Oni: 20th Anniversary

[BMO No.7342524]

Hey ya'll, it's BMO from /t/.
2021 is the 20th Anniversary of one of my favorite games for the PC: ONI.

My teenage crush and first waifu was the bodacious Konoko. Previews of the game were out as early as 1999, where the purple-haired vixen made the cover of Mac Addict Magazine. The game while advertised for Mac was ported to the PS2 and PC where it managed to play on Windows ME (which sucked) but had problems running on Windows XP.

Over the years, this game has had a community wanting to finish the job that Bungie never did before it was scooped up by Microsoft to churn out a port of Halo ever few years.

This game combined martial arts fighting, third-person shooter and a 3D environment, and while other games have come along with similar concepts, there's always going to be someone who will bring up the Girl from TCTF, often how she can still take them to the woodshed.

This thread is dedicated to her and the game whose story has seeped into our reality as man continues to show disregard for the environment and allow the corrupt to get away with breaking the law.

Hopefully, I can play this on DOSBOX on my Raspberry Pi 4 via RetroPie. NVidia? Who's that? I remember playing this on my crappy laptop back in 2001. What do you think?

[Anonymous No.7342541]

>>7342524
namefagging without even trip fagging and thinking anyone knows or cares where you're from? fuck off.

[Anonymous No.7342570]

>>7342524
There was GameCube cancelled port. Maybe studios can Oni 2 on PS4.

[BMO No.7342574]

>>7342541

U MAD because my cyberpunk adventure game didn't get all hyped up only to flame out like yours did?

Sounds rough.

[Anonymous No.7342583]

>>7342524
>on DOSBOX
wew lad

[Anonymous No.7342593]

>>7342524
western faux anime style is the worst fucking trash art in the world

[Anonymous No.7342594]

>>7342524
Her being in Smash Bro?

[Anonymous No.7342609]

>>7342524
I remember seeing this girl in magazines when I was just getting in to the hardest part of puberty. Used to think she was so fucking hot

[Anonymous No.7342612]

>>7342593
That style is extremely close to what anime generally looked like in the late 90’s. Go look at some 3D pre-rendered shit like sudeki if you want to see it done poorly.

[Anonymous No.7342626]

>>7342524
Saw some gameplay footage a while back. It looks like absolute shit. Not only that, but it's a western imitation of anime style, which is fucking disgusting. No thanks.

[Anonymous No.7342631]

>>7342612
Anon I...

[Anonymous No.7342634]

>>7342612
>That style is extremely close to what anime generally looked like in the late 90’s.
no

[BMO No.7342656]

>>7342593
>>7342626

Oh yeah, it is totally shit.
I mean, there's no way that it could be better than this after 20 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB6XyErBswg

Yep...total trash.

[Anonymous No.7342672]

>>7342524
Best game.

[Anonymous No.7343378]

>>7342583
wtf?? howd u use that character??

[Anonymous No.7343417]

>>7342574
>>7342656
Why do you keep deflecting to Cyberpunk 2077 (not retro) in response to any criticism? No-one cares about Cyberpunk 2077.

[Anonymous No.7343481]

>>7343378
you unlock cheat codes once you complete the game
one of them is character changing

[Anonymous No.7343510]

>>7342593
You sound like a tryhard hater way too late to the party, hating on 90's anime boom. The art both in-game and promotional for Oni looks good.

[Anonymous No.7343528]

>>7342570
I'm more bummed about the canceled multiplayer.

[Anonymous No.7343573]

>>7342524
This was one of the first PS2 games I ever bought with my own money. It was good shit. Must have watched that intro a hundred times. Never did beat it without cheats though.

[Anonymous No.7343595]

>Paper thin story that fails miserably at world-building and character development
>Janky gunplay
>Pushover difficulty
>Checkpoint-based saving
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea behind Oni, but can we admit it's maybe a bit over-rated?

[Anonymous No.7343609]

>>7343595
>Paper thin story
That's like, your opinion, man
>Janky gunplay
It's a brawler first with guns mixed in, not a TPS. I'm not sure what should have been done differently, because it feels fine to me.
>Pushover difficulty
Multiple difficulty levels, and I don't believe you cruised through the hardest easily. Probably just trying to make your criticisms seem better founded.
>Checkpoint-based saving
...as opposed to what exactly? Full level restarts?

How can it be overrated? It's only a cult classic at best.

[Anonymous No.7343618]

>>7343528
kek

[Anonymous No.7343856]

>>7343595
>Paper thin story
"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important." - John Carmack

[Anonymous No.7343887]

>>7343856
he made incredibly shit fps games with the most cancerous influence on the industry so it checks out

[Anonymous No.7343909]

>>7343887
what games are good then, hot-take man

[Anonymous No.7343921]

>>7343528
That no matter.

[Anonymous No.7343983]

>>7343510
>Beautiful art.
Indeed promotional.

[Anonymous No.7344079]

>>7342574
Oni was pretty cool for 3 levels and the rest is an unmitigated disaster.

[Anonymous No.7344086]

>>7344079
I would argue the game never gets bad overall, but most of the levels are really bland in layout. And it starts with the very first one. That's its major failing.

[Anonymous No.7344120]

>>7343595
>it's maybe a bit over-rated
It was a so-so game upon release.
Nostalgia goggles are making people believe it was in fact a "hidden gem".

[Anonymous No.7344131]

>>7343510
This does not look like animu in any way.

[Anonymous No.7344151]

>>7344131
>wtf this doesn't look like moeblobs OR dbz!

[Anonymous No.7344159]

>>7342524

I rented this back in the day on my PS2 and thought it was shit. Then I beat it on PC on the hardest difficulty in 2015 when I was bored just to give it a second chance. I remember almost nothing about it, which is testament to how bland it is. The things I do remember are a few characters were ghost in the shell ripoffs including the protagonist, the combat was complete ass, the guns were imbalanced with some being worthless and others being too powerful, and the architecture was mostly just uninspired cube rooms and hallways with shitty textures. It also ensured that I never played Halo as I always remembered it was made by the same people that made this game and so I avoided it.

[Anonymous No.7344725]

>>7342524
I gave it a try a couple of days ago, and it was alright.
It's ok, I couldn't get the throws to work.
Feels kinda like a tech demo or something. It has that 6th gen, bargain bin title feel to it.
I means that's literally what it was, wasn't it? It's like one of those games you would rent at Blockbuster, play for a while, and never think about it ever again.

It made me nostalgic for that era and shows I used to watch on Jetix as a kid. That early-mid 00s western anime style is so laughably bad nowadays, but it has a charm to it. A reminder of simpler times for me.

[Anonymous No.7344746]

>>7342593
Look at the bright side, it'd have been like The White Chamber a game from 2005 which had... Questionable character design.

[Anonymous No.7344761]

>>7344746
This. Shitposters and deepweebs who mock faux anime have zero perspective if they think this is an offensive example of western anime. Crack open one of those "How to draw anime" books if you want a laugh. But Oni's art looked good. They clearly paid a pretty competent artist to do the promo art.

[Anonymous No.7344762]

what are some more weird smaller pc games like this in the similar time frame

[Anonymous No.7344768]

American rip-off of Ghost in the Shell

[Anonymous No.7344845]

I know this gets thrown around a lot but this literally does look like one of those "How to draw manga" books from the early 2000s.

[Anonymous No.7344886]

>>7342524
imagine if this game came out today, incels would lose their shit

[Anonymous No.7344919]

>>7344886
So would the coomers

[Anonymous No.7344928]

>>7344886
You mean weeaboos? What would an incel care?

[Anonymous No.7344943]

>>7344928
Reddit, SA, /pol/, and /leftypol/ are too retarded to know the difference

[BMO No.7345213]

>>7343417

True. But the more I hear about how "shitty" Oni is, compared to contemporary counterparts, I assume the people giving the hate must not have though about how much work went into making a good game with terrible-by-2021-standards graphics vs an actually terrible piece of shit.

It odd how we just shit on everyone without consideration that the QUALITY of the game matters. Heck, there's an entire community that unlocks cheats and hacks in this game.

TLDR: Oni is a fucking work of art compared to CP2077!

[BMO No.7345230]

>>7343510
I must have missed this "90s anime boom" people talk about. All I remember is DBZ and Pokemon.

I didn't find all the good stuff until AFTER it had passed.

Heck, we didn't get Cartoon Network until 2001.

There's just something about mid 90s Magic Shojo anime that is just missing from today.
It sort of like how Sailor Moon Crystal is crap compared to the original series...the unedited cut not the DIC cut.

But that's more of a story for /a/ than /vr/

[Anonymous No.7345231]

>>7344845
This. There's a discrepancy between drawings only appearing in-game and those also used for promotional material.

[BMO No.7345235]

>>7344768
Spirit of, but not actually.

Also, they were aiming more towards Appleseed.

[BMO No.7345256]

>>7344886
They're already losing their shit.

"whaaa! It's American weeaboo fake anime."
"whaaa! it's not Japanese!"
"waaaa! I cry into my MyPillow at night with the loli pillowcase covered in jizz stains before I learned about No Nut November."

Goddamn. I've been on camping trips with bigger whiners.

[Anonymous No.7345307]

>>7345256
Why are you so obsessed with this shitty ass game anyway? There's so many other better choices if you are gonna be a complete sperg, like the early Halo games.

Bungie made this, right? Jesus

[Anonymous No.7345335]

Fuck it, I'm out, the quality of discussion on nu-/vr/ is now the same as on /v/, just a bunch of bored teenagers shitting on literally everything to get a rise out of people who actually care.

Almost every thread is like this now.

[Anonymous No.7345337]

>>7342524
It ran on Windows and there's a modding community. You can run the game with higher poly Konoko models now.

[Anonymous No.7345817]

>>7342593
>western faux anime style is the worst fucking trash art in the world

Go eat a burger.

[Anonymous No.7345928]

>>7345335
/v/ had an Oni thread yesterday and it was better.

[Anonymous No.7346036]

>>7345335
Seems like expanding /vr/'s relevant date range was a mistake. Hate what this place has become.

[Anonymous No.7346038]

>that dream diver level

>>7343595
>Paper thin story that fails miserably at world-building and character development
I kind of like how the story is told. For me it's enough when there are some short cutscenes and dialogue just enough to enhance the setting, and then you rely on the gameplay for most of the experience. And the gameplay took a little getting used to but after that it's fun.

[Anonymous No.7346265]

>>7343510

That was legit drawn by Larry Bundy

[Anonymous No.7346271]

>>7346265
You can tell which of the art is his because it's not as good as good as the other artist's pieces, but it's still surprisingly close.

[Anonymous No.7346292]

>>7342541
I know BMO. Has had like 3-4 retro ganes threads on /t that have stayed up runninh for the last couple years. 'Sup Beemers! You doing the Lord's work.

[Anonymous No.7346336]

>>7346292
Don't circlejerk. His identity isn't necessary for the discussion of any game.

[Anonymous No.7347657]

>>7344761

That Wolverine-style hairdo is not agreeing with my sensibilities. Other than that, yes, these are good pictures of a pretty fictional lady.

[Anonymous No.7347668]

>>7345231
Not really. The little radio icons are the only thing that looks noticeably shit. The character models and textures are decent. The splash graphics between levels are pretty nice. At least those little radio faces are only up for a moment.

[Anonymous No.7347669]

>>7342524
Played this game a bunch on PS2. Pre-Microsoft Bungie was great, Myth 1 and 2 are still some of the best PC games ever made.

[Anonymous No.7347827]

>>7342524
Is there a download to play this? like how NOLF has a fanmade patch to make it work on modern windows like 7?

[Anonymous No.7348020]

>>7347827
Yeah, look up "Anniversary Edition" for the fan made mod that features some serious QOL upgrades, and I think some compatibility fixes too.

[Anonymous No.7348061]

>>7345817
>that face on the right

[Anonymous No.7348070]

>>7342524
This was the first game i got for ps2. Its actually really fucking good for an early ps2 game.

[Anonymous No.7348079]

>>7344762
Try rune: viking warlord on pc though the ps2 port is missing a ton of shit.

[Anonymous No.7348087]

>>7342524
Did larry bundy jr really do all the art for this game?

[BMO No.7348217]

>>7346292

[Anonymous No.7348440]

>>7344761
Not to mention that Bungie hired actual nips to do the cutscenes in Myth 2. Bungie has always appreciated anime genuinely

[Anonymous No.7348886]

>>7342524
>doll head
>sexy

[Anonymous No.7349227]

>>7348087
Only a portion of the promo art and the mission splash screens. If you compare illustrations you'll notice there's two artists.

[Anonymous No.7349260]

>>7342524
Great game. I beat it many years ago with the fan patch and I still think of it from time to time. It had so many damn binds for attacks that I really wish my mouse had more buttons.

[Anonymous No.7349351]

>>7342593
this

[Anonymous No.7349356]

>>7343510
looks like those "how to draw anime" books where it's done by western artist

[Anonymous No.7349395]

[Anonymous No.7349865]

>>7348087
but uncredited? end credits list six artists, concept art is by Alex Okita but no Larry Bundy or anything

[Anonymous No.7349882]

>>7349356
Disingenuous fuckwit.

[Anonymous No.7349910]

>>7349865
They're all larry dude

[Anonymous No.7349939]

>>7349910
from this to >>7343510? must have had a very good clean up artist

[Anonymous No.7350091]

>>7344746
Jesus I remember this game, it was weird but really good.

[Anonymous No.7351529]

>>7342524
It sucked 20 years ago and it still sucks.

[Anonymous No.7352076]

>>7342524
I should replay this game. I didn't understand the melee combat system as a kid but I did understand that it had a lot of depth to it that I wasn't able to use properly.

[Anonymous No.7352090]

>>7342524
Great game

[Anonymous No.7352147]

>>7342541
Fuck off BMO is based

[Anonymous No.7352835]

>>7346292
>>7352147
Everyone knows this is BMO defending himself, right? I just want to stop by and make sure no one on this board can be stupid enough to believe a namefag being defended by anons.

[Anonymous No.7352853]

>>7352835
Take your meds. Not everybody is a spastic like you.

[Anonymous No.7353607]

>>7349939
That art is ironic since you can't even duel wield in the game.

[Anonymous No.7353812]

>>7345213
The problem is that they aren't even remotely similar games aside from being "cyberpunk". Compare it to Vanquish or something.

[Anonymous No.7355307]

>>7353607
Have you ever noticed people who shoot guns like that are terrible shots?

Its sort of like how someone thinks it's cool to shoot a firearm sideways, but they don't consider that the recoil won't make the bullet got straight but veer off to the side.

Better to hit your target right the first time with one hand than waste a bullet showing off.

[Tourist No.7355350]

>>7342524
Love the game.

[Anonymous No.7355705]

>>7342524
Tried playing it 3 times over the years between 2000-2010

Everytime it would crash in the second 'world' , I think it was the airport area half way through. I really liked the game though. Wish I could have finished it

[Anonymous No.7356108]

I really like oni. Wish it had a better way to edit levels like in quake. Solid game and the weird american/jap artstyle hybrid is pretty nostalgic. Its one of those games you play and you can occasionally pull off some pretty dope combat encounters completely by accident.