/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5164668]

I'll just leave this here...

[Anonymous No.5164679]

Git gud faget

[Anonymous No.5164682]

Wat wer dey tinking

[Anonymous No.5164691]

>it's another level in a game that's a minor nuisance to clear and has been blown vastly out of all proportion by e-celebs

[Anonymous No.5164701]

Chris “Based” Bores called it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ_2ANZIzF0

[Anonymous No.5164702]

>>5164682
man... i forgot how much worse avgn used to be. he's so awkward in front of the camera in this lel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjUz8IT0CYg

[Anonymous No.5164705]

what the hyell
is this a video geem
or a test of petience

[Anonymous No.5164713]

>>5164682
>>5164691
>Nes games are cheap in 2007
>Buy a bunch that look fun but I never had when I was growing up
>get to this part
>waste all my lives
>restart the game
>the area just before this
>my cat jumps off my bed and onto the floor with a 'thud' right next to the TV stand that also holds the NES
>game freezes
>fuck this
>play another hour of Mario 3 because it's a really fun game

I always find myself comparing games to Mario 3 because it was my first game.

[Anonymous No.5164718]

>>5164668
That's not even a hard part of the game though...

[Anonymous No.5164726]

>>5164702
>that jump you can walk over

I actually got stuck here but I accidentally figured out you could walk over it after about four tries because the jump button on my controller was so shitty and unresponsive.

[Anonymous No.5164729]

>>5164702
I'm sorry, we're supposed to be laughing at how awkward someone is in a video that's over 12 years old and made the maker about $30k. Re-evaluate your life choices.

[Anonymous No.5164732]

>>5164729
>you shouldn’t criticize things that are old and/or financially successful
nice “argument”

[Anonymous No.5164734]

>>5164718
It is when you are retarded and don't switch your turtle.

[Anonymous No.5164736]

It's not hard now, but it was a tough part I rarely got past as a little kid. Struggling with the dam isn't just a thing invented by e-celebs.

[Anonymous No.5164739]

When did you first realize that James based the AVGN character on Mike Matei?

[Anonymous No.5164742]

>>5164729
no i was just pointing it out you insecure retard

[Anonymous No.5164743]

>>5164739
*notices bulge* what's this? owo

[Anonymous No.5164753]

>>5164743
Mike "Horse Cock" Matei. Aka Flash Cart.

[Anonymous No.5164790]

The stage had nice music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQP31Fk30hM

The stage is a little frustrating, especially with the electric sea weed and bars of electricity. But the stage is not impossible to get through.

I actually find pic related from Earthworm Jim to be more annoying to play through.

[Anonymous No.5164869]

>>5164691
Tbf this level prevented me from progressing in the game as a kid

[Anonymous No.5164936]

>>5164702
Awkwardness works way better for a character who's an autist raging about video games. Today's mellowed out seasoned family man James is much less believable as an endlessly angry nerd.

[Anonymous No.5164942]

>>5164869
You had to be retarded, I'm not just saying this because it's a meme, that level was not remotely hard and should not have been hard to anybody who was used to the level of difficulty you'd find in an average nintendo game. The game, itself, does get hard, that level is not part of the difficulty.

[Anonymous No.5165030]

>>5164936
He's so obviously over it, too. He only throws out a couple of AVGN videos a year now and he's clearly having way more fun doing James and Mike and the monster movie stuff.
>>5164739
...just now, actually.

[Anonymous No.5165327]

>>5164668
Why the fuck does touching the seaweed in this level hurt you? I never understood that.

[Anonymous No.5165335]

>>5165327
it's electric seaweed.....

[Anonymous No.5165342]

>>5164668
The biggest joke is that this isn't close to hard. Let alone close to the hardest section of this game.
I'd mention the bullshit hallway to shredder. But I guarantee most didn't even get that far.
Most probably failing before ever finding the technodrome. And a good number never getting past the third stage. Which is the coolest. Because you can drive over foot soldiers.

[Anonymous No.5165345]

>>5164790
Holy shit.... this brings back memories of rage.
Still not as bad as that fucking dog escort level though.

[Anonymous No.5165348]

>>5165342

Maybe this game is more up OP's alley

[Anonymous No.5165354]

NES TMNT isn’t hard, people just played it like Super Mario, moving as fast to the right side of the screen as possible. You have to grind, returb to health locations to heal up, rescue captures turtles, gain scrolls, boomerangs and stars (assigning a secondary weapon to each turtle). I usually do this:
>Donatello: Single Stars
>Michelangelo: Boomerangs
>Leonardo: Triple Stars
>Raphael: Scrolls

[Anonymous No.5165378]

>>5165342
I never got near the Technodrome as a kid. I couldn't even get past level 4. I sucked at games and I still would beat the water level in my sleep. I liked the level because of the cool water scenery and the cool looking top down dam section that leads to it, I always thought there had to be some secret all the way on the right side near the mossy wall, despite never finding anything. I've been at friends' houses where we couldn't beat battletoads, or where we couldn't get far in fester's quest, and I heard kids at school talk about how hard Mike Tyson was, etc., I never ever heard a single kid ever complain about this level, it wasn't even a thing until AVGN made that video.

[Anonymous No.5165457]

>>5165354
>NES TMNT isn’t hard, people just played it up to the dam sequence referenced in OP and couldn't beat it so they gave up.
fixed

[Anonymous No.5165459]

>>5165457
if many people can't beat a section, doesn't that mean the game is hard

[Anonymous No.5165476]

>>5165342
>The biggest joke is that this isn't close to hard
It is hard though, especially for being so early in the game and unlike anything else you have to do. It's hard in a very frustrating kind of way between the water physics and a countdown timer, where you could make it all the way to the point where the last bomb was in sight but then run out of time. After you've practiced it enough times, you can reach the point where you can do it reliably, sure, but even then it's not fun, just a chore you have to do before you can keep playing the actual fun part of the game.

>Let alone close to the hardest section of this game.
Except for a few of the really annoying jumps you have to make, the rest of the game is hard in a way that's fun, using the different turtles and various sub-weapons to overcome a variety of obstacles. It's just standard escalating difficulty, losing makes you want to try again. The dam level is just test of your ability to deal with pain-in-the-ass idiosyncratic water physics and gets tedious really fucking fast.

And no saves or passwords on this game, so you had to beat this damn level every single time you played.

[Anonymous No.5165487]

>>5165354
>>5165459
you're retarded people did not play it like they played Mario. People played exactly like you describe (as well as other tricks like exiting/entering levels to until you get the enemy set you want). And the dam level requires no tactics or strategy other than maybe a little health management on the turtles. It's purely memorization and execution (just like Mario in fact except much harder).

As for whether the rest of the game was hard? I dunno man it was pretty difficult in a variety a ways. Maybe you've been playing the game for 30 fucking years and have all the strategies down pat but that just means you have a warped concept of what difficulty means in this particular context.

[Anonymous No.5165690]

>>5165476
The end hallway is a festival of bullshit that REQUIRES cheesing.
Nothing is that bullshit. If I hit that as I kid, I'd have noped WAY fucking harder than some of the other shit in this game.
Thank god for save scumming. Or I'd never have known how much of a joke shredder is.
>Think beebop in level 1. I did the same cheese to him as I did to shredder. lol. Don is da best.

[Anonymous No.5165697]

>>5164936
Thank you for pointing out the very obvious that he's a mid-30s dad now and he's not as edgy and angry as he was 8 years ago.

[Anonymous No.5165719]

>>5165690
>The end hallway is a festival of bullshit that REQUIRES cheesing.
It made me glad I got stuck near the end of level 3 and only saw level 4 a few times as a kid. If I had gotten to that point, I would have probably broken the cartridge in anger at how unfair that shit was.

[Anonymous No.5165725]

>>5165487
I beat the game when I was 8, what’s your excuse?

[Anonymous No.5165727]

>>5165457
Even if you’re a total spazz on the damn level, turtle-switching should allow you get through it even if you don’t understand the swimming/current mechanics.

[Anonymous No.5165732]

>>5164942
I dunno, the swimming part is demanding of your precision, if you fuck up much at all then you basically have to redo it.

I had no trouble with it as a first-time player, but I came into it as an adult who has been playing for almost their entire life. I can see how this would be a difficult part or at least an infamous skill filter to kids and/or people that aren't as good at this kind of thing.

[Anonymous No.5165735]

>>5165725
nobody cares
doesn't mean it's not hard

[Anonymous No.5165743]

>>5164702

Awkward? Worse? Maybe worse as a fake persona. He seems actually human in this video and not a fake youtube character who overreacts to everything. I wish zoomers would just go away.

[Anonymous No.5165750]

>>5164942
It's harder when you're 4-6 years old and it's only the 2nd game you've ever played.

[Anonymous No.5165765]

>>5164739
just now. this may be true. i know im gonna get made fun of for saying this, but mike and james have such a good friendship, it's beautiful really.
reminds me of my best friend who died

[Anonymous No.5165793]

>>5165750
I was about 5 years old, this was probably the easiest level of the game not even memeing

[Anonymous No.5165801]

>>5165732
>the swimming part is demanding of your precision
It's actually very forgiving except for the one infamous section where you'll suffer a little bit of on lethal damage even when you're oretty precise, if you're just fucking around you might lose half your life bar for one turtle, that's the "impossible" section

[Anonymous No.5165804]

>>5165801
non lethal damage*

[Anonymous No.5165808]

>>5165735
Just because it’s hard doesn’t mean it’s bad.

[Anonymous No.5165886]

>>5165801
I confess that it has been maybe over a year now since I played it, and I don't remember much of the Dam. I just remember that I failed the first time, and that on the second attempt I was almost flawless and still had only 13 or so seconds left. For a two minute timer that isn't unreasonable, but it doesn't leave much room for error. It might be that I was fucking up on the "impossible" section, I can't really say anymore. I just remember thinking "this wasn't hard for me, but I'm a games expert and an adult, someone who was a kid and/or not experienced probably would have a hard time".

Incidentally, I gave up because I didn't understand what the game wanted me to do in the buildings. The manual said something about rope, and by that point I was bored enough with the actual platforming game that I didn't care to find out more. But what I'm saying is, the dam isn't exactly a slouch level, and even if I didn't find it hard, I can see how it would be hard for others.

[Anonymous No.5165937]

>>5165808
never said the game was bad.
I think the dam level is bad. Not the worst thing ever but the game would have been better without it. Not only because it's hard but because of the specific mechanics involved.

[Anonymous No.5165983]

>>5165801
>It's actually very forgiving
No it's not. There are currents pulling you and pushing you into damage on top of momentum. You can easily make a few minor mistakes in the early part that cost you more than 50% of your health until you get the currents and timing down. You can take a wrong turn and miss a bomb making it impossible to finish on time. Every time the clock runs out, you lose a turtle.

It's not forgiving at all, especially compared to the preceding levels. Sure it isn't impossible and you do have 4 turtles to work with. But it's neither forgiving or easy especially the first time you try it.

[Anonymous No.5166018]

>>5165983
I beat this section when I rented it when I was like 9 years old. There is no excuse other than memeing to say this is impossible. Sure, it's a jump in difficulty using completely different gameplay/physics but it's entirely possible.

[Anonymous No.5166030]

>>5166018
>I beat this section when I rented it when I was like 9 years old.
nobody cares
I have no idea how old I was when I beat it.
>it's a jump in difficulty
That's the point.

[Anonymous No.5166075]

>>5164705
nice game grumps reference I like it

[Anonymous No.5166125]

>>5165937
Maybe it needed a twenty minute cutscene and ten minute tutorial before you actually get to swim.