Emulating these systems on Retroarch or etc is pretty easy imo
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 12 November 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
i keep wanting to put emus for this era on my SNES Classic but then I realize the controller doesn't have the buttons for it, and the system probably doesn't have the storage for even a basic PSX game.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 12 November 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
New batch starts soon!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
Just need a few minutes to make sure my links are ok and a few more minutes to moan loudly about suikoden ii being too low
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/wO62OBb.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/deOz7Wl.jpg50 - Um Jammer Lammy - 171 points / 3 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
My guitar is in my MIND!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 12 November 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/U5wbJyo.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/nu4d1Sd.jpg49 - Colin MacRae Rally - 174 points / 4 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
i like how the front of the MacRae Rally case highly resembles the function-first, ugly as hell, cluttered with advertisements from the trucks themselves
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 November 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
VALUE SERIES DO NOT CROSS
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
Guardian Heroes and Dragon Force both WAY TOO LOW
― DJP, Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/9S4e7Os.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/f4Jgib7.jpg48 - Chrono Cross - 178 points / 4 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
look is chrono cross flawed? sure
but STILL TOO LOW
I played the hell out of Lammy and even drew her on the whiteboard on my door, the first week of moving into the dorms (big dork alert). I hadn't seriously played PaRappa at that time but when I later did, I found the staccato syllables a lot harder to enjoy "jamming" or improvising with, which the game secretly wants to do. Whereas noodling around with weird guitar sounds and riffs just kinda works as a game mechanic or a toy to play with.I also think the songs are really good (except the island/Hell one) - the firefighter one gets stuck in my head a lot!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
starting to fear what's going to appear in the top 20 if these are so low
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
Chrono Cross! made my list at #20. I've never played it again, since. Has anyone else? i'm curious how it holds up. at the time, having never played chrono trigger when chrono cross came out, I was very impressed by all the different characters you could play as, the interweaving stories and time-travel elements - basically all the things people love about Chrono Trigger
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
I'm wondering just how normcore I was (or am!) if I've only played like 2-3 of these games so far and voted only for one!
xp Karl did you play Chrono Cross for an hour?
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
lol
― DJP, Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
Never played this, but then I never even played Chrono Trigger until this year
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
lol, yes that was a very bad description of chrono cross. someone else do it! i have a job ok!!!
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
never forget: I just played Chrono Trigger for over an hour.
― DJP, Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/fMTeqy9.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/MzAXUfA.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/bueS7UO.jpg47 - Panzer Dragoon Saga - 180 points / 1 First-place vote / 3 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
they're saturn exclusives. at least guardian heroes is available on the 360 and BC with the bone/series
speaking of, my #1, not even breaking the top 20 as expected
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
i defy anyone to find a good full sized box art for that game lol i spent 20 minutes looking for that one alone!!!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
this is the one that is inexplicably an rpg in a series of rail shooters right? i think the insert credit pod was talknig abt this one recently
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
yes, a very short and easy jrpg but the best thing ever for 98 me
like daytona usa, source code lost forever
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
ugh sad :( how long is it? maybe i should try to emu, i never got to even touch a saturn in my life (idk if they even emu well?)
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
I played a few Saturn games in my research and they just seemed so much shabbier than the N64/PS games.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
fp
― DJP, Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/WIZHtiv.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/DiXbXuw.png46 - Shining Force III - 181 points / 3 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
that's what mr domino wants you to think, polyphonic. you must resist his evil influence
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
*slaps forehead*
obviously i haven't read that thread enough!
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
xp well, looks like my ballot will all place below 30, dunnit?
the first tactics game i ever played, dunno how it compares to contemporaneous fire emblem games, probably not as good? don't care, i loved it and even imported and played scenarios 2 and 3 in the mid 00s using a fan translation
PDS is about 20 hours i think? it dind't seem short at the time because it's was the first jrpg i ever played, and it's not like being 80+ hours is an advantage. its only real fault is being too easy
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/kaKBqSp.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/ODS3UuB.jpg44 - Resident Evil 3: Nemesis - 181 points / 4 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
RE3 ratcheted up the dread so much with the possibility of nemesis showing up whenever that i don't think i ever finished it due to stress
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
that was a really weird time in the mid-to-late 90s, when 3D graphics allowed for more "sexy" characters, and then all the games started trying to get sexy, and the ads started to get sexy...but they all looked like...that
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link
"that" as in the various games throughout this thread, not about the zombie on the back cover above.
What are you talking about Karl, Nemesis is plenty sexy
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
never forget: I just played Chrono Trigger for over an hour.*slaps forehead*obviously i haven't read that thread enough!
lol tbf I've never read past the thread title.
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/9hu4rGR.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/gfyC8Y7.jpg44 - Ape Escape - 181 points / 4 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
SHINING FORCE III TOO LOW
― DJP, Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
the ads of this era really speak to not only what karl is talking about but also the overwhelming idea that kids with SNESes grew up into teens with PS1s and they went hard in the paint on edgy/sexy/violent/etc. i can't remember if any have come up yet but i know some are coming up where even kid-friendly NINTENDO answered the siren's call of edgy.
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/XgcelEf.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/ZlXmmzz.jpg43 - Grandia - 182 points / 5 Votes
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
TOO LOW
the quintessential "i want to play this, bring it to europe already sega" game.
played it this year on the switch, the port is less than ideal but the game still owns, reminded me a lot of skies of arcadia but with a much better battle system, albeit too easy
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
btw is there vote splitting by platform on this, Will? or are those 5 voters combined sat + ps1?
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
Votes were platform-agnostic unless specified by voters (which did not happen -- idk if there were any games with serious different versions over platforms this generation?)
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
like snes/genesis shadowrun or aladdin were entirely different games, afaik ps1 and saturn grandia were more or less the same game with better/worse performance and more/less content (iirc)
that's all from something i maybe read 20 years ago in a magazine tho so i can't really say
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Cxu18oF.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/MNyE0gZ.jpg42 - Xenogears - 184 points / 3 Votes
for those counting at home that is 6 underrated rpgs in the past 10 reveals
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
i mean the thing with xenogears is once you get to that final disc (can't remember if it was two or three discs, but either way the last disc is less than half of the game) it gets extremely texty and weird and just not as novel and exciting and thrilling as everything before it, but to a 14 year old kid that was just a shotgun blast of ~ p h i l o s o p h y ~ that frankly some friends of mine never recovered from
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
Xenogears is the prototypical JRPG in my mind, I only watched it once at a friend's house (same friend who had the VHS Evangelion subbed versions, obv) but it seemed completely inscrutable and twee, with very impressive looking giant robots.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link