Fight fight fiiiiighttt
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the only video game i played in 1998 was pokémon blue but it’s hard to imagine half life, ocarina of time, and metal gear solid in the same few months. they’re so different in presentation and technology alone!
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on second thought i had computer games in 1998 and i definitely think pajama sam 2 has a better story than ocarina of time. any lucasartsy thing is just mopping the floor with the rest in the narrative dept for my money. if grim fandango didn’t need a 3D card i’d be obsessed with it to this day
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I’m just not gonna stand by and let someone try to say “we all like Ocarina now right” because no! We don’t! Ok!!
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I think this period is probably primarily responsible for me still playing, thinking about, and caring about videogames 25 years later, that’s how good it was. So much potential. Imagine if every 8 years games developed as much as they did from 1990 to 1998. But it turns out… you can’t just put a ruler on a graph and extend a trend line like that.
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wow first he doesn’t like guitar hero and shitting on we are ofk and now this… a real fun buster in here!!
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he loves the elder scrolls daggerdale!
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How does our friend Cuba feel about 19998’s Fallout 2?
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The internet has told me like 4 times I can now play Daggerfall in like 4k or something.
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you ever hear about these things called tv games they’re wild
speaking of, i’m playing more msx games. the port of mr do! is some real fucked up garbage!! sicko shit for perverts (the bad kind)!
meanwhile the port of super pierrot is really cool and looks like an actual game
there’s also this game called nyannyan pro wrestling, which i thought would be a wrestling game involving cats (hopefully anthro cats and not the teddy hart kind of cats). it’s not, it’s an awkward, ugly menu-based game where four girls do a tag team match on a basketball court
there are four characters and two of them are named after men that would go on to do horrible things in life. the dynamite kid was an abusive bully, and hatsune miku made minecraft.
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You know the irony of all this is that I like Doom way more than OOT and that is entirely vibes over thematic substance.
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Doom is better them’s just the facts
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re OoT and 1998:
since my brother was playing OoT/I’d have to watch him do a let’s Play … have i bored anyone to death about how I played NASCAR 1 on my cranky 486 33Mhz and how you could toggle on/off textures, which you had to do if you wanted to get more than 10-15 frames on some tracks (looking at you Bristol, yessss youuuuuuu) and how this coincidentally had a huge impact, since i dipped into modding and at the same time developed a front-end Win 3.11 application for automatically packing/unpacking the DAT file that contained all the textures and teams’ names and even explained the whole toolchain to my younger brother and —
guess THAT’S what Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei meant in the Missing The Point Entirely epsiode, huh!
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you enter a room in the underground water temple and there’s suddenly a lone tree in the middle and a sky and you fight your evil doppleganger and after you defeat it the scenery fades away
this game Whips Ass
z targeting is kind of miserable though compared to our souls-like filled present day. the water temple was not really much like I thought I remembered it to be. I thought the central chamber was bigger.
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Are there any Doom WADs with Saria’s Song?
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while we all know these games are propaganda written from the the point of view of the hylian equivalent of liberal new york times writers fretting over the threat of the righteous king of thieves, ganondorf dragmire and the gerudo people, towards the unjust monarchy of hyrule, we enjoy them for the simple and mythic fairy tales they are anyway
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I’ve never thought of Doom as being in competition with Zelda 64 in any way, even in the context of console vs. PC. I guess I was lucky to be able to play both games, and Zelda was several years after even Doom 2 for me (which may have been the first PC game I ever bought in a retail box).
My Zelda 64 timing would have coincided more with Starcraft, I think, and choosing a favorite between those would be challenging but I also don’t see them as competing for anything like the same category.
I’m not sure I was entirely sold on Ocarina until I encountered the atmosphere of the Forest Temple, with that music and the thing with the paintings.
I actually got hopelessly stuck on the Water Temple and set the game aside for several months.
Anyway, a game I’ve been playing lately is the Final Fantasy 7 remake. I think they did a good job with the look of it, but I don’t think it really needed voice acting. And I think it would be pretty tedious if not set to easy.
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The best part of this fight is how Dark Link isn’t there at first, at least as I recall. You run to the other door, find it locked, turn around, and there he is.
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and your reflection in the water disappears after you cross the island in the middle. it’s such a good piece, 100% most atmospheric part of the game.
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i never figured out as a kid that youre supposed to sword fight him without locking on. i would simply beat him to death with the megaton hammer kinda undermining the majesty somewhat
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