/vr/ - Retro Games

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When I played it in 1989.

>>2409978
>expecting cavestory badassery from a nes

no, it's you who is the fuck

>>2409978
Go back to /v/ you bastard...

This thread is going to be derailed as soon as the first person puts more than one pic in "what i got".

>>2409985
Metroid is Cavestory except not shit.

I still genuinely like the game though.

>>2409895
I just got the true ending for this game yesterday. Fun game and it hasn't aged all that badly surprisingly.

>>2410476
>>Taking Ellen
>>Not the No1 guy in the world Nate.

>>2410476
Stoicism isn't emo. It's literally the opposite.

>>2410501
Not him, but it makes for an equally shit character though.

>>2410545
Try getting past the first disc then, champ.

>>2410520
You always were a kidder.

I'll never pass up a chance to bash on Wetrix.

>>2409895

>>2410476
This meme is past its use-by date.

>>2410943
Filter & shader thread
>400 replies hidden

Spyro for PS1

>>2409978
Honestly, I can name ten games on the NES that are better than that Cave Story shit.

>>2411020
Go on then.

didnt expect such a rich game library !
also M.U.S.H.A. has my favorite soundtrack in the system and ECCO is probably the most inmersive game i played on a 16bit console

>>2411023
Super Mario Bros. trilogy
Castlevania I-III
Contra & Super C
Double Dragon I & II
Ninja Gaiden I-III
River City Ransom
Power Blade 1 & 2
Mega Man 1-6
Zelda I-II
Metroid

>>2411029
sorry for doublepost

>>2411037

And you're being generous at not even mentioning games like Journey to Silius or Little Samson.
Anyway that pic was either retarded bait or genuine /v/ teenager shit.

>>2411037
is that a "most sold copies" list ?
could you get any more generic? have you been playing the same games for 20 years?

>>2411078
There is a reason why they were hits.
They were good.

>>2411078
>failing to move the goalposts

>>2411078
fuck off, hipster scum
just becuse they're the most played games and commonly chosen as the best doesn't fucking mean they're not
go play your "underrated hidden gems"
>muh edgiosity

>>2411097
im not a hipster. i just dont want to play the same thing over and over again.. you know how it is
sorry if i offended you

>>2411056

Ecco is the closest we'll get to the Watership Down of videogames.

I don't mind this but holy shit does it make this game hard.

>>2411056
i was amazed how fucking inmersive this game was
is there anything similar nowadays?
>>2410520
that game is creepy as fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIYfSY1PjFs

>>2411104
>>2411078
What the fuck does that have anything to do with playing the same games over and over again? You simply asked which NES games I consider better than Cave Story and I gave you a list. I barely even scratched the surface (as >>2411067 points out) by leaving out some of the lesser known or debatable titles like Shatterhand, Vice: Project Doom and Street Fighter 2010.

Cave Story is pretty good for a self-published freeware game, but it's nothing special in the overall scheme of things.

>>2411056

holy shit this is actually very accurate

>>2411123
>is there anything similar nowadays?
Probably Aquaria.

>>2411135

Cave Story doesn't even look like a Famicom game, more like a 16-bit era game. Even 32-bit.

This is the problem with young kids born in the 00s playing modern indies and thinking "oh, so this is 8 bit". Yeah, that isn't 8-bit. it's a modern game.

>>2411143
I have this but have never played it, I hear it has a great OST. How is the gameplay?

>>2411159
>I have this but have never played it, I hear it has a great OST. How is the gameplay?

Breddy fun.

>sing songs
>cook food
>swim with pretty fishes

On second thought, don't let your dad catch you playing it.

I know Harvester has already been done but I want to give my own.

That game disturbed me unlike any other.

>>2411078
If anything, it's a good demonstration of how easy it is to pick out games better than Cave Story on the NES.
That you don't even have to reach beyond NES's Greatest Hits Volume 3 is telling.

>>2411146
>Cave Story doesn't even look like a Famicom game, more like a 16-bit era game. Even 32-bit.
The 16-bit and 32-bit eras brought us Monster World IV and Symphony of the Night respectively. Cave Story wishes it looked as good as either of those two games. At best, Cave Story looks like an early PC Engine game and that's being generous.

>This is the problem with young kids born in the 00s playing modern indies and thinking "oh, so this is 8 bit". Yeah, that isn't 8-bit. it's a modern game.
The crappy pixel art style used in most indie games doesn't help matters.

>>2411078
Those are actually not even close to being the best selling games on the system aside from Mario and Zelda.

>>2410863
underrated post.

>>2411159
It's Metroidvania, but under water. Quite nice.

>>2411289

People overthink Cave Story's aesthetic, it's literally just what the admittedly limited one person dev team could pull off with the tools he had. It works for the game though, the various attempts to make it 'pretty' over the years have been ugly as fuck.

>>2411085

Yeah, back in 1945 when they were the only games available

best game ever

>>2410889
I honestly like this game a lot. It's hard, but a genuinely well made action rpg. Even if Nintendo was pretty much throwing to see what sticks at the time.

What, no utterly incomprehensible wall of images in "what I got" box? For shame!

>>2411745
>honestly
This is such a retarded thing to say. Of course you would be honest. Why would you have any reason to lie about it?

>>2411779

Not him but I dunno, hipster e-cred? Most of the time I read people on here, I assume they're fucking 15 year old hipsters, so I appreciate if they make it clear they're being honest about what they're saying.

>>2411757
>utterly incomprehensible wall of images
I think you may have autism.

>>2409895

>>2411779
Nowhere near as retarded as calling him out for something so inconsequential.

>>2410012
I knew this board was full of hipsters trying to get retro cred but this is fucking ridiculous.

>>2410549
>it gets good 20 hours in!

Not really a compelling argument, champ.

Expected your standard JRPG fare + DRAGONS!

Ended up getting a really fucking interesting game, with a really unique setting and one of the better endings to a game I can think of. Lots of moral ambiguity, and ambiguity in general. I like it.

>>2412558
Haha, this image also works for the 'got'

>>2412563
Agreed, I just played it for the first time a couple of months ago and had a blast. The setting and storytelling are both very unique and I love how the battle system emulates the core Panzer Dragoon titles. It reminded me of how much I miss the 90's when there were a ton of JRPG's being released that experimented with new kinds of battle systems.

The ambiguity of the ending is completely undone by Panzer Dragoon Orta though, that that that's necessarily a bad thing. Although I think it's kind of bullshit that over a century later the Empire is back and now they have dragons too.

>>2412591
Orta was next on my list, actually, was gonna hook the 360 up tomorrow and finally play that. I've had the copy for ages, just never got around to playing the Saturn games.

Kind of a shame about the ambiguity thing, but at the same time it -is- a story continuation.

Also Craymen did nothing wrong

>>2411493
I doubt the indie faux-retro aesthetic is even a thing in Japan.

>>2411159
Pretty solid, though I had a bitch of a time with the couple of wall-jumping sections.

>>2409895

I got it as a Christmas present and didn't know anything about it.

>>2411646
patiently waiting for my ntsc repro to ship
my dick may soon explode

Hype from the fans killed it for me

>>2412623
I still want to believe it's about a T-man (aka Opa-Opa) tracking down money laundering for the Japanese government (aka the Space Guild) and killing/finding out his dad's a yakuza boss in the process.

>>2413803
I'm totally with you. Got it's great moments but a lot drags it down. Definitely the most overrated of the series

>>2413827
I though FF7 had that title.

>>2413824
>>2413827
FF7 has quite a bit of a backlash against it by some of the fanbase but 6 doesn't at least as far as I know, and its fans seem to be a lot louder than 7s, even if there aren't as many.

Playing 5, which I adored, just before playing 6 didn't do 6 any favours either given 6's gameplay was considerably weaker and the story was only a tiny bit better.

>>2409895

>>2413802
It's not /vr/ but I recommend the Total War Series, it's a lot closer to your expectation.

>>2412660
Picture of a perfect description of my experience.

>>2413802
kek, reminds me of how I'd impose my own limits on unit types to try to make AoE 'realistic'

was just gimping myself ut of the fun, really

>>2413829
Can't really put it much better than >>2413841 did. It's got it's fair share of love and hate. Probably more towards the love but for everything it did right, it's rated about right.

>>2413803
Final Fantasy VI was one of those JRPGs that was pretty impressive at the time, but it's been outdone by other games in the genre since then. Graphically, it's a huge step up from IV and V and the colorful sprites and photorealistic backgrounds looked pretty beautiful at the time and they look less dated than the low-poly dolls of the PS1 trilogy (especially VII, which had an inconsistent art style). I would argue it holds up slightly better than VII in a way, since it allows a lot more customization, but the introduction of Espers (why did they called them that anyway) kinda blurred the differences between characters a bit too much for me.

>>2413854
>steel panthers

now there's a game that doesn't get mentioned on /vr/ enough

I'll have to make a thread sometime

I need to make more of these.

Still feels like it to this day
show is an insane boxing anime called Hajime no Ippo btw, shits cash

>>2412580
Dang that is much better than what I did. I just searched weeaboo on google images and got the best I could find.

>>2414067
It's a classic /mu/ meme circa 2007 fo whenever anyone would post anime music.

I actually like Shogo's weeabooness, reminds me of myself at the time, but damn if it isn't one of the weebiest things ever.

>>2410520
That game is insane.

I'm sure it would have been more fun if you didn't burn 20 gallons a minute

>>2412546
It takes time to develop character you moron. If you play games for plot, then "it takes X hours" actually IS a valid argument.

If you play for the gameplay, then it's a different story. But FFVIII lets you basically do whatever you want from an hour in (as far as refinements and junctions, ect. So that's a non point anyway.

Also, a character being emotionally scarred because he never knew his father, his mother died, his "sister" was taken from him, his only mother figure disappeared and then he was raised to be a soldier isn't exactly "le bad writing" when he's stoic. It's actually rather realistic. Also, the fact that a girl pulled him out of his shell is VERY realistic.

So kindly go fuck yourself with your shitty arguments and generalizations.

>>2414380

>takes hours to develop a character
>character boring from beginning to end

Is your name Ken-Sama? I've never seen someone cry this hard over a crappy game.

>>2410863
Someone Doesn't appreciate Pre-sonic Sega.

I still love these games.

>>2414454
I do a lot actually, but cmon that rock-paper-scissors stuff was a huge pile of bullshit.

Really, learning most of the stages is pretty easy when you can choose which one to start with.

Except the 'Wily' stage.

>>2414540
This game was hard as fuck. Loved the music though.

>>2414551
The music is fucking amazing.
It's a shame there are only two tracks that play during stages, but then the tracks are extremely long by NES standards, so I wonder if it was due to lack of space.

>>2414372

Still more playable than Urban Strike.

>>2413621
>beingbadatsonic.jpg

>>2409978
>video game developer who's angry at the retro rebirth

Kek. Sorry that retro games are more fun, I guess?

>>2409978

>>2412540
From the looks of it, it appears that Cave Story is for hipsters who like to pretend they enjoy retro games.

>>2411646
as a kid that game made me laugh and it made me cry. good times

>>2410520
I don't think your "got" picture does the game justice.

>>2412558
Uh, you DID get the second image in that game.

>>2409978
Why are you even comparing Cave Story with NES games? It's not even /vr/.

>>2416756
>he's a troll

>>2413996
>insane boxing anime called Hajime no Ippo btw, shits cash
Seconded, I don't even link sports animes and that shit was so cash

>>2409978
I don't get it.

>>2410867
So are the users here.

>>2409978
ebin :*)

>>2416762

>>2412502
Oh fuck off, Actraiser 2 has some of the tightest combat mechanics I've ever come across in a 2D platformer.

>>2409985
Super bat puncher looks and plays a lot like cave story. I'm sure any competent developer could make a pretty faithful port of that game to the NES.

>>2416772
Are you just making a joke or are you seriously smack-talking Soul Sacrifice?

>>2409895
Is there a way to do this without Photoshop?

>>2417232
>photoshop
Nigga just use Paint like everyone else. You don't need PS for a low quality meme.

I was pleasantly surprised...

(Repost of mine, but)

I had heard all the rumors, watched all the videos.
I knew it was bad, but.. OH GOD!!!

>>2417298
>tfw one of your high rank veterans dies and you can see his grave in the background as a rookie takes his place
That game was awesome, but it also kinda depressed me as kid.

Has anyone tried the 3rd one ? I've just watched a video, and it looks like they have completely replaced the dark tone by some cheap cartoon humour.

>>2417352
I thought the "war has never been so much fun" motto was pretty goofy in the first one.

>>2417356
Yeah. It's one of the few action games where I've felt kinda sorry for all the enemies I had killed.
It also made me want to play well just not to see the tombs and the casualties screen.

>>2417371
Oh I know what you mean, the killed soldiers in your squad get to stay dead right.

>>2417381
Yup.

>>2417352
>>2417371
>>2417381
>>2417389

I made a feel...

>>2411118
I like you, also if you haven't you should read the short stories he wrote as a psuedo sequel, they're pretty damn good

>>2417459
Fuck...

>>2417473
>Gunstar Heroes x F-Zero x Indiana Jones
I have no idea what game it is but it sounds fucking awesome.

>>2417492
Not F-Zero, but the Big Blue stage in Melee.

>>2416663
No Cave Story is for people who just enjoy good video games.

>>2417560
it is a good game but overrated as fuck to be honest

>>2417318
>Lobster man

I hate him so much.

sorry, but the cover-art really does say it all. badassery

>>2417612
i got it when a local rental store went out of business. i was about 11 or 12. i expected banjo kazooie.

>>2417632
Holy shit man I know that feel.

>>2412660
You know I think the general masses opinion of what the fuck FF7 was like has been horribly colored by Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus.

I replayed it not long ago and it's still as upbeat and goofy as I remember. Hell the only moment Cloud is an emo git is when it makes sense to the plot.

>>2417632
And that's why it and it's children are my favorite games ever.

>>2417676
>Let's mosey

>>2409895

>>2409895

>>2418442
you didn't like I wanna be your canary???
???!!!
?!

>>2412660
Same

>>2409895

>>2409895

>>2419825
Not retro
Go back to /v/

>>2411119

what game is the mid pic from?

>>2419837
I think it's Suikoden.

Made this when I was back on handicappedchan for that dank loop, sorry if the webm shit isn't working right

>>2410997
mah nigga

>>2409895

>>2412606
It isn't, because Japan actually has some good spriters left.

>>2419843
Is it a decent rpg?

>>2422372
>decent
It's great.

>>2411143
Aquaria sounds like it would be really good. I wonder if it's on Steam?

... ah christ. Is there a way in Steam to block curators?

>>2422434
o.O You shouldn't buy that game. It's clearly ignorant and sexist.

>>2422434
...Women can't make proper sushi...

>>2411056
truth...

>>2422434
shit like this makes me want to enjoy violent games in spite of people like her.

>>2422434
>not enjoying a great game because someone you don't like said something good about it
Anon please.

>>2422434
If they ever make a BTK Anita Sarkeesian Game I'd be willing to pay at least 60 bones for that even if it's crap. Heaven forbid game developers cater to their predominantly male audience... that's just sexist...
>You don't see me asking for men's tampons.

>>2422434
aquaria came out almost a decade before the whole sarkesian thing

>>2414503
I got that tri-pack too. Actually got me to read the books they were based on.

>>2422434
>this bitch
>a curator on steam

I only keep steam around for online based games but damn, I'm glad I jumped that faggot ship otherwise. same thing with Gaben's money philosophy.

>>2422635
>>2422434
What even is a steam "Curator"?

>>2422735
Steam Curators is basically a new system on Steam in which groups can suggest recommendations on your store page and activity tabs. There's people like TotalBiscuit that have a group, and you can follow specific curators like "doujinsoft addicts" that recommend Japanese PC games, or "Old But Still Gold" and "Niche Gamer" that are self-explanatory.

An annoying thing is that you can't really block Curators from showing up on product pages, so you would have to see annoying people like Jim Sterling or Kotaku on occasion.

>>2411646
this hypes me, a barely 18 year old

>>2412660
This is how I felt when I first played it. The gameplay was fun and all, but the real stellar thing to it was how it felt so much like living through a second childhood. I've replayed it to experience it the same way, but I haven't gotten that sensation back yet. I still think the game is great though.

>>2422745
>you can follow specific curators
>you can't really block Curators
So it's something you can sign up to, but people you don't want to see show up as well anyway even if you don't want them?

>>2422837
Basically. It's a neat feature to have if you find groups of interest/special people you can relate to, because I usually find some interesting gems that are either on sale or I can add to my wishlist, but ultimately it's a feature you can't ignore.

I'm not exactly surprised that there's no "off" for an integrated store feature, but at the same time, it is surprising that you can't opt to ignore the popular Curators at least.

>>2422614
I loved the game, but there was so much fucking text. On the plus side, I've learned English just by playing Death Gate and,ironically, it has helped me a lot with my studies .
I couldn't find the books in the local book stores sadly.