/vr/ - Retro Games

in one of the double dragon games the last level is saving the girl but doesn't conclude until you beat up the friend you played the game with

>>10889421
Based game is based

>>10889421
>We can never leave this place

God damn those are some weak-ass willed cyborgs. Have they no true sentience?

>>10889492
>God damn those are some weak-ass willed cyborgs. Have they no true sentience?

They crash landed on an alien planet, they'd need to know how to fix a spaceship to "leave this place" and even among cyborgs that's most likely not common knowledge (let alone having the parts needed to do so).

>>10889475
What game?

>>10889421
Fucking Splatterhouse, you don't save the girl, you have to kill her because she's turning into a demon(Evil Dead style) and throughout the fight she says "Help me" and all you can do is put her down so she won't become a monster, for an added bonus the demonic mask that brought you back to life is evil.

>>10889539
SaGa Frontier. It's Blue's route and the game freeze frames mid attack on the final boss. In additional material you were just a diversion as the mages sealed the portal with you in it.

>>10889539
saga frontier. when you kill the final boss on Blue's quest, the game just fades to gray. that's it.

>>10889597

>>10889609
>In additional material you were just a diversion as the mages sealed the portal with you in it.

in official guide and Fuse route, you/Rouge/Bleu gets saved with power of FRIENDSHIP!!!

>>10889597
your son also dies in SH3.

>>10889421

>An human astronaut crash-lands on a planet and almost dies, but is "rescued" by robots who take his brain, implant it into a cyborg's shell, and try to erase it so he can become their slave. But #127's brain erase function fails...

God damn. Bleak-ass dystopian otherworldly scifi vidya. Figured this was dev'd by a Japanese team but sadly nah. One of the Mega Drive's hidden gems for sure.

>>10889913
>hidden gems
Hi MJR

bad end

>>10889421
Elevator Action Returns. Either a nuke is launched on innocent people or the nuke goes off on you.

>>10890001
I'm just hearing 2 happy endings.

>>10889421
Cybernator
https://youtu.be/1Ev1cuHkNnM?si=NClmQrjVwU3hjI4L

I won't contribute because it is probably some youtuber trying to gather material for some gay video

>>10890518
good point

>>10889421
>Free Robot slaves
What's so sad about this?

>>10889913
>An human
A HUMAN. You are either A jackass or AN imbecile.
>A and an are different forms of the same word, the indefinite article that often precedes a noun. A is used before a noun that starts with a consonant sound (e.g., “s,” “t,” “v”). An is used before a noun that starts with a vowel sound

>>10889995
That's not the end though

>>10890518
Could also be the Jews

>>10889421
Never truly understood how many people died at Gunstar Heroes' ending. But sad anyway.

Both endings are bad endings.

If you played Lufia 1 you know how Lufia 2 is going to end and it'll feel like you've been stabbed through the heart.

And the game happily hands you the knife and says start twisting.

>>10892221
I played Lufia 2 before Lufia 1. I finished Lufia 2 multiple times (and mode too) but I only finished Lufia 1 once. Lufia 1 is bland and tedious to play.

>>10892215
>It's not the destination, it's the journey

Spinal breakers (arcade/coin op)
Awesome bad end

https://youtu.be/1fLXEjT6C7w?t=229

The "good ending" in Powerslave is such mindless powerfantasy garbage that the "bad ending" is actually a million times better
It drives home the futility of resisting an advanced alien invasion but the main character gets an ultimately satisfying outcome at the end of the day
Also it's a much better fit for the game's somber end credits theme

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>>10892851
Lufia 1 has the twist toward the end though, which I never knew about for decades until I finally played through the whole thing. Worth it, will never forget.

>>10893004
In that way Lufia 2 and 1 are opposites. An ending you know vs one you’ll never see coming, respectively.

>>10889460
And then she gets SHOT in the fucking FACE in DD2.

>>10889913
it was done by the same team who did Ecco iirc, and it would've been a hidden gem if it came out in 1991. But it came out in 1993, and it was just extremely poor by that time. The gameplay is a bit clunky because of all the moves you can do, and you don't have to do any of the tricky moves, you can just tear bots in half to instantly kill them. The different bodies you can use all function mostly the same and none of them give you any tactical advantage, and the same holds true for all the enemies too.

I loved that game as kid as I was a sucker for scrolling fighters, but Cyborg Justice is clunky, repetitive, and boring. At best it's a 6/10, because it's still not BAD, it's just that once you played the first level, you've seen everything.

>>10891991
They regained their human memories but they are stuck on the planet forever. Not to mention the countless cyborgs you killed along the way who were just programmed to kill against their will.

>>10892987

Aspic - The Curse of the Snakelord is a pretty generic A-RPG, originally on computers from 86. However, its end game (and ultimately ending) pulls a surprising "No. You are the demons!" twist.

The game starts as your usual warrior must save the princess from demon lord. When you start the game and get to the castle you meet several guards who just say "Hello!" just comes off as a bit weird. Eventually at the end of the game you defeat the Snakelord and bring back the princess, but the king throws you out of the castle. The game is not over. Attempting to re-enter the castle and the "hello" guards will now spawn endessly and kick your ass. On top of that your party members are gone and nobody wants to join your team anymore... Except, if you go back to the demon realm and recruit skeletons, which were previously enemies. Bring the skeletons to fight for you in the king's castle, eventually kick the king's ass, kidnap the princess... and now cue ending, turns out the Snakelord had cursed you with his dying breath and you are now the Snakelord.

Phantasy Star 2
FF Adventure/Sword of Mana/Adventures of Mana

>>10889995
No matter how many times I reset the game I could never figure out how to go to a different castle.

>>10893080
Whoa that's really cool.

>>10892084
Whichever castle you clear, Bowser immediately executes all the other hostages. The trick is to use warp zones to go straight to world 8 where the princess is hidden because nobody really cares if 7 random plebs die.

>>10893163
as a british peasant i can confirm that there is no greater honor than sacrificing yourself for the monarchy

>>10889610
>kill
You don't, the ending plays after a certain amount of damage done, but the battle is supposed to be eternal

before the retcons, everyone died except the forest critters

>>10893249
Should've put a huge tree there

>>10893249
Actually everyone just woke up from the dream and realized they were seagulls all along

>>10893260
>seagullroth
that explains so much

>>10892987
You sound like fag.
Becoming Nyarlathotep in the good endind is ludo.

>>10893008
i need to replay all these cause i played various ones growing up but theres so many damn versions on various platforms, rom hacks, i have no idea which is the best for each game

>>10889421
Battlezone, It isn't a Good end at all, you simply postponed the inevitable per sequel's backstory and how everything was in vain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jigerrebrxc

Dungeon Explorer for the Sega CD has 3 bad endings. When you beat the game, the Goddess that you're trying to rescue calls you an idiot and says she didn't need your help at all. Then she offers to grant you one of 3 wishes.
If you choose "eternal life" she turns you into infinite copies of yourself and you become an enemy spawning out of the monster generators in the dungeon. If you choose "true freedom" she just murders you. And if you choose to receive "the jewel of the gods" she sends you to a giant jewel-sized planet with no way to sustain life on it.

>>10893960
What a bitch.

>>10893960
I'd choose eternal life, then kill her with my army of myself
Happy ending

>>10894013
Your character basically says that's what he's going to do. Then a thousand you's pop out and kill the next hero.

>>10894056
They should have made a sequel following that premise, with you fighting that whore goddess as the final boss.

>>10889460
>>10893008
>she gets SHOT in the fucking FACE in DD2
The arcade ending is by far one of the saddest /vr/ endings, despite being one of the shortest.
Unlike the NES ending...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSuVH4YgIx0

Marian is still quite dead in the arcade version. While her death is avenged and the Dragons have confronted their vengeful dark sides (presumably), there's nothing left of her except memories of happier days.
https://youtu.be/wDy9dbRj1SA?t=40