/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6904339
I've been on /vr/ for many years and you know it. This board had become a cesspool, it's finally getting better. But you were the ilk who made it so shitty so of course you're upset. But you don't matter because you were only ever a troll.

>>6720180
Had one for many many years. It was pretty great back in the day playing between class or on the train but eventually sold it because I almost never used it instead of emulating Genesis on PSP.

Great idea, but it is pretty clunky, unless you plug it in goes through batteries like nuts and the screen is terrible in motion.

>>6443179
Ironically I used to have a Nomad till I sold it because I never used it any more.

>>6196671
It's true I don't have one, but only because I sold it for being impractical for anything other than being a hipster conversation piece.

>>6160669
Former Nomad owner here. It was very neat in it's time for the novelty factor of playing Genesis on the go, but the screen sucks, it's clunky and eats so many batteries it's barely even practical to use it unless there's a place to plug it in. In the end I sold it to a hipstery guy because I just never used it over emulating on PSP and 3DS for portability.

>>6072984
I don't see what distinction you're trying to draw. I didn't care about the hardware, just the games. That's all I've ever cared about. Once I found I was almost always emulating and my stuff was just taking up room and collecting dust I started selling it off.

>>5437000
Guy Are Us has some really sweet levels and bosses.

>>5434254
I prefer to play almost everything in hendheld form, it's one of the main reasons I mostly emulate now.

>>5407474
Death in a spaceship

Gaiares is a little like that actually. You do upgrade your guns with different types, but some areas are better with one weapon than another so you'll be swapping out. It's not like Gradius say where you upgrade speed, missiles, etc. You do get sheilds but not much. It's more like Kirby where you steal different kibds of attacks from enemies and use them for a bit before swapping.

I find most shmups kind of dull but had a grand time with Gaiares and still revisit it sometimes. Awesome music and aesthetics too, giant robot dragons and shit. There's even a Castlevania inspired level where you fight death.

>>5369924
Gaiares is a little like that actually. You do upgrade your guns with different types, but some areas are better with one weapon than another so you'll be swapping out. It's not like Gradius say where you upgrade speed, missiles, sheilds etc. It's like Kirby where you steal different kibds of attacks from enemies and use them for a bit before swapping.

I find most shmups kind of dull but had a grand time with Gaiares and still revisit it sometimes. Awesome music and aesthetics too, giant robot dragons and shit. There's even a Castlevania inspired level where you fight death.

>>5329641
>no Gaiares

Your list is small time.

>>5256129
Guy are us

>>5251224
Which Sega system is it the general for? Master, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast? Or any? I like the Nomad system personally.

>>5147793
Well I would say a need for prioritizing would lead to a need for efficiency. But certainly what one finds fun in the experience is most important. If someone wants to master every bit of one game without a worry of how many games they may play in the end, then playing it from the start each time would be best. Certainly even if you don't die in any of them, your 100th run through of say Gaiares is going to be better than the first, 10th or perhaps 50th.

If however you want to be able to simply do a no death run of as many games as possible, then training stage by stage with a system like in OP's post or with savestates would be the most efficient and so best use of that gamer's time.

I can see the value in both, even though I don't realy play these games much. With fighters it's the same though, between the guys who want play lots of games, and those of us who have mostly just played KoF for 20 years.

>>4945142
>that's the joke before you say i

See? You can make a joke, just not see it when it's balls are in your face. Of course I was being purposefully reductive to trigger you for shits and giggles.

Here's me playing a shmup on hardware as a gesture of fiendship

>>4735728
Several good shmups on the system. Gaiares is my favorite, it has a really fun upgrade system and some very cool levels like one that feels like a Castlevania shmup complete with a fight with death.

Ranger-X is another excellent straight up action game with some really cool gimmicks

Herzog Zwie rocks as well.

>>4735786
I've literally only ever played through those games once each with Grant. For me it's all about the raptor. I mostly just love all the background scrolling in that level.

>>4699679
Nice try with the "you must be young!" line. But you're full of bullshit.

I actually was there, collecting heavily. Of course prices were much lower, but there was never ever a time when you could consistently find games like Metal Warriors for less than a dollar.

There is nothing wrong with prices now in any way. It's basic economics.

>>4535103
True. I likewise beat sega master system Space Harrier my first try and it was fun. And there's been the occasional shmup I liked enough to beat. Gaiares' upgrade system kept me experimenting long enough that I ended up beating it (on a Nomad no less). But that was also when I was working a night job with very little else to do. Since then I've barely ever played it again.

But I'm talking in generalities. It's why I played Bangai-O and Fantasy Zone longer. Or why it's fun to set some weird challenge in an open world game and try it.

>>4434034
I don't normally care for shmups much, but that one kept me interested enough that I kept playing and now still pick it up sometimes. It's one of only 20 or so Genesis carts I've kept around in physical form.

>>4374785
It really is. I love it when a poor person gets so triggered over some stranger owning a cellphone that they try for hours to derail a thread because of it. Indigent people are a sad lot, but they're sure fun to laugh at.

>>4244321
Nah I'm getting a kick out of this. You cry and act like a big baby all because someone else is happy emulating all you want. Just gives me more reasons to laugh at you.

>>4157743
Gaiares because of the best weapon upgrade system and awesome bosses.

>>4126169
One of my favorite games of my favorite system. Gotta ship it when I can!