/vr/ - Retro Games

Even if the only platformer on snes was mario world, it would still shit on dos.

>>5292880
>that one good platformer on the SNES
>suddenly SNES is the superior platform for platformers

>>5292880
fpbp

>>5292862
It's foolish to argue with the mentally handicapped.

Westerners cannot into platformers

>>5292935
Japs can't into not being a war crime denying, false crime reporting pedophile.

NES/SNES platformers seem to over-emphasize boss battles. Nearly always there's a boss at the end of the stage, and more often than not it's an annoying one. DOS doesn't have this problem, in fact it seems to have more unique platformers and they also tend to push the envelope further as far as unique gameplay goes. Not that there's not some good titles on consoles, but for the most part they seem less enjoyable to me, generally speaking. May just be my nostalgia speaking but that's how I feel.

>I'm back

It takes a lot of effort to make the worst thread on this board, but I think OP has done it.

>>5292958
>game is a lot of fun
>stupid levels are comprised of switch mazes
This is the problem with most DOS games. They try to be "open ended" by being mazes.

>>5292963
>game is a lot of fun
>stupid levels drag on forever and consist of endless waves of enemies
I can play this game too you know

>>5292976
I'm not shitting on Alien Carnage, I loved it, but the switch hunting bothered me.

>>5292982
I mean I understand your point and I admit my views are probably fueled by nostalgia. But for some reason even now I prefer to play through DOS platforms

>>5292982
*Alien Rampage
Fixed

>>5292889
Jazz 1 had the better music, but the bad view distance made Jazz 2 so much better.

>>5292862
It's difficult to compare DOS and SNES platforms games, there's a big difference in styles, I mean, DOS platform games are really eerie and serious, when SNES games look cute and like in a comic book... There are good adventure games and arcades for DOS, but platform games won't please most part of gamers

>>5293062
That's some gritty graphics right there. I love it

Maybe this mystic and seriousness pushed away even genre fans from DOS games, but there are actually decent games to play

Baal's box cover is a good example how DOS platformer games covers look and why people didn't buy them x)

>>5293121
that box art is why i bought BAAL on amiga

>>5293125
That's because you didn't judge it by only the cover

>>5293121
Game looks cute af tho

>>5293129
lrn2read

>>5293129
I think he means he actually did judge it by its cover

>>5292945
I guess the nips really are honorary Aryans.

>>5292984
>But for some reason
You already stated the reason though, sheer blinding nostalgia.

>>5293132
Yeah I expected it to look more serious on DOS desu

what are some good dos platformers
>commander keen
>crystal cavens
>hocus pocus
>bio menace
>douk
>jazz jackrabbit
>dangerous dave
Anything else? None of those really caught my eye besides bio menace and commander keen

>>5293214
Monster bash?
Jill of the Jungle?
Duke Nukem?

>>5293214
Abuse, huehue.

If you can handle constantly getting mobbed by xenomorphs.

You have to be joking. DOS wasn't even capable of replicating 8-bit and 16-bit console platformers properly.

Let's be honest with ourselves. It was a shovelware OS for hobbyists.

>>5293208
True but at the same time I can't force myself to get into some of the SNES platformers like Megaman X or Castlevania 4, even though they're supposed to be good games. They just feel weird to me. Idk why. They're either too hard, too clunky to control, or have confusing levels. Only SNES platformer I decently enjoyed was Super Mario World and that's probably only because I really liked the NES marios too as I don't find the gameplay particularly groundbreaking. My views are fueled by nostalgia, but like I said for some reason I find it easier to get into DOS platforms even now 20 something years later

>>5293239
I know, linux was much better

These are my favorite
>Elvira
>Turrican II: The Final Fight
>Dizzy Series
>Batman
>The First Samurai
>BlackThorne

>>5293243
Sounds like you just haven't fully adapted to them. Once you get used to the controls you'd probably enjoy them more. Classic Castlevania games are naturally a bit clunky by design, but Mega Man X should be a lot more fun once you're comfortable moving around with dashes and stuff. Confusing levels is a surprising complaint to me because I always thought SNES platformers had more linear, straightforward levels than DOS stuff. I haven't played many of those, but I associate them with more vertical, maze-like levels.

>>5293284
Yeah, maybe you're right. By confusing levels I meant I get stuck in them a lot of the time for some reason. But I probably had some NES platformers in mind and not SNES. Like I know some Mega Man levels confused me to such an extent I just stopped playing, Maybe I should give X a try again though, I never did give it a solid chance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry9io7umtmk

>>5293245
>>5293239
Hardware is the issue. OS meant fuck all, really, because developers had direct access to the hardware, which at the rise of SNES was terrible ISA VGA cards.

>>5292960
i can never play this, the screen space is so small i run into fire before i can react to it

>>5293342
It's actually pretty fun, but some levels are pretty much designed to torture you

Platformers and shmups were not a viable idea on PCs pre-VESA.

>>5293062
What's that game?

>>5292862
I only ever hear Europeans try to make this argument, probably because PAL SNES games fucking suck ass

>>5292960
when i first played DN2 it was on a 12mhz 286 with a 40mb MFM hard drive so the level loading screen generally took like 15 minutes. You died, that was a big chunk of your day down the shitter.

>>5293824
>slowish genre
>on the slowest 4th gen console
>now even slower
Christ.

>>5293816
That's Abuse, for DOS.

>>5293840
The "slowest" 4th gen console runs games much faster than a home computer. Even in PAL.

>>5293037
Jazz 2's music was better imo

>>5293775
The PC port of Garfield: Caught in the Act was a childhood favorite of mine but that was post-VESA and it still doesn't have all the graphical effects from the Genesis original.

>>5292935
The only exception being the Donkey Kong Country trilogy

>>5293838
People who have never played old computer games on actual old computers don't realize how incredibly slowly they load and how incredibly slowly they play.

>>5293843
Neat, thanks anon

ABUSE!!!! that is all

>>5293863
>People who have never played old computer games on actual old computers don't realize how incredibly slowly they load and how incredibly slowly they play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feH_bz-PwRA

Eight seconds to load the game and it runs at 60 fps.

>>5292862
SNES was starting to get that sega look in their 3rd party games

>>5293301
based ost

>>5293775
A quick run-down on VESA please?
What does a bus slot on the mobo have to do with getting platformers to run at 60 FPS?
Videocards were always 3D from the start and never improved 2D performance, that was the CPU's job.

>>5293129
What?
That is exactly what Anon did.

>>5294175
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_Local_Bus

>>5293197
honoraryans?

>>5294175
zoomer git out

>>5294175
>Videocards were always 3D from the start and never improved 2D performance, that was the CPU's job.
The fuck am I reading. Is this some really elaborate bait? Cuz I'm one second away from biting and possibly getting reeled in.

>>5293239
>It was a shovelware OS for hobbyists

>>5293239

>>5293239
What about the businesses using DOS