/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4319994
My experience has been different.

>>4250439
If you like that style of game but aren't married to only old titles, Etrian Odyssey series is fantastic and balls to the wall.

>>4116741
Sorry I don't only care about Nintendo franchise games. It's like you're actively trying to be a parody.

Not retro, but Etrian Odyssey is a perfect example of variable difficulty being good for a game.

Etrian Odyssey is a wonderful series of games. They're dungeon crawling RPGs that are very challenging and require a lot of strategy and careful party building to deal with what gets thrown at you.

They are very popular with fans of old school dungeon crawlers and RPGs because they offer a level of challenge few games of this type go for these days.

However, that also meant that the games were too hard for many people to enjoy and it's one of the reasons the first three games in the series were very niche. I didn't mind because I love the games as they were, but many people wanted to like them but found they just didn't.

So with the 4th game they did something wonderful. At the start they give you a choice whether you want to play a traditional EO game or if you would like it made a little easier. The result is that that game was able to be enjoyed by far more people.

The "easy" mode is still quite challenging for normal RPG players, but at the same time it let them make the "hard" mode even harder for the players who are into that. The result is that more people got to play and enjoy the game, and the people who did got to play it in a way that suited them better.

It was a great series in it's original form, but adding that only made it better.

>>2701608
Whaaat? DS had an incredible library, including pick related, one of the best dungeon crawler series ever starting on it.

>>2445010
I always say that if someone can't find ANYTHING new that they like, they probably just don't like games all that much. There is such a volume and wide variety of stuff being made these days, it blows all previous generations out of the water. The difference is that these days there's more crap to dig through to find the gold you want.

There's another RPG series which is solely responsible for reinvigorating my interest in the genre.

>>2431552
>When?
Like you really need to ask.

>99.99% of games have shit DLC. It's trash.
Hyperbole out the ass.

>Mobile games are cash grabs. Let me guess you'll tell me those Tiger Electronics games are good too? Same shit.
Most moblie games are completely free which is how the majority of people play them. Some of the Tiger games weren't bad for their time. They weren't complex enough for me, but my mom played the hell out of baseball on one of those things which is exactly my point about causal games and gamers.

>What?
The whole history of video games is something like Mario (or DQ, Tetris etc) coming along, getting incredibly popular and then other companies iterating on that idea.

>No they aren't. They're a way to change gameplay from actual gameplay to simon says or a grind.
Now I'm just convinced you don't play modern games at all. You have no idea what you're talking about.

>This really needs to stop.
>You buy a top selling game now and you get CoD.

Yeah, because CoD sells like hotcakes to teenagers. But that doesn't mean that it's the only game or the game you have to play. The same way that I'm sure the music and movies that appeal most to teenagers these days also don't appeal to you.

All you're doing is complaining that you're not the main target for game developers now. But hey, if you want to bury your head in the sand and have tantrums on the internet that there are no good games, then don't let me stop you. I'm too busy enjoying the hell out of those gems that you can't be bothered to look for. :)