/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2117524]

Hey /vr/, what's the game you love and feel nostalgic about, but didn't enjoy much replaying it recently?
For me: after playing Freedom Planet I decided to go back to Sonic 3 and was kinda disappointed. Despite going fast level design with one-button mechanics was repetitive and not much satisfying. Also the boss fights were quite primitive and boring, when you dodge boss attacks for half a minute to hit one time and then repeat the cycle.

[Anonymous No.2117528]

>>2117524
But to be honest, Sonic 3 is one of the poorest games in the classic series next to SCD

[Anonymous No.2117529]

Sonic was never good.

[Anonymous No.2117532]

>>2117524
Most of the old C&C games. I still absolutely love the units, the setting, the atmosphere, the music, graphics, the FMVs, the awesome campaigns... just about everything really, but two things put me off a lot:
- almost all units share the same voices
- the controls are way too basic compared to what I'm used to (no waypoints, no press-key-to-place-finished-building, no unit stances, etc).

[Anonymous No.2117537]

Turok 2.

I am still enjoying it but holy shit I don't remember the framerate being this bad. Even with Hi-Res mode turned off it's still not that great.

[Anonymous No.2117543]

>>2117524
Super mario 64.
You collect things and fight the same boss three times. Fucking retarded.

[Anonymous No.2117547]

>>2117543

DS version is a bit better. But yes, it's a collect-a-thon. This is what killed 3D platformers. It was novel at first but people grew bored of it.

2D marios were action games.

[Anonymous No.2117550]

Super Mario Land 2
Used to be my favorite (Mario) game of all time
I don't know what happened. It just seems... off.

[Anonymous No.2117605]

Been playing the excellent Steam port of Sonic CD, absolutely finding it brilliant, trying to earn all the achievements.
So much that when I switched over to Sonic Adventure, a game I've enjoyed in the past, I just couldn't force myself to continue on. Then again, it really isn't the same when you're not playing it on a Dreamcast.

[Anonymous No.2117620]

FF Tactics.
It's so god damn slow, I don't know how I put so damn many hours into it years ago. I held the game on a pedestal. Now it's just...bleh. After playing many, many more strategy games over the years, FF Tactics feels just...way too slow. I can't play it anymore. It's odd because i'm a very patient person.

[Anonymous No.2117639]

>>2117620
this for sure, it's great for a few playthroughs but doesn't hold up well

square's idiotic insistence on making all cutscenes/dialogs unskippable is a big factor i think

[Anonymous No.2118242]

>>2117543

>not having fun solving puzzles and exploring the levels
>not enjoying wandering around the castle and stumbling into new levels

It doesn't have much replay value but "hurr durr collectathon" isn't a valid criticism. It's not like all the stars are perfectly laid out in a row in front of you, there is actual gameplay involved in getting them.

[Anonymous No.2118250]

Goldeneye. After 100%ing Perfect Dark's campaign Goldeneye felt way, way too primitive and clunky.

[Anonymous No.2118251]

>>2117537
PC version, bro. Turok 2 was always way too much for the N64 to handle and was a slideshow. Its basically the equivalent of Doom on the SNES.

[Anonymous No.2118256]

The Bubsy games do not seem as good as I remembered.

[Anonymous No.2118259]

Many point and click adventures that I love dearly, but are no longer much fun or engaging because I remember the solution to the puzzles.

[Anonymous No.2118292]

>>2117528
>Sonic 3 is one of the poorest games

Your opinion is objectively wrong

[Anonymous No.2118638]

>>2118251
Eh, I busted out the N64 the other day so I'm playing it more for nostalgia reasons than anything else. Plus, I prefer playing physical copies of games so I guess I'll have to grab a copy of it off ebay sometime. Thanks for the advice though.

[Anonymous No.2118937]

>>2118292
hmmm lets see. Sonic 1? yup better. Sonic 2? yup better. Sonic and Knuckles? yup better.

Sonic 3, whilst not being a BAD game it is the weakest entry in the original series and is trumped when compared to its brethren.
Also half a game n all that.

[Anonymous No.2119370]

>>2118937
>Sonic 1? yup better. Sonic 2? yup better.
>asserting objectively wrong things
>as if they are true

[Anonymous No.2119448]

>>2119370
>my opinion>your opinion
>objectivity

[Anonymous No.2119475]

Bomberman 64 feels so horribly slow now.

Early 3D is weird. A lot of games that were primitive at the time have aged the best and vice versa. I'd rather have wireframes and monochrome vectors than Turok fog.

[Anonymous No.2119480]

>>2119475
Primitive games have less to lose. It's like how 3d games with no textures look better than a lot of 3d games with textures nowadays.

[Anonymous No.2119647]

Quake 2

I've literally been playing it since I was like four. Every single level, item location, monster placement, secret, etc. has been seared into my brain. It's gotten so far into my brain at such an early age that I've had countless dreams based on it.

The nostalgia it's left behind it fucking magical, but I've just played it so many times that it's hard to enjoy the game for what it actually is anymore.

[Anonymous No.2119653]

>>2119647
Was my MP addiction for years

[Anonymous No.2119681]

>>2119653
>tfw I remember when the multiplayer community was still alive and well

It was Quake 2, they called Quake 2 the playground of the internet. There was no place like it, in the whole world, like Quake 2 when I was a youngster. No place in the world like it, and it was so fabulous. Now it's shrunk down to almost nothing... you see. And, uh, I still remember in my mind how things used to be, and...uh, you know, I feel very bad. But people from all over the world played online... from all over the world... it was the playground they called it the playground of the internet... over here. Anyways, you see, I... uh... you know... I even, when I was very small, I even set up my own server, and they would play with me... on the... on my server. And we used to play on the servers here, play all night... they don't do that anymore. Things changed... you see...

They don't play anymore on the servers...

[Anonymous No.2119703]

>>2119681
dat reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcE4_7-X78

[Anonymous No.2119707]

>>2119703

[spoilers]Spoiled since not /vr/ but goddamnit. Thank you.[/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.2119717]

>>2119703
Haha I was hoping someone would catch that.

[Anonymous No.2119718]

>>2119707
you are welcome

[Anonymous No.2119734]

>>2119681
>>2119717
that made me nostalgia for both of those things

[Anonymous No.2120878]

>>2118937
Sonic 3 and S&K should be considered as one Sonic 3 game. They were even called "Sonic 3A" and "Sonic 3B" during development. And combined together you know the game is damn perfect.

[Anonymous No.2120894]

I'm generally an easy pleaser with videogames, I can think of maybe five games I have played in my life that I just did not enjoy at all. Pretty much all of the games I liked as a kid I can still at least have fun with.

Battle Arena Toshendin 3 is a game that did not hold up well for me though. Every single character and weapon style has a pallet swap version, like Ryu and Ken except the entire roster. I don't know how we did not notice that when we were kids (didn't care?) but it grinds my gears now.

Pic related. The roster technically doubles with unlocks but literally every unlock is a good/evil pallet swap.

[Anonymous No.2121846]

>tfw didn't enjoy Jurassic Park SNES and am worried that Jurassic Park GB won't hold up either

At least that music is still ballin. Ripped from a C64 game, but ballin nonetheless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL4ZAu5HitE

[Anonymous No.2121876]

Sonic Adventure.

I remember being blown away when it first came out but playing it now is like wading through a sack of shit while carrying a cinderblock as a cameraman uncontrollably spins around you

I'm also slowly realizing it's what killed sonic and make it complete shit, right down to the edgy rock music

[Anonymous No.2122392]

EVO, actually. I would run around in the same fucking area eating fish for hours just so i could get powerups and then die against the same shark and still have fun doing it again.

I've made it to flying-thing mode and it's not nearly as fun as i remember. Also, the fucking music.

[Anonymous No.2123203]

>>2118937
Never locked-on, bro? You're missin' out.

[Anonymous No.2123205]

>>2121876
It's funny. Had a hard time getting into Adventure recently as well, but even given its late 90s/early 00s cheesy rock soundtrack, I don't think it goes over the "edge" enough to be obnoxious or bad, though it certainly set the tone for later games to do so.

[Anonymous No.2123206]

>>2117543
mario 64 is only meant to played once. Maybe you can replay again after 10 years when you forgot everything.

The game is based on discovery and exploration, of course it won't be fun if you already know where everything is.

Its like playing a puzzle game after you memorized where the exact solution to every puzzle