mid-school and old-school video games

I might try to put together a list, but it would take me a while. I've only made a list of specifically old RPGs of mine, not any of the other genres
 
Btw!!! If anyone is wondering why it might be advantageous to do both big guns and small guns in fallout 2

Imagine you're in the middle of combat, it's your turn. You pull out your hefty, powerful big gun. It does a lot of damage. But it takes more action points than a small gun. Let's say it takes 4 action points (if you've built your character the right way). You're down to 3 action points. So you switch to the small gun you have in your other hand, which takes 3 action points, maybe even only 2, and that's an extra attack for you that round :]

If you haven't built up small guns alongside big guns, the chances of you landing that shot are small, especially if you're far from the enemy. Instead of a 95% chance of hitting, maybe you'll have a 20% chance

So now you have two different kinds of guns to play around with in battle, both sure to hit, and hit hard

Say you have 10 action points:

First attack - big gun, 4 points
Second attack - big gun, 4 points
Third attack - small gun, 2 points
 
This lil guy here I circled in red, the gauss pistol, is an example of a small gun that might take two action points with the right build, while doing decent damage. It's like the baby version of the gauss rifle fffrrefref.webp
 
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My favorite hobby is collecting stimpaks and then never, ever using them
 
I have a question I must ask - is anyone here a fan of the older metroid games, like super metroid? ❤️

 
I know this is off topic but I hope you reconsider talking about your fetish. I’m very sorry you felt judged. I hope you feel free to be yourself in the future. Most of us INFJs loook at sex as a very natural thing to be discussed openly about without an issue so please try not to allow one person on this forum to affect your viewpoint of us all. I personally absolutely love sex but it has to be with the right person because of all my trust issues. I hope one day you feel safe enough to open the discussion back up again. INFJs are by nature very sexual so the growth comment surprised me honestly because there’s nothing we love discussing more than sex.
 
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Hyacinth said:
I know this is off topic but I hope you reconsider talking about your fetish. I’m very sorry you felt judged. I hope you feel free to be yourself in the future. Most of us INFJs loook at sex as a very natural thing to be discussed openly about without an issue so please try not to allow one person on this forum to affect your viewpoint of us all. I personally absolutely love sex but it has to be with the right person because of all my trust issues. I hope one day you feel safe enough to open the discussion back up again. INFJs are by nature very sexual so the growth comment surprised me honestly because there’s nothing we love discussing more than sex.
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<3

thank you so, so much :hug:
 
hush said:
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thank you so, so much :hug:
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No problem. I myself can only discuss sex with a very limited number of ppl. Not many ppl I trust not to hurt me or use the knowledge I disclose about myself to make me feel paranoid and insecure so for obvious reasons I keep it under wraps. It’s not out of shame or embarressment but instead coming from a place and environments where I’ve been made to feel judged or “wrong” just by having very normal natural feelings. I’ve also felt judged by being attracted to more than one man as though loving someone other than my partner was a crime when in reality I think more ppl are in love with more than one person but they will never outright admit it because society has made us feel like it’s really wrong. In reality, monogamy is a new concept relatively speaking as polygamous relationships were the norm before monogamy was introduced in Rome and Ancient Greece as a way to gain and introduce property rights and trading of their daughters to gain an upper hand in a trade to secure their futures and many of my INFJ friends are actually pansexual. I’m actually in the more rarer categories of my friends in that I’m demisexual and sapiosexual and because of that most of the very few men I have ever loved or cared about. the bonds to them was formed in childhood and as much as I try to shake it and “get over it” I can’t. Kinda wish I could and have felt on more than one occasion that I wish I wasn’t born to be this way since life would be so much simpler on me if I wasn’t this way because no one could play on my emotions the way they do if I wasn’t.
 

 
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I have a question I must ask - is anyone here a fan of the older metroid games, like super metroid? ❤️

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Definitely. NES and SNES were my jam from approx 2nd grade up to the arrival of the psx at the end of high school. Iirc this and Castlevania SOTN were like the parents of the metroidvania genre. So many aspects of the game were incredibly well done. The use of the retro space sfx and music to create atmosphere, for example, when first landing on Zebes or wandering through the ghost ship. The boss and miniboss fights were fun to figure out and the different areas were really fun to explore without getting tiresome. By contrast I think back to the repetitive guesswork of the original Metroid where you really had to do things like just systematically bomb every block of wall/ground to find out how/where to advance in the game, and the level design was such that you might have to do this in multiple rooms in a large area. I kind of marvel at how I had the patience for some NES games which by today's standards are quite brutal, but I guess when you're a sedentary suburban kid like I was, there's plenty of time for masochism.

SOTN was a masterpiece in its own right.

Now, I'm curious. I've always assumed that you're not from the generation that grew up with this, so if my assumption is correct, can I ask what it was that piqued and held your interest in retro games and this one in particular?
 
Sloe Djinn said:
Now, I'm curious. I've always assumed that you're not from the generation that grew up with this, so if my assumption is correct, can I ask what it was that piqued and held your interest in retro games and this one in particular?
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(hush here, planning on merging my accounts but I'm waiting on a reply back from DJ)

I'm the 4th of 5 children, and the oldest of us was born in 1979. The adults in my life were a little unstable, so I tended to look up to my brother, the oldest, quite a bit. Like my hero? Even the sports he liked I got into, basketball especially. But while he's a huge sports guy, he's also a huge video game guy

Much of my favorites come from my brother. He passed them onto not only me, but our other siblings as well. We always had some sort of gaming system around. While my dad was there, he was also a big computer and video game fan too, anything science fiction or horror-related being his favorite. I would say the two of them were probably my biggest influences growing up

My younger sibling actually made a clock based around the Final Fantasy games, have a photo of that and might share it in a sec. We each have certain games that are our particular favorites, but many we all share as well. Like none of them are as crazy about Heroes of Might and Magic as I am, but they still know it

I think that these games were also a good escape for us during those years. I don't only like these games, most of them are very special to me, have a very firm place in my heart. I love hearing about what's special to everyone else here too :)
 
My younger sibling's Final Fantasy clock they made! <3

(Final Fantasy is one all of us love dearly)

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grimalkin said:
planning on merging my accounts...
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Lmao that seriously threw me here and in other threads! I was like, who's this a-hole who gets special privileges to post in hush's blog etc etc. Anyway, that explains a lot, thank you! I was baffled at how you have such old school tastes and it makes way more sense now. That FF clock is jawdropping. The colors, the use of the insignias as free floating digits; it's beautiful! I want it even though I haven't played half of the installments.
 
Sloe Djinn said:
Lmao that seriously threw me here and in other threads! I was like, who's this a-hole who gets special privileges to post in hush's blog etc etc. Anyway, that explains a lot, thank you! I was baffled at how you have such old school tastes and it makes way more sense now. That FF clock is jawdropping. The colors, the use of the insignias as free floating digits; it's beautiful! I want it even though I haven't played half of the installments.
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I was confused too until they told me earlier that they were the same person then I was like your reaction here. I was so confused 🤣
 
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