The Blackangel

Majora's Mask wasn't real time. Sure it had a clock that you had to keep resetting, but I mean real time as it is in the real world. Has anyone seen the Johnny Depp movie Nick Of Time? That was shot in real time. Sure those type of games aren't for everyone, but I enjoy stuff like that. A million different options, each with a different effect on the next part of the game, and not being able to go back. All culminating in millions of different endings completely based on the choices you made. That would be an amazing game.

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Another thing I would like to see more of, would be games that are played in real time. There seems to be a shortage of them, and I always loved that type of thing. A game where you can't pause to think, and couldn't cheat by pausing the game. You had to act as you would in real life. Those are desperately needed.

Before I get to my games, I wanted to respond to this. The people that pull this kind of shit, well I have two words about that: FUCK THEM. Not everyone is going to get along, or agree on everything. It's ridiculous to think otherwise. I can't say anything about Daemons Souls because, while I have the game, I have yet to actually play it. I know, I'm lazy. It's your right to not like a game. I personally hate Halo and GTA. Many people think I'm fucking nuts. Some will agree with me. But all in all, stick to your guns, and tell the others to piss off. You and I didn't exactly start off on the best foot, but I think we've moved past it. We choose to stay, or we choose to leave. Who gives a shit? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Now on to my game entry. I would have to put DarkStone for PS1 on this list. The game is impossible from the start. The paths through the forest outside the town are so monotonous and many so well hidden that you can never find your way around. The enemies pop up out of nowhere and before you know it you're dead. Finding your way back to town, even with your map, is a whole quest in itself. The game is absolutely terrible. One that while I can enjoy, but can't stand at the same time is Zelda: Goddess Of Wisdom. It's a ROM-hack, but it is so god damn hard that it's next to impossible. I've been playing it for three years, and have only just found a third dungeon. I say A third dungeon because none of them are labeled in any way, and I have no fucking clue if I'm going in the right direction or not. The items I need, I'm not getting. I don't know if they're dungeon items, or something I'm supposed to find somewhere on the world map. It's honestly one of the hardest games I've ever played. One that I'll keep playing until I beat it, not because I enjoy it, but because after 30+ years of trying is Legacy Of The Wizard. I've talked about it before. You have to find 4 crowns to release and awaken a dragon so that you can kill the dragon. I have so far found only one crown. I'm too stubborn to give up. But once I do beat the damn thing, I highly doubt I'll ever play it again. It's gotten so bad that I've devolved to using a Game Genie to power up my characters to try to make the game easier. It doesn't help.

I have tons of extra systems, many duplicates, that I'm bundling to sell. I'm wanting to get a cheap Xbox 360 to put in with it, but I don't have the money at the moment. As it sits I have about 7 PS2's, and 4 PS3's. The reason for that is because I buy bundles myself, mostly for the games that are in the bundle. And I always end up with an extra system that I honestly don't need. I have NES, SNES, N64, Sega Genesis(gen1 and gen2), PS2, PS3, Atari, and another system but I can't think of what it is at the moment, all going in to the bundle with games for each system. That's the reason I want a 360. To sweeten the deal. But as it is, I still can get a pretty decent chunk anyway.

I played a game in an arcade that was called Polybius. I'm not saying it was the legendary Polybius. We all know it wasn't. But they shared the same name. I don't remember much about it (it was after all about 25 years ago) but it was ok enough that I played it more than once. I think that was just because it was better than other games while I was waiting for the one I wanted to open up. But that was when one play on any game as a quarter.

I don't know if it really counts as an urban legend, but the thing about Squall being dead in FF8 could be another one.

There’s the Ben drowned story with Majora’s Mask. I don’t remember all the details about it, but it was a little bit out there.

I tend to hang on to it. But then, as everyone already knows, I’m a classic gamer.

It’s a really soft material. It’s often used for comfort tops and light throw blankets.

Realism can add to a game in some ways, and take away from it in others. Like in Zelda OoT, with the bow, Links breathing makes him move . He doesn't have perfect steadiness the way he does with the hookshot. And in FF8 the monsters seem to be able to actually think, especially the GF's that you have to fight to gain. If the NPC's and enemies act as an intelligent species with the ability to think, and aren't statues, then you have the necessary realism to make a great game. Early systems (Atari, NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, etc.) are an obvious exception as they didn't possess the capabilities for so much detail.

Q*Bert (classic Atari game) Mahluk (side scrolling gothic)

I would love that. The harshest most devastating weather imaginable would add so much to games. I love overcast days, especially if it's raining. Even better if that rain is a flash flood inducing downpour. I've watched tornados with my own eyes, not on video (damnit) and I've seen floods on a biblical scale. The only 2 storms I can think of that I haven't personally experienced (that commonly hit the US) are earthquakes and hurricanes. The west coast has earthquakes every other day, and Florida has hurricanes every 5 minutes. I'm landlocked in the middle of the country. So unless we get a hurricane so big that the asshole in the middle is Oklahoma City, I don't have to worry about them. And unless we get another earthquake so violent that the Mississippi river runs backward again, I don't have to worry about them either. Although I think it was technically the aftershock that flipped the tide on the river. Could be wrong.

How are you guys liking Shovel Knight? I picked it up a while back (due to it having SNES style graphics), but have never actually gotten around to playing it. Ah, nostalgia.

I started wearing glasses in my mid 20's. I didn't realize just how bad my vision was at the time until I put my glasses on for the first time. Now my vision is so bad, that anything over 2½ feet is so blurry, I can't tell what it is if I'm not familiar with it. My optometrist has told me that it's a possibility that I may be legally blind by the time I'm 50. Also macular degeneration seems to run in my family, so that's another thing I have to worry about, as if I didn't have enough fucking health problems as it is.

The only gaming light I can think of off the top of my head was the Light Boy for the original big fat gray Game Boy. Since then everything has either been backlit, or played on a monitor/TV. Unless your calling a lamp a gaming light? Or maybe one of those book lights that you use so you can read in the dark?

All of the above. There is so much life in the universe that there are life forms that look just like things we imagine, and others that no human imagination could ever come up with. We will most likely never encounter them. But that doesn’t negate the fact that they are out there.

Marble Madness is another game that never really made a lot of sense to me. Interesting to play but really wacky.

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PS5 doesn’t hold the slightest bit of interest for me. So far from what I’ve seen it has nothing to offer that I’m not already getting from PS4. So I see no point whatsoever in getting one or even considering it.