What's your favorite Mega Man game or series?
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Mega Man 1 2 and 3
Fuck literally everything else.
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>>4200654
>not including 4
Yeah fuck off
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>>4200650
Mega Man Zero 1.
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Retro games suitable for Halloween? Whether actually Halloween based (preferable) or just suiting to the feel.
Ones I know of so far...
>MediEvil series
>Monster Party
>Jersey Devil
>Monster in My Pocket
>Zombies Ate My Neighbors
>Ahh! Real Monsters
>Evil Dead games
>Castlevania series
>Adams Family games
There's also stuff like Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Fatal Frame, but those are obvious and not particularly 'Halloween'.
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Ghosts n Goblins, including Demon's Crest/Gargoyle's Quest
Splatterhouse 1-3
Mutant League Football/Hockey
Blood
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>>4199293
>Nightmare on Elm street.
A bit tongue in chick but is great fun.
>Wampaku graffiti or that Splatterhouse game on nes.
The hit detection is a bit tricky but the challenge is awesome (and I love the chickens jumping from the stove).
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>>4199293
Holy Diver
Sweet Home
Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday
Ghoul Patrol
Nosferatu
Clock Tower series
Majyuuou/King of Demons
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Do you feel obligated to play "the classics"?
It seems weird to me when some says they enjoy games but has never played something like SMB. There are just some games out there that any fan of the medium should play at least once.
Post "classic" series you never played any games from.
I've never played any Tomb Raider, Quake, Crash, Spyro, or Fire Emblem. I only got around to playing Doom a year ago.
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I played the classics as a kid. My nerd cred was secure two decades ago.
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After a certain amount of interest poured into any medium it's natural and almost inevitable that one will be curious and explore its origins. I don't think anyone should feel obligated to play the classics, people should play them if they want to and find them fun. My favorite and most played game right now is asteroids, not because I felt obligated to go that far back, but because that's the game I have the most fun with.
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I only played SMB last year, for the first time. I had played the Mario All Stars version before, so I never knew how simple Mario's sprite used to be.
I've never played Fire Emblem.
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What exactly do people like about Chrono Cross?
I've usually seen people take the approach that people who don't like it are Trigger fans, but I didn't say anything because I hadn't gone and looked at it critically.
So what happens if you pretend this wasn't a Chrono game, and removed all the influence from Trigger? Thinking of it like that, the idea that Trigger fans are jaded against it doesn't make sense to me. Most of the emotional weight in Cross's story depends heavily on concepts or characters pulled from Trigger. Dead Sea, which people usually call the best part of the game? If this wasn't a Chrono game, it wouldn't exist. And the already-tenuous connection between Serge and Kid would be even moreso without her backstory in the orphanage.
If it disentangled itself from Trigger, you'd remove 1/2 of the villains in the game and be left with a boilerplate JRPG environmentalist story with dragons as the final boss and a bunch of dimension-hopping. And the environmentalist part is executed in a famously clumsy way.
It would fix the crowded infodump-heavy nature of the endgame, but also take away the few "good" parts of the story. For most of the game the story is extremely bland - either doing a fetch quest of some kind, or infiltrating a random military base (manor, fort) for the Nth time.
The party members rarely have any real agency in the story, and no small amount of them unironically look like they could have been pulled from Deviantart. Look at a picture of Grobyc and tell me I'm wrong. There's the "accents," too, but that's localization, so I can't harp on it too much. Whatever little development they get often requires you to be playing with a guide in your lap - which is a common problem for RPGs in this era, but in Chrono Cross it also bleeds into the main quests sometimes. I'm not gonna nitpick on plotholes, but this story is far from tight.
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Gameplay-wise the game is actually nice, when you first pick it up. But the novelty wears off, especially due to the lack of diversity between party member playstyles. It's one of those battle systems that seems great on the surface, but in practice ends up turning every battle into the same battle, and every character into the same character. Most of the time people just end up stomping everything, and if an enemy actually gets to act it's an "annoying enemy."
It might have fit a lot better as a setup for a Tactics-style game, where there's usually more room for character progression. Final Fantasy games did better with the blank-slate party members idea.
Overally the game is a lesson on concept vs. execution. It's like if you took a big-idea guy from a thread somewhere and actually gave him a team to make his game without editor interference. "What if you actually play as the villain for half the game and lose your whole party?" "What if you can actually ditch the heroine?" Might as well throw in some real character deaths, too!
But as mentioned before, the party members don't have development/agency. Who would actually care if Viper dies? So he magically lives. Instead, the game puts the deaths on Chrono Trigger characters, even though there's no reason given for the party members to care about most of them. The scene in Chronopolis is the most blatant one. So if the game leans on Trigger so much, I think it's fair for fans of that game to complain about its treatment.
I don't think I need to get into that argument myself. Cross seems like a weak enough game on its own merits. So I wonder, what in particular sticks out to people for them to remember it fondly? Was it the graphics/music? Did they actually connect with the characters or enjoy the battle system?
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*insert post about how Chrono Cross is dogshit here*
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>>4193674
Part of it is CT fans being disappointed they didn't get a "real" sequel, but another factor is the fact that these two games represent a very spot-on sampling of the shift in tone and style of jRPG's through the nineties.
Going in blind, people could like the more innocent, tangibly adventurey and old-school (storywise) feel of Trigger and be put off by the solemnity and -successful or not- pointed "profoundness" of Cross, or vice versa.
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Is a Capcom-developed Zelda actually one of the best ever made?
>pushed the limits of hardware it was designed for, better than some early SNES/Genesis titles
>perfect art direction
>some of the best music and sound design of the 2D games
>decent story with good characters
>large, well-crafted world filled with secrets and cool places to explore
>great enemy variety
>smartly designed puzzles, rarely challenging but never frustrating or counter-intuitive
>awesome items, especially the slingshot
>the seasons mechanic is the most innovative thing the series has ever done
>decent combat with good bosses
>tons of tangible rewards to find and not just useless rupees, everything from 60+ rings to regular items and upgrades
>the rings actually add depth to the gameplay and are one of the few things ever added to a traditional Zelda game that let you augment your play style akin to an actual RPG
>cool features like being able to grow trees and harvest seeds adds immersion and depth to the gameplay that is uncommon for the series
Overall, just a great game. Audio/visual presentation is on-point, controls are great, gameplay has depth and diversity, dungeons are well designed, great world to explore, everything. I know a lot of people like Link's Awakening, but this is the cream of the crop for me.
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No. I admit they're competently made games, but they're also just... boring. I first tried to play them years ago and I was done after a half hour into each. More recently I purchased both on the 3DS eshop. While I did get farther than before (4th or 5th dungeon on each game) once again I just lost interest. I love Zelda, and with the exception of Phantom Hourglass I've beaten every single other game at least once. I don't know how to describe it other than the Oracles seem to lack a spark that other Zeldas have.
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Seasons has nothing on LA
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IMO it's the 2nd best zelda game (OoT being #1)
It really was a surprisinglly good game. I've poured hours into it. The rings where my favorite part.
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Which retro games can be scaled up to 4k and still look decent?
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Fester's Quest.
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I think they look the same as in 1080p but filters might look better in 4k.
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Only ones that run at a resolution divisible into 3840x2160. CRT shaders generally look more realistic at 4k though.
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Why is this such an amazing classic?
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People just love style over substance.
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>>4191860
Not that anon, but he's right; they're bad games with 'pretty' (at the time) graphics.
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Gore Thread
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any pic with you in it
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Savagery
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how does /vr/ feel about umihara kawase?
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wtf were they thinking with that goddamn hud?
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>>4179761
San Francisco RUSH.
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>>4179761
/vr/ fucking loves those games, we used to have at least one active thread at all times a couple years ago
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Japanon hunts for /vr/ games for you in Japan.
DDR in the palm of your hands/Why won't faggot OP answer my email? Edition
For those who are new to this thread, I am an anon living in Japan who likes to go to secondhand stores and dig through their retro game inventory. Sometimes I get really lucky and sometimes I strike out but there is almost always something interesting.
The purpose of these threads is for people to make requests for items which I will then pick up for them for a 13% commission plus the cost of the item and shipping. You can make a request in this thread or contact me at:
[email protected]
I try to dump most of the pictures I take in these threads but I will also upload all of them to a Google Photos drive so that you can browse them at your leisure if you are interested:
https://goo gl/photos/3PsGdM7DYKkE8Lj9A
You need to add the "." back to "goo gl"
TLDR: OP will try to find games for you for a 13% commission, please email me at [email protected] or post in this thread.
For everyone who has already contacted me, I'm sorry because I have made multiple shipments to some people and haven't even made one to others but I do my best to help everyone. If you feel like I have forgotten about you or are ignoring you please send me another email and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
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Lewd pictures that you could have sworn were not official
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Just bought an Everdrive64 and a n64.
What are some must play single-player and multiplayer games? I never played the console before since I had a psx for most of that generation.
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If you never played a single N64 game before, start with Super Mario 64, Pilotwings 64, Wave Race 64 and Mario Kart 64.
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Just load up a full romset. The n64 only has around 200 games anyway.
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>single-player
Ogre Battle
Conkers
banjo
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What is happening here?
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>>4204527
Mario has just defeated Morton Koopa Jr. and is now descending to return the magic wand to its rightful owner.
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>>4204527
Mario has just defeated Morton Koopa Jr. and is now descending to return the magic wand to its rightful owner.
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Mario has just defeated Morton Koopa Jr. and is now descending to return the magic wand to its rightful owner.
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How do you feel about framerates?
Playing on original hardware is great but for 3D games especially the framerate is often nauseating. Emulation removes that problem but I wonder if I just stuck with it if my eyes would adjust to it and the nausea would go away.
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Just stick with it and you should be fine.
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It doesn't bother me unless the game is just abysmally slow. Stuff like Stunt Race FX gets a big nope.
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Starfox comes to mind. That is a very frame by frame game. Its fine for me but takes a few minutes for me to get into the rythem
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>The best game in the series didn't even get a home console port.
What games are perfect that never had a decent home port or a port at all.
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Do you have Battletoads?
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Black Tiger. KILLER hack 'n slash, but never got a console version.
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Osman