/vr/ - Retro Games

> Seems like only just now are people getting into the series.
That's because it wasn't a "series" until a few years ago when it finally got a sequel.

>>2695073

I'll take that as a No

>>2695076
Of course it's a no. Nobody bought it back in the day and that's why a copy of it costs well over 100 dollars now.

>>2695079

I bought it

>>2695083
Well the con... grat..... *mesmorized by the gif*

... I need to get some tissues.

>>2695086

>straight people

I tried Shantae recently. I thought it was really slow and boring and I stopped playing after about an hour.

>>2695089
>straight people

What are you implying?

>>2695094
He's implying that true gamers are faggots. Well are you, hetero?

>>2695089
I think that's a pretty common opinion. It's a beautiful looking game with some incredible and fluent sprite work. But as far as actual gameplay goes, it's meh.

>>2695107
Especially the first one. It gets better as the series goes on,but the first one really isn't all that great.

>>2695086

Pretty good eh?

>>2695098
>he

hey, hold on. you might offend him/her/it/thing/etc

>>2695108
I feel the opposite. The later games are just waifu fanservice.

>>2695072
I remember seeing this gif some years ago and downloading it. I didn't care much for it, but it looked pretty nice.

Judging from the fact they're making more of these games now, I'm guessing a lot of other people have the same story.

shantae threads on /v/ were fairly popular back in the day. that's where I heard about it first

>>2695072
I remember Nintendo Power shilling it when I was a kid but I never played it and forgot about it until they started slutfu pandering

>>2695072
I bought it from a playn'trade around 2011 for $4.99. I still need to sell it on jewbay for $100+

>>2695098
The only butthole I will put my penis in is that of a woman.

And no, traps, trannies and futas don't count as women.

>>2695381

That's where I saw it too. I remember it seeming strange that such an ambitious looking game was coming out for the pretty-much-dead GBC. The GBA was the talk of the town.

Something about that was endearing to me, I suppose

>>2696190
>it seeming strange that such an ambitious looking game was coming out for the pretty-much-dead GBC
At that point the game has been completed by Wayforward for some time. They spent months publisher hopping, until Capcom finally agreed to do a very low volume run. That's one of the reasons it's so expensive now.

>pretty-much-dead
Fuck you

>The GBA was the talk of the town.
Yeah, everybody was raving about the "portable SNES", and I hated it. The GBA could do so much more, and soon enough it did.
Meanwhile the GBC had such a varied and fun library, throwing it aside because of the next ADD drug in town, is just plain stupid.

>>2696202
>The GBA could do so much more
like play GBC games

>>2696206
no, like mode 7 with double the background planes, per-pixel rendering, a much more powerful cpu for processing heavy games, much more space for pcm sound, and so on.
The GBC support was just a SoC, and a crappy one at that, because the GBA's display would render GBC games way too dark, giving it a bad reputation right away.

And good luck playing games like Kirby's Tilt'n'Tumble on the GBA. The different form factor makes it a chore.

All that said, the "pretty-much-dead" comment is obviously refering to GBC development, not the physical hardware, so what you got there is a glorious and ultimately useless strawman

>>2696202

I was like, 12, dude.

And it was dead. I still loved it though

>>2696221
>And it was dead
It still isn't. Fuck your fad-chasing attitude

>>2696224

Ok, it's not dead. Calm your tits man I always loved GBC.

>>2696202
>>2696190
The GBA had it's own Shantae, which is deader than dead.

>>2696229
Lady Sia looked geniunely awesome. It's no Shantae though, just like Shantae is no Sia.

>>2696221
>>2696224
>>2696226
He's talking about development for it, you doufuses.
My reaction to every Shantae has been the same. I hear about it, it looks awesome, I get it and am disappointed. GBC was the best, mostly because it had the least to compete with at the time but even then they're just plain boring games to me. Almost insultingly easy and lacking anything really interesting.

I keep playing them, and if they make another I'm sure I'll get that too. But they've never been great in my opinion.

>>2696229

Huh...never heard of it

any good?

>>2695142
They're all waifu fanservice. That's really the series' only gimmick.

>>2696861

Ah give em more credit than that, they're good games

>>2696807
Its name it's Lady Sia

It's decent.

>>2696229

Never lose hope...

I mean, I never thought Shantae would be back and here we are

>>2695094
>2015
>still straight

ha

It's a cool game but the lack of a map seriously makes it hard to play.

>>2699503
The levels are not that complex and the progression through them is rather linear. Shantae herself has no map of the dungeons, given these are unknown vaults. So why should the player have one? The game manual does include this world map.

>>2696265
yep I thought pirate's course was fun though

>>2699523
Shantae for GBC has been great. It's been downhill since. Fake pixelation doesn't look good and the fan service is so hamfisted now, it's annoying

Never played Shantae. I heard people mention the games before, I never asked what they were like. I just assumed it was some shitty hip-hop game with a ghetto black girl named Shantae.

>>2699583
It's a weak metroidvania platformer with a cute genie girl and incredibly sexy sprite animation.

I remember the reviewer over here mentioned that he just moved around randomly for most of the game so he can watch Shantae jiggling around, because the animation was so captivating.

>>2699531
>Fake pixelation
What's fake about it?

>>2699745
On the GBC the game was using 1 physical pixel for each logical pixel. On the recent games everything has been upscaled with a nearest neighbor filter, like your spin example.

>>2699747
Well, I played Pirate's Curse on the 3DS so it was 1:1.

I played Risky's Revenge on steam so I guess I see what you mean. It was a dsi game, what were they supposed to do? I'd rather play it in nearest neighbor than with a filter.

>>2699747
You CAN set the in-game resolution to 320x240 or whatever the original was. It's gonna mess up the portraits, though.

MRA ironically like it because the main character is offensive to women

REPORT AND IGNORE THE POST ABOVE. DO *NOT* RESPOND TO IT. SERIOUSLY.

>>2699596
Well, I prefer my games to have a little something extra to go with the gameplay, whether that be a compelling story, an interesting story, or female characters that I can masturbate to.

>>2699776
Pirate's Curse has genuinely good gameplay, there are sequence breaks and an extra ending if you speed run, super metroid style.
The GBC game is alright but I hate the lives system and slow pace.

>>2699791
>I hate the (...) slow pace.
Funny, it's one of the things I LIKE about this game. It takes its time and lets you soak in the details.

>>2699791
Pirate's Curse is above average in gameplay, lacks the transformations (due to storyline purposes), but it has the best portrait artwork.

Probably the best Shantae game to date, since they toned down the bullshit parts where you need find and speak to character x to progress the game. There are still a few, but you don't get stuck so easy anymore.

It would be better if all of those "talk to x, fetch item y, repeat" parts would be fully optional for unique gear, though. The game needs more secrets than just 6-7 hidden parts per level you can backtrack to after the later stage.

No way in hell I would drop 100 on a cart, but I think Shantae costs 3 or 4 bucks on the 3ds eshop. Is that worth it?

>>2700395
It is, just for her ass wiggle animation alone.