/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.3380148]

ITT: Revered classics you just can't get into

[Anonymous No.3380161]

any metroid game, any castlevania, any resident evil, any silent hill

[Anonymous No.3380173]

>>3380148

do you honestly think anybody on the planet gives a single fuck what game you can't get into?

[Anonymous No.3380180]

>loan out battletoads to best friend years ago and forgot about it
>start getting back into NES
>oh shit, waddup I own Battletoads!
>call friend up asking if next time he swings by his parents to pick it up
>find out a couple weeks later it was sold in a garage sale along with all the other NES stuff
>meanwhile price for Battletoads shot up due to a retard meme of trolling a pawn shop

I'll probably just bite the bullet and buy the fucker but it's hard when I originally picked it up for a fiver.

[Anonymous No.3380186]

Every Rare game

[Anonymous No.3380225]

>>3380180
I know that feel

[Anonymous No.3380236]

Metroid. Please, someone, tell me what I'm missing. The only thing this series has going for it is Zero Suit Samus lewds.

[Anonymous No.3380340]

>>3380161
>that absolute shit taste

[Anonymous No.3380341]

>>3380148
Rare games
All of them.

[Anonymous No.3380348]

Wizardry, Ultima, other dungeon crawlers and really old RPGs and roguelikes.

It tears me up.

[Anonymous No.3380350]

Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy

[Anonymous No.3380359]

>>3380236
Isolation, exploration, aesthetics, mostly.

Its not for everyone because the majority of it is about you, alone, in a vast dungeon (essentially) with (until Fusion fucked it up) only lore as your story and clues.

[Anonymous No.3380393]

>>3380180
If he was a actual friend then he would've bought you a new one. If not then that's no one I would want as a friend.

[Anonymous No.3380415]

>>3380148
Pic not related, right OP?

[Anonymous No.3380420]

>>3380348
I can get into ultima but most other RPG's of that era don't do anything for me.

[Anonymous No.3380443]

Any Zelda game that's 3D.

Ocarina of Time is where the series died for me.

[Anonymous No.3380462]

Arcade Battletoads bores me to death and feels wrong to me when trying to control anyone.

After that, I think any horror games (too easy to spook and most of them are kinda RPG's which I despise), retro Resident Evil (the controls are fucked up) and any RPG (I couldn't give a damn about a story without any gameplay whatsoever)

[Anonymous No.3380474]

>>3380393
>if an actual friend
Best friend actually

>buy me a new one
Nah. It's more my fault than his. I forgot about it and he stopped playing video games long ago. He didn't even remember that game being loaned to him. Still he tried to get back for me.

[Anonymous No.3380490]

>>3380443
What about the 2nd ones that were made since? Like Minnish Cap?

[Anonymous No.3380509]

>>3380148

Any Sonic games. They're repetitive and I just can't see the appeal of mindlessly going fast.

[Anonymous No.3380513]

Mega Man

Played the first 4 as they came out and they sucked. Tried playing them again a few years ago and they still suck.

[Anonymous No.3380514]

>>3380509
Play sonic 1
But desu i am getting a lil bored of vidya in general

[Anonymous No.3380538]

>>3380148
Final Fantasy. I can't walk 3 steps without an encounter just so I can select texts to move to an area where I am rewarded with stupid dialogue.

[Anonymous No.3380858]

Shining Force 2. I fucking love Shining in the Darkness and the first Shining Force, but I always lose interest around the kraken in 2. The game feels solid up until you flee to the continent, but then your objectives are poorly defined and Parmecia is just too samey. I can appreciate the much improved terrain placement in battle over the first one though, and the battle in the cave with no light was cool, and the menus and interface in general being much snappier is appreciated. But nothing feels as polished as in the first game. The translation feels stilted, the character portraits are cartoonier, none of the towns are as interesting, and the many hidden objects you need a guide to discover are bullshit. I'm hoping something clicks eventually since the game just doesn't feel as tightly constructed overall.

[Anonymous No.3380881]

>>3380341
you're not alone

[Anonymous No.3380884]

>>3380462
>RPGs
>No gameplay

[Anonymous No.3380964]

pretty much 80% first party SNES games

[Anonymous No.3380967]

>>3380462
>Arcade Battletoads bores me to death and feels wrong to me when trying to control anyone.
That's because the game is cheap as fuck mang, everthing is in favor of your enemies. If you want to git gut at a beat 'em up i recommend you Capcom games.

[Anonymous No.3381318]

I just can't get into the n64 Zelda games, ever since I was a kid in the 90s.

[Anonymous No.3381321]

>>3380509
This. Part of it is because I suck but the other part is that I'm not a fan of the gameplay. Shame because the aesthetics are so good

Only classic Sonic I like is Sonic CD. Sonic 1 is the worst one.

[Anonymous No.3381331]

>>3380148
Hi, I'm Gregg and I work at Gamestop. I have a simple message for the members of this forum.
DON'T EVER, EVER, EVER FUCKING CALL UP MY PLACE OF WORK AGAIN. I KNOW YOU PATHETIC FUCKS DON'T HAVE JOBS OF YOUR OWN AND YOUR PARENTS PAY FOR YOUR SKYPE AND YOUR INTERNET ACCESS AND YOU HAVE NO CLUE HOW HARD IT IS TO ACTUALLY WORK A FULL TIME JOB.
WHAT YOU FUCKHEADS DON'T REALIZE IS BY YOU CALLING AND ASKING FOR WARFROGS OR WHAT THE FUCK EVER YOU FUCKERS SAY OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, IT TAKES UP PRECIOUS TIME WHICH WE NEED TO HELP ACTUAL CUSTOMERS.
YOU ARE MAKING US LOSE MONEY. AND BY 'US' I MEAN THE EMPLOYEES. EVERY PRANK CALL THE STORE WE WORK AT RECEIVES, WE LOSE HOWEVER AMOUNT OF TIME WE SPEND ON THE PHONE TALKING TO YOU COMES RIGHT OUT OF OUR MEASLY PAYCHECKS.
SO FUCK OFF IT ISN'T FUNNY AND OUR STORE AT LEAST HAS ALREADY CONTACTED THE AUTHORITIES AND YES THERE IS ACTION WE CAN PURSUE AGAINST THIS MESSAGEBOARD.
Have a fucking great day. And don't call my place of work anymore.

[Anonymous No.3381336]

earthbound

[Anonymous No.3381350]

Any Mario game after 3.

[Anonymous No.3381403]

>>3381350
3 was meh and so is 1. Controls are not as tight as they became in SMW.

[Anonymous No.3381406]

>>3381403
>Controls are not as tight as they became in SMW.
I felt the controls in World were the exact opposite of "tight".

[Anonymous No.3381465]

Any ninja gaiden, or similar action sidescrollers

[Anonymous No.3381475]

>>3380148
Any RPG ever made

[Anonymous No.3381480]

>>3380474
how do people forget games that are loaned to them? I remember every game that is actually mine and what isn't mine. I borrowed games back in the 90s and didn't have a single problem, even years later when they never picked up the game or asked for it back i'm like "yeah this is so-and-so's game"

[Anonymous No.3381572]

>>3380462
Agreed with that (although I never played Arcade Battletoads. Love the NES version tho). I remember really liking Resident Evil when it was new but the controls do really suck and make it more frustrating than it has to be.

I can't get into RPGs either. Although maybe its my ADD riddled brain. Just have no patience for that stuff. Far prefer arcade type action.

Pic related is a game that I can't get into as much as Sonic 1-3. It's just too damn convoluted for its own good

[Anonymous No.3381710]

>>3380884
It's just choosing equipment/attacks and walking around whatever the story feels like it, to me it's boring because I don't feel I've done something unlike an FPS or an fighter/shmup/arcade game in general

[Anonymous No.3381713]

>>3380443
Me too. Story time
>finishing degree, taking elective course
>younger classmate asks if I like Zelda games
>say "yes, the older ones"
>takes out his phone and plays me his text message alert, "it's Link screaming"
>mfw

[Anonymous No.3382460]

>>3380148
I just dropped in /vr/ to say, after a hard day's work, I 'm about to play Battletoads, you weak mothafuckaz

[Anonymous No.3382462]

>>3380180
wait...whewhewhewhe wait: does this include the game boy cartridges?

[Anonymous No.3382467]

>>3380348
>>3380420

have you weak mothafuckaz ever played Shadowrun?

[Anonymous No.3383391]

Startropics.

The controls feel crippled due to being locked on a grid, most puzzles seem to consist of hopping on every tile until something happens, and I got instakilled by moving screens because I was on the wrong side. There was zero way I could have known it would happen. That's shit shitty mario romhacks do, not an official game.

[Anonymous No.3383396]

>>3381713
>Quiet day in class
>The Sonic ring sound effect plays from someone's phone
>Multiple times

[Anonymous No.3386817]

>>3380148
>hated when I was a kid
>forced meme in 2007-2010
>starts to wear on me
>play battletoads
>"ehhhh, I guess I like this"
>play it more
>"Ok I really like this"

Story of my life. Anything else to sell me 4chan ?

[Anonymous No.3386828]

>>3386817

same here. couldn't even beat Turbo Tunnels when I was a kid, now I can beat warpless without dying

[Anonymous No.3386836]

The original Legend Of Zelda.

I really enjoyed Link To The Past and both the N64 Zelda games when I was a kid. It definitely took me some time to beat em since I didn't know Internet guides existed, but it was a butt load of fun! Now when I try to beat the original LoZ for the NES I just keep on dying without making any progress. I have no idea where to go and I keep finding myself having to look for help on the Internet, which takes pretty much all the fun away.

[Anonymous No.3386840]

>>3380173
here's your (you)

[Anonymous No.3386842]

Any Mario game.
They are so simple and tame.

[Anonymous No.3386848]

>>3380858
>I always lose interest around the Kraken in 2
Holy fuck that exact same thing happened to me twice. Weird.

Anyway....

>Every Treasure game but Dynamite Headdy.
The constant boss fights really wear out their welcome for me. Just not my thing I guess.
>Metroid
First one.It's not bad or anything, just never had any motivation to ever finish it.
>Secret of Evermore
Can't really explain. There's nothing really wrong with it, I just couldn't get into it.
>Breath of Fire 3
God damn this game was boring. The soundtrack was very disappointing as well, especially compared to the first game. I gotta say though, I do really like Momo.
>Earthbound
I've never cared for Earthbound, and if you bring this up in a group of old friends they seem offended that you don't like their absolute favourite game.
>Fallout
I gave this one a lot of time to try to get into it, too. I went into this hyped up and expecting something like Diablo, so that could explain my disappointment in it.
>Gradius series
I don't like the upgrade/power up system. I feel like i'll always be alone on this one.
>every Pokémon after red/blue
No reason other than I completely lost interest in Pokémon by the time new ones came out after red and blue.
>majority of Fighting Games
Not my thing.
>Streets of Rage 3
Its music gets on my fucking nerves.
>Dr.Robotniks Mean Bean Machine
That game has the biggest difficulty spike in any puzzle game I've ever played. I did do my best to "git gud" but holy fuck man it was ridiculous.

I think that's enough for now.

[Anonymous No.3386865]

>>3386817
I had the opposite experience with this game. I loved it as a kid, but it takes the "arcade repeat game play padding" way too far to be enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.3386889]

>Any 8-bit RPG
Don't get me wrong, I really like RPGs. I think it's that I'm spoiled by more advanced interfaces. There's a real tedium in a clunky menu. Even the little things like a lack of easily accessible stats on how new equipment compares to old equipment are very frustrating. Also some of the commands, I assume due to limitations in character space, can have gibberish names leaving me with spells or items that are a complete mystery.

I'm sure if I'd played them back in the day I would have enjoyed them. But at this point almost everything they offer is done better almost everywhere else.

There are some cool sprites though.

[Anonymous No.3387709]

>>3380161
And you consider yourself a retro gamer? Hah.

[Anonymous No.3387743]

>>3386848
>my spirit animal

[Anonymous No.3387791]

Pokemon and Dragon Quest. I enjoyed the original Dragon Quest, but it's the only game in the series that managed to hold my attention.

>>3380186
>>3380341
>>3380881
I don't care for anything they've made since then, but I love some of the NES games Rare developed. Solar Jetman is my favorite game on the console, and I really enjoyed stuff like Wizards & Warriors and Snake Rattle n' Roll as well.

[Anonymous No.3388047]

>>3386836
I won my 2nd piece of the Triforce of wisdom, get on my level

[Anonymous No.3388924]

>>3386836
>I have no idea where to go and I keep finding myself having to look for help on the Internet, which takes pretty much all the fun away.

The opposite happened for me. I can't really get into any other Zelda besides Wind Waker when I was a kid, but I recently played NES Zelda for the first time and I thought it was so much fun. I died over 100 times though, and the last dungeon was a bitch so I used walkthroughs after I found the light arrows. You just need to wander around and talk to hobos and you stumble upon everything and it's so much fun.

I moved on to Link ot the Past for the first time and I just hate how they literally mark everything on your map.

[Anonymous No.3388939]

>>3386836

I've tried to get into the first game ever since beating OoT as a kid, but I simply can't figure out where to go or what to do past the first dungeon.

I also haven't been able to get into any other modern Zelda since I get that uncanny feeling that I'm just replaying OoT over and over again.

Come to think of it, I don't even like OoT anymore. So......fuck Zelda I guess?

[Anonymous No.3388967]

Final Fantasy 7. I got until the parr when you're on top of a Sector (9 or 7, can't remember) then after a fight everything goes down. I didn't feel like continuing the game afterwards.
I already know Aerith/Aeris dies.
I liked the R34, though...

Also the first two Star Ocean games.

[Anonymous No.3389043]

>>3388967
FF7 just didn't click with me either for some reason. It's strange, because at the time I thought FF6 was the greatest thing ever and I was easily impressed by fancy FMV sequences, but the game simply didn't make an impression on me. I rented it once and never played it again.

[Anonymous No.3389069]

>>3388939
find a pdf of teh original booklet on google. It has valuable information and a map.

[Anonymous No.3389630]

>>3380148
I agree with OP here. I had a much different interpretation of this game before I actually played it. I thought it was mostly a beat em up. Then I play it realizing that it's more a platformer and autoscroller then it is a beat em up. The game is also hard to a fault.

It could have been a lot better then what it is had the game been more like River City Ransom or similar beat em up games. It's an okay game but I was expecting something better is all. It's just not for me.

[Anonymous No.3390940]

Turn Based Strategy games, like Fire Emblem or Heroes of Might and Magic. I love RTS games, and TBS games just feel like RTS without any sort of skill involved.