/vr/ - Retro Games

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>>7121148
>Yes, this is the image I meant to post.
whoops posted the wrong image

THREE HANDS IM GOING INSANE

>>7121148
Definitely the best logo I've seen in my life... Both Sony and Nintendo had legendary marketing around this time. Everything after this period is actually lame as hell in comparison.

>>7121148
N64 has a little bit of everything.
Except Castlevania.

>>7121148
none, whats wrong with you?

>>7121232
It's the SGI logo top down instead of bottom up. I get why they went with it, but it wasn't very original at all.

>>7121148
That’s a console that pretty much only has mass-market pop games, the video game equivalent of good MCU movies. Popcorn blockbuster fare, but nothing artistically challenging. There’s nothing really on the N64 that’s on the same level as LSD Dream Emulator, Cosmology of Kyoto, Kowloon’s Gate, and other 90s art games. If someone maintains that this is the best that gaming as a medium has to offer, I mentally compartmentalize them as a developmentally delayed manchild who probably doesn’t read or engage with challenging works of art. There’s nothing wrong with saying these games are “fun” but there’s something wrong with maintaining they’re truly great, because even as children’s entertainment they fail to live up to the best of other mediums (e.g cinema’s Miyazaki far surpasses Miyamoto in creating challenging but fun art for children).

>>7121148
Why did they make a 3 handed controller though?

>>7122751
lmao you're so dumb

>>7122782
because it was like aliens gifted us their graphics technology
marketing lmao

>>7122751
the SGI logo is cubelike, and nintendo did borrow from it. The difference is the SGI logo LOOKS LIKE ASS.

>>7121148
Mario, Zelda, the list goes on...

>>7122774
>LSD Dream Emulator, Cosmology of Kyoto, Kowloon’s Gate, and other 90s art games
Proto walking sim garbage pretentious losers pretend to like.

>>7123412
I’d love to hear you say what games have any artistic merit but usually when I ask that people fall back on “they’re just entertainment! Just for fun!”, as if there’s something about gaming that means it can only ever be constrained to children’s toys unlike film and literature. No, it’s not the medium that’s flawed, it’s just you’re a big baby with the tastes of a ten year old.

>>7121148
This system is nothing more than a no brainier multiplayer fun. Not much thinking required honestly. No need to fry your brain over the 64 and I own one myself. This thread is more for the Sega Saturn which requires a high iq to appreciate due to how much hate it receives on here.

>>7122774
Kill yourself, if you're being serious.

>>7123645
You easily could've gone with the Crash Bandicoot trilogy as it not only held a ton of artistic merit for pulling off such beatiful graphics for the kind of system Naughty Dog was working with (and how it still holds up even today), but also how they're mechanically sound and fun to play like any other platformer on top of that (with the obvious exception of the vehicles in Crash 3); But i guess that wouldn't have gave you brownie points for being a pretentious faggot with a stick up his ass.

>>7123645
>artistic merit
Was I right or was I right when I said only pretentious faggots pretend to like those non games?

>>7124312
That stings about as much as someone who loves kids’ cartoons calling anything else on television “pretentious”. I’ll see ya around the next Donkey Kong Country thread, and I’m sure you have some great insight on ranking the Final Fantasy games.

>>7124162
Crash Bandicoot demonstrates great craft and technical prowess but it’s not artistically interesting. That’s like saying Marvel movies are great art because of the complexity of their special effects. It’s not pretentious to appreciate the work of other artists outside of Marvel in cinema, it’s just called being an adult. You’re going to stay developmentally delayed if you shut down anything built for people over the age of ten.

>>7124458
You'll see me in another actual video game thread since nobody seriously gives a fuck about pretentious non game trash. Hence nobody discusses said garbage, they just post the box art and namedrop the pieces of shit.

>>7122774
This is what happens when you let pretentious hipster posers get into the hobby.

>>7124461
You are the very definition of pretentious. If you're past the age of maybe 17 and still acting this way that's pathetic.

>>7124464
Alright fine you’re right. The hobby needs gamers who care about real games and don’t want to talk about pretentious shit. What’s better, Super Mario World or Yoshi’s Island? Is Nights into Dreams overrated? Rank the Castlevania games.

>>7124482
Nobody talks about pretentious shit because nobody actually cares.

>>7121148
Atari Lynx

>>7124463
>You'll see me in another actual video game thread since nobody seriously gives a fuck about pretentious non game trash
You’re defending kids’ toys. Cool off, this is embarrassing. Do you get this way about action figures too?

>>7124487
You have no rebuttal because you know I'm 100% right.

>>7124461
We're talking about video games you stupid fuck. Your attempt to use cinema as a cross reference and usage of the term "artists" is maximum fucking cringe.

>>7124484
If your argument is that most video game players don’t care then I agree. You think they don’t care because anything that reaches for something greater than a dopamine rush is shit...I think they don’t care because most game players are retarded or developmentally delayed. We’re talking about people who think it’s interesting to rank Mario games, no shit they don’t want to talk about anything else.

>>7124505
Nice boxart for a game you've never played and nobody actually enjoys or cares about.

>>7124482
Most of the games you're naming you don't even play anyway. You're just a pretentious guy who namedrops games everybody knows about anyway (LSD duuuh).
Get a new hobby, go back to deviantart or whatever.

I will list good games on the system:

>Super Mario 64
>Star Fox 64
>Banjo-Kazooie
>Banjo-Tooie
>Donkey Kong 64
>Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
>Rocket: Robot on Wheels
>Conker's Bad Fur Day
>Paper Mario
>Goldeneye 007
>Perfect Dark
>Doom 64
>Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
>Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
>Rayman 2
>Glover
>Diddy Kong Racing
>F-Zero X
>Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
>Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

>>7124536
In all honesty and to take the thread back to the topic, the Saturn has more interesting games to me than the N64. I’d rather play Baroque or Lunacy/Torico, than Banjo Kazooie or Super Mario 64. My tastes changed as I got older, I’m not bullshitting you. I think OoT/MM have interesting spaces to explore, they’re good experiences for sure, but I think for the most part people should try games they have maybe overlooked on other consoles. Thankfully Baroque is getting a Switch re-release soon, but yeah there really are a lot of fantastic experiences worth seeking out beyond the usual couple dozen games people only want to talk about on this board, it’s a disproportionate amount of discourse relative to how interesting these games actually are.

>>7124565
>but yeah there really are a lot of fantastic experiences worth seeking out beyond the usual couple dozen games people only want to talk about on this board
None of them are the pretentious non games you namedropped earlier this thread.

>>7124565
And I'd rather play other N64 and Saturn games than the ones you mentioned, hipster.

>>7121148
The Sega Saturn. I have a love for this system. Nights, Daytona USA, Virtua Cop, Virtual-On, Fighting Vipers, Virtua Fighter 2, Fighters Megamix, and House Of The Dead all gave me fun memories.

>>7124572
Look, it’s the honest truth that I had a more interesting and memorable experience playing LSD than I did playing your run of the mill platformer or JRPG or whatever. I love exploring interesting spaces in video games, like I love 3D Zelda for navigating its environments more than I like them for the plot or combat or whatever, and LSD evoked an uncanny, nightmarish feeling. It’s not fundamentally different than a trip to the bottom of the well or Jabu Jabu’s belly, there is something to love there for people who like this medium and shouldn’t be dismissed outright.

>>7124607
>it’s the honest truth that I had a more interesting and memorable experience playing LSD than I did playing your run of the mill platformer or JRPG or whatever
Yeah the part where you walk forward and totally weird things happen man, really deep stuff. Way better than actually playing a video game with mechanics and shit.

>>7124618
“Mechanics” in most games are overrated. Like if you look at something like OoT, was the combat challenging? No not really, any random NES or SNES game was harder. Were the puzzles hard? Maybe if you were 8. So what’s the appeal? To me, it was the atmosphere, moving through the spaces. The unsettling distorted spaces of the Forest Temple, the weird chanting of the Fire Temple, that’s why I liked the game. It’s what people on this board commonly call “soul”. As I got older I got less interested in mechanics because really, I’ve played so many fucking games that it’s not going to stump me intellectually, it’s probably not going to challenge me mechanically, so it’s worth seeking other things at this point. Like if you play a Zelda game for the puzzles you’re gonna have a lousy time, but they have something to offer in terms of exploration, and exploration is what the so-called “non-game” walking sims focus on.

>>7124631
>As I got older I got less interested in mechanics because really, I’ve played so many fucking games that it’s not going to stump me intellectually, it’s probably not going to challenge me mechanically, so it’s worth seeking other things at this point
Jesus Christ man I don't think anybody else on /vr/ could possibly top your level of pretentious faggotry if they tried.

>>7124562
>Mario, Zelda
the list goes on

>>7124461
Congratulations, you are a bigger faggot than OP. Hopefully there's some artistic merit in that.

>>7124562
Childhood is loving all of these games, playing them all and renting those you don't own
Adulthood is realizing that's all there is and it's not worth playing it any more.

>>7122751
....

I did not know that.

>>7123410
>multiplayer
Am I missing the port for player 2's controller?

>>7121181
Dangerously based. I have a fascination with vector graphics in video games.

>>7124631
>>7124642
Thanks for having an interesting conversation that's worth reading

>>7121148
I love this system beyond it's limits. It's so unique.