/vr/ - Retro Games

Dark Souls 2 captures it really well. I consider it a direct sequel both from a gameplay and lore perspective.

>>6952196
Faxanadu
Especially when you get to the mist zone.
Vagrant Story in the lower precincts.

Seems kinda nice sometimes.

>>6952196
Battle of Olympus, since it's pretty much a clone.
>>6952235
This. Faxanadu is relentless at times, but that godly soundtrack though.

>>6952196
Shame it never got an All-Stars-type SNES treatment

>>6952259
Though it looks like it almost did, based on the gigaleak.

King's Field
Shadowgate 64
Final Fantasy Adventure

>>6952259
wow, I would play the shit out of that

>>6952196
Most NES games look bleak and desaturated because of the super limited palettes. Even cute mascot games had downright depressing looking visuals some times

>>6952316
please spoonfeed me on this one

>>6952247
Link noooooo!

>>6952247
based whore fucker link

>>6952247
I always felt it seemed more pleasant than in Zelda 1 which is just shrub brush and monsters

>>6953727
people found some test art and thought nintendo was actually working on something when they were not.

on the nes as well there's Simon's Quest and Metroid, of course

>>6953823
>when they were not.
Source: your uncle that works at Nintendo?

>>6952196
Shin Megami Tensei I
Even the towns are full of monsters, it's rough.

>>6953906
this is for real games not pokemon clones

>>6953925
At least you could give credit to them for copying Pokemon 4 years before it came out.

>>6953947
whatever enjoy your teens dancing and singing game.

>>6952196
>I like the harsh and unforgiving vibe you get from the world in AoL. What are some other games with this sort of atmosphere?

real life.

>>6952259
>>6952316
>>6953823
What's interesting is they used 16-bit version of the title music for the official SNES Burn-in Test Cartridge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZooijvtuts

>>6954112
test audio to test out the systems sound chip, there never was a remake in the making. This is just trannies wishing for something that never would have happened. There is a reason this sounds like complete shit. It was just test audio

>>6953841

Simon's Quest is a good one! The towns are full of cryptic weirdos, the night is horrible, the mansions feature many old corpses, and the colors are generally drab... it's got a nice mood, whatever its other successes or failures.

Thinking of more horror-themed games with dreary worlds, I start wanting to say Demon's Crest is a good example of this. But OP says "harsh and unforgiving", not "melancholy". And Demon's Crest is gentle and forgiving.

>>6954021
Pascal the dog meme is so funny. We did it reddit.

>>6952196

Daggerfall maybe? At times it's so unforgiving that you just might want to stop playing forever.

>>6953727

>>6954138
Yeah, doesn't sound like something they'd use in an actual remake. Still cool though.

>>6952196

Oddly, Lagoon kinda makes every part of its world feel like a depressing wasteland, even though the story is just anime-style chosen boy saving the world.

(For reference, the Sharp X68000 version is far superior to the SNES one. However this information should probably be considered useless since even the best version of this game is not especially good.)

Hmm thinking about Lagoon reminds me of Willow for NES. That is an okay game, and I think it does have this kind of feeling. The world of Willow like a wilder, more mysterious, more dangerous version of the world of Crystalis. The tradeoff is that Crystalis is awesome, whereas Willow is just... good enough.

Wing Commander Privateer kinda has an "unforgiving" vibe, it's pretty easy to screw yourself over or get in a bad situation.

Also pretty much any roguelike, namely Nethack (although nethack's lategame is actually much easier than many other roguelikes from around that time period)

>>6952235
Kid Icarus and Rygar are similar games.

>>6954156
NINTENDO HIRE

>>6954282
They already did

>>6954456
That coomer is too addled to realize I'm replying to a post asking for sauce. He thinks i made these

>>6954606
>coomer
I know link is sexy but what?