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Dragon Quest, the biggest RPG in Japan, does not follow this structure.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Final Fantasy uses a strange term in Japanese that's neither "Cure" nor "Care", but it's kinda closer to "Care".
And of course its spell for curing status ailments is Esuna.
Eh, I used to feel that way but I think that the good out weighs the bad. All of the secret coins and exits in those games are optional. I have just accepted that by the time I get to the end of these recent games there will be 5-10 secrets left that I haven't found that I can then just look up without having a guilty conscience.
I actually remember finding this exit by accident on my very first play through that level as a child.
At the time I though oh cool, but actually I really hate this type of secret because it really doesn't require any thought. When a game accepts this type of secret as a norm then the entire game becomes a fucking hunt for a needle in a hay stack.
Thats one of the reasons I'm not so keen on the New Super Mario series. I don't want to have to jump and against every fucking inch of the game to find an invisible wall, thats just cheap.
Good thing about SMW (I don't have much mario experience after it) is that the levels that had more than one exit were marked (glowing red, space around, etc) so you didn't have to go nuts on the entire map, if that's not good game design then I don't know what is...
rainking187
Member
Don't know if it's been posted here, but the game Ittle Dew has a hidden (mostly empty) dungeon that has the same layout as the first dungeon in The Legend of Zelda.
Talladega Knight
Member
i just found out about something that had always puzzled me about sony's advertising campaign back in 1995:
i never knew what "enos lives" stood for...until now:
Ready Ninth Of September.
i never knew what "enos lives" stood for...until now:
Ready Ninth Of September.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Man, video game companies had great campaigns in the '90s.i just found out that something that had always puzzled me about sony's advertising campaign back in 1995:
i never knew what "enos lives" stood for...until now:
Ready Ninth Of September.
Just realised this today and it blew my mind: the last part of Force Your Way (Final Fantasy 8) before it loops is an arrangement of the last part of the Final Fantasy 6 Prelude before it loops. I don't think it's a coincidence, anyway.
MIND BLOWWWWNN
Pretty obvious devs were using the movie to get a reference for what an american elementary school looks like
MrCunningham
Member
Mind = Blown
Amazing!
That gif is fantastic. Nice job on finding the Power of Love theme (whoever found it). Maybe they didn't have the rights to use it, so they speed it up in hopes nobody would notice?
It still doesn't change the fact that Back to the Future on the NES was a bad game though.
Lions Gate's "coming soon" jingle is the same as Virtue's Last Reward ominous title screen noise:
Lionsgate jingle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_0OP3Kic7Q&feature=youtu.be&t=48s
VLR jingle:
http://youtu.be/cfKerpXmOrc?t=1m49s
Lionsgate jingle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_0OP3Kic7Q&feature=youtu.be&t=48s
VLR jingle:
http://youtu.be/cfKerpXmOrc?t=1m49s
How are people not seeing that
He is wearing a green hood with a golden circlet around it that holds it over the head.
I be played though that game over 20 times since 1993 and this just blew my mind. I suppose that is the beauty of pixel art, everyone's imagination sees something different. But wow, mind blow.
Is it me or do these two sound alike?
Start at 2minute mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zXDJDGLAFw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Start from beginning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQiDzSWLIm4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Start at 2minute mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zXDJDGLAFw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Start from beginning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQiDzSWLIm4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I knew what the second song would be before I even started it.
Stolen from 4chan:
Posted here a billion years ago. Also, an argument could be made that they also form the shapes of 6 sideways pipes.
Also, that Power of Love thing is cray-cray.
Yep. some musical comparison's are pretty vague at best, but this one is right on the head. A lot of composer's were inspired by popular songs (although I guess one track from the speed soundtrack isn't really popular)
I always made this comparison when I played the first Kyrandia game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUoXCWQXZFE&list=PLB4FEC211DEBC8414
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBal8eNGBWU
Thanks for this. New to me and I play this game to death.Probably widely known but you can enter the painted castle in the background in Super Mario 3D Land:
Bomber Bob
Banned
What's the difference?
You heal a wound and cure an illness.
So a "heal" spell should restore your HP and a "cure" spell should remove status ailments.
Shadow Hog
Member
This might be old to some, but two things that surprised me.
1) "Music A" in Tetris was initially a completely different song called "Minuet". I don't think I can imagine a world where Tetris isn't remotely associated with "Korobeiniki", but apparently that could've happened. Only 25,000 copies or so of Tetris have this alternate music - version 1.0, essentially - and they're all Japanese. Worldwide releases were all version 1.1, which put the music we all know in place.
2) In Super Mario Bros. 3, the timer counts down slower if you move faster.
1) "Music A" in Tetris was initially a completely different song called "Minuet". I don't think I can imagine a world where Tetris isn't remotely associated with "Korobeiniki", but apparently that could've happened. Only 25,000 copies or so of Tetris have this alternate music - version 1.0, essentially - and they're all Japanese. Worldwide releases were all version 1.1, which put the music we all know in place.
2) In Super Mario Bros. 3, the timer counts down slower if you move faster.
SeventhSon
Member
In SMB3, the timer clicks slower when you run.
http://www.suppermariobroth.com/post/56538743706/in-super-mario-bros-3-time-ticks-down-slower
http://www.suppermariobroth.com/post/56538743706/in-super-mario-bros-3-time-ticks-down-slower
Shadow Hog
Member
...Did you even look at the post above you?
Some of them are in a hurry and just want to add something, but I've also seen some members here that deliberately refuse to read text with more than one line and try to find some bullshit excuse to their TL;DR behavior. Including the very opening post, blaming the OP for that. I hate it.
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Don't know if already mentioned, but did you know that there is an alternative scene of the clock tower opening in Majoras Mask (something you'll only see once in that game)?
Here's the video.
Comparison with the "original" version (May have to wait a bit, timestamp doesn't really work)
For that to happen, stand on the outside of the observatory. Yes, they did a different cutscene if you just happen to stand on the tiny, fenced off area around midnight on the third day, where you normally are for around 10 second to collect some item.
The detail put in Majoras Mask is completely astounding.
BibiMaghoo
Member
The actress that plays Skylar, the wife of Walter in Breaking Bad, is the voice of Arial, amongst others, in the Legacy of Kain games.
I thought that was pretty mental, though it may be well known by others.
I thought that was pretty mental, though it may be well known by others.
Saw somebody playing the UK version of Animal Crossing for the first time this morning and only just noticed they speak gibberish.
In the Japanese version all the animals actually speak Japanese really really quickly, in the European version this is just replaced with gibberish sounds.
In the Japanese version all the animals actually speak Japanese really really quickly, in the European version this is just replaced with gibberish sounds.
Thank you! I have been looking for the origin of that sound for so long. You can also hear it in a song from Sin and Punishment Star Successor. I heard it somewhere else too and it's been messing with my head.
EDIT: The S&P song is here: http://www.brawlcustommusic.com/game/872. It's called Havoc and you can hear parts of the sound at 0:43 and 0:50.
Bomber Bob
Banned
Thx! English is not my first language and I had no idea!
Duane Cunningham
Member
No, if you listen closely in the English version, they're actually saying all the letters extremely quickly, which in some cases creates sounds that almost sounds like the real words, and other times doesn't.
It's actually a clever way to record just a bit of voice acting (26 letters) but not actually have to go all out. It's been done this way for the whole series. And I'm pretty sure it's literally one set of letters, then made higher or lower for different characters.
It is because the Japanese writing system. They write in syllables, so it is easy to make voices of it. In English (or any language that uses Roman alphabet) you need two out three letters to form a syllable. And sometimes they have different phonemic combinations. It is really difficult to transform that to voices. So in the game they only say each letter really fast.
Not a mindblowing fact, but just something cool that could be true...
Was watching Adventure Time the other day and saw this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Do3v4vQz8w
I thought, oh that little drum bit sounds familiar! Then I remembered another "rock giant" I'm rather fond of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpZAn-iLuFo
Could be coincidence, but I'd love to think it has been done on purpose! Of course they could just both be paying homage to The Beatles too.
Was watching Adventure Time the other day and saw this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Do3v4vQz8w
I thought, oh that little drum bit sounds familiar! Then I remembered another "rock giant" I'm rather fond of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpZAn-iLuFo
Could be coincidence, but I'd love to think it has been done on purpose! Of course they could just both be paying homage to The Beatles too.
John Rabbit
Banned
these are...actually kind of similar. good catch.
Like the hat?
Banned
More of a "how didn't I realize it before today?" But in animal crossing, default patterns at able sisters are made by people from Treehut which is a play on Treehouse, the localization group
I don't know how I never put that togetherness.
I don't know how I never put that togetherness.
peronmls
Member
That SFX is actually from some sampling CD available to the public. Like the Fire Temple Chants in Ocarina of Time. I have yet to find the source of what sampling CD it come from but I do hear it everywhere all the time.
Anyone posted this?
Because damn.
Long video, but worth the watch, I'd say.
Is Link Dead in Majora's Mask?
Because damn.
Long video, but worth the watch, I'd say.
Is Link Dead in Majora's Mask?
No. Ugh. Stop saying this about every fucking game.
Where else has this been said? It's new to me.
Edit: Also, this video just came out today.
No. Boy, that was easy!
Wow this video is stupid. Where to begin?
I guess with the Kubler-Ross model itself. It was created as an observation of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross as she worked with terminally ill people to describe how people react to their impending death and/or other impending terrible fates. Calling them "stages" was dumb because even she didn't think there was any order to them, that everyone experienced the same emotions, or that these were the only emotions people felt when dealing with these situations. People are unique and reactions vary.
This theory is extremely laden with confirmation bias. They point out elements of the story and describe it to fit one of the stages of the Kubler-Ross model while ignoring that examples that fit multiple stages are in every area of the world. They assume that this has something to do with Link being dead, ignoring that everyone is feeling grief because there is a fuckton of reasons to feel that way in this world; got a moon falling, people getting their loved ones taken away from them, people dying everywhere. Clock Town does have people in denial. It also has people bargaining, depressed, and accepting. A lot of people in Clock Town aren't in denial. They see the moon falling. That's why there is a town meeting about it.
Then you have the video publishers doing this logic leap:
Termina has scary moon, but Hyrule doesn't have scary moon, therefor Termina must not be real and is Link's death hallucination! Wait guys, there are lots of other ways a place can not exist in the same plane of reality as another place without it being a death hallucination. We're talking about a magical world that features alternate universes in almost every fucking game!
Hero's Shade is the ghost of Hero of Time, therefor theory confirmed! Hero's Shade is an adult... that kinda... you know... does the opposite of confirm this theory.
"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?" Terrible fate isn't specific. Being turned into a deku scrub and dying are both terrible fates. Describing one as a terrible fate does not mean the other cannot be described the exact same way.
toddhunter
Member
FF8 would be the classic example. Search Squall is dead.
TheShampion
Member
Well, I thought it was interesting too, if only for that last sentiment.
I am more in line with the
Termina is the dark world
sorry, which game has that? Just curious, not sure which game you're referencing. Thanks!
Here's an interesting theory regarding Majora's Mask.
I believe I was first linked to it here on GAF, but I'm not sure if it's made its way into this thread.