>playing Ghosts n Goblins at the local flea market.
>paused right before I got annihilated.
worst you've ever been gank'd in a video game?
>>3489016
I just got juggled to death between three closely packed Skulltulas beneath the well in Ikana Canyon. They hit me six times in a row before I hit the ground.
>>3489016
Why is he a frog? You can get transformed in the NES version?
>>3489027
Yep, that's what the magician does to you in the NES version.
I bought Arc 1 & 3 off of PSN and both of them seem to have some bugs. the first one had a note from one of the songs drone on over other music even after a fight had finished. Arc 3 has frozen 3 times now. anyone know how one would workaround glitches on PSN games? I might try deleting game data utility.
also, general Arc the Lad thread since my question won't get much response and some folks hate emulation. kind of wish 3 still let you have 10 guys on the field instead of four.
>>3488991
My suggestion is download the isos of the collection and play them on pcsx-r or epsxe.
Fuck the emulation haters.
>>3488991
Why no 2? It's were the real meat of the story for 1 goes.
3's my personal fave and stands alone okayish but you really do yourself wrong by not playing the whole trilogy
>>3489097
This. 2 is the best one.
Why couldn't the master just put large numbers of humans into slavery to reproduce and then dip them once they'd produced offspring? Is it because of incest?
What a beautiful man.
>>3488893
Wouldn't that take time?
>>3488893
I dunno, but the female master voice is sexy as fuck.
What was Half-Life's multiplayer like? I don't play multiplayer shooters anymore but I'm just curious about how it played. I've read Game Boys, but a book about Counter-Strike isn't really a good frame of reference about Half-Life's multiplayer.
>>3488820
>implying you can't just buy it for a dollar or whatever the fuck it is and play with other people, in the servers that are occupied, right now
>>3488820
Pretty poor, horrendous weapon balance, unfocused maps, huge reliance on hitscan.
>>3488835
The entire server list was empty save for a Five Guys map.
Let's live a life and have the anons reading choose what that life does!
First, what is going to be his name?
>>3488787
Sephiroth
>>3488842
>Sephiroth
Alright. Fill in a questionnaire to determine his personality or just let chance decide?
Why is Zelda 2 so underrated today, despite being one of the best games for the NES?
It's coming back around. It was criminally hated for like 2 decades after release though which has gotta be some kind of record.
>>3488639
Because it has some serious flaws in a series that's otherwise very easy to play.
>>3488639
Because of its difficulty (in comparison to the rest of the series at least).
Forgot game.
Remember playing it on PC back in 90's.
You play a buff guy who's bald and wears a black and slim sweatshirt of sorts. I think he was wearing sunglasses.
Setting is probably dystopian future.
Played like a movie with events.
Specific parts of levels I remember:
1/ You're at an enemy building and are walking down a long hall way. Above you are bridges that have enemy soldiers walking around. As your character automatically walks you have to move him right or left depending on where the enemy on the bridge will walk in from(right or left) to be unnoticed.
2/ There was a segment where you face a locked door with a keypad. You hide and wait for an enemy come up and enter the code which makes distinguishing beeping sounds like when you dial a phone number. I recall coming up to the keypad later and figuring out the combination based on the sounds the keypad buttons made when pressed.
3/ This one isn't as good but remember running through a narrow hallway shooting enemies. Then getting into a car with a female support character and driving inside enemy complex. You don't control it, it just goes. At the end there's a wall and you need to shoot it or you will crash and die.
Pic related. Replace black guy with white, orange loose shirt with black and slim sweat shirt and that's what protag looks like.
>>3488618
Can you remember the genre? top down or isometric or 2D or 3D?
>>3488627
Not sure exactly of a genre. it just played like an interactive movie. The guy moves himself and you just perform actions like shooting. Camera would change from first person and behind him and under him.
Here's how I remember 1/ scene.
The enemy on the bridge wasn't blue, because I don't remember. Everything in this game was realtively greyish. Point is the camera was behind and slightly below you looking up at the back of your head. Your character keeps moving down the hall and these enemies(blue for sake of seeing them, humanoids) that walk on the bridge and you gotta move opposite direction of where they are going across the bridge to pass undetected. They sort of patrol the base.
You now remember Hover for Windows.
>>3488587
http://hover.ie/
>>3488587
Can't say I do.
This is what made Windows 95 worthwhile, holy shit I loved this game. Not to mention the Weezer video on the same disc.
Have you played Atari Today?
>>3488519
No, I only play good games.
>>3488519
I don't play no Atari games, retro or otherwise.
Is sonic 3 and knuckles GOAT?
>>3488478
yea is gaot
>>3488478
No, it's HEDGEHOG and ENCHIDNA
>>3488478
SOnic 2 is the best. sonic 3 is a game with a 7 min sonic level and has bad stages. S&K is great.
Bonk was supposedly the PC-Engine/TurboGrafx's answer to Mario and Sonic. Bonk has basically been a forgotten platformer mascot in the same vein as Alex Kidd.
I personally did not like Alex Kidd, but is Bonk actually good, or is the series forgotten for a reason?
Which is the best of the original PC-Engine/Turbo trilogy?
Elder God Tier:
Bonk's Revenge
High Tier:
Super Bonk
Mid Tier:
Bonk's Adventure
Low Tier:
Super Bonk 2
Shit Tier:
Bonk's Big Adventure
>>3488351
You and op are faggots.
>pic related
That's my books and turbo. Fuck you niggers, those are the only bonk games worth playing. 3 is trash.
>>3488525
Fuck you nigger. Super Bonk is also good.
Who the hell was in charge of item placement in this game
>>3488306
Is that a bomb jump area?
>>3488317
you cant place bombs while in the lava
oh that was my uncle :^)
What games if any made you sick or ill?
After about 30 minutes of playing I'd get dizzy and sick feeling as fuck. No other game made me feel that way.
>>3488206
No retrogames made me feel ill. I played Forsaken so much I became unbeatable online. It's the only game where I have a 100% winrate against other people.
The only game that made me feel physically ill is a modern one.
>>3488206
THIS!
The original Phantasy Star made me nauseous in the dungeons or it might have just been the intense guilt that my parents had spent like $100 to get me a Master System and that game but it was too hard for me.
Much more recently I've been amused by reports of people playing King's Field and Shadow Tower on field of vision filing displays because those games have real tunneled FOVs which was fine for their genre and on the tvs they expected people to play them on at the time.
Let's discuss Recca's soundtrack. Do you like it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbdDW3aSCyM
People seem really divided on it. I like it a lot, there's really nothing else quite like it on the platform. Interested to hear opinions though.
It's an acquired taste. I like it though. It's really unique and interesting considering that everything else is pushing the NES to its limits.
I like it. I'm not sure it's my favorite though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGEzqWGp2WA
>>3488516
I don't know if it's fair since that game uses a special chip in the cartridge to almost double the amount of audio channels.
Is Master of Orion 2 still the best 4X game ever made? Will they EVER make a modern space 4X game as good as the old ones?
>>3488079
>Will they EVER make a modern space 4X game as good as the old ones?
This is not ever happening.
Indies don't have the resources or experience to dedicate the man-hours and professionalism of the devs of yesteryear, and studios today find themselves in a completely different market, where you are no longer the target audience.
Let's consider that the guys who spearheaded Conquer the Stars were fans of Master of Orion, it was essentially a vanity project since they made money hand over fist with World of Tanks, so they were in some ways immunized from these problems. What happened? A casualized MoO2, with shoehorned Civ5 shit. Not that I didn't play the hell out of it.
You can probably look forward to more beer and pretzels, or coffee break type strategy games -- whatever you want to call them.
>>3488098
I've seen a lot of MoO:CtS, and while I don't want to play huge amounts of it right now, if it were brought to tablets? I'd play the SHIT out of it.