/vr/ - Retro Games

Even though I grew up with not PS2, but PS3, I still have a hard time thinking of PS2 as "retro"

>>8240941
*in tiny screenshots

>>8240941
This dude.

>>8240949
I grew up with the NES, and I don't have a problem looking at the PS2 as an old system from a very long time ago.

>>8240949
The future is now, fellow baby old man. Our first DVD player is now retro.

>>8240949
We're using the term pretty arbitrarily in this board; "classic" would be more appropriate, but anyway it's just better to understand whatever term you use as relative, like "high definition" or "next gen".

This guy was large.

Every Contra is a basically a Huge Boss: the Game.

For me as a kid, this boss seemed to do the impossible things. I was actually terrified of him.

>>8240941
doesn't even fit

always had a soft spot for this guy

>>8240941
When the boss is so large it's also its own stage!

>>8241154
Thanks for reminding me of him

>>8240949
Those feelings are normal and accurate

>>8241160
Yeah plus pic related

He’s so big that you have to fight him in segments after breaking the legs and then chest.

>>8240949
Good thing you can do nothing about it as you spend the rest of your time on this board anyway.

>>8240941
A BOSS FOR ANTS?

>>8240941

>>8240941
Sigma's clearly trying to overcompensate for the shit quality of the game.
https://youtu.be/vcbu7ReBYrE?t=139

>>8240949
This

>>8240941
This entire game lol

>>8245396
lol

>>8241075
Your brain is defective

Lol

Everything in Darius

>>8240941
Not retro

>>8240949
Because it isn't retro

.

Taros from shining force 2

>>8246019
>hey mom how do you get those cool blue lines on your leg
>my moms leg:

technodrome

>>8240949
saem

>>8240941
I initially passed on the GoW trilogy, but they're actually decent action games if you crank the difficulty and having a good sense of scale is something they pulled off really well even from the first game even though OP isn't the best example.

>>8245084
Painkiller almost had good bosses, but they either just big dudes you dumped gunfire into, or big dudes that cant be shot until you shoot something else first.
i remembered the necrogiant being so damn hard when i played it as a kid, but after playing through it again they're really easy, might have been a bug thing because I recall adding some fixes when I played it last year.
The fight with Lucifer really got me though (never reached him as a kid). I spent a long time just shooting at him in the weird ghost hell, to the point where I started to think it was some kind of meta point, that hell is just fighting ghosts and an unkillable boss. Then I looked it up and realized you just have to get him to walk into his own meteors.

>>8246491
>Then I looked it up and realized you just have to get him to walk into his own meteors.
holy shit really? i was confused as fuck too but i just kept at it until he died
some of them were decently fun when i went back and got the card. the one for guardian requires you to kill him in 80 seconds. seemed impossible at first but you slowly learn his pattern and it's not that bad

>>8241103
what game

>>8246539
yeah it drove me crazy. the one at the end of the Battle out of Hell expansion is a fucking pain too, you have to damage yourself with fire on these runes on the ground which will summon a rubble golem. you then have to keep the boss distracted while the golem slowly approaches and punches the boss, and then you can actually do damage to him. not that hard, just convoluted and relys on the iffy aggro AI. never played the other expansions, afaik only overdose has bosses and i doubt it fixed them.

>>8246541
tomb raider retard

Homeworld

Blood Will Tell was full of huge bosses, especially the final boss, but i can't find a good picture of it

>>8246584
Overdose was enjoyable, not the same atmosphere as the original game but the weapons are really creative. The worst thing about it is the main character voicelines that are always the same through the game, get annoying really fast.
Resurrection is a mess and was never finished, there is a new final boss but it sucks ass. Could have been good with a more competent dev team.
Recurring Evil and Redemption = pure garbage, do not play them.

>>8241065
>posting that midge in a skirt when Beelzebub exists

>>8248027
First time I got there I killed him in literally 5 seconds.

>>8245396
lol

>when the level you just did stands up and fights you

>>8248040
Yeah Galamoth is pathetic

>>8246090
I hate this meme format

>>8241065
>Galamoth
Reminder this asshole is behind everything in Castlevania

>>8248494
>hey anon why do you hate this meme format
>the format:

>>8243521
What does his pink belly button taste like?

>>8248507
dino-sour

>>8241065

>>8247190
I recall playing the first one or two levels and him not shutting up about "tastes like chicken!"
side note: are there any other decent games like painkiller? I feel like it bridges the Serious Sam enemy count with the Quake encounter design in a way that wasn't really replicated. I've tried some of the modern boomer shooters but they never quite seemed to match the near-perfect cohesion that Painkiller achieves.

>>8248878
no
the best you can do is doom mods. "slaughter-lite" is the genre with painkiller style encounters

>>8248504
I thought that was Death? He was behind everything?
Also wasn't Galgamoth the baddie in Kid Drac?

>>8241094
came here to post this

>>8241160
Super aleste has one too.

>>8246004
underrated

>>8248494
It's essentially from reddit, so it makes sense that it's so despicable.

>>8241550
>SOULESS TWEAKED BOSS ODOLWA

>>8245396
lol

>>8240949
I don't. 6th gen had distinct sensibilities compared to the gens dominated by standards set in the 7th.

>>8248079
there are only 2 ways to fight galamoth
>fairly, to lose
>with cheese (Beryl Circlet, donkey punching, etc), to win

>>8248929
The 3ds version changed him? I never played that one.

>>8249053
or you could just not be a faggot and beat him fairly

>>8240949
Can relate. I grew up with PS3/PS4 but to me, not even PS1 feels truly "retro".

>>8240949
Because it's not. 5th gen + Dreamcast, everything after should be on /v/.

>>8248903
Death is his own man, Kid Dracula established Galamoth's the real big bad.

>>8241075
Gay

>>8250592
No, you.

>>8250443
>Death is his own man
He's Dracula's hanger-on and a complete tool.

>>8249187
Yeah among a lot other incredibly pointless changes, it tweaks all major boss battles (some of them to infamous extremes).

It's a shame because they were completely unnecessary changes and the OoT remake was great and extremely faithful in comparison.

>>8240949
you niggas are all baiting for the Z word aren't you

>>8240949
I remember when the PS1 and N64 were new and hot shit, it was truly something, and I remember when the PS2 was the new hotness. That was a long fucking time ago though, a really, REALLY long time ago, it's an old, old console now, and many trends present during Gen 6 would be soon dead and gone by Gen 7.

>>8249053
lel I beat him on the first try without all that shit, all you need to do is time the fart cloud a bit to dodge some attacks

>>8251110
Riveting tale cuz

>>8240949
PS2 had plenty of classic 2d games and pre-5th gen genres, and no store/DLC. It's harder to accept 7th gen as retro even though it's 15 years ago, it's the beginning of modern gaming

>>8243521
>that's Kraid

>>8250982
He is, but still his own man.
Just like Ridley in the Metroid series, who may have been on Raven Beak's payroll too.

>>8240949
get used to it zoomer homo because it is retro

>>8241075
Retro doesn’t mean “old” though. It’s like saying “golden age”.

>>8240949
FPBP

>>8250443
>Kid Dracula established

>>8252872
No it's not, that's a definition that only you know.

enemies in starfox were huge...also the snowman in DKC 3 (forgot his name)

This guy was pretty big, compared to every other enemy in the game.

Posting 2D games is easy mode. How about the giant sewer monster in Shadows of the Empire, felt huge because you got the ability to float all around it

>>8254229
This guy was more awesomer than Medusa and Hades, fuck Uprising zoomers have to say.

>>8252852
Wow, I remember that Dark Falz thread a couple months back.

Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.

Robo-Gulp can huff gasoline and set fire to the local junkyard, the fact this thing was even coded with AI pisses me off to this day.

Ripto was fun though.

3rd Birthday. If I remember correctly the last boss before transformation was the biggest one, but can't find an image.

And the ones in The Ocean Hunter. It's an arcade game, so even harder to find pics. What's funny is that the Kraken is pretty small when compared to some other ones.

>>8245396
lol

>>8245396
lol

>>8240949
6th gen is just allowed here, doesn't mean it's retro

>>8256106
HEIL HITLER

>>8256106
Wolfenstein 3D or Bionic Commando? There's loads more games where he's the final boss. Thread material.

Was XMvsSF the first to have a really big boss in a fighting game?

>>8256106
>huge retro bosses
>literally 5'9" manlet
pffftahahahah

>>8256106
This dude was great in Wolf3D, rest of the game is shit

>>8252927
More like two days of epic meals

>>8249246
ninja you are still in the process of growing up

>>8256338
I am 100% sure this fucking boss fight awakened something in me

>>8256193
Adolf Chungus

>>8256106
based

>>8240949
I grew up on N64 and don't consider it "retro", yet here we were.

>>8249539
it came out 21 years ago at what point would you consider it to be retro or old

>>8257945
It's old yes but to ME (not saying it's definitive) hardware made after 2000 won't belong in the same era as pre-2000 hardware. 6th gen is definitely the transition period because Dreamcast feels retro (keep in mind its main competition during its lifespan was PS1 and N64, not PS2) yet Gamecube and Xbox feel modern to me.

>>8257517
Yeah I think 4th gen was the last retro generation, but I guess the pre-2000 rule still made some sense, or at least was practical. This whole "let's include 6th gen, oh and 2007 games like Crysis as retro" is just tarded

>>8257945
At no point. Are you being stupid on purpose? Are you deliberately misunderstanding the conflict here?

1. Some people consider '/vr/' to be a fixed category of games that will never change.
2. Some people consider '/vr/' to be "any game older than current by X years."
3. Some people think that the people in the first category cannot possibly have any valid or objective reason for any category to be distinct from group 2.

Group 1 is the smartest and correct.
Group 2 are generic unthinking normalfags who enjoy listening to Britney Spears and Katy Perry at the local bar's retro night.
Group 3 are drooling retards who have trouble working the toaster in their mother's kitchen.

Note that there's technically a group 4, which is people who don't give a shit at all about definitions, just want to talk about PS2 games on a slow board, and will argue as dishonestly and deceptively as necessary to get what they want.

>>8258580
>Note that there's technically a group 4, which is people who don't give a shit at all about definitions, just want to talk about PS2 games on a slow board, and will argue as dishonestly and deceptively as necessary to get what they want.
Muhahaha.

>>8248878
Resistance: battle out of hell, seemed similar and came at a similar time.

>>8240949
You are correct.

>>8259036
I can't find any game by that name, and since Battle out of Hell is the name of the first Painkiller expansions I have a hunch you're thinking of a different game. It wouldn't happen to be Hellforces, would it? https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/hellforces
Incidentally, I also remembered Dreamkiller, which I just discovered was made by the devs of Overdose (who also made the stealth game Cold War, which is news to me) https://www.mobygames.com/game/dreamkiller

>>8253662
test

>>8260431
That bossfight sounds like a Metallica song the whole time.

>>8241136
Cool design and good choice of colors. This is a NES game right?

>>8245396
jej

>>8261628
Any other games that do this "boss fight where you literally can't see what the boss looks like even after it's over" thing?

>>8261603
I'm the only person I've ever known to have owned that game.

>>8245396
lol

>>8256106
Great in all ways
Based Anon

Big Enough

>>8261894
Turtles In Time

>>8261628
>>8261894
Stretch Panic had one. The boss is trying to break into the room you're in, and if it does, you instantly lose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg-Flm0SANA

>>8246541
Wtf are you even doing on this board if you cant tell?

>>8261628
what game

>>8263062
The Simpsons arcade game

>>8249246
>PS4
What the fuck

aren't huge bosses the rule rather than the exception in most non-competition based games?

>>8264297
No

That little red bird is an huge dragon

Sprite so massive he actually steps over the text box

It was unusual to see screen filling bosses on the SNES.