/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8430501]

/vr/, I need games that feel like an adventure. can you help?

[Anonymous No.8430516]

https://duckduckgo.com/

[Anonymous No.8430518]

>>8430516
I'll get basic bitch results if I go there, stuff like Zelda which any retard could tell me

[Anonymous No.8430526]

Minecraft

[Anonymous No.8430531]

>>8430518
Perfect uuuu then.

[Anonymous No.8430540]

>>8430501
>adventure
can you be more specific?
like fable? jak 1? lotr third age? the hobbit? dark cloud? sotc? morrowind?

[Anonymous No.8430550]

play roguelikes. try nethack

[Anonymous No.8430558]

Betrayal at Krondor
Quest for Glory series
The Longest Journey
Ultima VII: The Black Gate

[Anonymous No.8430562]

>>8430540
anything that feels like a good hero's journey, like LotR
being called to action, traveling and discovering new things, looking back and seeing how far you've come knowing that you can't go back home, stakes and danger rising, making and losing friends, that sort of thing
as far as games go I'd say SotC was the closest I've got to that feeling, and Dragon's Dogma although it's not retro

[Anonymous No.8430610]

ps1 xena warrior princess

[Anonymous No.8431075]

>>8430501
Ultima 4

[Anonymous No.8431079]

Is Little Big Adventure any good? I don't really know anything about it.

[Anonymous No.8431093]

>>8430501
Ys Book I&II, 3, and 4 (Dawn of Ys) for TurboGrafx CD.

[Anonymous No.8431279]

>>8430550
Absolute shit suggestion. Repeatable randomly generated dungeon crawlers are anti-adventure.

[Anonymous No.8431330]

>>8430501
Shiren The Wanderer (SNES)

[Anonymous No.8431573]

Resident Evil 4

[Anonymous No.8431582]

>>8430501
Try Kingdom of Amalur : Reckoning
>>8431279
Idk, Dead Cells was Adventure-ish. Not retro I kno.

[Anonymous No.8431596]

>>8430562
not retro, but the three Banner Saga games.

[Anonymous No.8431649]

>>8430501
Ys VIII felt like an adventure. Not retro though.

The soundtrack helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNgph1g422Q

[Anonymous No.8431653]

>>8431279
they are pure adventure. you also get invested in your character after keeping them alive without save points for 20 hours

[Anonymous No.8431776]

>>8430562
yeah that image just screams dragon's dogma to me, even the guy hiding beyond the pillar next to that troll thing. I hate that there's not a lot of games like DD, very unique experience.
not retro but Dragon's Crown and Kingdoms of Amalur might be something you like.
Maybe Rygar for ps2? proto god of war, great pacing, pretty short though
Dark Messiah of might and magic?

[Anonymous No.8431830]

>>8430610
Good story and fighting, microscopical levels (cmon, Tomb Raider ran on PSX with the same 4mb ram).

[Anonymous No.8431834]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nyoy_82ZzI

[Anonymous No.8431836]

>>8431079
Art style and story are very good. Fighting system is a bit annoing, but okay. Really liked the exploration and NPCs in cities. Dungeons are puzzle heavy.

[Anonymous No.8431842]

>>8430501
Original Pool of Radiance, the essence of classic low-level ADnD adventure. Not the later goldboxes though that are more battle-oriented.

[Anonymous No.8431930]

>>8430501
I just read books for that feel and then play some bing bing wahoo. Games don't have to be everything.

[Anonymous No.8433903]

>>8430516
I chose a bad seed when I played.
Died.
What do?

[Anonymous No.8435142]

>>8430562
>Unironically Popful Mail

[Anonymous No.8435152]

>>8431842
Nice map.
I finally finished pools of radiance this year. I'd done pretty much all of the other golden box games. This one does have a different feel to the later ones but it does have some serious pain points with regards to the interface and general ease of playing compared to the later ones.

[Anonymous No.8435221]

>>8430501

[Anonymous No.8435354]

>>8430562
saddest picture title

[Anonymous No.8435372]

>>8430562
strangely one of the only times a game gave me this feeling was fucking gta san andreas of all things, like when the bent cops drive you out of los santos and dump you out in the countryside and you find yourself driving a bike up a mountain in the mist etc. there's this sudden sense of being displaced and finding yourself in a completely different world.

actual fantasy rpgs, despite being ostensibly fictionally closer to this idea, never work this way for me. they're too fixated on autistically quantifying everything with stats and/or a constant heroic power trip which just slaughters any feeling of wonder. maybe morrowind, sometimes, a little bit.

[Anonymous No.8435425]

>>8430501
Literally Lotr the third age.

[Anonymous No.8435430]

>>8430501
Playing Arx Fatalis for the first time right now and it is nailing that feeling.

[Anonymous No.8435432]

>>8430562
try gothic 1 & 2
best zero to hero games imo
just don't play gothic 2 gold edition first, the expansion makes the game ridiculously difficult

[Anonymous No.8435474]

>>8430501
Try Alundra on the PS1, if you like puzzles.

[Anonymous No.8435764]

>>8430501
KH2: every new world is a new adventure (within an adventure)

[Anonymous No.8435920]

>>8431834
thanks for reminding me of this game bro

>>8431573
unironically a good suggestion for OP

[Anonymous No.8435928]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3YBCUjLdZ8

[Anonymous No.8435978]

Terranigma for the SNES
It's an action rpg game, I don't want to spoil the story but you travel arroynd the world, there are sectoons with enemies, dungeons, cities where you can stay at a hotel to save the game and sleep to recover hp, the gameplay is good and you can help people in the cities which will result in the cities progressing technologically.

[Anonymous No.8435983]

>>8431836
I'll check it out. I've had a passing interest in it for a while and went out of my way to avoid spoilers

[Anonymous No.8436114]

>>8430501
Sonic Adventure.

[Anonymous No.8436402]

>>8430501
For RPGs, look no further than:

Betrayal at Krondor
Lands of Lore

Im playing pc games since 1991 and these are my fondest memories, along with Tie Fighter and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

[Anonymous No.8436434]

Grandia II

[Anonymous No.8436534]

made the same thread on /v/ and got an interesting take from one Anon, pic related

[Anonymous No.8437224]

been playing shiren the wanderer and it's been giving me those feelings.

[Anonymous No.8437593]

Kinda shocked no one mentioned the first Grandia, peak of adventure kino

[Anonymous No.8438431]

>>8430501
Terranigma - It's an action RPG where travel and scope of the world is heavily emphasized.

Xenogears - Most epic story ever made for a game. The reason it works so well is that it keeps escalating in ways you never expected.

[Anonymous No.8438645]

willow for nes

[Anonymous No.8438661]

>>8430562
LotR is not hero's journey. Only Hollywood makes monomyth stories. Contrary to what Campbell believed, nothing before his book used the plot, and the man is a laughingstock among scholars. Star Wars is monomyth for a fact because it's explicitly based on it, but of course LotR fucking isn't, not even remotely so. You can stretch it to fit because the model is so nonsensical it can fit, or fail to fit, anything if you have low enoughs tandards.

[Anonymous No.8438663]

>>8431649
>wailing guitars
>"adventure"
Maybe an adventure in the nearest public house.

[Anonymous No.8438665]

>>8438431
xenogears was blatantly referenced throughout xenosaga

[Anonymous No.8438696]

>>8438663
>guitars are not adventure
Munchkin quest to grind your characters to level 99 technically isn't a "role playing" game either

[Anonymous No.8439193]

>>8430501
Xenoblade Chronicles(1)

[Anonymous No.8439280]

>>8438661
>a laughingstock among scholars
Oh no, a bunch of shrivel-dicked communist welfare babies who never had a job don't like it? :'(

[Anonymous No.8439293]

>>8430501
Here you go (OP)

[Anonymous No.8439309]

>>8430501
Any given Dragon Quest.
Morrowind.

[Anonymous No.8439656]

>>8430501

Northern Journey
Dragon's Dogma: DA
Dark Souls 1
Xenogears
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SOC

[Anonymous No.8439874]

>>8435152
> I'd done pretty much all of the other golden box games
This not a small achievement, you obviously know something about DnD mechanics now. Myself, after finishing PoR and having great experience from it, I've barely finished CoAB with much less interest, being disappointed by a lot of roleplay features being cut and the game being excessively grindy and much more difficult. Dropped Silver Blades almost immediately, and had some good fun with PoD experimenting with various magic beyond fireballs. Eventually given in because of random encounters - it got too repetitive. That was 10+ years ago, recently tried CoK, but was unable to keep interest, it seems that I am too old now and having more fun from metroidvanias (that I've never played back then) than CRPGs. Going to replay PoR one day though. I wonder if you tried FRUA games, I remember, after the PoD, spending quite a bit of time on story-heavy FRUA games, the ones by Harri Polsa especially, where there were very little combat.

[Anonymous No.8440890]

>>8430526
not retro and gay zoomer

[Anonymous No.8440898]

>>8439656
>
>Northern Journey
don't care
>Dragon's Dogma: DA
shit
>Dark Souls 1
shit and gay
>Xenogears
shit and very gay
>S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SOC
based taste

[Anonymous No.8441057]

>>8439874
>recently tried CoK, but was unable to keep interest, it seems that I am too old now and having more fun from metroidvanias

Kek

[Anonymous No.8441139]

does it have to be fuckin RPGs? Those are more about killing stuff, dicking around with equipment, stats and looting than adventuring

[Anonymous No.8441142]

>>8440898
>Dark Souls 1
>shit and gay
Eat my ass you joyless husk

[Anonymous No.8441158]

>>8430562
Fallout 1&2. Forget any preconceptions you have from the later games those two are absolute kino

[Anonymous No.8441171]

Dragon Warrior 1/Dragon Quest 1

[Anonymous No.8441391]

>>8441139
if you can think of non-RPGs that feel like an adventure, I'm all ears
like this one Anon said here >>8436534 they don't have to be an RPG or even fantasy to feel like an adventure

[Anonymous No.8441529]

>>8435920
It's not your typical fantasy adventure and Leon isn't the typical adventure game protagonist, but it has the feeling of discovery and progression through locations, story and power level with a load of memorable rooms and setpieces
Good pacing and you never know what's coming next

[Anonymous No.8441565]

>>8430501
Final Fantasy IX

[Anonymous No.8441673]

>>8440898
man, just say that you're completely unwilling to play games that you haven't already played, it gives us as better picture

[Anonymous No.8442345]

>>8430562

[Anonymous No.8442390]

>>8442345
funny enough I'm the Anon that made that over on /v/, I'm working on a nicer looking version that has screenshots right now

[Anonymous No.8442402]

>>8442390
small world, we meet again

[Anonymous No.8442428]

Everquest.

[Anonymous No.8442445]

[Anonymous No.8442505]

Uncharted Waters: New Horizons

[Anonymous No.8442514]

>>8431093
>>8430501
Seconding this OP. if you want a party you can also do the dragon slayers: the legend of heroes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOREcNvaUC8

[Anonymous No.8442518]

Are you guys for real?

[Anonymous No.8442606]

have you tried NieR? no, not automata or the trash remake, the ORIGINAL

[Anonymous No.8442623]

ARPGs: Terranigma, Crusaders of Centy
Some anon said LBA2 and I back that

RPGs: Chrono Trigger, FF5, BoF3

[Anonymous No.8442946]

>>8442505
Wish Tecmo Koei would allow the English version on Steam.

[Anonymous No.8443363]

stop recommending icewind dale you fuckin dickheads

[Anonymous No.8443438]

>>8442606
I played Replicant earlier this year and it was incredible.

[Anonymous No.8443470]

>>8442946
I wish the fifth gen remakes had come West.

[Anonymous No.8443484]

>>8430501
Darklands

[Anonymous No.8444982]

>>8437224
Did anyone ever bother to apply the English translation from the DS port to the SNES original, or should it be played on the DS to begin with?

[Anonymous No.8445064]

>>8442345
>Has ESO on it
>No Morrowind
get the hell out
If you're using that logo to represent all three games that's just damn foolish

[Anonymous No.8445654]

>>8443363
meds

[Anonymous No.8445670]

>>8435978
>>8438431
>Terranigma
Is it more adventure-y or less adventure-y than Illusion of Gaia?

[Anonymous No.8446117]

>>8430501
Metroid Prime was good. A lonely adventure, but good.

[Anonymous No.8446160]

>>8430501
Hi OP, there have been many suggestions so far, have you tried something?
What is your favourite adventure game?
For me the best adventure games have been the 3D Legend of Zelda games. If you haven't tried them, just go with either OOT, WW or TP and give them a try.
For me they felt better at having a comfy adventure such as in that pic .
Other games I would recommend looking at if you are looking for a comfy atmosphere such as in that pic >>8430562:
Lost Odyssey
Simon the Sorcerer 1
Tales of Symphonia
Darksiders 1 (good Zelda clone, underrated in my opinion)
Star Fox Adventures (mediocre Zelda but often very comfy)
Syberia 1&2 (not the best point n click gameplay but I still loved the game due to its visuals and music)
Paper Mario on N64 and GC (don't know the others)


And depending on how you define adventure:
Rayman 2 and 3, 3D platformers in general, even Sunshine and Goemon's Great Adventure
Metroid Prime series, especially the first half of the first one, which has some of the best feeling of exploring different planets
Mass Effect
Sword & Sworcery
Tomb Raider games (I haven't played them)
Gears of War 1-3 campaign on your couch in split-screen with a friend, same with the Halo campaign.
Playing capaigns with a friend in split screen with a friend is usually great in general, it's said that this is rather rare.
BTW I don't recommend the Uncharted series, I played 1 and 2 and they were awful, little exploration, a lot of QTE and a lot of boring third person cover shooting with annoying enemy waves - I guess they saw of successfull Gears of War was and tried to copy it but the result is pretty shitty.
The Assassin's Creed games I have played, 1 and 2 never felt as proper adventure games, can't say right now why. The latter ones might be different, Blag flag sounds rather different.

[Anonymous No.8446162]

everywhere road trip

[Anonymous No.8446449]

>>8442345
Nehrim and Enderal are both so fucking based

[Anonymous No.8446459]

>>8445654
?

[Anonymous No.8446460]

>>8430501
Witcher 3

[Anonymous No.8446472]

If you like a game that is a real adventure, Shenmue is a must

[Anonymous No.8448081]

>>8442505
3 is a much better game. sank in hooouuurssss with a globe on my computer desk when I was in primary school

[Anonymous No.8449015]

>>8446460