/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2739180]

>replaying game from childhood
>getting to that level
NOPE
O
P
E

[Anonymous No.2739548]

>>2739180
Dark Forces is my bae.

[Anonymous No.2739550]

>>2739548
smh tbh fam

anyway I could never play that level, I just used to spend hours in that starting area until I just decided to skip to the next one with cheats

[Anonymous No.2739553]

>replaying game from childhood
>it's not the same fun anymore

[Anonymous No.2739562]

>>2739553
>play game from childhood
>the online is dead and that was the defining feature

this is more a futurepost admittedly but I do think about how shitty that will be for kids growing up now, playing online games that basically won't exist in 10-20 years

Have a positive, /vr/

>play childhood game
>it's exactly as good as it was then

[Anonymous No.2739569]

>>2739562
>play childhood game
>it's exactly as good as it was then
Sonic CD is that you!!

[Anonymous No.2739572]

>>2739180
>Replaying Unreal
>Mines right at the start

Why. WHY. WHYYYYYYYYYYYY.

Fucking hell I always go straight to the map folder and select the next map instead. What a shitty level that is.

[Anonymous No.2739614]

>>2739180
laimlame, faggot

[Anonymous No.2739626]

>>2739614
I was still scared even through god mode (and by the way I always wondered why enemies hated me if I became a god)

[Anonymous No.2739630]

>>2739626
heard, that level fucked me up when i was younger as well. dark forces has some excellent level design, man

[Anonymous No.2739648]

>>2739180
>replaying game from childhood
>completely destroy the game, including the part(s) where I was stuck

[Anonymous No.2739657]

>>2739648
Damn, Supaplex was so fucking hard

[Anonymous No.2739659]

>>2739180
Fuck that level.

[Anonymous No.2739668]

>>2739630
>>2739180
FUCKING POOPOO MONSTERS

[Anonymous No.2739669]

>>2739668
NO
FUCKING
PE

[Anonymous No.2739673]

>>2739668
Those Dianogas still haunt my dreams. Along with the ones from Shadows of the Empire. Fuuuu

[Anonymous No.2739678]

>>2739668
honestly if it weren't for my dad and brother with further saves, I probably never would have seen after this level. Fuck them for making it the 3rd level i think

[Anonymous No.2739680]

>Replay good old game.
>Remember hard part.
>Still beat it and have fun.

[Anonymous No.2739694]

>>2739673
the ones from shadows of the empire weren't that scary, you could kill them from outside the water without them ever getting close to you

[Anonymous No.2739698]

>>2739694
jetpack made it easy, just perch on a platform

[Anonymous No.2739723]

>>2739562

Crash Bandicoot 2
:3

[Anonymous No.2739726]

> Play old game you never beat
> Impossible part is now piece of cake

[Anonymous No.2739756]

>>2739562

it'll be just like worlds.com. scary.

[Anonymous No.2740047]

>>2739180
I think that level was the first time I saw rotating floors in vidya (hadn't played d3d)

are there any other games that feel like dark forces? I desperately need this in my life again

[Anonymous No.2740053]

>>2739726
>play a game you got stuck more than 25 years ago
>still get stuck at the same point

[Anonymous No.2740085]

>play 20 year old game that you've never played before and have zero nostalgia for
>enjoy it thoroughly and complete it, look back on the experience and mark it down as one of your top 5 fave games of all time

[Anonymous No.2740184]

>tfw being stalked by a Dark Trooper

[Anonymous No.2740245]

[Anonymous No.2740246]

>>2740245
I was tired of playing when I got to london. maybe one day.

[Anonymous No.2740259]

>>2740085
>post about it

>hurr rose tinted glasses durr nostalgia

I hate those people so fucking much it makes my eyes hurt.

I didn't even own a SNES growing up you giant 50 story nigger.

[Anonymous No.2740262]

Anyone here play Rayman? Is that game actually hard or was I just dumb? I remember getting stuck around the 4-5th level as a kid and never being able to advance, wonder if I can now.

[Anonymous No.2740269]

>>2740262
I played a little of it. Remember it being hard.

[Anonymous No.2740276]

really like it. never playing again because of the jump on the leafs going down the river shit. but now that i think about it if it flips up on steam our gog probably get it.

[Anonymous No.2740279]

>>2740276
the artistics? were really something. look it up.

[Anonymous No.2740295]

>>2739562
The amount of content that will be lost in the future thanks to shit like pre-order DLC and store specific addons terrifies me.

[Anonymous No.2740312]

>>2739180

God it was so janky and weird how this game mixed polygonal objects and sector based environments. Cool, but never felt right.

[Anonymous No.2740531]

>>2739726
>Old game used to be a piece of cake for you
>Is now hard
...How did this happen?!

[Anonymous No.2741145]

I replayed dark forces and was surprised the game had WASD controls from the start, first game of that time I replay that has it.

Mouse aim is horrible though so I might just start using the directional keys to turn.

By the way I tried out XL engine, which is basically a rewrite of the engine with a modern renderer, works pretty great other than the fact that looking straight up or down still distorts the grahpics

[Anonymous No.2741174]

>>2741145
>Mouse aim is horrible though so I might just start using the directional keys to turn.

XLengine is buggy and has a lot of problems with not replicating the game's original behavior. Enemy AI is dumber, grenade physics are borked, some animations and sprites don't play correctly, many small things. I just make a list and keep it handy for /vr/.

Also, you can't play any of the awesome community-made levels with it.

[Anonymous No.2741175]

>>2740531
Megaman does this to me so hard

[Anonymous No.2741179]

>>2740053
>get to that point and after dozens of attempts finally beat it
>the rest of the game lasts about 10 minutes and is a goddamn cakewalk
Fucking Earthworm Jim

[Anonymous No.2741190]

This is now a Dark Forces thread.

[Anonymous No.2741203]

>>2741174
When I was talking about mouse aim I meant in the original game, you can only turn left and right and that would be fine but mouse acceleration fucks up the aim a lot.

Also what community maps? where do I find them?

[Anonymous No.2741228]

>>2741190
I miss automaps in games

[Anonymous No.2741230]

>>2741203
Oh, yeah, sorry, that greentext was a mistake on my part. I was going to say there was no mouse aiming in the original game, but then realized what you meant and forgot to delete it before replying.

Anyway, I was about to link you to the site df-21.net which used to have a bunch of map reviews and downloads, but the site seems to be down. I hope it's a temporary thing because there was awesome stuff there and I don't know if anyone has it archived.

[Anonymous No.2741249]

>Replay game from your childhood
>Gee, this part isn't as good as I remember
>Shit, I used to hate this part when I was a kid, but now it's fucking awesome, why did I have such awful taste back then?

Happened with a lot of replays lately.
Guess this is what it means to have matured, maybe.

I can appreciate some things more while others aren't really that good, or rather, they weren't good to begin with but I didn't know any better at the time.

[Anonymous No.2741268]

>>2740053
I will never beat Megaman 2 because if I die on the dragon or the laser trap I just stop

Too many bad memories

[Anonymous No.2741279]

>>2741268
I was always stuck as a kid on the Dragon. I thought I had to fight him while running away. Years later I watch a youtube vid to see how it's done.

>Ok, so you keep running...
>Wait, a health bar appears? THEN you fight him?

Finally went back and beat MM2 after about two decades. Was very fulfilling to finally get past that spot.

[Anonymous No.2741282]

>>2740531
The only game that does that for me is tony hawk games.

[Anonymous No.2741654]

Looks like I finally got past my fear of dianogas and finally completed level 3

Never again, ok?

[Anonymous No.2742587]

>>2739180
When I played Dark Forces as a kid, it was always on normal with god mode enabled.
When I played it recently, it was on hard mode with no cheats. Rad game. Had a blast rushing around blasting dudes. Fuck those bounty hunters with concussion rifles though, and Jabba's ship can get fucked too.

That sewer level scared the shit out of me as a kid, and I would constantly get lost. Not so much now, cranked it out in under 10 minutes.

Overall I enjoyed it much more as an adult.

[Anonymous No.2742817]

>>2742587
pretty much this for me too

[Anonymous No.2742863]

>>2741145
>the game had WASD controls from the start

It did not, you probably bought it on Steam or similar sources, which also enable super shield by default for some reason.

[Anonymous No.2742958]

>>2742863
you are right it's the steam version, but it uses dropbox so I thought it was just 100% as the original

[Anonymous No.2742961]

>>2742958
*dosbox

[||D.||.||\/||.||D No.2742967]

>>2741279
>I thought I had to fight him while running away
Yeah I thought this when I first encountered him too, didn't take me so long to figure it out though

[Anonymous No.2743230]

>>2739553
>plug in GoldenEye
>i must've sunk 100s of hours into this, it was my favorite & most played game for a solid period of a couple years at least
>look at the graphics
>play it
>what the actual fuck

[Anonymous No.2743262]

>>2743230
All I can think is that people like you have really bad memories or something. I don't have this problem where I replay a game and I'm just shocked, utterly SHOCKED at how it looks or plays. It's how I remember it because my brain works. Most of the goofy stuff in Goldeneye I was making fun of at the time.

[Anonymous No.2743272]

>>2743262
Only time it happened to me going back to Super Smash Bros. after playing Melee. I was shocked by the visual difference after getting used to sixth-gen graphics.

[Anonymous No.2743282]

>>2739668
that was the end of it for me, barely could get past level 2, then this shit? Nope.

I did have nightmares as a kid to Dark Troopers. Those things are fucking scary

[Anonymous No.2743293]

>>2739562
Someday, no one will play Ragnarok Online or Runescape anymore :'(

[Anonymous No.2743297]

>>2739550
>lapostal
>laskip
>laskip
>laskip
how most of my dark forces runs went as a kid.

[Anonymous No.2743310]

>>2740053
>played Karate Champ Vs.
>never could beat that fucking bonus stage with the bull, always supposed i got to jump over it and i was failing
>years later, my little sister plays it on MAME
>nails it first try

[Anonymous No.2743340]

for me it's more like

>replaying game from early childhood
>dreading the level you couldn't get passed
>realizing you can't even get to that level because you suck at these games as an adult

[Anonymous No.2743363]

>>2743293

People still play that shit?

[Anonymous No.2743398]

>>2739562
>game from childhood
>being an online game

Honestly, the problem is with you.

Online games are always the same shit and they are always replaced by better versions of them later.

For example, if you want to play Ragnarok Online because that's the game you played when you were a teenager, then go play Tree of Savior.

If you played runescape, go fuck yourself.

Also, these kind of games always have pirate servers that will go on as long as people want them.

You're problably underage.

[Anonymous No.2743459]

>>2743297
my laskip runs abruptly ended when I got to the arena with the giant crocodiles and I thought they could kill even a god, not realizing that god mode just deactivated itself between levels

[Anonymous No.2743464]

>>2743459
holy shit are you me, i always got really flustered and couldnt type it in time

[Anonymous No.2743481]

>>2743398
Are you mad about something anon?

[Anonymous No.2743523]

>replaying game from childhood
>getting to that level
NOPE
O
P
E

[Anonymous No.2743570]

>>2739562
>play childhood game
>never stop playing it
>its heroes 3
>excuse me, but i must alt-tab back

[Anonymous No.2744876]

>play childhood game
>can actually beat it now

[Anonymous No.2744883]

>>2739180
>play Megaman X
>gave me so much trouble when I was 9 but managed to beat it back then.
>now, pic related

[Anonymous No.2744891]

>>2743523
>not Shadow Temple

[Anonymous No.2745028]

>>2744891

Why? Shadow Temple is awesome!

[Anonymous No.2745283]

anyone ever tried to use mines to jump over the wall in the second mission?

You could find an empty room with just a tiny version of the space ship, I never really figured out what it was for

[Anonymous No.2745291]

>>2745283
Baby Moldy Crow! Holy shit it's adorable.

[Anonymous No.2746471]

>>2743523
can we kill the water temple meme? it was the easiest one.

[Anonymous No.2746592]

>>2746471
That was the Fire Temple by far, but Water is 2nd easiest. Not hard if you know how to read a goddamn map.

[Anonymous No.2746814]

>>2739562
>Play game from childhood
>It's exactly as good as it was and there are now tons of fan made levels, many of which are great and some are even on par with the original game.

[Anonymous No.2746828]

>>2740276
I liked that game, but what I never understood is why American McGee's name was part of the actual name of the game. As if he was some one everyone knew about and people would recognize the name. I remember so many people being like "who the fuck is American McGee?"

[Anonymous No.2747198]

>>2746471
Dark Link was one of the most difficult fights in the game, but other than that I agree.