Old School!

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ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Yesterday, I picked up a PC gamepad. I've been thinking about buying one for awhile, as I own the Grand Theft Auto games on Steam and find a keyboard not comfortable enough. Plus, I thought it might be fun to play old NES and SNES games with a controller for the first time in at least a decade.

And man, it's like coming home to an old friend. It just feels so much more comfortable to play Super Mario World or Mega Man using a gamepad rather than a keyboard. That said, I am incredibly out of practice. I used to clear threw the first level (sometimes even the first world) of Super Mario World without dying once. First level? Killed within ten seconds.

But yeah, I can't wait to try this out on San Andreas or maybe even other Steam games like Trine or Super Meat Boy.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Holy frig, were these old games always this hard? I just tried making my way through Elec Man's stage in Mega Man 1 and died several times. Never even reached him. Then just tried playing Contra 3 and got my ass kicked.

Either I've gotten old or those older games really were a lot harder. Holy crap.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

I found the old NES Mega Man games to be pretty punishing, yeah. Contra has been hard since 1, sort of a staple of the series.

If you want ball-busting, though, might I suggest Marble Madness or Cobra Triangle.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Before playing old NES games = Rose Colored Glasses of Nostalgia
After playing old NES games = Broken Glasses and a need for a drink
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Funny, I just booted up the sega genesis collection on steam before work tonight. I played for 10 minutes and I was like "How the HELL did I ever beat these games???"
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Man I still don't know how I managed to beat any of the Sonic games without jogging briskly through them. Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles are merciless.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

How did you beat them? You played them 4-5hrs a day, every day, for months on end because you didn't have that many other games to play. You learned the routes, the spawn points the muscle reflex on when to jump/duck/run etc.

It's not that you're less skilled now, it's that you're less of a Chinese Gold Farmer pressing the same buttons at the same time in the same sequence day in and day out.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

So I'm nearly done playing through Actraiser. Every time I revisit it, I'm reminded how awesome the game is. It would very likely be in my top ten favourite games of all time.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

I think I played a little bit of it back in the day. It had none of the sim elements to it, right? That's why I wasn't fond of it, myself.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Really, it was what made it better than the other games of its type. I didn't understand why they removed the one unique element.
 
Frank

Frank

The whole Quintet Quintology of SNES action/adventure games are rad.

Actraiser, Soul Blazer, Legend of Gaia, Terranigma and Actraiser 2.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Frank said:
The whole Quintet Quintology of SNES action/adventure games are rad.

Actraiser, Soul Blazer, Legend of Gaia, Terranigma and Actraiser 2.
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Loved Actraiser 1&2 as well as Soul Blazer but I just could not get into LoG or Terra. Dunno what it was.
 
Frank

Frank

I loved the shit out of Legend of Gaia, it was the first one I had played actually. My mom just surprised me with it one day. I hadn't asked her for it or anything, she had just asked the guy at the store what a good game was for a kid with my taste. It actually motivated me to learn about places like Angkor Wat.
 
Frank

Frank

Oh yeah, I've got Legend of Legaia in my head. That game sucks. Illusion was fantastic though and I stick by it.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Terranigma started out really slow but eventually gets amazing. The ending was pretty solid. IoG is also a lot of fun, though again it starts really slow.

Personally I replay Lufia 2 and Earthbound pretty much every year. I mean, if nothing else, this boss music, man:


This is the ringtone when work calls, haha:
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Old School RPGs are a different beast. They're hard but in the good way. Mostly.... the xp/gold grinds aren't exactly fun but still love it. The only problem is alot of the great Old School RPGs have portable remakes that are very very good. So it's not really worth going back and playing the original NES/SNES/Genesis versions.
 
Necronic

Necronic

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If you want an old RPG that is still awesome to this day play Secret of Mana. This isn't just because you get to fly the dragon from Neverending Story. But...that's part of it.

As for a hard game: Find yourself a copy of D-Force. Then play until you want to kill yourself.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

There are still a lot of the older RPGS that still stand up. Chrono Trigger, any of the super nintendo FF games, the Lunar games, the Dragon Quest series. I think with the advent of the Bethesda line of games, we're probably not going to see much going back to the old fashioned turn based RPGs. Which some people think is great, but for some it sucks. I really view that period as the golden age for turn based RPGs. Most of the stuff after that kind of pales in comparison.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Necronic said:
If you want an old RPG that is still awesome to this day play Secret of Mana. This isn't just because you get to fly the dragon from Neverending Story. But...that's part of it.

As for a hard game: Find yourself a copy of D-Force. Then play until you want to kill yourself.
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I used to think Secret of Mana was amazing. Now I think it's just okay because I played Seiken Densetsu 3, which is in the same line of games and is much, much better. if you're playing ROMs there's an English version available and it's worth all the time you can invest into it. 6 characters, choose 3 for your party, two unique end bosses and different final dungeons based on your main character choice. Also, each character class changes twice, with a total of 6 classes per character.
 
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Soliloquy

True story: My friend found an snes copy of Chrono Trigger for $2.00 at a swap meet a few years ago, and got it for me for my birthday. Best Friend Ever.
 
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