Daggerfall has so many generic stock SFX in it that are also fairly distinct, so whenever I hear something like the door creak noise in some random TV show or movie it immediately takes me out of the show and makes me half expect to see some pixellated orc getting stuck in the corner of the room
earthbound post
i think about this game all the time. (i know, i know, so does every third person on this forum) it’s so formative to my sense of humor and what kind of tone i like best from media stuff
Bits of dialogue that get in my head:
“SAY YES TO ME? SAY NO TO ME?”
“I’ll see you at another time, in another space.”
“Mr. Batty became warm and friendly. You backed off.”
“Aiiiieeeeee!! I screamed… cause I didn’t know what else to do!”
“A bee I am
not…”
“You guys can’t envision the final collapse of capitalism? Incredible!” (lots of little bits of things the patrons at the stoic club say)
Other moments and things:
-that whole short story you find in the house you can buy in Onett. ill just c+p it here:
I was neither a murder suspect, nor a target for an international spy organization. But I drove a car down the Jersey Turnpike at 80 mph. …A police officer pulled me over and asked for my driver’s license. He said I was going 20 mph over the speed limit. I instantly pointed to my wife and said, “I’m in a hurry, my wife is in labor.” Fortunately, my wife actually had a big stomach. I hoped he’d let me go with this excuse. “Oh, since it’s an emergency. I’ll lead you to the hospital with my police car,” he said. “No, it’s not necessary.” “Why not?” asked the officer. “Uh… well…” “Let’s get going,” said the officer… “No, no! We can’t! This baby is a demon child!”
-Brick Road’s monogrammed signs inside Dungeon Man
-also the dungeon man music
-when you use the for sale sign in the cave of the past and it won’t work because it’s been worn away with the passage of time
-Moonside, Magicant, the evil mani-mani/Ness’s nightmare being a metaphor for the evil that lurks in the heart of all beings. you must journey to the center of yourself and destroy that manifestation to achieve true enlightenment. This is a good game for kids
-when you go into the cave of the past in the present (?!) and the music is just the bit of “La Marseillaise” from the beginning of “All You Need Is Love” all cut up and distorted and looped
-so, so much of the soundtrack obviously but you can go to any video game music thread on this board for that. but if you havent read about all the cool sampling and musical homages in the game you should treat yourself to it: https://starmen.net/mother2/gameinfo/samples_similarities/
-the Beach Boys sample in particular is all-time great and weird usage
-the coffee/tea break scenes are my favorite thing about the game and probably what i think about the most. i just love a game asking you to sit in pure contemplation for a minute or two
im such a dorky fan of this game that i once actually brewed coffee while playing then sat and sipped a cup of coffee while watching the coffee break. It was nice
-oh and Poo’s initiation absolutely fucking rules
this good game for kids asks you to voluntarily submit your characters body to extreme mutilation in a hallucinatory meditative ritual.
-the guy in Poo’s court whose hair looks like a telephone and he doesn’t speak to you, you just use him like a telephone
-i think a lot about there is a character in this game that i love who is officially, canonically named Poo.
I accidentally triggered this three times in a row while playing this on the bus to work. A lot of quiet contemplation was going on then
the rock-on intro text
DEALY BELOVED, OTHER TIME OTHER SPACE, PEOPLE LIVE A DAMN BORING ROUTINE LIFE ALTHOUGH THE WORLD IS SO PEACEFUL
OFF COURSE SOME OF THEM THINK THEY GOTTA GET OUT OF THE LIFE AND DREAMING ABOUT GETTING A BIG FORTUNE. TO REALIZE THAT DREAM THERE’S ONLY ONE WAY LEFT IN THAT WORLD. NEEDLESS TO SAY IT’S SOME HOW TO FIND OUT THE MYSTERIOUS FORTUNE HIDDEN BY THE ANCIENT PEOPLE.
“BUSTERS” IT’S THE NAME WHO WE CALL THE FORTUNE HUNTERS. NOW THEY’RE ABOUT TO START A HISTORIC JOURNEY THAT NO ONE COULD COME BACK ALIVE FROM.
THAT IS TO GET THE "FISA"S CALLED LEGEND BY PEOPLE…, BUT EXCEPT THE ONE PERSON NO ONE IN THE WORLD CAN MAKE IT REAL WHO HAS GOT TO BE BILLIONET AND RADICAL, PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY…
NOW THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING YOU AND LOOKING FOR YOUR SUCCESS
NOW LET’S GO FOR IT!!!
I remember there was a reading of it floating around that made it even more absurd. Its burned into my brain and I cant find it.
the dimahoo intro
This is the only game I ever think about when I think about rhythm heaven
there’s something about how territorial conflicts are portrayed in these intros that somehow draws me into these games, despite their cheesy hollywood-ness, and idk what it is that has etched these into my mind.
hahaha i accidentally triggered it a bunch of times my first time playing
this is my favorite one that gets posted out of context on the internet
the for sale sign is like one of the most underrused jrpg items like SO MANY OTHER GAMES CAN USE IT
AND THE QUOTES
“is this a tool shop? cool!”
“im plumb tuckered out!”
and i like the chicken breeding, the weird sound effect they use for a cluck is great
‘yes THAT stonehenge’
the way the game says sodeska when you enter a name at the beginning
I think a lot about how kan naito went from making games about fairies and people with elf ears and swords, to making the runabout games. What happened to him? which is happy kan and which is depressed kan?
They should have made it get progressively faster and faster each time, to simulate the consumption of caffeine
Tony Soprano playing Mario Kart 64 with one hand.
totally wondering now whether HIRUX is a deliberate riff on the hilux, or if it was a translation error…
i think about this a lot, but especially the part where when he goes on a tirade about violence in videogames and text scrolls across the screen saying his views are not representative of sony lol
i genuinely like this intro
i’d watch a whole movie that looks like this: