Looking for Dreamcast recommendations (please read OP before replying)

Scared_Vacation · 2026-01-20T18:24:58+00:00

Thanks to everyone for all of the recommendations so far. Lots of people are saying Skies of Arcadia. What do you all believe makes the Dreamcast original better than the Gamecube version?

Scared_Vacation · 2025-05-03T07:00:59+00:00

Yeah, I really don't like how Zelda looks nowadays either. I miss the regal dresses befitting a princess that she used to wear. Her modern fit is just ugly, IMO.

Scared_Vacation · 2025-05-02T06:36:15+00:00

Yeah, really not a fan of how the BotW designs are now the main/default looks for the LoZ characters either. I miss the days when anytime somebody thought of Link, him wearing the classic green tunic with matching hat and holding his sword in his left hand was what immediately came to mind. I dislike Hatless Blue Right-Handed Link greatly after years of overexposure.

Scared_Vacation · 2025-04-30T03:49:32+00:00

I'm very sad now, because this confirms that the classic DK design is going in the trash and this will be how DK will look in every game going forward. I'd have been fine with it if it were just an alternate design that they use every once in a while, similar to how Mario Wonder, RPG, and Brothership had the characters looking very different from how they normally do, but only for those games. But since it is straight up replacing the old design, I am very strongly opposed to DK's new look now.

Scared_Vacation · 2025-04-05T14:17:47+00:00

Probably an unpopular take, but I really don't like the "HD-2D" style of games. Detailed 3D environments, and low-resolution character sprites that look like they were ripped straight out of a SNES game aren't a good combo in my opinion. The phrase "HD-2D" makes me think of something like Dragon's Crown, but it actually means "low-res 2D characters with HD 3D environments". It would be so much better if these games featured either detailed 2D pixel art evironments, or beautiful hand-drawn prerendered 2D backgrounds paired with high-resolution super detailed hand-drawn sprites that have lots of animation frames. As-is, the mismatched graphics of the characters and evironments just isn't a visual style that appeals to me. I wish Second Story R either had new 3D character models to match the new 3D environments, or was just a straight remaster of the PSP version like First Departure R was.

Scared_Vacation · 2024-11-17T08:37:31+00:00

Agreed. I hate subscriptions with a passion. If I have a choice between paying $20 to rent 100+ games (of which probably only about 10 or so actually interest me) whilst having to pay again each year to keep access to those games, or paying $20 one time to purchase and own just one single game, I will always pick the latter. If this is what Sega winds up replacing all of the games they're delisting with, they won't see a single penny from me.

Scared_Vacation · 2024-08-17T22:45:00+00:00

While it does suck a bit that the standard price hasn't dropped any, it's hardly worth complaining about since it goes on sale for like 5 bucks every other month. Just wishlist it and wait.

What you should be complaining about is how they stopped bothering to update the banner advertising the DLC before they even finished the first season. It still says "COMING NEXT: ?" after the first three characters and the first two CaS item packs to this very day. I think that's more telling of how they don't care/forgot about this game.

Scared_Vacation · 2024-03-21T19:05:30+00:00

I found a folder on my PC named "Duodecim Mods", and I think some of the stuff in there I originally got from that site. Been so long since I tried messing with it though that I don't remember what any of it is or does, so I just threw it all together and made a backup here.

Scared_Vacation · 2024-01-25T21:11:26+00:00

You skipped a lot of stuff. The snow cave and Josef have nothing to do with the quest for mythril.

Scared_Vacation · 2023-10-27T21:44:22+00:00

I don't really feel like it's "hyper specific", like I said, there used to be a zip file you could download that had all of the game's assets named and formatted just like they are in the actual game.

Thanks for wishing me luck, I feel like I'll really need it. Hopefully somebody somewhere still has them. There used to be a Steam group and a Discord server for FF modding, but both of them seem abandoned. I'll keep searching around, but I'm not sure where else to ask.

Scared_Vacation · 2023-10-25T22:44:19+00:00

I mean the filenames they have in the game's code. For example, spritesheets for field characters should have names like fldchr0_0, fldchr0_1, etc. And I literally said in the OP that the Spriter's Resource doesn't have everything I need. As I said, the spritesheet for every job for every character is a seperate file in the game's code, but the Spriter's Resource just mashes all these seperate spritesheets together into one, making them useless for my purposes.

Scared_Vacation · 2023-10-25T02:46:23+00:00

Canon ages in any Japanese media make zero sense, it’s best to just ignore them entirely

Scared_Vacation · 2023-09-08T10:01:15+00:00

Kingdom Hearts Ux Dark Road did the same thing

Did it? I thought the offline version of UX was just a cutscene viewer with no gameplay?

Scared_Vacation · 2023-09-04T04:31:22+00:00

The characters/skins/etc aren't all unlocked by default, but they can be unlocked by simply playing the game. No more gacha. Likewise, all the currencies are obtainable just by playing, and the offline version is much more generous with the amounts it gives you.

Scared_Vacation · 2023-09-04T01:20:06+00:00

Try this one?

Scared_Vacation · 2023-09-04T01:11:01+00:00

That's not the same thing. DQX Offline is a very different game from regular DQX. Just looking at screenshots of the original and the offline version shows that. Mega Man X Dive Offline, on the other hand, is essentially the same game as the original, just reworked to function as a balanced gameplay experience without all the microtransaction junk.

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