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Using graphics that the NES obviously isn't capable of putting out really takes me out of these haunted NES game stories. That, and the fact that the shots are obviously taken from emulators.
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"I was paralyzed and could only move my thumbs.. also the spooky ghost was taking the screenshots for me now", on the other hand, is perfect for your immersion.
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It's not like it would take a lot of effort for people to just keep themselves to 4 colors per sprite and the right resolution. I doubt anyone's going to be complaining about unreasonable sprite overlap or too many being on screen at once or something- that stuff doesn't matter. But if it looks like a SNES game then why not just make it be a SNES game in the first place? It definitely takes anything that does it from "this could be real! maybe! you will never know!" to "this is fake but hey it's still kinda good!" at best. It's the difference between some really tense horror and like, a Jason movie. Nobody's going to be scared that Jason is gonna kill them when they go to the lake. But if a horror movie is done right, that lingering paranoia will stick with you for a while. Because on some level, even though you know it's fake, you can believe it. Edit: also after reading it that new godzilla thing is pretty terrible so far. oh no its a secret government project with a mysterious name! the text is red. blood red the game displayed a message it must have heard my voice but how Sea Lily fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Aug 17, 2012 |
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Aug 17, 2012 09:23
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I don't feel scared or tense when reading it, but I'm interested in the spritework and the general mystery. My standards are pretty low, I admit (Though the finale to the last Godzilla story was unforgivably cheesy).
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Aug 17, 2012 10:13
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Jesus Christ.
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Aug 17, 2012 11:09
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There was actually a game about a haunted NES cartridge - Nanashi No Game for the DS. It never made it out of Japan, but it was a 3D adventure game that featured this weird Dragon Quest-clone that was apparently cursed or something and you had to beat it within 7 days. I always wanted to play it, but, you know, Japanese. Reading all this made me search for a translation patch and apparently one came out last year, so I'm definitely going to try it out now.
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Aug 17, 2012 11:17
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Excellent story Rocketlex. I maintain that "The Loneliness Engine" is far and away the best fake game story thing, though.
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Aug 17, 2012 11:42
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That story is really good. More of the same!
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I heard plenty of great video game rumors in my childhood, but the one I remember most clearly is also the last one I can remember actually getting pretty "big" and being one I actively believed. It was the last video game rumor I can recall that had been fostered by the internet, rather than immediately snuffed out by it as any rumors would be today. The rumor was, when you got all the shines in Mario Sunshine, a new island would pop up in the distance in the plaza area that looked "purple and creepy". The NPCs at the docks were said to mention that there was no way to get to the new island by sea, because the waves were too rough. You would have had to go to Ricco Harbor and talk to the helicopter-owning NPC who normally does absolutely nothing, and he'd take you over there. Once there, the screen would show the little level select menu like with other stages, where you can select which shine you want to get. This is where it was revealed that the new area was called Waluigi Island. It was said to be just a small area with a helipad and a cave you'd go inside. Luigi would be strung up in a cage, and you'd fight Waluigi. Exactly what Waluigi did in battle was never made clear in any of the rumors. After beating him he'd run off and you would be able to play as Luigi with the Poltergust. The thing that I think kept this as such a prevalent rumor on GameFAQs even though it was a bit past the era of Secret Mew Trucks is simply that Mario Sunshine was hard as hell and no one could get to the end of the game and really disprove it. It's a little boring compared to some of the other urban legends in this thread, but I always remember it because it was the last of its kind, really. nerdbot fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Aug 18, 2012 |
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Aug 17, 2012 13:07
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Hakkesshu posted:I always wanted to play it, but, you know, Japanese. Reading all this made me search for a translation patch and apparently one came out last year, so I'm definitely going to try it out now.
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Pale Luna was by far the best of this thread's stories, mainly because I didn't realise it wasn't just a recount of an actual weird game occurrence up until the end. I enjoy the Godzilla thing for its weird little story and interesting "twisted" sprite work but I'm one of those terrible people who is endlessly grated upon by there being too many colours and too many sprites for a NES game. Seriously, he coulda avoided all this (and added some extra-special mystery) by claiming it was an apparently incomplete SNES port. 
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The ghost can bend the limitations of the NES. There, story saved.
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Yoshimo posted:I would say that Godzilla game story is still the best one in this thread. Still the best. 1973.
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Endorph posted:The ghost can bend the limitations of the NES. There, story saved. I'm pretty sure the story actually mentions the spritework being too detailed for an NES and that's basically the implied explanation.
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nerdbot posted:The thing that I think kept this as such a prevalent rumor on GameFAQs even though it was a bit past the era of Secret Mew Trucks is simply that Mario Sunshine was hard as hell and no one could get to the end of the game and really disprove it. It's a little boring compared to some of the other urban legends in this thread, but I always remember it because it was the last of its kind, really. drat, I'm going to have to load that up and give it another go-round some time. I think that's the only 3D Mario that I never actually completely finished.
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Hakkesshu posted:There was actually a game about a haunted NES cartridge - Nanashi No Game for the DS. It never made it out of Japan, but it was a 3D adventure game that featured this weird Dragon Quest-clone that was apparently cursed or something and you had to beat it within 7 days. You're in luck! Someone in our forum did an LP of it! if you're too lazy to patch the game yourself. The only real fault is 2/3rds of the game is spent slowly walking away from ghosts.
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Wandering Knitter posted:You're in luck! Someone in our forum did an LP of it! if you're too lazy to patch the game yourself. I played it myself, and it's not a great game, but by the time it gets painful and boring, it's over. It's about five to seven hours, but the last half of the game is wandering around the real world with terrible controls trying to avoid zombies and living out an in-joke among some Square execs. Had there been more Cursed RPG portions and fewer running around in the real world portions, it'd be a better thing.
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Opposing Farce posted:I'm pretty sure the story actually mentions the spritework being too detailed for an NES and that's basically the implied explanation. It is mentioned. He notices it a few chapters in, then near the end he says something like "By this point is was impossible not to notice. The graphical detail here was way too high for an NES." I don't think "graphics better than the system could manage" is necessarily a bad thing if you at least give it a cursory mention or explanation so the audience can suspend their disbelief. Nanashi no Game's explanation was that the haunted video game in question was running on a DS and not an original NES, so it was something like a hacked ROM.
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The new Godzilla story looks interesting. It seems like it'll probably take itself a lot less seriously than the first one though, if it'll continue like this. It does have some quality spritework again, though.
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Neito posted:I played it myself, and it's not a great game, but by the time it gets painful and boring, it's over. It's about five to seven hours, but the last half of the game is wandering around the real world with terrible controls trying to avoid zombies and living out an in-joke among some Square execs. Had there been more Cursed RPG portions and fewer running around in the real world portions, it'd be a better thing. The sequel seems to be better about that, but unfortunately there's no LP of it. (The cursed game is also slightly different, in that sometimes the NPCs don't speak... properly. It's hard to explain.) There was also a few other sequels released for other systems. The iPhone got Nanashi no App (which is basically what you think it is), while English people got "774 Deaths", which is basically a side-game pack of platformer/tilt-control stages with no real story. quote:I'm pretty sure the story actually mentions the spritework being too detailed for an NES and that's basically the implied explanation.  They can only display about 224 vertical lines (PAL gets 240).
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I really need to get around to working on a cursed 8-bit RPG with actual core RPG gameplay that's totally self-contained before the Nanashi no Game people run the concept into the ground. The trick is convincing people to put an hour into an 8-bit RPG before the wackiness starts.
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Zamujasa posted:
Uh, no, you're confusing the resolution of the NES (224 vertical for NTSC models, 240 vertical for PAL models) with the resolution of broadcasts and screens, which is 480 lines for NTSC and 576 lines for PAL.
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Yoshimo posted:That story is really good. More of the same! The Godzilla one?
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Mister Roboto posted:The Godzilla one? I think e means the loneliness engine: http://invisiblegames.net/archives/the-loneliness-engine/ dunno, I thought it was lame
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Mister Roboto posted:Old school shootings were the best type of shootings. This was a nicely done line
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Mister Roboto posted:The Godzilla one? Your killing spree one!
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I really liked the premise of Mister Roboto's story but the details not being entirely correct really bugs me. The game is clearly meant to be Doom (Demons, BFGs, monsters generally meant to exhibit "run toward the player" behavior), but there's details in it that really ruin it for me, like the radar and achievements. Also the only semi-automatic weapon in Doom is the pistol. Speaking of, there's no upgrades in Doom.  But yeah apart from described game mechanics not being 100% accurate, it's a good story.
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Wasn't really doom so much as "generic early shooter you'd find on steam." Thanks for the feedback, though, maybe I should write another when I have a moment.
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It really was very good. The way the whole thing seems kind of mundane until you get to the kick at the end (which completely changes the way the story reads, as opposed to just being a lovely twist) adds a lot to the chill I think.Zombies' Downfall posted:I really need to get around to working on a cursed 8-bit RPG with actual core RPG gameplay that's totally self-contained before the Nanashi no Game people run the concept into the ground. The trick is convincing people to put an hour into an 8-bit RPG before the wackiness starts. Tell people it's haunted. 
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Aug 18, 2012 12:53
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I will hear no more godless talk of anything being the best thing in this thread other than A Haunting Most Mario!
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Sorry, I'm going to have to admit to being patently thick but someone's going to have to explain the Loneliness Engine out for me.
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Zombies' Downfall posted:I really need to get around to working on a cursed 8-bit RPG with actual core RPG gameplay that's totally self-contained before the Nanashi no Game people run the concept into the ground. The trick is convincing people to put an hour into an 8-bit RPG before the wackiness starts. I am your audience for something like this. Done creatively, that could be really cool. EDIT: has anyone done an LP of Nanashi no Game 2? I really enjoyed the first one.
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The best 'haunted game' RPG or whatever would be one that's not advertised as one, with probably about 2-3 hours of nothing really out of the ordinary happening. Keeping the secret as long as possible would probably go a long way, I think.
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:The best 'haunted game' RPG or whatever would be one that's not advertised as one, with probably about 2-3 hours of nothing really out of the ordinary happening. Keeping the secret as long as possible would probably go a long way, I think. If I were able to do such a thing, I'd write it in a way that the "haunting" stuff would be random. Maybe on a screen transition or on hitting a trigger the game "rolls" a chance to do whatever you want the haunting to do. So basically you make a regular game and insert at random intervals (you'd have to guarantee that by X point, you'd have seen Y hauntings) whatever you want to do to gently caress with the player. Shoot, you could make a whole story out of the haunting, a game within a game just like Nanashi no Game.
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Well, we'll always have Eversion and its pre-level messages. Not quite the same but it has a similar effect.
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Bongo Bill posted:Well, we'll always have Eversion and its pre-level messages. Not quite the same but it has a similar effect. The one that's totally blank always creeped me out the most.
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The problem with including "gltichy stuff" in a game and not warning people that it's part of the game is that people will think it's a glitchy game. As much as it breaks immersion, you have to give at least a touch of warning.
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Neito posted:The problem with including "gltichy stuff" in a game and not warning people that it's part of the game is that people will think it's a glitchy game. As much as it breaks immersion, you have to give at least a touch of warning. Batman: Arkham Asylum had a big sticker on the box art warning players about this scene.
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Segmentation Fault posted:Batman: Arkham Asylum had a big sticker on the box art warning players about this scene. What was the warning?
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