/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10703549]

You ever just hang around in a retro game and ponder the levels and backgrounds?

[Anonymous No.10703574]

>>10703549
Yes, fren…..with Atari 2600 games.

[Anonymous No.10703632]

>>10703549
Yes, fren…..with sinclair timex z81 games.

[Anonymous No.10703663]

>>10703549
i wanna live here

[Anonymous No.10703683]

Just did that with The Punisher, the one by Volition

[Anonymous No.10703703]

>>10703549
Yes, preferably any old 3d game. I think it's amazing what they could do back then

[Anonymous No.10703985]

>>10703549
Yes

[Anonymous No.10704304]

When I was a kid. I don't have that imagination left in me

[Anonymous No.10704826]

>>10703985
>>10703549
>puzzle element starts playing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9ItrdOmfjQ

[Anonymous No.10705253]

>>10703549
I spend lots and lots of time in the Upper Forest in Secret of Mana.

[Anonymous No.10705269]

Halo CE multiplayer maps are GOATed for this

[Anonymous No.10705270]

[Anonymous No.10705291]

Pirate Isle in Skies of Arcadia. I would spend minutes just looking into the empty sky. But there are many other great environments in the game.

[Anonymous No.10705319]

>>10705291
I wanted to roll back to Skies of Arcadia now that I can read moon. Evidently the English translation is just completely butchered. Like the translators admitted they didn't even consult the script; they got the "feels" and then just wrote their own dialogue for everything.

[Anonymous No.10705334]

>>10705319
Might be true, but:
-No one seemed to care for literal decades, so it was apparently good enough
-I never saw ONE proof for that claim, not even a comparison pic or something like that. (and there are plenty comparisons for other slightly censored aspects of the game)

So until I get my proofs I call bullshit.

[Anonymous No.10705352]

>>10705334
>boundingintocomics.com/2022/04/18/resurfaced-interview-sees-skies-of-arcadia-translator-admit-localization-team-rewrote-a-lot-of-the-dialog-completely/
>esoarcadia.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Skies_of_Arcadia_localization_changes

[Anonymous No.10705359]

>>10705269
In Halo CE and 2 campaigns I'd very frequently stop between fights to just enjoy the views. The remasters will never be able to compete with the sights my eyes saw on my CRT with a regular composite connection

[Anonymous No.10705418]

>>10703549
Yeah. In Sonic CD I often sit there wondering what the fuck they were thinking.

[Anonymous No.10705442]

>>10705359
Every level in CE besides Pillar and Maw are like this. Sacred Icon has the most jaw dropping visuals in H2 for me.

[Anonymous No.10705580]

Not retro, but I was playing black mesa today and just wandered around admiring the facilities pondering how they spent their days there. I used to kinda dislike the remake but it really does do a good job making the whole complex feel more alive.
Like I said, this is not exactly retro but it's just so rare that a game manages to draw me in like this these days. I mean I think the original half life used to be like this for me back then. Maybe that's why this hit me so hard as well.

[Anonymous No.10705778]

>>10705352
This is hardly much worse than other games that were translated around the PS1 era. Honestly there were much worse translations at the time. Why single out SoA with that problem. I do agree that that kind of localisation is bad practice, but it was common back then.
Treehouse still does that kind of shit with Fire Emblem and Nintendo doesn't give a fuck.

[Anonymous No.10705826]

>>10705334
>-No one seemed to care for literal decades, so it was apparently good enough
Standards change over time. Re-writing Arche to be having loud sex dreams about Cless was funny and on-point for the mid 2000's. But at this point, I just want the real Tales of Phantasia, just like this guy wants the real Skies of Arcadia. I want to know what was actually written in the script, not a fast and loose translation by a teenager/young 20's something who wants to let us know how funny their jokes are.

[Anonymous No.10705827]

>>10703985
The water areas in TR were always so mesmerizing

[Anonymous No.10705872]

all the time. i love exploring the intricacies of 3D space in retro games. a couple of 2D games give the same feeling (yume nikki) but for whatever reason its much more appealing in 3D.

[Anonymous No.10705880]

Currently playing Guild Wars for the first time and I do that in for every map. The game has great atmosphere.

[Anonymous No.10705906]

>>10703985
These areas used to scare the living shit out of me as a kid, but in a good way. So atmospheric.

[Anonymous No.10705956]

>>10705880
That is so beautiful

[Anonymous No.10705967]

>>10705880
Going through pre cataclysm Ascalon as a Necromancer in Prophecies is a vibe that I have not felt elsewhere

[Anonymous No.10706330]

>>10703549
>"Twenty-one to count-*clik*
nah, fuk off. imma enjoy my bear claw and be comfy

[Anonymous No.10706969]

>>10706330
You really need to turn on anti aliasing

[Anonymous No.10707048]

>>10704826
Got anymore TR3 webm's?

[Anonymous No.10707057]

>>10705906
I remember playing the TR3 demo and the area 51 guard being the scariest thing I had ever seen in a game.

[Anonymous No.10707197]

When I got Mario 64 I used to like that he would fall asleep in game of you didn’t move, so I would let him sleep in several places and then sleep myself. It’s something I still do in “safe places” in video games. At first it was the cabin in “Cool Cool Mountain” (just let the penguin slide down and then go to bed) and then when I got to the lower level I found the courtyard and although I couldn’t figure out what the point of it was (I thought maybe the game would end there with Peach and I having cake or some shit) so it was the PERFECT place to sleep because there wasn’t any music and the birds were chirping; it was just really relaxing. And then one day I was off to bed and made my way to the courtyard and see this motherfucker.

I turned off my n64 and went to go sleep on the floor in my grandpa’s room because he always slept with a shotgun on his bed. There were a few video games that made me do that, now that I think about it.

[Anonymous No.10707238]

>>10703549
My favourite thing to do in games is explore a world. But having said that, I don't really hang around, I just take it in while I'm playing.

[Anonymous No.10707250]

I can do this in the context of playing the actual game, however the feeling is lost when you try to carry it over to a thread. Webms and gifs are very lifeless to me, they come off as things for people who like to curate an idea online of how they imagine life is but the effort is always hollow.

[Anonymous No.10707275]

[Anonymous No.10707335]

I never do any of the missions i just walk around and take in the ambience. Its relaxing for me.

[Anonymous No.10707393]

[Anonymous No.10707435]

>>10705319
I played it in Jap and it was still garbage.

[Anonymous No.10707724]

>>10703549
I think racing video games are great for this, driving in the rain or sunset with your favorite cars, not even racing or going super fast, but just driving and chilling.

[Anonymous No.10707734]

>>10703703
I'm glad noone took this bait.

[Anonymous No.10707736]

>>10705270
Based.

[Anonymous No.10707742]

>>10703549
Trying to find rest here.

[Anonymous No.10707765]

>>10707734
How's that bait?

[Anonymous No.10707768]

>>10706969
>anti aliasing
more like anti sovl

[Anonymous No.10707915]

>>10705778
All I said was I was thinking of revisiting it to replay it in moon, not that it's the worst example of all time.

[Anonymous No.10707943]

Yeah constantly. I really wonder what the artists had in mind.

[Anonymous No.10707951]

>>10705418
"Let's make a good game for once".

[Anonymous No.10707965]

>>10703574
>>10703632
(You) have the shittiest taste in history.

[Anonymous No.10707974]

>>10707742
This game is so vague and enigmatic at times, that it is hard to believe Nintendo was capable of it. I like to hang out on the Moon.

[Anonymous No.10707975]

>>10707765
The other anontard is mad because you used a "Dimension of the Machine" pic, which was released in 2021.

[Anonymous No.10707983]

>>10703549
No, that's some cringe reddit shit.
I just play the games

[Anonymous No.10708012]

>>10707197
Cute

[Anonymous No.10708063]

>>10707983

[Anonymous No.10708096]

>>10703549
Yeah, all the time. It's the essence of "Soul."

[Anonymous No.10708107]

>>10705967
Yeah, pre-searing Ascalon is a thing even today. I need to make another character and leave it there. As great as the rest of the game is, I haven't seen anything with the same vibes.

[Anonymous No.10708195]

>>10703549
sort of, I take shrooms and then play my favorite games and get lost just wandering the enviornments and hearing the music


if anyone finds a drug that makes playing games feel like you're 13 years old again, let me know.

[Anonymous No.10708198]

>>10705880
the guild wars look is timeless. Nothing else looks like the OG guild wars 1. the way the models are rendered or something, it's all just very different than everything else. smooth and clean.

[Anonymous No.10708229]

>>10708096

[Anonymous No.10708762]

>>10707250
You don't use a screenshot you took in-game as a wallpaper?

[Anonymous No.10708775]

relevant, there's a whole series of these on different retro games if you enjoy them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIcK7XT847I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZzwxtrCgk8