/vr/ - Retro Games

System Shock 1. I only played it for the first time maybe two years ago and it instantly rose to my second-favorite game of all time, only losing to Doom on the basis of mod support.

I never had a gameboy as a kid and I'd never given the games outside Pokemon much thought but I've started going through them and holy fuck there are some classics.

This here might be one of my top 10 favourite puzzle games.

Ridge Racer series

I fapped to Reiko in magazines as a lad, little did I know they were actually top tier games.

Symphony of the Night. I wasn't into platformers or 2D games as a child.

Grew up with only consoles, so I've only recently discovered the amazing world of retro PC games.

I fucking love Doom, Quake, HoMM3, RCT2, etc.

As a plus to this I have decades worth of user content made for the games to enjoy. Especially for Doom and Quake.

Dragon Quest series

>>4073546
Custer's Revenge

>>4073546
probably Dark Sun: Shattered Lands t b q h f a m

>>4073592
same desu

>>4073645
DQVIII is the best in the series.

>>4073568
the music started playing in my head as soon as i saw this.

Thief Gold & 2 if that counts as Retro. It's the first game in a long time I've played through more than once

>>4073546
Somewhere between Vagrant Story and Seiken Densetsu 3

>>4073645
>My top 3 favorite are each found in a different tier of this chart.
Well now I don't know what to think.

>>4073650
kek

Probably Haunting Starring Polterguy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlLHmBUfPlM

>>4073592
I really want to recommend Aria of Sorrow

Fucken Money Island I and II.

I ended up really enjoying Holy Umbrella when I played it for the first time last year

Ultima 7

>>4073546
>adult life
Well, everything that came out in 87 or later.

F Zero X

I haven't played an insane amount of racing games, but F Zero X is far and away the best I've played. The fact that it feels so fast on an n64 is a testament to that.

Banjo-Kazooie was pretty baller.

>>4073846
Man it's always odd to me that there are 40+ year old fellas on here.

>>4073546
Does it count if I discovered it in my adult life AND I have nostalgia for it?

Doom.

>>4073857

Yeah you'd think 30 year old stuff would only interest 20 year olds.

All my favorite games have nothing to do with nostalgia. All my favorite retro games I started getting into during my late college years. on the real though, FFVIII

>>4073821
CotM is better though.

>>4074360
All CotM has going for it is difficulty, honestly. Mostly remixed soundtrack, ugly to look at, card system rendered practically worthless thanks to RNG...bleh.

>>4074374
>ugly to look at
Funny one of the things I like about it is that it looks the best on modern screens. It was horrible to play on original GBA, which HoD and AoS solved for that. But if you play them on something with a decent screen CotM looks amazing and the others look super garish.

Soundtrack isn't as great I'll give you that, AoS Clockwork Tower theme is awesome. But it being not a complete walk in the park far from makes up for it. As for card RNG, AoS's soul hunting felt way more gindy.

>>4073546
This one. The story was surprisingly very good and the combat is addicting. I played the remastered version, though (someone simply took the 3DO assets and created a port of a port for the PC).

Contra Hard Corps
Alien Soldier
Secret of Evermore
Breath of Fire 3
And almost everything published by Enix. I wasn't a big fan of their games as a kid.

Well, most of them since I'm a youngfag and mostly only played PS2/GCN games in my childhood. But Shatterhand is a standout for me, easily one of the best NES games I've played.

>>4073857
>Man it's always odd to me that there are 40+ year old fellas on here.
muh secret clubhouse

Riven

I couldn't stop thinking about it for months after beating it.

>>4073592
>Wasn't into 2D games as a child
But 2D games were all we had, unless you're a..........

Eerthbound.

At first i thought rpgs were dumb and boring until i tried earthbound,i got frustated and got stuck at Onett first but after awhile i got used to leveling,reading dialogues(which were damn funny) and the catchy soundtrack.

Frustrated*

>>4074958
Realistically anon could be in his mid 20s and still have grown up with only 3D games. Even older if he was a PC gamer.

>>4074628
>But if you play them on something with a decent screen CotM looks amazing and the others look super garish.

This is the price we all paid for the launch GBA's garbage screen. So many games look like shit emulated because of the colors. Some emulators have color filters to fix it, at the very least.

>>4073546
Probably Space Harrier, which is just about the best game in the world. However, I discover fun "new" old games all the time. There's no end to them. I like just about every kind of game there is.

>>4073546
I just discovered Ecstatica the other day, actually due to a reference made on some /vr/ thread.
It's a very solid adventure game in the vein of Alone in the Dark. I'm surprised I overlooked it for so long.

>>4073546
>want to figure out what $300 ring does
>but scared of polymorph breaking my shirt, armor, and cloak
>have bad ass black dragon named Kardis as pet
>hit something like dungeon level 15
>fuck me i step on a poly trap
>become gold golem
>break all my shit
>goddamn it
>fuck it, puts ring on
>walk down a hall
>suddenly Kardis appears and blasts me with disintegration
>the blasts hits my shield but passes me
>and then bounces of the wall behind me and hits me dead
>learned the hard way be wary of unidentified rings of conflict when you have a void breathing dinosaur as a pet

Does nethack count?

>>4075001
>Does nethack count?
of course

I can count roguelikes in general for me

>>4073857
Man it's always odd to me that there are 20 year old kids who like to play with my old toys.

O actually discovered most of the retro games I like when I was older though. Maybe not an adult but from 15 onward. Kind of started with the NES games you could dig up in the Gamecube version of Animal Crossing, I made a game room in the basement and spent weeks trying to beat Mario, Zelda, and Punch-Out, and playing some of the other little blackbox games too. A friend also unlocked Metroid in Metroid Prime, another retro game that sucked away the hours until I beat it.

When the Wii came out I binged on the virtual console, if it wasn't for all the retro I played for the first time I would have been disappointed in that system. Eventually soft modded it and it was the best decision ever.

I guess if we're giving specific examples, my most recent discovery is Guardian Legend.

>>4073546

I wouldn't say discovered but I only managed to get Space Megaforce for the SNES as an adult and its pretty damn good.

>>4073546
Probably Dino Crisis 2.

Unironically and genuinely one of teh most fun and stupid games I've ever played. It was a wild ride.

>>4075272
>I made a game room in the basement and spent weeks trying to beat Mario, Zelda, and Punch-Out

Liar:

https://nookipedia.com/wiki/Forbidden_Four

>>4073592
Same here.

>>4073546

>>4073546
I could list a ton of PC, SNES and PS1 games but most of them are already mentioned or have already been shitposted to hell on this board. Thanks to a visual novel I came across Virtual On and it's probably one of the only Sega games that would make me buy a Sega console just to play it in full glory.

>>4073546
most of them

I didn't get to play a lot of games as a kid

>>4075047
shows they're nice toys, I think

>>4073546
Does Baldur's Gate trilogy count?

If not, then probably >>4073567 unless the Enhanced Edition doesn't count either

>>4073546
Everything besides Metal Slug 3 here. (ignore the two not-retros)

Probably Asteroids. I'd played endless crappy ports and versions of it as a kid but never "got" it (because most of them are bad). Even in MAME it didn't grab me. Finally playing a real vector cabinet was incredible, everything from the way it looks to the button based control panel was perfection. It's always nice to discover the "classics" are genuinely great games.

Vector graphics will never stop looking futuristic to me. Playing Tempest makes me feel like I'm manning the targeting computer on some giant space battleship

StarTropics on Nes.
I always passed by it in the video store and wasn't even remotely interested in reading about it in Nintendo Power. Finally about 2 years ago I gave in and downloaded a nes emulator and went on a rom downloading spree. Man I really wish I had played it as a kid, I would have loved it

Faxanadu
I got it some days ago in the flea market

>>4075423
Baldur's Gate is definitely one that I'm glad I played at age 22. I definitely would not have enjoyed those games as a child or teenager.

On the other hand, I wish I played Chrono Trigger for the first time at age 5 instead of 15.

X-COM

>>4075393
>what is action replay

>>4075787
>Baldur's Gate is definitely one that I'm glad I played at age 22. I definitely would not have enjoyed those games as a child or teenager.

I'm 30 and I beat Baldur's Gate when I was 13. It was and still is one of my favorite games so I'm assuming that you're much younger than me. The game had good graphics at the time and wasn't all that challenging by 90s PC RPG standards. The Ultima and Wizardry series was a lot more difficult, in my opinion.

Grim Fandango. Played for the first time in 2013 when I was 27yo.

>>4075397
you should try oratorio tangram on dreamcast, it has an awesome OST

>>4076583
Isn't it pointless to play a fighting game by yourself?

>>4073821
>>4074360
>>4074374

According tot he rules of this board gba is not retro. This needs to change.

>>4073546

Fallout 1 and 2 in my mid 20s. When i was a kid I was really into snes and psx JRPGs, I used to walk by the fallout display at walmart and scoff because I thought it was some shitty diablo clone. i also didn't have a pc at the time.

>>4073546
Colin McRae Rally 2.0
Played through it last year and it rocks. Dirt Rally and 4 aren't even that much of improvement even though they are The rally games.
TOCA Touring Cars series turned out to be great too.
Honorable mention is Metal Gear Solid, completed it in 2010 and I don't even like the AAA action genre.

Deus ex

Probably Kirby's Adventure.

>>4073645
1 and 3 are more "patrician" than 2.

Phantasy star 4

>>4073546
Snatcher

It has flaws, but god damn it sucked me in. Has so many interesting and fun moments as well as some really tense ones. Love it.

>>4073546
My favorite (perhaps not "best") is Terranigma. But I've discovered a ton of great games after i started downloading ROMs all those years ago.

>>4073546

Everquest project1999 server

The entirety of F-Zero. I'm not a huge fan of racing games, typically they bore me but F-Zero is on a whole other level, no racing game really comes close to how perfect it is, not even other futuristic racers which are slow in comparison and missing half the mechanics.

>>4079374
F-Zero surprised me too, I'm a huge fan of racing games, but this is the only decent Mode 7 one (not counting top-town games)

>>4079448
I'm currently trying to beat Staff Ghosts in F-Zero X. Real good way to kick the wind out of your own sails if you ever think you're good at the game.

Ff series. First one I tried was X in 2012 and I liked it. Then i played through the retro ones. Good shit. Same happened with re1-recvx not so long ago.

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