/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5337184
Just got into Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast this past weekend. I have probably 20 hours on it already and am still playing single player. At first I thought the controls were kind of wanky but once you get onto them, they are actually pretty nice. Controlling the camera adds some challenge and makes you play a bit more strategically. I'm going to do the DreamPI thing before long, I bet this is going to be fun playing with others.

I've never really liked MMO but the setting on this is quite nice and reminds me of roguelikes in some strange way. I seriously believe if I had a DC and this game back in college I would have put thousands of hours into it.

>>5337184
I mean its only $2 bucks cheaper than regular price

>>5337184
if you're gonna play the 1st one, this is the one to play. It has a automap feature... says enough.

I really wish they also released Sega AGES for PS2 and 4.

>>5337184
Yes. The Switch version has a lot of extra features that make it more accessible today, like an item and monster guide, and the dungeon auto-mapping feature.

forgot about this, gonna pirate it. cheers!

>>5338662
Buy it you cheap bastard.

>>5337273
>automap
CASUAL, might as well watch a playthrough on youtube

>>5338760
>imagine being this proud for having gone through tedium

QoL features aren't a bad thing, anon. Just because you had to suck it up doesn't mean others are worse for playing the game later than you.

>>5338760
Shut up, faggot.

>>5337817
that's nice.

Is this a new version of the game or a rom with extra stuff added running on an emulator?

Just finished it on my Master System. This version is far more accessible due to the automap. It was a fantastic game, for the time. I would definitely say if you're a fan of 8-bit rpg's than it is a must!

>>5339058
The latter. Emulation with some nice eniugh features that makes it worth considering even if you'd ordinarily just emulate SMS game for free.

>>5338772
Not that anon, but adding auto-mapping isn't just a "QoL feature"; it's removing gameplay.
Games designed around auto-mapping are different than games designed around player mapping/navigation.
Phantasy Star lacks the puzzles and gimmicks that auto-map games include to make up for the loss of navigation challenge, so if you take away the navigation, there's not a whole lot left to do in the dungeons.
Obviously, if you're personally confident that you hate navigating dungeons and removing that gameplay will definitely be more enjoyable to you, it makes sense to take advantage of the feature, but I wouldn't recommend it as a default way to play PS1.

>>5337184
>owning a switch

Shame those who give nintendo money

>>5339131
Nowadays no one has time to draw their own maps. Back then you drew them because you had no other choice and even then there were guides and magazines with them.

Hell, even games like Etrian Odyssey who pride themselves of "muh dungeons and muh mapping" end up filling the map automatically for you as you move.

>>5339137
Why waste precious time of your life posting just that?

>>5339118
Has it been ripped and put online yet? I'd like to play it in a proper emulator.

>>5338662
Why? When you could get the Master System retranslation that's superior in every way also for free? The only reason to go for the Switch version is if you're an incurable buyfag. Whatever, enjoy your burgers.

>>5339164
Europoors seething at people spending there excess funds.

>>5339140
>Back then you drew them because you had no other choice
There is always the choice of not mapping. Phantasy Star dungeons are pretty small and simple. You don't nee4d maps unless you have the memory of a goldfish and the sense of direction of a Cybuster pilot.

>>5339173
When I tried doing it all in my head I couldn't find the miracle key and had to spend MP on opening locks

>>5339164
Let me guess, you think stealing food is also right.
Don't complain about the state of gaming if you're not even willing to spend a few bucks on a good port of a great retro RPG.
How cheap must you be?

>>5339195
You don't know what the word port means, do you? A rom hack running on an emulator is not a port.

>>5339195
Nice false equivalence, you motherfucker.

Great, some haters and proud fuckers just had to ruin the thread.

Can we go back to talk about the old PS games?

>>5339195
My god, you're right. I'm going to go out and buy a console that I previously had no interest in in order to then buy a badly translated rom and emulator with built-in cheat features that don't interest me that has an inferior translation to a fan-translated version of the same rom that's been available to be for the last ten years. Sega deserves good fans like me!

>>5339242
>Unironically saying the Switch is bad
>rom
>cheat
>bad translation

You're trying so hard to fit in 4chan it's almost painful. Imagine living life hating everything that costs money.

>>5339140
>Why waste precious time of your life posting just that?

I enjoy the banter

>>5339253
>trying hard to fit in
Is this the new 'back to Red dit, yay I got the last word!'?

>>5339253
Stop shilling the switch you've been at it all night holy shit

>>5338758
i'd rather spend my money supporting game developers

>>5339150
It's done by M2. It's about as proper as it could possibly get.

>>5339398
Horseshit. I use the GenesisplusGX core in Retroarch and I guarantee it isn't as accurate as that.

>>5339195
>Let me guess, you think stealing food is also right.
Go jerk off to Ayn Rand
>Don't complain about the state of gaming if you're not even willing to spend a few bucks on a . . . port
Fucking idiot