Landstalker thread/topic

[Zucca]

For those who haven't played it - you should.
It's like Zelda, but in isometric graphics.

Reason for this topic is that I made a screenshot gallery, but be warned, as I tried not to include much spoilers, some might think otherwise. Gallery is just to familiarize you with the game.
Note: this game come from the creators of the original Shining Series!

Wing-0 ...!

And of course, discussion is always welcome. ;)

[Wing-0]

Uh, what? Oh!

[Edge]

I actually owned this game on the real console back when I had one still... I never beat it though... I forget what it was, but something held me back from it near the start of the game. God knows what it was... Maybe I'll take another go at it... God knows, I love the Shining series.

[IndispensablePeaGuy]

Note: this game come from the creators of the Shining Series!

Wrong. The actual creators are Camelot (originally called Sonic Software Planning). Climax collaborated only on the first two Shining games.

I haven't touched a Shining game in years because of how badly Sega treated its creators. My love for the series died after SF3 was released

[Semix]

Well that took a while to load, and scroll down xD

[Zucca]

Note: this game come from the creators of the Shining Series!

Wrong. The actual creators are Camelot (originally called Sonic Software Planning). Climax collaborated only on the first two Shining games.

I'm correcting already! But wasn't Climax with SitD, SFI and SFII?

I haven't touched a Shining game in years because of how badly Sega treated its creators. My love for the series died after SF3 was released

SFIII was bad? I haven't played it... yet.
At least Shining the Holy Ark was playable.

Well that took a while to load, and scroll down xD

Yeah. it's 1.2Mb html file with embedded images.

[skymandr]

Ah! Great game! I played it back in the 90s, but never finished it, since there was a passage that the emulators of the day couldn't handle.

Maybe I should give it another go...

[IndispensablePeaGuy]

Zucca, I meant that anything after SF3, the Shining series sucked. SF3 was the last true Shining Force game for me.

Climax helped with the first two games. SF2 and onwards were made by Camelot. SF3 was their last game.

[Zucca]

Yeah. This 2000's never saw any good Shining games. :\

[Wing-0]

AmI weird for liking Neo and Exa?

[BenoitRen]

Zucca, I question your method of delivery for these screenshots. Not only do you have them embedded in the HTML encoded as base64 (which inflates their size 1,3x), but you've scaled them to double their resolution, making them even bigger. People should be able to enlarge the screenshots on their own.

[Zucca]

Zucca, I question your method of delivery for these screenshots. Not only do you have them embedded in the HTML encoded as base64 (which inflates their size 1,3x), but you've scaled them to double their resolution, making them even bigger. People should be able to enlarge the screenshots on their own.

• I had to upload these shots in one file, and I knew about the file size problem (compressed acrhive would have been another choice, but not as user friendly as this) + with current internet connection speeds 1.3 Mb isn't that bad download, especially when you can already look the first pictures while the others are downloading (progressive)
• I haven't scaled the size of these images (look the source again, or right-click on image --> open image in new tab/window)

This is why I would, so much, like to see some kind of bzippped/lzma2'd-html-file standard.

[BenoitRen]

Not everyone has broadband today, unfortunately. And anyone who is unfortunate to use IE won't see any images.

[Zucca]

Yeah. IE is the problem (32bytes/kbytes limit?). But I took that on account as I know that many of us on this board uses some other browser than IE (because we are not stupid people).
IE causes problems for me every day.
I can't understand why MS sticks to their own non-standard browser policies...

Which brings one question into my mind... Is there a standard "web archive" format? I guess not. At least any user friendly (openable by browser)?

[IndispensablePeaGuy]

AmI weird for liking Neo and Exa?

Like what you want. Moogie's site can't be arsed with the new games.