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MMOs are probably a good indication.
I think researchers (or just casual investigators) studied MMOs to see how people might react in a plague situation (I want to say WoW, but it might’ve been EverQuest).
They ended up discarding/writing off their findings because they figures that there wouldn’t ACTUALLY be trolls who’d go around spreading the virus on purpose, and also that because the virus only had negative effects, no one would be doing actions that would nearly guarantee infection.
Of course, 2020 showed us that we really should’ve been looking at what people do in MMOs…
I didn’t mind the graphics of the Pokemon games. Aside from the occasional framerate drops, my only gripes with the graphics has been the animations (moreso in Sw/Sh) and the slow speed of the battles.
I get why people want the games to look better, but as someone who still plays the originals on occasion, it’s probably not even in my top 10 wants for the series.
Yeah, I feel like the story had potential, but it needed to be presented better.
It’s like they thought the post-modern aspects of FF7’s story (that made it complex and a bit confusing) was what made it great, so they turned it up to 11 for FF8. But instead of having hints everywhere, I think it ended up being more sort of…blind-siding surprises.
Yeah, FF8 is one of my least favourite in the mainline series.
The card game is great, but the actual RPG aspect ended up being dreadfully boring to me. The battle system was bland and easy, playing through the game casually (without even transforming any cards). I think I had one game over in the entire game, and maybe one other close call.
It has a lot of great elements, but the core gameplay left much to be desired.
Included Games:
- Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 Pro
- Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001
- Capcom Fighting Evolution
- Street Fighter Alpha 3 UPPER
- Power Stone
- Power Stone 2
- Project Justice
- Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein
These may be more “underdog” games, but the two Power Stone games and Project Justice have sold me on this! (… eventually, when it’s discounted, lol)
(Cross-commenting because I worked real hard for this formatting…lmao)
I think the better question might be what series should you start from game 1, brcause thats a much tougher question.
Trails in the Sky.
2 picks up immediately after 1, and expects the player to already be proficient with the battle system from the start.
3 would be confusing and boring without having played the prior two games.
And yes, it’s a subseries, but still. Lol
4 is better if you want an old school fixed-class character-driven JRPG. But 9 and 10 do that in a more modern way.
6 is better if you want an old-school blank-slate character-driven JRPG. But 7 and 8 do that in a more modern way.
7, 8, 9, and 10 are all retro themselves though.
5 is great if you want an old-school “character class” JRPG. And if you want it to be character-focused, you’ve gotta look at something like 10-2.
Recommending specific games from the franchise really depends on what someone is looking for.
The article looks like it has evidence of the original definition of “Meteoidvania”, which didn’t originally refer to a genre, but to games in the Castlevania series that played like Metroid.
If we wanted to update the term for accuracy, we’d probably be calling the “Metroidvania” genre “Metroid-likes” instead.
So, not saying I was necessarily the good guy here; it was from things like when I’d make pins about a low-effort post’s title, or poke fun at other low effort content (something like a picture of the game being played somewhere).
I’m no stranger to downvotes or even sarcastic or rude replies – fair game! But this was the only sub I’d ever had people telling me to kill myself or that they hoped I’d die, lmao
The juxtaposition was amusing more than offensive, and the mods did a good job of cleaning it up, but it was still something pretty unique to the Animal Crossing subreddit for me! Lol
Nintendo subreddit would occasionally seem to have Nintendo supporters jump on someone who said something critical about Nintendo, and also anti-Nintendo people who’d jump on people who said positive things about consumer-unfriendly things (like enjoying the NSO emulated games).
I also had a thread where people attacked me for being a pirate when I first got my Switch used because I was asking how to check if it was console-banned before linking my Nintendo account to it, lol
As for Animal Crossing, I had multiple people tell me to kill myself (or that they hoped I die) when I made puns based on typos in low-effort post titles, or when I poked fun at posts whose only content was a picture of the game running on a Switch against a scenic background.
I’m not saying I was necessarily the good guy there, and I don’t care about downvotes or sarcastic replies, but when people were negative in those subs, they were downright vicious, lol
I was more shocked at the juxtaposition than actually offended, and the mods did a good job cleaning that stuff up when I reported it. But truthfully, the sub went downhill after the first year or two of ACNH. Probably when it went from mostly hardcore players to casuals, haha
I’m sorry, what are you saying is not really true about the part you quoted?
What I was getting at was that they aren’t for sale through official means, implying that they’d be for sale on the secondhand market. And while physical media does degrade, there are plenty of people who prefer to use physical hardware to play retro games.
The games are generally available. They’re also available for sale, but on the secondhand market. If you don’t like the secondhand market, that’s perfectly valid. But they’re still generally “available”. Hence why I conceded that my prior comment was overly pedantic (using the definition of “getting overly caught up in minor details”).
I’m not anti-emulation, and I think some people got that perception from reading the first couple sentences of my original comment ans moving on. Which, again, is fair, and why I acknowledged that my comment wasn’t the best, lol
I was being overly pedantic, yeah.
What I was getting at is that there’s still a way to play retro games using original hardware. It’s not impossible, and using original hardware can be fun for its own merits.
But yeah, “not available anywhere else” can be implied to mean “for sale by the rights owners” and that’s fair.
Are you emulating it because it’s not available anywhere else? Because if you’re willing to put in the effort, most games are available elsewhere. Just because it’s not at GameStop doesn’t mean it isn’t “available”.
But yeah, I don’t emulate new stuff. I emulate old stuff. And with even Nintendo’s digital stores closing down and being replaced with subscriptions, sailing the seas becomes more and more promising of a solution.
There’s a set story, but it’s discovered. The world is wide open, and the player can go anywhere right at the start of the game. There’s minimal railroading at any point.
Unless I misunderstood what you meant by emergent narrative. The progression through the game requires the player to learn what to do by interacting with aliens and also exploring a bit. There is an in-game hint system (an alien dialogue tree with prices), but there are often multiple solutions to each “problem”. The player can even get through the game being good or evil – whatever they choose!
The game plays very differently than ME, but you’ll probably find the dialogue trees very familiar. And I think SC2 actually does them better than ME.
There’s the game that inspired them from the early 90s, Star Control 2.
It’s free on Steam as Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters, but the best way to play it today is Ur-Quan Masters Mega Mod. So many QoL features!
The game also had some sequels, including Star Control Origins, which is a more modern game, but the story isn’t quite as good.
Star Control 3 exists, but sucks.
And then there’s the series from the 80s that inspired this one, Starflight. That one was too dated for me to get into, though.
It’s probably almost nearly 100% of emulator users who pirate games.
Even Nintendo pirated their own games before releasing them on the Wii’s Virtual Console.