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Bicyclops posted:something about the n64 era of games definitely feels haunted. I think it's really difficult to do the kind of vibe we're talking about now without it seeming intentional, at which point it's just either horror or a weirdly bare boring environment. The fact that your imagination had to fill in a lot of gaps combined with childhood fertile imagination was the key and imo that's very difficult to get back without intentionally trying to do it, which is in itself kind of "cute" or "retro" or whatever.
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the piano in sm64 never scared me as a kid but the eel in jolly roger's bay did i was also scared of the big octos in wind waker stuff lurking underwater was just a thing that got to me back in the day.
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I was afraid of the redeads as a kid but weirdly I was equally afraid of the dipshit skeletons who appear in Hyrule Field at night.
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the redeads in oot terrified me and I didn't learn until like a year ago that they are blind and if you just walk slowly they won't hear you and completely ignore you also playing WW as a kid I was like "well if there's redead in this game they'll be cartoons and less scary" I was wrong I was so loving wrong
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I think the soundscape had a lot to do with the eeriness of N64 games. Footsteps in 64 games sound really hollow and spooky, maybe it's compressed or something, I don't know the technicals
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NienNunb posted:I was afraid of the redeads as a kid but weirdly I was equally afraid of the dipshit skeletons who appear in Hyrule Field at night. i can relate since i was utterly terrified by skeletons as a kid, no matter how goofy they looked. you can imagine how i reacted getting to the graveyard in Luigi's Mansion for the first time speaking of, i'm still getting used to how many tools you end up having at your disposal in LM3. definitely not a bad thing at all, but after only having elements as a power-up in the original, it feels like a whole different ballgame. even having to charge up the flashlight rather than just swing it around still feels a bit foreign lol
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extremebuff posted:the redeads in oot terrified me and I didn't learn until like a year ago that they are blind and if you just walk slowly they won't hear you and completely ignore you Good sound effect ties it together
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This is maybe an old man thing to say but I feel like games were just better-designed in the past. When you have a hard limit on cartridge size, every texture and sound has to be chosen intentionally and carefully because it's taking up valuable space. There were a lot of crap SNES/N64 games but the good ones are phenomenal because they are so thoroughly planned and considered. In the era of 100+ GB games, I think a little of the care has gone away. Not always, (thank you Nintendo) but really great games feel less common now.
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Nostradingus posted:This is maybe an old man thing to say but I feel like games were just better-designed in the past. When you have a hard limit on cartridge size, every texture and sound has to be chosen intentionally and carefully because it's taking up valuable space. There were a lot of crap SNES/N64 games but the good ones are phenomenal because they are so thoroughly planned and considered. youre also 20 years older and more cynical. every year of gaming gets better because theres always a few new great games and all the old badass games that you havent played or want to replay
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Fungah! posted:every year of gaming gets better because theres always a few new great games and all the old badass games that you havent played or want to replay yes. yeah. gently caress yyeah. right on. correct
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OOT forest temple legit freaked me out (in my early 20s) when I was playing it at 2 am in the dark and no one else in the house. the music, the ghosts, it all added up to where I was looking over my shoulder. awesome gaming moments
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Semper Games this and semper nintendo
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not only are there new great games every year, a backlog of great old games to discover and play for the bfirst time, and classics to revisit (or master), but now we are adults, with jobs and disposable incomes, so we can play almost any game we want. and hell, thanks to Masahiro Sakurai, sonic, Mario and sephiroth are in a game together. here in the future, it's all Funcoland all the time.
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Crying (out of fear) to video game music
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Bicyclops posted:not only are there new great games every year, a backlog of great old games to discover and play for the bfirst time, and classics to revisit (or master), but now we are adults, with jobs and disposable incomes, so we can play almost any game we want. and hell, thanks to Masahiro Sakurai, sonic, Mario and sephiroth are in a game together. here in the future, it's all Funcoland all the time. Every day is Gamemaster Anthony’s birthday and I am here for it.
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there’s also something probably about knowing the graphics were best and closest to realism at the time but we’re so clearly off that makes it kinda unsettling. there’s still something off about something like jet set Gemini to me, for some reason
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John Romero posted:there’s also something probably about knowing the graphics were best and closest to realism at the time but we’re so clearly off that makes it kinda unsettling. there’s still something off about something like jet set Gemini to me, for some reason Oh for sure man.
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John Romero posted:there’s also something probably about knowing the graphics were best and closest to realism at the time but we’re so clearly off that makes it kinda unsettling. there’s still something off about something like jet set Gemini to me, for some reason i'm too depressed and out of sorts due to lord kyankas death to open up photoshop and do a chills style youtube thumbnail where there's a big red box and giant red arrow pointing at the unsettling part(s) so i'll let YOU decide where the creepiness is coming from 
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i remember the animations being stiff as gently caress the framerate really stilted and weirdly graphic dismemberment of giant ants
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I never played either but my mind would mix up Perfect Dark and Jet Force Gemini as a kid.
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Bicyclops posted:a backlog of great old games to discover and play for the bfirst time, and classics to revisit (or master) I'm playing through the resident evil remake for gamecube for the first time and it fuckin' rules!
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Leadthumb posted:I'm playing through the resident evil remake for gamecube for the first time and it fuckin' rules! It kicks rear end
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i played jet force gemini and it was somehow one of the biggest piles rare has ever made which is saying alot since htey made donkey kong countrey, banjo tooie, dk64, conker day, goldeneye, perfect dark, kameo, sea of thieves, the xbox 360 avatars, kinect wiisports, and Mr Pants
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ArfJason posted:i played jet force gemini and it was somehow one of the biggest piles rare has ever made which is saying alot since htey made donkey kong countrey, banjo tooie, dk64, conker day, goldeneye, perfect dark, kameo, sea of thieves, the xbox 360 avatars, kinect wiisports, and Mr Pants *Dubya voice* You forgot grabbed by the ghoulies
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ArfJason posted:i played jet force gemini and it was somehow one of the biggest piles rare has ever made which is saying alot since htey made donkey kong countrey, banjo tooie, dk64, conker day, goldeneye, perfect dark, kameo, sea of thieves, the xbox 360 avatars, kinect wiisports, and Mr Pants whoa dude. can we not talk poo poo about the 360 avatars, kinect spoirts, sea of thieves, and mf mr pants???
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Pablo Nergigante posted:*Dubya voice* You forgot grabbed by the ghoulies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbvWn1EY6g&t=88s
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my favorite part of jet force gemini was that the final level was locked behind doing absolutely everything in a giant n64 collectathon thing. like if you couldn't fight the final boss of a metroid without every single pickup but you have to go play more of a bad weird game instead
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when did it suddenly become popular to poo poo on banjo tooie that game owned
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Augus posted:when did it suddenly become popular to poo poo on banjo tooie 
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