/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7237426]

ITT: retro games you excuse for having bad gameplay because everything else is perfect

[Anonymous No.7237429]

The gameplay wasn't bad

[Anonymous No.7237492]

It's gameplay isn't the best, but it's one of the most soulful games of the entire 5th generation.

[Anonymous No.7237517]

>>7237426
The gameplay was never bad.

[Anonymous No.7237640]

>>7237429
>>7237517
Sonic CD has the worst level design for all the classic sonic games, and considering its a platformer, this makes it a bad game.

[Anonymous No.7237656]

>>7237640
The level design has different goals than the other classic sonic games. If you readjust your mindset, you will learn to appreciate it.

[Anonymous No.7237659]

Doesn't this just describe the 16-bit era? All the best gameplay mechanics were developed during the 8-bit era (or in the arcades) and this console generation was really about style over substance. I've included a few examples on the mosaic.

[Anonymous No.7237667]

>>7237656
Yeah and it's flat-out bad. I have never seen anyone come up with a compelling argument for sonic cd's level design.

[Anonymous No.7237672]

>>7237667
Or perhaps your mind is too closed to understand their arguments

[Anonymous No.7237675]

>>7237667
do you think everything is going to be in the same place after traveling between the past, present, and future? come the fuck on m8

[Anonymous No.7237679]

>>7237672
The only people with closed minds are sonic CD hipsters who won't acknowledge that sonic CD is objectively the worst game.
Bad music
Bad/forgettable level design
Dreadful special stage
Past / present / future mechanic completely brain dead
Only positive I can think of is slightly interesting bosses
>>7237675
Who cares, you can only play one version at a time and every version sucks shit.
Instead of having 1 good level you have 3 similar but equally shit versions. Why?

[Anonymous No.7237684]

>>7237679
>you can only play one version at a time

k bud let me know when you find a way to simultaneously exist in the past present and future all at once

[Anonymous No.7237685]

Just reading Wikipedia. Sonic CD was originally going to be an enhanced edition of Sonic 2 with CD audio music. However, shitty sales in Japan led to Sonic Team changing the game to what we have here. I guess that was the inspiration for that famous parody Let's Play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oj-4Rd3n6g


Eh, it could have been much worse and STI showed us how worse it could have been. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.7237715]

>>7237684
Exactly, why the fuck have 3 weak versions instead of 1 good one?? The time zones only make the game worse

[Anonymous No.7237718]

>>7237679
>bad music
the only bad thing about the music is how criminally underrated it is. both osts are completely fine in their own right
>bad/forgettable level design
flat out wrong. if the level design was bad and forgettable then explain to me why so many of the mechanics from this game were repurposed for mania?
>dreadful special stage
the special stages arent even entirely that awful when you actually learn how to play them. people say the same shit about literally all the other special stages in the franchise.

I'd reply to some of your other points but it really just seems like you don't really play Sonic CD when you start it up. It's not one of those Sonic games where you just boom through the stage and that's it. The whole point of Sonic CD is its focus on exploration, not just running right like a retard.

[Anonymous No.7237749]

OP bieng a faggot as usual

[Anonymous No.7237792]

>>7237492
Massive classic series fan here. Can confirm 8 has tons and tons of faults(no defined weakness table for regular enemies, Wily 1 being an utter pain, etc), but it's still got heart put into it.

>>7237679
Sonic 1 exists, 3&K>2>CD>1

>>7237426
This motherfucker right here. Weak weapons compared to most of the other X games and the X-Hunters were overall a pointless edition, but damn if it isn't fun to speedrun, and I fucking love Agile despite him pretty much never returning.

>>7237749
nigger

[Anonymous No.7237810]

>>7237640
Spot on. I have never finished Sonic CD and probably never will because of this.

[Anonymous No.7237821]

>>7237715
No. You get different tunes....other than that it sucks.

[Anonymous No.7237885]

>>7237792
Sonic 1 wants to use its at the time fresh momentum mechanics a whole lot. Sonic CD wants you to stop and jump all day. It's a waste and creates even more simplistic gameplay.

[Anonymous No.7238226]

>>7237715
Isn't it 4?

>Past
>Present
>Bad future
>Good future

[Pr?nc?ss Sevenleaf No.7238240]

ITT: sex offenders cape for Sanic.

[Anonymous No.7238280]

>>7238240
sevenleaf is anti-Sonic?
anyway this thread is pure bait
>Mega Man X2
>bad gameplay

[Anonymous No.7239041]

>>7237640
False. The level design is excellent. Managed to beat it with no problem.

>>7237810
t.Someone who never even played it.

>>7238240
>sanic
t.Nincel

[Anonymous No.7239967]

>>7237679
The music was ok. I preferred the US music because I thought it fit the theme of the game and levels better, but both were ok. The levels were shit because of the time travel mechanic. The special stage was shit.

The game would be better if time travel didn't require hounding the levels for the one spot you could use it.
>>7237718
Because spergs were responsible for Mania, which is why it felt like a romhack.

[Anonymous No.7239986]

>>7237718
>why so many of the mechanics from this game were repurposed for mania
Everything under the sun from the classic games is in Mania, including hints of Chaotix

[Anonymous No.7240141]

[Anonymous No.7240156]

>>7240141
seethe harder, sonycel.

[Anonymous No.7240158]

>>7240156
how do you figure that?

[Anonymous No.7240412]

>>7239041
Nobody is saying it's hard retard, it's just not interesting or fun

[Anonymous No.7240615]

I love everything about this game, but I despise actually playing it.

[Anonymous No.7240620]

>>7237640
>I suck at video games.
Fixed.

[Anonymous No.7240643]

>>7240620
>It's not hard or interesting
>>Get gud
You have brain damage