/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8348614]

name a retro developer with more soul

[Anonymous No.8348624]

[Anonymous No.8348628]

define 'soul'

[Anonymous No.8348629]

[Anonymous No.8348638]

>>8348614
Constant quality releases for every console since the NES and literally the only jap dev thats made a good game in the past 20 years. love these lil nips

[Anonymous No.8348643]

>>8348614
Data east

[Anonymous No.8348716]

The soul meme is so fucking gay. And Konami was better.

[Anonymous No.8348770]

>>8348628
Soul means that the game isn't generic and has its own style, look, mechanics, etc.

[Anonymous No.8348797]

ABSOLUTELY UNMATCHED.

[Anonymous No.8349992]

>>8348716
Soul is not a meme. You will have to deal with it for the rest of your life.

[Anonymous No.8350153]

>>8348614
Nintendo

[Anonymous No.8350218]

>>8348614

[Anonymous No.8350240]

SEGA

[Anonymous No.8350316]

>>8348614
>Capcom
>Namco
>Square
>Konami
>Sega
And honestly it's been always their games that have been the most soulful. Other independent devs that make real bangers all originated from these companies.
These 5 companies define gaming for me

[Anonymous No.8350371]

>>8348614
Konami

[Anonymous No.8350405]

>>8348614
for me, it's konami, toaplan, psikyo, taito, nmk, raizing, namco, irem, seibu, capcom, upl, and nichibutsu, the most soulful retro developers.

[Anonymous No.8350457]

>>8350405
>seibu
Sounds like an interesting one. What's their top 5 games? I feel like jumping into their library rn

[Anonymous No.8350481]

>>8350457
Raiden DX, Raiden Fighters, Zero Team 2000, Metal Freezer, Dynamite Duke

[Anonymous No.8351170]

>>8350405
>Namco, Conami, Kapcom
>no Square or Sega

[Anonymous No.8351176]

>>8350218
Fucking this
For like 10 years they were head to head with sega in the soul ranks
Granted, almost everything they did was a copycat of a sega game….

[Anonymous No.8351182]

>>8348614

[Anonymous No.8351209]

>>8351170
>>no Square
not an arcade dev, thus no soul
>>or Sega
kinda overrated desu

[Anonymous No.8351214]

>>8351209
>overrated
>Konami, Capcom are underrated

[Anonymous No.8352323]

>>8348614
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhrKkg6BYu4

[Anonymous No.8352363]

>>8348624
fpbp

[Anonymous No.8352409]

>>8348628
You will never understand.

[Anonymous No.8352413]

[Anonymous No.8352434]

>>8348628
Soul is generally the developer caring about the product beyond its monetary value
It’s a game created to the point of something they’d want to play

[Anonymous No.8353383]

>>8348614

[Anonymous No.8353438]

Compile

But having more soul is different from actually being better. Of course Capcom was one of the best.

[Anonymous No.8353550]

>Gunstar Heroes
>Alien Soldier
>Radiant Silvergun
>Sin & Punishment (1&2)
>Ikaruga
>Astro Boy Omega Factor
>Gradius V

I will never forget these madlads.

[Anonymous No.8353586]

>>8353550
>>Gunstar Heroes
Gimmick shit.
>>Alien Soldier
No level design, lol.
>>Radiant Silvergun
A shmup for jarpigs.
>>Sin & Punishment (1&2)
Auto-targetting in a shooter, lmao.
>>Ikaruga
Babby's first bullet hell. Get this polarity shield bullshit outta here.
>>Astro Boy Omega Factor
It's like they mixed a shitty, extremely repetitive bmup with a shitty generic shmup. Also, even worse slowdowns than SNES games...
>>Gradius V
Worst numbered Gradius game that shits all over what made those games great.

Why does anyone like Treasure, again?

[Anonymous No.8353605]

>>8353550
I remember when I was younger I used to sort of idolise treasure as the masters of their craft who made some of the best 16-32 bit games ever that pissed over everything Konami was putting out at the time. Then I started playing more of their games and I realised a lot of them are either mediocre side scrollers/run and guns with not much interesting about them besides the art styles or gimmicky dull shit. It’s like how people say Gunstar Heroes is the best game on the Genesis and every single website/blog/retard on YouTube slaps it right near the top or at the very top of their best Genesis games list, and then you play it and it’s just a decent run n gun. Same with Guardian Heroes. Went into that one expecting one of the best games for the Saturn as everyone hyped it up as but it’s just a ‘Press A to Win’ belt scroller where you have to constantly swap lanes because enemies keep jumping away from you, broken up by a barebones plot. Looks nice though, I won’t deny and they always have consistently good music and visuals

[Anonymous No.8353606]

>>8348614
SNK

[Anonymous No.8353610]

>most of their games aren’t anything to write home about
>often full of bizarre design and art
>produced some of the weirdest shit to ever get an arcade release
>churned out jank at an amazing rate
>games still fun and have a lot of charm to them
>characters from games pop up or feature in others, establishing some kind of shared Data East lore

Truly the kings

[Anonymous No.8353720]

>>8353586
Ok, explain what made Gunstar Heroes gimmick shit. Was it the throwing?

[Anonymous No.8353724]

>>8353720
Dice palace kills the flow of the game

I just want run 'n gun action, not shitty puzzles or stupid mini-boss fights in a board game hub. Contra, Metal Slug, Shinobi, Rolling Thunder will always be superiour run 'n gun games.

[Anonymous No.8353727]

>>8353586
Shut the fuck up ausfag.

[Anonymous No.8353738]

>>8353724
OK, I agree with the Dice Palace. Melon Bread was a joke boss (literally) and there was this annoying boss that you are forced to fight without guns.

Contra Hard Corps was pure insanity, but it lacked the 'explosiveness' of Gunstar Heroes. It wasn't as accessible either, but that was part of its charm.

[Anonymous No.8353972]

>>8348614
Based CapChad

[Anonymous No.8354961]

>>8353610
based

[Anonymous No.8355823]

>>8348716
Konami was never good, nice try though

[Anonymous No.8355842]

>>8352434
>Soul is generally the developer caring about the product beyond its monetary value
I will respect that.
Capcom wanted to make Marvel and Jojo fighting games out of their own staff's fandom for the properties

[Anonymous No.8355856]

Konami was always a soulless company that just happened to have soulful people working for it
They're the way they are now because they spat most of them out

[Anonymous No.8355868]

>>8355842
The same applies for Tatsunoko vs Capcom. The game is not retro but the IPs are, the staff went APESHIT at the opportunity of making something with Yatterman.

[Anonymous No.8356082]

>>8355823
bad b8 m8

[Anonymous No.8356115]

[Anonymous No.8356127]

>>8348614
Treasure

[Anonymous No.8356134]

>>8348628
Passion

>>8353724
>Dice palace kills the flow of the game
I would be embarrassed to know you with a shit take like this

[Anonymous No.8356175]

>>8353586
Slash your wrists

[Anonymous No.8356221]

>>8356134
Come on man, absolutely no one alive likes the Dice Palace

[Anonymous No.8356430]

>>8355842
They also made all sorts of original fighters that clearly had all sorts of love put into them only to be forgotten because they didn't sell as much as Street Fighter.

[Anonymous No.8356449]

>>8356430
Of all these games, I like Darkstalkers the least.
Fight me.

[Anonymous No.8356454]

>>8348614
Its to bad once DLC became a thing Capcom lost all their soul, and now they pander to westerners.

>>8352413
I miss them, I know they're around as Platinum, but I really want Viewitful Joe 3.