Please don't go.
The Drones need you.
They look up to you.
Favorite faction? Victory condition? Waifu?
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Chairman Yang did nothing wrong.
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>>3101590
Chairman Yang did everything wrong. Mirriam and Lal did nothing wrong.
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>>3101610
Miriam is a bigoted cunt and Lal is a sandnigger.
Zakharov is the future of mankind, along with Deirdre.
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Underrated Retro Games 2016-03-30 06:29:15 Post No.3101295
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What classic videogames do you consider to be underrated and/or to have aged wonderfully, well beyond the time of release, /vr/?
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how to tell if consoles at thrift stores work 2016-03-30 01:28:49 Post No.3100789
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how to tell if consoles at thrift stores work
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how do i tell if they work or not theres no way to tell
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>buy
>take it home
>connect to tv
>power on
>if it works it works, if it doesn't it doesn't
Christ, it's not rocket science.
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Hook it up to a thrift store TV and try to play a thrift store game
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>Hook it up to a thrift store TV and try to play a thrift store game
tfw no games at retro store
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Games you'll never hold again 2016-03-30 01:17:35 Post No.3100769
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Games you'll never hold again
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I've lost of good bit of my /vr/ games growing up to years of my mother's spring cleaning crusades and a few moves.
What games has /vr/ lost to moms, shitty friends, and acts of god?
>still haven't really gotten over losing Chip and Dale 2.
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Worst offenses: Friend moved away and stole all my Game Boy games in Jr High then another friend sold by TurboExpress and Lynx for drug money in high school. Bad luck with portables.
Then a girl I was trying to bang around 2000 brought some people over and "borrowed" a number of my NES and SNES games but I didn't make very close note and doubt I got them all back.
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Only game I've lost outside of actively selling them was Virtual Spingfield, which I lent to a friend on what turned out to be the last time I ever visited him.
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A TurboGrafx 16 with a few games and a copy of Crono Trigger that I got in like 2001 that are both long gone
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Why don't Nintendo or other companies make their own USB reproduction controllers?
They could be compatible with Virtual Console games as well as lelimsonerdy people would probably jump at the chance to buy them.
I don't want to buy some old SNES controller a kid rubbed between his asscheeks at a slumber party.
What are the best reproduction controllers/brands for each system?
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>>3099932
Look on eBay, there's tons of <$5 USB reproduction controllers from random Chinese companies. (I have an NES one and while the build quality isn't great it makes emulation 1000% better.)
If Nintendo made USB controllers, it would basically be an endorsement of emulation. It's not going to happen. Plus, official Wii Classic controllers in the shape of SNES controllers are a thing, look it up.
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This seems like a good place to ask this since its topical: where can I find a well made S/NES USB controller? The cheapo one I had crapped out long ago. On the other hand I have a cheap USB N64 controller that works pretty damn well for what I paid for it
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any of you faggots tried this one? http://www.gearbest.com/mice-keyboards/pp_261728.html
is d pad decent?
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Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure 2016-03-29 17:39:28 Post No.3099562
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I just beat Rhapsody. Overall, I am terribly disappointed in what a lazy game it is. In addition to not being challenging (I know it's a game geared for little girls, but so was the Sailor Moon RPG from the 90s and that was a decent challenge), its NPCs are laughably homogeneous, its dungeons are completely interchangeable copy & paste bullshit, and for a "musical adventure," its music is repetitive and unremarkable as fuck. Never mind some of the shitty messages it sends to female players (weighing 100 pounds makes the protagonist the butt of multiple "chubby" jokes, 90 pounds is considered "svelt"). There are dozens and dozens of recruitable monsters and puppets, but none of them are necessary for advancement and so far there have been very few effects on the plot or real reason to go out of the way for them. It feels like an unfinished game.
Its humor is pretty wacky/good and there are several easter eggs laid in good spirit meant to rib a player who has been through a JRPG before, so it's not a total drag, but it is pretty much a chore after a certain point and the ending didn't make up for it.
Wikipedia claims the sequel has been fan translated, but I'm not finding anything about it online.
What are your thoughts on Rhapsody and have you played any of the other Marl Kingdom games?
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>>3099562
You can literally mash O (auto-resolve) for every single battle except one, where you need to count 6 turns before killing the thing.
It's a bad game. I don't think you'll hear otherwise. It has "charm" but it's that Nippon Ichi charm that often comes off as cringe inducing instead.
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>>3099572
Oh, wow. I forgot about auto-resolve. Heh. I can't believe i could have made battles even more boring than they were.
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>>3099562
It's for little grills. And ecchi doujins.
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>Text-Based adventure games
>Wow this is great
>I can interact with everything in the world
>I can actually talk to NPC's
>it sure would be nice if I could graphically see my inventory/map though
>Graphical adventure games
>Wow this is awful
>I can only interact with specific things
>The puzzles make no sense
>All I do is use item on thing til it works
Did anyone ever make a happy medium between the two?
I just want a text based game with graphics to support what you can't easily display with text.
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>>The puzzles make no sense
That applies to both text and graphical adventure games.
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Eh in my experience with text based it was more "Pulling that lever did something on another floor and dident tell you" instead of use screwdriver to pry open tool chest to get wrench to unscrew screw.
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You have never played Hitchiker's Guide To Galaxy then, I recon?
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What is the best classic Mega Man game and why is it Darkwing Duck?
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That's wrong, Castlevania is the best Mario of all time.
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Why is there any doubt that this is the scariest game ever made? It is the true greatest horror game ever made. It is also the best in it's series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5s5s_30n_s
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I don't even like horror films but I love silent hill. Weird.
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>>3097465
It's one of the scariest games ever. And yeah I think it is the best of the series. 3 might be close behind in both categories though.
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So it's been a while since I beat this particular save file, but I've been putting off dealing with Ruby and Emerald Weapons because last time I did it, it involved a fuckton of grinding. I have pretty much all the end-game equipment, and pretty much all the OP Materia (KOTR, Mime, Final Attack, etc). Pic related is my party and their base stats without any materia. I have a nice collection of stat boost items, but I've yet to use a single one. Also, fukctons of Hero Drinks and Megalixirs because fuck yeah W-Item glitch.
Can I take them as I am, or do I need to go grind like a little bitch some more?
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Why don't you try and see for yourself. Go blog post somewhere else.
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Ruby can be cheesed with dazers (it's not immune to Stop). As for Emerald, hero drinks, x4 cut, Doom of the Living, and Ungermax (High level limit breaks of Yuffie and Barret) are king. Since you have the Mime materia, link it to Counterattack on Barret, dose him up on hero drinks, use it once, and he will use Ungermax every time he's attacked as long as he doesn't do anything else.
Ruby is about keeping it locked down, Emerald is about DPS.
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>>3097316
I don't even remember what it is, but the weapons aren't even necessarily that hard. There's just some trick to them. One will wipe your whole party at one point, so just make sure at least one person has auto-revive. And the other is something similar, I forget what cause it's been so long. But not hard.
What are your /vr/ goals for this year?
I saw another anon post something like beating all the games he couldn't beat as a kid so it got me thinking what I should focus on this year. I'm going to try to wrap up some games from classic series I failed to ever get around to, tie up loose ends you know.
I got like three Mega Mans left I could realistically beat. I've beaten the NES Ninja Gaiden trilogy but never the SMS one, so I'll wrap that up. I want to beat the Genesis Ghouls and Ghosts since I finished the NES one years ago but didn't have the energy for the sequel at the time.
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In terms of gaming and related to games:
>1CC Sunset Riders and Metal Slug
>Work hard to get content on my youtube channel
>Play more games from genres I'm less comfortable with
>Beat more games than I did last year (something like 65)
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>What are your /vr/ goals for this year?
Watch and laugh as the video game prices keep going up.
Maybe make fun of the palkids a bit.
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I just need to start clearing out my backlog of games I actually own.
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Lesser-Known E-celebs Thread 2016-03-27 23:14:32 Post No.3094948
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Post some retro gaming youtube channels you think are good that haven't been discussed to death like AVGN, Gamesack, CGR, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSRWf4yJkms
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You're a Lig Guy.
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>Plok avatar
This channel looks promising, but he's only uploaded 2 videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC008MpfclY6ap-QGzoTMNKg
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Is JonTron obscure enough?
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Who has played this amazing gem of a game? It's one of the few retro games I still enjoy today. It also has an amazing kickass soundtrack, and I mean kickass. It's so good they released it as a CD.
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Link to soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxrllRDbrNc
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>MARMAID
Into the trash it goes.
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>>3093070
nice filter you mouth breather
What are your favorite ARPGs?
Were Secret of Mana and Zelda games the best of this genre?
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>Zelda games
There was only one Zelda ARPG, Zelda II.
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yah this
those are adventure games op
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Zelda is more of a puzzle adventure game. Combat is sort of minor compared to the puzzle aspect, and in fact the way you defeat enemies (bosses especially) is more about figuring out the correct method of dealing damage. So I think calling it an RPG is a bit of a misnomer.
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I think we can all agree this is the worst Castlevania.
>sluggish pacing
>low-quality audio
>casualised the whip
>casualized the movement
>gimmicks, gimmicks everywhere
>easy as pie bosses with simple patterns
>level design doesn't pick up till 9 stages in
>graphics/art assets are muddy, mundane and ugly
Super Castlevania Bros. was a fucking mistake.
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SNES in general had weaker game series than NES.
>Mario
>Metroid
>Castlevania
>Mega Man
>Dragon Quest
Only Zelda and Final Fantasy equaled or bested their 8-bit predecessors.
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I wonder why this was?
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My guess? Most of the major NES series came out in 86-89 when the console had already been out a few years and programmers had more time to familiarize themselves with the hardware. The SNES came out in 90 so you had devs right away rushing into large-scale projects on a brand-new system that they didn't know how to get the most out of.