/vr/ - Retro Games

This could be considered a masterpiece today but the devs decided to make it as annoying as possible and now it's just brought up when Redditors talk about Pizza Tower

Final boss in Silent Bomber, the chess pieces before the final boss even

>>11294014
What? This game is a piece of cake

I didn't try playing it for that long but I expected a cute and easy game but got my shit pushed it

what is your inner monologue cope after getting filtered and closing a game?

I hate the idea of blaming yourself for everything especially now with the le git gud meme. Many games have a lot of unfair shit in them.

>>11294035
I just become jealous of Youtube longplayers who are both skilled and stubborn enough to beat truly challenging video games
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYRfKffrMVM
Like this for example, what the fuck is this shit? The game is literally impossible, I'm not even dreaming of beating it but 1cc? What the fuck

Trying to beat Nosferatu on SNES and after getting stuck on stage 3 for an hour or two I've got filtered hard on stage 5. The controls are such ass that precision platforming is not easy to do, nor is dealing with bullshit flying enemies that can't be hit by your punches.

>>11294047
everyone hates flying enemies but they just kept putting them in everything

>>11294008
at first I thought was going to be a skilled play, with well timed crouches, then they jump right into the sword ..

>>11294035
I just do the shiggy diggy face and proceed to delete the ROM from my hard drive and "games to try out" backlog.

>>11294035
The game was made on bullshit on purpose to combat rentals and to pad out the length and because the devs didn't know what they were doing also because they had no testers so they kept testing their game over and over so they got good at it so they were detached from the players who didn't know better. This game really needs a remaster so they can fix the antiquated old bad design with savestates and rewind, good design standards only started to appear in the 7th gen anyway

also how were you supposed to know

>>11294097

>>11294008
When was the last time someone made a thread on here that wasn't gay?

>>11294347
>>11294114

>>11294035
I'm not having fun

>>11294008
>die once in any game
>spend 4 seconds thinking to solve a puzzle

That's being filtered in the mkment

>>11294008
no save states
no game genies
no cheat codes
no filters
just raw talent and ability and sex appeal and charm
i really am cool

The submarine mission. Tried it like 5 times, not trying it again
>>11294035
Shit sucks

>>11294035

>>11294008
playing MGS1 or MGS2 without the soliton radar filters me. the heartbeat sensor in MGS2 is borderline useless.

>>11294035
there is none. i either brute forced it or cheat. i ended up doing the former for pretty much all of the snake tales chapters.

>>11294562
>playing MGS1 or MGS2 without the soliton radar filters me
I'll be completely honest with you, I spend like half of the time watching the radar in those games. 50% of MGS1 and 2 for me is a 70s stealth game with moving dots

This is probably gonna sound stupid. But the other day, I was getting filtered big time on heat Man's stage in Mega Man 2. Usually, I can get through this level no problem. But for some reason I was really struggling to get through it. Felt like a real scrub who was playing the game for the first time...

>>11294593
i know. it's not as big of a deal in MGS3 onward because of the introduction of a freecam but 90% of my alerts in STs was because of a guard who saw me from a blindspot.

>>11294593
>I'll be completely honest with you, I spend like half of the time watching the radar in those games
You are supposed to, it's literally a glorified Pacman series and that's a good thing. A reason 3 is the worst in the trilogy and where the series began to decline

>>11294008
I'm getting filtered by Lilo and Stitch on the GBA of all things (I absolutely suck at platform/metal slug-like games)

>>11294678
nah. MGS3 (particularly subsistence) was the best because it added more depth through things like camo & survival elements and the third person freecam.

MGS4 and to a lesser extant portable ops is where the series became more action focused.

>>11294008
>>11294035
There's no such thing as "being filtered"

Some games just have bad controls,
Some have glitches that make it literally impossible to continue,
And some have cheap gimmicks that aren't fair to the player.

Just because you got accustomed to a shitty game's bullshit mechanics doesn't mean you made it through the filter, it just means you're a stubborn Autist. If a game doesn't respect your skill or time then it's not worth playing to begin with.

>>11294678
Ironically this is precisely the reason why I like MGS3 the most

>>11294725
The camo just directly tells you which camo+facepaint is the best one in any situation and you can change it freely at any given moment without tension or hurry. The same goes for curing wounds, you can't fail it and actually if you don't cure your wounds and let them heal, you get a longer health bar. No hurry to cure them because a broken leg or arm doesn't affect the gameplay, only if you get poisoned you need to cure immediately.

last boss of gex. the last world was so fucking hard compared to the rest of the game, and then the boss was absolute hell. also i was playing on saturn so had to use a password system instead of saves.

>>11294809
this is the kinda stuff i hope the remake improves and i usually don't care for remakes

>>11294008
This is like my animes

>>11294809
>a broken leg or arm doesn't affect the gameplay
But it does though, at least with a broken arm I remember 100% that it's harder to aim

>>11294809
>The camo just directly tells you which camo+facepaint is the best one in any situation and you can change it freely at any given moment
Which is based.
The game doesn't bullshit you by saying a specific camo pattern which clearly look like it works in your environment actually doesn't. It just clears things up right away.

>>11294864
>>11294924
Yes I'm not buying the remake in any situation but if they are making one, it should at least be that you can't change camo or cure while in full alert and in the sight of enemy / boss fight, or if you can it happens in real time.

>>11294915
Maybe a broken arm results in getting similar aim disorientation as when out of stamina but I can't remember how you would break your arm in the game. I remember if you fall from too high it results in broken leg(s) but it doesn't hinder Snake even for a brief period.

>>11294008
Diablo II
>Reinstalling it on my old laptop that I upgraded to win10 5 years ago.
>It works, but the framerate is choppy.
>Find some solutions online but nothing works quite right.
>Think it's the GPU's settings, so I tinker with it for a bit.
>Now it won't even open; throws me the c000005 error.
>Do a workaround with the compatibility setting + windowed mode.
>Try to play other old games.
>They won't even open.
>Now I'm stuck playing Diablo II on low resolution, Quake 3 Arena and some emulated consoles.
I'm still trying to figure out where did I fuck up.
It's actually over.

This game has been kicking my ass. It's fun but goddamn, it's not as easy as the cutesy poopsy aesthetic would lead one to believe.

>Load up PGA golf
>Feeling relaxed.
>On the green in 2
>4 yards to go
>Ball touches edge of the hole, and wings way out to the side... 15 yard putt
>Putt again... short
>Putt again... long
>Putt again... FUCK THIS GAY EARTH!!!!!

>>11294035
"this game is frustrating me, let me play something else and come back to it later"


like literally any person who isnt mentally deranged would think.

>>11295134
>"""upgraded""" to windows 10

theres your issue retard.

>t. still using windows 7 and before that XP and before that DOS

>>11294739
>Some games just have bad controls,
>Some have glitches that make it literally impossible to continue,
>And some have cheap gimmicks that aren't fair to the player.
And some are just hard. Not that a nintendofaggot would know.

>>11294035
>fuck this

The first getaway game on the ps2
the game had no map (the only map you had to go by was by actually memorizing london, or looking at the map given in the game case), absolute jank shooting, jank controls, and absolutely overloads the map with enemies so FPS drops are bound to happen

been trying to get good at adventures of batman and robin on the genesis and it's not clicking and i feel like a fucking dumbass
can't ever clear the first level as of right now, need to put more time in.

the wizardry series. I can't seem to get very far in any of the ones before before wizardry 7.

>>11295995
is this like bong gta?

>>11296475
GTA is bong-made.

>>11295995
it sucks they didn't release a pc version

it could have been saved by mods

>>11296596
and took place in the UK.
Also it was always 3D.

>>11294038
Looks like autofire is used so they didn't really beat anything

>>11294008
God you're terrible at this.

>>11294008
something racist about the creators usually

>>11294008
Played Mega Man X2 for the first time, and not-Wily(?) in his big machine was pretty bad, but I got through. Sigma's last form(I hope) is weird, and I put the game down when I finally got him red and he just teleported into me and chewed me to death.
I'll get back to it and try to figure out what that's about when I feel like it lol.

>>11294035
something racist about the creators usually

>>11294035
same as when i read your post: "wow this is fucking gay"

>>11294035
I just accept that i failed because i wasn't good enough and stop playing. Sometimes i wish the game was a person so i could punch it for being a cheating asshole.

>>11294739
filtered

>>11294008
>starts with a sick crouch dodge
>begins jumping into the sword afterwards
wtf is this webm trying to convey?

>>11297349
filtered.webm

>>11294008
So this is how soulslikes looked in the 90s.

>>11294008
Well, I finished SH1 recently and I got a bad ending, then I googled how to get other endings and after I read that I was like "HOLY SHIT I'M NOT DOING THAT". Consider me filtered.

>>11294823
I played it on ps1 and same. iirc only the 3DO version lets you save

>>11297370
Your guide was probably overcomplicating stuff, it literally takes like 15 extra minutes to do both 'quests' AND you don't have to fight Cybil, the hardest boss in the game. I suck at survival horror games and even I was easily able to get the best ending on hard

>>11297370
a bad ending is subjective. you just got the ending fitting for your james. if you want the "good" ending, act accordingly

>>11294008
you know you have a strong attack right? and it has pretty good range too.

anyway the last game that filtered me for a while was trying to get all the crystals in the extra vision from the original klonoa, took me like half an hour but i eventually made that level my bitch

>>11294035
fuck this i dont even care this isnt fun anymore. but im not mad, im just not interested anymore.

me when i gave up on the post game of megaman battle network 5. but in my defence the post game of that game sucks balls

>>11294562
really? the snake tales filtered you? they werent that hard, i got filtered by the snake vr missions.

>>11294035
"i wanna go jerk off" prob'ly

>>11294516
i never use save states, not even for games that require passwords, i still writte them down for when i want to continue later

>>11296863
you gotta keep moving when he goes red, he is gona try to eat you

>>11297359
no this guy is playing it like a retard

>>11294008
I'm trying to 1cc the entire KoF series. I managed to 1cc '94 in only 11 attempts, but '95 is filtering the shit out of me. So much harder but I could partially blame it in my team choices (who I refuse to change because those are my boys)

>>11295134
I actually had this issue myself and managed to get it working with the help of someone
install game. I assume you have the complete edition
there are some files you need to download which might be the reason its not working for you. You can get em here
https://github.com/bolrog/d2dx/releases/tag/0.99.529
you need the glide and d2dx file. just put em in the d2 folder. edit the d2dx file with notepad++ or w/e. Like changing the scale to 2 instead of the 1 default.
Also you can add -w command to the glide fx shortcut for windowed mode
There's other stuff I'm probably forgetting, but that's the gist of it

>>11294008
Shining Force
I just got so bored. Not even nostalgia could hold me.
The fact that Shining Force came AFTER Langrisser is a straight up crime.

>>11297519
im gonna be real it just needs to be faster. there's absolutely nothing wrong with shining force but life was slower back then and we were also younger. speed up combat animations and enemy turns especially and it's a banger.

>>11294035
I only drop games when they bore me and lately that percentage is increasing exponentially

>Playing Parasite Eve 2
>Try other guns
>Have the shotgun for the big elephant thing after the shower FMV
>This thing fucking sucks holy shit
>Finally kill the thing
>The dog died because I took to long
Didnt even know that could happen.
I reset and deleted the file right there.

>>11295546
yeah its a real challenge
the sequel is a cakewalk, especially if you play as sasuke

>>11297639
There's just zero depth strategically. Everything is super basic and on rails.

>>11297405
snake's VR missions are easy the only one that was really a challenge was variety 04 where you had to keep soldiers away from meryl.

pliskin & tuxedo are easier because you start with a handgun for everything but the layout for everything is more or less the same.

MGS1 snake is the only one that changes the layouts.

>>11295861
Cut me some slack. Everything worked fine until I tried messing around with the graphics driver config. I'm still working on it.
>>11297439
I'll be sure to try that. Thanks

>>11294008
Half the old shmups I've tried honestly. I don't have the patience I used to. 2D platformers are no problem, but genres I didn't play growing up I tend to drop.

>>11297896
Nightmare difficulty will teach you that you're better off using the small gun, the one found in the basement cave, because of its crits

>>11294035
>fuck all this, I got better shi to do
>play something else while theorycrafting how to go through that spot that got me to quit
process can take a few days and when I return I clear it, usually, and when I dont, i theorycraft again and repeat the process

Currently getting filtered by the Hardmode Omega Pirate on NTSC GC Metroid Prime. He's killed me twice now. Pretty good fight. Pretty tough fight on hard and on GC. He is looms over you threateningly and does brutal damage on his canon launcher and his melee. Pirate troops can really stack the damage, too. Wave beam troops are the worst, imo. It takes like 4 or 5 fullly charged wave beam shots to kill one. Power Beam troops need one super missile and one charged shot. Ice Beam troops need one mildly charged shot and a missile. Plasma Beam troops need like 2.5 fully charged shots or something like that. All the other versions can abuse the shit out of power bombs and the remaster can freaking jump in morphball form, but not the original on GC, they don't do shit to any of the pirates. I think I'll get him next time, though.

>>11298373
based. as. FUCK

>>11296475
nah, too linear. you get a free mode but you don't get to commit crimes the same way as GTA. it's more akin to a movie game if half the movie was boring car chases and drives.

>>11294008
I've never completed a 2D sonic game. Only Sonic game I have completed was Sonic Adventure and never played the second part.

>>11295995
>mfw trying to play this game 20 years later
I played the demo as a kid and was intrigued by the game mostly because of the voice acting and character animations, but it was a project that was WAY too ambitious for the people involved.

Just look at those fucking textures.

>>11297378
> it literally takes like 15 extra minutes
Bruh, it literally takes to REPLAY THE WHOLE GAME FROM BEGINNING to get a good ending.
>>11297381
Lol, good ending depends on finding some random unknown location early in game and acting in a specific way without any guidance.
In walkthrough it says "quests", there is no such thing. You're not told what to do and it's not a conscious choice to stumble upon that specific location that makes good ending even possible.

Getting filtered pretty hard but the mission in which you have to defend the plane. After half a dozen attempts I finally managed to destroy the wave of 3 choppers (if you don't dispose of them quickly, it's mission over guaranteed) but then the last fucking spider bot dicked me around until I was out of everything and in red damage zone. I went looking for my supply helicopters, none were left, but then I saw something amazing: the plane moving up and getting ready to leave, so I went in hiding like a pussy (still manage to destroy this picrel mech in the process) so I wouldn't get destroyed myself and hoping the plane would last long enough to take off but they shot it down just as it was about to depart

FML now it's probably going to take just as many attempts just to take out the choppers. Oh and apparently there is an even harder escort mission after this one

>>11298479
>REPLAY THE WHOLE GAME FROM BEGINNING
Oh, I mean yeah, obviously. As for that other anon you replied to, he was talking about SH2 for some reason

>>11298479
> without any guidance.

There are clues though.

>>11294035
>yeah this is just retarded

>get to 2nd boss in Blood Omen 1
>pop my new shield spell and get up in this dude's face and spam attack
>20 minutes of this go by and he aint dead
>hard to tell if he's getting hit because someone makes a noise when I swing and I can't tell who
>filtered back to Gamefaqs
>there's like no strategy guides for the game and the two that exist barely mention any strategies
>turns out you're supposed to unequip your new mace and go back to the sword and then land a four hit combo until the guy falls over and just repeat that several times

I never would have figured that out. I even tried switching back to my sword since I remembered Kain said something about his mace only stunning people (even though it kills enemies so I don't really know what he meant), but I had no idea there were combos. Even once I knew the strat, getting a combo to come out was not easy.

>>11298481
>FML now it's probably going to take just as many attempts just to take out the choppers. Oh and apparently there is an even harder escort mission after this one
not really, once you pass the C-130 filter you've effectively beaten the game.

>>11298784
isn't the 4-hit combo what happens when you press square 4x rapidly?

The game is just too fucking long, never in a million years as a young lad did I think i would grow to appreciate short games as I got older.
Well, I can take long games if they're structured like handheld shit and not some gigantic single start-to-end experience.

>>11298517
How do you even replay mostly-linear story-driven games?
I mean, it's not even a roguelike, wtf ._.
Maybe I should give it a go in like 10 years or something.

>>11298974
yeah, it's usually a 5+ year gap before I replay linear games, sometimes longer. I do a Metroid Prime run once every like 8-10 years as an example.

>>11294035
I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it didn't even matter.

>>11294035
"I'll try again tomorrow"
>5 tries later
"Maybe a guide will help?"
>Four trips to GameFAQs and two no-voice walkthroughs on Youtube later.
"Fuck this. I am NOT lowering the difficulty"
>Uninstall it/delete the ROM
>Three years later.
"You know, I never completed this game. I should try it again"
>Filtered by THAT part.
"I'll try again tomorrow"

>>11298974
I find SH1 to be strangely engaging and arcadey< I like replaying it like it's a RE game. Love SH2-4 but I rarely if ever replay them

>>11294014
>This Game Pak cannot be used with the Mattel or NES versions of the Nintendo Entertainment System
What did they mean by this?

>>11295995
Holy retard...

>>11300446
Nintendo didn't publish the NES themselves in Europe. Several distributors handled different regions and releases for those weren't compatible between regions.

>>11294035
The game is not for me. Which is a cope but most likely true.

>>11298938
There was a jump in this game over a broken walkway where you have to lay down a plank that filtered a lot of people.
As for me, I still don't have the patience to beat Super Ghouls and Goblins or whatever the fuk it's called, the floating jump always gets me.

>>11294029
Pocky & Rocky on SNES is busting my balls

>>11298916
When I mash it doesn't work. It's like he tries to do a combo and then sometimes it's like he interrupts his swing with the first swing and that just loops. I'm guess there's something of a timing to it, but it's a little tricky.

>>11298481
>>11298886
oh my fucking god, I was even closer this time

But at least I have a better strategy both the choppers AND the spiders now

>>11294035
"You're old and this is more evidence of it. Let it go. Grow up and build an actual future."

>>11294035
I just get sad usually. I want to like games and it's great to find a game you can't help but commit to.
>This isn't for me
>I'm just not having fun
>I tried, but don't have the patience/skill
Only sometimes, when I can prove fault, do I blame the game

>>11294008
i was at the end of the second to last mission of crusader no remorse and then i quicksaved right as a spider mine 1 shotted me and my last hardsave was 2 levels ago...

Runaway: A road adventure on what one of the puzzles.

There is no worse self-disdain inducing feeling than looking up a solution for a point and click puzzle. Its like a lifetime of disgust washing over yourself

>>11294008
castlevania 1 and 3 are incredibly awesome games but i cant even fathom actually beating them.

same with ninja gaiden trilogy. I have tons of fun playing them, have never even sniffed the final boss.

>>11295995
Shame this has to start with the most annoying chase mission ever