/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8362809]

ITT: games and things in games that are strange, bizarre, unique, esoteric, offbeat, eerie etc, preferably in a comfy appealing kind of way but anything that makes you stop for a bit goes

[Anonymous No.8362816]

[Anonymous No.8362817]

Always thought the dense pre-rendered jungle with dark shadows in DK was kind of creepy and dangerous feeling but in a nostalgic way, a far cry from the modern safe, soft, and cartoony graphics in DKCR and DKCTF or modern Nintendo games in general

[Anonymous No.8362827]

On the surface the PS1 Spyro trilogy seems like a generic kids' fairytale cartoon type of thing, but when you get into them the games are full of strange muppet-like characters, esoteric locations, weird missions, haunting music etc

It's not scary but it's certainly memorable and a more unique personality than most other mascot games and later Spyro games

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

[Anonymous No.8362829]

[Anonymous No.8362936]

>>8362829
what is this i need it

[Anonymous No.8362949]

>>8362936
Cosmic Osmo

[Anonymous No.8362953]

>>8362949
oh i'm retarded. only $2 on steam right now. worth?

[Anonymous No.8362957]

>>8362809
Those stupid fucking ghost spook me everytime and it pisses me off so much.

[Anonymous No.8362958]

>>8362816
It's real!!!!

[Anonymous No.8362969]

These fucking ghost sounds at 3:46, the entire level is eerie and atmospheric as fuck, with an unconventional theme and sound design

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxKuTy-Rtk

[Anonymous No.8363021]

A bit overstated, but for good reason, basically everything in majora's mask has this vibe.

[Anonymous No.8363401]

>>8362827
The first game is probably the most haunting since it's the most barren, but the hub worlds in 2 probably fit that bill the best. Especially with how they eventually end up as lifeless, empty forests and shit since the NPCs disappear as you progress. Also how often people fucking die in 2's intro and exit cutscenes.

[Anonymous No.8363601]

>>8362809
>esoteric
I don't think that word means what you think it means, OP

[Anonymous No.8363613]

>>8363601
Share with the class

[Anonymous No.8363639]

>>8362809

[Anonymous No.8363641]

>>8362809
This entire fucking game

[Anonymous No.8363681]

>>8363613
Esoteric
>"intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest."
OP should have used surreal instead

[Anonymous No.8363823]

>>8362809
i remember playing adventure 2 at night. i loved trasure hunting levels so i was having my fun, plus the music is 11/10
then i decided to stop for a second and look at the background...
i began to feel uneasy. i shouldn't have lookd at the giants pumpking. i then tried to continue playing and avoid thinking about them... but i couldn't. just like what happens after you watc a horror movie, these spooky pumpkin didn't leave my head and so i had difficult to sleep
especially since i have this fear for giant things (megalophobia?)

something similar happened with the dark chao garden. it's literal hell but children version

[Anonymous No.8363830]

>>8362827
>On the surface Kirby series seems like a generic kids' fairytale platformer, but then you throw broken glass into Satan's eye

[Anonymous No.8363851]

Neverhood and EWJ are embodiments of that.

Earthworm Jim 1 is a significantly darker game than a sequel, with some mildly spooky vibes here and there. But second game is also gets a bit eerie at times.

Neverhood just gives you a sense of "anything goes" when you go exploring that bizarre world. That quiet whispering and Klogg's random mad laugh in one part of the game made me startled when I played for the first time

[Anonymous No.8364801]

I wonder whose idea was it to start a Bugs Bunny game for kids in this creepy ass tutorial area. I liked it.

[Anonymous No.8365672]

commamder keen 4 is deeply esoteric. id software communes with demons

[Anonymous No.8365679]

>>8365672
>id software communes with demons
Yeah, the Zenimax buyout was pretty brutal.

[Anonymous No.8365686]

>>8365672
Keen 4 has such a fucking nice aesthetic

[Anonymous No.8365703]

>>8365686
>>8365679

[P. Sevenleaf No.8365715]

>>8365672
lol yeah Keen 4 is full of weird occult shit like a city of pyramids (including one with an eye on it), underground slug temple in the first level, Keen going around rescuing members of a fraternal order, I'm surprised there aren't more paranormal creepypasta memes about it.

[Anonymous No.8365726]

>>8362809
imagine if they remade this game; the mountains probably wouldn't have pumpkin heads

[Anonymous No.8365737]

gnosis inside

[Anonymous No.8366192]

>>8363823
Yeah, the Dark Chao garden (at least in the DC version) was rather creepy.

[Anonymous No.8366193]

>>8366192
It's the same garden but with a mountain

[Anonymous No.8366195]

>>8366193
I thought I remembered that they removed the inner cave-pond area in the GC version.

[Anonymous No.8366204]

>>8366195
I'm pretty sure the only change was the mountain. The hellfire pond and the cage and the tombstone etc are all still there

[Anonymous No.8366243]

>>8365737
You can’t fool me, Yaldabaoth.

[Anonymous No.8366250]

>>8363823
>it's literal hell but children version

Iirc it's the only chao garden out of the three where you can actually die (by drowning in pond, the water level here is enough for you to submerge). I noticed that as a kid, but I didn't know if it has some intentional meaning.

[Anonymous No.8366318]

>>8366250
Your memory is shit anon, sorry. You can't drown in any chao garden. Your chao might not come back after evolution though if it spends all of its time in the water without an adequate swim stat, because it lived an unhappy life, but that's true of all the chao gardens.

[Anonymous No.8366324]

>>8366318
in the dreamcast version tails can drown in the hero chao garden

[Anonymous No.8366369]

>>8366318
>>8366324
I was talking about DC version which is the only version I've played. Maybe it depends on character's height. Tall guys like Eggman obviously can't get drown anywhere, but Tails can.

I just remember that I specifically tried to do this in every chao garden and only succeeded in Dark one. Can't remember which character I've picked though.

[Anonymous No.8366398]

>>8362817
I like your take but wanted to just say damn the background still looks so good

[Anonymous No.8366409]

>>8366369
I was about to say it doesn't matter which version, but apparently it's only Tails in the hero garden in the DC version.

[Anonymous No.8366561]

>>8363021
It gets really creepy and dark out of nowhere. Like how if you mess up protecting the farm and Romani gets abducted by aliens. It even goes the extra mile by having her sister be depressed about it the next day acknowledging that she's gone. On a CRT the creepy atmosphere is amplified.

[Anonymous No.8366632]

I really love the zones behind Fable's Demon Doors. These lost pockets of history, rarely touched by the troubles of the outside world.
This soft tune would play that performed a balancing act between unsettling and comforting, and left me feeling as though I shouldn't be there, but also should stay for a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAYq3AttsNs

[Anonymous No.8367140]

>>8362969
That is pretty eerie and out of nowhere, too

[Anonymous No.8368624]

>>8362969
>music sounds like Doom 64 or Blood
>roaming ghosts and shit
Feels kind of out of place, almost. Granted, it's been maybe 15 years now, but I can't say that I remember any ghosts in the Lucky Luke comics or cartoons.

Those graphics are very good though, appropriately stylized to look like the series.

[Anonymous No.8369623]

[Anonymous No.8369748]

Cinders stage from ki arcade. Like what in the holy hell, i remember seeing this a kid and being mesmerizred by the endlessness of it.

[Anonymous No.8369784]

Not sure if it counts, but some scenes in the original Metal Gear Solid have stuck with me for a strange reason. For a brief amount of time, it's as if the game really succeeds in establishing a certain tone about war and life and death to create a sense of gravitas over the whole game and it's just great. Unlike in the later games, we don't know much about Snake here or what he thinks as a person, so he's a lot better at selling the idea of a grim super soldier with a pessimistic outlook on life, before the plots of these games got too wacky and Snake became a fan favorite. It was crazy because I didn't actually believe a game could be taken seriously like that. I guess I was right mostly. Games have tried to be taken seriously way more since then but it rarely works. This game is one of the exceptions to me.

I dunno how to fully convey it. The game felt really "adult" back then.

[Anonymous No.8369790]

>>8369623
what crash game is this?

[Anonymous No.8369835]

>>8369790
I think it's just an edit of various assets from the games

[Anonymous No.8370230]

>>8369784
MGS2 is even better, after that it's all wacky.

[Anonymous No.8370508]

>>8370230
MGS4 could've been great if the entire game was like the 1st mission, also more octocamo

[Anonymous No.8371109]

>>8370230
I really need to replay it, back when I played it I didn't fully follow the plot, but I know the game has some great stuff in it as well. I can't remember exactly what happens there, but the computer room in the second part of the big shell sticks out as having some great cutscenes.

[Anonymous No.8371161]

All of the MDK skyboxes were like this. I kinda wish I could just sit up on a balcony somewhere and observe the world, minus the city crawlers destroying human civilization

[Anonymous No.8371165]

>>8371161
Just one more

[Anonymous No.8371169]

>>8371161
i remember having mdk on a demo disc and generally avoiding playing it cause i thought it was some kind of odd horror game with how literally dark and surreal it was. dat infogrames logo parachute

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[Anonymous No.8371221]

>>8371161
The Half Life skyboxes made me feel unsettling. I used to make empty levels in Hammer (remember that?) and just walk around until the CDDA audio ran out. Then you were just left with footsteps.

[Anonymous No.8371347]

>>8371195
fuck being a squeamish kid who loved spiderman ps1. had to mute my tv and cover my eyes cause just seeing the eye inch along with those sounds made me gag

[Anonymous No.8371376]

>>8371347
Same here anon. I was squeamish and blind in my right eye, so eye trauma in particular made me uneasy and sick to my stomach.

[Anonymous No.8371507]

>>8371221
Truly the ligma spaces of deez gameing generation

[Anonymous No.8371759]

>>8366195
>>8366204
Assuming the "mountain" is the hill to the right side with the cage hanging off of it, yeah they got rid of that and thus the cave underneath it. It's now a tree with the same cage hanging from it, so neither of you are really wrong

[Anonymous No.8371919]

>>8364801
How is that game? I never beat it.