/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8261624]

>game doesn't tell you if items you want to buy are better or worse than items you have equipped

[Anonymous No.8261638]

Lmao why don't you just use a walk through nigga? Like damn just look that shit up. It's 2021 and you gotta bitch on an online bicycle thief board instead of just Google some shit people have known for 25 years. Shiiiiiiiiiit.

[Anonymous No.8261657]

>>8261624
Based. Live and learn

[Anonymous No.8261660]

>random shop sells a key item and absolutely nothing indicates its actually a key item

[Anonymous No.8261673]

>>8261624
>not grinding until you can afford to buy the entire shop inventory
do you even jarpig?

[Anonymous No.8261674]

>>8261624
That's insane. Back in medieval times when I was shopping for a new sword I'd just check the totally accurate reviews on Amazon to tell what's best. zoom zoom

[Anonymous No.8261686]

>>8261674
>muh realism
get fucked you retard

[Anonymous No.8261690]

>>8261624
>it's one of those old rpgs where you automatically equip items you buy too

[Anonymous No.8261692]

>>8261624
>buying items from shops
just level everything up. consumerism is a disease, virtual or not.

[Anonymous No.8261693]

>>8261660
>key item is consumable and you can render the game unwinnable

[Anonymous No.8262194]

>>8261686
>muh handholding
You got fucked you retard

[Anonymous No.8262272]

>needing items
boy there are some casuals here tonight

[Anonymous No.8262341]

>>8261660
>city containing the shop selling the key item is destroyed before the key item is needed

[Anonymous No.8262353]

>buy armor
>heh those def stats are shit
>reset and walk away
>turns out the armor had +300% evasion but there was no way to tell

[Anonymous No.8262374]

>>8261624
that's why you save outside the town

[Anonymous No.8262376]

>>8261638
>pretending to be a nigger
Why do white people do this

[Anonymous No.8262452]

>>8261693
Name 45 games that do this.

[Anonymous No.8262454]

>>8262452
I don't even think there's one

[Anonymous No.8262528]

>>8261638
doesn't work for some games, disgaea for one

[Anonymous No.8262792]

>>8262454
every Sierra point n click

[Anonymous No.8262806]

>>8262452
Zwei

[Anonymous No.8264737]

If a game's stat system is simple you should be able to tell at a glance (50 def armor>40 def armor)

If the game's stat system is complex the player must judge what the better armor is (50 def vs 20 def and 30 fire resist)

[Anonymous No.8264754]

>>8261638
>Why not use a walk through
>and save states, rewind and watch a 100% play through

[Anonymous No.8264779]

>>8261624
Feels like people were supposed to play with strategy guides back then, you're kind of fucked in gen 1/2 pokemon when learning new moves if you've never seen its effect in game before

[Anonymous No.8264783]

>>8264779
Am I the only person who never bought a single guide? Everything you needed to know could be learnt if you asked around at school.

[Anonymous No.8265335]

>>8262376
That's just American English. Much like how Latin Spanish became ay ay ay ay arriba arriba trabajo, American English is on its way to become Jiggabese.

[Anonymous No.8265348]

>Acquire an item/ability that seems pretty powerful, and costs a lot of resources to use
>Later on, meet a new enemy type that's much stronger than anything you've encountered so far
>Use said item/ability
>It does jack shit damage
>Die

[Anonymous No.8265354]

>>8265348
>game gives specific characters story based upgrades like powerful moves
>the one for your favorite character is like over halfway through the game and it's not even that good

[Anonymous No.8265361]

>>8261638
The whitest anon on this entire site has been found.

[Anonymous No.8266043]

>>8264779
Feels like you're a zoomer

>>8264783
>Am I the only person who never bought a single guide?
No. I never used one, bought or otherwise, and hardly anyone I knew did.

[Anonymous No.8266048]

>>8261624

>cannot proceed and restart the game

RPG's require skill?

[Anonymous No.8266117]

>>8261638
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/gameboy/569991-medarot-kuwagata-version/faqs/19071

Yeah nice guide faggot, how's this supposed to help with what I'm playing?

[Anonymous No.8266126]

>>8266117
Don't play shitty obscure games then uwu

[Anonymous No.8266207]

>>8261660
>you can throw away key items

[Anonymous No.8266525]

>>8266207
>key item found in an early dungeon has a description that makes it seem useless
>you can sell it for less than the price of a cloth hat

[Anonymous No.8266541]

>>8266525
That fucking slime crown you get from the King Slime in the well at the start of DQVIII.

[Anonymous No.8266561]

>>8261660
>Game starts you with key item that says it curses the person who has it and let's you sell it

[Anonymous No.8266589]

>plot important item
>it kills you 5 hours later
>you’re meant to uncurse it using an obscure spell found in an unmarked dungeon
>game doesn’t tell you about uncursing

[Anonymous No.8266593]

>spend half your money on an item
>go to the next dungeon
>a couple of rooms in find that same item in a chest

[Anonymous No.8266598]

>>8266207
how about

>you can NOT throw away key items
>most of them are only ever used once
>they take space in your limited inventory
>by the end game your inventory is 33% useless key items

[Anonymous No.8266608]

>>8261624
omfg that’s so out of order!!!!!! you mean you have to play the game and find out for yourself?????

[Anonymous No.8266614]

>start game
>king character says “Anon, take this gold! Purchase what you need, our kingdom needs you!”
>get 500 gold
>everything costs 600+ gold
>only item you can get is a shitty dagger
>next 5 hours are spent grinding, dying and fighting the same three slimes to level up and get money
>enemies only drop 2 or 3 gold

[Anonymous No.8266636]

>fantasy RPG suddenly turns into a fucking space shooter

[Anonymous No.8266640]

>>8266636
>RPG final boss is a DVD screensaver

[Anonymous No.8266823]

>>8264737
OP's point is that the shop screen doesnt illustrate the comparison. it either doesnt directly show you the values of the item for sale, doesnt show you an up or down arrow in general when hovering or considering purchase, or doesnt let you do any sort of comparing or illustrate the numbers of what you have equipped.

for example, mario rpg.

[Anonymous No.8268645]

>>8266043
Born in 92

[Anonymous No.8268695]

>>8262353
Xenoblade Chronicles.
>oh I should boost defense on my tank
>no clue what agility does
>agility is actually the most important stat in the game and using no armor for less weight is a viable strategy

[Anonymous No.8268715]

>>8268695
or Final Fantasy II

[Anonymous No.8268753]

>>8268645
>29 year old zoomer

[Anonymous No.8268817]

>>8268695
Heh, kinda reminds me of this.

[Anonymous No.8268839]

>>8261624
FFVI's shops do tell you if what you're going to buy is "better" than what you have on, and you can use the Optimize option in the Equipment menu to auto-equip the "best" gear.

Well, turns out that shit's misleading as fuck, because what the game judges to be "better" prioritizes the gear's Battle Power (for weapons) and Defense (for shields/helms/armor) values, secondarily considers Magic Defense, stat boosts, and evade/Mblock values, and IIRC doesn't consider elemental defenses at all. The last bit is especially bad because of a glitch where Mblock is the only value used to calculate both magic and physical evasion, so if you max it out, you're almost invincible.

So yeah, for years I was just pressing Optimize and thus tricking out Battle Power and Defense, when by late game, you want to optimize Mblock, and equip Magic-boosting weapons on your mages. Gau and Mog can max their Defense and pair it with high Magic Defense, though, so they're an exception.

[Anonymous No.8268895]

>>8266608
no one thinks highly of you or is impressed by this sort of post
it does not make you seem like a hardcore badass or a wise master

[Anonymous No.8268896]

>>8268895
Haha, yeah... guess I'll take my dick sucking kneepads off now... not like I was gonna suck that guy off because I thought he was hardcore or anything... :(

[Anonymous No.8270034]

>>8261624
>game doesn't tell you anything whatsoever about your equipment, ever

[Anonymous No.8270095]

>>8270034
That triggered me about pic related.

[Anonymous No.8271005]

>>8268753
?????

[Anonymous No.8271437]

>>8270095
>enemies kill you in a few hits
>not possible to grind
>not possible to recover HP
>can't go forward because enemies are too tough

[Anonymous No.8271442]

>>8268839
Gear doesn't matter in that game when you can just kill everything quickly with Ultima.