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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:10 am    Post subject: games about the sea Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pirate-themed games aren't exactly about the sea, but it usually plays a pretty big role--I'm thinking mainly of the Monkey Island games here, and Puzzle Pirates.
Bioshock?
Surfing games??

For some reason I'm suddenly reminded of Levers, not that it has anything to do with the topic.

More games need to be set in the ocean. I guess the lack of natural boundaries is something of a hindrance to certain kinds of level design. Still.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

above all else, what the sea is rich in is mystery.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aquanaut's Holiday, but that one is pretty obvious.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same with Pirates!
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

treasures of the deep is about unearthing spanish treasure ships and lost nazi gold from the cold depths of davy jones' locker while blasting pirates, terrorists and unruly sea life.

everblue 2 is totally an ocean game and has been well-covered elsewhere.

cannot believe i am the first person to say: ecco the dolphin! i don't think you can get more exploring mysteries of the sea than that.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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cannot believe i am the first person to say: ecco the dolphin!

I couldn't either!
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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above all else, what the sea is rich in is mystery.


That's quite a beautiful and inspiring thing to say, are those your words?
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also: James Pond.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh SNAP! I just remembered a game I use to play a ton on the PC: EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus

All about saving this dolphin and helping clean up the sea.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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above all else, what the sea is rich in is mystery.


That's quite a beautiful and inspiring thing to say, are those your words?


my very own, thank you very much. i have been missing the sea lately.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What was that SNES game where you start off as a plankton and you evolve into more and more sophisticated aquatic life-forms? It was shit, anyway.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know but it reminded me of a game I use to play for the Apple IIe: Evolution. I think that the game you're thinking of was made by Enix, right?
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

e.v.o.: the search for eden.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's the one.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just finished playing Raw Danger (Disaster Report 2). It's about the sea. Also, Sub Rebellion, another Irem title.

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Ikachan is another good one.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes

I wish it was better because then it'd be my favorite game ever
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shapermc wrote:
Oh SNAP! I just remembered a game I use to play a ton on the PC: EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus

All about saving this dolphin and helping clean up the sea.


Hey, I played that, it was awesome! I have more fond memories of the sequel though, which took place in the rainforest. It got pretty heavy-handed at points! I remember I could never figure out how to escape the poachers when I was a kid, I only finished the game a couple years ago when I tried again and finally finished the game (protip: it jumps the shark right at the end).
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You know, racers like waverace have always intrigued me, in the way the water is as much (or more) a part of the game as your competition.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I just finished playing Raw Danger (Disaster Report 2). It's about the sea. Also, Sub Rebellion, another Irem title.


we should add in the hunt while we're at it.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wourme wrote:
I just finished playing Raw Danger (Disaster Report 2). It's about the sea.

Hmm, That's an interesting way to put it.
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Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes

I wish it was better because then it'd be my favorite game ever


Oh god this is totally in the wrong thread
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald? Those games take place on way too much water. Some insanely high percentage of the Pokemon are water as a result. Boo.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Vacant Ark and Hook Dodger are a couple that strike me.

It's also worth noting that Gradius always struck me as being very much the antithesis of the sea with the constant envirnmental hazards to avoid. The sea is a dangerous place because of what's in it. It is the land where the environment itself is hostile, but in the sea there is the water and the ocean floor and that much you can take comfort in, but there is life all around you and plenty of it may seek to do you harm.

The shooting segments in The Guardian Legend set in the blue convey this more than anything else I have seen in my short years.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Warship Gunner I and II. Though, really, those games are more about boats. And ordinance. Lots and lots of ordinance.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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It is the land where the environment itself is hostile, but in the sea there is the water and the ocean floor and that much you can take comfort in

SOS would dispute this, if it let you stop and think about it. Which you can do plenty of once the timer's up and you've drowned.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

extrabastardformula wrote:
It's also worth noting that Gradius always struck me as being very much the antithesis of the sea with the constant envirnmental hazards to avoid. The sea is a dangerous place because of what's in it. It is the land where the environment itself is hostile, but in the sea there is the water and the ocean floor and that much you can take comfort in, but there is life all around you and plenty of it may seek to do you harm.


so this would mean that the shooter which best suggests the sea is the darius series - which, like most taito shooters, is much more focused on enemy formations than on environmental hazards.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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It is the land where the environment itself is hostile, but in the sea there is the water and the ocean floor and that much you can take comfort in

SOS would dispute this, if it let you stop and think about it. Which you can do plenty of once the timer's up and you've drowned.
This is true. I was mainly thinking about the differences betweenthe hazards of life on land vs the hazrds faced by ocean life.
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