/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10187421
Yes, like a whole other world.

>>10187421
Quest 64 is one of those games that I find surreal that it even exists. Like, I never saw it being played or actively advertised, and at the same time it looks so simultaneously generic and wannabe iconic, like it was supposed to be "THE 3D adventure/RPG on the N64" and everybody was ideally supposed to have played it, but didn't.

I always liked the way Little Big Adventure 2 looked
that and classic Runescape

>>10187421
This is the hidden ff7 killer.

>>10187421
The mixture of 2d planes and 3d environments made an interesting mix. I like the almost set peice feeling it creates.

>>10187421
How the FUCK have I never heard of this game until now? Buying and reading every N64 magazine in the 90s, to revisiting the N64 in the 2000s and playing all the games I missed out on... Wtf.

>>10187482
don't get to upset, you didn't miss much

>>10187421
For me, it’s tomb raider

>>10187421
And n64 was the most comfy even though jumping flash is the best game ever.

>>10187452
In Japan and Europe it's a game called Holy Magic Century, and didn't feel like it ever really got that much of a push.
I think it was the American marketing that really tried to hone in on the idea of this being THE RPG for the N64.
Japan has a bunch more that we didn't get anyway, like Shiren and Custom Robo.

For me it's Outcast. Beautiful, great comfy world and storytelling.
But only the original, the remake is shit.

1990 is in the 90s, right? I always liked these super-blocky early polygonal games.

>>10187990
I have a similar feeling for test drive 3

>>10187469
That was Mother 64

Best "3D" game on SEGA CD

The first time it seemed like I could be an actual battle mech pilot.

>>10187452
>I never saw it being played or actively advertised
I remember seeing commercials on TV for it. Quest 64 is one of those games I know is extremely mediocre but I have a soft spot for it, it's not like the N64 was all I had either. My brother had a PS1 so I had access to JRPGs there. It had some good ideas but it was definitely a victim of cartridge limitations and limited budget. There was a decent amount of cut content most notably additional party members.

For me, it's Sacrifice.

>>10187589
TR 1 is so beautiful.
I also have a big heart for SH1. Those little guys in the school always make me smile when I see them today.

Us men we played real games with real guns like delta force, none of that God damn gay ass shit

>>10189085
debilitatingly soulful

>>10187421
https://www.reddit.com/r/ps1graphics/
Check out this sub, there's people actually limiting their graphics to match what would be possible on PS1 console. I'm sure there's something similar for N64.

Replayed FFIX recently, graphics/atmosphere/pacing is just as good as I remember it being as a dumb ESL child with trouble reading the dialogue and being wowed by GFX and Nobuo Uematsu masterpiece soundtrack.

>>10189085
>that photograph background

It's silly but I like it

>>10189193
It was a common technique in early 3D fighting games

>>10189112
>Check out this sub, there's people actually limiting their graphics to match what would be possible on PS1 console. I'm sure there's something similar for N64.
Didn't know this was a more widespread thing. Just remember seeing that one guy who did a demo of sorts of what Bloodborne would have been like released on PS1.

>>10188292
That's Silpheed right? Does that really count if all of the 3D rendering is pre-calculated? It's practically like any other FMV game on the system at that point.

>>10189112
There was a guy developing a Zelda-like game about someone lost in a haunted Japanese forest using only N64 equivalent tech but I forgot what it was called

>>10187464
I loved twinsen's odyssey so much but I was too dumb to get past the desert planet

>>10189487
I hope you're not referring to that awful twitter coomer game that dropped recently

>>10190179
I dont think so, the main character is a boy and I don't think there were many sexy characters.

>>10189471
It's Namco's Starblade.

how did they do it, bros?

>>10187452
I can't remember any ads being run for it, or even discussed outside of Nintendo Power (and maybe EGM)

I rented it though

I don't have any pictures of it, but Streets of Sim City fits

>>10189487
It's called "Legend 64"

>>10188292
I like alot of things about Starblade. But Starblade it is certainly an incomplete game. If they were allowed to finish it it could have been a nice game. It isn't.

>>10190434
Cavern of Dreams is also a really nice looking N64 throwback.
I think the guy who did those Banjo Kazooie romhacks is involved with it.

>>10187452
I used to rent it all the time at Blockbuster because all the good games were always out. It was one of those “fuck it, I’m here” kind of choices

>>10189112
You should check out the tip of this dick on your way back to plebbit

>>10190424
I remember that was when Nintendo Power was quite honest in their reviews and Quest 64 got rather thrashed by them. Another game I remember them thrashing were Pokemon Red & Blue and Secret of Evermore. I also remember them praising Shantae and Blast Corps to high heavens.

>>10190404
By using fact arcade hardware and not some gimped 32bit 2D system that also pretends very hard to do 3D just like the big boys.

>>10190732
whys the tip of your dick on reddit

>>10190434
Thanks, I can't believe I forgot such a simple name.

>>10190743
They also gave the original Smash Bros like a 7.4 or something, and in the same month they gave Elmos Number Adventure a much higher score.

Castlevania 64 has the best visual style of the series.

I love how experimental 3D was in the 90s. Here's Killing Time from '95, an FPS with FMV sequences mixed into it.

>>10187421
I want to go back. The graphics of these early titles were right on the edge of realism and allowing your mind to fill in the gaps. The worlds felt mysterious and like you jumped in an alternate universe. With modern games I don't get that kind of immersion at all, I see a gaming product. Specifically because "back in the day" a game was made by a handful of people, so you know they could get away with a lot. Today everything has to be approved and no one on the team is exactly winging it.

>>10190404
Good Tarts?

>>10187482
Were you living under a rock? This game was popular as fuck

>>10189089
Wut?
I remember some artworks featuring half naked Honey, but I wasn't expecting this webm.

>>10189995
dude finish the game, it is worth it, very soulful.

>>10192402
I already explained my living conditions, reading every single N64 magazine, you cynical fucking faggot kike.

>>10192167
what game is that?

>>10192402
>popular as fuck
hahahahaha

perfect 3D would be 5th gen aestheics and 7th gen fidelity and mechanics

6th gen was the ugly inbetween

For me it's the unfiltered textures

>>10187450
Flatshading is Patrician

https://youtu.be/HbegNmKRZUM?si=-pviWKS4gSslgUjY

I live in terror that video games will never again produce anything as singular and weird as Ecstatica's ellipsoid-based graphics engine

https://youtu.be/9SsR5fPjGu4

>>10194256
Yeah, it probably won't. These days people think the definition of "3D" is "polygons".

>>10194256
What in the actual fuck am I watching? Like, seriously. So much ryona. How much control is the game actually giving you during 'action scenes'? It's clearly one of those bizarrely ambitious games where the devs are trying to pull off all the shit they can think of no matter how jank it ends up being and aren't concerned with convention whatsoever.

>>10194312
It's 1994, the conventions didn't really exist yet. It's clearly riffing on 'Alone in the Dark' in terms of its general gameplay, though.

"Jank as Fuck" would better describe Ecstatica 2 - but damn those animations are impressive

https://youtu.be/QpbHEZogIyI

>>10194274
>People think the definition of 3D is polygons
B-But! Muh VOXELS!!!

https://youtu.be/2_Nok_5YN5U

>>10194387
inb4 not retro - the voxlap engine is from 1998

>>10194387
normies just call that "low poly" though

Interstate 76 - back when polygons had SOVL

>>10194415

>>10194407
?
Voxels are the dead opposite of low-poly in almost every way.

Distress beacon activated

>>10189089
wtf game is this? I barely recognize it and it's driving me nuts

>>10194615
Fighting Vipers

>>10194387
>>10194398
>>10194421
Is this actual voxels or is it a bunch of polygon cubes stitched together? The latter is quite common today.

>>10194737
It's built on voxlap by Ken Silverman (same guy who also made the Build engine) and as far as I've understood it, it uses real voxels.
http://advsys.net/ken/voxlap.htm

>>10194194
This as well, I cant stand blurry shit IMO it looks fucking horrible to the point that a noise mess looks miles better to me.

>>10192402
>popular as fuck

I think you would have a hard time finding more than ten people who genuinely liked Quest 64.

>>10194890
Liked? No.
Picked up from blockbuster because it seemed like it might be cool? Everyone.

Only posers only played the top 5 games and never branched out. True niggas like us have definitely tried this game at least a few times before realizing how empty it was

>>10187421
You're not alone with the amount of indie titles coming out that copy the style. It really sells units.

>>10187421
Quest 64 is a beautiful game, shame about the gameplay part.

>>10191149
Because they have a lot of porn subreddits.

>>10195143
I do actually really like how it looks very accurate to 16-bit RPGs, translated into 3D, as opposed to something like FF7, which completely changed it's aesthetic for that era.
It just needed to do a bit more with the writing and whatever else, to keep it from being squarely "okay" as a video game.
The whole "vibe" of the game is great.

>>10194737
It's fully destructible voxels rendered in software on a Pentium 3.

Graphics cards at the time would NOT be able to render that many cubes at that framerate, and definitely not handle destroying them

https://youtu.be/irvFiTsY05Q

STUNT RACE WOOOOO

>>10196026
Looks like a 3D Liero

>>10197189
Now running at 30fps

>>10191506
Are you a blue-and-black or beige-and-red man?

>>10187482
NP built Quest 64 up as a killer app for the 64DD attachment... when it released as a cartridge they wanted nothing more to do with it. Conceptually it sounded incredible during the development stages. It should really have appeared on the PS1.

>>10198037
What were supposed to be its killer DD features? I was never aware that it was supposed to be some big hype thing like this.

>>10193916
Hidden and Dangerous 1

>>10194194
name of the game? I was looking for it. I don't know how use image to search on android

>>10191506
Ummm...

For me. it's Aegeankai no Shizuku. Rare case of 3D retaining a lot of beauty of a 2D game (PC-98 one is incredible as well).

>>10195216
Play Dragon Quest V on PS2 for 16-bit RPG aesthetic in 3D, but with actually great gameplay. It's so good.

I'm home

>>10189074
Too bad this piece of shit version doesn't support the NegCon AND has menus made from Office 2003 default fonts.

>>10199285
>Super-intelligent dinosaurs with Jetpacks travel back in time 65 Million Years... And don't consider maybe travelling back ONE more year... Or month... Or even day... To avoid that pesky comet.

Has any other game ever had a more self-evidently infuriating premise?

>>10187421

>>10199310
>Too bad this piece of shit version doesn't support the NegCon
IT does tho, both the original and the turbo version

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeGcon#Supported_games

>>10195143
the fuck you're talkinga about? gameplay is awesome, or you prefer turn based rpg where you just choose options on a menu? alongside graphics and music the gameplay is what saves this game. The shallow story, lack of items and no companions in your quest is what makes the game average.

>>10194230
This is the Pinnacle of 90s 3d
>On the fly 3d bezier curve renderer
>Renders the whole fucking galaxy
>Seamless planet to space take off
>Accurate physics
>Under 1mb
>Released in 93
Astonishing really.

>>10199126
>he doesn't like skeletons on motorbikes
What is wrong with you?

>>10199123
Urban Assault

Delta Force 2 (1999) - with its polygon/voxel blend including voxel grass and an almost inconceivable draw distance for the time.

https://youtu.be/zd8aaGssVhM

>>10200208
Thought this was the coolest shit back then. Comanche already did it in the early 90's but it was quite lo-fi

Hunter (1991)
Procedurally generated 3D open world game on the Amiga

https://youtu.be/-UAvsvaGJR0

>>10200223
Same company, and slightly later version of the same engine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voxel_Space

Has any other retro 3D game had the pure SOVL of Mechwarrior 2?

Those clean, hi-res (it natively rendered up to an unimaginable 720p) gourad-shaded vector graphics were changed in ALL the ports because they so quickly became very very unfashionable compared to blurry, blocky low-res texture-mapped polygons, but DAMN they aged better.

https://youtu.be/L0mSdnxM7fc

>>10199394
yeah lol, I mean I think the story was an afterthought, cleary. Still, what a great game to package with your OS, this kicks solitaires ass. I always wonder if Mac gaming survived as an independent platform what the general vibes would be, if there would be a graphical 'style' that separated it from windows games due to the hardware differences etc. I want to visit alt-history where Halo is a Mac exclusive and see what then Halo 2 and 3 would have been.

>>10194256
I only recently found out there was a sequel. Also, I got the best ending where you chill by the pool after giving up your quest. >>10194256

>>10200227
This stuff was lit, I wonder if midwinter used the same engine

>>10200245
3d was so interesting in the 90s, now it’s all polys and fake voxels. No more on the fly rendering engines with non polygonal measurements. Those engines, if given the same love as the ones we have now, would have surpassed what capable today by so fucking much it’s insane.