Obscure games like that
>>2878328
"Gadget: Invention, Travel and Adventure" as well as its remake "Gadget: Past as Future".
"Tlon: A Misty Story".
"Perihelion: The Prophecy".
"Aleshar: World of Ice".
"Cosmology of Kyoto".
>>2878354
>Tlon
Is this a Borges reference?
Is Nintendo crowding everyone out when it comes to the legacy of retro games?
I was a Sega guy myself, and that seems to be downplayed and ignored in mainstream retro discussion. When it does get brought up, its always mentioned in a passive aggressive way. When it comes to anything that wasn't Sega or Nintendo, things are even worse. It almost seems like their experiences were written out of history.
There must have been people who only ever had a TG-16 or Jag growing up, but all you ever hear is nintendo, nintendo, nintendo.
Well, Sega has been getting a good amount of attention lately with some books and such.
But, yes, people seem to be most nostalgic for Nintendo, in no small part due to Nintendo largely being a nostalgia hype engine at this point.
Still, I feel a little sad when I see certain people knocking on Sega as if they were nothing. I think as I get older I respect Sega's work more and more.
>I was a Sega guy myself
>all you ever hear is nintendo, nintendo, nintendo.
I'm not really surprised this is your attitude.
Plebs only know Mario and Zelda and games that are represented in Smash Bros.
It feels so wrong not to have DK in this game, what were they thinking!?
They probably did not want to rehash like Nintendo and its fans are so accustomed to.
>>2878225
man, nintendo and its fans are so evil, the absolute boogeymen.
>>2878224
I take it you'd then suggest switching Donkey Kong for Dixie Kong and have Dixie be a damsel in distress.
I wouldn't prefer that cause I like playing as Dixie, sure she's pretty easy mode and that's a complaint I have, I wish they'd made her ever so slightly worse to control in comparison to Diddy so that platforming segments wouldn't be a no-brainer if you had her.
Up until about 10 years ago when something was gone from popular culture, it was pretty much gone. Then good internet connections became common enough for people to more easily stream/download, letting us experience things we remembered and rediscover things we'd forgotten. It was an exciting time that future generations will never know because there will never again be a circumstance where anything from their youth isn't instantly accessible.
And here we are today where nostalgia feels like it's all been milked of its last drop with rereleases, updates, reboots, throwbacks, it just doesn't excite me anymore. It's all been analyzed to its most minute detail by YouTubers. Even mediocre retro merchandise is overpriced. I had even taken up pixel art and had gotten pretty good at it but haven't cared to make anything in a year because it just feels so fucking played out by others.
It's this feeling I've had which has been growing for the past year or two. Have any of you felt this? What did you do to overcome it?
>>2877846
If you like the hobby you wouldn't be completely bored of it. The best thing I can say is take a break from it for a while and hopefully you'll want to come back; otherwise maybe you should move on.
I've been involved with video games since the late 80s and most of my favorite games are from the 90s. At the moment I'm writing my own emulator and working on a website to help teach people about emulation and the rom hacking scene of the 90s. It keeps me busy and it's always fun.
The scene is huge OP, bigger now than it has ever been. Instead of feeling jaded by the oversaturation of retro gaming on shit like youtube, concentrate on what you know you enjoy and expand from that. Find your niche OP.
>>2877859
>If you like the hobby you wouldn't be completely bored of it. The best thing I can say is take a break from it for a while and hopefully you'll want to come back; otherwise maybe you should move on.
/thread
You need many hobbies. You can't just do one thing, you may easily burn out of it, even if it takes years to do that eventually you won't even be able to touch it anymore.
None-the-less there are more video games than retro games, and yes there are still good ones out there as long as you aren't narrow minded.Honestly picking up an instrument has been much better than any rhythm game I have played outside of DDR since it makes you Get Up and Move.
Would FF7's story be better or worse if Yuffie was a mandatory character rather than an optional one?
It would've been better if she was relevant to the main plot.
>>2877802
It wouldn't make any difference, since the problem in the story has nothing to do with Yuffie, but the fact that the whole amnesia/cloud/zack/sephiroth/sephiroth clones/jenova crap is an indecipherable labyrinth that makes no goddamn sense.
>>2877836
Yuffie is the best character because she ain't got nothing to do with that shit.
On a semi-regular basis? Ms Pac-Man for me.
Dammit, I grabbed a picture from the mobile version.
Here's a proper one.
all of them
gameboy or NES tetris
>Closest thing to another DC Shenmue game we'll ever get, the original being pretty much 2D Shenmue in a Toku world
>Xbox translation has been around for years
>Still no transcript, or patch, or full youtube stream or anything
j-just...
Just play it on Xbox Bro.
Game is Rent-A-Hero 1 btw
>>2877502
Can't you just pick up an original xbox for like $50?
For some reason I never found a decent DC rip back then. Burnt a lot of discs for nothing, none booted.
Is the fan translation available on DC as well?
Hey /vr/ so i recently finished playing Croc; Legend of the Gobbos and found it to be more than an enjoyable experience, why is this game not talked about as much as Banjo Kazooie? It has just as infectious an OST and nails the 3D platforming better than Banjo.
Underated games thread i guess.
i loved it on sega saturn because we never got a 3d sonic like we deserved
I played on the Playstation and was really happy with it and how it controlled
some of my earliest memories were were playing the gameboy color croc game.
it was okay
Was there a better licensing team that capcom and disney?
LJN?
Sega and Disney come pretty close, I'd say with their Illusion series of games on Master System, Game Gear, and Genesis.
>>2877418
SUNSOFT and Warner was pretty good.
There were some great Batman and Looney tunes games from them.
Also, Konami did some great Tiny Toons games.
What's your favorite GnG game of all time, /vr/?
Spin-offs like Arremer and Maximo are fine, too.
>>2877252
Actually, the only one related to the series I've ever played was Demon's Crest on the SNES. It was really good, though.
>>2877252
Ghouls 'n Ghosts is perfection.
>>2877252
>What's your favorite GnG game of all time?
Maldita Castilla
This game is too short. This is the problem with Super Metroid as well, as soon as you get the most powerful weapons, the game ends.
>>2877545
Also the battles are slow. The SNES was capable of more, there could be a tiny bit more strategy in enemies besides just looking at the same techs over and over. I shouldn't be dreading fighting, I should relish fighting.
>>2877545
CT wasn't too short. The flaw CT had was it was too easy, I didn't upgrade my weapons or armor much, just had to get my techs up and each boss was no sweat.
No one fucking cares about your shitty millenial opinions.
What are some of your favorite Gameboy games /vr/?
>>2877081
Are GB color games fair?
>>2877106
This is a very comfy game
Avenging Spirit
Hey /vr/, I just picked this thing up for Chrimus and it's capable of emulating anything from the Dreamcast backwards with only minimal slow down for the later gens.
So, general retro game recommendation thread? I wanna fill this thing with the good stuff.
>>2876454
what kind of games do you like
>>2876456
Some of my favorites include any Mario RPG game, DK64 (though that doesn't emulate properly), Wario Land series (especially 4), Tetris Attack, and Troddlers.
But then again I'm open for trying new stuff, which is why I made the thread to begin with.
>>2876454
oh hey it's this shill again. this handheld is absolute crap and all regulars here already know it. happy holidays.
/vr/ I have a question
Everyone loves Half-Life.
Which adventure through Black Mesa did you like the best? Freeman's? Shephard's? Calhoun's? Cross and Green's? Share!
Replaying the Half-Life series. I'm in for a long haul.
Shepard easily. Who gives a fuck about the dumb story OpFor delivered the best action and didnt have too much bullshit. Also best weapon variety
>>2875974
The original game got it right imo. None of the expansions managed to click with me as much.
>>2876108
I'll admit, the one expansion that just had me wondering why the story was going on was OpFor. Suddenly Race X so Shephard had a boss was kinda dull. But at least he got a boss, unlike Calhoun, Cross, and Green.
Pac Man, Pac-Man or Pacman?
>>2875887
Come on now, was that so hard?
paki man
>>2875887
Why is Pacman CEDX+ so good?
>tfw playing at 50 speed with 30 ghosts trailing you