Grail_Quest

Grail_Quest

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Re: Xbox Thought Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2, Bayonetta 3, And Metroid Prime 4 Would Come Out In 2020

Grail_Quest

My post was much more thoughtful and constructive than "I had sushi there once."

But you're right, we don't need politics introduced here, so I'll amend my comment.

Sadly, Seattle is a wasteland of homeless people, heroin addicts, crime, human waste and rampant disease. It is unfortunate that the city and state leaders there have caused the degradation of what once was such a beautiful city, it was called "The jewel of the Northwest."

No political parties/philosophies mentioned, so no lives shattered, right?

Re: Talking Point: Do You Miss Instruction Manuals?

Grail_Quest

I really miss them. You are spot on with your comments about the glory of anticipation, reading through the manual on the car ride home and such. There is a home video of me and my two brothers visiting the easter bunny in the mall in like 1990 or something. In it you can see my brothers smiling and interacting with good old Peter Cottontail, but if you look past them you see me, off to the side, opening a copy of Gauntlet for the NES that we had just purchased in the mall, and reverently leafing through each page of the instruction manual with a look of rapture on my face, because I COULD NOT WAIT to get home before experiencing it.

Even years later, at 18, I remember hitting up the mall with family as I visited them on leave from the Air Force. I picked up Quest 64 and even though I was afraid of warping or creasing the manual, I just had to read through it on the car ride home.

The fact that those memories are still vivid 20 or 30 years later just goes to show how important the manual was to the experience of buying a new game.

In those days you knew that a Nintendo game was a premium purchase, a cut above the rest and a big part of that feeling were the thick, glossy, full color manuals when the second rate developers only gave you chintzy 5 page black and white leaflets. When you bought Nintendo, you were buying the BMW or Audi of the gaming world.

Even to this day, there is a little, helpless moment of disappointment when I open a new game only to be greeted by empty space or a single two sided instruction sheet.

Re: Review: SaGa Frontier Remastered - A Cracking Update Of An Infuriating Cult Classic

Grail_Quest

I have waited so long for this. This was my first SaGa game, and the title that made me fall in love with the franchise. Amazing freedom of exploration and character progression, fun battle and magic systems, phenomenal soundtrack by Kenji Ito, cool story with intertwining character arcs, a rich world brought to life through inspired art design... I love this game. It is a fresh, revitalizing breeze in a world of stagnant, cookie cutter RPG's.

Re: Feature: Zelda: The Wind Waker Proved We Don't Always Know What We Wantļ»æ

Grail_Quest

But sometimes, we do know what we want. Wind Waker ended up being a great game with a living, breathing world that was a joy to experience (except sailing) and I love it (even though Link and Celda are ugly as hell), but at that time I would rather have had that gritty Space World Zelda. The disappointment with the game didn't stem from a cartoony looking Zelda. Most fans, (including myself) would have embraced that. It was the rug that was pulled out from under us by showcasing badass, dark Zelda only to reveal light, airy football head Zelda. That 'subversion of expectations' was a sucker punch alot of fans had trouble letting go of.

Re: Sega Wants To Know How It Can 'Enhance Your Gaming Experiences'

Grail_Quest

It warms my heart to see so many requests for classic dormant franchises requested. My two requests:

1) Get back into hardware design and manufacture. We need a new Sega console!

2) Take advantage of their vast IP library. Bring us Shining, Golden Axe, Phantasy Star, Panzer Dragoon etc. Join up with the original developers or competent dev teams if necessary, but make it happen!

Re: Narrative Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Game Sorcery! Gets A Switch Release This Year

Grail_Quest

@Rambler I absolutely loved all these series as a kid! Sorcery, Lone Wolf, Grail Quest, even the D&D Endless Quest series! I have a pretty good collection going, but these are hard to find in the states.

There is a videogame based on the Lone Wolf books and I believe it is available for Switch. In fact, I believe today is the day I buy it. This article has reminded me of my love for these properties.