StanJr

I dearly love this series.  It was magic when I first played it when it launched. And it's still magic today.  The sense of exploration and isolation was amazing.  I loved tagging everything and reading the lore of the world.  I generally hate FPS, but this was transformative for me.  Can't wait to play through them all again.

On 7/6/2020 at 6:14 PM, Tekdrudge said:

YES! I agree, I bought the GC version just to use Link. I'm still trying to find a copy of it as I sold my entire collection back in 2005 just to pay my bills after I was laid off. The Xbox version has Spawn, which I think is kinda odd and out of place.

I think maybe McFarlane was making toys or sculptures or something based on SC properties at the time and Spawn was in his twilight, so it might have been a meager attempt to keep him relevant.

Interesting.  I guess I missed that one.  I'll have to check it out!  Thanks!

I'm playing through Tomb Raider III again and it strikes me that the first four TR offerings are absolutely incredible for their time and are still immensely fun to play, but they suffer greatly from their polygonal rendering limitations.  I'd love to see what these games are like with modern graphic capabilities.  I realize there have been new TR games for various systems, but they all seem to suffer from the suck.  Meanwhile these first four games are magic in my mind and would be gobsmacking if translated into the modern aesthetic.  Have I missed something and this is already out there or is there a reason that we have revisted the likes of FFVII (unnecessarily) and not Tomb Raider?

Pitfall II (VCS).  Got it for Christmas and spent so many hours with my dad trying to beat it.  (He had snuck and played it a BUNCH before giving it to me for Christmas that year, so he looked like a pro right out of the box!  Scoundrel!).  Just watched my 7 year old son beat it for the first time this week.  Will always be my first love (sorry LoZ...)

Legend of Zelda

Adventure of Link

Castlevania

Mario Golf64

Final Fantasy

Love then all and could put in any one of them and play it through right now.

Yeah, the ice world still crushes me.  I don't remember it being that hard when I was a kid and could run through this game in a relatively short amount of time.  Now I'm lucky to get to Wart at all without a warp.  I still love it though and I play it regularly.  You'll never convince me that it's not SMB2.  I like Lost Levels for the crushing challenge, but this is SMB2 in my heart.    I used Luigi most of the time!  Rarely use Mario.  I used to have a trick to get lots of 1UPs from the slot machine, but I've lost since lost the knack.

18 hours ago, Nintegageo said:

I might get into it once the game is actually done (not just 1 'chapter'), but I also sorta don't want to give them money. I have hated what that company became nearly since day 1, which sucks because individually they were both amazing.

So ignoring that rant, have not played it but am glad people are enjoying their game.

Yeah, I guess I wasn't paying attention, but I only just found out this is just the very beginning of the game, thus Part 1 of who knows how many parts.  That pretty much kills it for me.  I can play the whole game right now on my PS1, which I paid $60 (?) for originally, or I can play a fraction of the game for the same price and just when things are getting good, I'll get a "to be continued..." screen.  I'm already not in the love with the graphic redo (and I am apparently alone in that camp), and the retcons sound troubling (especially the one about you know who), so I think I can live with and love the original as it, and let this version dazzle the rest of the population.    I will be interested to hear what the general consensus is as this goes forward.

I beat the GB one first and expected a similar experience with the original, but boy was I wrong.  The original is wicked harder and took me far longer to beat.  I think I prefer the GB game, but I will still take runs at the NES one from time to time.  I don't usually get super far.  Kid Icarus is a game that demands some determination.

Well done!

Took out Castlevania Circle of the Moon.  It was brutally hard and the Battle Arena just didn't happen for me this time.  Dracula was actually easier than I expected.  Good game, though.  Satisfied my SotN itch.

Started Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility for a change of pace.  It's pretty impressively good.  Relaxing farming to ease my troubles.

Trying to finish out Castlevania Circle of the Moon, but man is it hard!  I don't know that I've ever beaten it before, despite making a good run at the GBA Castlevanias when they first hit.  The Battle Arena is just stupid and I'm getting killed by the Doppleganger.  Currently tracking down whatever DSS cards I'm missing in hopes I will grind enough and get enough powers that I can finally push through.

yeah, I know.  I do much better on the original.  It I have beaten many times over.  This is only my second go for Super Metroid.

Metroid 2 is amazingly deep for a GB title.  I'm tempted to fire it up next!

Yes, no matter how many I buy, refurb, or clean, the drift always returns.  So I bought a pro-controller, a SNES pad and an NES pad so I can minimize the number of games that actually need the blasted things, and then buy one pair for just those games.  It's the only thing I am annoyed by on the Switch.

Finished Super Metroid last night with 70% in 8:36.  I guess I need to play this more often..

I am heartened to see all the love for AoL.  Most people I know trash that game and it is one of my favorites.  But my overall fav has to be the original LoZ.  I can beat the first quest and then immediately start it over again and play it through and never become bored or tired of it.  And when I really want to take a beating, I'll play the second quest.

However, I will say that I have never played a bad Zelda game.  Every single one is great in its own way!

I'm working on Super Metroid right now also.  Three hours seems impossible, so kudos to you.  I guess when you know where everything is, it helps.  But it's been 10 years since I last played, so it's almost like all new to me.  Still an amazing game!

Well done to the OP on beating the original will 100%. I remember doing that for the first time back in the day.  Such a great game, but it is much easier to get lost!  So many secrets!  You could really use the X-Ray beam!

Oooo.  This will be fun.  I played through this about 5 years ago for max completion and chronicled it in my blog.  It was a lot of fun to do, so I'm excited to "play" along with you as you go.

I think Midgar seems small because we only get to access a little bit of it for this story, but from the outside it seems like it's much much bigger than we have access to.

Beat both quests back in the day, no help.  I still have my maps of both quests and all the dungeons, painstakingly drawn out on graph paper.  The Second Quest was the real beast due to new game mechanics (walk through walls and whistle triggered doors), but I eventually sorted it all out somehow.  Lots of free time and a real love of the game, I guess.  I can now speed run the first quest without much trouble (usually zero death), but the second quest is still a real monster, even with the maps and stuff.

Even so, LoZ will always be one of my all time favorite games.

The two Wizardry games on the NES are fantastic.  Swords and Serpents (NES) was my first FP dungeon crawler, but I think it holds up well to multiple replays even now.  

I know this is the bottom of the barrel and an odd choice, but I wish Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (NES) was better/playable.  The concept is novel and really great, but the game executes like a soggy pile of trash.  There is a weird glitch in the town level where the barrels come at you so fast that it is virtually impossible to complete the level (I've done it, but it wasn't easy or fun).  The core gameplay theory is interesting and could be fun if the game had more meat to it and the Dr. Jekyll levels were more smartly designed.

Greetings!

I'm Stan.  I've been around the classic gaming community for just about as many years as it's been around.  My main stomping grounds for a lot of years was Atariage, but I was at Nintendoage a bit and DigitalPess for a minute or two.  I ran a blog/website thing called The Electric Frankfurter off and on for years (I think it's still up...), but the past few years I have been absent from the community due to the overbearing presence of the Real World.  I came back to check out the rarity of Thrilla's Surfari (NES) and found Nintendoage defunct and this little burgeoning oasis flowering into existence.  Looks like a great group of people here.  I don't know how much the Real World will let me contribute to the community, but it's nice to at least have a toe in the door.  I'm still playing games from myriad systems and still love classic gaming, so thanks for making this space available!

Since I'm 14 I wanted to live in Hyrule.  This game allows that in ways that no previous game really did.  Some days I go traipsing through the landscape seeking out shrines, some days I bum around the Gerudo (or other) town picking up side quests or shopping, some days I just cook and see how many different recipes and elixirs I can create, some days I go parts hunting so I can improve my armor sets, some days I go after the Divine Beasts, some days I sneak into Hyrule Castle to plunder the really good stuff you find there, some days I just ride Zelda's horse around and see if there are places I haven't explored (the Hero's Path in the DLC has been wonderful in this regard!).  But for me there is always something to do in Hyrule and I love it!  This is my second play through and this time in Master Mode.  I'm having as much fun as I did the first time through if not more.  The DLC has added a lot of new fun stuff to find and do.

I think like a lot of open world games this appeals to me (and others) who like a more immersive experience in a fantasy world.  "On rails" games limit your access to the depth of the world, but a game like BotW removes those barriers and lets you decide what you want to get out of the experience.  That's what does it for me.  

If BotW is a gloried egg hunt, then I have my basket and I'm ready to go!