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Neo Rasa posted:I'm legit stunned JSRF never got ported (along with Otogi and Otogi 2 two of the raddest games on earth), The bigger mystery isn't that JSRF never got ported, it's that the original JSR got ported and JSRF didn't like what JSRF is so incredibly the better game compared to JSR/JGR that it's not even a contest and makes you wonder why they even bothered.
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ishikabibble posted:Disagree, mostly because the game takes every opportunity to bait you into doing something 'bad' and then turns around and mocks you for it Huh? The only time the game calls you a monster is when you do a genocide run, which involves running around for random encounters in each zone until you've completely wiped out all enemies, and multiple times along the way various characters will beg you to stop and tell you that it's not too late to turn a new leaf. To end the genocide run all you have to do is spare one enemy. I can't imagine anyone doing it accidentally.
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galagazombie posted:Great Castlevania games that may or may not have “Of” or “The” in their title: This checks out, but where would you place Kid Dracula?
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The Xbox and Dreamcast are cool in retrospect, but owning both during their respective cycles sucked as a kid. My only source of Dreamcast games was our Pennsyltuckey EB, and it was three small shelfs that mostly had used copies of Sonic Adventure, sports games, and Samba De Amigo without the maracas. The Xbox was kinda the same but with used copies of Brute Force. I also couldn't play either console online.
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Coquito Ergo Sum posted:The Xbox and Dreamcast are cool in retrospect, but owning both during their respective cycles sucked as a kid. My only source of Dreamcast games was our Pennsyltuckey EB, and it was three small shelfs that mostly had used copies of Sonic Adventure, sports games, and Samba De Amigo without the maracas. The Xbox was kinda the same but with used copies of Brute Force. I also couldn't play either console online. I always wanted an Xbox growing up. I remember seeing so many commercials on how it took and improved games originally on the PS2, like MGS2, as well as having exclusives that I wanted desperately to play like KOTOR.
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Coquito Ergo Sum posted:The Xbox and Dreamcast are cool in retrospect, but owning both during their respective cycles sucked as a kid. My only source of Dreamcast games was our Pennsyltuckey EB, and it was three small shelfs that mostly had used copies of Sonic Adventure, sports games, and Samba De Amigo without the maracas. The Xbox was kinda the same but with used copies of Brute Force. I also couldn't play either console online. How was the Xbox bad when new? It got tons of great exclusives, had the superior version of every multiplat, loaded faster, and had a hard drive that for the time had effectively infinite storage. The only thing it really lacked was JRPG’s which it had effectively zero. Which on the one hand was a serious negative since that Gen was the genres height of popularity. But on the other hand JRPG’s suck balls so good riddance.
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The Xbox was one of the best home entertainment buys of it's time, if you chipped it.
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Vandar posted:I would kill for a port of Jet Set Radio Future.
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I thought Dracula X was cool before I knew it was just a bad port of Rondo of Blood.
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Nice Van My Man posted:I thought Dracula X was cool before I knew it was just a bad port of Rondo of Blood. It’s not really a port. It’s more like an official romhack. It uses the assets but has entirely different levels. Almost like the Rondo team gave someone the sprite sheet and tile sets with no context or documentation and told them to make a game with it.
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Vandar posted:I would kill for a port of Jet Set Radio Future. Really hoping bomb rush cyberfunk manages to scratch that itch
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I played a pretty cool castlevania slot machine where the bonus game is defeating different bosses. I did alright on it, would put it in the good category
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galagazombie posted:How was the Xbox bad when new? It got tons of great exclusives, had the superior version of every multiplat, loaded faster, and had a hard drive that for the time had effectively infinite storage. The only thing it really lacked was JRPG’s which it had effectively zero. Which on the one hand was a serious negative since that Gen was the genres height of popularity. But on the other hand JRPG’s suck balls so good riddance. Like I said, it only really sucked for me because of my store's limited selection. The best find I ever got was a copy of MVC2.
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Some real hosed up tier choices for Dark Souls bosses in this video imo, the first time you play the game Bell Gargoyles is a surprising delight that so well represents the mood of the entire series that it should forever be an A tier encounter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Apq_c90nE
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ishikabibble posted:The bigger mystery isn't that JSRF never got ported, it's that the original JSR got ported and JSRF didn't Vandar posted:I would kill for a port of Jet Set Radio Future. big black turnout posted:Really hoping bomb rush cyberfunk manages to scratch that itch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-cE0PK9TeQ Team Reptile basically can't miss if they're trying, and I am so loving there for it.
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QuarkJets posted:Some real hosed up tier choices for Dark Souls bosses in this video imo, the first time you play the game Bell Gargoyles is a surprising delight that so well represents the mood of the entire series that it should forever be an A tier encounter My confession: I beat the bell Gargoyles on my first go, and I did it in such a way that I didn't realise there were two of them. I'm not sure how that's possible, I suspect it bugged out and only one spawned, for me to have beat it so easy. I never played through og ds again, so I always feel guilty when people bring up the Gargoyles.
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big black turnout posted:Really hoping bomb rush cyberfunk manages to get released
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Started Shining the Holy Ark tonight and enjoyed it even though I typically don't like dungeon crawlers.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:oh i thought that was marketed as an xbox exclusive, my bad No, you're right, Munch's Odyssee was originally an Xbox exclusive and only ported to other systems later. Ditto for the excellent Stranger's Wrath. galagazombie posted:How was the Xbox bad when new? It got tons of great exclusives, had the superior version of every multiplat, loaded faster, and had a hard drive that for the time had effectively infinite storage. The only thing it really lacked was JRPG’s which it had effectively zero. Which on the one hand was a serious negative since that Gen was the genres height of popularity. But on the other hand JRPG’s suck balls so good riddance. On the subject of the original Xbox and Japanese-made RPGs, I still think it's incredible that the Xbox 1) had its own exclusive Shin Megami Tensei game, and 2) it never left Japan. Just a huge loving waste of money from Atlus. I would love to hear like, everything about how the game came to be because its existence just utterly baffles me.
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Seriously though KotOR 1&2 alone were worth losing out on every PS2 era JRPG combined, and they have serious aging issues. edit: Can’t believe I didn’t mention Morrowind aka one of the greatest games of all time. I guess Xbox was where you went for Manly red blooded Western Rpgs unlike the heathen PS2 of the foreigner and his JRPG’s. galagazombie fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Mar 7, 2023 |
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KOTOR 1 was bad and played like complete poo poo though. (Never tried the second because the first left such an awful taste in my mouth.)
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The second is one fo those games that completely sucks to play and is mostly bad but people say its good because it has a bunch good conversations in it
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galagazombie posted:Seriously though KotOR 1&2 alone were worth losing out on every PS2 era JRPG combined, and they have serious aging issues. Xbox is where you went if you weren't allowed to use the family computer, those are all PC games
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Caesar Saladin posted:The second is one fo those games that completely sucks to play and is mostly bad but people say its good because it has a bunch good conversations in it Ah the fallout new Vegas effect
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ishikabibble posted:The bigger mystery isn't that JSRF never got ported, it's that the original JSR got ported and JSRF didn't Music rights. Instead of being able to sell a game forever, just cheap out on the contract so you can sell your game once on a console for people who hate Japanese games WRPGs seem obsessed with emulating tabletop roleplaying games instead of just making a game where number go up. It’s like instead of just making a murder mystery game they’re trying to make a digital version of Cluedo
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That loving Sned posted:WRPGs seem obsessed with emulating tabletop roleplaying games instead of just making a game where number go up. It’s like instead of just making a murder mystery game they’re trying to make a digital version of Cluedo I had that on the SNES. It was fun, my mom and I played it a lot.
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That loving Sned posted:WRPGs seem obsessed with emulating tabletop roleplaying games instead of just making a game where number go up. It’s like instead of just making a murder mystery game they’re trying to make a digital version of Cluedo That's way cooler than watching number go up though. Tbh most WRPGS don't even do that poo poo right and are actually just number go up though. Divinity 2 actually does it well and it's way more interesting to play than 99% of RPG bullshit
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What D:OS 1 and 2 try to do is give the player as much freedom as possible to approach their narrative - in the spirit of ttrpg's. What most cRPG's do though is just take all the pointless minutia (lots and lots and lots of numbers) and dispense with the freedom, because that part is hard to emulate. Edit: I still mostly prefer that stuff to cutscene-heavy RPG's. Which most jRPG's are. At least you have something to do. Assuming we aren't talking about action-rpg's. itry fucked around with this message at 11:39 on Mar 7, 2023 |
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lolling at pc game fans praising the xbox my brother in gaming the xbox is what ruined pc games
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George posted:lolling at pc game fans praising the xbox There's definitely something to that, the need to make everything compatible with a gamepad made a lot of PC games much worse
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I think everyone is forgetting how poo poo pc gaming was before the xbox. It went from having to wrangle various boot disks and juggling memory and loving IRQ settings, then having to go into DOS mode from Win 95/98 to make things run remotely well (with a good chance of sound/music not working) to a period of having no idea if something was going to work because your 3d video card wasn't supported. Oh, and you actually want to play this game with a controller because it was clearly designed for it? Good loving luck. Then the early 2000s era of absolutely insane DRM that installed rootkits or just flat out disabled your CD/DVD drive because it detected that you had Nero installed. And Steam was absolute dogshit on launch. I pretty much exclusively played PC games up until about 2003 and it was a massive loving hassle. It's pretty poo poo that games are released kinda broken and have massive day-one patches (or in the case of Cyberpunk massive patches over a year later) but holy poo poo this is way better than when games were released utterly broken and we had to buy a goddamn magazine with a patch on the cover disc (or floppy disk, even) in order to make it playable.
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The friends I had that looked down on my preference for console games in my teens absolutely loved loving around with IRQ setting and workarounds all that other bullshit because all the hassle let them feel a little ahead of the curve. They wouldn't admit that console were dope until the Xbox, and now they all own a Nintendo Switch.
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George posted:lolling at pc game fans praising the xbox Yes, I, too miss tweaking config.sys, creating custom boot disks to squeeze a just a few kilobytes of RAM out of my system and fighting with IRQ and DMA channel settings just to play a goddamn video game.
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Quote-Unquote posted:I think everyone is forgetting how poo poo pc gaming was before the xbox. It went from having to wrangle various boot disks and juggling memory and loving IRQ settings, then having to go into DOS mode from Win 95/98 to make things run remotely well (with a good chance of sound/music not working) to a period of having no idea if something was going to work because your 3d video card wasn't supported. Oh, and you actually want to play this game with a controller because it was clearly designed for it? Good loving luck. Then the early 2000s era of absolutely insane DRM that installed rootkits or just flat out disabled your CD/DVD drive because it detected that you had Nero installed. And Steam was absolute dogshit on launch. tango alpha delta posted:Yes, I, too miss tweaking config.sys, creating custom boot disks to squeeze a just a few kilobytes of RAM out of my system and fighting with IRQ and DMA channel settings just to play a goddamn video game. The introduction of the Xbox didn't fix any of that. It did, however, cause all RPG inventory screens to start looking like this 
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Quote-Unquote posted:I think everyone is forgetting how poo poo pc gaming was before the xbox. It went from having to wrangle various boot disks and juggling memory and loving IRQ settings, then having to go into DOS mode from Win 95/98 to make things run remotely well (with a good chance of sound/music not working) to a period of having no idea if something was going to work because your 3d video card wasn't supported. Oh, and you actually want to play this game with a controller because it was clearly designed for it? Good loving luck. Then the early 2000s era of absolutely insane DRM that installed rootkits or just flat out disabled your CD/DVD drive because it detected that you had Nero installed. And Steam was absolute dogshit on launch. The xbox came out in 2001, the era of boot disks was long dead by then unless you just badly wanted to be a nerd. You installed Starcraft and it just worked, and then you installed it on all of your friends computers cause the game let you do that (I think it was called Spawn Mode?). As an idiot adolescent I never had to do jack poo poo to get anything working
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tango alpha delta posted:Yes, I, too miss tweaking config.sys, creating custom boot disks to squeeze a just a few kilobytes of RAM out of my system and fighting with IRQ and DMA channel settings just to play a goddamn video game. Was that better or worse than blowing in NES cartridges to get them to work, or dealing with N64 joycons that had zany drift after almost any usage? IRQ poo poo was a small window of time, most people don't associate PC gaming with that.
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QuarkJets posted:The xbox came out in 2001, the era of boot disks and IRQ settings was long dead by then. You installed Starcraft and it just worked, and then you installed it on all of your friends computers cause the game let you do that (I think it was called Spawn Mode?). As an idiot adolescent I never had to do jack poo poo to get anything working yes boot disks irq settings were long dead by 2001 then there was the rest of the things I wrote, such as the incredibly invasive and damaging DRM, the absolute lack of controller support and completely hosed 3d card driver support. Either you weren't playing PC games or you're missing a huge chunk of your memory if you think PC gaming wasn't a massive hassle until sometime in the late 2000s compared to console gaming. Fuckin XIII crippled my goddamn DVD drive with its lovely DRM.
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