Quick Questions XVI: Answer Time Lore

[Tulpa]

I played this game for about 30 minutes while exploring the history of 3d platformers and it was honestly impressive how much they figured out how to do the right way before there were any established design patterns for 3d games at all

[thecatamites]

what’s a good SaGa if i’ve never actually played any of these before… leaning towards SaGa Frontier as the coolest looking

[aislesgrises]

saga frontier is the first one i really got into and the only one i actually played through so i’d vote for it to be the best starting point

[azurelore]

azuretimelore

[scross]

seconding SaGa Frontier, starting with Red’s scenario is what finally made the series click for me

Minstrel Song would probably be my second choice

[idiot]

frontier, minstrel song, romasaga 3 all good choices

[Drem]

Yeah, I was going to say Minstrel Song. Frontier, Minstrel Strong, and Romancing SaGa 3 I think are common, accessible entry points. While they share a design ethos, SaGa games can be fairly different from each other though so you may like one and hate another.

Edit: This is an excuse to post Minstrel Song’s opening.

Romancing SaGa -Minstrel Song- Remastered Intro

Edit 2: Dang, I never noticed how good that dancing animation at 1:18 is. I should probably also say, despite me saying Minstrel Song is a good starting point, every time I’ve played that game my entire experience has been walking out of the first town, going into the same cave nearby, and dying to a giant crab. I don’t know why I do it. Still have fond memories of the game though.

[Tuxedo]

Definitely SaGa Frontier 1 first

[azurelore]

azure, time lord

i’ve always thought mary tamm, the first romana, sort of resembled me

[parker]

real quick question: what games that came out for both dos and amiga were better on amiga

[MintyJuffowup]

I think in general, games had better sound and colors on the Amiga up until the early nineties. Neuromancer comes to mind.

[Tulpa]

dungeon master

[Felix]

yeah, I think that’s the rule as well… Amiga had hardware 2D whereas most DOS games were all software, so DOS games generally looked worse prior to ~1990 (remember that DOS as a gaming platform was almost strictly 32 bit, 16 bit gaming computers were macs and commodores) and potentially more garish not long thereafter

[COINTELBRO]

amiga lemmings had a 2-player mode that the dos version didn’t

[Broco]

Cannon Fodder (mostly the audio is better on Amiga)

[meauxdal]

@Felix

DOS as a gaming platform was almost strictly 32 bit

i have no idea what this means

[Felix]

yeah that’s fair it seems arbitrary as stated

what I meant by it was that, even though DOS theoretically existed as a gaming platform in the 80s alongside cheaper, non-IBM-compatible PCs that technically had slower CPUs than the fastest 16-bit x86 CPU, a 286, DOS gaming as it’s remembered was basically negligible before the widespread availability of 386s (and the release of the 486), and so in practice, what people think of as DOS games were like a full generation ahead of Amiga games

[loki]

local arcade just posted on facebook that they just got this in. seems like an absurdly rare and difficult to get ahold of item for the north of england. how likely is it that it’s legit?

[anothergod]

Unsure if it’s legit but honestly that rules even if it’s not legit

[isfet]

tear it open