/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5559548]

what's the last retro game that absorbed you /vr/?
pic related for me

[Anonymous No.5559556]

>>5559548
SotN for me a while ago as well. Still want to run the saturn version because I want the rainbow cape and the areas that aren't in the PS1 version.

right now it's Azure Dreams, another Konami classic as well as CV Chronicles but that one is over so quickly. Thinking about replaying Persona 2 IS and EP too.

[Anonymous No.5559563]

Earthbound for me. I had played it back in highschool, but never got past Dungeon Man (which turns out is pretty late in the game). Just beat it last week. I really liked messing around with items and their effects, mirroring enemies, and generally experimenting with the combat. Also the ending was absolute comfy, and I love endings where you just get to travel around visiting everyone and seeing how people are doing after all the drama. Also Paula a cute.

>>5559548
I beat that last year for the first time, and it made me go on a Castlevania spree for a few months. I had only played the NES and SNES games before that.

[Anonymous No.5559570]

>basedtn and memebound
/vr/ is dead.

[Anonymous No.5559573]

>>5559570
Maybe if you weren't so absorbed in shitposting you could play a game and talk about it?

[Anonymous No.5559576]

>>5559548

guardian legend

[Anonymous No.5559601]

>>5559573
Go back

[Anonymous No.5559602]

>>5559601
Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.5559604]

>>5559602
Sotnigger

[Anonymous No.5559607]

>>5559548
I wouldn't say SOTN was the last game but for a while it was. I pretty much annually replay this game during the month of October, I guess the last game that totally absorbed me was Parasite Eve, which I tend to like to also play annually around Christmas if I have time.

[Anonymous No.5559608]

>>5559604
Boo hoo someone likes a game you don't, just go to another thread for god's sake.

[Anonymous No.5559615]

Leave /vr/ igacucks.

[Anonymous No.5559631]

I sorta fast-forwarded through the battles, though.

[Anonymous No.5559652]

>>5559576
is there any way i can play this on PC?

[Anonymous No.5559690]

>>5559570

FE4 for me, OP.

[Anonymous No.5559834]

>>5559631
>i abused speedkey because not only do i emulate but i can't STAND the way the game is meant to be played.
then you didn't play the game.

[Anonymous No.5560080]

>>5559548
SFIII: 3rd Strike. I know this game is a meme now because it's everyone and their mother's favorite fighting game but I still play it for hours every other weekend.

[Anonymous No.5560089]

>>5560080
But it is the best fighting game ever. You just have to do a gentleman's agreement to not pick Chun Li.

[Anonymous No.5560106]

>>5560089
Thankfully above average players don't usually pick Chun in Fightcade. Unfortunately, Yun still exists and somehow nobody drops even his fucking hardest genei-jin combo even in lag.

[Anonymous No.5560116]

>>5560106
I'm an Ibuki player. I like the playstyle and aesthetics, but I do think she got obliterated with nerfs after 2nd Impact.

[Anonymous No.5560117]

>>5560080
>>5560089
its only your favorite if your novice level at it. game sucks upwards of intermediate. it gets extremely boring when your reading parrys and lows indefinitely after a certain skill level. the best fg of all time is tied between cvs2 and mvc2.

[Anonymous No.5560127]

>>5559834
Not him but come on, some of us work full time jobs and prefer not to dump 50+ hours into superfluous walking and waiting for atb timers. Hell, rewind and FF features are put into official releases nowadays.

[Anonymous No.5560137]

>>5560127
yea, i work 8-12 hour shifts on a regular basis and work weekends in the summer and have a 2 hour commute in and out of my place of work. i still dont dont use speedkey. its the most malignant sign of someone that isn't getting jack shit out of their time 'playing' a game. your not playing it if your experiencing it the way it was made. unless you are playing one of the ports that have that feature solely added for zoom zoom then i cant help but think your time spent playing the game isnt actually playing it. just go watch a youtube playthrough at that point.

[Anonymous No.5560140]

>>5560117
It's hard to place where your "level" is after a certain point, especially because Japan exists. I've somewhat waned on playing online 3S after being in Japan for a few years, being able to play at a local arcade offline and all. I still enjoy offline immensely.

>>5560116
I love Ibuki's designs too and like to pick her from time to time. There are players who can obliterate me using her so I still have to respect her tools, tiers be damned.

[Anonymous No.5560150]

>>5559570
Hey buddy I think you're lost. The leather club is two boards down

[Anonymous No.5560158]

Inspector Gadget, the DOS graphical adventure. I was really enjoying it up until it black-screened and locked up PCem. Gonna run it through Dosbox next.

[Anonymous No.5560165]

>>5559548
The SNES version of Brandish. Love that game and I revisit it every so often. Been listening to the PC-98 soundtrack and goddamn it's fantastic

[Anonymous No.5560205]

[Anonymous No.5560350]

>>5559548
Played this late last year for the first time. Was quite an enjoyable experience. Even though I'm a complete pussy with all that horror shit, there's no way it would be as good as it was without it.

Just don't expect me to play it again anytime soon. One run is enough for me.

[Anonymous No.5560354]

>>5559573
>>5559601
>>5559604
other anon's right, stop being a pretentious twat. surely there are other ways you can feel better about your existence than your "elite" taste in retro gaming.

[Anonymous No.5560362]

>>5559631
So what's the difference between that and watching a video?

[Anonymous No.5560421]

Crash bandicoot.
I even want through the trouble of collecting all the gems.
Currently playing the second one and I'm almost at the end.
Will jump into the 3rd one after I'm done.

[Anonymous No.5560430]

>>5559548
Custer's Revenge

[Anonymous No.5560447]

>>5559570
>>5559601

Imagine getting so upset when people don't want to hear your shitty ass opinion which no one cares about
You do realize calling something a meme doesn't offer it any criticism, right?

[Anonymous No.5560456]

>>5560137
>>5560362
>if you skip some of the lengthy portions of a 40-60h game due to kids or work obligations you might as well watch a video
I won't even respond to this. Dumping hours upon hours as a responsibility-free teen is different than someone with 5-8 hours a week of free time. I guess we'll agree to disagree here.

[Anonymous No.5560458]

>>5559652
please tell me this is bait

[Anonymous No.5560462]

>>5559548
final fantasy tactics. I just found out its speedrun-able.

[Anonymous No.5560470]

>>5560158
And I just got to England, where you are greeted with a subtle Blackadder reference. The writers had good taste.

[Anonymous No.5560487]

>>5559631
More power to ya.
Phantasy Star 2 is one of those games that's held in really high regard and the story and setting are cool as fuck, but I just cannot get into it.

[Anonymous No.5560491]

Vagrant Story
Tactics Ogre
Legend of Mana

Playing these three for the first time was probably the most enjoyable gaming experience I ever had.

[Anonymous No.5560492]

>>5560430
Funny eheh

[Anonymous No.5560710]

!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.5560737]

>>5560458
shit, thought he said Guardian Heroes

[Anonymous No.5560741]

Joe & Mac Returns. Because fuck Castlevania.

[Anonymous No.5560747]

>>5559548
Because this is vr: Metal gear, metal gear 2, metal gear solid, Snatcher and Policenauts. I'm totally hooked to the Kojimaverse right now.

[Anonymous No.5560762]

>>5560491
>Vagrant Story
>Tactics Ogre
Nice! Legend of Mana is good too but it always warms my heart to see someone get into the Ogre Battle games.

[Anonymous No.5560767]

A friend of mine convinced me to play Fire Emblem Genealogy of the Holy War and I completely fell in love with it despite its flaws. Looking forward to playing Thracia 776 when the translation gets completed.

[Anonymous No.5560813]

The Lunar series. I was sick in bed for a couple years in 2015 and went out and bought a bunch of consoles that I missed out on as a child. Was always a nintendo guy back then so I picked up a Genesis, CD and 32x just for the hell of it. The Lunar series really sucked me in. Could not stop playing them, especially Lunar 2. Great games. Light hearted and fun.

[Anonymous No.5560945]

R-Type or Kunio-kun probably.

[Anonymous No.5561087]

>>5560137
In his defense, PSII moves at a snail's pace. I like the game but it is slow. I pretty much play most RGPs with a slight constant turbo on just to increase walk speed and battle time. I get the enjoyment out of exploring the game rather than watching characters slog around environments.

FFVI fixed this with sprint shoes and Crono Trigger has a run option, so I don't use turbo in those games.

[Anonymous No.5561160]

This surprised me because I never really liked jrpgs, but I liked the mappan and puzzlan, the constant high difficulty, and how it always threw something new at you just when you were getting complacent and starting to mash through fights.
Wizardry 1 was also enjoyable and quite a bit more hardcore since if you got lazy with mapping and got greedy pushing into a new area you were weren't making it back alive. Also the super famicom port art direction owned since it took the goofy source material way too seriously and ending up in a sort of uncanny wizard of oz/alice in wonderland territory.
Not sure if I should move on to other Wizardrys at this point or see what these Ultima games are all about.

[Anonymous No.5561426]

>>5559570
>hating critically acclaimed, objectively good retro games
/vr/ is dead.

[Anonymous No.5561429]

>>5559548
For me, it's Final Fantasy IX. I never thought I'd be able to handle even one disc of a JRPG but here I am halfway through disc 3, and I'm still not losing interest.

[Anonymous No.5561431]

>>5561426
>>>/v/
stay there casual.

[Anonymous No.5561434]

>wah wah stop shitting on mediocre games like SOTN and Earthbound
>muh muh critics.

[Anonymous No.5561445]

>>5561434
it's ok if they were too hard for you to beat anon, i won't judge

[Anonymous No.5561447]

>>5561445
>SOTN
>hard
kys igacuck

[Anonymous No.5561451]

what the fuck happened to /vr/?
since when you defended games that are more close to modern garbage than real retro games.

[Anonymous No.5561453]

>>5561451
shut up bitch

[Anonymous No.5561457]

>>5561453
leave zoomer,
i bet you think hl, mgs and oot are good games too.

[Anonymous No.5561480]

>>5561447
have sex.

[Anonymous No.5561496]

>>5561480
have taste

[Anonymous No.5561508]

>>5561480
get STD

[Anonymous No.5561519]

Currently absorbed in Kyuukyoku Tiger at the moment. Making slow progress over time.

[Anonymous No.5561523]

>>5561457
all games that non-autists think are good, really makes you think

[Anonymous No.5561570]

>>5559834
>>5560362
PSII's battles are:
- slow
- numerous
- braindead
You can just auto-attack through 95% of the game and still win battles consistently. Only the last dungeons have enemies that need some strategy, like the huge sword (Glosword) or those shadows that use Death skills.

The problem with PSII is that the dungeons are like a maze, so they're designed to drain you of resources. Battles are pretty much braindead C mashing, but even then you don't want to fight because battles are fucking slow, there's a ton of them, AND they give you jack shit for experience. For example: the game is divided into three parts. In the first third, enemies give only as much as 40EXP, even in big groups. Once you hit the second third, suddenly they're giving you 120EXP per enemy. And those enemies aren't even that harder compared to the ones that give you 40EXP. And then comes the last third, where the enemies give you 2000EXP almost for free. And they're only marginally harder than the ones that give you 120EXP. So you want to skip the morose battles that give you jack shit just to reach the battles with more experience faster.

If I hadn't skipped the battles, I'm pretty sure my game time would be at least 60 hours. I think I finished it in 12 hours. And the game only has 3 bosses.

[Anonymous No.5561574]

>>5560106
>This
Someone who really know the game also Ken trannies exist and he's damn annoying
>>5560116
Ibuki is a top tier character she's just so fucking difficult to master that I think only kuroda kinda did it, search ggpo videos of him picking ibuki

[Anonymous No.5561601]

>>5561523
leave normalfag

[Anonymous No.5561612]

>>5561434
>>5561451
Gotta love this extremely valid meaningful """""""""""""""""""""""criticism""""""""""""""""""""""" of SOTN and Earthbound, you sure really convinced people why they should stop liking it.

[Anonymous No.5562140]

>>5559548
Shenmue, and before that, the Alone in the Dark trilogy.

[Anonymous No.5562185]

>>5561160
>This surprised me because I never really liked jrpgs
Wizardy isn't a JRPG, even though it was extremely popular there and influenced things like Rance.

[Anonymous No.5562265]

>>5559570
People that liked those games were on /vr/ before any of you shitposters appeared so...

[Anonymous No.5562284]

>>5559570
Contrarian faggot. I know you're just baiting but still. SotN and Earthbound are objectively good games.

[Anonymous No.5562296]

>>5562284
You don't know what objectively means and you have NPC-tier taste, zoomer.

[Anonymous No.5562301]

>>5562284
>>5562265
go back

[Anonymous No.5562302]

>>5562296
>>5562301
The absolute state of vr shitposting. Have sex

[Anonymous No.5562309]

>>5560747
MG2 is so good. I'm annoyed that so many people skip the 2D games

[Anonymous No.5562312]

>>5562309
Redpill me on them. I've heard mixed things about the NES versions, so which one is the best?

[Anonymous No.5562313]

>>5560747
>>5562309
Kojimadrones should leave too.

[Anonymous No.5562736]

>>5562312
Just get an msx2 and flashcart or use emulator. It's absolutely worth it.
Translated roms exist.

[Anonymous No.5563393]

>>5562312
Mg1 is fun and if you played the next titles you'll find a lot of similarities, but it has a lot of backtracking. Mg2 is pratically Mgs in 2d, it is fun, has nice plot and interesting characters and boss fights.
For nes, snake revenge is a bad game, useless.
For gba, ghost babel is a Mgs clone, really good.

[Anonymous No.5566329]

>>5559570
>a /v/ bait thread
>/mu/ shitposting
Just need the /co/ flaming

[Anonymous No.5566351]

>>5559576
This.

[Anonymous No.5566967]

>>5559548
Link's Awakening. When I play it, it's start to finish in one sitting.

[Anonymous No.5566970]

>>5559548
Actually, it may be SotN for me too. I beat it for the first time last summer, haven't played many retro games since then.

[Anonymous No.5567047]

>>5559548
Gain ground currently. EDF on snes before that.

[Anonymous No.5567052]

>>5559548
Megaman legends is good

[Anonymous No.5567091]

I need to give SotN another go. I remember seeing it in gaming mags and REALLY wanting to play it because the graphics looked amazing. I didn't have a Playstation, though, only an SNES and PC. When I finally got a PS2, I found a greatest hits copy for 15 bucks new at walmart. The game didn't really do anything for me though. The graphics and music were amazing, but I was kind of bored. I don't even remember half the levels or bosses (since they all died on the first attempt and I only played it once).

Answer is Baldur's Gate though, I still play it regularly.

[Anonymous No.5567168]

All of them

[Anonymous No.5567174]

>>5559548
The Legend of Zelda

Randomizer

[Anonymous No.5567731]

>>5563393
Ghost babel is gbc

[Anonymous No.5569309]

>>5567731
My bad, you are right.