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by grepfru_it 1086 days ago
The load times bro, I could not get on the CD based bandwagon. I played Sewer Shark on the Sega CD and the load times where miserable. I even thought the resolution was abysmal (compared to my PC at the time). No way it would win, I thought. By christmas of 97 I had a PS1 and spent all day playing Tomb Raider. The hardware was beyond any other console and the design was slick and new. And while Sony won, and my Saturn sat in the corner collecting dust, the N64 was the only system that came out when my friends came over. Nothing could compete with 4 player mario kart or starfox. Sega was dead before the dreamcast even came out.
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MisterTea 1086 days ago
> I played Sewer Shark on the Sega CD

six - six - niner - six ugh, that game kinda sucked. Never hit that million pounds of tube steak high score.

What a weird time for gaming. FMV games were something that looked like the future to a little kid but once you played them they were awful. The video padded out boring interactive game play like shooting the rats in Sewer Shark or the shooting galleries of Ground Zero: Texas. I remember Night Trap being highly controversial at the time for sexual an violence themes and I only knew one kid who had it and his mother threw the game out so I never got to play it.

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autoexec 1086 days ago
> FMV games were something that looked like the future to a little kid but once you played them they were awful.

I still have a certain amount of love for the genre and I'm secretly hoping they make a comeback someday without many of the limitations they had at the time.

Phantasmagoria was a gem if you've never tried it. Night Trap is just awkward to play, and didn't deserve the moral panic, but at least those kids can emulate it now. You'd be better off just watching it on youtube though.

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throwway120385 1086 days ago
Under a Killing Moon and The Pandora Directive were really goofy but kinda fun adventure games.
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autoexec 1086 days ago
Both on GOG too! I'll have to check them out
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dreadlordbone 1085 days ago
Obduction is a newer Myst-Like with some of the old FMV trimmings
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jbm 1085 days ago
> FMV games were something that looked like the future to a little kid but once you played them they were awful.

I still think Wing Commander 3 was an amazing game, to this day. (The 10 minute waits to launch a mission on my Pentium was ridiculous though)

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