Going Back, Old games you've gone back to Options

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

The talk about SSX Tricky made me want to go back a replay my copy (after not playing it for about two years). It's interesting how your perceptions of a game change. I still enjoy the game a lot though it's made me realize that Lucy Liu should not do voice acting unless she's playing herself. Elise's (her character) voice gets really annoying after a while.

So what about the rest of you? Ever went back to a game you haven't played in years?

[Meow Mix]

I wouldn't call it a very old game, but I still love my copy of Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg. I don't play video games much anymore, but that's one of the few I do play. Also, I'm amazingly kickass at it, despite abandoning it for almost 5 years in a box in my garage, thus forgetting the controls.

[Gamer-e]

There are a bunch of games I don't touch for long periods of time and eventually come back to unless I dislike/wasn't too interested in the game.

I don't think there are any games I haven't played in over a year and a half when I had the ability to do so (as in games lended out to friends don't count; That reminds me, I need to get my GC and copy of Tales of Symphonia back from a friend whose had them for probably 2 years now). The game I believe I've gone longest without playing is Animal Crossing.

This post has been edited by Gamer-e: Aug 13 2009, 08:16 PM

[Shmeckie]

I still play the NES Mega Man games on a semi-regular basis.

[Al_Cone]

Metal Gear Solid 2. I periodically chip away at the VR missions in the hope that I can someday finish them all.

I also recently replayed FFX. It was better than I remembered it, though maybe that's because I was so disappointed with FFXII.

Annnnd...I've beaten MGS3 at least seven times.

[Meow Mix]

A few years ago I picked Super Mario Sunshine back up - too bad now it's stuck in my old Wii that was friend by electrical storms. I can't get it out.

Also I've been playing Zelda: A Link to the Past on our SNES lately.

[Joker]

I usually hook up the old SNES once or twice a year, and spend a weekend going through the old games. A Link to the Past is always fun, and I can beat it in two or three days, and I usually go through Run Saber's 2 player mode with whichever friend I haven't played it with yet.

[Gamer-e]

Funny that I've never played through A Link to the Past. Actually, I haven't played through any 2D Legend of Zelda game outside of The Minish Cap and Four Swords Adventure. I have played Oracle of Seasons, but that was long ago and at that time, I sucked too badly to accomplish much. For some reason, I really liked going to the Dark World (or whatever it was called in that game).

[Meow Mix]

Reminds me that I just have to beat Vaati's third form to beat Minish Cap. His first two are easy, but I'm rather close to beating it. As for Link to the Past, we all have a family file, and we just need the last crystal.

Also with Billy Hatcher, I just have to beat Dark Raven (which I once came close to before dying) in order to win. What it is with me not finishing games, I do not know.

[Gamer-e]

The thing that got me in The Minish Cap is that you really are being timed when you have to go through those three rooms to save Zelda. One time, I was taking way too long to get through the room with the three Darknuts (who are very annoying in this game, especially the stronger ones and those with shields) and got a game over. I honestly thought this was one of those moments where something terrible was going to happen, but I'd always arrive to prevent it just as it was about to happen no matter how long it takes me to do so. One of the reasons I thought that is because the bell rang every time you went into a new room. It wasn't until after I got a game over that way that I realized that the bell would ring earlier if I took too long in any room. They could've put a timer somewhere onscreen...

Oh, and I just remembered that Dark Hyrule Castle is probably my favorite final area in any Zelda game I've played, period. Not only is it much longer and cooler looking that the others, but the music is awesome (nice remix of the King of Hyrule's theme from Wind Waker) and the place, in my opinion, is much more difficult to get through both because the puzzles are more difficult and the enemies were tougher to get past. It also managed to give off an eerie feeling the first time I went there, too.

This post has been edited by Gamer-e: Aug 14 2009, 12:19 AM

[Shmeckie]

The king's theme is, itself, a remix of the Hyrule Castle theme from LttP.

[Al_Cone]

The king's theme is, itself, a remix of the Hyrule Castle theme from LttP.

But it's more of a remix of the Mushroom Kingdom theme from Mario RPG.

Lolpuns. Anyway, I also go and replay Resident Evil 4 when the mood strikes me. Starcraft is an old favorite of mine, and so is Jedi Outcast.

[The Two-One-Five]

Bomberman, Megaman X, and Super Metroid. Oh, and Super Mario World. That's always a fun Game for some reason.

[NiGHTS Noob]

You mentioned Super Mario World

InbeforeMarxgoesallSMB3gasm.

So I've been replaying Yggdra Union since I just picked up the PSP remake. Damn I don't remember it this tough.

[Gamer-e]

InbeforeMarxgoesallSMB3gasm.

Too late. I already did when making my first post, but I decided that just about everyone knew about my love for that game and decided to not talk about how I feel that it's superior to SMW.

I don't dislike SMW, though. I just don't find myself playing it nearly as often as I do SMB3. In fact, I can't even remember the last time I played the actual SMW; Most of the time, it's been either good (haha!) or very, very bad (either because the creator is a shitty level designer/12/is intentionally being a total bastard, as in Kaizo's case) ROM hacks. With SMB3, however, I alternate between the actual game and Mario Adventure, though the reason I don't play many hacks of SMB3 is because they're so rare (which saddens me). SMW hacks, on the other hand, are so damned common that the fans went and created a website for the sole purpose of hosting the IPS's for the game among other things involving hacking. They used to have a Wiki, too, but that's been gone for a while.

Anyway, like I was saying, SMW gets kinda boring after a while. One time, maybe one or two years ago, I decided to play through every level in SMB3 and SMW. I did SMB3 first and was able to finish, but when I got to SMW, I got bored after making it to sometime after beating Bowser (I made it to him the normal way, not cheating via Star Road) and I think I ended up moving onto Super Demo World: The Legend Continues.

[Meow Mix]

Reminds me, I'm sad and have beaten every level in SMW. Even after getting through all the bonus stages and turning all the Koopas into Marios.

[Badass Overlord]

I still have my Gamegear, and my first Gameboy. I have a ton of old games, too. I still play Mischief Makers from time to time. I like SMW as well, I've beaten every level too. At least three times in my childhood.

I have the horrible game known as Mario is Missing. Goddamn is it terrible. I didn't even know what to do at certain points. I did like the music though.

[Master of AFTER]

I play through about half of the games in my SNES collection on a semi-regular basis, and just recently I had to satisfy this strange, sudden urge to play Super Mario 64. I've been putting some time into that game almost every day for about a week now... This is after a similarly impulsive desire to go through Pokémon Blue for the GameBoy again, even though I haven't played or seriously thought about a Pokémon game in north of six or seven years.

I think I've finally gotten so sick of my life that I'm subconsciously trying to go back in time to the last point where I remember feeling genuinely happy, which would probably be about the time when these games were first coming out. Now that I think about it, I believe this goes a lot deeper than merely being a wanting for brief periods of nostalgic indulgence. I currently have so few connections with anything from the past due to friends moving away and pets dying and childhood hangouts being demolished and everything changing so drastically that these video games are one of the few tangible links I have to my childhood that remain completely unchanged from the way I remember them. By playing these games now, I'm providing myself with a way to temporarily escape into my memories of a time when I felt more secure and relaxed, thus ending my present cycle of constantly dreading the future (if only for a couple hours at a time).
^ Random, probably-bullshit psychobabble left here for my own reference. Please ignore.

[Valkyrie]

I just went back to playing Lineage 2. But my roommate always uses the PC so I can't always play it and use the PS3 instead. Other than Blazblue and Soul Calibur 4, I've been playing Heavenly Sword again. Good game if you ask me, short as fuck though.

[T_K_17]

After reading this thread I decided to look through some of my old PS1 games. It took only a few minutes before I realized how much I had gotten used to using the right analog stick for camera control. Disruptor is near impossible without it.

Also, if you have a PSN ID Valkyrie, would you mind sharing it with us?