/vr/ - Retro Games

Man I don't even know what was going on anymore. Like there's this other universe but it's all bumping into ours and it's gonna kill everything everywhere forever or something, also incest?

You've been warned

>>4901462
Dude delete this.... kids use this board

>>4901460

>>4901464
truly this was H.P. Lovecrafts greatest nightmare

>>4901470
he becomes less scary after you play the famicom game

>>4901464
FUCK THE KNICKS

>>4901464
>Official Sega Seal of Quality
What in the actual fuck where they thinking?

>>4901470
That's me. I know the story of this foe by the way.

>>4901470
That's me. I know the story of this foe by the way.

>>4902223

You don't want to go there

>>4902229
Do you long to have the warmth of your mother's love again?

>>4902237
I broke contact five years ago. My mind alternates between sensing that this was a mistake and (to me) reasonable sounding explanations for my decission, fear of loneliness, and so on. Nothing is really solved and what is left is baggage. Five years is a remarkable gap. Would I've felt more independent I would have decided otherwise. That's off-topic anyway. I won't comment on this further.

>>4902254
I need to go to bed, really.

>>4902254
Just don't invade earth because ou want your mommy back, okay Giegue?

>>4901452
In that fight you're actually murdering an adjacent world filled with monstrous biology that's sort of just sauntering over while having some sort of quantum displacement that lets it overlap without directly physically being able to contact.

like a parasitic alien planet that's hiding in another phase of reality

Irvine manipulates -every person on the planet- in order to master the summoning sacrifice technique and train the next Sword Saint to murder the thing he turns into

>>4902265
i told u i was hardcore

>>4902269
you got beaten by a bunch of kids, though, twice

>>4901661
Black people being accepted? The dude was a HUGE racist.

>>4902268

Man that game got weird for what as basically the good the bad and the fantasy

>>4902290

>>4902303

can't tell he was paid by the word.

>>4901448
Literally who: the final boss

>>4901440
The Great Glacier part in FFVII was basically At the Mountains of Madness

>>4902336
I fucking hate Malboros.

>>4902325

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxzEsAqO5GE

>>4901464
I used to dress like them

>>4902416

I used to beat up kids dressed like them.

>>4901464
/thread

>>4901440

Blow my mind when I saw this in the commercial.

>>4902347
>but why do I have a malboro named mustadio?

>>4902529

dat ass

The obvious

>>4901501

>Mixam

kek

The whole mansion.

>no Shub-Niggurath
Do you even retro?

Too bad the best Lovecraft game, Dark Corners of the Earth, is not retro.

>>4902850
Explain

>>4901462
OH FUCK ME I LOOKED AT IT

>>4902864
basically the house was the home for some kind of weird cult or some shit

>>4902254
TAKE A MELODY

>>4901440
The SMT design for Cthulu is pretty weak beside them giving him a huge dick the Old One is amazing.

>>4903271
theres not a lot of interpretation for what cthulu looks like though, he's a humanoid form with bat wings like a demon and a big squishy sea monster head with tentacles, that's big enough to stand up out of the ocean

> ...the same concept art further describes Phantoon as a multidimensional creature whose entire body cannot exist in a single dimension, thus giving it its ghost-like characteristics. This signifies that the body that Samus sees as Phantoon in both games is but a portion of its overall structure, in which its full size, mass and appearance remain unknown.

>>4903209
Simple as can be

The Lost City in Thief: TDP is a creepy and Lovecraftian archeological adventure. Pic related

>>4901440
This has nothing to do with Lovecraft, get your shit terminology out of here. Nobody in Japanese has or ever gave a single fuck about Lovecraft until the 21st century. You are so fucking delusional (and obviously American) to think everything creative comes from one Rhode Island writer.

>>4902864
The Derceto mansion was alive, you can even visit its intestines.

>>4904448
Your ignorance and arrogance will not save you when the Old Ones return. Both your soul and your sanity will be cast to the aethereal winds and plummet down the stygian chasm of madness and torment for aeons.

Have a nice day.

>>4903703
Give it some words and

>>4903325
>multidimensional creature whose entire body cannot exist in a single dimension

Why did Phantoon get killed tho?

>>4902529
This image is begging for a shoop.

>>4901494
>This is what happens when you leave potatoes in the dark too long.

>>4902539
>half the fucking PCE games on psn are only available in Japan

fucking why

>>4904801
Sometimes the Best Defense for an otherworldly Eldrich horror is a badass armored suit.

>>4904790
Sweet Harmony

>>4904801
Because she blew its head off.

>>4904398
For a brief moment I thought this was a photograph. Truly an immersive experience beyond generations to come.

>>4904448
The Crawling Chaos himself appears in SMT, your argument is invalid.

>>4904448
>Lovecraft’s stories began appearing in Japanese publications as early as the 1940s, with “The Statement of Randolph Carter” being among the first when it was translated by Nishio Tadashi and serialized in Hakaba Magazine.

>As was the case in America, it was the popularity of the Call of Cthulhu RPG that truly brought Lovecraft into Japanese mainstream otaku or geek culture. The first Japanese translations of the game appeared in Hobby Japan magazine in 1986 (at the height of the 80s Japanese horror boom) and were later reprinted by Enterbrain. As a result of the game's popularity, Hobby Japan began commissioning original Lovecraft inspired manga and short stories to be printed in their various sister publications.

>As in the States and elsewhere, many prominent Japanese fantasy, sci-fi, and horror writers were soon dabbling in the world of the Cthulhu Mythos. Some of the more recognizable include Kaoru Kurimoto, Jun Hazami, Hideyuki Kikuchi, Junji Ito, and Shigeru Mizuki. However, amongst the numerous Japanese writers who have been influenced by Lovecraft’s legacy two in particular rise above the rest: Chiaki J. Konaka (b. 1961) and Ken Asamatsu (b. 1956).

>Konaka, as a life-long fan of Lovecraft, has admitted to frequently borrowing “elements of H.P.L. and other authors of the Cthulhu Saga for my scenarios.” Asamatsu first encountered Lovecraft as a teenager while reading the novella The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. “I was stunned by the way it pulled me in, and its superb structure. I felt that Lovecraft would be my mentor and guide in literature for the rest of my life.”

https://lovecraftzine.com/2013/01/09/the-cthulhu-mythos-in-japan/

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to fucking Google things. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of documented fucking facts, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Speaking of Nyarlathotep in Persona 2, here is a compilation of all of his official art. Note that some of these go unused in the final games.

Some of the Super Star Wars bosses look pretty Lovecraftian, like the lava monster in the sandcrawler or the swamp monster on Dagobah. I don't know if they were canon in the EU but that no longer matters now thanks to the dickholes at Disney.

Shub-My-Niggurath herself in all her glory.

He's got the look down, at least.

I bet you have his theme music playing in your head now.

magician lord had a few.
the game was pretty goofy with the terrible acting and all that, but the bad guy was summoning and messing with some pretty bad elder god shit.

The Elder God from Legacy of Kain (first appeared in Soul Reaver so technically retro). As hideous as Shub-Niggurath, as manipulative as Nyarlathotep.

>No pic because I could only find them for Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance and unused concept art

>>4902325
FFIX is the best one though you cretin

>>4908082
lol if you actually think this

>>4908098
I don't mind waiting 15 seconds for a battle to start, everything else in the game is pretty good

6 is my favourite, but IX is the best one with ease

The Destroyers from Treasure of the Rudras. No pic because they weren't shown, only mentioned. A shame there won't be a sequel.

>>4902859
No, that would be this.

>>4908081
That filter is an eldritch horror.

>>4908116
Don't look at it, you'll go mad!

>>4908108
Or maybe Rudras and Romancing Saga 3 take place in the same continuity.

>>4901440

>>4906658
Kaneko is a fucking god. How the fuck do you come up with shit like this?

>>4908174
Most of them are based on how Lovecraft himself described Nyarlathotep's many different forms.

>>4906658
How do you go from this to THIS?

A shame Eternal Darkness isn't retro. If only it came out on the N64 like it was supposed to.

>>4902609
>>4907376
And then Quake became just another generic space marine crapfest.

>>4909598
out of BoF bosses, that's the one you pick?

>>4909608
Well, she's his mother.

>>4909598
>>4909608
It's nice how horrifying abominations like this seem to be in every game.

>>4909608
It's still better than her feathered hair lamia/naga form from 3.

>>4901462
>>4901464

Oh blissful ignorance, how I miss your sweet embrace!

Life is meaningless. Humanity is just a just driftwood waiting to be swept away by the encroaching tide. I can't go on.

*hangs self*

>>4901446

El Viento has a bunch of Lovecraft references.
http://rq87.flyingomelette.com/RQ/A&E/EV/cthulhu.html

He was one until the PSP version retconned him as a machine.

>>4910305
>gif
>not animated
When will you faggots learn?

>>4910535
Blame the website I got from.

>>4902303
Was Lovecraft one of those guys who took back his racist views on his deathbed, or am I thinking of someone else?

>>4911621
Well he was married to a Jewish woman and they remained on good terms after their separation.

>>4904801
>Phantoom
>Ded

He didn't die though. Samus just pushed him to the other side for a while.

He comes back at Other M

>>4909710
I never really understood wtf am I looking at here.
>is that a fin in his spine?
>Maybe those are wings?
>aren't his legs too small to support the whole body?
>wait, no, is he like, a crab or something?
>Those are wings...
>no..that's...his neck?!
>a crab with neck?

don't even start me at G.Drgn

>>4909710
I can't believe this shit:

I always thought his torso was facing Ryu
But NO, he's SIDEWAYS!!!!

THIS NIGGER IS FIGHTING SIDEWAYS

THOSE GREEN SMALLER LEGS ARE THE FRON PART OF HIS TORSO

FUCK YOU CAPCOM

>>4912071
He's pretty much a hydralisk.