/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2178572]

Which retro vidya had amazing lore?

[Anonymous No.2178594]

Man I loved the 1st fallouts

[Anonymous No.2178613]

>Whoa man, cool Nuclear reactor!
>Let's bash the keyboards until it works!
>But what about the town nearby?
>FUCK THEM!
>Ah right, we're ghouls, so the radiation won't kill us.
At least until Harold appeared to teach them some stuff.

[Anonymous No.2178634]

Mortal Kombat. Even today it's a big draw for a lot of people. But back in 1992 when a lot of games, especially arcades, involved no more story than "go save a princess", to have all these characters with bios, a full history with motives, their endings, all of which was expanded for MK2, plus the associated comic books, that was mind blowing. For me it was the first exposure to any game that had a real story, so I was really taken with it. It's more involved than a lot of RPGs even.

[Anonymous No.2178669]

>>2178634
quality stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNkRvcUn6VM

[Anonymous No.2178748]

>>2178669
>THIS IS NOT A BRU-TALITY
>THIS IS A FATALITY

[Anonymous No.2178762]

>>2178634
>HAVE A NICE DAY

[Anonymous No.2178765]

Is Deus Ex considered /vr/? It had a ton of books and all that scattered everywhere if you really felt like delving into the story really heavily.

[Anonymous No.2178773]

>>2178613
in my latest playthrough i called Navarro and they came and annihilated the ghouls
amazing how detailed the game was

[Anonymous No.2178786]

This fucking game. Between the people who got a few floors up and decided that whatever they found was the Paradise they were looking for to the infamous room full of dead kids near the top, this game--in four shades of green--had a kind of world building that most games of the era didn't even attempt in the first place.

[Anonymous No.2179281]

>>2178786
agreed, it was a pretty badass idea for a multi-dimensional tower. not to mention killing a bunch of hindu spirits and finally the option of killing "god" with a chainsaw. still my favortie from the SaGa series.

[Anonymous No.2179314]

>>2178765

>Is Deus Ex considered /vr/?

Not yet.

[Anonymous No.2179537]

super mario

[Anonymous No.2179564]

Lgeacy of Kain series.

[Anonymous No.2179567]

>>2178786
>Getting excalibur
>That last door
>Fucking Sword
>Evolving Monsters based on meat

Fucking 10/10 for the gameboy.

[Anonymous No.2179582]

Legend of Dragoon.

Like it or not, they definitely nailed it on terms of making you feel that something really big happened in the past.

[Anonymous No.2180371]

>>2178572
Yeah dude Fallout is pretty much the epitome if you're not a huge fantasy fan.

>>2178765
Sadly no, though some of us consider it the game right on the border between /vr/ and not.

[Anonymous No.2182004]

Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind had a crapload of lore.

MMMMM that lusty argonian maid, such a feisty wench!

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[Anonymous No.2182178]

>>2179564
It had good voice acting and atmosphere, but the actual story was a clusterfuck of retcons and re-writes.

If you want to go with just Blood Omen, then yeah.

[Anonymous No.2182189]

>>2182019

is there a mod to skip the damn mortuary? i lost my save and want to start again but dont want to wander around finding all the stuff and talking to those deaddies

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[Anonymous No.2182403]

The tie-in novel for this thing is fucking crazy

[Anonymous No.2182407]

>>2182403
lel

[Anonymous No.2182498]

>>2182403
This is the only video game I know of where the fanbase actually formed into an organized group to celebrate it. I know stuff like Star Trek and Star Wars has their own gatherings, but they are so small scale compared to what the Bible Adventure guys put together. They go to their cons every Sunday, it's crazy how fanatical they get over this game.

[Anonymous No.2182534]

>>2182498
Took me way to long to get this

[Anonymous No.2182594]

I'm not kidding

[Anonymous No.2182765]

>>2182498

I fell like the focus of the fandom has really moved beyond the game itself and sort of become all about the ritual and secondary works, kind of like Tohou or Ponies. Even my parents are in on that shit, they go to the cons every week but I don't think they've ever played the game even once.

[Anonymous No.2182796]

>>2182403
The novel is not canon though seeing how Noah doesn't even lift in it.

[Anonymous No.2182963]

>>2182403
10/10

[Anonymous No.2183074]

Myth had tons of back story but most of it was kept vague yet intriguing. A lot of it is because we experience the campaign from the point of view of a rank & file soldier. Also each unit has a bit of lore text displayed when you click on it.


>dat music
>dem feels
>dat sequel

[Anonymous No.2184186]

>>2182498
Wow, you're unbelievably ignorant! Stronghold:crusades/catechumen/whatever else is in that series has like a billion fans, and some of them go to its gatherings 5 days a week, and they're not just casual gatherings, they actually act all serious and assume it's all to educate you! Some people even go to its conventions every day of the week, at least in places like worst korea.

Also, there's video games of which the fans routinely kill themselves! But the numbers of those fans getting killed get even bigger, and by a whole lot more, when you count things like camps of fans of rival games being likely to brrrrrrt them.

[Anonymous No.2184601]

>>2182594
Tell me more, I finished it once but didn't feel there was that much "lore".

[Anonymous No.2186506]

>>2179564
VAE VICTIS

[Anonymous No.2187579]

>>2184601
Basically, the world that the game takes place on is a post-apocalyptic Earth with all humans pretty much completely wiped out and the basis of humanity reset into dog and cat people. What's below all the sky islands is actually what's left of Earth.

None of this is actually explored in the game but largely in its pseudo-sequel Solatorobo and assorted Japanese supplemental material which goes into detail about the lore to an absurd level.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000816071550/http://www.atlus.com/tailstor.htm
It's possible that this was all new info specifically made for the sequel, but this actually refers to Prairie as "the revived Earth" all the way back from when the game was new, so it can be assumed it had been something they were working on even as far back as 1998.

[Anonymous No.2189554]

>>2179564
i love soul reaver as much as anyone but it has strong writing rather than plot thanks to being unfinished (sr2 is still well worth a playthrough)

don't care for lore anyway that is strictly for the birds

[Anonymous No.2189885]

>>2182403
>those jesus autists who pushing their fan art to me
>those jesus fagets who keep their figurines around their necks

At least the lore is pretty darn amazing.

[Anonymous No.2190135]

Earth Defense Girl Iko UFO

[Anonymous No.2190224]

>>2182189
the entire game is wandering around and talking to people