Customization in retro games.

>see thread, don't read it all the way
>what the fuck is this RO shit in here
>oh

Anyway, you're right, I didn't play RO because it looked like a terrible Gaia Online Grindfest but I'm always excited to play a game and see that my main dude is wearing the armor I just spent a bunch of time grinding for

Well there were several games that had features to build your own levels. Some examples are Excitebike on NES, or Q Billion and Cattrap on Game Boy.

>>3048896
Ah i'm sorry. I know RO doesn't really belong here, but it has nice sprites, and it's the only thing i could thought of. And yeah it's really grindy but it was fun when i was 14.

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>>3048887
I think this was the first game I played that allowed character customization and it blew my mind.

If you've never played it and you enjoy the idea of building robots to kick the shit out of other robots in a beat 'em up -- this is the game for you.

>>3048887
"What is your name, hero?"

Visually, nothing extensive. Mainly because limited memory would have been wasted on extra sprites. Some games did palette swaps.

Gold Box RPGs. You could have your brick shithouse dwarven fighter look like a girl in a dress with a pointy hat.

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This game had a built-in icon editor so you could draw your party's portraits yourself.

Legend of Legaia has unique visual changes for every piece of equipment in the game. It's pretty cool, shame most players won't get to see half of it.

>>3048896
>, I didn't play RO because it looked like a terrible Gaia Online Grindfest

RO predated Gaia Online. But you were right to avoid it. RO was an awful grindy timesink.

>>3048887
There was very little visual customization in most retro games. I can't think of any that came close to RO.

>>3050264
Man I remember renting that game once, it was one of the most generic, uninspired pieces of garbage I ever tried.

>>3048991
This.

I had a pirate copy of Pools of Darkness for the Amiga, and 9 times out of 10 I couldn't guess my way past the "10th word from the 8th page" copy protection, but I was able to create characters and choose sprites for them and stuff, which was brilliant at age 8.

>>3048887
when you have limited space for essential assets like tiles, scripts, codes or in some cases even colors, you don't have the luxury of wasting it with changing character sprites according to what they are using

old school fallout still showed you what you were wearing and shooting with tho

>>3052993
Even with limitations, changing a pallet's contents is trivial.

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>>3048991
And at the end they published Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures, which let you customize everything in the game!

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It's features like this that show genuine interest in the game from the developers

>>3053717
that's more like an RPG maker thing than a customizable game, isn't it?