/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7755259]

Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.7755267]

>>7755259
What a shitload of fuck.

[Anonymous No.7755276]

I think it's a septic tank

[Anonymous No.7755283]

GET REAL!!!

[Anonymous No.7755321]

Still waiting on a budget version called the 2DO.

[Anonymous No.7755393]

>>7755267
fpbp

[Anonymous No.7755396]

>>7755259
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPoBMzAkZZM&ab_channel=Cinemassacre

Says more than I ever could

[Anonymous No.7755414]

>>7755259
Does it have ANY exclusives or definitive version of a game? Seems like the most pointless console in existence.

[Anonymous No.7755457]

>>7755414
Not sure how the 3DO version is compared to the PS1 port but Return Fire is a terrific game and deserves more discussion.

[Anonymous No.7755482]

>>7755259
You know i've never played one in real. Knew someone who had it but never played it with the dude.

What i take from it. IT was extremely cool when it came out during the small period it had

until the Saturn and PS1 came out. Then basically all of its best games got ported to those consoles.

I remember it being overly expensive. But i believe thats cause its manufacturing standards for the console were legit all over the place.

I'm not gonna shit on it or something but all of its best games got ported maybe like 1 or 2 are exclusive but its not enough to justify owning one unless you're a collector or something

[Anonymous No.7755568]

>>7755259
Tripped over his own dick Hawkins.

[Anonymous No.7755575]

>>7755259
Worth it just to play Star Control 2.

[Anonymous No.7755582]

>>7755568
That's not a medical condition you should joke about. It's a struggle every day, I'll have you know.

[Anonymous No.7755607]

>>7755259
Too expensive. Too much FMV crap. Almost like a better Sega CD but worse at the same time.

[Anonymous No.7755628]

It actually has some decent games.

[Anonymous No.7755870]

>>7755259
The original Panasonic model looks really cool!

[Anonymous No.7755879]

It needed one of these.

[Anonymous No.7755896]

The games suck more than the console itself. There's a couple "gems", but you could as easily emulate and hold a 3rd party 3/6 button for the same experience. Could probably get something resembling a homebrew cult if someone could produce anything for the expansion ports. There's no region or copy coding, but the Jap models have extra language text. Probably useless if you're not a weeabo, but I haven't played any of the Japanese games so I dunno.

[Anonymous No.7756000]

>>7755879
The M2 was gonna have that.

[Anonymous No.7756019]

>>7756000
They could have tried to not make it look like a cock and balls

[Anonymous No.7756036]

>>7756000

[Anonymous No.7757207]

>>7755414

Its exclusive is plumbers Dont wear ties

Road Rash was its buy me title but the 3do version of road rash eventually got ported to the Sega Saturn and Sony playstation

[Anonymous No.7757208]

>>7755259
Return fire is pretty good

[Anonymous No.7757247]

i've been emulating 3do exclusives for a while and i haven't found a decent one yet

[Anonymous No.7757257]

>>7755259
Funny how Need for Speed series started on this failed platform

[Anonymous No.7757258]

>>7756019
with its price tag i think the cock and balls was entirely intentional

[Anonymous No.7757331]

>>7757247
If you don’t like >>7757208 then you won’t like anything else on the system
Also it’s the best version of the game

[Anonymous No.7757623]

>>7755259
Too early + shitty management like the port of doom

[Anonymous No.7757670]

>>7757207
Plumbers Don't wear Ties is actually also on dos, and can be downloaded off archive.org, so it's not exclusive.

[Anonymous No.7757982]

>>7755259
Fun stuff.

[Anonymous No.7758063]

>>7757670

So everything on the 3do got ported elsewhere?

[Anonymous No.7758102]

>>7758063
Not Slayer.

[Anonymous No.7758228]

>>7755259
I traded in all my games for a 3do in 1997 because my snes and N64 got stolen. I got gex, samurai shodown, and a demo disc with it. I wanted SSF2 turbo, but didn't have enough money. I thought the graphics were good, but hated the 3rd party controller that came with it because it didn't have the player 2 port on it, and I ended up with the REAL 3DO so the console didn't have the player 2 port either. After about a month with it, I realized I fucked up and was stuck with it. I ended up trading it after a year. I would say, it was the worst 'failure' console I ever had.

[Anonymous No.7758274]

>>7755414
It did, some good ones, too, but the thing died out before anyone could play it and was too expensive before then for anyone to play it.

[Anonymous No.7758315]

>>7755414
Killing time and Need for speed can kinda pass for definitive versions. Crash'n'burn for somewhat good exclusive.

[Anonymous No.7758501]

>>7755482
It was expensive because of how it was made. Most console manufacturers take a loss on consoles themselves and make money though games, accessories, and services; it's called the razor and blades model. Trip Hawkins thought he could skip the expensive console manufacturing and go straight to those sweet royalties by farming out console manufacturing to other companies. Because those other companies weren't making a cent from games, they needed a significant profit off each console sold, which made the 3DO more expensive than it could've been.

[Anonymous No.7758709]

>>7758315
>Need for speed
Is it really? I feel like the other versions could probably surpass it, unless you really want that FMV cheese or something.

[Anonymous No.7758934]

Nerd episodes are written by the cinemasscre fatties right? They all sound like nerd fan fiction. Every second line is a ridiculous fucking fart fuck fuck line. Its awful.

[Anonymous No.7758967]

>>7758934
Yep

[Anonymous No.7759272]

How are its graphics and games so shitty when it only came out one year before ps1 and it cost more.
Only good thing it has and i think its awesome is you can plug headphones into the controller.

[Anonymous No.7759281]

>>7755414
It had good sports and golfing games. It had killing time which is not on anything else. The pc version is different.

[Anonymous No.7760849]

>>7755396
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPoBMzAkZZM&ab_channel=Cinemassacre [Embed]

He lost me a bit when he criticized the 3DO for only having three buttons. It really had 5, and start was assigned to the sixth button. The Interact STD pad only adds an additional start button. He's not wrong about the weird Capcom fighting pad. I remember seeing that pad advertised in a gaming magazine, and I thought it looked strange.

[Anonymous No.7760858]

>>7760849
Yes it would be harder to play fighting games but other than that it looks solid.

[Anonymous No.7760886]

The 3DO has some good DOS/PC and Mac ports of games. Star Control II, Syndicate, Theme Park, Mega Race, Myst, Alone in the Dark 1 and 2, Wolfenstein 3D, Quarantine. Doom was an unfortunate port,nut some of those other above mentioned PC ports were really good with visual and audio enhancements. The 3DO came out at a time when CD-ROM interactive multimedia was a thing on home PC's. It also has some really good laser dis arcade ports.

[Anonymous No.7760893]

The 3DO has some good DOS/PC and Mac ports of games. Star Control II, Syndicate, Theme Park, Mega Race, Myst, Alone in the Dark 1 and 2, Wolfenstein 3D, Quarantine. Doom was an unfortunate port, but some of those other above mentioned PC ports were really good with visual and audio enhancements. The 3DO came out at a time when CD-ROM interactive multimedia was a thing on home PC's. It also has some really good laser dis arcade ports.

I was a teenager when the 3DO was released. The only person who I knew that owned one, was a pot dealer who lived up the road from me. My friends and I would buy bags of weed from this guy and he has a 3DO in his living room.

[Anonymous No.7760907]

[Anonymous No.7760919]

>>7760849
I used to have that controller for the snes a long time ago. I remember it being pretty damn good for fighters.

[Anonymous No.7760930]

>>7760858
>Yes it would be harder to play fighting games but other than that it looks solid.


The Sega Genesis has a 3 button gamepad. It was a pain to play SF2 with, as you would have to cycle through the controls with the start button. The 3DO pad does have L and R and an extra select button. The best thing about the 3DO pad was the headphone jack. The daisy chained controllers were a result of the 3DO hardware being licensed hardware to Panasonic, Goldstar (LG) and other companies.

[Anonymous No.7761132]

>>7755259
roadrash machine
total eclipse was cool

[Anonymous No.7762035]

>>7761132
>roadrash machine
>total eclipse was cool


Hideo Kojima was directly involved in the 3DO port of Policenauts. This port was also used as the basis for the Saturn and PS1 ports. Metal Gear Solid was also considered for the 3DO before development of the Playstation version began.

[Anonymous No.7762905]

>>7758501
ahh what a shitty deal then.
>Hey manufacture my console with none of that sweet software money
Uhh okay that'll be 500 USD in 1993 dollars.

[Anonymous No.7762937]

>>7762035
The 3DO got quite a lot of support in Japan before the Playstation came out.

[Anonymous No.7762991]

>>7755259
I feel fortunate to have gotten one that can be toggled to 240p for cheap. Friend got it for me just after the start of the pandemic, was afraid it was lost at sea, but grateful to have it now so I can play all those games I found randomly for cheap years prior. While it was not a commercial success, it is still a very interesting system.

[Anonymous No.7763075]

>>7762991
What do the switches on the controller do

[Anonymous No.7763087]

>>7762937
You got evidence for that? I never heard of that and policenauts. Whoever it was made by Panasonic, SO because it was FMV popular it could have a ton of porn games.

[Anonymous No.7763160]

>>7763087
>You got evidence for that? I never heard of that and policenauts. Whoever it was made by Panasonic, SO because it was FMV popular it could have a ton of porn games.

From wikipedia:
> JP: 214 games
> NA: 162 games
> PAL: 30 games

Policenauts was the only game Konami made for the system. It was an updated version of the PC98 game with anime cutscenes and other additions. The Saturn and PSx versions are ports of this version. The 3DO apparently had some success in Japan. There are 52 additional games released in Japan only. Kenji Eno's Warp started on the 3DO. People also probably bought it as a karaoke machine,or something. But the Saturn and Playstation killed interest in the 3DO.

[Anonymous No.7763219]

>>7763075
At the bottom, nothing. T is for turbo, so when the button is pressed it rapidly activates. At the top position is A for autofire, great for old shooting games which require continunal presses or grinding in JRPGs.

[Anonymous No.7763224]

>>7760849
the default 3DO dpad sucks though; i had to buy a third party controller to have some decent movement control for my shitty FMV cursor-shooter games

[Anonymous No.7763276]

>>7761132
>total eclipse was cool

Crystal Dynamics really did get their start on the 3DO. Crash 'n Burn was their first game. They also did Total Eclipse, Off-World Interceptor, Gex, The Horde, Samurai Shodown port and Slam 'N Jam. I think they also did the port to SSF2T as well. There are no credits listed for the 3DO game.

[Anonymous No.7763319]

>>7763224
>the default 3DO dpad sucks though; i had to buy a third party controller to have some decent movement control for my shitty FMV cursor-shooter games

Yes it did suck. The 3DO has a nice port of Namco's StarBlade:
https://youtu.be/sA413_uHojc?t=439

The best versions of Star Fighter is on the 3DO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Dj0kzcSmU

Blade Force is a neat shooter:
https://youtu.be/5fI1KFwtXKA?t=188