/vr/ - Retro Games

great porn resource

Good source of retro reviews.

>>608816
Great site. Shitty forums. Great IRC room

Some of the articles are informative, in the sense that they really do contain the entire history of a series.

But some of the writing is just god-awful: opinionated tirades that don't actually tell you a damn thing about the topic at hand.

I'll get around to claiming that Shiren bounty one day, but.

>>608846
>But some of the writing is just god-awful: opinionated tirades that don't actually tell you a damn thing about the topic at hand.

Is this the site that talked shit about DQ8 for playing like a classic JRPG?

>>608826

>mfw when it's still there

Fairly good, has a bunch of articles on my favorite JRPG series, though I'd personally like to see those sections redone I am just glad they are getting the recognition that they deserve.

They really need to update their formatting, it isn't the 90s anymore.

>>608897

>>608853
The author of that article eventually "got" the point of the Dragon Quest series and wrote an article that went over every major entry in the series at the time it was written, so it is a non issue

>>608897
Where do you think you are?

>>608948
Look buddy even 4chan updated the site's looks and features, or are you to new to realize that?

>>608980
He means the site's out-dated look is there for a reason.

Retro? Yeah?

>>608987
that's a bullshit excuse, the guy's just lazy. "ooh it's bad on purpose"

>>608853
That one Grumpy Gamers article or whatever? Fucking loved that shit, I wish they made more of them. I still come back and reread the DQ8 and especially the Animal Crossing tirade every once in a while. The hate is delicious.

>>608816
i like hg101, eh is a pretty good guy and doesn't afraid of anything.

>>608853

They brought up some valid points in that article. I'm addicted to DQ games right now, but it's annoying having to go to two different places to heal up then to save.

If DQ stopped doing that, it wouldn't harm the games at all.

>>608897

Formatting is fine.

The forums are unintentionally hilarious, I remember the two major lesbians. The weeb one and the western-FPS-Halo-fangirl one.

>>609282
Go on, tell us more. Especially if you remember their names, I want to look up their post history

Written for them a few times and plan to write some more.

People haven't liked my articles

>>609287
It was pretty long ago that I browsed the forums regularly. I just remember them being angry all the fucking time. The forums were constant arguments at times.

>>608897
we web 5.0 now

>>608980
4chan is just as basic albeit optimized with things like auto updates for threads

>>609298
Are you Ryan McSwain? He wrote articles about my favourite games and got me into some I had no idea about.

>>609316

No, I don't have as many write-ups, but one of my articles was new and long. One of the next one I'm doing is longer...

>>609305
Is this the FPS-Halo-fangirl one?
http://hg101.proboards.com/user/617/recent

Is this the weeb one?
http://hg101.proboards.com/user/258/recent

>>609321
Link us to your article faggot

>>609324
Actually, yes, that would be them.

>>609325

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge14.htm#surfdesign

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/badcrude/badcrude.htm

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/beatmania/beatmania.htm

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/timegal/timegal.htm

>>609328
Thanks, dude!

>>609328
I want to have sex with Time Gal.

>>609328
Oh shit, we got a celebrity on /vr/. Quick, someone get the paparazzi

>>609328 here.

Not quite happy with the beatmania article, since

a) actually hard to spruce up the game so the writing's more analytical and boring

b) the guy who posted it messed up the capitalization and stuff of song and artist titles when he posted it. (there's other misspellings still in it like "Meatmania" that aren't fixed)

c) due to no longer having the gamingspy server, they're very strict about posting mp3s now due to their server levels, even after I trimmed and tagged all the songs I sent

>>609334

I already have.

>>609336

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5UTTHeRnZE

>>609358
How did you do it?

>>609328
are you the same guy that started the video game heroine thread with the time gal pic?

>>609362

I charmed the pants off her.

We're meeting up tomorrow for coffee and more anachronistic fucking.

Pretty good site with lots of decent articles covering some real gems. Although they really need to find some contributors who can actually read Japanese and fix some of those articles. Their Tokimeki Memorial article starts off okay, but gets embarrassing as you realize he can't even discuss the rest of the series due to language barrier.

>>609365

No someone else did, but I posted in it. I would've used the Mega-LD cover if I did

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/vagrantstory/vagrantstory.htm

This is still the worst article for me, someone should write a proper article

>>609328
timegal is a pretty fun game

>>609353
>Meatmania

One thing I really like about this site is that the articles usually have good screenshots that give a decent sense for what the game has to offer.
That wouldn't be a big deal, but for some reason most screenshots of games manage to be shit because there's little to nothing happening in them. No cool camera angles or backgrounds. No showcasing of the game's mechanics or gimmicks. No dodging projectiles or whatever. Just the player character standing there in some level early in the game.

Compare screenshots here:
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gits/gits2.htm
to any results on Goggle images for "ghost in the shell ps1 OR psx"
It's a pretty good example of what I mean.

>>608997
Well, it works. Adds to the whole aesthetic.

>>608826
>>608826
wut

>>608816
>There is little worthwhile in Shadowgate 64. The pacing is incredibly slow, the castle is far too large and empty, the writing, while occasionally a bit clever, is far too sparse to be interesting. The whole experience is obviously trying to be atmospheric, but it really just comes off as soulless instead.
Worthless site.

I go to their forums. I was going to write an article for the Ogre series but I gave up on it because giving all those games the proper analysis takes forever since they're all really long.

>>609558
>Dismissing a whole site full of different articles written by different people based on the opinion of one article

>>609567
What is your username?

>>609580
That's the joke.

>>609581
9inchsamurai

>>609582

You know what else is a joke?

Shadowgate 64

>>609597
It's not that funny of a game. I mean there's clever moments sure, but I wouldn't really call it a sort of joking game.

>>609607

>>609618

The site is great because articles often go in great detail about arcade ports, which is great for me because I hate using MAME and can look for faithful ones.

>>608832
What's the IRC room?

>>609714
If you have an IRC client, type the following

/server irc.psigenix.net
/join #hg101chat

If you don't have an IRC client handy

http://chat.mibbit.com/#hg101chat@irc.psigenix.net

They're a good site with some great info you won't find anywhere else on the interwebs. Or even if you can find it, it won't be compiled as nicely.

>>608832
>Shitty forums.
This, though that wasn't always the case.
Used to be pretty cool until the influx of newfags that prefer hostile circlejerking and moderator cocksucking over laid back discussion. Used to be a regular until about 2008/9 when the mood there shifted, now I just enjoy the articles.

It's my favourite video game history resource. Their every update feels like I'm 8, and parents bought me a new game.

What was that site with lots of screenshots from old eroge games?
There was a link to it in hardcoregaming101 but it's like impossible to find.

>>610046
I'm not sure. I actually would like to, uh, see that.

Unless you're talking about
http://www.pc98.org/main.html

>>610068
Yeah I just found.. I'm not only senile but probably going blind too.
http://www.pc98.org/adult.html

>>608897
Yeah it should be all white and minimalistic-looking while being dynamically built by ASP so it can fuck up during loading and crash

>>609328
People haven't like those articles on the forum ?

They seem pretty good compared to mines.

>>610306
What are yours?

>>611920
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/eternam/eternam.htm
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/martiangothic/martiangothic.htm
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/aitd/aitd.htm

There was a new batch of articles today.

>>611958
I loved the Alone in the Dark article. I remember when I had to point out how often "Derceto" was misspelled on the article, but I don't blame you for that. It is annoying to get that name right

>>611958
Hubert Chardot and Creative Reality. confirmed for good taste

Love that site. Great place for fair reviews. Also educated writers who actually into the story/game they are working on.

I think their policy of reviewing every shitty Game Boy port and anime in a series is dumb, and some of their articles have filler-type stuff like character profiles, but otherwise I rather like the site.

>>609328
I read your Surf Design and Time Gal article. Surf Design was a pretty average kusoge article in my opinion, but I really enjoyed the Time Gal one. I actually didn't know it was originally an arcade game before I read it.

>>609878
>Used to be pretty cool until the influx of newfags that prefer hostile circlejerking and moderator cocksucking over laid back discussion.

I've been lurking and posting on the forum since its inception. The forum has its issues, but this never happened. Ever.

>>612036
>I think their policy of reviewing every shitty Game Boy port and anime in a series is dumb

Why? What's wrong with a site being comprehensive?

>>612141
It creates extra hurdles for writers without adding anything of substantial value to their articles. That being said, I can at least sort of understand reviewing every port under the sun since it's still videogames, but do you really care about the author's opinion of some random game-based cartoon?

>>609546

Somebody in a thread here accidentally came across something rather odd in the image index for the Valis article:

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/valis/

>>612363
>2009
Anyway how good is Valis? I stumbled onto a let's play of the first one but it seemed like there were a TON of cut scenes.

Or I could be thinking of Vay.

>>612387
They're not that good. Very mediocre action/platformers. The controls are a bit clunky in most versions, and the level design is bland as fuck.

The only truly solid one is the port of Valis 1 on PC Engine CD.

>>612387
Valis games are pretty bad. They have cutscenes with pretty girls, that's what they're for. They're ecchi games about chicks, and they finally ended up having a full-on eroge sequel.

>>608897
Indeed. Fuck functional light design! "Minimalist" design using fancy effects and borked APIs is the way to go. Bonus point if it has that modern habit of trashing old pages.

>>611958
The new articles from Sotenga are great, but the Hang-On coverage is totally redundant. I could care less about port knowledge, and putting Cool Riders (more related to OutRun) in with GP Rider is silly-stupid. Your articles are good, though; I'm chalking my recent site disappointment up to Kurt wanting to get that next book out.

>>609010
I can't find that Animal Crossing article. Anyone have a link?

Also, how exactly does this site work? I quite understand.

I always found it much more fun to explore and find games myself.

>>612503
Yeah, instead of reading long list on IGN and Gamespot. Find out about games randomly, on the Internet and message boards. Like hg101.

>>612363
Why the fuck is that even there?...

>>612539
Admin needed a place to store his low-resolution hentai.

they insulted one of my favorite FE lords. What a bunch of Douchenozzles.

>>612135
I also used to hang there since the early days and either you're lying or just more tolerant than I was towards the "either you're with us or against us" mentality that got born when obvious reddit and 4chanites begun flooding the site. I personally got tired of having to defend every dissenting opinion like I was posting on /v/. You clearly could sense the shift because that wasn't a problem before, even in the much bitched about upvote days.

Meanwhile, an update has just happened.

>>609713
>not loving glorious CLI

I like hg101 but yeah, they really need better editors.

>>608816
They seem pretty good, until they write about something you really know about.

>>612420
>>612432
I figured so. Thanks.

>>612498
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/animalcross.html

>>612742
Yeah, some articles are just weird that way.
Little things like claims of version superiority of a game on one system when it's clearly equal or even better on another, or when they talk down an excellent game in a series to the point one gets the feeling that it was the game they didn't play, or reached the burnt out zone playing while researching the article. And then there's the out of place personal ramblings....

>>613726
>but I'm almost jealous of the naivete expressed by the most hardcore of Nintendo fans.
That and the paragraph it was attached to was pretty satisfying.

>>612387
I, III and IV for PC-engine are good, the rest are shit.

>>612556
Which one?

Probably the most informative site in english about videogames in general.
I usually ignore personal opinions on their articles, but still the info they've got is good, regardless of opinions.

>It's not like there aren't other games that pride themselves on gloom and doom. Chrono Cross is about a young boy who discovers that his continued existence will eventually cause the implosion of the space-time continuum. Valkyrie Profile is about an undead warrior who harvests the souls of departed mortals, victims of the most tragic suicides and sacrifices imaginable. Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne is about the destruction of all humanity, and the recreation of the world in the hands of a demon. None of these stories are happy, persay, but they can all be resolved, given some sense of finalty. Maybe even joy. And most of all, they are just that - stories. They aren't, you know, real. Animal Crossing is a philosophy. It's preaching that life is nothing but a bunch of work for pointless trinkets, just so you can survive and interact with other people, all of whom are frauds anyway who don't give a damn about what you say. And it doesn't end until you decide to stop playing.

>>614103

>>612539
Its obvious why.

>>609328
Oh shit you wrote the Time Gal article? I just read that like 5 days ago and then watched the run through on YouTube. Pretty neat.

The only thing I hate about the site is that it uses white text on a black background. It burns out my eyes and after I'm done reading I see ghost lines everywhere. I have to manually set my browser's options to black on purple like /vr/ every time I go there.

>>615012
This.

Holy shit, the least they could do is make it light grey on dark grey like 4chan's Tomorrow.

Love hg101.
I've been a reader since its inception and the Castlevania dungeon was practically my homepage long before that.

>>615012
>>615045
I can definitely agree with these.

Even as small a change as this would go a pretty long way.

>>612539

>he doesn't have a pron stash uploaded to the internet in a secret folder

>>612539
i love how the filenames tell where they were most likely downloaded

loved the fuck out of this game

>>615279
So damn moe

>>612363
holy fucking shit I died

Man I never even knew that was there, fucking lol

>>615279
Somehow, that game controls a lot smoother than the Genesis port of Valis 1.

I like it

Strikes me odd that the writers do go on tirades here and there but it's entertaining

>>612363

>Mother 3 screenshot out of nowhere

>>615316
I was more surprised by >>614217

>>612363
>xenogears furries

>>614103
>noimmersionallowed.jpg

>>615325

That's a good one

>>614103
>persay
>mfw illiterates still don't know how to spell "per se"

>>615540

Shut up, turnonerd. Go play animal crossing or something, cakeboy.

>>615556
>A curse on you for educating my stupid ass

Pretty much.