/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8766260]

>press start
Based.
>press any button
Cringe.

[Anonymous No.8766267]

>>8766260
>press any button
*Presses start anyway*

Every single time. What’s even the use?

[Anonymous No.8766271]

>select button navigates title menu
Kino.

[Anonymous No.8766279]

>>8766260
I usually press start anyway. Is this a 'retro gamer classically trained' type thing? You know like blowing into cartridges

[Anonymous No.8766284]

>>8766260
>games prompts to press start
>press the primary face button instead
>the game starts
Literally what is the point of games that do this? If you're going to prompt me to press start, make it so that only the start button works. Otherwise, just prompt to press any button. Prompting to press start but then also accepting other inputs is just horrible. Also, if you're going to prompt me to press any button, then L3 and R3 should be accepted as valid inputs also. It seems like half of the games that prompt for "any button" don't accept the clickable sticks as buttons.

[Anonymous No.8766285]

>>8766271
those can lead to wtf confusing moments even if kino

[Anonymous No.8766304]

>>8766271
I miss this lil nigga like you wouldn't believe.

[Anonymous No.8766305]

>PUSH START
Based.
>PRESS START
Cringe.

[Anonymous No.8766307]

>>8766305
>NOW LOADING...
Based
>Loading...
Cringe

[Anonymous No.8766332]

>>8766260
True

[Anonymous No.8766473]

>"Press any button"
>Doesn't work if you use the D-pad or stick buttons

[Anonymous No.8766507]

Why is it necessary anyway? It should just display the main menu right away.

[Anonymous No.8766525]

>>8766507
Confirms that the controller works before starting the game for retarded devs that jump straight from there to the game without letting you access the options menu first.

[Anonymous No.8766528]

>>8766507
To make sure the player knows to at least find one button and press and to have a nice screen with the game's name so they know wtf they're playing

[Anonymous No.8766572]

>>8766473
>at a dialog screen
>touching the controller in any way advances the text

[Anonymous No.8766690]

>start pauses cutscene
Good idea.
>start without warning skips the cutscene
Bad idea.

[Anonymous No.8766698]

>>8766260
>Game says "press start," you press A and it lets you in
True neutral

>Game says "press start," you press start but nothing happens until you try pressing A
Chaotic evil

[Anonymous No.8766703]

>>8766260
Truly games have gotten easier

[Anonymous No.8766708]

>"PRESS START"
>press A
>game starts
wooooow

[Anonymous No.8766713]

>>8766690
This is a major problem for MGS, I almost literally shit myself once because I couldn't pause the cutscene.

[AND HERE WE ARE No.8766757]

>>8766260
Better than "PRESS ARCANE RETARD SYMBOL"
The rebranding of the start and select buttons has been a disaster for gaming. It used to be uniform, now every fucking console has its own special snowflake label for those buttons.

[Anonymous No.8766863]

>select button is unused because there's genuinely no reason to use it at any point in the game
game lacks content/is an early third gen title
>select button is unused despite there being a genuine reason to have it
fuck you.
>select button is used, but for something unnecessary and hinders gameplay
double fuck you.
>select button is used meaningfully and genuinely enhances the gameplay by doing so
feelsgoodman.png

[Anonymous No.8766958]

>>8766863
>>select button is used, but for something unnecessary and hinders gameplay
What is Sekiro? I can't think of any other examples.

[Anonymous No.8766960]

>>8766507
>>8766525
>>8766528
X-Men 2 on the Genesis has a cold open. Not even the Sega logo appears first. You turn the console on, and immediately after the bios screen on the Genesis, you are thrown immediately into the first level of the game with a random X-Man (you don't even get to choose, and there's like 7 playable characters).

[Anonymous No.8766983]

>Press any button
>Press the power button
>Console shuts off
Wooow

[Anonymous No.8767021]

>>8766473
because those are not buttons you fucking retard

[Anonymous No.8767035]

>>8766260
>at the title screen
>no prompt telling me what button to press, just a blank screen with the game's title
>press a button
>the game starts

[Anonymous No.8767138]

>>8766473
>"Press any button"
>presses dpad or analog
>it works

[Anonymous No.8767162]

>>8766690
>start pauses cutscene
>"press A to skip"
Is that really so hard to code? Fuck narcissistic celebrity game designers that force the player to watch their pretentious "art"

[Anonymous No.8767171]

>>8766960

Yeah, I remember it. You see the logo and character selection screen only after beating the first stage.

[Anonymous No.8767334]

>>8766863
>mfw select button selects item

[Anonymous No.8767340]

>>8766260
Look how they massacred my boy

[Anonymous No.8767370]

>God tier: O
>High tier: ◻
>Mid tier: X
>Shit tier: △

[Anonymous No.8767405]

>>8766260
Most games that have a Press Start screen let you press A or the console's confirm button, exercise civil disobedience
>>8766507
It's actually a way older games set seeds for their random functions. You need several different random timers going concurrently just for enemy AI and such (and if they all used one they'd move in synchronized patterns, which is why many is good), so having them each be set by human timing on 3-4 stages of menu input before reaching gameplay did it. They didn't have internal clocks, every boot was the same, so some source of random is needed; otherwise hitting live gameplay instantly will cause a completely fixed consistent pattern to show. Newer games do not need it, it's just convention now.

[Anonymous No.8767415]

>>8766713
Should've listened to Miller

[Anonymous No.8767787]

>>8766304
Is that the top of the bun from the hamburger menu button?

[Anonymous No.8767834]

>>8767370
It's always the square button I disliked most of the four.

[Anonymous No.8767836]

Reeks of /v/ in here...

[Anonymous No.8767848]

>>8767836
Welcome to /vr/

[Anonymous No.8767960]

>>8766983
jej

[Anonymous No.8767971]

>>8767370
based circle button enthusiast

[Anonymous No.8767975]

this is a really pointless thing to be upset about i won't lie

[Anonymous No.8767991]

>>8766260
>Wind Waker HD is rapidly approaching being as old as WW was when WWHD came out

[Anonymous No.8768042]

>>8767370
>Confirm Button Tier: O
>Cancel Button Tier: X
>Action Button Tier: ◻
>Menu Button Tier: △

[Kill me now No.8768124]

>>8766260
>press any button because convenience = BAD
>press a specific button for only option on screen = GOOD!
Often said that this is the most retarded board on 4chan. Easy to see why a lot of posters hold such a view. Fucking thread died for this dumbfuckery. What a load of vacuous shit. Honestly, this is the best you can do?

[Anonymous No.8768135]

>>8768042
>designer of the controller intended square to represent a piece of paper and used for menus
>no games use it for menus

[Anonymous No.8768172]

>>8768124
The introduction of Gen 6 has been a disaster for /vr/.

[Anonymous No.8768746]

>>8767021
>>8767138
They are on Sega

[Anonymous No.8768778]

>>8766260

Agree, but its pointless either way because the game you enter is bad

[Anonymous No.8768783]

>>8767370
i'd agree with that tier list if you've swapped ◻ with △
there's something really satisfying about opening a menu with △ as opposed to the start button.

>>8767834
same.

[Anonymous No.8768794]

You guys get mad over the most insignificant fucking shit lmao

[Anonymous No.8768810]

>>8766260
I've never liked the "bloom" effect. It looks fucking terrible.
if it's an option i'll always turn it off without FAIL.

[Anonymous No.8768946]

>press any button
https://youtu.be/EpDtkBMaZD4