/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5296640]

Alright you guys got me to play Parasite Eve because I saw bump limit threads here. Also because I had an artwork of the main character in my study hanging up. I just liked the picture alot so I got it, and I later found out it was from parasite eve so it only felt right to play the game. Anyway, you can talk about parasite eve now because I am here to read it spoiler-free. I think I really messed up the weapon thing because I just kept upgrading the handgun the whole game and ditched all weapons and my max damage was like 30 per shot. also I died like an idiot on the last boss because I went for the phone

[Anonymous No.5296674]

There's really no "wrong" way to upgrade your weapons. And it doesn't matter if you stick with the handgun, as long as you have enough slots and just minmax it. The three preferred upgrades are Handgun, Machine Gun and Rifle.

Handgun -> all-around
Machine-gun -> has drawbacks at first, then it's the same as pistols
Rifle -> if you need the range, otherwise they're slower than both above

Shotguns and Grenade Launchers aren't that good, because when minmaxing you don't need to bother with multiple targets or elemental damage.

IIRC, the only handgun with 10 slots is the M92F, but you don't actually need 10 slots.

[Anonymous No.5296716]

Change RoF to 2 and try to have Haste up 100% of the time.

[Anonymous No.5297760]

Friendly reminder that upgrading weapons and using other gimmicks such as the junk system in this game (although is funny to do) it's literally useless; the game shoves new, stronger weapons up your ass thus even a total brainlet like me managed to finish the game without ever using that kind of stuff. It made me a little sad that such good concept(s) are completely optional.

[Anonymous No.5297889]

>>5297760
>junk system
>useless
Yeah maybe for the main game, but honestly getting a Junk Weapon for the bonus Chrysler Building Dungeon actually helps a ton since it's literally the strongest base damage weapons in the game which you kinda need for that fucking area. So I would say it's far from useless.

[Anonymous No.5298275]

>>5297889
I finished the game without junk, basic upgrades and all that stuff, hence my use of the word useless.

[Anonymous No.5298395]

>>5298275
I was referring to Chrysler Building specifically, explaining why they aren't useless. I don't understand that just because you beat the game without it, means it's useless. It's objectively the most powerful gear, just because you don't need it to finish the main game doesn't mean it's useless.

[Anonymous No.5298410]

>>5298395
>useless: of no use; not serving the purpose or any purpose; unavailing or futile
At least personally i felt that way when i finished the game without all this stuff. Of course it's different if you do use certain geared equips, you can literally cheese throughout the game and all that, but that's not necessary, maybe that's a better word to use in this case.

[Anonymous No.5298415]

>>5296640

Wait, you just kept upgrading the 84BB? You didn't even look at the stats of the new weapons you were getting?

[Anonymous No.5298426]

>>5298410
>not necessary
Certainly a better way to describe it since it certainly is not dragging you down in anyway or a real waste, it makes things a lot easier to kill than normal. Also using basic upgrades is kinda boring too, you definitely want the upgrades you can get from the Chrysler Building to be able to really experiment with crafting a crazy over powered gun. That's just part of the fun of the game imo.

[Anonymous No.5298439]

>>5298426
You're right, i realize that a lot of the fun comes with that system. I myself wanted to get some use from it, but the game was giving so much guns and other shit to me, so i refrained. I just kept on playing because i was mostly sure that sooner or later the game would've either stopped doing that or at least gave me less and less of all that stuff. The point is, i was just thinking about doing it anyway but before i even noticed, i had finished the game without touching any of those skill points, junk etc.
I had mixed feels about all this.

[Anonymous No.5298452]

>>5298439
The game doesn't really let you play around with much until "EX mode" which is really only for people who want more. If you're one of those kinds of people who are often content with what they played there's not much point going into EX mode to mess around unless you really really want to. Sometimes it can be fun to comeback to a while later and try to EX mode for your second play through.

[Anonymous No.5298506]

>>5296640
Excuse me, I've known that image for a long time. Who painted it? What is the story? Who is the character?

[Anonymous No.5298737]

>>5296640
Parasite eve is a decent game with a good soundtrack, but it has some POZ.
It was Squaresoft's collaboration with an (((American))) team - literally kikes.
That's why it has a supposedly intelligent nigger police chief that is Aya's best friend and not trying to rape her and portrays the Japanese character as some wimpy nerd.
That Jewish influence is obvious in current year and its lame. Squaresoft ended their collaboration with the American kikes shortly after this game.
>also fuck the Chrysler building - it was the kike American team that developed most of that part. Source is in the end credits.

[Anonymous No.5298794]

>>5298506
mustard seeds

[Anonymous No.5298812]

>>5298506
that's aya brea from parasite eve

[Anonymous No.5298813]

>>5298737
It’s a take-off on Die Hard, retard.

Tons of Japanese media from this era have a token. The characters are always played straight and never bang the white women or any of this other gross shit you’re obsessed with.

FF7 even makes the black guy into a literal cuckold raising a white man’s child.

[Anonymous No.5298821]

>>5298737
I like the characters and feel of it because it makes me nostalgic for movies at the time era.

[Anonymous No.5298850]

>>5298737
You need to go outside. Maybe work off some of those edges before you hurt yourself. Jeez.

[Anonymous No.5298885]

>>5298415
this is my gun, it took me like halfway through the game to figure out the mechanics.

[Anonymous No.5298981]

>>5298885
that gun is terrible, I almost want to waste the day tomorrow because I know the game is that short and no matter what rolls I get it would turn out better than that thing holy hell

[Anonymous No.5298986]

>>5298812
>>5296640
THAT'S NOT AYA BREA. HER NAME IS MUSTARD SEEDS.

[Anonymous No.5298987]

>>5298981
you're terrible

[Anonymous No.5298997]

>>5298986
>>5298794
Not him, but who is that?

[Anonymous No.5299000]

>>5298997
That's Aya Brea from Parasite Eve.

[Anonymous No.5299004]

>>5299000
Then who is Mustard Seeds?

[Anonymous No.5299018]

>>5299004
That's Mustard Seeds and she's artist's OC waifu.

[Anonymous No.5299026]

>>5299018
Oh okay. It really does look a lot like Aya Brea though.

[Anonymous No.5299381]

>>5299018
>google for Mustard Seeds
>get pics of actual mustard seeds
based

[Anonymous No.5299696]

>>5299018
Is the creator's name Yuuji or And? Not getting a straight answer out of the boorus or zerochan.

[Anonymous No.5299703]

>>5298813
Barret was married to a named character—Myrna, who died when Shinra razed Corel to the ground. He's a better father than Dyne. What part of that is cuckoldry?

[Anonymous No.5299869]

I recently started the game as well after playing the game on my phone for a while.

[Anonymous No.5299961]

>>5298506
Cross-dressing Duke Nukem from the homonym game.

[Anonymous No.5300924]

Post ur guns/equipment

[Anonymous No.5301936]

>you can press triangle to find out what the fuck things are in Parasite eve 2

woulda been nice if they told me that

shove your dryfield riddle up your ass

[Anonymous No.5302648]

Is Parasite Eve 2 worth playing?

A lot of people say it's garbage.

[Anonymous No.5302659]

>>5302648
If you like Resident Evil, you'll like it, because that's exactly what they were trying to make. It has so little to do with the first game, and functions entirely differently, that it's hard to call it a sequel. Overall it was pretty interesting, but I hate tank controls, so I was put off by that.

[Anonymous No.5302665]

>>5302648
Currently playing through it. It can be down right awkward to play but I like a lot of weapons and gun variety there. As well as the way awakening skills work. I feel like the Resident Evil tank controls did the game no favors. Especially if you're like me and try to kill every enemy you come across.

[Anonymous No.5302752]

Eve 2 is extremely grindy, tank controls are terrible, awful soundtrack, terrible Resident Evil story ripoff.

Not worth it, skip it.

[Anonymous No.5302770]

PE2 has a lot of personality coming from Aya when you examine the environment, not just basic descriptions like RE. The renders are far more detailed than any RE game too.

[Anonymous No.5302957]

>>5302752
you don't have to grind, your guns are strong enough to kill anything

the bayonet in particular is really strong and can easily down pretty much any enemy it can reach

if you're smart about leveling your PE it can make things much more convenient, but you get a lot of tools that can stun enemies and have other effects that are pretty OP, and the game feeds you a lot of ammo and toys

there's one part of the game where the enemy uses PE on you that can be very hard, but even that fight has a pattern that can be exploited.

[Anonymous No.5303053]

>>5302752
can't, I'm already on disc two

[Anonymous No.5303085]

I remember a long time ago reading that counter attack was the worst upgrade as it does nothing but lock you in animation frames that will make you vulnerable

[Anonymous No.5303485]

>>5300924
For me, it's random rate of fire 1.5x

[Anonymous No.5304035]

>>5302648
Yes, It's Miles better than the first. The PE have actually different effects, not just "this do damage, that does MORE damage" the ambience is creepy with the awesome soundtrack, Guns are fun to use and to mod, the gameplay is challenging and you have tons of newgame+ to go further, and you'll see some of the most awesome graphics a ps1 game can achieve.

[Anonymous No.5304527]

Almost finished Parasite Eve, so far the combat is amazing but the game isn't perfect.

+ Mitochrondia is an interesting way to approach the horror elements
+ The combat is extremely fun and bridges my JRPG bump that I couldn't get over with games like Final Fantasy.

+ Fantastic music
+ Fun weapon system that allows for weapon variety
- Slow moving speed
- Great plot but the implementation feels like a campy horror movie
- Overly simplistic combat
- Annoying respawn system that spawns enemies at specified areas
- Poor enemy variety and annoying monsters

[Anonymous No.5306062]

I majorly fucked up while playing Parasite Eve on retroarch, and only made savestates because I couldn't save within the game itself.

Anyone know any solutions or anyone have any saves that I can borrow, I'm in the sewers right now.

[Anonymous No.5306063]

>>5306062
I fucked up because now I have to discswap and when I swap disc my savestate doesn't work.

[Anonymous No.5306072]

>>5296674
but that's not true, though. The game specifically punishes you from attacking far enemies with lowered accuracy and damage.
>>5297760
>completely optional
AKA the endgame content

>>5306062
pretty much for any Playstation games emulated on PC, you can find a save at gamefaqs

[Anonymous No.5306078]

>>5306072
I tried everything, I've changed my savefile to parasite_eve.state.auto and then loaded my save within a parasite_eve.m3u playlist but it still asks me to insert disk 2.

[Anonymous No.5306082]

>>5306063
>Lara in the kitchen
lel

[Anonymous No.5306084]

>>5306062
>>5306063
>>5306072
>>5306078
Managed to fix it, terribly sorry for shitting up this thread.

[Anonymous No.5306253]

Played through to day 2 last night on PCSX rearmed. How do i keep from getting fucked when its time to switch discs?

[Anonymous No.5306321]

>>5306253
Sorry I didn't check the thread for a while, but what you need to do is this.
I'm assuming you're making several save states through the program itself and not saving within the game, because you can do this anytime you're playing, but I recommend doing it early.

1. Keep creating save states, on day 5 within the sewers the disk switch happens when you go outside and find a key within to the museum. Once you go outside and grab it, the moment you go back inside the sewers the disk will ask for the second disk.
2. Go to the retroarch folder.
3. Go into the states folder.
4. There should be a Parasite Eve .state.auto file.
5. Copy this file in the same folder and name the copy Parasite_Eve.state.auto .
6. Go back to the folder where you have the Parasite Eve rom.
7. Create a text file and call it Parasite_Eve.
8. Open the file to write down both the first and the second disc's full filename including the extension, in my case that is:

parasite_eve_(disc_1).bin
parasite_eve_(disc_2).bin

Nothing else should be written within this folder and be absolutely certain that you named them both right before saving the file and closing.
9. Rename the file from Parasite_Eve.txt, to Parasite_Eve.m3u.
10. Now load Parasite_Eve.m3u, instead of disk 1.
11. Load your save state and it will load where you left off and it should recognize the save state and continue.
12. Once you reach the location where the game asks to put in another disk you go to disk options.
13. Eject the current disk.
14. Click next disc.
15. Click eject the current disk again to close it, eject toggle, or whatever other option your emulator has.
16. Wait until the game starts reading the disk.
17. The game should start where you left off.

[Anonymous No.5306342]

>>5306321
Thanks anon. Do you encounter the same issues using the the ingame saves?

[Anonymous No.5306384]

>>5306342
Did you use the in-game save?
I don't know how it would work using the in-game save, I assume you just load your game after starting up Parasite_Eve.m3u.

[Anonymous No.5306430]

>>5306384
Yeah im just using in game save currently. I can still do a save state before the swap to make sure though.

[Anonymous No.5306440]

Can someone explain the phone save at the end? I think I fucked up because I saved then. When I fight eve I’m not doing great, never got around to putting spread on my gun so I have to destroy each part one at a time. I get to the second half of the fight and by then used all health and PE, so I die and give up

[Anonymous No.5306607]

>>5306440
Have you tried using the armor swap exploit? Every time you equip a different set of armor in the middle of combat, the recharge on your PE will reset and will charge fast again. You can keep doing this whenever your PE starts to charge really slow, but you need a spare piece of armor.

Also,
>the phone save at the end
You mean on the Battle Cruiser?...

[Anonymous No.5306670]

>>5306607
no he's talking about that weird save where they ask you if you are sure and you start second guessing yourself

saving or not at that point changes nothing

[Anonymous No.5306690]

>>5306670
Oh yeah, I just saved in a different slot at that point just in case. I didn't really have any problems with fighting Eve after that save, I think I was using a shotgun though.

[Anonymous No.5306723]

> that final chase
what the fuck were they thinking

[Anonymous No.5306731]

>>5306607
I'll have to try this, thanks anon! Hopefully i have an extra vest, normally i just put the stats into same vest.

>>5306670
This is it, but guess i shouldn't fret. Just hoping it doesn't make the battle harder or something.

>>5306690
Yeah i fucked up getting rid of the shotgun, i might have to use a previous save to mess around my inventory a bit

[Anonymous No.5306741]

>>5306723
I both love and hate it at the same time. I hate it because I died and had to fucking fight the boss all over again, but I also love it because I love action movie escape sequences and it made Aya seem like a total badass fighting tooth and nail with the UB.

[Anonymous No.5306887]

I'm the guy that saved his savefile, and now during the cutscene in the museum with the dinosaur the screen fades to black.

How do I load another savefile?

[Anonymous No.5307114]

Found a savefile, this game just keeps fucking up for me.

[Anonymous No.5307289]

>>5298885
You should lower the rate of fire to 2. It is game changer. You can do the same amount of damage in 2 shots as you are doing in 5. Battle speed picks up and you are free to dodge so much more.

[Anonymous No.5307992]

>Turn my grenade launcher into a rifle that does ice damage
>Finish the game like a breeze

[Anonymous No.5309329]

>>5307992
I remember Elements not being very good, except for the one's that stun enemies or the cyanide which has a chance of insta kill.

[Anonymous No.5311024]

Parasite Eve 1's ending is perfect because it hinted to something between specific characters that I really enjoyed, Parasite Ev 2 undid everything.

[Anonymous No.5311235]

>>5311024
It just really went in the wrong direction with a story, and then I guess if you count the Third Birthday(I don't) took a complete nose dive.

[Anonymous No.5311278]

>>5306084
Gonna play the game solely because this image.

[Anonymous No.5311280]

>>5311278
She only wears that dress for one part of the game unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.5311295]

>>5306072
>AKA the endgame content
Nope, you can do that kind of stuff since the beginning. Never spent a single skill point nor used junk and other kind of upgrades in this game and i've beat it fairly easy

[Anonymous No.5311298]

>>5306082
That might be the best place for nu-Lara, though

[Anonymous No.5313312]

>>5299696
https://danbooru.donmai.us/artists/17385
Seems like a pretty straightforward list of names and links to me.
One of my favorite artists regardless. His pixiv has completely emptied at random a couple times, and that particular image returns ERROR(404) at the moment there.