/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2297327
>tfw most of the shit he listed here actually happened, more or less, thanks to mega evolution

>>2297329
It's comforting to know that some things have always been the same.

>>2297327
>50 hours if you are a PKMN maniac like myself

>>2297327
>50 hours if you are a PKMN maniac like myself

>tips red and white cap

>>2297329
>>2297376
This guy's talking about PC gaming though. Hence the complaint about SNES games having "little plot". He's not a nostalgiafag. He's a PCfag.

>>2297329

Nearly 20 years later and people still moan about remakes

>>2297327
Adding further Pokemon was only done to milk the series.

>>2297424
The first couple generations were top tier. It just didn't work as well after that.

>>2297436

The game itself petered out around Gen. III, but the Pokemon designs managed to last to around Gen. IV.

Which is hardly surprising, considering they had a backlog from the guy who did the original designs for all of them.

>>2297471

Please take generation debates to /vp/. We don't need that stuff here

>>2297550

Who the fuck said anything about a debate, scrublord?

Man, I love retro internet funposts. I wish I could go back in time so that I could make some proto /v/ posts on those sites.

>>2297714
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THAT'S THE BEST THING I'VE READ ALL FUCKING DAY!

>>2297321
IBMer here.
How can a machine have political opinions?

>>2297769
Isn't the IBM more left wing? It's de facto an open standard if you ignore the MS operating systems.

>>2297714
Those were the times, man. Top banter.

>>2297327
Yeah, I thought this back then, too. But, honestly, the new Pokemon was one of the least of gen 2's problems.

>>2297780
Gen 2 was fine.

>>2297776
Well I don't see any kind of political ideology being a factor in business decision here.

>>2297424
this is a safe for work board dude.

>>2297327
I agree with him I stopped playing at gold/silver

>>2297835
Did you play GSC or did you stop after RBG? Sounds like he's an RBG man.

>>2297329

Is he implying NES games have better plots than SNES ones?

>>2297327
Nidogod could be Tryranitar, no one cares about Marill, Mega Evolutions happened and we got gorillions of new Pokémon.

>>2298116
I am laughin' bro, I thought the same thing.

>>2297424
>>2297823

What?
It was Miltank (a cow Pokemon) drinking it's own milk. What's NSFW about that?

>>2298336

I see you have met the over-sensitive faggot of the /vr/ Janny team....

Have fun.

>>2298340
Or maybe it was the /vp/ related comment (still on topic, though).


>>2297424
>>2297327
>Adding further Pokemon was only done to milk the series.

>>2297329
This is amazing.

>>2298336
because this site is at a place where anything involving bodily fluids is porn

>>2297574
>>2297471
>>2297436
RETRO examples of gamer stupidity, not fresh ones, please.

>>2297321
God damnit, that usenet post again? Ugh!

(reader mail not necessarily from this particular issue)
~~~~~"I'm very apprehensive about what CPU to buy. I want to get a K6-2 because I HATE INTEL, but I want to make sure it will run duke nukem forever well because I know it will be my favourite game! I'm wondering, will it be optimized with 3dnow extensions and how much will that help?"

I found this in one of the old magazines I have.

>>2301519
>Win a job at Ion Storm
So you would get laid off shortly afterwards.

not retro, but retrospective

More here:

http://www.textfiles.com/games/

>>2301885
Jesus Christ.

NeoGAF. Not even once.

Famicom articles + geocities mirror = double retro win!

Not strictly /vr/ but a sequel to a /vr/ game

>>2301884
People who frequent Gawker are really and truly insane.

>>2301913
That person would be reviled today. There are too many lorefags around now, they'd burn your house down if you said you didn't like Morrowind. He's right though, Daggerfall is best Elder Scrolls

>>2298116
Pretty sure he's comparing the then-current consoles to PC gaming.

>>2302492
CLASSIC pc gaming I should say.

>>2297327
>Just please, don't evolve Mewtwo.

I'm sorry, anon.

>>2302487

But isn't it _still_ buggy as all fuck so many years later? Can't you still routinely fall through the floor and shit?

Still, the graphics and gameplay appealed so much I tried Might and Magic VII as a substitute.

We'll see.

>>2297714
That can't be real. What is that from?

>>2302497
Download it from Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages. They've patched it pretty much to completion.

>>2301904
>Super Nintendo & Amiga

The true master race

>>2302503

From what I have heard the download from the Elder Scrolls website is the completely vanilla installation. No official patches, no fan patches, no add-on quests, nothin'.

>>2302514
I can't link it because it keeps telling me my post is spam, but google UESP Daggerfall Files. It has all the instrcutions and links and patches. You are correct though that the Bethesda download is just the vanilla game.

>>2302530

I found those as well. From what I've read, you still fall through the floor regularly, among other problems they have been unable to track down. The only solution for slipping into the void is the one Bethesda provided all those years ago- give the player a way to fly out. And I'm sorry, but that just doesn't cut it.

This is why the DaggerXL project would've been nice. But Lucius is an over-ambitious moron who promises far more than he could ever even hope to deliver.

>>2297714
Oh Jesus fuck that's some funny stuff.

>>2297776
At the time the hippies and anarchists were using Amigas and Macs. Also, the PC platform got more open over time, as it slipped out of IBM's hands.

>Right wing garbage

Wh-...how the fuck do you get 'right wing' out of a game console?

>>2297769
>>2304714
This must be your first time encountering liberal logic.
See >>2301884 for more detail

To stay on topic: here's how you can find more examples of /v/ from the 90's.
>RARE VINTAGE WOW!!! wrong old opinions - L@@K
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/rec.games.video
Unfortunately google broke (removed) the search by date function, so you'll just have to browse until you find something old enough.


In article <475mve$5...@lynx.dac.neu.edu>,
Christopher Towns <cto...@lynx.dac.neu.edu> wrote:
>How do I morph into smoke using Shang Tsung on SNES...it's not
>back-back-down-low kick for starters.
>

It is easy to morph into smoke on the SNES:
1) Open the power supply.
2) Insert your finger.

Followups set to rec.games.video.nintendo, which is the only group
the question should have been posted to in the first place.

--
Karl J. von Laudermann | "'I' is for 'simple.'" - television ad for AT+T
pen...@ccs.neu.edu | "Cleans Tough Foods Easily!" - bottle of Sunlight
-----------------------+ dishwashing liquid | "All food is finger food!" - me
"Made with multiple organisms" - container of Stonyfield Farm brand yogurt

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.games.video.nintendo-64

Someone posted this on /v/ a week ago, we discovered that /v/ has existed as an entity further back than we can fathom.

Goes as far back as 1997

>>2297714
Thats fucking hilarious

>>2302501
An official Nintendo mag from one of the PAL countries.

>>2306175
I don't get what's supposed to be ironic about the post in the picture. I'm sure he was genuinely impressed by the cool 3D effects, like anyone who actually owns a Virtualboy and doesn't knock it off like a child.

>>2308840
The horrendous failure to be psychic about the lack of software support for the virtual boy.

>>2302501

I am from the U.K. and can confirm that gaming magazines had writers that were sometimes brutally honest when responding to readers

>>2306457

What age bracket was it aimed at?

>>2310803
5 to 16 usually.

>>2311337

And they called someone a retard in a non-clinical sense?