/vr/ - Retro Games

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Riven is the GOAT

Myst is pretty good too

I talked about it in the Sims thread but this is far and away real Dali-esque surrealism.

Overrated book and not really a fantastic adventure game but the visuals and story work very well together

>>10034968
The PC original is very subdued but they really went all the way in the 6th gen console editions with the storyline.
I wouldn't recommend this touchtoddler port though.

There is such a dreamlike quality to the Space Harrier games hiding behind the frenetic arcade action

>>10034987
This is the only picture I’ve ever seen from this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ1QT2d8x_E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNBdPNxLyvk

Wish this got a translation but its so obscure i dont think it will ever happen. It's by the makers of Hellnight which i also enjoyed.

>>10035087
This and FSR are some of the most legit surreal games i've played.
Shame GhM doesnt games like this anymore, No More Heroes' success was a curse more than anything.

A fever dream in videogame form

>>10035087
Don't forget about The Silver Case

The PS1 was the surrealism machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upL857R2V0g
>>10035318
That type of games doesn't sell, NMH was the first Suda game that was a commercial success and it was also the "dumbest" game he directed till that point

Armed & Delirious aka Dementia aka Granny
>Developed by Israelis

>>10034606
I finished Garage a few weeks ago. Strange that it of all games actually made me feel some emotion towards the end, which is pretty fucking rare.
Also, any games with a similar ambient, minimal OST?
https://youtu.be/jKOyWVyYIPQ?list=PLK0YtXr7nSXQBCtUwk_DXX9G6gCnbazSK

>>10035318
I liked FSR so fucking much. I've heard Deadly Premonition is kinda similar but I still haven't played it

>>10034992
Shows you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about as despite sharing the same name, it's very much a standalone game and completely separate from PC and Console versions in both story and gameplay.

>>10035092
I believe one of the main things preventing a patch is the large amount of vertical text in the game, as well as some text jumbling that occurs when you read minds, probably the only solution would be to find a way to insert subtitles into the game.

>>10034606
>>10036657
I finished it last night and frankly I think the message of the game went over my head
I understand that Yang was a serial murderer/rapist in the dream that became disgusted by his actions so he split himself into multiple beings and then tried to have one-half of himself overcome the new half so he could achieve freedom or whatever...but what WAS the dream? what was the opening sequence with the guy with his head stuck in the giant machine?

>>10037078
So, not retro then?

>>10037409
Yang is the guy in the machine. The dream is this world that the machine, called Garage, created for Yang to confront and overcome his past by exploring his psyche. Yang in the dream split into Shen and the player, with Shen representing Yang's past and the player representing his potential future where he overcomes his past, hence the fight with Shen.

>>10037736
so is Yang irl an awful person, or was Shen just a representation of some of his evil sub-thoughts everyone has? and Garage was basically just a way for him to clean his subconscious? what about the 4 girls, I know the 3 prostitutes mentioned being a part of his past but was that ever discussed further? and Juice/Psyche, what exactly was she? I know Juice was a robot that Shen had manipulated and molested/practically destroyed and turned into a milk machine, but doesn't her having a Shadow mean she was a representation of someone Yang knew irl?

>>10034606
Try Juggernaut on the PS1, you won't be disappointed.

>>10037859
I need to finally give it a shot. It's so fucking weird that it's been officially translated and released in America, looks like one of the many JP only PS1 titles

>>10037827
Did you play the original or the remake? And if you played the remake, which ending did you get? Because one of the endings does explain Juice/Psyche, although it leaves much to interpretation.

Does Gadget: Past as Future and Nemuru Mayu counts?
I can't post pics, I'm range banned

>>10037943
remake, but my game bugged out once I met Juice and she would never say anything other than "please don't leave me alone", I went to watch a video walkthrough and she started saying an entirely different set of dialogue that progressed the game so I guess my game was bugged?

>>10038147
Did you catch the talking frog after meeting Juice? You have to catch him 3 times to progress. The game vaguely points you in that direction if you talk to some of the characters.

>>10038183
oh, no i didn't...i ended up just getting frustrated and watching the rest of the game on youtube, i guess that explains why im only vaguely understanding of the end of the game

The Residents made a few games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I80d6_NnFMs&ab_channel=RetroPixelLizard%26Sally%27sRetroGameDungeon

>>10038224
I had to look it up the solution when I played it. I would recommend finishing the game. It's better experienced first-hand than through a youtube playthrough.
>>10038246
I'm interested in trying Bad Day on the Midway.

>>10038269
Forgot image

what i like about very surreal games is that they don't sell like hot cakes due to their strangeness that normies feel uneasy with. this way they are not milked to death and ruined.

>>10038417
And yet Baroque got a remake on the Wii/PS2 for some reason... and a port of the original Saturn game for the Switch... I wonder why, I highly doubt it's popular in Japan

>>10034606
Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong Nou

I fucking LOVE surreal prerendered point and clicks.
>Webmaster
https://youtu.be/z-I_MzEzZbU
>The Land of Doughbuddies
https://youtu.be/DjA0d19PO8A
>Obsidian
https://youtu.be/dNvMr9FL95g

>>10034938
>checker plate on everything but the floor

>>10035318
would i need to play silver case to play fsr?

>>10040000
Quads of truth. I loved Obsidian too.

Pic related is pretty surreal and creepy. There's no puzzles, it's basically like a walking simulator, but if you like these types of games and can get it running then give it a play.

Are there any website where you can just download one of these old games and play it without messing around in DOSBOX or a VM? I've done it the latter way before but I just don't feel like it anymore.

>>10041881
I have no idea where to download the ones that I posted besides Obsidian, I will admit I haven't even played those games myself. But there's a website called Zomb's Lair that has a bunch of similar interesting old games that are packaged in an a way that launches them automatically without any hassle.

>>10040034
You don't but it's encouraged that you do, the ending will make far less sense, and you'll miss out on a lot of little references if you do not

>>10035696
A Ross classic

>>10041881
Thats a good one.
Fun fact: David Lynch liked that game and got with the studio to develop a game of his own called Woodcutters from Fiery Ships, which unfortunately got cancelled

Deux Ex Machina on the old timer computers like Spectrum and Commodore 64 is pure 80's british mindfuckery. It came with a cassette tape that you were to listen to while playing the game so it was the first game with record quality soundtrack that you should absolutely listen to even if you don't care for the game.

Text only
Zork was already surreal enough along with Planetfall but this takes the cake

>>10043189
Not retro but, there was a sequel some years ago released on Steam.

Vangers feels like it's been made under the influence, how surreal is it actually vs just the aesthetic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QDNhZeQk-s

>>10041881
Anyone knows the difference between the inventuon, travel & adventure version and the past as future version?

>>10038436
the baroque remake on wii was actually called "baroque international" internally, suggesting that they wanted to try to break into the western market with it, and so they redesigned the characters to be more "anime"

This game is pretty surreal but more fantastical overall

>>10046762
That's the game based on a painter's art of a city some people claim to have visited in their dreams, right?

>>10047043
Yup.

>>10047043
It's a pretty easy fun game too, 2 hour play lots of simple puzzles and easy enemies, each new area looks really cool

>>10047268
How much japanese do you need to know to play it?

>>10047275
I just played the english patched rom

>>10046762
what game is this?

>>10047721
Iblard Laputa no Kaeru Machi

>>10045356
There's Launchbox, it supposedly has the configuration for most games.

>>10041881
There's Launchbox, it supposedly has the configuration for most games.