/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8935542
There's like 100+ genuinely great games on GBA. Tons of great games that are either totally unique or were an original port that was better or unique in some way

>>8935542
it was the bomb back then, but looking back at it i now realize it had a few really deep flaws like a terrible sound chip, games needing a gamma massacre due to the lack of screen light for most people and a real lack of X/Y buttons to port all SNES games to it

most/all these things were fixed on the DS

>aged
Kill yourself cancerous subhuman

>>8935610
except it's literal definition of "aged". all those cut down resolution ports of SNES games and fighters were cool back then, but todays hardly anyone wants or plays them. same with other "cut down" games like isometric Tony Hawk. if this isn't the definition of "didn't stand the test of time", I don't know what is.

>>8935542
i think it's pretty good
the ports kinda suck now sure and the ds fixes its technical issues, but the original games are still really solid, i don't think the lack of buttons for instance affects those much since the games were built around it
>>8935638
he has a bot to tell him whenever someone uses the word "ages" or "remake", don't mind him

>>8935554
The chip itself was fine, Nintendo fucked up by releasing a crappy official audio driver.

>>8935638
isometric tony hawk was the shit. my whole school loved it

Still enjoy my GBA SP with EZ Flash Omega today. It's nice to have a hand that you can just pick and actually get in your pocket.

For me it's not just GBA. I have no urge to revisit any handheld games.

>Sonic Advance
Why? I can emulate the SMS and Genesis Sonic games on anything.

>Mario world ports on GBA
>Gimped Tekken, Spyro, and Crash Bandicoot games on GBA
>Gimped PS2 racing games on PSP
>gimped GTA ports on PSP
>gimped N64 games on DS
No reason to revisit these. Though, God of War on PSP is pretty awesome

>>8936993
GBA SP is my ideal handheld in terms of form factor. It's just so pocketable.

>>8935542
As someone who traveled / moved around a lot, absolutely mind-blowing at the time ... once the afterburner mod came out. Everyone I know either got afterburner or dropped it until the SP came out. Everyone shits on the SNES ports now but at the time, walking around with portable SNES games -- including huge titles like FF and BoF -- was a huge plus. No one at the time gave two shits about the sound chip stuff or the color issues on the frontlit units. It literally did not cross my mind.

Looking back, the lineup is still wild for specific genres. If you are into strategy, FFTA, two Fire Emblems, and two Advance Wars? That's nuts.

>>8937057
And Tactics Ogre please forgive me.

Knights of Lodis > FFTA

Recommend me some rpgs, but any games will do

>>8935542
still the comfiest handheld ever made, no idea why companies seem to have forgot how to make handhelds ergonomic

It sold far better and got way more games than it had any right to considering it was technically superceded by the DS within three years (even though it sold for longer). I appreciate some of the experiences you can have on it (although even then a lot of the console ports are overrated and rather gimped mostly for screen resolution reasons) but I'm a bit critical of how many corners were cut on it (capabilities for crude 3D but not in any worthwhile way, practically all 3D games on it are dogshit, shitty sound quality, comparatively low screen resolution still not allowing for unaltered fifth and sixth gen console ports, something that even the DS would be guilty of). All in all a solid but flawed platform offering some good times but generally overrated in retrospect.

you're right that it had a ton of shovel ware and chances are if you had a GBA back in the day you had some shitty games for it. but in retrospect being able to to see all the reviews, watch videos about hidden gems etc., it's probably the best portable system ever made.

>>8935542
I feel the opposite of you. I didn't like it that much when it came out but I became a fan after playing GBA roms on my DS because of all the unique games it has. Tell me a library with more variety than the GBA. You can't

>>8935542
Good.
/thread.

>>8935542
>>8935638
>>8935654
Games don't age. It's not a living entity and it's not something than can oxidize and/or rust.

Work on your vocabulary.

>>8935542
>what do you think of GBA
Fantastic handheld, tons of great games
>and how it has aged?
Better than GameCube imho, if only for the fact that it has actual 2D games on it

Ultimately it's held back by a few things mostly related to its handheld form factor, but otherwise it's a great system. Just kind of wish there were less SNES ports and more original games on it, but at least we eventually sort of got that with the DS

>>8937313
work on your own vocalubalry, figloo nigloo.
if you take an old game and realize there is virtually no point in playing it today, it has aged poorly. if your only excuse for its shortfalls is "but for the time it was great", it has aged poorly. if something is a flawed and shitty port made entirely obsolete by a different version of the game, it has aged poorly.
here, you learned something new today. now go be a smartass somewhere else

>>8935542
I feel like it didn't quite live up to its potential of a 16bit console in your pocket. A lot of mangled ports and shovelware that drowned out the small collection of quality titles.

>>8935542
It did pretty good for a system that lasted about 3 years.

>>8935542
way too many games got sacrificed to the barely fuctional 3d gimmick, though I guess if you hand a few junior programmers a project they'll be more interested in chasing a technical challenge than making just another 2d game.

>>8937626
GBA got many of its best games after the DS launched. It didn't die immediately.

>>8935542
The Intelligent Systems TRPGs are phenomenal

>>8937313
Work on your comprehension skills and assess your life priorities. OP's meaning has been clear and clarified at this point, language has served its purpose now and you're deliberately misunderstanding to be ornery for no gain. If your English teachers could see you being a pedant right now after meaning was established, they'd be ashamed.

The GBA has probably one of the best libraries in gaming history and it emulates amazingly well on smartphones.

Max Payne is still one of my favourite GBA games. I also really loved Zero Mission, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, Minish Cap, and a few others.

>>8935542

They really missed an opportunity to do something great by putting only 2 face buttons on it. Should be 4.

>>8935542
GBC and GBA both have much more shovelware over quality compared to the original GB. I mostly play my GBC but usually GB games.

>>8935545
I downloaded Minish Cap, Metroid Fusion, F Zero, and a tmnt fighting game - sun someting.

what else should I get?

>>8938059
Aria of Sorrow, Wario Land 4. If you like strategies—Advance Wars and Fire Emblem

>>8937239
>Tell me a library with more variety than the GBA. You can't
actually I disagree with this. yes, totally, you'll find some good games in most genres. but doesn't mean they're all good.
2D platformers, strategies, RPGs and puzzles were well represented. but not like everything was perfect either. you'll see a bit of a lack of something like Contra, or deep RPGs. GBA Sonic wasn't on the level of Genesis, GBA Mega Man wasn't on the level of MMX and the NES games, etc. not that many cool genre defying 2D action games like Umihara Kawase either.
as for the rest? i don't know. fighters and FPS were obviously gimped by the system. racing? maybe mario kart was alright, and V-Rally if you want cool graphics, but otherwise not that great. not so great of a SHMUP library. i could go on.

>>8937775
that in-game music is forever burned in my brain

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

>>8937775
cool but it plays like ass.

>>8938059
metroid zero mission, mother 3, ninja-five-o, warioware

>>8938059
golden sun series, boktai series, megaman zero series, mario and luigi.