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Old School Zelda / Final Fantasy tribute
« on: 2013-07-18, 21:04:40 »
For anyone that grew up with the gold NES cartridge for the original Zelda, and the real Final Fantasy games (1, 2 and 3, maybe even 7), you owe it to yourself to check out the game Evoland on steam.

It's a tribute to those games.  It's a cool concept.  Basically it starts out in monochrome and as you progress and find treasure chests you unlock 'game technology.'  For example, you find things like 256 color graphics, and 8 bit sound, and as you progress it gives you more and more modern features like inventories, until you finally wind up in a 3D HD adventure game.  It's short, and an indy game, but it's very inexpensive and a nice nostalgic tribute to the games that we used to love!

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Re: Old School Zelda / Final Fantasy tribute
« Reply #1 on: 2013-07-18, 21:17:20 »
That looks interesting! I grew up with the gold cartridge and, I believe, still have it. Same with Final Fantasy 1. I also went through the first and master quest of the original Zelda, first on NES, then on the Gamecube re-release, then again on PC emulator a while back (but did so with an XBox controller ;)).

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Re: Old School Zelda / Final Fantasy tribute
« Reply #2 on: 2013-07-19, 00:20:27 »
OK, that actually looks pretty awesome. I might have to grab that. Not sure when I'll get to play though. I have a TON of games waiting for me in Steam now, after the summer sale.

I bought Dragon Age: Origins, the Fallout series, and the whole Star Wars bundle (with KOTOR, Battlefront, Force Unleashed, etc).

Ah well, what's one more? :)

The stupid thing is, with all of this Steam downloading I did this week, I actually filled my disk. 1 TB doesn't go that far anymore. I had to (*gasp*) uninstall some older games. The shame!
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Re: Old School Zelda / Final Fantasy tribute
« Reply #3 on: 2013-07-19, 05:44:03 »
I have a TON of games waiting for me in Steam now, after the summer sale.

I posted a new thread with some links to medieval-themed games on sale for the steam summer sale. Feel free to go spend more money! :D
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Re: Old School Zelda / Final Fantasy tribute
« Reply #4 on: 2013-07-19, 13:20:58 »
Dragon Age: Origins surprised me- I enjoyed it much more than I thought it would.  Right up your alley there, Sir Edward- it is a pretty in-depth story driven RPG (lot of reading though, the voice acting in DA2 was well done altho some complained as is usual) that I played thru at least twice - just loved the world, the characters and story.  You might find the action elements a bit simplistic (pretty standard sword and board tactics, and they don't deviate) but it can get pretty hairy and I wasn't ever bored.
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« Reply #5 on: 2013-07-19, 15:01:08 »
Oh, and this game is on the Steam summer sale for only $4.99 too
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Re: Old School Zelda / Final Fantasy tribute
« Reply #6 on: 2013-07-19, 15:47:31 »
Dragon Age: Origins surprised me- I enjoyed it much more than I thought it would.  Right up your alley there, Sir Edward- it is a pretty in-depth story driven RPG (lot of reading though, the voice acting in DA2 was well done altho some complained as is usual) that I played thru at least twice - just loved the world, the characters and story.  You might find the action elements a bit simplistic (pretty standard sword and board tactics, and they don't deviate) but it can get pretty hairy and I wasn't ever bored.

Dragon Age: Origins is ranked up their as one of my favs.
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Re: Old School Zelda / Final Fantasy tribute
« Reply #7 on: 2013-07-19, 15:51:31 »
i saw that game but i was like eh...

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Re: Old School Zelda / Final Fantasy tribute
« Reply #8 on: 2013-07-19, 19:12:54 »
Dragon Age: Origins is a good modern effort at the classics like Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights etc... it doesn't disappoint.  Dragon Age 2 however... was a lousy console port.

Witcher 2 is better than both of them combined, also on Steam! :)
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Re: Old School Zelda / Final Fantasy tribute
« Reply #9 on: 2013-07-19, 19:58:40 »
Kinda lookin forward to the new Witcher coming out...looks beautiful at the least.
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« Reply #10 on: 2013-07-19, 21:58:53 »
Yes, The Witcher 3 looks absolutely stunning
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Re: Old School Zelda / Final Fantasy tribute
« Reply #11 on: 2013-07-20, 03:15:11 »

Mass Effect 4 and Dragon Age 3 are both in development now, and they're using a new engine for them, so hopefully it won't have that "bad console port" sort of feel to it.
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Re: Old School Zelda / Final Fantasy tribute
« Reply #12 on: 2013-09-03, 22:38:56 »
lord of the rings war in the north is very similar to dragon. I think its the same people. It is a very enjoyable game.
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