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Post by Segata on Feb 15, 2018 13:01:02 GMT -5
Hey. Sega fan retro gaming fan. I have opinions possibly too many. Despite how I come across sometimes I do love gaming with a passion. I'm also a person who is highly critical and working on that. Been on forums since the Saturn/PS1/N64 days. Always looking for a place to yabber on. I live in Utah but not Mormon and nothing against them either. I talk a lot in life and online (so possibly a lot of posts) It's not typically a "lol" drive by either. Worst new member intro I know. But hey here I am. be prepared?
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Post by Bumpyroad on Feb 16, 2018 2:33:11 GMT -5
Welcome, Segata. I see you often at Racketboy's, but that's likely because i only read this and that . How's life over there?
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Post by KGRAMR on Apr 1, 2018 19:15:50 GMT -5
Hello to everybody at the H101 forums! My name is KGRAMR, i recently joined to the forum of one of my favorite websites I'm a video game fan and collector since 6th grade. Some of my favorite systems are the SNES, Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16, Neo Geo and hell even the Atari Jaguar, to name a few. I hope to apport as much as i can here and share some of my gaming experiences here and there (most likely about the Jaguar XD Yes, i like the Atari Jaguar a lot!)
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Post by Amelia on Apr 2, 2018 18:43:16 GMT -5
Welcome KGRAMR! What are your favorite Jaguar games?
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Post by KGRAMR on Apr 2, 2018 19:20:49 GMT -5
Welcome KGRAMR! What are your favorite Jaguar games? All XD In all seriousness, my favorites are obviously AVP, Tempest 2000, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Iron Soldier and Rayman but i also like Hyper Force, I-War, Val d'Isère Skiing and Snowboarding, Super Burnout, Power Drive Rally, Ultra Vortek, Missile Command 3D, Cybermorph, Raiden, Evolution: Dino Dudes, Zero 5 and Cannon Fodder. I also like some of the homebrews that have been released for it such as Black Out!, Another World, Escape 2045: The Truth Defenders and Rebooteroids
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Post by GamerL on Apr 9, 2018 6:45:33 GMT -5
Hey all! I’m Zach. I’m an artist, designer, writer, and all-around geek. Been gaming since the Intellivision/Commodore 64 days. I’ve been a reader of the HG101 site for years, and occasional lurker on the boards. Figured I’d finally jump into the fray here. You really jumped into the fray with that single post of yours.
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Post by Bumpyroad on Apr 9, 2018 14:34:35 GMT -5
You were so talkative, we could barely stand the silence without you.
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Post by Woody Alien on Apr 9, 2018 15:42:52 GMT -5
I'm kind of sad that most of the people writing an introduction post here then disappear after just a little while, or even never write again... but in the end it's true of most forums. I just don't understand what's the point of introducing oneself if you know you're never coming back again.
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Post by GamerL on Apr 24, 2018 7:43:51 GMT -5
I'm kind of sad that most of the people writing an introduction post here then disappear after just a little while, or even never write again... but in the end it's true of most forums. I just don't understand what's the point of introducing oneself if you know you're never coming back again. I'm sympathetic to people who disappear after only a handful of posts, it takes time and effort to stick with a forum long enough until you get into the groove and habit of posting there frequently, it's easy to bail early on due to lack of interest or just losing track of it. Lord knows there were plenty of forums I joined over the years only to stop posting soon after or post very rarely, though sometimes I bailed due to simply not liking a forum. But what I don't get is posting only your introduction post and then disappearing, like why did you even bother to register? I feel like you should give a forum a grace period of at least a week before deciding whether you want to stick with it. And these days, considering active forums are a rarity, I don't know why someone would register for here and not give it more of a chance.
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Post by Bejeweled City Ruin on Oct 22, 2018 11:26:14 GMT -5
I guess I'll post in this Welcome thread that hasn't been posted in in months. It's sad, I know. The web forum is a dying art form. I'll just hope in a few years they go through a retro revival as people react against social media or something.
So, let's see (and repeating a few things I've already said elsewhere here): I tend toward older games, mostly in the 4th and 5th generations. Moreover, I tend only to be interested in fantasy settings in a broad sense. Unsurprisingly, that means I'm particularly fond of RPGs. I'm more of a fan of Japanese RPGs than Western ones - they tend to have more interesting worlds to me among other things - though there are Western RPGs that I love.
My approach to games is mostly aesthetic, I suppose you could say. Even in games that are heavily oriented toward mechanics, like strategy games, I tend to be concerned less with the optimal path to winning and more with cultivating the right feel. Story, in the plot and character development sense, is likewise secondary to me (though I do enjoy a good story and I do enjoy good mechanics). My interest is largely in inhabiting for a moment a different world. I can forgive most game flaws for a distinctive world-feel (which perhaps explains my longstanding love for Ultima VIII and Breath of Fire I).
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Post by toei on Oct 22, 2018 16:04:10 GMT -5
Bejeweled City Ruin Welcome to HG101! I've already caught a few of your posts, and they've been interesting. Hope you stick around. EDIT - I'm a big fan of Breath of Fire 2 & 3. I like 1, too, but I hated that the final transformation basically breaks the late game, and the story isn't as good.
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Post by Snake on Oct 22, 2018 20:25:05 GMT -5
Welcome Bejeweled! Breath of Fire 1 might be my favorite of the series to play too. Ultima VIII was Pagan? That may have been the last Ultima I played. I recall killing random NPC's, and basically getting nowhere. But it was fun to explore.
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Post by Bejeweled City Ruin on Oct 23, 2018 0:36:20 GMT -5
Thank you both! I do plan to stick around.
Ultima VIII is Pagan, yes. It's legitimately criticized for being clearly unfinished (there are doors to nowhere and plot elements hinted at but not followed through with) and for originally shipping with controls that rendered the game borderline impossible, but I've always found its world fascinating. And there's a story element, without giving away spoilers, where you have to make a choice regarding the Sorcerers that's always stuck with me in an emotionally resonant way.
And Breath of Fire is often criticized for having a simplistic, straightforward story and battle system, which is not unfair, but it has a distinctive feeling world and some of my favorite locations, conceptually, in an SNES RPG. The non-battle abilities of the characters were also a neat element that I always thought should have become common in JRPGs. (It also has one of my favorite pieces of visual storytelling of the era with all of the buildings connected to the ancient past sharing an architectural style distinct from everything else.)
Singling those two out for mention kind of makes it seem like they're my favorite games or something, which they're not, though I am fond of them. I did think about including a list of my favorite games, but it's weird talking about yourself. And a list like that ends up growing very quickly. If I did, it'd be pretty heavy on JRPGs, and quasi-RPGs, and non-RPG games with RPG elements. Though I do love a number of platformers and arcade-ish games, too.
I suppose the other side of my love of interesting worlds in games is that if I don't care for the world-feel, I will forgive almost nothing. Hence my longstanding dislike of Final Fantasy VII, going back to 1997.
I could also mention that I have always, since the mid-to-late 90s, had a great love for the Sega Saturn (though I didn't own one). I never really cared much about the Genesis, but I love the Saturn and the Dreamcast.
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Post by Snake on Oct 24, 2018 16:50:26 GMT -5
Wow, that's interesting that you would dislike FF VII for its feel and setting. I liked that they included a multi-story corporate building and an amusement park. It marks a nice contrast to earlier Final Fantasy or even most RPG's that lack a "north pole" or "arctic circle." It felt more like you were exploring an actual planet, instead of only finding ice in some cave or mountain top. The only thing I didn't like about Final Fantasy VII was that it feels unfinished, or rushed, like Xenogears.
I regret not collecting more Sega Saturn games. It pains me that I could've had Burning Rangers and Radiant Silvergun for like, $40, before they got disgustingly rare.
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Post by Bejeweled City Ruin on Oct 25, 2018 10:58:32 GMT -5
I realize that it's not likely to be a common opinion, since it does rely on the very specific combination of my personal preferences.
When it comes to fantasy worlds, I'm really not terribly interested in the construction of coherent and cohesive 'believable' worlds, though I do think that's an impressive achievement. I'm much more interested in them as a series of evocations of senses and feelings - I'm more interested in them as almost an invocation of the 'spiritual' sense, as vehicles for the sense of the uncanny, of otherworldliness, of fantasy. So, I'm not that interested in whether a world is complex and detailed, or feels 'real', in-and-of itself. Likewise, I'm not really that interested in whether it has a deep 'lore' (and I hate that term) - though, again, it doesn't bother me if it does, provided it's done well (Legend of Mana, for example, provides almost all of that for the Mana series, and as my name here being derived from the title of a song - the best song - on the LoM soundtrack might suggest, I love that game and consider it an absolute personal favorite).
But I just don't like that kind of sci-fi-ized fantasy that became ubiquitous in JRPGs at the time, which the massive success of FFVII obviously encouraged - yet I do like more 'pure' science fantasy (Panzer Dragoon Saga is one of absolute top-5-on-any-list favorite games). Moreover, although Japanese games have always been heavily influenced by anime in the same way that Western games have always been heavily influenced by Hollywood, VII was really the point in which the series began to really feel like a shonen anime. Which I'm just not a fan of.
It was an immediately visceral reaction, too, actually going back to that incredibly misleading commercial for the game. Having been introduced to the series by IV, which at the time instantly became my favorite game, and possibly loving VI even more (I went and go back and forth on which I like more - I think VI is indisputably a better game, but IV has a kind of singular quality, and nostalgia, that appeals to me, but then VI has more emotional resonance and a fascinating world of its own...), Final Fantasy was the greatest game series in the world to me in 1997. And I had such an immediate dislike to the feel of VII that it was so disappointing to me that I've basically been incapable of ever being disappointed with a game like that again. It kind of broke me. Which is actually good.
And for a system that's famous for being a failure, the Saturn has far too many great games. I love the whole Panzer Dragoon series, despite Saga being the only one that's "my kind of game", and NiGHTs into Dreams is probably my favorite arcade-like game of all time. I will also defend the Saturn's 3D capabilities. Because everyone 'knows' the Saturn was bad at 3D, people convince themselves that games like Burning Rangers and Panzer Dragoon Saga somehow look worse than imaginary PS ports of themselves. But the Saturn was just as good at 3D as the PS, if the developer was able to make use of the hardware to its fullest. Unfortunately, yet also unsurprisingly, only Sega ever really did.
I need to learn how to make short posts about things like this.
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