/vr/ - Retro Games

No, but it is one of the most overrated games ever made

>>6058046
/thread

>>6058046
Not even close, that's exclusively a fight between MGS and FFVII

>>6058038
It's the most kino Contra game at least. No gimmick stages, some pretty awesome bosses, great gameplay with a Thunder Force-style weapon system and four distinct characters and a fantastic soundtrack.

Yes because it's more focused on presentation than good gameplay. If you're too busy focusing on big pretty boss sprites you won't notice how garbage the stages are or how quickly the boss fights get boring

>>6058197
Oh look, it's the Hard Corps hating autist again. Your opinions are still worthless btw.

>>6058179
Tis tbqh.

>>6058217
*This

>>6058201
Did you 1CC Hard Corps and other Contra games? Just curious.

>>6058038
gunstar heroes > contra > contra super c > contra hard corps > contra 3

cope

>>6058038
It has a high Fun Factor

>>6058046
>>6058047
>Cancerous Nint0ddlers
This is why I don't browse /vr/ anymore.

Remember to either play the JP version, or hack the ROM to restore the life system.

>>6058038
As someone who hates that genre, I like HC far more than 3.

>>6058038
No but Alien Wars is.

>>6058308
You mean gimp the game that wasn't made for a life meter in the first place.

The game was originally made with one-hit kills just like every other Contra. Japan couldn't handle the game and added a life meter when their version came out a month after America's.

>>6058374
Just like every other Contra, except those other Contra games you played with 15 lives.
Life meter was a mechanism made to satisfy the players, one-hit kill was a mechanism made to satisfy kike retail companies that didn't want kids playing the whole game in one weekend.

>>6058387
>Using 30 life codes
Wuss.

>>6058387
>Just like every other Contra, except those other Contra games you played with 15 lives.
haha ouch, stop posting

>>6058224
you went to that pretty quick. at least least when cee/whoever dickwaves about belt-em-ups you could bet that almost nobody had actually 1cc'd final fight or SoR2 on Mania, contra's only normalfag hard, not stupid-hard.

>>6058394
The reason I "went to that" is because the guy's dismissing my substantiated opinion as worthless while probably not even having done basic shit like 1CC'd these games. The fact that he stopped responding and you had to chime in says it all desu.

>>6058387
>Life meter was a mechanism made to satisfy the players
To satisfy impatient shitters who can't be bothered learning basic as fuck boss patterns and want a free win yea

>>6058224
Yeah, I've 1cc'd a couple of the routes in HC, what's your point? HC is still one of, if not the best Contra and your complaints are dumb as shit. Boss fights are not boring, they're the best out of any retro Contra game. And the stages range from decent to good. Fuck off with your retard opinions already, nobody wants to read them everytime there's a Contra thread.

>>6058403
>The fact that he stopped responding and you had to chime in says it all desu.
Some of us have a life outside of /vr/ m8

>>6058456
>Boss fights are not boring, they're the best out of any retro Contra game.
That's not saying much, which is why other Contra games had longer stages. HC's boss gameplay is just standing and shooting, dodging one attack, and then continuing to stand in place and shoot. Snoozefest.
>And the stages range from decent to good.
There's no way you're serious. They're 10-30 second long (often literal) flat planes with 1 enemy type, worthless filler. Game's still got a long autoscroller in all the routes despite this to make it extra shitty!
>Fuck off with your retard opinions already, nobody wants to read them everytime there's a Contra thread.
Awww you poor thing, having to read opinions you don't like. Tough luck though, I'll continue posting well substantiated criticisms of the game when I feel like it.

Obsessed.
Schizos should be shot.

>>6058406

> every game should be 1 hit and its game over, no saving, no continue.

LEARN THE GAME MAN! DON'T BE IMPATIENT

>>6058308
>remember to play the pussified version

"no"

>>6058627

>>6058631
this. fuck anyone that plays hard cops with the health bar bullshit

>>6058308
Jap version is much easier, yeah

>>6058572
What are you mumbling about in yourself?

>>6058387
>one-hit kill was a mechanism made to satisfy kike retail companies
No, good games had difficulty curves designed around their health mechanics. Contra functions like a Gradius game: with upgrades you get incredibly strong--so much so that you can quickly kill bosses, while most enemies die in one hit--and yet there's always great suspense because taking just one hit will end your streak. It's a great way to have overpowered characters without losing any suspense--the thing that made Gradius and Contra so empowering yet exhilarating to play.

>>6058038
Yes, but the best one is neo contra, it is not /vr/ material though.

>>6058179
Also branching paths and no slowdown. It's only now that some guy has created a SA1 patch for Contra III so that you can play the SNEZzz version at full speed.

>>6058038
Me on right.

>>6058038
awesome game, I did all endings.

6058540
stay mad

It's called Hardcorps for a reason.

>>6058627
So Rocket Knight Adventures on its hardest setting.

>>6058898
Shattered Soldier > Neo

>>6058046
Cringe.

>>6058038
Is there any particular reason to play the U.S. release over the Japanese version?

>>6058995
Based

>>6059841
Jingoism

>>6059841
Shitplayers prefer the Jap version because you can take 3 hits for every life. The game already gives you enough lives (not as much as Alien Wars, but still) that the health bar is just unnecessary.

>>6058059
LttP beats them both in that regard.

>>6060054
LttP and LA are the best zeldas.

>>6060058
No, that's Adventures of Link

>>6059236
>STOP POSTING YOUR OPINION IT'S TRIGGERING ME
>No
>S-STAY MAD...
Wonderful cope

Kino - this - mad - triggerd - cringe - cope - seethe - based - schizo.... another wonderful /vr/ discussion that shows the enormous depths of anons character.

>>6060054
Poor effort.

>>6059841
Because the director of the game has flat out said the US version is the actual game and the jap version is because Japanese players were in an RPG mood at the time and couldn't handle it.

>>6061686
>but RPG's didn't kill arcade and arcade-style games, they said...

>>6058308
It's interesting to me that it's one of the few games where the US release was significantly harder.

>>6061586
It's hard to believe that this board used to be the best of the /v/s in terms of discussion.

>>6061827
The shitposters could only be held off for so long. You might not believe that when /asp/ was originally created, everything was discussed on there from paintball, to crossfit to ultimate frisbee for fucks sake. Now it's just a place for a big pack or retards to circle-jerk about their new favorite fake fighter.

>>6058271
this is the best you come up with because you disagree? just go back to /v/ no one cares.

>>6061686
Source?

Bump

>>6061686
Gonna need a source, I've actually seen this interview before myself but can't find it again

>>6061586
>>6061827
I still vouch for the destruction of /vr/, it's had its run and now it's only gonna be downhill from here.

>>6058631
>play the US version with rewind and savestates
WOW SO HARDCOAL

>>6063256
Just allow gen 6, that'd destroy it pretty quick.

more like Hard Kino

>>6058046
fpbp, welcome to /vr/eddit

>Designs made by Yasuomi Umetsu (Kite/Mezzo Forte)
>Multiple characters
>Killing soundtrack
>Multiple paths/endings
>Castlevania Easter Egg
>Big ass bosses

Best Contra, hands down