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A quick question to the RPG experts
MPHtails | 7:47 PM on 04.17.2008 6 comments


I am more or less getting prepared to take my second trek into the world Lunar by playing the first game in the series, Lunar: Silver Star (Yeah, I played Eternal Blue first, wanna fight about it?. The story begins here:

Around a month ago on my birthday of March 28th, I had the incredible luck of finding a copy of Silver Star Story Complete (a.k.a the Playstation remake) in the wild for 50 bucks (not to mention a copy of Shining Force 3 for 10 bucks that I am currently selling on eBay after finding that I really didn't care for it [/shameless plug]). Not able to pass that up at all, I grabbed it, if just to have it.

However, the problem I have is this: I also have the game for the Sega CD, though as a Disc Only copy (as EB was). I looked up the major differences between the games and they seem to be quite the bit differentiated. The question is this: Should I play the original SCD version and just keep the original unchanged storyline, or should I go with the technically upgraded and better animated remake and have a changed storyline?



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Dale North's Destructoid Blog
I love both, but the PS1 remake is so much better. It's more fleshed out, and has lots more dialogue and backstory. If you had to do one, do the PS1 version.
Fuck, I would've bought SF3
Scape's Destructoid Blog
Yea go with the PS1 version for sure.
zeph's Destructoid Blog
I am starting this game tomorrow night and I was kind of worried about the differences at first too. I never played the original before and I finally got a copy of the PS1 version. From what I have been reading, the reviews usually state the even with the rewritten plot, the story is the same but with better graphics and animated cut scenes. To me (which is only a hunch) the rewriting was done to make the story clearer at times. I guess I should not be too picky either cause even if they changed the plot I wouldn't know difference though since this is my first time through! Good luck and have fun playing!
Daynger777's Destructoid Blog
Smash Mouth is your favorite band?! I'll fight you about that one ;P
MPHtails's Destructoid Blog
I'm not trying to say that they make the best music, just the music that I listen to most, or at least look foward to listening to the most.

But if it's supoosedly changed just to make it clearer, then I guess I'll go PSX. I just hope I don't get Chrono Trigger'D (where my CT disc won't read. Yeah yeah PSX CT sucks, I got it a while ago.) Thanks for the help then guys.
Daynger777's Destructoid Blog
I'm just playin with ya, you have the Chili Peps up there so I can't be mad


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That aside, lets do some lists, because I enjoy lists.

Honorable Mentions:Zombies ate my Neighbors , Super Mario World
13.NBA JAM
12.Sonic 3 & Knuckles
11.Tetris Attack
10.Sonic CD
9.Popful Mail
8.Bubble Bobble
7.Chrono Trigger
6.River City Ransom
5.Tecmo Super Bowl (NES)
4.Jet Grind Radio
3.Earthbound
2.NiGHTS into Dreams
1.Cave Story


I'm a really slow player. I rarely blast through games, regardless of genre or my own skill of it. Final Fantasy VII, for example, took me 8 years, 4 new files, 2 memory cards, and two copies to beat, even with a strategy guide.
Also, I cant frigging beat Chrono Trigger because my PS2 wont read the damn disc, same with Popful mail. This pisses me off.

UPDATE 4/24/08: I HAS CT FOR SNES. COMMENCING OWNAGE NOW.
UPDATE 5/3/08: I R WINRAR. Now to do the same with Popful Mail

As far as favorite bands go, I like more or less any song that catches my ear, regardless of genre or even quality (something thats also with every type of entertainment, I tend to enjoy lesser things). So, lets list, but with less numbers this time:


Smash mouth I reguard as my favorite band currently, but thats quite a changing area.
Gorillaz
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Beefy
Rush
Queen
Duran Duran
Mew
and some others that I forgot.

As far as individual songs go, some of the ones that I favor due to memories or just general enjoyability are:


Fallen Horses- Smash Mouth
Waste- Smash Mouth
Then the Morning Comes- Smash Mouth
Eye of the Tiger- Survivor
16 bit vs PS3- Prinz Pi
Geto Highlites- Coolio
Flagpole Sitta- Harvey Danger
Rio-Duran Duran
Last Dinosaur- the pillows
Little Busters- the pillows
Scar Tissue- Red Hot Chilli Peppers


And of course, the rock prayer:
IN the name of the [Bohemian] Rhapsody, the Freebird, and the Holy Diver, May we all ascend the Stairway to Heaven.

Of course, theres more, but i just feel like stopping there.


Movies, well, theres Rocky III, IV and Balboa , Spaceballs, Snakes on a plane, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, the View Askewniverse movies and the like, but my all time favorite is BASEketball. SO many underrated one liners.

Television, lets see. Red vs Blue, House, WWE Raw (yes, imma rasslin guy yee haw), Chappelle's Show, like over nine thousand 80's and 90's toons, Saved by the Bell, Fresh Prince, Psyche, Full House (i was raised on it, so it dosen't count), Simpsons, KING OF THE HILL, Shin Chan, FLCL, and such, but as far as favorites go it's gotta be Mystery Science Theater 3000. Dont let anyone tell you different, Red Zone Cuba is the best episode, even if it's not Final Sacrifice with ZAP ROWSDOWER.

My Systems, let me show you them.
-SNES
-64
-wii
-Genesis
-Sega CD
-Saturn
-Dreamcast (ITS STILL THINKING)
-PS2
-360
-Xbox 1
-DS
-PSP
-GB Pocket
-GB Brick

I like more under the radar.cult games like Earthbound, Popful Mail, Mr. Bones, and such, but usually due to their rarity they are a little pricy and thus I haven't played a truckload of them. I used to be a huge Sonic nut (even going so far as to read./collect the Archie Sonic comics even far after i stopped enjoying them), but thats since waned considerably. Though forever loyal to Sega in my heart (and, to a lesser extent, Nintendo), I can't survive on Shmups alone, and therefore branched myself out to accept all makes and models of vidja games and vidja game accessorries.

Well, if I think of anyting more, I'll be sure to add it so noone will ever read it.

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