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Giant Bomb Thread #5 - We love you, Ryan Davis

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LOL JEFF
 
Einbroch said:
Pretty Final Fantasy-y (world, music, voice acting, story...good and bad of all those) and yes, the first ten levels are REALLY hand-holdy. After ten it opens up and you kinda just do whatever you want, although there still is the guided quest system like WoW if you want to do that.

I don't. I do some public quests (FATEs), then a couple story quests, then switch to Miner and mine for a bit, then craft some armor, then maybe get some gil, then play the auction house, then run a dungeon, and so on.
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Thanks man, but from watching this stream, it's a good bet the game is going to attract a certain... crowd, and Kojima has given me all the video game erotica I can handle this week.
 
It's probably because I grew up with only Nintendo systems, but I really don't understand why the Genesis is held in so much esteem. Looking at it from the outside, it seems that the Genesis's library is all about sports games (I hate sports) and second-rate platformers (compared to SNES platformers such as SMW and my favorite game of all time, Donkey Kong Country 2, at least). I would love to be educated, though.
 
pirata said:
It's probably because I grew up with only Nintendo systems, but I really don't understand why the Genesis is held in so much esteem. Looking at it from the outside, it seems that the Genesis's library is all about sports games (I hate sports) and second-rate platformers (compared to SNES platformers such as SMW and my favorite game of all time, Donkey Kong Country 2, at least). I would love to be educated, though.
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As far as I'm concerned Genesis started and ended with Shining Force II.
 
pirata said:
It's probably because I grew up with only Nintendo systems, but I really don't understand why the Genesis is held in so much esteem. Looking at it from the outside, it seems that the Genesis's library is all about sports games (I hate sports) and second-rate platformers (compared to SNES platformers such as SMW and my favorite game of all time, Donkey Kong Country 2, at least). I would love to be educated, though.
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I find it incredibly difficult to talk about old consoles because I was a child when I played them and I think nostalgia plays a huge role in which you prefer. I mean I'd put Gun Star Heroes above all SNES games but that's because I played the shit out of it with friends and have fond memories of it. Then again whenever I see retro gaming I get a massive urge to play old Amiga titles like Zool and James Pond because the 1500 was my first machine. It just seems like you prefer whatever you grew up with.
 
pirata said:
It's probably because I grew up with only Nintendo systems, but I really don't understand why the Genesis is held in so much esteem. Looking at it from the outside, it seems that the Genesis's library is all about sports games (I hate sports) and second-rate platformers (compared to SNES platformers such as SMW and my favorite game of all time, Donkey Kong Country 2, at least). I would love to be educated, though.
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are you American? That would explain it.
 
These guys need to shut up about old Chicago, that plays is th goddamn best.
 
pirata said:
It's probably because I grew up with only Nintendo systems, but I really don't understand why the Genesis is held in so much esteem. Looking at it from the outside, it seems that the Genesis's library is all about sports games (I hate sports) and second-rate platformers (compared to SNES platformers such as SMW and my favorite game of all time, Donkey Kong Country 2, at least). I would love to be educated, though.
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Lots of good arcade, shooter and action games on the Genesis, that's what I remember most fondly looking back. A lot of creativity and concept variety in general - ToeJam and Earl, Ecco the Dolphin, weird stuff at the time. Columns was a pretty dope puzzle game. And even if the platformers weren't as sublime as what Miyamoto and Rare were doing they were still worth seeing, or at the very least, unique - Kid Chameleon, Decap Attack, Greendog the Beached Surfer Dude, Sonic, Castle/World of Illusion, Taz-Mania, etc.

I didn't have a SNES at the time, but I didn't really feel like I was missing out either. Not sure how well all of that holds up, but lots of fond memories all the same. Soundtracks definitely stand the test of time, that Yamaha synth chip still sounds great to me.
 
Continuing my PAX panel viewing and hearing Patrick say Retro/Grade sold nothing made me feel bad. Just checked and I own it already so it wasn't me!
 
CrunchinJelly said:
are you American? That would explain it.
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Yep. In fact, I had never seen a Sega console before I played a Dreamcast at a kiosk in the mall a few weeks before it came out. And I don't know if it was because of my age, but almost no one I knew had PS1s in the late '90s---it was all N64. Maybe it was just a Central Texas thing.

This sounds crazy looking back, but I actually got a PS1 for Christmas one year near the end of its life-cycle and almost never played it because I didn't know there were any good games for it. I got Tomb Raider and Namco Museum Vol. III with it, but no memory card, so I was never able to save (having only played on carts my whole life before this, I didn't know they were pretty much mandatory----if you had to have it, why didn't they pack it in?). I enjoyed Namco Museum far more than Tomb Raider, but I didn't play either a whole lot, and I never got any other games. I pretty much only played on Nintendo consoles and handhelds and a little bit of the PC before I got my PS2 in August of 2005! I wish I had jumped on board earlier, but that's how it goes.
 
Fucking hell, teared up in that intro at PAX.

Jeff is the best though. God of War review joke got a good chuckle out of me.
 
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