/vr/ - Retro Games

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Just checking in with today's retrogaming sales posts from /vr/'s favorite 'ville! Nothing suspicious here

Video games are a very young media. We can't really compare the storytelling in video games to literature or even film because it's fundamentally different. Most games use story as a vehicle for gameplay and so obviously it's going to be thinner and even contrived. Games with a narrative focus on the other hand, aim to immerse the player in a way that has the potential to go beyond other kinds of media. The "cinematic" type tries to tell its story outright in a format similar to film while using the gameplay (which itself can become thin and contrived in these games) as a method to regularly draw the player back in. There used to be text based games like A Mind Forever Voyaging that tried to tell a literary story in this way and the visual novel still does although it uses manga as its "literary" basis.

The truly innovative form of storytelling in the young media of video games is a format where the player truly guides the story and feels like their choices and ideally even their gameplay style makes a real meaningful difference in their experience in the game the way our choices effect our real lives. This is a kind of storytelling that other narrative media cannot do and it's the way video games will develop into their own respectable format for it.

In not going to mention any specific games because I don't want it to devolve into "hurrr ur taste = bad" and we're probably not even to a point yet where any of our games will be looked back on as a truly profound interactive experience but advancing technology does gradually allow for more and more complex forms of this kind of narrative.

We're getting there.

This dick ain't gonna suck itself

>>4924435
>What gives this game such a 16:9 letterboxed feel

>>4887060
>>4887064

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>>4881578
Dual Orb for Super Famicom is only uncommon, though it remains unlocalized. The game you want is the mythic rare Single Orb for original Famicom.

Pirated NES roms killed my father and raped my mother

>>4821093
Hugely dependent on where you live

>>4820856
Shipping cheap, heavy stuff sucks

>>4820391
>>4820496
Thirded. GT2 is perhaps the "funnest" racing game of all time

>>4820648
What does GT4 have that GT2 lacks?

>>4820809
>not clearly Apocalypse Now

Although it could be better the MMO hack is pretty sweet and I also enjoy the 2P mod

>>4820775
Five to ten inch touchscreen CRTs used to be freaking EVERYWHERE but I expect most of them just burned in/out or were broken since they were made for the public to touch. It's a shame too since I'd love to build a mini arcade cabinet around one.

It's probably better for it even when it's brand new since 80% of the vents are in the bottom. Many of the PS1s that have difficulty reading discs are a result of setting them on carpet, beds or other soft, insulating surfaces

Basically. I bought a 21“ 1993 Hitachi earlier this year that was internally caged and will drop beautifully into the cabinet I'm covering to dedicated emulation but I really would prefer a Trinitron but I dunno how long I'll need to wait for one to turn up and I don't want to put my 20M2MDU in it either. This is how you get old lol.

>>4766003
>in the year two thousand
>be newborn
>dad plays 5200 with you
>can't get tiny hands to operate membrane buttons
>"this is dumb"
>don't touch again until 18 years later to blame it on the rf adapter on 4chan

I heard that all the backers will get their datenmeister chip in the mail soon. It may not be functional but I heard if you grind it up and snort it, you get a wicked head rush.

>Hey Faggots,
>My name is Jace Hall, and I hate every single one of you. All of you are bearded, pedophilic, no-lifes who spend every second of their day playing stupid ass arcade games. You are everything bad in the world. Honestly, have any of you ever gotten a single sub? I mean, I guess it’s fun trying to make meaningless achievements, but you all take to a whole new level. This is even worse than playing Mega Drive.
>Don’t be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I’m pretty much perfect. I produced cinematic games and cinema.. What do you produce, other than pussy-ass single screen platformers? I also have a successful youtube channel, and have a banging hot girlfriend (She just blew me; Shit was SO cash). You are all faggots who should just embrace cinematic gaming. Thanks for listening.
>Pic Related: It’s me and my bitch at the launch party for my app

>>4703036
They literally cannot control themselves

>>4702793