/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9271398
The game becomes far less enjoyable around the time one goes into the crashed frigate, which is around. There are less cool things to explore, the environments and enemies become brown, grey, boring and ugly, especially in the phazon mines, fighting the new enemies is more frustrating than fun and there are no interesting and/or fun upgrades. The grapple beam got fun in Echoes.
The whole gameplay, the weapons, items, levels, enemies the controls etc. was more in tune with each other during the exploration parts of the game. They developers should have just sticked to that, which is very fun and rare in such a quality in videogames.
Still one of my favorite games. Haven't played 3 so far, looking forward to it, althought i don't expect too much.

>>9279303
>Magmoor Caverns
Enjoyable at the beginning, great soundtrack, tedious later on.

>>8807630
Perfect formula for mainstream success:
An immersive fantasy adventure game that has fun gameplay/12-seconds-core-gameplay loop, great music and a medieval-European inspired setting. An interesting world to explore, dynamic changes to the gameplay, many kind of upgrades for more motivation and everything is so refined, well-rounded.
People have been always fond of adventure settings, I mean look the amount and success of young adult fantasy novels, such as Harry Potter.
Obviously only half of the Zelda games are considered masterpieces, but that's still impressive with so many games in a series
The question is rather why so few clones exist, I only know Darksiders 1 and I have enjoyed it a lot.

>>8601804
>Does it get better eventually?
Not really. Played in on PS4 for the first time in early 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT_SxEUT9Ks watchiing the opening after starting the game hooked me immediately.
>>8603958 is pretty much spot on, I really loved the atmosphere, the aesthetics, the soundtrack.
The controls were frustrating and fighting the bosses started to become boring and tedious. The strategies beating the bosses were always different but killing the bosses was always the same: stabbing the spots with your sword and not falling off.
Finishing the game was still very enjoyanle and seeing the whole world as well, the PS4 remastered version looks very good in that hindsight.
One thing I enjoyed gameplaywise was having to trashy loot. Not wasting time rearranging the item menus or taking stuff you don't need like in Minecraft or Terraria or the TES games. Just raw gameplay.

The ones I never liked where the last dungeons right before fighting Ganondorf: Ganon's castle, tower and Hyrule castle. They felt like the average shitty fan mod, with all known types of puzzles and enemies to get a 'best of' feeling, offering nothing new and no atmosphere.
That happens in many video games desu.

>>8347183
It's funny and somewhat reminds me of the car industry, people in the 2000s thought that they were entering a great future that would make the past products obsolete through technological progress and not worth keeping. So they gave it all away for cheap, not realising that they would face disappointment once they had gotten used to the shiny, fancier new stuff.
>Remember when console gaming was cheap as shit?
For a few years, PS4 prices have been around 170-200€ for a few years and most consoles are available for large discounts once its life cycle comes to an end.
The GC started with 200$ in the US, which are around 300$ today, according to online inflation calculators. The console wasn't expensive back then, but all the addons, such as memory cards, controler and games were. Today it's similar, but storage has gotten cheap and people have to pay for online services.

>>8347431
I still have my Gamecube stuff and have been too lazy to sell it for three years. Now I wonder whether I should wait, the prices have risen a lot. I bought a second gamecube bundle for 30€ on ebay used in ~2017 just for a second controller and F-zero GX (disappointing desu but I would have enjoyed it a lot as a child) and the seller was so friendly, that he added a Pokemon XD copy he found. Apparently he wanted to get rid of his collection, the game is now 85-120€ used in my country and 3-4 times of what I paid for the bundle. The Gamecube is also "made in Japan", I wonder whether people would pay considerably more for it. I now regret not having bought more great games for 10€ back then, but that's life.
My PS2 stuff is worthless and only takes space but might be wort more in 50 years when most has been trashed. Then it's not a Nintendo console, so who knows.