/vr/ - Retro Games

>posting a game selector as a game

>>5569572
Bonks Adventure. Not the best game, but very SOULFULL.

>>5569580

Boomer here, the soul/soulless meme needs to die

>>5569639
you first

>>5569572
The Sonic World part of Sonic Jam was so fucking A E S T H E T I C and mysterious to me when I was a kid. It still is. I wish someone would make a whole game based around the concept of Sonic World, based around the concept of evoking those same sorts of feelings.

>>5569639
Agreed. Its guys who can understand that there are certain aesthetics that they like, but they lack the ability to articulate what those are in any meaningful way so they end up spouting pointless memes.

>>5569572
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtF80UCgarY

>>5569572
>sixth gen has soul now
Retro always has been and always will be relative.

>>5569594
this is terrifying. why does pinky look like she just got raped by blinky and is scared to tell the bartender. why did pacman spraypaint himself graffiti on an indoors brick wall lol.

Today's indie games, made by auteurs like Toby Fox and Lucas Pope, have much more "soul" than most corporate retro shit.

>>5569914
>auteurs
kill yourself

>>5569927
I bet you've never "gotten over it with Bennett Foddy" ;)

>>5569914
Pathetic b8

>>5570471
Oh my fucking god yes. Best menu on any console ever.

>>5569639
As does the phrase boomer yes

>>5570819
U sure about that?

>>5569914
this but unironically

>>5570839
This one by a mile

>>5569579
NO

>>5569914
They hated Jesus because he told them the truth.

>>5569914
Its a shame Toby Fox is still incarcerated

I dare you to find a more soulful image

>>5569579
fuck YES

>>5569914
There are some indie/art games with SOUL, but big-name mainstream games like Undertale usually ain't it.

>>5569594
It's a hell of a lot better than what Gamespot pussies were telling me it was back in 2006-2007

>>5570839
I like the Saturn menu too but the Dreamcast will always be my favorite. Water and clouds is maximum aesthetic.

>>5570471
Also bittersweetly reminds me of the countless times my Sonic Adventure disc tried and failed to load after the first year I bought it

>>5570915

>>5570930
A game doesn't lose soul by becoming popular after it's made, you ducking hipster.

>>5571216
>indie trash for furries
it never had soul to lose, popular or not.

>>5570915
>>5570948
MP4 wasn't as soulful as 2 but holy fuck did the soul drop off a cliff starting with MP5

>>5569580
fucking this. It COULD have been so fucking cool. the sprites were great, it controlled decently enough(I hate the camera, but its serviceable), the few missions were interesting, but thats it. Its completable in like 1/2 an hour, then you basically just have the 4 genesis sonic games to play AGAIN

Did you know that with film photography, each color layer has only one bit of depth if you zoom in? Digital cameras are actually more "analog"

>>5571637
Greatest soundtrack, too.

>>5569594
More collection-type games would have benefited from fun lobbies or exploration outside the games

>>5570939
Why was Sega so much more "aesthetic" than Nintendo in the day?

>>5571662
>Did you know that with film photography, each color layer has only one bit of depth if you zoom in?
That's only true for a hypothetical film with single-atom thickness

>>5569572
S O U L

>>5569914
>Tumblrtale
>soul
You need to go back
>>>/tumblr/

>>5570839
Too 90s and generic CD Player-ish.

>>5571690
Sega was always the cool kid.
They named their console the Mega Drive while Nintendo named it fucking Famicom.

all games that mix 3d and 2d sprites get a free soul

40 Winks on PS.
>>5569639
Fellow boomer here, SOUL and SOULLESS is the best trope on /vr/ in a while because it describes a non tangible quality in a easily understood way, similar to comfy. Only autists are confused by its meaning. "Boomer" however needs to die.

>>5570915
wow that map layout looks familiar af

>>5571987
game?

>>5572313
dark savior

>>5569639
bluepilled

>>5572150
redpilled

>>5569782
I still can't get over how fucking stylish Bulk Slash is. So good.

>>5570471
>plug in the Dreamcast again
>default clock is set for 1998

>>5572150
this to be honest

>>5569914
>ideas and motifs all taken from other games
>soul

>been frequently using "soul" and "soulless" to describe shit, especially visual aesthetics/atmosphere/worlds of games for a long ass time
>come back to /vr/ after months of not lurking to find it's now a meme on this board
Damn I could've originated this

https://youtu.be/fJpp-Uj3c64

>>5569757
what game is this?

>>5571757
>Too 90s
>a bad thing
'no'

>>5570939
Space > Water

>>5572150 soul
>>5569639 soulless

>>5572694
it's only a "meme" from the /v/ immigrants

>>5573082
Lego Island

>>5573082
Lego Island.

>>5569757
I gotta play it again. that and myst

>>5569689
Someone did...that was what eventually evolved into "Sonic Adventure". Don't believe me? Watch the cut scene after the first sky chase mini game, the character model for sonic right before the wing on the Tornado is blasted off is an earlier version for Sega Saturn. Sonic World for Sonic Jam was a very early proof of concept that eventually evolved into Sonic Adventure.

Even mediocre games can have soul

>>5573574
Kirby 64 is a fan favorite in Japan

>>5573154
Everyone is a /v/ immigrant you fucking newfag. And if /vr/ were to obsess over ANY meme, souless would be the perfect one. We knew the industry before it went full hollywood.

>>5572545
>Fire up the Sega Saturn
>Coin battery's dead (again!)
>That feeling when I have to press up on the D-pad 25 FUCKING TIMES over the year highlight just to get to 2019
>I can remember when this console was considered "state-of-the-art" gaming

Also, I neglected to play my copy of "Christmas Nights" this last holiday season.

>>5569579
I always knew this game was bomb

>>5573571
I always wondered why that model was so ugly compared to the rest of the game when I was a kid.

>>5569689
sonic robo blast 2 is kinda close

babyfurs have no soul.

>>5569914
I agree with Pope.

Disagree with Toby, his game isn't bad, but sometimes is like playing a bad sonic game made RPG.
The gameplay is good tho, a shame he wanted to use a "look how deep is this simple game" and the "killing is bad" when is a fun Shmups and RPG mix.

>>5573737
Best Doom mod by far

>>5573574
Kirby 64 is my personal favorite

>>5575004
japanese commercials are SOUL overload

>>5569914
>Toby Fox
>auteur
uh NOPE

>>5570471
Gotta love 3D menus.

>>5575074
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaVnj2g15c0

How does one effectively determine if a game has "soul" or not?

>>5575097
you should be able to tell but some games even spelled it for you

>>5575097
You have to have a soul, yourself, to understand

But Asians are soulless insect-like people, so how can they make games with soul...?

>>5569639
>Boomer here,
I'm assuming this is bait, well done then. I have no idea why anyone would actually feel the need to announce this since nobody fucking cares what generation you're from. You either have a shit opinion or you don't.

>>5575108
You'd have to prove scientifically if the soul exists and it's not just a metaphorical thing. Right?

ape escape had so much fucking soule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=ePqWzycU5MY
just listening to this song reminds me of the huge dopamine kick i used to get as a kid playing with RC car gadget
god this was so god i wanna have that feeling again

>>5575126
It seems something happened after WWII, and Japan kept all the souls. Probably something to do with dimensional portals opening up with the nuclear bombs.

>>5569914
>>5570865
this.
cuphead is another great example of SOUL

>>5569572
The greatest role playing game to ever grace the N64. Had tons of SOUL, but people will claim it's Ogreratted.

>>5575097
If you can't tell, then I feel bad for you son

>>5575097
I like how JonTron helped expose retarded perverts like Destiny and ProJared, but you're a faggot if you think he's anything more than reddit-tier

>>5575230
Get real friends.

>>5575264
Literally the purest soul in this entire thread.
Nothing feels better than talking shit in the lobby and in Pioneer 2.

>>5575264
Based and soulful.

>>5575430
This. Even most retarded vidya haters, hipsters and old people with no clue of video games whatsoever somehow liked this game. N64 Mario Kart is truly one of the most soulful games out there.

>>5575230
what does destiny have to do with this projared shit?

>>5575430

>>5575881

>>5573571
It wasnt just a concept, it was Sonic Adventure for the Saturn using the Nights engine that they left in Jam, so their work wouldnt go to waste.

>>5573634
Sonic Jam was released in 97 and SA1 in 98 in japan, which means that SA1 had less than one year of development. This explains why SA didnt looked that great, because some Dreamcast launch games looked much better and detailed. It also explains many of the problems, like the glitchies that started with the original japanese version, and how some things werent removed like Sonic's Jam model in the Tornado scene.

highly recommend

>>5576192
What game?

>>5576197
Steamgear Mash for the Saturn.

9/10 game, just wish the relationship quests had more to their conclusions beyond just having the girl showbup at your house or the pool.

>>5569639
They will. As a boomer, you should have enough experience by now to know this.

>>5571670
But that's not Bomberman Hero

>>5576405
great taste, nig

>>5575446
I live in the area my dad grew up in, and his oldest friends still live within a twenty minute radius. As far back as I can remember, these family friends have been in my life. I have a distinct memory of playing MK64 with one of them when I was like 10. We were at Bowser's Castle, he was Mario, and he kept driving into the wall. A guy who never had kids or played many video games just being an old goof

>>5569594

I fucking loved this shit back in the day, even more than the actual games on the collection

>>5575135

Ape Escape is soulful as fuck. You should play the sequels too if you haven't already

>>5576427
My dad's friend took ten minutes to get out of the first room in Halo.

>>5576485
ive played 3 recently and honestly it wasnt nearly as good as the original

for me he's the one

>>5575178
What gaem

>>5576868
Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber!

>>5576638
The first time I played my older cousin's Pokemon Blue, I couldn't figure out how to leave the house

>>5577283
a lot of people claim this, but how could you not go check out the stairs? It's a very visible asset.
Maybe if you're not used to 2D games you'd have a hard time recognizing the tile as a stair, but even if you didn't know it's a stair, commo thing to do was to go and check it, like you'd check the PC or the SNES.

>>5577320
I went down the stairs, I just didnt realize the little grey rectangle was a doormat leading outside

>>5569572

>>5577515
Disgusting

>>5577542
Neck yourself

>>5577515
what's that?

>>5577904
The adventures of faggots on 4chan.

>>5577907
Who hurt you, assblasted Sonyn*gger

warcraft 2, while being less of a game than starcraft
tomba
crow:the city of angels
lucky luke
Croc 1
cave story
milons secret castle
robocop 3

the unholy war
tenchu 1 and 2
diablo 1
sims 1
vigilante 8(funky soul)
alladin and lion king
resident evil vanilla
spyro 1
doom
duster brothers
transport tycoon

king of fighters soul
street fighter soulless

>>5578019
Low-key the best shmups in gaming history.

>>5578038
Not.

>>5578151
Shiny

>>5577515
>>5577553
>>5577542
>>5577907
Someone be a big boy and say what these are from.

>>5578170
Shining the Holy Ark

>>5569572

>>5578032
fatal fury soul
kof soulless

>>5578327
They're the same game fucktard

>>5577907
>>5577542
What's even the point of posts like this?

>>5569782
PS3 emulation is making strides yet the Saturn is still in a void with no escape...

>>5578240
Parodius was such a fucking good franchise. Shame that Konami was Konami and it turned into pachinko fodder then mutated it into Otomedius.

>>5578639
What? Saturn emulation is fine.
You have SSF or Mednafen Saturn. Both quite good.

>>5578038
>>5578019
Based
>>5578080
It really is.

I honestly don't know any game with more soul than this.

>>5575178
>this
Loved it and the atmosphere really grew on me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El3HREdLd2s

the whole Persona 2 (both entries) soundtrack and everything else desu

>>5579326
No.

>>5579514
Agreed, but post the Ps1 soundtrack.
https://youtu.be/A6-OsXZ8V7o

>>5575230
Based and redpilled

>>5575430
Stale and lifeless compared to SMK, felt like it had half the soul that it should have.

>>5580741
Smk sucks. Its not even 3d. Feels like I'm racing on a piece of paper

>>5572464
What game?

>>5580849
Things have gotten so bad here that I'm not sure if this is parody or real

>>5581196
You actually enjoy super mario kart?

i shittet in my toilet just now theres a soul for you hahaha A BIG ONE !!!!!!!

>>5573082
Soul island.
The infomaniac alone has more soul than 95% of games

>>5581267
8/10, not bad

>>5581335
I mean the name not the game

Most games wish they could be even 10% as soulful as Plok.

>>5581337
What?

>>5571708
my man

The Sega Master System is objectively the most soulful console.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eegB8EhUG1k

>>5569572
Warcraft III

Age of Empire 2
you cannot defeat me

>>5573737
>>5569689

Outrun on the PC engine.
Roadkill on the Amiga
World Rally Fever on PC

>>5582610
i like soulful interfaces, thanks

>>5571708
Framerate is not that smooth on the SNES.

>>5582474
>/v/ stopped doing srb2kart servers
Fuck. I loved it during the short time they were up.

>>5573737
which mod

>>5581267

I would be prepared to argue that it's the best one, given that it poses a challenge and actually requires skill

>>5576119

more like kino highway am i rite?

3D games have objectively less soul.
In 2D games you have to draw sprites by hand so soul is mandatory for a good game. With polygons you make it once and have the computer animate it for you and don't really have to add details, soul is optional.

>>5583460
no comment

>>5583196
models are from https://mb.srb2.org/showthread.php?t=42928

>>5582527
What game?

>>5583764
Heretic

>>5582771

>>5583460
can a game have bad soul?

>>5583872
Bubsy 3d

>>5583460
Is this bait? It smells like bait.

>>5583909
He's confusing fidelity with soul. He's an idiot

>>5581187
Thief

Nights

>>5581346
welcome to plok
welcome to
welcome to
welcome to plok

>>5584645
JUST.

FUCK IT.

>>5584728
I'M NEVER GONNA FIND MY FLAG

>>5584368
Nights was probably the most imaginative original game of its time. Even Shigeru Miyamoto said he regretted not thinking of it first. I bought pic related (one just like it, not this pic itself) for about $20 US....in 1998. (I also bought a Sega Saturn arcade racer Steering wheel for US$15; both were purchased at Electronics Boutique...or maybe it was Babbage's at the time?

>>5583820
name? and please stop posting pics without names everyone

>>5585901
If a simple reverse image search gives you the answer you shouldn't be complaining.

>>5569572

>>5570939
>>5570839
>>5570819
>>5570471
>>5570853
Imo PS2 has the best menu of them all, it feels and sounds so mysterious as if you're in another dimension about to be summoned into the game's world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV8_dYz3fMI

>>5585901
Divi Dead

Any game on GoldSource.
Prove me wrong

>>5582587
Never realized it was literaly Desperados location until now. It was in the name, dammit. Feel like a retard.

>>5585996
No, that's the Xbox menu.

>>5582504
What game is this? Im loving the art work.

>>5586195
A-train

Fucking love this game

>>5583460
fake and gay

>>5586201
Thanks!

>>5575129
except this whole garbage website

>>5582580
>>5582582
Game?

>>5569572

>>5587613
Desperados.
It's like Commando but in a western setup.
And it's very well made, missions are interesting and story is Ok.
Also they had the balls to try and make a game like this not knowing how it would sell, so thanks game makers.

>>5587651
Sounds good

>>5569572
Soul is, by definition, subjective, since it refers to a quality that cannot be tangibly seen or measured

>>5569927
>>5571754
>>5572612
>>5575041
Why do you people love taking bait so much?

>>5573625
Every character looked like a tranny drag queen. Fuck that art.

>>5569782
Is this the game where they constantly say SUGOI?

>>5571637
Fucking loved that and the music that played during it

>>5575074
Even back then I thought this menu was weirdly bare and soulless.

>>5569914
it's not a matter of corporate size.
nothing made in the era after normies started using the internet can have soul, because everyone is basically a sexless raceless atheist cyborg now.

>>5578151
How does he move when he is solid metal?

>>5588708
I always felt it was slick as fuck.

>>5588715
Slowly and heavily.

>>5575130
just because it's described by metaphor doesn't mean it doesn't exist

>>5575097
it's less fun if we tell you
you determine it by posting something

>>5582580
>>5582582
>>5582587
>>5582589
Looks fucking amazing

>>5575126
that's a soulless meme with only the pretense of soul by virtue of being taboo in a soulless world
asians have plenty of soul
besides, we're talking about japanese people here. not jungle or steppe asians or "cultural revolution" asians.

>>5582431
>>5582474
i'm feelin it

I wish you complete autists would just say "i really like the aestetic of this game and i think overall it looks visually pleasing".

>>5575097
A game with soul is a game where you can guess a lot of thought and care were put in it. It mainly happen when it's a small team project made for their own pleasure rather than just profit. Doom's development is a good exemple of that.
I'll give you another exemple: I think that a game like Ghost of a Tale have more soul and is more beautiful than any modern AAA game. You may wonder, why is that? What is happening here is that Ghost of a Tale is basically a one man project where everything end up being coherent with the rest. With a big AAA team, you have many different artists working on the same thing, and having to agree with each others with the univers, the feeling, the art it should have. Here, there isn't a single vision, but they are all forced to do it, so they all have to water down their artistic skills. Because of that, modern AAA games end up looking very sterile, without an unique vision, with the lowest common denominator in mind, in other words "soulless".
The guy in his garage working on Ghost of a Tale made what HE wanted, so every piece of it feel really crafted, coherent with the rest, detailled, in other words, with a soul.

tl;dr: a game with soul is a game with an actual artistic direction.

>>5588747
>thinks the terminology used isn't accurate or precise enough
>says they are the autists
Anon...

>>5570915

>>5583478
>>5583909
You're able to correctly assess that this is bait but none of you would bat an eye if the exact same post was used for a new game.

>>5588749
labor of love is the term

>>5584890
>Nights was probably the most imaginative original game of its time.
Sell me on Nights since I've never played it. What's so amazing about it? Every bit of gameplay I've ever seen of it looks like side-on flying through rings simulator.

>>5588817
Nights looked phenomenal in 1996-1997. Kids would line up to play the demo kiosk in the stores like nothing else. I feel like it's something you can only really appreciate through nostalgia or historical curiosity though.

>>5588848
This may actually be true, having lived in that era. I remember kids playing Nights at the Sega Saturn Kiosks wouldn't really know how to play it and end up getting caught by the alarm clock egg, nearly every single time.

>>5588817
It's something you probably just have to play for yourself. Once you get the control down it's fast paced and plays smooth as butter (the original Saturn on the 3D control pad, not the remastered release for the current-gen consoles, I have the thing on my Xbox one and 360 and compared to the original it's...kinda...like a car with a pushing understeer handling problem) .

>>5582594
Which game? I remember "The Lost World" had a Jeff Goldblum video that was similar to this if you reached 100% completion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GXulilGUqA

>>5576809
Let me help you

>>5575264
game?

>>5581202

Based and comfy pilled

My grandparents got me this game for Christmas one year. We did Christmas at my grandparents the weekend before actual Christmas that year so it was the first Christmas game I got. I brought my SNES to my grandparents with no games so this was all I had to play for three days. When I initially got the present I was a tad disappointed (not so much so as I loved games so literally any game was welcome) because I thought it was a bit gay (was 8 years old) but ended up loving it. Probably played a good 15 hours over three days at my grandparents. Now those memories are some of the most nostalgic I have.

>>5591060

>>5588749
Sumarizing:
>Old Good
>New Bad

But i also think most of the forgetable AAA GOTYs of the week are boring, generic and dull looking aniway.

>>5590373
Outcast

>>5591110
not at all what was said.

Ristar the Shooting Star

>>5587634
Not retro, but 10/10 soul.

>>5591380
More like fugly indie pixel "art"

>>5591380
2011 was 10 years ago
10 year old games are retro

>>5587634
Fucking disgusting indie minecraftcore rhino shit.

>>5591449
better than meinkraft in every way

>>5591445
Dreamcast is the cutoff here, nigga.

>>5591587
that's a stupid, arbitrary rule
Gamecube, Xbox and PS1 should be the cutoff

>>5593046
It’s /vr/, not /v/.

>>5570839
Oh yeah! Memories of playing the Men in Black soundtrack on this.