/vr/ - Retro Games

>Blast Away The Wall
How were you supposed to know?

How were you supposed to know to go into the castle at the start of the game? Peach only says to come "to" the castle, not to go inside.

>>4987589
nearly the entire map is made out of walls

>>4987603
Then you blast away every wall.

Trail and error

>>4987578
Even on a real N64 there's a crease between the wall and the breakable part.

>>4987603
I don't remember because I played this like 19 years ago but isn't the wall right in front of a fucking cannon?

>>4987578
>>4987603
You are the reason we have tutorials for pressing the jump button nowadays.

>>4987624
You could JUMP?? No wonder I never beat this game.

>>4987620
Yes. Figuring out EXACTLY what to do is a bit of a puzzle, of course, but it's fairly obvious you need to use a cannon, and there's only so many options.

>>4987603
But there's only one cannon, with only a couple walls in short range.

In a way, if it wasn't for people like OP, we wouldn't have /vr/. That's cool.

That game was so disappointing. When I finally got onto the roof I was expecting some more paintings or something, but there was just a green man and the flying hat box. Couldn't they have made it more interesting for fucks sake

You could see the star peek through if you took a ride with the owl over the level

>>4987634
You don't have to jump in Mario 64 though.

>>4987578
I guess you didn't have THE POWER

>>4987951
Hell, you don't even have to release the button all the way.

>>4987578
>you
Basic reading skills and common sense. You, on the other hand were never meant to play this.

>>4987624
I fucking hate modern games, especially w*Stern "games".

>play generic western multiplat #65816
>20 minute long intro sequence showing legal information, middleware used, etc
>1 hour of a cinematic cutscene you can't skip, voiced by the same five voice actors doing that "gritty whisper talk" voice so that it's like a hollywood movie
>"USE THE LEFT STICK TO MOVE"
>ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: "FIRST STEPS"

Why can't the w*St repeat the 1982 crash already and just die?

>>4988014
>Why can't the w*St repeat the 1982 crash
Because it was only in the USA.

>>4987578
There was an obvious seem there.

>>4988021
Only country that matters.

>>4988014
>ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: "FIRST STEPS"
kek

>>4988042
It won't stop Western games from appearing then :^)

James Rolfe said something very wise about this once imo. I think it was in the "James and Mike mondays: Castlevania 2" video bit not even sure...

Anyway he said he was asked how could anyone figure out which lake you were supposed to walk under since there are more than one lake and the hint is just about a lake.

He answered that if it didn't happen to be the lake he tried first he would simply try another one, and that back then he didn't feel such a need to beat the game: he would just play with it for a while and turn it off.

I don't know I thought it was beautiful. One more thing that probably doesn't have anything to do with anything (either): I was replaying Jak 3 on ps2 at the time and felt really frustrated because of this one part where you have to follow a floating light with a hoverboard and I kept thinking how was anyone supposed to react to those turns without knowing them beforehand. James' quote made me realize that maybe I wasn't supposed to: It's not like you lose anything by dying at that part! I just never had thought that way about 3D game before!
>inb4 that part's easy!
yeah I could also just suck too.

And sorry for a blog post!

>>4988014
>select game difficulty
>NIGHTMARE
>still has babbys first tutorial

Dunkey has a video on game difficultly that perfectly sums up the difference between a game with a high skill ceiling and one that is arbitrarily difficult. I'm not a big fan of many indie games but it seems like a forgotten art few modern studios can achieve.

>>4988124
>and that back then he didn't feel such a need to beat the game: he would just play with it for a while and turn it off
That's pretty much how I was. I beat hardly any game when I was younger. I just played them until I wanted to play something else.

>>4988154
I've got into this mindset only recently (and still struggling sometimes). ^^p

>>4988143
really, e-celebs?

>>4988214
dunkey's good

>>4987578
didn't even know english and found it

we used to explore games

>>4987578
>How were you supposed to know?

>>4988221
this one is bad design.

You interact with everything by jumping. The barrel does interact with jumping. You can pass through some barrels before that one by JUMPING.

Jesus Christ.

>>4988014
>ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: "FIRST STEPS"
Legitimately had a laugh.

>>4988221
There was no reasonable way to know about this. I eventually figured it out but that doesn't matter. There was no way to know, it's literally the only time something like this ever happens in any of the games, fucking fight me.

>>4988124
Difficulty in the past was just meant to make the game last longer. Otherwise you end up with hour long games without massive amounts of trial and error.

>>4987603
I think every player at the time shot everything we could when we came across canons

>>4987619
>>4987619
>>4987619

>>4988194
It was fun, but I do regret not having beaten so many of my games in the past. Then again, that only gives me an excuse to replay them now.

>>4989634
There you go!

>>4988014
>Why can't the w*St repeat the 1982 crash already and just die?
it'll happen sooner than later. history repeats itself.

>>4987578
>Blast Away The Wall
>cannon near a suspiciously protruding wall
>the cannon has no real good apparent uses
>the suspiciously protruding wall is suspiciously tapered
>there's a suspicious "crack" in the corner of the wall when you move the camera around near it
>this wall is one of only two walls visible from inside the only cannon in the level

HOW WERE YOU SUPPOSED TO KNOW

>>4988014
>"USE THE LEFT STICK TO MOVE"
>ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: "FIRST STEPS"

Nintendo Power, OP

>>4988014
This reads like a post from 2010. Games have moved on from being completely braindead stupid and are generally more complex than they were 10 years ago.

>>4987578
Specifically designed to sell Strategy Guides

>>4988014
kekked

>>4991017
No.
No.
No.

>>4988014

post of the month.

It's a dumb objective because it isn't fun in a Mario way.

>>4991053
Yeah
yup
mmhmm

Maybe play a new game every once in a while and turn off the gamecube, buddy.

>>4988014
>newest Resident Evil
>literally get an achievement for stepping out of the car at the beginning

>>4991107
These "start the game" achievements exist purely so that everyone that plays the game will have at least one achievement, meaning the creators can see exactly how many people started the game, but didn't even play up to the point they get first proper one.

>>4988221
I didn’t know you could move the barrel with up and down until I was 17 or 18 I think, like 10 years after I got the game. I got really good at just timing jumps on it to move it up and down.

>>4988014
That will literally NEVER happen when you can make a mobile game in 5 hours on a budget of 5 dollars, fill it with microtransactions and make millions in a few weeks

>>4988014

>ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: "FIRST STEPS"

I'm laffin

>>4987687
>a green man
>Anon figured out the secret to "L is real" and doesn't even know it

>>4987975
A button press is a button press, you can't half press a button.

>>4988221
there are only so many controls. eventually you figure it out

>>4991110
Yup, devs just use achievements for player statistics now, they're not really to mark player achievements in any grand sense of the word.

>>4994410
This begs a question; does this mean that achievements being publicly viewable and unable to opt out of violates GDPR? They're not necessary to the functioning of a game and it's as you said a data metric.

>>4988143
Sweet cabinet. You make it yourself, or is that a pre-made?

>>4994418
That's a good question, but probably one that will never be addressed officially.

>>4987578
uh simple. the out of place glitchy line that made it look like that corner was supposed to come off. i figured that out the first time i played the game back in 96' in a matter of minutes. learn to game better.

>>4994464
BRB forcing their hand because I fucking hate achievements with a passion.

>>4994426
Official Namco limited western edition

>>4994471
Godspeed, anon.

>>4987578
tbqh if we got stuck in a game, either me or my brother would ride to the local game store and thumb through the players guide, find the solution, and ride back home

>>4987951
You need at least one a press for one of the browser levels.

>>4994836
The Wii VC version has a glitch to skip that jump but yeah there is no workaround on official hardware so far.

>>4987619
What? I never knew that, can someone send a pic cuzz I can't see it from the op

>>4988214
If you have a problem with his argument that's fine, but him being an "eceleb" doesn't imvalidate the argument

>>4987578
The star is literally called "blast away the wall"

>>4994836
I have a feeling shigeru knew what he was doing placing that pole

he foresaw everything

>>4994469
how the fuck do faggots like you keep on remembering shit like this from two decades ago. Seriously, is it just the power of autism or what? I played KotOR when it first came out and then played it again in 2016 and had completely forgotten about the huge twist, and I fucking went to a top 20 law school. Meanwhile, while i'm forgetting about huge plot points, you idiot savants remember every fucking single minutia of detail from every game you've ever played. It's not just you anon, I see this type of shit all the time, so don't feel like I'm singling your autism out. I just want to know how far the autism brick road extends.

>>4987578
In that era Nintendo wanted to push Nintendo power Magazines and guides, so there, you had to buy Nintendo power.

>>4997109
People have varying levels of memory retention. It's not related to autism whatsoever though, obviously.