/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8362846]

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[Anonymous No.8362875]

None.

[Anonymous No.8362934]

Need for Speed 2

[Anonymous No.8362954]

Mortal Kombat 3

[Anonymous No.8362956]

>>8362875
This, I was a kid and had no standards or perception of quality. I used to think DBZ ultimate battle 22 was good, for fucks sake.

[Anonymous No.8362964]

Spyro 2.

I was 10 years old and that's the game that made me the jaded son of a bitch I am today. I learned then and there that if you ever truly love a game, they will always let you down.

I've never really trusted a sequel since.

[Anonymous No.8362967]

Yoshi's Story
It wasn't a bad game, I guess, but after Yoshi's Island I was very hyped for it, and then... fuck. Just a huge letdown.

Runners up:
Mario is Missing!
Oh nice, an SNES Mario game? Guess I'll give it a rental. Well shit.

Rise of the Robots
Just rented it because the box looked cool and robots are great. But then, yeah, beat it in one rental and it was not enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.8362970]

Final Fantasy VIII

[Anonymous No.8363003]

Probably GTA, it was nothing like 3 and I didn't like it at all.
I did try it last summer again and I was pleasantly surprised to realize that I was right all along and GTA sucked ass until 3.

[Anonymous No.8363036]

>>8363003

If you can't get over the top down perspective you'll never like it, but London and GTA2 were a lot more fun than the original.

Much like the PS2 games, the first one was the blueprint, but really quite bland in it's own right. The other two take the formula but give it a lot more character.

[Anonymous No.8363045]

>>8362967
>Yoshi's Story
this. imagine a true sequel to YI but with paper mario tier visuals instead of the gaudy dkc look.

[Anonymous No.8363164]

>>8362846
Mario Kart 64

[Anonymous No.8363185]

>>8362846
Duke Nukem Forever

[Anonymous No.8363197]

>>8362846
More than 80% of this board can't answer this because they weren't around in the 90's.

[Anonymous No.8363240]

>>8363197
There was no WWW to hype games and blockbuster existed. If you didn't like the game you rented, you didn't get it for your birthday or Christmas. No big deal.

[Anonymous No.8363254]

>>8363240

90s gaming magazines were full of blatant propaganda.

I remember Official Playstation Magazine shilling every Tomb Raider with perfect scores, every Resident Evil, every Final Fantasy, every Tekken, etc. If it was a big name, it got big scores, and they would carry on talking about it like it was jesus reincarnate for like 2 months afterwards in the features.

Pretty funny looking back on it, but it's true the rental market saved a lot of disappointments. If only such a thing existed today...

[Anonymous No.8363259]

>>8363254
They weren't allowed to publish anything until after the release. Some magazine reviewers you just knew were full of shit too. It didn't seem like now where one person says something online and everyone knows 24 hours later.

[Anonymous No.8363263]

>>8362846
In retrospect, I always thought Mario Is Missing! to be the biggest bait and switch. What seemed like a foolproof premise ended up just being an educational game in disguise.
Imagine not knowing this as a kid, and wanting the game based on the box art.

[Anonymous No.8363264]

>>8363263
Forgot pic, oops.

[Anonymous No.8363273]

>>8363259


They had plenty of shady shit like exclusive reviews etc though, and it was worse then because you'd have to wait another month for all the other magazines to have reviews. So you only had that once source to go by if you couldn't rent it.

[Anonymous No.8363279]

Thinking back, there were so many games I wouldn't have even bothered trying had it not been for rentals.
>>8362967
Rise of Robots being one of them.

You invite a friend over Friday night, go get a game or movie at Blockbuster, then go to the pizza place next door for take out. Even if the movie or game was shit, it was no big deal because you were gonna do the exact same thing next week. No Sir. No reason to get upset over that.

[Anonymous No.8363456]

>>8363263
Probably this

[Anonymous No.8363482]

I genuinely can't think of any, I was very careful what games I'd get. The only buyers remorse I got was Goldeneye on N64. What an overrated garbage game.

In the 00's I was disappointed more, Resident Evil Code Veronica would take number one position.

[Anonymous No.8363520]

>>8363254
If only such a thing existed today...

Isn't Xbox pass or whatever it's called basically the modern day equivalent?

[Anonymous No.8363525]

>>8362846

[Anonymous No.8363531]

>>8362956
You'd be surprised how many people defend that game now.

Though I can't tell if they're just being memers.

[Anonymous No.8363547]

None. Everything in the 90's was actually pretty great. Even bad games were pretty cool, because the novelty of playing a game was cool, back before you had an infinite number of them for free. That's just how it was.

[Anonymous No.8363580]

I liked all the games I played in the 90s

[Anonymous No.8363592]

>>8363036
Aight, I'll give 2 and London a go. Top down is not that much of an issue, it just wasn't fun at all, seemed like chaos for the sake of chaos all the time, but maybe sequels will click.

[Anonymous No.8363652]

>>8363185
If we're counting games that didn't come out in the '90s, Descent 4.

[Anonymous No.8363657]

>>8362964
it's a great sequel though?

[Anonymous No.8363732]

>mspaint fatalities
>American techno music instead of spooky Asian kungfu music
>Cyborgs instead of mutants
>Bland backgrounds
>dial-a-kombo

MK3 is when they changed it to appeal more to the 12 year old power rangers fanbase,
with stage shows showing off fancy moves and colorful outfits.

MK used to be about the realistic violence, and the dark story.
but then it turned into Power Rangers, with silly fatalities which were clearly changed so soccer moms wouldn't complain.

If you look up "Selling out" in the dictionary you'll see a pic of MK3 next to it.

[Anonymous No.8363741]

>>8363732
>realistic violence
I dunno about realistic, but it was certainly darker before 3, which is only a few steps behind full clownshow

[Anonymous No.8363768]

>>8363657
It's the best game in the series lol

[Anonymous No.8363794]

>>8363741
>I dunno about realistic

Well that's how it was promoted, real life people digitized and causing violence.
but seeing a yellow cyborg helicopter chop someone into mspaint parts just ruined it all.

[Anonymous No.8363890]

Ovarina of Time.
I was excited to play a 3D zelda but it was all kiddie puzzles and not much combat or challenge. After playing it once at a relatives house I never played any Zelda game again.

[Anonymous No.8363907]

>>8363592
GTA1 felt extremely original when it came out, nobody really cared about the gameplay quibbles.

[Anonymous No.8363908]

Why are you posting text images like you’re a boomer on facebook

[Anonymous No.8363913]

>>8363263
It's still kinda fun though

[Anonymous No.8363918]

>>8362846
Probably a licensed game like Jurassic Park (Mega Drive) or Gundam Side Story (Dreamcast).

[Anonymous No.8363923]

>>8362846
This game ass ravaged me when I bought it, it ran so fucking awfully on my Voodoo 3.2000, and it was nothing like the other Ultima games.
In the long run I did revisit it and came to the conclusion that if you approach it as a Ultima side title is an /alright/ action-adventure game. I ended up having some fun with it. But if you wanted a giant open world RPG in the flavor of Ultima 4-7, its disappointing for sure.

[Anonymous No.8364196]

My family had a Mac in the 90s, so gaming was disappointing by default. We had to look to find the gems.

I do remember being really let down by some of those third-party rts expansion packs like the Warcraft 2 ones (e.g “the next 70 levels”). Bad, boring maps.

[Anonymous No.8364208]

>>8362846
None. Thanks to OPM demo discs I always knew what I was getting into before buying, and never bought a game I'd regret during that era.

[Anonymous No.8364212]

>>8363918
>Gundam Side Story (Dreamcast).
Blue Destiny? That's supposed to be good.

[Anonymous No.8364306]

>>8362846
FF Mystic Quest

for kids?
looks like it was made by kids

[Anonymous No.8364316]

>>8362846
doom. made me literally gay.

[Anonymous No.8364317]

Final Fantasy VII. Zoom Zoom wouldn't know, but the hype for that game was astronomical, I don't think I've seen another release like it since. People waited for at least a year for that game to come out in the US and when it did we got the first in a long line of Squaresoft SUDDENLY ALIENS stories told in Engrish, and a pisseasy average at best game. I still struggle to figure out why it's so popular. Even on the PSX there are so many RPGs that are leagues better.

[Anonymous No.8364345]

Mechanically I guess it was fine, and it seemed to get decent scores but I just found it dull, im not sure what I was looking for.

[Anonymous No.8364361]

>>8364317
there are plenty of good rpgs on the PSX but none of them top VII

[Anonymous No.8364374]

>>8362846
Crash Bandicoot 2 disappointed me with how easy it was compared to the original.

My opinion on the game has changed a lot since then, but at the time, I felt absolutely ripped off when I went through the game in 4-5 hours. It had taken me weeks failures to get through Crash 1, but Crash 2 was just a walk in the park.

[Anonymous No.8364407]

I was going to say Daikatana, but that was a few months short of being a part of the 90s.

I rented Rise of the Robots for the sega megadrive, and I knew it was shit after just a few minutes, and I was brought up on Amiga jank.

[Anonymous No.8364421]

>>8363482
(You)

[Anonymous No.8364469]

>>8362846
1. Sonic 2
2. Samurai Shodown III
3. Sonic Wings 3

In that order

[Anonymous No.8364478]

>>8364317
>Final Fantasy VII had incredibly shitty graphics. They should have kept 2 graphics going for a little longer.

[Anonymous No.8364481]

>>8364478
2D

[Anonymous No.8364536]

[Anonymous No.8364545]

>>8364536
This will forever be legendary in a hilarious way.

[Anonymous No.8364549]

>>8364361
VI is better than VII and it got a port on psx.

[Anonymous No.8364551]

Sorry i wasnt Born in the beforetimes

[Anonymous No.8364552]

I know it's 2001, but it's fifth gen so I guess it counts since it's about as far back as I can remember.

>Game is titled "wrestling"
>Game cover depicts wrestling
>Game is actually just a boxing title inside an oversized ring
>And a really shitty boxing title at that with spammable attacks
4 year old me was extremely disappointed for thinking it would play anything like Smackdown.

[Anonymous No.8364565]

>>8363918
>Gundam Side Story (Dreamcast)
What are you on about, it's best Gundam game. Unless you were expecting the game version of Gundam Wing.
>>8364212
>Blue Destiny?
No.

[Anonymous No.8364585]

Lego Island 2 was my first dissapointing sequel.

[Anonymous No.8364595]

>>8362846
Resident Evil 3 for sure.

RE2 was the first survival horror I played, it felt huge for PSX. After it played RE:DC and was almost as good and enjoyed that a lot. Then came Silent Hill which was as odd as appealing. When RE3 released, everything it promised in mag previews just felt lacking. OTOH, after all that, Dino Crisis 2 arcadey take was a masterful move from Capcom

For PC Black and White

[Anonymous No.8364620]

>>8363263
They got me two times that way, Time machine and Missing.

[Anonymous No.8364668]

>>8362846
I would get bored on the first level and quit.
>But that was released in 2000
Whatever its close enough
>>8363264
This but for PC, but I owned a mac and didn't understand why it didnt work lol. Probably saved myself even more disappointment

[Anonymous No.8364682]

>>8362846
Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero
Sonic 3D Blast

[Anonymous No.8364896]

>>8363240
Don't know much about the early 90's, but apart from magazines and TV ads, CNET Gamecenter and Gamespot were launched in 1996. To be disappointed, you just need to have expectations, and the game to not live up to them. You don't even need to actually play it; I was disappointed just reading about how bad Ultima IX was.

[Anonymous No.8364908]

Mission 1 was fine. Everything else is terrible.

[Anonymous No.8364926]

>>8364908
Constantine's mansion was good, especially if you discovered all the secrets.

[Anonymous No.8364987]

>>8363254
How reliable are gaming magazines now?

[Anonymous No.8365012]

>>8363520
Not sure its selection compares very well. Gamefly or Redbox might be closer.

[Anonymous No.8365013]

>>8363520 >>8365012
Also, Steam refunds, and possibly other stores'. And piracy, of course.

[Anonymous No.8365045]

>>8363657

Nah dawg, changed the art style from cool trippy dragon mysticism to just generic kids cartoon shit, it was just generally a way less original game than the original.

Looking back on it in retrospect they're all good games, but 1 stands head and shoulders above in terms of just creativity and the whole vision of the world and stuff. It's maximum comfy.

I can understand being disappointed by like, pointless skating minigames and shit that the sequels added instead of just more good solid platforming and gliding.

[Anonymous No.8365069]

>>8363525
DK64 by far, as soon as I heard the intro song and it was a dumb parody. I was expecting something like the snes games but maybe with 2.5 view but still in a similar style. I just thought it looked really ugly. Technically it is good but the artwork is ugly. I was told by someone at school that the snes games were ment to be on n64 but it was so good on snes they just did it on there, I expected the n64 games would have evenything they couldn't do on the 2d games. Even most of the reviewers at the time admit the graphics are worse but thats just the way 3d graphics are. I think they tried to make up for the plane graphics with lots of lighting effects in some areas. still meh. For months before this game came out I was thinking what awesome intro song will they do, downloaded the song from ign and was like ok what is this, I didn't get the humour in it since it was not supposed to be a joke game.

[Anonymous No.8365101]

>>8364987
They arent and they never have been, anyone who says otherwise is lying to you

[Anonymous No.8365107]

>>8362967
>Yoshi's Story

Ding ding! Came here to say this. After the NES, SNES and N645 and the slew of AAA first party titles, to have one be a complete dud was a sign of things to come. The downfall of Nintendo and their quality.

[Anonymous No.8365141]

This piece of shit right here. Get all hyped up thinking you're gonna continue your childhood obsession with Chrono Trigger? NOPE FUCK YOU

[Anonymous No.8365169]

>>8365107
>N645

[Anonymous No.8365589]

>>8363547
Games weren't novel in the '90s, and you'd need an exceptionally cheerful disposition for just "the novelty of playing a game" to be enough for a whole decade.

[Anonymous No.8365678]

>>8363652
I thought Red Faction was quite good desu

[Anonymous No.8365687]

>>8363525
Yeah. I still like it to an extent, but I kinda wonder what it had been like if Rare used 3D Donkey Kong as an opportunity to make their own competitor to Crash. As it is, it's just a more bloated version of Banjo Kazooie.

[Anonymous No.8365713]

>>8365678
Maybe, but I wanted a Descent game.

[Anonymous No.8365742]

I'm going to be honest, Ocarina of Time. I won't say it's a bad game, but I basically played Zelda 1 for a solid decade prior to it. My wants of Zelda as a game were cemented in a particular direction, and OoT is not that direction. Games that would follow in OoT's footsteps would be the same for me, I just never got into the 3D Zelda style since it was so far removed from the 2D one.

[Anonymous No.8365749]

>>8363732
Same
Now it totally makes sense why it felt unfinished, it was. Smart move financially though.
>>8364595
>how do you top RE2? make a game with 3 discs now?
>actual: RE2 asset flip and bring the big baddie back
What is it with the third game being a rushed interim

[Anonymous No.8365757]

>>8362846

[Anonymous No.8365978]

>>8363918
Jurassic Park was great. Or at least great at the time. You had to learn the levels because there was some bullshit that was not intuitive. Most of the time it was problems with knowing if you could jump down safely since it had fall damage. But fundamentally, it felt fun to move the character around and shoot stuff, so it was worth the trial and error to master the game. But that boat level was pure memorization. Constant death everywhere in that level.

Also playing as the raptor was some dumb fun.

[Anonymous No.8366068]

Oh boy, I sure love Double Dragon! Loved the four others I played. Looking forward to another beat 'em up, even if this one doesn't feature the Battle Toads.

[Anonymous No.8366073]

>>8363525
This is the title i was most disappointed by i was hoping for more 2.5D or instead make the map smaller, utilize each Kong according to their ability and kind of have a cap on banana per level much like Diddy Kong Racing(which to me i was hoping for). But instead it had
1. Long levels, huge maps so spread out that it takes 4 to 8 minutes to reach the destination to realize, oh fuck i forgot Lanky Kong i will have to go back another 9 minutes.
2. Oh no i have to collect a lot of Golden Banana's and care about every nook and cranny to 100% the game for the true ending.
It literally tried to be Banjo Kazooie 2X mixed in with Donkey Kong mechanics. Two of the worst combinations in history. I swear Diddy Kong Racing was just the model Rare needed to go for but were fooled by the sells of Banjo Kazooie that they even did something similar with Banjo Tooie.

[Anonymous No.8366076]

>>8364668
>Banjo Tooie
I swear they did not learn to scale the map properly and also realize less is more at times.

[Anonymous No.8366078]

Dkc3

[Anonymous No.8366082]

>>8364552
I had a similar issue with Legends Of Wrestling.
>Controls are awful
>Presentation really looked like it was on a low budget with the Arena's looking hollow.
>Announcers sounded like they were underwater
I swear it's like they did not take any lessons from Smackdown Vs Raw or any Yuke's titles from the N64 to develop a simplistic control scheme with some nice mechanics but just hacked it together for a quick buck. I will say the soundtrack is great and the wrestlers look like they should but that is really it.

[Anonymous No.8366101]

>>8364987
Never have been sadly. Anyone who tells you magazines have been honest since the early 90's and today is just awful does not understand Games Journalism is just nothing more than being sponsored to praise games or give advertising for games instead of more honest reviews.

[Anonymous No.8366112]

>>8363263
>>8363264
>The box prominently announces it's an educational geography game
Zero sympathies to anyone saying "Mario is Missing fooled me when I was a kid!" Even a child can read what the front of a box says, and the back makes it clear what it is too.

[Anonymous No.8366124]

>>8365749
It wasn't originally going to be called 3, it was like a Gaiden game.

[Anonymous No.8366145]

>>8362846
sonic adventure

[Anonymous No.8366519]

Act raiser 2, I expected so much more and when I rented it I found out it was pure garbage.

[Anonymous No.8366531]

>>8362846
super mario 64.
i got the 64 when i was 16 and that game was disappointing as fuck

[Anonymous No.8366532]

>>8366519
It's not garbage, although I understand the disappointment as I felt the same way when I got it as a kid. It's a good platformer with high difficulty and some of the best graphics on the snes. Most people that call it shit aren't skilled enough to get past the first half of level one.

[Anonymous No.8366537]

>>8366532
I got as far as the third level as a kid, I mean I have the game now but I haven't tried it in over 20 years. I don't like the fact that the MC has wings and kinda glides thru the air. I prefer the first Actraiser.

[Anonymous No.8366565]

>>8362846
Uncanny X-Men on the NES
What a fucking mes of a game. I tried so hard to like it.

Eternal Champions on the Sega Genesis
The game just felt like it was straight up missing features that most fighters had.

Final Fantasy 8
Compared to the opening from 7, 8 was dull as fuck. The music in Balamb Garden puts me to sleep. Playing through the remaster just to get it the fuck done.

Mega Man X5
Got rid of the animated cutscenes and added a timer. That was a same-day return to the video store.

[Anonymous No.8366576]

>>8366565
>MMX5
what timer are you talking about? it literally doesn't matter as shooting the canon without anything or fully decked out gives the same result

[Anonymous No.8366670]

>>8366565
>Eternal Champions on the Sega Genesis
>The game just felt like it was straight up missing features that most fighters had.

>CPU players use specials but their spirit bar never empties
>CPU is also difficult as fuck
>Game punishes you if you lose by kicking you back a place (not a bad idea, but it is when the CPU is horrible)
>In Single player the opponents all use 2p colors for some reason.
>You have to fight the final boss like 10 times (with previously mentioned horribly unfair AI)

Love the rest of the game, great story/graphics/music/designs and stuff. but its all ruined by the horrible AI.

[Anonymous No.8366683]

>>8366068
Double Dragon is such a strange case, the premise is so simple "2 guys saving a female friend" but then they had to add all this weird shit to it, mystical warriors bringing people back from the dead, battletoads, weird animated cartoon with a walking skeleton, some bdsm boss that seemed cool but never really went anywhere, and then a giant talking singing skeletor guy who you fight while you´re in robot form.

weird weird weird.

[Anonymous No.8366724]

>>8363264
this game and marios time machine were wasted rentals for me back then

[Anonymous No.8366731]

>>8363525
I was disappointed in it when it came out but now I like it

[Anonymous No.8367046]

>>8365141

Yep and they took a simple combat system, memorable music's, and great characters and did a fucking 180 on all that.

[Anonymous No.8367070]

>>8362846
Maximum Carnage was way better

[Anonymous No.8367174]

>>8367070
To add salt to injury, two-player co-op was only added to Separation Anxiety, the worse game.

[Anonymous No.8367463]

>>8365742
Dare I ask, as a borderline zoomer (27), what you thought of BotW? Did it feel more like a Zelda 1 sequel to you as someone who grew up with it?

[Anonymous No.8367824]

>>8366112
Not if you bought it used on a random chance purchase.

[Anonymous No.8367831]

>>8365589
Anon is mistaking "the novelty of playing any game in the 90s" was great with "any game I played in my childhood was great"

[Anonymous No.8367920]

>>8362846
Ocarina of time

[Anonymous No.8368968]

>>8367463
Hard to say. I'd resigned that a Zelda game like Zelda 1 is more or less impossible both with the other 35 years of the franchise to influence things, as well as a director/producer/supervisor who has admitted a game like it is not the sort of thing that appeals to him. There's a lot of elements in BotW I like and definately feel like Z1-- the exploration in the vast world and freedom to decide where or how you tackled things was ideal to me. I never even rode a horse since I just enjoyed doing it all on foot. The action had moments that I liked, and the tenseness when those rapid strings signifying a Guardian saw you were exciting and fun to me. The dungeons, of course, were the game's weakest link. I never saw Zelda as a puzzle game, so the series shifting to a puzzle focus... and the dungeons and shrines are where BotW dumps all its puzzles. I liked how there was more freedom to solve them, but the dungeons are just boxes to solve things with the most harmless of enemy encounters. Of course, none of those critques apply to Hyrule Castle, which I think people universally consider the game's most successful dungeon. Overall, it and Hyrule Warriors was some of the most fun I've had from the series in a long, long time. It's hard to say if Aonuma and Nintendo will keep this good will they've earned with the sequel-- with how they've ported a bunch of games that aren't anything like BotW to fill the gap certainly doesn't instill hope. But overall, not retro.

[Anonymous No.8368998]

>>8366124
Which series are you referring to lol

[Anonymous No.8370061]

>>8367920
This or Final Fantasy 7. In both cases, a really slow and shitty-looking 3D sequel in a 2D series that looked much better as 2D. And in both cases, they were waaaaaaaay overhyped, with people still giving them sloppy blowjobs of praise.