/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2216237
Light-gun shooters are the ones where you can't dodge and must shoot all targets until the timer runs out, like House of the Dead. There may be gimmicks like in Time Crisis, where you have a "hide" pedal, but that's just temporary invincibility switch and not actual controlled movement.

S&P is a rail shooter. The major difference is that they require you to actively move on the screen to dodge. They are never played with actual light guns for obvious reasons. Other examples are Star Fox and Panzer Dragoon games. Most rail shooters allow the played to move on a 2D plane which scrolls in 3d, but there is a very interesting PS1 game called Omega Boost that allows you to move in a 3D sphere which itself autoscrolls in 3D. Panzer Dragoon is special in that it allows 360 look (even though you're limited to an autoscrolling 2d plane), and Star Fox allows you to control the speed of the auto scroll, which is also a rare mechanic.

A game that is often called a rail-shooter but is actually a light-gun shooter is REZ. There is an on-screen avatar, but it is not controlled by the player in order to dodge bullets or obstacles; gameplay consists only of shooting enemies preventively.

>>1983070
In Russia, we just called the stupid thing a "Sony," kind of like people worldwide used to refer to NES/SNES as "Nintendo" and the Megadrive, "Sega."

I remember a few mags calling the PSOne "PSX" later on, and everybody being a bit confused. Then, when looking things up online became widespread, everyone found out that it's in error, and forgot about it

Meanwhile, on the late 90s Internet the thing was called "PS." When PlayStation 2 came out, it became knows as PS1. Occasionally people called it the "PSOne." Only dumb fucks call it the "PSX" now, so I obviously side with people saying that, and we _are_ in the right.
>I will call it however I damn please!
As always, free to be wrong you are, gentlemen.

>>1930674
Chances are, it's me again. But answer my point or shut your yawn, you little slut. Shitposting is not really an option for you anymore.

>>1386750
Well, it hurts my mind that there are reaction-image-spamming shitposters. So?

Meanwhile, you can take solace in the fact that the two posts are both mine, so the most hated people right now are all me, even though I'm not the only one arguing against the word "metroidvania" ITT.