Retro Cyberpunk Games

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Retro Cyberpunk Games Anonymous Thu Nov 24 01:49:39 2016 No.3633895 [Reply] [Original]

I just got Dex because it reminded me of Flashback which is my second favourite video game ever. I god damned love me some good cyberpunk so what are some of your favourite retro examples?

Just don't be a bunch of nitpicky autists arguing over the finer details on whether something is cyberpunk or not, if it's noir in a science fiction setting then that's close enough.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 01:52:19 2016 No.3633897 File: 25 KB, 260x226, Flashback%20-%20The%20Quest%20for%20Identity.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] forgot to include gameplay footage for those of you who don't already know about Flashback https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMXJBS6n44M

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 01:55:16 2016 No.3633902 File: 815 KB, 565x800, snatcher.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] another fan favourite... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAtfGmQ-rnA

Anonymous Thu Nov 24 01:58:20 2016 No.3633905
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And of course can't forget Shadowrun...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uz5XcKWtBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryHGDqJ1yS8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaxJL98anqU

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 02:31:15 2016 No.3633935 File: 20 KB, 640x480, tmp_23816-39300-Techno_Clash_(USA__Europe)-14590254661833706849.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3633895 Technomeme

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 02:32:03 2016 No.3633936 File: 151 KB, 256x324, Syndicate_Coverart.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3633905 Good game, but man is it hard as fuck Anyways my suggestion is Syndicate, nice and oppressive cyber punk game Also check out System Shock 1 & 2

Anonymous Thu Nov 24 02:36:24 2016 No.3633942
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>>3633905
Great game.
Played through it as a street samurai back in the day.
I couple years back I did a playthrough as a gator shaman.
It was much more challenging and fun.

I still need ti di a playthrough as the decker.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 02:38:50 2016 No.3633948 File: 26 KB, 250x269, SHODAN_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3633936 System Shock 2 is classic but I may hold out for the upcoming remake of System Shock 1 to play it again.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 02:42:15 2016 No.3633949 File: 48 KB, 640x480, syndicate_5.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3633936 oh and right Syndicate, I always meant to play through that one. From which platform do you suggest I play it?

Anonymous Thu Nov 24 04:34:12 2016 No.3634059
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>>3633895

I had 'Flashback', for the Genesis too. Played the shit out of it, until every move was second nature.

I recommend pic included. Harlan Ellison himself voices AM. It's pretty fucking awesome.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 04:46:26 2016 No.3634070 File: 69 KB, 640x480, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Slave Zero is the most cyberpunk-ish shooter I've played.

Anonymous Thu Nov 24 07:03:34 2016 No.3634186
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>>3634059
oh man, me too. I was able to pull off some crazy shit because I played it so much that I just knew things like exactly where to jump and catch a ledge several screens down where just landing on my feet would have killed me etc.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 07:05:35 2016 No.3634192 File: 785 KB, 2063x3131, ide.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3634059 >Harlan Ellison oh nice he wrote some of the classic Star Trek so that should be interesting.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 07:13:28 2016 No.3634204 Reminder they remade flashback and it was god awful

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 07:17:51 2016 No.3634208 >>3634204 Flashback wasn't that great a game in its own right. It was just a more open Prince of Persia

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 07:18:26 2016 No.3634210 File: 21 KB, 640x400, neuromancer-game-c64.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3633895

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 07:31:22 2016 No.3634228 File: 3.11 MB, 360x202, dafuq01.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3634204 don't remind me >>3634208 you have shit taste if you don't think original Flashback was great and your opinion should be discarded in all matters.

Anonymous Thu Nov 24 07:46:04 2016 No.3634247

>>3634228
I've completed it three times and have played multiple games of its genre.

It's a 6/10 which is "above average". Combat is easy, first and second levels have major pacing issues, but third onwards it picks up a bit. Once you get the forcefield combat just turns into "spam it and your gun" against enemies with far too much health. Also, the slimes are a fucking drag. The only enemy in the game that's well designed is the cyborgs, and they get replaced with the irritating jetpack cops.

Visually? Excellent. Atmosphere? Excellent. Controls? Good. Execution? Could've been a lot better. There's very little tension to the game and a real lack of difficulty.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 08:18:36 2016 No.3634268 File: 42 KB, 354x256, KillYourself.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3634247 If you think there is little tension then you must have played an inferior port. Your review is 2/10 wouldn't not take writer's opinion seriously in any matter.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 08:20:34 2016 No.3634272 File: 42 KB, 354x256, KillYourself.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3634247 If you think there is little tension then you must have played an inferior port. Your review is 2/10 - wouldn't take writer's opinion seriously in any matter.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 08:27:28 2016 No.3634275 >>3634272 You mean the Mega Drive version, which it was developed for in the first place?

Anonymous Thu Nov 24 12:58:38 2016 No.3634686

>>3634275
It was originally developed for the Amiga but the Genesis version has great tension with its only using its nice low-fi synthy music as stings to heighten the tension outside of cutscenes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g_z6mCpYrU&index=14
I prefer that to say the Sega CD version where there's just redbook audio tracks running all the time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 13:02:11 2016 No.3634694 >>3633936 I borrowed SNES Syndicate once. Didn't have a clue what I was meant to do.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 15:12:44 2016 No.3634886 >>3633949 PC will always be the best, but Sega Genesis version is good, too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 19:23:55 2016 No.3635256 File: 128 KB, 640x906, 25908_front[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The amiga title screen is goat https://youtu.be/qHf22UhCnVE Its a shame that version didn't play in full screen though. Also posting euro cover.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 20:08:03 2016 No.3635308 File: 112 KB, 480x256, Amiga_Flashback_03.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3635256 Personally I like the CD version far more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6dHm44nQ3I

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 23:39:51 2016 No.3635564 >>3633895 Dude I just bought this game yesterday after looking for it for years. I don't even like it for the cyberpunk. I just love the strange atmosphere it and Out of This World had.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 23:43:23 2016 No.3635567 >>3634204 >>3634228 Are you talking about Fade to Black?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 23:50:51 2016 No.3635576 File: 382 KB, 356x500, lawnmower-man-the-usa-europe.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Lawnmower Man for the Genesis/Mega-Drive and the SNES is a fairly interesting game with some run and gun elements

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 23:52:08 2016 No.3635581 >>3635576 someone somewhere during the 90's thought that cover would help sell the game to kids, or anyone for that matter

Anonymous Fri Nov 25 00:29:33 2016 No.3635642
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>>3635564
For years? huh, you must be in some out of the way place because it's usually pretty cheap & common at most retro shops I've been to.

>>3635567
No Ubisoft released a downloadable remake which wasn't great, it didn't get the tone right & the controls were sloppy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 00:39:40 2016 No.3635656 >>3635576 >>3635581 I would perhaps recommend the Sega CD version of the GEN/SNES ports but I honestly have no idea what's going on in this uh.. game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-1VW2E5rg0

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 03:02:48 2016 No.3635806 >>3635308 That animation is insane!

Anonymous Fri Nov 25 03:19:28 2016 No.3635813
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>>3635806
Then stay away from the CD version which replaces the clean 2D look of the cartridge version's cutscenes with grainy letterboxed FMVs of shitty early 90s CGI

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 14:34:03 2016 No.3636532 >>3635813 yeesh CG does not age well

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 14:46:42 2016 No.3636553 ShadowRun, the schway one for SNES, not the boring version on Genesis.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 19:16:05 2016 No.3637028 File: 9 KB, 640x448, tmp_13303-Shadowrun_(SMD)_05358443095.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3636553 The SNES game isn't even Shadowrun. The genny version is a straight adaptation of the PnP game. Shadowrun on genesis is superior, chummer.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 19:21:37 2016 No.3637036 >>3637028 Both have their merits

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 20:45:44 2016 No.3637186 For someone who would want to play Flashback, which is the definitive version?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 20:46:52 2016 No.3637189 >>3633949 Amiga

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 20:54:47 2016 No.3637215 >>3637186 Amiga

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 20:59:57 2016 No.3637225 >>3633949 For Syndicate versions DOS > Amiga > Genesis > SNES

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 21:05:12 2016 No.3637240 >>3637028 >The SNES game isn't even Shadowrun. Isn't it based off Secrets of Power? How is it not real ShadowRun??

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 21:09:59 2016 No.3637249 File: 27 KB, 610x334, SMTDSFPSRPG_610.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Any love for Soul Hackers?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 21:12:21 2016 No.3637251 >>3637186 Reminiscence on PC. http://cyxdown.free.fr/reminiscence/ >>3635576 Great music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrigcA6oLaA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6PdHUeHm5w

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 21:24:03 2016 No.3637267 >>3637249 i wanted to like it i just couldnt get into it but i do like the aesthetic. might give it another shot.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 21:25:12 2016 No.3637270 >>3637240 When people say that they're talking about game mechanics. Things like being able to get full cyberware with no detriment to your magic ability.

Anonymous Fri Nov 25 21:35:29 2016 No.3637285
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>>3637240
Magic users loose their essence when they take cyberware

No essence?
No magic.

Every runner knows that, chummer.

In the SNES "Shadowrun" casters can take as much cyberware as they like with no penalty.

I don't know what that is, but it ain't Shadowrun.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 21:36:56 2016 No.3637286 File: 278 KB, 350x493, techno clash.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] GOAT reporting in

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 21:39:13 2016 No.3637290 >>3637270 >>3637285 So you're willing to give up better atmosphere, writing, music and plot just because it doesn't stay 100% true to tabletop rules? Seems a bit autistic to me tbqh.

Anonymous Fri Nov 25 21:46:08 2016 No.3637306
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>>3637290
But the snes fails in comparison to the genesis version in all of those things.

The genesis version being closer to the PnP version is just the cherry on top.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 21:47:11 2016 No.3637307 >>3637286 TechnoMeme has already been posted. >>3633935

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 21:51:01 2016 No.3637315 Have some steampunk vidya, from the creator of Serial Experiments Lain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHABfxuTaNw&list=PLGbNWC2GOM1XIyXykKAIJ2j0HHFPEh9zz

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 22:45:36 2016 No.3637370 >>3637267 Maybe SMT games just aren't your bag?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 22:46:56 2016 No.3637372 >>3637307 It's Techno Clash and it can't be posted enough

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 23:34:15 2016 No.3637460 >>3637249 Literally my favorite Dungeon Crawler ever

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 01:01:22 2016 No.3637665 File: 81 KB, 400x240, devil_summoner_soul_hackers_3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3637460

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 02:15:32 2016 No.3637807 File: 133 KB, 848x1000, tumblr_mmcstirNHt1rphutyo1_1280.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3637665

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 02:33:45 2016 No.3637827 File: 24 KB, 320x661, soulhackersart02hitomijpg-480f82_320w.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3637807 I almost posted that, too. Namissa or Hitomi?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 02:35:11 2016 No.3637828 File: 56 KB, 574x799, 8addb36acdd8f1b4193b04676d6889ab.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3637827 Why choose? You give one the D you gotta give them both the D

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 02:36:43 2016 No.3637831 File: 104 KB, 500x428, tumblr_mprimvP0vo1sxd1vyo1_500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3637828 I'm okay with this.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 14:38:55 2016 No.3638721 >>3637307 You are huge meme

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 18:51:47 2016 No.3639190 >>3637370 nah i did like IV and strange journey.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 03:29:55 2016 No.3640074 File: 321 KB, 1600x968, e817dec7.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 15:41:36 2016 No.3641169 >>3640074 I want an English translation of this sooooo bad!

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 23:16:42 2016 No.3641906 File: 52 KB, 288x320, IMG_3637.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Total piece of crap

Anonymous Mon Nov 28 01:28:45 2016 No.3642129
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>>3641169
6 of the 8 disks have been translated for the MSX2/Turbo R version have been translated.
Unless you have an actual Turbo R, I'd recommend that you emulate it (it's slow as balls on a 2+).

It would be nice if it got finished, or if someone did the Sega CD version. The game is really good, at least if you like Phantasy Star/Megami Tensei style RPGs.

How many other RPGs are there where kids try to bum cigarettes from the PC and religious cultists try to get you high?

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