Good Old Games

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Originally Posted by epmode

So I played Little Big Adventure for an hour or two and I must be missing something. First of all, you're absolutely right about the voice acting. But I can overlook that stuff!

I figured that the control complaints were just due to shitty early 3D controls. While that's definitely true, I didn't expect that action stuff would be so important. There are TONS of horrible aggressive dudes all over the place, many of which have instakill attacks that are impossible to dodge. ..which wouldn't be so bad if dying didn't mean that you had to replay that horrible prison section over and over again. If nothing else, it caused me to figure out the crazy save system so that I could just reload a profile instead of going back through the prison.

So I got to Twinsen's house only to get knocked out by yet another homing instakill bullet and that's where I stopped.

Please tell me that it gets better. Please tell me that there are areas where you're free to walk around without having to worry about patrolling guards and indestructible death-bears or whatever they are. Please tell me that I'm using the Holomap thing incorrectly because it's almost impossible to get useful information out of it in spite of what the game is suggesting.

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Just cut your losses and play something good.

He was asking the people who played the game.

I played the second one way back when. It was good, but nothing I'd spend time on today.

The trick with most of the early enemies is to separate them and then get one in a corner where you can repeatedly spam the magic ball at them without them getting a chance to retaliate.

The thing that always intrigued me about LBA is that it feels like a console game, as designed by people who had never actually played a console game and only had games like Zelda verbally described to them.

I somehow made it to my house and an elephant shot me immediately when he entered from two rooms away.

I got taken back to the very beginning. My save was overwritten automatically.

This game is pretty much utter shit.

If you played to level 3 of Doom and died and you hadn't made a save yet, you'd have to go back to the beginning too. I know the save interface is kind of weird in the game, but that doesn't mean you don't have to make saves.

After reading the manual, I was under the impression that the game autosaved for me and there was nothing I could do about it. If that's not the case, I don't see how you're supposed to find out.

I didn't go back to the beginning because I died, I got knocked out and put back into the asylum. My current progress in the game remained. I made it back to the house but it looks like the entrance has been bricked off without me ever finding out what was supposed to be inside. I tried to go around and found some weird cave that was just a dead end. I tried to come back around, touched the very edge of the ocean and immediately drowned in what I assume is two centimeters of water.

Enemies that can keep you in hit stun with bullets until you die are horrible.

A rat in the bar told me to use my holomap because I seemed to be lost. I can alternate between two areas, the citadel and my house, but they're only shown to me as a dot on a view of the entire planet. Is there a way to zoom this in or is it just utterly worthless?

The save system is horrendous: If you want to save a game you have to first quit your game, go back to the first menu screen, open the save file manager, make a copy of your latest save and then reload the original game. Restoring is even crazier because simply loading the saved game means that it's going to be automatically overwritten with new progress. So you have to first quit to the main menu, open that save manager again, make a copy of the save file you want to use and then load the new copy.

It's one of the worst save systems I've ever seen. I mean, it's very similar to an autosaved profile like Demon's Souls but the possibility of a GAME OVER ruins it.

I tried to play this some more and the opening areas are pretty much miserable. This game may have had its day but it's almost unplayable now. Bonus points for actually damaging you for running into walls.

Jesus Christ, that sounds insane. I understand that it's an old game, but this thing came out in 1994. Other 1994 games weren't this awful. I lived through those years playing games that didn't make me want to kill myself.

You spend like half the time running into walls in tank control games, so taking damage from bad collision detection is rad.

Why does jumping up and down in place constitute a search?

I really didn't want to but I'm going to have to resort to a walkthrough =[ I'm hoping that it'll let me get to a point where the game gets better, or at least give me a basic idea of how I'm supposed to play this that I can then use for the rest of the game.

The search animation makes no sense but at least it's quick. Can't say the same about most other stuff.

In related news: After noticing how similar the game felt to Alone in the Dark (mostly the different stances), I looked around and saw that many of the same guys are responsible for LBA.

I figure I'll try again with a walkthrough, mostly because so many people are all BEST GAME EVER but I'm getting close to just going back to Dark Souls full time.