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NOW LIVE! Into the Woods--new character species, eerie monsters, and haunting villains to populate the woodlands of your D&D games.
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Tinker Gnome
Adventurer
Wow, now i know how old most of you guys really are. I talk about replaying a four year old game, and you guys are talking about Pong. 
Allanon
Explorer
If you're signature is anything to go by, you're nostalgia is further reaching than just FF9. Secret of Mana perhaps. Ahh, now there was a great game. By the way if you think you're nostalgia is bad try mine. I download the soundtracks and theme songs of all the old games I've loved (like for instance Secret of Mana). Ahh, the memories of my younger more innocent yearsGaleros said:Wow, now i know how old most of you guys really are. I talk about replaying a four year old game, and you guys are talking about Pong.
Aeolius
Adventurer
die_kluge said:
You can get legal ROMs (i.e you pay for them) at www.starroms.com
Ashwyn said:
You can always do what I did. I put a bid in on a Mario Bros. machine on eBay
Desdichado
Hero
"Nostalgic" video games for me are things like original Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Burger Time, etc. I don't think they're very fun anymore, except for a few hours or so once a year at best.Galeros said:Wow, now i know how old most of you guys really are. I talk about replaying a four year old game, and you guys are talking about Pong.
Now modern games, like Street Fighter II, on the other hand, I can play all the time.
MerakSpielman
First Post
When people start lamenting how much they miss the games of bygone days, usually what they're really missing are the good feelings they had when playing such games. Back when I was a young teen I never played video games alone. It was a social thing. There was more than the game, there were the good times and comraderie.
I've been missing the old Zelda series - what was the first one with Link again? But I know it won't be the same. I'm an old man of 25 now, world-weary and storm-torn, as it were. I don't think I'll ever again experience the magical feeling that nostalgia pushes me to crave. I have to make do with what I have now - which involves playing Age of Wonders with my wife and beginning my 2-year-old son's slow induciton into tabletop and computer gaming. At worst, I can experience the magic vicariously through his discoveries.
Crap, I'm waxing sentimental again. Somebody slap me. I'm supposed to be editing.
I've been missing the old Zelda series - what was the first one with Link again? But I know it won't be the same. I'm an old man of 25 now, world-weary and storm-torn, as it were. I don't think I'll ever again experience the magical feeling that nostalgia pushes me to crave. I have to make do with what I have now - which involves playing Age of Wonders with my wife and beginning my 2-year-old son's slow induciton into tabletop and computer gaming. At worst, I can experience the magic vicariously through his discoveries.
Crap, I'm waxing sentimental again. Somebody slap me. I'm supposed to be editing.
Desdichado
Hero
At least Age of Wonders is a fun game too, though, right?
MerakSpielman
First Post
Yeah, it's fun (I wouldn't play it if it wasn't), but I can't play it without thinking "My god, that was a dumb move, Mr. Computer. Who programmed this frikkin' AI?" or some other "metathought."
When I was a kid loading up a video game, I felt like I was exploring a vast alternate universe of some kind. It was totally separated in my mind from the real world, execpt for my interaction with it. Now, no matter how detailed the world is, I can't get over the fact that what I'm exploring is no more than the vision of a fellow, flawed adult human being. That's where the video-game magic died.
I guess I grew up.
When I was a kid loading up a video game, I felt like I was exploring a vast alternate universe of some kind. It was totally separated in my mind from the real world, execpt for my interaction with it. Now, no matter how detailed the world is, I can't get over the fact that what I'm exploring is no more than the vision of a fellow, flawed adult human being. That's where the video-game magic died.
I guess I grew up.
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Desdichado
Hero
Yep, I think that's what did it. I was just listening to one of my favorite old CDs last night thinking the same thing; this music reminded me of some kind of idealized, Never-neverland. No wonder nothing today competes against that.
Somehow, though, computer-based strategy games like Age of Wonders don't feel like "video games" to me, it's a completely different type of thing. Go figure.
Meanwhile games like "Elevator Action" seem fully realized and infinite.
By the way, which Age of Wonders are you playing? I only have the first one for some reason. I really should upgrade, considering how much I liked that one...
Somehow, though, computer-based strategy games like Age of Wonders don't feel like "video games" to me, it's a completely different type of thing. Go figure.
Meanwhile games like "Elevator Action" seem fully realized and infinite.
By the way, which Age of Wonders are you playing? I only have the first one for some reason. I really should upgrade, considering how much I liked that one...
MerakSpielman
First Post
I'm playing AoW2. It's nice, and I think better than the first one. We're on the last level and it's taking forever to beat.
The most recent one "Shadow Magic" got several rave reviews - "The best of the series" and all that. Apparently the AI finally gets smart in it - though I don't hold out much hope. I'm looking forward to playing it - though I'm going to need a break after we finish AoW2. I can only stand so much of that exact style of gameplay before I get sick of it.
The most recent one "Shadow Magic" got several rave reviews - "The best of the series" and all that. Apparently the AI finally gets smart in it - though I don't hold out much hope. I'm looking forward to playing it - though I'm going to need a break after we finish AoW2. I can only stand so much of that exact style of gameplay before I get sick of it.
