Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[rainichan]

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?

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.

[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