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Post by Xaa on Mar 6, 2006 6:01:24 GMT -5
Zelda 64, that was it!
Yeah, it had "mirror" worlds - not in the sense of "I walk through a mirror to get there" (though in one spot, you DO), they were mirror in the sense that each was a reflection of the other, light and dark.
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Post by gfb on Mar 6, 2006 8:28:06 GMT -5
I guess you could see it that way. As I remember it (and it's been a year or more now) you were able to operate in two different times. The main character (Link) was able to act simultaneously in the time when he was a boy and the time when he was/is a man in order to defeat the Horrible, Aweful Evil (TM).
I remember liking Travel By Musical Instrument. That was a nice touch.
Did you ever get to play the "sequal," the Mask of somethingorother? That was also quite good. Instead of operating in 2 time periods, you only get to operate during 3 days that you have to keep repeating.
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Post by Xaa on Mar 6, 2006 14:49:55 GMT -5
I guess you could see it that way. As I remember it (and it's been a year or more now) you were able to operate in two different times. The main character (Link) was able to act simultaneously in the time when he was a boy and the time when he was/is a man in order to defeat the Horrible, Aweful Evil (TM). Well, no, that wasn't it, I remember "Occarina of Time", that was different. This was one that came before it. =/ No, my wife and I got sick of having to buy a new console every few years, and we were furious with Nintendo for virtually ignoring FRPG players with the last one we bought, the N-64. There was something like 200 titles for the N-64, of which only one (Occarina of Time) we considered an FRPG. The rest were sports. I mean, christ, if I wanted to play sports, I'd pick up a football or something and go outside. We have an NES, a super NES, and an N64. We've got like 100 games for the NES, about 50 for the SNES, and 5 for the N64 simply because Nintendo slowly moved away from what we wanted to play. So, we bought a computer and started looking for games for it, instead.
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Post by gfb on Mar 6, 2006 15:27:54 GMT -5
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Post by Liantedan on Mar 7, 2006 10:52:39 GMT -5
Thank you Nintendo for pointing Xaa into the computerworld. If you had given him more games to play, we might have never have experienced the joys of Land of Hyperborea (no, I don't care you don't like LoH anymore yourself, Xaa, I still like it, and there are others who share my opinion) and Mageworld, and thus I would never have found out about the marvels of reading Xaabooks. You might be mad at Nintendo for not entertaining you, but they sure have succeeded in making you entertain us, appearanty.
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Post by Diablo on Mar 9, 2006 12:51:55 GMT -5
If your looking at the Zelda games as FRPG's, then wouldn't that make the Metroid series FRPG's also?
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Post by gfb on Mar 9, 2006 16:33:39 GMT -5
If your looking at the Zelda games as FRPG's, then wouldn't that make the Metroid series FRPG's also? IIRC the 'F' in 'FRPG' stands for 'F'antasy. Metroid = Sci. Fi..
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Post by Diablo on Mar 10, 2006 12:15:15 GMT -5
That is completely irrelevant! D:
But either way both the Zelda series and the Metroid series are like mixes between platformer's and RPG's
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Post by Blondin235 on May 14, 2006 13:07:07 GMT -5
- totally unrelated and a propos of nothing..
www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=6354
nice bit of mp3 music here - Hyperborea... hmmm, where have I heard that name before...??
- heh, heh! PS: the Electric Tarot looks really neat - I'm still using Kaplan's 1JJ deck from way back when - will you be doing the lesser arcana, too..??
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