Your Pleasant SURPRISES in games? [Archive]

musical

07-29-2004, 11:28 AM

I was surprised to hear Zelda Ocarina of Time in surround sound! No I'm not kidding. Depending on how I moved, I could hear water directly behind me -or- in front -or- to the side. I was impressed that they tried surround sound on a cart-based console.

MarioAllStar2600

07-29-2004, 12:26 PM

Ok my follow up to that is does the compilation disc (GC) have surrond sound for that game? :hmm:

Half Japanese

07-29-2004, 12:53 PM

I would assume the only kind of "surround" you would get with it would be Dolby Pro Logic or Pro Logic II, since those are pretty much the only types you can do with the red and white RCA cables the N64 hooks up with.

musical

07-30-2004, 07:31 PM

I would assume the only kind of "surround" you would get with it would be Dolby Pro Logic or Pro Logic II

Of course. Dolby Pro Logic encodes the surround sound into only two channels, and then later decodes it into 3 channels (right/left/rear). It was originally used for movies and later videotapes.

I'm just surprised that the N64 programmers took the time to include forward-backward aural effects in the Zelda cart!

bluberry

07-30-2004, 11:10 PM

Nez

07-30-2004, 11:26 PM

Hmm I'm working on harmony and haven't goten to the second castle yet. :(
Oh well I like the fact that you can use genisis controllers on the SMS, so now I don't have to use that crap pad. :D

kai123

07-31-2004, 03:57 AM

Spoilers for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Harmony of Dissonance.

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I loved the second castle. I never saw it coming, and exploring it was a blast. The second castle in Harmony, though, just sucked.

Please stop spamming the boards and trying to derail threads.

Anyway yea Ocarina of Time sounds great with a good sound setup. If I want to listen to it like that I have to haul all my 64 stuff to another room. Damn I'm lazy. LOL

Daria

07-31-2004, 04:29 AM

Please stop spamming the boards and trying to derail threads.

What the hell I thought this topic was about pleasant surprises we've encounter with video games. His reply was on topic. Not to mention you're not a mod.

Anyway mine would actually be a rom story. A friend of mine decided to send me copies of all his Sega CD and Turbo Grafix games. They sat on the shelf untouched for months because I really didn't feel like trying to figure out how to play them in gens (or buy a trubografix emu) one day I was playing Shining Dorce CD on my Sega CD when on a whim I poped popful Mail into the system. I honestly never expected it to play and was very surprised when it booted right up. That night I played Sega CD games like it was Christmas.

musical

07-31-2004, 07:06 AM

SURPRISE:

Discovering that Pitfall 2 - Atari 5200 actually has a SECOND adventure! (No I still haven't beat it...growl...grumble... it's so hard!)

suppafly

07-31-2004, 01:00 PM

the ending on starfox and lightening force. Great endings for shooter games!

The Great Dane

07-31-2004, 01:35 PM

I would have to say that my biggest surprise from a video game was when I very first played Suikoden 1 back when it had first came out. At the time I hated rpgs. I never touched them. And even the thought of them made me sick (okay, maybe it wasn't that bad, but close enough :P ). But one day at Blockbuster I thought I would at least give an rpg a shot. And so the first one I found was for the new system I had just bought (obviously the PS1), and that was Suikoden. And oddly enough that turned out being the greatest game I had ever played. Because of that game I now have a new open-minded outlook on video games. I at least give games a shot now before saying that they suck before I even try them (I was actually in an argument about something like this with this guy, who is close-minded to just about everything, just the other day).

Anyway, that is my story :)

Cmosfm

07-31-2004, 02:13 PM

Spoilers for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Harmony of Dissonance.

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I loved the second castle. I never saw it coming, and exploring it was a blast. The second castle in Harmony, though, just sucked.

Please stop spamming the boards and trying to derail threads.

Yeah, explain yourself, he was very much on topic due to the PLEASANT SURPRISE of a second castle in SotN. If he's spamming then your spamming as well.

Azazel

07-31-2004, 02:20 PM

Spoilers for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Harmony of Dissonance.

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I loved the second castle. I never saw it coming, and exploring it was a blast. The second castle in Harmony, though, just sucked.

I'll agree with you about both of those although I didn't think Harmony was that bad. I also liked the multiple routes in castlevania 3 and Rondo of Blood.

bluberry

07-31-2004, 02:24 PM

I'd post something in my defense, but then I realized how crazy that was, so then I was going to post a random picture that implies "WTF", but then that would be considered off topic, and then it'd go insane.

So instead, I'll just say that I also found it a nice surprise in Donkey Kong 64 when you got to play the arcade Donkey Kong, and that Jetpack game.

~~~ever so slightly off topic, so... uh... yeah~~~

Oh, and I thought HoD's second castle was rather lame since it was just visually different with new enemies, as opposed to how the second castle in SotN was different enough to really feel... new. Even though it was just upside down.

EnemyZero

07-31-2004, 02:32 PM

Going back when Saturn was released, and I recieved Three Dirty Dwarves for x-mas by my grandmother. When I beat it...the ending cut scene....first video game I ever played that had a swear word in it. I just stared at the screen for a while as my mom yelled at me for playing such trash lol

Spartacus

07-31-2004, 05:58 PM

There's a part in 'Metal Arms: A Glitch in the System' where one of the NPC's let's loose with a string of F-bombs. It WAS bleeped, but in such a way that you didn't need to use any imagination that the F word was being used. For the type of game it is, I was pleasantly suprised.
A week or two previously I heard some pretty salty language coming from another room. I got up to check it out and found my wife had just started 'Shadow Man' on the N64. The N64! I would never thought that kind of language would be heard on that system. And even though she ditched the game pretty much right after the intro, the little bit that I saw looked damn good to me. I remembered I had picked up a copy of 'Shadow Man' for the Dreamcast as well, and instantly made a mental note to myself. Play this, play it on the Dreamcast, and DON'T forget!
I guess I'm pleasantly suprised by any cursing in a video game. I know I like it anyway.

Jasoco

07-31-2004, 08:54 PM

Buying Vexx because it was $5, and finding out how kick-ass it was.

Buying Serious Sam on a whim and getting introduced to my long dream come true FPS. Finally.. a no-brainer FPS that doesn't quit even when you want it to.

Spending $50 for Four Swords Adventures and finding out it was a very decent real Zelda game. Not some thrown together LttP remix.

Beyond Good and Evil.. finding out it was nothing like what I had in mind. It was so much more.

Same for Max Payne.. I never thought I'd love bullet-time this much but these games kick serious booty.

Push Upstairs

08-01-2004, 03:15 AM

Playing "Power Stone 2".

It is pleasant because prior to buying this game and playing it i was in a serious "why did i buy this system" train of thought.

The Dreamcast was the first system bought without having any idea of what games i wanted for it.

The other moment (probably more like a "blown away" moment) was when playing the one of the pinball boards in "Sonic Adventure". When sonic goes around the edge of the table i kept using the flippers and realized that they still moved in the background as the camera followed Sonic :eek 2:

TEXASGAMEPLAYER

08-01-2004, 07:18 PM

ARE YOU SURE? Someone said that you can use genesis controllers on the master system. Is this true and doees it matter if it is 3 or 6 button controllers? THAT would be a most pleasant suprise for me, no more looking for factory sealed ms controllers. YAY!!!

Jasoco

08-02-2004, 03:21 PM

adaml

08-03-2004, 10:38 PM

A pleasant surprise...discovering that Ikari Warriors for the NES actually had an ending. Like everyone else back then, I thought once you got to the desk at the end of Level 3 and killed the guy, that was pretty much it. I don't even remember how I found out that you could throw a grenade at the corner of the desk to open up a stairway to Level 4. How would anyone know to do something like that?? Kind of like ducking down with the crystal in Simon's Quest.

The unpleasant part was having to play all the way through Ikari again just to get to that part again. What a looooooooong game.

ubersaurus

08-04-2004, 12:13 AM

Finding Earth for the first time in Starflight was definitely a geektastic moment for me.

Unlocking Mr. G&W in SSBM was awesome too, even though he wasn't very good, he was an awesome character idea. Other sweet surprises-Aeris getting owned in FF7. Man she sucked :evil: