“Reloading like this…It’s a revolution!” -Revolver Ocelot
Posted 1 year ago
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Just an old music loop from the Revolution X game. I love it and hope it is part of a complete Aerosmith song. I’ve been looking for a while but haven’t found anything. If anyone knows at least the title of this song message me or something I’ll greatly appreciate it :D
Posted 1 year ago
Game: Manhunt (PS2)
Experience: The fight with Pigsy
Manhunt was one of those games that went all out and said: “Hey if you want to beat this game, kill everyone in fashionable ways”. The one highlight this game has is the fight with Pigsy at end-game. Pigsy was a man who was tortured all game long (as seen in cutscenes) forced to wear a decomposing pig’s head as a mask. This guy is vicious if he gets you and to beat him you have to use a little of your crativity (although on the hardest difficulty level this fight is insane). The place where you fight him is cool and the tension of him searching for you with his chainsaw and doing grossly sounds made the fight a fun one.
Extra experience: Killing the fat guy who is watching porn and gets pissed off when you turn off the circuit breakers. He comes out to turn them back on and then you work your magic.
Posted 1 year ago
Game: Any console RPG from the 90s (Example in video: Wild Arms 2 [PSX])
Experience: Enjoying anime style game openings in console RPGs from the time
Picture this. It was the 90s and you sit down in your favorite chair, turn on your console and play that console rpg that you either bought or borrowed from a friend (yes, at that time gamers still lended games to each other). First thing that greeted you after the company logos was an anime style opening with nice music that enhanced the mood and prepared you for your adventure. Sometimes watching the opening video gave you a hint of what to expect in the game and some games even changed the opening video as you progressed further into the storyline. Nowadays there are still console RPG games with anime openings and they are damn good, but most games now rely on CG videos which are good, but not as good as the good ol opening videos of the past.
Cool Fact: While most games had anime openings at the time, Square Soft (before they bought Enix) were the pioneers of good CG video openings at the time mixing the anime style with computer generated graphics.
Posted 1 year ago
Game: Any (Example in video: Sonic 2 [Genesis])
Experience: Watching a retro videogame tv commercial when it came out
Lets face it, Videogame publishers don’t trust TV anymore. Nowadays it is very rare to see a Videogame commercial on TV, but back in the in day many of us gamers saw a lot of them and most of them were nice, showed creativity and had success in creating hype. Many of us after watching these commercials were left with the curiosity and feeling that we needed to play that game (even more if the commercial was aired in christmas season).
Posted 1 year ago
Game: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Experience: Losing at least twice in “The Sorrow” part
Metal Gear Solid meets Silent Hill in a part that could be considered a boss fight if it werent for the fact that there is no fighting at all. You wander aimlessly trough a lake where the dead walk again (the dead meaning all the people you have killed in the game) so if you have killed everyone up to this point, you will spend the next 20 minutes slowly walking trough the place. When the walk trough the lake ends; “The Sorrow” appears and kills you by just touching you. At this moment many of us went like “WTF happened!?” Some called some of their friends who had the game asking them for help when they have seen the game over screen for more than 5 times straight dying the same way each and everyone of them. Some discovered how to beat this part by accident (like I did).
After all the frustration you discovered what you had to do, and you beat “The Sorrow” without ever spending a bullet.
Posted 1 year ago
Game: Eternal Darkness (GC)
Experience: Game totally played with your mind
This is one of the very few games that plays with your mind. On Eternal Darkness there was something called a “sanity meter” that went up and down depending on how you play. The thing is that when it goes down enough many effects would happen on the game, some of them mild and predictable but others are quite cruel the first time they happen. From the game screen going completely black to fake enemies a lot of things could happen when playing this game. It was a new fresh experience for gamers at the time.
Cool fact: Another mind playing moment happens on Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. If you turn off the game just after they have snake captive (all tied up), when you play the game again you will see something interesting.
Posted 1 year ago
Game: Myst (PC, Saturn, PSX, DS, Iphone)
Experience: Getting totally and hopelessly L O S T
The first Myst make was really short, if you know what to do. But the first time when this game came out it was hell. Tough puzzles and cryptic hidden clues kept many of us for hours, days, weeks, even months trying to solve them all and beat the game. It took three weeks and a lot of headaches for me to beat this game back in the day. Puzzles were so cryptic, you had to fully use your imagination to solve them (some of them even required you to listen to some sounds and decipher their meaning now imagine doing that without headphones). After you know how to solve everything, if you play it again the game wont last longer than 20 minutes but if you are new to this game..hehe just play it and see…BTW: using gamefaqs or a strategy guide for this game is for wusses!
Posted 1 year ago
Game: Tales of Destiny 2 (PSX)
Experience: “Defeated” the last boss but lost anyway because of the final attack the boss does at the end.
This one was a true cause of frustration when many of us thought we had defeated the final boss after a long fight. It was then when Nereid (as the final boss is called) does this last resort attack when his/her hp reaches 0 that kills everyone. The internet wasn’t as available as it is now so game faqs was out of the question and some of us refused to use strategy guides. Little did we know that we had to do a certain combination (hold some buttons pressed) so the hero (Reid) does a counter attack that nullifies the one done by Nereid and then the final boss truly becomes brown bread.
Posted 1 year ago
Game: Yoshi’s Story (N64)
Experience: Beating the game in an hour
Most of us gamers expected something as epic as Super Mario World 2: Yoshi Island but we found a game that each run lasted about an hour and if you wanted to play all the stages you had to start all over again and choose a different route. Game was not bad, but beating it in so little time left us with some feeling of disapointment.
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