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thislevelisclouds	THE LONGEST GAME EVER!!!	Lead	[-]
Posts: 12 (01/15/04 3:21 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None This idea has been brewing in my mind for awhile... Imagine this - A game with NES-esque graphics so that all the rest of the game's diskspace could be dedicated to the length of the game. Imagine, a new Metroid with the original graphics and a map that literally takes months or even years to navigate completely. Of course, there would be warps to find and whatnot so one wouldn't have to spend actual DAYS walking across terrain. I just always thought that would be a great idea.
perothecat	Re: THE LONGEST GAME EVER!!!	#1	[-]
Posts: 490 (01/15/04 3:35 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	O_O "Alas, Horatio, I knew you well...now prepare for the long bomb!"
Facilitypro	Re: THE LONGEST GAME EVER!!!	#2	[-]
Posts: 2343 (01/15/04 3:58 PM) Slow Daddy Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	This game already exists. It's called Dragon Warrior 7. And it sucks.
CRAWLand1000	I LOVE FO!	#3	[-]
Posts: 3474 (01/15/04 5:44 PM) The Fuzzy Physicist Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ironically, the best examples of epic NES style games are indeed found on the NES, such as Super Mario Bros. 3 and Castlevania III. There has never been a longer 2d action Castlevania since Castlevania III. I think SMW was shorter than SMB3. Yoshi's Island might have longer than SMB3; it's hard to say. BUT, making games longer than those (or even that long) isn't a very easy thing to do. To make a game long AND good requires a lot of ideas, to keep a game fresh or worthwhile as it continues. As Facility Pro suggested, a lot of modern RPGs are just long for the sake of being long, and have no ideas to sustain their length. Those games aren't epic, they're epically boring. (it might be argued that this is not ironic but appropriate, since NES style games should after all be found on the NES. It's that they're epic and haven't been improved on, while some people think the NES is antiquated, that makes it ironic) I don't like games that are fun.
SETZERtheGREAT	Re: I LOVE FO!	#4	[-]
Posts: 610 (01/15/04 5:58 PM) The Lone Gunman Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Actually, it sounds a lot like Everquest. "People are to be respected regardless of position or class. This should always be remembered." - Saradin, Ogre Battle
jupTheSecond	Re: I LOVE FO!	#5	[-]
Posts: 1007 (02/04/04 2:20 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	One of the longest games I've ever played was on the NES, Bases Loaded. This sports title tried to be realistic in the mannor of running the teams through a season of games...all the way to the Pennant. I've never completed a season, despite the fact that I kept a dedicated NES/monitor station set up with the game running 24/7 for multiple months.
jupTheSecond	Re: THE LONGEST GAME EVER!!!	#6	[-]
Posts: 1007 (03/03/04 3:10 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	A good question is how can such a game keep it's appeal for years on end? Sure, it's possible to make an RPG map that takes forever to venture, even in a straight line. But, how can that notion stay interesting? (Imagine an eight hour gaming session where the character just walks a full eight hours. WHY PLAY THAT?) The standard random combat? People don't want JUST THAT anymore. No. The real conflict is trying to keep the game fresh. And, with such a lofty time goal, one would be scraping the barrel dry to complete it. I'd also hate to see the testing crew needed to remove bugs.
Red Clawbot	Re: THE LONGEST GAME EVER!!!	#7	[-]
Posts: 1173 (03/05/04 12:53 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	You can manipulate some games with some editing tools online, but, it's not enough, is it...I made a hell of a long version of the Legend of Zelda just for me. Pain in the ass to make, pretty fun to play. But I no longer take part in such time consuming crap that is designed for people who don't have responsibility. Everquest? Don't you mean Foreverquest?
Starscream	re:	#8	[-]
Posts: 339 (03/05/04 11:33 PM) Decepticon Air Commander Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	That would drive me INSANE. especially NES metroid. the only way that something like that would work is like one of thos Asheron Call games wich is just a massive online game and world. ::Working on my new site::
Red Clawbot	Re: re:	#9	[-]
Posts: 1173 (03/06/04 8:01 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	" the only way that something like that would work is like one of thos Asheron Call games wich is just a massive online game and world." Ya...like foreverquest... A basso con Asheron's Call!
CLOUDBOND007	Re: THE LONGEST GAME EVER!!!	#10	[-]
Posts: 9845 (03/06/04 8:06 PM) Lunitari Mage Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Heh. Facilitypro is right. Games that drag on endlessly by giving you more and more of the same old gameplay just aren't fun. CB007's Game Review Archive
jupTheSecond	Re: THE LONGEST GAME EVER!!!	#11	[-]
Posts: 1007 (03/06/04 8:37 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Or, you could always go with Phantasy Star On-line, which has tons of plot movement during the opening scene. THEN, the whole game consists of mostly monster fighting until you battle the biggest, baddest monster of all and see the credits roll by. (The end.)
bjstrykes	Re: THE LONGEST GAME EVER!!!	#12	[-]
Posts: 1051 (03/15/04 1:12 PM) Pinpoint Accuracy Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	"A game with NES-esque graphics so that all the rest of the game's diskspace could be dedicated to the length of the game. Imagine, a new Metroid with the original graphics and a map that literally takes months or even years to navigate completely. " Well, maybe what they could do is give you some kind of editor that allows you to create your own Metroid worlds that could go on forever. I guess one problem with that would be that you'd have to be careful not to create an area where you could get stuck with no way out. Perhaps a way to end the game instantaneously could be included as a failsafe (I believe the NES Metroid had such a code that allowed that). *Smorgasbord!!*
Jy the wanderer	Re: THE LONGEST GAME EVER!!!	#13	[-]
Posts: 73 (03/24/04 8:55 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	why not just make an open ended game? i love those. ----------------------------------------------------------------- www.geocities.com/spritepaladins : Me and my friends site
Vampyrus	Re: THE LONGEST GAME EVER!!!	#14	[-]
Posts: 303 (04/02/04 1:08 PM) The Fifth Ace That We Didn't Show Them Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Or you could just use MetEdit. Devlin Domaine "I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." - Hippolyte Taine
da dick		#15	[-]
Posts: 1598 (10/14/07 2:10 AM) and my bird can sing too! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	hows about an NES version of "The Longest Journey" "Birdies!"
Crawl and 1OOO		#16	[-]
Posts: 10475 (11/14/07 10:02 PM) "Here I Come to Save the Day!" Mighty Crawl is on the Way! The Fuzzy Physicist Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I will admit that when I first heard of CD technology, I imagined NES style games that were just ridiculously huge. Compared to what CD technology actually got us, it does kind of seem we got the short end of the stick. I guess some CD-quality soundtracks were nice (eg., Ys), but synth tunes even in the 16-bit era could have pretty good sound quality. Last Edited By: Crawl and 1OOO 11/15/07 1:16 PM. Edited 1 times.
Facilitypro		#17	[-]
Posts: 2343 (11/16/07 5:36 PM) Slow Daddy Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	thislevelisclouds wrote: This idea has been brewing in my mind for awhile... Imagine this - A game with NES-esque graphics so that all the rest of the game's diskspace could be dedicated to the length of the game. Why stop there??? Imagine a game with Atari 2600 graphics on a dual layer Blu-ray disc! That game could last CENTURIES!! That would be awesome to have a game be passed down the generations. "Son, my life is over. I shall never rise from my deathbed. Promise me you'll continue my journey through level 53,632."
da dick		#18	[-]
Posts: 1598 (12/05/07 1:51 AM) and my bird can sing too! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	nonono. the main thing is to have absolutely no level design. all the story, characters, dungeons will be "intelligently" generated by an extremely complex program which will even have its own mutatable(sp?) DNA. a game that actually evolves but within a limited diskspace and stunted graphix. "How can we jump over our shadows when we no longer have one?How can we pass out of the century (not to speak of the millennium)if we do not make up our minds to put an end to it, engaged as we are in an indefinite work of mourning for all the incidents, ideologies and violence which have marked it?" - THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM OR THE COUNTDOWN , Jean Baudrillard.

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