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Post by toei on Oct 25, 2018 11:38:17 GMT -5
I have to ask you, since you've been talking about settings and science fantasy - how do you feel about Phantasy Star (pre-Online)? It's more space opera, maybe, and granted, a big part of why I love its setting is that it is so developed and detailed, down to the creation of its inhabitants and with an history spanning thousands of years, but it's also unique, with intelligent non-human species like the Motavians and Dezorians that aren't derived from generic anime.
About FF, I find that IX, particularly in its first disc, did a good job at bringing back that sense of earnest wonder. I liked the grimy future of FFVII a lot; my biggest issues were that it becomes a lot more generic after that, both narratively and in terms of setting.
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Post by Bejeweled City Ruin on Oct 25, 2018 12:23:54 GMT -5
I haven't really played Phantasy Star enough to have a valid opinion. But from the immediate sort of response, they don't bother me in that same way. They're more space opera and don't have that viscerally off feeling to me that the late-90s and on Fantasy/Sci-Fi hybrid species of JRPG (like Final Fantasy or, say, the later Breath of Fire series) do. But I've never been that driven to get into them since Sci-Fi doesn't much interest me. I still should play them.
IX is actually the last Final Fantasy I cared about, but then it was a deliberate attempt to return the series to its roots. That was destined to be a short-lived return, though. It's long since become a completely different series, and that's absolutely fine. I'm pretty sure any company catering to my tastes would go broke very quickly.
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Post by Snake on Oct 26, 2018 12:50:13 GMT -5
I never thought of Sega Saturn as being inferior in 3-D to Playstation. Though it was my understanding that the system was more difficult to program and produce games for. I haven't played Grandia on Sega Saturn, but I was always under the impression that it was the superior version.
Pity we haven't had a proper follow-up to Secret of Mana/Legend of Mana. One thing that I really miss from that period was the watercolor aesthetic that also worked fantastically in Saga Frontier 2. Speaking of which, Saga Frontier 2 did a good job of building a story around a family's generational relevance. Even though Phantasy Star 3 did it before Saga Frontier 2, and offered multiple endings, it was missing some personality where you would actually care more about the characters.
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Post by Bejeweled City Ruin on Oct 26, 2018 16:09:49 GMT -5
Right. The Saturn was overly complicated but it had similar or even theoretically slightly superior capabilities to the Playstation - if the developer could figure out how to work with it. Yet I can't tell you how many times I've seen people claim it was inherently worse at 3D or even 'incapable' of it (which is just bizarre).
I absolutely, utterly, wholeheartedly agree about the visuals in Legend of Mana and SaGa Frontier 2! In my opinion they are and I think always will be two of the most beautiful looking games ever made (most of my personal list of 'most beautiful' games are 2D I think). Very much a testament to how the visual beauty of a game is about art direction more than technical prowess.
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Post by xolta on Feb 2, 2019 1:42:33 GMT -5
Howdy I read the hard core gaming site every so often. Mostly I play pc and nintendo games, if any wants to play smash then i can give you my switch code. So yeah.
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Post by halftheisland on Jun 16, 2019 10:37:59 GMT -5
Hey all, quick introduction. Been gaming for as long as I can remember, but over the last few years I seem to have dropped out of it a bit as a hobby. Trying to get back in to it and always enjoyed reading HG101 so this seems a good place to be to chat with people who are also interested.
Main system is PC, but I also have a 2DS and a PS4, and as far as retrogaming my main interest is with the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis.
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Post by toei on Jun 16, 2019 10:44:51 GMT -5
Hey all, quick introduction. Been gaming for as long as I can remember, but over the last few years I seem to have dropped out of it a bit as a hobby. Trying to get back in to it and always enjoyed reading HG101 so this seems a good place to be to chat with people who are also interested. Main system is PC, but I also have a 2DS and a PS4, and as far as retrogaming my main interest is with the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. Welcome to the forum! Nice to see another Genesis fan. |
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Post by windfisch on Jun 16, 2019 17:59:32 GMT -5
Hey all, quick introduction. Been gaming for as long as I can remember, but over the last few years I seem to have dropped out of it a bit as a hobby. Trying to get back in to it and always enjoyed reading HG101 so this seems a good place to be to chat with people who are also interested. Main system is PC, but I also have a 2DS and a PS4, and as far as retrogaming my main interest is with the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. Welcome! |
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2020 6:33:25 GMT -5
Hi, just thought I'd introduce myself and say hi. I've been reading the site for years but just recently joined the forum.
I've been playing games for 30 years or so now and always been mostly a Nintendo guy. Outside of them though I play a lot of jrpgs and have a particular fondness for PS1, PS2 and PC Engine.
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Post by Snake on May 1, 2020 15:03:09 GMT -5
Hi, just thought I'd introduce myself and say hi. I've been reading the site for years but just recently joined the forum. I've been playing games for 30 years or so now and always been mostly a Nintendo guy. Outside of them though I play a lot of jrpgs and have a particular fondness for PS1, PS2 and PC Engine. Welcome! Good taste~ Did you pick up a PC-Engine/Core Grafx Mini? |
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2020 15:29:25 GMT -5
Hi, just thought I'd introduce myself and say hi. I've been reading the site for years but just recently joined the forum. I've been playing games for 30 years or so now and always been mostly a Nintendo guy. Outside of them though I play a lot of jrpgs and have a particular fondness for PS1, PS2 and PC Engine. Welcome! Good taste~ Did you pick up a PC-Engine/Core Grafx Mini? I didn't since I have most of the games on it already. It looks like a great little system though. |
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Post by jordan on Apr 10, 2021 18:44:37 GMT -5
Hey guys, big fan of the website. Wanted to say hello and express my appreciation for the rather esoteric nature of a lot of the articles posted to the site; I've learned about heaps of new games of interest over the years.
I've been gaming and collecting games for a range of systems since I was around 3, and it's always been part of my life, so it's nice to be amongst others who are also passionate about the medium beyond your typical flavour of the month titles haha
Additionally, feels like a blast to the past in contributing to a forum again for the first time in, wow, nearly a decade now that I think about it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2021 1:04:45 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum!
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Post by Kokoro on Sept 22, 2021 21:57:47 GMT -5
I'm not new, but I'm back after not posting here for four years. I probably won't stick around, but I would like to post here at least every so often.
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Post by Snake on Sept 24, 2021 13:17:57 GMT -5
Welcome back Kokoro and Jordan!
Anything post is a worthwhile post~ =)
Hahaha, even though I post periodically, there are just some parts of this forum that I could be browsing through more often.
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