/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10689848
I agree it's not a very fun game, and it's definitely more focused on its presentation rather than the gameplay, but once you actually understand how the gameplay works (building up sync ratio, performing special attacks) it becomes a decent kaiju fighter simulator, it's basically a spiritual sequel to the SNES Ultraman game, also by Bandai. Same mechanics of building up a power meter to perform powerful attacks. And since Evangelion is heavily influenced by Ultraman, it all works out.
The non-fighting missions can vary but some of them are fun too, I like the Magma Diver one.
But yeah the presentation is definitely the strongest point, I remember back in 1999, watching really bad quality Real Media videos that came in CD-ROMs from anime magazines, and being amazed at how it looked. Then I finally saw the real thing in front of me in a local store managed by a japanese guy who had imported the game. He sold it for a very high price so I couldn't even think of buying it. I remember thinking it was the best looking console game I had seen up to that point.
As far as I know, the game doesn't use any special trickery, doesn't use the Expansion Pak, so it's not one of the most impressive games on the system, however the well-crafted 3D models and the art direction make it stand out a lot, I still think it can look like an early 6th gen game sometimes.
And somehow, later Eva games didn't have this faithful look to them. Like, PS2 has obviously more graphical capabilities than N64, and NGE2 does look pretty good, but somehow the models aren't as good looking as the N64 game, it seems like the modelers were lazier, even with more polycount and better textures. Same with the Evangelion: Jo game.
As for NGE2, while it might seem like it's a sequel for the "2", it's more like a reskin of some other unrelated tactical RPG series in the gameplay department, it's not another Ultraman kaiju-simulator action game.

Nice, so archive.org has some of the Eva collector's discs ISOs uploaded, but not all of them.
Photo-anon, you still need to rip the ones that aren't uploaded there.
Also discuss retro Eva vidya and software.
Anyone has the MIDI collection CD?

>>6103271
Are you thinking of some other game?
Evangelion 64 is one of the best looking games of 5th gen, I don't think PS1 could have handled those 3D models.
In fact, Eva 64's models look even better than the PS2 games' models.

>>5605852
>1366x768
what kind of funky aspect raidou is that?