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I’m still getting accustomed to the Fediverse. I played/watched a bunch of video games and might want to tell someone about them. My tabletop RPG days are behind me.
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games When it was localized as Illusion of Gaia for North America, the difficulty was increased in a strange way. The healing item in the game (the herb) was already only available in a finite number, but they were reduced from a full heal to restoring 8 HP. Would you happen to know if the same happened to the European localization, Illusion of Time?
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games A shame so many had to wait until 2002, when it actually was running off CD-ROM with load times. I don’t think the reviewers reached the 2nd half of the game, or they might have upped the originality rating, but multiple-dozen-hour RPGs and deadlines don’t go well together.
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games I’m glad I didn’t have magazines telling me to expect exactly the arcade experience, because I was quite happy with the cut-down Super NES version with a total lack of 3D & lighting effects. Also, I don’t recall Nintendo Power attempting to insult the reader’s masculinity, despite the “Play It Loud” campaign doing things like making Kirby eat a human whole in a television ad.
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games I didn’t see it mentioned that Order of Ecclesia could be linked to Castlevania Judgment for unlocking things in both games.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ds/945837-castlevania-order-of-ecclesia/cheats
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games Page 2 has plenty of spoilers on it, despite typing out “We’re not going to spoil…” shrug
The one thing the DS version of Chrono Trigger could have done was to add a quicksave since it was now portable. But, the DS version is my favorite of those I have played (all except Steam or Android/iOS). The added monster raising area, the Arena of the Ages, offers a way to get the Workman’s Wallet much earlier if you want to try a low-level game.
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games I never knew about the Extreme Ghostbusters video games. Code Ecto-1 had a North American release, but the first one was only in Europe, it seems. But there was also a European only PS1 shooter-on-rails which worked with light guns in 2004… but without licensing the sounds and Garrett can kneel behind cover??
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games @UKFilmNerd@mastodon.me.uk The one thing I didn’t like about Answer the Call was that, because 3-D was in fashion again, they did the thing-jumps-at-the-screen gag. Which, I only just realized, would have also been around in movies when the first one was released, but as a dying trend until IMAX.
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games The BattleTech Center was impressive enough that I heard about it, but expensive enough I only passed by it. The Wikipedia article notes the earliest simulators had heavy frame rate drops even when limited to 6 player games. North Pier Mall was not on the outskirts, though, at 2 blocks north of the Chicago River and inland from Navy Pier.
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games I’m still not sure why the authors of Marvel vs. Capcom articles thought SonSon was female around this time rather than young.
This seems like one of the earliest instances of Red Bull in gamer culture. I thought Bawls was the dominant energy beverage trying to replace caffeinated sodas in the niche, but maybe that was regional.
MvC2 was a good port on Dreamcast (thanks to the arcade version being on NAOMI), but my fingers did not enjoy the triggers on its stock controller.
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games I used to read a lot of webcomics. Here’s the link to the two decade old source through Internet Archive; Comic Genesis is still hosting the comic, but doesn’t use HTTPS.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110207082801/oldskooled.comicgenesis.com/archive.html?date=20011029
@OutofPrintArchive I never played the NES port, but I saw Bad Dudes vs DragonNinja in an arcade. Like the then-ubiquitous “Winners Don’t Do Drugs” screens, the briefing on President Ronnie was something I was expecting to be parodied far more by now.
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games Oh no, Mythologies. I’m glad I only rented that. It was like the opposite of Super Smash Bros. approach to a platform fighting game.
@OutofPrintArchive@mstdn.games @jezebelley64@mstdn.games It took Yoshinori Ono trying to build hype with the fans to even get Darkstalkers Resurrection made.