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4326165 No.4326165 [Reply] [Original]

>save system doesn't remember how many lives you had

>> No.4326186

I remember when I was a kid and got a SNES for a birthday present, which was my first console. I spent one morning before school stocking up on lives in Super Mario World so when I got home I'd have plenty to work with.

Was annoyed when I fired up SMW that afternoon...

>> No.4326196
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>console game
>has a high score list with happy bgm and everything
>doesn't save after power off
that always made me kinda sad

>> No.4326202
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>Save system keeps track of everything, including how many times you've saved

>> No.4326227
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>>4326202
>you get a special item if you beat the game without saving
>it's a 60+ hour rpg

>> No.4326230

>>4326227
What game?

>> No.4326268

>Saving is a magic spell you don't learn until you level up quite a bit into the game

>> No.4326282

>>4326268
Could be worse. Imagine speccing out of being able to save.

>> No.4326329
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You may as well start over each time

>> No.4326334

>password system only brings you to the level you were at
>doesn't save key items, weapons, or ammo

additionally
>game is harder with two players

>> No.4326362

>>4326227
not as bad as getting a special item/weapon/cheat for beating the game on the hardest difficulty

literally makes the whole unlock pointless

>> No.4326836
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>>4326165
>Continue game with password
>Far enough in the game that you have several energy tanks
>everytime you continue you start with only 30 hp and have to grind for like 20 minutes to fill up all the tanks again
Hated that so much

>> No.4326851

>saving makes you lose a life

>> No.4326854

>>4326851
>saving costs exp
Hello Lunar 2.

>> No.4326891

>>4326165
Fuck Bomberman

>get to the boss
>die once
>lose all power ups so now you have to get close, which results in more deaths

>> No.4326895

>>4326334
Yeah, fuck all the games that let Player 1 and Player 2 hurt each other when they're supposed to be cooperating.

>> No.4327045

>>4326891
This is why I stopped playing the single player campaigns of the Super Bomberman games.
Would have loved to play multiplayer instead but nobody in my area still plays Bomberman, let alone regularly.

>> No.4327047

>>4326851
Omikron reporting in

>> No.4327219

>>4326836
Just don't get hit.

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4327285

>game has high score list
>has a bunch of random pre-loaded scores
>they're incredibly hard to beat

WHY

>> No.4327287

>>4327285
to add on
>these alleged high scores have been achieved by a group of individuals with extremely generic names

or

>has a bunch of random pre-loaded scores
>they're incredibly hard to beat
>they're all by a guy named mike or scott

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>>4327285

>Game has a pre-adjusted high score list
>Has some kind of secret message going

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4327585

>JRPG
>battle system improves on the turn-based combat formula
>fun niche to make it interesting
>random battles every 5 steps

>> No.4327608

>save takes up most of the memory card

>> No.4327681

>Saving costs gold

>> No.4327682

>>4327585
WE ARE REALLY PROUD OF OUR BATTLE SYSTEM..

>> No.4327731

>>4326362
>the best weapon/equip drops from the final boss
bonus points if there's no NG+

>> No.4327747 [DELETED] 

newfag from last thread
can I get multiple PK3 files to work with one another, and how so if yes

>> No.4327863

>>4326334
Yeah Zombies Ate My Neighbors is great

>> No.4328564

>>4327681
For all the praise Donkey Kong Country 2 gets, this has got to be one of its biggest flaws.

>> No.4329807

>>4326227
Name two (1) games that do this.

>> No.4329816
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>>4326895
Eh. I find it adds to SOR1 and 2. Makes you manouver around each other and communicate, instead of just forming the invincible Punchblob.

I haven't played loads of beat em ups, so I dunno if it's super shitty in many others

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4329847

"HEARD YOU NIGGAS WERE TALKING ABOUT SHITTY SAVE SYSTEMS; HOW ABOUT THIS FUCKIN USELESS PASSWORD SYSTEM?!

>> No.4330031

Life systems that bother me sometimes are the ones on games with unlimited continues and save systems where if you have less than the base number of lives is easier to just kill yourself to game over to reset the counter since you don't lose anything by doing it. Why not just reset the counter once you get into the stage select?
>>4328564
It doesn't detract that much, since banana coins aren't that hard to get.

>> No.4330057

>the game was coded like shit and extra lives roll over to 0 if you collect more than 9 of them

>> No.4330059

>>4327863

I still love it, but for the single player experience only

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>>4326202
>tracks your death count

>> No.4330720

>>4330031
>Fuck up on early part of Mega Man
>Sent back to start of level

Might as well kill myself twice more then.

>> No.4330753

>refills are difficult to avoid and can be collected regardless of health/ammo status
>find yourself needing said refills later but they were already collected

>> No.4330765

>>4330031
>Life systems that bother me sometimes are the ones on games with unlimited continues and save systems where if you have less than the base number of lives is easier to just kill yourself to game over to reset the counter since you don't lose anything by doing it. Why not just reset the counter once you get into the stage select?

muh 1cc

>> No.4330783

>>4329807
Not the guy who mentioned it and not a retro game, but Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter has this New game+ system that increases your rank based on how well you did on your playthrough. Having a higher rank unlocks new areas with chests.
Then, every single time you save, it reduces this score. So a perfect play requires 0 saves.

>> No.4330818

>>4327585
Most of the time this kind of system is wasted by the game not having the balls to actually challenge the player

>> No.4330819

>>4330783
Isn't Dragon Quarter meant to be like a 5 hour game though

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>>4326836
>last number in the password is equal to how many extra lives you start with

>> No.4330836

>>4327585
Not retro but goddamn I hate Digital Devil Saga for doing this shit. Press turns and demon transformation are both fun and interesting, random battles every ten steps is not. And the dungeons are so fucking long, too. Makes you start running away from battles just because you don't want to have to slog through them.

To provide a retro example of a fun battle system that gets really tedious really fast, Skies of Arcadia's ship battles are really cool, but waiting for thirty seconds every move for the ship to swing around and get into position gets really dull.

>>4327608
Animal Crossing for Gamecube came packaged with a memory card specifically for the game, which it took up completely. Although it also came with a cute sticker to put on the card.

Kinda makes me wonder how the N64 version did it.