/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.3129487]

That one game everyone talked about and that you just couldnt get into.

[Anonymous No.3129501]

Ur mum lol rekt son

[Anonymous No.3129508]

I have yet to try out Majora's Mask, the only Zelda game that looks interesting. Ocarina of Time never took off, and I didn't like the world, so I didn't bother.

Love Crash Bandicoot, though. No nonsense platformer with great visuals and audio.

[Anonymous No.3129515]

>>3129501
ICE BURN

[Anonymous No.3129516]

>>3129487
Same, when I tried crash 1 it seemed kinda just ok to me. I was on level 16 I believe before I dropped it. Would you guys recommend trying crash 2?

[Anonymous No.3129527]

>>3129516
It depends, Crash 1 is flawed in some ways, and the later games feature more control over the character. What made you drop it?

[Anonymous No.3129540]

>Most straightforward game in existence

The only reason I can imagine someone not being able to "Get into" Crash is simply getting stuck on a hard level/being bad at the game.

Don't get me wrong, you can dislike the game if you want, but "get into" is kind of just associated with, well, the game being hard to get into. RPGs and Grand strategy for example.

[Anonymous No.3129551]

Definitely Final Fantasy for me. I just could not EVER understand the appeal of that incredibly boring turn-based party combat. There's no skill involved what-so-ever, and no excitement either. Yet so many people who i talk to, praise it like it's the grail of video games. I think it's more boring than a black&white movie without sound.

[Anonymous No.3129553]

>>3129540
I thought the level design was uninteresting and Crash looks like an idiot after jumping on things

[lord bants No.3129556]

>Crash BandiWho
>everyone talked about

[Anonymous No.3129568]

Earthbound

[Anonymous No.3129570]

>>3129487
I've died probably 10 times at this part where I'm running towards the screen and have to make a jump over a pit. I can never make the jump.

[Anonymous No.3129620]

>>3129527
Design just felt very basic, decent challenge but just didn't feel that fun. Reminded me of donkey kong country actually, another game I feel pretty lukewarm on. Visually I enjoyed the art and music of both.

[Anonymous No.3129663]

>>3129620
>Reminded me of donkey kong country actually

It was the main inspiration, later games don't stray from that formula, but as I said Crash is way more fun to control due to the added moves and combos (just a bunch of stunts, but they really help). They also removed the slight input lag of the first game.

Design for Crash 2 is more omogeneous than Crash 1 I think, for that you might want to get into Crash 3 which mixes the various settings with new (arguably gimmicky) gameplay modes which most of are not platforming related. There's also a pretty cool time attack mode in 3. I like 2 the best though for some reason, maybe it has to do with the SMW-tier secrets and stunts.

[Anonymous No.3129848]

>>3129487
every final fantasy game ever.

[Anonymous No.3129853]

>>3129508
this

[Anonymous No.3129880]

>>3129663
Thanks for honest feedback, I'll give crash 2 and 3 a try.

[Anonymous No.3129897]

>>3129487
banjo kazooie for me.
what are your guys thoughts on the game in the pic? Could you get into it/ever played it?

[Anonymous No.3129921]

>>3129556
Seems how most of the kids in my school who owned PS1s had Crash Bandicoot, I'd say he was very talked about.

[Anonymous No.3129926]

>>3129897
Pretty clever little game, but gba isn't retro.

[Anonymous No.3129961]

>>3129551
exactly, even black and white film are more interesting considering that would include oswald the lucky rabbit or mickey mouse.

[Anonymous No.3129984]

>>3129551
its moreover the total concept. the story lines and plots and character development was god tier. and each one was continually pushing the boundaries visually

[Anonymous No.3129989]

>>3129487
>>3129516
>>3129620
Trying my best to not sound like a Crash shill. Crash 2 learned a lot from the previous game, like >>3129663 said it removed this weird permanent input lag so platforming actually feels raw this time around.

It's weird saying this but the way Crash 2 was designed and tuned, it should've been the first Crash game. It feels refined and the pacing is a lot better. It rehashes some of the basic Crash 1 environments in the first warp room so it doesn't feel like you're missing that much. Crash 2 starts off very easy for you to warm into and then the challenging stuff kicks in in warp room 2 to 3.

Finish that then move on to Crash 3 where they layer on additional gimmicks and themes (wizards, persian stuff, cyberpunk, coral reefs, egyptian tombs, etc.). After you've beaten Crash 2 and 3, then you can play Crash 1 where it's just maximum platforming challenge, and by now you should be good enough to out-play the input lag.

If you still genuinely don't like Crash, which is fine, give CTR a try and see if you like that.

[Anonymous No.3130014]

>>3129556

That's a pretty weak ass way to dismiss something you personally don't like with bogus statements.

[Anonymous No.3130019]

For me, it was the first Spyro. Really didn't like the themes, the music, the controls, anything really. Felt like a beta to something that should have been better. It had all the right elements, but didn't exactly excel in any of them. I have tried later games and was moderately entertained, but not enough to ever try the series again.

>>3129897
I loved the hell out of this game the first time I played it, fucking great. Second time around, I got to the Lab and stopped after that fight, tried a third time and same thing, haven't tried it again since. It really was a wonderful game, but I think a lot of the value for me was the design and it obviously isn't getting any newer as I try it again. I think I got so spoiled the first time by how great I thought it was that I can't replay it without being a little let down. I'd still give it a good 8/10.

[Anonymous No.3130037]

>>3129989
Thanks, I've heard crash 2 is commonly thought of as the best of the series so I plan to give it a try. Bringing up actual arguments why you like a game doesn't make you a shill, ignoring and denying without proof an argument against something does.

[Anonymous No.3130041]

[Anonymous No.3130045]

>>3130041
I could see why many people liked it, but...

[Anonymous No.3130114]

I can't get into Final Fantasy.
And it's not because I don't like JRPG, I consume a good amount of games of this genre, I just get into Final Fantasy.

[Anonymous No.3130132]

>>3129540
Crash felt like a "me-too" animal mascot platformer in an already oversaturated market with level design that didn't suggest any creativity or ingenuity. I played it for 10 minutes on demo units and stopped when I realized I wasn't having any fun and was wasting my time.

[Anonymous No.3130135]

Pokemon, the combination of still having only a NES and PC when it was new and parents getting caught in the IS IT THE TOOL OF SATAN??? religious scare surrounding it meant I missed out entirely on it, by the time both of those factors changed I was just too old to be interested anymore

Quake 3, when I first tried it I was too used to Doom DM which I was still playing then thanks to MP-focused source ports, I didn't know about bhopping then so movement in Q3 felt frustratingly slow coming from Doom and after I learned some basic movement tricks the game still just didn't grab me

Playing Smokin' Guns is the only time I've really enjoyed something that came out of Q3, it's a shame that it's a broken mess on modern Windows systems and development appears to have slowed to a crawl so it may never get fixed

[Anonymous No.3130156]

Final Fantasy IX.

Didn't like it when I played it in high school, still don't today. I understand it's charm and why people enjoy it but it just never stuck with me. Same story with X. The only two games in the series I've only finished once and said "yeah that's enough".

[Anonymous No.3130202]

>>3130041
I've found that people who really really love this game and call it the holy grail have never played a Dragon Quest game. Thankfully a lot of /vr/ has and I've seen you guys discuss this game like rational humans, lol.

I don't necessarily blame them, but CT has so much of the same charm and style going for it (I mean literally Akira Toriyama + Yuji Horii as scenario writer). But they're just unaware of where a lot of it comes from.

[Anonymous No.3130256]

>>3130156
The only people who dislike IX are narutard edgelords obsessed with VII.

Go fuck yourself, literal trailer-trash.

[Anonymous No.3130267]

>>3130256
I'm more obsessed with VIII really. VII and VI are kind of a tie for me, with VI winning because it was baby's first Final Fantasy for me.

I like your assumptions though.

[Anonymous No.3130313]

>>3130019
>Really didn't like the themes, the music, the controls, anything really. Felt like a beta to something that should have been better. It had all the right elements, but didn't exactly excel in any of them.
I have these exact feelings for much of Rareware's 3D stuff in general. I did enjoy the Spyro and Crash series as they are though.

[Anonymous No.3130351]

>>3129487

Crash 2 is what you start with. Crash 1 has some flaws that make it much worse than the sequel.

[Anonymous No.3130360]

>>3130267
>I'm more obsessed with VIII really.
Wow. Keep digging your grave even deeper you subhuman nigger.

[Anonymous No.3130676]

>>3130037
You might have seen a lot of debate over Crash 2 vs Crash 3 and you have no clue who to believe. Most of them will just be subjective opinions and personal experiences. But to put it into an objective sense, Crash 2 is the sequel that focuses on refining Crash 1 (and does it really well) and Crash 3 is about giving fans more of it and expanding sideways. It might seem like Crash 3 is immediately the best answer, but the "more" part takes form of a tour through many world themes, a new item type to earn (time attack stuff), wacky Crash abilities, wacky vehicles/mounts, wacky level gimmicks. Some fans like this aspect, while some other fans think Crash 2 is a more genuine sequel and deserve the honor of being the best game. Have fun bro.

[Anonymous No.3130693]

>>3130676

The problem is that Crash 3 didn't expand anything platforming related, other than having slower air acceleration, which just made Crash less responsive in mid-air.

Instead, the "expansion" dilutes the platforming experience with nonsense vehicle levels.

[Anonymous No.3132284]

SOTN hands down.

[Anonymous No.3132352]

Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Topment, pretty much anything based on AD&D. I'm too lazy to learn the rules.

[Anonymous No.3132356]

Not retro, but Left 4 Dead for me. When it and the sequel came out that's all my friends wanted to play, but I hate those games.

[Anonymous No.3133416]

>>3129487
Mario 64. Took years and many replays to finally get into it. The sad part being that it is still the best 3D Mario game made so far.

[Anonymous No.3133418]

>>3129989
Crash 3 is gimmick nonsense, weak artstyle and lame audio. Basically nothing but ND going full "check that 3D, so awesome!"

[Anonymous No.3133598]

Metal Gear Solid.
I love tenchu and thought stealth play would be right up my alley. MGS was clever, but the story and bla bla godzilla movies. Yadda yadda.
How about you just shaddup over the radio and get on with your damn job?

That and FF8

[Anonymous No.3133648]

>>3129897
That game was fuckin amazing.
I dont understand why it didn't have more recognition

[Anonymous No.3133656]

>>3129551
I don't stay interested in a single game for long, so RPGs like these I cannot fully appreciate and enjoy.

[Anonymous No.3134039]

>>3133418
I was trying to put it modestly and unbiased but it's basically that. However it would be a lie if I said I didn't enjoy the egyptian levels, the design of Tiny's Colosseum, N.Tropy's fight, heck even the Cortex fight is a lot better than 2.

[Anonymous No.3134297]

>>3134039
The Cortex fight in Crash 2 was ridiculous. I thought it was a pre-boss level.

[Anonymous No.3134649]

>>3134297
I will admit because the fight was so anti-climatic, it was a nice relaxing guaranteed finish for speed running.