The hardest part about becoming a Jedi was for the first year no one knew how to do it. Eventually it was figured out that you had to master certain random professions that were unknown to the player. Eventually, Jedi and Sith Holocrons could be farmed and used to reveal a profession needed. As more Jedi emerged, the amount of professions required to master became increased server wide (as a way to slow the Jedi population) until eventually it was required to master all 34 professions. The system was totally changed multiple times afterwards, but this was the original system.
@@woswosa4064 Same. I loved that game. I was a resource miner for my friends. So when he still didn't have Jedi unlocked by the time he did every class except the one where you had to build up a city. I had all the materials needed for each upgrade. So he was just waiting on cool downs. He made Jedi by leveling each class one after the other. Got it in less than a couple of months. Great times.
I remember getting 99% completion in FFX-2 because I forgot to touch Yuna, crounched and hiding while dressed as a moogle, right at the beginning of the game. Playing through the entire game a second time, just to ensure that you do that one little thing and get 100% completion, really makes you rethink your priorities in life.
on the bright side for the swg jedi unlock, it was so rare, that when you seen a jedi or sith in play, it was a major event on its own. literally in the most populated area, two force user started a fight with each other, the everyone just watched, it was only when one of them died that everyone realized, we could participate and not just watch. that is the effect, when you have a dozen or so jedi on a server of thousands or more, compare this to the "epicness" of everyone is jedi so noone is special way of every other game.
Hey!! Both my parents had Jedi in the Star Wars Galaxies MMO! When you said that game's name for number one I was unlocking so much memories so fast... They were so proud of their Jedi. My mom was also one of the last bio extracting classes or idk had the ability to draw blood from creatures and turn them into mounts, pets, and taxidermies. I was really young when I played that with my family.. but fond fond memories. And yes, before you asked, my parents were CONSTANTLY on that game when it wasn't shut down. Since the beginning of that game's release. Same with Everquest. (Which isn't shut down, but is sadly basically dead.)
i cant even imagine how many hours/days it took for your parents to reach that level xD as a kid i had a box for the game everquest but i never did get to play because my pc didnt have internet connection (i was like 11 years old) i ended up playing warcraft 3 reign of chaos campaign mode then eventually started playing the custom games online super super fun times. i still play planetside 2 which was a popular game at the same time as starwars galaxies
Honorable mention: Okami's 100 stray beads collection, all of them are acquired from random side quests but when you have them all you basically unlock the bead necklace which makes you immune to damage, have infinite ink (game's mana) and deal x10 more damage with everything.
I remember the good old days of SWG when you had to master specific classes/careers in order to become force sensitive! If I recall correctly, you had to master 4 careers, 3 already revealed and the last one hidden... my lil bro had to master every single one, the very last one he mastered was the one he needed while my younger sister got hers on the first try!😅🤣
The Fierce Deity’s Mask is easily one of my favorite masks in all of gaming. I was thrilled to be able to wear the set in Breath of the Wild. I hope my Young Link amiibo works as well in Tears of the Kingdom!
I actually remember having a roomate in Jobcorp who really loved Megaman and he spent weeks on Megaman Maverick Hunter for PSP and unlocked the Hadoken...but in Maverick Hunter you actually have to get through each stage and beat the whole game without taking damage to unlock it. I am still to this day surprised he did it and I think it's one of the most obscene unlock conditions for a secret.
Actually you just have to unlock everything and then get to the Hadoken upgrade without taking damage. Like the level where it is, is the only level you need to take no damage. Still an impressive feat regardless
Arrow rain in Elden is amazing for placing status effects on large enemies and bosses. Great way to apply scarlet rot and poison or even sleep on the God skin duo. Easily one of the best ashes of war. It only uses 1 arrow and fires a barrage allowing you to really extend the use of status effect arrows.
I had an entire notebook with pages of random notes and stats for raising chocobo's when I was a kid. Did the whole thing through trial and error because back then I didn't have ready access to the internet. It took me so long to figure out that when I finally got that first gold chocobo I nearly yanked my PS1 off the shelf by the controller cable I was so happy.
@@MrShanester117 speaking for myself, I had a couple older gamer friends that had bought the guide and told me about it. Though 11 year old me was pretty gullible and I had thought they were stringing me along for a while until I finally managed it.
Ah yes. Communication and game news didn't exist before the internet. Seriously though, back then there were places where people gather and talk about games. There are also pieces of paper with printed information about games called game magazines and guides where players could read secrets, tips, feature explainations from devs or community """experts"""
It was nice seeing two familiar games on this list: Majora’s Mask and Final Fantasy X-2. I definitely remember the grind for the masks but the task that was even harder was doing all the side quests in a single 3 day cycle for the sake of acquiring a heart piece.
Knights of the Round in FFVII was definitely worth the effort to get it. Long animation, but serious damage, say 13 knights x 9999 each when maxed out! 😁
Grinded it out and then beat Ruby Weapon, which took longer for some reason! Plus my dog jumped on my PS1 before I could save and the game stalled, never could beat that butthead again
@@subsonicbass it was quite the kick in the nuts after killing ruby and realizing your reward was another stupid bird you already grounded out to beat Ruby
Actually after he teaches you all of the words the dragon from the soul cairn in Skyrim will fly around using shouts and summoning the shadow dudes from the soul cairn to fight with you. It’s kind of sick.
The sonic boom from Metroid Prime 2 was so artistically and graphically impressive back in the day. It’s hard to think of another weapon that looks like you’re literally shattering reality when fired.
One aspect that I really liked about it was that you were using both the light and dark energy ammo because it was a weapon that used to both. Really cool conceptually.
@@gameranxTV tbf there are a LOT of false guides saying the 4 lives thing. Not sure where that came from but it is definitely not true. I do recall the original guides saying you needed to have full etanks as I recall doing that every time I went to get it. But one certainty is that you need full health when you get to the end, if you don't it won't appear.
I didn't know this. But I noticed the lives thing was BS which seemed the spawn was random chance. Its similar on X2 I just got near the place and used a subtank to have full health
Pretty disappointed to see people saying they don’t like jake doing countdowns. Falcon, Jake, and the team put in so much effort here. EVERY video is worth watching. Thank you gameranx 🧡
Metroid had combos in the Super Metroid game as well. You'd charge your beam while having Power Bombs and a single type of beam equipped, (Ice, Spazer, Wave, Etc) and it would release a unique attack.
1:48 "This allows you to summon the dragon for help, which costs a dragon soul every time you wanna use it." Actually, Summoning Durnehviir doesn't cost souls. It just takes 3 souls to fully unlock his Summoning Shout. And after the first 3 summons, he's a great summon thanks to his ability to Soul Tear your enemies and also summon Undead of the Soul Cairn to fight by your side. very helpful if you need to take out several enemies at once.
@@mcbdllc2848 Indeed. But that's kinda how you should be in Skyrim lore too. Since Akatosh is a Divine and both Alduin and the Last Dragonborn are said to be his children. Making them both in to Demi-gods by birth. So the actually nerfs the player quite a bit just to prevent you from one shotting everything.
The first time I played Symphony of the Night, I got a crissaegrim on my first walk through the reverse library. I just assumed all of the bosses were just easier in the second part of the game because the weapons were all so much better lol
That was the one that did like four attacks for one swing right? I spent hours to get that one my first time. But on my second play through got it in maybe two minutes. Like what the hell?
I remember getting the Warlock mount upgrade in vanilla WoW was a nightmare. You had to unlock the quest, then farm a ton of rare expensive materials that were used to craft raid gear, then collect 3 items to use to summon a special boss at the end of one of the harder end game dungeons. Getting green fire was also a major achievment in Burning Crusade I think.
Burning Crusade came out when I got to that quest, so no one wanted to help me do it and I had to solo nearly the whole questline. Luckily I found a few people who would help me do the dungeon, no way I could have solo'd that. Now it's just given to them :|
Was amazed when I found that Ashes of war , and it was so cool to use it . Elden Ring is just full of Excitment and Rewards, and the shatterd gauntlet of ages has very cool effect and satisfying every time you use it
Fierce diety has got to be one of the most satisfying abilities to obtain, not just because of the ability you get, but because of all the other stories you get to experience in the process of getting it. Absolute best way to finish the game.
One thing that came to mind is unlocking the relic specific weaponskills in ffxi by finishing a relic weapon. Its alot easier now but it used to be a challenge that took entire alliance of dedicated end game players months for a single person to unlock.
The final version of Erde Kaiser from Xenosaga 3 comes to mind. Getting to this secret boss is a late game chore that takes a lot of time to accomplish. You have to fight Erde Kaiser at its best, and to deal worthwhile damage, you had to have the other Erde Kaiser summon abilities since the final form Erde Kaiser had barriers that could only be broken down by using a related summon skill against it. Otherwise you are cherry tapping and hoping you don't get killed. Emerge victorious, and you get the final form of Erde Kaiser to call on in battle whenever you wanted. This ability is so ridiculously overpowered that you can end any fight immediately just by summoning. Made more ridiculous if the one summoning is equipped with an item that reduces ability costs by 100%. You basically have a godly robot with a stereotypically sounding southern accent on speed dial that wrecks everything you fight with no trouble whatsoever.
My brother got it, as I recall you can only summon it once per fight and he killed the final boss's final form with it saving it through the first forms.
The elden ring arrow rain i use as a utility in a way, considering the arrow it uses is the arrow you have equipped. Scarlet rot arrows, scarlet rot arrow rain... explosive arrows....
Don't forget that you can skip breeding for a gold chocobo by killing the Ruby Weapon and turning in the desert rose it drops to the Kalm traveller... As though that's easier especially without KotR...
Metroid - I was actually thinking "Tell me she uses Guile's voice every time she fires." It's his signature move. Wouldn't have thought about the blue hedgehog, so you got me there. Hazard Neutralization does sound incredibly useful. Hopefully if I try the game at some point, the quests needed won't be too random to figure out - if the world is that big and I've never played the story I've actually never enjoyed the type of Devs that just assume everyone's GOING to want/need to look up exactly how to do everything. To me, a walkthrough is best done to be there if you absolutely need the help. It should never be designed in a game that you are not going to have a choice but to look something up.
Falcon, you have achieved the mythical status of "I love him, but I don't want to see his face!" Only a very select few have achieved this... You and Jake are polar opposites and we wouldn't want it any other way! 🦅 (
Just reading the title gave me a flashback of when I played PlayStation Home. They had a hoodie you could only get by pre-ordering the infamous game. This would allow you to wear a reaper style hoodie from the Infamous game in PSH. At one point they had their own room to advertise the Infamous game in it and I saw someone with the hoodie and got super excited, haha.
Sad fact about rain of arrows, it doesn’t let rainbow stone arrows activate, and it won’t do the usual aoe lighting effect when using it in water with lighting arrows which would’ve been awesome
I was a Lead GM for SWG and can probably share this secret by now: The reason it was incredibly difficult is that it wasn't actually in the game at launch and (presumably, I was not a dev) had to build it all down and used timesinks to buy time. Same thing happened with Plane of Earth (iirc) in Everquest, which was unbeatable on purpose because Plane of Time wasn't done.
I remember having those old game informer magazines and they’d normally come with a gaming card that has tips and tricks. Megaman X happened to be one of them which why I knew about it way back when.
The daichi katana from fable 3 fits this theme I think. it's hidden in a cave below a bridge that because of camera angles you can't tell you can jump off of, then you land in a relatively short puzzle dungeon that you could easily just leave without even noticing the puzzle locks. For your effort/awareness it's the best melee weapon available.
@@gameranxTV here is something for a God of war Easter egg that I personally found not in the internet I think When kratos arteus and freya reach the world tree for the first and asks u to choose nefelheim don't press anything the secret dialogues r funny and worth it
Oh my God! I'm quite a completionist, but looking at this list it just reminds me of the many wasted hours spent getting all of that stuff, like the GOW Valkyries, the dresssphere and golden chocobo... twice (ps1 and again on ps4). Thanks for reminding me I'm not the only person out there that was crazy enough to go through all that!
Old SWG before it became a WoW clone in the CU was amazing. The whole Jedi thing was a prime example. Had to level specific trees to even get a chance to have Obi-Wan approach you about becoming force sensitive to become a padawan.
Yakuza 0 is probably still my favorite Yakuza game. Also story is well worth it in Yakuza games. Great stories with lots of dramatic moments and often funny sidequests. Abilities aren't the worst to get what more then crafting great gear but that is decently covered sending guys out to get them compared to Yakuza 7's RPG which is much worse and they even toss the Mahjong cheat item that's in some of the Yakuza games. Fierce Diety is only a final boss mask so honestly the best mask is actually the bunny hood mask which takes many of the actual side quests in the book that will get you many other important things as well through it.
You always have that one ability, that's a hard to memorize combo, but it ends everyone in the last hit. Or the ability wipe out everyone in a single blast
In Xenoblade 3, the side quests to unlock the "secret" character and get hazard neutralization isn't complicated. Basically, just progress colony 4 and city side quests until you are attacked by invisible robots (this also happens once during main story near Tau) once you've completed those 2 side quests, a '?' appears in a cave in Upper Aetia, that is the hero quest.
if you're talking about Galamoth in Castlevania as the hardest boss you're quite mistaken, literally the only thing you have to do is wear the circlet that heals you with lightning damage and it's an extreme breeze; he literally heals you the whole time. Not to mention that the poison mist is definitely not useless, it shreds annoying enemies such as imps while being 100% invulnerable and finds & breaks secret walls you happen to pass by
oh jesus, Star Wars Galaxies, Jedi power hunt. now THAT takes me back to some strange times with a mixture of insane pride of acomplishment and just pure anger at how hard and tedious it was to do so when it first came out. i got my dad to get an internet connection just for this game alone! i spent the most part of 8 months in total to become a Jedi in that game. and when i finally managed to do so, i became a legend on the servers i was on. my OG Jedi character that i achieved it on first is still playable to this day! if that isnt dedication, i cant say what is.
The Golden Chocobo was the first time I had to sit down with a guide to accomplish something in a video game. My grandma had to buy me the FFVII strategy guide, after I had already pretty much finished the game. And I remember thinking the Knights summon materia wasn’t even that great once I finally got it.
The Haduken is a slight bit easier to get in the PSP remake of Megaman X as all you need to do there is have all upgrades and go through Armored Armadillo’s stage without getting hit which you can just cheese with a full power Rolling Shield.
I loved Star Wars Galaxies, the only MMO I ever really went all out for. It's hard to understate how crazy it was to run into a player Jedi in the early days. Even aside from that, the game was really ahead of it's time in terms of player-built/run economies, shops, and services. You could be a baker, a physician, an armorer and more on top of whatever combat class you liked. Almost all gear and items were player-made. Player guilds ended up being really fun as everyone tried to find a niche for them to provide some kind of good or service to the guild as a whole. Too bad the combat was fairly tepid early MMO spamfest and the game got re-balanced so literally anyone could be a jedi from the get-go at character creation lol
If I recall for Mega Man X and X2, you needed all armor pieces, all hearts, and all e-tanks to get that capsule to spawn. Same in X2 for the Shoryuken along with some other caveats like getting all of Zero's body back. This is just my recollection as I haven't looked it up in ages.
I love seeing people say the last boss in Majora's Mask is one of the hardest in the game because even on my first playthrough, I got all masks, used the Fierce Deity and slaughtered all three forms of Majora's mask within five minutes. It was such an easy fight with that mask that I thought it was intentionally easy for some reason.
Interesting countdown. Honorable mention to this in my mind is Dragon Soul in Dragon Quest VIII. Massively overpowered (hits hard and completely ignores defense). Not hard to get, necessarily, just tedious. You get it on the hero when you reach 65 after a full 33 levels of not getting any other spells. None of the characters get spells after the low 30's actually, besides this one.
The misinformation in number 9 alone was crazy: 1) Summoning Durnehvirr doesn't cost a Dragon soul every time you use it. 2) Durnehviir attacks enemies normally after teaching you a word of soul tear; he doesn't simply teach you the shout and "do nothing" as stated. 3) Soul Tear's cooldown twice as long as Unrelenting Force with all three words, so it's definitely not shorter than "the ol' Fus Ro Dah".
Buy the time you get the Nights of the Round materia in FF7, you are already such a badass that it makes the final boss fight way too easy. Especially if you are OCD like me and have to master 3 times each piece of materia. I'm glad that the PS1 did not record hours played. I don't want to know how long it took me to get my Golden Chockobo (I'm sure that's spelled wrong).
You are not alone my friend. I got the gold chocobo as well. I wonder how they will do this in the remake. That’s the biggest thing I want to see during this remake is the knights of the round.
Imagine to get it you have to fight them either one after another or even worse, all at once. Considering it was the most broken thing in the OG FF7, I doubt it'll be easy to get in the Remake. I dread what we're gonna have to do.
The pain in your voice when you said, "The reason I know is because I have done it." I think we have so felt that pain, to some degree, in our lives. Grinding for this or that.
I waited patiently through the entire list getting more worked up with each passing game KNOWING that if SWG wasn't on it I would have to assume that Gameranx was obviously unaware the game existed. Thankfully when I reached #1 the correct decision had been made. Well done to the staff
The Mascot dress sphere was really powerful though because it had Ribbon as its ability. As in, the Ribbon that makes you immune to ALL status effects. Most FF games typically only have like one of these as an item, and this made it so you could just have it as a power. If you wanted to play the final 99 level dungeon, you pretty much had to have this.
I actually got SONIC BOOM in METROID PRIME 2 and I agree it was well worth grabbing! Fierce Deity's Mask is requires you to trade all the masks save for the main transformation masks to the Lunar Children and getting through their dungeons! Mind you once you get it you can keep it and regain the other masks by rewinding to the first day! Also there are cheats that allow one to use the Fierce Deity form outside of Boss Rooms (as you can normally only transform within a boss room)! Also in the 3DS REMAKE you can apparently don it inside of FISHING PONDs!
Breeding Final Fantasy 7 Gold Chocobo was really a tidius but so rewarding experience, and it was only a stepping stone, I remember playing on PlayStation as a kid...
If I recall, the megaman one was simply acquire full health by picking up all 4 health capsules and then that item would appear in that level to get the power up. What you showed looked like cheesing a glitch where you can acquire the same capsule 4 times. You may have also mentioned that you needed to be at perfect full health to use it, it damaged megaman, and that it was powerful enough to one-shot the final boss.
You can use Soul Tear on Giants and Mammoths, so that can be a lot of fun. I did both the Fierce Deity Mask and Megaman X Hadouken bonuses back in the day. The former definitely was a pain. The latter was not really worth it. You forgot to mention that to use it, you need full health (EN) bar. Granted, you can have energy tanks that sort surplus health to use later to fill you up if you're say, fighting a boss and want to use the move on them but aren't at full health.
Obtaining the Knight of Round summon in FF7 was the most satisfying thing I ever felt in playing RPGs. I didn't even care how long it would take to MASTER the Materia after I got it. Just awesome to be able to use it especially before nearing the end of the game.
I actually had a lot of fun breeding and racing the Chocobos in FF7, and being able to smoke Joe and his Black Choco.....that son of a biscuit.....setting me back......trying to lvl up this wonder choco bro
The Haduken is nice to see, shame I never see anyone mention the Shoryuken you can learn in X2. While not as broken as The Haduken, it's still fun to watch X pull it off.
I can also say I have actually gotten the golden chocobo in the original final fantasy 7 on Playstation back in the day. Probably my proudest gaming moment ever still to this day
Actually, the original way to unlock Jedi in Star Wars Galaxies was even more obscure than you mentioned. In order to unlock it, you had to ‘Master’ a uniquely chosen profession and it then gave you the choice to become a Jedi. The issue here is that every account had a different class you needed to Master and it was never the one you chose first. I unlocked Jedi originally after completing the majority of classes and respecing to zero and it ended up being Tailor, a crafting class, that gave me the unlock. Jedi were incredibly difficult at first. Number one, you get very little exp, and two, you can't farm with anyone seeing you as it would increase your ‘visibility’ and put you on the bounty hunter boards. It was honestly not worth the hassle when I could just play Teras Kasi and beat just about anyone without much effort using chain cc combos.
Im surprised the Magnus Sisters summon in FFX isnt on this list. It also requires a convoluted quest completion requirement and is obscure but insanely powerful if you go through with unlocking them.
I think any of the slabs in deathloop would be good for this list because you need to get the upgrades for them by getting them multiple times. Super fun concept in my opinion even though it gets repetitive
Rain of arrows in Elden ring becomes powerful when you have something like Bleed arrows. 1 arrow to cast Rain of arrows and each arrow spawned will build up the status effect. So on bigger enemies it’s almost instantly proc’d
I audibly groaned about getting the Fierce Diety Mask in MM. Now, it's not like I didn't enjoy getting it, but it is the most time sensitive grind ever, especially doing Anju's storyline. I was upset to get it at the end of the game, but at the same time it was great fun to use!
An indie game called shattered pixel dungeon has a secret ability. After defeating the dwarf king and taking his crown back to the rat king he will give you the power to turn enemies into rats.
In the first Ori there's this underground level, almost completely dark. I completely avoided it thinking I needed some special ability to get there, and before you know it I'd finished the game. Then I revisited this place and found out there were two super cool abilities (including some kind of dash) that you learned in this place. It would have made the ending rush so much easier...
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The hardest part about becoming a Jedi was for the first year no one knew how to do it. Eventually it was figured out that you had to master certain random professions that were unknown to the player. Eventually, Jedi and Sith Holocrons could be farmed and used to reveal a profession needed. As more Jedi emerged, the amount of professions required to master became increased server wide (as a way to slow the Jedi population) until eventually it was required to master all 34 professions. The system was totally changed multiple times afterwards, but this was the original system.
Still to this date the *best* game I ever played - r.i.p SWG
@@woswosa4064 yep nothing has come close after alll these years, sandbox was intense even with nge it still dumps on everything
God dam 🤣
Boy do I miss swg.
@@woswosa4064 Same. I loved that game. I was a resource miner for my friends. So when he still didn't have Jedi unlocked by the time he did every class except the one where you had to build up a city. I had all the materials needed for each upgrade. So he was just waiting on cool downs. He made Jedi by leveling each class one after the other. Got it in less than a couple of months. Great times.
I remember getting 99% completion in FFX-2 because I forgot to touch Yuna, crounched and hiding while dressed as a moogle, right at the beginning of the game. Playing through the entire game a second time, just to ensure that you do that one little thing and get 100% completion, really makes you rethink your priorities in life.
Or ya coulda done is just grinding for it in the monster tournament
WAIT THATS WHY I ONLY GOT 99% PERCENT THEN
After doing the number puzzle maze and completing it then realising the 1% was at the start of the game I’d be pissed lol
I had 100 percent the first time with gameshark lol
@@LuisFelipe-vn7pe dun dun dun!!!
on the bright side for the swg jedi unlock, it was so rare, that when you seen a jedi or sith in play, it was a major event on its own. literally in the most populated area, two force user started a fight with each other, the everyone just watched, it was only when one of them died that everyone realized, we could participate and not just watch. that is the effect, when you have a dozen or so jedi on a server of thousands or more, compare this to the "epicness" of everyone is jedi so noone is special way of every other game.
Hey!! Both my parents had Jedi in the Star Wars Galaxies MMO!
When you said that game's name for number one I was unlocking so much memories so fast...
They were so proud of their Jedi.
My mom was also one of the last bio extracting classes or idk had the ability to draw blood from creatures and turn them into mounts, pets, and taxidermies.
I was really young when I played that with my family.. but fond fond memories.
And yes, before you asked, my parents were CONSTANTLY on that game when it wasn't shut down. Since the beginning of that game's release.
Same with Everquest. (Which isn't shut down, but is sadly basically dead.)
now i feel old
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Hahaha yes this post makes me feel old as I remember briefly trying grind out Jedi before giving up and moving on to WoW after years of playing SWG
Galaxies was soooo good . So many good memories there until the combut upgrade came out then I gave up.
i cant even imagine how many hours/days it took for your parents to reach that level xD as a kid i had a box for the game everquest but i never did get to play because my pc didnt have internet connection (i was like 11 years old) i ended up playing warcraft 3 reign of chaos campaign mode then eventually started playing the custom games online super super fun times. i still play planetside 2 which was a popular game at the same time as starwars galaxies
Honorable mention:
Okami's 100 stray beads collection, all of them are acquired from random side quests but when you have them all you basically unlock the bead necklace which makes you immune to damage, have infinite ink (game's mana) and deal x10 more damage with everything.
I remember the good old days of SWG when you had to master specific classes/careers in order to become force sensitive!
If I recall correctly, you had to master 4 careers, 3 already revealed and the last one hidden... my lil bro had to master every single one, the very last one he mastered was the one he needed while my younger sister got hers on the first try!😅🤣
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Prototype instantly comes to mind it's skill tree unlocks are so unique
Awesome, a fellow prototype player
I love Prototype and Prototype 2 with the big black dude. Reminds me of infamous, first light, second son, etc.
I wish the prototype IP continued
Both these games are brilliant!!
its actually spelt [GOATOTYPE]
The Fierce Deity’s Mask is easily one of my favorite masks in all of gaming. I was thrilled to be able to wear the set in Breath of the Wild. I hope my Young Link amiibo works as well in Tears of the Kingdom!
Oh wow. Cool. I need to finally finish that game. Not sure why I dropped off it.
Nintendo was suppose to make a sequel based on majora and the fierce Deity, but it never happened.
I actually remember having a roomate in Jobcorp who really loved Megaman and he spent weeks on Megaman Maverick Hunter for PSP and unlocked the Hadoken...but in Maverick Hunter you actually have to get through each stage and beat the whole game without taking damage to unlock it. I am still to this day surprised he did it and I think it's one of the most obscene unlock conditions for a secret.
Actually you just have to unlock everything and then get to the Hadoken upgrade without taking damage. Like the level where it is, is the only level you need to take no damage. Still an impressive feat regardless
Arrow rain in Elden is amazing for placing status effects on large enemies and bosses. Great way to apply scarlet rot and poison or even sleep on the God skin duo. Easily one of the best ashes of war. It only uses 1 arrow and fires a barrage allowing you to really extend the use of status effect arrows.
you could put it on greatbows with special arrows to great effect, as seen on several nice pvp videos.
with a GreatBow it also does Insane DMG
And for large bosses EVERY ARROW HITS so it's a huge DPS spike
It's just a worse version of radahns' rain
@derekmizo9038 haven't played in a while since this post. Could have changed like alot of weapons and weapon arts do.
I had an entire notebook with pages of random notes and stats for raising chocobo's when I was a kid. Did the whole thing through trial and error because back then I didn't have ready access to the internet. It took me so long to figure out that when I finally got that first gold chocobo I nearly yanked my PS1 off the shelf by the controller cable I was so happy.
I did the same thing. Was noting which greens raised which stats and everything. I ended up losing that notebook though 😥
If you didn’t have access to the internet, how did you even know to try to make a gold chocobo?
@@MrShanester117 speaking for myself, I had a couple older gamer friends that had bought the guide and told me about it. Though 11 year old me was pretty gullible and I had thought they were stringing me along for a while until I finally managed it.
Ah yes. Communication and game news didn't exist before the internet.
Seriously though, back then there were places where people gather and talk about games. There are also pieces of paper with printed information about games called game magazines and guides where players could read secrets, tips, feature explainations from devs or community """experts"""
It was tedious enough even with a guide. I can't imagine doing it by trial and error.
Thank God Falcon is doing the countdowns and Jake is on the news. Perfection.
Falcon is the best 🤠
I like it when they switch it up.
Just as long as I never see Falcon’s face, it’s all good. lol
@@juggernaut4936 I would say u just screwed urself but u can't post pics to YT comments so u might b safe..lol
@@indylockheart3082 good… good… maybe he pulled a Charlie from Emergency Awesome and has videos of him in the early days. Idk and I don’t want to see.
It was nice seeing two familiar games on this list: Majora’s Mask and Final Fantasy X-2. I definitely remember the grind for the masks but the task that was even harder was doing all the side quests in a single 3 day cycle for the sake of acquiring a heart piece.
How is Skyrim not familiar
@@spacejesus6581it’s subjective lol I’ve played both the games he mentioned…when I was a kid…haven’t played Skyrim, even till today…
Knights of the Round in FFVII was definitely worth the effort to get it. Long animation, but serious damage, say 13 knights x 9999 each when maxed out! 😁
Grinded it out and then beat Ruby Weapon, which took longer for some reason! Plus my dog jumped on my PS1 before I could save and the game stalled, never could beat that butthead again
@@subsonicbass it was quite the kick in the nuts after killing ruby and realizing your reward was another stupid bird you already grounded out to beat Ruby
You can fly with the Gold Chocobo in Final Fantasy 7 by standing in a forest and pressing X on the playstation or CONFIRM on other platforms
I came to this video expecting to see knights of the round
Actually after he teaches you all of the words the dragon from the soul cairn in Skyrim will fly around using shouts and summoning the shadow dudes from the soul cairn to fight with you. It’s kind of sick.
The sonic boom from Metroid Prime 2 was so artistically and graphically impressive back in the day. It’s hard to think of another weapon that looks like you’re literally shattering reality when fired.
Vergil's Yamato from Devil May Cry is the only other one off the top of my head. Good ole Judgement Cut END.
One aspect that I really liked about it was that you were using both the light and dark energy ammo because it was a weapon that used to both. Really cool conceptually.
In the Megaman x part, you don't have to die 4 times, all you need to do is not take damage after that last checkpoint. I love your content!
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@@gameranxTV tbf there are a LOT of false guides saying the 4 lives thing. Not sure where that came from but it is definitely not true. I do recall the original guides saying you needed to have full etanks as I recall doing that every time I went to get it.
But one certainty is that you need full health when you get to the end, if you don't it won't appear.
I didn't know this. But I noticed the lives thing was BS which seemed the spawn was random chance.
Its similar on X2 I just got near the place and used a subtank to have full health
Pretty disappointed to see people saying they don’t like jake doing countdowns. Falcon, Jake, and the team put in so much effort here. EVERY video is worth watching. Thank you gameranx 🧡
Agreed, these are good vids to watch and to relate too, so many games and lots of work to make these.
Yh I don't understand the hate either
I feel like Jake just doesn’t have a personality
@@TheTrueCreed same
The gauntlet in God of War is required if you want to reach level 9 without moving to NG+. Also makes the Sigrun fight easier (since she is level 8).
Metroid had combos in the Super Metroid game as well. You'd charge your beam while having Power Bombs and a single type of beam equipped, (Ice, Spazer, Wave, Etc) and it would release a unique attack.
1:48 "This allows you to summon the dragon for help, which costs a dragon soul every time you wanna use it."
Actually, Summoning Durnehviir doesn't cost souls. It just takes 3 souls to fully unlock his Summoning Shout.
And after the first 3 summons, he's a great summon thanks to his ability to Soul Tear your enemies and also summon Undead of the Soul Cairn to fight by your side. very helpful if you need to take out several enemies at once.
Also that he is a frost dragon which can greatly help against normal dragons which are fire.
That was cool b4 mods came into play now you can make your character a demi god
@@mcbdllc2848 Indeed. But that's kinda how you should be in Skyrim lore too. Since Akatosh is a Divine and both Alduin and the Last Dragonborn are said to be his children. Making them both in to Demi-gods by birth. So the actually nerfs the player quite a bit just to prevent you from one shotting everything.
@@PanzerShrek94 True, but there is several enemies who are immune/highly resistant to frost attacks.
@@dragonoidsix and for them there is Odahviing.
I really like the idea of becoming a jedi being a really tough process I mean it's kinda realistic in that sense.
The first time I played Symphony of the Night, I got a crissaegrim on my first walk through the reverse library. I just assumed all of the bosses were just easier in the second part of the game because the weapons were all so much better lol
That was the one that did like four attacks for one swing right? I spent hours to get that one my first time. But on my second play through got it in maybe two minutes. Like what the hell?
I remember getting the Warlock mount upgrade in vanilla WoW was a nightmare. You had to unlock the quest, then farm a ton of rare expensive materials that were used to craft raid gear, then collect 3 items to use to summon a special boss at the end of one of the harder end game dungeons. Getting green fire was also a major achievment in Burning Crusade I think.
Burning Crusade came out when I got to that quest, so no one wanted to help me do it and I had to solo nearly the whole questline. Luckily I found a few people who would help me do the dungeon, no way I could have solo'd that.
Now it's just given to them :|
Gotta love power boosters, they're great dealing with endgame bosses and just feeling overall op
Was amazed when I found that Ashes of war , and it was so cool to use it . Elden Ring is just full of Excitment and Rewards, and the shatterd gauntlet of ages has very cool effect and satisfying every time you use it
Fierce diety has got to be one of the most satisfying abilities to obtain, not just because of the ability you get, but because of all the other stories you get to experience in the process of getting it. Absolute best way to finish the game.
One thing that came to mind is unlocking the relic specific weaponskills in ffxi by finishing a relic weapon. Its alot easier now but it used to be a challenge that took entire alliance of dedicated end game players months for a single person to unlock.
The final version of Erde Kaiser from Xenosaga 3 comes to mind. Getting to this secret boss is a late game chore that takes a lot of time to accomplish. You have to fight Erde Kaiser at its best, and to deal worthwhile damage, you had to have the other Erde Kaiser summon abilities since the final form Erde Kaiser had barriers that could only be broken down by using a related summon skill against it. Otherwise you are cherry tapping and hoping you don't get killed. Emerge victorious, and you get the final form of Erde Kaiser to call on in battle whenever you wanted. This ability is so ridiculously overpowered that you can end any fight immediately just by summoning. Made more ridiculous if the one summoning is equipped with an item that reduces ability costs by 100%. You basically have a godly robot with a stereotypically sounding southern accent on speed dial that wrecks everything you fight with no trouble whatsoever.
"The Kaiser Shield is an invisible elemental defense system that surrounds the Sigma! There is a secret to breaking this defense system!"
My brother got it, as I recall you can only summon it once per fight and he killed the final boss's final form with it saving it through the first forms.
The elden ring arrow rain i use as a utility in a way, considering the arrow it uses is the arrow you have equipped. Scarlet rot arrows, scarlet rot arrow rain... explosive arrows....
One of the rarest abilities in God of War 4 is the ability to beat the first draugr on GMGOW difficulty.
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Don't forget that you can skip breeding for a gold chocobo by killing the Ruby Weapon and turning in the desert rose it drops to the Kalm traveller... As though that's easier especially without KotR...
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Double magic
Double item
Mime materia
It's expert easy
The Rain of Arrows is also guarded by the hardest unique golem.
The golem that puts many bosses to shame, yet insists that it's a "mere enemy."
Depends on your build. With my twinblade it killed me a few times. With my Zwiehander he was a pushover.
the sleeping one? you can get the ashes without even waking him up...
@@bartekwisniewski1215 Exactly. I question how good these guys are at videogames sometimes. Even my little brother got it before i did very easily.
I think a big part that makes it annoying is you also need a painting in the pre ash capital before you can take it
Metroid - I was actually thinking "Tell me she uses Guile's voice every time she fires." It's his signature move. Wouldn't have thought about the blue hedgehog, so you got me there.
Hazard Neutralization does sound incredibly useful. Hopefully if I try the game at some point, the quests needed won't be too random to figure out - if the world is that big and I've never played the story I've actually never enjoyed the type of Devs that just assume everyone's GOING to want/need to look up exactly how to do everything. To me, a walkthrough is best done to be there if you absolutely need the help. It should never be designed in a game that you are not going to have a choice but to look something up.
I got the Thanos Gauntlet in God of War and didn't much care for it.
I much preferred the time stopping one. Everyone does.
I agree. Didn't really do enough damage to be of much use against bosses
Getting the Golden Chocobo was actually fun for me and it was fun to run basically all over the map.
Plus Knights of the Round is friggin awesome!
Falcon, you have achieved the mythical status of "I love him, but I don't want to see his face!" Only a very select few have achieved this... You and Jake are polar opposites and we wouldn't want it any other way! 🦅 (
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Just reading the title gave me a flashback of when I played PlayStation Home.
They had a hoodie you could only get by pre-ordering the infamous game. This would allow you to wear a reaper style hoodie from the Infamous game in PSH. At one point they had their own room to advertise the Infamous game in it and I saw someone with the hoodie and got super excited, haha.
Sad fact about rain of arrows, it doesn’t let rainbow stone arrows activate, and it won’t do the usual aoe lighting effect when using it in water with lighting arrows which would’ve been awesome
11:26 Gameranx editors fav meme 😂
Falcon sounds like he takes two percs with his morning coffee. What a legend.
I was a Lead GM for SWG and can probably share this secret by now: The reason it was incredibly difficult is that it wasn't actually in the game at launch and (presumably, I was not a dev) had to build it all down and used timesinks to buy time.
Same thing happened with Plane of Earth (iirc) in Everquest, which was unbeatable on purpose because Plane of Time wasn't done.
Jake countdowns are great, the different approaches they take to their lists are what keeps it interesting in my opinion.
I loved that idea about Jedi and Star Wars Galaxies.
I remember having those old game informer magazines and they’d normally come with a gaming card that has tips and tricks. Megaman X happened to be one of them which why I knew about it way back when.
Game genie cartridge for me
The daichi katana from fable 3 fits this theme I think. it's hidden in a cave below a bridge that because of camera angles you can't tell you can jump off of, then you land in a relatively short puzzle dungeon that you could easily just leave without even noticing the puzzle locks. For your effort/awareness it's the best melee weapon available.
How do you guys never run out of ideas what a great team!!
It’s all thank to your support
Manatees with idea balls.
@@gameranxTV here is something for a God of war Easter egg that I personally found not in the internet I think
When kratos arteus and freya reach the world tree for the first and asks u to choose nefelheim don't press anything the secret dialogues r funny and worth it
Oh my God! I'm quite a completionist, but looking at this list it just reminds me of the many wasted hours spent getting all of that stuff, like the GOW Valkyries, the dresssphere and golden chocobo... twice (ps1 and again on ps4).
Thanks for reminding me I'm not the only person out there that was crazy enough to go through all that!
Old SWG before it became a WoW clone in the CU was amazing. The whole Jedi thing was a prime example. Had to level specific trees to even get a chance to have Obi-Wan approach you about becoming force sensitive to become a padawan.
Yakuza 0 is probably still my favorite Yakuza game. Also story is well worth it in Yakuza games. Great stories with lots of dramatic moments and often funny sidequests. Abilities aren't the worst to get what more then crafting great gear but that is decently covered sending guys out to get them compared to Yakuza 7's RPG which is much worse and they even toss the Mahjong cheat item that's in some of the Yakuza games.
Fierce Diety is only a final boss mask so honestly the best mask is actually the bunny hood mask which takes many of the actual side quests in the book that will get you many other important things as well through it.
You always have that one ability, that's a hard to memorize combo, but it ends everyone in the last hit.
Or the ability wipe out everyone in a single blast
In Xenoblade 3, the side quests to unlock the "secret" character and get hazard neutralization isn't complicated. Basically, just progress colony 4 and city side quests until you are attacked by invisible robots (this also happens once during main story near Tau) once you've completed those 2 side quests, a '?' appears in a cave in Upper Aetia, that is the hero quest.
if you're talking about Galamoth in Castlevania as the hardest boss you're quite mistaken, literally the only thing you have to do is wear the circlet that heals you with lightning damage and it's an extreme breeze; he literally heals you the whole time. Not to mention that the poison mist is definitely not useless, it shreds annoying enemies such as imps while being 100% invulnerable and finds & breaks secret walls you happen to pass by
The way falcon pronounces japanese is just the absolute worst.
oh jesus, Star Wars Galaxies, Jedi power hunt. now THAT takes me back to some strange times with a mixture of insane pride of acomplishment and just pure anger at how hard and tedious it was to do so when it first came out. i got my dad to get an internet connection just for this game alone! i spent the most part of 8 months in total to become a Jedi in that game. and when i finally managed to do so, i became a legend on the servers i was on. my OG Jedi character that i achieved it on first is still playable to this day! if that isnt dedication, i cant say what is.
How the hell you pronouncing yakuza?!
The Golden Chocobo was the first time I had to sit down with a guide to accomplish something in a video game.
My grandma had to buy me the FFVII strategy guide, after I had already pretty much finished the game.
And I remember thinking the Knights summon materia wasn’t even that great once I finally got it.
Finally we have Captain Falcon back..
The Haduken is a slight bit easier to get in the PSP remake of Megaman X as all you need to do there is have all upgrades and go through Armored Armadillo’s stage without getting hit which you can just cheese with a full power Rolling Shield.
I loved Star Wars Galaxies, the only MMO I ever really went all out for. It's hard to understate how crazy it was to run into a player Jedi in the early days. Even aside from that, the game was really ahead of it's time in terms of player-built/run economies, shops, and services. You could be a baker, a physician, an armorer and more on top of whatever combat class you liked. Almost all gear and items were player-made. Player guilds ended up being really fun as everyone tried to find a niche for them to provide some kind of good or service to the guild as a whole. Too bad the combat was fairly tepid early MMO spamfest and the game got re-balanced so literally anyone could be a jedi from the get-go at character creation lol
If I recall for Mega Man X and X2, you needed all armor pieces, all hearts, and all e-tanks to get that capsule to spawn. Same in X2 for the Shoryuken along with some other caveats like getting all of Zero's body back. This is just my recollection as I haven't looked it up in ages.
I love seeing people say the last boss in Majora's Mask is one of the hardest in the game because even on my first playthrough, I got all masks, used the Fierce Deity and slaughtered all three forms of Majora's mask within five minutes. It was such an easy fight with that mask that I thought it was intentionally easy for some reason.
Thank you for mentioning the Sonic Boom from Metroid. One of the most satisfying weapons of the game.
Interesting countdown. Honorable mention to this in my mind is Dragon Soul in Dragon Quest VIII. Massively overpowered (hits hard and completely ignores defense). Not hard to get, necessarily, just tedious. You get it on the hero when you reach 65 after a full 33 levels of not getting any other spells. None of the characters get spells after the low 30's actually, besides this one.
The misinformation in number 9 alone was crazy:
1) Summoning Durnehvirr doesn't cost a Dragon soul every time you use it.
2) Durnehviir attacks enemies normally after teaching you a word of soul tear; he doesn't simply teach you the shout and "do nothing" as stated.
3) Soul Tear's cooldown twice as long as Unrelenting Force with all three words, so it's definitely not shorter than "the ol' Fus Ro Dah".
Never knew about that Mega Man X one. I used to play that game so much
Buy the time you get the Nights of the Round materia in FF7, you are already such a badass that it makes the final boss fight way too easy. Especially if you are OCD like me and have to master 3 times each piece of materia. I'm glad that the PS1 did not record hours played. I don't want to know how long it took me to get my Golden Chockobo (I'm sure that's spelled wrong).
I nearly lost my mind fighting the Queen, it took me 100+ tries.
Also x-2 is my all time favorite FF game.
You are not alone my friend. I got the gold chocobo as well. I wonder how they will do this in the remake. That’s the biggest thing I want to see during this remake is the knights of the round.
Imagine to get it you have to fight them either one after another or even worse, all at once. Considering it was the most broken thing in the OG FF7, I doubt it'll be easy to get in the Remake. I dread what we're gonna have to do.
The pain in your voice when you said, "The reason I know is because I have done it." I think we have so felt that pain, to some degree, in our lives. Grinding for this or that.
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@@gameranxTV Just in case you haven't heard it in a while.... Thank you so much for what you all do! Have a great weekend.
Despite the restrictions, the Fierce Deity transformation was a great reward for collecting all the masks.
I waited patiently through the entire list getting more worked up with each passing game KNOWING that if SWG wasn't on it I would have to assume that Gameranx was obviously unaware the game existed. Thankfully when I reached #1 the correct decision had been made. Well done to the staff
The Mascot dress sphere was really powerful though because it had Ribbon as its ability. As in, the Ribbon that makes you immune to ALL status effects. Most FF games typically only have like one of these as an item, and this made it so you could just have it as a power.
If you wanted to play the final 99 level dungeon, you pretty much had to have this.
I actually got SONIC BOOM in METROID PRIME 2 and I agree it was well worth grabbing!
Fierce Deity's Mask is requires you to trade all the masks save for the main transformation masks to the Lunar Children and getting through their dungeons! Mind you once you get it you can keep it and regain the other masks by rewinding to the first day! Also there are cheats that allow one to use the Fierce Deity form outside of Boss Rooms (as you can normally only transform within a boss room)! Also in the 3DS REMAKE you can apparently don it inside of FISHING PONDs!
Breeding Final Fantasy 7 Gold Chocobo was really a tidius but so rewarding experience, and it was only a stepping stone, I remember playing on PlayStation as a kid...
If I recall, the megaman one was simply acquire full health by picking up all 4 health capsules and then that item would appear in that level to get the power up. What you showed looked like cheesing a glitch where you can acquire the same capsule 4 times. You may have also mentioned that you needed to be at perfect full health to use it, it damaged megaman, and that it was powerful enough to one-shot the final boss.
i played Yakuza 0 1st and did everything i loved doing both those mini games didn’t realized that was to unlock those styles 😅
I don't even play final fantasy but that little green guy with the brown robe is OP as Hell.
You can use Soul Tear on Giants and Mammoths, so that can be a lot of fun.
I did both the Fierce Deity Mask and Megaman X Hadouken bonuses back in the day. The former definitely was a pain. The latter was not really worth it. You forgot to mention that to use it, you need full health (EN) bar. Granted, you can have energy tanks that sort surplus health to use later to fill you up if you're say, fighting a boss and want to use the move on them but aren't at full health.
One of the rarest...
You just have to play through half of the DLC and use unique shout you got three rimes....
And another great video....Falcon you don't miss a beat lol BTW that geeky guy who throws in the towel never gets old lol
Obtaining the Knight of Round summon in FF7 was the most satisfying thing I ever felt in playing RPGs. I didn't even care how long it would take to MASTER the Materia after I got it. Just awesome to be able to use it especially before nearing the end of the game.
I actually had a lot of fun breeding and racing the Chocobos in FF7, and being able to smoke Joe and his Black Choco.....that son of a biscuit.....setting me back......trying to lvl up this wonder choco bro
lol I’m playing Yakuza 0 right now! I started four years ago and finally getting back around to it. Thank you
I remember getting the Knights of the round summon, god that was such a chore. Hope they at least make an appearance of some sort in FF7 Remake.
Knights of the Round (Table) is worth getting a gold chocobo.
The Haduken is nice to see, shame I never see anyone mention the Shoryuken you can learn in X2. While not as broken as The Haduken, it's still fun to watch X pull it off.
I can also say I have actually gotten the golden chocobo in the original final fantasy 7 on Playstation back in the day. Probably my proudest gaming moment ever still to this day
Actually, the original way to unlock Jedi in Star Wars Galaxies was even more obscure than you mentioned. In order to unlock it, you had to ‘Master’ a uniquely chosen profession and it then gave you the choice to become a Jedi.
The issue here is that every account had a different class you needed to Master and it was never the one you chose first.
I unlocked Jedi originally after completing the majority of classes and respecing to zero and it ended up being Tailor, a crafting class, that gave me the unlock.
Jedi were incredibly difficult at first. Number one, you get very little exp, and two, you can't farm with anyone seeing you as it would increase your ‘visibility’ and put you on the bounty hunter boards.
It was honestly not worth the hassle when I could just play Teras Kasi and beat just about anyone without much effort using chain cc combos.
Im surprised the Magnus Sisters summon in FFX isnt on this list. It also requires a convoluted quest completion requirement and is obscure but insanely powerful if you go through with unlocking them.
Do a list of game mechanics everyone understands but few can pull off (ex. fighting game combos)
I think any of the slabs in deathloop would be good for this list because you need to get the upgrades for them by getting them multiple times. Super fun concept in my opinion even though it gets repetitive
Rain of arrows in Elden ring becomes powerful when you have something like Bleed arrows. 1 arrow to cast Rain of arrows and each arrow spawned will build up the status effect. So on bigger enemies it’s almost instantly proc’d
One childhood gaming achievement was getting the Hadouken
I audibly groaned about getting the Fierce Diety Mask in MM. Now, it's not like I didn't enjoy getting it, but it is the most time sensitive grind ever, especially doing Anju's storyline. I was upset to get it at the end of the game, but at the same time it was great fun to use!
Woah woah woah...Durnavir definitely fights along side you as well as teaches you that shout...I summoned him against Alduin ...best sidekick.
An indie game called shattered pixel dungeon has a secret ability. After defeating the dwarf king and taking his crown back to the rat king he will give you the power to turn enemies into rats.
In the first Ori there's this underground level, almost completely dark. I completely avoided it thinking I needed some special ability to get there, and before you know it I'd finished the game. Then I revisited this place and found out there were two super cool abilities (including some kind of dash) that you learned in this place. It would have made the ending rush so much easier...
Not gonna lie, that Jedi "tedious process" sounds like it would be perfect for online gaming. Too bad they made it too easy.
Oh man, I did that same thing with the golden chocobo back in the day. So many hours dumped into that ... but so cool to use Knights of the Round.