NICE
during the Awful Games Block, between Avoid the Noid and Urban Yeti
I feel attacked by this scheduling.
I feel like being in the same block as Urban Yeti is an honor.
Being after Avoid the Noid though? That’s a deep insult.
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Couldn’t be avoided.
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Sweet, thanks!
Just started watching the AGDQ run and they’re playing a specific world seed? One that the player has clearly used before? That seems kind of counter to the spirit of the game but whatever I guess.
Speedruns of heavily procedural games that have seeds are almost always localized around a single seed (or even have different categories for different seeds that are each interesting in some way). Otherwise competition would be impossible. You might just have a record because you happened to get an amazing seed.
That makes sense, I guess.
Gonna suppose the seed wasn’t an agreed-upon competition seed because it was the runner’s name with two periods.
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dropping this here for all virtual hydlide heads, a 1998 amiga animation that is sort of unrelated but by dint of similar visual language (cut-out sprites cycling through animations in various abstract 3d spaces in very fixed perspectives) ends up feeling like a spiritual collaboration between that game and the Hylics guy.
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this is awesome
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i don’t know how i missed this thread but i have always been super curious about this game, and i realized just now it is entirely because of the ‘joke’ in the name wherein all of the other ‘virtua’ / ‘virtual’ games on the Saturn were like, ‘virtual’ versions of activities that are immediately intelligible (fighter, racing, cop, etc.) and then you have this and ‘virtual on’ which seem to indicate the existence of real world things you can do called “hydlide” and “on” and thinking about that is just funny to me. ok
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super hydlide is a great game
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I forgot there’s a game store a few blocks from here with twelve copies of NES Hydlide. I… think I need to return there, now that I am established in this locale.
Establish yourself even more by buying ALL of them. That’s making a statement.
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If only they had lock-on technology…
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Super Hydlide is on my list of RPGs to play. I’ve only dabbled but it looks interesting! I also have Hydlide 3 on Famicom, which I think is the same game.
I’ve been curious about Hydlide ever since I saw the NES version as a kid.
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I swear up and down that the NES game at least is really really good. You just need to figure out how to play the darned thing, and find a way to keep the one short looping piece of BGM from driving you to kill and eat your family.
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