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There is actually a significant amount of true postgame content in Ragnarok, that you cannot do until you finish the main quest. IIRC there was nothing gated like that in 2018, you could 99% it before heading to the end
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CJacobs posted:It must be seen to be believed. To be mildly fair, there's three tiers of passwords you can use to bring various degrees of progress and items over. They're 2, 4, and 6 pages long respectively.
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Feb 23, 2023 05:52
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also it was mostly a fallback for if you were a pleb without a second handheld and a link cable it's a bit wild to me that, despite save data being off the cartridge for generations now, it seems like cross-game carryover has mostly fallen away
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haveblue posted:There is actually a significant amount of true postgame content in Ragnarok, that you cannot do until you finish the main quest. IIRC there was nothing gated like that in 2018, you could 99% it before heading to the end Depends on what you specifically classify as 'postgame'. If you do almost everything it's possible to do before the final story battle, then what you have left is basically: - the Remnants enemy camps, which basically just exist to give you upgrade materials as a fight reward - one related Remnant minidungeon - a couple of collectibles you couldn't get before, with some associated story - any Berserkers you didn't clean up on the first time through (game's Valkyrie equivalents) - the Sigrun equivalent - final postgame cutscene wrapup Some people treat the Vanaheim Crater as postgame, and that's a hefty chunk, but IMO it's more fun to do it beforehand because of the dialogue. It also leaves you feeling appropriately swole for the final battle. edit: So yeah it's definitely more than GOW2018 but you can still wrap up 98% of stuff.
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An Actual Princess posted:the first level is great but the next string of levels are terrible. beware. I'm seeing what you mean, but so far my only issue with Venice is the gun enemies, especially as there aren't nearly as many health kits as in the first game, so I'm really having to abuse the save system. Found one of the secrets though, hopefully I can find the other two to get some more health items. I don't have a problem with the level's structure, and I like that the muzzle-flash of the pistols lights up the dark areas so you can get by without flares.
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I could never get anywhere in The Last Revelation. I kept finding myself unsure of where to go.
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On the subject of old-school video game passwords, bisqwit has a few videos explaining some from specific games. Here’s Mega Man 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eQyYrSQPew
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Feb 23, 2023 08:12
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Read After Burning posted:The only ones I'm familiar with are the sandcastle codes from Banjo Kazooie. Spending two minutes ground pounding arbitrarily placed letters with no feedback only to find out that you messed up who knows when and have to put the sentence-long code in again belongs in the other thread for sure.
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Feb 23, 2023 08:24
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Some of these passwords are much less complex than a combo in Killer Instinct
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:On the subject of old-school video game passwords, bisqwit has a few videos explaining some from specific games. Here’s Mega Man 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eQyYrSQPew I remember doing something like this for some obscure flash game from the 2000s or something where you're doing ninja fights in first person. Muddling through the password to figure out which changes have you more kunai or put you in a further level, that sort of thing. Kinda neat to see how it worked.
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Red Minjo posted:Spending two minutes ground pounding arbitrarily placed letters with no feedback only to find out that you messed up who knows when and have to put the sentence-long code in again belongs in the other thread for sure. to be fair they were more dev commands than actual cheat codes and were more of a backup than something intended for players to use
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Feb 23, 2023 16:07
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The best cheat code was kicking your Nintendo while playing a game and scrambling the palette.
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credburn posted:The best cheat code was kicking your Nintendo while playing a game and scrambling the palette. How about crashing Sonic 3D Blast and getting a level select screen?
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The "best" thing about old school passwords and video games was poo poo like Faxanadu where it was a million letters long and a combination of uppercase and lowercase, but the font was so bad that you couldn't tell a zero from a capital o, or a capital I from a lowercase l. Also "ENGAGE RIDLEY MOTHER FUCKER" is a functional password in the original Metroid.
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We played Bubble Bobble so much as kids that we eventually were able to intuit how the passwords worked. I can't remember now, but back in the day if you wanted a certain level I could work the password out in my head.
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I dunno if "vibes" are a little thing, but Eastshade is such a cozy game, and that includes some of the houses/inns. Look at this cozy-rear end poo poo.  I would like to stay here for a weekend.Red Minjo posted:Spending two minutes ground pounding arbitrarily placed letters with no feedback only to find out that you messed up who knows when and have to put the sentence-long code in again belongs in the other thread for sure. Oh, god, and having to listen to that annoying voice say each letter! 
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FreshFeesh posted:Any conversation around game passwords wouldn’t be complete without a mention of River City Ransom Used to rent that game all the time. One weekend, both my cousin and I wrote down the password in a notebook. Even after doublechecking it, it still didn't work.
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CitizenKain posted:Used to rent that game all the time. One weekend, both my cousin and I wrote down the password in a notebook. Even after doublechecking it, it still didn't work. Probably an i/l/1/! issue, or a 0/O situation
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Someone make a password system that is just a combination of 1,I,l,!, O, and 0. Also a bunch of m and rn thrown in for good measure.
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Morpheus posted:Someone make a password system that is just a combination of 1,I,l,!, O, and 0. Also a bunch of m and rn thrown in for good measure. M for Mancy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNYMQpcqscA
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Morpheus posted:Someone make a password system that is just a combination of 1,I,l,!, O, and 0. Also a bunch of m and rn thrown in for good measure. In Everquest we used to make characters whose names were combinations of 1s, ls and |s. So in the chat it would just come out as ||||||||||||||: (real immature homophobic and racist poo poo here) and nobody could report us for being lovely lovely lovely stupid 13 year-olds. credburn has a new favorite as of 22:13 on Feb 23, 2023 |
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You really didn't need to admit you were part of it, y'know.
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Lobok posted:You really didn't need to admit you were part of it, y'know. Unfortunately, they are bound by username law
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NNNN NNNN NNNN NNNN or MMMM MMMM MMMM MMMM was a Metal Gear NES password. I forget which.
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credburn posted:The best cheat code was kicking your Nintendo while playing a game and scrambling the palette.
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credburn posted:In Everquest we used to make characters whose names were combinations of 1s, ls and |s. So in the chat it would just come out as ||||||||||||||: (real immature homophobic and racist poo poo here) and nobody could report us for being lovely lovely lovely stupid 13 year-olds. On a more wholesome note, using lower case Ls and capital Is was a good way to, at a glance, have multiple characters with the same name in City of Heroes.
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John Murdoch posted:On a more wholesome note, using lower case Ls and capital Is was a good way to, at a glance, have multiple characters with the same name in City of Heroes. The only time I played City of Heroes was the free trial where we all created Agent Smiths and followed people around quoting the movie. We were in PC Gamer!
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Hirayuki posted:Asylum was a virtually impossible maze-based adventure game on the C64. Once I forgot to swap in my saved-games disk when loading a game; panicked, I pulled the game disk out for a moment. Much to my surprise, this caused the game to load with a poo poo-ton of very handy items in my inventory. I used that trick from that moment on (and still didn't beat the game until I found a walkthrough thirty-plus years later). IIRC the Sega Genesis had a thing where if you hot swapped games you could do weird things.
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rydiafan posted:The "best" thing about old school passwords and video games was poo poo like Faxanadu where it was a million letters long and a combination of uppercase and lowercase, but the font was so bad that you couldn't tell a zero from a capital o, or a capital I from a lowercase l. "Functional" doing a lot of heavy lifting here It either crashes the game immediately or softlocks you In A Robot Named Fight, though, it unlocks boss rush mode!
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credburn posted:The best cheat code was kicking your Nintendo while playing a game and scrambling the palette. Banjo-Kazooie Nuts and Bolts has a stage set inside a game console, and if you collide into the graphics card you get graphical glitches, same with the sound card and power source.
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credburn posted:The only time I played City of Heroes was the free trial where we all created Agent Smiths and followed people around quoting the movie. More like PP Lamer.
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credburn posted:In Everquest we used to make characters whose names were combinations of 1s, ls and |s. So in the chat it would just come out as ||||||||||||||: (real immature homophobic and racist poo poo here) and nobody could report us for being lovely lovely lovely stupid 13 year-olds. How is that homophobic and racist?
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grittyreboot posted:How is that homophobic and racist? They're saying they would type poo poo into the chat but you couldn't report them easily because parsing the username would be impossible
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The |||||||||| naming is apparently a thing on the Starcraft 2 ladder where they're referred to as barcodes. Pro players wanted to practice builds on the ladder without revealing their tournament plans if the account got identified and other people copied it too. Cheesy players may also end up using it just so they're less likely to get countered based on the opponent recognizing their name.
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yook posted:The |||||||||| naming is apparently a thing on the Starcraft 2 ladder where they're referred to as barcodes. Pro players wanted to practice builds on the ladder without revealing their tournament plans if the account got identified and other people copied it too. Cheesy players may also end up using it just so they're less likely to get countered based on the opponent recognizing their name. they should have done what jerma985 did on TF2 and name themselves "goat cheese" or "umbrella dummy" or "big bald bastard" instead of enabling trolls edit: if you can't freely change your name in starcraft and have to make a whole new account though that's fair.
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grittyreboot posted:How is that homophobic and racist? It's a placeholder, not a description
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muscles like this! posted:IIRC the Sega Genesis had a thing where if you hot swapped games you could do weird things. Oh man, I forget exactly how to do it since it's been 30+ years, but I remember something like that with the 32x version of Mortal Kombat 2 and the Sega CD. I think if you plugged the cart in while a CD game was playing, it'd load the foreground elements but the background would be frozen from the CD game, so I'd do that, take a Polaroid, and drive my friends up the wall not telling them how I was finding all of these "secret stages".
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I only noticed this recently because I've been playing Hitman's new Freelancer mode, which has taught me that sometimes you just have to blow some fuckers up and then run like hell: the exploding phone plays "Ave Maria" when you activate it, until somebody picks it up and it explodes. Of all the little (and not-so-little) callbacks and references to the games before the new trilogy, I think that's my favorite. I'd used it a few times before Freelancer came out (usually as a backup plan for Elusive Targets or similar missions), but I was almost always far enough away that I couldn't hear it or make out what the ringtone actually was, just that it was making noise and someone was about to get exploded.
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CJacobs posted:they should have done what jerma985 did on TF2 and name themselves "goat cheese" or "umbrella dummy" or "big bald bastard" instead of enabling trolls
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beats for junkies posted:"Ave Maria" I can never see "Ave Maria" anymore without remembering Dan Ryckert going "What's the name of that opera song? Eva Angelina?"
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