kingbean
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I was sitting at my desk at work just thinking about how magical, for the lack of a better word, some games make me feel.
I was thinking about sprite work on Garou: Mark of the Wolves and how it's this answer to a limitation in hardware that was created to convey action to the player. How in 320x224 pixels do they display conflict and motion so fucking fantastically? Such a small pallet to create such wonderful art and animation that I can't help but be in awe. This can be for many sprite based games that I'm talking about. Thinking at Chrono Trigger is a huge game with so much content and such a fun story but it's only 3MBs. It's just awesome.
This awe I have felt playing some current gen games and is easier to be put into words, so It might be better described as amazement.
I've got verbal diarrhea. One more thing then I'll let you go.
Other than being awed be technical mastery there is the only positive nostalgic feeling I have and that's exploring Hyrule field in Ocarina of Time for the first time.
It was an experience. It was something that even at 10 years old I could tell was truly game changing. I had never(Because my parents were Sega fans) played another remotely like that before hand.
I can't effectively put it into words, I actually can only describe my first interactions with that game as awe inspiring.
I've never once again that level of awe from any game. I know people will be able to probably list more than one occurrence of awe, but I swear I cannot.
Not Dark Souls, not Metal Gear, not Final Fantasy and not even other Zelda games have given me that feeling.
So, I say that jumbled mess of words because I want to know what game related things -or other- have had this effect on you.
I was thinking about sprite work on Garou: Mark of the Wolves and how it's this answer to a limitation in hardware that was created to convey action to the player. How in 320x224 pixels do they display conflict and motion so fucking fantastically? Such a small pallet to create such wonderful art and animation that I can't help but be in awe. This can be for many sprite based games that I'm talking about. Thinking at Chrono Trigger is a huge game with so much content and such a fun story but it's only 3MBs. It's just awesome.
This awe I have felt playing some current gen games and is easier to be put into words, so It might be better described as amazement.
I've got verbal diarrhea. One more thing then I'll let you go.
Other than being awed be technical mastery there is the only positive nostalgic feeling I have and that's exploring Hyrule field in Ocarina of Time for the first time.
It was an experience. It was something that even at 10 years old I could tell was truly game changing. I had never(Because my parents were Sega fans) played another remotely like that before hand.
I can't effectively put it into words, I actually can only describe my first interactions with that game as awe inspiring.
I've never once again that level of awe from any game. I know people will be able to probably list more than one occurrence of awe, but I swear I cannot.
Not Dark Souls, not Metal Gear, not Final Fantasy and not even other Zelda games have given me that feeling.
So, I say that jumbled mess of words because I want to know what game related things -or other- have had this effect on you.