/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9575513
Ah, it’s the daily SpongeBob thread.
Zoomers are a blessing.

>>9575516
Actually this isn't specifically a spongebob thread. Employee of the Month is just the game I used as an example. I'll post a deeper cut.

>based
>SpongeBob
Yep, it's zoomzoom time

>>9575513
This one is genuinely great if you love the IP. Weird people only talk about the shitty platformers

>>9575519
That’s fair, I rescind my previous statement and offer you the deepest licensed cut of all time.

>>9575523
Literally the best cartoon of all time. Why are you pretending to be 50?

>>9575513
Unironically who would think to make a Spongebob game a point and click adventure, let alone make an entire series of games exclusive to PC. It probably could have handled a 3D platformer, Morrowind came out the year this did, but they actively made the choice to make it this way. Bizarre.

>>9575513
I actually own this game, it's probably the single Spongebob-related item I have. Got it as a kid in the early 2000's. Anyway, my favorite licensed game is probably pic related, followed by Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin and The Grinch for GBC.

>>9575543
This post implies that I think Morrowind is a platformer, I meant that PC games at this point in time were more than capable of handling that kind of game. Morrowind was a weird example.

>>9575546
Who approved this cover? This is some guys first time ever exposure to photo editing software.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DufUasL7mnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klegZgovTbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1IENUmgzgE

>>9575563
It's funny because it's specifically the SEGA CD version they did this with, all of the other covers just have the single image of Arnold without any weird effects

>>9575563
It was the 90s, that cover was probably just handled by the son of the manager in charge of packaging.

>>9575543
>NOOOO, make more generic shit platformers!

This board is garbage since the rule change.

>>9575683
MODS=FAGS was true 20 years ago, and it's true today. You know the lazy sons of bitches only caved because they didn't feel like deleting every off-topic thread.

>>9575683
>>9575802
You whiny niggers are still here? I thought you'd said you leave 4chan but it seems to me despite your tantrums you still won't leave

>>9575513
Post ONE licensed game not based on anything. You literally can't

>>9575681
I'm not saying it's a bad thing, it probably would have been easier to make a generic platformer. If you played the game, they clearly cared about both the project and the series. This carried over to Battle for Bikini Bottom though, which is what I was thinking about when talking about it being a platformer.

>>9575804
>NNOOOOOOOO DON'T TELL THE TRUTH BAWWWWWW
Kill yourself, shitlet. The Dreamcast shouldn't even be considered retro.

>>9575832
keep crying nigger

>>9575815

Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin was probably the 1st video game to do the character justice, and for that it deserves a lot of credit. Apparently 2/3 of Genesis owners had this at some point, it was a system seller for SOA, following their strategy of acquiring popular IPs to rival what Nintendo had to offer, before Sonic came along at least. I think this was the 1st time where Peter Parker was somewhat incorporated into the mechanics, with the photographs that make you money so you can affort to make your web fluid, it adds depth in both the lore and gameplay, so it's really a quite welcome feature. Another thing that this did, that the previous Spider-Man adaptations didn't, was having an actual story that develops as it goes along, instead of some text in the manual or an opening cutscene to set the plot, you have cutscenes between all levels that show Spider-Man's thought process as to where he should go next to find the keys to disarm Kingpin's bomb and it's great to see, it's immersive and captures the feeling of reading a comic book more than anything that came before it. One more thing I love, that few Spider-Man video games did as well as this one, was the atmosphere, it feels dark, not too dark or edgy, nothing like that, but serious and grim, you feel the stakes through the music and graphics.

>>9575683
Nigga things get really funny once GTA V is allowed here in a few years

>>9576194
At that point I think it's best to create a new board, that way we'll have one for the 6th and 7th console generations, while having another to cover everything up to the 5th, like /vr/ used to be.

>>9576194
We need to have /vr/ for all of the "retro" discussion in the future, and something like /vintage/ so that all of the Atari 2600, NES, Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Gear, Super Nintend, Mega Drive, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Saturn and Dreamcast discussion isn't overshadowed and pushed to the side.

>>9576212
Why doesn't the rule just simply stop here? Going anywhere above for generations now would be completely overboard.

>>9576001
Oh look, it's the Spider-Autist, shine on you crazy diamond.

>>9578125
>Oh look, it's the Spider-Autist.
Yup! It's me alright.
>Shine on you crazy diamond.
Will do, anon!

>>9578101
I think retro is basically defined as "older than 20 years but not older than 40", but clearly this board doesn't really adhere to that since we can talk about games likes Pong just fine

But yeah, the biggest and most obvious game design revolution besides 3D took place in the late 90s and early 2000s, since then a lot of things got standardized and exceedingly formulaic with today's games really just being pure crash grabs. There is hardly a difference between PS3 games and PS4 games in terms of game design so demarcations would lose all meaning if we allowed even newer consoles than we do right now

The way it is right now makes the most sense probably for the next 30 years. If the word "retro" becomes an issue to people, then literally just rename the board

>>9578879
the word Retro is the obvious problem but instead of thinking people here just going to scream and shitpost forever, putting th blame somewhere else

>>9575513
Based on fucking what?

>>9575531
Ren & Stimpy for queermos.

>>9576001
That's not how his web shooters work, he can't just open palm it. Fuck whoever made this shitty cover to death.

>>9580039
He could be between shoot and swing, spinning his hand around to grab the web strand.

>>9575683
If you’re old enough to remember playing any 4th gen or earlier games when they released you are too old to still be on 4chan and you need to reevaluate your life.

>>9580247
You'll still be here in 10 years time dipshit

>>9580337
Strike a nerve, gramps? It’s not too late to turn your life around you know.

>>9580349
young person use internet = good
old person use internet = bad

/vr/ is a boomer board ya little faggot.

>>9580039
>>9580069
I think it might be because the cover is a clear copy of The Amazing Spider-Man #301's cover, maybe they felt that simply changing the lenses on the mask wasn't enough to differentiate it and chose to change the hand motion aswell.

>>9580618
I mean, at least the anatomy is better than McFarlane's. But still, the fingers are in the wrong position.

>>9580039
>>9580069
>>9580618
>>9580640
>having a box art in the USA wherein the main character is clearly giving you the satanic horns symbol

Most parents of the time would not have known how innocuous the "spidey palm thing" was and would have immediately associated the gesture with satan, it makes sense to clean it up a little from a marketing standpoint ESPECIALLY for North America, even though even Japan and Europe got the same art.
Remember this was quite a few years before the Raimi blockbuster films and the finer knowledge of little things like exactly how Spiderman's web slinging works was in the realm of loser nerds who read comics.

On a similar note I had to convince a friend that Spiderman originally used mechanical webslings with fluid that Parker had to manufacture himself and that the organic web shit was made up for the movies, he swore black and blue that Peter Parker canonically always shot web out of his wrists like jism.

>>9580708
>Most parents of the time would not have known how innocuous the "spidey palm thing" was and would have immediately associated the gesture with satan, it makes sense to clean it up a little from a marketing standpoint ESPECIALLY for North America, even though even Japan and Europe got the same art.
>Remember this was quite a few years before the Raimi blockbuster films and the finer knowledge of little things like exactly how Spiderman's web slinging works was in the realm of loser nerds who read comics.
I've never thought of that possibility before. A really good observation, anon!

>>9575563
I'd fucking love this cover if the square on the bottom left was also transparent.

>>9575513

>>9578879
>I think retro is basically defined as "older than 20 years but not older than 40"
According to fucking who? Faggots here keep saying "muh 20 years" without any support whatsoever.

>>9575513
>>9575590
Basado.

>>9575516
>>9575523
Ask Mootwo for the board to be split (or to go back on the change).

Never forget what they took from us, Scoobybros

>>9581562
This game is pretty underrated. I had no idea it existed until a few years back and it's pretty good.

>>9575513
>Oh, don't mind me... just the best licensed video game of all time passing by.

>>9581562
What did they take? Absolutely nothing, there's nothing stopping you from enjoying old media and ignoring whatever is being shat out these days.
it's the entire premise of this board.

>>9575590
This was a surprisingly good game

>>9575513
Capcom's disney games. My dream is making Mickey's Magical Quest 4 featuring Mickey and Goofy for snes.