/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4651543
People who complain about the N64 design have tiny hands, like a gypsy.

>>3297129

Megaman on the NES has no continues, making it much harder.
Mario 3 requires a single playthrough and Mario World has a save function.
Ghosts N Goblins and Super Ghouls both have infinite continues and they're both extremely hard to actually finish. Super GnG just has a level select cheat.

Castlevania 4 is easier than the NES original, but mostly because of better controls.

Each of your examples are forms of the series getting easier, but only because the technology improved and got cheaper. The intended difficulty of the games stay functionally the same. Ghosts and Goblins still makes you beat it twice before the final boss, Mario still has 8 worlds with a mechanic to skip a majority of the game but not all of it, Megaman requires you to learn patterns for the bosses and discover their weaknesses to beat the rush fight, and Castlevania still has tricky final bosses but was clearly meant to be beaten with some practice.

>>2733486

Metroid is not a better game than Metal Storm. Sure Metroid is massive and unique, but unless you're making your own maps you'll get lost in the generic rooms.

Metal Storm had a mechanic that wasn't tried again until VVVVV, and it still did it better with the NES hardware.

This was the first game that really sold me on Sci-Fi as a kid. Even got to meet Eric Chahi at GDC once. His postmortem of this game was really interesting.

>>1167179

I used the warps in Battletoads to practice, then when I could reliably beat Revolution I replayed and beat the entire game in one sitting. But it was an experience.

I like how this game was the direct sequel to The Neverhood despite having different gameplay, being on a different platform, and much different in game graphics. How kids were supposed to follow this?

>>1047306

If it were up to me, retro would be a term reserved for 20 year old games or older.

>>764412

Battletoads, Zelda 2, Blaster Master, Megaman Punchout!, and Guardian Legend slip your mind? Could probably think of a few more too.

But Ninja Gaiden 2 was actually fairly easy.

>>661710

Prince of a realm ruled by Shao Kahn, working with Shang Tsung to conquer earth realm, eager to kill to maintain his champion belt, and likes to hold other guys to his three shafted crotch while doing it. Seems somewhat evil.