Great classic games that no one on /vr/ has played

[Anonymous No.10350250]

I'll go first, the best pirate game of all time.

[Anonymous No.10350253]

soldiers at wat
>X-Com set in WW2

[Anonymous No.10350260]

>the best point and click adventure you've never played

[Anonymous No.10350264]

>>10350250
Swashbucklers is unironically better. Almost the same but with better combat and on-foot exploration. Even better music and imo better sea fights

No idea why critics hated it

[Anonymous No.10350265]

better the Armored Core or Mech Warrior

[Anonymous No.10350271]

>>10350250
Love the Xbox version of this game. Never played megadrive version. I wonder if it's as good?

[Anonymous No.10350273]

I'd say people have played this but it's the best vertical acroller I've played.

[Anonymous No.10350276]

[Anonymous No.10350280]

Goemon 2 thread

[Anonymous No.10350290]

DOOM RPG IS CANNON

[Anonymous No.10350295]

>>10350264
never played it but loved Priates! so will check it out. Is it on GOG or abandonware?

>>10350271
OG Pirates! was good for it's time but hasn't ages well. Stick to the remake imo

>>10350280
loved this game as a child.

[Anonymous No.10350327]

>>10350295
>never played it but loved Priates! so will check it out. Is it on GOG or abandonware?
PS2 emulator. Though don't get me wrong, it might be just me being weird or I haven't played the games long enough

From what I've played, though, the on-foot combat/duels in Pirates! can be easily cheesed with parries, kinda undermining that whole aspect of the game. Maybe that gets a lot harder to do later in the game, though? Not sure. Just seemed a bit easy to get a fleet and become overpowered and then just run between the ethnic cericatures and do quests for them

[Anonymous No.10350342]

Willy Wombat on Saturn is kewl. Like a top down/isometric-ish Crash Bandicoot with a wannabe Sonic main character and some combat that feels like fighting enemy waves in Gauntlet.

[Anonymous No.10350392]

I used to play the holy fuck out of Pirates.
>get hands on Royal Sloop ASAP
>outfit the fuck out of it with all the extras
>outrun all other ships in combat and wear them down with grape shot until they surrender or count gets low enough to board
>grab a bunch of galleons
>load up on crew
>convert a few towns away from spain to the nation(s) of your choice
>cruise the southeast portion of the world waiting to ambush the silver train
>sell off all galleons to lose crew over 140 when splitting treasure
>clear all pirates and pirate treasures, lost cities of gold, and family members
>take down the big bad
>retire as governor with duke ranking in the three non-spain nations
Only thing I could never do is the fucking dancing mini-game, so I never managed to get a governor's daughter's hand in marriage.

[Anonymous No.10350401]

>>10350250
Wasn't this one of the best-selling games of that year?

[Anonymous No.10350410]

>>10350276
This game is still good.

[Anonymous No.10350414]

>>10350250
Unironically one of the greatest remakes of all time. God I wish that that's what Sea of Thieves was

[Anonymous No.10350424]

Small Soldiers multiplayer was great
too lazy to find a multiplayer video so here's a longplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsIliPNrskQ

[Anonymous No.10350428]

>>10350392
Xbox or pc version? I cannot play this game on k+m.

[Anonymous No.10350516]

>>10350392
>Only thing I could never do is the fucking dancing mini-game
Oh yeah that sucked too

[Anonymous No.10350519]

>>10350424
This was fun but man this PS1 draw distance

[Anonymous No.10350527]

>>10350295
I like OG Pirates but a lot of that might be nostalgia. I'd rather play the '04 remake than the Gold remake though.

[Anonymous No.10350545]

>>10350392
>Only thing I could never do is the fucking dancing mini-game, so I never managed to get a governor's daughter's hand in marriage

I actually managed to charm one of the big tiddy governor's daughters and took her hand in marriage. For 14-year-old me it was a close proxy to actually having sex. Had a good fap over that one.

[Anonymous No.10350570]

>>10350260
Is that Zork: Grand Inquisitor?

[Anonymous No.10350578]

I don't think Sid Meier's Pirates is that good. Way too simple and repetitive. I recommend modded Sea Dogs or Patrician 3.

[Anonymous No.10350593]

choose your governor's daughter, /vr/

[Anonymous No.10350598]

>>10350273
Looks neat. What game?

[Anonymous No.10350606]

>>10350428
PC, with a pirate copy. Arrr.

>>10350545
You'll be glad to know there is a mod for the PC version(or was) that let you replace their dresses with topless versions. I think there's another mod to make the barmaids topless. Sadly enough, most of the game is hardcoded so not much real modding is possible. We won't be sailing a different area anytime soon.

>>10350327
Your character's reaction speed during swordfights is tied to crew morale and age of your character.

[Anonymous No.10350607]

>>10350593
I would love for a modern remake that allowed for same sex relations. It would really appeal to audiences today.

[Anonymous No.10350615]

>>10350593
C64 version somehow looks the hottest.

[Anonymous No.10350663]

>>10350327
>between the ethnic cericatures and do quests for them
Your kind should go back to /v/.

[Anonymous No.10350668]

[Anonymous No.10350717]

>>10350250
That's Sid Meier's Pirates, right? I'm pretty sure I played that on gamecube or xbox. It was okay. Never got the sister back.

[Anonymous No.10350890]

>>10350598
Tyrian 2000

[Anonymous No.10350901]

>>10350615
You're just saying that because you're an oil driller

[Anonymous No.10350904]

>>10350606
>Sadly enough, most of the game is hardcoded so not much real modding is possible. We won't be sailing a different area anytime soon.
Let's be real, if you want new Pirates content these days, you basically just have to play SoT. Don't get me wrong, I actually like SoT, but it's not the same.

[Anonymous No.10350920]

from the creator and dev team of X-COM, models and cutscenes are claymation
you can summon tornadoes and lightning, turn people into stone, summon a ton of monsters, set places on fire with fire propagation. you can create an army of phoenixes to circle an enemy mage, chain electrocute them all to death and have them all explode into a ball of fire, all sorts of cool shit
use pcgamingwiki to get it running (just gotta rename a file or something), can be downloaded off of abandonware sites too

here's a good video on it:
https://youtu.be/nW4H9W8bj7s
also a great soundtrack from Afro Celt Sound System:
https://youtu.be/gWAtj_VH-18

[Anonymous No.10350936]

>>10350663
Ethnic caricatures is objectively the best way to describe those characters, you triggered fatass

[Anonymous No.10350948]

>>10350260
>the hammer to break the glass is behind the glass

[Anonymous No.10350954]

>>10350265
based heavy gear appreciator

[Anonymous No.10350959]

>>10350265
Ok I'll bite

[Anonymous No.10350962]

>>10350290
Acceptable

[Anonymous No.10351132]

>>10350593
2004>Amiga>C64>Gold

[Anonymous No.10351152]

>>10350276
This game was my teenage years, man.

[Dave No.10351160]

>>10350273
everybody with a pc or Amiga played Tyrian ffs

[Anonymous No.10351210]

>>10350392
>get hands on Royal Sloop ASAP
true patrician pirates use war canoes

[Anonymous No.10351223]

>>10350570
yes
>>10350948
>that's the joke

[Anonymous No.10351230]

>>10350593
2004 all day
>Dutch are the hottest
also I lol'd when the French are black

>>10350920
didn't mandalore do a video on this?

>>10350954
played the hell out if this game when k was younger. I don't think you could ever win in skirmish mode tho which pissed me off.

>>10351160
did they tho? also you can play full game for free on your phone now. >>10350890 >>10350598

Best flying sim
>actual fun combat
>cool damage system
>cool progression system
>moving front lines
>made 1990
>pic related

[Anonymous No.10351248]

>>10350920
really cool game. Kind of like a spiritual successor to Chaos and Lords of Chaos.

[Anonymous No.10351258]

>>10350260
I loved this game. The puzzles were a bit easy (compared to things like Myst) but the cutscenes and ambience were fantastic. I wish there was an upscaled version out there.

[Anonymous No.10351278]

>>10351258
there is a good version on GOG that plays well and is cheap enough.

[Anonymous No.10351313]

>>10350250
This game is great although i've heard it's basically impossible to actually beat. Sailing around the Caribbean is comfy. I would cheese the shit out of everything in a sloop and just out manoeuvre galleons

[Anonymous No.10351324]

>>10351278
The Gog version is just the old version with scumvvm's z-engine, videos still look like shit unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.10351586]

>>10350392
I think pause scumming was the only way I ever succeeded at dancing, anyway never liked how you had to settle down eventually wanted to roam the seas forever.

[Anonymous No.10351823]

after playing sid meier's pirates it just made appreciate sea dogs 2 new horizons mod more than before

[Anonymous No.10352121]

>>10350265
this game was fucking brilliant
couldn't get hg2 working because it kept crashing because of gpu support being so shit in the 90s

[Anonymous No.10352187]

>>10351313
>This game is great although i've heard it's basically impossible to actually beat
Why, is it an insane grind or something?

[Anonymous No.10352335]

>>10350250
>classic games
>classic
>it's a remake that came decades after the original

[Anonymous No.10352474]

>>10352335
>almost 20 years old
>hurr durr not retro...

>>10352187
>>10351313
>>10350904
winning the game isn't hard and beating dancing mini-game is easy once you get the shoes. Watch your partners hand and time it with the beat of the music you casuals... you've never player Perapa the rappa?

>>10351210
you can't sail a canoe
>flag galleon FTW

[Anonymous No.10352514]

An amazing SNES game that I don't think anyone ever finished.

>>10350401
>/v/ or /vr/ play 19 year old games that sell well....

[Anonymous No.10352551]

>that 3rd person shooter where you can view yourself through the camera man behind you, but also shoot and kill him, but also turn into a devil woman and murder everything. And you're in a game show.

[Anonymous No.10352561]

An FPS/RTS hybrid where you can snipe enemies ans steal their vehicles....

[Anonymous No.10352835]

>>10352514
I did however beat the PC-98 original version earlier today

[Anonymous No.10353391]

>>10351210
I prefer the Royal Sloop over the War Canoe. First off, it's almost as agile as the War Canoe, so there is no real downside to upgrading. Second, it can hold far more crew than the War Canoe, making it quicker to have a successful boarding in combat, as well as quicker raising and lowering of the sails. Third, it can hold 20 cannon, allowing you to disable ships faster than the War Canoe, speeding up combat even more.
That's a lot of upsides for only a minor hit in agility and speed. You can still tack against the wind and dodge cannonball volleys in a Royal Sloop just as you can in a War Canoe. You gain cargo space, crew for boardings, and firepower, with no real downsides. War Canoes are for savages, not proper pirate admirals leading a fleet. A Royal Sloop is a proper flag ship for a pirate officer.

[Anonymous No.10353415]

>>10350250
It's basically cheating, nobody on here had a Mac. I could go on.

[Anonymous No.10353572]

>>10353391
Nta but as someone who hasn't played 2004 Pirates, what's the game's big fuckoff ship that isn't fast but can reduce other ships to rubble with a broadside volley?

[Anonymous No.10353579]

>>10350264
>Swashbucklers is unironically better
it really isn't though

[Anonymous No.10353697]

>>10353415
did you ever play Realmz??

[Anonymous No.10353698]

>>10353572
ship of the line or flag galleon

[Anonymous No.10354850]

>>10353698
Then that's what I'll use when I finally get around to playing it. I don't need to dodge, I just need to make sure I don't miss.

[Anonymous No.10354880]

>>10350276
now i will hear the tricky music all day......

[Anonymous No.10354945]

>>10350593
C64.

[Anonymous No.10355365]

>>10354850
the main bad guy has a fully decked out one so you can capture that off him and keep that as your flag ship

[Anonymous No.10355514]

>>10355365
No, he has a Flag Galleon, not a Ship of the Line. Ship's of the Line are rare and only appear when two nations are at war with each other, typically only from Wealthy towns, and never from the Spanish side. The only other ship that rare is the Mail Carrier, which only appears when a nation sends a peace treaty to another nation.

[Anonymous No.10356063]

>>10353579
>actual combat instead of a Mario Party minigame
>no licensed game QTEs
>can actually walk around in tones
>awesome art
>better visuals during sea fights
>fun abilities to unlock
>a bit of a red thread and not just "do whatever you want"
Not sure what makes you say that besides the weird dub

[Anonymous No.10356068]

>>10353579
>actual combat instead of a Mario Party minigame
>no licensed game QTEs
>can actually walk around in towns and more variety
>awesome art, making even loading screens fun to look at and helping the worldbuilding
>better visuals during sea fights
>fun abilities to unlock
>some PotC vibes
>a bit of a red thread and not just "do whatever you want"
Not sure what makes you say that besides the weird dub

[Anonymous No.10356072]

>>10356068
Oh yeah, also no annoying wind mechanics slowing you down all the time. Pirates! looks too sterile and clean to have actual atmosphere, so this isn't really serving anything

[Anonymous No.10356602]

I always loved pulling into the pirate havens and listening to their theme music. pure SOVL
>https://youtu.be/GPexNX0bwQs?si=XUNb6uTJhA7kluoC

[Anonymous No.10356604]

>>10355514
Interesting, did not know this.

[Anonymous No.10356630]

>>10351160
This.

[Anonymous No.10356780]

>>10355514
>Ship's of the Line are rare and only appear when two nations are at war with each other, typically only from Wealthy towns
Tbf, Ships of the Line were extremely expensive and timely to build so no one was going to launch one unless war had been declared. That's historically accurate.

[Anonymous No.10356784]

>>10350264
The Russian game?

[Anonymous No.10357892]

>>10356784
I think so. Doesn't feel Russian at all. I'm not trans so I don't care if it was made by fat Americans, Arabs, Koreans or Russians, though

[Anonymous No.10358183]

Never seen this game discussed.

It was an MMO with the skill leveling system of Runescape and with entirely customized servers and worlds like Graal Online.

[Anonymous No.10358204]

>>10350250
whats the name of this game? why even make a thread like this if youre not going to say it?

[Anonymous No.10358214]

Loved this game as a child, took me years to find it again.

[Anonymous No.10358458]

Is it true you can win every swordfight by just spamming thrust because it's effectively uncounterable?

>>10357892
No I mean is it the one that takes place during the US Civil War? Because there's a pirate game called Swashbucklers during the PS2 era that fits that description.

>>10358204
Reading the thread should make it really obvious

[Anonymous No.10358462]

I played this game for the first time this year. It's called "Tayumi.". It's by an artist called Pawn, it's from 2003, and it's freeware.
It's essentially a little board game with a story. It starts off simple but by the end I was fairly impressed. It's about an hour long in total.
You have to know Japanese to play it though, it's never been translated.

[Anonymous No.10358464]

>>10350250
Just two months ago I took one of those Indian War canoes and fucked up the entirety of the Spanish Empire. Thank you very much.

Love Pirates! Gold Edition, and I like this one just as much.

[Anonymous No.10358527]

>>10358458
>No I mean is it the one that takes place during the US Civil War?
Not what you asked, troon

[Anonymous No.10358668]

>>10358214
this looks so silly!! whats it called??

[Anonymous No.10358721]

>>10350273
best vertical shooter right here

[Anonymous No.10358823]

>>10358458
>Is it true you can win every swordfight by just spamming thrust because it's effectively uncounterable?
Thrust is your quickest attack, and on the easier difficulties it's almost unblockable until you get over 50 years old. As you turn up the difficulty, the AI gets better about parrying a thrust and responding with one of their own. On the medium difficulty, your thrust is pretty much going to be countered whenever your crew morale is below 50%, or once you get over the age of about 40 if you don't have the swordsmanship perk. Having both the swordsmanship perk and the well balanced swords pretty much is a requirement on the higher difficulties if you ever plan on winning any swordfights.
Anyone saying the thrust is unbeatable played through the game on easy. It's more accurate to say it's your main weapon in swordfights, since you can usually land one immediately after countering a lower or upper strike before they have a chance to block. On the harder difficulties, doing a quick thrust after countering a wide swing is your only viable method of attack as anything else will be blocked or blocked and countered.

[Anonymous No.10358839]

one of the reasons why I keep a mac emulator around is so I can re-play this.

[Anonymous No.10358864]

>>10358839
what's that?

[Anonymous No.10358878]

>>10358527
I'm trying to narrow down which game you're talking about. And the Russian part is relevant because if so then the game was made by Akella aka the studio behind Postal 3. And anyone that makes Postal 3 shouldn't be trusted to make a quality product.

[Anonymous No.10358907]

>>10358458
I assume its sid meyers Pirates, but there are several editions mentioned here - i played one version a while back but it looked nothing like that

[Anonymous No.10358957]

>>10358878
You were already told that they only published Postal 3 in another thread two weeks ago. They are the Sea Dogs devs. You are obviously just obsessed with Russia because too much Twitter for you

[Anonymous No.10358961]

>>10358864
3 In Three.

[Anonymous No.10358973]

>>10358957
>You were already told that they only published Postal 3 in another thread two weeks ago.
I never brought up Postal 3 in /vr/ before today
>You are obviously just obsessed with Russia because too much Twitter for you
Please, they're my country's neighbor, my hate for them is much more personal than your internet drama

[Anonymous No.10359001]

>>10352514
>An amazing SNES game that I don't think anyone ever finished.
I did once as a 4-legged dino since I refused to go mammal. It was strangely hard but manageable with health regen through mutations and evo points grinding.

[Anonymous No.10359009]

>>10358668
It's probably Planet Blupi.

[Anonymous No.10359034]

>>10358973
>I never brought up Postal 3 in /vr/ before today
Kys

[Anonymous No.10359038]

>>10352514
I've beaten it twice. Originally without cheats, with infinite EVO points the second time around. The game has weird difficulty spikes, and the last few areas are amazingly bullshit. Mainly the bosses are oddly difficult given how easy the game is otherwise. Also grindy as hell.
Fun Fact: When you get the quest to defeat the insects in Chapter 2, you can kill the ones who gave you the quest. They turn into meat like you usually eat for EVO points. But the devs actually programmed their meat to do 999HP damage if you eat it.
If you agree with Rogan in the part where you're supposed to help the whales, you get a unique "bad end". Kinda funny.
I can't remember if the martians show up in the ending if you didn't find their UFO in Chapter 5 and speak with them, can anyone confirm?

[Anonymous No.10359072]

Best. Trek. Game. Evar.
And it's been downhill since then.

[Anonymous No.10359082]

[Anonymous No.10359106]

>>10359001
>>10359038
Now have you played the original game?

[Anonymous No.10359119]

>>10358823
What about the taunt mechanic?

Is it useful in high difficulty play?

[Anonymous No.10359142]

>>10359038
>If you agree with Rogan in the part where you're supposed to help the whales, you get a unique "bad end".
He doesn't talk about that cameo much on his show

[Anonymous No.10359152]

>>10353415
I did. Post more

[Anonymous No.10360362]

>>10358823
>On the medium difficulty, your thrust is pretty much going to be countered whenever your crew morale is below 50%, or once you get over the age of about 40 if you don't have the swordsmanship perk.
If by medium you mean Adventurer, it still works, but you need to beeline for the no guns War Canoe cheese strat where you beat everything super early into the game.

[Anonymous No.10360713]

>>10359072
Try Starfleet I: The War Begins, it's like mainframe Star Trek but with added features like mines, directional shields and ability to disable and board ships. Plus you get promoted in rank as you complete missions. It had a sequel too which was even more advanced.

[Anonymous No.10360989]

Juffo-Wup is All
but you are not a part of Juffo-Wup
therefore you must cease existence.
We shall make you cease to exist, for Juffo-Wup.

[Anonymous No.10361169]

I reinstalled, who do I side with mainly
>The perfidious English
>The slimy French
>The greedy Dutch
>The evil Spanish

[Anonymous No.10361386]

>>10361169
If you aren't siding with the Spanish, you may as well consider yourself as working for the other three. Injecting yourself into fights between the others just slows your advancement in rank for the nation you attack.

[Anonymous No.10361393]

>>10361386
tbf aren't most of the mandatory fights against the Spanish? It's wierd that you can even side with them as a result.

[Anonymous No.10361567]

>>10361169
French and English are good starters. Dutch are fine, but their ports are a bit spread out at the start. Spain has the most ports and biggest cash convoys, so they make a perfect target.

>>10361393
If I recall correctly, it's actually possible to get the title of Duke for all 4 nations. You might be considered a villain, but whatever you do, they can't take back your title. So just build up the other 3 nations and then become the hero of Spain. I remember going for that plus all the other quests before age could get to me, it was a fun challenge.

[Anonymous No.10361698]

>>10352474
Fine, I'll grant that it may seem old to the board's current userbase, but why is this the "classic" and not the original it was based on, which was basically the same game and arguably better, without the disgusting playstation 3D graphics?

[Anonymous No.10361735]

I don't know how popular this was in other parts of the world but here it was pretty unknown and i loved it

[Anonymous No.10361761]

>>10361169
Always the Dutch. I carve out a little enclave in the south east that I can launch raids on the Spanish from and have my hot Dutch GFs to dance with when I return. I also take 2 of the 3 ports near Villa Hermosa in the far west so I have friendly ports to harbour in when searching for the lost cities and hunting the Baron.

>>10361567
The jesuits can grant you amnesty if you escort their brother to one of the nations that have a bounty on you. As above, I normally go Dutch first and through association I gain ranks with the French and English because they're all at war with the Spanish. Then I get amnesty and start raiding the Engliah ir French, whoever is large and with whom I have less holdings. that way you can max ranks across all nations (a lot of work though...)

[Anonymous No.10361774]

YuGiOh Power of Chaos never gets discussed here cause it gets overshadowed by the playstation games, it's really grindy so just get the torrent with all cards unlocked
you can also play multiplayer with gameranger or some other lan emulator like radmin vpn, Kaiba and Joey's game still hold up today as time capsules but Yugi's doesn't have many good cards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFndRWmQaQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ee_I6OekAo

[Anonymous No.10362169]

>>10361169
Siding with the Spanish sucks in most eras because they control most everything. Who the fuck are you going to pilfer, the dutch?

[Anonymous No.10362191]

>>10359082
Bloody hell, that brings back memories. Absolute blast of a game.

[Anonymous No.10362286]

>>10361761
>that way you can max ranks across all nations (a lot of work though...)
True, I wouldn't do that every playthrough, but once is pretty satisfying.

[Anonymous No.10362472]

I played and beat every one of these and also I have a lot of sex with women

[Anonymous No.10362537]

>>10350250
redpill me on both 87 and 04

[Anonymous No.10362556]

>>10350607
Go back

[Anonymous No.10362568]

>>10362537
Biggest difference I noticed was all ship encounters in 87/gold are pure random encounters on the map where you get a menu choice of if you want to chase them or not. In 04, they actually appear on the map and you have to chase them and get close enough to battle. 87 is more anything can happen, 04 is more actiony gameplay.

[Anonymous No.10362609]

>>10362169
If this was the East Indies (which there is a mod for that changes the setting to there) then yes the Dutch would control everything.

[Anonymous No.10362641]

>>10362169
Well it's historically accurate. There's a reason the British were so willing to let go of the 13 colonies compared to the island of Jamaica and it's because everything north of Florida was primarily considered the shit land that Spain didn't want. Which may sound silly today but back then by far the most profitable industry in the world was sugar production, and the warm, damp climate of Central and South America along with the Caribbean meant that the Spanish could maintain sugar plantations all year long instead of having to stop for the winter. From the business sense of the time, it made perfect sense to think "Spain got all the good land, we got the leftover scraps." Hence why France took the loss of Haiti so hard and why Britain never really let go of Jamaica until the empire fell apart, they were warm climate colonies that could be used for sugar plantations.

[Anonymous No.10362646]

>>10362641
Forgot to say, the British Empire only truly became the empire it was famous for being AFTER losing the 13 colonies because apparently they were very expensive to maintain without getting much actual profit out of it, which is part of why they kept raising taxes there. Once freed of that financial burden, Britain's profits went through the roof.

[Anonymous No.10363852]

>>10350250
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Ventura:_The_CD-Rom_Game

[Anonymous No.10363912]

>>10363852
Holy shit... this is real...

[Anonymous No.10363984]

NovaLogic's "MiG-29 Fulcrum." The ambience and the bleak terrain is very immersive and sells you on being alone in vast, dangerous conflict zone. The game-play is the perfect midpoint between Ace Combat 4 and DCS World. I would kill for a source-code release for this game and their F-22 game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyK2skkoHXE

[Anonymous No.10364020]

[Anonymous No.10364083]

>>10350295
>OG Pirates! was good for it's time but hasn't ages well. Stick to the remake imo
It's practically the same game with simpler graphics. There's a few features missing but the gameplay loop is the same.
>inb4 some anon goes on to list differences as if I said they were identical
>>10352187
Your character looses reaction speed as he ages, but the main villain doesn't. You can also get forced to retire before you're done with your quests.
It's basically the only major flaw in the game, although land navigation and the minigames both take some getting used to.
>>10354850
>I don't need to dodge
Getting outrun will be more of a problem.

[Anonymous No.10364383]

Am I crazy or does the wind in Pirates 2004 only ever move from East to West and never another direction?

[Anonymous No.10364558]

>>10362641
>>10362646
interesting. the Spanish brought so much gold over from the new world they caused inflation and crashed their empire.

[Anonymous No.10364562]

>>10364383
Pretty much,
One of the things about the original game was that you could easily get stuck not moving anywhere due to winds so they toned it down.

[Anonymous No.10364565]

>>10363984
that's the same developer as delta force, I wonder if it's the same engine.

>>10364383
ot goes north to south sometimes depending on where you are. never had it go west to east.

>>10364020
>cartoon Total Annihilation
no thanks.

[Anonymous No.10364829]

>>10364383
On the easiest difficulty, the wind on the world map never changes direction, in order to make navigation and travel easier for new players. If you want the wind to shift, turn up the difficulty.

[Anonymous No.10365136]

>>10364829
>easier
>good luck getting back from the mainland, lmao
I guess that's another annoyance of mine, easy mode had features added and removed so it wasn't truly preparing you for the higher difficulties. It took me a lot longer to *really* learn the minigames because of easy's flashing buttons.
All the wind never changing did was make traveling east a huge time sink in a game where that can set you back.

[Anonymous No.10365174]

>>10365136
I disagree about the wind part, since having it one set direction while traveling helps teach the player how fast their ship will sail depending on which way they face in relation to the wind, hopefully prior to entering ship to ship combat. I know in the Sloop class ships you can get pretty decent speed by sailing 45 degrees from into the wind, making a zig-zag pattern faster when traveling against the wind than sailing directly. As for the larger ships, hope you brought plenty of food. Which in turn teaches new players that they are beholden to the wind when sailing the big boats.
I consider the easiest difficulty to be the training mode, then the next difficulty up to be the Easy difficulty where you get the full mechanics of the game but still have manageable difficulty.

[Anonymous No.10365373]

chaos overlords

[Anonymous No.10365430]

>>10364829
I'm not on the easiest difficulty though, I'm on Adventurer which I think is basically default/medium

[Anonymous No.10365453]

>>10364558
That's a really, REALLY big oversimplification of what happened. But if you don't want to get too deep into the weeds on how the Price Revolution worked, yes the influx of gold and silver all at once meant that Europe wasn't really able to compensate for it quickly enough. When the money supply expands so rapidly, generally the central bank is supposed to start contracting the money supply to compensate. This causes a recession but also stops the inflation (and while recessions are generally worse, they're a much more temporary problem compared to inflation). But economies at the time didn't quite understand how this worked yet because capitalism was in its earliest stages so they had no real idea how to react.
Also, the reason Spain brought so much gold and silver over was because Europe had basically mined all of theirs out at the time, which was known as the Great Bullion Famine.

[Anonymous No.10365496]

>>10350250
Kao the Kangaroo 1
Protip: emulate the Dreamcast version without the awful tank controls or look up the line to add to the config file of the PC version to disable them.

[Anonymous No.10365957]

>>10353415
Oids was better. Orginated on Atari ST, ported to Macintosh.

[Anonymous No.10367505]

>>10355514
you can force the game to spawn a ship of the line. if you destroy enough shipping of a wealthy / prosperous non-spanish town (except for immigrants/new governors which raise prosperity) it'll send a "new warship" to control the waters, mostly a frigate / heavy frigate but it has the chance to be a ship of the line. just need to be at a distance from said town otherwise it'll spawn pirate hunters instead.

[Anonymous No.10367571]

>>10350578
Any guide for Patrician 3?
I tired once but was too complicated for me at the time.

[Anonymous No.10367578]

Played the hell out of Monkey Brains demo on demo disc.
Very unique puzzle game, like the crunchy pixelated style.

[Anonymous No.10367580]

>>10365957
based oidsbro

>accidentally left mouse cursor on but too lazy to rerecord

[Anonymous No.10367598]

>>10367580
>that movement
>the shields
Fuck me, it's Solar Jetman.

[Anonymous No.10367643]

>>10367598
They're all Gravitar-'em-ups.

[Anonymous No.10367996]

Guaranteed no one has played Operation: Inner Space
>pic related

[Anonymous No.10367998]

>>10367996
>forgot pic

[Anonymous No.10368151]

>>10350250
>Demon Star
It's no Tyrian but it is easily the 2nd most fun VSHMUP on PC.

[Anonymous No.10368172]

>>10350295
>Stick to the remake imo
You mean SVGA one?

[Anonymous No.10368179]

>>10350327
>PS2 emulator
But there is a native PC version... Although at this point emulating a PS2 may be a more robust way to run the game.

[Anonymous No.10368198]

>>10350578
>Patrician 3
Is it a strategy or what? If yes, is it like Corsairs: Conquest at sea?
There are several games like that that i want to try some day (Patrician series, Port Royale, similarly themed Age of Sail) but i always end up confused about are they actually about naval combat and pirate life, or are closer to Anno/Settlers.

[Anonymous No.10368204]

>>10350615
Oi me Amigger>C64>2004>Gold

[Anonymous No.10368245]

>>10351230
>Red Baron
All true, also best theme. God knows how but Dynamix managed to nail the atmosphere of the Great war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLL6ekbEOF4
I miss the games like RB or F-19, the "simcades" of the genre that are easy to control but not to the point of having hundreds of rockets and collecting health packs falling from the clouds.

[Anonymous No.10368357]

>>10362568
>87 is more anything can happen, 04 is more actiony gameplay.
Yeah I feel like '87 was leaning more towards being a pirate-simulator (or at least a fictional-pirate-simulator, where it's trying to put you in the shoes of being a "real" fictional pirate as depicted in books and movies), made during Meier's early simulation days. While '04 is more of a fun game through and through, from when Meier started perfecting the accessibility of his games. I love both though.

[Anonymous No.10368573]

>>10368172
no the 2004 remake. cheap on GOG or steam

>>10368357
interesting fact - the '04 version shares the same engine as Civ4 and many sound effects that you can hear in both games
>the background sounds when you go to the merchants in Priates! is the same as when you zoom into your city in Civ4

[Anonymous No.10368575]

>>10368245
Freespace and Freespace 2 were pretty good at this.

[Anonymous No.10368641]

>>10368575
Yeah, Just like space combat sims in general. Did you play Wing Commander Saga?

[Anonymous No.10368708]

>>10368641
no - the art style never gelled with me. I know Wing Commander 3 is meant to be a milestone in gaming due to the use of FMVs and well known actors.

[Anonymous No.10368893]

>>10359072
I was rather partial to this unlicensed game on the Mac

[Anonymous No.10368925]

>>10368708
No, i meant the fan game on FSOpen engine.
https://www.wcsaga.com

[Anonymous No.10370107]

>>10358668
>>10359009
Yes, it's Planet Blupi. Source code was released and someone made it run on modern OSes:
https://blupigames.itch.io/planetblupi

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[Anonymous No.10370438]

>>10370143
I used to have this game! early 3D if I remember correctly? wasn't as good as TA, C&C, Blizzard RTS but still was alright. Reminds me of pic related - one of the lost greats of RTS gaming.

[Anonymous No.10370456]

>>10350920
>Magic & Mayhem
This one desperately needs a remaster to fix the very low framerate.

[Anonymous No.10370535]

someone must have played this...

[Anonymous No.10370551]

>>10370535
I think I still have a CD somewhere with the free version they released at some point.

[Anonymous No.10370565]

>>10365453
I went and read up on this. fascinating. but if therewas a crisis in western Europe around these times, why were the italian city-states still so prosperous?

[Anonymous No.10370576]

>>10368925
no but that looks awesome. might check it out

[Anonymous No.10370671]

>>10352514
A lot of people have finished evo.

[Anonymous No.10370985]

>>10370565
The Italian Wars wiped out the finances of the city-states so the influx of capital was the exact shot in the arm they needed.

[Anonymous No.10372610]

Played demo of this game as a kid. I don't remember if I ever met the winning conditions because I would leave the game after 10-20 minutes of gameplay and do the same thing another day.

[Anonymous No.10372898]

WELCOME TO FATAL RACING!

Whiplash for Americans

[Anonymous No.10372907]

>>10350280
I'll play it someday

[Anonymous No.10372916]

>>10352561
Wow this game looks really good for 1999(jk there was a remaster)

[Anonymous No.10373660]

From a classic series, but III isn't well regarded for some reason. It's the only one with larger scale which imo makes it the best iteration. It's the perfect example of basic graphics overlaying a truly comprehensive mock up of real world accuracy. It's the one game that I can always come back to and have even more fun than last time because it's so dense that there's always more ways to improve, and the scenarios always play out in unique and memorable ways. As with all singe player strategy the AI isn't very smart but it's a testament to the complexity of the gameplay model and its adherence to real world tactics that it remains challenging even after years of gameplay. You have to actually know real world methods and procedure in order to play effectively. It's a real shame that it isn't more known, I'd love to play an email game with an actual person, but it would have to be someone already familiar with the game, unless they're willing to read the manual and learn military strategy.

[Anonymous No.10373695]

is spellforce old enough to be retro?

[Anonymous No.10373701]

otherwise picrel i guess

[Anonymous No.10373710]

>>10370143
>game supposedly has CD music
>no redbook audio on the CD and the game won't play any music whatsoever
always hated how many games had this shit