/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2025896
>non vr pacman
>question that will get subjective answers and that fosters a false dichotomy
>>>/v/

I say playing it right. Otherwise you're just flailing around hoping you get lucky and finish a board

>>2025906
Oh, sorry.
Is this better?

>>2025906
Fuck off this thread has potential as a topic, it doesn't have to be limited to just Pacman

>>2025906

Why even play the original when Mrs. is better in every way?

>>2025913
>best pacman
thx

>>2025909
>>2025896

KILL THEM BOTH.

>>2025920

>>2025906
Oh yes the original art is SO much better

>>2025896
>So is using patterns cheating
No.

...I can never find a pattern that works...

Already a Pac-Thread
>>>2018719

>>2025946
Pac the fuck off.

>>2025896
Patterns are not cheating, you have to right to think like a computer to play against a computer which is determined to stoop as low as you to win. Thing is ghosts are (mostly) predictable, whilst you, in their eyes, are not.

>>2025896
Patterns are not cheating, you have the right to think like a computer to play against a computer which is determined to stoop as low as you to win. Thing is ghosts are (mostly) predictable, whilst you, in their eyes, are not.

>>2025920
PS1 Pac-Man is an acceptable design.

>>2025936
>implying thats the only /vr/ pacman

>>2025896
To quote the sage and crystal clear wisdom of Joel West:

"The man broke the spirit of the game [by employing a pattern]. That's not a Berzerk player, that's a monkey. You can teach a monkey how to play a certain number of rooms but you cannot teach a man how to play Berzerk."

>>2025992
The real question is can we teach a monkey to play Quake. This is important.

>>2025906
>non-vr
That's PS1 era's look too.

>shitposting about designs
>>>/v/

>>2025896
Finding and exploiting the patterns is part of the game

>>2025906
The fuck?

>>2025896
Playing it right

>>2025896
what the deleted comment?

>>2028449
I'm assuming it's some idiot saying Pac-Man's limbed design isn't /vr/.

>>2028449
whenever I see a deleted comment I just go to the moe archive to read it https://archive.moe/vr/thread/2025896

Playing it right. The game is designed to make use of ghost movements and that's exactly what a pattern is; manipulating and taking advantage of the ghosts' AI

>>2025956
The hell is that sprite from?

>>2029540
Pac-Man 2
a true masterpiece

>>2025896
>>2029481
Patterns are an inferior way of playing pacman. It surprises me that no one here in /vr/ has mentioned the Pac-man dossier.

>In 1999, Billy Mitchell of Hollywood, Florida became the first person to obtain a perfect score of 3,333,360 at Pac-Man, eating every possible dot, energizer, ghost, and bonus on every level without losing a single life in the process. But perhaps what is most amazing is the fact he can play without using any memorized routines widely known as “patterns”. Instead, he relies on his familiarity with how each ghost behaves as it moves through the maze, using that knowledge to keep Pac-Man one step ahead of his enemies at all times.

>>2031868
>Instead, he relies on his familiarity with how each ghost behaves as it moves through the maze, using that knowledge to keep Pac-Man one step ahead of his enemies at all times.
So basically he knows the pattern of the ghosts?

Yes..we are all familiar with Billy Mitchell

>>2031868
>>2031887
Not that it ever was top secret stuff if you actively played pacman. Once you notice a distinct behavior, it's only natural for you to take advantage of it because you don't want to lose. If you play the game "hoping" you don't lose then you will, eventually. Is this the superior way?

>>2025936

That's not even the original art. This is what the very first machines looked like before it was renamed to Pac-Man.

OP's Pac-Man image is a slightly more refined version of this. I say that's true Pac-Man.

>>2033236
Thank you very much.

Depends on if you figured it out or looked it up from a guide.

>>2025906
>question that will get subjective answers

So we shouldn't discuss anything aside from when consoles and games were released? Damn near everything else aside from that is subjective.

>>2033254
Good point here. I've never been a fan of looking in guides before you finish a game. For later playthroughs I guess it's okay though.

I thought the Pac-Man world design was based off Pac-Mania's art?

>>2035463
Nah the gloves and boots thing was around from day one