/vr/ - Retro Games

>>11563191
I've finished and now it's officially a 5 star video game for me. As a kid I always wanted to play an Aliens video game, that really captured the mood of the films, the horror, but with some action too, but never really got to playing any of the stuff I saw since it never appealed much to me... now, finally playing this, it's excellent. I felt like Ripley, stuck in this prison planet having to use the dangerous air vents to move around, struggling to find guns and ammo, though I'm aware the film had none, to fight off all these aliens, which succeeded in feeling scary! I got a game over for running out of ammo, thus having "no hope" of defeating the alien menace and that sent chills down my spine... being chased by one of the bigger aliens and/or getting low on health, having to go and explore, look around in this somewhat open, but also condensed, map. It's tightly designed and I loved playing though it.

Bits Studios is turning into my favorite studios one playthrough at a time, their Game Boy stuff was stellar.

>>11546386
I think video games based on licensed IPs are overhated. Of course, a lot of it were just subpar cash grabs that knew they'd sell for the license alone, and thus had little care put into them... but I find that if you like the license, as long as the title is at least mediocre, 2 or 3 stars out of 5 I guess, it can be enjoyable, and most of them fall under this category, few are in the "so bad it's irredeemable" category. As a kid I was always into them for the sake of enjoying the licenses and, while they rarely felt like real masterpieces, I always found something to enjoy in the majority of them, even ones that can be considered to be quite bad now.

>>11546214
1. Nintendo always had the handheld market by the balls... the closest thing to a competitor was the PSP and it lost badly to the DS too.
2. As kids most of us couldn't care less about brand loyalty like many adults do on /vr/ nowadays (I had an NES and then a Genesis before finally getting a PlayStation and a GBA).

I know this is bait, but it still must be said, just enjoy the video games, we never had it so good, we can play anything now.

>>11526868
I know I'm in the minority here, and yes, I'll admit that objectively most licensed titles were subpar cash grabs... but I liked them, and as a kid I skipped on a lot of classic original IPs because I chose to play a mediocre title based on a licensed IP I liked instead. Do I regret it? Not at all, I know I'm the reason for these companies doing this in the first place, I'm the problem, but the licenses were a big deal for me, and helped me enjoy something that'd be bad otherwise.

TL;DR I love licensed IP kusoge from the 80's, 90's and 2000's.

>>11518974
I liked Sonic Blast as a kid.