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I'm fairly experienced in retro gaming but only being 23 i feel as though I'm still missing a lot. What classic video games would you recommend above all else as your personal favorites. Bitch.

>> No.6090946
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6090946

Just use Google.
Play the ones you think you'll like.
Don't force yourself to play games you don't like just for the "muh retro games" feel.
Btw you did not mentioned any system.

>> No.6090953

>>6090946
I got all the systems so any work for me. But sure I'll do that. Just online recommendations always got the maro 64 and idk whatever and I've already played through that shit like a billion times so fuck dude. Personal favorites are something I'm looking for. lmk

>> No.6090972

Abes Oddysee
A legitimate masterpiece of art, animation and gameplay
>>6090946
Also this, possibly the only non-retarded frogpost

>> No.6091069

For Dreamcast essentials

>Gauntlet Legends
The best """retro""" Gauntlet game and one of the best top-down ARPGs (although very lite on the RPG elements) ever created.
>Toy Commander
A unique vehicle-based sandbox collectathon.
>Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future
Beautiful ocean exploration game.
>Shenmue
Easily the most daring foray into the life simulator genre retro gaming has to offer; essential for understanding the foundation later games like Grand Theft Auto III were building off of.
>Capcom vs. SNK 2
A flawed but highly mechanically intriguing fighting game that has yet to be surpassed even by modern gaming in terms of the freedom given to players to concoct their own playstyle and essentially play their own game.
>Street Fighter III: Third Strike
Acclaimed by hardcore fighting gamers, essential if for no other reason other than a hard lesson in character balancing and tech skill & execution.
>Sonic Adventure 2
Claimed by many to be the best mainline Sonic game ever created, it represents a pinnacle of independent Sega's gameplay design and storytelling. The 3D platforming physics are so fluid, and have yet to be matched by scores of games that have come after it.
>Ikaruga
One of the more forgiving and modern of retro shoot 'em ups, is essential for newcomers to the genre as a test of whether or not they are capable of appreciating the rest of the titles it has to offer. If you don't like Ikaruga, you probably won't like any bullet hells.
>Spawn: In the Demon's Hand
Perhaps the most competent entry in the 3D arena-based beat 'em up, either of retro gaming or all time. A genre that virtually died out by the 7th generation of gaming, this comparatively excellent title is perfect as a more mature alternative to Power Stone to cut your teeth on this style of gameplay.

cont.

>> No.6091096

>>6091069

>MDK 2
Another entry in a genre that went virtually extinct shortly after the close of 6th generation: the goofy level based shooter. Since then, many 3rd person shooters have tried to keep their settings grounded and realistic, ashamed to include sillier and more light-hearted as well as inane elements to the aesthetic and gameplay. Not so with MDK 2, with such hilarious staples as a toaster wielding mad scientist wearing yellow rubber gloves, a 4 armed hindleg-walking dog toting guns in each paw, and a alien man with glidable bat wings.
>Seaman
A virtual pet simulator featuring a sentient, sapient aquatic lifeform voiced by Leonard Nemoy who queries and counsels the player on life's decisions, directions, and predilections.
>Hydro Thunder
A staple of budget arcades, this racing game with motorboats stands in the space between the more measured pace of simulation racing and the balls to the wall devil-may-care rush of futuristic racing titles like F-Zero GX. Given that the latter are too few in number, in general as well as in the retro-space, this tamer approach to the genre is the next best thing, and few titles are truer to the spirit than this one.
>Sega [X] Fishing
A paragon of the simulation paradigm, these games demonstrate the limits real life can be pushed toward as virtual entertainment, which conclusions might today seem to us to be mundane, but back then were ridiculously novel when the landscape was dominated by games based on racing, fighting, and shooting. Even today, the experimental pioneering spirit of simulation gaming for activities that aren't normally too exciting has been largely lost, and when it does crop up on the rare occasion in a Death Stranding, comes out feeling woefully inadequate for a *game*. Not so with the Sega Fishing titles.

cont.

>> No.6091113

>>6091096
>>6091069
Fuck off /shmupg/

>> No.6091126

>>6091096
I neglected explain why Seaman is truly remarkable. All of your interaction with the game's meat comes from usage of your voice's words. You talk with the eponymous Seaman & it recognizes what you say---a feature / mechanic that has woefully naught been utilized by basically any game of any sort since its release.

>Sonic Shuffle
An unfairly maligned & forgotten Sonic spinoff, it too represents the height of a genre that has shriveled and withered away, associated with mountains of normalfag shovelware and the soulless degeneration of the Mario Party series. It is a multiplayer minigame collection with the presentation of a tabletop boardgame. The competitive aspects are well integrated as the core mechanics and minigames make extremely minimal reliance upon RNG---progression in the overworld is strategic, while getting ahead in the minigames is largely skill-based, with a healthy helping of strategy. For all intents & purposes, this is a notable study in how to design both a video tabletop game as well as minigame collection; but again, what little reputation Sonic Shuffle has held onto over the fleeting decades has been overwhelmingly negative, with the unfortunate result of dozens of games put out since doomed to repeat a history that had been put to rest, inadvertently slaughtering a fun genre with massive but now totally wasted potential.
>Phantasy Star Online
A beloved 3D action RPG that's just a solid title all around. The aesthetic is breathtaking, the storytelling refreshing & unobtrusive, the gameplay surprisingly solid & addictive, the progression satisfying enough for what it is. A deceptively simple title both on the surface and even when familiarized with it, it is a curiosity of game design that compels one to wonder how it can remain ahead (in so many gamers' hearts) of so many followers that are just blatantly superior to it on paper. One way or another, it will radically change your perspective on gaming, even without multiplayer.

cont.

>> No.6091139

>>6091126
Actually, I think that's about it. There are other titles many other posters may claim to be essential that I have neglected, but I'm personally not particularly enthusiastic about their recognition one way or the other. I don't consider myself to be an expert on Dreamcast or retro gaming at all, however, so if anyone else cares to offer games themselves to look towards yet can put forward compelling reasons as to why they deserve attention, I will be interested to hear them.

But as far as I can see, from my own perspective, these are a majority of the standouts I've gathered here.

>> No.6091202

>>6090946
I know you're shitposting but god damn it I agree with everything you said.

>> No.6091269

I'm a big fan of the NES. I like it more than the SNES except when it comes to JRPGs and racing games, but I mostly just really love platformers.

Super Mario Bros 1-3, Megaman 1-6, Contra/Super C, Castlevania 1 & 3, Ninja Gaiden 1-3, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shatterhand, Power Blade, Duck Tales, Little Samson, Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers, Ghosts 'N Goblins, Street Fighter 2010, Vice: Project Doom, Wizards & Warriors, Kid Icarus, Shadow of the Ninja, Blaster Master, Metal Storm, Gimmick!, Monster in my Pocket, Batman/Return of the Joker, Bubble Bobble, Adventure Island, Little Nemo...

I fucking love 2D platformers

>> No.6091280

>>6090928

So I assume you are looking for some less obvious sugestions aside from the standard ones you always find on those best-of lists like Crash, MGS, Castlevania, Banjo-Kazooie, Mario64, OOT, MM...

PS1:
>Forsaken
Like Descent but better. 6-degrees-of-movement has always been amazing, there's nothing like closing in on an enemy from behind upside down on the ceiling and then laserblasting their ass. Great fun. The PS version is the best imho, but I think that is more because the controller fits the game's movement perfectly, other than the N64 one,, so I guess you could also play the PC version with a controller.

> Akuji the Heartless
SEVERELY underrated platformer. Mechanics-wise it is a platformer, nothing more, nothing less, some light physics problems here and there, jumping from (often floating) platform to platform, fighting some enemies etc. But the thing it has is ATMOSPHERE, the atmo, oh my god. Set in the afterlife/hell what else could you expect? A big part in this plays the music, it starts slow and then with progress over the levels slowly builds up with more and more layers which is really cool.

N64:

>Wetrix
If you like puzzlers try this one out. You build walls to create lakes, take care that no water is leaking out from a gap on your field! Quite unique mechanic, great fun.

Speaking of puzzlers,
>Tetrisphere
Despite the name has liitle to do with Tetris aside the pieces looking like the tetrominos, but amazingly fun in short bursts. Rotate the sphere and shoot pieces at equal ones so when they connect the disappear in 3 dimensions, create holes and reach the center or destroy towers by creating holes surrounding them while getting pumped by the amazing Electro/Techno soundtrack.

>Space Station Silicon Valley
A rather unique game where you have to fulfill the level's goal by switchg between robotic animals. Strange but great, good sense of humor.

>> No.6091614

>>6090928
>Bitch
Puyo Puyos
Star Ocean 2, as Rena
Diablo 1 and 2 as wamen classes.
MOM
Eroges where you play as a wamen.
Civ games.

>> No.6092146

>>6090928
https://vsrecommendedgames.fandom.com/wiki/V/'s_Recommended_Games_Wiki

Knock yourself out. If you mention a game you've enjoyed I can be more specific.