/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8930031
everything that came after the dreamcast is shitty and boring

>>8930031
About the time I realized the asshole of the south is never, ever going to get good internet, EVER, without moving into a major city and fuuuuuuuuuuuck that. You know what doesn't require internet connections? Old vidya, especially when my already meager 400kbs connection get sharted on by lightning. Thank god for Brave New World right now.

Obviously, not the patch with the meme dialogue.

>>8930031
I played the absolute shit out of games with my friends in gens 5-7. Long nights spent playing smash bros, Nightfire and Halo at LAN parties. Then 8th gen came along and not only did my friend and I grow apart, but games lost their artistic value and passion. The technology is there, but it all feels like a lifeless, formulaic corporate product. To this day, MW2 still blows me away with the combined spectacle of its soundtrack, action and art direction. A modern COD is a sloppy, half-finished product made to pander to kids whose brain has been dopamine-fried since birth. Playing the first Spyro game or Super Mario 64 feels like experiencing something genuinely curious and colorful. Even old Pokemon games from the GBA era and earlier feel like a simple escape into a world of manageable adventure.

Fuck, I dunno. Somewhere along the way, games lost their magic and started to be more transparently corporate. The monetary practices didn't help either.

>>8930119
About the time women started getting into video games.

No, seriously. Look back. About the time women started to seriously post about their interest in gaming on social medial and on picture sites when those were still a thing, they started really heavily making games branch out and that's when the trouble started. Once again, inclusivity comes at the expense of quality.

>>8930125
Women aren't entirely to blame. The limp-wristed faggot men who let this scum into the industry in hope of getting laid are also a big problem.

OP is quite the expert in reposting the same spam over and over. Glorified attention whore.

>>8930003
Hey! That's my pic!

>>8929735
are you 95 years old or about to drop dead this year? then no its not too late, stop being a snowflake.

Did any of them have a story truly worth playing to completion? Also, maybe now is the time for you to finally make your own RPGMaker game.

>>8929710
https://retroachievements.org

now imagine spending an equal amount of time on 4chan
depressing isn't it?

>>8929710
You will always have your virginity and your mothers corpse in the attic

>>8929765
I'd say an arm. I have a bigger dilemma with his eyes, I though they were his nostrils and he was just a nose. truly an enigma.

Horace didnt only go skiing, he went into the woods
https://youtu.be/UshcX55_ij8

I just wish it was possible to get confirmation on what happened to the author, William Tang. I'm pretty sure he's dead, but it would be nice to know for sure.
How much Horace knowledge do you think died with him?

>>8929971
>Horace to the Rescue was announced in 1985 but the game never appeared, due to the author Tang suffering a collapsed lung and being unable to continue
I know he did work on Asterix and the Cauldron in 1986 so was clearly fit enough to code. I can only hope Horace to the Rescue is finished by someone worthy to finish the Horace legend

>>8929798
>eyes
I thought those were his butt cheeks. The blue part of his design is chaps

>>8929918
if you run the cable too long or use shitty cable it can degrade the signal quality, but I use them too and they're fine

>>8929926
Use thicker cables then

>>8929901
Seriously? Is it easy/safe to get emulators running? I was legit thinking of getting a Series S earlier today and I didn't even know anything about emulation. That's a definite buy if it's that easy

>>8929956
https://youtu.be/dV9GyKicrAg
It's pretty straightforward.

>>8930010
Thanks anon. I find myself playing old vidya more often than new trash so a machine that doubles as a way for me to not have to screw around plugging my laptop into the TV is an immediate sell, on top of all the other reasons I already wanted one

>>8929583
Yes but I wish duckstation had better dither scaling.
If you scale to resolution the pattern breaks and becomes super small. Something like half native monitor res would be neat.

>>8929583
Nope.

It's only acceptable in games like Silent Hill because the color banding would be too noticeable otherwise.

>>8929634
>calling sovl a problem

I dont care, i don’t even know what dithering is.

>>8930090
Based.

this is a cool little community, thanks for the posts and the content, have a good day

>>8929510
i love doom 64 but god damn, so many fucking castles

>>8929623
I think it's awesome, but they never really used it. This was the final one.

>>8929510
What a bunch of whiners in this thread, Jesus.

>>8929510
>we wuz impz

i think it had a very unique atmosphere, much creepier than any other doom port
didnt really enjoy it though

>>8929496
It's newer means it's smaller and cheaper, not better.

>>8929496
idk, all my ps2 are dead, had 4 fat, 3 stopped reading dics and 1 got corrupted, and 2 slims, none work. ps2 sucks

>>8929496
I fixed the laser on my slim, was pretty easy but requires some soldering skill which I fortunately have.

>>8929496
I had two slims and both had their lens changed after around three years of use and both died a year or so after changing the lens.
Also the second one used to scratch the DVDs on a circle motion.
Never bothered with PlayStation after that, but to be honest I still have my working PSONE that I brought around 2002 or 2003 and I think my original PS would still be around if it wasn't for my drunk ass brother.

>>8929776
It's the ribbon cable that scratches the discs in the slim. Can be easily fixed just by pushing down on it, doesn't stop it from being a bit shit

>>8929767
wow, you really never played shenmue, larp more

>>8929767
>Yakuza with all the variety of moves and styles
he never played shenmue

>>8929957
Yeah and there is Soilent instead of Tauriner and Staminan

>boringest
Why did so many people respond earnestly to this thread?

>>8929967
Heh. Don't forget your Reddit Drop.

>>8929665
I only had the dreamcast pic, anyway, it's so weird they put in so much effort just to make it worse

>SFA2
>Best music, stages, fighting system

>SFA3
>Cammy, R.Mika, Karin

Yes, I think I'm going to play SFA3

SF3 Second Impact had a better soundtrack than Third Strike as well. But I don't blame Capcom for mixing the music up as it adds something new and makes it still worth playing the older versions as well.

>>8929426
>>8929748
Oh ok so it's not really a downgrade or worse, just your tastes

>>8929783
3rd strike has dogshit presentation compared to 2nd impact/new generations in general
no 16:9 too

whats the most kuwaii?

i am monitoring this thread

>>8929740
why?

>>8929862
>you missed a spot
Good.

>>8929862
>uprez
>not forcing 24bit color
>even original dithering resolution
insane

look in your shader options for "dot mask". TVs had different layouts of the RGB phosphors, with common cheap TVs using the hexagon layout.

only high end CRTs (PVMs) used for medical equipment etc used the straight-in-a-line layout, which is why they are a meme.

>>8929250
>the government says it's bad so it must be bad

I saw enough of this mentality at the aus federal election today. I came here to get away from this cringe

Also on the off chance you're interested in actually playing the game, emulate the Llylgamyn Saga on PS1. You can turn off modern graphics so all you have is wireframe dungeons and the old enemy sprites. Aside from that, it's pretty damn close to the original Apple II versions, and also has an automap feature if you're retarded like me

Why is anyone taking this baiting retard seriously lmao.

>>8930105
Probably because nothing else notable is going on. Also, as an observation, weekday /vr/ was pretty chill, and saturday morning /vr/ instantly has shit smeared on it. Underage /b/an really are the maggots eating the corpse of this site.

legal =/= moral. If you were a 21 year old in Russia right now you might be legally obligated to shoot a 70 year old woman in the back of her head with your rifle. Does that make it the moral decision?

As far as games go if the people who made the game originally are not being paid I would argue that you actually have a moral obligation NOT to pay the people who are currently making money off of it who had nothing to do with it's development. With the current excesses of streaming services, venture capitalists buying up all the IPs, Disney etc. There hasn't been a better time to stick it to the copyright faggots.

>>8929763
>from my understanding
You know that's shorthand for "I'm an ignorant tard but am so desperate for (You)s that I'll shitpost and embarrass myself anyway. Yes I really am that thirsty", right?

>>8929076
I played this game overnight like ten times with a friend. I did not expect it to be more of an arcade game. Was so fucking good. We'd go out to the park nearby and play hide and seek and then come back and play this game. Fuck it was wild to be a kid back then.

This was probably one of my favourite games to play on N64. I think I got it because it was really cheap because nobody cared about hockey in the part of America I grew up in. So it was in the bargain bin.

>>8929102
I have a vivid memory of kicking my best friend's brother in the head with a van's shoe on my foot while this game was on the television in the other room. He all just laughed because we were tough fucks. He took a fucking massive kick to the head, and we all laughed about how much my foot hurt.

Man those were the days.

>>8929112
*we

>>8929076
THAT GOALIE’S A WALL

One of the best sports games I ever played

Fatal Frame Trilogy? Just take a picture of all the ghosts you can see iirc.

>>8929087
I did this on PCSX2 using the IZJS version with an eng patch, in 2012. I have not been the same since, game-wise. Might be truth to this.
GREAT game though, I bought and played through 90% of the Zodiac Age ver on Switch and put in 130+ hours last year. Couldn't make it 100% this time. Yiazmat is a 1.5-2 hour battle alone.

Yeah, play Stuntman.

>>8929169
I did it on the vanilla version of the game on my own PS2, and I died to Yiazmat in the middle of the fight at least once.

I admire many things about FFXII, but overall I hated it. I’m glad I didn’t try to do the Red Chocobo side quest or I really may have ended up abandoning video games entirely.

No, fuck off.