/vr/ - Retro Games

I have to admit, I agree with everything you have said, and that is hard to see on 4chan. I might just pull that game out of the drawer and give it a new go.

Really hard to disagree with you. It's a pretty chill game where you don't get harried very often. I'd also like to nominate the Harvest Moon games. I always found hanging out in a recliner and farming digital potatoes to be pretty relaxing for some reason.

I replayed it again recently on my old brick Game Boy, I finished my very first file from when I first got the game in like 1995 (I had finished it before but on different files, I had abandoned the original, first one, which was up to about the 4th dungeon).

Enjoyed the fuck out of it again, it's still my favorite Zelda game, in part due to nostalgia, and in part due to really good design and atmosphere.

Oracle of Seasons is also rly comfy

I think SimCity for the Super Nintendo is really comfy.

Half the time you just sit and watch your city grow as music plays and the seasons change. I love playing it during winter when its cold and grey out.

However, just sitting and watching the game go through its motions rather than actively playing for most of the time might be a turn off for some people.

>>1876809

For a little extra comfy I'd like to offer you these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii59rHmcZm0

This entire doujin album is fantastic. Hunt it down. It's great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLXOQA6fJC8

Aivi and Surassahu - The Black Box (album)

It's a very jazzy album. But a beautiful rendition of this song.

It also has Lonely Rolling Star. Speaking of which, Katamari is an extremely comfy game.

Hey, I hope you guys have a great day tomorrow! I know it's random but I hope you absolutely do something you find fun and fulfilling. And tonight you get a nice comfy sleep.

It's modern, but I'm finding Etrian Odyssey 4 to be comfy.

IF IT AINT POKEMON your a fucking kid

>>1877326
not op but that zelda album is fucking fantastic, and I'd never heard it before! Anything else like that? I'd love some cozy /vr/ music, especially with winter setting in.

also, anywhere to get the album from? Every place I find the tracks, they're always truncated.

>>1877402

I don't even know where I found it. Give me a few and I'll upload it for you though! Got proper tags and album artwork. 224 kbsps.

Not the best but it'll do.

>>1877418
we are now best friends.

but seriously I love this style of music and even moreso when it's gamer related, I've heard some great slow jazz sonic remixes but I just can't get enough of this chill lounge style.

>>1877402

http://www.speedy

share.com/GTuTM/The-Legend-of-Zelda-Link-s-Awakening-Arrange-Collection-2010.zip

Here ya go buddy. Connect the link.

>>1877441
Much appreciated.

>speedy share dot com
>42 megs
>30 minutes

They are not aptly named.

But seriously thanks dude.

>>1877440

It's not gamer related but if you like ambient post rock I highly recommend Tycho. It's great music to just put on as you do....just about anything!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEI1_oGPQr0

I also can't recommend This Six Parts Seven enough. One of my favorite bands to walk to on a chilly night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDJRya7Cwwo&list=PL-13768sgKMwKcjrULKs9LuEuiTGWHRem

But now I've left the realm of /vr/ completely.

No problem duder. Have a good one and enjoy!

Remember when you would get "comfy", and that is all people applied that to?

Now it's all.
>Hey what are some comfy movies?
>You know why I like [Youtube guy] he's comfy
>Comfy video games

I swear, it's the most subtle buzzword being used on the internet.

>>1877440

Prepare for maximum fucking comfy

http://www.rainymood.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnrl0tmd3k

>>1877482

I guess. At some point you have to define what makes you comfy.

>>1877440

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Q55blLA5E

If you're a fan of the Policenauts/Snatcher games they had a jazzy remix album

Chrono Trigger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALcMsS9Cis4

You lose, OP.

>>1877572
No I don't.

>>1877932

Is this even /vr/?

>>1877932
smoke swampweed ery day!

I used to order a pizza in Fourside, wait until it got delivered, and then take the bus to Onett or Twoson and sell it. I would pretend I was a pizza delivery man.

Yes, I lost money on every transaction.

I was a pretty weird kid.

>>1876809

I'm always sad when i play Zelda LA.

Cuz just a dream.

>>1876809
That is still the best Zelda game, in my opinion. It plays so smooth, and you never need to think about camera angles.

I have to admit, when I first got it at 9 years old, it took me 10 minutes to figure out how to get out of the house at the very beginning, even with my mom's (extremely non-technical) help. How was I supposed to know I had to talk to the guy?

why hi

>>1878025

...
Ok, yeah. That wins.

>>1877986
how the hell do you sell a used pizza?

>>1878030
To an interested customer?
This isn't hard to understand.

Link's Awakening DX is my favorite game, but you gotta admit Pokémon Crystal is pretty fucking comfy too. Especially at night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XjouKSkSeM

tea for one by led zeppelin
and then rainymood
perfect.

>>1876809
> Curled up in bed under the blankets, hot cup of cocoa next to you
No and no. It's fucking summer. More like no blankets and a cool glass of lemonade.
>bedside lamp on
Fuck no, there goes my comfy black level to glare. Unless you meant on the original gameboy or GBC. In which case, holy shit definitely not comfortable with that hunch back motherfucking neck shit or elbows on a desk on that tiny shit with uncomfortable hand positioning. Being in bed, definitely not while playing shit - also definitely not with any fucking drinks near my fucking bed - that's shitslap territory.

>playing some Zelda LA before sleeping.
Everything I do during the day is before sleeping. If you mean as I'm tired, that isn't comfortable. If I'm tired I want to fucking go to sleep not play a game.

Marin is overrated. You hold her over your head and that's really about where it ends.
The music is okay. The sound effects are okay.
The atmosphere is dependent on where you are but it's a bit too peppy for my tastes. Also the animal village shit is retarded. Trade quests are not comfy.

It's a decent enough game, best Zelda on the Gameboy outright and one of the best Gameboy games. I wouldn't really rate it as a comfy game though.

>>1877440
if you're still around later, you should check out todd terje, he's got that lounge/ambient music down to a T

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUOIvT9hzD8

>>1878098
Please go ahead and kill yourself already.

>>1878113
Fuck off troll.

>>1877483
haha I used to use Rainymood all the time. I've got both of the Rainy Day Sessions albums aswell, which have a bunch of /vr/ and /v/ music.

>>1877482
I know it seems overused, but it used to be shorthand for comfortable, and I honestly think "cozy" would be a more suitable word, since you can be comfortable playing any game, but the warm fuzzy feeling I THINK people are gunning for when they use comfy is more aptly summed up with cozy.

>>1876992
Damn, that does sound comfy. Might have to pick it up for the winter, never played it.

>>1878295
>Rainy Day Sessions

I just looked up the rainy day session.

I dig it, but how the hell did Mr. Blue Sky end up on that track list. It's seriously one of my favorite songs of all time but it doesn't even come close to fitting the mood of that albums.

Fuck it, I like someone's taste

>>1877326
>>1877441

I just can't get over how GOOD that album is. I'm a right sucker for the piano jazz stuff. Especially when it's /vr/ related.

I hate the fact that OCRemix's Zelda stuff is all 90% slow "epic" orchestral build ups made by someone who just learned about Reason. This album is brilliantly realised. Presumably by a fantastic keys player.

Should I play DX or the Original?

>>1878457

I prefer the original version myself. mostly nostalgia reasons though.

>>1878457
I'd say DX mostly because colour and also I liked the photo taking aspect, new sprites and all.

>>1876809
There is no comfier *game* than LA, retro or otherwise

But other comfy retro games are:

Syndicate Wars (dat cyberpunk cityscape)
Hardwar (ultra-comfy when you get the Swallow)
Eye of the Beholder 2 (the early above-ground-ish levels are full-comfort-zone)
Flashback (more cyberpunk comfiness)

>>1878098

I honestly feel sad for people like you. How did you get to be so cynical?

I'll be enjoying my last bit of Link's Awakening DX tonight in exactly the way OP said to.

>>1878524
Not him but leave the dude alone, when you get old (I'm guessing he's around my age, i.e. mid 30s) you get like that and it's just life fucking you up the ass. Not much that can be done about it except try to stay upbeat through playing good vidya and eating good and staying fit.

Just try to tell me this game ain't comfy.

>inb4 losing baby Mario

>>1877919
Yeah.
you do

>>1878559
That sucks. I'm 28 years old but I'm not a faggot. I'm never gonna get like that either.

>>1878559

Whatever man. I'm 27 and life's been fucking me pretty hard lately.

I still don't respond that way. Life's too short to be so cynical.

playing Oracle of Ages

>>1878098
i hope you know that you're literally the worst type of person.

>>1878684
no.
he doesn't.

>>1878693
>>1878835
>tfw 28
>tfw as cynical as >>1878559

I really wish I COULD be optimistic, but I see life as more of a string of shitty, shitty events and have trouble focusing on the good side of things because good is temporary if possible and suffering is inevitable.

>tfw even if you're "lucky" you're still gonna choke out on a hospital bed surrounded by machines and in long drawn out agony at an old age living through your body breaking down and betraying you.

but hey, videogames amirite?

>>1878874
>be 27
>replaying bof2 on gba in bed before sleep. Pretty comfy. Gosh my neck hurts.
>develop bone spur/unholy knot.

And that's the story of how I had a headache for going on four years.

>>1878304
You should, its cheap. Maybe around $5.

>>1875472

>>1878896
>bone spur
>something new to be paranoid about when gaming in bed.
>just about to start playing BoF2

Goddamnit anon.

Seriously though, that sucks man, anything they can do about it/do you still have it?

>>1878874
So make the most of life while you're still healthy son. That's the whole idea. Why are you already focusing on death? You're only a third of your way through life.

Also life doesn't have to be terrible when you're old. My dad's old but he's wealthy and satisfied. He's made a life for himself. I'm getting married in a few months and I look forward to finally getting him some grandkids. It actually makes me understand what life is about - at least for me. You want to work hard and set your balance so that when you're old you can be content with yourself and how things turned out. There's a few keys to this I believe:

>wealth (you don't have to be rich but you have to be in a position where you don't have to depend on anyone else and still be very comfortable)
>a significant other (alone in old age is a terrible thing. most guys need an SO to love but hey if you can pull a Hugh Hefner go for it)
>a loving family with kids that you've raised well and can stand on their own two feet and are successful
>good health (as healthy as you can be even as you age. exercise, eat right, etc)

These aren't all easy to obtain, no doubt. You have to work hard for them but what else are you gonna do with your time? Better than dying an old and bitter man looking back at a life of regret.

Of course life is different for everyone and people will have different answers to their existential crises but at least I finally have an idea of where I'd like my life to end up. Yeah it's "boring" in a sense but the bottom line is it's contentment and it's comfy.

Outrun, Ecco, wave race, star fox, hang on, shenmue, Kirby's dreamland 3, harvest moon, final fantasy 8, and many more. I find Zelda too annoying to be comfy.

>>1876809
Personally, I prefer Dragon Warrior/Quest games as far as "comfy" goes. But then they're the only series that ever gave me comfy feels.

I fucking got all nostalgic the FIRST time I played DQVIII (not retro, who cares...) and the same with DWVII. It's the only series that I ever played where I just started a game I'd never even watched a video of before abd BAM. I'm right at home, comfy, nostalgia'd to fucking death. AAA, 10/10 series.

Zelda LA was fun and all, but it's too... I don't know, man. It's just too engaging for me to be comfy with. Like, when I play DQ, I feel at ease and nothing really "gets me going". When I play any Zelda (LA included) I'm sort of on edge and constantly thinking things through. I literally can't get comfy.

I bet it's different when you've beaten the game 100+ times, but I haven't.

On that note, the first 7 Resident Evil games (1, DC, 2, 3, CV/X, REmake and Zero) and the first Dino Crisis games (witch are effectively part of the RE series in gameplay terms) are kind of comfy for me, as I know where to go and what to do at any random point in time in all of them. So it's pretty relaxing for me to just play one of them and fuck around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5scj_HyQw38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qicGyDNhnBg

https://soundcloud.com/junechikuma

I have always thought that Bomberman is a pretty comfy series, for being about blowing shit up. I think Jun Chikuma is mostly responsible for that. For some reason Super Bomberman 3 has my favorite music. I included Jun's soundcloud, for enhanced comfy.

>>1878956

Exactly. I'm 27, graduated, moved to the mountains with no-money to my name.

Got into healthy hobbies, I ski, snowboard, hike, sail, rock-climb.

I'm making the most of my youth while my body can take it.

Plus, you want comfy?
You fire up some retro vidya when it's 15 degrees outside with 3 feet of snow on the ground. It's dark at 4pm, you pour yourself a glass of whiskey or make some hot chocolate and goddamn get cozy next to the fireplace.

>>1879241
I am beyond jelly. This sounds like the most beautiful thing ever

>>1878956
>He's made a life for himself.
>I'm making the most of my youth

Can you give us the blueprints to object called a life you have and the directions on how to use it most efficiently?

>>1879384
Oh yeah, we'll also need some working guidelines on 'success.'

>>1879384
get yourself a fine ass gf and fuck her in the ass every night. also water sports.

Mario RPG for the win.

>dat music
>dem non-Mario characters
>dat world map

>>1876809
As it was my first Zelda experience, i remember on it also as the definition of a videogame. Great, and long story, action, adventure, puzzles, dungeons, and everything you mentioned.
Now I play Spirit Tracks, and there is nothing in it that was there in LA.
Dungeons... long ago, it had to be explored, and find the map. And the puzzles in it, you had to think on it, not like in this, where there is stonetable that literally tells the answer, and what you should do.
BUT i dont dare to replay LA, being remembered as how long it was

>>1879384

No. I just know what I like. Being a cynical asshole isn't part of it.

That's some advice if you want it. Don't be cynical.

>>1879805
Says the guy being a cynical asshole.

>>1879384
>Can you give us the blueprints to object called a life you have and the directions on how to use it most efficiently?
wat

>>1879825

What? That didn't even make sense

>>1878070
Gold/Silver/Crystal was the best. I know the game was about Pokemon, but this saga put a lot of emphasis on travel/exploring/adventure than pokemon themselves. Towns at night were comfy as fuck

>>1878924
Not reasonably. If I wanted to go to cedar cynai hospital with a billion dollars I could probably find a surgeon that would grind it off for me, but that is some fucking expensive fucking spinal surgery that might kill me.

Game with good posture kids!

Doing trap exercises to strengthen my neck control reduces it, and regular massages reduce muscle tension the spur causes

>>1876809
Everything you said except
Game is any number of dos shareware titles.
I've got a blanket over my shoulders on a cold winter night.
Hunched over the glow of an old crt.
Tall glass of Dr pepper on the desk.
Playing into the morning.

>>1880563
>Playing into the morning.
Damn. Thats what i do since som days.. maybe weeks.
Dont really feel comfy , just miserable.

>>1876809
Did you know that David Lynch's Twin Peaks was an inspiration for this game?

>>1878914
Ge out of here, fag

>Eighth birthday
>February in New Jersey
>get Ecco the motherfucking Dolphin
>wake up randomly at 3 am the next morning
>snowing like a motherfucker
>sneak into TV room
>wrap self in blankets and play Ecco until 9 am the next morning
>dat music
>dat blue
>dat atmosphere

Maximum comfy.

First time I ever gamed through sunrise, too.

Animal Village in Link's Awakening.

Also pic related, though this may be more romantic than comfy.

>>1883970
*Oh snap, meant to bump the 'comfy moments' thread instead of this one, my bad. Too lazy to fix tho.

overrated game hyped by individuals that read too deeply into it and project vague feelings into the plot that aren't really there

>>1878070
>Pokémon will never be as comfy as Gen 2 again

:'3
This game will always have a special place in my heart.

>>1876809

>comfy Zelda

Here you go, /vr/.

http://i.4cdn.org/f/knights_of_labrynna.swf

Some might not agree but I always felt super comfy playing this game on the OG Playstation while it was pouring rain outside.

>>1876809
Eh, it was great but Oracles outdid it in every way.

>>1888058
damn, I've had the exact same experience. Though I would never use the word comfy. But I do know exactly what you mean.

I lost my copy of the original b/w Link's Awakening. I have the color version but it doesn't feel as confy. It just doesn't.

>>1876809
best LoZ game ever made

>>1888058
hey can i ask you seomthing because i played the gameboy version and the characters were yellow and it really really annoyed me


are the characters yellow

>>1888078

I'm glad there are people that are saying this. I love LA, but Ages and Seasons were indeed superior. Ages even got awfully deep with the Symmetry Village part. That game has a lot of feels.

>>1878584
Someone should make a mod of the game where they remove the sound of Baby Mario crying or replace it with a beeping or something.

It's not really retro yet, but I grew up on GBA/GameCube-era, and my big ones are Pikmin 2 and Wind Waker. My dad worked from home, so erry morning before second grade involved a couple rounds of Pikmin before we went out to the bus stop.
Man, those were some good times.

>>1878559

>being 30 and still going on /v/

>>1879017
after what you said about those exact RE games (and Dino Crisis) we are now best friends.

>>1878070
I didn't even think about G/S/C
My vote goes to this

>>1879414
bruh you do realize you're posting on /vr/

I've beat Zelda 2 and ninja gaiden but still haven't had a gf and things ain't looking too bright on that frontier

>>1878849
Does so.

>>1878098
>best Zelda on the Gameboy outright
Oracle of Ages is better.

>>1878070
Gen 1 and 2 had this melancholy feel that I think they lost in the later gens. A lot of it has to do with the music, which was much more subdued and not as upbeat and pop-y as the later games were.

>>1891367
You're right, its ridiculous to engage in a discussion with people on a subject that one finds interesting.

>>1888078

oracles and seasons were good, but they didn't have half the atmosphere that LA did

>>1893545
ages and seasons, you know what i meant

>>1876809
It's kinda fucked up. The nightmares were right, you fucking murdered everyone in that dream world.

>>1893545
They had twice.
Because they were two games.

Get it?

I loved how it was one of the darkest/saddest Zelda games yet the most lighthearted at the same time. While you end up murdering everyone at the end and that Face Shrine music sounds really dark, even for a Zelda dungeon, there's so many silly moments that you can't help but laugh at.

>>1876809
Found one.

Harvest Moon SNES. Waking up on a winter morning with the fireplace on and that music in the background always gets me comfy. Even moreso when you have the house fully extended.