/vr/ - Retro Games

Lots of them look really hideous and call minimalist styles retro.

Can I pick the style or what? Too lazy to pirate

>>664201
No you start as 8 bit and open treasures during the game which make the graphic and / or game play better, for example FFVII battleshift system (where you can beat the firepuking plants from Mario and Zoombas) and after a while Hack 'n Slay like in Diabolo.
The game shamelessly copies everything.
The protagonist is called Clink and after beating Dark Clink in a dungeon you receive Clauds sword.
Anyways, it was great.

>>664198
this was made like 4 days ago on /jp/ and i already see it being posted around

I take it as just marketing. It's popular, so, why not cash in while you can.

I'm not a fan.
Seems like it's used mostly to pander to idiots, or to pass off bad art as a style, rather than because it actually suits the game.
That said, it does make sense for the game you've posted, although it's really fucking lazy to have the Game Boy looking style be the same as the middle one just with less colors and a filter. It looks bad. Especially when I can't distinguish between land and water.

"Retro" style wouldn't bother me much if it were limited to indie games, but sadly, it isn't.
The biggest mainstream example I can think of at the moment is ALttP2. It's been a long time since I've seen something pander so hard and look so mediocre as a result.

>>664193
There's a big difference between minimalistic and "retro".
Something like Kirby's Adventure is minimalistic.

What about Cave Story? I am playing that now and I love the shit out of it and its style. Still amazed one guy did the whole game, even though it took him 5 years.

It's a style. I just care fi the game is good.

>>664280
>ALttP2

Wait, what?

>>664410
>i can't read the sticky thread at the top of the page

>>664430

Oh wait nevermind, are you referring to the 3DS game? I thought you were talking about a ROM hack or something

>>664182
In the end, OP, there is nothing wrong with it. There are some pixel art games that come out looking gorgeous (noitu love 2 and swords and sworcery) and sometimes they're even fun to play. It's just like any other video game.

You can kind of make the same comparison for games that are 3D just for the sake of 3D like aLttP2. Games that should honestly be 2D but are just trying to appear modern.

>>664223
>regresses into shitty 3D

Interest = gone

>>664435

>I didn't read OP

>>664435
Neither can the janitors considering Dreamcast threads keep getting deleted.

>>664478
Dreamcast is 6th gen though.

>>664482
Thanks for this wonderful post. It's just too bad it's tryhard troll BS at this point. Pretty lazy actually. probably not even worth a 1/10

>>664482
But it was launched in 1998/1999, so if they really don't want Dreamcast, the moderators need to make a new sticky to just have one of these qualifiers.

>>664501
It competed with the PS2, GameCube, and Xbox, all 6th gen consoles.
It was the successor to the Saturn, which was a 5th gen console.

I agree the rules are completely fucking retarded, but there's not really anything you can do about it except go on /q/ and complain.

>>664223
watching a trailer for it, it seems like he's less "shamelessly copying" and more that it's a homage to every RPG ever made... either way though it looks kinda lame, sorry

>>664229
it's probably just the same guy over and over, since it's actually one of the most dull of those sort of things I've ever seen

>>664448
>>664430
>>664280
I was not aware of this at all, looking at images and game footage right now, not sure how this "looks bad" to be honest, I think it looks fine.
also... gotta love people that hate games before they have even played them

>>664540
>also... gotta love people that hate games before they have even played them
I'm hating on the graphics. You don't need to play the game to see the graphics.
I'm sure the gameplay will be fine, but that's not what I'm talking about.

>>664545
I don't see what's so horrible about the graphics is though... It looks how I would imagine an updated link to the past style game would look, I don't see what's so bad about that. Are we looking at the same game?

>>664558
>It looks how I would imagine an updated link to the past style game would look
That's the problem.
It looks pretty exactly the same but with models instead of sprites, and ALttP's graphics were never that great in the first place.