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Spot Goes to Hollywood
Various
Remember Cool Spot, the mascot for 7-Up during the early 90's when everything was given the 'COOL-YYYEEEEEEAAHHH' treatment? Well, this game is when that dude goes to Hollywood or something. I've only played this game a few times, but it's pretty solid. The levels have this movie genre theme to them and with the isometric gameplay, it doesn't have a lot of options but it's a pretty good game. Little known fact; this game is actually a sequel to a lesser known game, Cool Spot.
I also find Cool Spot to look hilarious if you stare at him long enough. I mean, look at him.
Spot Goes to Hollywood
Various
Remember Cool Spot, the mascot for 7-Up during the early 90's when everything was given the 'COOL-YYYEEEEEEAAHHH' treatment? Well, this game is when that dude goes to Hollywood or something. I've only played this game a few times, but it's pretty solid. The levels have this movie genre theme to them and with the isometric gameplay, it doesn't have a lot of options but it's a pretty good game. Little known fact; this game is actually a sequel to a lesser known game, Cool Spot.
I also find Cool Spot to look hilarious if you stare at him long enough. I mean, look at him.
Mega Man
NES
I shit you not, that is actually the box art for the original Mega Man. It doesn't get any better for several years.
This is what started it all, the first entry into one of the longest running video game franchises of all time still has my heart. This is one of my favorite childhood games, and it's also hard as shit. It's easily the most difficult out of all the Mega Mans (except for the latest one), and I'm not even sure if I've ever beaten it. It's certainly unforgiving, with those vanishing blocks, harrowing jumps, and Ice Man being disproportionally powerful to every other Robot Master in the game. But it isn't impossible, and beating it feels pretty good.
NES
I shit you not, that is actually the box art for the original Mega Man. It doesn't get any better for several years.
This is what started it all, the first entry into one of the longest running video game franchises of all time still has my heart. This is one of my favorite childhood games, and it's also hard as shit. It's easily the most difficult out of all the Mega Mans (except for the latest one), and I'm not even sure if I've ever beaten it. It's certainly unforgiving, with those vanishing blocks, harrowing jumps, and Ice Man being disproportionally powerful to every other Robot Master in the game. But it isn't impossible, and beating it feels pretty good.
The hardest part is reaching the Wily stages and realizing that you have to restart because you missed the magnet beam since you beat Elecman before Gutsman. The Magnet Beam does make the stages much easier (except Gutsman) so I guess it isn't that bad.
By not picking it up in Elecman's stage because you don't have a weapon to break the barriers to get to the Magnet Beam.
Canuck
0
I loved the first Cool Spot for the SNES. I remember being amazed as a kid that the levels were actually well designed and the game was fun.
Final Fantasy VII
Playstation
While this is obviously the seventh Final Fantasy, for many people, this is the one that started it all. Love it or hate it, Final Fantasy 7 is one of the most influential RPGs, and video games, period. If you disagree with this you are a moron. I played RPGs before 7, but this game is where I really began to get into RPGs. It's not my favorite FF, but it's up there! I always have a blast playing this game, and while I have mixed feelings on the Compilation, I don't really mind it.
Playstation
While this is obviously the seventh Final Fantasy, for many people, this is the one that started it all. Love it or hate it, Final Fantasy 7 is one of the most influential RPGs, and video games, period. If you disagree with this you are a moron. I played RPGs before 7, but this game is where I really began to get into RPGs. It's not my favorite FF, but it's up there! I always have a blast playing this game, and while I have mixed feelings on the Compilation, I don't really mind it.
Darken
3952
author=Feldschlacht IV link=topic=2836.msg58403#msg58403 date=1232984576
Final Fantasy 7 is one of the most influential RPGs, and video games, period. If you disagree with this you are a moron.
First RPG to abuse fancy FMVs, and gain a fanbase from it? Surely as shit in a cat.
You won't understand how great an impact FF7 had on videogaming if you didn't have at least a few years of gaming experience at the time of its release (and was preferably born before 1985).
This game has single-handedly changed the western world's perception of RPGs and sold millions of PSOnes. And no, not only due to AWESOME graphics (which were simply mind-blowing back then), great soundtrack, good gameplay and an anime-like story, which, in the days when anime really just started "penetrating" the western market, was something so utterly fresh and I dare say "mature", that it's no wonder people rushed to the stores to get their copies. Even those gamers who hadn't touched an RPG with a ten-foot pole before.
There was simply no other game which had such a dark and detailed CYBERPUNKISH (SF jRPGs were almost nonexistant at the time) world and developed characters. Sure, it may all seem laughable in 2009, but back then FF7 was unquestionably the best jRPG ever.
I know it's RAD to be an FF7 hater nowadays, but please, don't be the aforementioned moron.
This game has single-handedly changed the western world's perception of RPGs and sold millions of PSOnes. And no, not only due to AWESOME graphics (which were simply mind-blowing back then), great soundtrack, good gameplay and an anime-like story, which, in the days when anime really just started "penetrating" the western market, was something so utterly fresh and I dare say "mature", that it's no wonder people rushed to the stores to get their copies. Even those gamers who hadn't touched an RPG with a ten-foot pole before.
There was simply no other game which had such a dark and detailed CYBERPUNKISH (SF jRPGs were almost nonexistant at the time) world and developed characters. Sure, it may all seem laughable in 2009, but back then FF7 was unquestionably the best jRPG ever.
I know it's RAD to be an FF7 hater nowadays, but please, don't be the aforementioned moron.
As a gamer born before 1985, I can attest to everything DE says.
I knew guys who didn't even know what RPG stood for pick up the game and talk about it at length IN THE HOCKEY DRESSING ROOM.
I knew guys who didn't even know what RPG stood for pick up the game and talk about it at length IN THE HOCKEY DRESSING ROOM.
Darken
3952
Huh? I wasn't disagreeing with him at all. In fact I like FF7 a lot. However, FMVs and having such an awesome introduction is undeniably the greatest hook to getting so many fans. It is the biggest factor of the 'impact'.
To relate. I was one of the kids who didn't even know what an RPG was either, (well I played some WRPG, pokemon, and some Dragon Warrior games before, but never experienced the 'strange' way the battles were handled. I remember playing my friend's PS1 and I noticed his older brother's copy of FF7 and wanted to play it, but my friend said "NO THATS FOR THE BIG KIDS" but I played it anyway and didn't know what the fuck was going on. But I was blown away by the introduction and the guy with the big-ass sword. Later I got the Numpad version (PC version) and played through it. Midgard is probably the greatest setting ever in an RPG, too bad square didn't set FF7 entirely there.
To relate. I was one of the kids who didn't even know what an RPG was either, (well I played some WRPG, pokemon, and some Dragon Warrior games before, but never experienced the 'strange' way the battles were handled. I remember playing my friend's PS1 and I noticed his older brother's copy of FF7 and wanted to play it, but my friend said "NO THATS FOR THE BIG KIDS" but I played it anyway and didn't know what the fuck was going on. But I was blown away by the introduction and the guy with the big-ass sword. Later I got the Numpad version (PC version) and played through it. Midgard is probably the greatest setting ever in an RPG, too bad square didn't set FF7 entirely there.
I first played FF7 via the PC version. It was amazing once the game actually started but it was impossible to beat since it kept freezing at the crater site :(
One of the neat things is that you can beat half the game without needing a single point of experience if you know the game well enough.
One of the neat things is that you can beat half the game without needing a single point of experience if you know the game well enough.
author=Feldschlacht IV link=topic=2836.msg56592#msg56592 date=1232213642btw, this is the greatest game cover ever created.
Mega Man
NES
I shit you not, that is actually the box art for the original Mega Man. It doesn't get any better for several years.
This is what started it all, the first entry into one of the longest running video game franchises of all time still has my heart. This is one of my favorite childhood games, and it's also hard as shit. It's easily the most difficult out of all the Mega Mans (except for the latest one), and I'm not even sure if I've ever beaten it. It's certainly unforgiving, with those vanishing blocks, harrowing jumps, and Ice Man being disproportionally powerful to every other Robot Master in the game. But it isn't impossible, and beating it feels pretty good.
maladroithim
1495
author=kentona link=topic=2836.msg58449#msg58449 date=1232994482
btw, this is the greatest game cover ever created.
Kentona . . . it is widely accepted that Mega Man 2 is way better than Mega Man 1.
You have no nerd cred whatsoever >:(
demondestiny
889
Final Fantasy VII was the great to play. Had some of the best characters in a final fantasy and the music was composed by Nobuo Uematsu.
Canuck
0
I've said it elsewhere, but I think Final Fantasy VII was a great game and really hurt RPGs. It was the first RPG for many people and all these people expected an RPG to focus so much on story (and graphics) and usually didn't care so much about the battle system, while before Final Fantasy VII is was quite different. The Materia system was one of the things most talked about in magazines before it came out (similar to double and triple techs were just as big (or bigger) as the ability to travel through time in Chrono Trigger).
So great game, but added so many new fans to RPGs that the old fans that didn't come along for the ride had a lot less games that focused on what they liked.
I guess the positive was that there were many more game companies bringing over games from Japan and that probably wouldn't have happened without Final Fantasy VII. So good on it for bringing RPGs into the mainstream, and bad on it for bringing the focus away from what it was one before.
edit: I thought about it, and now disagree with what I said. It's not that cut and dry.
So great game, but added so many new fans to RPGs that the old fans that didn't come along for the ride had a lot less games that focused on what they liked.
I guess the positive was that there were many more game companies bringing over games from Japan and that probably wouldn't have happened without Final Fantasy VII. So good on it for bringing RPGs into the mainstream, and bad on it for bringing the focus away from what it was one before.
edit: I thought about it, and now disagree with what I said. It's not that cut and dry.
author=brandonabley link=topic=2836.msg58642#msg58642 date=1233072103author=kentona link=topic=2836.msg58449#msg58449 date=1232994482
btw, this is the greatest game cover ever created.
Kentona . . . it is widely accepted that Mega Man 2 is way better than Mega Man 1.
You have no nerd cred whatsoever >:(
While his broken ankle is pretty cool, MM1 cover is far superior.
maladroithim
1495
Oooooooooooohhhhhhh I didn't notice you said "cover". I thought you said "greatest game ever".
Joust
Arcade
Williams Entertainment made a lot of games, didn't they? But yeah I remember Joust. It's one of those games I remember because like a lot of arcade games, I never beat it ever. I guess I'm just horrible at any arcade game that isn't Pac Man, but even then, I lament the decline of arcade gaming. Some of the most fun I've ever had as a kid was putting in quarters at some seedy corner store in the inner city in the middle of the night without a care in the world.
Good times.
Arcade
Williams Entertainment made a lot of games, didn't they? But yeah I remember Joust. It's one of those games I remember because like a lot of arcade games, I never beat it ever. I guess I'm just horrible at any arcade game that isn't Pac Man, but even then, I lament the decline of arcade gaming. Some of the most fun I've ever had as a kid was putting in quarters at some seedy corner store in the inner city in the middle of the night without a care in the world.
Good times.
