/vr/ - Retro Games

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>mfw all these /v/ermin shitting up this board
Please crawl back to that cesspool /v/ where you fucking belong

A lot of old western-developed arcade/action games of the 80s' & 90's are mediocre at best, godawful at worst. Those bland-looking platformers with boring level design, slippery controls, and shitty boss fights, if any at all. They often spend more time on the overly-detailed graphics and music than polishing up the gameplay and design. There are a few good ones like the DKC games & Soccer Kid but the bad far outweighs the good imo.

And while we're at it, outside of Hydroah, westerners can't make Shmups to save their lives. Euroshmups just fucking suck.

Amiga & C64 games on average are shit and inferior to their Japanese contemporaries on platforms like the MSX & Sharp X68000 machines. The latter two system's library put the top-rated Amiga & C64 games to shame. I never found SID all that great outside of demoscene stuff. AY-3-8910 alone sounds better.

I fucking hate Working Designs' localizations and any others who attempt to ape that style. I personally wish the games in their catalog were retranslated from the ground up and given new localizations. I'm by no means saying they should be given TV-Nihon-tier translations though, where every other word is intentionally left untranslated accompanied by pointless TL notes & shit.

Super Turrican 1 & Mega Turrican are the only good games in the entire series. The first two have aged like milk.

Virgin's Aladdin is a highly overrated and mediocre platformer. The only thing it has going for it are the graphics and presentation. Snes version plays better despite being one of Capcom's weaker Disney efforts.

Even with it's flaws, RetroArch/Libretro is the best thing to happen to emulation and it mops the floor with the original standalones, even if it can be a royal pain to use sometimes.

6th-gen console discussion should be allowed here, or at least PS2 minimum, given it's borderline retro selection of certain games.