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Never had the chance to play them so 0 nostalgia. How historically important are they really? Like were they revolutionarily good games? I enjoy that aspect of old games and it was cool to play Doom 1+2 for the first time in the 2020’s discovering that they are fun and hold up and inform so many successors.
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 12:35 |
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# ? May 24, 2024 19:07 |
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I wouldn't say they were revolutionary good games, obviously having a female protagonist was a big deal back in 1996 and they had the whole 3D graphics in their infancy new-ness. Really there are a long of things the TR games did poorly, combat was basic even back then, a lot of the later levels, particularly in TR3 could get needlessly complicated but there is such a charm to them that for me is deeply rooted in nostalgia and a shared experience of gaming with my dad. If nothing else they are a real throwback to when games didn't hold your hand, the games were hard man, me and my dad stopped playing Tomb Raider 1 till the second part of the walkthrough was published in the next month's copy of Gamesmaster magazine, lol.
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 12:41 |
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I’m only getting it if the nude raider code was kept in.
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 12:45 |
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The one where you dance in time to never ever by all saints?
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 12:46 |
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Oh poo poo MvDk is the one that plays like Kristy's Super Funhouse? gently caress yes.
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 15:07 |
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WHY BONER NOW posted:This is a roguelike, and I think it's one of those games where you take a step and all the enemies on the map take a step too? thats a roguelike yes
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 15:59 |
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Harold Fjord posted:Oh poo poo MvDk is the one that plays like Kristy's Super Funhouse? Just one or two levels per world play like that but there are a lot of worlds. Most are a standard Donkey Kong type level with a mini as your end goal
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 16:16 |
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I wouldn't say they were revolutionary good games Good is subjective, but I think the original was hugely revolutionary/impactful. It came out a month or so apart from Mario 64 (and Crash 1, what a time) and had much larger and more complex levels, cinematic camera cutaways, puzzles that were slightly above child-level, cool CG cutscenes way before FF7, and the main character was one of the handful of de facto Video Game Mascots for 3-4 years after. In some sense it was 3D Prince of Persia, but in another it was Indiana Jones and was a much "cooler" game next to characters like Bubsy. I think it also influenced the 3rd person camera behavior/look/etc. of stuff like Syphon Filter and Silent Hill too (for better or worse). That said, I'm biased as it is one of my favorite trilogies and I've loved it for decades, but I wouldn't recommend the originals to newcomers aside from curiosity because the controls are very rigid and the jumps/climbing all function on a grid system that is frustrating if you don't play by its rules (e.g. knowing how far the different jumps will reach). I'm really curious to see if the remasters address that well or not, I had a hard time seeing modern controls working given the way the levels are designed, but it would be great if more people discover them. I think they have a ton of charm. Made some trilogy maps too, although they aren't really necessary for observant players. https://x.com/vgcartography/status/1732022714582364483
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 16:39 |
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i played tr1 a ton as a kid when it came out, never beat it. hard rear end games i played through the trilogy completely last year and had a blast. it held up super well, at least for me, but i have a lot of jank tolerance. i'll be happy for this trilogy just to have a way to play them on modern platforms
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 16:46 |
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tomb raider ftw
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 16:52 |
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Tomb Raider was cool until Angelina Jolie cut her boobs off. But here we are.
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 17:18 |
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eightysixed posted:Tomb Raider was cool until Angelina Jolie cut her boobs off. But here we are. Imagine the drama of a vulnerable Lara Croft still persisting on her worldly adventures despite her illness. It needs fleshing out, no pun intended, but we guarantee the gaming world would be shocked, stunned, and moved by the effort to make Lara's character more meaningful.
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 17:24 |
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I tried out the Mario Vs Donkey Kong demo and while it looks amazing graphic wise man it got really defanged from the GBA version. No rankings for time left over? Get outta here, back in the day you had to be efficient to unlock stars I saw that Eastward was on sale with the Harvest Moon-like life sim, how is ot overall? Heard lots of love or hate opinions about it.
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 19:49 |
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Dr. Cool Aids posted:Imagine the drama of a vulnerable Lara Croft still persisting on her worldly adventures despite her illness.
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 20:19 |
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I really hope the princess peach game has some good options to play with my almost-four year old. Do y'all know if they've talked about any of that kind of stuff yet? She wants a princess peach birthday party, so I'm hoping this is a win.
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 20:35 |
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External Organs posted:I really hope the princess peach game has some good options to play with my almost-four year old. Do y'all know if they've talked about any of that kind of stuff yet? I haven’t seen anything that suggests the game will have any kind of multiplayer mode but you never know I guess
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 20:37 |
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Larryb posted:I haven’t seen anything that suggests the game will have any kind of multiplayer mode but you never know I guess If not I might jank it up with my daughter doing the movement and me doing the action buttons. It....kind of worked for some Mario Wonder levels. Better for goose game.
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 20:40 |
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I want a princess peach birthday party
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 20:41 |
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elf help book posted:I want a princess peach birthday party I think we are gonna try to make a mushroom kingdom themed obstacle course. She loves to jump on poo poo. I'll post pictures when it happens! Mid April.
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 21:12 |
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elf help book posted:I want a princess peach birthday party
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 21:50 |
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Princess Peach owns. Even though Daisy is better.
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 22:14 |
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You monster
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# ? Feb 1, 2024 23:13 |
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i'm slightly annoyed that i played through tomb raider 1 + 2 on the PC recently with a bunch of patches to make them run tolerably on modern hardware and am halfway through 3. i would've waited if i knew the remastered collection were coming.
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 00:16 |
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MaxDuo posted:I remember playing some game on Steam using the Wii U Pro controller a long time ago and it was really hard to do various QTEs and some other things in it as you learned more and more stuff because it would display the Xbox 360 buttons. Yeah, I still have a lot of affection for that controller (I should bust it out again, in fact). This is exactly what happened when I played Assassin's Creed Rogue.
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 05:03 |
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Moon is the other Earthbound game I never knew about. This is really neat.
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 11:07 |
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Pigma_Micron posted:Yeah, I still have a lot of affection for that controller (I should bust it out again, in fact). This is exactly what happened when I played Assassin's Creed Rogue. Yeah I think it was one of the Assassins Creed games. Also I think it was the color of the button rather than the letter often....? Wii U Pro controller was awesome with it's battery life of about 4 eternities.
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 16:01 |
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MaxDuo posted:Yeah I think it was one of the Assassins Creed games. Also I think it was the color of the button rather than the letter often....? The way it worked in Rogue (and, presumably, Black Flag) is the prompts would be in a place on screen according to the placement of the button. So A would be at the bottom of the screen, X would be to the left, and so on. So I got hosed up by polar bears a bunch.
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# ? Feb 2, 2024 16:35 |
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Pigma_Micron posted:The way it worked in Rogue (and, presumably, Black Flag) is the prompts would be in a place on screen according to the placement of the button. So A would be at the bottom of the screen, X would be to the left, and so on. The worst was figuring it out and being fine with it... then going away from the game for a week or so and completely forgetting and struggling to re-learn. Or you beat one game and play the next a month or so later and suddenly you are just incapable of playing the game again.
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https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1622958367374458882?lang=en
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 00:21 |
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Ya almost got me but then I was like “it’s only the 2nd…?” before I saw the year.
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 00:29 |
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This doesn’t work you gotta post it on the 7th
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:I tried out the Mario Vs Donkey Kong demo and while it looks amazing graphic wise man it got really defanged from the GBA version. No rankings for time left over? Get outta here, back in the day you had to be efficient to unlock stars Tragic, especially considering that was a step down from DK 94. Nintendo just needs to remake DK 94 in HD or make an actual sequel to the game.
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Spacebump posted:Tragic, especially considering that was a step down from DK 94. DK 94 with Metroid Dread control tightness
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god drat you lol
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 02:05 |
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Y tho
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 02:21 |
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snoremac posted:Moon is the other Earthbound game I never knew about. This is really neat. Still, I enjoyed my time with it.
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Tempura Wizard posted:This doesn’t work you gotta post it on the 7th Yeah, really. Get it together.
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# ? Feb 3, 2024 02:46 |
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A laughable amateur attempt. Today's the 2nd, n00b.
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gently caress u bud
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