Posts by Lace Sabatons

Quote from Kaynil

What things are gimmicky about Mario Sunshine?
That's good to know.

So what are your favorite stages guys?
Which ones are of the worst ones?

If this game is overrated. I'd love to hear about more of what other players usually dismiss or minimise in order to put the game in a pedestal.

Well, both water levels suck. They really do. Also, I hate Tiny Huge island.

Also, while the camera is certainly good for its time, and was revolutionary in some ways, it has aged poorly. Really poorly.

Honestly, I think one of the best things about the game is just its engine and the way Mario moves. If one of the levels was a massive empty plane with nothing in it? I think I would still have fun just running and jumping. At least for a few minutes.

Quote from Kaynil

I don't know if it is overrated. I never played it. But I like the colourful palette.
It seems it is pretty glitchy. I think part of the appeal is that it was the first attempt to pass a Mario game to 3D and they did it in a good game. Even with its flaws in platform limits and stuff, it still holds up.

I saw Sardonic Pickle playing a pacman game in PS1 that was so unfair so I am not sure how close M64 is in comparison.

You NEVER PLAYED MARIO 64!?

This is a shock to me.

Also, it really isn't very glitchy. People have found a lot of glitchy exploits, but I've played the whole game beginning to end at least four times, and I've only ever found one glitch I can think of. And it's just a shortcut that allows you to save 0.4 seconds of travel time.

Quote from The Inhaling One

Please play Galaxy. It brings back all the moves Mario had like the long jump, and you don't HAVE to use the Wii pointer if you don't want to. Galaxy is best Mario. It's actually rated as one of the best games of all time by a lot of critics and non-critics.

I do own Galaxy, but at this point it's sealed up in a box. I'm currently playing a number of other games, but with you and Sardonic both telling me how great it is, I will absolutely make a point of trying it when I have the opportunity.

Part of the reason I hate Sunshine is undoubtedly personal. I hate tropical settings. They bum me out. I don't know why. But having the entire game set on a tropical island was like having a foul smell in the room every time I played. Sure it didn't actually effect the challenges or puzzles, but it certainly didn't help.

But I also thought the challenges were kind of a bummer. The only fun thing about the FLUDD was the jetpack stuff. Anytime you had to aim the water jet at a target, or clean something up was lame. Not only was it boring, but it removed you from the flow of Mario's movement. M64 did a great job of making the game feel fluid. You were constantly in motion, running and jumping. Ironically, once they added a water machine, the game lost its fluidity.

I was also really disappointed that the game got rid of several of mario's moves from M64. I don't recall which they were. I think it was the U-Jump and the long jump?

I don't know if the 3D marios have improved since then. I never played Galaxy. The wiimote is annoying to use.

Yeah, he was a mod by the time I joined.

Zelda GC was never much of anything. It never had that much content on it. It was a brief project, quickly abandoned.

I haven't played the wii version, just the DS version. Although it's weird how similar the two are.

I guess it depends on how it's rated. There are people out there who place it on an impossible pedestal, and refuse to acknowledge its flaws. (Because certainly, it has flaws). Those people overrate the game.

But I do think it holds up as one of the best 3D platformers of all time. Certainly I like it a lot better than Super Mario Sunshine.

Heavy.

Do you often read that sort of thing? History / memoirs? What made you pick up this book?

I noticed link was rolling randomly, and I couldn't seem to force it. How do you make him roll?

I honestly haven't even gone through the cave in the opening of the game yet. I'll keep this thread updated as I find out whether I can get used to the controls.

Certainly not. I can't pinpoint what would have been the first, but Super Mario World did it. It wasn't every level, but a lot of levels had some method of unlocking a different path forward. I believe SMB 3 had a similar mechanic, and there may be even earlier examples.

Wow, that's a huge collection of material. Nicely collected, Kaynil!

Calian shows up a few times in the Spira Online screenshots. He was one of the first gay people I ever met, and is the one who first forced me to compare my ideas of gay people as shadowy evil-doers, and gay people as real actual people. I like that dude.

Here's one with particular meaning for me. April 2003:

http://web.archive.org/web/2002040202…lhq.com/forums/

There's a subsection for "Hosted Forums" where ZeldaGC and ZeldaConnection's forums are hosted. ZeldaGC is how I eventually found TSR, and you can see my name showing up a few times throughout that snapshot.

I've actually played OoT all the way through once. I played it a second time in 2008 or something, but I only got to the shadow temple, and never actually finished it.

If you invent a time machine, I'll write a script.

I imagine it's non-fiction?

Of course, why wouldn't we be allowed to? I've posted several myself.

If they become overwhelming, we might want to reconsider it. But there's no reason to be preemptive about this sort of thing.

I somewhat disagree.

Guides for any game out there (or any task, for that matter) are plentiful and easy to find. There's no point for writing one just for this forum. And we can already post reviews in any of the many gaming sections that already exist. Those forums already update slowly. There's no point in splitting up the topics more.

I've never really played any Sonic games aside from the original 3, but I diiiiiiiiiiid watch the whole 100+ part Game Grumps lets play for '06. So while I can't myself say the game is bad, I can certainly say that I 100% believe it's bad.

The thing is, Sonic has a really rabid fanbase.

Honestly, I think a hefty share of people who like Sonic '06 are really just such big sonic fans that they'd like any sonic game.

It was always a serious discussion. I opened with an analogy that apparently didn't land very well.

The choice to play their limitations for comedic effect was a good one. It actually plays really well I think.

I'm glad you JUST DID IT.

So, I get it. Someone said a really good game is shit, and your first reaction is "WTF? What are they smoking!?" and that's a legit reaction.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut.

Reviews are only good if the reviewer gives the score they think the product truly deserves. If we start holding reviewers to our own opinions, or to the opinion of the masses, then we've already corrupted the process. There's functionally no difference between a reviewer giving a game a good score because it's popular, and a reviewer giving a game a good score because they were paid to do so.