/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5072290]

We can all agree on this, right?

[Anonymous No.5072296]

>>5072290
gee, i guess if you are the most basic bitch model of humans born in the late 80's early 90's sure!

[Anonymous No.5072298]

>>5072290

yes

/thread

[Anonymous No.5072314]

>>5072296
I mean you should probably propose a different better year instead of act like that isn't a pretty bombshell of a year for games

[Anonymous No.5072316]

>33% of the list is role playing faggotry
>only pc and console shit, nothing arcade
wew lads

[Anonymous No.5072318]

>>5072290
Show me 1999 then well see if we agree or not

[Anonymous No.5072323]

1997 was better

>FFVII
>FFT
>SOTN
>Mario Kart 64
>Tekken 3
>Megaman X4
>Ultima Online
>Fallout
>Grand Theft Auto
>Crash Bandicoot 2
>Shock Troopers
>Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II

[Anonymous No.5072325]

>>5072316
>RPGs are gay
>arcade games are good

[Anonymous No.5072328]

>>5072318
Starcraft
Shenmue (Japan)
Unreal Tournament
System Shock 2
Silent Hill
Age of Empires II
Half-Life: Opposing Force
Planetscape: Torment
Resident Evil 3
Dino Crisis
Super Smash Bros
Alien versus Predator
Final Fantasy VIII

[Anonymous No.5072329]

>>5072290
Ya for sure bro. They don't make em like they used to.

[Anonymous No.5072330]

>>5072290
Pokemon Red/Blue were 96.

[Anonymous No.5072331]

>>5072290
Yep

[Anonymous No.5072342]

>gran turismo
who cares about racing lmao
>panzer dragoon saga
no one played saturn
>xenogears
babby's first steps in philosophy. also unfinished
>starcraft
gookshit
>banjo-kazooie
boring samey collect fest
>pokemon red blue
legitimately good
>grim fandango
very good too
>metal gear solid
movie shit
>half life
doom was better
>dance dance revolution
normiecore
>zelda oot
egoraptor said it's bad and I agree
>thief
no one played this
>starsiege
who
>baldur's gate
didn't play this but western developers can't make a single proper rpg

[Anonymous No.5072343]

98 - 02 is easily my favorite era of games. 2000 is probably my favorite single year though.

>Deus Ex
>Counter Strike
>Skies of Arcadia
>Shenmue
>Majora's Mask
>Diablo II
>Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
>Perfect Dark
>RE: Code Veronica
>Marvel vs Capcom 2
>Thief II
>Jet Set Radio
>Phantasy Star Online

[Anonymous No.5072345]

>>5072342
>pokemon manchild
opinion discarded

[Anonymous No.5072352]

>>5072329
>/r9k/ meme
You're beyond help now, time to kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.5072361]

>>5072342
>doom was better

[Anonymous No.5072368]

>>5072314
im trying to be an edgy cunt, you edgy cunt. and you want a better year for games how about 96 or even 97 for that matter.

[Anonymous No.5072369]

>>5072316
>nothing arcade
>dance dance revolution
there's other arcade games that aren't shmups anon

[Anonymous No.5072372]

>>5072342

>Panzer Dragoon Saga sucks
>Starcraft sucks
>Banjo Kazooie sucks

are you retarded or just pretending to be online?

[thatonenamefag No.5072373]

i think im going to do it. im going to stop wasting my time on 4chan and start hitting my backlog hard. first things first. what console should i start on and what genre should i play?? my backlog consists of Gameboy/color, saturn, snes,famicom/nes, ps1 and master system. i own most of the games ive been meaning to play, but most ps1 and master system will be emluated (yes, i have a larger saturn collection than ps1 becaue i own a psp too)

[Anonymous No.5072376]

>>5072373
Honestly just randomize your backlog and play the first one

Try to start with something short or medium, not a million hour rpg. At least not the first 2-3 games

[Anonymous No.5072380]

>>5072342
you need to leave

[thatonenamefag No.5072383]

>>5072376
any good way to randomize it. is there a program that randomizes excel spreadsheets. or will i have to writhe everything down and pick them out of a hat....you know what that sounds kinda fun, i think i will do the hat pick!!

[Anonymous No.5072404]

Soorrrry fags
2001

[Anonymous No.5072410]

>>5072361
Doom is a game that is still being played and modded heavily. It has a legacy. Half Life in comparison was just a fart in the wind.

[Anonymous No.5072426]

>>5072410
As much as people wank HL ut died afew years after black mesa... But for some fucking reason doom is more popular than ever. My normal fag friends play poodle broom!

[Anonymous No.5072436]

>>5072410
you know counter strike is a mod of half life right?

[Anonymous No.5072441]

>>5072290
>listing only 15 titles out of all 1998 had to offer

You had one job.

[Anonymous No.5072542]

Out of these games, only Half Life, Starcraft and Metal Gear Solid can be considered to be good games with an actual impact.

[Anonymous No.5072550]

>>5072323
Also Age of Empires and Total Annihilation.

[Anonymous No.5072554]

>>5072323
half of those games are garbage

[Anonymous No.5072560]

I propose a counterargument:
>Deus Ex
>Vagrant Story
>Diablo II
>Capcom vs SNK 2

you know I'm right

[Anonymous No.5072568]

>>5072290

StarCraft was great. legendary. SoulCalibur was only in the arcade. And not even the best arcade game that year. The rest was mediocre at best.
98 was probably the first year where you could tell gaming was slowly on the decline from a gamers view. So NO we do NOT agree.

[Anonymous No.5072579]

>>5072290
1994.

[Anonymous No.5072581]

>>5072568
As a "gamer" I disagree. It was only in decline if you were too young to be around and see how great it was.

[Anonymous No.5072587]

>>5072581

By 98 gaming was turning to crap because there were hardly any innovations any longer. The greedy psychopathic outfits like sony slowly took over and as a result arcades were slowly dying across the globe. Print mags were declining slowly as well, since the internet started to replace the need for mags. A lot of the smaller but innovative gaming companies from before also didn't make it. Maybe due to the rise in internet piracy. 1998 was a mere shadow of the excitement and innovation of the early and mid 90's.

[Anonymous No.5072593]

>>5072290

Not mentioning KOF98 or Street Fighter Zero 3.

GTFO

[Anonymous No.5072605]

>>5072593
>fighting games

[Anonymous No.5072630]

>>5072316
>1998
>Arcade

[Anonymous No.5072647]

>>5072290
>pokemon
>dance dance revolution

you sure showed your age.

[Anonymous No.5072649]

>>5072342

Don't use this image while praising pokemon you baby.

[Anonymous No.5072651]

>>5072647
Oh my sweet summer child, pokemon came out in 96 but didn't blow out until the cartoon in 98. Not that a toddler like you would understand how marketing expectations worked in a world without broad bran internet;

[Anonymous No.5072673]

Xenogears, man, that shit changed me.

[Anonymous No.5072676]

>>5072290
>not one good game in that list

[Anonymous No.5072687]

>>5072676
>DDR
>bad

[Anonymous No.5072693]

>>5072290
I agree because F-Zero X was released that same year.

[Anonymous No.5072696]

Nah, fuck that. Didn't like 3D games growing up. To me, 1990 - 1997 is the absolute peak. However, gaming has been mostly good throughout time with the exception of last gen.

[Anonymous No.5072708]

>>5072373
hold up. here's the process for clearing a backlog.

1. make a big huge list of every game you've bee beating yourself up for not playing.
2. if you're out and about and you have a "man, i should really play ___" thought, write it down.
3. now organize the list. i recommend playing the easiest, shortest, and most trivial games first, and work your way up.

because your backlog will likely be fuckhuge, you have to deal with it in a way that makes you feel good about what you're not playing so you can chill and work on one game to completion.

don't be afraid to put games into different contexts. for example.

>home alone
>traveling (mobile emulators, etc)
>with friends/family
>when tired
>when energetic
>when i need a challenge
>when i want a story

so you'll end up playing multiple games at once without getting bored or overwhelmed. you're welcome.

[Anonymous No.5072727]

>>5072693
came to say this

[Anonymous No.5072912]

>>5072410
Found the absolute zoomer. Half-Life 1 is almost certainly the second most modded game of all time.

[Anonymous No.5073017]

1992 was not bad either about good OR influential games:

- Sonic The Hedgehog 2
- Super Mario Kart
- Street Fighter 2 C.E / Turbo
- Dune 2
- Wolfenstein 3D
- Flashback
- Super Mario Land 2
- Virtua Racing
- Fatal Fury 2
- Contra 3: The Alien Wars
- Alone in the Dark
- Kirby's Dream Land
- Ecco the Dolphin
- Indiana Jones & The Fat of Atlantis
- Mortal Kombat
- Art of Fighting
- Golden Axe RODA
- GI Joe / Asterix / Xmen Konami brawlers
- Outrunners
- Last Resort
- Undercover Cops
- Puyo Puyo
- Road Rash 2
- Streets of Rage 2
- Thunderforce IV

[Anonymous No.5073018]

>>5072568
>>5072587
>muh arcade
stop being such a fucking bitch, there was definitely innovative and interesting games outside of arcades you triple niggers.

[Anonymous No.5073025]

>>5073018
progressfag spotted

[Anonymous No.5073030]

>>5072316
There's more to vidya than just fucking arcade games

[Anonymous No.5073037]

>>5072330
96 was pretty awesome, quake was also 96.

[Anonymous No.5073041]

95-99 was peak 2D and single player.

99-2004 was peak PC/multiplayer gaming and coup-co-op, before the MMORPG crack epidemics and "modern shooters", and broadband-connected consoles.

[Anonymous No.5073067]

>>5072290
Nah. The year you were born in was nothing special.

[Anonymous No.5073074]

>>5072328
>planetscape

[Anonymous No.5073081]

>>5073025
subhuman mamefag detected

probably doesn't even own a console or crt lmao

[Anonymous No.5073085]

>>5072316

This shmup fag is definitely the worst poster I've ever seen in 12 years of chans.

[Anonymous No.5073086]

>>5072554
Agreed, PC games are trash

[Anonymous No.5073087]

>>5072323
You forgot Abe's Oddysee, Wipeout 2097 and Riven the Sequel to Myst. But yes exceptional year.

[Anonymous No.5073104]

>>5073081
>being proud of owning cheap chink silicon shit because you have nothing else to be proud about in life
sad

[Anonymous No.5073117]

Was there even a bad year from 1992 through 2002?

[Anonymous No.5073131]

>>5073104
did I hit a nerve, mamepoor?

[Anonymous No.5073163]

>>5073131
if collecting junk makes you forget how much you suck ass at games, more power to you, i guess

[Anonymous No.5073174]

>>5073163
>being good at video games
>something to be proud of
I think I found the root of your disorder

[Anonymous No.5073184]

>>5073104
>nothing else to be proud about in life
Come on man. Plenty of successful people have silly hobbies that don't require a ton of skill.

>>5073174
Being good at anything is something to be proud of. His mistake is assuming you don't have anything outside of games.

[Anonymous No.5073197]

>>5073174
yes, the psychological disorder of not being a filthy jarpig tranny nigger

[Anonymous No.5073202]

>>5073085
It's pretty stupid. I never understood how some shmup players developed this attitude that they're some kind of Ubermensch above fans of other genres. You don't see it as much with other competitive or score-based games.

[Anonymous No.5073205]

>>5072290
>Pokemon red/blue
>1998
Nope
>>5072328
>1999
>Starcraft
Kill yourself retard
>System Shock 2
shit game

[Anonymous No.5073210]

>>5073205
September 28, 1998 was Pokemon Red/Blue's release in NA. 1996 for Japan. List is going by NA release dates.

[Anonymous No.5073216]

>>5073202
Fightanfags, dotafags, and FPSfags are way more insufferable than shmupschmucks.

[Anonymous No.5073217]

>>5072651
taking pokemon seriously in any way after the age of 12 is shameful.

[Anonymous No.5073221]

>>5073210
>List is going by NA release dates.
I know that dipshit. That doesn't change the fact OP's pic is inaccurate. Pokeyman is a 1996 game, that's what it will always will be.

[Anonymous No.5073223]

>>5073184
I think his mistake is assuming that if you suck at games, you suck at everything. It's the mamepoor disorder.

[Anonymous No.5073231]

>>5073216
t.Shmupcuck

[Anonymous No.5073235]

>>5073231
Nawh, I'm jarpig master race. You skillfags should take the jarpig pill already.

>no anxiety/pressure induced while having a good run
>no feelings of turmoil after a failed run, which happens far more frequently than a new pb
>can discuss more things about the game than just strategies, such as story, character development, lore, etc.
>isn't completely dead like shmups and other arcade genres, new games from both indie and AAA devs still made
>you don't have to git gud in order to enjoy the games, but if you do, there's jarpig speedrunning

[Anonymous No.5073238]

>>5073235
based

[Anonymous No.5073240]

>>5073216
I don't see FPSfags complaining about every other genre from a position of ignorance.

[Anonymous No.5073246]

>>5073240
FPSfags are too busy in-fighting over who caused the death of FPS (Goldeneye, Half Life, Halo, Cawwadoody, etc.)

[Anonymous No.5073250]

>>5073235
>jarpigfag
>talking about gay shit like story, lore and character development
>thinks the genre isnt dead then points to indieshit and AAA shovelware
Delusional

[Anonymous No.5073258]

>>5073246
>death of FPS
developers are the main reason, its kinda shit that i cant even discuss any FPS without some faggots circlejerking over quake, doom, the latest FOTM shit or some tacticool shooter, even then it just devolves into waifufaggorty and shilling

[Anonymous No.5073295]

>>5072342
>egoraptor said it's bad and I agree
Surprised no one saw through the obvious satire

[Anonymous No.5073309]

why do shmupniggers hate fun so much?

[Anonymous No.5073323]

>>5073309
Honestly I think it's like five dudes that like saying jarpig and messing with people. Besides that, there are some weird elitists before, but most shmup players are normal and just like their games and improving at them.

[Anonymous No.5073331]

>>5072676
>mfw WCW/nWo Revenge isn't even on the list.

[Anonymous No.5073336]

>>5073323
>look guys, I said jarpig again, are you triggered yet?

[Anonymous No.5073342]

>>5073336
Jarpig pls go, this board is intended for arcade and skill-demanding videogames only.

[Anonymous No.5073687]

>>5072290
Xenogears is unfinished garbage. Try actually playing it instead of regurgitating it from IGN "top games" lists. They didn't finish it either.

[Anonymous No.5073775]

>>5072331
what game?

[Anonymous No.5073798]

>>5073775
Martian Successor Nadesico - the blank of 3 years

[Anonymous No.5073816]

1996
1998
2001
2004

these are the top years for video games and it's never gonna get better.

[Anonymous No.5073841]

>>5072708
nah, i think id rather pick randomly from a hat and force my self to finish the game, just to beat into my psyche that you need to finish what you started.

[Anonymous No.5073890]

>>5073798
Does it even explain anything?

[Anonymous No.5073902]

>>5073890
It's a fantastic game but it doesn't really connect to the movie, just takes place during the time before the movie.
It's multi-ending/multi-scenario anyway and it's not clear that any particular scenario is more canon than the others.

[Anonymous No.5073909]

>>5073816

1997 and 2005 were pretty good too

[Anonymous No.5073913]

>>5073902
So is it a visual novel or what? Do you get to have a sevensome?

[Anonymous No.5073934]

>>5073913
It's mostly novel with some gameplay elements, like the 'gaze intently into her eyes' mini-game. Lots of story branching. You don't play as Akito. No harems but some sex. All sorts of followups to stuff that happened in the TV series. Can get shot down if you pursue unwinnable girls, which is hard to get away with putting in a normal romance game without pissing people off but makes sense in Nadesico. Also lesbians.

[Anonymous No.5073937]

>>5073934
is it translated?

[Anonymous No.5073939]

>>5073937
nah

[Anonymous No.5074031]

Ocarina of Time has destroyed lives :(

[Anonymous No.5074034]

>yfw reading Iain M. Banks and watching James Cameron's Aliens after growing up with StarCrafts and Halos

[Anonymous No.5074070]

1995. without question.
dark forces.
descent.
panzer dragoon.
full throttle.
rayman.
chrono trigger.
MK3.
phantasmagoria.
earthbound.
comix zone.
the dig.
i have no mouth.
warcraft 2

[Anonymous No.5074095]

>>5073934
>No harems but some sex
b-but nadesico girls are pure :(

[Anonymous No.5074123]

>>5074095

[Anonymous No.5074124]

>>5072316
>SoulCalibur and Dance Dance Revolution suddenly aren't arcade games

ok

[Anonymous No.5074128]

Nope. I don't really have fond memories of the 5th gen like I do with the 3rd and 4th.

[Anonymous No.5074297]

>>5072290
Remove the PC games and I agree.

[Anonymous No.5074465]

>>5074297
what do you have against pc games?

[Anonymous No.5074469]

>>5074123
Ah that's ok. When you said the player wasn't Akito I thought someone else would shag Yurika or something.

[Anonymous No.5074479]

>>5072290
Somehow forgot Resident Evil 2 but included "Starsiege", which I never even fucking heard of. What the fuck is Starsiege?

[Anonymous No.5074559]

>>5074469
She's one of the unwinnables. You can get her as close as saying "If I hadn't met Akito first..." but that's it.

[Anonymous No.5074820]

>>5074479
Starsiege tribes is one of the best multiplayer shooters ever. It supported 40-50 players in a server when everyone else had 16-20. Maps are kilometers across, and can feature enormous structures.

Also had some really cool canyon, midair, cave and rollercoaster maps

The only hit scan weapon is the laser rifle. You can throw grenades, mines, beacons, and use a healthkit while in a duel with someone and it adds a lot of dimensions to the combat.

https://youtu.be/O3IlLAK0B6g

[Anonymous No.5074824]

These charts are meaningless and can be made for any year at all. Here I made one, 5000+5 hours in MS Paint.

[Anonymous No.5074828]

These charts are meaningless and can be made for any year at all. Here, I made one. 5000+5 hours in MS Paint.

[Anonymous No.5075174]

>>5074828
Battletoads, Duke Nukem (not 3D) and Sengoku?

No mention of certain little games like Street Fighter 2, Sonic The Hedgehog, Lemmings or Another World?

[Anonymous No.5075306]

>>5074828
You should always write the best/most known ones first

Putting Zelda first instead of literal who games like power blade, rockin kats and captain america would've made the list so much better

Also as mentioned you missed several great games

[Anonymous No.5075319]

>>5075174
Sonic isn't good though.

[Anonymous No.5075328]

>>5074820
God it's been too long since I've played or watched. I forgot how good tribes is and how impossibly high the skill ceiling is.

Just to be clear incase someone only watched the first 15 seconds: the aircraft carrier the camera pans around is the base for one team, and it has two support structures (as I recall) on the map that can be controlled by either team.

[Anonymous No.5075624]

>>5074828
all those games aged like milk

[Anonymous No.5075627]

>>5074465
They’re not good.

[Anonymous No.5075635]

>>5072290
>PS1/N64/SAT gen
>best year

what a fucking joke. fucking youngfags

[Anonymous No.5075663]

ITT

[Anonymous No.5075708]

>>5075635
fuck off boomer

[Anonymous No.5075796]

>>5075708
>You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18

[Anonymous No.5077458]

>>5074828
needs more pc games

[Anonymous No.5077474]

>>5077458
Such as?

[Anonymous No.5077490]

>>5073202
Agreed.

>>5073221
Pokemon Blue never came out in Japan.

>>5072343
I want to go back

[Anonymous No.5077497]

>>5072290
I personally consider 1994-2000 to be the best era. I can't settle on a single year as they had hit after hit after hit. Entire genres could be redefined after a couple years and it was glorious.

[Anonymous No.5078892]

>>5072290
>no final fantasy

[Anonymous No.5078894]

>>5077490

pokemon blue came out after red and green in japan

[Anonymous No.5078897]

>>5072316
How about this?

Marvel vs. Capcom
Released January 23, 1998

[Anonymous No.5078961]

the best year for video games will always be the current

[Anonymous No.5079095]

>>5072410
HL1 is still being played and modded. Not at the rate that Doom is, but still very active.

[Anonymous No.5079121]

>>5079095
miss this kino

[Anonymous No.5079154]

>>5078961
sure love all those shitty games that are coming out these days that flood the global library of games with shit

[Anonymous No.5079365]

1993 because Doom with DoomEd and the gates opening to shareware fpss and free megawads. It was the birthplace of Deathmatch and progaming.

[Anonymous No.5080821]

1994
>System Shock
>Wing Commander III
>Snatcher (Western release)
>Doom II
>Heretic
>Super Metroid
>Donkey Kong Country
>Killer Instinct
>Earthbound
>Final Fantasy VI
>Demon's Crest
>Earthworm Jim
>Streets of Rage 3
>Policenauts (PC-98)

[Anonymous No.5080847]

>>5079095
What hes getting at is... Wheres the daily hl threads? Theres always at least one doom thread, sometimes more. Half life threads are filled with arguments, shitposts and contrarians. Doom is universally accepted as a magnum opus and is just as satisfying as it ever was. Half lifes legacy is debated all the time and fuck steam and fuck you!

[Anonymous No.5080850]

>>5073221
If you’re not from Japan it’s 1998, it works from release date not from your opinion

[Anonymous No.5081190]

97-99 saw the best games on the saturn, ps1, n64 and game boy released. Some of the top pest teir pc and arcade games came out during those years. In 1998 dreamcast hit japan.

These are the 3 best years in videogame history. You can't prove me wrong.

[Anonymous No.5081504]

>>5072290
1992 was better and it's not even close. People always cite the same 12-20 games over and over again from 1998. 1992 had DOZENS of classics.

[Anonymous No.5081515]

Depending on your taste in games, literally any year from '88 to '97 could be considered the best. 1998 is vastly overrated.

[Anonymous No.5082112]

>>5081515
97 is more overrated than 98

[Anonymous No.5082139]

>>5072290
i've always thought this. Also, Caesar 3 on PC came out in '97 but caught on in '98, so to me that's a 1998 game too. At the very least 98 is a good shout. I seem to remember 2003 being pretty good too but that might just be me.

[Anonymous No.5082202]

>>5072323
FFT came out in 1998 in the rest of the world, 1997 was JP only. FFT was another part of what made 1998 such a great year for us.

[Anonymous No.5082207]

I went to the arcade and played Dance Dance Revolution recently. The first game is borderline unplayable.