/vr/ - Retro Games

no it doesnt. why should it?

>>5943581
More like SotNiggers seethe whenever someone dislikes their shitty game.

>>5943612
This.

>>5943612
This.

>>5943581
Eh, not as much as Shit Life, or Super Fagtroid.

>>5943612
>>5943618
>>5943621
>>5943624
seething

>>5943627
Cope, low iq casual.

>>5943627
Shut up plebian, I'm playing Catlevania: Harmony of Dissonance for the GameBoy Advanced.

>>5943639
dilate larper.

>>5943581
Low quality B8. Learn your audience before attempting to B8 again.

Great thread everybody.

>>5943612
Based & truthpilled

>>5943646
Not retro

>>5943693
>Not retro

>>5943707
>Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance is a platform-adventure video game developed and published by Konami for the Game Boy Advance. Belonging to Konami's Castlevania video game series, it is the second installment of the series on the Game Boy Advance. It was released in Japan in June 2002, in North America in September 2002, and in Europe in October 2002.

>>5943726
>6th gen home = 6th gen portable
>hurr look release date, not retro durr

>>5943661
That's what you can expect from /v/ sotniggers.

>>5943737
dilate

>>5943726
>GBA is not retro
so this is the sotnigger brain on cope

>>5943738
dilate.

>>5943746
still not retro zoomer

>>5943748
meant to>>5943743

>>5943748
>game that is identical in mechanics and specs to a 5-10 year old game is not retro because muh reliiz deitz
We're reaching levels of cope never seen before

>>5943581
Excellent discussion of video games everyone. Truly you are unparalleled in wit and in your trenchant observations on videogames, here on boards.4channel.org/vr/

>>5943581
>>>/v/481327634

Someone explain this.

>>5943735
>>1392415

>>5943778
That sticky is coming up to its literal sixth birthday, it's old enough to go to school.

>>5943778
>Xbox, PS2, GameCube
>GameBoy Advance
The Cope is unreal
>>5943784
6th gen's not going to be retro until the mid 20s/early 30s

>>5943774
it's called bait, and it's art

>>5943804
Play some PS2 games then play some PS3 games of the same genre or even series, look me in the eye, and tell me there isn't a colossal difference between them.

>>5944069
There is a colossal difference, true, but playing a PSX game after that comparison will be a whole new world. The differences between 5th and 6th and 6th and 7th gens are way too big. For that reason 6th gen isn't retro yet.

>>5944076
Not an argument.

>>5943612
This. The game wasn't ugly by any means, it had good visuals and music / sfx, and a fun story. But the non-linear level design and item hunting in SOTN causes the same issues in it that Castlevania II had. It makes the experience not as tight and satisfying as the linear games. On top of this, SOTN is bloated and lacks polish. It's mediocre compared to Castlevania or Super Castlevania IV.

>>5944127
Neither is your post.

SotN kicks ass.

>>5943867
Its obviously bait, but these are the same boring replies you could find in literally any other bait thread. It's not even a good SotN bait thread, you could replace the game you used with anything, and neither the OP nor the replies you got would have been different.

In conclusion, this bait post was SOULLESS

>>5944076
There is a colossal difference, true, but playing a SNES game after that comparison will be a whole new world. The differences between 3rd and 4th and 4th and 5th gens are way too big. For that reason 5th gen isn't retro yet.

People need to realize that when SOTN came out there were people who were fully on the 3D train and had no interest in going back to 2D. Yes they missed out on some good games but plenty of people had that mentality.

>>5944224
Ok mate. You got me

Thanks for proving my point.

>>5944264
>people who were fully on the 3D train and had no interest in going back to 2D
By this you mean Sony pushed it to the point where they refused to help fund 2D games.

>>5943581
Can we talk about how, while the Saturn version sucks in most respects, the Maria boss fight was absolutely kino (especially compared to the butchered PSP/PS4 version of it)?
Saturn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUZDckgtQxc
PSP/PS4 lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmXU4s_s5vQ

>>5943581

>It's a Castlevania game that's actually playable for more than 5 minutes! Reeeeeeee!

>>5943581
only the retard part that floods in from /v/. fuck /v/.

>>5945492
all I want in life is somebody modding the saturn version content into PS1 and PSP version.
I want that rainbow cloak dammit.

>>5944151
I think SOTN's levels are more interesting to navigate than Simon's Quest, where its difficulty really just comes from not getting good direction on where to go. I'll certainly agree that the combat isn't as satisfying or intense as in Classicvanias, but I don't think the Metroidvanias are as misguided as SQ feels.

Aria is better

lament of innocence>curse of darkness>castlevania 2>>>>>>>>sutn

>>5943581
"This engraving says 'Made in China' ... what the hell?"

>>5945492
The Maria boss fight was a complete fluke. In the developer notes on the Saturn version's disc, designer Yoshinori Suzuki takes about how they had access to a full set of evil-looking Maria graphics that were never implemented in the PlayStation version (which he dubbed Black Maria). This is tied to an unused ending whose voice clips still exist unused in the PlayStation version, where Maria would have tried to save Richter herself but would then be possessed by Shaft, making her an alternate bad-route final boss (it's unknown if they considered the bestiary). The Saturn fight is a reconstruction based on these assets, with Maria's sprites edited to look like her normal NPC self. That's also why the new playable Maria plays so differently from her Rondo counterpart. Later, when producer Koji Igarashi was working on The Dracula X Chronicles, he became aware of the demand for some of the Saturn-exclusive content. He disowned the Saturn version but decided to put the Maria voicework to good use by including the fight scenario from the Saturn version and adding her as a playable character. This time, he was able to start fresh and make sure that Maria played more like she should (since Saturn Maria stems from the unused "Black Maria"), but in the process, the fight itself suffered since she was never intended to be battled. So both the Saturn and PSP developers missed the point in their own way.

Her Saturn boss fight music, GUARDIAN, is still undeniably awesome though.

>>5944264
People also forget that Castlevania was known for being balls-hard across the board up to that point and SotN's emphasis on experimentation in a more lenient and wide-open setting was a very welcome change, even to long-time fans of the series.

>>5945781
Most Castlevania games are almost an hour long, thats pretty much as long as a video game needs to be, and they avoid padding unlike SoTN which has an insane amount of filler

>>5945492
Why did they completely redo playable Maria's sprites in Dracula X Chronicles / Requiem? Say what you will about Konami Nagoya, but at least they made an effort to blend the new sprites in with the non-playable sprites for cohesion. Here Maria has inexplicably different proportions for one moment and has flowing hair in her idle animation like some fucking magical girl. At least replace the existing sprites entirely if you're going to do that.

>>5948331
Guardian is the best thing to come out of the Saturn version (though the other remixed music isn't bad but has mostly been outdone by now), shame IGA's PDST from the Saturn version prevents it from being Maria's official theme.

>>5948492
Oh no, not the flowing hair. Completely ruined the SOUL.

>>5949518
It's got nothing to do with soul, dummy, it's a consistency issue. She has her PlayStation NPC sprites every other time we see her in the PSP/PS4 version, which the Saturn version, for all its faults, blended seamlessly by making it the same spriteset. Also, look carefully - the playable/fightable version is just a set of new poses, but also a plain different design (note her palette, chest, hips, etc). It also kind of ruins the surprise that you're about to fight her if you've previously played the original. As it stands, PSP Maria stands out like a sore thumb visually and feels very "patched in", which they could have fixed if they got rid of her original NPC sprites and used the new sprites everywhere instead. Now, someone who cared about the intangible thing known as SOUL wouldn't suggest replacing the old sprites, would they?

>>5944151
Super Castlevania IV is overrated.