Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Amarys_Soreyna]

God there's DOZENS OF US now who are Terranigma enjoyers. Dozens!!! Terranigma's my fave game of all time :3 I'm hoping they give it the HD2D remakeover like they did for Live A Live and Actraiser myself, it'd be perfect. Japan, Europe, and Australia got Terranigma, but the US was still in its Very Puritan, No Religion Allowed phase for games so I emulated it so long ago. I have a physical copy though, with a PAL SNES to play it.

Yeah, that's what I remember reading about it. That's a shame. But don't worry, we had (and to a degree still have) our own "somebody think of the children!" stuff over here in Germany.
Our media rating people from USK are very, very allergic to anything violent and even games with a age rating of 18 got censored. And that rating means, it could only be purchased by adults! I guess, somebody got a stroke when playing the first God of War for the rating The German version of a lot of older games has green blood or smoke instead of blood to circumvent restrictions...

But I hadn't thought so many people still remember that game For me it was the first game I bought myself, had to plunder my piggy bank for it. When our local wholesale was clearing their video game section, it was heavily discounted and I paid 50 D-Mark (about 25 Euro) for it. Still a lot of money for a kid, but since the normal price would have been 150 D-Mark it was a bargain.
If you think about it, at least here in Germany, although everything got way more expensive over the years, video games stayed relativly stable if you compare the prices from the 90s to today.
*yikes* Now I feel old >.<

The Legend of Dragoon finally being available on the PS5 makes me cautiously optimistic that we'll see some other classic PS1 and PS2 JRPG's added as well. I'd especially like to see Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Tactics, Breath of Fire IV and Shadow Hearts to name but a handful.

Breath of Fire IV is still my favourite of the series, but it was so hard to follow the story back then if all English you knew was what they teach in school

[RyuDragnier]

Bought and have been playing Dokapon Kingdom Connect with friends. It's Board game meets JRPG. Really fun game, but it has the same friendship destroying power as Mario Party.

[Renalt]

I have to say, the friendly banter happening in this thread is really wholesome :3

This was never the happiest place ever, gaming forums never are, but the last week or so it got pretty bad in my opinion and even reading isn't that entertaining anymore.

And to be honest, if I had read the forum before installing the test version back then, I'm not sure I would have ever tried the game! I'm used to OFs having a negative vibe (ESO says hello...), but this one is a bit of a dumpster fire.
Maybe the mods use it as a social experiment?

Anyway, was thinking about older games today that I'm really fond of and would deserve some kind of remake/remaster/re-release to get more attention than they got back then.
1. Terranigma on the Super Nintendo, sadly is not available anywhere outside of shady ROM sites. I'm glad I still have my physical copy! Iirc that one wasn't released outside Japan/Europe?
2. Legend of Dragoon on PS1, loved that one and still have my copy. Sadly it didn't sell well so the sequel was axed, but seems to be seen as a cult classic today and is quite rare.
3. Lost Odyssey on Xbox360, not that old but great game with an interesting story and has Final Fantasy vibes all over it for obvious reasons.

Do you also have old games you're nostalgic about?

There are companies out there that will make a physical copy of that translated version of a game if you want. You can pick the cartridge color and everything.

Such examples being Seiken Densetsu 3 or Sweet Home.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Happy Piccolo Day, everyone!

[Renalt]

Happy Piccolo Day, everyone!

That's Demon KING Piccolo.

[SassyAssassin]

Just checking on you guys to see if you’re ok

[Rannie]

Just checking on you guys to see if you’re ok

Define ok......

[Renalt]

Just checking on you guys to see if you’re ok

Feeling wonderful. How about yourself. How have you been lately?

[Renalt]

God there's DOZENS OF US now who are Terranigma enjoyers. Dozens!!! Terranigma's my fave game of all time :3 I'm hoping they give it the HD2D remakeover like they did for Live A Live and Actraiser myself, it'd be perfect. Japan, Europe, and Australia got Terranigma, but the US was still in its Very Puritan, No Religion Allowed phase for games so I emulated it so long ago. I have a physical copy though, with a PAL SNES to play it.

I'm just glad they did a good job with Seiken Densetsu 3 when they made Trials of Mana.

[rainichan]

I'm just glad they did a good job with Seiken Densetsu 3 when they made Trials of Mana.

Which gives me hope for some non-US release games Bahamut Lagoon, Terranigma... I'd go pretty feral for any of the Soul Blazer game trilogy to get remastered like that, tbh. I still need to get myself Actraiser, Mana, and Live A Live, too... so many games, so little money haha.