I say this as someone who never stopped looking until I found a gaming buddy in a partner. When every night is a date, lan party, and sleepover all at once... I certainly can't tell you what's important to you, just never settle.
I feel like gaming is something you both want to have in common if either of you really enjoy it. Otherwise it seems like it usually turns into a problem.
I'm just about done with 7 again. Hadn't played it since the 90"s. Still pretty good.
::: spoiler Spoiler
I'm now fluffing my team up like mad so I can defeat Emerald amd Ruby. After that it's just an easy endgame fight with sephiroth, so I'm really close to almost done.
:::
I've been playing on my steam deck with several 7th heaven mods and it's been great. Made the game look a lot nicer than the original. Been a great batch of nostalgia for me. I had no spoilers for myself when I first played it. What happened towards the end of disc one was probably the biggest gut punch in a game I've ever experienced.
My brother and I split the SNES when it came out (presumably with money our parents gave us because we were just kids), but he got gifted Super Mario RPG. And he held that shit over my head, and we didn't get a long, and he never let me play, and so it kinda solidified itself as my favorite game of all time, because it had this forbidden nature for me.
Putting all that aside, it was just a well made game, great pacing, great mechanics. I got the Switch version and I'm hoping to get my kids into it, but it's hard to compete with the looks of modern games, especially since my kids are young.
Yeah, that one's tricky, but there's also a later one that requires you to jump to reveal a hidden platform but the platform wouldn't reveal itself when I jumped into it, even though I got it the first run and could see Mario bump into it in air so I knew I had the right spot.
I can only assume there was some weirdly specific glitch or damage 🤷♂️
For some reason the hidden platform just won't activate anymore. It's entirely possible I'm just missing some detail but like I said, worked fine the first time.
Illusion of Gaia was the second in a trilogy: Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia and a third one that wasn't released in North America. And was that third one Terranigma or a different game?
Soul Blazer is a melancholy game. You start it up and the world has been emptied of beings, throughout the game you restore beings to existence, and yet it doesn't cheer up.
So, Lufia is a LONG game. It's got fairly limited graphics and sound for a SNES game but it packs in a lengthy quest. It feels almost wrong to offer that one as a rental.
Look into Lufia 2, it is one of the rare cases of a sequel being shockingly better than the first game. It is the only SNES RPG I put in the same class as those from Square or Enix, and I like it more than most of those.
Yeah, I suppose that was true in the 80s and 90s for sure. Now that I think about it, I can name a several right off the top of my head and probably every Final Fantasy game was like that until 7 or at least 8.
I’ve seen this repeated a bunch of times but it seems to be an opinion predominantly held by Brits who played Terranigma growing up. I don’t understand it, as I played Illusion of Gaia growing up and love the game dearly (and have replayed it many times since then) but I’ve played Terranigma multiple times and lost interest not long after passing Bloody Mary. The game has gorgeous music and graphics (especially the two world map themes and the early areas) but the story didn’t engage me like IoG.
Yes, Terranigma let you do a lot more different moves in combat which was cool, and the inputs were faster and didn’t involve charging which was a bit annoying in IoG.
Maybe this was a localization thing, but interestingly, the game at one point kind of calls you a god (translated and from memory: "you are what humans call a god"). There are also multiple elements in the game that have religious themes: the protagonist's name, Ark, which I always linked to the story of Noah, as it's Ark bringing life to a world that was destroyed, death and rebirth etc. (possibly even thrice, the ending is ambiguous) - also the game is somewhat "anachronistic" to say the least. Also the translation of the Japanese title is roughly "creation of Heaven and Earth".
While the game is technically a bit flawed, story- and presentation-wise it's probably one of my favorites of all time. The subtly eerie setup with everything (e.g. the jingle presenting the acts' titles), man's "emancipation" from nature / Gaia, which arguably caused the catastrophe in the first place, the weird encounters - absolutely fantastic in my opinion.
Superman 64 was famously bad. It's in the conversation with ET for worst game ever made. And because it was bad, it was quicky discounted, and a lot of people who didn't know how bad it was gave it as gifts.
stop trying to find someone who likes what you like and hates what you hate. try to find someone who you enjoy anyway and treats you well.
Sometimes it’s better to have different tastes. My ex and I liked the opposite flavors of gummy bears. It was so convenient. lol
Your ex you said? #joking
Yeah, but the end wasn’t gummy bear related. lol
Sometimes the universe has other plans.
I say this as someone who never stopped looking until I found a gaming buddy in a partner. When every night is a date, lan party, and sleepover all at once... I certainly can't tell you what's important to you, just never settle.
To a point yes but having nothing in common is tiring really.
You can't really decide what others want in life.
100%
It's also nice to have shared interests. But I have friends to chat with about the latest Final Fantasy game.
I feel like gaming is something you both want to have in common if either of you really enjoy it. Otherwise it seems like it usually turns into a problem.
Fine. I’ll do it myself.
Oh, I think you mean final fantasy 6! Lol
I'm about to play the new retranslation once I finish with 7.
I'm just about done with 7 again. Hadn't played it since the 90"s. Still pretty good. ::: spoiler Spoiler I'm now fluffing my team up like mad so I can defeat Emerald amd Ruby. After that it's just an easy endgame fight with sephiroth, so I'm really close to almost done. :::
I have actual never finished it. I'd get close to the end of disk 1 and then life would catch up.
You need a good amount of life not getting in the way for it. Thats for sure. How far are you this time?
Just past where disk 1 ends, 40 hours. I'm running a slightly modded PC version on Linux just for fixes.
I've been playing on my steam deck with several 7th heaven mods and it's been great. Made the game look a lot nicer than the original. Been a great batch of nostalgia for me. I had no spoilers for myself when I first played it. What happened towards the end of disc one was probably the biggest gut punch in a game I've ever experienced.
My previous play was 7th heaven. This one is reunion. I prefer the 7th heaven mods.
End of disk 1 is a huge blow. The worst part was that it seems like you were fine at first.
Me too
My brother and I split the SNES when it came out (presumably with money our parents gave us because we were just kids), but he got gifted Super Mario RPG. And he held that shit over my head, and we didn't get a long, and he never let me play, and so it kinda solidified itself as my favorite game of all time, because it had this forbidden nature for me.
Putting all that aside, it was just a well made game, great pacing, great mechanics. I got the Switch version and I'm hoping to get my kids into it, but it's hard to compete with the looks of modern games, especially since my kids are young.
My copy did something weird and wouldn't let me get one particular hidden chest after the first playthrough. Heartbreaking.
Is it the one in the castle you have to ride on a Toad's head to get? That one's missable.
Yeah, that one's tricky, but there's also a later one that requires you to jump to reveal a hidden platform but the platform wouldn't reveal itself when I jumped into it, even though I got it the first run and could see Mario bump into it in air so I knew I had the right spot.
I can only assume there was some weirdly specific glitch or damage 🤷♂️
That sounds like the entrance to the casino. That one's tricky, but I doubt it's messed up on your cartridge.
Its the second Land's End one here:
https://shrines.rpgclassics.com/snes/smrpg/hidden.shtml
For some reason the hidden platform just won't activate anymore. It's entirely possible I'm just missing some detail but like I said, worked fine the first time.
Have I got this straight in my head:
Illusion of Gaia was the second in a trilogy: Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia and a third one that wasn't released in North America. And was that third one Terranigma or a different game?
It was Terranigma.
Soul Blazer is a melancholy game. You start it up and the world has been emptied of beings, throughout the game you restore beings to existence, and yet it doesn't cheer up.
Followed by Granstream Saga.
Holy shit I played the fuck out of this game as a kid. Completely forgot it existed until just now. I wonder how badly it's aged
I've never played it, but judging by videos of gameplay, pretty badly. Most 3D games from that era have.
Me too.
I love this game so much, can beat it on a single life. Really looking forward to the new Rita’s Rewind game.
The theme music from this game is seared into my neurons
Iku Mizutani was a master for sure. Dude did incredible things with NES and SNES music.
Mega man X soundtrack lives rent free in my head, along with the first scene that crushed me as a child.
This is 2, not X, but you might still appreciate this live play. https://youtu.be/MUHlVdqRlPA
Until the other person pronounces it sness instead of s.n.e.s.
Okay wow rude. How I say it is my bizsness
You've made an enemy today. We could have been friends.
You'll never be rid of me 🙂
Ess Ness was always my silly way of pronouncing it, because there's Ness, for N-E-S, and if you add an S, it's S-Ness.
I accept sillynes
Thumbs up
I find both acceptable, but s.n.e.s to be too complicated. Somehow, "Super Nintendo" rolls off the tongue for me.
There's also "snezz" and "Super N.E.S.", Along with all the other permutations of pronouncing NES, lol
Weirdos policing people's childhoods
Wackos thinking anyone is "policing" your childhood.
If you take offense to anything in this post you need to sit down and rethink a lot of things about yourself.
Wishing you luck
Snez
Both have great taste!
And are less filling!
They're both correct.
Hook up the old super nintendo and start asking questions like "Hey did you ever play Lufia?"
Lufia? I rented it from the video rental store back in the day. I never finished it, but I enjoyed the game.
So, Lufia is a LONG game. It's got fairly limited graphics and sound for a SNES game but it packs in a lengthy quest. It feels almost wrong to offer that one as a rental.
Look into Lufia 2, it is one of the rare cases of a sequel being shockingly better than the first game. It is the only SNES RPG I put in the same class as those from Square or Enix, and I like it more than most of those.
I feel like this happens (or at least used to happen) regularly in video games.
Yeah, I suppose that was true in the 80s and 90s for sure. Now that I think about it, I can name a several right off the top of my head and probably every Final Fantasy game was like that until 7 or at least 8.
Super Mario World where?
Everybody likes that.
True true. I did think that everyone liked DK as well but I could be wrong
So they meet in the middle at Actraiser?
I have not heard that name in a long time. .... Long time.
I still whistle the music every so often.
Excellent game.
One of my favorites. I replay it every few years when I think about it again.
Too bad about the sequels...
Great fuckin OST too
Girl wins.
Soundtrack to Secret of Mana makes me cry evertim
No Plok? They both suck.
Holy shit I haven't thought about that game in forever! It was hard AF as I recall.
I've never even heard of Terraniema (? Kinda hard to read that font).
Is it any good?
It’s Terranigma, it never got a North America release so not well known there. I’ve never played it but I hear it’s pretty good.
It's considered to be the best game in Quintet's non-god-game trilogy (Soulblazer And Illusion of Time/Gaia being the other t'o games).
It is really good, but has its' unfair moments. Great music, too.
I’ve seen this repeated a bunch of times but it seems to be an opinion predominantly held by Brits who played Terranigma growing up. I don’t understand it, as I played Illusion of Gaia growing up and love the game dearly (and have replayed it many times since then) but I’ve played Terranigma multiple times and lost interest not long after passing Bloody Mary. The game has gorgeous music and graphics (especially the two world map themes and the early areas) but the story didn’t engage me like IoG.
Yes, it's a way less personal story. I think the gameplay is a bit more refined.
It does hit on similar existentialist themes like the other quintet games (that aren't actraiser), though. If you prefer IoG, that's valid.
Yes, Terranigma let you do a lot more different moves in combat which was cool, and the inputs were faster and didn’t involve charging which was a bit annoying in IoG.
Maybe this was a localization thing, but interestingly, the game at one point kind of calls you a god (translated and from memory: "you are what humans call a god"). There are also multiple elements in the game that have religious themes: the protagonist's name, Ark, which I always linked to the story of Noah, as it's Ark bringing life to a world that was destroyed, death and rebirth etc. (possibly even thrice, the ending is ambiguous) - also the game is somewhat "anachronistic" to say the least. Also the translation of the Japanese title is roughly "creation of Heaven and Earth".
While the game is technically a bit flawed, story- and presentation-wise it's probably one of my favorites of all time. The subtly eerie setup with everything (e.g. the jingle presenting the acts' titles), man's "emancipation" from nature / Gaia, which arguably caused the catastrophe in the first place, the weird encounters - absolutely fantastic in my opinion.
Terranigma, very cool game
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LOOK DADDY, WHITE MEGA MAN!!!!
That crying you hear echoing through the ages is the sound of Superman 64 and well-intentioned grandmothers ruining Christmasses all across the world.
Nah, the Spiderman/Venom SNES games were where it was at. Never owned them, but spent lots with Blockbuster renting them.
Agreed, that game was awesome.
Superman 64 was famously bad. It's in the conversation with ET for worst game ever made. And because it was bad, it was quicky discounted, and a lot of people who didn't know how bad it was gave it as gifts.
ok but where's super metroid?
Me too.
You fool! Those are just NES games!
I don't see a problem here, I've played all those games and every single one is a gem
They have awesome games to show each other!
I'm about to commit blasphemy:
Y'all can keep the Castlevania. I'll take the rest.
Simon is on his way to your castle as we speak.
Sorry Simon, but the princess is in another castle.
Aria's the best one, anyway
Suddenly surrounded by spears, pitchforks and one torch
I mean uh, um,... "What is a man!?"
spears lower
I don't disagree with you. Symphony of the Night is exceptional but Aria and Dawn are so, so good.
Ah, Kirbo, my most excellent creation
No Earthbound?
More like “we” love awesome video game music.
Hmm…fine, I’ll be yer unicorn!