Jispylicious

I always theorized Blackthorne was in the Warcraft universe, because a lot of the enemies were very Warcraft orc-like. Also, heads up: there's a compilation called "Blizzard Arcade Hits" or something like that which includes all console versions of Blackthorne, and other older Blizzard games like Lost Vikings and Rock n' Roll Racing.

Blizzard is mostly known for Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo but before they conquered the hearts of gamers in the 90s there was Blackthorne - one of Blizzard’s earliest games, often forgotten in the studio’s history. Blackthorne (called Blackhawk in some countries), released in 1994, is a platformer similar to Flashback, Another World, and Prince of Persia. You collect keys and items to unlock doors, activate bridges and pathways, and blast enemies while navigating maze-like levels. Along the way, you can upgrade your weapon to make it more powerful and faster-firing. You interact with NPCs for hints as the story progresses. The player character’s name, Kyle, was apparently inspired by Kyle Reese from the first Terminator movie (1984) - a nice nod to one of the best films of all time.

@TheKingerdYT It depends on what you're criticizing. If you're only talking about story and character stuff? Ok. If you're talking gameplay? Yes, play the game or STFU.

it’s time to have the hard conversation that people who do not play a game simply do not have valuable opinions on said game. Can you imagine taking your drunk uncle seriously about how easy football is if all he’s ever done is watch it on TV?

@RealGameVault I actually had to keep using it until just recently--on a Linux laptop I had a few years ago it was the only emulator that worked.

Do you remember ZSNES?

@inkfycreates Now that I've done my soapbox... as someone who only knows Final Fantasy XIII thanks to @TheSpoonyOne 's review from a long time ago... what IS with the dongly things? And why did the Fal'cie use vague focuses when they could just talk?

I argue the issue isn't the linearity. If anything, it's predecessors were even more linear like X. The issue is that those paths getting to the next story beats aren't as fulfilling, in my opinion. It makes those "hallways" break the illusion.

I agree. Mind if I get on my soapbox a bit? One problem I have with a lot of gaming discourse nowadays is a lot of people tend to have simple-minded views. "This game was bad, the problem was X." Or we have cases like the guy a few days ago who said "no open world game was ever good." What happens is, these things become common, and people see them in a lot of bad games, and assume the common factor must itself be bad. Open world becomes common, a lot of bad open world games result, people say Open World is automatically bad. Linear becomes common, a lot of bad linear games come out, so people say linear games are bad. That's just dumb though. By that logic, there's plenty of games that have jumping that have also not been good. Should no game ever have jumping, then? Sure, Final Fantasy XIII had problems, but then games like Chrono Trigger, Earthbound and Final Fantasy VI show linearity is not a death knell. Sure, Ubisoft makes a lot of badly-designed slop, but there's also been games like Might and Magic, Ultima IV, or Oblivion that show Open World is not a dead-end. A feature not working should be blamed on either devs or executives, not on the feature itself.

@VGMaps I never understood why the planet would have to be donut-shaped for this to work.

Since people are talking about "glazing" Chrono Trigger, and thinking about donuts, I thought I'd share this .GIF (I forgot the source)... In a typical RPG world where one loops east-west but ALSO somehow north-south, the world would have to be a donut shape for that to work.

@PixelCNinja Defender had five buttons? What were they used for?

The 1981 classic Defender was notoriously difficult, requiring a joystick and five separate buttons, which made it one of the most intimidating cabinets in any arcade.

@sakayu_sfc This is also still the only Ys game that does not have a modern remake. Ys III got Oath in Felghana, Ys IV got Memories of Celceta, Ys I and II got Eternal Edition. Where is Ys V's remake?

"Ys V Expert" marked 30th anniversary!🎖️ スーファミの「イースV エキスパート」は1996年3月22日の発売で、30周年でした✨ 3ヶ月も経たずにアップデート?されたイースV。本編はほとんど同じなので当時でも割高感はあったでしょう。今はもっと立派なお値段ですけど😅 #イース #Ys

@Karu_gamo Wanna see something REALLY shocking? youtu.be/MEvF5cWMdVw

ダブルドラゴンは、本当に衝撃的なゲームでしたね。次々とデカイ敵が現れて、ハデなアクションをバンバン繰り広げる。しかも2人同時プレイができたので、友人と一緒に暴れられる。勢い余って同士討ちもしちゃったり…時代を塗り替えた傑作でした

@thejolson I have a friend who grew up with the Gamecube and even he thought Chrono Trigger was one of the best RPGs he ever played. It's not a "you had to be there" thing. Some people will like it, some won't. No game is for everyone.

I kind of get it. It’s aged really well relative to when it released but what was groundbreaking 30 years ago doesn’t stand out as much today It’s still one of my favorite games ever but I can understand how if someone played it for the first time today they may not get it

@sionic4029 Not just the Famicom but even before that. So often I wish more of gaming history had been documented. We need it now more than ever. My worst fear is revisionist history. We already have a lot of that in gaming. A history that is forgotten is a history easily rewritten.

わかりきったことではあるのだけれども、40年も経つとファミコン全盛期のクリエイターが鬼籍に入っていくのも当然で、当時のビデオゲーム・テレビゲーム開発の実情を記録していかないと失伝になってしまうのだな…

@romodanowski @JoshuaMFrench @Nintendo @RinoTheBouncer @SuperSisi @techittothemax @GiddyOnGaming @ColonelFalcon @FrappMocha @ReddMcKnight @GamewithDave @christinarose_e I think it's north of Amn 2. Or probably west, since it's in the shadows, but that would depend on if its a morning shadow or a night one.

@JoshuaMFrench @Nintendo @RinoTheBouncer @SuperSisi @techittothemax @GiddyOnGaming @ColonelFalcon @FrappMocha @ReddMcKnight @GamewithDave @christinarose_e Where’s Baldur’s Gate 2?

From a relatively objective critical standpoint (not just personal favorites), these could be the Top 50 greatest video games ever made.

On a more serious note, there is no such thing as a "completely objective list" of greatest games of all time. It is always going to come down to personal taste. I always see this whenever recent games are included. It's not that modern games are bad or anything like that, its just that a lot of times a modern inclusion is a current flash-in-the-pan favorite that has not proved its staying power. I guarantee if you remake this list (or image, rather) in five years, a lot of your choices will have changed and it will likely be the more recent titles.

@k_k_venom Awesome! But I repeat, please read the novels too! You have only just taken your first step into a wider world.

#ロード・オブ・ザ・リング 3部作完走したよー🙌 壮大で美しい世界観で、25年前の作品とは思えない完成度。 誰もが自分の利益のためでなく、世界のために命懸けで戦っていて尊い🥲 特にフロドを支えるサムの頑張りに感動でした 最後の指輪を捨てるシーン、当然だけど一筋縄ではいかなくて面白かった！

@JoshuaMFrench @Nintendo @RinoTheBouncer @SuperSisi @techittothemax @GiddyOnGaming @ColonelFalcon @FrappMocha @ReddMcKnight @GamewithDave @christinarose_e No PC-Engine games? List disqualified!

@ZOG_SLOP @revenant_MMXX The very first Diablo had randomized dungeons, that's how its Roguelite.

@revenant_MMXX How is Diablo a roguelite? Seems to be a basic rpg with real time combat

Roguelikes, or more accurately, "roguelites" as we know them have been around a lot longer than many people seem to realize.

"Populist" I can see but I don't see how its anti-science and anti-intellectual. I mean, science works by seeing if they can replicate things, so they doubt what they hear all the damn time. And an intellectual would indeed be questioning rather than just believing everything they're told.

@jispylicious @PAHoyeck That 1st paragraph is kind of the opposite of elitist, in that it's populist, anti-scientific and anti-intellectual. "I wasn't there in person so how do I know it happened" is what people use to spread misinformation & conspiracy lies like Holocaust denial etc.

What's everyone's most elitist opinion?

I honestly don't think baby orcs existed. Aren't all orcs just corrupted elves or something? So the babies would presumably just be elves. Indeed Tolkien apparently wrestled with this question of what an "orc" actually is and at one point considered it more a mindset than an actual race.

@fandompulse GRRM is everything that is wrong with modern men. Yes, George, Aragorn exterminated the orcs. Even the baby orcs on their orc cribs. Because they were an abomination. A corruption that threatened everything good. Now fuck off, you moral equivocating coward.

George R.R. Martin explains how his Game of Thrones characters wielding power badly is his answer to Tolkien: "Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles? Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with. Just being a good guy was not the answer. You had to make hard, hard decisions. Sometimes what seemed to be a good decision turned around and bit you in the ass; it was the law of unintended consequences. I’ve tried to get at some of these in my books. My people who are trying to rule don’t have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn’t make you a wise king." What do you think Tolkien would have thought about such comments?

@ComuDoMega War in Middle Earth. Thanks to it (and the Bakshi LOTR movie) I wound up reading the books and this wound up being a watershed moment that followed me all my life.

Os videogames, como conhecemos, tem aí os seus quase 55 anos de existência e de muita história boa, e ruim, para contar. Neste período tivemos dezenas de milhares lançados para diversos sistemas! A pergunta que eu deixo: Quais foram os jogos que mais marcaram vocês até hoje?

@arianred128 ... (continue from previous post) which in America is a classic, but it wasn't loved in Japan and I've heard that's because the translation for the Famicom version made the game impossible to understand. Did you ever play that?

@jispylicious 情報交換して、ともすれば意地悪な謎を解いていくというスタイルは、日本では熱狂していましたが、そもそも数が普及していなくて、一般的に広まっていないと、情報交換する相手もいなくて、難しいですね☺ 存在を知っていてくれてありがとうございます！

ミズパックマン☺ これも好きだった！ NAMCOのゲーム、パックマンが海外で人気だったのは知ってるけど、他の作品ってどうだったんだろう❓ ドルアーガの塔とかワルキューレの伝説とか、ゼビウスとか！当時の情勢が気になる😂