I like this generation of games very much. I cherish my memories with them.
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I like this generation of games very much. I cherish my memories with them.
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I feel like games were at their most artistic at this point in time
Game development wasn't insanely expensive yet, but technology was good enough to where devs could reasonably make real the imaginations of their minds
I agree. There was a mystery and magic to the new technology used in games at that time, seeing 3D realms you could explore in.
WHERE IS THE WACHENRODER TRANSLATION
It's crazy that you can find forum posts in 2002 where people were asking for a Wachenroder english translation.
THAT'S FRICKING NUTS
What do you mean?
The basic translation has been out for months
stop lying
Soon(tm)
Same.
The previous generation was also fantastic, but after that it went to shit so bad.
Too much voice acting, too many cinematics, too many shitty anime clichés... I just wanted great gameplay 🙁
Since Atari turned 50 years old recently, what better way is there to celebrate its half-century of existence than writing about how it affected me personally, and why I love it so much?
For me, as a teenager, who had never lived life as it was in the 1980s, that what is before my time had always dazzled me. I suppose it's down to my dad telling me stories about his life in the 1980s as a med school student, going out to eat at Dairy Queen and generally living a fun college life (in spite of being a med school student, what worse fate could exist?!) Naturally, this led me to being a child obsessed with the past (an interest that reflects in my love for language and history). Why am I telling you this? Well...
As a child, I spent a good amount of time playing emulated flash versions of old video games. Frogger, Q*Bert, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Galaga, Dig Dug, you name it. I grew obsessed with this era of gaming, spanning between 1977 and 1985 or whereabouts. Around this time, I found out about the Atari 2600. I was dazzled by its concentrated 1970s design, with its woodgrain, and the simplicity of the games on the machine. It would be years before I ever even acquired an Atari 2600, but watching videos of Atari gameplay got me very interested in owning one.
So, I own one now. In fact, I own three. One would suppose owning one perhaps ruined the magic of it for me, but it only strengthened my love for it. The games are incredibly simple to understand but hard to be really really good at (a quote from Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari). Even the arcade ports, even if they came out later on stronger, better consoles like the Famicom/NES, or were even better in their own time on other consoles (Donkey Kong is one example), had a particular charm on the Atari which I find unmatched. Atari games have a certain je ne sais quoi. Whether it be from the sound effects and graphics, or from holding that one-button controller, its charm is undeniable.
And so, I've grown to love the old Atari 2600. Thanks for reading, and El Psy Kongroo.
I'll post a nice piece of video game music now, I suppose it's the time...
The first stage from Rusty's music, titled "Queen in the Dark Night". Great piece from a rather obscure game (except among PC-9801 fans).
Very nice post to read and good soundtrack.
Cheers, anon
Is it true Panzer Dragoon Saga is one of the best rpgs of all time?
It's good, but a little short. Don't expect TOO much of an immersive experience.
it's great
Yeah, it's one of a kind. Can't think of anything quite like it and what few flaws it has don't really leave a lasting impression unlike what's great about the game.
Frick no. But it's incredibly distinct, and that alone makes it worth playing.
That's it, the greatest RPGs. You have god taste.
That grandia cover is giving me serious wanderlust
Me too
the fact that grandia has the best jrpg combat system of all time and the only game that's ever copied it was child of light is a shame
I would praise Grandia's combat system more if the game wasn't such a cakewalk. You can beat it with your eyes closed.
I prefer 3rd and 4th gen RPGs.
4th gen spritework is still the peak. Yeah I know you can post those impressive overanimated sprites from BoF4 and stuff, and that's nice, but there's a few things that make me not prefer 5th gen RPGs overall, such as art style, while nice and all, have that clash of 2D rendered backgrounds with 3D model characters, or the other way around, 3D maps with 2D sprites. As I said this is not necessarily bad, but I just prefer the more cohesive full 2D stuff. Also yeah I know there are some full 2D RPGs in 5th gen and later, but we're talking whole generation here, an average.
And on a functionality thing, turn-based games are just better without loading times or long attack animations.
Some of my all time fav RPGs are from 5th and 6th gen, but on average, 3rd and 4th win.
Same with platformers/sidescrollers and 2D action games in general.
I consider ToP a snes game more than a PS1 one
While that's fair, the majority of folks tend to consider ToP's PS1 remake the definitive version of the game.
This is my nostalgia talking, but I'm just in love with the way GBA and DS games look and sound.
There's just something about the combination of unapologetically bold and bright colors, blocky pixelly fonts, and soft compressed audio that makes my heart flutter.
This is what comes to my mind if you ask me to imagine a video game.
GBA, sure. DS? Their 3D games managed to look more garish than N64 titles.
Man, shut the frick up