/vr/ - Retro Games

So...you're all for spitting on the lower class eh?

>>351189
Come to think of it, are we here on /vr/ Zeal or the surface, and what or the two is /v/? Who's going to fall on the other in it's last days and crush it?

Corridors of Time is my favourite track from CT. Its so zen-like and you can listen to it for a long while.

>>351198
Both parties tend towards elitism though /v/ much much more...tough call

The simple life for me

Moon bullshit aside, I wanted to live in Clock Town so bad. Seriously one of the best video game towns in history. Dat Stock Pot Inn & Milk bar.

Fishermans Horizon

>>351210
yeah, like having [/spoiler]a bunch of fucked up black mages under my feet would make me any confortable

Ryo's hometown (Dobuita?) from the first Shenmue.

There's something about that game that puts me into this serene,childlike state of wonderment and wanderlust. It's just a quaint Japanese suburb,and living there would probably be boring as shit,but through some unholy magic,Shenmue makes exploring everything SO MUCH FUN. I can't think of any other vidya that had this effect on me.

>>351674
>tom's hot dog stand
>goro ON PATROL, BROOOO
>the kids who always wanna wrassle
>drunk sailors on the streets at night

I can dig it.

>>351674
most pointless area in shenmue award goes to this or the smoky mahjong room
http://youtu.be/oyjXTtwNKh4

>>351674
I would wander around all day looking for people to play Lucky Hit.

I haven't finished Chrono Trigger. The furthest I played was when you first could go to the stone age and then just stopped playing for some reason.. Now I really want to play it again and finish it this time.

Should I just emulate the SNES version or get the DS remake? Which one is better?

>>352376
If you have a DS get the remake. Buy it or buy a flash cart (for like $30).

If not, emulate (for whichever system you can emulate better).

>dat Fairy Island
>dat music

Felt like vacation.

Obligatory.

>>352434
Marin is already my waifu, you cannot have her.

Treasure Trove Cove from Banjo Kazooie is really nice

or the Lagoon in BT

>>352458

She's j-just a dream anon... ;_;

>>352376
The NDS version has the cinematics that only the PSX version had. Also, there are a few more secret bosses and an ending that isn't in other versions, so I'd recommend the NDS remake.

>>352467
So the ending of the game poses an interesting dilemma

The nightmare explains that if Link wakes the wind fish, the nightmare will end but it will also destroy all of the island and everyone in it

Thusly, Link is faced with the difficult choices of either living in the dreamland for the sake of Marin and everyone in Koholint, or destroy the nigthmare, wake the wind fish and kill everyone.

Thus, what's your face when you realize that Link decided to kill everyone, Marin, Tarin, the telephone man, everyone in the animal farm, the frog guy, everyone... all the lives in the island snuffed out for his selfish end of waking up and going back to reality...

>>352491
But they were never real...

>>352491
In the end, Link's reality is merely someone else's dream. He put an end to what was reality for all those people.

>>352507
how are they any less real than link?

>>352491
So that's where Square got the idea for Final Fantasy Tactics Advance.

>>352507
They were real, existed, and lived while Link was on the island, right before he decided to drop a 14 megaton fucking atomic bomb on every single one of them

>>352517
I don't play role playing games

I don't wait turns to attack

>>352514
Because they only existed inside a dream and Link was actually a real person?


>inb4 YEH BUT LINK IS ONLY FICTIONAL CHARACTER SO METAPHYSICS N DOESNT MATTER IF DREAM AHOIAHOIAOHI

>>352491

You drove by while I was sleeping
You came to see all the commotion
And when I woke I started laughing
It was my fault for not believing

Garbage
"We Are Not Your Kind of People"

>>352514
>>352521

>>352521
>They were real, existed, and lived while Link was on the island, right before he decided to drop a 14 megaton fucking atomic bomb on every single one of them

no they were fictional constructs created by the wind fish based on actual hylians, and the flora and fauna of hylians such as moblins. ageless illusions with no past or future.

>>352535
How do you know Link doesn't exist solely in someone else's dream?

wonder if the wind fish being plagued by nightmares actually had any outside importance? was it that which caused the storm that summoned link to koholint in the first place? and now the wind fish is at peace, the weather is glorious at the end?

just a thought.

link's awakening has the only good 'it was all a dream' ending ever.

>>352551
They pass the Turing test (in universe), so they have the same right to live as humans.

>>352551
and yet, even if it was just a dream they existed while Link was on the island, they lived while Link was there, and they died when he decided to wake up

Honestly, if I lived in Koholint I'd have done whatever it took to stop that asshole Link.
fuck you I don't want to stop existing, existing's basically all I do

I'd tell all the baddies where to find him and we'd all gang up on him and tie him up or kill him or something

Better yet get the shopkeeper and tell him what he's up to, get him to go to his spawn and blast him every time he appears

fuck link he's not gonna stop me from existing

>>352586
>Honestly, if I lived in Koholint I'd have done whatever it took to stop that asshole Link.
>fuck you I don't want to stop existing, existing's basically all I do

haha i like how that was revealed to be the main motivation of the nightmares, almost felt sorry for them

Angel Island always used to make me want to live there.

>>352574

Maybe they were lucid elements of the wind fish manifesting through Hylians, so Link had people to easily relate and communicate to.

>>352606

if i was as agile as knuckles, sure

A dream is still a dream, no matter how realistic it seems.

>>352558
Because it would be pants-in-head retarded if the entire Legend of Zelda series, or the four games inwhich that Link appeared, were all a dream

>>352606
>you now realize that for some reason this tiny island had a carnival, a desert, several giant underground cities, marble garden, launch base, a huge mountain, and several other things that would be visible in that picture but for some reason they don't show

just how big was that fucking thing anyway?

>>352625
But deosn't link soley exist in Miyamoto's dream?

>>352628

because of all the stages, i actually never realized as a kid that most of S3&K takes place on angel island.

When i played it for the first few times, I thought Angel Island Zone was the only time you were on Angel Island, and Knuckles dropped you to the surface (Hydrocity) and the rest of the game was basically you working your way back to Angel Island.

>>352638
Clearly not, or else we wouldn't have been talking about him.

Also, Link not being a dream is easily verifiable: he's a fictional character and Nintendo decides if he's a dream or not, and he isn't.

Truly, it's easier to tell whether Link is a dream than whether /vr/ is a dream. After all, I doubt a board like this can really exist on 4chan, talking about good video games all day, every day, TF2 and Bioshock bannable, no DotA and will never be, etc., what? That's clearly a figment of my imagination.

>>352672
I talked about TF2 the other day and wasn't banned because it was in the construct of how it relates and feels like classic quake

>>352672

>>352660
Never thought about it that way but I guess after Launch Base Zone on the surface for sonic and knuckles you get dropped back into angel island along with the death egg, and mushroom hill could be you back on the island

Still, that island doesn't look big enough to have a desert complete with pyramids

>>352628
It was all behind the islands, Trevor

>>352672
That's not the point, our own reality might just be the dream of another, same as Link's, so you cannot dismiss the good people of Koholint.

>>352698
*Behind the mountains, not islands

Fuck

>>352702
Ours might, but Link's isn't. From the standpoint of our reality, Link is real in Hyrule, because we're the ones who set his rules.

I know it's pretty lame, but I want to live in Johto. I just like all the places you could explore and the cities bring a feeling I can't describe.

>>352702
That's what I'm saying.

I always felt Link's Awakening was pretty deep, that the hero's duty is not always easy and doing the right thing is almost never the right thing for everybody.

Sure the Wind Fish and Link benefited, but at the expense of everyone on Koholint being snuffed out

>>352682
Yep, the Quake crowd and the TF2 crowd are the same people. We already know it. Unreal and DotA idiots are also a part of that mentality.

>>351163
The coastal village in Legend of Dragoon with the rounded, open floor plan houses.

The Forest of Wonder in Seiken Densetsu 3.

The upper plate of Midgar at the beginning of FFVII.

Onett

Arni village. Pretty much anywhere in Chrono Cross, actually. I don't get why people are so down on this game. No, it's not Chrono Cross 2. Yes, it's still a wonderful game.

I would love to have such a simple, carefree lifestyle.

I'm stuck between Nirn and the world in pre-fucked FF9.

My Animal Crossing town.

I had the best of friends there. Always giving me gifts and having a good ol' time.

>>352786
>YO YO YO SON, LISSEN UP, WE GOTTA LIVE IN THIS BOONIE-ASS SHITHOLE AND BE ACCUSTOMED TO HEARING ABOUT SOME FURRY WHO MIGHT WANT TO COME BY AND TELL US WHAT TO DO OR ELSE HEADS START TO ROLL

Yeah no fuck that, and even then you might run into some of the "flavorful" neighbors and their insurmountable to decipher dialects.

>>352825
You didn't think that through. It's a town that's inhabited exclusively by furries.

You didn't think they were actual animals, did you? Do they even look like real animals to you, you stupid fuck?

>>352737
SOOOOOOOO much this. I've been wanting to play LoD again for so long. I wish sony would put it up for download, already.

It'd be kind of interesting to just be able to live here, just a cozy as fuck town. Each day you go to the meat farm and get some meat, eat at the restaurant, or anything else. I'm sure there's housing somewhere, if only because there has to be an area the rest of the Digimon go to when they're not doing their jobs.

Plus I get a digimon to raise and run around wtih, who comes back every time he dies as something different.

>>352835
What the fuck are you even talking about?

>>352330
At first it was bleak and depressing, but once the end of time kind of became the party's home base it was really relaxing to be in. I'll never forget this music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIhfs7Fw-vE

>>352835
Chrono Cross is a good game. You aren't making sense.

>>352726
>Ice path
Any Winter themed area makes me wanna live there.
Looking at you, Phendrana Drifts
Even on /vr/ I cannot escape

>>352853
>>352853
Calm down. I don't care what species they are. They were my friends.

>>352510
Those "people" didn't know "reality". They were figments of someone else's imagination. Ghosts. Fabrications. Illusions. Fakes! Phonies!

>>352921
Get the fuck out of my book

Better location, better game.

>>352853
They look like real animals to me.

>>351797
But they still went through the effort of designing it,putting it into the game and evern writing a unique music track specifically for it. And I don't even think you have to go at any point in the game if you just follow the story. This is why Shenmue was so mindblowing to me.

But yeah,the one thing it needed to be the perfect vidya experience was more minigames. Because goddammit,I want to be able to go to this dingy,smoke-filled mahjiong parlor a play a round or two in the company of some grumpy old men.

Damn,and now I'm wondering which NPCs actually frequent that parlor. I've never actually camped out there to check who the regulars are. I bet the owner of that Chinese restaurant around the corner comes there. :3

And speaking of restaurants,having a basic fatigue/stamina system wouldn't hurt,just so you could actually order food at all of those streetside restaurants and eat the snacks that you buy. Tom always kept bugging me about hotdogs,and I'd totally fucking buy them if I could! Nothing too invasive or involved,but just enough to make you eat something every once in a while, like in Deadly Premonition. Ryo could've had unique reactions to food and stuff, just to encourage you to try things.

...I really feel like replaying Shenmue now.

>>352928
No.

One of my favorite pieces of game music OP

>>352825
ugh, now I'm reminded of when /v/ was obsessed with Mable

>>354208
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsibwSkp0as
Open this and try not to replay it

This place of course.

In fact, FF8 had a number of cosy places I'd liked to settle down in.

>Fishermans Horizon
>Zell's hometown
>Balamb Garden

>>351797
I always felt like Bob's Pizza was just there to give you a bit more insight into Ryo's relationship with Nozomi, even a tiny bit.

Can't decide between FF 9, Chrono Cross, FF8 or Ivalice.

Probably Ivalice (FF 12-FFTA2 Timeline)

I've always dreamt of living there and becoming a SEED as a twelve-year old. The music makes me very nostalgic.

>>355590
Mah nigga.

Crysta has been ingrained as this perfect, idyllic town in my mind, though this may partially be due to its tragic end, and empathizing with Ark's desire to return home.

>>351163

Agree with OP


I really had that sad post apoc feel on the snow surface after and would of restored it if was an option.

Entire futuristic city inside a spaceship, yes please.

>>356980
I think part of the reason I've never been able to finish Terranigma is because of how depressed I get after Crysta.

>>352786
>I would love to have such a simple, carefree lifestyle
You're probably not considering
>no video games
>no internet
>no television
>no electronics of any kind
>just fishing and sleeping
Peaceful, yeah, but if you willingly devote a regular chunk of your day to talking about video games, you're probably going to get bored when they're not around.

>>356871
I was in early high school...made me dream of what college could be like. How awesome was it that your hot teacher wanted to meet at the makeout spot? fuuuuck...if only man

>>352737
>The upper plate of Midgar at the beginning of FFVII
I don't recall any location in Midgar being particularly comfy except for Aeris's house.

>>351217
well howdy, sir.

>>357251
Costa Del Sol on the other hand..hoo boy

>Want to see places so badly
>Don't have enough money to even leave the state.
>Too much of a coward to do urban exploring.
>Videogames are my only means of adventure.

>>357281
I see your Costa Del Sol and raise you an Icicle Inn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AsIG3yNKfA

>>351163
fucking Time Circuits,
my favorite track of a stellar soundtrack

>>357162
This guy knows what its all about.

Pretty much any city in Shadowrun on Genesis, except Redmond Barrens. I've always been into cyberpunk. A world where you can go to clubs with hot Elven chicks or literally travel into cyberspace? Sign me up.

>>351163

>14 years old, unfinished basement with paper wall of nintendopower centerfolds taped together tapestry. all year xmas tree, patch of carpet and the old broken spring couches
> xmas break or thanksgiving break but surely one in the morning or later because SO TIRED but at this point in the game
> That reveal of the skyworld

ya got me OP.

I'd want to live in Central Park during the mid-eighties when The Last Ninja arrived. I'd be like, "HEY MAN! You can't be like stealing hot dogs and shit and then beating up the cops! Motherfucker why you be taking the toilet paper rolls apart in the public restrooms and be like putting together with a chain, man! That's boss! Don't forget to pick up that goddamn paper either and stay the fuck out of that asshole juggler's shit. He all fucking shitty in the dickhole and shit. Now how da hell you done find ninja stars in a box? I walk past that fucking thing every day on my way to the shitter and ain't found a fuckin thing in it. You come along and get the shit. AND I SLEEP IN THE BOAT YOU JUST FUCKED WITH ASSHOLE NOW I HAFTA GO DOWN STREAM AND SLEEP IN IT GLAD YOU MADE IT ACROSS SHITASS I USE THE BRIDGE."

Yeah, I'd be homeless too.

>>351163
>>357497

Awww yeah. Definitely these.

Though I also liked that Winter Ice Town in Star Ocean 2's Energy Nede

>>352853
>he didn't read the true story
http://lparchive.org/Animal-Crossing/

Flying Seru all day every day nigga

>>357162
>>357162
>>357162
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxDP6RI-DMI

Hours and hours of listening to this. I dumped too much time into this game, but it was still fun anyway.

Rain in Silver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez0op4q5wxE

>>358939
Khorinis in Gothic 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLZ1v7F3BpY

>>358960
aaand Athkatla.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86QjZYfzZK0
My 3 favorite towns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHJbQ5NH2c4

Why must reality be so cruel?

>>352734
But they were never individuals to begin with, merely projections of the mind.

>>352734

Yea but that's like saying that people you see in your own dreams are all living individuals and every time you wake up you kill all of them.

>>359012
C-come on... don't do that.

>>359012
Why would you want to live in that world? If you had to pick a mega man timeline classic would be nicest to live in.

Anywhere in Dragon Quest 8. Something about those cities are just wonderous. Orkutsk and the two ferry ports are my favorites.

Sonic 2 Hill top zone
Without the lava

>>351163

Zeal was legitimately Utopia for centuries though, wasn't it? Queen Zeal kicked the earthbound out after Lavos started driving her bugfuck crazy, but all humanity lived there for the entire time it took for the sunstone to run out of power.

Totally agree with OP, Zeal is my favorite area every time I run through CT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCSIH7vsmTY

>>351202
It certainly isn't for me, but I think that might be because I had heard it numerous times before I got around to playing the game so it packs less meaning to me.

>>359012

>dat music

You just sent me on a feel trip.

>>359538
It was a nice place with probably my favorite theme ever but remember it had not only a bat-shit crazy queen but also fuck-faced Dalton, as well as elitist citizens. But god damn that music.

>>359550
CT had a lot of great music. One I really enjoyed was the 2nd boss battle, although I feel it was used at an inappropriate time, I don't think Masa&Mune deserved it. Also was anyone else annoyed that in the DS remake Magus doesn't say the "If you're prepared for the void" line?

>>351163
>Fuck "fake paradise" shit

it's called zeal for a reason

speaking of which, it's interesting that masato kato revisited that exact theme in xenogears. he must have a thing for snooty elitists

The Neverhood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBOVqeHlDks

I really liked the dream city there because I thought it would be cool to spend all day sleeping and lucid dreaming to study magic.

Real talk?

Because of Zeal, I had for awhile this story of cosmic cloudbowls hovering above a dark surface world. Clouds which contained entire oceans which contained a bunch of landmasses.

And people would get around not by normal whimsical airships, but by airsubmarines.

And yeah. That title. This was before Skyrim was even a thing.

>>359657
>That title. This was before Skyrim was even a thing.
Why did you feel it was necessary to say that? They aren't even similar titles and nobody would have thought of that had you not mentioned it.

>>359657
That's really nice looking art, do you have a deviantart or something?

>>359682
No.

Well... yes. But I don't want anyone to know who I am before I'm like, really rad or something.

But I can give you a term you can google about a month from now and find a great comic at the end of. If I stick to my self-imposed deadline.
"Chaos in the Tropics"

>>352434
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trl0cvBFgCk

>>359590
>One I really enjoyed was the 2nd boss battle, although I feel it was used at an inappropriate time, I don't think Masa&Mune deserved it.

Yeah. It was great for Azala and his Tyranno, though.

>>360254
>his

>>360254
I always thought Azala was female. Dressed feminine and had a sort of female looking face.

>>360381
She was confirmed female in the DS remake. I've never understood how anyone could think she was male, though. Even her name sounds feminine.

>>352491
Oh God, It's the Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance threads all over again.

>>352928
>>354402
>>360416

obligatory

>>352726
Lame? Not at all. Pokemon Universe/World is something many of /vr/ clung to at one time or another.

Anyway, Johto would be my choice as well.

ITT: Anti-social escapist anime nerds

>>351198

We have the advantage, my brother.

>>360510
go away

>>357240
>Peaceful, yeah, but if you willingly devote a regular chunk of your day to talking about video games, you're probably going to get bored when they're not around.
Well I dunno dude.
There'd be a pretty big surge of "sex with tropical girls" thing to fill that vacuum, imo.

>>361036

why would the tropical girls would want to have sex with you there if the normal ones don't want to have sex with you here?

>>361153
Location, location, location.

That's why.

>>351424
feck yea! id stick it in the maze game lady all day

>>361153
The only thing keeping me single is distance.

It's not hard to find a match.

What's hard is finding a match which lives within a 50 mile radius.

Every single girl in my area is taken. No bullshitting.

>>361238
just because there is a goalie in soccer doesn't mean you can't score

>>351163
Riven.

>>361245
Geddafougouddaheah

>>351163
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1CBGH_yySg

Breath of Fire's Kingdom of Windia has always been the place for me. It's always alive, full of life and each version holds some sort of mystery.

From BoF 1-4, Windia has always been a centerpiece location and place where you felt relatively safe even during the slow decline of the Windians over the years/games and political intrigue.

If I had to choose, it'd be either Windia 1 or 3. Windia 1 being the height of the kingdom and 3 being the blissful place-to-be.

Also windmills, bread and cute princesses.

>>361314
>bread
I...
You--
Well alright, whatever floats your boat.

>>361314
Also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MbMuxLJMf8

When I was younger I used to love Lindblum a lot. I'd sometimes boot up the game and just run around the town talking to NPCs and roleplaying. Something about it made me feel really cozy and I can't quite put my finger on what.

My first time seeing it getting destroyed made me almost cry, goddamn it was that a good game. In fact, I'll start a new game now.