/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9826423]

>first game makes it basically impossible to keep good alignment
>second game makes it basically impossible to keep evil alignment

[Anonymous No.9826441]

This was a weird game.

[Anonymous No.9826451]

>>9826441
It was but I really enjoyed it. But playing to win is so different from playing as the game intends as just turning your villages into breeding farms give you basically infinite influence range.

[Anonymous No.9826452]

>first game is black, second one is white

[Anonymous No.9826458]

>>9826452
>first game had more soul
Makes you think

[Anonymous No.9826562]

>>9826458
Soul is a term for southern/black culture, but I know you meant that it was more soulful

[Anonymous No.9826568]

>>9826458
Well it's definitely funkier than the first game

[Anonymous No.9826576]

>>9826452
The front cover is black, the back cover is white. For whatever reason they didn't repeat this with the sequel's box, probably because that was around the time they started putting disks in those ugly clamshell cd cases where the 4 CDs were literally just stacked on top of each other on a central knob

[Anonymous No.9826582]

>>9826576
Forgot pic.

[Anonymous No.9827167]

>>9826562
That was literally the joke anon.

[Anonymous No.9827195]

>>9826562
Based autist

Also, has anyone here managed to teach their pet to shit exclusively in the fields? I tried this when I decided to start playing it again about a year ago but quickly discovered that it was going to be way, WAY harder than I thought. In fact, I’m not even sure if it’s possible.

[Anonymous No.9827218]

>>9826423
you can keep from goin evil
you just need to wiggle rocks a whole lot
also pepper in random nice guy miracles like the rain on the crops in front of a lot of people, or food in front of a large crowd
i also remember the heart-shaped miracle was really OP if used on a bunch of NPCs

but mostly what you wanna do is wiggle rocks
bonus points if you train your creature how to wiggle rocks for you

[Anonymous No.9827624]

>>9827167
It literally wasn't.

[Anonymous No.9828182]

>>9827195
Oh yeah there's no point really, just punish them whenever they eat or kill one of your villagers.

I love Black and White 2, beaten it so many times.

[Anonymous No.9828307]

My wife's favorite game right here. It makes you feel like god in a good way and I just dig the comfy colors and lighting. Has that nice look to it. Bringing back large memories to see this

[Anonymous No.9828378]

any way to make it not look like shit on Win10? i did all the sensible stuff on pcgw

[Anonymous No.9828380]

>>9828182
>there's no point really
Damn, I guess you're right. I was so wired on adderall that it didn't even occur to me that trying to force my stupid ape to drop his fat turds on the wheat was just a waste of time. Might give the game another go soon, but this time without such a ridiculous expectation.

On that note, does anyone know how to teach your pet to cast miracles? I think there's a mod dedicated to a setting a "map" for them learning them optimally, but from what I saw it was WAY more complicated than just a simple UI overlay that tells you where to go.

[Anonymous No.9828382]

>>9827195
I've done it, but I remember it being luck that he shit in the field in the first place.

[Anonymous No.9828386]

>>9828378
Those patches fixed it up nicely for me, I didn't have to do much else.

[Anonymous No.9828387]

>>9826423
I remember getting frustrated with that level where the enemy people is so far away you can only send birds or very practiced projectiles just to impress a few.

[Anonymous No.9828398]

>>9828382
There was another anon who said that it's basically random chance too. I would occasionally get him to shit on them, but it wasn't his INTENTION to do so. His actual intent was to take a shit on the house or the fence nearby, but I would click and redirect him so much that eventually he'd just freeze up and take a dump right then and there out of confusion I suppose. I'm quite sure that the AI is based on intent rathe than actual result, so for him to shit in a location without actually meaning to shit there probably doesn't have the intended/expected result.

[Anonymous No.9828430]

>>9828380
>Might give the game another go soon, but this time without such a ridiculous expectation.
Just make sure to properly patch it. You have to install all the official patches in release order aside from the haptic feedback one, then install the fan patch. Game runs like a dream even on win10 that way and the vast majority of bugs are gone now thanks to that fan patch, but it requires all the other patches being installed first because of the fucking wierd way this game is coded.

[Anonymous No.9828774]

>>9826423
Isn't true at all. You can easily be good alignment and have it work. I think it just makes the game take a longer time iirc.

[Anonymous No.9828805]

>>9828774
You’ll need to define “a longer time” more tangibly, anon. You can train your animal pretty succinctly in the very, very first island (Eden), but this is an incredibly tedious and lengthy process. B&W operates on an unreasonably lengthy time scale, and it far more than a basic investment of interest in order to achieve the game’s more notriously difficult goals.

[Anonymous No.9828968]

>>9826423
i've never finished land 5 in the first game, it's just too much autism for me

[Anonymous No.9829652]

>>9828398
In guess you could chain him to a rock in between fields. He'd have to shit on them then.

[Anonymous No.9829683]

I gave up on being a good god. I was an evil god, but with a pristine good creature. He'd win their hearts and minds and then I'd punish them.
Of course, I had to keep all my evilness out of sight, but I think that made it kind of fun.

[Anonymous No.9830697]

>>9826423
I find it impossible to be an evil god because all I do is expand my village. There's enough of every resource and I can just spam spells to convert enemy villages. Killing a few as a show of might is not enough to turn me into an evil god.