Fathoms77
Fathoms77 t1_j6o45c3 wrote
Reply to Letting the nostalgia flow tonight by iowabeans
Hell yeah. I played this through SO many times...same with both Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliances. I really miss those style of games.
I wasn't as big a fan of the Champions sequel, Return to Arms, but it was still great fun.
Fathoms77 t1_j6o3tux wrote
Reply to This game is so beautiful and aesthetic that I have revisit it every couple of years by Wonder-Lad
It was such a great game. So beautiful, and it remains one of the best examples of a partner-style gameplay mechanic. Elika was basically a tool and never in the way, and THAT'S the proper way to do it. Very much like how we use Atreus in the new God of Wars; it just works extremely well.
I wish they'd do another PoP...either a true sequel or that Sands of Time remake rumor, which I'm sure won't happen.
Fathoms77 t1_j6o3gz1 wrote
Man, this makes me want to check my stats...I'm almost certain I have a 100% game save for GT2. I played the crap out of that game.
I think I used the cheat that let you get Golds on all the license tests (because it was freakin' impossible otherwise, let's just admit it). But that was the only cheat I used.
Fathoms77 t1_j6o31gt wrote
Uncharted has been proving this fact over and over again for years. I really hope it doesn't completely fall by the wayside with everything going open-world in some capacity, because it's such a unique storytelling experience.
Fathoms77 t1_j267ro0 wrote
Reply to I was cleaning my basement and found some games I saved from elementary thru college, and my first iPhone..and Linkin Park. by TycoBrahe
I probably played Dark Alliance and CoN through a dozen times each. And another ten times with friends. Those games were SO much fun.
I miss TimeSplitters like crazy...
And Katamari Damacy remains one of my best "what the fu** is this.....wait, this is awesome" moments.
Fathoms77 t1_j2631nd wrote
Now I make a deal with my dad: dig out an 8 x 6 plot by the house where the new wood pile is going to go, and he'll get me the NES.
...8-year-old me doesn't quite realize how much dirt and rock is an 8 x 6 plot that needs to be two feet deep.
But a couple months and more than a few little calluses later and I'm happily bouncing around with Mario.
Fathoms77 t1_jefdlfi wrote
Reply to Why do games nowadays have to be categorized either really good or really horrible? by mega_lova_nia
Because the interwebs thrives on extremes. Always has.
Everything is going to be exaggerated, so good games almost automatically become great and mediocre games become bad. Sometimes it takes a little while but it always seems inevitable. Nobody wants to talk about the average game very much but if you can get some extremely vocal people exaggerating how good or bad something is, that elicits plenty of response...and the tactic rarely fails.