I never tried that one but I did play the The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia and it was not bad. I swear I am not a typing game enthusiast but it is weird there are two zombie typing games.
Will probably check it out as I count myself among the Black Isle/Obsidian aficionados. Didn't see a link to the mod in the article. Bit of a let-down that Yesterday does not seem to implement the 3D Jefferson Engine as was seen in the Van Buren tech demo, but props to these modders all the same!
I just wanted to say that I checked the site yesterday on two different devices, and there was no link (the relevant text was visible, but not a link).
I happened to look again today, and now the link is available on both devices.
Of course the TRUE least favorite would be some trash that never should have been pushed out, but if we're sticking with well known classics, I'm going with Castlevania 1-3.
The controls on those games were terrible. You were slow and clunky. Jumping between platforms required a trigonometric calculation. The weapons had a very specific and often a very strange path that
Enemies dipped in and out of attack range, and it constantly felt like I was supposed to press the attack button two seconds before the enemy was even on the screen.
I'm sure its not so bad once you memorize the levels and get used to the timing, but I have enough good games in my collection, that I don't need to waste my time adapting to the flaws of these games.
"Retro" is so big of a category now. But Final Fantasy IX was my least favorite. I have a feeling I'll get some hate for this but:
On PlayStation, the loading times were like 15-30 seconds before AND after each battle, the high random encounter frequency meant you would battle sometimes after every few steps, and monster variation was very low. And running never seemed to work.
So literally 10 seconds of movement, 25 seconds load into battle, battle one of the same 3-4 enemy groups in that area, 25 seconds load out of battle, and repeat.
The story was also very generic. Everyone seemed to love it, but it felt like they played every decision safe to create a nostalgia-friendly experience.
I played it so much but was always frustrated with it. Every time I see someone reminiscing about how great it is, I am just wondering what game they were playing.
It's a hot take in the JRPG/FF communities, but I'll be right there with you to die on that hill. I still can't believe that it has one of the highest metascores in the series to this day. I thought I was crazy when I was reading reviews back in 2000.
It's not just the transitional load times either; the load times in battle were also so bad that they messed up the ATB. These technical issues had all sorts of weird side effects, like making anything with a cast animation worse than alternatives or making Haste the worst it's ever been in the series. Bizarrely, the best way to avoid the action queueing was to turn down the ATB speed in the options (or to use a mod that sped up the FPS and thus the battle animations, because the ATB ran separately).
The whole thing was technical overreach on Sakaguchi's part. Games had voice acting for years by the time FF9 released, but he was obsessed with film-making so he packed the disc storage with voiceless CG animation instead. The Dreamcast had been out over a year with its titles alongside PC games that were regularly pushing 60 FPS, but this game just had to have a fourth party member to really gum things up. By the time it finally came out in the West, we were already seeing footage of PS2 games out in Japan. Final Fantasy has never been as far behind the curve as it was with IX.
I didn't click with the story or characters at all. Was I just so annoyed by the tech issues that it was a non-starter for me? I never played through the game with the newer releases/mods that address some of these issues, so I still don't know if I would have liked the game. Maybe I'll play the likely remake.
At the time I was something of a fan boy for final fantasy, but ff9 was the first one I didn’t finish. I played through all the way to the beginning of the end… and then decided I didn’t care and that I was forcing myself to play a game I didn’t enjoy.
I don’t remember having the technical issues you mentioned, but I just didn’t click with the characters and the world felt meh to me. I can’t recall a single song that I enjoyed from 9 either.
X was probably the last FF I finished before the series lost its magic to me. (FFXIV was fun but a bit too costly)
I liked Ocarina of time, so I'll side with the majority there, but my dirty little secret is that I haven't played a Zelda game since OoT and really don't care to.
I never understood the love for ocarina of time until I played the 3ds version of it. The aesthetic just ruin the game for me. The 3ds version looks good and plays nicely.
I mean, why? It's an outdated system and the games won't even use the extra memory. I get that people have hobbies and all but this just seems extremely pointless and a waste of time.
Unless someone starts making new games for the thing, I don't think this is for anything other than the dude who actually made the mod and the reason was "he could." Which, don't get me wrong, is pretty cool.
~$3000 USD for a bottle of chemicals that are probably all dried up or separated from each other in a bottle with a brand name on it? I mean, they do say a sucker is born every day. I can see where maybe someone will eventually pay that, but I think that is a financially stupid choice.
Financially stupid? I guess, but that applies to almost all collectibles. So does paying to go out for a meal when it’s cheaper to cook at home, but people still do it because they enjoy it.
Financially stupid is entirely relative to someone's financial situation and their level of obsession with Neo Geo. Also it's $1,893 against the current extremely favorable exchange rate.
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