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Lemniscate Blue posted:Did Nintendo invent the expansion pack? It was some PC game IIRC. Saw a TikTok a while back (the other day but my memory is fried) going into the history of DLC and it talked about that.
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Kheldarn posted:Did you know that Super Mario Bros. 2 is actually a reskin of a Japanese game called "Doki Doki Panic" as the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 was too hard for America? Yes, that went a long way toward explaining why I liked it so much better than SMB1
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Mario was truly the Dark Souls of its time.
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Actually playing through Japanese SMB2/US "lost levels" now on Switch Online. Better graphics, but full of bullshit. Like "series of blind moving platforms jumps into a surprise blind short distance jump that you'd have no way to know was coming unless you'd seen it before lol Mario's dead" bullshit. super happy save states exist now Yes "git gud" I know I know
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I remember early 90s PC games having expansion packs. Wing Commander 1 had it in 91 (?). All the Origin games had that. X-Wing had it.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Did Nintendo invent the expansion pack? I do know that Sega invented Blast Processing™.
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Gorilla Radio posted:Actually playing through Japanese SMB2/US "lost levels" now on Switch Online. Save states are a blessing. Going back to play old nintendo games makes it obvious just how bullshit so much of game design used to be. I'm not a child with unlimited time anymore, so I'd rather not spend several hours nailing a pixel perfect jump, or grinding out a rare but necessary item, when I can just hack that poo poo
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Kit Walker posted:Save states are a blessing. Going back to play old nintendo games makes it obvious just how bullshit so much of game design used to be. I'm not a child with unlimited time anymore, so I'd rather not spend several hours nailing a pixel perfect jump, or grinding out a rare but necessary item, when I can just hack that poo poo That was mostly a function of the lack of storage space. Games were actually pretty short if played straight through, so having to start over and master tricky bits made the game take longer and gave it more perceived value.
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Arivia posted:good news they're in bg3 Aw man, nobody better gently caress that hamster.
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mysterious frankie posted:Aw man, nobody better gently caress that hamster. Existing canon: Boo is sentient and intelligent Larian canon: Boo is capable of consent, and he’s a top
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Just because you can doesn't mean you should. But with BG it's fine because the third game is totally disconnected, not even in the same rule system, and turn based rather than pausable real time. That's why you play a human and do 3 levels of fighter and then dual class to caster. That way you'll start your level 1 caster with a pile of HP and a bunch of level 2/3 friends. The only trick to is to use your fighter weapon specialization slots on weapons you will still be able to use as a caster. There's a good war hammer early on, so specialize in war hammers if you are going fighter/cleric. Alternately go rogue for 2 or 3 levels and then dual class to caster. If you dump as many dumb rogue skill points as possible into pick locks at first level you can pick most of the locks in the inn and random chests around town, collect a few hundred gold worth of stuff, sell that poo poo and buy slightly better starting equipment from the innkeeper. Either way it will make your early levels much smoother. Since each class needs a different number of XP to go up levels, and fighters and rogues are the fastest, you should hit level 3 when most of the party are level 2. And then you'll reach 3/3 and unlock all your class features by the time the rest of them are level 4. AD&D XP tables are wild.
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I haven’t even figured out how to play the ‘endgame’ of Diablo iv aside from rolling a new character. I’m starting to realize why I never jumped on the baulders gate bandwagon. I’ve also never played DnD, but I’m enjoying the memes 
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Great, way to spoil yoship's euro fanfest tshirt reveal
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For me, the really interesting thing about the game that was eventually released as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels is that there was a small, local pizza joint just up the road from where I lived, and they had the game set up as a cocktail table game. I thought it was just regular Super Mario Bros. It was the 8-bit pixelated game I (thought I) knew, so I sat down, dropped a quarter in, and you can image my surprise when I got a Poison Mushroom instead of a normal one.
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Kheldarn posted:I thought it was just regular Super Mario Bros. It was the 8-bit pixelated game I (thought I) knew, so I sat down, dropped a quarter in, and you can image my surprise when I got a Poison Mushroom instead of a normal one. You should never eat wild mushrooms unless you are 100% sure how to identify them and what they are. 
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Sentient Data posted:Great, way to spoil yoship's euro fanfest tshirt reveal If this is the fantasy shirt, does that mean were getting a Xenogears crossover?
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He rose in a halfshell, turtle power
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Tree Bucket posted:He rose in a half shell Ah poo poo you did it
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dr_rat posted:You should never eat wild mushrooms unless you are 100% sure how to identify them and what they are. Don't you know how hard it is to do a spore print in 8-bit?
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Tree Bucket posted:He rose in a halfshell, turtle power nice
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Tree Bucket posted:He rose in a halfshell, turtle power 
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Tree Bucket posted:He rose in a halfshell, turtle power lol
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Tree Bucket posted:He rose in a halfshell, turtle power gently caress. 
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Tree Bucket posted:He rose in a halfshell, turtle power  Well done.
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Kheldarn posted:Did you know that Super Mario Bros. 2 is actually a reskin of a Japanese game called "Doki Doki Panic" as the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 was too hard for America? Anyone who lurked this site in the mid 2000s or with a reg date before 2009 should know this poo poo.
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Yeah, I know that now, but as a kid, seeing "Mario" go in a completely different and very interesting direction for their second outing, and then going right back for the third was some whiplash.
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Can't sleep. Thinking of Zot.
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I swear some of the poo poo they put on graphic card boxes back in the day actually made me resist getting into PC games.
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At least in Super Mario All-Stars, you could save on an individual level basis for SMB2J. I don’t think save states would be necessary at that point, I was able to finish the game without warps that way. If not for that though, yeah, save-scumming is on the table, christdialhforhero posted:Anyone who lurked this site in the mid 2000s or with a reg date before 2009 should know this poo poo. I’m pretty
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We used to rent NES games from the local video rental place each weekend and generally we would rent it, beat it immediately, play it several more times, and take it back the next day. We rented two or three movies and often a game each weekend from them. They held a contest where the winner got free rentals for one year and my family won. The first time we rented our free movies the guy that owned it falsely claimed we didn’t bring a video back in and we couldn’t rent anymore until we returned it and paid late fees. It was the most transparent way to lie his way out of giving us our prize and lose a very regular customer. Also he accidentally gave us Flesh Gordon instead of Flash Gordon one time, which, ha
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root beer posted:At least in Super Mario All-Stars, you could save on an individual level basis for SMB2J. I don’t think save states would be necessary at that point, I was able to finish the game without warps that way. If not for that though, yeah, save-scumming is on the table, christ Yeah I almost replied with something about Aragorn kicking the helmet or Wojtek the bear But yeah, another game renter here. My brother and I were very used to the idea that we would only realistically get about 2-3 hours to play a given game, so finding out later that most other kids would beat games was an  discovery for me. To me a game was something that had infinite hours of playability and increasing difficulty far outlasting anybody's ability to play it.That is, until SMB2 which we actually beat and it was like the accomplishment of a lifetime We made VHS recordings of the few ending scenes we could reach because we thought it was arcane knowledge Data Graham has a new favorite as of 16:00 on Aug 11, 2023 |
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The first and only game me and my friends beat was Giana Sisters. We were not even aware of Mario Bros et al. at the time nor for many years later. e: I guess this might qualify as a FP 
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marshmallow creep posted:I swear some of the poo poo they put on graphic card boxes back in the day actually made me resist getting into PC games. They always make them extra horny. Like even that weird goblin thing is trying to strike a pose.
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gbut posted:The first and only game me and my friends beat was Giana Sisters. We were not even aware of Mario Bros et al. at the time nor for many years later. Looking that game up it's fascinating both for what it ripped from Super Mario Brothers and what it changed, like the wider array of fire flower equivalent powerups and the base super mushroom equivalent apparently being from sweet little girl to badass punk of the same height. But the "mangled corpses of enemies stay on the screen after defeat" change sticks out most somehow.
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gbut posted:The first and only game me and my friends beat was Giana Sisters. We were not even aware of Mario Bros et al. at the time nor for many years later. drat 
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Holy poo poo they're still making sequels
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