/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6058724
It's a shame that one is abject shit

>>6058724
>new age
>deco
>lynchian
>avant garde

in video games language. all that means kitsch.

Was this a SNES game? I think I played the beginning of this in a collection.

Dreams to Reality, on Playstation

>>6058826
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TB54dZkzZOY

>>6058724
Ecco the Dolphin

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>>6058724
I don't get the love for SoTB, awful game.

>>6058724
I don't know about new age but SotB was total ass

>>6058724
Why is this thread posted every few months?

For all our new friends here: this is Shadow of the Beast on Amiga and IMO Ecco the Dolphin and Kolibri (on 32X) have a pretty similar aesthetic.

>>6058724

>>6058724
Captain Blood
Ork
Weird Dreams
LSD: Dream Simulator

Gaball Screen for the PS1
Lawnmower Man for the SNES/MD

>>6059134
Because the New Age aesthetic is kino.

>>6058724
I'm not an art person but the screenshot just reminds me of Mr. Bones.

>>6059037
>>6058936
>>6058728
Seething Yanks. We was playin this in 1989 while you were "impressed" with 8 bits.

Shadow of the Beast's aesthetic is all about dying or dead things, lonesome, hostile wilderness, and grotesque monsters. How is that even close to being a New Age style?

>>6059135
This. I had the Windows versions of both Croc games when I was a kid. I preferred the second one, and it really is far better gameplay-wise, but the aesthetic is generally worse. The first one has this weird ethereal vibe to it.

>>6059269
It was a shit game, anon. There's nothing here to seeth over.

>>6058724
What defines the New Age aesthetic?

OP just needs to jump feet first into the Amiga library

>>6059142
Captain Blood is more cyberpunk than new age. New age emphasizes natural utopianism. Think verdant, green fields and forests, stunning vistas, crystals, and lots of sunshine.

>>6058936
There is no love, just memes. The game is unadulterated trash.

>>6059472

Yeah there we go, "utopianism". Shadow of the Beast is more dystopian. I mean it has a great style! It's just not at all a New Age style I think. It's not primarily about glorifying nature or about spiritual oneness; it's more about wistfully escaping into a world that is free of people and burstingly rich with possibilities for asocial exploration. The "stunning vistas" part certainly matches, but in this kind of setting, the appeal of those isn't that they represent natural harmony or whatever; it's that they might be full of awesome alien stuff. This is a socially awkward nerd's fantasy world, not a reiki healer's sales tool. We want kickass adventure, but without any scary strangers around.

Horrible monsters need to be there though, because they aren't scary; they're just cool and interesting. Cities are okay, but they need to be ancient and ruined. Civilized people are okay as long as they're very rare, very strange, and very mechanically simple to interact with. Suggestions of high-tech civilization are good but they need to be far-off, either in time or in space (such as relics from an ancient, pre-Collapse culture or a giant blimp in the clouds that you know you'll never get close to). All that crazy alien landscape to explore with nothing around that might make you uncomfortable - it's candy to an imaginative, awkward kid.

>>6059269
People were impressed by arcade games, anyway.
You just missed on good gameplay and good game design, anon.

Oh and anyway, after writing all that stuff I can say that I don't recall getting that feeling from any game EXCEPT Shadow of the Beast (and its sequel - not the third one though because I never happened to play that). Ecco is only faintly similar.

>>6059269
lol, even back in the day it was disappointing.

I always thought Phantasy Star 4 had a good New Age aesthetic, especially once you reach the hidden continent

Dragon Ball Z: Super Butoden 3

>>6059563
You just described my high school years, dude. I had no clue this was a thing. I think Spyro's skyboxes have a new age look to them.

>>6059472
>>6059563
Ah, I see. Ork is the only one from my list with something similar then:
https://youtu.be/ulkk4HyYTJs

I think Agony may fill the bill as well:
https://youtu.be/WYxIJxqrv6U

>>6058724
NiGHTS into Dreams?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFxH6-g8FGQ

>>6058724
Gex Deep Cover Gecko just looks and sounds surreal and dream-like

>>6059639
spyro sure is comfy.

The Dig. Pretty graphics but really slow and boring, just like Shadow of the Beast.

>>6059765
Judging from the screenshots I've found, it looks more like Banjo-Kazooie than any of the other games posted here.

>>6058728
I remember seeing it in gaming magazines when it was new being wowed by it, and in my imagination it played as good as it looked.

A while later I heard from people that it looked pretty but played like absolute shit.
Me: oh so it's like another Rastan?
Them: <sad look>

A lot of Cryo adventure games have this New Age feel.

>>6061281
Lost Eden in particular comes to mind.

The Super Scope 6 games.

I FEEL JOYFUL NOW
I LOVE BEING ALIVE
I CAN DO ANYTHING

https://youtu.be/4IEFC_Y3nrA

>>6061649
This shit is so New Age that it has subliminal messages inside of it that say things like "I am at peace," "I love the world and the world loves me," "You create joyous thought," and "In my own way I am a genius."

>>6059269
>OI M8 THE ZED-ECKS-SPECCY!
yeah, no. post discarded. have fun on your 50hz tv though palfag!

>>6061879
>have fun on your 50hz tv
Enjoy having to buy a PVM from a scalper in order to get RGB.

>>6061939
3 pvms on deck all from my local news station, no charge, stay mad palfag.

>>6061982
How does me being in a PAL country affect me though? Every single television set I've tested that was from the mid 80s or later support 60hz anyway. Japanese versions of the consoles are cheaper with shipping than both US and PAL versions are in their specific regions.

>>6062003
wow, must be a slow day in your life if you're on /vr/ trying to say 50hz wasnt the standard for palfags even into the late 90s.

>>6062012
Can you explain how exactly that affects me today? It's just a historical curiosity.

>>6062014
Can you explain how exactly you intend to have a conversation by doing nothing but holding a strawman's arguement?

>>6062014
its ok, i'll give you time to google what that means, since your slower and all given the 50hz

>>6062030
Care to explain how exactly the fact that 50hz was the standard in several countries affects me today even though every single CRT I've tested supports 60hz anyway?

>>6062031
answer my question and i'll answer your's palfag.

>>6062036
You haven't asked me a single question.

>>6062039
ah yes, the palfag finally shows his true colors and feigns ignorance, well it was fun. come back next time when you wanna be wrong!

>>6062045
The butthurt Amerimutt shows his true colours. Various shades of brown, that is.

>>6062054
Get it? Because Americans are brown, and thats bad! We are all white supremacists! DAE like being super edgy here on 4channel.org?

>>6062061
The brown might also come from the stains of fecal matter on their clothes.

>>6062054
>gets offended by the word palfag and the fact that he plays in 50hz, which is accurate and on topic
>resorts to insulting someones nationality
this is why you're a joke to the rest of the world. enjoy the stabbings and acid attacks m8!

>>6059639

Oh well I was saying that "New Age" was some OTHER thing from what I was talking about there, meaning the feeling I get from the style of Shadow of the Beast is not New Age. I don't know what the proper name for the Shadow of the Beast style is though.

I don't know, there are lots of feelings and styles. I'm not a popular arts historian. But yeah that sky and mountain (in the Spyro shot) evoke some of that expansive, lonesome, alien feeling. It looks like stuff is far away, and pretty, and at least faintly unearthly. And like there's probably a lot of it.

I used to get that kind of feeling from the novel Ringworld too. Or potentially any story featuring settings in which there are numerous doors to other worlds... Special Deliverance by Clifford Simak, the Castle Perilous series by John DeChancie (though those were partly comedic), probably The High House by James Stoddard if it had existed then, potentially Planescape: Torment but not really because you hardly get to actually GO into any of the doors in that game... that kind of stuff is exploration porn to me.

>>6059675

Aw yeah that'll do it. Haha look how distinctive that style is, it's got to have a name.

I mean I have no idea whether OP actually meant to specify just this one specific style, or what. I'm not even gonna read all the thread at this point because it got bickery apparently. I just like babbling about my own tastes.

>>6062114
I think you will like Roger Dean's fantasy art. Many games published by Psygnosis (SotB, Ork, Agony, etc.) are inspired by his paintings of strange and lonely landscapes. He even used to do graphic design works for them.

>>6058724
idk what you mean with new age but that pic reminds me of Entity (1993)

I know this may be a stretch, but Extase feels New Age to me because it's about building and exploring a mysterious consciousness, and everything you do creates music that reacts to your actions and deepens the more the Al's consciousness grows.

I've always wanted to play it, but I haven't gotten around to setting up an Amiga emulator to try it.

>>6058724
>calling roger deans art "new age"
oh you literal piece of shit

>>6062450
Roger Dean was a huge inspiration for Shadow of the Beast. In fact, he designed a lot of covers for Psygnosis' games, and even their logo.

The game (like many from that era) was probably inspired too by 70s and 80s surreal and fantastic sci-art. Browse through this tumblr and you'll see plenty of examples:
https://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/

>>6063685
But that unironically is New Age style. The colors, the setting, the music, all of it.

>>6061287
I was thinking of that too. Great soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLjKjNp5N_Q

Never played it, but I've seen this one suggested before.

>>6065451
That pic just has to be Hiroshi Nagai

>>6058724
>New Age
The humming bird game from superior SEGA 32X!
https://youtu.be/4T1-dbHkLP8

yeah ill give you some new age aesthetic

this isnt retro but its close to being as such and its pretty new age

same with this one

The underwater and chess areas of SMT Soul Hackers come to mind.

>>6058724
Czech Eurofag here, this game was ass.

>>6066145
>>6066147
>>6066150
>Aquanaut's Holiday
>New Age aesthetic
More like subtle existential horror atmosphere. Jesus Christ.
I still remember finding that beast in the corner of the map.

>>6062030
...jej