/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5774976
I thought the inability to revisit old areas really added to the spooky mystic feel of the game. It added a sense of finality to progression you don't really get elsewhere. It felt a lot like life, how has you grow and move through various stages in life many things are just gone forever.

>>5747148
>be me in 1993
>be 4 years old
>watch older brother playing ff2 on the SNES
>"I know! When he's not playing I'll load up his data and do random fights on the world map to help him level up! He'll be so happy!"
>Find a chocobo in the chocobo forest area
>Ride chocobo over river
>get off chocobo, it goes away back to the forest
>grind a few fights
>get tired
>save
>next day, brother goes to play, and finds he's trapped in this part of the map
>save is softlocked, he now can't finish the game

Oops.

>>5591063
>but then in middle school kids would beat you up and make fun of you for liking pokemon because it was for kids
We live in a society

>>5522773
This.

>>5501185
>play heart of alien
>Lester gets electrocuted
>see potato alien carrying him into a weird chamber
>"Fuck yeah he's reviving him"
>he turns him into a fucking skeleton