YES! I loaned that game to Brent a while ago, definitely one of my favorite PS1 games. SHit was actually challenging AND innovative, it’s too bad most people missed out on it.
Brave samurai musashi was my favorite ps1 game by far
Get hype for Arkham City son!!!
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If you haven’t played it you need to but one of my favorite games on the PS1 has to be Blasto voiced by Phil Hartman. That shit was so fun and it was funny as hell.
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Hahaha, priceless!!
Seems I missed a great conversation about Game development, hardcore vs Casual. This is a sensitive issue for sure, how can we make money without making a game too easy?? I’m old school and I love a challenge in a action game/fighting game, or whatever. Treasure is one of the greatest companies ever, as was Capcom and Konami back in the days. Now its much harder to find titles and companies who put that much love into a project. But they are out there, just gotta dig deeper. I hope the era of HC gaming comes back in my life time, but in the mean while, I’ll be playing a lot of indie games and doujin titles that suit my HC 2D tastes. I’m currently working as a character designer for a Doujin Soft company in Japan, and this is one of the hard ships we are dealing with at the moment.We want new fans but we don’t want our games to be easy. I really wanna develop a 2d side scrolling beat em up, as they are all but dead at the moment. Games like Street Fighter and BlazBlue are too mainstream to be very difficult to play. Big companies gotta get payed. The competition is too fierce. Also during the economy Bubble in Japan during the 80’s/90’s, companies had more money to give guys who just had a great Idea to run with. Now we are all pinching pennies so developers have to be more careful with what they make, cz 1 bad game(Not well received) could make or break a lot of them. If you want old school 2d plat-former challenge I suggest the Valis series. It’s no joke.
My personal favorites on PS1 were Alundra, Wild9, Maximo and Symphony of the Night.
Batman Arkham City get hype, blazblue on hold til I beat this game.
Alundra!! PS1’s answer to Zelda. I love it!! So many good games back then.
Guardian Heroes(Sega Saturn)/Arc The Lad(PS1)/Streets of Rage2(SEGA Genesis)/Panzer bandit(PS1)/Asuka 120% Burning Fest (PS1)/ Groove on Fight(SEGA Saturn) man… the 90’s a great time to be a gamer.
I’m surprised at how much Landstalker (Sega Genesis) I see in Alundra.
Also found some SNES games I was missing. Including my illegal Secret of Mana 2 cartridge. One of like 200-300 bootleg American Seiken Densetsu 3 games. But my SNES power adapter died. 
For the most part I’ve only played fighting games. I just never really had the attention span to play other genres. Overall I’m not much of a gamer, although I do love Guardian Heroes since it was my favorite non fighting game on the Sega Saturn.
Interesting, how far is it coming along? Curious since I’m working on an independent beat em up project.
You do make an interesting point concerning money. I think a lot of companies are simply too big and are forced into situations where they can’t innovate even if they’d want to. In fact, there’s sometimes a developer vs publisher problem where a developer may want to do something but the publisher vetoes it.
One thing that I think would REALLY help you guys: you guys need to try to get into DD in the US. There’s a real reluctance among several Japanese indies to do that, and I think it closes you guys off to the international market. There are a couple of great companies that would love to get games. (Rockin Android and Carpe Fulgur off the top of my head). Put your games on Steam, and if you can’t get on there, Gamersgate.
I know Doujin Soft is often tremendous expensive at launch, but you’re not going to get those sales in the US, why not get money from folks you don’t normally get money from.
You’re absolutely right about the indie games. I’ve been playing/buying a lot of indy games these days myself, to get what I want. Even with the fighters, really the non-Capcom/Namco stuff could be called indy games, given the size of the companies- if you’re generous you could call them mid-majors.
A bunch of the people from Climax (Landstalker) left to form Matrix (Alundra). Combined with Camelot you have the best RPG development team not owned by Square or Enix.
Also, a bunch of people from Climax worked with Camelot, resulting in the early Shining games.
That explains a lot actually. Never knew that.
Are there any casual sessions going on in the winston area?
I just got my first stick and wanted to play some.
I really think you should go into game design Smurvis or atleast become the next Maximillion by doing analysis of these things, your insight is really impressive. I also grew up on the hard as dicks game which is partially why I never play anything but fighters these days mostly because single player wise there aren’t too many games that i’m into. I feel though that some companies have managed to move past the problem of difficulty by making just a solid and good game that is innovative enough to make it fun regardless of difficulty.
In other news I should have my eight arc fusion by the next EZ tournament so if anyone wants to try it out a little fine by me. The reviews seem pretty good on it.
Tetris Attack? I’m pretty good at that game.
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Ummm I have, FE9-10 were piss easy except for a few levels early on in 10, FE4 was a joke if you played the first dozen levels right, FE7 hector hard was a bitch for a little bit even with running though lyn’s story first. FE8 I had a few problems because I miss managed my units a bit and had to abuse the necromancer for a few levels but even then despite fucking up big time I surivived, note I beat FE8 on hard without abusing the arena which made it really easy as well.
Fire Emblem is a pretty easy TRPG series, only thing that is weird about it is that grinding normally isn’t possible so you can’t just grind your way to victory like alot of people do in actually hard RPGs instead of you know just beating them. Unless your playing FE8…
edit: I havn’t played any of the other FE games so I’m not sure maybe they are hard or something but I havn’t heard anything of the like.
So yeah, you haven’t played half of the games then and yet you’ve deemed them easy. FE9/FE10 =/= the whole series.
I have no idea what you’re talking about with FE4. You even admit HMM in FE7 is difficult, so no argument there.
You can’t even abuse the arena in any FE on hard mode because the odds are so rigged against you.
Why don’t you do what I’ve doing for the past week with FE8 and replay Ephraim Hard mode with the following:
–No pre-promotes (no Duessel after his map, take Seth out as soon as you’re given the option to, Orson can be used as a meat shield/item ferry in his map)
–No random battles
–No Tower of Valni
–No Arena
–No deaths
–Recruit all characters possible
–Get all chests
And then come back and tell me how easy it is.