Finding Old Posts

[WelshMegalodon]

Some time ago there was an extremely misinformed and prejudicial post about how Western gamers supposedly hated "shorter, more intense games" (or something to that effect) while enjoying longer and less challenging games. Several days' worth of Googling turns up threads like why "Japanese gaming is dead" but nothing that fits the boat. I was wondering whether anyone remembers the post or could dig it up.

There was also this one time when everyone jumped on a guy for savestating his way through Vice: Project Doom and referring to it as a generic NES platformer. Were the posts deleted? I can't seem to find them.

[Squire Grooktook]

Weird how we're suddenly getting so many new people (Dunlap, Wasserkopp, the Icycalm guy in the other thread) who only post in off-topic and are deadset on grave digging minor threads/arguments that nobody cares too much about it. What gives?

[soprano1]

Weird how we're suddenly getting so many new people (Dunlap, Wasserkopp, the Icycalm guy in the other thread) who only post in off-topic and are deadset on grave digging minor threads/arguments that nobody cares too much about it. What gives?

Troll invasion?

[Blinge]

At least this guy's alias sounds like a darius romhack..

[WelshMegalodon]

Be reassured that I have nothing to do with those other three. I'm a longtime lurker who was merely curious about where the two aforementioned posts went, along with a few others.

If you need more convincing, allow me to say that I love the amount of awareness, ambition, and overall enthusiasm this community seems to have about arcade shooters and old games in general. People like Pegboy and BIL who both appear to enjoy and thoroughly learn their games are, for me, the gamers who most enjoy their pastime. Not those people gushing about how nice it is that ZSNES lets you save-state and fast-forward through Mario. Those people - along with the ones who think setting up MAME is the biggest pain in the ass ever - really don't seem to be having any fun at all...

It's also refreshing to hear people actually talking about the shortcomings of emulation - real shortcomings, not just poorly written arguments about 'piracy' or it 'just not feeling the same' - as well as the importance of video resolution and a good setup. I'm glad I'm not the only one sick of seeing emulated gameplay footage all over YouTube, often with bilinear filtering and in the wrong aspect ratio.

Having spent my gaming childhood with console RPGs and Metroid rather than straight action games, I don't have much of a background in arcade gaming, but this forum has definitely helped me to give more action-oriented titles a chance. Despite having owned Daimakaimura on the Megadrive for over 15 years, I never knew the power-up system and all those hidden chests existed before seeing mikehaggar's replay. I also knew nothing of the PlayStation's massive 2D library (or, for that matter, how awful Digital Eclipse's PS2 compilations were) before coming here and hearing about Parodius Deluxe Pack and the like.

As for 1CCs, I have three, though none of them really count. All of them were attempted after finding this forum. I've cleared Garou Densetsu, the original Street Fighter, and the Megadrive port of Ryuuko no Ken on one credit. I think the farthest I've gotten on anything else was the third stage of Gradius II. (Pegboy's 1CC demonstrated some incredible recovery in Stage 5.)

[Perikles]

There was also this one time when everyone jumped on a guy for savestating his way through Vice: Project Doom and referring to it as a generic NES platformer. Were the posts deleted? I can't seem to find them.

There you go.

[WelshMegalodon]

That's the one. Many thanks.

Post-1990 Famicom games really had some great pixel art. Shame more indie developers aren't in the know. (Those same developers could benefit from knowing that every worthwhile gaming console except the Famicom and PC Engine output RGB. None of this unfiltered pixel stuff.)

EDIT: After two years, I've found it.