/vr/ - Retro Games

I really enjoyed that video game

>>7134785
It's not bad. It's just so goddamn weird

Darkseed 1 and 2 are the most similar things to that I can think of.

Darkseed 1 is based, Darkseed 2 has too much dialogue for it's own good.

>>7134803
What are they about?

>>7134816
How would you describe harvester without giving away the plot? Guy walks around a town and people in it are weird? That is the description of the plot of darkseed without giving away info.

>>7134838
Oh lol wasn't sure. I'd describe harvester as a dude with amnesia who walks around what appears to be a weird 1950s town trying to figure out what the dick is going on and why everyone is calling him a kidder. I'd also mention the lodge

>>7134763
Fun Fact: the guy who plays Steve was arrested for possession of CP. He always was a kidder.

For other weird shit try these:
Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages
L.O.L: Lack Of Love
Gadget: Invention, Travel, & Adventure

>>7134803
Kind of similar:

>Sanitarium
>Phantasmagoria
>Bad Mojo

>>7134838
This is exactly what I want, more games where you walk around a town, nothing happens, and all the townspeople seem completely insane. That is what I want out of a videogame.

>>7134849
>he always was a kidder

I lol'd

Goddammit steve you disgusting bastard!

Bumping with my favourite crpg of all time.

Anyone know of any games like Daggerfall or similar? I heard Ultima is pretty decent.

>>7134853
Night in the Woods (not retro).

>>7134838
It's a bleak, nightmarish caricature of 1950's American culture with horrific imagery, dark humor, and gore.

>>7134763
I've always found the King's Quest games to be pretty weird.

>>7136673
This

>>7136743
Kings Quest is pretty weird. I've always thought they were vaguely unsettling

>>7134853
Pathologic? (also not retro)

>>7134946
There's a game called Morrowind that is pretty similar to Daggerfall

>>7134763
Super Mario Land

Yeah I really want a game that has a twin peaks like atmosphere, small town weird shit going on you have to uncover. That is what I would enjoy.

>>7137281
Deadly Premonition.

>>7137330
Lmao deadly premonition is more hilariously terrible than weird imo

>>7137362
Then go sit on negro dicks.

>>7138035

no u

>>7134849
Well...he always was a kidder.

>>7138103
Oh god its real?

>>7138103
Lmaoooooo what a fuckin' loser.

>>7138517
>god its real?

Retard Alert.

>>7139629
?

>>7134849
oh shit thats spooky
Drowned God was released on October 31, 1996 for the Windows 95 operating system.[2][10] Around the same time there was going to be a release for Windows 3.1 but those plans were cancelled.[15] In its first two weeks, it sold 34,000 copies in the United States.[12] It was one of the top ten best-selling video games in United States during the first month after its release, but bugs and poor support from the developers caused it to fall out of favor with gamers by December.[16] By February 1998, the game had sold over 60,000 copies.[12] Around the time of the game's release, Horse stated that its story was incomplete, and that the rest of the story would be revealed in a sequel called CULT,[3] planned to center around Area 51.[12] However, he killed himself, as well as his wife and pets, a decade after the game's release,[17] and no sequel was ever completed.

>>7134763
Probably the most atmospheric and immersive point and click ever made. I wish the combat wasn't complete ass

>>7134763
What's the weirdest thing that happens in this game? Everybody always hypes how offensive/gruesome it is but I'm wondering if it's not an exaggeration.

>>7140384
Baby childs flesh eaten by bugs while the kids eyes flop out of their sockets, then the kids mom shoves them back into the sockets.

>>7138103
>has the same plaid shirt in the police mugshot
Cute and Funny cartoons? HAHAHAHAHAHAH

>>7140262
The game itself being about conspiracy theories is just the greatest kind of irony. I have heard mixed things things about the game itself, but people seem to agree that the writing and atmosphere is top notch at least, almost all criticism relates to the puzzles.

>>7140269
>Probably the most atmospheric and immersive point and click ever made.

Anyone heard of this game?

>>7142520
No. Describe it.

KGB.
May not be weird in its genre but it's set in 1991 Russia. You're a KGB agent.

>>7140384
Mom being eaten by her own children.

>>7142845
Isn't there some borderline pedophilia in it ?

>>7142869
Yeah, a child is kidnapped and molested and if you take too long, suffocated by being buried alive.

>>7142783
MINE

>>7142869
The actor is a pedophile lol.

https://mugshots.com/US-States/Texas/Dallas-County-TX/Dallas/Kurt-Stephen-Kistler.8684252.html

>>7142520
Oh my god I havent seen this shit in YEARS

I was just a kid. It was playing on a demo computer at the electronics section of a PX on base. always wondered what it was. HOLY SHIT thank you for finally solving this for me

I had this weird game. I could never quite figure out if I was making progress or not. Its bizarre.

>>7134793
To my understanding, if you’re still saying that you haven’t gotten inside The Lodge.

Bump

>>7134763
This one was weird. I beat it years ago, but isometric RPG vampire hunter, Got puzzles like. Hit a werewolf to death with wolves bane.

It was cool but weird.

>>7134763
can you play this on scummvm yet?

>>7136743
From what year anon I probably could look for this game.

>>7144430
What is a year anon?

>>7144320
This game is cursed.

>>7138517
>>7138103
>>7134849
What's also wild is that there's a dude who had been interviewing him by email, and Steve would just fucking disappear for years at a time. Every time he would come back, he'd email his next response to the dude's questions like nothing had happened, not even acknowledging that he hadn't responded for all that time. The guy pieced together that every time Steve disappeared, it was because he was serving time for CP. Fuckin shameless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6koKTUidgPc

>>7146707
>Sometimes there's a thin line between Harvester and reality.

>>7142763
I have no idea what it is lmao was hoping someone here knew what it was

>>7146707
It's actually impressive, in a way, that he bothered following up on his emails after prison

>>7149065
Maybe no one else wrote to him.

>>7143579
The lodge is even weirder. Though the whole 'it's all a vr sim thing is a bit cliché.

>>7134810
Other way around for me. Darkseed 1 is too much trial and error and while Darkseed 2 is a lot of dead space it at least gets weird and goofy

>>7136863
it's not similar to daggerfall
out of the tes games, daggerfall is the one that is the most different from all the others

>>7134763
Mario Madness.

>>7137362
t.has never played it. The game is janky as fuck but actually legit great. It's just you're not playing for the gun play but pretty much everything else.

>>7142947
But don't worry she's just rendered brain damaged and later is murdered by her mom during a murder suicide anyways.

Weird Dreams, of course

>>7134763
what the fuck even was this? copied my french cousin's copy for amstrad, and he told me it was some real shit and not to play it in front of my parents. i only played it at the late hours of the night, and i never figured out what exactly to do. the sentinel itself scared me though, and once i started having nightmares about it i threw it in the bin.

>>7134853
>more games where you walk around a town, nothing happens
Modern gamers.

>>7150821
definitely the weirdest game in this thread. doesn't need to use any horror motifs to be completely unsettling, just pure abstraction.

>>7150821
That game really gives me a similar feel to Archipelagos with the abstract creepiness.

>>7150821
I'm definitely gonna look for this on GOG

>>7150821
Damn. All i can find of this game is a shitty looking remake on steam

Not really in the same realm but still has a weird vibe to it

Some of these games were shitty but at least there was variety.

>>7134763
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure - ガラージュ

I own this Windows 95 game. It was weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvbY7dX7yvc

Night Trap. Also Voyeur.

>>7154138
Wtf is this about?

>>7143338
lmfao

>>7154868
Exploring a very surreal, decrepit world and trying to escape from it.
A mobile port in in the works and apparently there's an english translation coming for it in the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94f3F4pUElE

>>7150821
There was a sequel on Playstation called Sentinel Returns.

>>7151682
bro are you even looking, you can play it in your browser

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-sentry-109

>>7134763
The girl was hot as hell
The main dude got busted for possessing cp a while back

>>7157224

>>7154138
booba

>>7156115
Sounds awesome I'll keep a look out for it

Anyone know this?

>>7154138
>Garage: Bad Dream Adventure the gif

>>7144248
It had some complicated puzzles, too. At first is just clicking on stuff, but later on you need to input the right command. Still a good game, imo.

>>7134763
Harvester is a great FMV game with great atmosphere and writing up until its last act when you enter the Lodge. Up until then it's full of funny characters and a baller OST but once you enter the Lodge it just becomes a shitty 2D platfomer with timed puzzles. I was genuinely taken aback by it and the only way it makes sense is the developers were trying to make a political statement about violence in video games at the time. Which has aged like milk nowadays.

>>7144248
The Ross's game dungeon video on it is great

>>7154138
>kinotrope

>>7142520
>>7148950
Normality is a first person adventure game set in a parody version of Nineteen Eighty Four where you play as a stoner hippie. It runs on the same engine as another game called Realms of the Haunted.

>>7150821
I remember buying the Spectrum version of that. Didn't get that far into it but it was an odd abstract vibe.

>>7158841
I still liked it

only the pixel hunting triggered me

Surreal plunger-shooting Wolf3d clone with a Cottoneye Joe parody as the theme song. A 3DO banger.

>>7134946
play ultima underworld and you will realize how shit daggerfall really is

>>7156242
I remember this game. I had no idea it was a sequel to another game, although in hindsight the "Returns" should have tipped me off. John Carpenter did the soundtrack to it, lol

>>7134946
TES Arena and TES Daggerfall were both heavily based on Ultima Underworld and its sequel UU2. The main difference being that UU1/2 are set in a single (or in UU2's case a series) dungeon. Rather than having an overworld and towns to explore.

UU didn't just inspire TES, its engine was later used to make System Shock and it later inspired other games like Thief and Deus Ex. The main thing was its level of environmental interaction which was unparalleled at the time.

Another game that plays very similarly is Arx Fatalis, which released the same year as Morrowind. It was developed with the intent of being UU3 but they couldn't get the license to it, so they made it its own IP instead.

>>7159413
I've been meaning to play UU for a while nos. I'll probably pick it up on GOG.

dreamweb
not too weird, i've talked with a few anons about it and the guys who made it actually released it for free recently. if it only was worked on a bit longer it could've been a forgotten masterpiece.
just the fact that a early-mid 90s top down (pre hotline miami) point and click cyberpunk game about a possible schizo exists is pretty cool, i actually really dig the artstyle
>>7154138
wasn't this the board that took the effort of tracking a copy of it down? very weird and unique game either way
>>7150782
i've always had this weird game in the back of my mind, there's some really cool ideas but it plays like dogshit. i never grew up with it but it's definitely memorable. i know the c64 version pretty well for whatever reason
real shitty ending though, whoever came up with that is a real piece of shit, i never beat the game myself but damn

>>7160034
Check out Arx Fatalis too it's really good

NecroVisioN. I played it cause youtuber Mandalore made a video on it and it looked interesting. Its like Wolfenstein in WW1 but with Zombies and other supernatural stuff.

>>7160664
NecroVision is pretty good it's mostly Return to Castle Wolfenstein just in a more WW1-ish setting. It's very eurojank.

>>7160428
>released it for free recently
>recently
Spoken like a true /vr/ dweller.

>>7134853
Shenmue...

>>7134763
Fun fact, the face actor for Steve is in prison for child porn
>You always were a kid-diddl-er Steve

>>7146707
Holy shit FUCKIN KEK

Why were PC games so wired? It's people saw games as an opportunity to make their wiredo passion projects that would never get green lit by a tv or movie studio.

>>7160428
I love the constant theme that plays in this.

>>7145532
Wrong, you idiot.
What you mean to ask is:
>year anon I probably could look for this game.

>>7134810
they both have problems, and while darkseed 1 is trial and error bullshit, it's a much more pleasant game to listen and look at than darkseed 2 which was getting into the whole shitty ugly 90s FMV craze and had a lot of retarded shit. darkseed 1 also had a pretty weird NES bootleg for any of you fellow bootleg autists.
>>7160820
fuck
>>7162295
very based. you reminded me to check out the soundtrack again. listening to that one track again, yeah it's fucking amazing and just oozes that cyberpunk atmosphere. the dude who composed it recently released a "remastered" version of the CD and amiga soundtracks on his bandcamp if you're interested.
https://dreamweb-remastered.bandcamp.com/album/dreamweb-the-soundtrack-remastered-side-a
of course, it also includes the CD soundtrack that came with the game that a bunch of people overlooked. im' sure you've listened to it already, includes longer more fleshed out versions of several of the game's tracks
https://dreamweb-remastered.bandcamp.com/album/dreamweb-the-soundtrack-remastered-side-b
really wish this dude did more stuff, can't find anything else he did under his name.
hot take: i think dreamweb is the best cyberpunk game. it's got so many fucking janky problems and it's weird tedious bullshit at several hundred points (all that computer stuff) but for the short time it lasts it's great.
i think if it was just tuned up a bit more (maybe even longer?) it could've been a masterpiece. i dunno, might be a shit take, but i could get into the atmosphere of dreamweb immediately but couldn't even get into deus ex when it was released, so who knows

>>7134763
>>7134785
>>7134793
You were always a kidder

>>7134763
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzFdXklTgww
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=o4G6x2M7MVw