what is it about echo the dolphin

[04:53] <kraed> i remember enjoying ecco as a kid

[04:53] <kraed> and everyone says it's a terrible game

[04:54] <playingtrompet> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU8HrO7XuiE jmickle

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[04:54] <Dajhail> i could never stand ecco

[04:55] <playingtrompet> its becuase it is sarevok

[04:55] <Dajhail> but everyone else LOVES it

[04:55] <playingtrompet> but it has a very unique asthetic

[04:55] <playingtrompet> well

[04:55] <playingtrompet> it encaplses a unique asthetic

[04:55] <playingtrompet> that a few games have

[04:56] <playingtrompet> sort of a spartian lonely feeling

[04:56] <kraed> i love ecco because it is sarevok

[04:56] <kraed> i do think games that are about exploration are at their finest when you feel isolated and alone

[04:56] <playingtrompet> of being lost in a sprawing slightly out of scale world

[04:57] <playingtrompet> its a big nausiating

[04:57] <playingtrompet> like megaman legands

[04:57] <playingtrompet> i think armoured core 1 has the same feeling

[04:57] <playingtrompet> a bit

[04:57] <playingtrompet> nausiating

[04:58] <playingtrompet> i think

[04:58] <playingtrompet> what all those games have in common

[04:59] <playingtrompet> is they don't make much sense

[04:59] <playingtrompet> and they don't care

[04:59] <playingtrompet> like you'll randomly run across non enemy npcs in weird places sometimes

[05:00] <playingtrompet> but the games have no real desire to drive foward a plot

[05:00] <playingtrompet> becuase they don't really have one

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[05:01] <playingtrompet> sotn has it a bit

[05:01] <playingtrompet> also

[05:01] <playingtrompet> most of the metriods

[05:01] <playingtrompet> alot more than sotn

[05:01] <playingtrompet> becuase at least sotn has menues to take your mind off it

[05:02] <playingtrompet> metriod sometimes has those screens that scroll vertically for ages

05:04] <playingtrompet> sonic kind of has it too

[05:04] <playingtrompet> esspecially sonic 3

[05:04] <playingtrompet> where you get those little interludes with knuckles

[05:04] <playingtrompet> but just the massivly sprawling levels

[05:04] <playingtrompet> that scroll all over the place