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Old 04-30-2015, 06:39 PM   #21 (permalink)
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^ a classic.

One of the most iconic games the Genesis had.
I personally never liked it much but almost every kid i knew that owned a genesis had it.

Okay, time to cover a popular snes game for a change.

Legend of Zelda : A link to the past (Snes)



This is the first Zelda game i truly loved cause the Nintendo ones came out when i was too young to appreciate them, they were also alot harder this was the first Zelda that facilitated exploring the world by marking where you needed to go on your map.

See, Zelda 1 & 2 are not really hard games, what made them hard was the lack of orientation they gave you for exploring the world. Link to the past fixed that HOWEVER by doing so they had to dumb down and streamline the gameplay.

Those of you that played it know that although they gave you these map checkpoints, the game doesn't ruin your exploration experience.
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Alot of ppl played Zelda 1 & 2 but not everybody passed it, a link to the past is the 1st Zelda where the game helps you enough to not let you get discouraged from passing it.





What makes this game great is it's visual and audio presentation, it perfectly captured and renewed the spirit of the Zelda games. It's a cute looking game, it feels very influenced by jrpg aesthetics and the world and the sprites are bright and colourful and a treat for the eyes.

Gameplay wise it never ceases to be fun.
you can pick this game up today and enjoy it and pass it in a couple of days.

You can't really do that with every Zelda title but this game managed to compress what makes Zelda great into a quaint adventure that although short remains satisfying.

Though im not the biggest Zelda fan i always tip my hat to how revolutionary this franchise has been. Good or bad there's no game like a Zelda game
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Great game, Right?

i remember renting it at Blockbuster back when the Saturn and the Ps1 were taking over the market.
i played Lufia 2 as the Snes was becoming outdated and right away playing it i knew i found a gem.

i haven't replayed it since then but i remember the game being a superb rpg with great puzzle sections. i rented that game for like a month until i passed it.
I would rank the SNES RPGs as follows:

1) Final Fantasy VI
2) Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals
3) Everything Else. Tons of good RPGS, it's just that the two above are top tier.

Lufia II's puzzles were great, yeah. The only thing it lacked a bit was on the soundtrack. The best part was when you got to the end, there was a section where you could enhance all of your weapons and armor in a certain area of the game. I no longer remember exactly how that went down, but at that time you didn't see many games doing that. Kind of similar to how they put that special dungeon in the Game Boy Advance version of Final Fantasy VI.

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The few ppl that do always mention Phantasy star or Shinning force cause let's be honest the Genesis wasn't exactly known for it's rpgs, but it has a few gems like Beyond Oasis and Shadowrun (my fav genesis game) and many others rpgs that ppl just didn't pay attention to.
The only good RPG the Genesis had, or at least out of the ones I played, was Phantasy Star IV.

So many nostalgia feels in this thread already.
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Old 05-01-2015, 01:59 PM   #24 (permalink)
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i didn't know the Gba port of FFIV had a secret dungeon, did you ever play Breath of fire 2? that game had a secret island where all the monster were huge and gave lots EXP.

i like when they add secret areas like that in rpgs.

lol aye, everyone gets nostalgic about the good old days but im trying to get ppl not to just remember the games they loved but to go and play the ones they never got to play.

I see ppl playing Cellphone games that force you to wait to play the game or charge you to not wait, and the games themselves are half assed and most times don't even have a story.

Rather than doing that i prefer emulating full well made games from past consoles.
You can download Kirby's dream land and have tons of fun without paying a single cent.
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i didn't know the Gba port of FFIV had a secret dungeon
VI (6) did, not IV (4).

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did you ever play Breath of fire 2? that game had a secret island where all the monster were huge and gave lots EXP.
Yep. Great game. Kinda/sorta remember that island. Breath of Fire III for the PS1 was the last I played in that series.

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lol aye, everyone gets nostalgic about the good old days but im trying to get ppl not to just remember the games they loved but to go and play the ones they never got to play.
I had thought about starting a journal with this very premise, spurned by the video-game music thread in the general section, but I came to the conclusion that I didn't want to put in the work on it. It's been ages since I played most of this stuff.

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Rather than doing that i prefer emulating full well made games from past consoles.
You can download Kirby's dream land and have tons of fun without paying a single cent.
I'm not sure that's how the companies plan it.
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Good coverage of Zelda Link to the Past, I remember playing that on the SNES not long after it came out and it was the first Zelda game that I ever played and was instantly hooked on it.

It amazingly took them seven years to follow it up with The Ocarina of Time and the hype when that game came out was unbelievable.
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A curious question I'll throw out to everyone in the thread - I've searched MB but it doesn't look like there's been a thread dedicated to VGA PC gaming. Are there classic PC gamers among the MB ranks?

Fans of titles released by Sierra, Lucas Arts, ID, and Apogee shareware?

I'm talking about classic MS-DOS era titles:

Kings Quest
Space Quest
Wolf3D
Sid Meier's Civilization
Age of Empires
Prince of Persia
The Incredible Machine
the Commander Keen series (so many summers spent on this!)
Jazz Jackrabbit (a shameless but enjoyable Sonic rip-off)
Invasion of the Mutant Killer Space Bats of Doom
and the criminally-underrated The Neverhood?



Now back to your regularly-scheduled NES classics.
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my bad, im horrible with Roman numbers

For the most part i play more retro games than modern ones, i have a Ps3 with Gta 5, most of the AC's games, God of war, Farcry 3 & Blood dragon etc YET i rather play Demon crest for the Snes or a Gba pokemon game.

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Thnx. A Link to the past is my favorite Zelda game.



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Srry dude, only console games on this journal.

I wanna mention though im a big fan of Civilization and Maniac mansion, Prince of persia was good too that's the first parkour game ive ever played.
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Prince of persia was good too that's the first parkour game ive ever played.
Ouch that makes me feel old. The Prince of Persia I was speaking of was this baby from 1989... almost 20 years before the parkour game!

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Yea, i was talking about that one too.

i played the Nes port of that game and back then that's the closest you were gonna get to a parkour game.

Running and climbing in that game felt really satisfying, the movement of the character was kind of a pain in the ass, i remember the game being all about the speed and momentum of the character, in some parts you had to slow down and watch out for trap tiles and in other parts you would have to run to jump over a huge gap you won't make unless you timed it perfectly.

After that there's the sword fight, 1 on 1 duel style.
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