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Post by anayo on Jun 11, 2023 10:54:15 GMT -5
Last night I dreamed about a video game that doesn't exist. It was part of a longer dream, but I just happened to beat this game in the dream. I don't remember what console it was on, but the game was basically a Valkyrie Profile ripoff with 2D graphics highly reminiscent of Irem's gritty early '90s arcade style. (I mean graphics like Undercover Cops and Gun Force II.) I remember the enemies in this RPG were very monstrous and undead. Also when I beat the game I remember thinking I needed to come review it on HRG. That's about all I recall. This sounds like a game I wish was real.
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Post by anayo on Jul 7, 2023 20:10:26 GMT -5
I was with my brother in a big warehouse with a permanent flea market in it. The entire place was owned by one vendor and looked sort of like an overstock store. It had a rusty and run-down appearance, but I also felt excited, like there was high likelihood I would find something cool.
I found a Gamecube shrine - a retail shelf positively filled with games. It even had old Gamecube signage from a Wal-Mart or someplace like that. I didn't start digging right away, though. Since they put all the Gamecube games in one place on purpose, that probably meant they researched what they were worth online. If they had been randomly strewn in with DVD movies, then that would mean they had bargain pricing. I moved on and kept looking elsewhere.
I couldn't believe what I found next. It was the Starfox Adventures themed go-kart. It looked something you'd ride around in Mario Kart, but the body looked to be made out of faux stone with bluish gold facade designs carved out of it. I had seen pictures of this thing online before, but never in real life. I approached it only to find that it was made of cheap styrofoam. It nearly crumbled to dust when I touched it. What a rip-off. I moved on to another part of the store.
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Post by Ex on Jul 7, 2023 20:19:15 GMT -5
cheap styrofoam. It nearly crumbled to dust when I touched it Damn that was a gut punch ending.
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Post by toei on Jul 7, 2023 23:53:27 GMT -5
This reminds me that I did dream of a game last night. I was hanging out with a friend who's a Street Fighter fan and he was playing a 2D incarnation of the series with advanced graphics. At first I thought it was SFIII and told him I never liked it that much, but he said this was actually Street Fighter LBA, or something like that. As I paid closer attention, I noticed it looked quite different. It had amazing animations, but the general style was much more to my liking, with bigger, chunkier sprites and better character designs. The pacing of combos really impressed me; every move took just enough time for your to clearly see and there were some kind of subtle screen shaking or zooming happening at just the right time to give a feeling of impact to strong moves, similar to hitting enemies at maximum power in The Legendary Axe. I was telling my friend I never liked SF all that much but I started playing that game and it was instantly fun, like playing beat-'em-ups when I was a kid.
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Post by anayo on Jul 8, 2023 3:43:13 GMT -5
This reminds me that I did dream of a game last night. I was hanging out with a friend who's a Street Fighter fan and he was playing a 2D incarnation of the series with advanced graphics. At first I thought it was SFIII and told him I never liked it that much, but he said this was actually Street Fighter LBA, or something like that. As I paid closer attention, I noticed it looked quite different. It had amazing animations, but the general style was much more to my liking, with bigger, chunkier sprites and better character designs. The pacing of combos really impressed me; every move took just enough time for your to clearly see and there were some kind of subtle screen shaking or zooming happening at just the right time to give a feeling of impact to strong moves, similar to hitting enemies at maximum power in The Legendary Axe. I was telling my friend I never liked SF all that much but I started playing that game and it was instantly fun, like playing beat-'em-ups when I was a kid. This sounds like a really appealing rendition of Street Fighter. I dig how it sounds like it nails the tactile feel of the gameplay. Somehow I imagine that it came out on Sega Saturn, although I don't exactly know why since you don't mention the platform it was on.
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Post by anayo on Jul 8, 2023 19:15:07 GMT -5
I was playing some kind of first person dungeon crawler. The graphics looked to be 3D texture mapped polygons. There was obvious texture tiling, with repeated patterns on the surfaces of floors and walls. The environmental textures had big, chunky pixels due to rock-bottom resolution and no bilinear texture filtering. The polygon budget was low, too, making the world look blocky. I thought it was an original Playstation game, if not then maybe a 3D PC game from 1996 or 1997. The setting was a cave-like environment, with stone surfaces everywhere. I was running desperately from one rocky platform to another. I don’t remember what was beyond the edges of the platforms. Either it was water, and my character couldn’t swim, or it was a lethal drop. Occupying the platforms were gruesome creatures resembling the Dead Hand from Zelda Ocarina of Time - a pale, hobbled creature with a hideous face. These Dead Hands came in all shapes and sizes, aggressively lurching my way once I came within range. Some of them would even spew molten lava from their mouths and nostrils, vomiting scalding hot orange fluid and splashing it all over their platform, turning the already limited space on the platform into a lingering damage hazard. This grotesque attack had incongruously beautiful lighting effects. The way that the lava puke splashed and cast a lurid orange glow on the scene almost looked too high tech for the otherwise outdated visuals of the game. The difficulty was brutal, reminding me of a souls game. Maybe this is what my subconscious thinks a King’s Field game would be like. The Dead Hands in the cave had impossibly high hit points, making it useless to even engage in combat with them. Things turned around for me when I found a weapon which was literally the Sentinel from Apex Legends. It’s a sniper rifle with a miserably low rate of fire and only 4 rounds in the standard issue magazine. It’s also incredibly slow to reload and hard to aim without a scope. But its DPS is so insanely high that it would stun or even one hit kill the dead hands. I felt palpable relief as I continued through the cave, alerting hungry dead hands, then putting high caliber rounds through their skulls as they screamed in agony. I kept progessing this way from one stone platform to the next.
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Post by Sarge on Jul 13, 2023 15:32:12 GMT -5
So, I was apparently shopping in a bargain store, and I find what looks like a cartridge of Lufia and the Fortress of Doom. Except it's not that, on further examination, it's "Lufia: The Sports"? What? Apparently some weird mini-game sports collection based in that universe? And later on, I find a Lufia-branded figurine, except it looked more like some generic crystal armor guy that looked like it would be more at home in Knights of the Zodiac or something, and I'm thinking, weird, was there some sort of planned Western cartoon universe where this was supposed to exist?
Dreams are weird, y'all.
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Post by toei on Jul 13, 2023 15:35:49 GMT -5
I love the title, lol. I can picture a Lufia soccer game for some reason, with the Lufia 2 cast in full armor.
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Post by Sarge on Jul 13, 2023 15:51:13 GMT -5
I mean, both Mega Man and Mario have done soccer games, why not Lufia? My mental image of it was kind of track and field-oriented. Maxim & Selan at the Olympic Games?
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Post by toei on Jul 13, 2023 16:35:26 GMT -5
Eh, why not. With the Sinistrals as referees.
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