/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5508917

>>3566429
Vigilante 8 was like a shitty version of Twisted Metal. It's been rightly forgotten.

>>3447036
>Tomb Raider doesn't really hold up

Translation: Kids in 2016 can't get into older games. Go back to your xbox. This thread is sad, anyone who can't find awesome non-rpg PS1 games is an idiot.

>>3117583
I will admit, my tastes tend to be a little odd. But I never hate something because it's popular. I love when something I like is really popular.

Metal Gear Solid and Tomb Raider were sure popular as heck and they're a couple of my favorite games on the system. They're just not on that list, which is literally Forgger, Crash and GT.

I love games, I've been playing games practically my whole life. Every single system that has ever come out has had games I liked and games I didn't. I just try to focus on the games I like and not worry about the ones I don't.

>>3085464
>but constantly savestating and loading repeatedly takes all the challenge away from the game.

That doesn't appeal to me either, but I assume it's a little like just playing with cheats and some games are just more fun like that. Me and a buddy would co-op Twisted Metal 2 all the time, but usually we'd put full cheats on and just use the game to goof around. It was a fun game normally, but with invincibility, infinite turbo and super jumps it was crazy fun. I imagine you could do something similar with save states like goofing your way through Ghouls n Ghosts naked with no specials. I dunno... people enjoy all kinds of weird stuff. Whatever floats your boat.

>>2841661
>But it's pretty bold to say you played through X, when in reality you played through a distorted variant of X

My point was more that people these days are concerned about this aspect at all. It's the whole "I played through this!" that I find surreal. It's one thing to talk about games you enjoyed, but the way a lot of people talk about playing games now is like it's something they're doing for an achievement they can show off.

Maybe it's my age or maybe because I'm just weird, but my interest has always been playing with the systems in a game and having fun with it. If a game is really good then I'll play it all the way through to the end, but it's never for the purpose of saying I beat it. It only happens if the game kept me interested that whole time.

Good games are most fun the way they were designed, but not all games are. I'm reminded of Twisted Metal 2 which me and a friend would spend hours on end playing. But always with full cheats like infinite boosting, special attacks, missiles etc, purely because it was a lot more fun that way.

Now, did I "beat" Twisted Metal 2? Probably not, by most definitions. But whether or not I did is completely irrelevant to me. Like with most games, that's not why I was playing it in the first place. It's just all about having fun.

That was more what I was getting at. It seems like more people used to just play games for the intrinsic fun of the experience as opposed to doing it to get credit from other people for having done it.

Pretty damn awful, huh? Dumping.