/vr/ - Retro Games

This thread sucks

Thief

>>6442882
These threads don't contain the cancer, it just adds onto it

Thief

>>6442891
I hate black people

>>6442892
>>6442929
>they still think it's a thiefag
It's just australia-kun. The madman is back.

>>6442882
half life 1

all of them

Half Life 1. In terms of the tech, it was buggy as hell. People act like it somehow revolutionized story-telling in video games, when in reality the plot is the most cliche "a science experiment or something goes wrong and demons/aliens invade our world" you could ever imagine, which apart from countless trashy sci-fi novels and movies had already been done to death in other FPS games including Quake, and was fleshed out much better in RPGs like Shin Megami Tensei. Even the style of the cut-scenes (or lack thereof) wasn't particularly new, FPS games like SiN had done similar things before HL1 came out. Whatever is interesting about the Half Life universe all came in HL2.

>>6443017
I think the story itself isn't what people were impressed by. It was that they put it into a cohesive world instead of levels, which wasn't too common in doomclones at the time. And the playable cutscene stuff. You're right the whole narrative isn't the most original thing, but the execution is really competent and the cascade does feel important, especially playing in combination with the DLCs.

>>6442931
Only black people hate Metal Gear

Mighty final fight. Played 3 levels in one life just by jump kicking and then I got bored

Every game, except my favorite.

is Mortal Kombat overrated? I feel like you have to be minimum of like age 40 and have memories of/nostalgia for when it was new and controversial in arcades to view it as anything other than a eye-searingly ugly cheap cash-in on the fighter craze of the early 90s that plays like absolute dogshit compared to any japanese fighter of the time

>>6443385

It was kinda cool back in the day but purely as a game not really good. A nice time waster that was at the right place at the right time. It became pretty idiotic / silly after part II.

>>6442941
>>6443017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjDY3m1SMpw
HL1 has some of the most sophisticated enemy AI ever put in an FPS.

>>6443385
It was technically impressive and a huge middle finger to censorship advocates.

Ironically, I think the general public appetite for violence has gone way down now that we have porn. Gory shit was just a psychologically unhealthy substitute for hardcore porn. Now that people can see fucking, I don't think gore has nearly as much appeal.

Diablo

>>6442882
Not like I want to make Ellison look bad, as it was probably pretty creative for it's time, but nowadays even Fallout lore sounds better than this thing