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Any of you /vr/ers remember this awesome game?!

>> No.1951075

I had a demo

>> No.1951085
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>>1950913
One of my favorites and my all time favorite game in the Prince of Persia/Out of This World/Flashback style.

Great animations and a lot of good ideas. It probably had a hard time finding an audience since the story and art style scream kids game but the difficulty and shocking deaths may put off younger players.

>> No.1951105

>>1951085
Oddworld fleshed out the genre much better.
Also lol at the HoD final boss.

>> No.1951116

>>1951085
I just never got the appeal of these games. Honestly, the entire style and feel and everything about them just felt unbelievably shitty.

>> No.1951272

Loved it as a kid, probably love it more now. It's easily my favourite game aesthetically, I just wish they used the larger monsters more and had a few more boss battles.

>> No.1951285

>>1951116
They're not too bad. Kind of the precursor to the old Tomb Raider style (made obvious by the GBC Tomb Raider games). And ultimately, games like Uncharted wouldn't exist without the evolutionary steps that got us there. (weather that's good or bad is up to the individual though)

Anyway, games like this are not supposed to be "fun" in that "zip around the screen murdering everything in sight and making fast jumps" kind of way. They're about trial and error, exploration, learning mechanics, ect. They're adventure games more than anything.

I do respect your stance on the topic though. I'm not one of those guys who'll call you out and make a big deal out of your opinion being different or whatever. I'm just trying to give you an idea of what the actual appeal is, because I know a lot of people (especially currently) think nothing but action games are fun and don't "get" games like this.

>> No.1951302

Awesome game.

Obligatory death video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyZfME5XYY

>> No.1951985

>>1951285
wow 4chan

>> No.1951986

>>1951285

What?

>> No.1951997

The first game i pirated in the 90's.
It's a shame i didn't had a pair of 3d glasses at the time.

>> No.1951998

>>1951285

Oh boy, i guess you know the game pretty well anon.

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DEATH GIFS

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>> No.1952020

>come into the thread to mention the horrifying deaths
>That one anon posting horrible deaths

How the fuck did this game get an E rating.

>> No.1953089

>>1952020
The ESRB didn't get far enough because it was too hard for them

>> No.1953385

Watch out for those cliff worms.

>> No.1953392

>>1952003
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>>1952012

Holy shit

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>>1952012
> rating E for everyone

>> No.1953424

>>1953410
>>1953392
Ahaha, ya'll niggas wasn't ready.

I didn't think I'd see raw reaction to this game in 2014, but here we are. I love you guys. Sleep easy tonight, and don't get ripped to shreds by monsters that live under your bed.

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>>1953392
>>1953410
The worst death in my opinion is with the wall worms. You don't see much, but the sound and the way the legs twitch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyZfME5XYY at 3:20

>> No.1953456

I didn't get very far; my game kept freezing right after the giant toad thing ate my equipment.

>> No.1953994

i cant run it on windows 7

>> No.1954001

A friend of mine had this game. It gave me some serious nightmares. I think I cried when that one flying guy got too tired to keep himself aloft and got transformed after hitting the ground.

>> No.1954076

Fuck this thread made me buy the game.
I only ever had a pirated copy of it.

>> No.1954389

>>1953994
It should work. If the colors are fucked up you should close explorer.exe via task manager.

>> No.1954394

>>1953994
emulate the ps1 version?

>> No.1954415

I remember it, it's very good. I'm only disappointed there's no final boss or anything, the game just kinda ends.

>> No.1954416

My neighbour won this in some VG magazine competition or something. He was given one disc in a thin, unlabelled case. The game has two discs.

It's a good game. The atmosphere is good and there are some really cool bits. My only gripe with it is how much of it is just trial and error, with no real skill needed once you know what to do.

>> No.1954420

>>1954416
I think there is still a certain amount of skill required, especially if you don't want to do certain segments over and over again. If you can dodge well and calculate your jumps you will finish the game much faster.

>> No.1955494

>>1954415
That must be a speed runner's wet dream

>> No.1955578

>>1955494
well, the 'final boss' is surviving a few different attacks for a while, so I'm not sure it is

>> No.1955709

>>1950913
I remember having nightmares about it. Those fucking shadow creatures. My worst fear.

>> No.1956414
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Fantastic game. I just beat it again last week I was just going to show my wife the beginning of it because she loves Spielberg movies, and I distinctly remember getting the same whimsical adventure vibes from HoD's intro CG sequence, and I only realized three hours have passed once I breezed through disc 1, and it still holds up splendidly.

Those fucking wall worms are legit horrifying, though.

>> No.1957598

>>1956414
Who are the other guys in the cover?

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>>1957598
One of them is Conrad from picrelated, which is the sequel to Flashback. Not sure about the other one, but I'm guessing he's from the same type of grid-based adventure platformer.

The dude from Another World, maybe?

>> No.1959119

>>1957898
He doesn't look like Lester

>> No.1960330

>>1955709
What nightmares did you have?

>> No.1961464

>>1955578
The rest of the game is still short enough

>> No.1961497

I love cinematic platformers, i ended up playing them since the snes era.

It seems the genre died during early 2000 though.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfSNowKxrnM

>> No.1961630

>>1961497
Make sure you don't play Demonophobia

>> No.1962748

>>1954420
But that takes like effort

>> No.1963925

>>1954076
Don't pay too much for a game

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>>1963925

I always follow the guybrush's formula.
So i guess i did it right.

>> No.1964865

>>1963952
How much is that in our currency?

>> No.1965695

>>1964865

What is your currency ?

Dollars ? then the conversion is 17.10 $

But in euro it's only 13.42, which is a real good price for the first print of the complete game.

>> No.1966616

>>1957598
>>1957898
I think the other guy might be from Flashback?

>> No.1966623

Fantastic soundtrack, 10/10, would use in a movie. I don't know about you guys, but this game spooked the shit out of me as a kid.
Some years ago I pirated the full game and it was pretty fun until some frustrating underwater part and then I just dropped the game.

>> No.1966725

>>1950913

I own this motherfucker, big box and all, bought it when I was a kid and played a few levels. I liked it, but it was too hard and I lost interest.

>> No.1967635

>>1966725
Did you regain your interest as an adult?

>> No.1967830

>>1966616
oh derp, I'm a fucking idiot who can't read

>> No.1967890

Holy shit. How did i forget this.

>> No.1967924

I remember hearing about this game as a kid, and while I was interested in it, I just never got around to buying it.
Sort of glad I didn't, though...jesus christ it's disturbing.
Especially because back in the day my brother kept me up at night playing Resident Evil 2, this would do me no favors.

>> No.1967928

>>1950913
I played it like a million fucking times. I loved it so much, man.
Remember that swamp part? It looked so damn good.

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>>1952012
Wow. How did this game not disturb me as a child? I was fucking hardcore I guess.

The only game that brought me nightmares was Mortal Combat. But HoT didn't spook me at all, I even thought the shadow monsters looked cool as fuck and I tried to draw them.

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>>1967635

This thread made me regain interest, time to fire it up again. I hope I don't suck as much as I used to.

>> No.1968661

>>1967943
You are making me drool

>> No.1968697

>>1967937
Aren't children naturally brutal and hardcore?

>> No.1968721

>>1950913
>Any of you /vr/ers remember this awesome game?!

Yeah, totally, I remember it from last week's thread about the same game!

>> No.1968727

>>1968721

Anon i don't want to shock you but...
This is that same old thread.

>> No.1968779

>>1950913
After seeing all the death scenes again just now, I have to ask the obvious question. Did this game give anyone a vore fetish?

>> No.1968792

>>1968697
I don't know. I was a very shy, chubby girl. That's not really the definition of brutal and hardcore.

>> No.1968805

To me it's one of those games they tried to push back in the day. They gave out demo's pretty much everywhere. When I first played the demo I was really impressed by the intro cutscene, but dissapointed when it got to the actual game. The cutscene was visually impressive and had a sort of toy story feel to it. The actual gameplay was bland and for some reason the whole game used only washed out brown, grey, green or blue colors whereas the intro scene was very lush.

>> No.1969261

>>1967943
Now you make me want to buy the box edition of Another World...

>> No.1970430

>>1969261
Don't given in to the temptation

>> No.1971381 [DELETED] 

>>1970430
>Don't given in

>> No.1972826 [DELETED] 

>>1968805
>dissapointed

>> No.1973642

>>1956414
IIRC they had a screening for the opening of the game at E3 or something similar back in the day and Spielberg wanted to make a movie about it.
The project kinda died, it didn't help that it got delayed for so long.

>> No.1974895

>>1973642
Spielberg would have ruined the game anyway

>> No.1975592

>>1968661

I've got quite a nice collection of games from the 90's, back then I actually bought games (still bought games up until Oblivion, but that's another board...). Fallout2 is a personal prize, I'm quite fond of the Resident Evil 2 box also for some reason, but I think that one is a bit banged up, sadly... my parents just dumped all my games in the attic when I moved out and some boxes were luckier than others.

>> No.1975617

>>1951285

5 star post

you are encouraged to keep posting sir

your writing improves the mean quality of the posts on this board

>> No.1975628

>>1963952

Guybrush formula?

It's hard to google and I only played the first game.

>> No.1976786

>>1975628
>It's hard to google

Said no one ever

>> No.1976802

>>1975628
>I only played the first game

Anon i have bad news...

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Holy shit, this thread is still alive.
The game reached the destination and after all those years i'm shocked by how reactive the controls are.
Most times when playing cinematic platforms you know animations will have a slight lag induced by the realistic animations, but HoD really put your reflexes to the test.

The nostalgia also skyrocketed, since for some strange reason i had a kinder brioss lying around which brought me back to my elementary school times.

>> No.1976826

>>1976786
>>1976802

1 star samefag

you are encouraged to go back to 9fag or wherever you came from

your exodus will improve the mean quality of the posts on this board, thank you for your cooperation

>> No.1978186

>>1976826
>9fag

>> No.1979104

>>1976813
What is a kinder brioss?

>> No.1979930

>>1968805
>dissapointed