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Post by declairave on Mar 29, 2011 14:54:29 GMT -5
I had the fortune of growing up with Ys. My dad would always play Ys Book I & II on his Turbo Duo. I was 6 when I first got into it and from then on the addiction pretty much spread and I went on to play Ys III as well. It's safe to say that I don't think I've ever replayed any game more than those and the music was a huge incentive to do so.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2011 15:38:07 GMT -5
I was probably around the same age when I played Ys Book I & II for the Turbo Duo. I remember my dad playing Gates of Thunder and Raiden at the time. I still have a mint copy of Ys Book I & II as well as a mint Turbo Duo. Ys Book I & II is easily my favorite game of all time, followed by Super Mario Bros 3 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles. I think I will make supper now.
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Post by schlagwerk on Mar 29, 2011 15:46:52 GMT -5
My first time with Ys wasn't exciting. Just back in the era of the SNES Wanderers from Ys just happened to be a random (and prolly cheap) game I picked up from a local used game shop. The gameplay was pretty sloppy but I kept it for the music.
Later I'd end up gifting that cart (along with a copy of JP FFIV hard type later) to a highschool/collage girlfriend who really loved the game but didn't own a copy. She was crazy and I ended up finally realizing that, but that's alright.; Thanks to forum members here I own SNES Ys III again and it is complete this time!
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Post by Groenegel on Mar 29, 2011 18:04:41 GMT -5
My first time with Ys... only a few years ago did I finally attempt to move onto this series... and being enamoured with my 486 DX-4 and thinking, Ys belongs on computers, what a better start, I thought, than the DOS version?
A lot of things, actually.
I was very excited, PC Speaker sound and ugly sprites notwithstanding, taking my first steps in "Esterior" and then... it happened.
The game froze. Well, not quite. I still had access to the inventory and such, but after a few steps, my character would not move anymore (despite remaining in "walking" animation) and mangled graphics would start to show up.
I eventually found out this occured only in EGA mode, so I relaunched the game in CGA mode and took my courage with both hands, determined to play the whole game in glorious, snowy, 4-colour dressing.
There I was, happily gaining my first few levels, inquiring about the antics in Zepic Village, listening to the beautiful Palace theme (yes, even in PC Speaker it came out as a great tune) and fighting the first boss.
But, I could not defeat him. For some reason, I was never able to hit him in CGA mode. However I kept running into him, avoiding those flames (or not), his health bar would never move. Oh, the frustration!
Since there must a happy ending, I finally got the game to run fine (in EGA!) on another DOS-engined, prehistoric powerhouse some time later.
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Post by Chuplayer on Mar 29, 2011 18:46:15 GMT -5
Technically, my first time playing an Ys game was sometime in the early 2000s via emulation. The Genesis or SNES port of Ys 3, maybe the Master System game. I know I played all of them, but I didn't really get very far, and I didn't take them very seriously before giving up on them. I only really sampled them briefly. I wouldn't even count it was an experience.
In late summer of last year, I got the TCD version of I&II on the Wii Virtual Console. I wasn't too terribly impressed right out of the gate, but I grew to like the game. One of the things that I had trouble with early on was remembering to equip my armor and sword and stuff. I took note of the unique look of the game. A handful of anime-ish cutcenes, and the gameplay graphics looked like a cross between NES and SNES. The music grew and grew on me, too. Before too long, I felt like an adventure master! And that's my favorite part of the Ys games. They're the most wonderful adventures I've ever experienced.
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Post by hashiriyaz on Mar 29, 2011 21:05:52 GMT -5
My first time playing Y's was in the early 90's. Was looking for an RPG for my Sega Master System at the time. Picked Y's up, and really enjoyed it at the time. It wasn't until I saw the TG16 version a few years later that I was hooked on the series. Remember seeing the better graphics, hearing the amazing cd soundtrack, and then the cut scenes. Oh man, what a great time.
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Post by Kimimi on Mar 30, 2011 0:01:47 GMT -5
My first Ys was Ys IV on the PCE about... 6 or 7 years ago? As a European at that point my Ys-options were the Master System version... and nothing else (funny how things change eh?) so I was rather confused about the whole thing and the millions of different versions floating around.
I've still not finished it, I didn't really get into Falcom until I started their PC games.
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Mar 30, 2011 0:40:41 GMT -5
700 reads ago, lies this topic's Origin!
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Post by cercia on Mar 31, 2011 17:59:47 GMT -5
Clock Towerr, anyone else suspect Castlevania influence on OiF?
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Post by cercia on Mar 31, 2011 18:03:08 GMT -5
I saw a couple of models first in the days of Arcana and Kikikaikai. I remember seeing the intro scene of Ys on the Master System, that goddess pic, and that's still my fave image today...I remember at the time thinking, what do western releases have against anime in games? I wanted to know more than what that MS version showed me, but it wasn't until about 20 years later that Falcom realized that world more fully.
I dunno, maybe it was the nice logo and all the fast, glittery graphics and strong colours that made me love this game, uniquely pure. I didn't get to watch the anime until years later, when it was released on DVD, and by that time, I was older and couldn't appreciate it so much.
Plus the music was great I agree. I loved listening to remixes by JDK band and the Baroque album. I couldn't get enough of Ys I remixed music, especially the first shrine track. The anime intro to III on SNES really excited me and when the Ys V game and OST arrived, I was hooked.
The only thing I didn't like was Adol as master of teh body slam, he should've waved a sword proper.
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Post by fyana on Apr 15, 2011 16:56:05 GMT -5
My first time was the last week,when I read that Y´s was a videogame. I played it with the NDS,and I can tell you it is so funny. I like it,because looks like a Zelda,but more difficult(even when you are on easy mode).
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Post by Lenalia on Apr 15, 2011 21:44:53 GMT -5
It was November of '09, and I had a bad case of wanderlust. Not knowing a whole lot that I could do around here by myself just on the way home from work, I just sort of went shopping for the sake of going shopping... not actually buying anything most of the time, but just looking around.
The last such place I wandered into was GameStop, one near where I live but which I hadn't stopped in before. I actually like to look around at the last-gen used games -- occasionally I'll find something I thought looked cool but I missed. I sort of had a feeling that I might come across something special, and I did -- Ark of Napishtim, the PS2 version, for $10.
If I were a hopeless romantic, I'd wonder if the game were somehow calling to me, as if it were my destiny to pick it up. If anything, though, it was probably just crying out to be picked up at all -- it rang up as $9.99, but the sticker said $12.99, and there were a few more stickers under it with higher prices. It was probably sitting there for years, unloved and unplayed.
At any rate, I'd heard of the series before (probably from our resident Wyrdwad), and knew I'd heard it compared to Zelda... and I just sort of had a feeling that I'd stumbled across something special, so for that price I couldn't not pick it up.
So I played through the game not long later, enjoyed it quite a bit. (For several reasons -- the fun action RPG gameplay, the music, having a full cast of NPCs all with their own portraits and tons of voiced dialogue instead of generic townspeople... Olha's voice and accent nearly making me swoon... *ahem* Anyway!) Curious about the rest of the series, I made my way here, and the rest is history. (...or on file, at least. :p)
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Post by chapsy on Apr 17, 2011 16:34:43 GMT -5
I'd read about Ys III in old nintendo powers and whatnot, but actually didn't play any of the old games until the Turbo-CD versions were put on the wii's Vitrual Console channel. It was really odd to me, and I got lost a LOT. A now ex-girlfriend bought me Ark of Napishtim for ps2 when it was still new. that was actually the VERY first Ys game I played. she took it when she dumped me though, just recently got another copy off of Amazon.
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Post by ales6 on Apr 17, 2011 19:24:06 GMT -5
First time playing Ys huh.
After gagharv on PSP, I began to look something falcom related, and that was Ys VI (Or was it Ys I&II on the DS?I don't remember that much). Boss battles are what shines in the series to me. It takes strategy to beat and it was really thrilling.
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