The Underailable Thread....Part Deux, the Sequel!!

gurneyhalleck1 said:

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

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boy you said it Chewie, where did you dig up that old fossil?

gurneyhalleck1 said:

Ben is a great man!

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yeah, great at getting us into trouble.

gurneyhalleck1 said:

I had an Atari, and my friend had an Intellivision. I remember playing Frogger on it. Weird controllers!

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The controllers were a little weird, especially for games that were really joystick driven.

But so many of the Intellivision games were complex and relied more on having lots of inputs, so it was necessary.

I still think/play like that. I like less a game system that requires reflexes and timing like so many do. I prefer ones that involve thinking and planning and strategy. Not to mention I don't like human enemies usually, so my choices are limited.

gurneyhalleck1 said:

Uh, uh, negative, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down

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I see, Sir Luke

gurneyhalleck1 said:

I only owned three systems growing up:

NES (Nintendo 1)
Sega Master System
Sega Genesis

While I loved Nintendo, in many ways I was more of a Sega man. After I had kids, we started playing the old games. As a matter of fact, we're playing my Sega right now....the classic PHANTASY STAR! Best RPG game of all time, hands down, period! A lot of people don't remember Sega Master System....it was in many ways a great and superior alternative to Nintendo NES, but only places like Montgomery Ward and Sears carried it!

I was the only kid at my entire school that had both NES and Sega MS. Then when Sega came out with Genesis in 16-bit, I got that, too. I was crazy.

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Haha well I had no game systems growing up. For acwhile my father had Pong on his tv.

I got intellivision as a married adult. That was my only one (though I did play PC games in the interim) until I bought myself a PS2 from a work bonus when my daughter was young and I was late 30s.

I have access to a PS4 that was a gift now.

I liked Xenosaga and Final Fantasy franchises. But I played things like the Bandicoot game and downhill bike and ATV racing with my daughter.

Phantasy Star was a great game.

I have this DOS based football game called "Armchair Quarterback"

you can play against another opponent (2player) or against the system, calling the plays from a list (offense and defense) and then the program gives the result, down/distance field location.
I have it on a thumbdrive and still run it in a DOS window from time to time.

My kids have gaming systems. I never played them, I didn't play arcade games either even when many of my peers did. Not my thing.

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who remembers the significance of "YYXYZ"?

~Anastasia~ said:

I liked Xenosaga and Final Fantasy franchises.

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We should talk more.

I have all three Xenosaga games, every single Final Fantasy title. I'm going through V right now. Unfortunately, after X the series kind of went downhill. Square-Enix became more interested in licensing out new game engines it didn't know how to develop than it did in making the kind of quality stories that hooked people on the series to start with. XI was online broadband in a time where most of the country didn't have broadband. XII was the offline version of that experience and had a politically convoluted story. XIII was an awful mess; just one long corridor of enemies with no fun dungeons. XIV was online, but the initial release was a buggy, unplayable disaster. XV is kind of okay, but it plays more like Kingdom Hearts than Final Fantasy.

gurneyhalleck1 said:

As a matter of fact, we're playing my Sega right now....the classic PHANTASY STAR! Best RPG game of all time, hands down, period! A lot of people don't remember Sega Master System....it was in many ways a great and superior alternative to Nintendo NES, but only places like Montgomery Ward and Sears carried it!

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I didn't grow up with it, and I've never really got Sega people, but I DO love the original Phantasy Star. Really, I love any of the old brutally difficult, grind-heavy RPGs, especially Might & Magic. I haven't gotten to Phantasy Stars 2-4 yet, though. When I have time in between work and school, I tend to go for Bravely Default or Knights of the Old Republic or Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I would have to say KOTOR is my all-time favorite RPG, actually. Even if it annoys me how my libertarian decisions end up with the game pegging me as Dark Side.

mothcorrupteth said:

We should talk more.

I have all three Xenosaga games, every single Final Fantasy title. I'm going through V right now. Unfortunately, after X the series kind of went downhill. Square-Enix became more interested in licensing out new game engines it didn't know how to develop than it did in making the kind of quality stories that hooked people on the series to start with. XI was online broadband in a time where most of the country didn't have broadband. XII was the offline version of that experience and had a politically convoluted story. XIII was an awful mess; just one long corridor of enemies with no fun dungeons. XIV was online, but the initial release was a buggy, unplayable disaster. XV is kind of okay, but it plays more like Kingdom Hearts than Final Fantasy.

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I haven't played every FF. I wasn't able to do the online ones when they came out, and I'm missing a couple of the earliest ones. I agree with your assessments though.

I'm awaiting the re-realese of VII. It was an awesome story but I hated what happened to Aeris (Aerith? I rename mine so I forget.). And I was pretty mad at the thief girl. I liked the materia system though and LOVED the skiing game.

I have a new release of X available but haven't played it yet (I really don't play often). I enjoyed it on PS2. There's enough extra to do on the training grounds to drag it out (I like to be a completionist and get my money's worth out of a game - maybe a year's play lol).

XII would have been better without the depth of politics. I actually liked the bounty hunts on that one. That and I was traumatized by running into a t-Rex in a sandstorm early on the first time I played it. The graphics were nice though. Except I got tired of watching the bunny-girl from behind ... The gambit system was TOO automatic really - just sit back and watch your characters fight if you want.

I played XV and it was ok but didn't feel at all like a FF. Some familiar creatures and that's about it.

I'd like to see VIII re-released too. With improved graphics it would be even better. I liked the story and the leveling system.

Even IX was fun, though it was somehow really childish looking to me.

I found the earlier ones to be even harder. I'm partway through a game of V (put on hold when I moved and never picked it back up).

I have all 3 Xenosaga too. I really like those, though Albedo is just - disturbing - in some of the innuendoes. The characters are strong, IMO, and the story not bad. I wish they would remake them but I guess interest in those died. Used copies of the games (especially 3) are pricey I notice. I have to keep my PS2 working - I don't want to lose that series forever.

I haven't found much of interest after all that. I played Horizon Zero Dawn and enjoyed it, but it got tedious at some points. And it DOES require reflexes, timing, and getting at least semi-good on the controller.

I also played the Last Guardian - not much story but the beast is cute and I like puzzles. Not much conflict either.

And I played Dragon Age which is ok to explore for a bit. But the idea of romancing in a game is just weird, and it's more political than I'd like.

That's about it, except Redbox sent me free game codes so I tried Laura Croft which was so-so, and Shadow of the Collosus which seemed pretty pointless as far as I could get in a day. What fun is a world with no characters or even many creatures except a half-dozen enemies and edible lizards?

gurneyhalleck1 said:

Did you play it? I never meet anyone who’s even heard of it...

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It was the first video RPG I played, and I played all the sequels too. I had the Master System before I got the NES, and I actually preferred it and the Genesis to their Nintendo equivalents (though I loved those too).

prodromos said:

who remembers the significance of "YYXYZ"?

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Did no one play any of the original text adventures?

gurneyhalleck1 said:

TK421.....TK421!?

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help, I think I'm melting! this is your fault!