Well, I don't own a Wii, but my boyfriend does, and this is the game we usually play. I've played every title in the MarioKart series, barring the GBA version, and I think this version is my favourite, especially with the online mode (though the DS version is also awesome). It's also the game that causes me to swear the most.
Chrono Trigger: Only RPG that got me to play until the end. Also possibly the first game to make me cry.
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I have to say my all time favorites in no particular order:
Secret of Mana: Gotta love the SNES Multitap that allowed 3 people to play at once
Earthbound: I still play through it once every couple of years
Chrono Trigger: Multiple endings and New Game+ give it amazing replay value
The Final Fantasy series: I loved 6, 7 and 8 especially...
Counter-Strike: FPS multiplayer awesomeness... and yes... I still play it
Last but not least... World of Goo deserves its own spot in this thread... seriously people, check it out (free demo too!)
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Just finished the demo of World of Goo myself. I don't think I'd buy it however, doesn't seem to have any replay value. Is there a level editor?
Of course I agree with Chrono Trigger and Super Metroid, THE most epic SNES games.
Finally, the game "The Incredible Machine". I've played this game when I was... 4, maybe 5, I bloody loved that game.
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I have a feeling that no one here recalls these games for the very early BBC Electron computers, but perhaps you might like to download one and have a go? I used to play Repton with my son and I got so into the game that I would be trying to work out the puzzles in my head even while shopping :o
I recall at least once turning to him in the middle of the street with the solution to one puzzle ::)
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http://www.beebgames.com/games.php?company=3&start=71 (http://www.beebgames.com/games.php?company=3&start=71)
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Just finished the demo of World of Goo myself. I don't think I'd buy it however, doesn't seem to have any replay value. Is there a level editor?
Sadly, there is no level editor as of yet... there are, however, a lot of people working on an editor so you can create your own mods...
As to replay value, each level has an "obsessive completion distinction" or OCD. you have to satisfy certain tasks like collect a certain number or finish in a certain number of moves. You can view the OCD for a level by pausing and clicking OCD...
It really adds to the replay value and it will keep you busy for quite a while...
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Uru .. Very different to the old pixel mad Repton
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I'm kind of surprised this one hasn't popped up anywhere on these forums: Odell Down Under (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iaffae9tpxg). In middle school (grades 6-8 and around 1997 for me), this was a really popular game. The basic idea was that you're a fish that swims around eating stuff to survive. If you didn't eat for a while or you ate something poisonous to your species, you'd lose health or energy, and if something ate you, well... There were a ton of species you could be, and each had its own set of enemies and favored, loathed, and toxic foods, and some had special abilities like shooting ink or shocking stuff. I don't know how, but I must have spent hours whizzing around the reef eating random things. Oh, and that link above shows the title screen which is vaguely remeniscent of Aquaria's until the 15-second mark. You'll see why! :D
Silver, I just checked out the website for Uru. Is it as interesting to explore as it looks? And are the puzzles still Myst-style? I never got into Myst, but I do enjoy point-and-click games.
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People don't talk about that cause it looks too much like Spore, and, I never heard of it before. =p
Also, Sharpie, what will happen when you have all OCD's in World Of Goo?
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Wow, you guys pretty much got most of the games I've loved, or wanted to play but couldn't. :)
Well, besides this one:
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Back in the good ol' days of my childhood I used to think this was the coolest thing ever. :) (Well, this and Wacraft 2)
This kept me up for hours, brings back good memories of trying to stay up all night playing it. ^-^
I also recently found it on abandonware, and am currently downloading it.
EDIT: Sorry for the spelling, was typing late at night.
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I'm kind of surprised this one hasn't popped up anywhere on these forums: Odell Down Under (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iaffae9tpxg). In middle school (grades 6-8 and around 1997 for me), this was a really popular game. The basic idea was that you're a fish that swims around eating stuff to survive. If you didn't eat for a while or you ate something poisonous to your species, you'd lose health or energy, and if something ate you, well... There were a ton of species you could be, and each had its own set of enemies and favored, loathed, and toxic foods, and some had special abilities like shooting ink or shocking stuff. I don't know how, but I must have spent hours whizzing around the reef eating random things. Oh, and that link above shows the title screen which is vaguely remeniscent of Aquaria's until the 15-second mark. You'll see why! :D
Silver, I just checked out the website for Uru. Is it as interesting to explore as it looks? And are the puzzles still Myst-style? I never got into Myst, but I do enjoy point-and-click games.
Yes it is and it looks like the online version might be up and running again sometime soon because Cyan has turned the right over to us fans :D and once they get started it has the potential to become the gaming worlds version of RL only better :D
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This was the first game to intrigue and delight me.