/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6151132]

if you can't beat contra 3, you don't belong here
easy and extra lives do not count

[Anonymous No.6151140]

if you can't beat mario 64 with 35 or less a presses, you don't belong here
half an a press is still an a press

[Anonymous No.6151150]

>>6151132
>those top-down stages
Hard pass.

I've beaten 1, Super, and Hard Corps though.

[Anonymous No.6151176]

>>6151132
I'm pretty sure I can beat it since I've beaten harder games.

[Anonymous No.6151353]

>>6151140
>half an a press is still an a press

[Anonymous No.6151420]

I like Mega Turrican more.
https://youtu.be/4nN6YGteWug

[Anonymous No.6151638]

It's an easy game with all the slowdown it has.

[Anonymous No.6151652]

>>6151638
It's still the hardest Contra game.

[Anonymous No.6151654]

>>6151638
>slowdown
I beat it on BSNES with overclocking set to 400%

[Anonymous No.6151656]

>>6151132
>easy and extra lives do not count
Already moving goalposts lmoa

[Anonymous No.6151660]

>>6151656
Honestly if you play any game in easy mode and think you've beaten it you're only fooling yourself.

[Anonymous No.6152336]

>>6151654
>I beat it on BSNES with overclocking set to 400%
Then you didn't beat it, you need to use original hardware or an accurate emulation, without that overlocking faggotery

[Anonymous No.6152351]

>>6151652
t. Never played Hard Corps

[Anonymous No.6152354]

>>6152351
What makes you think I never played one of the most famous Contra games? Hard Corps is easy as shit. By far the most boring for replays.

[Anonymous No.6152360]

>>6151660
it's not like you gain anything in life for completing something on hard besides a sense of self-accomplishment and hours ticked away within your ever-dwindling mortal hourglass

[Anonymous No.6152372]

>>6152354
Post your best ending 1cc.

Bonus points if you didn't have to use the furry or robot.

[Anonymous No.6152379]

>>6151132
The top down stages on hard mode are a nightmare they're nearly unbeatable on hard imo. It's something I never want to do ever again.

[Anonymous No.6152380]

>>6151132

US adaptation doesn't count, tho. Only Contra Spirits

[Anonymous No.6152431]

>>6152336
name a more accurate SNES emulator than BSNES

[Anonymous No.6152548]

>>6152336
>without that overlocking faggotery
Overclocking these games generally makes them harder. Run Star Fox overclocked and you'll have trouble responding to half the shit flying your way. Gradius III? You bet your ass you have less time to think with less slowdown.

[Anonymous No.6152564]

>>6152372
>Bonus points if you didn't have to use the furry or robot.
Moving goalposts already? Just kidding.
I mean, this thread is for Contra III, so first, people who claim it's easy should post their own 1cc's of it before daring others to do it for Hard Corps.
Really though, Hard Corps becomes really easy once you know the game and it's not hard to beat it without losing a single life, Contra III is more punishing, even if you know the game.
HC gives the impression of being super hard initially due to the amount of boss fights that quickly make you lose on your first attempt playing the game, but it's not really a hard game, far from it.

[Anonymous No.6152637]

>>6151132
if you didn't 1cc on hard mode you did not beat Contra 3 (because it has a different ending)

[Anonymous No.6152641]

>Playing 3 at all when Hard Corps exists
You need to go back, friendo.

[Anonymous No.6152656]

>>6152641
Why is fucking Hard Corps so overrated? It's the easiest Contra game.
Super C best Contra.

[Anonymous No.6152660]

>>6151132
I've never seriously tried because there's something about it I dislike.

[Anonymous No.6152662]

>>6152641
They're different games, you can like both.

[Anonymous No.6152663]

>>6152656
>Contra Rebirth is the best Contra
ftfy

[Anonymous No.6152683]

>>6152663
Zoom zoom

[Anonymous No.6152692]

>>6152683
>OLD GOOD
>NEW BAD

[Anonymous No.6152694]

>>6152683
But I'm over 40.

[Anonymous No.6152709]

>>6152656
>Why is fucking Hard Corps so overrated? It's the easiest Contra game.
^this guy never leaves his house and plays Hard Corps once a week.

[Anonymous No.6152798]

>>6151132
You seem to be mistaken OP, this is the jarpig board.

We don't take kindly to action game players round here.

[Anonymous No.6152823]

>>6152564
>Contra III is more punishing, even if you know the game.
elaborate

[Anonymous No.6152829]

Hard Corps sucks.

[Anonymous No.6152880]

>>6152829
You suck.

[Anonymous No.6152916]

I can do normal just fine, but I get suck at the riding-missiles fight on hard.

[Anonymous No.6152921]

>>6152823
I'd imagine that while Hard Corps has the invincible slide which the game was designed around, you also have more reserve weapons to fall back on when you die, and we all know certain characters are just better. Contra 3 only has two slots. There's also a bit more RNG in 3 if i'm remembering correctly, especially in those fucking top-down stages, so even memorization of the stages doesn't mean much if you can't improvise.

[Anonymous No.6152930]

>>6152880
Not them, but Contra Hard Corps is so hard it's just for kids. Only they could possibly do it perfectly now because they have all the time. Had the game as a kid and after much dedication, I no death-ed it. Don't remember the exact ending, but I knew about the hidden endings and the shopping cart boss and the dinosaur;etc, but Jesus that game is hard. Correct advertising. It's the least user-friendly Contra.

[Anonymous No.6152934]

Even Contra Rebirth on Nightmare difficulty is easier than Hard Corps.

[Anonymous No.6152936]

>>6151132
if you can't beat megaman x 1-3 all in one run with only x'1s leg capsule and zero's buster, no weapons allowed on bosses on sigma, no heart containers or sub-tanks, absolutely nothing, then you definitely don't belong here.

[Anonymous No.6152940]

>>6152936
...damn

[Anonymous No.6153008]

>>6152798
More like Contra Casual Corp amirite

[Anonymous No.6153032]

>>6151652
Hard corps is way harder

[Anonymous No.6153150]

Tryhard the thread.

[Anonymous No.6153163]

>>6152921
>invincible slide

What the fuck. This whole time I didn't know that was even a thing. Do you press down and jump or what?

[Anonymous No.6153250]

apparently i belong here

[Anonymous No.6153258]

>>6151132
I've only played contra 1 sorry

[Anonymous No.6153341]

>>6152934
No it's not, at least not if we're talking about a 1cc. The final boss of Rebirth alone is harder than anything in Hard Corps, some of his patterns are straight bullshit like the aimed stream of debris since it combines with his random movement. To top it off you've only got 2 lives for the whole game, no bombs and only 1 weapon reserve. Hard Corps, as someone has pointed out, appears very difficult because it's so memorization-based, but once you learn the patterns, pulling everything off isn't hard.

[Anonymous No.6153449]

>>6151132
I found Super Ghouls harder. Especially with the "Hey, you beat the game! Do it again with this useless weapon for the true end" which is bullshit

[Anonymous No.6153459]

>>6153341
>Hard Corps, as someone has pointed out, appears very difficult because it's so memorization-based, but once you learn the patterns, pulling everything off isn't hard.
Like Rebirth, but Rebirth is easier. By far. You've just played Hard Corps to death; you're like the smug employee of a game store that swears that Ninja Gaiden is easy, like sooo sooo easy. Yes. After years of practice, whereas Rebirth took days.

[Anonymous No.6153463]

>>6153449
>Do it again with this useless weapon for the true end" which is bullshit
You don't have to do the whole game with that weapon, anon. Yeah, you can use whatever any get the final weapon again any time you want.

[Anonymous No.6153468]

>>6153459
Not even close, I played both in quick succession and found Hard Corps much easier because of the reasons I listed. Rebirth is just a faster, more punishing and more random game with trickier sections, the Llamas and final boss being good examples. And that's assuming you play as Ray like I did or Sheena, instead of cheesing it with Brownie or Fang's charged punch. Now if your goal is to just credit feed then maybe Rebirth is easier but I never bothered.

[Anonymous No.6153479]

>>6153468
>Rebirth is just a faster, more punishing and more random game with trickier sections
Nah. Git gud. I beat Nightmare mode with some difficulty, but it's not that bad.
Everything you said applies to Hard Corps.

[Anonymous No.6153481]

>>6153468
>the Llamas
That part is easy too. God, that part is kinoesque, though.

[Anonymous No.6153491]

>>6153479
I already got gud and 1cc'd both, that's why I can say for sure that Rebirth is harder. And no, none of that applies to Hard Corps. The game has very little randomness, and what little there is can be bypassed with keeping up good damage or bombs. You have no choice but to deal with Rebirth's randomness, there's no way around it. And again, dying in Hard Corps means you'll lose one of the 6 or even 7 lives you get over the course of the game and one single weapon out of your huge arsenal, dying in Rebirth means you'll lose one of your 2 lives, and one of your 2 weapons which will most likely make the next section much harder. You say you "beat it" but what's that mean? Did you 1cc it, or did you use continues? Hard Corps will probably be harder if you continue like a motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.6153495]

>>6153481
It's harder than literally anything in Hard Corps because you have to switch between keeping up with the random Llama movement and enemies that spawn in from behind, and there's so much shit going on their shots can blend in with the explosions. Hard Corps never requires this kind of multi-tasking, nor does it have this kind of randomness unless you fail to quickly finish a boss phase.

[Anonymous No.6153508]

>>6153491
>Rebirth is harder
Cringe
>You have no choice but to deal with Rebirth's randomness, there's no way around it
Didn't seem too random to me.
>You say you "beat it" but what's that mean? Did you 1cc it, or did you use continues?
I used continues.
>Hard Corps will probably be harder if you continue like a motherfucker.
OK, I'll agree that Hard Corps is far less forgiving at the later stages if you fucked up because it's harder.

[Anonymous No.6153513]

>>6153495
>It's harder than literally anything in Hard Corps because you have to switch between keeping up with the random Llama movement and enemies that spawn in from behind
Dude, not sure why you're making it sound like you never got far in Hard Corps, but you are. It's like someone telling me that the third level in Super Mario Bros. is hard.

[Anonymous No.6153515]

>>6153508
Ok if you used continues that's different, I specified that I was talking about a 1cc which changes things a lot

[Anonymous No.6153541]

>>6153515
I think we both agree that they're equally hard as diamond's fucking if they have to beaten with or without continues on their highest settings, but it can be done, but it takes dedication. I'm just floored that Hard Corps is easier for you. You got some skills on that game, man. It's literally been decades since I even felt like trying on that game it to demoralizing.

[Anonymous No.6153543]

*it is so demoralizing
My typing is demoralized.

[Anonymous No.6153559]

>arguing over which Contra is "hardest"
Lol contrakiddies

[Anonymous No.6153560]

>>6153541
I didn't struggle with HC very much, it felt pretty smooth actually. Each time I did a run I got further than the last time and always learned something new. Hard Corps is more like a puzzle game, the important part is knowing where to stand during different boss phases and which weapons to use, and where to use your bombs (most likely gonna be the VR boss). A lot of the attacks will kill you the first time you encounter them but once you know they're there dodging them shouldn't be much of a problem. Hell, some bosses or game segments don't even require any dodging at all. Rebirth doesn't have as much of this memorization element but it has a lot of small subtle things that are likely to kill you off, like the random Llama movement can throw off your dodging/shooting, or the final stampede with the irregular jumping aliens, or the entirety of the final boss which has a lot of random patterns it can throw at you some requiring really tight dodging while you're upside-down.

[Anonymous No.6153567]

>>6153559
Enjoy your unfair rng and shoehorned shmup sections faggot

[Anonymous No.6153581]

>>6153560
>Hard Corps is more like a puzzle game, the important part is knowing where to stand during different boss phases and which weapons to use, and where to use your bombs (most likely gonna be the VR boss).
For some reason that's harder for me. Talk about getting intimate with that Genesis controller.
>or the entirety of the final boss which has a lot of random patterns it can throw at you some requiring really tight dodging while you're upside-down.
That last boss on the latter difficulties is a bitch, not gonna lie.

[Anonymous No.6153651]

>>6153163
Yes. The boss patterns are designed around exploiting the slide or playing as absolutely cautiously as possible if you don't.

[Anonymous No.6153706]

>>6152694
that's still makes you a zoomer to a subset here

[Anonymous No.6153973]

>Yeah, you can use whatever any get the final weapon again any time you want

[Anonymous No.6153979]

>>6153463
>Yeah, you can use whatever any get the final weapon again any time you want

[Anonymous No.6154012]

>>6151132
>if your skill level and tastes don't match this random anon on 4channel you don't belong here

[Anonymous No.6154023]

>>6153449
I'm not sure I'm willing to commit to the memorization it requires to play ghouls'n ghosts. I've always thought it looked gorgeous too so, that's a pity.

[Anonymous No.6154034]

>>6152663
Rebirth is one of the worst. Looks horrible, only plays alright

[Anonymous No.6154070]

>>6152360
This.