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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:10 am Post subject: games about the sea |
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archipelago
wind waker
uncharted waters
umihara kawase _________________
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Intentionally Wrong .
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:54 am Post subject: |
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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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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:14 am Post subject: |
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above all else, what the sea is rich in is mystery. _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:22 am Post subject: |
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Aquanaut's Holiday, but that one is pretty obvious. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:28 am Post subject: |
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Same with Pirates! _________________
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sharc .
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:55 am Post subject: |
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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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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:17 am Post subject: |
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sharc wrote: | cannot believe i am the first person to say: ecco the dolphin! |
I couldn't either! _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:29 am Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote: | 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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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:29 am Post subject: |
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Also: James Pond. |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:33 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:40 am Post subject: |
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Harveyjames wrote: | dessgeega wrote: | 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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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:43 am Post subject: |
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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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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:48 am Post subject: |
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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? _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:50 am Post subject: |
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e.v.o.: the search for eden.
danny ledonne's favorite videogame. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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That's the one.
Danny Ledonne is a stranger to the truth. |
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Intentionally Wrong .
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XCOM: Terror From The Deep. |
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wourme .
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I just finished playing Raw Danger (Disaster Report 2). It's about the sea. Also, Sub Rebellion, another Irem title.
I could never beat the queen bee in E.V.O.
Ikachan is another good one. |
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player 2 .
Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes
I wish it was better because then it'd be my favorite game ever _________________ Wii #: 8749 9109 9732 3653
"It is a peaceful way of understanding life, to play"
_Marcel Duchamp |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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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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simplicio .
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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. _________________ "Worlds turn the new machine to thee. To thee. Though, thine the new machine space."
-Kurt Schwitters, 1919 |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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wourme wrote: | 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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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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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. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
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player 2 .
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player 2 wrote: | 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 _________________ Wii #: 8749 9109 9732 3653
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SuperWes Updated the banners, but not his title
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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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.
-Wes _________________
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extrabastardformula .
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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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jjsimpso .
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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Warship Gunner I and II. Though, really, those games are more about boats. And ordinance. Lots and lots of ordinance. |
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captaincabinets .
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extrabastardformula wrote: | 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. _________________ Why am I being boiled into a bright red lobster by this little kid? |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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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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extrabastardformula .
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captaincabinets wrote: | extrabastardformula wrote: | 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. _________________ Signature:
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