/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9505141]

What was the last retro game that really impressed you, that you played for the first time, so there was no nostalgia whatsoever?

[Anonymous No.9505169]

>>9505141
In recentish memory, Granada, Phantasy Star 1 and 4 and Metal Warriors all stand out as games I somehow missed when they were current and then really impressed me.

[Anonymous No.9505174]

>>9505141
I don't remember but recently I was surprised by how fucking good some gen 6 games look. I always took it for granted but man, look at REmake, RE4, Metroid Prime, Shadow of the Colossus, Final Fantasy X, like holy shit. You look at those and wonder how did they even get them to work on such hardware

[Anonymous No.9505179]

>>9505174
Indeed many games from PS2 and GameCube still look amazing. I would add MGS2 and 3 to that list, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory was also very impressive.

[Anonymous No.9505195]

>>9505179
Oh god yes, especially MGS2. It's a game from 2001, how is this even possible?

[Anonymous No.9505202]

>>9505141
Xenogears

[Anonymous No.9505226]

[Anonymous No.9505228]

Monster World IV on Megadrive.

[Anonymous No.9505230]

Dynamite Headdy

[Anonymous No.9505251]

>>9505141
I played Shenmue 1+2 a couple years ago and Shenmue 2 is one of the best video game i have ever played.

[Anonymous No.9505264]

>>9505141
rayman 2 on dreamcast and hellslave on saturn

[Anonymous No.9505268]

>>9505251
Shenmue is better.

[Anonymous No.9505326]

>>9505268
I see how people could prefer the first but I prefer the more hostile environment of china compared to japan

[Anonymous No.9505330]

SNES version of Tales of Phantasia

[Anonymous No.9505442]

Guru Guru Mahoujin was stupidly fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A006fzHkuvw
Brandish speedrun is mind blowing

[Anonymous No.9505449]

>>9505141
About a year ago I played Final Fantasy Adventure and absolutely adored it. I had played Secret of Mana and Sword of Mana before and found both to be subpar, and shit respectively. FFA impressed me not only by being a fantastic gameboy game, but for making me see the potential in the Mana series

[Anonymous No.9505487]

>>9505141
ffxi and I'm glad we have a FRESH private server.

[Anonymous No.9505501]

either Kid Icarus or DKC2

[Anonymous No.9505538]

Most recent one would be metroid prime

[Anonymous No.9505543]

>>9505141
Zelda II, which was very good. It probably helped that it's consistently shat upon almost universally (not on this site though, plenty of people here recognize it's strengths). I went in with low expectations, and l think that allowed me to be pleasantly surprised.
I actually played it right after Dark Souls, which I disliked, and found that Zelda II seemed to have a lot of similar design elements, but actually landed their implementation in ways that were satisfying to me. I was very lucky that I just happened to play them back-to-back and could compare them so easily. Fittingly, I went into Dark Souls with high expectations because everywhere online and all my friends lauded it constantly.

[Anonymous No.9505779]

>>9505141
Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, BLOOD. All increible games. Blood being the most incredible I think.

[Anonymous No.9505780]

soldier blade on pce

[Anonymous No.9505803]

DQ1 shocked me. Felt surprisingly intuitive and not dated at all.

[Anonymous No.9505880]

Sega Genesis games I never played

Musha, Crossfire, etc

[Anonymous No.9505883]

>>9505141
Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
Especially the music

[Anonymous No.9506038]

>>9505141
FFIX
It's almost a parody of itself. Sometimes tropes are just thrown out of the window and they go another direction, sometimes it's always about saving the girl.
Like, they know...

[Anonymous No.9506147]

koudelka. made me realize I've put off checking out shadow hearts for way too long

[Anonymous No.9506185]

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Supreme Commander are actually ever last bit as amazing as people claim they are.

[Anonymous No.9506260]

>>9505779
>>9506185
I hope people never stop discovering Doom and SMAC. Definitely two of the masterpieces of the entire medium of gaming. Hard to give recommendations to people though, I can't even convince my friends that like Civilization to try SMAC. Oh well, horses to water.

[Anonymous No.9506303]

>>9506260
As a major 4X a̶u̶t̶i̶s̶t̶ enthusiast I understand how hard it is to get normies to try the genre.

[Anonymous No.9506307]

I'm going with Legend's "Mission Critical" here, which I played in 2015ish.
I heard it was one of those well-reviewed-but-nobody-played games from the 1990s before the 32bit era; it needed DosBox on my laptop.
I was not disappointed. Great story, excellent puzzles. Also a cameo from peak Michael Dorn in the captain's chair where he belongs.
There was one bit where DosBox couldn't quite keep pace with the animation but it wasn't necessary to the plot, and it was just that one bit.

[Anonymous No.9506343]

>Try out Robot Alchemic Drive because robot on the cover
>Every button controls a limb on the mech, triggers are legs, sticks are fists
>You have to get into a bit of a flow to get the mech moving properly and fast
>Pressing the sticks in a certain way and trigger moves like a rocket punch
>Can unlock more stuff like a DOUBLE ROCKET PUNCH and even a booster to move fast
>Literally every building on the map can be destroyed
>But youre supposed to prevent things from being destroyed so you get more money for upgrades
>Utterly horrendous voice work, like they paid their relatives to do it, but its so bad its funny
It went from some obscure game I knew fuck all about to probably one of my favorite games of all time.

[Anonymous No.9506540]

[Anonymous No.9506578]

>>9505141
ocarina of time unironically. Such a wonderful game. I'm 30 and played it for the 1st time 3 months ago. I did use the pc port and played it at 144fps though. I know many will express disgust at this but I still found it a beautiful looking game.

[Anonymous No.9506843]

>>9506185

Oh right maybe Alpha Centauri is the one I should have put (I posted something different already). I tried it as an adult and didn't like it, and then I tried it again as an older adult with the intention of giving it a more serious chance and finally ended up liking it. Yeah it's good. The only major flaw I saw is the AI, which struck me as being awful - I think I even ended up winning on the highest difficulty level (and no I wasn't including expansion factions that game) on just my third or fourth serious attempt at playing the game at all, which is crazy. I've never even been good at playing in high difficulty modes in Civilization games. So I guess for me the replay value isn't super high. But whatever, it was good enough for many hours of play, and there's also multiplayer mode of course.

[Anonymous No.9506929]

This game is unironically fantastic.

[Anonymous No.9507149]

>>9506343
Same for me with Disaster Report 1 and 2, very fun and creative games.

[Anonymous No.9507205]

Crisis Force on the NES, I don't know how they did those parallax effects on the NES.

[Anonymous No.9507380]

>>9505174
Conker reloaded to me is one if not the best looking game from this gen it could easilly pass as early 360 game.

[Anonymous No.9507392]

>>9505141
Everything on SEGA CD honestly. This is a wonderful little machine, capable of both great audio and visuals on a 16-bit console. TurboGrafx CD is also very impressive for what they could pull off on what was essentially an 8-bit console, especially games like Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire. Then there's a bunch of PS1 games I never played until recently like Einhander and Omega Boost.

[Anonymous No.9507413]

alien soldier

[Anonymous No.9507485]

>>9505141
Gunstar heroes

[Anonymous No.9507670]

During the lockdown I decided to play though all Ys games.

Chronicles and Dawn of Ys blew me away and instantly became some of my all time top 10 games. Also Dana's game but she's not retro.

[Anonymous No.9507678]

>>9505141
Contra. It's the most fun side scroller I've ever played with the best controls and challenge level.

[Anonymous No.9507740]

>>9505141
Blazing dragons for the ps1. I played a shitload of point and clicks in my day. Favorite genre. Missed this one because that genre played on a game pad just seemed like a weird choice. I emulated it a few years ago and can safely say that if I played it back when I played all the others, it would have been right up there with the Lucas/Sierra greats.

[Anonymous No.9507753]

Dragon Force.

[Anonymous No.9507854]

The game sure didn't age well, but it still has a peculiar atmosphere.

[Anonymous No.9507876]

Anything I should know before playing Alpha Centauri for the first time? I'm a noob when it comes to 4X games, only have some Total War experience.

[Anonymous No.9507887]

>>9507854
Agreed, I thought the remake with the grey knights might capture some of that feeling, especially since I play GK's, but sadly it wasnt to be.

[Anonymous No.9507919]

>>9505141
Klonoa

[Anonymous No.9507952]

Played it not long ago and I loved everything about it. In fact, I did 2 playthroughs back to back because I wanted more. My PC at the time was complete garbage so I missed a lot of games.

[Anonymous No.9508387]

>>9506843
Yeah, the AI is notably weaker than the rest of the game's elements. You'll be happy to know that there is not one, but several, community patches that vastly increase the AI's capabilities and, optionally, rebalance certain technologies or abilities to avoid having players race for the OP tech/projects.

[Anonymous No.9509319]

mr. nutz can't be beat

[Anonymous No.9509326]

>>9505141
Radiant Historia (the DS version), i was really impressed how the timeline travel plot has used to tie the story into a single perfect ending instead of just making 5 to 10 endings if you move a rock here or there, and that's it.

[Anonymous No.9509335]

I was surprised to see that Unreal has a reputation for not holding up these days, because I absolutely loved it when I played it for the first time a few years ago.

[Anonymous No.9509337]

>>9505141
Quake. I wanted it when it first came out, but my best friend convinced me it looked ugly, so I didn't play it until half a year ago. The speed of the movement and being tossed right into actual gameplay made for a really addictive game that I played right through. I honestly thought it was going to be a slog like the Half-Life games. Had no idea there was a game this good.

[Anonymous No.9509340]

>>9509319
Have you played the sequel, called Ms. Deez?

[Anonymous No.9509343]

>>9509335
Only flaw for me in Unreal is low amount of enemies combined with how spongy they are, but it's pretty minor. The atmosphere and music are unparalleled and guns are still fun even if it takes a while to kill stuff.

[Anonymous No.9509352]

Been playing a lot of punch out lately, got the arcade versions too now, and super Metroid. Really enjoy punch out since it's kinda like a thinking man's twitch reflex game. Super Metroid is fun since I finally got that wall jump shit right. But I guess this year I was just floored going through ys again.

[Anonymous No.9509362]

>>9505141
Valkyrie Profile a decade ago

[Anonymous No.9509834]

>>9505141
I didn't expect much of jumping flash but I was wrong