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Old 10-06-2008, 03:03 PM
Hybrid Heaven; So Awesome. I loved that game. It had an interesting combat system along with interesting exploration and platforming elements. The graphics were fucking amazing for the time as well. With the expansion pack in, I had someone mistake it for Dreamcast graphics.
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Old 10-06-2008, 03:07 PM
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even if it's the simplest name ever.
Actually I think Quest 64 takes that cake
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Old 10-06-2008, 03:30 PM
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Oh. My. God, ohmygod, ohmygod...

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Maybe it's not as obscure as I thought, but no mention of Ogre Battle 64? That was an amazing game.

Yes it was excellent.

Yet another game that needs to be on the VC.
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YESSSSSSSSSSS

But I've barred myself from investing any more time in thinking about Ogre Battle. I just end up sad, knowing there'll never be another.
Wow. I could've sworn I was the only one who played and loved the Ogre Battle games (the ones released over here, anyways). And there's actually three others?! We need to form an Ogre Battle Fans Anonymous group. "Hi, I'm Qonas and I'm an Ogre Battle-aholic. I....I own a copy of the Ogre Battle 64 .
March of the Black Queen was one of the best games on the SNES, with even deeper combat than the N64 iteration. I, for one, would've loved to see its tribute and weight systems carried over to OB64.

With a rebalancing of soldiers and legions
And better enemy group formations with stronger AI
And A GODDAMNED SEQU-Oh balls. Look what you've made me do.
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Old 10-06-2008, 03:53 PM
The atmospherics and visuals of Quest were amazing. The Isle of Skye is still one of my favorite areas from any game.

And the excruciatingly hard boss battles.
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Old 10-06-2008, 05:08 PM
Friggin Glover, I had that game. Fun times, despite it being ridiculously hard sometimes. I remember using cheats to get all the stages.

I did that with a lot of games.
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Old 10-06-2008, 05:09 PM
Everyone that has picked Ogre Battle 64 and Flying Dragon won so hard it's not funny.
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Old 10-06-2008, 06:38 PM
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Qonas wrote: View Post
Oh. My. God, ohmygod, ohmygod...

The Dude With Herpes wrote: View Post
Rear Admiral Choco wrote: View Post
Maybe it's not as obscure as I thought, but no mention of Ogre Battle 64? That was an amazing game.

Yes it was excellent.

Yet another game that needs to be on the VC.
Falstaff wrote: View Post

YESSSSSSSSSSS

But I've barred myself from investing any more time in thinking about Ogre Battle. I just end up sad, knowing there'll never be another.
Wow. I could've sworn I was the only one who played and loved the Ogre Battle games (the ones released over here, anyways). And there's actually three others?! We need to form an Ogre Battle Fans Anonymous group. "Hi, I'm Qonas and I'm an Ogre Battle-aholic. I....I own a copy of the Ogre Battle 64 .
March of the Black Queen was one of the best games on the SNES, with even deeper combat than the N64 iteration. I, for one, would've loved to see its tribute and weight systems carried over to OB64.

With a rebalancing of soldiers and legions
And better enemy group formations with stronger AI
And A GODDAMNED SEQU-Oh balls. Look what you've made me do.
You know if it hits VC and sales are great enough there could be a sequel...... worked for Sin & Punishment!
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Old 10-06-2008, 06:53 PM
It's been a looooong time since I played Quest 64, but I definitely remember disliking it strongly, or at least parts of it. Taking forever to get places does ring a bell.
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Old 10-06-2008, 06:56 PM
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I'm probably going to hell now.
More like:
I... I don't get it. Is there supposed to be a difference between the two?
wedding ring
Just to clarify, it is also on the wrong hand and wrong finger.
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Old 10-06-2008, 07:08 PM
Let me tell you guys a story.

I went to summer camp when I was in middle school. When I came back, I see that this is missing from my collection.



Where did it go?

Well, I look around, and I see that my brother has purchased two new games while I was gone.

But my brother is 10, and does not have any money. So where did he go? GameStop. And what did he trade in? Mario 64, a game I paid for out of my own pocket with my Christmas money.

Can anyone guess what the two games are?

They are



and



The above image is bigger for dramatic effect.


I hurt him. I hurt him so badly. He never did it again, but once was traumatizing enough.

I still don't have that game to this day. I have Mario 64 DS, but I never did reclaim Mario 64 from the depths of GameStop hell and destruction.
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Old 10-06-2008, 07:20 PM
I remember coming home to find out my retarded seven year old brother erased my save file that had about 80 or so stars. This was my first game. Ever.

Hate.

And I still haven't gotten all 120 stars to this day, almost 10 years later.
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Old 10-06-2008, 07:27 PM
Luckily, I completed the game before he did that to me.

But he DID do that to me in Star Fox. Right before I had all the medals. You know, back when they used to be hard and I didn't know the entire game through muscle memory alone.
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Old 10-06-2008, 07:32 PM
Oh the good old days. I think I need to download Star Fox 64 again.

I can't come up with anymore obscure games though, except for like, incredibly random racing games I don't even remember. OH SHIT HOLD ON



BAM

Maybe not too obscure but fun times were had with this game. Despite sucking at it horribly.

EDIT: Kay let's find an image that works.
 

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Old 10-06-2008, 07:44 PM
The first time I played Command and Conquer was on the N64. My family and I played so much C&C on the 'ol 64 it was insane.
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Old 10-06-2008, 07:46 PM
I just went and did something illegal thanks to you guys and your god-damn thread, i hope your happy, ill be locked up before the nights through.
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Old 10-06-2008, 09:52 PM
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Oh the good old days. I think I need to download Star Fox 64 again.

I can't come up with anymore obscure games though, except for like, incredibly random racing games I don't even remember. OH SHIT HOLD ON



BAM

Maybe not too obscure but fun times were had with this game. Despite sucking at it horribly.

EDIT: Kay let's find an image that works.
Oh man, that game was a blast, released VERY early in the system's lifetime too, if I recall. No other racing game on the 64 matched it. Remember the night races, with those "realistic" headlight beams? My mind was BLOWN as a kid seeing those from a video game for the first time.
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Old 10-06-2008, 09:58 PM
I remember a few of the tracks. The lighthouse one mainly. I also remember a car that was like a beach ball on wheels, it was wierd. Again, cheats.

Man I used cheats all the time back then. What's happened to me?
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Old 10-06-2008, 10:03 PM
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Has anyone mentioned Rayman 2?

Perhaps it wasn't obscure enough?

But dammit if it isn't one of the best damn games on the console and every other console it's graced.
It looked best on the PC. I still marvel today at how beautiful it was on the PC, and how massive it was, and how much I hated fighting Razorbeard on the barrel-jetpack thing.
The fight with Razorbeard was terrible, but the part right before it? Where you had to navigate around those corridors while riding that shell missile? And if you collided with anything, you had to start back at the beginning? Who's fucking idea was it to put that in the game.

Maybe that's why I've always liked the first Rayman more.
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Old 10-06-2008, 10:06 PM
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2 words.

SHAKE-SHAKE!
You were late by 2 posts.

Also:

HEEEELP MEEEE MARIAAAAAAAA!
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Old 10-06-2008, 10:07 PM
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Has anyone mentioned Rayman 2?

Perhaps it wasn't obscure enough?

But dammit if it isn't one of the best damn games on the console and every other console it's graced.
It looked best on the PC. I still marvel today at how beautiful it was on the PC, and how massive it was, and how much I hated fighting Razorbeard on the barrel-jetpack thing.
The fight with Razorbeard was terrible, but the part right before it? Where you had to navigate around those corridors while riding that shell missile? And if you collided with anything, you had to start back at the beginning? Who's fucking idea was it to put that in the game.

Maybe that's why I've always liked the first Rayman more.
And, wait, you're saying that the first Rayman was easier?

...

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Old 10-06-2008, 10:08 PM
It's bringing back some of that old-school difficulty. Those were the only two parts in the game to piss me off the same way I used to when playing the original Rayman. Mr. Stone? I spent hours in front of my computer screen fighting that asshole. Skops? Fuck.

Space Mama.

Rayman, to a younger kid, was one of the harder games I ever loved.

edit: and the soundtrack was bitchin'
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Old 10-06-2008, 10:20 PM
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I remember a few of the tracks. The lighthouse one mainly. I also remember a car that was like a beach ball on wheels, it was wierd. Again, cheats.

Man I used cheats all the time back then. What's happened to me?
Games just don't have good cheats anymore. Or any cheats.

*looks at the games he owns*
Brawl-no cheats
Mario Kart-No cheats
Okami-no cheats
NMH-no cheats
Galaxy-no cheats
DS games-no cheats

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Old 10-06-2008, 10:29 PM
Well I wouldn't expect any of those to have cheats to be honest. Except maybe NMH. But still, I remember flipping out reading Nintendo Power and seeing a game had like 20 codes to try out. Rogue Squadron for example. Replay value was instantly extended. Hell even the new Rogue Squadrons had them.

I guess as I grew up I just felt playing the game the way it was meant to be played is proper.
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Old 10-06-2008, 10:31 PM
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Games just don't have good cheats anymore. Or any cheats.
"Cheats" today mostly count as the following:

-What you have to do in the game to unlock every character/stage/etc.
-Key combo to access a sound test or something similar
-Strategies for taking on a level/boss

Of course it depends on the game. I popped open the latest Game Informer and the two featured games with the best cheat variety were WALL-E and SimCity DS. Those games had proper cheats.
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Old 10-06-2008, 10:36 PM
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Has anyone mentioned Rayman 2?

Perhaps it wasn't obscure enough?

But dammit if it isn't one of the best damn games on the console and every other console it's graced.
It looked best on the PC. I still marvel today at how beautiful it was on the PC, and how massive it was, and how much I hated fighting Razorbeard on the barrel-jetpack thing.
The fight with Razorbeard was terrible, but the part right before it? Where you had to navigate around those corridors while riding that shell missile? And if you collided with anything, you had to start back at the beginning? Who's fucking idea was it to put that in the game.

Maybe that's why I've always liked the first Rayman more.
And, wait, you're saying that the first Rayman was easier?

...

Not necessarily.

If you're saying the first game was harder, then I must have it completely blocked out of my memory because I only remember how much fun I had with it. I guess there's no time like the present to pick it up again.

Was it cheap hard or just challenging? Because cheap shit like that just pisses me off.
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