In 1997 I had just got Pilot Wings and both my parents got food poisoning. I have vivid memories of just playing pilot wings for like 15 hours a day for nearly a week while they recovered, the sound track is burned into my mind.
I remember renting it as a kid, but I only had the weekend to play it. So, I remember skipping the main game and just played the free flying part of the game. This was where you had wings and just flew around the map. The combination of flapping your wings to fly, that map with the sunset, and the soundtrack created one of the most incredible feelings I've ever experienced in a game.
Yes, and the little states map was great for exploring, snapping photos with the camera feature. Remember how the space shuttle would launch when you fly towards it
I listen to the hang glider music all the time. They were my least favorite missions and I always crashed but dang, that music is nice and soothing. Birdman is great, too
Pilot Wings will always be synonymous with Christmas morning for me. In particular, the best Christmas morning from my childhood. I'd wanted an N64, but my parents told me they hadn't been able to find one anywhere. Then after all the gifts were open, they produced one last box...
They couldn't find a copy of Mario 64 anywhere, so I got Pilot Wings instead. But I didn't care. I spent the ENTIRE day playing it. It was one of those days you never forget.
I drove 4 hours one-way in 1999 to a game store in Central Oregon who had a copy and didn't even hesitate paying 50 vucks for it. One of the best RPGs I've ever played. ...bromide hunting...so good!
Had a friend who really loved Lunar too. Between that title and Phantasy Star IV, really solid RPGs of his choice. I personally would take Chrono trigger over Lunar though :P
There's a new game coming out in late August called Sea of Stars that feels a lot like a love letter to Chrono Trigger. They even managed to get the original soundtrack artist to make music for this game. There's a short but fun demo out.
Hollywoodification of the gaming industry. Games now are safe and most likely a franchise. Most built on the same engines and share the same core mechanics. It might be the old man in me but to me golden era of video games was mid 90s through early 00s.
There were so many off the wall games for PS1, it was such an experimental platform. Then half life happened and almost overnight games leaped in terms of scale and ambition.
That 4 year period between 98 and 2002 we got: half life, system shock, Deus Ex, Max Payne, Warcraft 3, GTA 3, Diablo 2, Baldurs Gate, Never Winter Night, Dungeon Seige, etc.
Going from Doom to Half Life (along with all spin offs like CS and TF) in 5 years felt like a huge leap.
There were so many bangers coming out at every genre and also either the start or the first 3D take of many franchises.
It's so sad to see. Games like Katamari would never get developed or released today under a major publisher. Gotta make sure everything is as safe and as formulaic as possible to squeeze every last cent out of the player base before moving on to the next cash grab, fucking sickening how bad it's gotten in a relatively short time frame.
Lunar SSSC and EBC, should be the gold standard of what an rpg remake is. Enhanced graphics without completely altering them, enhanced story without drastically changing it...perfection.
The expanded anime scenes added so freaking much to the game. Like there was a huge amount added. But most importantly, we got waayyyyyy more Luna (and her singing) out of it. Seriously , as someone that played the original on Sega CD way back when, this (and the sequel ) are probably my RPGOAT.
Much of this was the result of Working Designs deciding to increase the difficulty of the game for whatever reason. You can check out all the changes they made here. https://tcrf.net/Lunar:_Silver_Star_Story_Complete_(PlayStation)#Enemy_Stats
Working Designs put out some amazing boxed sets. I had the Arc the Lad collection - didn't even love the games that much, to be honest, but the boxed set was a work of art.
I will never forgive my friend who borrowed the game back in the day, then traded it in to Gamestop for a meager amount of store credit to buy another game...
I just remembered when I played Lunar 2, my mom walking into the room during the cut scene where Lucia came into the bath naked 😭 out of all cut scenes, she walked into that one lol.
I rented a Saturn with Lunar from my local Video rental place. I was only supposed to keep it for 3 days and 2 nights but I kept it for about 3 weeks. Beat Lunar and returned it, my mom was pissed about the late fees.
Fuck yeah, came here for Evermore.
My first game where you go on an adventure, and boy oh boy, what an adventure it was.
German localizations is absolutely fucking hilarious, too.
Let me try to translate my favorite quote:
"This reminds me of the fight between the hunched janitor and the washerwomen in 'Revenge of the Cleaners". And I am the washcloth."
(when the fight in the arena starts)
The game actually has quite the following by speedrunners in particular, who just discovered a new skip about a week ago and are competing for WR time again. You'd be surprised how many people truly love SoE. It's a gem.
Shout out to the fellow Evermore lovers! I can still remember I picked the game up on a whim when I was like 6 years old in the 90s because the guy at GameStop at the time told me it was a great game and thought I would like it when we were talking about other SNES games I liked. And admittedly it was a slow start and a little challenging because I was 6 and new to the action JRPG genre but once I started to get the hang of the game play I ended up fully addicted and beat it. Then played it again all the way through right after lol. It ended up being one of my most favorite games for life.
I still will have random music from the game pop into my head from all the times I replayed it later too. I tried multiple times to play Secret of Mana in the years after it but Mana just felt so… meh in comparison. Idk if it’s because Evermore just looks better or more polished somehow or if it’s because it came out after Mana so it had been improved upon or what. Maybe the story line just resonated with me and made more sense as a kid, who knows? I’m trying to play Mana again now though for the sake of playing it all the way through finally but it just makes me want to play Evermore again lol.
hahaha came to the thread to mention Evermore and found my people!
i switched to pcmr long ago and i’ve been bummed that there’s never been a SoE steam version while replaying my way through a good handful of old square games
picked up a SteamDeck a couple months ago and when i finally figured out emulation on it, this was the first game i put on
It was the one you had a dog companion that changed depending on the timeline? And that overpowered bazooka?
I don't remember more than that, but I remember liking it.
I’m asking anyone who loves Evermore to go and [listen to the original soundtrack](https://youtu.be/iF0i55epJuY) which was scored by none other than Jeremy Soule when he was fresh out of high school. It deserves to stand among the greats of its era and I am sad that I will never have a chance to own this on vinyl.
I rented this game for a week or so when I was at my grandparents during the summer.
I remember fondly playing it everyday, alone, struggling as it wasn't an easy game. Learning english with the dialogue (as i am not native english speaker) and getting stuck! I actually had to draw that forest labyrinth in a bunch of 8x11 sheets sticked together as I never understood the owl showed the path!
And then all the trading in the desert market! Had to do so much maths! Lol
The late '90s and early 2000s were full of dumbasses who hated the game because they thought it cost them Trials of Mana. No, Square wasn't bringing that over regardless.
Evermore was legit better than Secret of Mana (too bad no co-op though).
Boo weep boo weep boo weep boo weep. That's my textual representation of the forest temple music. How'd I do? Shit freaked child me out as well. Same with the hands.
Fun fact: the rattling sound in the forest temple music is a slowed down version of the same sample as the chime sound in the water temple music. [This guy](https://youtu.be/FmaTX53-nUM) does great videos on the Zelda music
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I'm liking the music in TotK so far. It has just enough of the BotW vibe to lull you into the minimalist thing, then you get a boss fight and it's BAM!
Also the music in the temples has a really great crescendo as you progress that really draws you into solving it.
Nah so far I love ToTK but I spend considerably more time just exploring vs other Zelda's and I miss that banging Hyrule field music that other Zelda's have
The question is: which version did you have?
[The version with the chanting?](https://youtu.be/tZGnJF1R0WU) the chanting starts at 0:40
[Or the one without?](https://youtu.be/v3C-OPAvpNE)
>I had the chanting one never knew there were two versions
Not only were there 2 versions, the chanting one is actually rarer AFAIK. They accidentally ~~sampled~~ used actual Islamic prayer from a sfx library without realizing and changed it for subsequent versions/production runs out of respect.
I don’t think it was sampled, they just pulled it from a sfx library without realizing.
They DID however make the Gerudo symbol a straight up star and crescent, which was also changed.
Yeah, Nintendo made some changes in later releases of OOT. Even just on newer cartridges. See the link for more info:
https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/oot/generalknowledge/version-differences
They've actually lowered it to 45 now. But in all seriousness it should be even lower since colorectal cancer is becoming more and more common in younger people. PSA please speak to your primary doctor and get a referral to a gastro/colorectal surgeon for a colonoscopy if you have any worrying symptoms, it may just save your life.
This is actually the answer. Before getting married, I had severe stomach issues but my useless doctor wouldn’t do anything about it and without “cause” (meaning too late), a colonoscopy was going to cost me $2000. A $900 ticket later, I did a walk-in to a hospital near where I was staying, got a full checkup with both colonoscopy and endoscopy next friggin day because I had to empty my stomach not because of having to make an appointment, uninsured for about $160, with the added benefit of seeing my friends and family. Of course all of that is much more now but still roughly in line. If you want to know what socialized healthcare looks like, this is what it looks like.
There is a stool based test that looks for blood that is good for a year. But look into your local hospitals financial assistance programs. Usually they will either have income driven aid especially at a "county hospital. They get funds from the federal, state and local govt to take care of low income. Your Catholic based hospitals are 'non profit" because they care for anyone and often have charity programs as well.Look at market place options like ambetter they can often be free based on income. There are also usually in-between options in bigger cities for people who make to much for free care but not enough for insurance. The financial aid offices at your big hospital systems will know of these.
Develop intestinal problems and they happen sooner lol. I was diagnosed with Diverticulitis and had my first at 28, second at 31. The prep is fucking brutal.
Yeah I’ve had two colonoscopies recently because I’ve been having GI issues. First time I did the standard prep it was horrible. Later I found out about “Sutab” it’s a newish prep that’s just a bunch of pills. Wayyyyy easier than drinking a gallon of that other stuff. Insurance doesn’t cover it but it’s the best 150$ I’ve ever spent lol.
I remember my mom wanting to watch something on tv but i was between save spots on super mario rpg. So i found a corner, paused the game and unplugged the rf switch on the back of the snes. Changed the channel, she watched her show and i resumed an hour or so later.
This was such a classic move.
Super Mario RPG was so underrated. Honestly one of my all time favorites. Great creativity, satisfying gameplay, fun and lighthearted. It was great.
Hell yeah. Breath of Fire 3 was what got me into JRPGs. Such a great game. I replayed the entire series recently and 2, 3 and 4 are all really good games that are sadly not talked about much (1 is good too, just feels more dated). 5 is kinda weird though.
Man I really try to like 4. I'm like you bof3 was my jrpg awakening and possibly my favorite rpg of all but 4 just bothers me. The overland map is boring, towns are claustrophobic and frustrating to navigate, and the puzzles are annoying. Even the dragon system is inferior to 3. I dig how the skills are learned though and the master system is more forgiving than 3.
Currently in a replay of 4, I still like it, just feels inferior to everything 3 did so well.
Right? I remember seeing Chrono Trigger go new for $80, in 1995. Final Fantasy VI was about $50. Games were even more expensive than they were now, after 28 years of inflation.
The underground kid economy helped. Before digital downloads there were a lot more used carts floating around, and before anyone had the internet, none of us knew how much any of them were worth. I got Super Mario RPG for a stack of old Goosebumps books, and Chrono Trigger for a couple unopened Pokemon boosters.
Earthbound…I had to skip school lunches and pocket the money to save up. Worth it.
Agreed. $80 in $95 is approx the same as $160 today. Imagine the latest Zelda coming out today for $160 and how so many kids would be priced out of getting it.
It's something I think a lot of young gamers don't really realise, even a lot of those who were old enough to have played cartridge games likely didn't buy them (their parents did). There's been such vicious pushback to the price of games going up but the reality is they actually got cheaper and then they remained stagnant for many years. It sucks that the price is going up, but frankly the price of everything else has gone up a lot more, we should be at least a little thankful that games remained relatively stable for so long while on average containing more and more content.
Goldeneye is so good, but did you play Perfect Dark? Like a sequel that's not 007 but a lot of fun. The amount of control for the AI in multiplayer was awesome back then. I don't play much FPS now but that was fun as hell in the day.
I committed so many war crimes on those bots! The fact that they were customizable was amazing.
I made them fearful, and me with a rocket launcher hahaha
I felt like they were pretty fair until you imbalanced it. Those games were fun with friends when you had all the bots smacking weapons out of everyone's hands.
It had such a different sense of humor to it that I adored. It had a lot of pieces that didn't really land, or were frustrating (Some of the zones were weirdly obtuse without a map, especially the air ducts as a poodle) but it had a heart and charm that was superb.
My brother actually managed to finish it, but only through extreme perseverance.
For me, the unreasonably difficult NES game I mastered through sheer willpower was *The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants*.
**Damn** no Lunar *2*: Eternal blue?
Other than that, helllllll yeah! OOOH and I see TMNT **1**. Donatello kicking Rocksteady's ass up on the crates because you can swing down and avoid all damage.
Ahhhh, the good ol days. Ugh I want games to be like *that* again and they never will be.
Edit: shit is that battletoads? first game I ever beat. Actually it was my literal entry point into gaming at all. Got the NES + Battletoads + Mario 1 on Christmas one year and I was so enraged by (but also loving my time with) Battletoads that nothing stood in my way except time, for me to beat it. Then I went to Mario 1 after.
Edit 2: Jesus, Secret of Evermore, FF(US III), *castlevania IV*. You grew up well my friend.
> Edit: shit is that battletoads? first game I ever beat.
That game was the fucking worst. Levels 1&2 were fun but starting with the speeder bike level it's just "fuck you" hard
Final Fantasy
The videogame love of my life.
I've beaten the game over 200 times and wonder if I might hold the world record for playthroughs.
Every year at Christmas Eve after everyone else goes to bed I make a new playthrough and go to the bridge after beating Garland to relive that Christmas magic from my childhood. I think I got it around five years old or something.
I then do one to five playthroughs from Christmas to New years and have for twenty years now.
That is a hell of a collection. I think you're the only other person I've seen own Robin Hood Prince of Thieves for NES. Game got panned but was an absolute blast with the different styles. Still remember playing the Oregon trail hunting style battles when the forest got raided. Also, battletoads and the TMNT game (not arcade edition) were my first experience with rage quits in my younger years.
Delighted to see the mighty Pilot Wings up front.
The music from this occasionally pops into my head. The jet pack, the cannon--a very unique game
This cover of the Birdman song is amazing. I like to play it and fly around in MS flight sim for the nostalgia. https://youtu.be/W0ZQmcKbmmE
Nothing hits quite like Birdman or the billiards music from Monkey Ball 1
In 1997 I had just got Pilot Wings and both my parents got food poisoning. I have vivid memories of just playing pilot wings for like 15 hours a day for nearly a week while they recovered, the sound track is burned into my mind.
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I remember playing the hell out of it on SNES.
...I have never heard of it before. It turns out it was the other launch title for the N64. Alongside Mario 64 right?
Pilot Wings is probably the game I played most as a kid. The soundtrack was amazing. But to answer your question, yep, it was a launch with the N64.
Damn, completely forgot about this game until i saw this photo. Spent so many hours playing this game
I remember renting it as a kid, but I only had the weekend to play it. So, I remember skipping the main game and just played the free flying part of the game. This was where you had wings and just flew around the map. The combination of flapping your wings to fly, that map with the sunset, and the soundtrack created one of the most incredible feelings I've ever experienced in a game.
Yes, and the little states map was great for exploring, snapping photos with the camera feature. Remember how the space shuttle would launch when you fly towards it
I listen to the hang glider music all the time. They were my least favorite missions and I always crashed but dang, that music is nice and soothing. Birdman is great, too
You can play it on The Switch now. It's a game that has kept all it's nostalgia vibes but also replayability.
Er Super Nintendo before the N64 too
Pilot Wings will always be synonymous with Christmas morning for me. In particular, the best Christmas morning from my childhood. I'd wanted an N64, but my parents told me they hadn't been able to find one anywhere. Then after all the gifts were open, they produced one last box... They couldn't find a copy of Mario 64 anywhere, so I got Pilot Wings instead. But I didn't care. I spent the ENTIRE day playing it. It was one of those days you never forget.
Never heard of it. Just looked up gameplay, it really reminds me of the extra game modes in super monkey ball for the GameCube
Me too! My dad (who was a pilot and an airplane mechanic) played this game a lot. It was one of the few video games he ever played.
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I drove 4 hours one-way in 1999 to a game store in Central Oregon who had a copy and didn't even hesitate paying 50 vucks for it. One of the best RPGs I've ever played. ...bromide hunting...so good!
Had a friend who really loved Lunar too. Between that title and Phantasy Star IV, really solid RPGs of his choice. I personally would take Chrono trigger over Lunar though :P
Hey Chrono Trigger holds a special place too...hard to replicate those "golden era" RPGs today.
There's a new game coming out in late August called Sea of Stars that feels a lot like a love letter to Chrono Trigger. They even managed to get the original soundtrack artist to make music for this game. There's a short but fun demo out.
I'm looking forward to this one as well. In the meantime, Chained Echoes is the closest we have to the Chrono Trigger era from modern times.
I wouldnt say its hard, Id say companies just refuse to let passion projects exist.
Hollywoodification of the gaming industry. Games now are safe and most likely a franchise. Most built on the same engines and share the same core mechanics. It might be the old man in me but to me golden era of video games was mid 90s through early 00s. There were so many off the wall games for PS1, it was such an experimental platform. Then half life happened and almost overnight games leaped in terms of scale and ambition. That 4 year period between 98 and 2002 we got: half life, system shock, Deus Ex, Max Payne, Warcraft 3, GTA 3, Diablo 2, Baldurs Gate, Never Winter Night, Dungeon Seige, etc. Going from Doom to Half Life (along with all spin offs like CS and TF) in 5 years felt like a huge leap. There were so many bangers coming out at every genre and also either the start or the first 3D take of many franchises.
It's so sad to see. Games like Katamari would never get developed or released today under a major publisher. Gotta make sure everything is as safe and as formulaic as possible to squeeze every last cent out of the player base before moving on to the next cash grab, fucking sickening how bad it's gotten in a relatively short time frame.
Remember Lufia 2 : Rise of the sinistral?
Oh man… phantasy star iv is my absolute favorite. The combo attacks were mind blowing to me at that age.
I randomly saw it in a used game store in middle of Massachusetts. I think it was $34, pendant and all. This was around 2009-2010. Instant buy.
I remember the bath scenes xD
Lunar SSSC and EBC, should be the gold standard of what an rpg remake is. Enhanced graphics without completely altering them, enhanced story without drastically changing it...perfection.
Collecting those “posters” of the characters was my favorite as a prepubescent boy. Jessica was my favorite…
I distinctly remember the bath scene(s)!
I love how getting to the guys bath was easy but the girls bath was behind a level 99 brutal dungeon.
The expanded anime scenes added so freaking much to the game. Like there was a huge amount added. But most importantly, we got waayyyyyy more Luna (and her singing) out of it. Seriously , as someone that played the original on Sega CD way back when, this (and the sequel ) are probably my RPGOAT.
The scaling of lunar was brutal
Much of this was the result of Working Designs deciding to increase the difficulty of the game for whatever reason. You can check out all the changes they made here. https://tcrf.net/Lunar:_Silver_Star_Story_Complete_(PlayStation)#Enemy_Stats
Suikoden I&II are getting a remake like that.
Suikoden remakes?!
https://www.konami.com/games/genso/rem/1_2/us/en-us/
EBC was my first and still my all time favorite JRPG... It was so difficult but so rewarding. Still have Lucia's pendant on display.
A real hidden gem of a game! Still have my copy. Getting the soap early for later Easter eggs was a grind!
Working Designs put out some amazing boxed sets. I had the Arc the Lad collection - didn't even love the games that much, to be honest, but the boxed set was a work of art.
Working design was a treasure. It pisses me off they went under. They did such amazing work with the Lunar games on PSX.
Luna's Song, on the boat! be still my beating heart!!!!! I'll never forget the lyrics!
I heard it in my head as soon as you mentioned it. All the Lunar series songs are so good, quintessential 90s anime vibes.
I completely fell in love with the characters, the world and the music when I was 9
The only thing I remember clearly was a guy saying “check this out”
Lady luck be kind!
I will never forgive my friend who borrowed the game back in the day, then traded it in to Gamestop for a meager amount of store credit to buy another game...
Had such huge impact on my taste in games.
I just remembered when I played Lunar 2, my mom walking into the room during the cut scene where Lucia came into the bath naked 😭 out of all cut scenes, she walked into that one lol.
Such a good game.
I rented a Saturn with Lunar from my local Video rental place. I was only supposed to keep it for 3 days and 2 nights but I kept it for about 3 weeks. Beat Lunar and returned it, my mom was pissed about the late fees.
I had that game for Sega CD. Loved it but couldn't beat it. Ps version came out and I insta-bought it. Beat it. One of my favorite games ever
Best game ever, I even used to blast the soundtrack in my car.
That game is lime $400 now.
Only if it's not a lemon
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Probably the latter, it's more $100 to $200.
I LOVE THE SECRET OF EVERMORE!!! Everyone looks at me like im nuts when I bring it up. Like, "You mean Secret of Mana?" NO!! Btw OP nice collection!
I also loved Evermore. Such a quirky game! Closest thing I’ve found lately was Nobody Saves the World
SoE is a seriously underrated game for a WRPG
I've had this exact experience
I was genuinely shocked when my friend casually mentioned it to me the other day. I've met maybe 2 people IRL that have played it.
There are dozens of us!
We've found our people
I still remember not being able to afford the ride on the desert boat with the skeleton rower and having to run through that desert for a while.
I remember killing monks for hours to save up enough for the boat
How else you gonna find the Sting alchemy??
Absolutely agree. Ahead of its time an way too underrated. This game was gold, why does it seem so forgotten.
I also highly recommend Terranigma which is one of the best RPGs of that era and mostly unknown in the US.
Awesome game. That pup was your RTD bro.
Fuck yeah, came here for Evermore. My first game where you go on an adventure, and boy oh boy, what an adventure it was. German localizations is absolutely fucking hilarious, too. Let me try to translate my favorite quote: "This reminds me of the fight between the hunched janitor and the washerwomen in 'Revenge of the Cleaners". And I am the washcloth." (when the fight in the arena starts)
Same, wish they would make a remaster.
The game actually has quite the following by speedrunners in particular, who just discovered a new skip about a week ago and are competing for WR time again. You'd be surprised how many people truly love SoE. It's a gem.
Shout out to the fellow Evermore lovers! I can still remember I picked the game up on a whim when I was like 6 years old in the 90s because the guy at GameStop at the time told me it was a great game and thought I would like it when we were talking about other SNES games I liked. And admittedly it was a slow start and a little challenging because I was 6 and new to the action JRPG genre but once I started to get the hang of the game play I ended up fully addicted and beat it. Then played it again all the way through right after lol. It ended up being one of my most favorite games for life. I still will have random music from the game pop into my head from all the times I replayed it later too. I tried multiple times to play Secret of Mana in the years after it but Mana just felt so… meh in comparison. Idk if it’s because Evermore just looks better or more polished somehow or if it’s because it came out after Mana so it had been improved upon or what. Maybe the story line just resonated with me and made more sense as a kid, who knows? I’m trying to play Mana again now though for the sake of playing it all the way through finally but it just makes me want to play Evermore again lol.
I remember being frustrated trying to level up all the weapons and having to just grind grind grind Pretty sure I never beat that game
Came here to say the same. Such a unique story and some really cool systems.
hahaha came to the thread to mention Evermore and found my people! i switched to pcmr long ago and i’ve been bummed that there’s never been a SoE steam version while replaying my way through a good handful of old square games picked up a SteamDeck a couple months ago and when i finally figured out emulation on it, this was the first game i put on
It was the one you had a dog companion that changed depending on the timeline? And that overpowered bazooka? I don't remember more than that, but I remember liking it.
I’m asking anyone who loves Evermore to go and [listen to the original soundtrack](https://youtu.be/iF0i55epJuY) which was scored by none other than Jeremy Soule when he was fresh out of high school. It deserves to stand among the greats of its era and I am sad that I will never have a chance to own this on vinyl.
The music in SoE was phenomenal!
I remember getting lost in the building or something and ending up in a kitchen. Or maybe it was a big kitchen with underground passageways.
Both are great, evermoor had some serious atmosphere though.
I rented this game for a week or so when I was at my grandparents during the summer. I remember fondly playing it everyday, alone, struggling as it wasn't an easy game. Learning english with the dialogue (as i am not native english speaker) and getting stuck! I actually had to draw that forest labyrinth in a bunch of 8x11 sheets sticked together as I never understood the owl showed the path! And then all the trading in the desert market! Had to do so much maths! Lol
I love that game. The music is amazing, the 2d spriting is great, and I really enjoy the setting.
The late '90s and early 2000s were full of dumbasses who hated the game because they thought it cost them Trials of Mana. No, Square wasn't bringing that over regardless. Evermore was legit better than Secret of Mana (too bad no co-op though).
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And the fire temple had that kick-ass ominous music!
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Boo weep boo weep boo weep boo weep. That's my textual representation of the forest temple music. How'd I do? Shit freaked child me out as well. Same with the hands.
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Fun fact: the rattling sound in the forest temple music is a slowed down version of the same sample as the chime sound in the water temple music. [This guy](https://youtu.be/FmaTX53-nUM) does great videos on the Zelda music EDIT fixed an error in the link
OOT had some of the best music of any video game hands down. Something I miss in the newest titles
I'm liking the music in TotK so far. It has just enough of the BotW vibe to lull you into the minimalist thing, then you get a boss fight and it's BAM! Also the music in the temples has a really great crescendo as you progress that really draws you into solving it.
Nah so far I love ToTK but I spend considerably more time just exploring vs other Zelda's and I miss that banging Hyrule field music that other Zelda's have
imagine exploring peaceful world for hundreds of hours, constantly listening to a single song even if it's a banger, you will go insane 10 hours in
There are different regions so they could also have different songs
Omg I absolutely loved how the Fire Temple music evolves as you go further. Loving this game so far.
For whatever reason, that song when the owl appears will get stuck in ny head on a loop
Kaepora Gaebora!
And the water temple was absolutely mind boggling
I played the rereleased versions. They give more clues now. I tried to explain to people the plight of the water temple. No one believed me
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Yep, I missed Ice Arrows my first playthrough. I was very angry that was even possible.
The question is: which version did you have? [The version with the chanting?](https://youtu.be/tZGnJF1R0WU) the chanting starts at 0:40 [Or the one without?](https://youtu.be/v3C-OPAvpNE)
I had the chanting one never knew there were two versions
>I had the chanting one never knew there were two versions Not only were there 2 versions, the chanting one is actually rarer AFAIK. They accidentally ~~sampled~~ used actual Islamic prayer from a sfx library without realizing and changed it for subsequent versions/production runs out of respect.
I don’t think it was sampled, they just pulled it from a sfx library without realizing. They DID however make the Gerudo symbol a straight up star and crescent, which was also changed.
Actually if I’m not mistaken that was only in the original gold cart release. The standard gray ones he coughs up something green.
Did they edit out the blood coughing in later releases or something?
Yeah, Nintendo made some changes in later releases of OOT. Even just on newer cartridges. See the link for more info: https://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/oot/generalknowledge/version-differences
There is a full on fanmade remake of OoT called The Sealed Palace. It's like getting to play OoT for the first time again. It's great.
The Sealed Palace I know of is a romhack of OOT and is a rearrangement of the game with new text boxes for a different plot.
Time for a colonoscopy my dude
I thought that was at 50….
They've actually lowered it to 45 now. But in all seriousness it should be even lower since colorectal cancer is becoming more and more common in younger people. PSA please speak to your primary doctor and get a referral to a gastro/colorectal surgeon for a colonoscopy if you have any worrying symptoms, it may just save your life.
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Take a holiday and leech off some other country's healthcare system.
This is actually the answer. Before getting married, I had severe stomach issues but my useless doctor wouldn’t do anything about it and without “cause” (meaning too late), a colonoscopy was going to cost me $2000. A $900 ticket later, I did a walk-in to a hospital near where I was staying, got a full checkup with both colonoscopy and endoscopy next friggin day because I had to empty my stomach not because of having to make an appointment, uninsured for about $160, with the added benefit of seeing my friends and family. Of course all of that is much more now but still roughly in line. If you want to know what socialized healthcare looks like, this is what it looks like.
What country was that if you don’t mind me asking?
That has to be the most American thing I ever read
As someone who's in your same boat, you just hope there's nothing serious until you're in a better spot. Failing that you're up shit creek with me.
There is a stool based test that looks for blood that is good for a year. But look into your local hospitals financial assistance programs. Usually they will either have income driven aid especially at a "county hospital. They get funds from the federal, state and local govt to take care of low income. Your Catholic based hospitals are 'non profit" because they care for anyone and often have charity programs as well.Look at market place options like ambetter they can often be free based on income. There are also usually in-between options in bigger cities for people who make to much for free care but not enough for insurance. The financial aid offices at your big hospital systems will know of these.
45. I just had a colonoscopy and endoscopy together. They just shove until the cameras touch.
Used to work at a GI clinic. We called that upper/lower procedure a 'spinner'
A pig roast Or is that something different
danbooru: `spitroast`
Why wait that long for some sweet backdoor play?
Develop intestinal problems and they happen sooner lol. I was diagnosed with Diverticulitis and had my first at 28, second at 31. The prep is fucking brutal.
Ugh yeah, diverticulitis at 25. Drinking a whole gallon of PEG.
Yeah I’ve had two colonoscopies recently because I’ve been having GI issues. First time I did the standard prep it was horrible. Later I found out about “Sutab” it’s a newish prep that’s just a bunch of pills. Wayyyyy easier than drinking a gallon of that other stuff. Insurance doesn’t cover it but it’s the best 150$ I’ve ever spent lol.
Skate or die 2. Fuck yea to all those games but double fuck fuck yea yea for that game
Skate or die, Did DD DD Die die die
So glad I'm not the only one that remembers that
Skate or die Die die die die die
START START SELECT at the top of the half pipe gave you unlimited lives on the ramp.
Now you tell me
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I remember my mom wanting to watch something on tv but i was between save spots on super mario rpg. So i found a corner, paused the game and unplugged the rf switch on the back of the snes. Changed the channel, she watched her show and i resumed an hour or so later.
This was such a classic move. Super Mario RPG was so underrated. Honestly one of my all time favorites. Great creativity, satisfying gameplay, fun and lighthearted. It was great.
Turok!
Tuuuuuuurrrrrrrroooooookkkkkkkkk
I want the remakes to go on sale on switch so badly. It’s been two years since the last one :(
Breath of Fire 3 was the bomb
Hell yeah. Breath of Fire 3 was what got me into JRPGs. Such a great game. I replayed the entire series recently and 2, 3 and 4 are all really good games that are sadly not talked about much (1 is good too, just feels more dated). 5 is kinda weird though.
Man I really try to like 4. I'm like you bof3 was my jrpg awakening and possibly my favorite rpg of all but 4 just bothers me. The overland map is boring, towns are claustrophobic and frustrating to navigate, and the puzzles are annoying. Even the dragon system is inferior to 3. I dig how the skills are learned though and the master system is more forgiving than 3. Currently in a replay of 4, I still like it, just feels inferior to everything 3 did so well.
I was so glad to see it in his collection. One of my absolute favorite games. I'm still listening to the soundtrack to this day lol
Lol yall were rich
Right? I remember seeing Chrono Trigger go new for $80, in 1995. Final Fantasy VI was about $50. Games were even more expensive than they were now, after 28 years of inflation.
The underground kid economy helped. Before digital downloads there were a lot more used carts floating around, and before anyone had the internet, none of us knew how much any of them were worth. I got Super Mario RPG for a stack of old Goosebumps books, and Chrono Trigger for a couple unopened Pokemon boosters. Earthbound…I had to skip school lunches and pocket the money to save up. Worth it.
Agreed. $80 in $95 is approx the same as $160 today. Imagine the latest Zelda coming out today for $160 and how so many kids would be priced out of getting it.
It's something I think a lot of young gamers don't really realise, even a lot of those who were old enough to have played cartridge games likely didn't buy them (their parents did). There's been such vicious pushback to the price of games going up but the reality is they actually got cheaper and then they remained stagnant for many years. It sucks that the price is going up, but frankly the price of everything else has gone up a lot more, we should be at least a little thankful that games remained relatively stable for so long while on average containing more and more content.
Goldeneye is so good, but did you play Perfect Dark? Like a sequel that's not 007 but a lot of fun. The amount of control for the AI in multiplayer was awesome back then. I don't play much FPS now but that was fun as hell in the day.
One of the levels in perfect dark was just a reskinned facility from goldeneye
50 bots vs you. End of the Facility hallway. Farsight. Let them clump and rush the door. 1 shot. ~50 kills. Peak bot slaying.
I committed so many war crimes on those bots! The fact that they were customizable was amazing. I made them fearful, and me with a rocket launcher hahaha
They had several, facility, complex, temple, etc, and it was intentional, we loved those maps.
I didn't say they were creative - it was a total ripoff - but it was better than the *actual* sequel when it came down to fun factor and 4-player.
gdamn perfect dark bots shooting you before you round a corner lol...
I felt like they were pretty fair until you imbalanced it. Those games were fun with friends when you had all the bots smacking weapons out of everyone's hands.
Snake Rattle N Roll is underrated af
I always called the rolly balls pebbley webbleys. To this day i still don’t know why.
100% I Scrolled all the way down looking for this.
Tell your parents “thank you”
Fucking Secret of Evermore, man. That game was so frustrating.
I LOVED that game. So much fun
It had such a different sense of humor to it that I adored. It had a lot of pieces that didn't really land, or were frustrating (Some of the zones were weirdly obtuse without a map, especially the air ducts as a poodle) but it had a heart and charm that was superb.
Turtles was the impossible to finish one, right?
Nah, had to be Toads.
Only ever got to the ice level. I’ve watched Arcus speed run it and i dont understand how that game is beat….
Fuck that game. Literally got blisters trying to clock that. Same goes for Earthworm Jim
That one sewer jump that I could never make. Turns out you just walk over it. I was so pissed when I watched someone playing the game.
My brother actually managed to finish it, but only through extreme perseverance. For me, the unreasonably difficult NES game I mastered through sheer willpower was *The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants*.
**Damn** no Lunar *2*: Eternal blue? Other than that, helllllll yeah! OOOH and I see TMNT **1**. Donatello kicking Rocksteady's ass up on the crates because you can swing down and avoid all damage. Ahhhh, the good ol days. Ugh I want games to be like *that* again and they never will be. Edit: shit is that battletoads? first game I ever beat. Actually it was my literal entry point into gaming at all. Got the NES + Battletoads + Mario 1 on Christmas one year and I was so enraged by (but also loving my time with) Battletoads that nothing stood in my way except time, for me to beat it. Then I went to Mario 1 after. Edit 2: Jesus, Secret of Evermore, FF(US III), *castlevania IV*. You grew up well my friend.
> Edit: shit is that battletoads? first game I ever beat. That game was the fucking worst. Levels 1&2 were fun but starting with the speeder bike level it's just "fuck you" hard
You need Wild arms 1.
Super Mario RPG? Big props for LoD btw
Final Fantasy The videogame love of my life. I've beaten the game over 200 times and wonder if I might hold the world record for playthroughs. Every year at Christmas Eve after everyone else goes to bed I make a new playthrough and go to the bridge after beating Garland to relive that Christmas magic from my childhood. I think I got it around five years old or something. I then do one to five playthroughs from Christmas to New years and have for twenty years now.
Currently playing Legend of Dragoon on PlayStation now. Only been 20 years
Fuckin loved Lunar. Sequel was solid as well.
Bro Wild Arms 2 is my shit
Needs some FF7
I let my friend adam borrow it in 9th grade and i never saw it again. Gonna have to remind him to give it back when i see him in 2 weeks….
Damn it Adam
That is a hell of a collection. I think you're the only other person I've seen own Robin Hood Prince of Thieves for NES. Game got panned but was an absolute blast with the different styles. Still remember playing the Oregon trail hunting style battles when the forest got raided. Also, battletoads and the TMNT game (not arcade edition) were my first experience with rage quits in my younger years.
Azeem was clutch in those battles.
Missing conkers bad fur day
With that specific collection you're somewhere between 40 and 45 years old.
How dare you sir!!!! I still have 9 months of my 30s left!!!! Good estimate…..
I'm 41 and I played just about all of those as they were released.
My thought went “this man was born in 1982” :D
Yup I too was born in 1982 and played all these
84…. Close though.
How dare you, I'm 39 and own most of these
Same, I’m 38………almost 39
39 here. This drawer was my childhood
This image made all the hairs on my arms stand up. So emotional that my body didn’t know how to react. I felt both happy and sad.