/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3996430
because easy games got rented and beat in a couple of days

>>3996430
They hype for this game was unreal at the time. Ads on tv, ads in magazines, people talking like it was another Sonic type Sega game. And then it was released, and I rented it to, and had no idea what to do or where to go. Nothing in the game is self- explanatory. It's too esoteric, too cryptic. And it's gameplay wasn't' like anything I was familiar with. The power of marketing people. Didn't look into it again until youtube got popular.

Because its a game and games involve challenge, not an interactive picture book like most modern "games"

Rent prevention. There's an interview somewhere that admits that the game was made too hard. (I think it's the one about the 3DS port.)
The later Japanese version adds checkpoints and other small improvements that makes the game reasonably challenging, instead of pure bullshit.

>>3996452
literally this

>>3996430
>>3996430
Because even though little kids like dolphins, it's not a game that was made for kids. Kids like knights too, doesn't mean Ghouls 'n Ghosts should be made for them.

I loved it ever since it came out, but I was in my late teens already. I would suggest that if it still looks interesting you go back and try it now that you're an adult. It's a very fun and interesting game.

>>3996430

Just play the Sega CD version.

>>3998369
Checkpoints don't really make it easier, just shorter if you mess up. Anyone who wants to play Ecco but doesn't want to deal with it's difficulty for whatever reason should just use the debug menu for unlimited life and teleporting past obstacles you're stuck on.

Turn Ecco so he's facing the screen and pause. Then press Right, B, C, B, C, Down, C, and Up.

Lets you fuck with the music tempo for added fun.

>>3998386

If that's what you want, play Ecco Jr.

>>3998469
Ehhh Ecco Jr just plain kinda sucks though. There are regularly people here who want to play the game but find it too difficult for one reason or another, so this an option they can use.

What version should I play?

>>3998552

Do you like Prog Rock or New Age more?

This game brings back so many bad memories. Grew up in a really poor household. Live in a 3rd world country where access to internet media is limited. Best friend and I use to play this every single day after school and on weekends. For months we became so engrossed in the storyline. Get to Lost City of Atlantis. WTF is going on. Get to time machine. Game ends. No matter how many times we played, game would end at time machine.

Friend passed away a year later. Very sad. No one else to play with. Fast forward 15 years later on the anniversary of his death. Decide to emulate this and play it.

Stay up all night. Get to time machine. Use it. Get up and go to living room. MFW in Jurrassic Park. To think my friend died not knowing there was still more to storyline..

>>3998171
>it's not a game that was made for kids

I often wonder who the game was made for. Dope-smoking neo-hippies maybe.

>>3998603
I don't think smoking weed would be very helpful in a game this stressful. It's a puzzle solving adventure game, I would say it's made for people who like that kind of thing.

>>3998593
This is very sad. Sounds like you kept getting the bad ending but I don't know what triggers it.

>>3998560
What?

>>3998830
(music)

>>3998834
What?

>>3998838
The Genesis version has a sythy prog rock inspired soundtrack. The Sega CD version sounds sort of like new age classical/ambient. Some prefer one and others prefer the other. It's the biggest difference in the versions besides the Sega CD having check points mid level and a couple of extra levels.

So really, just go with which one you like the soundtrack better.

>>3998850
Which one would you reccomend?

>>3996953

No offense but I guess you were like 5 or something, I played it when I was 13 and understood exactly what I had to do.

>>3998964

Not him but while both are wonderful, I prefer the Genesis.

>>3996430

This game is so hard it still took me an hour to beat even though I was using the debug menu to skip to the final fight with the Vortex Queen and also turned on invincibility (you need to destroy her jaw as part of the process of beating her and she repeatedly sucks in everything within a ten foot radius of that jaw so that even if you're invincible if she gets you with that attack you just get eaten and insta-die; also if you weren't using the debug menu getting killed at that point makes you have to go back to the beginning of the entire welcome to the machine level which itself is hard as balls even when invincible because you have to avoid getting squashed by walls as the screen erratically changes focus from one area to the next).

>>3996953
I was 8 when it came out. It was pretty self explanatory to me, and when I didn't know what to do, I'd fiddle around with everything until I figured it out.

Sorry Anon.

>>3998964

The PC version with your soundtrack of choice

http://web8.orcaserver.de/ecco/downloads/games/

>>3999312

For me, it got to the point where Welcome to the Machine itself became a joke for me. I memorized every turn and where every enemy spawned in so I could kill it before it showed up on screen

But the level still takes six goddamn minutes to autoscroll through every single time. It's brutal.

>>3996430
Only beat the GG versions.

>>3998964
I recommend listening to them both and deciding for yourself.

>>3998964

Both are great, But I feel the cart music better manages to convey the feeling of whats going on in the game.

Like when you travel back in time, the cart music makes you feel like you just went from your own time (where you are comfortable since its your time) to a time very different from your own. so the feel is very threatening.

CD music just changes to some sort of exotic surfer music that totally fails to convey the feeling of being dropped in a very different and threatening situation.

good.

>>3996430
Game scared the shit out of me as a kid. The fuck dude I thought I was gonna swim around the ocean fighting crime but then a xenomorph took my family.