Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play

Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kids these days… Back in my day, we just turned on FF8 and spammed summons

  pre-teen me spamming Shiva.

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• 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We played Rez with the Trance Vibrator

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still have Rez and the official trance vibrator!

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• SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oooooh Shiva, you can be my ice queen any day

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• ButteryMonkey@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You missed out on the tomb raider demo disc that came with PlayStation magazine (probably issue 73 based on the fact I have it and I wasn’t subscribed very long while demo discs were a thing) Same era.

  If you went for a swim in the pool, and swam into the side, you’d not only get a constant intense vibration, you’d also get to see her swimming motion, and I don’t think it had breath mechanics yet (or at least she wouldn’t die in the demo zone), so you could take your time. Win win.

  There was also a vibration test in the menu if you just wanted no frills.

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• Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh God, I literally quit the game because the summons were so absurd. I feel I spent more time watching the same animations than I did playing the game.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    Bro you spammed limit breaks in that game, tell your kid self to git gud

    FF7 was the unrelenting Summon Fest once you got mimic and w-summon

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At least there was button tapping to power up so there was SOMETHING to do during the forever animations

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  • salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was obsessed with that game when it came out. Just played it again, and it’s actually pretty bad. Even without using summons at all, and with emulator fast-forward on most of the time, it’s almost unbearably slow and tedious.

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I imagine that’s a design consideration.- same with Ultima and other big spells. You get a big payoff after a big wind-up. It’s trying to telegraph that if you want speed you should build your party differently using junctions

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    • Sc00ter@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I forget which game, but it had two different durations of summon/cast. The first time was always the long one, then youd regularly get the short one, youd randomly “crit” and get the long one, which did more damage.

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    • fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      game designers be like: NO! REBUILD YOUR PARTY IF YOU DON’T LIKE SUMMON ANIMATIONS! WE WILL NOT PUT A SKIP BUTTON IN!!!

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      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        honestly I don’t hate it as a decision. there should be rewards for using all the mechanics well

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