• Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    ‘please, Internet, tell me how to turn my game controller into a vibrator’

    Kids these days… Back in my day, we just turned on FF8 and spammed summons

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        15 hours ago

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        Bro you spammed limit breaks in that game, tell your kid self to git gud

        FF7 was the unrelenting Summon Fest once you got mimic and w-summon

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        22 hours ago

        At least there was button tapping to power up so there was SOMETHING to do during the forever animations

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        I imagine that’s a design consideration.- same with Ultima and other big spells. You get a big payoff after a big wind-up. It’s trying to telegraph that if you want speed you should build your party differently using junctions

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          game designers be like: NO! REBUILD YOUR PARTY IF YOU DON’T LIKE SUMMON ANIMATIONS! WE WILL NOT PUT A SKIP BUTTON IN!!!

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          I forget which game, but it had two different durations of summon/cast. The first time was always the long one, then youd regularly get the short one, youd randomly “crit” and get the long one, which did more damage.

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        I was obsessed with that game when it came out. Just played it again, and it’s actually pretty bad. Even without using summons at all, and with emulator fast-forward on most of the time, it’s almost unbearably slow and tedious.

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      1 day ago

      You missed out on the tomb raider demo disc that came with PlayStation magazine (probably issue 73 based on the fact I have it and I wasn’t subscribed very long while demo discs were a thing) Same era.

      If you went for a swim in the pool, and swam into the side, you’d not only get a constant intense vibration, you’d also get to see her swimming motion, and I don’t think it had breath mechanics yet (or at least she wouldn’t die in the demo zone), so you could take your time. Win win.

      There was also a vibration test in the menu if you just wanted no frills.

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      Kids these days… Back in my day, we just turned on FF8 and spammed summons

      pre-teen me spamming Shiva.