/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9553653]

Post your biggest gaming disappointment.

[Anonymous No.9553657]

[Anonymous No.9553661]

[Anonymous No.9553725]

>>9553653

This was a cancelled game that really intrigued me as a kid.

[Anonymous No.9553792]

[Anonymous No.9553814]

>>9553792
>play on multiplayer servers, launching flares into enemy cockpits and butthurt they could still see

Not nearly as cutting edge as they tried to make it out to be.

[Anonymous No.9553821]

>it's like Contra!

[Anonymous No.9553861]

>>9553661
>>9553657
both are great choices I would add: Shadow man, daikatana, In cold blood

[Anonymous No.9553893]

>>9553814
That whole thing just felt like a Q3A-mod. What a waste.

[Anonymous No.9553904]

>>this isn't yoshi's Island 64

[Anonymous No.9553908]

Such a fucking downgrade from 2

[Anonymous No.9554184]

>>9553653
Blood 2

[Anonymous No.9554190]

>>9553653
I remember renting this game for SNES as a kid. Cover looked cool, robots are awesome. I think I beat it on the second day or something, and just went "is that it?"

[Anonymous No.9554614]

>>9553653

[Anonymous No.9554623]

>>9554614
Fuck you.

[Anonymous No.9554630]

>>9553653
>faggy youtuber makes a faggy video about it
nobody cares

[Anonymous No.9555654]

[Anonymous No.9555669]

>>9554630
I was actually there when it happened. The game was hyped as a revolution in fighting games.

[Anonymous No.9555672]

>>9553653
false advertising right up until its release here in western territories

[Anonymous No.9555696]

>>9555672
American cover art truly is an abomination.

[Anonymous No.9556170]

>>9555654
The Sega Genesis (and CD) games are better. Way better.

[Anonymous No.9556175]

>>9553821
>it's like Contra!
Said no one ever, B.O.B. is a solid game nonetheless.

[Anonymous No.9556176]

ocarina of time unironically

[Anonymous No.9556182]

>>9556170
You're referring to completely different titles (The Spidey V Kingpin games), Arcade's Revenge was ported to the Sega and it's as shit as the SNES version

[Anonymous No.9556208]

SMB 3 is better.

[Anonymous No.9556261]

[Anonymous No.9556292]

>>9556176
this

[Anonymous No.9556335]

>>9556170
SAVE THIS CITY SAVE IT FROM THE HANDS OF DESTRUCTION

[Anonymous No.9556342]

>>9553661
I was just playing this today and kept thinking about how mario 64 moves 20 times better

[Anonymous No.9556362]

>>9553904
I rented this back in the day, expecting it to be a sweet Yoshi's Island sequel. The extreme "cutesy-wootsey-ness" of this game made me cringe hard and drop it immediately. I swear this game was designed to keep a baby entertained while you played it. What a fucking letdown...

[Anonymous No.9556370]

Master of Orion 3. Was promised a worthy successor to the legendary MOO2, got some indecipherable nonsense simulator instead.

[Anonymous No.9556410]

>>9553653
FF8

It wasn't bad, but I was incredibly disappointed knowing FF4 and FF6 were now "dated" and this style was going forward. I felt the same way with 7, but 8 just cemented it fully.

[Anonymous No.9556515]

>>9553653

[Anonymous No.9556582]

>>9556515
Bruh this shit made me feel retarded when I was 6

[Anonymous No.9556695]

[Anonymous No.9558165]

I liked the first one so I bought the sequel when it came out. Unfortunately, it's a SaGa game, and all the things I liked about SaGa 1 are absent in the rest of the franchise. Breakable weapons can eat shit.

[Anonymous No.9558851]

>>9554630
t. watched their channel

[Anonymous No.9558854]

>>9558165
They made a fucking sequel?

[Anonymous No.9558931]

>>9555669
I remember it was in all the magazines, then nothing... a couple years later I found it came out and it sucked.

[Anonymous No.9559032]

>>9554614
Man I thought this was so original and cool when I first heard about it. Turns out by the time the game came out it had already been done before. The "agent has lost his memory and there's a conspiracy afoot" trope has been done before-It's a wholesale ripoff of Total Recall but in video game form.

[Anonymous No.9559146]

>>9555696
most american ps1 cover arts are fugly

[Anonymous No.9559554]

[Anonymous No.9559623]

>>9558931
It turned out the publisher was paying for good coverage on the Amiga and DOS versions (As they were releasing first) and they all suspiciously gave Rise Of The Robots 90%+ scores. The only Amiga magazine to turn them down had a late review, but gave it 5%. All the console magazines trashed it as well as the copies from Acclaim were also suspiciously late.

Part 1 of the review here

[Anonymous No.9559626]

>>9559623
Part 2 of the review

[Anonymous No.9559629]

>>9553908
I never played 2 because I can't get it to run on Retroarch, what is so bad about Killer Instinct Gold?

Can someone explain?

[Anonymous No.9559636]

>>9556261
Better than 3.

[Anonymous No.9559819]

>>9553653
Resident Evil 4 and Yoshi's Island

[Anonymous No.9559849]

>>9553653

[Anonymous No.9559858]

>>9559623
>>9559626

roko's basilisk is gonna hear about this, or rather it already has

[Anonymous No.9560024]

>>9559626
Ouch.

[Anonymous No.9560159]

>>9553653
It just didn't feel like the PlayStation games

[Anonymous No.9560256]

>>9554614
That's not the SNES or Atari ST versions

[Anonymous No.9560264]

>>9554623
That's the only correct response for such an insult.

[Anonymous No.9560269]

>>9556208
Get the fuck outta here. SMW is great.

[Anonymous No.9560275]

>>9559626
Huh, written by the singer from Korn.

[Anonymous No.9561645]

persona 3

[Anonymous No.9561891]

>>9559849
Oh yeah, that had so much potential, only to be largely wasted.

[Anonymous No.9561901]

>>9553653
I unironically bought this as a kid, the boxart looked cool

[Anonymous No.9561904]

messiah and then enter the matrix both from shiny

[Anonymous No.9561905]

>>9560159
None of these returning platformers did. I still think sixth gen was beyond platformers.

[Anonymous No.9561915]

>>9553653
Every Final Fantasy game after X.
Also, anything super monkey Balls.
Oh, and how would /v/ and /vrpg/ and maybe /b/ handle a gaming disappointment thread?

[Anonymous No.9562020]

>>9553725
Ah shit was there a demo on pc? I don't think my pc could run it at the time and I always wondered.

[Anonymous No.9562032]

I never preordered another game after this one

[Anonymous No.9562036]

>>9553821
Picked up B.O.B in one of those cheap stores that seem to sell everything. Cost like £5. Fell in love.

It was tough as balls, but it's sad you don't see this kind of style and creativity these days, even if it was run and gunner. Animation and controls were fluid. Music was groovy. Sound effects were loud and crackled my TV speaker.

I'd play it over Contra any day

[Anonymous No.9562040]

>>9559032
>wholesale ripoff of Total Recall but in video game form.
It was definitely a love letter to that movie.

[Anonymous No.9562207]

>>9559636
haha no. CV was a good game but everyone knows it's the sharkjump.

[Anonymous No.9562214]

>>9562032
As someone no too familiar with the series, what was disappointing about it?

[Anonymous No.9562886]

>>9554630
Apparently you care a lot, since nobody was talking about youtubers until you arrived.
>Everyone here has seen it!!
They will if you keep drawing attention to something you supposedly hate, you thread shitting faggot.

[Anonymous No.9562902]

>>9559849
I wish they gave this a second chance. A platformer/beat-‘em-up that plays and looks like a tournament fighter is such an amazing concept that deserves a second chance.

[Anonymous No.9563802]

>>9555696
Sure, babbling shitholer.

[Anonymous No.9563820]

>>9563802
Okay lol

[Anonymous No.9563821]

>>9555654
What was wrong with it

[Anonymous No.9563838]

>>9553661
I really like this game but I can understand how people that loved DKC would hate it

[Anonymous No.9563850]

>>9561905
>6th gen
I think you’ve mistaken generations there anon, there are plenty of good 6th gen platformers

[Anonymous No.9563875]

Toss up between MGSV and RE6

[Anonymous No.9564006]

>>9563850
I'm not, Crash and Spyro on sixth gen consoles all seemed mediocre and a lot of new IPs, understandably, had to lean into more mixed genres. I had grown up by that time though and haven't been into platformers since.

[Anonymous No.9564009]

>>9562902
They kinda did on the PS2

[Anonymous No.9564018]

>>9564009
Shaolin Monks is fucking great.

[Anonymous No.9564191]

For me it was Quake. Every single gaming magazine was raving about it non-stop for months. But I didn't realize it was primarily designed for multiplayer. I was living in the middle of nowhere with dial-up internet. Multiplayer wasn't really a thing in my world. So I played the meh single-player game and that was that.

[Anonymous No.9564201]

>>9564191
Sure you're not thinking of Quake 3 Arena?

[Anonymous No.9564293]

[Anonymous No.9564306]

>>9553653
Probably Urban Strike, I bought the cartridge early in the morning and beat it until noon. Also, the quality drop after the Jungle strike was noticable.

[Anonymous No.9564310]

>>9564201
Nope, it was OG Quake. Arena was advertised as a multiplayer game, Q1 was not

[Anonymous No.9564312]

>>9559636
Hard to measure, RE3 is a cash grab, an unbalanced action-oriented expansion pack for a full price when the CV is just an amateurish game from B-team.

[Anonymous No.9564401]

RE4 for sure, now I know that's a try hard thing to say but the classic resident evil games had a specific atmosphere that re4 didn't even try to do. Really soured me on it even though I can admit re4 is a great game, just not a game for me.

[Anonymous No.9564416]

>>9553653
i tried to like this by keeping playing it but it was really terrible and clunky, One Must Fall was good though so we had good robot fightings as kids

[Anonymous No.9564417]

>>9554184
it had a couple of good things but the gameplay was terrible

[Anonymous No.9564647]

the PSX port of SF Rush.

ended up buying a N64 mostly for its superior version.

[Anonymous No.9564654]

Expected a cool ninja action game based on the cover.
It's actually an RPG, a pretty boring and confusing one at that, doesn't help that it was my first ever RPG too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plMFwoQR7T0
I also hate this fucking BGM. I spent hours walking around aimlessly on dungeons and that slow, depressing music just made the experience more stressing.

[Anonymous No.9564689]

>>9564654
I honestly loved this game. Felt different every time I tried to play, and it's a fascinating mix of like an early Final Fantasy / Breath of Fire vibe with permadeath, and Koei's large-scale strategic management from a historical perspective. I remember there was a whole system about how you had to destabilize the economies of various towns so you could storm the castle, all while vying against the clock to visit all the dungeons and unlock your ninja abilities before Nobunaga rose to power (or something like that). Majorly ambitious for an early SNES game.

I know exactly what BGM you're thinking of without clicking. Let me click and see if I'm right.

...

Nope, I was thinking of this one. If there's anything bad about Inindo, it's that the music sounds like it was randomly generated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6KmZbyftTw

[Anonymous No.9564695]

>>9558165
2 was the first Saga Frontier I played and I loved it. The multi-generational thing with two heroes was really interesting as a kid, and I liked the art.

Then again, I somehow loved Unlimited Saga for PS2 and the rest of the known universe seems to hate that board game dressed up as an RPG.

[Anonymous No.9564754]

>>9564689
I actually liked the village music, it sounded cheery and peaceful to me, a nice respite from the dungeon music. Battle music wasn't half bad either.

And yeah, there's many complex (interesting, even?) systems at play, but bear I mind I was like 11yo with no prior RPG experience when I tried it, I couldn't make heads or tails of it. No internet, magazine coverage or friends with prior experience either.

[Anonymous No.9565510]

>>9553653
Sega Saturn.
I loved it in spite of everything but the negative consequences from Sega's faltering weren't limited to the damage inflicted upon Sega's reputation and prestige. The entire console scene changed forever.

[Anonymous No.9565521]

>>9553653
Two Famiclones I got at different points in my life. The first one was like a 4/10, with a quick-to-heat-up PSU, and used more glue than solder. The Second was slightly better, It was blue and light grey, had the shape of a Genesis Model 3, and came with 2 controllers and a lightgun. 6.5 out of 10, overall. Still, the plastic was fragile.

[Anonymous No.9565531]

>>9560159
One of my least favorite games ever created. Completely ruined good Spyro games forever.

[Anonymous No.9565534]

>>9564191
I was sorta let down by the singleplayer as well. I was so excited for the game that i was sorta "meh" when it came out. Graphics was great and all, but the gameplay was sorta boring.
Then i tried the multiplayer and im still playing it to this day.
hub.quakeworld.nu

[Anonymous No.9565978]

>>9563820
>this example is supposed to disprove the point
Literal faggot.

[Anonymous No.9566576]

>>9565978
>ugh his goalposts
Fine.

[Anonymous No.9566630]

[Anonymous No.9566721]

>>9558165
>and all the things I liked about SaGa 1 are absent in the rest of the franchise.
But Final Fantasy Legend I and II have varying races that develop differently as well. Admittedly it's a shame those mechanics are rarely revisited. I also agree with you being sorely disappointed with SaGa Frontier 2.

[Anonymous No.9567032]

>>9559554
But why? I remember the game was amazing for Genesis but short.

[Anonymous No.9567041]

>>9554630
Zoom zoom.
If you'd actually been alive in the 90s you'd understand.

[Anonymous No.9567130]

>>9553653
>ask for OMF
>dad brings this turd instead
That trauma will never go away

[Anonymous No.9567143]

>>9566576
Goalposts remain where they were originally set.

[Anonymous No.9567247]

>>9559849
>it's like those old beat-em-up games except you play as fucking sub-zero
>he was my main in every MK game
>get this game thinking i was going to kick it's ass
>game plays nothing like MK
>none of the combos i have memorized work
>none of the special inputs i have memorized work
>also the game just sucks balls overall
Better believe I was pissed about this, I never bought another MK game until 11.

[Anonymous No.9567263]

>>9567247
If you're gonna play any version, play the PS1 version, it does have the inputs but you unlock the moves by leveling up and its biggest problem is it does play like MK and it's a weird ass platformer-rpg.