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543640 No.543640 [Reply] [Original]

did anybody ever last more than like one half hour into genesis games as a kid without dying and starting over/ rage quitting?? Why were they so hard?

>> No.543667

FUCK YEAH LAST BATTLE IM KICKING ASS WHAT THE FUCK GREEN HULK HUGAN JUST FUCKED MY ANUS WITH HIS GREEN SUPLEXIN DICK

fucking game. i love everything about it, except playing the broken fucking thing.

>> No.543716

>>543667
lol i could never master getting the fuckin ripped off shirt mode it just happened whenever, i'm sure i'd notice if i played now i'm sure its simple lol. And yeah that guy was fuckin hard, but not as bad as those fucking rolling barrel things

i'm seriously not sure if i was just a retarded kid who was mad bad at gaems, or if they just started getting easier lol

>> No.543746

>>543716
I do kind of have this theory about how since graphics have gotten better, games got easier. Mostly because they look closer to something thats real. Try solving a fucking pixelated ridiculous puzzle in an old zelda vs doing one in like twilight princess or something its easier to solve something the way we're accustomed to, when things look real. I remember being trapped in the part with the trains in FF VII as a kid for months because I couldn't realize there was a latter right in front of me

>> No.543816

Isn't Last Battle just a Fist Of The North Star game?

>> No.543824

>>543816
yes

>> No.543826
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543826

Okay guys... I know a little about this game

>> No.543857
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543857

First this is definetely a great example of one of those incredibly hard to beat games... I owned it as a child and have still tried emulating and beating it with no success yet. It's just a really really long game that gets harder and harder. I do believe it is Fists of the North Star the game. In the japanese version when you punch a dude he explodes into blood not smoke. I've made it as far as the mirage pirate on what I believe is the forth (maybe?) act. I've watched a video of someone completing the game and there is at least another hour into it after my years of practice. As far as new games... they suck easy games are hard to be fun for more than a couple weeks but challenging ones always seem to stick... they just don't make them like they used to sort of mentality. Great game... if you're looking for another unbeatable Genesis game try Shadow of the Beast

PS thanks for the box art I'm not sure if I've ever seen it.

>> No.543883
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>> No.543894
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>>543883

my buddy beat that in front of me once. I own him in any competitive video game but it was so impressive I just don't have the patience

>> No.543940
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543940

Oh, the times with Strider and other such classic action games like Alien Storm. Those pushed me to a limit as a kid. You had to start over and over again, only because you needed to beat the game.

>> No.543969

>>543883

Fucking this. I love Chakan, but fuck how difficult it is. Only ever beat the Game Gear version.

>> No.544021

>>543816
Is Fist of the North Star in lunar runes?

>> No.544058

Genesis had a lot of arcade ports and arcade style games that either never tweaked or deliberately emulated the arcade style difficulty that liked to fleece you for your quarters. And in the home console market, it was a means to extend game length in a time when the media couldn't really store all that much game on it unless it had really simple animations and code, like an RPG. We were used to the balls to the wall difficulty then and they knew we'd put up with it as long as the challenge was just fun enough to outweigh the controlling snapping frustration of playing the same 2 minute long stage over and again for more than an hour. It's a delicate balance and really speaks to the ingenuity of developers if you can genuinely enjoy what's supposed to be a fun experience that punishes you that much for trying to complete it.

>> No.544070

>>544058
>Genesis version of Raiden sends you back to checkpoint when you die
>arcade doesn't

Whyyyyy

>> No.545727

>>544058
This. Though alot of it is just the Genesis being a cheating bitch.

>> No.545992
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545992

Fucking Last Battle. I could never get past Alf.

>> No.546178

>>544070
Arcade version costs you real money to credit feed. Console versions should always require some skill to complete.

>> No.546184

>>543640
I only played this game in Japanese. Because it's actually Fist of the North Star. And the people explode when you hit them instead of flying off screen.
http://youtu.be/9fiUbUbDesI?t=14s

>> No.548964

last battle wasn't hard, it was bad...

>> No.550498

>>548964
Mediocre at best, but still a good way to waste some time.