/vr/ - Retro Games

ShadowRun. But not the shitty Sega version.

>>3853682
Are you kidding? Genesis version was great. It felt more sandboxy than the SNES version and the freelancer elements of the game were fantastic. If you liked being a decker you could repeatedly jack in to randomly generated data nodes whenever you liked to do matrix runs and steal data to sell.

>>3853581
From Hell A Cyberpunk Thriller. I've watched skunk fucker play through it twice now and I love it for all its flaws.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9357HUE93o&index=1&list=PLOT2n5gjkO2-R0XEdXfMvKw3twXfUAyJY

>>3853581
Don't tell me what to do.

So how's Bloodnet? I've had it in my steam library for ages now but I never played it.

>>3853729
>sandbox

>>3853823
It's hard as fuck.

>>3853682
Genesis version is vastly Superior.
Also, it actually follows Shadow Run lore.

>>3853581
I fucking love this shit

>>3854159
Wat gaym?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x0UBycyZb6w

>>3854168
dats armored core mang

>>3853581

>>3853824
Nothing wrong with sandbox

>>3853581
SS1 shits so hard on SS2.

>>3854972
What?

>>3855024
I think he's saying SS1 is greatly superior to SS2

I started playing Beneath A Steel Sky about a decade ago when it was free on GoG. I got nowhere. Was I just dumb, or is it a really hard game?

>>3855374
Did you read the manuals?

NOT RETRO but when does VA-11 HALL-A get fun? I've been playing it for 3 hours and so far it's just a book with occasional clicking on icons to make drinks.

>>3855395
That's it. That's the game. It's a visual novel, you didn't buy it for the gameplay. If you did, you're an idiot.

>>3855379
...Manuals?

>>3854972

Not really.

>>3855404
I'm not asking when the game switches genres, I'm asking when it gets fun.

>>3853682
>shitty Sega version
shit taste confirmed

>>3855404
There's two manuals for the game wich contain lots of information needed to play, like character profiles or ingame documents

>>3855436
Yeah, SS2 is far better and can do cool stuff like running around at sanic speed melee killing everything.

>>3853682
bait

>>3855524
>>3855754
Genesis is definitely better gameplay, but SNES has better story.

>>3855739
but you can roll around at sanic speed melee killing everything while on LSD in SS1

>>3856506

I dunno.
I always enjoyed SS2 as well as Deus ex. (the first although I DO wish tranks worked faster)
Somehow I never felt comfortable with SS1 controls - there was something slightly "off"

>>3856682
They released a modern version a while ago with improved controls and mouse look

Sleep tight, insect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ydAYm6tyF8

>>3853796
been thinking of even picking up the 3do port of this, though I am almost certain that that's a mistake.

>>3857105
Is it a bad port? What other ports are there?

>>3856839
Cool

>>3856839
I am a lottle bummed that they are replacing this with generic "cinematic" music

Is anyone looking forward to the system shock remake?

>>3858984
Not even a little.

>tfw this game will never come out
>tfw it wraps itself around our timeline and becomes retro
>tfw PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

>>3859017
That game is going to do to cyberpunk with what happened to steampunk.

>>3859046
HM, I never thought about it like that. If they can make a generic Tolkien inspired game..

>>3859046
Huh?

>>3859058
>>3859075
Video is the current state of steampunk, image cyberpunk being like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCuE5rHbPA&spfreload=10

>>3859093
Paint it chrome and add some cables?

>>3859110
Don't forget the l33t green terminals

>>3854301
I wish I still had it

>>3859017
pic reminds me of Bubblegum Crisis and AD Police for some reason

>>3855465

When the charming writing, atmosphere and visuals happen

If you don't like it yet, you don't like it.

>>3856251
well the SNES one has a developed story the genesis one is along the lines of find out what happened to your brother and you kind of make your own story

>>3853581
Looks bad

>>3859093
Nah. Steampunk is gay and everyone knows it (even/especially the people who participate in it). It's retro-futuristic memeshit that makes no sense.

Cyberpunk is near-futurism that actually makes a moderate amount of sense, and its aesthetic gets modified constantly based on what's going on in the world right now, re: technology, government, social trends, etc.

Cyberpunk is all about "this shit could actually happen in the next 50 years". Steampunk is a hotel conference room full of fags pretending corsets are pragmatic and electricity never existed.

>>3853581

Selected.

>>3860473
YES
THIS GAME

>>3860519
>>3860473

Syndicate. It was my first exposure to cyberpunk

we cyberpunk now

>>3860529
Despite most of these being not retro, this is a really cool list. Thanks anon.

>>3860529
this list was actually better than I thought it was going to be and I saved it

>>3856251
I liked stumbling around and piecing the story together in the Genesis version, especially once you get the entire IP address and hack into that to get more information. That blew me away right there, I didn't expect it to turn to that.

>>3854159
I never really thought of Armored Core as cyberpunk until you even brought it up which is odd because it totally fits it with all the bleak look at the future full of corporations sending mercs to do their dirty work against rival companies.

>>3860473
>decide to get the Genesis port as a curiosity after playing a bunch of the PC version
>try playing it right away and can't do shit
>look at the manual
>those fucking controls

The sad thing is the port is pretty impressive but god damn why did they even bother?

>>3860452
Best steam punk is wild wild west. Nothing even comes close. Cyberpunk will be ghost in shell copy pasta in a few months

>>3860473
>>3860519
>>3860526

Is Syndicate Wars worth a play?

>>3860914

I didn't like it as much. Maybe because I didn't play it back in the day so I have no nostalgia for it, or maybe because it lost some of it's magic. That said, it's worth a play for sure, but I wouldn't pay much for a copy of it.

>>3860908

2017, being this ignorant about the history of steampunk and cyberpunk....

>>3860908
>wild wild west
TV-series or movie?

>>3861157
>>3861159
>replying to him

>>3860902
You ought to consider whether Front Mission is also cyberpunk then (it is, mecha cyberpunk is great)

>>3860529
Ahem...

>>3860908
They said that about Robocop too.

It'll be gone in a couple months, like all reboots.

>>3859046
>>3859093
>what happened to steampunk
>current state of steampunk
Steampunk has ALWAYS been shit. Copycat "me too" shit.
Not even the name makes sense as there's nothing punk about it. It's just aping something else.

>>3860908
>>3861159
unironically the best steampunk is brisco county jr. and there's no reason to pretend otherwise on the internet in order to make an epic joke

>>3862728
Steampunk is probably the least punk. Even atompunk and dieselpunk is more punk than steampunk.

>>3862696
That's because cyberpunk is yet to go mainstream while steampunk did years ago.

>>3863621
lolwhat.

faggots gluing cogs onto shit on etsie =/= mainstream

>>3857105
I think you will have a good time of it but I honestly have no idea.

>>3863234
Are there any dieselpunk games? With atompunk you get fallout, but I can't think of any dieselpunk games.

>>3865219
Does Metal Slug count?

>>3865332
Maybe, I'm not sure.

>someday there will be a nerdy retro-futuristic aesthetic based on the early part of the 21st century

>it will be called "memepunk"

>>3866914
>not vaporpunk

Get out.

>>3866918
what the fuck does vapor have to do with anything

>>3866940
https://youtu.be/8GW6sLrK40k

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporwave

It's essentially exactly what you described, a fascination with retro 80s and 90s aesthetic. Vaporpunk to me sounds fitting if we're talking about an aesthetic based off of retro sci-fi style.

>>3860529
No Underrail?

>>3866951
>retro 80s and 90s aesthetic
>based on the early part of the 21st century
Learn to read nigga.

The first two Wipeout games have a bit of a gritty cyberpunk feel to them. Especially tracks like Korodera, Talon's Reach, Firestar and Gare d'Europa.The acid techno soundtrack drives this feeling home as well. Wipeout 3 feels less gritty and dark but I feel like it depicts a bleak, sterile and realistic take on what the future's going to be like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHMzCpy0fXc

>>3867829
First two Wipeout games + Wipeout 64*

>>3860529
Getting off-topic for a second but as crappy as the FPS Sydicate reboot was, the mission based co-op multiplayer mode was actually really good and I'd love it if they made a new multiplayer focused Syndicate FPS game.

>>3865219
battle garegga

>>3860914
>>3861157
I had both back in the day (Syndicate on Amiga 1200, Wars on PC).

Wars lost a lot of the charm of the original and the levels felt cold and sterile but goddamn there was some awesome weaponry and the building destruction was great. It was fun to seek out the banks and level them to steal all the cash.

>>3853682
>Thinking the SNES version was better

What?

>>3868076
My nigga

>>3868076
>>3868981
My negroes

>>3868076
He is right, though.

>>3868984
>>3868981
>>3868076
>>3868993
>>3853682
>>3853729
>>3854154
>>3855524
>>3856251
>>3859315
>>3855754

Completely different games. Both are good.

I have always wanted to play Cyberpunk 2020, or actually any other tabletop RPG, but I have never had any friends because I'm a literal aspie so I've been just stuck with PC games.

>>3862728
>Steampunk has ALWAYS been shit
this.
Cyberpunk's definition isn't limited to aesthetics, but also its themes which are usual criticisms of consumerism and classism.
Steampunk was just let's throw gears on random shit and see what works.

>>3869225
Isn't there some way to play tabletop games online?

>>3869274
Consumerism and corporatism plus some big brother thrown in there. You could say cyberpunk is redpilled about the jews.

>>3859017

Why would you name a game after the genre or aesthetic? It's the ultimate normie bait

Play this game

Started playing Snatcher.
I don't like the system where you have to pick every option from every submenu multiple times.

>>3869350
>le normie meme

You must be at least 12 years old to post on 4chan.

>>3859112
I like green terminals.

>>3869350
Well dumbo it's a direct adaptation of a tabletop game name and all.

>>3859017
Not at all. They made that trailer at the very start of development to attract people to work on the project.

>>3869730
>calling people underage
You must be at least 87 years old to post on 4chan.

>>3860529
>taking /v/'s cyberpunk list that's been around for years and slapping 8gag's logo on it

Those fuckers are gonna pay...

>>3870894
Almost everything on 8gag is a ripoff off 4chan.

>>3855374
>Beneath a Steel Sky
>free on GoG
It's still free: http://scummvm.org/games

>>3870967
>>3870894
hi, we do more original content than you people. Sorry your site sold out, lost all its creativity, and has been stifled yet again by retarded board rivalry while you cling on to a phone-posting infested shit show.

It might surprise you to see there's a sense of overlap in these lists. Ours are better because we maintain and update them and are constantly looking for new resources. You still repost things from 10 years ago. Enjoy being irrelevant.

>>3869306
A couple probably. I use Tabletop Simulator though.

>>3860529
many things on that list are not cyberpunk or unverified as cyberpunk.

>>3870967
If all they're going to do is rip off most retarded shit, let them.

>>3862728
Only good steampunk game ever coming through.

>>3853796
Holy fuck, I had this game at the same time I had >>3853581 System Shock. Bizarre.

>>3874907
Final Fantasy 6 was steampunk.

holy shit i just got done reading Neuromancer and Count Zero, it's fucking crazy how much of cyberpunk is just ripped straight from Gibson completely unchanged

>>3865219
Crimson Skies?

>>3854972
In places. The problem is SS1's aesthetic has aged like fucking ass whereas SS2's atmosphere has stayed.

>>3877708
Sometimes for the worse. Sometimes for the better.
Early adopters probably didn't too much in the way of prophesying and future world building just figured Gibson got it right and dove straight into making stories for the setting.
Writers tend to be more tech illiterate, so Gibson basically handed them a whole new genre template and explained some of the rules of that world to them as it were.
It's not really much different from how basically 90% of fantasy is basically Tolkien / Tolkien extended / Tolkien rebooted.
Lord of The Rings created a large world, a genre, showed the stuff and explained the rules and the people who don't know a shit ton of languages and mythology just used that template.

>>3877958
I think the appear of a lot of cyberpunk is how strangely it ages. How we can look back at Neuromancer and laugh at the part where they all need to use pay phones even though they're packing all sorts of cybernetic implants.

>>3878791
>I think the appear of a lot of cyberpunk is how strangely it ages.

Not really for me. Cyberpunk is basically just focused, high concept sci-fi in places with a heavy dose of atmosphere and "cool" factor. There was a point where "duude the future's gonna suck but it'll look cooool" to the slightly more modern "yeah now's kinda the future so it's what imagine shit'll be like in 20-30 years, but it's not as far-fetched".

There was a point where Cyberpunk went from far out stuff to slightly more believable and grounded stuff. Personally I'd point to Ghost in the Shell as a good barometer for when that happened. The first movie.

>>3860902
Armored Core also has the Human Plus subplot, where human pilots are given cybernetic/surgical enhancements that help them perform better as AC Pilots.

It fits extremely neatly into the Cyberpunk genre. Also the music is kickass techno that would not sound out of place in one of the Matrix films.

>>3869306
Try Roll20, or even just IRC. Both are fine, the only real advantage Roll20 has over IRC though is the ability to display and edit character sheets as a group.

>>3873363
>Using cripplechan over lain

>>3860902
It's pretty much cyberpunk with mercs in mechs, especially the first one.