So a buddy used to own some old collection of Zelda games (that one Gamecube pack) and iirc Zelda 2 is a weird sidescrolling game with bigger RPG elements than expected. If you haven't tried it yet, go take a peek. It's a wild ride if it's the one I'm thinking of.

Plansix

United States60190 Posts

October 22 2018 15:16 GMT

#196343

Zelda 2 was super weird at the time, but cool because they were trying something completely different. It is from an era of Nintendo when before Zelda and Mario were the cultural icons they are now.

Nevuk

United States16280 Posts

October 22 2018 18:23 GMT

#196344

I'm getting annoyed with Professors giving insanely short times for open book quizzes. Especially if there needs to be some heavy mathematical work done for them. I'm talking 5 minutes for 5 questions, or 20 minutes for 30 questions.

Fleetfeet

Canada2808 Posts

October 22 2018 19:57 GMT

#196345

Yeah zelda 2 is odd. For its time it isn't obscenely difficult though. I can remember a good few NES titles that i actually couldn't beat, and there aren't many titles recently that strike me as too hard to beat.

And its not like I got better at gaming, people just got better at game design and away from the limited lives arcade console style.

Obviously variable difficulties play in to this. I have beat xcom 2, but probably can't beat hardest mode xcom 2.

Nevuk

United States16280 Posts

October 22 2018 20:15 GMT

#196346

What was that NES game, battletoads?

PhoenixVoid

Canada32755 Posts

October 22 2018 20:26 GMT

#196347

If I think of difficult NES games I can think of Ghosts N Goblins, some of the Mega Mans, and Ninja Gaiden.

Artisreal

Germany9235 Posts

October 22 2018 20:36 GMT

#196348

Important question: do you guys brush teeth, rinse and then floss or brush, floss then rinse?

TheEmulator

28102 Posts

October 22 2018 20:40 GMT

#196349

On October 23 2018 05:36 Artisreal wrote:
Important question: do you guys brush teeth, rinse and then floss or brush, floss then rinse?

None of those. Floss first.

crms

United States11933 Posts

October 22 2018 20:58 GMT

#196350

On October 23 2018 05:36 Artisreal wrote:
Important question: do you guys brush teeth, rinse and then floss or brush, floss then rinse?

Best way:

1: brush with toothpaste
2: rinse with water and floss
3: mouthwash
4: quick brush; no toothpaste
5: rinse with water

TheEmulator

28102 Posts

October 22 2018 21:08 GMT

#196351

That works too. As long as you're brushing a bit after flossing.

Gosi

Sweden9072 Posts

October 22 2018 21:16 GMT

#196352

My teeth are too small and tight for regular strings so I need to buy special ones from the dentist and I can't be arsed to do that so instead I just don't floss. teehee

intotheheart

Canada33091 Posts

October 22 2018 21:35 GMT

#196353

Have fun with cavities down the road dude. Used to floss terribly and had to get a ton of dental work done.

So with the amount of computers that are either dead or don't work on campus I have to do simulations from home. A buddy found a way to get a license for the expensive proprietary software for free for a year which is awesome (just tell them you're a grad student and namedrop your supervisor). Not sure how I feel about doing work on my home desktop which was originally meant to be a place where I can relax away from the thesis but I guess I'll figure it out.

Gosi

Sweden9072 Posts

October 22 2018 22:20 GMT

#196354

Nevuk

United States16280 Posts

October 22 2018 22:21 GMT

#196355

It's literally impossible to floss my teeth due to a permanent retainer. I once read a study where they said that flossing actually hurt your teeth health a couple years back.

A good alternative is a water pick though.

Fleetfeet

Canada2808 Posts

October 22 2018 23:01 GMT

#196356

On October 23 2018 05:15 Nevuk wrote:
What was that NES game, battletoads?

Battletoads, Ghosts N goblins, Ninja Gaiden, Prince of Persia, Castlevania : Simon's Quest (and a lot of the castlevanias really), Kung Fu... idk. There were a lot of games with elements of design that would basically be unforgivable by today's standards, even considering we have google now and can just look up "What the fuck do I even do"

Mario and Zelda 1 both stand as relatively playable relatively not-fuck-you experiences. Compare it to Kid Icarus where the mechanics for upgrading your attacks and activating powerups are actually horribly obscure and unless you have the game's manual you're gonna have an extremely hard time progressing through the game.

gaymon

Germany1023 Posts

October 22 2018 23:10 GMT

#196357

Tbh i have no clue if its me or the games from back then are just insanely ASS by todays standard (for someone who started gaming in 1997 or so), theres like 10 games pre 1995 that i unironically enjoyed.

Nevuk

United States16280 Posts

October 23 2018 00:56 GMT

#196358

On October 23 2018 08:10 gaymon wrote:
Tbh i have no clue if its me or the games from back then are just insanely ASS by todays standard (for someone who started gaming in 1997 or so), theres like 10 games pre 1995 that i unironically enjoyed.

Let's see... a lot of it is that saving games seemed like a new concept until most of the way through the NES era. So there are some NES games you can save like FF1, but others that use weird passwords as a save mechanism and still others that got their value through being insanely hard and requiring lots of replay. Mario 1/3 fall into that last one, as there's no save game option and you're expected to play through it a lot to actually see everything.

Prince of Persia was quite good aside from the hair tearing out difficulty. You have an hour to save the Princess iirc. After that hour is up, game over. And if you die, game over. And you'll die like all the time, so it probably would take a rather long time to beat. Savestates are basically necessary for playing that type of game imo, and using them makes it so you only spend 2-3 hours with them instead of 40-50

There's just a fundamental change in mindset that comes from being able to save. Robin Hood for NES was a movie tie in and actually really good - but it only takes about 2-3 hours to beat once you're good at it, which is super short for a full priced RPG game.

For the most part the overall quality of games have definitely improved as it's gotten easier to make them. The SNES period probably had as many good games made during it as during all of the games made before it combined.

Some Genres just don't hold up well also. Especially those that get remade every year/gen. Flight sims, sports games, driving sims, etc. I enjoy quite a few RPGs/SRPGs made before 95 though (FF1-6, any MegaTen game.

PassiveAce

United States18076 Posts

October 23 2018 02:25 GMT

#196359

'our game will be fantastically bad' lmaoo

PhoenixVoid

Canada32755 Posts

October 23 2018 04:20 GMT

#196360

At least they are honest about their shortcomings, but if they wanted to dispel their reputation as the buggiest AAA developers they aren't doing themselves any favours here. Also I find their answer to "What do you do in Fallout 76" really bad. "That's up to you" reeks of them admitting they couldn't find a focus for the game or a concise answer.